Beginning to practice immortality as a refugee

Chapter 648 Settlement
Mu Baijun explained.

It turns out that as a wood-type demon, they are born with a long lifespan. This seems to be a good thing, but it also comes at a huge price.

That is, if one cannot successfully cross a great realm and improve his cultivation during his long lifespan, he will experience a ferocious natural calamity every thousand years.

For someone like Mu Baijun, after breaking through to the realm of refining emptiness, the normal lifespan of a demon is three thousand years. Since it is a wood demon, it can live for six thousand years, so it will have to endure three more tests of heavenly tribulations than an ordinary refining emptiness demon king.

No matter which natural disaster you fail to overcome, the outcome will be death.

Mu Baijun had been seriously injured in a previous heavenly calamity, which damaged his foundation and greatly shortened his lifespan, leaving him with less than a thousand years.

This can be considered a restriction imposed by the heavens. Otherwise, wood-type fairies would live for a long time and accumulate infinite cultivation power. Wouldn't all high-level demons be wood fairies?

Seeing that Mu Baijun was about to refuse, Lu Ye quickly lowered his attitude and asked for shelter again.

Mu Baijun just refused, saying that he was old and soft-hearted, and couldn't bear to see tragedy happen again.

It’s because they’re afraid of getting into trouble with human territory again.

He also left the human race stranded in the forest alone, for fear that if they got too close another nine-armed old man would appear and cause him grief.

He himself is very old, while the Red Tiger Demon Saint opposite him is in his prime and is a genius of the demon clan, not to mention he has two powerful mistresses. He is indeed a formidable opponent.

If we take them in, I'm afraid that before a thousand years have passed, Mu Junlin will be a bloody place with heavy casualties.

He would not hesitate to take in Lu Ye alone for the sake of the Green Ape Demon Saint, but Mu Baijun would hesitate to take in thousands of humans.

Lu Ye cried out in pain.

"Senior Mu, if you don't take us in now, when we get out of the forest, there will be heavy casualties and a mess."

But Mu Baijun seemed determined and shook his head firmly.

Lu Ye became anxious.

The only bad thing about this old man is that he is too stubborn and it is very difficult for him to change his mind once he has made up his mind.

"Senior Mu." He stood up and bowed, "My master had already anticipated this situation."

"You and him made a thousand-year contract, but it was interrupted for some reason. This is not your fault."

"But you have only been the guard of his territory for seven hundred years, so there is still three hundred years to go."

"How about this, you can make up the remaining three hundred years from me."

"How about I, the Dragon Seizing Alliance, stay in the forest for three hundred years?"

Mu Baijun was stunned when he heard this - but Jia Yi left these people behind and stayed in my forest for more than two thousand years.

Lu Ye shook his head and argued, “Senior Mu.”

The territory left by my master has a population of nearly 100,000 people, and you only protected a few hundred people. Not to mention the entire population of the territory. If you calculate based on the population size of the entire territory, you have only protected them for a hundred years.

All I ask of you is to protect the thousand members of the Dragon Stealing Alliance for three hundred years. Strictly speaking, you have gotten the better deal.

Moreover.

The Red Tiger Demon Saint opposite is a genius, how do you know that I am not a genius?

Aren’t the other parties the three demon saints?

In three hundred years, I have the confidence to cultivate and become a Void Sage. Senior, you are one of them. I think the four disciples under your command have accumulated a lot of experience and will soon make a breakthrough. Together with my companion with many eyes and ugly face, the two of them can be half a Void Sage.

If I really can’t win, I will call my master to help.

Don’t you know him, old man?
As soon as they go out, seven brothers will join the battle together. How can the three demon saints on the opposite side resist?
Mu Baijun was stunned when he heard this and said subconsciously.

"That's right..."

"No!" He was almost fooled by this kid.

This kid has been making big promises about what will happen three hundred years later, but now that he has offended that tigress, his life will probably be difficult.

It is true that the demon race attaches great importance to the concept of territory, but if the opponent is strong and charges forward, one will consume one's essence every time he fights. Regardless of whether one wins or loses, one will lose one's lifespan, which is equivalent to one's loss.

