The Rise of the Sect: I am the most persistent person in the world of immortal cultivation

Before the words were finished, countless blood-red threads suddenly appeared on the barrier of the passage, wrapping around the group as if they were alive.

The moment I saw those blood-red threads.

Ye Yang's internal star apertures activated automatically, and the Evil King Blade rang out of its sheath, severing the blood vessels that were attacking his back.

The severed blood vessels emitted a pitiful cry like an infant's wail before turning into black smoke and dissipating.

"These are the Blood Soul Threads of the Demon Clan! These Blood Soul Threads can travel through space, quickly guard your mind!"

Yu Qingzi shouted urgently, and his whisk unleashed thousands of silver lights.

When the silver light touched the blood vessels, it produced a metallic clang.

The entire passage began to twist and deform violently, and the originally stable spatial forces became violent.

The Ice Fairy snorted coldly, formed a hand seal, and an ice wall instantly solidified, freezing the incoming spatial rift.

But the next moment, more blood streaks emerged from the cracks in the ice wall, heading straight for everyone's seven orifices.

"Little tricks."

With a flick of his sleeve, the Taoist Haitian unleashed twelve bone nails, each precisely piercing a main blood vessel.

However, the pinned blood vessels suddenly exploded, and a foul-smelling blood mist instantly filled the entire passage.

"Formation!"

The Dragon and Tiger Daoist brothers roared simultaneously, and a dragon and a tiger phantom emerged from the tops of their heads, swirling in the passage to form a Tai Chi pattern.

The blood mist was temporarily blocked, but the passage was collapsing at an increasingly rapid pace.

Just then, a crack suddenly appeared at the top of the passage, and a giant eye covered in blood vessels coldly looked down at everyone through the crack.

The malice in those eyes was so real that the weaker cultivators immediately clutched their heads and screamed in agony, black blood flowing from their seven orifices.

"Trying to stop the Void-Escape Gourd? That's wishful thinking!"

Yu Qingzi roared, and the gourd of escape spewed out black and white energy that shot straight into the giant eye.

The giant eye narrowed slightly, and countless pale arms suddenly emerged from the gap, grabbing the nearest cultivators and dragging them inside.

Just now.

With a clang!
A metallic clanging sound rang out, and Ye Yang gave a soft shout as the Evil King Blade and the Void Red Lotus Sword clashed and slashed out.

Amidst the flashing swords and clashing blades.

Countless blades and sword shadows transformed into a silver river of swords, cascading down and severing all the ghostly hands.

But before anyone could react, something even more terrifying happened.

The entire passage suddenly shattered like glass, with layers of cracks appearing on it.

A crunch!
The passageway rapidly collapsed.

"not good."

"puff!"

Upon seeing this, Yu Qingzi suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood essence.

Within that essence blood, the blood mist scattered, shimmering with a star-like luster.

In no time, the essence and blood rapidly condensed, actually forming a blood-red Tai Chi pattern in the air, forcefully resisting the gaze of the giant blood-red eye.

Yu Qingzi's face was already ashen, but the gourd in his hand emitted an unprecedented black and white radiance.

Fortunately, the moment he spat out that mouthful of blood essence, the surrounding space, which had been collapsing continuously, stabilized slightly.

"Please help me, everyone!"

Yu Qingzi roared, blood seeping from his seven orifices.

"That old devil is going to tear the entire passage apart!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but show a hint of tension.

Everyone acted simultaneously.

"Heaven and Earth are positioned, the Eight Trigrams suppress the void!"

The fortune teller roared, and seven copper coins formed the Big Dipper formation in the air.

Each copper coin swelled to the size of a millstone, with ancient divination symbols appearing on it, temporarily stabilizing the collapsing space.

Ye Yang, on the other hand, used swordsmanship.

With the Evil King Blade and the Void Crimson Lotus Sword working together, his internal star apertures were operating wildly, and a faint starlight emanated from his body.

Each strike carried the force of falling stars.

The flashing blades formed an impenetrable net, annihilating all the incoming Blood Soul threads.

The Ice Fairy formed hand seals and uttered a soft shout.

Countless ice crystals condensed around her, transforming into a sky full of ice blades that shot towards the blood-red giant eye.

The ice blades split continuously in mid-air, forming an ice blade storm in the blink of an eye, freezing the blood mist in the passage into ice crystals that fell down in a flurry.

