Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

Beyond the Three Realms and the Great Thousand Worlds

One of the three thousand worlds

Dongyang Boundary.

Dongyang border, southeastern region.

The southeastern region was originally one of the most prosperous places in Dongyang Realm. It was a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, abundant spiritual energy, numerous spiritual veins and blessed lands, dense population, and a strong tradition of cultivation.

However, the southeastern region was now a deathly silence, with dilapidated cities, filthy rivers and barren mountains everywhere. The stench of decay spread across the land, and the roadsides were littered with withered bones and corpses. There was no sign of living people, and the few sounds that could be heard came from some non-human beings with twisted and grotesque figures.

These non-human beings are born with grotesque and bizarre features, some with animal faces on the back of their heads, others with twisted arms hidden in their chests, some with three legs, others with a single wing. At first glance, they can make one feel that their soul has been corrupted. In particular, the expressions of these non-human beings are mad and obsessed, constantly muttering to themselves. They are simply the epitome of demons and monsters.

In this southeastern region, a small team of only three people is rapidly traversing between the real and the virtual. However, the once relatively peaceful space between the real and the virtual has been corrupted by the situation in the real world. Now, the space is filled with twisted and bizarre phenomena, with fangs growing like a forest and vertical eyes clustered like an evil nest.

The three-person team, carrying magical artifacts to protect their souls and hearts, cautiously traversed between reality and illusion, avoiding the influence of the bizarre whispers and foul breaths on their souls and bodies, and headed deeper into the southeastern region.

The leader of the three was handsome with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. He wore a jade crown and a brocade robe, his black attire clean and neat. He did not have any magical treasures in his hands, but two jade plaques hung from his waist belt. One jade plaque was engraved with the three islands and seven peaks of Penglai, and the other jade plaque was engraved with the Sun Palace of the Heavenly Court.

The other two were dressed in golden crowns and brocade robes, exuding an incomparably majestic air, and in silver crowns and plain clothes, appearing gentle like scholars.

Both men also had jade pendants on their waists, on which were depictions of palaces and the sun, with the characters "Dongyang" faintly visible. The young and handsome Taoist priest at the head of the group had a Penglai jade pendant on his waist, which, when flipped, revealed the four characters "Penglai Yeqian" engraved on the back.

This person is none other than Ye Qian, Lin Fan's disciple, who is now at the Refinement of Emptiness stage.

But Ye Qian warned, "We're still three million li away from Xianzhu Mountain. Be careful, you two."

The Taoist priest in the silver crown and plain clothes laughed and said, "Don't worry, True Lord Ye Qian, we have been prepared for this for a long time."

"We must find out the truth this time!"

Suddenly, the Taoist priest in the golden crown and brocade robes exclaimed, "True Lord Ye Qian, Junior Brother Dong Zhuo, be careful!"

Before he finished speaking, the Taoist raised his hand and unleashed a torrent of blazing fire. The fierce fire roared forward and repelled a giant, gnarled hand that had somehow materialized and twisted, resembling a withered branch.

The next moment, the Taoist priest in the silver crown and white robes, known as Dongzhuo, flicked his whisk, and streaks of silver light, like crescent moon blades, rushed backward: "Senior Brother Dongzhen!"

They are indeed fellow disciples; their teamwork is naturally seamless.

Without hesitation, Dong Zhen, clad in golden crown and brocade robes, dodged. Streaks of silver light flashed past Dong Zhen's body and slashed backward, shattering a dense cluster of vertical eyes into pieces.

In an instant, all sorts of bizarre phenomena between reality and illusion were startled, and all kinds of strange and twisted things surged in like a tide. Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhen began to take action to defend themselves, while Ye Qian stood calmly in the middle without making a move. However, his divine sense had already covered all directions, as if he was on guard against something.

Suddenly, a hoarse and eccentric cry rang out, followed by a shadow falling. A large number of dirty and dry feathers fell from the sky, and a strange bird with a body covered in tangled hair, a slender neck with thorns, a head like a skeleton with no flesh or eyes, and three pairs of human eyes on its abdomen flashed by from above.

In that instant, a straight sword materialized in Ye Qian's hand, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes, his gaze like lightning: "Slash!"

In an instant, crimson flames engulfed the sky!

