Chapter 1142: Stirring Up Trouble by Not Killing the Snake

Although Ascending Immortal Lake is named after a lake, it actually occupies a large area in the Qingyun Immortal Territory, encompassing the entire Ascending Immortal Sea and the surrounding mountains, rivers, and lakes!
The Ascending Immortal Sea is a realm refined into a cave sky by the hand of Ming Cang and other demon kings. The sea clan of demon cultivators from the Buried Immortal Sea mainly dwell here. There are numerous rivers and lakes, forming a complex water system that eventually flows into the sea. These rivers and lakes are the habitats of the water clan demon cultivators.
Other non-sea and water ethnicities live in the plain mountains and small islands in the surrounding sea area.
As the reincarnation of Emperor Yu, Yuyan is a fire attribute demon beast. Therefore, Gu Wan Nian settled him on a small island with a volcano. The volcano is constantly erupting with magma and fire, and Yuyan's cultivation cave is located within the volcano.
Afterwards, under the arrangement of Elder Jiangfadian, Yu Yan selected several fire-based techniques suitable for his cultivation and formally began his cultivation journey at the Chiyin Sect!
The Ascending Immortal Lake lineage has a large number of different types of demon cultivators. Not long after arriving here, Yu Yan made acquaintances with many fellow disciples and learned many things from them, gaining a preliminary understanding of the Qingyun Cave, Chiyin Sect, Wulong Mountain, Shituo Mountain Range, Xuanhuang Immortal Realm, Jiaomu Jiao Nine Realms, and so on.
He also knows that freaks like them are divided into three, six, nine grades in the Red Flame Sect.
The first grade is to join the sect and cultivate as spiritual beasts or monsters.
Most of them take shape-changing pills to transform into human form and practice human cultivation techniques, becoming formal disciples of the demon race, with no major differences from normal disciples.
The second level is the sect guardian.
Although they are not formal disciples, as long as they do not commit evil deeds, their welfare treatment is not bad.
Among them, the most famous one is the snake demon Liu Sanmei, who is said to be the sect guardian demon that the sect master personally subdued when he came to the immortal realm!
The third type is the various strange and powerful races dwelling on the seventy-two immortal mountains.
The fourth type is the demons and monsters who work as miners throughout the Shituo Mountain Range, providing various resources for the sects.
For this situation, Yu Yan always felt something was off, but couldn't put his finger on it, so he could only bury this strange feeling in his heart and focus on his cultivation!
Thanks to the innate talent of the Flame Lin Beast, Yu Yan's cultivation speed far surpassed other demonic cultivators in the same sect, but he encountered a problem during his cultivation process.
"Master, since I entered the sect for cultivation, I often have the same dream. I dream of a vast palace buried deep underground, with two majestic and sacred figures occupying it. I feel an inexplicable familiarity towards them, but I cannot see their appearance clearly." Yu Yan expressed his doubts to Yuan Jing.
"Perhaps it was influenced by the Dao of Dreams!"
Nowadays, the difference between the Dao of Dreams and the Great Dao of Creation has almost spread throughout the immortal realm. Yuan Jing speculated that even Yu Yan's dreams were affected by this.
However, just to be safe, he reported this to Changsheng Palace.
In addition to the Flame Lin beast Yu Yan, Tianfeng Palace Master Shi Nianyao also had a similar dream!
It was probably since the Immortal Sect Forum began that she started experiencing this situation. As a True Immortal in the Non-Phase Realm, she had long transcended the realm of mortals. She had no need for food or sleep, nor would she have any idle thoughts. If it weren't for practicing some kind of dream-related technique, she wouldn't have dreams at all.
Recently, she often has inexplicable dreams when she enters a meditative state, and what she sees in her dreams is almost identical to what Yu Yan dreamed about.
Fortunately, after continuing for half a month, Shi Nianyao no longer dreams about the sacred presence in the grand palace, and she attributes it to the influence of the dream realm, without taking it too much to heart.
Whether it is Yu Yan or Shi Nianyao, after dreaming of such scenes, their cultivation level begins to improve step by step, as if they have consumed some miracle elixir...
Yu Yan's cultivation level is still low. After becoming a disciple of Yuan Jing and entering the Chi Yan Sect, he benefited from much better cultivation conditions than before, and his cultivation level progressed rapidly day by day.
And Shi Nianyao is an unfathomable cultivator, whose cultivation level requires hundreds or even thousands of years to gradually improve. But now, one day of cultivation equals a hundred days of past arduous practice, which completely defies logic!
But for some reason, she had no doubts in her heart and felt that things should be this way.
Yan and Yan had the same situation. Besides the initial confusion of having the same dream repeatedly and seeking advice from Jing Yuan, they didn't notice anything wrong afterwards!
