Cultivation of Immortality: Start by Improving Spiritual Root Qualifications

Chapter 840: Entering the Ghost Realm, Holy Beast? Green Ape?

Looking at the space crack in front of him and the dark ghost energy behind it,

Zhou Xun suddenly had an idea.
"Let's go over there and see what the ghost world is like!"

He remembered that in the Thunder Prison, he had found information about the Thunder Xiao Sect's incarnation of gods. True Lord Zi Yu had personally entered the ghost world and killed several incarnations of gods in the ghost world.
This laid the foundation for the great victory of the human world 6000 years ago.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, it took root and continued to grow in his heart.

"Just do it!"

While the passage to the ghost world is still there, and he has no intention of going deep into it, he is just wandering around the crack.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xun no longer hesitated.
With a thought, his magic power poured into the Thousand Illusion Mask.

Zhou Xun's entire body began to change. In a flash, he turned into a Yaksha with two horns on its head. It was actually a ghost king that he had killed on the way.
Even the breath is exactly the same,
This way, even if you encounter other ghosts, you can be safe.

But this change also startled the green ape beside him.
If it weren't for Zhou Xun's extremely strong sense of connection, proving that the person in front of him was his master, it would really have the urge to suck the ghost king in front of it into its stomach.

"Okay, you stay here and if a ghost king comes out, you will take care of it for me!" Zhou Xun instructed Qing Yuan.
Then he released Xiao Jin and Xiao Jia and placed them aside.
In this way, even if another ghost king comes, he can be easily dealt with.

After arranging all this, Zhou Xun flashed and rushed towards the crack.
Zhou Xun's figure flashed and passed through the twisted space crack, and was instantly surrounded by a biting cold air.

The scene in front of me suddenly changed. The originally clear sky turned into a dark red dome. A blood moon hung high in the sky, emitting a strange light.

"This is the ghost world!" Zhou Xun was shocked and subconsciously used his magic power to resist the evil energy that was encroaching from the surroundings.

He looked down at the Yaksha body he was disguising himself as, and felt relieved only after confirming that it was correct.

The land of the ghost world is a sickly gray-black color, with some strange plants growing sporadically on the ground. The edges of their leaves glow with a faint blue light, swaying gently in the cold wind.

In the distance, several strangely shaped peaks pierced the sky like the fangs of a giant beast. The surface of the mountains was covered with honeycomb-like holes, from which dark red mist continuously seeped out.

Zhou Xun carefully released a trace of spiritual sense to explore the surroundings and found that the spiritual energy here was pitifully thin, and was replaced by ghost fog that was so thick that it was almost substantial.

This kind of environment is extremely unfavorable to human monks. Not only can human monks not obtain spiritual energy from the environment to replenish their consumption,
You also have to constantly consume mana to resist the erosion of the ghost fog.

It can be said that after arriving here, the strength of the human cultivators will be reduced by 30%.
"No wonder the ghosts invaded the human world. After opening the rift, the next step was to drive the ghost fog to penetrate it."

"Artificially create an environment suitable for the ghost tribe in the human world!"

"It seems that it was a great achievement for True Lord Zi Yu to kill several gods in the ghost world!" Zhou Xun couldn't help but sigh.

At the same time, he gained more confidence in practicing the "Purple Sky Thunder Art".

He walked along a winding black stream, the water was as thick as oil and there were spots of phosphorescence floating on the surface.

Suddenly, there was a wave at the edge of his consciousness. Zhou Xun immediately restrained his breath and hid behind a huge rock that looked like a skull.

Soon, a group of ghosts floated over from a distance.

They have illusory bodies, wearing rusty armor and holding bone spears. The leading ghost captain is obviously larger in size, with faint green flames dancing in his eye sockets.

"When the blood moon is in the sky and the ghostly aura is at its strongest, why does the city lord still want us to patrol?" a ghost soldier complained, his voice as harsh as the friction of iron.

