Shennong Daojun.

Chapter 531 Aurora Reflections, Nine Marshes Divine Realm!
The Six-Winged Mountain, when viewed from the side, resembles wings, as if surrounded by six pairs of wings.

From above, it is heart-shaped with a flat top, as if it has been cut in half.

When the officials of the Ancient Hill opened up the Six-Winged Mountain using the Mountain-Opening Method, all those preparing to climb the mountain heard a huge 'whooshing' sound.

It was rapid and sharp, like a burly man with a rough voice shouting at the top of his lungs.

Many demons could not stand, their legs went weak, and some of the weaker demons were terrified, so they prostrated themselves on the ground and kept kowtowing, thinking that they had offended the six-winged mountain god.

"Envoy Lang Ping, go and maintain order," the king of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom immediately ordered a wolf demon beside him.

“The mountains roar and the sea howls. People often say that the mountains roar and the sea howls. This is the sound that the mountains and seas make. This is a normal phenomenon. Don’t let the people of Taigu Hill laugh at us.”

"Yes, Your Majesty." A wolf demon wearing a crown and robes immediately went to maintain order in the formation of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom. These young demon royals had only recently emerged from the chaos and ignorance. Although their bloodlines were powerful, they could still be considered as inexperienced youths.

In the mountain climbing team, Zhao Xing stood at the very front, followed by the four mountain masters of Yuanshan, Yunshan, Lushan and Hongshan, as well as the thirteen peak masters of Meishan.

"It's clearly a mountain of joy, but the name sounds awful." Palace Master Luya stood on Zhao Xing's shoulder and flapped his wings in disgust.

Zhao Xing chuckled, then immediately took out the divine artifact [Yuanji Mountain] to stabilize the fluctuations of the mountain's spiritual veins.

After the first howl, the water murmured and the purple bamboo sang softly, and the sound immediately changed from deep and rough to clear and melodious.

After walking uphill along the winding mountain path for less than two days, they reached a mountain spring, where Zhao Xing ordered them to stop.

"Where is the master of Hongshan Mountain?"

“Your subordinate is here.” Venerable Hongshan immediately stepped forward.

"You will lead the community and open an altar here using the underground palace method at this mountain spring. The palace is connected to four veins, suspended at the ninth latitude of the half pole, facing south. This is the first auspicious location."

"As ordered."

After wandering through the mountains for half a day, Zhao Xing found a grove of purple bamboo.

Where is the master of Lushan Mountain?

"My subordinate is here."

"You will lead the community and spread the spirit back to the Earthly Treasury Formation. You need to gather the three peaks of Brocade Wing, Purple Wing, and Twin Star Wing. The formation connects to the Thirty-Six Ridges. This is the second auspicious gathering location."

"Your subordinate obeys." After noting this down, the Lord of Lushan immediately went to make arrangements.

……

"The method of opening the mountain and welcoming good fortune is very particular." While making arrangements, Zhao Xing was also teaching the peak master, mountain master, and disciples of Taigu Hill.

“In ordinary blessed lands, as long as you follow the Five Elements Earth Splitting Method or the Earth Circulation Method, you can easily gather good fortune.”

“The earth’s veins give rise to ridges, and the ridges become peaks. The five elements of the earth’s energy rise with the qi and condense in the mountains. The situation is more complicated. We need to consider not only the energy of the veins and the seasonal energy, but also the energy of the form.”

“Using the law to harvest from the mountains is like cutting vegetables in the ground. If you cut too deep, you will damage the roots, which will affect the next growth and may even destroy a sacred mountain. If you cut too shallow, you will waste the earth’s gifts.”

"The rankings of the mountains in Tianxia Zhijian change frequently, mostly due to improper mining and transportation methods."

Everyone listened attentively, even the King of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom who had accompanied them, and several envoys from the Demon God Palace, all of whom pricked up their ears to listen, even though they didn't understand.

"Zhao Xing, according to your statement, the previous mountain leader, Wei Zizhan, lowered the ranking of Six Wings Mountain by three places. Wasn't his method of selecting auspicious omens too crude?"

"You say that the Mountain of Knowledge is like this, then what about the Unknowable?"

"Since so many people have climbed Shifang Mountain, will its magical effects ever diminish?"

The Palace Master Luya, perched on his shoulder, seemed quite interested in conversation and asked several questions in succession.

Everyone has their own expertise, and even though Palace Master Luya is a divine general, he doesn't understand the intricacies of this matter. He only vaguely senses that the places where Wei Zizhan performed his rituals back then seem to have left tiny scars on Six Wings Mountain.

