Foreign Invasion: Is the Nine Immortal Mountains the Witch Clan?

The vast and wondrous wilderness, even the most ordinary place, is rich in spiritual energy and displays myriad paths. It truly deserves to be called the Supreme Realm, inheriting the magnificent universe of primordial chaos.

Only a universe like this could contain such a large group of Great Luo Golden Immortals. In the ordinary world, it would be a stroke of luck for even one of them to appear. How could anyone imagine so many Great Luo Golden Immortals gathering together?

Even in such a beautiful place, there are different levels. Not to mention the four seas and the sky, the Eastern Continent alone is divided into thirty-six grotto-heavens and seventy-two blessed lands.

Each blessed land is guarded by several Great Luo Golden Immortals. Such places gather all kinds of primordial fortune. Sitting in them, one will be blessed with good fortune and will be free from disasters, calamities, and misfortunes.

Even the greatest calamities of heaven and earth cannot harm oneself as long as one retreats into a blessed land and does not have any karmic ties to bear. One can sit back and watch the clouds roll and unroll in the primordial world and laugh at the changes in the great world.

Guang Chengzi was the master of a grotto-heaven, which was the Peach Blossom Grotto-heaven of the Nine Immortals Mountain. There were countless peach trees inside, and several top-grade innate peach tree spiritual roots were guarding it. Outside, there was a great innate array guarding it.

Even an ordinary Grand Luo Golden Immortal would die if he entered it. As the master of Peach Blossom Cave in Nine Immortals Mountain, Guang Chengzi should have been able to live a carefree life. Even if he was lazy all day, he could still use Peach Blossom Cave to grind his way to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

However, his heart was filled with the desire to cultivate, and he had no intention of using such lazy methods to reach the Great Luo realm. To achieve the Great Luo Golden Immortal in this way could only be considered a disgrace to the Great Luo realm.

Those Taiyi Golden Immortals who fought against their superior ranks were probably the lazy Daluo who were being challenged.

Guang Chengzi also had several friends who lived in blessed lands, but he watched helplessly as these friends slacked off all day long, using the essence within the blessed lands to hone their cultivation, or simply waiting for such blessed lands to improve their own realm.

The result was that they were all lazy to the bone, had lost their desire for the Dao, and had become parasites who just wanted to eat and wait to die. This is why he resolutely left Jiuxian Mountain to seek the Yuanshi Tianzun as his master.

It was through such experiences that Guang Chengzi shed his former air of wealth and extravagance and became a true immortal with the Dao.

Therefore, Guang Chengzi's departure from Kunlun Mountain was not only to travel all over the mountains and rivers, but also to bring out his other eleven junior brothers to become disciples of Yuanshi Tianzun in advance.

Those who can become disciples of Yuanshi Tianzun are naturally blessed with great fortune; those without such great fortune cannot become disciples of Yuanshi Tianzun.

Therefore, all twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect were masters of blessed lands and grotto-heavens. Even the Yellow Dragon Immortal, who was known as the Three No True Man, was also the master of the Magu Grotto-heaven on the Second Immortal Mountain.

Guang Chengzi suspected that the reason why the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect were in such a sorry state later on was perhaps because these blessed lands and grotto-heavens were too good, causing them to lose their desire for the Dao.

After all, he knew how much these blessed lands could erode one's will. If one didn't take precautions early and let them take root, then it would be all over.

If disciples don't cultivate, even if their master tries to push them, he can't stop them. No wonder these twelve people ended up with such a tragic fate. It was the same thing that brought them success and failure.

Too much good fortune can turn into misfortune, just as too much romantic luck can turn into a romantic calamity.

"Let's go back to Peach Blossom Paradise first, pick a few immortal peaches to make wine and food. It's been a long time since I've been back to Nine Immortals Mountain. I wonder how those old peaches are doing."

Guang Chengzi wore a smile, and golden light flowed around him incessantly, carrying a divine and dazzling color. His speed was extremely fast; often, just as one could see the golden light, the next moment it would fly to a much farther place.

