Longevity Thunder Ancestor

Chapter 966 Yuan Soul and True Spirit
Ning Fa's expression shifted; he remembered that the Danhuang Sect was also one of the previous Seven Saint Sects.

It seems that Dan Hongzi is likely a reincarnation like Ning Daozhen and Xiao Han.

No one knows what methods these old monsters of the Seven Saints Sect used to have either reincarnated or still exist today.

This was truly difficult for Ning Fa to understand; there must be some secret involved.

Ning Fa also nodded to Dan Hongzi.

Bai Yueqiu, Xiao Pengyuan, and the others behind him looked at Ning Daozhen with unfriendly expressions.

Some of them had even fought against Ning Daozhen before, so naturally they found him hard to stand.

However, since we share a common goal, we can only suppress this hatred for now.

Ning Daozhen merely glanced at them indifferently before saying to Ning Fa, "Since you're ready, let's get started. Follow me."

As he spoke, Ning Daozhen took the lead and flew forward, and Ning Fa and the others exchanged glances and immediately followed.

The group moved like lightning through the dense forest, and soon arrived at the deepest part of the forest.

Ning Daozhen stopped in his tracks, and in front of him appeared a deep pool, no more than a few dozen feet in size.

Ning Daozhen gestured for the others to step back, while he raised his hands and began to form hand seals.

A burst of crimson light emanated from his body, and crimson runes began to fly out from between his hands, swirling for a moment before falling into the deep pool in front of him.

Then the deep pool suddenly boiled and began to spin rapidly, and the water quickly turned blood red.

At the center of the vortex, a spatial force emerged and grew stronger.

Ning Fa looked at him in surprise; such methods were indeed profound.

Before long, the whirlpool in the deep pool reached its extreme point, but then stopped, with a dense blood-red light emanating from the depths of the whirlpool's center.

"Alright, let's go!"

Ning Daozhen said something and then jumped into the vortex first, and his figure disappeared quickly.

Xiao Han and Dan Hongzi followed closely behind.

Ning Fa glanced at the group and said in a deep voice, "Let's go too."

As they spoke, they jumped in one after another.

Before long, the whirlpool in the deep pool stopped, and the blood color in the water gradually faded, returning to calm.

Not long after, a deep pool was found in a dense forest in the outer area of ​​the Wanling Mountains.

Within it, a blood-red vortex spun endlessly, from which figures flew out one after another—Ning Fa, Ning Daozhen, and others.

Ning Fa glanced at Ning Daozhen with a strange look in his eyes. This man did have some tricks up his sleeve, managing to teleport them in this way.

At the same time, Ningfa spread out his divine sense to observe the surrounding environment.

The dense branches around us almost blocked out the sky, the surroundings were dark and gloomy, and all the vegetation and trees were gray and black, emitting a faint black mist, which made people feel depressed.

Just then, with a whoosh, a dark shadow suddenly flew out from behind a tree, flying at an incredible speed toward Xiao Pengyuan's neck at the edge of the crowd.

Before they even got close, the Bagua pattern on Xiao Pengyuan's robe on the back suddenly flashed, and a beam of blue light shot out, instantly striking the dark figure.

With a bloodcurdling scream, a black serpent with a pair of fleshy wings began to struggle wildly in the blue light. The bloodthirsty and ferocious look in its eyes made the group frown.

Soon, the black serpent died in the blue light.

Xiao Pengyuan frowned and said, "This should be that mutated beast. It really is a bit strange."

At this moment, Ning Daozhen looked at the group with a solemn expression: "If we encounter any more savage beasts, I will handle them. You should not make a move, lest you trigger the restriction's reaction, and then we will be trapped like turtles in a jar."

Ning Fa and the others nodded in agreement.

Ning Daozhen then led the way, trying to avoid areas where large numbers of savage beasts were located.

If he were to encounter a savage beast, he would use a special treasure resembling a silver square mirror to kill it. What was special about this treasure was that the magical fluctuations it emitted were negligible.

The group walked for three days straight, until a black swamp appeared ahead, bubbling with black smoke and emitting a foul stench.

Furthermore, one can see a savage beast resembling a black toad, the size of a millstone, moving about in the swamp.

Their bellies also bulged and inhaled, followed by a series of strange cries like muffled thunder, which even made the Nascent Soul cultivators feel annoyed.

Ning Daozhen, who was leading the way, raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, and said in a slightly solemn voice:
"This swamp ahead is teeming with Black Light Toads. These savage beasts are very troublesome. If things go wrong, they could cause a huge commotion and trigger a reaction from the outer defenses."

Bai Yueqiu glanced at the black toads with disgust and frowned, saying, "In that case, let's go around this swamp."

Ning Daozhen shook his head.

“There are even more difficult beasts to deal with in other places, and these black toads are least sensitive at noon.”

Then we can borrow one of my rare treasures, which will be enough to allow us to pass safely.

There's still more than half a day until noon, let's wait patiently.

After saying this, Ning Daozhen found an open space and sat cross-legged.

"Then let's wait for now," Ning Fa and the others nodded.

But just as Ning Fa was about to close his eyes and regulate his breathing, he noticed that Dan Hongzi, who was not far away, was staring at him.