His first question was very rude. Although the others could not hear the conversation between the two, Wei Zizhan was Zhao Xing's senior brother, or even half a teacher. How could he speak ill of him to his face?
But Little Yellow Duck didn't care about any of that. Wei Zizhan? It was already a favor that he was willing to give him a critique!

“Reporting to the Palace Master, I can only say that each generation has its own ideas,” Zhao Xing said. “Senior Brother Wei must have had his reasons for doing what he did back then.”

This can be seen as a tacit admission that Wei Zizhan's ranking dropped three places due to his mining and transportation efforts, but it was said in a very euphemistic way.

“As for the unknowable mountains, it is difficult to judge them by conventional methods,” Zhao Xing said. “For example, the Diejie Mountain, even if 70% of the soil is dug away, it will still return to its original appearance after many years, or even be larger.”

"Whether the effects of Ten Directions Mountain are constant is something even I, a junior, cannot know." Zhao Xing thought of the Eight Directions Divine Mirror that the Ma Yi Divine Master had presented, and said thoughtfully, "Perhaps it is less, perhaps it is not. We still do not know where the limit of this mountain is."

The ritual to open the mountain and bring good fortune lasted for one year and nine months.

Once everything was ready, the mountaineering team arrived at a valley halfway up the mountain.

Zhao Xing decided that the final location for the centralized procurement would be a place called 'Chess Valley'.

Zhao Xing placed Yuanji Mountain on the altar, with twelve Ksitigarbha needles inserted around it.

"Om~"

A gentle breeze swept through the valley, and hundreds of flowers bloomed from between the stone walls, quickly covering the entire area. A waterfall gushed out from a crack in the cliff behind the altar, and heavenly fire dyed the clouds red.

The desolate valley had suddenly transformed into this state, and everyone sensed that something good was about to happen.

The little yellow duck had already flown off Zhao Xing's shoulder. If he were here, the mountain's fortune would gather around him. He flew into the sky and stood with Yan Ao.

"Hehe, seven little demons have experienced a dramatic change in fortune, undergoing a complete transformation on the spot, and their future potential has reached a new level... Yan Ao, you also protected Wei Zizhan back then, how does your situation today compare to the past?"

Yan Aoben had been gazing upwards, but upon hearing Lu Ya's voice, he lowered his head, as if emerging from some state and descending into the mortal world.

He glanced at the valley teeming with flowers and nodded gently: "Even more so."

"How come it's only three points?" Little Yellow Duck felt a little disappointed. Wasn't Zhao Xing supposed to be the most talented leader of the Ancient Hills?
Yan Ao looked at the sky speechlessly.

……

Zhao Xing held Mount Yuanji in his hands, quietly observing its changes, and then raised his head to look at the humans and demons present.

"The fortune of the Six-Winged Mountain caused me to fluctuate from the thirty-first stage of the Derivation to the thirty-second stage."

Once you reach the 31st level of the Derivation Realm, it's incredibly difficult to advance your fortune to the next level.

Xue Rui's divine fortune and divine bones had reached their limit, and since then, his fortune has remained stable at level 31 and has not broken through again.

Today, after the auspicious opening of the mountain and the collection of resources, the site briefly reached level 32.

However, it is not stable; once it leaves the mountain, it will still be 31 steps.

However, Zhao Xing's inherent luck has risen to level twenty-three, which means that even if the bonuses from the Five Emperor Coins and the Luck Divine Bone are removed, his own luck is still at level twenty-three.

"Elder Bovi, do you know what level is required to become a Qi-based God of Freedom?" Zhao Xing asked, sending a wisp of his consciousness to communicate with Bovi within his inner world.

“Becoming a God of Freedom of Fortune only requires reaching the 25th level, but that’s just a prerequisite,” Bovi said. “To become a God of Freedom of Fortune, one also needs the method of refining fortune.”

"Without the divine method of fortune, even if it keeps increasing, it cannot be called the divine method of fortune."

"If one does not become a god of destiny, one's inherent destiny is limited to the 31st level. Even if one has a fortuitous encounter and briefly breaks through the 31st level, one will eventually fall back down."

Bowei pondered, "It is said that one becomes a god at the twenty-fifth level of fortune, a free god, and at the thirty-first level of refinement, a true god, unaffected by calamities. However, this method has been lost."

Zhao Xing: "Elder, you are learned, yet you do not know about the Qi and Fortune Divine Method?"

