Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 266: First Entering the Forbidden Land
Days passed, and finally the day arrived when the forbidden area was opened.

The monks responsible for opening the forbidden area from the Hussein family, the lord of the eastern part of the Muhe grassland, and the Alqiu family, the lord of the southern part, had arrived here a few days ago.

The monks from the two families even surrounded the area around Tianlan Mountain and did not allow any outsiders to approach.

At this time, all the monks who handed in their spirit stones and received their license plates had arrived at a spacious area east of Tianlan Mountain.

The area around here was surrounded by wooden stakes by the Hussein family and the monks of the southern lord Alqiu family, and the radius was several hundred feet.

People were allowed to enter only after submitting their license plates for verification. People were standing or sitting around in a bustling crowd.

Song Xian was in a slightly remote location, observing everyone silently.

There are about three hundred cultivators here, most of them are foundation-building cultivators, and there are only a few who have reached the Golden Core stage.

Among them was a burly middle-aged man who looked to be no more than fifty years old. He was eight or nine feet tall, with a broad back and a face full of flesh. He looked like a fierce man.

He was wearing an ordinary green robe, standing with his hands behind his back, standing alone at the front, and no one dared to approach him.

According to Apu, this person's nickname is Hound, and he is a well-known Jindan realm cultivator in the eastern part of Muhe Grassland.

In addition to him, there are three other Jindan realm powerhouses here.

There was a middle-aged man wearing a gorgeous three-color robe, who looked like a Confucian scholar. He looked like a Qin person, but Song Xian did not recognize him.

He sat on the left with a calm expression, and no one dared to approach him.

The other one was a hunched old man with a white beard. According to Apu, he was a high-ranking official of a major force in the southern part of the Muhe grassland.

The last one was a mysterious man in a black robe and a conical hat, who also had the Golden Core cultivation level.

These four people each occupied one side, and their aura was so strong that the other cultivators dared not approach.

Near noon, the ban-breaking ceremony finally began.

Several beams of light shot out from afar and landed around the diffuse yellow smoke. There were a total of six Jindan cultivators.

But everyone flipped their hands and held a three-foot-high flag in their palms, and six flags of different colors shot into the yellow smoke.

The six people made seals with their hands and chanted something. The six flags swelled up in the wind and suddenly became dozens of feet high. The flags shone brightly.

In an instant, a large amount of black light emerged from the yellow fog, continuously attacking the light condensed by the flags, and a rumbling sound like thunder was heard.

The black light surging from the yellow fog and the colorful lights intertwined from the six flags kept colliding, and the sound they made was earth-shaking, as if two giant beasts were fighting.

The ground was shaking violently, and even people several miles away were affected. Stones on the ground jumped high, dust was flying, and it was difficult to even stand steadily. Many people activated the spiritual shield to protect their bodies.

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As time passed, after several hours, the interwoven light of the six flags condensed into one, completely overwhelming the black light rising from the yellow fog. A lot of the yellow fog was dispelled, and the whole picture inside could be vaguely glimpsed. Inside the yellow fog was a completely dark space, like an endless void.

The six Jindan cultivators had turned pale, and the ones with weaker cultivation even had beads of sweat on their foreheads.

The interwoven light of the six flags formed a passage several feet wide, which went through the entire dark space.

"Come in quickly." At this time, one of the Jindan elders shouted loudly.

In an instant, many lights rose up and headed towards the passage. The first to respond were Hussein and the foundation-building cultivators of the Alqiu family. They were all standing behind the old man who had reached the Golden Core stage. Upon hearing these words, they all rose into the air, entered the inner room, and disappeared.

Everyone saw them enter and followed them.

This spatial passage interwoven with light was not long, appearing to be only a few dozen feet long. Song Xian followed Apu into the inner room.

As soon as he stepped into the passage, he felt dizzy, as if the world was upside down and spinning rapidly. A dazzling white light shone into his eyes, drowning out everything.

At the same time, he felt an inexplicable force pulling at his body, as if several giant beasts were pulling at his limbs, trying to tear him apart.

This painful feeling did not last long. The dazzling white light had dissipated, and he passed through the space channel and appeared in an unfamiliar environment.

