Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Nanzhao region has been in turmoil ever since.

In the present-day Nanzhao world, one alliance and one sect are revered.

The alliance is the Tianzheng Alliance, and the sect is the Yuchen Sect.

After slaughtering all the Taoist temples in Ye Nan Mountain, Fang An left Ye Nan Mountain. He spread the Five Elements Alchemy Method far and wide, saying that he wanted everyone in the world to become like a dragon and to cultivate the Golden Elixir to become an immortal.

At first, no one believed it, but when a rogue cultivator who had been abandoned by his Daoist partner found Fang An and expressed his willingness to become his disciple, Fang An obtained the cultivation method of the Five Elements for him, along with the internal organs and blood of a cultivator and a demon beast that possessed the spiritual energy of the Five Elements. He then sacrificed these items to his Daoist partner, wishing him success in refining a golden core.

One hundred days later, the second Golden Core cultivator of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance appeared.

After the rogue cultivator achieved the Golden Core stage, he was extremely grateful to Fang An and expressed his willingness to pass on his teachings to Fang An. He even kidnapped a large number of people and ordered them to build the headquarters of the Tianzheng Alliance for Fang An in Ye Nan Mountain.

Subsequently, more and more cultivators and mortals joined the Tianzheng Alliance. These low-level cultivators, rogue cultivators, tribulation cultivators, and even evil cultivators were willing to do anything for cultivation. Hearing that the Tianzheng Alliance could help people achieve the Golden Elixir in a hundred days, they all obtained the method and then slaughtered cultivators with the five elements of spiritual energy in various cultivation worlds such as Ludongyuan, Beihan, and Xisha, stealing spirit beasts and precious medicines. Then they all ran to Yenan Mountain to join Fang An's sect.

Fang An accepted all comers without hesitation and promoted them all to the Golden Core stage.

Strangely enough, whether they were low-level rogue cultivators who originally intended to leave after gaining benefits, or tribulation cultivators who wanted to steal Fang An's secrets, or even evil cultivators who wanted to replace Fang An, since Fang An achieved the Core Formation in a hundred days, they all became extremely obedient and submissive to him, and followed his orders completely without the slightest delay.

In this way, the power of the Tianzheng Alliance grew larger and larger, to the point that the entire Southern Zhao cultivation world combined could not match it.

Faced with the Tianzheng Alliance, which could mass-produce Golden Core cultivators, the various Taoist temples that still clung to ancient methods and outdated thinking were powerless to resist. The leader of the Tianzheng Alliance, Fang An, did not even have to personally appear. He simply sent his Golden Core cultivators to turn the East Plains, the North Cold, and the West Sands upside down.

Faced with the Tianzheng Alliance's slogan that everyone is like a dragon and everyone can become an immortal, the cultivators at the bottom and ordinary people naturally yearn for it, and even some people in various Taoist temples are secretly tempted.

However, after a certain mortal cultivated to the Golden Core stage and returned to his hometown, despite the desperate pleas of his relatives and parents, he still slaughtered all his relatives and took their organs back to the Wild South Mountain, the people of the Southern Zhao cultivation world realized that something was wrong.

Subsequently, more and more similar incidents occurred: disciples beheading their masters, fathers cutting open their young sons' stomachs to remove their hearts, and mothers draining their children's blood.
Everyone who joins the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, regardless of their cultivation level, looks the same as before, retaining all their original memories. Their words, actions, and even expressions are no different from before. However, everyone can sense that they have changed; they are no longer human.

Fang An's orders could make them kill their parents, wives, and children; a single word from Fang An could make them mutilate themselves or even gouge out their hearts. They followed Fang An with fanaticism, willing to do anything for the so-called path of cultivation. Yet, these people were impossible to kill. They didn't care about losing limbs or heads, and even if their dantian was damaged, their combat power remained intact. Faced with these almost unkillable enemies with no vital points, the entire Nanzhao cultivation world was helpless.

Gradually, both cultivators and mortals feared the Heavenly Alliance like a tiger, yet were helpless against it. Cultivators could retreat and protect themselves, but mortals had no means of resistance.

The Southern Realm was plunged into chaos and bloodshed due to the emergence of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, causing a great upheaval in the world.

Out of self-preservation, the various Taoist temples formed an alliance in an attempt to resist the encroachment of the Tianzheng Alliance. However, on the very day of the alliance, the temples began to fight amongst themselves. It turned out that people from the Tianzheng Alliance had already infiltrated their ranks. The most trusted disciples of the Golden Core cultivators, and the most respected senior brothers and sisters of their junior brothers and sisters, all wore chilling smiles and spoke the same words as before, yet they attacked their masters, junior brothers, and sisters without restraint or any qualms.