“The more you know, the less you know,” Bovi said self-deprecatingly. “When I first broke free of my shackles and became a god, I thought I knew all the mysteries of the universe. Later I realized that my knowledge was still just a drop in the ocean compared to the mysteries of the entire universe.”

While they were talking, the King of Wanhe Kingdom and three envoys from the Demon God Palace came to thank Zhao Xing.

"Thank you, Zhao Sinong, for blessing our clan's genius."

"Yes, thank you, Zhao Sinong. The changes this time are too obvious."

"Back then, no one in the clan could be transformed overnight."

"Zhao Sinong truly deserves to be the youngest mountain leader."

All four demon demigods praised it.

This is not the first time that the Wanhe Demon Kingdom has experienced the opening ceremony of the Six-Winged Mountain.

Both were mountain leaders welcoming auspicious omens, but the benefits Wei Zizhan gave them were far less than those given to Zhao Xing.

“This is not my achievement, but the achievement of my senior brother, Venerable Wei Zizhan, who was the previous mountain chief,” Zhao Xing said. “If it weren’t for him sealing the mountain and naming it for ten eras, we wouldn’t have such good fortune today.”

“Zhao Sinong is right,” the four demon demigods echoed. Although they said so, they all felt in their hearts that Zhao Xing was much stronger than Wei Zizhan.

Because the mountain chief before Wei Zizhan had also sealed off the mountain for a similar amount of time, so why is it that when it comes to Wei Zizhan, he needs to absorb so much of the fortune himself and leave less for the demon race?

It's because he's weaker than Zhao Xing!
Therefore, the four demon demigods naturally had a higher opinion of the new mountain leader than Wei Zizhan.

"Lord of Wanhe Kingdom, three divine envoys, I wish to make a trip to the Desert Sea after the mountain closure ends. I wonder if it would be possible to take a look ahead?"

"Mohai? Of course we can go." The King of Wanhe and the three divine envoys exchanged a glance and immediately agreed.

The Desert Sea is the birthplace of the Nine Gods, but countless years have passed, and it has lost its former splendor, now just an ordinary relic of a deity.

If it were a request to visit the Demon God Palace and the ancestral land of the Demon God, they probably wouldn't readily agree, but since Zhao Xing made this request, they certainly wouldn't refuse.

"Thank you all."

Zhao Xing cupped his hands in greeting, ending the conversation and quickly moving on to the next step.

Gathering mountain spirits.

This stage is quite secretive.

Zhao Xinghui will act alone, searching for the spirit of the mountain in the Six Wings Mountain.

"According to custom, the head of the Ancient Hill can only take one mountain spirit from here."

"If you're going to seize an opportunity, you should seize the big one."

Holding the divine weapon, Zhao Xing fled into the Six-Winged Mountain.

Two months later, he returned to the valley.

When it returned, it was accompanied by a mountain spirit with six wings of light and a round body. The mountain spirit looked like a jellyfish with wings, and with each breath, the six-winged mountain emitted a melodious feathering sound.

"Hmm. They actually caught a six-winged mountain spirit?" The King of Wanhe Kingdom was immediately filled with envy.

"When Wei Zizhan came last time, he only managed to capture a five-winged mountain spirit. This Zhao Sinong is quite capable."

The space inside the Six-Winged Mountain is also very large. The mountain spirits are intelligent and live hidden in the vast mountains, and are extremely good at hiding.

Even five-winged mountain spirits are rarely seen, let alone the strongest six-winged mountain spirits.

"Congratulations, Minister Zhao!" King Wanhe and the three divine envoys offered their congratulations in unison.

"Congratulations, Mountain Chief!" The people of Taigu Hill also offered their congratulations.

The six-winged mountain spirit can be kept in the polar land within the body and live together in symbiosis.

At a critical moment, it can help Si Nong cross a true spiritual tribulation.

Of course, once someone reaches the level of a demigod like Zhao Xing at the fifteenth tribulation stage, ordinary mountain spirits are no longer effective; only six-winged mountain spirits can produce an effect.

"Thanks to everyone's blessings." Zhao Xing humbly cupped his hands. This was the territory of the demon race, and he was indeed grateful to the demon race for being able to obtain the Six-Winged Mountain Spirit.

It took several days to absorb the mountain spirit into my body and live together in symbiosis.

This trip to Liuyi Mountain has now reached its final step: closing the mountain and naming it.

Zhao Xing ranked Liuyi Mountain fourteenth among Zhijian Mountain, improving it by three places and restoring it to the ranking it held during his tenure as the previous mountain leader.

The ranking of the Great Mountain is an honor. Although the increase in ranking is not significant, the Wanhe Demon Clan is already very satisfied.

