Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 970 Big Brawl

The sky grew increasingly gloomy, making it impossible to tell whether it was night or day.

"coming!"

Yang Zhengshan raised his eyebrows and spoke.

The next moment, the first thing to crack open in the pitch-black sky was a pale purple-white arc of light, with five halos spreading across it like ink wash, like a crumpled piece of colorful satin sinking from the void. As the arc of light approached the ground, the outlines of layered mountains emerged from the clouds, and flickering bands of light wandered between the peaks and valleys, as if a giant god were sketching a map with stars.

The four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire rotated within the cracks, from which countless streams of light burst forth, shooting in all directions like arrows released from a bow. The world seemed to be distorted, with bands of light in red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple leaping about, as if the world were remixing elemental pigments.

That was the spiritual energy from the Sun Cave Heaven flowing into the main world through the void rift.

A spiritual energy that is as tangible as a physical substance, a spiritual energy that is immeasurable.

The first crack opened, followed by countless arcs of light appearing in the gloomy sky. The cave fell, and the outer void of the main world's barrier was compressed, resulting in numerous cracks.

As cracks appeared, the cultivators hidden in the mountains tore through the air and soared into the sky.

The chaotic light bands were shattered by hundreds and thousands of figures, and various colored rainbows and magical artifacts collided, accompanied by angry shouts and curses.

Yang Zhengshan had already seen people enter the crevice, and more than one.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and casually put away the array plate next to him and the array flags around him.

"go!"

Having said that, he disregarded everything else and rushed directly toward the nearest crack.

Before they even reached the crevice, a beam of rainbow light shot towards them.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes slightly and whispered, "Yunxiao!"

Yunxiao immediately understood, and his cloud-white flying sword shot out, directly shattering the incoming rainbow light.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the three figures in front of him. The rainbow light just now was emitted by them, and their purpose was naturally to delay the time it took for them to enter the cave.

He tried to connect to the Spirit Source Land. He could sense the Spirit Source Land and enter it. However, just as he tried to use the Spirit Source Land to teleport, he suddenly felt a pulling force.

This is the spatial pulling force brought about by the void rift.

Yang Zhengshan immediately stopped his idea of ​​teleporting.

"As expected, it can't be used! If we use it, we'll likely be sent to the Great Void!"

He secretly pondered the matter and abandoned the idea of ​​taking revenge on the three people in front of him.

Being sent into the Great Void is no joke; the Great Void is an endless realm, and one could easily get lost inside.

Golden Core cultivators can walk in the void and enter the Great Void for a short time, while Foundation Establishment cultivators will only face death if they enter the Great Void.

Yang Zhengshan shouldn't die, because he can return to the Spirit Origin Land from the Void. It's just that it might be a bit more troublesome for him to return here from the Spirit Origin Land.

At this moment, Yang Zhengshan had no time to spare. He led the three of them straight towards the Void Rift. In the blink of an eye, they arrived in front of the Void Rift. Without any hesitation, the four of them plunged into it.

The world suddenly fades into a black and white silent film: the surging sea of ​​fire is reduced to blocks of light and dark, the flying crystals stretch into silver lines, and they all seem to have been slowed down, their limbs twisted into bizarre geometric shapes.

Yang Zhengshan felt his thoughts become dulled, and everything in his vision began to stretch and distort, eventually collapsing into black and white streams of light that converged toward distant points of light.

The light grew brighter and brighter, faintly revealing mountains and vast land. It was not a descent, but rather the entire grotto-heaven world forcibly covering the present world, reforging earth, water, fire, and wind into its own rules.

The moment his feet suddenly gave way to nothing, a wave of weightlessness washed over him. When he looked up, he saw that the previously collapsing black and white light had gathered into a vast starry sky above him.

It wasn't the usual dark blue night sky, but rather the entire dome was flowing with golden-red stardust, each star trailing a comet-like streak of light, as if someone had overturned a gold furnace, scattering sparks to earth.

The sea of ​​clouds surged beneath my feet, but it was not the familiar milky white mist. The layers upon layers of cloud waves shimmered with a crimson luster.

Yang Zhengshan quickly steadied himself, and with a flick of his sleeve, he channeled his magic power to grab the falling Hong Fuxiu and Kota.

"Master Yang!" The two were still somewhat confused.

"Are you alright?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Kota shook her head. "It's nothing!"

Hong Fuxiu steadied herself, controlling her magic to maintain her levitation. "We're actually in the sky!"

Yunxiao flew over at that moment.

The four gazed down through the crimson sea of ​​clouds, where they saw a fiery red forest stretching across the land before them, while in the distant southeast lay a crimson sea of ​​mountains.

