Beginning to practice immortality as a refugee

Chapter 589 Reason
Shang Tianti broke down and cried, not because he had a deep affection for Lu Ye, but because he suddenly saw his "old friend" and was sad about his own experience, so he couldn't help himself.

Lu Ye could guess one or two reasons.

Now that I can use my spiritual sense to sense the status of Shang Tianti more clearly at close range, I can only say that it is not good, very bad.

At the beginning, Shang Tianti and Mo Ruyan wanted to ambush Lu Ye in the Mozhu Secret Realm, but Lu Ye counterattacked and led the two to fight each other, and each of them broke an arm and half of their body.

Among them, Shang Tianti broke his right arm, and Mo Ruyan lost both legs. Both of them were injured, and the physical injuries were secondary. One of them relied on the power of the Nascent Soul magic weapon Lingyun Sword, and the other used the weird and domineering magic skills and sharp attacks.

The final result was that both sides suffered losses, both suffered damage to their foundation, and had almost no hope of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Mo Ruyan took refuge with Prince Hong He of the Evil God Temple. By stealing the Evil God's blood crystal, she luckily completed her Taoist foundation and advanced to the Nascent Soul stage with great difficulty.

Shang Tianti did not have such good fortune. He had always been a nobody at the bottom of the rankings in the Dragon Stealing Alliance, and had been unable to advance to the Nascent Soul stage because his foundation in Taoism had been damaged before.

In the human world, he stopped at the realm of great perfection of golden elixir.

However, it now seems to Lu Ye that Shang Tianti's cultivation has dropped significantly, even down several levels. Now he can only barely hang around in the initial stage of the Golden Core Realm. If he gets injured again, he might fall back to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Cultivation is one aspect.

On the other hand, Shang Tianti's physical condition was not good either. His hair was gray, his face was covered in dust, the corners of his eyes were full of wrinkles, the skin on his hands and feet was rough, and his back was hunched.

More importantly, his eyes were no longer firm and clear, but rather cloudy and dull, full of hesitation, wandering, despair and helplessness, and a little dull and demented.

This doesn't look like a monk, but rather like a poor man who is crushed by the burdens of life.

You know, Shang Tianti was originally a handsome man. He was able to surpass his fellow disciples to become the undisputed candidate for the next leader of Lingyun Sect, and won the favor of Qi Fangfang, thanks to his strength and demeanor.

Today, where can we still see any trace of his elegant demeanor?

Even if he had managed to become a Tribulation Cultivator, he would not be one tenth as miserable as he is now.

Lu Ye muttered in his heart… What on earth happened to this Shangtianti?
Why does it feel even more miserable than when I imprisoned him in the Mozhu Secret Realm for decades?
The two looked at each other with complicated expressions, and many things flashed through their minds in an instant.

The men and women of the surrounding villagers were originally kneeling on the ground and trembling, but when they saw that the newcomer was an old acquaintance of the village chief, they immediately showed joy on their faces. Then they saw the village chief break down and cry, shouting "what visitors from his hometown have been here for fifty years", and they all looked confused again.

Shang Tianti cried a few times to vent his sorrow, then suddenly jumped up, not even caring about looking at Lu Ye as he cried, and grabbed him anxiously.

“Fellow Daoist Lu… No, Island Master Lu, Senior Lu.”

"We can discuss some things later. We must not let any demon escape now!"

"Otherwise it will bring disaster to the village!"

"Stop them quickly! We can't let them run away and tip off the enemy!"

Lu Ye laughed, took the Shangtian ladder together, headed straight to the sky, and overlooked the earth.

But with the village as the center, a group of demon deserters were fleeing in panic. However, there seemed to be an invisible god of death following behind them, whose sickle kept reaping. Many demons fell to the ground without a sound, their heads and bodies separated during the escape, and a gorgeous blood flower bloomed on the ground.