Seeing this, the Taoist Haitian sent out twelve more bone nails from his sleeve.

Each bone nail was wrapped with eerie black runes.

He formed a hand seal, and the bone nail instantly transformed into twelve black beams of light, piercing straight into the pupil of the blood-red giant eye.

The giant eye, in pain, let out a deafening roar, and the blood-soul threads gushing from the crevice became even more frenzied.

The Dragon and Tiger Daoist brothers exchanged a glance, then simultaneously bit their tongues, spitting out a mouthful of blood essence.

The dragon and tiger phantoms that were originally in the spatial passage were empowered by the essence blood.

In an instant, it solidified as if real, and the sounds of dragons roaring and tigers howling echoed throughout the passage.

The dragon's shadow spiraled upwards, while the tiger's shadow swooped down.

The two intertwined to form a massive dragon and tiger embracing each other, suppressing the blood-red giant eye.

"Now!"

Yu Qingzi shouted loudly, and the gourd in his hand suddenly trembled, causing the black and white energies to surge and transform into a huge pillar of light that shot straight towards the blood-red giant eye.

Wherever the beam of light passed, spatial rifts were forcibly closed, and the blood soul threads dissolved.

Under the combined attack of everyone, the blood-red giant eye finally could not withstand it.

Countless fine cracks appeared in the pupil, and finally it exploded with a "bang".

The blood mist and blood soul threads within the passage dissipated, and the space gradually stabilized.

However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a low laugh suddenly came from the depths of the passage.

"How dare these mere ants ruin my grand plan..."

Before the laughter subsided, a terrifying pressure swept in from the end of the passage, as if a peerless demon was awakening.

A shadow fell over everyone's hearts.
An old demon, exuding a terrifying aura, suddenly let out a furious roar.

He was surrounded by countless blood-red skulls.

As he moved, the blood-red skulls exploded one after another.

The previously dissipated blood-red giant eye suddenly swelled to three times its original size, with a tangible red light shooting out from its pupil.

Where the red light passed, space melted like wax!
"not good!"

The elder brother of the Dragon Tiger Daoist suddenly screamed as his left arm was grazed by a red light and instantly turned into bones.

The younger brother hurriedly summoned the Dragon-Tiger Seal, only to see that the seal began to crack as soon as it came into contact with the red light.

"hold onto!"

Yu Qingzi bit his tongue, spitting another mouthful of blood onto the Escape Gourd.

The old Taoist priest's hands moved so fast they were like a phantom, and with each hand seal he formed, a new wrinkle appeared on his face, as if he were overdrawing his life force.

The passage trembled violently, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting.

Ye Yang noticed that the back of Yu Qingzi's Taoist robe was soaked with sweat.

The old Taoist priest's hunched body swayed precariously amidst the spatial turbulence, yet he clung tightly to the Escape Gourd.

"Order it for me!"

Yu Qingzi suddenly let out a shrill scream that was not human, and his white hair instantly turned to ashes.

The Void Gourd burst forth with a blinding white light, and the spatial rifts torn apart by the blood-red giant eye began to slowly heal.

"Now!"

Suddenly, the Ice Fairy flung out nine Ice Soul Needles, which accurately nailed into nine locations in the passage.

At the same time, Hai Tian Dao Ren threw out twelve bone talismans, which transformed into twelve white bone demon gods to support the four walls of the passage.

The blood-red giant eye let out a resentful roar, and the ferocious face of the Thunder Tribulation Demon suddenly appeared in its pupil.

A demonic claw crackling with crimson lightning pierced through space, heading straight for Yu Qingzi's crown!

"Senior, be careful!"

Ye Yang's eyes widened in fury, and the Star Soul Lamp automatically flew to the top of his head.

The Big Dipper pattern shone brightly in the lamplight, and the seven rays of starlight intertwined to form a shield.

The demonic claws collided with the star shield, and the resulting shockwave sent several of the nearest cultivators flying.

With a crisp cracking sound, a crack appeared in the Star Shield.

Ye Yang trembled violently, and all 365 of his acupoints simultaneously throbbed with excruciating pain.

Just as the demonic claws were about to break through the defenses, a golden Ganoderma suddenly flew out of the Qingnang Immortal Granny's medicine basket, transforming into a light barrier in front of everyone.

The golden Ganoderma lucidum drooped down with countless medicinal fragrances.