That's right, it's a bright red color, like the Flaming Mountains.

“The fire elemental energy here is exceptionally rich!” Yunxiao said.

Yang Zhengshan extended his spiritual sense, glanced at the mountains and forests not far away, and said, "This place is not safe to stay! Let's go! We'll go over there!"

This is the connecting point of the Void Rift, and anyone who enters through this Void Rift will appear around here.

With more people, there are more disputes, and a battle could break out at any time, and it would be a meaningless battle.

Everyone has just joined and hasn't gained anything yet, so there's no point in fighting with others at this time.

The four of them plunged directly into the forest below, and in the blink of an eye, they vanished without a trace, their very presence becoming barely perceptible.

The instant they disappeared, a series of magical energy fluctuations appeared around them, and many cultivators were caught in a chaotic battle.

In fact, most people understand that it is not advisable to fight at this time, but since everyone came from the same void rift, they are almost all in the same position.

Everyone was already on edge, filled with tension and apprehension, even a bit like birds startled by the mere sound of a bow. At the slightest disturbance, they couldn't help but start a fight.

The smart ones left immediately, while those who reacted slowly easily got entangled with others.

This wasn't just happening here; it was also the case near other Void Rifts in the distance.

The True Yang Heaven is very large, only slightly smaller than the Spirit Source Land, roughly a circular area with a radius of over 800 li.

But now there are tens of thousands of cultivators pouring in, and there are probably thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators alone.

Besides cultivators, there were also ghost cultivators and demonic beasts, especially the demonic beasts, whose numbers were quite frightening.

Demonic beasts, ghost cultivators, human cultivators—countless forces poured into the True Yang Heaven. Even though the True Yang Heaven was vast, it couldn't withstand the influx of so many people.

For a time, the entire True Yang Heaven resembled a giant arena, with battles and fights raging everywhere.

Yang Zhengshan ignored the fighting. They first hid in the mountains and forests, and then, using the vegetation as cover, slowly moved away from the vicinity of the Taixu Rift.

As the four traveled, they kept an eye on their surroundings. Yunxiao broke off a branch from a large, fiery red tree and whispered, "These are all spiritual plants!"

Yang Zhengshan also picked a leaf, put it in his mouth, and chewed it.

"They are all fire-attribute, and their medicinal properties are quite good; they can be used to refine pills!"

"Spiritual plants" is a general term that refers to any plant that contains spiritual energy.

It includes herbs, spirit fruit trees, spirit rice, and even aquatic plants.

However, there are differences among spiritual plants. Some herbs and spiritual fruit trees have formed fixed varieties, such as the Jade Spirit Peach and the Star Essence Fruit Tree, while others are evolved from ordinary plants. An ordinary weed growing in a place with rich spiritual energy can gradually become a weed containing spiritual energy after multiple reproductions, and this is also a spiritual plant.

For example, the spirit tea trees in the early days of the Spirit Source Land became spirit plants because of this.

Therefore, "spiritual plant" is a very general term. There are countless kinds of spiritual plants in the world. Even the most knowledgeable person cannot recognize all of them, because some spiritual plants are unique and only exist in a specific growing environment.

The True Yang Heavenly Fire attribute spiritual energy is abundant. After tens of thousands of years of growth and reproduction, all the plants covering the mountains and fields have now become fire attribute spiritual plants, which is normal.

Most spiritual plants can be used to make medicinal materials for alchemy, but alchemists need to process them according to their properties and characteristics before adding them to the alchemy formula.

As an alchemist, Yang Zhengshan could tell what kind of pills this tree was suitable for making just by tasting it.

"It's a pity they're all first-tier!" Yunxiao said with some regret.

Ordinary plants can become spiritual plants when they grow in places with abundant spiritual energy, but those are all first-tier spiritual plants. If you want to become a second-tier spiritual plant, it is very difficult. Not only does it require a long period of growth and mutation, but it also requires the help of external forces.

Just like the phoenix trees in the ancient ruins, they have also grown for ten thousand years, but they are still only first-order spirit trees.

But here!

Yang Zhengshan's spiritual sense subtly spread out, and his figure darted through the forest. After a moment, he arrived in front of a purplish-red, enchanting flower.

This plant resembles a peony, with flowers that are a full foot in size. The edges of the petals are purple, but the center of the flower is fiery red.

"What is this?" Hong Fuxiu couldn't help but ask.

"A second-tier spiritual plant, its effects are still unknown!" Yang Zhengshan's eyes gleamed as he channeled his magic power and dug out the flower in front of him.

