Dao Ye is going to ascend

Chapter 687 Heavenly Sound Creation, Kizaru Enters the Chamber (Part 2)

"That damned thieving bird!"

In a desolate mountain resembling ruins, Duan Tianyi, covered in dust and grime but too lazy to clean himself, stared blankly at the eerie battlefield outside the cave, his expression blank.

As a seeker of the mysterious, he never dreamed that one day he would see a strange place that filled him with disgust.

"What's the ghost's name?"

Deep inside the cave, Wang Xuandao, now only half-dead, was breathing and healing himself. Upon hearing the sound, his face filled with disgust.

"If you hadn't insisted on staying, how would we have ended up in this situation?"

Mentioning this matter, Wang Xuandao couldn't help but want to slap the fat Taoist to death. According to him, after receiving that huge reward, he would return to Tian Shi Yuan to practice his magic and cultivate.

Unfortunately, the fat man was not satisfied and insisted on dragging him to watch the battle. As a result, he did not gain any benefits and was swallowed up by the Blood Phoenix, ending up in this godforsaken place.

"...Old Wang, you should focus on recovering from your injury."

Duan Tianyi smiled awkwardly: "There are quite a few cultivators who have been swallowed by that Blood Phoenix. Once you recover from your injuries, we can try to contact them and maybe we can escape this hellish place."

"……escape?"

Wang Xuandao looked out of the cave.

Less than a thousand miles away, two strange places were clashing and fighting: one was a sword mound full of broken swords, and the other was a violently erupting volcano.

A torrent of hundreds of flying swords is engaged in a fierce battle with hundreds of fiery monsters.

Such clashes and battles are commonplace in this godforsaken place. They were caught in the crossfire between two strange lands of the fourth realm, and further away, there are many strange lands of the fifth realm.

"How to escape?"

Wang Xuandao smirked: "Why don't you give it a try and see if you can perform a ritual here? Maybe you can even join the Weitian Dao Sect!"

"I……"

Duan Tianyi felt guilty and was about to speak when he suddenly heard a high-pitched dragon roar.

"Ang~"

Black mist rolled in like thunderclouds, accompanied by the fierce roar of a dragon.

The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw dark clouds covering the sky. A black dragon of the third realm was dancing wildly in the air, with dark clouds rolling behind it, and countless demonic figures and Dao soldiers among them.

At first glance, it looks like a terrifying demon is on the move.

"That's magic!"

Duan Tianyi almost jumped up. The strange beast and the spell were similar yet different. He recognized the black dragon as a spell at a glance, and the thing on the black dragon's back...

"Demonic cultivator!"

Wang Xuandao leaped up halfway and pinned the fat Taoist to the ground, looking out of the cave with a solemn expression.

A dark cloud formed by countless demonic soldiers covered the sky and even enveloped the two battlegrounds, including both the demonic beasts and the demonic soldiers.

Enveloped by the black mist, they instantly vaporized and disappeared. When they reappeared, they had already been assimilated into demonic shadows.

"This demonic art is too vicious..."

Wang Xuandao felt his eyelids twitch wildly, and the next instant, his face froze:

"It's over..."

Even though he was thousands of miles away, he could feel the gaze coming from the dark clouds.

"This Blood Phoenix has devoured quite a few cultivators."

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly. He was always a thoughtful person, and he felt that something was not quite right.

But he didn't care much. There was a long, secluded corridor behind him, and if anything seemed amiss, he could simply turn around and leave.

Immediately, Li Yuan looked at the eerie battlefield shrouded in black mist. In that sword tomb, he sensed an aura quite similar to that of the Xuan Guang Sword.

"If I'm lucky, I might get a sword technique with all the forbidden spells. As for that volcanic treacherous land, it might contain the five elemental spells I need..."

With a thought, Li Yuan transformed into mist and moved on, while the black dragon let out a long roar and pounced to attack.

……

……

Guixu, the ninth level, Xuanyuan Mountain.

