Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 1007 Time
Seeing that groups of cultivators were flying towards them in dense numbers, all holding magical weapons, with ferocious faces and menacing looks, Gu Shiyi was not afraid at all. He smiled and retracted his evil spirit. However, Pu Yanlan's body was flashing with yellow light, and an overwhelming pressure rushed towards the people on the opposite side. Now she was in the late stage of the Spiritualization Stage and had two Yuanying stages. She was invincible in the same realm. Even cultivators in the Void Refinement Stage could be killed by her. When her breath came out, the cultivators on the opposite side stopped their escape light, and the faces of the few people in the lead were as pale as paper.

"What is the origin of the cultivator opposite? He has such a powerful aura!"

If one really wanted to kill such high-level monks, even though they were outnumbered and powerful, I'm afraid no one would be able to escape!

It would be too late to escape now. The leading cultivators watched from the spot and confirmed that of the two women opposite, one was a high-level human cultivator, and although the other had restrained her aura, everyone could tell from the tall woman's figure and her wild outfit in leather jacket and shorts that she was most likely a demon!
After a while of discussion, they finally mustered up the courage and sent two monks to the front to pay their respects.
"I wonder if this senior has returned from traveling in the Demon Continent?"

Pu Yanlan nodded calmly.

"Exactly!"

"Oh……"

The two monks on the opposite side were excited and said hurriedly,
"May I ask which sect or school you are from, and please give us your name so that we can meet you!"

Pu Yanlan said lightly,

"A Sanxian, a name that is not worth mentioning..."

He paused and looked at the two of them, then picked the taller one with fair skin and a more gentle look. He raised his hand and gently grabbed the monk, who was brought to him.

"Ah... what do you mean, Senior?"

The monk was shocked, but under Pu Yanlan's pressure, he couldn't even move a finger. He screamed in fear. Pu Yanlan said,
"You don't have to panic, I'm just asking you a few questions. If you answer well, you'll benefit from it!"

The monk heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this and said hurriedly,

"Senior, please feel free to ask me any questions you may have. I will answer all your questions without hesitation!"

Pu Yanlan nodded,
"How many sects are there near the Hurricane Strait now? Which sect is the leader, and how many people are there among them?"

When the monk heard that she was asking these questions, he was relieved.

It seems that he is indeed a senior expert who has traveled outside for many years and just wants to understand the situation nearby!

He immediately explained everything one by one. Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi looked at each other and thought,

"After so many years, this place is even more chaotic than when we were here!"

When they were in the Giant Elephant Sect, there were only 20 to 30 sects in the Hurricane Strait at most, but now, there are hundreds of sects of all sizes.
"Nowadays... the largest sect near this strait is Xiaohai Pavilion!"

"Xiao Hai Pavilion?"

Gu Shiyi, who was standing by, raised his eyebrows and interrupted,

"Is the Giant Elephant Gate still there?"

"Giant Elephant Gate?"

The monk frowned and thought for a long time. He couldn't remember the Giant Elephant Gate, so he turned to look at the monk behind him. Another monk came forward and said,

"The Giant Elephant Sect that the two seniors mentioned is a sect that existed thousands of years ago. I have seen records of it in the local chronicles of Hurricane Strait..."

After thinking for a while he said,

"At that time, the Giant Elephant Sect was also the overlord of this strait. It was very glorious for a while. There was also a very remarkable warrior among them. He was extremely talented. He entered the Giant Elephant Sect at a young age, started as a low-level disciple, and cultivated all the way to become a high-level cultivator. He made great contributions to the Giant Elephant Sect. It was only in a war that this senior died. Although the Giant Elephant Sect was the number one sect in the strait, it was only two hundred years later that the entire sect fell into decline after the Giant Elephant Sect's leader died. Within a hundred years, there was no Giant Elephant Sect in this Hurricane Canyon..."

After hearing this, Gu Shiyi recalled the days in the Giant Elephant Gate. Although there was constant fighting and killing, there were also some happy times!
"Ugh……"

She sighed softly. Over the past thousand years, everything has changed. Nothing and no one have changed!
"Yan'er... let's go!"

Pu Yanlan nodded and waved her hand to send two bottles of pills to the two of them.

"These two bottles of elixirs will be of great use to your practice, keep them!"

After saying that, he and Gu Shiyi turned into a yellow light and disappeared in an instant!