In a single day, the alliance collapsed, and each Taoist temple suffered severe damage, with its disciples fleeing in all directions.

Just when everyone thought the Tianzheng Alliance was about to wipe out the entire Southern Zhao cultivation world, the Yuchen Sect appeared.

Zhang Ling, the sect leader of the Jade Emperor Sect, was only at the Golden Core stage, yet he single-handedly killed five Golden Core cultivators from the Heavenly Righteous Alliance.

Those five Golden Core cultivators were no longer able to use their immortal abilities—the ability to regenerate severed limbs and restore their heads even after being shattered—under Zhang Ling's sword; they ultimately died.

When this news spread throughout the Southern Illumination Realm, the cultivation world was shaken!
No one knows where this Sect Master Zhang came from, but he does indeed have the ability to confront the Heavenly Righteous Alliance.

Later, after many cultivators who had been separated from their wives and children and whose families were destroyed because of the Tianzheng Alliance joined the Yuchen Sect, news about Zhang Ling gradually spread.

It turns out that this Sect Master Zhang was also a disciple of a Taoist temple whose sect was wiped out by Fang An. Later, he accidentally entered the Immortal Mansion and obtained immortal destiny. Now he is in charge of the Nanzhao Immortal Mansion and has the means to kill the Heavenly Demon. Fang An, the leader of the Tianzheng Alliance, is the Heavenly Demon from outside the border that Zhang Ling mentioned.

The cultivators wholeheartedly agreed with this. If it weren't for demonic means, how could someone transform from an ordinary person into a Golden Core cultivator in just one hundred days?
If it weren't for demonic means, how could someone appear no different from before but have such a drastic change in temperament?
If it weren't for demonic methods, how could those cultivators from the Heavenly Righteous Alliance survive being killed, their strength remaining undiminished even with their mutilated and rotting bodies?
Subsequently, the remaining cultivators from various Taoist temples, those persecuted by the Tianzheng Alliance, sought out Zhang Ling and joined the Yu Chen Sect. Zhang Ling, in turn, taught without discrimination, widely disseminating the method of slaying demons, finally giving cultivators who were previously helpless against the Tianzheng Alliance a means to fight against evil spirits.

Currently, the Tianzheng Alliance and the Yuchen Sect are the only two forces in the Southern Zhao Realm. The Tianzheng Alliance has a large number of members and a wide influence, with its base in Ye Nan Mountain and its influence spread throughout Xisha, Beihan, and Dongyuan.

Although the Jade Emperor Sect has fewer cultivators than the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, it possesses the only power capable of confronting the Heavenly Righteous Alliance. Based on the few remaining Taoist temples in the Eastern Plains, it has built the Great Wall of Sword Dao in the Eastern Plains to defend against the Heavenly Righteous Alliance.

The two forces have been locked in a war for five years.

"Sect Master, the Heavenly Demon army is here again!"

"This time, even Fang An has come!"

Fang An is here too?!

Inside the main hall of the Jade Emperor Sect, Zhang Ling, who was barely thirty but already a Golden Core True Person, felt a stirring in his heart, but calmly nodded: "Notify all True Persons to follow me to the Great Wall of Sword Dao!"

The Great Wall of Swords stretches across the Eastern Plains. It is the first line of defense against the Heavenly Demons of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, built by countless mortals and cultivators who refused to be corrupted by the Heavenly Demons and lose their sense of family.

Because Zhang Ling widely spread the Way of the Sword, and because the means of resisting the Heavenly Demons was the Sword Technique, sword cultivators frequently emerged in the Southern Realm. Many sword cultivators were stationed at the Great Wall. Zhang Ling also used sword inscriptions to engrave restrictions on the Great Wall to resist the infiltration of the Heavenly Demons, which is why it was named the Great Wall of the Sword.

As Zhang Ling led the Golden Core cultivators of the Jade Emperor Sect to the Great Wall of Swords, the first thing he saw was the endless army of Heavenly Demons outside the Great Wall of Swords.

Outside the Great Wall of Swords, the banner of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance fluttered in the wind. Fang An, the leader of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, sat cross-legged on the back of a blood eagle that was a thousand feet long, looking down at the Great Wall of Swords, which stretched across the land like a sword mark.