For their ghost clan, this is the best time to improve.

"Shut up!" The captain of the ghost soldiers shouted, "The army that went to the human world failed, and even His Majesty the Black Axe King died. The city lord is worried about the invasion of the King of Beichen next door, so he naturally has to patrol more!"

"If something goes wrong, you and I will be thrown into the soul refining furnace!"

Zhou Xun's heart tightened. He didn't expect that the ghost world monitored the space crack so closely. He held his breath and prepared to wait for the team of ghosts to pass before taking action.

However, the situation went against his will. The captain of the demon soldiers suddenly stopped and a round disk in his hand jumped.
Zhou Xun secretly thought that this was not good. Although he was disguised as a Yaksha, he knew nothing about the ghosts and had no idea of ​​the rules of their skills and magical powers.
Who knows how they found out?

Seeing the ghosts start to search everywhere, his mind raced and he took the initiative to walk out of his hiding place.

"Who is here? Greetings to King Black Fork!" The captain of the ghost soldiers immediately saluted respectfully!
The Yaksha that Zhou Xun transformed into was a member of the army that was conquering the human race, and was also a fourth-level ghost king.
He is a high-ranking member of their ghost clan.

"I heard that you are conquering the human world, but I didn't react for a while!" The captain of the ghost soldiers immediately became respectful, but there was still a trace of doubt in his eyes.
"I wonder why you are here alone?"

Zhou Xun snorted coldly: "Do I need to explain my actions to you?" As he said that, he deliberately released a trace of pressure equivalent to the level of a ghost king.

The ghost soldiers trembled immediately, and the captain lowered his head quickly: "No, no! But the city lord has ordered that any abnormality must be reported."

"I will personally handle the matter with the city lord, and you all just leave!"

The captain of the ghost soldiers hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not dare to disobey the order of the "high-level ghost clan" and left in disappointment with his men.

Zhou Xun let out a long sigh.

"Wait a minute, sir!" The captain of the ghost soldiers approached flatteringly, "In three days, the Blood Bone City will hold the 'Soul-Eating Ceremony'."

"Soul-eating Ceremony?" Zhou Xun was surprised.
"Yes, it is said that the eight ghost messengers under the Emperor's seat came here personally to select the Holy Son and enter the Holy Beast Hall for baptism!"

"Isn't this a great opportunity? In the 361 cities of the Holy Realm, how many years does it take for such an opportunity to come around?"

"It's a pity that my cultivation is too low and I don't have this opportunity in my life!"

"Yeah!" Zhou Xun agreed ambiguously.
A deep thought arose in my heart.
"Holy beast?"

If he remembered correctly, the ghost tribe he had killed before regarded the green ape as a sacred beast.

Could this baptism in the Holy Beast Hall be related to the Green Ape?
He remembered what the Blood Demon Ancestor had said before, that the entire ghost world was formed by the inner world of that True Immortal-level soul-eating beast after its death.

And their human world was also formed from a piece of the fairyland area cut off by this soul-eating beast.

"Zhou boy, hurry up, this Holy Beast Palace might hide the secret of leaving!" At this time, the excited voice of the Blood Demon Ancestor came to my ear.

"Don't panic, senior. Now that you know this secret, you can come back later!" Zhou Xun immediately rejected the proposal.

"I am just borrowing the identity of a ghost king, but I know nothing about his social connections, magical powers, and memories!"

"When you are in the wild, you can still get away with it when facing some low-level ghosts,"

"If we really enter the ghost city, we will definitely be exposed, and then we may not be able to return!"

Zhou Xun said calmly,
Even if he was extremely powerful, he would not be so arrogant as to break into a ghost city alone, not to mention that there was a top-grade ghost king in it.

The powerful Black Axe King is just a member of this city.

"You're right, I was reckless!" At this time, the Blood Demon Ancestor also regained his sanity.

