Symbiotic panel, I am cultivating immortality in the world of immortality

Chapter 167 No Longer in the Eastern Region

This……

After a brief moment of shock, Li Ye quickly calmed down.

Could the situation suddenly become this difficult?

Master Zhou's meaningful hints before we arrived suggest he knew about the situation here and might have even been prepared.

His trust in the sect made him feel that things couldn't be that simple. After all, this was the Four Seasons Sect's mountain and river paradise, directly controlled by the Jianmu tree.

The reason for doing this is...

Fishing?
Li Ye took a few steps back, away from the Earth God Temple, and looked towards Tianhe City.

The city was still bustling with activity, seemingly unaffected by the changes that had occurred there, but a strange, unpleasant odor of body odor had begun to permeate the air.

"Body odor".

He recalled the situation when the Earth Demon Ginseng was controlled. It seemed that the status message indicated it was controlled by body odor, which was why it so desperately wanted to bind and coexist with the lotus, and even now it had not completely eliminated that strange body odor.

Is it an attempt to control me, or is it that there's no way to directly attack me from within the Mountain and River Cave Heaven?
How about we take another bold step?
Li Ye quickly thought for a moment, first using his spiritual power to form a shield, pretending to resist, but he couldn't resist the body odor.

In reality, he had been maintaining his clarity of mind by using the lotus pills stored inside the Jianmu tree. In order to ensure that he would not be discovered to be faking it, he even hid a part of his divine consciousness inside the Jianmu tree.

Having raised the Earth Demon Ginseng for so long, he already knew how this fox controlled itself using body odor.

Under his excellent disguise, the body odor around him initially remained unaffected, seemingly just permeating the air, but later it became increasingly targeted towards him.

To be honest, the taste is indeed unbearable, and it also has a drowsy quality.

It's like a fluffy tail wagging, piercing the body with countless tiny hairs, penetrating every nook and cranny.

If he hadn't specifically used lotus pills and Jianmu wood to help him hide, he probably would have been exposed.

Moreover, the other party didn't seem to dare to pour all their power into him. When the power was almost there, a fox suddenly appeared in front of Li Ye.

The fox was still wearing the same fur robe as before, with its pink, fluffy tail swaying behind it. However, this time it only had five tails, because three of them had already been knocked off.

So it's like there's a piece missing, it just doesn't look right no matter how you look at it.

This time, she didn't hide her face—it was a fox-like face with a protruding mouth, but her eyes were still watery and captivating, as if carrying the fragrance of peach blossoms.

【Name】：Earthly Wish Fox - Fox Smoke
Mood: Terrible
[Status]: Captured by the incense and vows of Shanhe Kongye, unable to escape, and about to be completely fixed into a clay fox spirit statue.

The panel is working, so does that mean this is the actual product?

The last time I encountered her, there was no reaction on the panel.

Fox Smoke looked at Li Ye with a complicated expression and said:

"You're quite the actor."

“But you clearly carry Baolian’s scent.”

"Fine, if you want to pretend, then pretend... It wasn't easy to lure you here. No matter how domineering your Four Seasons Sect is, at least I managed to do it."

She reached out a fair hand, grabbed Li Ye's arm, and pulled him down to jump. There, a fox den had appeared underground.

The cave was dark and deep, like a bottomless abyss, but the rock walls faintly revealed a strange, incense-like, and grand aura.

There were also some bright red silk ribbons extending downwards nearby.

Fox Smoke, holding Li Ye's arm, said in a teasing tone, "Remember to tell your master when you get back that even in your mountain and river caves, there are some immortals who acknowledge us."

Otherwise, this sinkhole wouldn't exist.

Look, behind all these red ribbons are the wives and concubines that the gods married!

Li Ye pretended to be controlled, but in reality, he had already seen some skeletons behind the red silk. The slender bones and the bright red wedding dress on the body... were clearly the remains of a young woman.

"..."

Seeing that Li Ye remained silent, a fleeting look of anxiety flashed in Hu Yan's eyes.

Her true form had already been anchored in the cave. If it weren't for the legends that already existed here, especially the legends about fox spirits, she would have been captured and planted in a tree long ago.

The power of vows and legends within the Mountain and River Cave Heaven were her protective charms, but now they have become her death warrants.

"Ah."

"Then take a look at the others."