Below Fang An, the Golden Core cultivators of the Tianzheng Alliance, along with the evil cultivators and demonic practitioners who had not yet obtained the Five Elements Elixir, were drooling over the aura of living beings on the Sword Dao Great Wall.

They need the flesh and blood of living people; they need that pure spiritual energy.

Those who have reached the Golden Core stage aspire to become Nascent Soul cultivators, while those who haven't reached the Golden Core stage yearn even more to become Golden Core cultivators. They desperately need flesh and blood and spiritual energy, and they crave everything beyond the Great Wall of Sword Dao.

As each Golden Core cultivator and each evil cultivator's demonic desires sprouted, their drooling and ferocious expressions, their unconsciously exposed fleshy tentacles, and their chaotic eyes were all laid bare before the sword cultivators atop the Great Wall of Swords, making the cultivators increasingly disgusted with these celestial demons.

In Fang An's eyes, however, the cultivators of his Heavenly Righteous Alliance were all radiant with immortal light, either using the supernatural power of a thousand immortal arms or activating the Heavenly Righteous Dharma Eye, all pure Taoist methods. As for the so-called Great Wall of Sword Dao, it was full of filth and evil heretics!
However, Fang An was kind-hearted and always willing to give others a chance. After all, it wasn't uncommon for evil spirits to try and steal his techniques, wanting to take his place. Fang An couldn't understand why these people wouldn't believe him when he had already passed on his techniques.
In the end, those who harbored ill will towards him always knelt before him to repent and truly reformed. Fang An naturally forgave them and allowed them to follow him in cultivation to fulfill the promise that everyone should become like a dragon.

He was willing to give those people a chance before, and now he is willing to give those stubborn guys on the Great Wall of Kendo a chance too.

Fang An's aura surged, and crimson blood energy, accompanied by the mist of the five poisons, billowed into the sky, finally condensing into a hundred-foot-tall, blood-red, hundred-armed giant form covered in the patterns of the five poisons.

As the Dharma image manifested, Fang An said in a clear voice: "In this Southern Illumination Realm, the Taoist temples are conservative, the cultivators are selfish, everyone is greedy, everyone is for themselves, and there is no such thing as a great unity."

"However, whether mortals or cultivators, all are beings of the Southern Light, and all should be free and transcendent. I wish everyone could be like a dragon, and I wish everyone could become an immortal."

"This is the grand trend of heaven and earth; anyone who obstructs it will die without a burial place!"

"You old cultivators are stubborn and unyielding, but I am still willing to give you a chance. Those who are willing to throw away their swords and descend from the Great Wall can all become my disciples. I will teach you immortal techniques to help you attain the Dao and ascend to immortality."

Fang An's voice, accompanied by the roar of his Dharma Form, resounded in all directions. The sword cultivators on the Great Wall of Sword Dao looked at Fang An, who had already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and felt fear as they watched him unleash his Dharma Form techniques: that was a Nascent Soul Grandmaster!

However, while the other cultivators were panicked, Zhang Ling remained calm.

Zhang Ling calmly looked at Fang An. This was not the first time he had faced Fang An face to face. Fang An had never won against him before, and this time was no exception!

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Recalling the skills she had just mastered, Zhang Ling felt a burning passion in her heart but an icy expression: Master, senior brother, senior sister, I will avenge you!
With a single thought, Zhang Ling ascended on his sword, his voice booming like thunder: "What a demon! Still causing chaos and unrest in people's hearts!"

"Everyone becomes a dragon? Does it mean everyone whose personality changes drastically, who becomes ruthless towards their own family, even slaughtering their relatives, and whose true nature is completely lost?"

"Is it that person, Ren Rulong, who slaughters the innocent, slaughters entire families, rips out livers and hearts, and even drinks human blood alive?"

"With such demonic methods, you dare to say that everyone can become a dragon? Which of your Heavenly Righteous Alliance's Golden Core cultivators didn't obtain their power by slaughtering countless mortals and assassinating numerous cultivators?"

"The Golden Core requires the consumption of countless lives, but what about the Nascent Soul stage, or the Deity Transformation stage? Millions of lives? Tens of millions of lives? Or hundreds of millions of lives?"

"If one day you slaughter the entire Southern Realm, will that be enough for you to become an immortal? If not, will you also devour this entire world?"

However, when faced with Zhang Ling's questioning, Fang An acted as if it were perfectly natural: "All beings are like me, and I am like all beings."