Leaning against the door of his small temple, Xuan Daozi gazed into the distance. As far as the eye could see, wisps of incense smoke gathered, enveloping the temples of all sizes like a sea of ​​clouds.

With his peak cultivation at the fourth level, he couldn't even count how many temples there were in this place at a glance.

All that is known is that these countless temples are strictly hierarchical from bottom to top. The lowest level is where nominal disciples live, and the next level is where disciples like him who are auditing the classes reside.

Further up from there, there are still many temples.

The highest point he could see with all his might was a series of magnificent temples shrouded in golden light, the abode of Xuan Yuan Vajra. And perhaps above that was the abode of Xuan Yuan Bodhisattva.
“Auditors…”

Taking a deep breath, Xuan Daozi closed the temple door, sat cross-legged in meditation, and began to peruse a classic-level cultivation technique that he had exchanged for with the Yuan Fire he had accumulated over the years.

"The White Bone Bodhisattva Contemplation".

Just as Xuan Daozi was about to comprehend this method, he suddenly felt something in his heart, got up and opened the door, only to find the great monk who had never appeared again after guiding him into the sect.

"Senior Brother Lingji."

Xuan Daozi bowed and invited him into the temple.

"Three years is not a long time. Junior brother, have you gained any insights?"

The monk Lingji slowly entered the temple, and only spoke after the latter poured him tea.

“Xuanyuan Residence is not easy to live in.”

Xuan Daozi guessed in his heart why they came, but he let out a long sigh, which was also what he really thought.

Xuan Yuanju is more than just difficult.
Six minor merits a year would be enough for cultivators in the first or second realm, but for him, these merits were far from sufficient, and merits were needed everywhere in the Xuan Yuan Temple.

This was a huge difference from what he had envisioned for the Weitian Dao Sect.

"Junior Brother has the Heavenly Principles Sect to rely on, which is much better than the other junior brothers."

The monk Lingji picked up his teacup.

Tianlijiao...

Xuan Daozi's eye twitched, but he wouldn't expose his weakness, so he asked instead:
"Senior brother, please speak frankly."

"To earn good deeds".

The monk Lingji's words were concise and to the point.

"Ok?"

Xuan Daozi frowned slightly, his heart filled with vigilance, but on the surface he seemed quite interested: "Senior Brother, why don't you explain in detail?"

"Junior brother, do you still remember that Blood Phoenix?"

The monk Lingji seemed to sense his wariness and put down his teacup: "Junior brother, do you know who struck that Blood Phoenix, causing it to lose its way and fall from grace?"

"Ok?"

Xuan Daozi was shocked. The fact that the Blood Phoenix lost me is still an unsolved mystery in Tian Shi Yuan.

“He is a senior disciple of the Bodhisattva, the previous generation’s true disciple, Brother Fanjing.”

Lingji Monk didn't let him guess, calmly explaining, "Brother Fanjing comprehended an ancient secret scroll, and from it he gleaned the method for reversing the indestructible divine phoenix bloodline..."

"This……"

Recalling the massive wound on the Blood Phoenix's chest and abdomen, Xuan Daozi felt a chill run down his spine. When he came to his senses, he had already heard Ling Ji Monk's words:
"Brother, you..."

He was furious and horrified, wishing he could cut off his own ears. This old bald monk had ill intentions; how could he tell him such a thing?

"The bloodline of the Blood Phoenix clan originates from the Undying Divine Phoenix, one of the Ten Ancient Fiends, but not just any Blood Phoenix can obtain the true blood of the Divine Phoenix..."

The monk Lingji paused slightly:
"I've come here to ask my junior brother to go inside the Blood Phoenix and retrieve what Senior Brother Fanjing needs..."

"Brother!"

Xuan Daozi felt a chill run down his spine and wanted to refuse, but seeing Lingji Monk's calm gaze, he swallowed his words.

"Junior brother, there's no need to be angry with me. This matter is indeed somewhat dangerous, but if we succeed, we can share the three hundred merits that your senior brother promised!"