Shang Tianti was stunned. He had only been in the sky for half a cup of tea before he watched all the demon soldiers fall down and die, without any one escaping.

The farthest demon only escaped a few miles.

whoosh...

A sharp whistling sound came from the ground and flew past his cheek.

Even Shang Tianti didn't see what that thing was.

Whoosh...

He felt vaguely that there was an invisible weapon circling around him, with a hint of hostility lurking within him.

If this thing had not made the noise intentionally, and because it had just slaughtered many monsters and was stained with too much blood and hostility, Shang Tianti would not have been able to sense its existence at all.

"Invisible sword!"

Shang Tianti's face changed. When he saw Lu Ye stretch out his palm, his palm sank, and the terrifying feeling of danger around him disappeared.

Mo Ruyan later joined the Dragon Stealing Alliance and, under the auspices of the two big guys, Dujiang Gu Zun and Thousand-Faced Judge, made peace with Shang Tianti.

The two of them smiled and put aside their grudges, and naturally exchanged a lot of information.

Shang Tianti knows.

Lu Ye is a disciple of the Demon Sect founded by Mo Ruyan.

At first, he was just mediocre, but then he gradually rose.

Suspected to be the true identity of Lan He Taoist in the Mozhu Secret Realm, he has a hidden trick called invisible sword, which might have been the cause of the fight between him and Mo Ruyan.

Countless thoughts flashed through Shang Tianti's mind. He turned to look at Shang Luye's half-smile and a chill ran down his spine. All his extra thoughts immediately disappeared. He could only lower his head and say, "Senior, your swordsmanship is superb and I admire you."

What a joke.

Even if Lu Ye was really his enemy, the other party was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and he was just a fallen Golden Core. If he wanted to survive, he might have to rely more on the other party in the future.

Seeing that Shang Tianti had surrendered, Lu Ye laughed and pulled him down from the air.

Shang Tianti apologized and asked for some time to take care of the village affairs. Then if the senior had any questions, he would tell him everything he knew and would never hide anything.

Lu Ye nodded, a cup of tea was nothing.

However, he still used the secret method to spread his spiritual awareness unconsciously and kept a close eye on the movements of Shang Tianti and the surrounding villagers.

It is said that Shang Tianti left in a hurry and called several leaders among the villagers. Some of them were assigned to be responsible for rescuing the dying and the wounded and properly resettling the dead and injured in the village.

Some were sent to deal with the corpses of the dead demons. They could not be left exposed in the wilderness to avoid causing trouble.

Other villagers were sent to dig up the collapsed buildings in the village to see if there were any surviving villagers.

Fortunately, although these villagers were bullied by the monsters just now, they are not really powerless mortals. This is a village composed purely of warriors. They just seem very weak when facing the monsters with magical powers.

Shang Tianti arranged the villagers in an orderly manner. Just after a cup of tea, Shang Tianti returned to Lu Ye.

"Senior... please, let's talk over there."

In the original ruined wooden house, the villagers had cleaned up a clean area, and found two woven cushions that were neither round nor square from somewhere, and presented a wooden kettle and two small bowls as tea to entertain the guests.

The corner of Lu Ye's eyes twitched, and he looked around, feeling the surging tide of spiritual energy and the rich resources on the surrounding mountains.

He frowned.

"Shangtianti, where is this place? Why is the spiritual energy so strong?"

"You occupy such a precious place, why are you the only monk in the village?"

"Also, you guys are living such a cramped life, isn't it too miserable?"

"What is the origin of the White Tiger Demon King? How dare he treat our human race as two-legged sheep and a lowly race? Isn't this too outrageous?"

Shang Tianti smiled bitterly, sighed, and then explained in detail.

“Senior Lu…if I hadn’t experienced this myself, I would have felt like I was dreaming.”

"Now, it's more than 20,000 years away from our time. I guess it's the end of the ancient times."

"The demon race is the most respected on earth, commanding hundreds of races. The demon race is just a large force among them, occupying the western part of the earth, um, that is Xihezhou... This is also the name of the continent here."