"I alone am like a dragon, but not everyone is like a dragon. However, if I lead the Tianzheng Alliance and all living beings of the Nanzhao Realm to ascend to the Dao, how can that not be considered everyone being like a dragon?"

"If hundreds of millions of people are just like me, then all hundreds of millions of people will ascend to immortality!"

As he spoke, Fang An raised his hand: "Zhang Ling, I know your background and I know what you're thinking."

"All you're trying to do is drag everyone down to be my enemy."

"But I am invincible under heaven. If you think you can defeat me with just a sword, you'll be defeated by my thousand immortal arms!"

In an instant, the blood-red giant behind Fang An, which was a hundred feet tall, suddenly expanded to a size of three thousand feet. Its body was covered with five poisonous and ferocious patterns, and its hundred-armed dharma image, which was covered with scarlet red, swung its hundred arms, which were like pillars of heaven and full of heavenly poison and evil, and smashed down on the Great Wall of Sword Dao.

In an instant, the sound of air being torn apart was accompanied by shrill screams, and thousands of poisonous shadows and evil lights burst forth, following the dance of a hundred arms to gather into a torrent of heavenly poison that swept down.

Gazing at the torrent of poison pouring down like a leak in the sky, everyone on the Sword Dao Great Wall paled, but Zhang Ling, who was riding his sword, remained unmoved.

Zhang Ling drew his sword, his expression calm: "Heavenly Water!"

The sword light shimmered, and the mysterious water swirled around it. The sword energy was like a river swirling around heaven and earth, as if a water barrier was blocking the raging torrent.

"Flame moves fire."

The magic sword danced, the sword moves changed again, the water vapor dissipated, the firelight blazed fiercely, and a crimson flame soared into the sky and transformed into a dragon, whistling away with Zhang Ling's sword.

In an instant, the water and fire ignited, and the combined force of water and fire transformed into two dragons emerging from the sea, shattering Fang An's Thousand Immortal Arms.

With his supernatural powers broken, Zhang Ling seized the opportunity to close in. The Four Symbols Magic Power formed by the True Explanation of the Seven Scriptures of Intercepting Heaven by the Jade Emperor Lingyuan True Lord circulated continuously within his body, gathering into strands of sword energy. Zhang Ling held a magic sword in one hand and made a sword incantation with the other: "Wind Spirit Moves, Thunder Controls the Qi!"

The wind rises, and thunder roars.

A fierce wind howled, and thunder roared. The wind and thunder swirled around Zhang Ling's magic sword, transforming into azure-purple sword energy. Then, Zhang Ling unleashed a sword strike, the mighty sword momentum carrying the force of splitting the earth and creating the heavens, breaking through layers of void and striking directly at Fang An's true form.

The swift and unparalleled sword energy caused Fang An's brow to ache and even bleed. Staring at the mighty sword energy slashing towards him, Fang An's brows furrowed slightly before relaxing: "Wind and Thunder? Heavenly Force?"

"Behold my Thousand Immortals and Ten Thousand Gods Hand!"

Before he finished speaking, Fang An raised his hand and pressed down with a palm. The three thousand feet long Dharma image behind him merged into one, transforming into a palm of a thousand poisons and myriad evils that covered the heavens and the earth. Desire, filth, malice, madness, and delusion swirled around the heavens and the earth, causing chaos among all living beings.

In Zhang Ling's eyes, all those stagnant emotions and desires transformed into a ferocious venomous python. What was pressing down on her was not a palm, but a wicked, filthy, and malicious venomous python!
This venomous python opened its massive jaws, ready to devour all living beings. The venom oozing from its fangs had already begun to corrode the laws of heaven and earth, and taint spiritual energy.

Zhang Ling's expression remained unchanged as he continuously channeled his magical power. The wind and thunder sword energy formed by Feng Lingdong and Lei Yugang slashed towards the sky with the force of a mayfly trying to shake a tree, only to be swallowed whole by the venomous python.

Fang An's brows relaxed, his eyes filled with confidence: "Nothing special."

But then, the venomous python let out a mournful howl, and sword energy pierced through its body from its tail, cleaving the entire python in two with a single strike, causing all the turbid thoughts, desires, and evil intentions in the sky to vanish into nothingness.

Gazing at the sharp sword aura that had shattered his Thousand Immortals and Myriad Gods Hand technique, Fang An frowned again, staring at the sword mark between heaven and earth: "This is... Sword Breaking All Laws?" (End of Chapter)