A raging fire, accompanied by the flash of a blade, shot into the sky, cleaving the heavens and burning the sea with a single strike!
A hoarse, eerie wail rang out, and the strange bird was cleaved open in the chest and abdomen with a single stroke. Its three wings fluttered as it fled into the distance, heading straight for the Crimson Mountain!
At this moment, Dong Zhen and Dong Zhuo, who had been waiting for a long time, exclaimed with joy: "This thing has finally appeared!"

"Chase!"

The current dire situation in the southeast region is inextricably linked to this three-winged, scraggly, six-eyed beast. Now that this creature has been injured by Ye Qian, as long as they catch up with it, even if they can't find its lair, they can still find some clues and invite the immortals of Penglai to descend to the mortal realm!
When the time comes, it won't be Ye Qian, a newcomer who has just entered the Void Refinement stage, but rather veteran True Monarchs from the Penglai Hao generation, or even the Yu and Shi generations.

However, just as Ye Qian was about to give chase, a message sounded from the communication jade talisman. Ye Qian glanced at it and saw only one message: "Return to Penglai immediately, Lingzhao."

It's a message from my own master!

Ye Qian looked unwillingly at the beast that had fled into the distance, and then said, "Don't chase after it!"

Dong Zhen and Dong Zhuo were stunned, looking at Ye Qian with some confusion: "Why aren't you chasing anymore?"

Ye Qian sighed, "Let's not chase after them for now, let's go back to the Dongyang Sect and talk about it later!"

Seeing that Ye Qian seemed to have something to hide, Dong Zhen and Dong Zhuo had no choice but to return, no matter how unwilling they were.

The Three Realms and the Great Thousand Worlds, Penglai Island in the Eastern Sea.

"Master, what's the matter that you urgently summoned me back?"

Before he arrived, his voice preceded his arrival. As Ye Qian's cheerful voice entered the hall, a few breaths later, Ye Qian himself strode in with his head held high and a swagger.

As expected of a disciple taught by Lin Fan, Ye Qian was practically a carbon copy of Lin Fan; his words and actions were a carbon copy of Lin Fan's. "The matter isn't finished?"

Lin Fan asked.

Ye Qian shook his head: "Things are a bit complicated, but I'm about to figure things out."

Ye Qian broke through to the Void Refinement Realm several hundred years earlier than Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu. Compared to Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and others who were still stabilizing their realms, Ye Qian had already stabilized his realm and cultivation and was already able to contribute to the sect.

Going to Dongyang Realm was the mission assigned to Ye Qian by the sect.

The Dongyang Realm originally belonged to the Huayang Great Thousand World. With the defeat of the Yuanyang Dao Sect in the Huayang Realm during the Xuanmen Great Calamity, the Huayang Realm was merged into the Eastern Heaven of the Three Realms. Naturally, the Dongyang Realm also became one of the subordinate worlds of the Eastern Heaven, belonging to Penglai.

Two hundred years ago, the Dongyang Sect, the immortal sect to which the Dongyang Realm belonged, urgently sent a message to the Penglai Dao Sect, stating that something had happened in the Dongyang Realm and that the superior sect needed to intervene.

After careful consideration, Lingwei, who was in charge of the overall situation in Penglai, handed the matter over to Ye Qian, Lin Fan's disciple.

Ye Qian was taught by Lin Fan. He seemed carefree but was actually very meticulous. Therefore, Lin Fan believed that more than a hundred years of experience was enough for Ye Qian to investigate the matter and resolve it. He could also earn some pocket money in Dongyang Realm. So Lin Fan didn't ask too much about Ye Qian's situation.

It wasn't until Jiang Sheng sent a message that Lin Fan summoned Ye Qian back. He thought Ye Qian had already completed his mission, but unexpectedly, Ye Qian encountered trouble.

Hearing Ye Qian say that things were a bit complicated, Lin Fan frowned: "What's going on that makes you think it's complicated?"

Ye Qian is no ordinary person. Although he is not a true disciple of Penglai, he is a direct disciple of Lin Fan, the thirteenth generation true disciple of Penglai, and belongs to the direct line of the sect.

Lin Fan is now the Sun Star Assistant Lord of the Three Realms and the Great Thousand Worlds. As Lin Fan's disciple, Ye Qian also holds a position in the Sun Star. This time, when Ye Qian enters the Eastern Yang Realm, his real identity is that of a Heavenly Court Envoy and Penglai Inspector.

Given Ye Qian's status and abilities, there shouldn't be anything in the Dongyang Realm that could stump him.

However, Ye Qian looked solemn when faced with Lin Fan's question: "Master, there are some things I am not sure about, but I must tell you that things in the Dongyang Realm are not ordinary."

