Chapter 863
Xiao Yan and Lin Dong Encounter Danger
Luo Feng suddenly stood up. "I agree."
“Zhao Feng is a decisive and ruthless man who cannot tolerate any injustice. Last time at the Ninth Fortress, he gave us a way out in front of Meng Tianzheng. Did you think he was being soft-hearted? He just didn’t want to make a move at that time, lest he be targeted by the Immortal Alliance!”
"Once he has a free moment, the first thing he'll do is deal with us!"
Fang Yuan chimed in, "Luo Feng is right. I've studied Zhao Feng's personality; he holds grudges and never lets any threat go unpunished. Rather than waiting for him to come to us, we should make our move first."
Lin Lei frowned and said, "I only have one question... how can we ensure we don't get exposed? The Immortal Alliance's detection methods are not to be underestimated."
This is exactly what Wang Lin was waiting for.
"So we use the demonic cultivation techniques, the demonic aura, and the demonic methods." Wang Lin held up three fingers. "I have three Demonic Transformation Pills here. After taking them, within three days, from aura to law fluctuations, they will be indistinguishable from real demons. Even if the Immortal Alliance's inspector comes to investigate personally, he won't be able to find any clues."
Su Ming narrowed his eyes. "Demonization Pill? Where did you get this?"
"I obtained it by chance," Wang Lin said casually, glossing over the topic. "You all don't need to worry about the source; you only need to care about one thing: are you going to do it or not?"
A few moments of silence followed in the hall.
Qin Yu nodded first.
Meng Hao yawned and nodded in agreement.
Bai Xiaochun hesitated and raised his hand, "Um... could I just keep watch? As for the fight..."
"You're in charge of cutting off the communication array in that area," Wang Lin assigned him the task directly. "I know your abilities; this is something no one else can do."
Bai Xiaochun wore a bitter expression, but ultimately did not refuse again.
finally.
All of the more than ten people present agreed.
Wang Lin glanced around and nodded in satisfaction. "Then it's settled. We'll set off in three days. Our destination: the 81st War Zone, to Xiao Yan and Lin Dong's exploration team."
He paused, then added, "Remember, our goal isn't to kill Xiao Yan, but to force Zhao Feng to show himself. We only need to cripple Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, leaving them barely alive. Once Zhao Feng receives the message, he will definitely come alone."
"At that time, Su Ming and I will join forces to intercept them head-on. Luo Feng and Fang Yuan will cut off their retreat. The rest of us will seal off the space, leaving no gaps."
"In this battle, we must strike with a single, decisive blow!"
……
Demon world.
The heart of the 81st War Zone.
In a star field shrouded in black mist, more than thirty figures were traveling between the stars.
The two leading figures, one dressed in black robes and surrounded by five-colored flames, were none other than Xiao Yan.
The other one, with a handsome face and occasional flashes of power runes on his body, was Lin Dong.
They were sent by the Immortal Alliance to explore deep into the Demon Realm, with the goal of finding a passage that would allow the Immortal Alliance army to pass through quickly, thus enabling the Immortal Alliance to reclaim this area.
The mission was clandestine, and the number of participants was small, consisting of over thirty elites, all of whom had a minimum cultivation level of the second level of the Hongmeng Realm.
"Old Xiao, something's not right here."
Lin Dong lowered his voice and slowed his pace by half a beat.
Xiao Yan raised his hand to signal the team to stop, and the five-colored strange fire danced in his palm, illuminating the dark void ahead.
"How to say?"
"It's too quiet." Lin Dong frowned. "We've ventured so far into the Demon Realm, and we haven't encountered a single demon scout along the way. According to our previous intelligence, there should be at least two demon patrol teams stationed in this area."
Xiao Yan also noticed the abnormality.
He glanced back at his team members and whispered, "Everyone on alert. Form groups of three and expand the search area. Report any unusual activity immediately."
"Yes!"
The team members quickly dispersed.
Xiao Yan and Lin Dong continued forward, maintaining a distance of ten zhang between them, forming a defensive triangle.
They traveled for about half an hour.
Lin Dong suddenly stopped.
"Brother Yan, can you smell it?"
Xiao Yan took a deep breath.
A very faint smell of blood filled the air. It wasn't the blood of demons, but... the blood of human cultivators.
The two exchanged a glance and simultaneously sped up.
Moments later, they found three corpses on the surface of a shattered dead star.
It was a scout team they sent out.
All three perished, their wounds were horrific, their magical power was completely drained, and their primordial spirits were annihilated.
The technique was clean and efficient.
"This isn't the work of the demons." Xiao Yan squatted down and examined the wounds on a corpse, his expression growing increasingly grim.
Lin Dong also examined the other two bodies. "The remnants of the laws have been deliberately erased. The other party is concealing their identity."
Xiao Yan stood up, five-colored flames rising from his body. "Send a message to everyone: retreat immediately!"
