ninety thousand miles

Chapter 672 Nightfall
"Where?" Li Chuan asked. He suddenly remembered what Cang Ming Hall Master had said to him, so he said, "Please save some trouble for the seniors in your sect. In order to persuade me not to make trouble with you, Cang Ming Hall Master even said things like I am gifted by nature and I have both courage and strategy."

"That's not wrong." Wen Guying said without any shame: "Besides, I am the least troublesome person."

Li Chuan looked at his carefree appearance and couldn't help but frowning.

Wen Guying stood up, looked at the gradually darkening sky, and said, "I have been in the Four Gods Palace for 262 years. For the inner disciples, this is the time that needs the most worrying, because 80% of them will die at this stage."

"Eighty percent? Such a high proportion?" Li Chuan asked.

"About that. During this stage, I've gone down the mountain to gain experience several times, visited one or two secret realms, made some friends, and also made a few enemies. These seemingly ordinary things can easily lead to death." Wen Guying said.

"It seems so." Li Chuan said.

"If you want to survive smoothly, then you will go into seclusion for the first time for a long period of time. After coming out, you will have to start deciding the direction of your practice. The next three to five hundred years will generally pass. After that, you will face the first life and death crisis." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan was attracted by what Wen Guying said. It was the first time someone had explained these matters of cultivation to him in detail. He asked, "Does the calamity of life and death also require the experience of heavenly thunder?"

"No, it is that there will inevitably be disasters targeting your weaknesses in character, disasters from war, disasters from demons, disasters from love, and so on. You will always encounter one or more of the three disasters and nine tribulations. After passing this level, your character will be almost worn out." Wen Guying said.

"How many can pass?" Li Chuan asked.

"About 30%." Wen Guying said.

"Then you are indeed worry-free." Li Chuan said. He also stood up, stretched his arms and legs, and asked: "Tell me, where is the night sky?"

"I don't know yet, but it's definitely not this sky." Wen Guying said, and he went on, "When I was healing in the underground just now, I thought of a question." This time, he didn't keep the suspense and went straight to the point, "Why is it the Luoxia Secret Realm? In the Godly Temple, Junior Brother Guan told you that 30,000 years ago, the three immortals Tian Su, Gui Hong, and Ying Feng led the other 3,000 immortals... I was wondering if there was any connection between them."

"Then I thought of the Gu Yue Sect. The cultivator from the Gu Yue Sect who obtained the inheritance in the Luoxia Secret Realm and ascended to heaven because of it. He ascended to heaven more than two thousand years ago. In fact, if you calculate the time, although the secret realm this time was advanced, it was only a few hundred years earlier." Wen Guying said.

"And that cultivator, according to the speculation of the last leader of Guyue Sect, Master Xu, may have died a thousand years ago." Wen Guying said, he sighed and said: "But... it is extremely rare for a cultivator to die a thousand years after ascending to heaven. Just like cultivators, after reaching the upper realm, they will also experience many tribulations, but the first tribulation usually occurs three thousand years after ascending to heaven."

"Novice protection period?" Li Chuan asked.

Wen Guying said, "That's right. Let's put it this way. His ability to ascend to heaven shows that he has good luck. And... after a cultivator ascends, although he basically no longer cares about worldly affairs, the more people ascend in a sect, the stronger its own luck. To put it more simply, if you can ascend, your path is recognized by the way of heaven. There are always some things in common among cultivators from the same sect. The more people ascend, the more favor the sect will receive from the way of heaven. These things may sound mysterious, but they do exist."

"That's why the sect will do its best to help disciples grow and ascend to immortality. Otherwise, what would happen if the strongest fighters in the world all ascended to heaven, leaving a bunch of old, weak and sick people in the sect?" Wen Guying made a joke.

"So in the end, there is nothing left of Gu Yuemen?" Li Chuan said.

"Yes, it is very unusual for it to decline so quickly and so thoroughly," Wen Guying paused and changed the subject. "That cultivator inherited the legacy of Immortal Yingfeng. He is useless in the lower realm, but as long as he reaches the upper realm, he will be a member of Immortal Yingfeng's lineage. With such good fortune, he fell in a thousand years. It's very strange."

"Is there something wrong with Immortal Yingfeng? Or... has he been devoured by someone?" Li Chuan asked. "I think it's both." Wen Guying said.

It was completely dark.

"Why don't you go and talk to the old palace master and the others?" Li Chuan asked.

"Because my subsequent speculation involves the Three Ancients and Seven True Beings." Wen Guying said.

"So what if they are involved? Will they hear it?" Li Chuan asked.

"Now that immortals and mortals are separated, they probably can't hear each other." Wen Guying said, "I don't want the old palace master to go to Luoxia Secret Realm."

"Then should I go in?" Li Chuan asked.

"I'll go, you take a rest." Wen Guying said.

"Just keep talking." Li Chuan said. After he finished speaking, he thought of something else. "So, in addition to the strange response from the Divine Heroes, has something happened to other ancient immortals?"

"It should be." Wen Guying said.

"Wait, Lingbao, Tiansu did get Lingbao under Xuanshui Mountain," Li Chuan read out the words Tiansu carved on the stone tablet, "There is a gap in the way of heaven, Lingbao will fill it, Yingfeng, pray for it to be refined..."

Li Chuan said, "More than 30,000 years ago, Tian Su replaced the Way of Heaven with the Way of Taoism, which caused a rift in the Way of Heaven. He found a way to repair it and gave the spiritual treasure to Ying Feng Zhenxian to refine. Where is the refined spiritual treasure? In terms of time..." Li Chuan thought for a moment and said, "It should have been a thousand years ago, less than two thousand years ago."

"There are loopholes in the law of nature, but it is impossible for Tiansu and others to get away with it without paying a price." Wen Guying said.

"You said Tiansu was injured? Immortal Yingfeng was also injured?" Li Chuan asked.

"Tian Su was not only injured, but his path gradually declined, and he was infected with illusions and fell into a dead state. He was finally broken through by the immortal Yun Yi. But because he was Tian Su, he was still alive, and that's why there is a divine hero. With Tian Su in this situation, it is even less likely that the others would escape unscathed. Gui Hong and the immortal Ying Feng must have also been injured. As for the other three thousand immortals, it is likely that not many of them survived." Wen Guying said.

"Among the immortals who did not participate in this operation, some may not want to take risks, and some may only care about their own practice, but there are definitely some who want the beam of light to fall, such as Weng Xian. Therefore, he took the initiative to contact the demons and help them build the Demon Palace."

"But, with the three immortals Tiansu, Guihong and Yingfeng here, can his plan succeed? In fact, I think Songfengzi and Haotian are on Tiansu's side. Because in the Shenxia Temple, I feel the breath of reincarnation and incense. No... The Shenxia Temple goes against the flow, and the path it takes is the path of time and space, which is the path of the real immortal Yingfeng."

“So…” Wen Guying sighed and said, “Brother Li, so Immortal Yingfeng has always been on Tiansu’s side.”

"So, Immortal Weng took action against Immortal Yingfeng in order to remove the obstacles and also to obtain the spiritual treasure."

(End of this chapter)