This time, Fox Smoke gripped Li Ye's arm even tighter, her sharp pink nails almost piercing his skin.

This guy... seems to be in a hurry.

Is she in a hurry to prove to me that something is wrong with the Mountain and River Cave?

But I'm only at the Foundation Establishment stage and don't have any real power. What is she plotting?
Given the extremely limited information available, he decided to continue playing dumb. As for this guy's next move...

Li Ye's gaze swept over the pinch marks on his arm, and he continued to pretend to be dumbfounded.

The descent did not last long.

About ten breaths later, they fell from the sky, only to find themselves facing an extremely strange sight—

On one side, there was a dimly lit, eerie atmosphere, where countless spirits lived, selling items such as hearts, livers, spleens, lungs, and kidneys...

They laughed wildly and unrestrainedly, taking out almost an endless supply of copper coins from their money pouches embroidered with a demon, and sweeping them away as if in revenge, buying everything in sight.

But if you look closely, you can see the holes under their slightly oversized brocade robes, which are located exactly where the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are.

On the other side was barren land, with only some once tenacious but now withered grass and trees on the ground.

Men, women, and children walked on the ground with hunched backs, breathing with difficulty as if pulling a bellows, the rumbling in their stomachs seemed to resonate, and their tattered clothes could not hide their thin, bony backs.

They could clearly see the other side of the river, their eyes filled with confusion and longing.

Gazing at the magnificent splendor belonging to the underworld.

Fox Smoke shoved Li Ye forward, her fox-like face bearing a clear expression of mockery:

"Look."

“If this problem didn’t still exist in the mountains and rivers, it wouldn’t have been projected here.”

"Aren't you supposed to understand the feelings of all things? Then can you feel the desolation here, the suffering of the earth, and the people's bewilderment?"

Li Ye could no longer pretend, because the body odor had left him, and his mind, instead of being cleared by the smell, became unusually sharp.

He turned and looked at the fox smoke:

"What do you want to do?"

"You wouldn't actually hurt me, you're just showing me this? Who knows if you did it on purpose?"

Fox Smoke smiled slightly: "So what if we deliberately orchestrated this? Can you really just stand by and watch these people suffer?"

Let me tell you, once you go to the underworld, you will never be able to escape the sea of ​​suffering in hell.

Hahaha! ! ! "

She laughed heartily, her long mouth revealing fangs that were still covered in flying saliva, making her look twisted and bizarre, completely devoid of the "ethereal aura" she had exuded earlier. "Hehe." Li Ye narrowed his eyes, slowly taking out a pendant made of three tails and gently shaking it.

Fox Smoke, who had been laughing heartily, suddenly seemed to freeze in place.

Her peach blossom eyes were filled with a scarlet killing intent.

His body transformed into a gust of foul wind and arrived in front of Li Ye. His hands had turned into claws, which grabbed the latter's neck and lifted him up sharply.

He said bitterly, "You really think I wouldn't dare kill you!"

"Otherwise what?" Although Li Ye felt uncomfortable with his throat being choked, he remained calm:

"If you have the guts, kill me. Otherwise, once I reach the Golden Core stage, I will hunt down your clansmen so that there is no escape, no way out!"

"You don't think that all we Four Seasons Sect do is farm, do you? Fox fur sells very well."

"Even if you want to compete on cruelty, I'm confident that my Four Seasons Sect is far more authoritative than yours!"

His face was already flushed red, but he still managed to force a meaningful smile.

"You bastard!!!"

Fox Smoke was so angry she was practically fuming. For a moment, she really wanted to kill Li Ye—but if she did, not only could he escape using her tail, but she would also completely enrage the Su Xing lineage.

Although we've already provoked them enough, the grudge we'd incur by actually killing their disciples would be even greater.

At that point, it wouldn't be a clash of ideologies anymore; it would be a fight to the death.

Since I can't kill you, I'll just throw you somewhere even your master can't find you!
In the end, Fox Smoke released its grip.

She threw Li Ye violently into the distant river.

The power of the nascent soul still carried a trace of golden ripples. It seemed that it had only lost a little distance, but in fact it had crossed space.

Before Li Ye could react, bitter, foul-smelling river water flooded his mouth and nose.

At this moment, all his magical power seemed to be completely ineffective, and even struggling was somewhat difficult.

"Grandpa! Someone has fallen into the river!"