Looking around, there was a field of rotten black trees below, and at the bottom was a large swamp with blood-red bubbles. There were also black rotten unknown flowers and plants growing in it, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of decay.

Without bothering to question this strange scene, Song Xian quickly looked around to see if there was anyone nearby.

However, there was no one around, only he was standing alone in the air.

This is at least not a bad thing. After entering the forbidden area, it is a world where the weak are preyed upon by the strong. The strong are respected here, and there are no scruples. Killing and looting are common occurrences.

After making sure it was safe, Song Xian began to observe the surrounding environment. Everything here was very different from outside Tianlan Mountain, and he was not surprised by this.

Gain was mentally prepared and knew that he had come to another space.

According to Apu, all the monks who pass through the space channel and come to this forbidden area will be randomly teleported to a location within a hundred miles of the center area.

From this, it seems that he was transferred to a more remote location because there was no one there.

He looked up and could vaguely see a huge rotating black hole in the distance. It was probably the entrance and exit connecting the two spaces.

At this moment, he saw a black dot spinning and coming towards him at a high speed. Soon, it was less than a few miles away.

He was a cultivator who had just been teleported here. After he stopped spinning, he looked around and found Song Xian.

This person did not stay for long, and then turned into a beam of light and headed southeast.

Song Xian flipped his hands and took out a topographic map and a sound transmission note.

Soon, he found his location in the atlas. He was in the northwest corner of the center of the forbidden teleportation point.

When he activated the sound transmission talisman, no sound came from it, which meant that Apu and Han Yuan were fifty miles away from him.

"I have arrived at the forbidden black pine forest area and am heading towards my target."

Song Xian said something to the sound transmission talisman, and then a light of escape rose up and headed south.

After walking for a while, he saw a flash of light in the distance, as if someone was fighting.

He didn't want to cause any trouble and just wanted to get around it, but unexpectedly, the light grew stronger and stronger, seemingly heading towards him. Song Xian then pulled out a green talisman from his hand and slapped it against his body. The green talisman burst into light, enveloping him completely, and his figure was hidden in it and quickly disappeared.

This is a second-level mid-grade Qi-hiding Talisman, which is more useful than the invisibility talisman.

The Qi-hiding Talisman can not only conceal one's body shape, but also hide one's spiritual energy.

Unless the difference in cultivation between the two parties is too great, even if someone else's spiritual sense scans over it, it may not be discovered.

The invisibility talisman can only conceal the body shape. If it is scanned by other people's spiritual sense, it will be detected.

At this time, the light was shooting towards here rapidly, and its outline could be vaguely seen. Behind it, a huge toad-like monster was chasing it.

Song Xian originally thought that the two monks who entered this forbidden area were fighting, but he didn't expect that it was a monster chasing the monks.

This shocked him. He had just entered the forbidden area and encountered monsters and monks fighting. This showed that the forbidden area was more dangerous than he had imagined.

Just as the monk was running away, the toad monster behind him suddenly stuck out its tongue, rolled up its body and the defensive shield around it, and then sank rapidly, falling into the swamp of blood-red bubbles below with a splash.

After much hesitation, Song Xian decided to go and observe the situation.

This monk definitely did not get into trouble with the toad-shaped monster for no reason. Judging from the movement of the monster's tongue rolling up the monk and sinking him into the swamp, it should be a monster that has lived in this swamp for many years.

Perhaps the monk discovered some treasure in the swamp, which caused the toad monster to chase him.

He had come here to search for treasure, and now that he had encountered it, he was unwilling to let it go. So he quietly moved forward. When he approached the swamp where the toad monster had sunk, he suddenly saw a faint green light shoot out from the swamp, followed by a figure rushing out of the swamp.

But the cultivator just now had broken through the monster's entanglement and rushed out.

At this moment, he looked a little embarrassed and his face was pale.

Just as it rushed out of the swamp, a monster also crawled out from underneath. Its body was about two or three meters in size, black all over, with bulges all over its body. Its face was quite ugly, with only one red eye on its forehead. A ball of black mist spewed out of its mouth and rushed towards it.