He was about to say no.

Lu Ye's heart moved, he took out the sealing crystal and held it high.

"Senior Mu."

"In fact, my master and you only had a contractual relationship, and this is the first time we've met."

"It's normal that you don't trust us."

"But this is the essence and blood left by Nine-Armed Old Shang, and it is also his last existence in this world."

"If you really want to know, he and you are the real friends of seven hundred years, accompanying each other every day."

"Just for his sake, can't you protect the Dragon Alliance for three hundred years?"

Mu Baijun was stunned and gave a bitter smile.

He is an honest monster gentleman, and a gentleman can be deceived by tricks.

Lu Ye's words hit the sore spot for him.

Yes, he witnessed with his own eyes the day-to-day changes in the human territory. Nine-armed Little Shang turned into Nine-armed Old Shang, and gave birth to a bunch of Little Shangs. Which one of them had not prayed to him for peace?

That's a true old friend.

Mu Baijun closed his eyes and sighed in his heart.

“Forget it, forget it… Then for the sake of Shang Tianti, I will let you stay in Mujunlin for three hundred years.”

"Just you need to settle down farther away from me."

"Deep love does not bring longevity. I'm afraid there will be another nine-armed old monk among you. I, an old wooden man, can't afford to get hurt..."

Lu Ye was overjoyed and bowed to the ground.

Finally, a place for the members of the Dragon Seizing Alliance to stay.

Lao Shang, Lao Shang, thousands of years have passed, and I didn't expect that I could find a place to settle down only because of your face. You are really a blessing to future generations.

After deciding whether to stay or go, Lu Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps Mu Baijun felt that he had been unkind before, so he explained a few more words.

My dear nephew, there was actually a reason why I didn't want to take you in.

The three demons, the Red Tiger Demon Saint, the Sky Pig Demon Saint and the Earth Ox Demon Saint, actually have a grudge against me, and the root of the grudge is still over the matter of the Ten Thousand Mountains Territory.

Do you know who the ancestors of these three people are?
They were the three demon kings who died at the hands of my monk Tianti.

The three families have always been on good terms and have intermarried. It is said that the three queens turned a disaster into a blessing and actually became the true disciples of the Sleeping Immortal Ancestor. They received rewards, purified their blood, and their cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds and they reached the Refining Void Realm.

The three saints had always been suspicious of my origins. Fortunately, after I broke through the realm of refining emptiness, I gained an additional innate magical power called the Grafting Divine Art, which allowed me to shed my original body and change my roots.

I was originally a cypress tree that had attained enlightenment, but now I am a locust tree. The Three Demon Saints are not sure, they just have suspicions without any actual evidence.

So, my dear nephew, I have been rejecting you just now because I have my concerns.

Mu Baijun explained in detail that it turned out that after he broke through the Refining Void Realm, he obtained a rare magical grafting technique from the wood-type demon clan, which could transfer his Nascent Soul body to another alien precious tree and be reborn. However, this magical power could be hidden from outsiders, but not from the heavenly calamity.

He was lucky enough to find a large locust tree in the woods that had been without any intelligence for years. The tree was just suitable for being his new body. He occupied the magpie's nest and changed his roots. This allowed him to conceal his true identity. Even his disciple Mu Lin was accepted later and did not know about this.

Lu Ye nodded and complimented the senior on his mysterious and invincible skills. He swore that he would never leak the information. He thought that the old man was too gentlemanly to reveal such a big secret to him.

Of course, his change of appearance was not complete. At least his Taoist name did not change. He thought that his master already knew his identity since he had come here on his orders, so he did not try to hide it.

Mu Baijun continued.

"My dear nephew, now that we have agreed on this, you can settle down..."

"It just so happens that the descendants of Jia Yi have already built a village. You, the people of the Dragon Seizing Alliance, can become their neighbors."

"You should think about it yourself and don't cause any trouble for me."

Lu Ye hurriedly said, "Junior, don't worry about that."

So Mu Baijun summoned Mu Lin in and told him his decision. Mu Lin was obviously unhappy. He was an extreme environmentalist and couldn't stand outsiders touching any grass or tree in Mu Junlin's garden. But he couldn't disobey his master's orders, so he could only nod and agree.