Zhou Xun could understand his urgency. After all, he had been trapped here for 20,000 years. Once he heard the news that he might be able to leave,

Naturally easily excited.

"Then what are you going to do?" "Of course I'm going to go back. I came here just to get a feel for the environment of the ghost world. Now I've got news about the Soul Eater, which is beyond my expectations!"

Having said that, Zhou Xun turned around and walked back.

However, when he returned to the location of the space crack, the scene before him shocked him greatly - groups of ghost armies appeared around the crack without him noticing.
In front of this group of ghost army, there are several ghost kings with powerful aura!
"No, it's exposed!"

Zhou Xun secretly thought that it was not good. When did he reveal his whereabouts?

At this moment, the ghost captain came out and sneered:
"Who are you and why are you pretending to be my grandfather!?"

The ghost captain's shout was like thunder, and Zhou Xun's heart was shaken. He never expected that the image of the Yaksha Ghost King that he had casually transformed into was actually related to the ghost captain!
If I come before him and don't recognize him, how can I not be exposed!
Zhou Xun could only consider himself unlucky. What else could he do about such a coincidence?
Then he communicated with the Blood Demon Ancestor:

"Senior, I'm afraid I'll need your help again!"

"It doesn't matter. I don't care about just a few ghosts!"

As he spoke, a flash of blood appeared, and the Blood Demon Ancestor appeared beside Zhou Xun.

At the same time, ghost energy surged all around, and several ghost kings locked onto Zhou Xun's breath at the same time.

One of the ghost kings wearing bone armor and holding a huge axe took a step forward, and the ground shook: "Who are you? Why are you pretending to be the Black Fork King? Don't you take my Holy Axe City seriously?"

Zhou Xun knew there was no room for maneuver, so he unhesitatingly summoned the Purple Jade Lightning Spear, and purple lightning streaked through the dark red sky of the ghost world.

With the Purple Sky Thunder Art in full operation, lightning patterns appeared all over his body, forcibly creating a field of thunder in the ghost world filled with yin energy.

"It's a human monk!"

"Quick, stop him! Don't let him escape back to the human world!" the Bone Armor Ghost King roared.

Zhou Xun's eyes darkened, and the purple jade lightning spear in his hand burst out with dazzling lightning. The purple electric arcs wrapped around the spear moved like dragons and snakes, tearing open a piece of vacuum in the surrounding ghost fog.

"Senior, let's fight quickly and decisively!"

The Blood Demon Ancestor laughed grimly, and blood mist surged around him. In an instant, he turned into a blood shadow and rushed towards the ghost army.

Although he was only a remnant of his soul, his methods were still ruthless, and wherever the blood mist passed, the ghosts screamed and scattered, turning into wisps of black smoke and being swallowed up.

“Another peak Nascent Soul?!” The Bone Armor Ghost King’s pupils shrank, and he obviously recognized the origin of the Blood Demon Ancestor. He immediately shouted: “Form a formation! Don’t let him get close!”

Thousands of ghost soldiers quickly formed a battle formation, and the yin energy gathered into a dark barrier to block the invasion of the Blood Demon Ancestor.

However, the Blood Demon Ancestor snorted coldly, and the blood mist suddenly condensed and turned into a blood-red long sword, which chopped down with one blow -

"boom!"

The Yin Qi barrier shattered, and hundreds of ghosts were scared to death on the spot!
Seeing this, Zhou Xun no longer hesitated. He swept the Purple Jade Lightning Spear across, and the thunder roared like an angry dragon, going straight for the Bone Armor Ghost King!
"All the troops, help me!" the Bone Armor Ghost King roared.

Behind him, thousands of ghosts transferred their ghost energy to the Bone Armor Ghost King. It turned out to be an extremely rare military formation technique.
With the addition of many ghost spirits, the Bone Armor Ghost King's momentum increased greatly.
"go to hell!"