Only the golden light that remained in the original spot indicated that a great immortal had once flown by.

The closer Guang Chengzi got to Mount Jiuxian, the more he felt a mysterious calling, as if the Peach Blossom Spring was calling to him.

Guang Chengzi had not returned for more than twenty years. In his excitement, he unintentionally released a trace of his aura, which was supposed to drift away with the wind, but was caught by a peculiar person.

As the golden light drew ever closer, Hou Ji, standing atop a cliff, stared intently at the Taoist within the golden light, his eyes sharp as if an invisible edge had gathered within them.

"This seems to be the master of Peach Blossom Spring? Hmph, what a pleasant surprise! I was waiting for Brother Hou Yi to come and shoot down this Nine Immortals Mountain Formation, but who would have thought he would deliver himself to my doorstep."

"Then don't blame me! Blame Houtu, the Ancestral Witch, for her grand plan, and blame your Nine Immortals Mountain for blocking my witch clan's way. Even if it contains the Peach Blossom Spring, so what? It will still be destroyed and people will die!"

Hou Ji's mind went blank for a moment, and his entire body instantly merged into the deepest part of the earth veins. His original physical body also transformed into strands of earth-yellow essence, which drifted with the flow of the earth veins and silently merged into the Nine Immortals Mountain.

The process was extremely natural and gentle, without the slightest fluctuation of smoke or fire, just as if you were doing it.

Although the Wu tribe was ridiculed by all the races of the prehistoric world for not having a primordial spirit, how dare they claim to be descendants of Pangu? They were simply a bunch of deformed children.

However, it must be said that the Wu Clan is indeed enveloped by the legacy of Pangu, especially after integrating their divine soul and magical power into their bodies, which greatly enhances their connection with the primordial world.

Because Pangu transformed into the primordial world, any witch clan considers merging with Pangu as the ultimate honor, simply because even a newly born little witch can easily and freely merge into the primordial world.

Houji was a shaman of the Houtu tribe, whose greatest skill was to merge into the earth. He often secretly used the earth's veins to enter the demon race's territory without making a sound.

Finally, he suddenly appeared and killed the territory leader right in front of the army. Then, with the group leaderless, he immediately led his army to crush these demon territories.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Houtu tribe that the Wu tribe was able to so easily drive out the demons on the land, and now he continues to use such methods.

The reason it wasn't used before was because Guang Chengzi wasn't in the mountain. Even if he had entered Jiuxian Mountain, he wouldn't have been able to do anything to this immortal mountain; instead, he would have been killed by a few peach trees there.

Only now, after seeing the return of the Lord of Peach Blossom Spring, did he think of infiltrating it again to kill the Lord first.

If this chosen one were to die, it would surely cause grief to the Nine Immortals Mountain. Under the pull of the earth's veins, the innate array outside would also spontaneously collapse. At that time, he would have made a great contribution.

However, it was fine that Houji did not merge with the earth's veins. But as soon as he entered it, and even flowed into Jiuxian Mountain through it, Guangchengzi suddenly felt a strange sensation arise.

This feeling compelled him to stop in place, his brows furrowed as he gazed at the supreme divine mountain before him.

The mountain was entirely pink, and there were indeed countless peach orchards in full bloom. Peach blossoms danced in the air, and large peaches were scattered all around. Occasionally, a few streams flowed down, and every now and then one or two plump mandarin fish would leap out, swimming upwards to eat the peach blossoms as they swam back into the water.

Jiuxian Mountain remained as beautiful as ever, with its ever-present peach blossom scenery, but Guang Chengzi always felt something was off.

Without the slightest hesitation, Guang Chengzi immediately activated his Dao Heart and simultaneously activated the Secret Technique of Expounding Heaven, using his own heart to represent the heart of Heaven and looking at this immortal mountain with the gaze of the Heavenly Dao.

With just one glance, he noticed the strangeness that struck him as odd.

"This is... the Witch Clan?"