A few days later.

In a long and narrow valley.

The river flows through the mountains, with large tracts of cultivated spiritual fields on both sides. There are several small bridges built over the river, and a group of wooden houses scattered around.

It was the group of several hundred immortal cultivators in Area Jia. Half of them stayed in Mujunlin and multiplied over the years, forming a village of a thousand people.

At this time, thousands of people gathered on an empty and flat land outside the village. They were the villagers in the village. They looked at the opposite side with curious and inquiring eyes.

Across from them were more than a thousand fleeing Dragon Alliance members, and they also looked at the people across from them with caution. They were all human, but they were all on guard, because they were all refugees.

In this era when the demons rule, there are always spineless people among the human race who kneel down to serve as their followers and then betray their own people.

The Dragon Alliance suffered a disastrous defeat because of a traitor within its ranks.

This village is made up of descendants who escaped from the Shiwanda Mountains, and their ancestors have all suffered at the hands of traitors.

The mentality of being wary of strangers of the same race is deeply ingrained in the human race.

air.

Mu Lin descended from the sky, with Lu Ye and the Thousand-Faced Judge on his left and right.

An old man among the villagers immediately stepped forward respectfully and kowtowed.

"The head of Jiazi Village, Jia Sanjiu, greets the Immortal."

Lu Ye looked down from the air using the fish-dragon diagram's perspective.

Probably because these people are descendants of Lingyun Sect monks.

The descendants of cultivators may not all have spiritual roots, but the probability of spiritual roots appearing is much greater than that of mortals.

Therefore, half of the people in this tribe of a thousand people have magical powers.

For example, Jia Sanjiu is actually at the Nascent Soul stage and has extraordinary strength. Behind him are more than two hundred men and women wearing Taoist robes, who are the best in cultivation in the village.

There are more than ten Nascent Souls, dozens of Golden Cores, and the rest are in the Foundation Establishment stage. The strength of the entire village is not weak. It is not a high-end combat force, but it is far better than the Dragon Stealing Alliance.

Mu Lin nodded and hummed lightly in response, then pointed at the people in the Dragon Stealing Alliance and said.

"My master has given orders."

"There is another tribe of humans outside the mountain who have come to seek refuge here. They have a long history with my master."

"You are all human, and since you are of the same race, we can settle together. There is no need to choose another place to stay in the jungle."

"Anyway, my master has allocated this valley to you. There is a large area of ​​uncultivated land, so it can accommodate 10,000 more people."

Mu Lin agrees with Master’s point of view.

Anyway, a canyon has been allocated to the human race and is far from fully developed. It is enough for tens of thousands of people to live and reproduce. If another group of humans comes, it will naturally be better to divide them together to avoid destroying the forest.

Mu Lin gave the instructions briefly and asked the two to connect. He immediately ascended into the sky and left in a leisurely manner.

Anyway, the master's order has been conveyed. How the two groups of humans connect is their own problem.

When Jia Sanshijiu and others saw Mu Lin leaving, they immediately looked at Lu Ye and others with unfriendly expressions.

They regard the canyon as their home, and now a group of their fellow tribesmen suddenly come and want to divide their home in half just because they have a past relationship with the lord. Who would be willing to do that?

Even if you don't dare to oppose openly, you can still do it in secret.

Jia Sanshijiu racked his brains, thinking about sending this group of humans far away to the edge of the canyon, so that they could have peace of mind out of sight.

"You two, we have lived in the valley for a long time and do not want to live with outsiders."

"There's plenty of space at the end of this canyon. Would you mind building a village?"

Lu Ye laughed loudly, his body shook, and a circle of bluish-white area expanded out from around his body, showing off his spiritual power without any concealment.

He shook his head.

"No, our human race is weak and outnumbered, so we have to live together."

Upon seeing this, the Thousand Faced Judge also burst out all his magical power, forming a dark red area over a hundred feet in size outside his body.

The two domains opened at the same time, just enough to cover the thirty-nine opponents and a group of Nascent Souls and Golden Cores.