In fact, they do not know that countless thousands of years ago, Fenglin Continent was the dojo of two heavenly fairies, Fengzhu Yaosheng and Linzhu Yaosheng. The former was the leader of all birds, while the latter was the leader of all beasts. The two great Yaoshengs ruled over all the birds and beasts in the skies and on the ground of Fenglin Continent. However, they were eventually attacked and fell.
With the manifestation of the Dream Path and the Dao Rhyme of Creation, they want to use these two great paths to return to the world again, and the Flame Lion Beast Yu Yan and Shi Nianyao, who has cultivated the Indestructible Phoenix Law, are chosen as their vessels!
Such unknown anomalies are constantly playing out in various parts of the immortal realm.
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The accumulation of a thousand years has greatly enhanced the foundation of the Red Flame Sect and the Five Dragon Mountain.
With the conclusion of this session of the Immortal Alliance practitioner exchange, based on the final results of the duels and artistic competitions, the Five Dragon Mountain ranks fourteenth among all the forces in the Immortal Alliance!
Compared to the 21st place in the first exchange meeting, the current result is already very good.
Thanks to this, Wulong Mountain has gained more influence within the Immortal Alliance and has also gained many benefits. The most direct one is that the various families of Wulong Mountain can establish more Immortal Temples in the territories of the other 31 immortal forces, and they can contribute fewer spiritual resources.
With the grand event coming to an end, the Red Flame Sect specially held a celebration banquet at the Five Dragon Hall, inviting all the divine bridge and formless realm cultivators on the mountain.
Halfway through the celebration banquet, it was abruptly interrupted by an unexpected incident.
"Report to the Lord of the Ming Palace, a strange fluctuation has occurred in the local ultimate formation not long ago. We, the two, do not have sufficient authority to activate the full power of the formation to investigate the problem!" Mon Biao and Elder Jing Fu Hai, who are responsible for maintaining the formation, informed Ming Yu and others in the No-Phase Realm.
The second authorization of controlling the core hub of the local element's ultimate formation was divided into thirty shares by Shen Mo, with each share corresponding to a spiritual key.
Meng Biao and Jing Fu Hai each have one key, which can only mobilize a part of the power. It is usually enough to maintain the formation, but now that there is an abnormal situation in the formation, relying solely on these two keys is somewhat powerless.
剩下的灵钥，由赤炎宗身份地位最高的门人保管，如今大部分都在五龙殿内。
得到蒙彪二人通禀后，赵灵音、明玉、袁鹤鸣等人立马祭起了各自掌握的灵钥，合力调动了地元绝阵近九成的威能！
Soon, everyone discovered that there were eighteen flaws in the formation, as if black spots had appeared on a flawless white jade.
The areas where the black spots were located seemed to completely cut off the power of the formation, and they were rapidly expanding at an astonishing speed. When the seventy-two immortal mountains, which served as the formation's core, were invaded by evil spirits, there were never such circumstances!
After discussing among themselves, several Mahayana cultivators realized that it was difficult to eliminate these black spots within the great array, so they hurried towards the immortal mountains where the black spots were located.
Zhao Lingyin originally intended to return to the Dragon Heart Realm after the celebration banquet ended.
Now that the local secret technique has encountered a problem, it is obvious that someone wants to attack Wulong Mountain. In this situation, it is natural for her not to leave.
Using the teleportation array, she appeared on Wuhui Mountain.
This is a medium-sized immortal mountain, not too far from Wulong Mountain. Zhao Lingyin's divine consciousness swept out and quickly sensed something unusual...
On the north slope of the mountain, a sixth-level demon appeared. It must have sneaked in during the chaos of the Fairy Alliance exchange meeting hosted by the Red Flame Sect.
What makes Zhao Lingyin more noticeable is that in front of this monster stands an altar, and on the altar is placed a multicolored insect egg.
This insect egg is extremely strange, connected to the altar and the formation's main eye through the patterns on the altar. It is embedded in the formation like a parasitic seed, exuding a bizarre aura that is repulsive. Under its aura, the formation within several miles around the altar is unable to function effectively. Its existence is the cause of the loophole in the elemental formation!
However, it seems that the colorful insect eggs are still constantly eroding the array, and the aura is becoming stronger and stronger, just like ink drops spreading on white paper, obviously this is the expanding black spot in the local absolute array.
Zhao Lingyin is unaware of whether this colorful insect egg can erode the entire formation, but if left unchecked, the situation will undoubtedly develop in a direction she does not want to see.
After contacting other cultivators, it was learned that they had also encountered the demon king and found altars with rainbow-colored bug eggs.
However, unlike in all areas with dark spots, not all of them had sixth-stage demon kings. For example, Yuan Heming and Tian Suanzi encountered only one fifth-stage late demon, which they easily killed without much effort.
Clearing out the hands-free state, preparing to go to other immortal mountains.
