Gaze and you will become stronger: starting from Doupo

At this moment, her back revealed endless loneliness. The bronze jar in her arms shook gently, and the sound of a baby crying was heard.

Afterimages flashed one after another: the Void Emperor sacrificed his blood to the sword and cut open the first seal of the Immortal Mountain; the Great Saint Body was covered in blood and used Pangu Axe to split open the Netherworld Passage; even the Emperor Ye Tian, ​​who had been missing for many years, left his footprints here - he stood under a tea tree, holding a chaos-colored seed in his hand, as if talking to a certain existence.

"Why do all these emperors come to this tea tree?" Jiang Han frowned and thought. The system suddenly sounded an alarm. He looked up and saw that the leaves of the Wudao tea tree were vibrating at a high frequency. The Dao patterns on each leaf were reorganizing and forming a huge "danger" character.

clang--!
The bell rang again, but it was more gloomy than before, as if it came from the Nine Nether Hell. Jiang Han felt that the laws of time and space were rapidly distorting, and the surrounding scene began to fade and double like an old film. On the branches of the Enlightenment Tea Tree, dense ancient characters appeared, which were "Heavenly Dao Inscriptions" more primitive than Sanskrit.

"Warning! Space-time turbulence detected, immediate evacuation recommended!" The system's voice was unusually urgent. Jiang Han was about to perform Thunder Escape, but found that his feet had been entangled by black vines that emerged from the ground. The vines were covered with barbs, and every time they penetrated his skin, they absorbed a bit of his chaotic power.

The tea fragrance suddenly became strong, with a rusty and bloody smell. The leaves of the Wudao tea tree began to fall off, and each leaf turned into a human figure in the air, which was the emperors in the residual shadow just now. The Wushi Emperor raised his hand and the Chaos Bell floated above Jiang Han's head. The "卍" character appeared on the bell and temporarily stopped the turbulence of time and space; the Henren Emperor flicked his fingertips, and the bronze jar flew out. The mouth of the jar opened and sucked the vines wrapped around Jiang Han's legs into it.

"Thank you, senior!" Jiang Han took the opportunity to activate the Chaos Green Lotus Art, and a strong light burst out from his body. However, at this moment, a low "dong" sound came from the depths of the Black Mountain, as if some ancient existence was awakened from its slumber. The roots of the tea tree suddenly cracked, revealing a bottomless black hole, and a huge suction force pulled Jiang Han towards the center of the earth.

As he fell, he saw a scene he would never forget: stacked ancient bronze coffins suspended above the magma, each coffin engraved with different avenue patterns; deeper down, on a huge altar, nine coiled dragon pillars supported a huge star map, and in the center of the star map, a black heart was beating, and every beat spewed out a large amount of deathly air.

"Is this... the core of Immortal Mountain?" Jiang Han barely managed to gather lightning to protect his body, but saw the system interface suddenly light up in full, and a piece of data he had never seen before was automatically analyzed:

"The Enlightenment Tea Tree is actually a Heavenly Dao monitor, formed from the first wisp of Chaos Qi after the creation of the world. The seven forbidden areas are cages set up by Heavenly Dao to imprison the 'Ancient Chaos God', and each Enlightenment Tea Tree is the 'lock core' of the cage. When someone tries to take the tea tree away, the cage will release the residual soul of the ancient god, triggering a backlash from Heavenly Dao."

At this moment, he finally touched the root of the tea tree - it was not an ordinary tree root, but a huge chain coiled around the center of the earth, and each section of the chain was engraved with ancient runes such as "seal", "suppression", and "prison". The roots of the Enlightenment Tea Tree were deeply embedded in the gaps of the chain, absorbing the chaotic power in it.

"So that's how it is..." Jiang Han suddenly realized, "What the system wants me to take is not the tea tree itself, but the chaotic origin in the lock core." He activated the "Heaven-Devouring Magic Art", and his fingertips turned into a black vortex, sucking the original power from the gap in the chain.

The ground suddenly shook violently, and Jiang Taixu shouted from above: "Ancestor! We have located your position with the star array!" Jiang Han looked up and saw Ji Ziyue holding the Void Mirror, Hei Huang holding Duan De's belt, and the three of them falling from the crack above. "Why are you here?!" He was shocked and angry, but saw Duan De throwing a handful of talismans, forming the four big words "I'm here" in the air.

The remnant soul of the Chaos Ancient God was finally startled, and a dazzling red light burst out from its dark heart. Countless bone hands stretched out from the magma and grabbed Ji Ziyue's ankles. The Black Emperor barked and pounced, but was hit by a stream of death energy, and instantly aged by dozens of years; Duan De's talismans burned in the death energy and turned into ashes.

At the critical moment, Jiang Han finally absorbed a trace of the origin of chaos. The system interface flashed wildly, and a prompt came that the task was completed. At the same time, a powerful force surged into his meridians. "Everyone hide behind me!" He shouted, and 365 chaos divine patterns appeared around his body. He raised his hand and threw a "Heaven and Earth Creation Fist".