Ye Yang felt that the damage he had suffered from Fang Qian's heavy blow had actually healed considerably.

"Trying to stop us gourds? That's wishful thinking!"

Taking advantage of the moment, Yu Qingzi finished the last incantation, and the Escape Gourd exploded, transforming into streams of black and white energy that enveloped everyone.

The blood-red troll in the distance let out a final shriek.

The entire spatial passage collapsed completely.

In the last moment before losing consciousness, Ye Yang saw Yu Qingzi being swept northwest by a black and white stream of energy. Shen Suanzi, on the other hand, was engulfed by another stream of energy and disappeared into a spatial vortex in the southeast.

And himself—

"boom!"

A sharp pain shot through his back as Ye Yang crashed heavily onto a pile of meteorite fragments.

He forced himself to endure the dizziness and looked around, discovering that he was in an unfamiliar star field, with countless broken star fragments floating all around him.

Fortunately, according to his senses, Yu Qingzi and the others were not far away from him.

He reached out and cast a communication talisman. With the infusion of his magic power, the talisman glowed, and soon someone replied.

The group communicated via communication talismans and soon gathered on a floating asteroid belt.

"Thankfully, they're all still alive."

The Ice Fairy spoke coldly.

Although his tone remained indifferent, a hint of relief flashed in his eyes.

"That old demon's methods were truly ruthless. If it weren't for Senior Yuqingzi detonating the Void Escape Gourd at the last moment, we would probably all have perished in the spatial turbulence."

The fortune teller said with lingering fear, the copper coin in his hand still trembling slightly.

Yu Qingzi was now weak and listless. His original dignified appearance now looked much older, his white hair was gone, and his face was covered with wrinkles, clearly indicating that he had been greatly exhausted.

He struggled to his feet and said in a deep voice.

"Everyone, we should not stay here any longer. That old demon of lightning tribulation will not let us go easily. We should go to the Xuan Tian Starship to make preparations as soon as possible."

Everyone nodded, and then flew together toward the Xuantian Starship that was floating in the Xuantian Star Ruins not far away.

The starship was entirely black, its hull covered with ancient runes, and it emitted a faint starlight glow.

At that moment, just as everyone stepped onto the starship.

An invisible force suddenly descended!

"Um?!"

In the instant that powerful pressure descended.

Yu Qingzi's expression changed involuntarily.

He felt the flow of spiritual energy within his body suddenly become sluggish, and his originally vast cultivation level was forcibly suppressed to the Nascent Soul Dao Realm!
At this moment, not only him, but everyone present sensed the strangeness of this space.

"what happened?!"

Hai Tian Dao Ren's face was gloomy. He raised his hand to activate the bone nail, but found that the runes on the bone nail were dull and its power was greatly reduced.

"These are the restrictions on the Xuan Tian Starship!"

Ye Yang was prepared and began to explain to everyone.

At this moment, the fortune teller calculated with his fingers, a glint of light flashed in his eyes, and he nodded as he looked at the vast Xuan Tian Starship.

"Indeed, this ship is an ancient relic. Anyone who steps into it will have their cultivation suppressed to below the Nascent Soul Dao Realm to prevent damage to the ship's structure."

Upon hearing this, everyone was initially taken aback, but then a look of excitement flashed in their eyes.

"It truly is heaven's help!"

"If that old demon of lightning tribulation dares to pursue us, his cultivation will be suppressed. At that time, we may not be without the power to fight him!"

"Not bad!"

Ye Yang gripped the Evil King Blade tightly, his eyes blazing with fighting spirit.

"If he dares to come, we'll have a chance!"

Everyone knows that those at the Thunder Tribulation Realm have already passed the Pure Yang Thunder and Fire Calamity and are quite different from ordinary cultivators.

In ancient legends, reaching this level meant attaining the status of a half-immortal.

If they can lure the Thunder Tribulation Demon into it, they will have a sliver of a chance.

Otherwise, even if they all attacked together, they wouldn't be able to defeat that old demon of lightning tribulation.
Yu Qingzi nodded slightly, but his expression remained solemn.

"Even so, the Thunder Tribulation Demon has lived for thousands of years and his methods are unpredictable, so we still need to be cautious."

Just then, Ye Yang suddenly sensed something and looked up at the starry sky.

"The pursuers are coming!"

Without Ye Yang saying anything more, everyone present could feel the powerful energy.

