There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 261 Where to Go (Dream Interpretation)

The moment the thought arose, Chen Qing's hand seals suddenly changed!
Within the Purple Mansion, divine thought condensed into a heavenly blade, carrying the will to sever all karmic obstacles and transform all things into resources, and fiercely slashed down towards the point where the Buddha's shadow and half of the Dao Fruit were connected!
"laugh--"

The Divine Sense Heavenly Blade slashed into the Buddha's light!

This strike is intended to forcibly peel it away, mix its essence, and then attempt to forge it into the foundation of the second Nascent Soul's outer realm!
"Buzz!"

The Buddha's light suddenly shone brightly!

The Buddha's shadow seemed to be raising its head in resistance, and a sense of annihilation surged back, frantically strangling, eroding, and fighting against Chen Qing's intent to slay evil!
In an instant, the Purple Mansion became a fierce battlefield, with the forest of steles suppressing the demons, spiritual energy pouring in, and willpower being forged!

The Buddha's image was indeed suppressed, but it did not differentiate into an inner realm. Instead, it became locked in a stalemate with the divine thought blade!

"The residual will of this Dao Fruit is too strong. This stalemate is consuming a huge amount of my spiritual energy and divine sense; I can't hold out much longer!" Chen Qing's mind raced. "It seems that with my many methods, unless I transfer this tribulation out of my body, I can't completely suppress it! I must immediately enter a dream and ask that Taiyuan Evil Corpse for a way to break it! Then I can resolve this half-Dao Fruit! However..."

With this thought in mind, Chen Qing did not immediately immerse his mind in the Dao Evolution Record to communicate with the dream world. After all, this was not a place where one could peacefully enter a dream, and moreover...

His gaze shifted and landed on Yun Wuchen not far away!
Just then, a barely perceptible stream of light emerged from Yun Wuchen's arms, who was being suppressed on the ground!
It was a strikingly antique ring!
It broke free from its master and transformed into a thin golden thread, shooting towards Chen Qing!

The Buddha light above it was contained, and the timing was cunning, just when Chen Qing was fighting against the Buddha shadow in his body and his mind was slightly divided!
"Um?!"

Chen Qing was taken aback. He hadn't even made a move yet, so why was a ring spirit trying to strike first?
But he immediately noticed the unusual fluctuations emanating from the ring!
"It's not that the ring has become sentient, but rather that someone has entrusted their consciousness to it! Or perhaps it's used to carry a remnant soul! But how come this ring contains a remnant soul and is associated with this young cultivator? Is he a personal old man?"

Chen Qing thought to himself, but instead of dodging or avoiding, he raised his hand and pressed down, and lightning flashed down on him!

"Buzz!"

The ring's momentum abruptly halted, bound by lightning, and it was abruptly frozen in mid-air, its radiance dimmed.

"Bluster?" Chen Qing raised an eyebrow. "They've got quite the momentum, but they're all show and no substance. They even made the first move?"

At this moment, the ring suddenly trembled violently, and a solid golden phantom rushed out from it, actually passing through layers of lightning and heading straight for Chen Qing's face!
"How dare you, junior! I am a Dharma protector under the Great Free Buddha, and my karma with the Buddha is the deepest! You mortals dare to lay a finger on me? Why don't you use your body to become the vessel for my return to the world!"

The phantom figure formed a mudra with its hands, and a strange power spread out, causing the gray mist in all directions to boil!

Then, the billowing gray mist all converged towards Chen Qing!

Chen Qing suddenly felt a chill, like needles piercing his dantian.

"Is he after my body? But this Great Free Buddha he's talking about... could he be a resurrected Demon Buddha in disguise?"

He was momentarily stunned.

"Hahaha! I possess the Buddha's personally transmitted method of pure transcendence, untouched by any law, unaffected by cause and effect. How could you possibly..." The illusory figure laughed wildly, a layer of pure and flawless crystal-like Buddhist light emanating from its body, accompanied by billowing gray mist, attempting to engulf Chen Qing's body!
However, its laughter stopped abruptly the next moment!

Chen Qing made a hand seal, and the scenery outside the stele forest immediately descended, freezing the surrounding gray mist and covering the illusory Buddha light!
"town!"

In the center of the stele forest, the wordless ink stele burst forth with dazzling light, exuding imperial might!
"Fuck-"

The seemingly untouched, crystal-clear Buddha light, upon encountering the imperial might imbued with the essence of the Great Primordial Dao, vanished like snow being splashed with boiling water, emitting a piercing sound!

"Impossible! What kind of aura is this? How can it be so domineering! How can your external realm have such a grandeur? How can it break my divine power?" The illusory Buddha light was both shocked and angry, as if it had encountered its nemesis, and its momentum suddenly weakened!

After all, Chen Qing not only has a karmic entanglement with the Demon Buddha, but the scenery of the Stele Forest also bears the legacy of the Taiyuan Immortal Emperor! Taiyuan was the master who sealed the Demon Buddha, and his Daoist aura and imperial might naturally have an extremely strong ability to restrain and suppress the Demon Buddha's retinue!

"seal up!"

Chen Qing pressed his advantage, and the exterior of the Stele Forest unfolded completely. Hundreds of illusory stone tablets transformed into streams of light, sealing the illusory Buddha light and the ring it was attached to layer by layer, until it finally turned into a stone bead that fell into Chen Qing's palm.