The fist hit the ground, causing the core area of ​​the Immortal Mountain to bulge upwards. The Enlightenment Tea Tree was uprooted and turned into a stream of light that sank into Jiang Han's sea of ​​consciousness; the remnant soul of the Chaos Ancient God roared unwillingly, but was suppressed by Jiang Han's newly acquired Chaos Power and sank back into the depths of the magma.

When everyone saw the sky again, the Immortal Mountain had collapsed behind them and turned into ruins. Ji Ziyue sat on the ground, looking at the fragments of the Void Mirror in her hand - that was the mirror that took the initiative to block a fatal attack in order to save her. Hei Huang licked the wound on his claws and suddenly looked up at Jiang Han: "Your aura... seems to have broken through?"

Jiang Han felt the chaotic power surging in his body, and a smile appeared on his lips. The system interface showed that his realm had broken through from the half-step emperor realm to the "chaos emperor" realm. A mini version of the enlightenment tea tree appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness, and each leaf was slowly turning, analyzing different laws of the avenue.

"Let's go back to the Jiang family." He reached out his hand to help Ji Ziyue up, his eyes looking at the gradually brightening starry sky in the distance, "Although the Immortal Mountain is destroyed, the seven forbidden areas are still there. Since the Heavenly Dao has noticed my existence..." He clenched his fists, and the power of chaos condensed into a miniature universe in his palms, "Next, I'm afraid there will be even bigger turmoil."

Duan De secretly stuffed a recovery pill into his mouth and muttered, "If I had known it was so dangerous, I should have brought a few more bottles of Drunken Immortal Dew..." Before he finished speaking, Hei Huang slapped him on the head with his claws: "If you keep talking nonsense, I will take you to the dark turmoil site to sober up next time!" The group walked towards the East Wasteland in the twilight. In the ruins of the Immortal Mountain behind them, a new bud was breaking out of the ground at the root of the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and the leaves were shining with a light that did not belong to this era. And beyond the more distant starry sky, a pair of eyes overlooking all living things opened slightly, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth...

In the ancient Jiang family's gilded hall, the scent of amber from the bronze animal-head incense burner lingered in the hall. Jiang Han tapped the jade teacup with his fingertips, and the amber tea soup rippled slightly, reflecting the solemn expressions of everyone in the hall. The copper bells on the eaves were blown by the evening breeze, making a clear sound in the corridor, but it could not cover up the tense atmosphere in the air.

"Buzz——"

The system prompt sounded like a deep bell and evening drum in the sea of ​​consciousness. Jiang Han's pupils shrank slightly, and the teacup and the table triggered a crisp sound. The four words "Enlightenment Tea Tree" turned into golden runes and flowed on his retina. He clearly felt the ripples in the core of the system deep in his sea of ​​consciousness. It was a violent fluctuation that he had never experienced since he traveled to this world where martial arts proved the truth. This fluctuation was like a dormant power being awakened, and it was like the gears of fate began to turn, pushing him into an unknown but challenging situation.

"Ancestor?" Jiang Taixu's voice brought him back to reality. The current head of the Donghuang Jiang family was wearing a dark-patterned Taoist robe, and the fragment of the Kunlun mirror hanging around his waist was gleaming. His worry could not hide the vicissitudes of life in the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. The fairy Caiyun standing behind him waved her sleeves lightly, and the star disk on the table suddenly appeared with 360 phantom stars. It was the Jiang family's secret "Zhou Tian Deduction Technique". The stars on the star disk flickered, as if foreshadowing some kind of danger.

Jiang Han put down the teacup and tapped the table with his knuckles. A three-dimensional star map of the Big Dipper suddenly appeared on the gilded table. The location of the Immortal Mountain was marked by a blood-red halo, like a black scar deeply embedded in the veins of the star field, exuding a strange and dangerous aura. "I am going to the Immortal Mountain." His voice was as calm as an ancient well, but it caused the temperature in the hall to drop sharply, as if an invisible pressure was looming over everyone's heads.

"What?!" The fragments of the Kunlun mirror on Jiang Taixu's waist exploded, and the star map reflected in the mirror was instantly covered with cracks. The wine gourd in Duan De's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and the wine splashed on the white marble floor, and bursts of white mist rose up - that was the "Drunken Immortal Dew" he nurtured with thirty dragon caves and spiritual veins. Every drop was precious, but it was wasted at this moment, which made him feel distressed.

"Ancestor, do you know why the Immortal Mountain is called the first of the 'Seven Forbidden Zones of Life'?" Jiang Taixu knelt on one knee, pressing his palm on the River Map and Luoshu formation pattern on the ground, his expression serious and anxious. "The dark turmoil three million years ago was caused by the death energy that overflowed from there and polluted the entire Eastern Wilderness. When the Void Emperor and the Great Saint Body joined forces to suppress it, they left a warning that 'there is an ancient coffin in the mountain, and you have to kowtow once every thousand years'!" His words were full of awe and worry, as if he was telling an ancient and terrifying legend.