…………

The Third Era of the Wilderness, the 205th Star Year, the Desert Sea.

After the mountain was closed off, Zhao Xing was invited to visit the capital of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom.

In reality, they had arrived at the [Desert Sea] region of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom.

The desert is a star region filled with sand and ocean. Countless quicksands, like comets, fly out of the ocean, trailing long tails, flowing in the starry sky with unpredictable trajectories, and eventually fall into a primeval ocean.

In the desert region, many precious mineral planets and star continents will form, but life-bearing planets and star continents are rare.

Even the demon race, which can endure harsh environments, rarely settles and lives in the desert region.

Aside from the demon race mining and mechanical puppets, only one ten-thousandth of the desert region has demon race residents.

Zhao Xing sat cross-legged on a meteorite, moving forward along a starry sand river.

Puff puff!
As the Heavenly Transformation Needle was expelled from his body, Zhao Xing's purple hair gradually faded, and he transformed into human form.

"The fifth level of the Nine Ze Divine Realm is finally complete!"

It took Zhao Xing more than 20 years to cultivate from the fourth level of the Nine Marsh God's Transformation to the fifth level of the Dao.

"The Nine Gods of the Nine Rivers have nine talents: Void Claw, World-Burning Divine Eye, Heavenly Ruins Five Organs, Longevity Wheel, Myriad Calamities Golden Marrow, Profound Nether Transformation, Earthly Divine Movement, Thunderstruck Body, and Momentary Eternity. Now, after Hou Bian, I also possess the fifth one, Myriad Calamities Golden Marrow."

"However, the Nine Gods' talent is of little use to the human body," Zhao Xing said with some regret.

As a born deity, Jiuze Shen possesses god-level talents and secret techniques, such as the Myriad Tribulations Golden Marrow, which is said to allow one to survive countless tribulations!
Of course, there's a lot of exaggeration in that. Who can survive ten thousand calamities?

However, after Zhao Xing transformed, he felt that surviving the sixteenth tribulation was quite easy.

“I can withstand the sixteenth tribulation using the fifth level of the Nine Marsh God Marquis's Transformation. After all, my soul core is still human, so essentially I am the one suffering the tribulation.” Zhao Xing felt hopeful. “The six-winged mountain spirit can withstand another tribulation, and I will soon reach the level of a seventeenth-tribulation demigod.”

"If I collect all the mountain spirits of the top ten levels in the mountains of the Xuanling Starfield, it should be able to help me through another tribulation, which is the eighteenth tribulation."

Eighteen Tribulations Demigod – that was Bovi's level during his demigod stage.

"The more times a demigod undergoes tribulation, the stronger their combat power will be after becoming a free god."

"Back then, Bowei became a free god at the age of eighteen kalpas, so he could disregard the Lord of Tu Ning Palace and even alarmed the Great Emperor to personally capture Bowei."

Zhao Xing still remembered the scene that the Xuanling History Book showed him. After Bowei became a god, if it weren't for the appearance of the Great Emperor, even with the help of the Palace Master Tu Ning, it would have been impossible to make Bowei surrender.

"Bovi, who had undergone eighteen tribulations, became a god and soon became a divine general."

"After twenty-two tribulations, Gu Luohe became a god and even stepped into the level of a god general."

The more one cultivates to become a god during the demigod stage, the stronger one naturally becomes.

Both Bovi and Gurohe were the chosen ones of their respective versions, and after becoming gods, they were incredibly powerful.

"If all 200 of my true spirits undergo the eighteen tribulations, then after becoming a God of Freedom, I will at least have the combat power of a God General."

The deadline for protectors is the day they become free gods.

"With the combat strength of a divine general, even if Yan Ao and Lu Ya leave in the future, I will have the means to protect myself."

"As for whether I can reach the level of the Ancient Luo River, it depends on the Nine Marsh God's reforms," ​​Zhao Xing thought to himself. "Using the Original Self Divine Method to overcome the True Spirit Tribulation seems quite difficult at the moment."

The Five Great Divine Techniques of the True Self are fine when facing tangible calamities, but they are very difficult to defend against intangible calamities.

Cangwu World Law, Void God Seed, One Realm Divine Splendor, Primordial Divine Foundation, Original Self Divine Sacrifice.

Of the five great divine techniques, only the Cangwu World Technique, the Void God Seed, and the Original Self God Sacrifice can be considered offensive techniques.

However, the egoic ritual is ineffective against the true spirit tribulation; this parasitic method cannot parasitize the heavenly tribulation.