The man flipped his hand, and a black talisman was held in his palm. Spiritual power surged into it, and the talisman shone brightly, turning into countless wind blades that slashed towards the toad.

Dense wind blades, like a huge tornado, headed towards the black fog.

The two collided with each other, and the tornado formed by the wind blade blew away the black fog while also being eroded itself.

The wind blades that came into contact with the black fog gradually turned black and then disintegrated.

Obviously, this black fog is extremely corrosive.

After the man used the wind blade, he didn't even look at it and just disappeared into the distance.

The reason why he got into trouble with this toad monster was because he took away a piece of snow grass from the bottom of the swamp. This elixir was one of the main ingredients in refining the Yellow Dragon Pill.

The Yellow Dragon Pill is a pill that helps cultivators in the early stages of foundation building to break through bottlenecks.

When he was full of joy and happily picked the snow grass, he didn't expect that there was a monster under the swamp staring at him.

Just as he picked the elixir, the monster suddenly attacked, leaped out from the bottom of the swamp, and stretched out its long tongue as tough as steel to catch him.

Fortunately, he was a cautious person. When he picked the elixir, he had condensed a magical defense shield to cover himself, so he was not attacked by surprise.

Now that he had obtained the elixir, he naturally didn't want to fight with the monster anymore and just wanted to escape.

When the monster saw the man running away, it let out a muffled gurgling sound, and bulges appeared around its body, and thick black fog billowed out, instantly covering an area of ​​dozens of feet.

The huge tornado formed by the wind blade was completely corroded in the black fog. The toad monster kicked its legs, jumped up from the swamp, and caught up with the man again.

The rolling black fog has been clinging to its surroundings.

Seeing that the monster was catching up with him again with great momentum and black fog rolling around him, the man was very anxious. He knew how powerful the black fog was. If he was caught in it, any means of defense would be difficult to resist the corrosion of its poisonous gas.

He kept fleeing to the center of the forbidden area, hoping to join forces with others to kill the monster or divert the disaster to another place.

The monster was obviously faster than the man. With a kick of its legs, it jumped a long distance, much faster than the man's flying speed. After just a few kicks, it caught up with the man.

A long black tongue as tough as a steel rope shot out from its mouth again and immediately wrapped around the man. As the black tongue contracted, the man flew towards it like an arrow and was instantly sucked into the black fog.

The next moment, the black fog continued to surge, and a faint golden light shone from inside, but as the black fog surged, the golden light disappeared into the inner space.

After a while, there was a loud bang, and the huge body of the toad monster fell from mid-air, with several golden blades piercing its back.

The toad monster looked thick-skinned and the golden blade only penetrated less than a foot, which was not a fatal injury to it at all.

However, the man's situation did not look optimistic. His face changed from white to red, his body trembled slightly, and his palms turned black. It was not known whether it was due to the corrosion of the black fog and poisonous gas.

The toad monster was hit by the golden blade and fell from mid-air. Just as its feet stepped on the swamp, it kicked again and shot towards it.

The man put his hands together, his whole body was shining with golden light, and he shouted loudly. A huge golden sword light condensed between his palms and slashed towards the monster.

The moment the golden sword light slashed down, it split into two, two into four, and four into eight.

In an instant, a huge golden sword light came down like a tidal wave.

A steady stream of black mist gushed out from the bulges on the monster's body. The golden blades inserted into its body had long been corroded by the black mist and completely disappeared.

Seeing the huge golden swords coming from the sky, the monster did not dodge or evade, but met them head-on, making a gurgling sound from its mouth.

The black fog surrounding his body surged violently, forming a storm like a tornado.

The black mist tornado and the golden sword blade intertwined without any collision sound, just like snow melting into water.

From afar, the black fog and the golden light were like two distinct rivers, colliding with each other.

The golden sword light occasionally broke through the black fog and slashed the monster, but was soon engulfed and eroded by the swirling black fog.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, even a golden sword blade would be enough to take his life, but the monster has thick skin and flesh.

The golden toughness that broke through the black fog could not pierce the monster's body at all. As time went on, the black fog became more and more, gradually swallowing up the overwhelming golden sword light, and the man's body was also wrapped in the swirling black fog.

(End of this chapter)