Then it was sent to the Land of Spiritual Origin. The pulling force from the Great Void still existed, but the pulling force was much smaller when sending things back to the Land of Spiritual Origin.

"Second tier!" Yunxiao and the others' eyes lit up as well.

This is just a desolate wilderness, not around the ruins of the Sun True Sect. In other words, this second-tier spiritual plant was naturally formed, not left behind by the Sun True Sect.

"Hehe, there might be more good stuff here than we imagined!" Yang Zhengshan laughed.

A single second-tier spiritual plant is nothing special, but the fact that they found one after only traveling a short distance through the mountains and forests suggests that there may be many second-tier spiritual plants among the countless others, and possibly even third-tier ones.

“Then let’s look again!” Yunxiao said.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head with some regret, "Now is not the time to look for these things. Let's go to the ruins of the Sun True Sect first. There should be more good things there!"

He had just noticed from the sky that there was a ruin just a few dozen miles to their south, and the ruin was quite large, so it was very likely one of the twelve palaces.

He didn't go directly to the Twelve Palaces because the Upside-Down Mountain was no longer there, meaning the Twelve Palaces had fallen into the Sea of ​​Blazing Sun.

There are lava gods in the Sea of ​​Blazing Sun, and Yang Zhengshan doesn't plan to take any risks, so he will definitely go to the Twelve Palaces first.

It wouldn't be too late for Yang Zhengshan to search for the ruins of the Twelve Palaces after someone enters the Sea of ​​Blazing Sun and lures out those Lava Gods.

The four of them traveled leisurely through the mountains and forests, with streaks of light occasionally flashing through the air and battles breaking out from time to time.

About half an hour later, the four of them arrived near the ruins that Yang Zhengshan had seen earlier.

Standing in the woods, looking down at the ruins below, Yang Zhengshan was certain that this was one of the Twelve Palaces, but he didn't know which one it was.

The Sun True Sect has twelve halls and twelve palaces. The twelve halls are the cultivation grounds of Golden Core cultivators. Note that they are Golden Core cultivators, not Golden Core practitioners, because the Sun True Sect has more than twelve Golden Core practitioners. For example, the former owner of the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, True Lord Shengyang, was not a Golden Core cultivator.

The so-called Golden Core Grandmaster should refer to Golden Core cultivators in the late and peak stages. The former owner of the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, True Lord Shengyang, was only in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

The Twelve Palaces are internal functional structures of the Sun True Sect, just like the Twelve Towers of the Spirit Source Land, only with different names.

Most sects have these kinds of internal organizations, such as those for alchemy, weapon crafting, formations, talismans, puppetry, and other technical skills, as well as those for intelligence gathering, law enforcement, task assignment, and resource allocation.

The twelve palaces of the Sun True Sect each have their own functions, and for Yang Zhengshan and his group, the palaces of skills are undoubtedly the best, because the palaces of skills usually store some resources.

Boom~~
The four had only been observing for a short time when a powerful surge of magical energy erupted from the palace ruins below. Immediately following, various magical lights collided, and all sorts of magical treasures clashed, leading to a chaotic battle.

At the same time, many other cultivators who had gathered around were rapidly engaging in the battle.

In the blink of an eye, the once peaceful ruins had turned into a chaotic battlefield.

"Damn, these guys are really ruthless!" Yunxiao couldn't help but curse.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes, his hidden spiritual sense quickly scanning the ruins below.

Suddenly, his expression froze, and then a glint of light appeared in his eyes.

"We should fight with all our might!"

"why?"

"Because there are magical artifacts there, and more than one!"

"Spiritual weapon!"

Hong Fuxiu and Kota were taken aback at first, then overjoyed, and both couldn't help but show greedy expressions.

A magical artifact.

That's a spiritual artifact that only Golden Core cultivators can wield!

Although Foundation Establishment cultivators find it difficult to control spiritual artifacts, no Foundation Establishment cultivator can resist their allure.

Just look at Yang Zhengshan to understand how much a spiritual artifact can help a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace gave Yang Zhengshan the confidence to challenge martial artists at the Divine Soul Realm, and also allowed him to forge his own path in the art of alchemy.

If it weren't for the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, Yang Zhengshan would probably still be developing in a low-key manner, not daring to show his face.

Xuanqing Sect also has spiritual artifacts, but neither Yunxiao nor Yunxi can tame them. However, this does not mean that Yunxiao does not care about spiritual artifacts.

What if he obtains a new magical artifact, and what if this new magical artifact is willing to recognize him as its master?
Just thinking about it made Yunxiao restless!
(End of this chapter)