The two of them traveled along the way, stopping here and there. When they saw a beautiful place, they would stop and stay for a while. When they came across a bustling city, they would find a house to live in. Sometimes, when Gu Shiyi was in the mood, he would use some magic to hide in the homes of ordinary people, experiencing the joys and sorrows of the worldly world. Sometimes, he would seal his Taoism and join a certain sect to become a small disciple, reminiscing about the happiness he had when he was a low-level disciple in the sect!

In short, follow your heart, stop at your own pace, and let nature take its course...

In a blink of an eye, another three hundred years had passed. Pu Yanlan felt that her mind was stable, so she started to challenge the realm again. This time, the two of them found a place at the bottom of a lake, dug a cave, and hid in it to practice again. When Pu Yanlan was about to enter seclusion, Gu Shiyi calculated the days and asked Pu Yanlan, "If your great demon king has absorbed all the demon god's heart, he should be able to come to find you by now. Why hasn't he done anything yet?"

Speaking of this, Pu Yanlan also had some concerns. After thinking for a while, she said,

"I'm afraid that the Demon God's Heart may not be so easy to absorb in its entirety. A thousand years may not be enough!"

Gu Shiyi thought for a while and said,

"That's true. When I was in the Demon Realm, I also heard from those big and small demon kings that the demon god was also a small demon in the beginning. It took him a full 100,000 years to kill his way to the demon god realm. The life span of your demon king is probably less than two tenths of that of the demon god. Even if he took a shortcut, it would still take him at least 50,000 to 60,000 years..."

This thousand years number, I’m afraid it’s just something the devil brags about in front of his woman?
Pu Yanlan thought about it and nodded.

"I think so too……"

Even if Jie wouldn't come for a while, she would naturally concentrate on her cultivation and wait quietly!
In a blink of an eye, the world was changing again, the sun and the moon were changing, time passed, day and night alternated, and Pu Yanlan was concentrating on cultivation. In addition to meditating in the quiet room and breathing in spiritual energy, she would go out to make pills and refine weapons. Gu Shiyi also practiced for a while and then went out for a walk. This time, Lao Ma and Wang Yue did not hide in the cave, but sneaked into the big lake outside the cave to practice. Sometimes, Lao Ma would transform back to his original form during the day, running and eating grass by the lake, while Wang Yue would lurk during the day and surface at night to breathe in the moonlight...

Later, the world changed dramatically. This sparsely populated lake gradually became populated. People nearby went to the lake to fish and occasionally saw a horse running by the lake with its four hooves in the air flying above the lake. At night, they also saw a giant turtle floating on the water. They were shocked and thought that a divine beast had appeared here. They all knelt down and kowtowed to it. As the news spread, people came one after another, saying that there was a divine beast here. During the day, it was a Pegasus that soared through the clouds and mist, and at night it turned into a giant turtle that absorbed the moon's essence and could call the wind and rain. The following year, there was a severe drought and thousands of miles of land were dry. Not a single blade of grass or tree could survive. Only the water level of the lake remained the same as before, and the nearby areas were fertile with water and grass. People said that it was because of the divine beast, so they built a Pegasus Temple to offer incense, kowtowed every day, moved here, fished and hunted, reclaimed wasteland, and saved countless lives.

So hundreds of years later, a big city called Tianma City has been formed here, and the Tianma Temple by the lake has always been very popular. It is said that as long as you pray to the Tianma mythical beast, the beast will surely grant your request, whether it is for marriage, money, children, or to cure illness, no matter whether you are noble or poor, as long as you are sincere you will be rewarded!
It is also said that the world changes and people's hearts are fickle. This big city prospered for hundreds of years, but war broke out. The two armies fought, and the blood flowed like a river, and corpses were everywhere. After the enemy captured the city, they threw all the bodies of the killed prisoners into the river, and they flowed into the Tianma Lake, contaminating the whole lake water, which angered the Tianma beast. That night, thunder rumbled, the earth and the sky shook, mountains collapsed, and rivers changed course. The entire city by the lake sank into the ground after a collapse of the sky and the earth, and then the lake water flooded back, drowning all the enemy troops!

Three days later, some surviving people nearby came to check, only to find that the entire Tianma Lake had dried up, and the original Tianma city had fallen into a huge deep pit. The water of Tianma Lake miraculously poured into the deep pit, turning a huge city into a dead city at the bottom of the lake. None of the enemy troops escaped, and the most amazing thing was that the Tianma Temple by the Tianma Lake was intact, and even the temple flag in front of the temple was still fluttering in the wind!