"As for us humans, we are not considered a force among the hundreds of races. We are considered a vassal force under the demon race. We spread across the land with the demon race, pay taxes, and are treated as blood bags and meals for the demon masters. We are regarded as two-legged sheep." "The White Tiger Demon King is one of the three lords of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. He has 31 human villages under his command."

"As you can see, this village has a population of over a thousand people, so it can be considered one of the villages. As for why I am the only cultivator in the village... it's hard to explain."

"Also, Senior, this place, by today's standards, is actually just a remote and poor place. It is not a place rich in spiritual energy at all."

"True cultivators regard this place as a spiritual desert and are unwilling to stay here for long."

Lu Ye was stunned after hearing this. Even though he had guessed it long ago, his head felt buzzing.

"As for why there are no monks in the village."

Shang Tianti smiled bitterly.

"That's because there are also smart and wise people among the demon race..."

Shang Tianti said that the demon tribe implemented a system of lifting up their household registration during this era.

On weekdays, they suppress the human race in every way, wantonly demand and kill them, treating them as grass that will grow on its own, and cut them over and over again.

But in terms of the system, they still govern the human villages and patrol from time to time. If they find children with spiritual roots, they will abduct them early, teach them magic, and carve magic patterns on their heads to represent the favor of the demon clan.

Once you become a member of the demon clan, you are regarded as a member of the demon clan. This system is called "Taiji".

It goes without saying who these human cultivators who have been raised by the demon clan since childhood tend to favor.

However, the seeds for cultivating immortals in the human villages could not be preserved. Instead, decades later, these seeds for cultivating immortals that were originally looted returned after staying among the demon tribe for decades, completely disregarding the so-called kinship.

They have been brainwashed and assimilated by the demon race. They are brutal and bloody, showing no mercy to their own kind, and their methods are even more cruel than those of the demon race.

Therefore, in the entire village, apart from Shang Tianti, there were no other native monks.

Just now, when Lu Ye appeared, his Nascent Soul cultivation level killed all the Jindan monsters. He fell from the sky, and scared the villagers so much that they trembled with fear. They all thought he was a subordinate of other powerful superior monsters.

Lu Ye's face changed when he heard this.

He lamented that survival is not easy in today's era, and was also surprised at the bizarre experience he and the monk had on the ladder.

Although he had guessed it in his mind when he went upstream against the river of time, he was still shocked when he heard Shang Tianti's story with his own ears.

Shang Tianti and he actually went back in time and returned to the end of the ancient times more than 20,000 years ago!

Divided according to the human historical perspective.

The human world is divided into the ancient barbaric period, when hundreds of races fought for supremacy; the ancient demons ruled the earth, killing and expelling hundreds of races; the medieval demons took advantage of the situation, overthrew the rule of the demons, and unified the earth; in the modern period, the human race rose up, kicked the demons down from the dominant position, became the master of this world, and ruled for nearly ten thousand years.

According to the records of the human world, the ancient tribes were in chaos, the ancient demons were strong, the medieval monsters dominated, and the modern humans prospered. Each tribe occupied approximately ten thousand years of ruling time in the long river of history, and successively became the overlords of the sky and the earth.

Shang Tianti said that now is the end of the ancient times, that is when the demons rule the earth, the monsters have become local lords and are rising vigorously, while other tribes are in decline, but still survive in this land.

The rule of the demon clan is already riddled with holes and is on the verge of crumbling. Perhaps in just a few decades, hundreds of years, or even a thousand years, the demon clan will mercilessly sweep it into the garbage dump of history, just as they did with the defeated clans such as the Two-Winged Clan before.

I regarded this land as a precious place for cultivation, but I didn't expect that according to the standards of this era, it was actually considered a remote and poor place.

Lu Ye's face was gloomy and uncertain.