Before he could finish speaking...
The entire star field suddenly went dark.
A thick spatial barrier closed in from all directions, completely sealing off the space within a radius of tens of millions of miles.
Xiao Yan's pupils shrank sharply. "An ambush!"
boom!
The first wave of attacks came from directly above.
A pitch-black palm print covered half the sky, carrying an aura of destruction, and slammed down directly towards Xiao Yan and Lin Dong.
Xiao Yan roared, and five different colored flames burst forth, condensing into a flame barrier above his head.
boom!
The palm print slammed into the flame barrier, sending Xiao Yan plummeting thousands of miles downwards, a mouthful of blood gushing from his mouth.
The power of the sixth level of the Primordial Chaos!
"Old Xiao!" Lin Dong roared, unleashing the full power runes on his body and punching another attack coming from the side.
The force of his fist collided with the black beam of light, sending Lin Dong flying. The bones in his right arm cracked.
"Hahahaha!"
Laughter emanated from the black mist, deep and suppressed.
"Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, you can't escape."
That sound...
Xiao Yan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and suddenly looked up.
The black mist parted slightly, and several figures approached from different directions.
Each person was covered in dense demonic energy, their faces blurred and their features indistinct. But the fluctuations of law...
Xiao Yan felt a chill run down his spine.
At least six are at the sixth level of the Primordial Chaos Realm, and one of them is even close to the seventh level!
With this lineup, let alone him and Lin Dong, even if you put the entire exploration team together, it wouldn't be enough to fill their teeth.
Xiao Yan's five-colored flames were pierced by the six chains and extinguished one by one.
He desperately activated the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Fire to create a final layer of defense on his body, but that layer of flame shattered instantly upon contact with the opponent's demonic energy.
"waste."
A large hand reached out from the black mist, grabbed Xiao Yan by the neck, and lifted him up.
Xiao Yan's feet left the ground, his face flushed red, and he frantically scratched at the other hand, but the other's fingers were like cast iron, not moving an inch.
On the other hand, Lin Dong's situation was even worse.
His power runes shattered completely in the third wave of impact, and he was slammed into the depths of the Death Star's crust. When he was dragged out, he was covered in blood, and his left arm was bent at an odd angle.
"Don't kill them."
Wang Lin's voice came from the farthest point.
He stood at the edge of the sealing barrier, not making a move, but simply watching everything quietly.
Su Ming released his grip on Xiao Yan's neck.
Xiao Yan fell heavily to the ground, coughing incessantly and gasping for breath.
He raised his head, trying to see the face of the person in front of him, but the dense demonic energy obscured everything. "Who...who are you?"
Xiao Yan's voice was hoarse.
No one answered him.
Luo Feng stepped forward, raised his foot and stepped on Xiao Yan's chest, pushing him back down after he had just propped himself up halfway.
"Lock them up." Wang Lin walked over and glanced down at Xiao Yan and Lin Dong. "Leave their lives."
"And then?" Fang Yuan pressed.
"Then, let the news 'leak' out."
After saying this casually, Wang Lin turned and walked into the depths of the black fog.
Xiao Yan and the others, no matter what, are all high-ranking members of the Immortal Alliance, holding extraordinary positions, and are currently carrying out a mission for the Immortal Alliance.
The news of their accident couldn't be kept secret.
……
On the other side, the Ninth Fortress.
After opening the treasure chest and experiencing a surge in cultivation, Zhao Feng did not relax in the slightest.
He alone cannot hold up the entire Ninth Pass.
Zhao Feng remembered Meng Tianzheng's words before he left very clearly.
The demons will come again, and the next one will be far more powerful than just a demon lord from the sixth heaven.
Even if he is capable of fighting, he will be too busy to fight.
Zhao Feng came out of the main hall and called Wang Jian over.
"Pass down the order: the entire army will assemble at the Xiong Guan training ground in two hours."
Wang Jian clasped his hands in acceptance of the order, turned around and took two steps, then turned back.
"Lord of the Realm, what is the purpose of this gathering?"
"sermon."
Wang Jian was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed.
The Lord of the Realm personally preached?
This is an incredible opportunity!
It should be noted that Zhao Feng's cultivation level has reached the peak of the fourth level of the Hongmeng Realm, and his combat strength is comparable to the early stage of the seventh level.
His understanding of the laws of the Great Dao is among the best in the entire 72nd War Zone.
Even just listening to a few words from such a person giving a sermon is enough to benefit ordinary cultivators immensely.
"This subordinate will make the arrangements immediately!"
Wang Jian ran out of the main hall.
When the news spread, the entire pass was in an uproar.
"The world leader is going to preach? Really?"
"Nonsense, General Wang Jian personally issued the order, how could it be false?"
"I've been stuck at the bottleneck of the first level of the Primordial Chaos Realm for three hundred years, but now I'm saved!"
Two hours later.
Martial arts training ground.