"Junior brother, you've been a disciple for a few years now, so you must know what great skill is, right?"

The monk Lingji picked up his teacup and took another sip.

Damn old bastard!
Xuan Daozi felt no joy whatsoever; a chill ran through him. Three hundred merits were enough to hire someone to kill a god!
But he could only grit his teeth and agree:
"May I ask, senior brother, what should I do?"

"The bloodline of the Undying Divine Phoenix can only be born between life and death... For other reasons, the number of living beings that the Blood Phoenix devours is strangely insufficient."

Lingji Monk paused, a shadow passing over his eyes.

If it weren't for someone from that tiny place joining the Weitian Dao Sect and swallowing that life star, he might have already completed his senior brother Fanjing's mission.

Can……

Not even daring to consider that name, the Spirit-Silent Monk, unconcerned by Xuan Daozi's increasingly grim expression, said calmly:
"Bring more cultivators, with priority given to those who have mastered the Five Elements magic..."

"..."

Xuan Daozi remained silent for a moment, cursing the old bald monk countless times in his mind, before finally speaking:
"The Wind God Clan is also a great clan."

Lingji Monk chuckled upon hearing this, but still nodded: "Junior Brother Feng Wuding will naturally be going as well."

……

……

"The potential of the Shadow Demon Body is truly astonishing."

On the Qi Gathering Platform, Li Yuan, having finished his daily cultivation practice, stuffed dozens of second-realm demons into his Niwan acupoint before calming his mind and sorting out what he had gained from the Shadow Demon.

Even though he prioritized stability, the gains from the Shadow Demon Body were enormous. Not only did he acquire several complete high-level forbidden spells, but his mana also transformed to the mid-grade level.

"That Blood Phoenix is ​​a bit strange. How could it have lost me and fallen into the Dao when Fatian wasn't completely corrupted..."

Li Yuan pondered this in his heart, but didn't care too much, only becoming a little cautious.

"call!"

With a long sigh, he blew away the mist on the platform and returned to his courtyard. After his usual meal, he took out his disciple's token and went to the Scripture Pavilion to exchange it for two True Form Diagrams and ninety-eight miscellaneous books.

In the past few years, except for the ten or so days he spent observing the Dharma Heaven, he went to the Sutra Repository almost every day to borrow a hundred books each day.

"The Azure Dragon and the Fire Phoenix, these two true forms, do not belong to the category of ferocious beasts."

With a thought, Li Yuan began to visualize the Azure Dragon True Form Diagram. Without the corresponding control and blessing, his progress was quite slow, which was the normal speed that a god-demon level talent should have.

"It's more than ten times slower. And this is after cultivating the Azure Emperor's Longevity Scripture. If it were the Fire Phoenix True Form Diagram, it would probably be even slower... It's a pity that the corresponding spiritual treasures for control cannot be found."

Li Yuan multitasked, visualizing the True Form Diagram while simultaneously opening the Common Knowledge Sphere and accessing the Void Marketplace, which he only occasionally opened.

hum~
The starlight intertwined in my eyes, and I could vaguely see many stalls constantly changing.

"The True Form of the Fire Phoenix".

As soon as Li Yuan had this thought, he felt a slight pause before his eyes, and then the starlight vanished completely. Clearly, no store in Tian Shi Yuan would sell a True Form Diagram of this caliber.

The Azure Dragon True Form Diagram, as well as the True Form Diagrams of other corresponding Five Extremes Sutras, are also unavailable. Related spiritual treasures do exist, but their prices are inflated, and it is difficult to distinguish their authenticity.

"If it's not in the Heavenly Market Enclosure, then it's most likely not in the Three Enclosures Realm either... The Great Void Divine Realm may seem all-encompassing, but truly valuable items are rarely found here."

"I wonder if the disciples of the Weitiandao Sect hold any gatherings besides when the Heavenly Lord preaches?" Li Yuan casually flipped through the Taixu Market, but after a long time he found nothing, so he closed it.

"Om~"

The next instant, he entered the space where he controlled the troops.

