Free Web NovelChapter 838: Chapter 327: Second Rank Expandable Opportunities (Double Chapter)
There, the Wangchuan River flows quietly.
On the riverbank, like mountains and water relying on each other, stands a gigantic city, as black as iron, with strange, rugged rocks, silent and soundless.
As the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls approached, numerous rune and Tao Containment were born in response on the mountain city.
Two large characters gradually emerged on the mountain city:
[Fengdu]
The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls also moved autonomously without wind, continuously fluttering.
An Zhiyu and Li Yuanyuan descended outside the city with the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls and then entered on foot.
The very center of Fengdu City is a magnificent Tao Palace.
When the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls entered the city, it automatically landed on the vast Taoist grounds within the Tao Palace, causing other Daoist banners around and inside the Tao Palace to flutter in response.
An Zhiyu and Li Yuanyuan bowed under the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls to the palace:
"The unworthy disciple, implicating the sect’s treasure, suffered damage."
The foundation of the Inner Mount Shu Sect’s establishment lies in one of the six great treasures from when the Shu Mountain of the mortal world was established, the Five Declines Great Path Bell.
Surrounding this treasure, it eventually derived today’s foundation of the Inner Mount Shu in the Netherworld.
Influenced by the Buddhist Sect’s Six Paths of Reincarnation and Avici of the past, the Inner Mount Shu gradually derived the Artistic Conception of the Taoist Five Paths of Reincarnation in its Taoist Laws.
Hence, it is said, the first path, gods ascend to heaven as celestial gods;
The second path, gods enter bones and flesh to form human gods;
The third path, gods enter animals to form animal gods;
The fourth path, gods enter Calotropis, the name of hungry ghosts;
The fifth path, gods enter impurity, the name of hell.
The Inner Mount Shu thus takes the Five Declines Great Path Bell as the supreme treasure of the heavenly path inheritance, accumulating the sect’s heritage over long ages.
They do not imitate the Tang Shushan Faction by arranging the current Six Harmonies Treasures, but through the efforts of several thousand years and many generations of inheritance, they hope to create the supreme treasures of the Five Paths of Reincarnation for the Inner Mount Shu.
Although the Netherworld is dead and dangerous, it also contains a large number of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
But the souls needed for the Inner Mount Shu cultivators’ refining treasures are not easy to obtain and accumulate when the Netherworld is isolated from the mortal world.
The Masters and inheritors of the Inner Mount Shu over many years managed to refine only two pieces.
The supreme treasure of the Tao of Hungry Ghost, the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls.
The supreme treasure of the Tao of Hell, the Netherworld Sword.
In the last hundred years, with the changes of heaven and earth, the Netherworld accidentally reconnected with an unexpected mortal world.
In that mortal world, wars and military disasters swept across the lands.
A large number of people turned into refugees to avoid disaster and survive, accidentally coming into contact with the Netherworld.
The Inner Mount Shu saw this as a great treasure, attracting a large number of people into the Netherworld.
Even quite a few spirit beasts and even the demon race.
The Inner Mount Shu ushered in great development, and many long-held ideas finally had the possibility of realization.
However, all of that was built upon mountains of corpses and seas of blood...
Currently, the top expert of the Inner Mount Shu is in seclusion in Fengdu City, concentrating on refining new magical treasures.
The Netherworld unexpectedly reconnected with the Great Tang Realm, and Zhou Zheng and others requested the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls, retaliating against the Tang Shushan Faction, aiming to obtain the treasures, the magic artifacts, and all Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of the Tang Shushan Faction.
If they could have a large number of souls of the populace or even cultivators, that would be even better.
But unfortunately, they ultimately suffered a complete defeat.
Even the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls was damaged.
Zhou Zheng and Mu Sheng perished.
An Zhiyu and Li Yuanyuan waited under the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls to be punished.
After a while, above the Tao Palace, black qi gathered into words:
"Warming and Nurturing the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls is of utmost importance; do not act rashly. Wait for the Sect Leader Brother and us to come out of seclusion, and then discuss it."
An Zhiyu and Li Yuanyuan both lowered their heads: "Yes, Master."
.........
The Great Tang Realm.
South bank of the Grand River.
A man and a woman, two cultivators of the Eightfold Heaven Realm, quietly crossed the river at this moment.
They were cultivators from the Ming Mortal Realm, Shang Nan from the Alchemy Cauldron Sect and Xue Xingzi from the Refinement Sect.
"The clues are ultimately too few, sorry to have troubled Taoist Brother to make a futile trip with me." Xue Xingzi said apologetically.
Shang Nan: "It’s no trouble for this poor Taoist, just a pity that I couldn’t assist the Taoist friend in recovering your sect’s treasure."
He looked towards the downstream direction of the Grand River to the east, then turned to look upstream to the west:
"Hard to imagine that Taoist Friend Fu has fallen like this..."
Due to the Great Tang Dynasty’s suppression and arrest of the Mortal Tao Country in the realm, such a major piece of news about Fu Dongsen’s death was immediately announced, serving as a warning to others. freewebnøvel.coɱ
The news of the Ziwei Sword returning to the Tang Shushan Faction also spread accordingly.
Shang Nan and Xue Xingzi, although unfamiliar with the place, could easily catch wind of such popular news given their cultivation and connections.
"It’s truly unpredictable, running into someone not long ago and now they have already passed on." Xue Xingzi remarked.
Shang Nan: "That Taoist Friend Chen Donglou needs to be watched closely with care..."
Xue Xingzi nodded lightly.
She hesitated a moment before speaking again: "Should I go and make contact with our fellow members here?"
Shang Nan: "When Taoist Friend Fu died, neither of us was present, unclear of the details, it’s better not to take rash risks at this time."
In name, they could of course contact fellow Taoist cultivators in this world as Daoist Cultivators from the Ming Realm.
But if Fu Dongsen had already reported their identities as key figures of the Ming Mortal Realm Kingdom, then going to the Tang Shushan Faction or elsewhere would be like walking into a trap.
The possibility is low, but the two have to guard against it for now.
"Taoist Brother’s words are reasonable."
Xue Xingzi changed the topic: "With Taoist Friend Fu’s fall, the Northern Black Emperor has not shown himself, is he currently in deep seclusion, or... is there something amiss?"
Shang Nan: "At present, it is unknown; we should report to the Emperor as soon as possible and let the Emperor decide."
Xue Xingzi: "The Emperor is currently also occupied."
Shang Nan: "Though there is a saying that opportunities are fleeting, for us here, the environment is relatively unfamiliar and complex, it must not be rushed."
Xue Xingzi: "On this side of the Great Tang, the Northern Black Emperor’s forces are almost empty, indeed making it a rare opportunity, but truly unpredictable, how the Netherworld suddenly manifested at this time."