Everyone's hair and beard stood on end, and their expressions suddenly tensed up.

Despite being prepared for an ambush, the terrifying pressure of the Thunder Tribulation Realm expert far exceeded expectations, causing a slight tremor to rise in everyone's hearts.

That level of understanding remains an insurmountable barrier for them.

For some reason, the terrifying aura only appeared for a moment before disappearing again.

Yu Qingzi looked at the sky, frowned slightly, and spoke.

"This is bad. This old demon has followed our trail to the outer perimeter of the Xuan Tian Star Ruins, but he hasn't entered. Instead, he's observing from the side while trying to lift the restrictions on the Xuan Tian Star Ruins."

"Gentlemen! We will conceal ourselves as planned. Once the pursuers are trapped, we will strike together and ensure they never return!"

After saying this, everyone dispersed to find a secluded place.

Ye Yang then found a seabed reef, quietly sank into the deep blue sea, and concealed his aura.

He had just dived into the sea to conceal himself.

Suddenly, a faint blue light appeared in the darkness.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered it was a fist-sized piece of star crystal, lying quietly among the coral reefs.

"It's actually deep-sea star crystal!"

Ye Yang was secretly delighted. This was a rare treasure born of heaven and earth, which could only be formed to the size of a fingernail after a hundred years, but the piece in front of him was as big as a fist.

He carefully put it into his storage bag the moment his fingertips touched it.

The stellar power contained within the crystal resonated with the star apertures within his body, causing all 365 star apertures to tremble slightly at the same time.

Although this item is very precious, it would be too wasteful for Ye Yang to refine and absorb it directly at his current level.

However, if brought back to the Flying Heaven Sect, both Yan Qingying and Huo Bingshuang could use them as auxiliary materials for forging Dao artifacts.

After carefully storing this deep-sea star crystal.

Two more days passed, and all was quiet.

Just today.

Ye Yang suddenly looked up, as if sensing something. He looked up at the sky, frowned slightly, and said coldly.

"coming."

Everyone felt a chill and looked out of the starship.

In the distance, a blood-red figure was seen walking through the void.

With each step he took, the surrounding star fragments trembled violently.

He was surrounded by crimson lightning, his eyes were filled with murderous intent, and his voice was as cold as the deepest hell.

"This secret realm is quite interesting; it actually took the ancestor two days to unravel it."

"You bunch of ants, do you really think you can escape my pursuit by fleeing here?"

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

One joy, one sorrow.

To everyone's delight, the old demon of the lightning tribulation was indeed attracted, but he did not slaughter the many disciples outside.

What is worrying is that this old demon is indeed very powerful.

The ancient Xuantian Sect spent countless efforts to create the Star Ruins Restriction.

He actually forcibly destroyed it.

Even with the help of some kind of restriction, no one knew whether they could kill this old demon.

Gradually, the surrounding space became more and more distorted.

A suffocating sense of oppression washed over us like a tidal wave.

The crimson demonic figure's scarlet vertical pupils swept across the space in front of it, a chilling smile curling at the corner of its mouth.

"A bunch of ants, do they even deserve to live in my sight?"

With a casual wave of his hand, countless dark demonic energies condensed into a hundred-foot-long demonic claw.

Wherever it passed, rocks crumbled and cracks appeared in the air like a spiderweb.

"boom!"

The hundred-foot-long giant claw slammed into the barrier of the Xuan Tian Starship, causing a violent shockwave, but the ship remained completely still.

"Something interesting."

He sneered, and with a flash, stepped directly into the starship's range!

Yu Qingzi's expression changed drastically, and he shouted in a low voice.

“Go to plan!”

Runes flickered in Ye Yang's palm, secretly activating an ancient formation deep within the Xuan Tian Secret Realm.

Just as the demon ancestor's claws were about to touch Ye Yang's throat, golden array patterns suddenly lit up on the ground, and countless chains shot out from the void, binding the ancestor's limbs.

"Little tricks!"

The ancestor roared, his demonic energy surging as he tried to break free of his restraints.

However, his expression suddenly froze the next moment.

Countless star runes appeared on those golden chains, frantically devouring his cultivation!
"This is impossible!"

The Demon Ancestor let out a deafening roar, his eyes filled with disbelief.

He could clearly feel that his cultivation level was falling at a visible speed, from the Thunder Tribulation Realm all the way down to the Nascent Soul Realm!
(End of this chapter)