The gray stone platform was quite empty, with only various sounds echoing around it. Li Yuan sorted through the sounds and found that the quality of the sounds had improved after the Palm Sound Talisman was upgraded, but none of them interested him.

"How about trying to listen to the sounds of the heavens?"

Li Yuan glanced at the Listening Wooden Talisman, and the number of times he had listened to the Heavenly Sound had accumulated to twenty-two.

"Try listening to it once."

hum~
With a thought, the light, like ripples on water, instantly enveloped the entire stone platform.

In that instant, he heard countless noises. Having learned from his previous experience, he quickly shut out his perception of these noises.

"Innate, innate, innate..."

Li Yuan's thoughts were racing, trying to influence the direction of his listening to the heavenly voice.

The next instant, he felt a darkness before his eyes, and then the flowing light that had enveloped him faded away, intertwining and outlining a violently changing scene before his eyes.

"Dongxuan Mountain!"

In the fleeting shift of light and shadow, Li Yuan saw Dongxuan Mountain, but the area above the thousandth step was shrouded in mist and could not be seen clearly. Only the outline of a bamboo forest could be vaguely discerned.

Immediately, the light and shadow shifted multiple times.

As the flow slowed down, Li Yuan's gaze sharpened, and he saw a familiar sight.

"Is this the Northern Star Realm?"

Looking at the starry sky filled with meteorites, Li Yuan instantly recalled the scene he witnessed during the last Heavenly Tribulation when he saw Wang Xian slay the Nightmare Hydra.

But his thought had only been on his mind for a moment when the light and shadow stretched rapidly toward that boundless land.

……

Beichen Boundary.

One of the other dimensions deep within the Ruins of Return, though it cannot compare to the great realms of Xuanhuang, Wushen, and Tianmo, it did invade the present world in the ancient times.

During the ninth era of the Origin God Dynasty, the Weitian Dao Sect opened up the Guixu, almost shattering the heart of this realm. It was only because it was blocked by the Wushen Realm that it was not completely opened up.

However, it gradually declined into one of the thousands of minor realms under the jurisdiction of the Witch God Realm.

Throughout history, many disciples of the Weitian Dao Sect have come here to train. Sometimes some have achieved great success and broken through to higher realms, while others have perished here, becoming provisions for the cultivators of this world.

hum~
As Li Yuan processed the various intelligence reports about the Northern Star Realm in his mind, the light and shadow before him gradually stabilized.

The sky was high, the clouds were light, and the sun was broken into three segments...

A crack appeared in the sky, and nine layers of fierce winds poured down, transforming the land into a vast wasteland where fierce winds raged and the earth was ravaged.

Beyond the wasteland lies a nearly abandoned, sparsely populated city.

The light and shadow finally fell on a pavilion outside the city, almost in a desperate situation, where a monk and a Taoist priest sat playing chess.

The monk had a sallow complexion, was thin and weak, and wore a dark yellow kasaya. The Taoist priest had a ruddy complexion, was tall, and carried an ancient long sword on his back.

During their game of chess, the Taoist suddenly sighed; it was actually the Origin Divine Script:
"Niro, Qin Si is dead. He was killed by Wang Xian of the Great Luo Heavenly Gate. That Demon-Refining Immortal-Slaying Sword was too ferocious..."

"The Innate Dao Body, the Demon-Refining Immortal-Slaying Sword, and the Limitless Dao of Qianyang—these three are combined in one person. Among those of the same level, perhaps only the destined one from the Great Realm can slay him. Qin Si..."

The monk known as Nile remained expressionless, as if he were used to it, but in the end, a murderous intent still welled up in his eyes.

Qin Si was his last disciple.

"This grudge will surely be avenged."

The Sword-Bearing Taoist suddenly placed a piece, shattering the chessboard. His eyes sharpened: "The supreme beings of the Nine Realms of Return to Nothingness... I've heard that the Pantheon is about to reopen, and at that time..."