A little girl on the bank spotted Li Ye struggling in the river and immediately called her grandfather. The two of them struggled to pull Li Ye ashore.

"call."

Li Ye gritted his teeth in resentment. He had only suffered a few grievances since he came here. That damned fox, if he caught him, he would skin him alive!

He first thanked the somewhat awkward grandfather and grandson, then looked up into the distance, only to find that the sky had turned grayish-brown.

The fox smoke that should have been nearby had disappeared.

He couldn't even sense the connection between the sect's jade pendant and the sect, as if he had entered another world.

Is he no longer in the Mountain and River Grotto Heaven? Or even in the Eastern Region?

This development was truly unexpected for him.

……

Within the mountains, rivers, caves, and heavens.

The glittering starlight in the sky was like an eye, watching over the fox spirit, whose head was now gone and whose rest had been turned into a sculpture.

Fox Smoke laughed loudly at the sky: "Didn't expect that, did you? We've managed to use Shanhe Kongye's spatial power like this. Your big disciple is gone!"

The calm voice of Master Suxing answered her: "It's pitiful that you were also created by the ancestors and the great Confucianists. Why didn't they give you any intelligence?"
Do you really think that a vulnerability from thousands of years ago can still function today? And do you really think I would use my good disciple as bait for you?

The real person's voice paused, and then another voice came from the side:
"Location detected."

"It's in the Southern Region, and its exact location is surprisingly close to the Heavenly Vein Sword Mountain."

Fox Smoke, who had been laughing heartily, was suddenly choked. She was so surprised that she couldn't believe it: "The Sky-Gazing Instrument? Isn't that thing only usable in the Eastern Region?"
Why...

"It's that rice paddy in the Southern Region! You actually buried the array patterns of the Celestial Assault Device beneath that rice paddy! You're actually spying on your allies!"

“Wrong.” Master Xing had walked here step by step without anyone noticing. He casually tossed down a head, its face still bearing the marks of pain and regret.

If Li Ye were here, he would have discovered that it was the head of that Earthly Senior Brother Li.

"We only left behind the formations that could be used to guard the fields."

"For farmers, leaving formations in the fields is a very reasonable thing, and fellow Daoists from Tianmai Sword Mountain are well aware of this."

After answering casually, he couldn't help but complain to the stars above his head: "I think you spoil your disciple too much. It's just a piece of land that's been affected and a disciple."

Why send him so far away to the Southern Region?
Although it was just a small stronghold of the Hell Path, it was still dangerous.

In my opinion, Li Ye should personally handle the situation here; otherwise, how can he develop a decisive and ruthless nature?

When his junior brother complained, Master Su Xing simply replied, "I don't plan to send him to your side. Why would he need to learn your butcher-like methods? Or have you not killed enough pigs?"
It's just that the land of the Eastern Regions has been soaked by us for far too long.

He should also see the barren land.

Only in this way can his Golden Core cultivation be stabilized... Uh, what is that guy doing?

The last voice carried a hint of doubt—cracks began to appear on Fox Smoke, which had completely turned into a statue, and white gas was emanating from it.

"Oh." Master Xing casually tossed out a seed and replied nonchalantly:
"She's furious with us, but she can't die. I just heard Junior Nephew Li say he's going to skin her alive and pull out her tendons."

I've skinned foxes before, I know it like the back of my hand.

Why don't I plant her inside the tree, and let my nephew practice on her when he comes back?

This can also serve as an apology—it was clearly a scheme orchestrated by you and the sect leader, so why should I play the villain?

The stars gradually disappeared into the clouds.

Only the somewhat heavy voice of Master Su Xing remained:

"Because the law is heartless, but people are compassionate."

“Junior brother, you must have considered the possible things when you took this position. I can still use the Love Melody to treat you.”

But when I actually pass on the inheritance to Li Ye, you'll only have him to help you.

As Master Xing gazed at the starless sky, a sudden heaviness settled in his heart.

He glanced at the severed head lying on the ground, a complex emotion flashing in his cold, starry eyes.

But he really didn't have time to think about that anymore.

This time, thanks to Li Ye's intelligence and the appearance of the Earth Wish Fox, we need to cleanse the hidden filth within the Mountain and River Cave Heaven.

Perhaps those things really shouldn't have been seen by the disciples.

"Ugh."

He glanced at his rough hands, his expression returning to its usual coldness, and walked away step by step.

(End of this chapter)