The Void God Seed is a variant of the technique, which requires a certain amount of time to release and needs to be used in conjunction with the Cangwu World Technique to be effective.

In the pursuit of the ultimate tribulation, the Nine Marquis God's Transformation Method, born with divine power, is still the most effective.

"If I could reach the level of the Ancient Luo River, my divine power would be so strong after I become a god that it would definitely be able to support the simultaneous advancement of the secret techniques of my three sects," Zhao Xing thought to himself. Being involved with three sects also had a problem: his magical power was insufficient. The divine techniques he was currently learning consumed too much energy.

If it is used to cast the Divine Art of the True Self, it will drain oneself, and can only be cast once. Techniques such as the Mountain of Overlapping Boundaries, the Time-Space-Earth Transmission Technique, and the Underground Palace Technique will be completely unusable.

Everyone knows that cultivating all three schools of thought leads to greater strength, so why are there so few people who do it? Mainly because cultivating all three is extremely difficult.

"Hehe, Zhao Xing, I've found another familiar place." Palace Master Lu Ya flapped his wings. "Quick, let's go take a look over there."

"Okay senior."

Zhao Xing immediately flew in the direction indicated by Palace Master Luya.

Lu Ya had been to the lair of the Nine Ze Gods before. Even though it had been completely changed, if Lu Ya could point out any place, there would still be some traces left by the Nine Ze Gods.

Time flies, and a century has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the vast desert, Zhao Xing crossed a sandy river.

"Wow~"

Suddenly, a wave swept over, the light was too bright for Zhao Xing to react in time, but Yan Ao immediately swallowed Zhao Xing whole.

"Om~"

The next moment, the light swept across the meteorite where Zhao Xing was, and the entire meteorite shattered. The surging sand river was also suddenly crushed, turning into even smaller fragments.

"Gah!"

The Palace Master of Luya Palace landed on Yan Ao's shoulder with lightning speed, and even a single hair on it was shed!

Inside Yan Ao's belly, Zhao Xing belatedly felt a heart-pounding fluctuation.

Even after being swallowed by Yan Ao, she still felt somewhat unsafe.

"What have you discovered, seniors?"

Yan Ao frowned and scanned the surrounding starry sky. After the light wave swept over it, the entire starry sky changed.

"We have entered an independent space-time, completely isolated from the desert."

shuh~
The next moment, after confirming that Zhao Xing was safe, Yan Ao released him again.

Zhao Xing glanced at the panel and found that the coordinates displayed on the panel were still in the desert, but now there were more specific domain coordinates.

You have entered a desert of sand, where the aurora borealis reflects the former divine realm of the Nine Marshes.

"A grain of sand preserved the aurora? And this ray of aurora even reflects the former Nine Swamps Divine Realm?" Zhao Xing was taken aback.

According to the historical records of the Chasing Light Society's exploration of the aurora, the powerful radiance of the polar star can illuminate the existence of the divine realm, giving birth to some 'auurs-reflected spaces' that preserve extremely real and precious historical images.

Many astronomical historians who discover these auroras experience a rapid increase in their abilities, and some are even able to condense powerful avatars from their own time or realm.

Zhao Xing obtained information from the coordinates, but he still released Bowei.

His opinion shouldn't be taken as a reference. Yan Ao and Lu Ya might find this place too dangerous and just use some kind of magic to take him away.

When Bowei was brought out to identify the source, this god-level scholar did not disappoint. With just one glance, Bowei drew a conclusion before Yan Ao could take any action.

"The aurora illuminates time and space, like a mirage preserving historical scenes."

"However, it is unknown which specific time period was preserved."

"If Zhao Xing could see the true form of the Nine Ze God, it would be beneficial to his cultivation."

"How dangerous is it?" Yan Ao only cared about whether there was any danger and whether it was something Zhao Xing could handle.

Bowei calculated with his fingers and then said, "The aurora is mixed with the divine power of time, and it returns once every seventy-two hours in this spacetime."

"As long as we put it away before the power of time sweeps through, it will be safe."

Zhao Xing stared expectantly at Yan Ao. The decision-making power of the guardian generals also varied. Bo Wei only had the right to make suggestions, while Yan Ao, as the first guardian general, was fully responsible for Zhao Xing's safety.

If he feels it's dangerous here and insists on leaving, then Palace Master Luya, as the most skilled general at escaping, will definitely carry out his orders.

Ignoring Zhao Xing's expectant gaze, Yan Ao pondered for a moment and then nodded:
"Let's wait and see, and make a decision after the aurora returns again."

(End of this chapter)