"I will surely storm into the mortal world and exterminate all the people of the Great Luo Heavenly Gate!"

"So what? The three Dao Lords have not appeared in the world for hundreds of thousands of years. Even if they launch a counterattack against the Weitian Dao Sect, we are just pawns."

The monk picked up a chess piece and sighed deeply.
"Let us lie low! Let the three Dao Lords recover from their Dao injuries, and let the 'Heavenly Mandate' grow up. Only then will it be time for us to launch a counterattack on the present world!"

"Has he not yet mastered the Dharma Heaven technique?"

The sword-wielding Taoist let out a long breath: "My time is up, I can't wait any longer! I'd rather die in this world than accept passing away here!"

The monk was silent for a moment, about to respond, when his expression suddenly changed drastically:
"Oh no, 'Qian' has left the boundary!"

"what?!"

……

boom!
The final element revealed in the interplay of light and shadow was the extremely sharp sword energy.

The light and shadow faded away.

Li Yuan looked at the Listening Wooden Talisman, upon which various messages surged violently:
[...Cultivators from the Northern Star Realm all yearn to invade the mortal world, and there are always cultivators who break through the realm and escape into the mortal world...]

[...Within the Nine Realms of the Void, there seems to be a supreme treasure called the 'Palace of Pantheons,' and the destined individuals of each realm seem to be connected to it...]

[...Three Dao Lords of the Northern Star Realm are hidden in an unknown place, their fates unknown...]

……

The words on the wooden talisman flowed, not only reflecting the conversation between the two, but also containing various hidden secrets.

[...Legend has it that the Heavenly Heart of the Northern Star Realm has a flaw...Many years ago, three reclusive Dao Lords worked together to use this flaw to guide the Heavenly Heart into the mortal world, where it was transformed into 'Qian'...]

The Heart of Heaven is the convergence of the laws and principles of a realm, nurtured by the Great Dao...

[Swallowing it can reverse acquired constitution to innate constitution.]

"Heaven's will enters the world!"

Upon seeing this, Li Yuan was shocked, realizing that this was Tianyin's greatest gain.

"Qian... that person who entered the mortal world with the Heavenly Heart has left the Northern Star Realm?"

Li Yuan was shocked.

They were shocked that such a thing as the Heavenly Heart could enter the mortal world, and even more shocked that such a thing, whose Great Dao had not yet been perfected, dared to leave the place that protected it.

"Or is there a reason that forces you to flee?"

Li Yuan's mind wandered slightly, but it didn't stop him from sorting through the listening messages. He even stopped listening randomly and instead specified 'Bao Yin'.

"...On a secluded beach, an old fisherman in a straw raincoat suddenly departed, forgetting to take his fish basket...After a long while, wisps of precious light began to emanate from it..."

The first ray of light revealed the reappearance of the fisherman in his straw raincoat. Li Yuan glanced at it briefly before moving on, for as a seasoned fisherman, the trap was far too obvious.

The sound-inspired wooden talisman has greatly improved the quality of the incense, although it consumes more incense. However, several of them have caught Li Yuan's attention.

For example, spiritual treasures and ancient scrolls related to the True Form Diagram of the Fire Phoenix.

But after listening to it hundreds of times, no sound related to '乾' appeared.

"With the Heavenly Heart entering the mortal world, such treasures are probably beyond the comprehension of divination; otherwise, with the cultivation of that monk and the Taoist, they wouldn't have lost them."

Li Yuan was not disappointed; he simply wrote down all the messages he heard.

"Try listening to the heavenly sounds again!"

With a change of heart, Li Yuan listened to the heavenly voice twice more.

However, on both occasions, his strong will failed to influence the direction of the Heavenly Sound, and neither was related to 'innate'.

The first celestial sound landed on the edge of a dark and gloomy sea, where he saw a fish basket whose radiance was more dazzling than the sun, and a fierce and bloody struggle.

Then, a fishing line descended from the sky, dragging the pyrrhic cultivator into the void, while the fish basket remained in place, its precious light dazzling.

