Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 850 Ancient times
The result was tragic. They opened up a passage to the Demon World, which attracted countless monsters. They had to sacrifice half of their people's lives to repel the monsters. During the battle, because the big devil's magic pet looked very much like their ancestors, they were captured and imprisoned and locked under the abyss. The passage to the Demon World could no longer be sealed, so this tribe could only move to the abyss, build a city near the passage, and guard the passage to the Demon World day and night.

However, they did not give up. Six hundred years later, they once again used the supreme magic power to open the passage, which this time led to the other side of this world, causing a devastating flood. In the end, the entire ancient nation disappeared in the flood, but it brought long-term peace to this world. It was because they brought the flood from the other side that the two sides of this world remained forever still, and there was no more upheaval. This group of ancestors lost more than half of their population as a result. Although so many people died, these ancient ancestors were very happy to have opened the passage, thinking that they could return to the embrace of the ancestor snake, so they first sent people to go through the passage to the other side. They did not find the ancestor snake, but they found a tribe like them, also half human and half snake. The people of this tribe all had human bodies and snake tails, and none of them looked like humans!

The people who went to explore came back and painted the situation over there on the murals of the temple. After that, a split occurred within this ancient tribe. Some believed that this place had been flooded and that they should go to another world to live with that tribe. Others felt that they had lived here for many years. Although they could not live under the abyss, there was a vast world outside after leaving the abyss. The split between the two sides led to several internal fights. In the end, the tribe was divided into two halves. Half of the people entered the passage to live on the other side of this interface, while the other half of the ancestors stayed here. This half of the ancestors lived with the humans who fled here during the primitive times, and finally intermarried and reproduced. After so many years, they had already integrated into the human race and could no longer remember who their ancestors were!

The twelve murals only depicted the flood entering the abyss, most of the tribesmen died, a small part escaped to the surface of the abyss, and the rest were written on an oilcloth-wrapped album they found in the belly of a tall statue in a temple. The previous ancestors should not have had written language, as there was not a single word in the twelve murals, but in this album there was human writing. It should be that the descendants of these ancestors learned writing after integrating into the human race.

This album was put there by the last person in the ancestor clan who still remembered their ancestors. It described with pictures and words how the ancestors lived with humans above the abyss, how they intermarried, and how the entire race disappeared in the long river of history. The last person of the ancestor clan kept in mind the will of his ancestors, and was afraid that the tribe members who had left would return here one day and not know what had happened, so he wrote down everything that had happened after they separated in the album, dived into the abyss, and hid the album in the belly of the man-snake statue. As a result, after so many years, this nation has long since disappeared, and their fellow tribesmen have never returned!

After reading this, I finally understood why there was a sign of a snake wrapped around a person on the map.

People inferred that

"It should be that during the prehistoric times, this world was regarded as a treasure trove by the sect where the founder of the Spirit Sword Sect belonged, and the mountain above was probably where the half-snake people lived... Those tribes were the ones guarding the treasure!"

Capturing monsters and guarding treasures is a tradition in the world of cultivation. Although these half-human and snake tribes consider themselves a noble and sacred race, in the eyes of humans, they are half-monsters. At that time, the primitive sects were all full of immortals, so not killing such a semi-civilized race was already a mercy. Therefore, most of the half-human and snake species on that side have been domesticated by the sects of cultivation and become gatekeepers to watch over the treasures. That's why the mark of a snake entangled with a person was drawn on the treasure map.

Pu Yanlan thought for a while and asked,

"Elder Cai, I wonder... besides the spirit sword, did your ancestor receive any other instructions?"

Cai Heming thought about it and shook his head.
"No, there is no record of this in the Grandmaster's notes..."

Pu Yanlan nodded and said to everyone,

"It seems that there should be a passage leading to the other side, and the treasure should be real. However, after so many years, I don't know if the treasure is still there. Also, I don't know if those half-snake races who are guarding the treasure are still there... Everyone... do you still want to find the passage and go to the other side?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, and then someone responded,

"We cultivators are supposed to go against the will of heaven. Even if there is only a one in a thousand chance, we are willing to give it a try!"

The cultivators in this world all know that there is a realm in the sky. If one ascends there, one can become a fairy and live forever. But for all these years, no one has ever ascended there. The reason is that the inheritance is too weak. Now that there is a chance to obtain the treasures and classics from the ancient fairy gate, how can one not try?
Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi looked at each other and thought,

"The treasures of the ancient immortal sect are the cultivators of another world. Even if they are beaten to a pulp and have to risk their lives, they will still go there, let alone this world!"

Pu Yanlan nodded and looked at Cai Heming.

"Elder Cai, in your opinion, where should this passage be located?"