Jiang Han's eyes swept through the hall: Ji Ziyue clenched the corner of her clothes, the eyes of this descendant of the Void Emperor flashed with shock and curiosity, with both fear of the unknown and yearning for adventure; Heihuang squatted on the column base, his tail flapping the ground restlessly, his canine teeth gnawing with a "clacking" sound, and the hair on his body slightly stood up, showing his alertness and uneasiness; Duan De secretly stuffed three earth escape talismans into his sleeves, his fat face was squeezed into walnut wrinkles, and a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, as if he was thinking about how to escape when danger came.

"System task." Jiang Han spoke briefly, his sleeves brushing across the table. A holographic projection of the Enlightenment Tea Tree appeared on the star map. It was the only spiritual object he could not understand since he traveled through time. Each leaf was flowing with the Dao rhythm of the beginning of chaos. Since the system issued the task of "collecting the essence of the Enlightenment Tea Tree", his cultivation has stagnated at the half-step emperor realm, as if the heaven was deliberately blocking him, making every step forward extremely difficult.

"Back then, the Void Emperor went deep into the core of the Immortal Mountain, but only brought back a dead leaf." When Jiang Taixu looked up, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. "That leaf is still enshrined in the Ji family's ancestral temple, and the Taoist patterns on it are still evolving. If the ancestor insists on going..." He reached into his arms and took out a bronze talisman engraved with spells. "Please bring the Jiang family's ancestral 'Seal of the Sky', which can temporarily suppress the rules of the restricted area." The spells on the talisman flickered with a faint light, as if containing powerful power.

When Jiang Han took the talisman, his fingertips touched the three characters "Jiang Hengyu" engraved on the back - that was the real name of the first great emperor who achieved enlightenment in the ancient times. He suddenly remembered that the system had once reminded him that the "great emperor" realm of this world was subtly related to the "law-level" existence of his original universe. Perhaps the enlightenment tea tree was the key to unlocking the barrier between the two worlds. This thought flashed through his mind, making him more determined to go to the Immortal Mountain.

"I'll be back soon." Before he finished speaking, purple lightning was already lingering around Jiang Han. Ji Ziyue suddenly took half a step forward: "Grandmaster, can you take me--" Before she could finish her words, she was bitten by the back of her collar by the Black Emperor. "Little girl, don't seek death!" The Black Emperor's hair stood on end, "Back then, the Qilin beast under the seat of the Emperor Wu Shi mistakenly entered the restricted area and was only half alive when it came out. You haven't even reached the Saint realm..." Its voice was full of anxiety and reproach, as if it was scolding an ignorant child.

Amid the roar of thunder, Jiang Han's figure had turned into a stream of light and broke through the roof of the hall. Gilded tiles fell and hit the ground in front of Duan De, shocking him so much that he rolled and crawled behind a pillar. His fat body looked particularly funny in the panic. Jiang Taixu looked at the gradually fading lightning marks in the sky, and suddenly found that the teacup on the table was still trembling slightly, and ice flowers condensed on the surface of the tea - that was the trace of Taoism left by Jiang Han's mood fluctuations just now, showing that his heart was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.

Outside the Immortal Mountain, the bloody setting sun dyed the sky rusty, as if the sky was bleeding. Jiang Han was suspended three feet above the ground. When the lightning under his feet came into contact with the black moss on the ground, a "hissing" sound like a snake spitting out its tongue was emitted, as if the earth was issuing a warning. In front of him were towering ancient trees, the shortest of which was a hundred feet high. The trunks were covered with eyeball-like protrusions, and each growth ring was engraved with ancient magic patterns, as if these trees had life and were silently watching the intruders.

"It is indeed the 'Ancient Dark Demon Vine'." He gathered Dao patterns on his fingertips and slashed out a sword light. The three-meter-thick vine broke with a sound, and black juice gushed out from the broken end, condensing into the words "Keep away" in the air, and then blown away by the mountain wind. The system interface popped up a prompt at the right time: "Interference with the restricted area rules is detected, it is recommended to open the 'Chaos Field'." There was a sense of urgency in the prompt tone, as if danger was approaching.

Jiang Han's mind moved, and the shadow of Chaos Green Lotus appeared around him. The thirty-three petals unfolded layer by layer, isolating the surrounding decay. The light of the green lotus illuminated the surrounding darkness, as if opening up a safe area in this terrifying forbidden area. After walking a hundred miles, a path of white bones gradually appeared on the ground. The cracks on the skulls all pointed in the same direction - they were the remains of those who had tried to break into the forbidden area for thousands of years. He noticed that there was a sword wound on the brow bone of a skull. The shape of the wound was exactly the same as the "Void Sword Canon" of the Void Emperor, as if telling the bravery and tragedy of the emperor back then. (End of this chapter)