Unusual?
Lin Fan raised his hand and waved it, and the surging magic power transformed into a magic barrier that covered the palace, concealing divine sense perception and preventing others from eavesdropping: "Tell me, does it involve our Penglai internal affairs, or are there other forces involved?"

Ye Qian took out a projection stone: "Master, please take a look."

As images were projected onto the projection stone, Lin Fan stared intently, his brows furrowing and his expression becoming solemn.

The projection stone displayed a series of Taoist priests, but these priests exuded a corrupt and eerie aura, and their behavior was even more bizarre and eccentric. They were all disheveled and had crazy and insane expressions. Just looking at them seemed to corrupt one's soul. Moreover, these Taoist priests used extremely strange methods.

Lin Fan watched as Ye Qian used the Burning Evil Method from the Blazing Heavenly Fire Scripture of Penglai to deal with these Taoists. His head was cut off and then grew back; his arms were cut off and two pairs of arms grew back. Even if he burned them to ashes with the Supreme Yang Heavenly Fire, the ashes would turn into flying snow and pollute the mountains and rivers. Once they fell on Taoist cultivators, the Taoist cultivators would gradually become strange and eccentric.

And then there were the various signs of corruption between reality and illusion, the strange bird with three wings and six eyes, those skeletal arms and dense vertical pupils.
The more Lin Fan looked, the more solemn his expression became: the situation in Dongyang Realm, although it did not seem like an invasion by the Heavenly Demons, was even more serious than an invasion by the Heavenly Demons!
“Master, I have spent 175 years in the Dongyang Realm, working with the Dongyang Sect to cleanse these evil demons and monsters. However, they are impossible to eradicate completely, and we are easily corrupted by them if we are not careful.”

"In the end, I had to have the Dongyang Sect seal off those places where evil spirits and demons roamed, and then set up surveillance arrays in various cities. I personally went into that corrupt and treacherous realm to investigate. Unfortunately, I didn't find out much, but I still discovered some clues."

“These strange practices, once they are corrupted to a certain extent, will become inexplicably crazy and worship something. I suspect that there must be heretical demons behind them.”

Listening to Ye Qian's analysis, Lin Fan nodded: "The situation in Dongyang Realm is indeed so complicated."

"If you had told me earlier, I would have contacted the sect directly and sent a group of people to clean up the Dongyang Realm first, wouldn't that have been better?"

Ye Qian shook his head: "Master, that's not how you look at it. Whether this is an isolated case in the Dongyang Realm or something that has happened in other worlds but hasn't been reported yet, we have no idea."

"I am just a Void Refinement cultivator and I am not very noticeable in the Eastern Yang Realm. It is convenient for me to investigate things. If the senior uncles and elders of the sect were to descend to the lower realm, they could certainly wipe out these strange and evil beings, but the person behind them would not easily show himself."

"This time, the Eastern Yang Realm has suffered a lot, but at least it has allowed us to find some clues about the person behind it. As long as we catch even the slightest trace, and hand it over to the sect's founder, we will surely be able to find him and grind him to dust!"

"After all, how can someone who steals for a thousand days defend against thieves for a thousand miles?"

Lin Fan looked at Ye Qian with some surprise, then smiled and said, "You've really grown up. You've matured a lot since the Xuanmen Calamity."

Ye Qian said solemnly, "Master, during the great calamity of the Xuanmen, my karma with the Nine Provinces Realm has been completely severed, and all past grievances have vanished like smoke. I have come to terms with many things."

Lin Fan nodded and patted Ye Qian on the shoulder: "That's it. If there's a grudge, settle it; if there's a grudge, settle it. Once it's over, let it go. We men should aspire to the heavens and the Great Dao, not be bound by hatred and karma."

"Now that you have avenged your great enemy and opened up your mind to break through to the Void Refinement Realm, and you have also spent more than a hundred years training in the Dongyang Realm, although you have not finished your work, you have accomplished something. You can leave the affairs of the Dongyang Realm to Wensheng. As for calling you back, there is something more important for you to do."

Ye Qian knew that his master had summoned him back in such a hurry because of something important, so he immediately said, "Master, please tell me what it is."

Unexpectedly, Lin Fan shook his head: "What you need to do is not my concern."

"Hurry up and pack your things, then go to the Heavenly Court with your Uncle Lingxuan. Your Uncle Lingyuan is already waiting for you at the Judicial Heavenly Lord's Palace." (End of Chapter)