This damn sundial mark actually exiled itself to more than 20,000 years ago!
Huh?
He had managed to escape in the long river of time and space thanks to the protection of the small boat transformed from the Immortal Spiritual Sutra, the unknown true and false sea needle bestowed by Princess Longfu, and most importantly, the absolute domain of the sundial mark.

Shang Tianti is only a Jindan cultivator, how can he successfully cross the river to reach this world? Shouldn't he die in the river?

Lu Ye hurriedly asked Shang Tianti the questions in his mind.

Shang Tianti replied with a confused look on his face, "I don't know, senior. During the battle that day, we were all enveloped by the strange magical treasure of the two-winged demon clan."

Later, Senior Qianqian carried me on his back and escaped. Everything was fine the moment before, but the next moment my eyes went dark, and I found myself being swept into the surging Yangtze River, with no end in sight.

I was stunned for just a moment. I was getting anxious, and when I opened my eyes again, the world was spinning around me, and I was falling from the sky into this world. Was the river I saw before an illusion?
Fortunately, I fell into this human tribe. If I fell on the plate of some demon king, you probably wouldn't see me anymore...

After I recovered from my injuries in this tribe, I was shocked to hear that demons were rampant outside. I had done little to damage the Daoji Dan people, so naturally I didn't dare to intrude.

Because I had nowhere to go, I stayed there. Decades passed by and the old clan leader passed away. Because of my cultivation, I was elected as the new clan leader.

I never revealed my skills, but the girl just now was the only child of the old patriarch, so I got carried away and did something stupid, revealing my skills.

Shang Tianti was trapped for fifty years, but his story is very short.

Lu Ye frowned after hearing this.

That’s not right. Shang Tianti passed through it as soon as he closed his eyes and opened them again. It was so short that he thought the long river of time and space he saw was an illusion.

Then why did I stay in the long river of time and space for so long?

Was it because he had resisted the sundial mark for too long that he was punished to stand in the river? Otherwise, why did he just go in and out of the ladder and it was over?
He thought about it for a few moments but couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.

Thinking that everything happened because of the sundial mark, he hurriedly looked up at Shang Tianti, but found that there was no sundial projection mark above his head.

Lu Ye used the water mirror technique to shine the light on himself again, and his face turned dark.

But above his head, the shadow of the sundial was still there, and the zero-setting sundial needle had moved from its original position at some point in time.

Then it was like the needle of a broken watch, clicking, one step forward, one step backward, and then it got stuck in place.

Bad news, the sundial mark is still there.

Good news, the sundial projection above is finally no longer reset to zero and reverses to its initial position.

Lu Ye didn't have time to think too much and just considered how he could survive in this era.

He stood up and looked at the busy villagers around him, and asked Shang Tianti whether he would be in trouble now that he was under the command of the White Tiger Demon King and so many demons had died.

How about you point out the direction to me, and I'll sneak over there at night and chop off the white tiger's head with a sword, thus eliminating the trouble for you forever?
Shang Tianti hurriedly shook his head after hearing this.

The White Tiger Demon King's abilities were considered mediocre among the demons. He was a lazy Yuanying who usually lived a life of drunkenness and dreams. He liked to keep handsome men in captivity and eat them.

The Jindan under her command died, and we didn't leave any one alive to report the news. She would only think that he died in a fight with other demon tribes that crossed the border, and would not suspect us, the weak human race.

For now, we are safe.

It is better to have less trouble than more. Be careful of unexpected twists and turns.

Shang Tianti looked at Lu Ye eagerly.

"It's too unsafe out there with all these demons and monsters. Have you considered where to go next?"

"Senior Lu, I have a suggestion that should be made."

Lu Ye waved his hand generously and said, "You say."

Shang Tianti mustered up his courage and bowed to the ground.

"Senior Lu!"

"You have a high level of cultivation and strong abilities."

"I am willing to give up my position and let you be the clan leader. How about that?"

Lu Ye: “???”

(End of this chapter)