When the people saw this, they all exclaimed that it was the manifestation of the divine beast Pegasus. Unfortunately, the Pegasus passed away and never appeared again. The newly formed lake was formed because too many innocent souls died in it. Every night when the moon was bright, people nearby would see ghostly figures above the lake, lined up in formations, holding swords and spears. The sounds of killing came from the lake, which was creepy. After the next one or two hundred years, nine out of ten fish caught in the lake had big heads and small bodies, with human hands growing under their bellies, and crying like babies. Who would dare to eat such strange fish!

It was no longer possible to fish in the lake, and the water had been polluted by resentment and could not be irrigated, so the people nearby fled. From then on, this once prosperous city turned into a ghost town, and no one dared to enter for hundreds of years!
The people who fled did not know that the Pegasus beast they had spoken of still lived in the city at the bottom of the lake, and the countless ghosts they saw had become the Pegasus beast's subordinates, forming a team every night to follow the Pegasus beast in patrolling around the lake.

"Ugh……"

Looking up at the sky above the lake, Wangyue, who was absorbing the moonlight, sighed secretly.

"Thinking back to the past... this place was so prosperous, with so many people coming and going by the lake, it was so lively!"

The old horse that was accompanying her to watch the moon swung its tail, rippling the water, and its huge body gently rubbed against her body.
"Rise and fall are inevitable, and reincarnation has its own cause. This is the norm in the world. You don't have to worry about it. Wait for a hundred or two hundred years, and when people's memories of this place fade, someone will come here to settle down again!"

Wangyue sighed again after hearing this, but did not speak. He just looked down at the city that sank to the bottom of the lake. The houses, towers, streets and alleys were still clearly visible. Thinking back to the bustling city in the past, he could not help but feel confused.

"Old Ma, the longest lifespan of ordinary mortals is no more than 200 years. Compared to them, we are already as long-lived as the sky. So... why do we still pursue immortality and ascension?"

Hearing this, Old Ma looked at Wangyue in surprise.
"I usually see you being silly and stupid, and I thought you were very open-minded, but I didn't expect you would think about these things?"

I think Wangyue has also witnessed the changes of dynasties in this world and the ups and downs of life, and he must have some feelings in his heart!
Wang Yue rolled her eyes at him.
"I just don't usually say it, but I know it in my heart!"

Old Ma laughed and nudged her again and said,

"I asked Gu Shiyi about this matter..."

"Oh...what did she say?"

Old Ma thought for a while and said,

"Gu Shiyi said... why think so much, this is fate. Some people are destined to be emperors, some are destined to be immortals, it's all part of the rules of the universe and the cycle of heaven. There are very few people who can truly escape the rules. Whether it's life or death, it's all after this cycle. Don't think too much, just keep going!"

"Go on..."

Wangyue lowered her head and murmured. Old Ma smiled and said,

"Yeah, it's just a matter of walking on!"

That is, the way of heaven has its own destiny, so we should follow it. Whether it is blessing or disaster, we should keep moving towards our goal firmly!

Sure enough, after another two hundred years, the world had changed again. People began to settle near this sparsely populated ghost lake, and the fish in the lake had returned to normal. They grew unusually plump, weighing up to a hundred kilograms and as tall as a human. Gradually, more people lived nearby, and they built houses by the lake, reclaimed farmland, and built villages. Then there were cities and roads... Everything was another cycle of rise and fall!

This cycle repeated itself, and after who knows how many ups and downs it had gone through, the lakeside returned to peace again this year. It was winter again, when the grass and trees withered. Suddenly, early one morning, the gloomy sky suddenly cleared up. There were no clouds in the sky, and it was so blue that it seemed to be soaked with water.
"boom……"

The first thunderbolt appeared, but it was not as earth-shattering as imagined. Instead, it was ordinary and low, just like the winter thunder of thousands of years ago. It made a low sound, and then there was no movement. After a long time, a little snowflake floated straight down from the top of the head. The snowflake floated lightly and slowly fell on the windless lake. When the crystal just touched the water surface, something strange happened.

"boom……"

The originally calm mirror-like surface of the water suddenly shook, and the place where the snowflakes fell inexplicably sank downwards, instantly forming a deep pit. From above, one could see the dark mud at the bottom of the lake...