Cai Heming said,

"According to the records on the murals, there are two paths in total. One leads to the demon world. Elder Pu has already gone to the bottom of the abyss to check it out himself. The other path will not be at the bottom of the abyss..."

He thought for a while and said,
"We have no clues at the moment, so we can only spread out our hands and search little by little. It seems... we have to go back to the sect and gather more people... I'm afraid this will not be accomplished in a day!"

Everyone thought about it and realized that this was indeed the only stupid method they could use, so they nodded in agreement and agreed to go back to their respective sects to gather people and then gather here. Without further ado, they left a few people behind to guard the place and then each drove away in their own light.

Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi went to Lingjianmen first, found everyone, and talked to everyone. Lao Ma and Wangyue looked at them sideways.
"I say, you guys...don't you take us seriously at all?"

Wangyue asked,
"Leave me and Lao Ma, the overlords of the water, alone and dive into the water yourself..." Lao Ma also nodded repeatedly.

"Speaking of the underwater world, who knows the details better than us, the water race? How can you humans compare? Let us go find it. We must be a hundred times stronger than you!"

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other and smiled.
"Your words have reminded us!"

After everyone discussed it, Gu Shiyi and everyone else returned to the Great Abyss to explore the passage. Pu Yanlan and Wang Xuying returned to Tianyi Sect to report the matter to Grand Elder Jin and fellow sect members.

Everyone went their separate ways. Pu Yanlan returned to Tianyi Sect and met Grand Elder Jin. Grand Elder Jin thought for a long time after hearing what he said.
"In the prehistoric times, many immortal sects built secret realms outside the world. Some were used to breed immortal beasts, some to grow magical herbs and elixirs, and some to store the sect's treasures and classics. However, most of these secret realms were not large, but I didn't expect that there would be a sect that would own an entire realm..."

From this, we can imagine how powerful the immortals were in the ancient times. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were the masters of the universe.
"Ugh……"

Elder Jin sighed and said,
"As the saying goes, everything goes up and down, and the law of nature repeats itself. Even immortals cannot escape the fate of being torn apart in the end..."

He glanced at Pu Yanlan.

“It is naturally a good thing to be able to see the elegance of the ancient immortal sect, but in my opinion, the tribe guarding the treasure…”

He thought for a while and said,
"... I have heard of this half-snake human race before. It is said that this race is indeed the descendants of a giant snake that created the world. This giant snake was named Tuntian, and it existed in the time of Hongmeng. Later, when the human race rose, Tuntian was killed by Hongjun, one of the Three Pure Ones. After Tuntian died, his body turned into a mountain range, but his head fell into the demon world. His descendants are a half-snake, half-human tribe. This tribe is ferocious, cruel, and has a very long lifespan. After being tamed by humans, they are used to guard tombs and treasures, and can be passed down for generations... However, it was extremely difficult for the ancient tribe to reproduce. It is said that the immortals caught too many of them and locked them in secret realms, not allowing them to travel or intermarry. As a result, their number became smaller and smaller, and finally they became completely extinct..."

Elder Jin looked at Pu Yanlan.
"I just don't know... there are still people of this tribe in this world. I'm afraid you'll have to be careful when you go there..."

Upon hearing this, Pu Yanlan hurriedly asked respectfully,
"What magical powers does this human-snake tribe have?"

"Have……"

The Supreme Elder Jin said,

"This tribe is the descendant of Tiantian, so naturally they have some innate magical powers, such as being able to control water and fire, and having boundless strength that can shake mountains. They can also have nine heads, and if you chop off one, it will come back to life. You need to chop off all nine heads at once..."

Seeing Pu Yanlan write down everything, he said,
"I'm afraid you and Fellow Daoist Gu may not be able to do it. I'll let Rufeng lead others to help..."

Upon hearing this, Yan Rufeng hurriedly stood up and saluted.
"Follow the orders of the Grand Elder!"

Elder Jin also selected four junior brothers of the same generation as Pu Yanlan.
"The seven of you go ahead, remember... don't force it, the best strategy is to protect yourself!"

Everyone responded in unison.

"I obey the order of the Grand Elder!"

The six of them arranged the affairs of the sect one by one, and then set off to the Great Abyss again. However, Wang Xueying was reluctant to leave.

"Master, can't I follow you?"

Pu Yanlan sighed and stroked her apprentice's smooth black hair.

"It's not that I don't want to take you with me, but the Supreme Elder Jin personally mentioned your name, saying that you have reached the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and you need to practice meditation for a while before you can break through to the Golden Core Stage. During this period, it is not suitable for you to go out, as it will disturb your mind, so he wants to take you with him!"