"Oops……"

Jia Sanshijiu and others were so frightened that they subconsciously wanted to jump up and escape from the area.

However, under the dual domains, Lu Ye and the Thousand-Faced Judge cooperated seamlessly, which had already deprived them of the possibility of absorbing spiritual energy.

In Lu Ye's space-time domain, it was easy to deal with a group of low-level monks and make them spin in place without knowing where they were. Their companions were clearly very close, but they could only hear their voices but not see them. It was as if they were imprisoned alone in the void.

The Thousand Faces Judge is even wilder.

His two snake pupils finally opened, shooting out thick yellow beams of light, focusing on the 39th-level Nascent Soul cultivator.

brush brush...

Whoever's figure appears in the snake's pupils will be unlucky.

In just a few breaths, the 39th-rank Nascent Soul cultivator fell to the ground and turned into a stone statue.

As for other cultivators below the Jindan level, they had long been suppressed by the various magical powers shot out from the Thousand-Faced Judge's six soybean-sized eyes.

Some fell to the ground due to poisoning, some were grinning foolishly as if they were under an illusion, and some were prostrated on the ground as if they were carrying a mountain on their backs.

The remaining villagers saw the monks falling to the ground and had not yet reacted. Lu Ye waved his sleeves and used his magic power to trap all those who were about to go berserk.

in a blink.

The entire army of Jiazi Village was wiped out and surrendered.

Only then did Lu Ye and the Thousand-Faced Judge withdraw from the territory.

The Thousand-Faced Judge muttered... He never expected that the first time he took action after gaining eyes would be to bully his own people...

Lu Ye pretended not to hear.

It is normally extremely difficult for two groups of strangers to merge together.

He has a lot of things to do, so how can he have the energy to slowly remove the barriers?
In this world of cultivating immortals, violence can sometimes solve many problems. Isn't it enough to just suppress them?
really.

The Thousand-Faced Judge retracted his domain, and after a moment, he turned into stone sculptures. The people in the village climbed up dejectedly.

This was a sign of mercy from the Thousand Faced Judge, otherwise they would have been petrified to death.

Jia Thirty-nine hung his head in dejection.

"Two seniors, please give us your instructions. I will definitely cooperate and follow them."

There are two gods on the opposite side. How can we fight them?
Of course, I am the fish and they are the butchers, allowing me to be cut and slaughtered by them.

Lu Ye laughed.

Violent suppression is the fastest way to achieve the best results, but of course to achieve the best results, he must be convinced sincerely.

He stepped out from the crowd and patted Jia Sanshijiu on the shoulder.

"Jia Sanjiu... You are the descendant of Jia Yi, right?"

"I have seen your ancestor's appearance in the jade slip. You look almost exactly like him..."

"After you left the Lingyun Sect headquarters in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the Sect Master never gave up looking for you."

"And I also know that you have your homeland in your heart. This village is still called Jiazi Village, which was the name of the village back then."

"Now, we are here... We are here to take you home..."

Jia Sanjiu and the villagers were shocked when they heard this.

"You are..." His lips trembled and he couldn't believe it.

We know that his ancestor was Jiayi, and we also know that they came from the Lingyun Sect’s headquarters. Could they be from the same clan who escaped from the Shiwan Mountains?
Lu Ye pointed at the Thousand-Faced Judge who was watching the show nearby.

"Who do you think he is?"

"He is Shang Qianmian, the direct descendant of the head of the Shang Tianti Sect and the current head of the Lingyun Sect!"

"Did you see his face?"

"He deliberately disfigured himself to show his determination. If he doesn't return to the Shiwan Mountains to build the headquarters and bring back his scattered tribesmen, he won't be able to face his ancestors!"

Thousand-Faced Judge: “???”

What, Shang Tianti has become my ancestor?

Lu Ye, you are not a human being!
Jia Sanshijiu was in tears and had already knelt down in front of the Thousand-Faced Judge, shouting in a shrill voice, "Master, you finally came to find us..."

The old man was in tears and his voice was so shrill that anyone who heard it felt sad.

The Dragon Seizing Alliance members looked at the Thousand-Faced Judge in surprise - it turns out that our leader has such a great background...

(End of this chapter)