The huge axe in his hand chopped down fiercely, and the axe blade was wrapped with eerie ghost energy, which collided fiercely with the thunder!

"Boom——"

The two forces collided, causing a deafening roar, and the violent energy fluctuations blew away all the ghosts within dozens of feet around!
Zhou Xun frowned slightly when he saw this.
The environment of the ghost world is extremely oppressive to human cultivators. Although he has practiced the "Purple Sky Thunder Art", it is still difficult for him to exert his full strength here.

"Humph, a mere human cultivator dares to commit crimes in my ghost world?"

The Bone Armor Ghost King sneered and raised the giant axe in his hand again. Ghost energy gathered madly, a hideous ghost face appeared on the axe blade, and it let out a shrill scream!

"Ghost Killer!"

The giant axe fell, and the ghost energy turned into a dark blade light, cutting straight into Zhou Xun's head!

Zhou Xun's eyes narrowed, and he was unwilling to take it head-on, so he dodged the attack narrowly.

However, before he could stand firm, another female ghost king approached quietly, and the bone whip in her hand wrapped around his neck like a poisonous snake!
"die!"

Zhou Xun reacted very quickly, and turned around to stab the purple jade lightning spear. The tip of the spear exploded with lightning, shaking the bone whip away. However, the female ghost king laughed sinisterly, and with a flick of her wrist, the bone whip split into dozens of phantoms, strangling from all directions!

As soon as he opened his mouth, seventy-two thunder seeds flew out instantly, occupying a thousand feet of space.

"What is this?" Sensing the aura of thunder above, the Bone Armor Ghost King's face became serious.
Zhou Xun clasped his hands together and shouted softly,
"Tianyuan Sword Formation, start!"

These thunders began to change, transforming into lightning swords.

At the same time, under Zhou Xun's control, these lightning swords began to separate.
One handle became two, three, and four.
Don’t stop until you have ten handles!

A total of 720 lightning swords floated up into the air.

"go with!"

Zhou Xun shouted,
Seven hundred and twenty lightning swords poured down like a rainstorm, and the entire sky and earth were flooded with dazzling lightning.

The Bone Armor Ghost King roared, and blocked the body with the giant axe. The ghost energy around his body surged wildly, turning into a thick yin energy barrier.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The lightning swords bombarded the barrier repeatedly, causing deafening explosions. Each strike caused the barrier to vibrate violently, and cracks spread like a spider web.

"How is this possible?!" The Bone Armor Ghost King's expression changed drastically. The defense he was so proud of was crumbling in front of this sword formation!
Zhou Xun's eyes flashed like lightning, and his two-handed sword gestures changed again: "Come together!"

Seven hundred and twenty lightning swords suddenly gathered together and turned into a giant thunder sword that was a hundred feet long. The sword was wrapped in purple-gold lightning patterns, exuding an aura of destruction.

"cut!"

The giant sword slashed down with a loud bang, tearing a dark crack in the air. The Bone Armor Ghost King raised his giant axe in fear to block it.

"Crack!"

The giant axe broke with a sound, but the giant thunder sword continued to move forward, splitting the Bone Armor Ghost King in half! The violent thunder force raged in his body, and the ghost king's body collapsed inch by inch.

"Ah——!" With a shrill scream, the Bone Armor Ghost King was completely reduced to ashes.

This scene made the other ghost kings change color in horror.

The female ghost king screamed, "Retreat quickly! They are from Zixiao Thunder Sect, they are from Zixiao Thunder Sect!"

How could Zhou Xun give them a chance? With a turn of his sword finger, the giant lightning sword split into thousands, shuttling through the ghost army like a swimming dragon.

Wherever they passed, ghosts were annihilated in droves, and even the female ghost king was pierced by three lightning swords, and her ghost body instantly disintegrated.

"Let's go!" Zhou Xun shouted in a low voice, and together with the Blood Demon Ancestor, they shot towards the space crack like lightning.

(End of this chapter)