For the remaining immortal mountains without the hands-free state to hurry to, the Chiyen Sect's divine bridge led a group of Linghai and Yuandan realm disciples to teleport over. With the divine bridge cultivators as the eye of the formation, they set up a large array of living creatures, even having the ability to fight against sixth-order monsters. Additionally, Jiang Yingying, Tian Suanzi, and others will also go over to provide support!
"Evil demon, perish!" Zhao Lingyin shouted lightly, and the Colorful Phoenix Feather Fan appeared in her hand.
Only to see hundreds of kinds of Earth Fire Blaze jumping on the fan's surface, under the stimulation of magic power, they transformed into a fierce wave of fire and surged towards the sixth-rank demon."
After the cultivator constructed the divine bridge, they can activate the power of heaven and earth, and an endless stream of spiritual energy gathers to become fuel that enhances the fire. The area where the powerful demons and the altar are located has turned into a sea of flames, burning rocks into magma that constantly evaporates, causing the distortion and deformation of space!
This big demon is of an unknown race, with a appearance not much different from the human race, only its body is covered in densely packed bumps, from which oozes a disgusting yellow-green oily substance, resembling a demonized frog.
Trapped in the sea of fire, the toad demon did not cast a spell to avoid it, but instead stayed in place to protect the altar and the colorful insect eggs... Whether the altar or the insect eggs were destroyed, or if it left the strange aura of protection, it would immediately be suppressed and killed by the local formidable formation!
Only to see it covered with lumps all over its body, bursting with a large amount of oily liquid, boiling and evaporating into yellow-green mist under the burning flames, not only resisting the burning of the sea of fire, but even overpowering the fire and spreading towards Zhao Lingyin.
Zhao Lingyin continuously pinched the seal gesture, infusing it into the Colorful Phoenix Feather Fan, causing its form and color to undergo changes, becoming even more fierce and unstoppable.
Although she was not good at fighting and killing, she was extremely skilled at refining elixirs, able to turn even the most difficult-to-refine spirit materials into golden elixir and jade liquid.
At this moment, Zhao Lingyin regarded the toad monster in front of her as a medicinal pill for re-refining!
Sensing the growing intensity of the fire, the sixth-ranked demon would not wait to be killed. It repeatedly used spells and supernatural powers, attempting to suppress the sea of fire and kill Zhao Lingyin.
However, not only is its range of activity limited, but it also has to protect the altar and the colorful insect eggs, making it somewhat restricted. It soon starts to panic as it is burnt, and eventually vomits out its demonic pill, consuming its original power to maintain the yellow-green misty orb.
During the battle with the toad monster, Zhao Lingyin faintly sensed that the demon probably had a cultivation level of the later stage of the sixth rank. It would be difficult for her to kill it in a short period of time by herself.
However, everyone else is still progressing smoothly, and we have currently killed thirteen demons. The altars guarded by these demons and the colorful insect eggs have also been destroyed.
Chen Mengze and Jiang Yingying are on their way to Mount Wuhui and will soon meet up with Zhao Lingyin. Together, they will join forces to kill this late-stage sixth-order demon!
However, as soon as Chen and Jiang arrived at Wuhui Mountain through the teleportation array, a peculiar-looking treasure appeared in the void above the altar. It seemed to be a single-blade treasure sword, but its blade was covered with sawtooth edges. Under its continuous sawing, a space rift measuring hundreds of feet long and a dozen feet wide was quickly carved out.
The colorful insect eggs erode the core of the formation, creating a void in the formation. It seems to have provided an anchor point for the serrated treasure knife, allowing it to accurately locate the area where the power of the formation is missing.
The world barrier in the fairy realm is extremely sturdy and is difficult to break under normal circumstances.
Even if a spatial crack is forcefully created, it will quickly heal under the power of heaven and earth, making it difficult to exist for a long time.
The current serrated treasure sword emits a mysterious fairy charm, obviously a powerful immortal tool, whose characteristics should be related to breaking barriers.
Moreover, this immortal tool resonates with the rainbow-colored insect eggs, usurps the power of the formation to maintain the stability of the spatial rift, and fills the edge of the rift with mystical energy. It forms a strange balance with the natural power of the heavens and earth, preventing the rift from closing and turning it into a spatial passage!
There are several ways to destroy this spatial channel.
It is possible to destroy the altar and the colorful insect eggs, apply powerful external force to break the strange balance of the spatial rift, or directly close the entire Earth Element Formation...
Before Zhao Lingyin could react, a strong army of demons and monsters swarmed out of the spatial portal. The powerful aura of these demons and monsters even extinguished the sea of fire that enveloped the altar. Then, one after another, altars flew up, each of them with a colorful insect egg placed on top, enlarging the crack in the Ground Element Formation by nearly a hundred times.
At the same time, two demon immortals also stepped out from the spatial channel hand in hand!