This is the largest open area of the Ninth Great Pass, covering hundreds of miles and large enough to accommodate tens of millions of people.
now.
Twenty-four thousand soldiers sat cross-legged in neat rows, a dark mass, completely silent.
Ye Fan, the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches were all present and sat in the front row.
Zhao Feng didn't set up any high platform or throne; he simply stood in the center of the training ground with his hands behind his back.
"Today's sermon is not about the methods of cultivation, but about the principles of cultivation."
Zhao Feng raised his right hand, and a ball of light the size of a fist appeared in his palm.
Inside the sphere of light, the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth intertwine and flow, while the yin and yang energies wax and wane, endlessly cycling through birth and death.
"The way of heaven and earth is divided into the five elements, combined into yin and yang, and when yin and yang combine again, they return to chaos. You all understand this principle."
Zhao Feng clenched his five fingers, and the ball of light exploded, shattering the Five Elements Laws and turning them into countless specks of light that scattered across the sky.
"But you only understand the surface."
Upon hearing this, the breaths of the more than 20,000 people in the training ground paused for a moment.
Ye Fan raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything.
Tongtian stroked his whisk, nodded slightly, and seemed somewhat interested.
"The Golden Elixir is made by using the body as lead, the mind as mercury, stillness as water, and wisdom as fire. Only when lead and mercury are combined, water and fire are in harmony, and body and mind are united, can the great medicine be formed."
As Zhao Feng spoke, he used his magic to condense characters in the void, and lines of ancient seal script appeared in mid-air, visible to everyone.
"This doesn't mean you should refine any elixirs."
Zhao Feng glanced at the soldiers below the stage and said, “Lead is your physical body, mercury is your spirit, water is your composure, and fire is your enlightenment. None of the four can be missing, but the key lies in their unity.”
He extended a finger, and the primordial power within his body surged forth, condensing into a crystal droplet at his fingertip.
"Most of you cultivate methods that either emphasize the physical body, or the primordial spirit, or only practice killing techniques, or only practice defensive techniques. Each has its own emphasis and its own shortcomings."
"It's like holding a spear in your left hand and a shield in your right. It looks impressive, but when you encounter a truly powerful enemy, the contradictions separate, you can't take care of both ends, and you'll have a lot of weaknesses."
These words were simple and straightforward, yet they made many soldiers look ashamed.
Zhao Feng was pointing out their common problem: "What I am going to teach you today is the method to forge your spear and shield into one."
He waved his sleeve.
boom!
Above the training ground, a huge diagram of laws unfolded out of thin air.
The diagram is based on Yin and Yang, with the Five Elements as its framework and the Eight Trigrams as its structure. It is inlaid with 365 star law nodes, forming a complete cultivation system.
"This method is called the Lingbao Guizhen Jue (灵宝归真诀)."
Zhao Feng's voice trailed off.
"With the heart and kidneys as the foundation of water and fire, absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the dantian and refine it into primordial qi. Primordial qi circulates throughout the body, passes through the three gates and nine orifices, opens the Ren and Du meridians, and finally converges in the Niwan point, uniting with the primordial spirit."
"After unification, the physical body is the primordial spirit, and the primordial spirit is the physical body. Attack is defense, and defense is attack. When a punch is thrown, it contains both the brute force of the physical body and the power of the laws of the primordial spirit. The two are combined, and the power is doubled."
As soon as he finished speaking, he pointed with his right hand.
The 365 star nodes on the law diagram lit up simultaneously, and countless threads of law extended from them, falling into the brows of everyone present.
"I will directly imprint the cultivation method into your sea of consciousness. After you return, you can study and comprehend it on your own."
hum!
Twenty-four thousand people groaned simultaneously.
A large amount of cultivation information flooded into their minds, and the complete cultivation method of the Lingbao Guizhen Jue appeared in everyone's mind.
But Zhao Feng didn't stop, saying, "Having the method alone is not enough."
He formed a hand seal, and 840 million particles within his body vibrated simultaneously.
A vast Daoist aura surged from his body, enveloping the entire training ground.
This Daoist aura contains Zhao Feng's understanding of the laws of heaven and earth, his perception of the Great Dao, and his knowledge of the essence of power.
All the cultivators enveloped by the Daoist aura entered a mysterious state.
Tongtian was the first to react.
The sword dao laws within his body circulated wildly, resonating with the dao aura emanating from Zhao Feng. The three thousand great daos intertwined and collided in his sea of consciousness, sparks flying everywhere.
"Such exquisite Daoist charm..."
Tongtian closed his eyes and began to absorb and comprehend the teachings frantically.
Both Taishang and Yuanshi benefited greatly.
Although their cultivation levels were not as high as Zhao Feng's, they possessed profound knowledge and each had their own unique understanding of the Great Dao.
For them, Zhao Feng's Daoist aura was like opening a new window. (End of Chapter)