Ning Fa couldn't help but look at him. Dan Hongzi smiled kindly at him and then naturally took out an ancient scroll, flipping through it with great interest. Ning Fa raised an eyebrow. From the moment they met, he sensed that Dan Hongzi seemed to have an unusual interest in him.

He squinted at Dan Hongzi for a moment, then closed his eyes again to regulate his breathing.

Half an hour later, Dan Hongzi put away the ancient scroll in his hand and walked casually to Ning Daozhen's vicinity.

With a slight wiggle of his right thumb ring, a layer of faint white light enveloped the two of them.

Ning Daozhen opened his eyes and looked at him, his eyes showing a hint of confusion.

Dan Hongzi said solemnly:

"Fellow Daoist Ning, you should not have forgotten that back when we were still in the Black Spirit Church, I removed that soul seed for you, and then I sensed that another soul seed had also been removed."

You told me that when you obtained the Yuanhun Dividing Spirit Technique, this fellow Daoist Ningfa, who came from the same clan as you, shared this technique.

Clearly, at that time, this Fellow Daoist Ning also cultivated this technique, and somehow extracted the soul seed that had grown within his body.

Ning Daozhen narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly said, "You suddenly brought this up, could it be?"

Dan Hongzi nodded.

"With the resurgence of that being, even if those of us who have cultivated the Primordial Soul Dividing Technique have removed our soul seeds, we can still be sensed and marked by it."

And it will be affected by it silently, even causing the soul seed to be regenerated.

Although we now know that this can be prevented to some extent, as time goes on, if the power of that being grows stronger, this matter will ultimately be difficult to avoid.

However, I observed that this fellow Daoist Ningfa, who is of the same clan as you, possesses an extremely profound spiritual soul, and I did not sense any signs of a re-emergence of a soul seed from him.

Therefore, he must have cultivated other powerful spiritual techniques to suppress the influence of that being.

Therefore, I think we should change our previous plan and include this Fellow Daoist Ning in the operation. This would naturally increase our chances of success considerably.

Upon hearing this, Ning Daozhen couldn't help but ponder, a look of hesitation appearing on his face.

Dan Hongzi further advised, "Our previous plan had at most a 40-50% chance of success, but failure would mean utter ruin."

While the primordial spirit and true essence are indeed tempting, one must be alive to use them.

"If it can increase the chances by even one or two percent, what harm is there in sacrificing some of our primordial spirit and true essence?"

After frowning and pondering for a long time, Ning Daozhen slowly said:

"Didn't you say that although that being has shown signs of resurgence, we are still safe for at least a hundred years?"

If I can successfully refine that treasure within the next hundred years, even if it's just the few of us, our chances of obtaining it are at least 60% or 70%.

You should know that although we all survived thanks to that thing, the price we paid was extremely high.

Now that their souls are incomplete, they have no chance to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, let alone enter the cycle of reincarnation after their death.

Therefore, the primordial soul and true spirit are extremely important to us. If we lose even a little, it will be difficult for our soul to be fully replenished.

Therefore, I don't want anyone else to join unless absolutely necessary.

Upon hearing this, Dan Hongzi stroked his beard in silence, then sighed and said:
"Alright, what you said makes sense. Anyway, a hundred years is still a long time. We can decide based on the situation then. I can only hope that your treasure is successfully crafted."

Ning Daozhen's eyes also flashed: "So this time, no matter what, we must obtain a sufficient amount of innate five elements Qi."

……

Several hours later, it was noon.

The muffled thunderous sounds emitted by the black toads gradually subsided, and they all seemed to fall into a deep sleep.

Then Ning Daozhen took out a black gauze-like treasure, enveloped everyone inside it, and flew across the swamp without any danger.

About a day later, everyone stopped and looked at the mountain range ahead with shocked expressions.

A seemingly boundless five-colored light curtain appeared ahead, as if dividing heaven and earth.

Even though they were still far away, everyone could already feel an extremely powerful restrictive force emanating from it.

Everyone was shocked, knowing that they had finally reached the inner layer of the Wanling Mountains' restrictions.

Ning Fa narrowed his eyes and looked to the left. He saw a special halo, tens of feet in size, on the five-colored light screen there. It rippled with five-colored spiritual light like a spring and spread out to the surrounding light screen. The restrictive power emanating from this halo was also particularly strong.

According to Ningfa's divine sense, there were several smaller halo-like circles on the five-colored light screen within a hundred miles.

The five-colored halos they emitted connected together, forming a special array pattern that appeared and disappeared on the light screen, like veins.

Ning Fa's heart stirred.

According to the information given to him by the Hermit of Xuyuan, this ancient formation, the Five Elements Overturning Yuan Trapping Spirit Formation, has a total of eighty-one array eyes.

It consists of nine main array points and seventy-two secondary array points, with each main array point protected by eight secondary array points.

According to Master Xuyuan's prediction, as long as the two main array eyes and their associated secondary array eyes can be broken...

Even if this great formation can still be maintained, its power will be greatly reduced, and it will not be able to withstand the impact of the savage beasts in the mountains.

Therefore, their goal this time is to destroy the two main array eyes.

(End of this chapter)