Having watched the battle as an observer, Li Yuan felt a chill run down his spine.

The precious light emanating from the fish basket was clearly a terrifying supernatural power. All those who glimpsed this light seemed to lose their minds, frantically scrambling and fighting over it.

The second celestial sound landed on a desolate and ruined scorched earth, a sixth-realm strange land that had just been transformed because the incense had been extinguished, deep in the Ruins of Return.

Li Yuan memorized everything and finished listening to the heavenly sounds.

……

"boom!"

The desolate mountain shattered, and a ferocious black ape soared into the sky, its eyes blazing with light. Wherever the light passed, it seemed as if the sky and the earth had been sliced ​​open.

"The real culprit!"

Li Yuan used the Heavenly Roc Escape Technique to evade.

After building his divine palace, Li Yuan did not rush to challenge the Battle Ranking. Instead, he entered the Weitian Martial Arts Arena and chose Kizaru as his opponent.

Unlike last time when he was utterly defeated in just a few moves, this time he dealt with it much more easily. Even though the black ape was furious and used all sorts of spells, it couldn't defeat him.

"Shouldn't the second spiritual manifestation appear by now?"

Li Yuan moved swiftly and nimbly, using his protective shield and armor to withstand several attacks. Then he heard a familiar, high-pitched cry, and soon it was dark.

A colossal Kun, obscuring the entire battlefield, stretched across the sky. Then, as if the Milky Way had burst its banks, a torrent of profound and heavy water surged down.

"His second spiritual form is the Kunpeng!"

Using the Heavenly Roc Escape Technique, Li Yuan leaped into the air, simultaneously activating the Mysterious Netherworld Protective Shield. With a loud 'boom,' the Black Emperor Mystic Ape pierced through the air and shattered the protective shield.

At the same time, the Xuan Gang Heavy Water covered the entire battlefield like a rain curtain, with countless raindrops heavier than mountains surging and crashing amidst thousands of explosions.

There is no way to avoid it!

Li Yuan urged the Ten Thousand Armor again, and at the same time, mist rose behind him, and the Golden-Winged Roc let out a high-pitched cry. Then he leaped out and crashed into the Black Emperor Xuan Ape at high speed.

"Boom!"

In less than a moment, the Golden-Winged Roc was shattered, no match for the Black Emperor Ape, which was empowered by at least nine spells. However, after it exploded, thousands of golden rays shot out, which actually repelled the Ape.

"Roar!"

Almost simultaneously, Li Yuan felt a chill run down his spine and turned around abruptly. He saw a green dragon bursting forth from the earth, like a towering tree rising from the ground.
As the dragon's roar exploded, it swallowed him, along with the void itself, into its mouth.

"Azure Dragon in its true form!"

In a moment when there was almost no way to avoid or dodge, a long vine that had somehow wrapped around Li Yuan's waist suddenly exerted its force, pulling him out of the dragon's mouth.

"boom!"

Before Li Yuan even landed, a dark, heavy bell descended from the sky, and the Black Emperor Xuan Ape stood on the bell, emitting a violent, piercing cry.

Immobilization spell!

"puff!"

With nowhere to dodge, Li Yuan's body exploded on the spot. He blocked the attack with the help of the Xuan Teng tree, and then felt a tightness all over his body as a black snake tightly coiled around him.

A black tortoise shook its body, and the surging black energy and heavy water had completely pierced through this space.

"Xuanwu!"

Despite suffering a crushing defeat after leaving the General Knowledge Sphere, Li Yuan was not affected; on the contrary, he felt that he had made great progress.

"The Black Ape, the Kunpeng, the Azure Dragon, the Black Tortoise—he also practices wood magic?"

Li Yuan reviewed the situation in his mind and felt that he had gained a lot. Just as he was pondering it, the Sphere of Understanding trembled slightly. When he opened it, the voice of the Spirit Pivot Child came out:
"Someone named Kizaru has advanced to the inner chamber and refined a first-grade golden core!"

(End of this chapter)