But at the very moment he completed the sealing...

"Boom!"

The surrounding gray fog began to surge wildly!
"Ow—"

On the mountainside, those twisted, dark spots emitted even more mournful howls.

Chen Qing felt a chill run down his spine, and suddenly looked up at the mountaintop, his eyes narrowing.

The sun atop the mountain, which had been dormant for so long, did not dim; instead, it shone several times brighter. Then, a mysterious will, like a slumbering ancient beast, slowly awakened!

A sense of oppression that made his soul tremble descended upon him!
This feeling was no less than when he faced the demonic Buddha who was about to break free of his seal in his dream!
"There's more to this mountain than meets the eye!" Chen Qing exclaimed in shock, instantly realizing, "The manifestation of the Demon Buddha's Dao Fruit here is probably just the tip of the iceberg of what's truly hidden here!"

Thinking of this, he made a quick decision, took a step, and ran back the way he came!

As he passed by Yun Wuchen, who was suppressed on the ground and looked ashen-faced, a thought suddenly struck him. He rolled up his sleeve and scooped him up, preventing his excellent physical body from being left behind and causing further changes.

Moreover, this person possesses great fortune and is deeply connected to the illusory Buddha light within the ring; taking him away might have other uses.

"Go!" In the next instant, he transformed into a long rainbow interwoven with lightning and blood shadows, and fled back towards the entrance, following the path he had come from!

The long journey passed in the blink of an eye!

Just as Chen Qing broke through the twisted rift and returned to the Green Wood Spirit Kingdom Valley!
"Om-"

The rift behind him trembled, and a muffled roar came from within. Looking back, billowing gray mist surged out like a flood bursting its banks!

Beyond the valley.

The people of Qingmu Spirit Kingdom, led by Lord Mu Changchun, were waiting anxiously when Chen Qing suddenly rushed out from among them. They were about to go forward and ask him questions.

But the next moment, Mu Changchun glanced around and saw Chen Qing carrying the unconscious Yun Wuchen, and his expression immediately changed.

Elder Mu Tengxin of the Vine Clan stepped forward and shouted sternly, "Sect Leader Chen! What have you done to Nephew Wuchen?! Do you know what he...?"

But before he could finish speaking, the gray mist gushing from the crack spread like a tide, withering the vegetation and corrupting the spiritual energy wherever it passed!

"Not good! It's the Annihilation Gray Tide! The entrance has gone out of control again!" Mu Changchun's expression changed drastically. He didn't even bother to ask Chen Qing and shouted, "Quick! Form the Evergreen Array! Temporarily seal the entrance! We absolutely cannot let it spread and expand!"

In an instant, all the high-ranking officials of the Azure Wood Spirit Kingdom changed color, and no one paid attention to Chen Qing and Yun Wuchen anymore. Streams of powerful spiritual energy soared into the sky and formed a huge array to block the gushing gray mist!
The void behind Mu Changchun rippled, and two Nascent Soul stage figures suddenly unfolded!
One is a painting of towering trees, with giant trees reaching for the sky, full of vitality; the other is the Azure Emperor's Seal for Suppressing the World, with a bright azure light, containing supreme suppressive power.

The two scenes overlapped, transforming into a huge blue light curtain that held back the torrent of gray fog, but the light curtain flickered and struggled to maintain its position.

"Go and fetch the Dingkun Zhenyuan Stake!" With Mu Changchun's order, the Qingmu Guards, who were already prepared, immediately flew off.

Beside him, Mu Tengxin said to Chen Qing, "You must be the sect leader of Mingxia Mountain! Look at the mess you've made! If anything happens to my nephew Wuchen, and if this out-of-control gray tide destroys the ancestral spiritual veins, you will be damned even if you die a hundred times!"

Several elders behind him also looked at Chen Qing with unfriendly expressions.

Chen Qing placed Yun Wuchen aside and nodded, saying, "The anomaly here was indeed caused by my taking the item, and I will not deny that." As he spoke, a glint flashed in his eyes, his aura erupted like a volcano, the void above his head twisted, and the vast and ancient landscape of the stele forest suddenly descended!

"Boom!"

Hundreds of stone tablets floated and sank, the wordless ink tablets exuding a majestic pressure. The imperial aura within them was completely different from Mu Changchun's green wood Dao aura, and had an innate restraining effect on the gray mist filled with the meaning of annihilation and decay!

Therefore, as soon as this stele forest appeared, the originally surging gray tide, which even Mu Changchun could not completely contain, solidified and contracted, and was firmly sealed in the small area at the entrance of the crack, making it difficult to spread even a little bit!
"This is... a Nascent Soul stage exterior?!"

"So solid! So oppressive! He... he's actually a Nascent Soul cultivator?!"

"The sect leader of Mingxia Mountain is not a Golden Core cultivator, but a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

The entire audience was stunned!
The words that had been spoken by Mu Tengxin and the others were stuck in their throats, their faces turned pale, and their eyes showed horror.

Mu Changchun's pupils also contracted. He looked at Chen Qing intently, then hesitated to speak.

Just then, the Green Wood Guard arrived carrying three wooden stakes engraved with runes.

Mu Changchun immediately composed himself and joined forces with several elders to drive the "Dingkun Zhenyuan Stake" into a specific location. Combined with Chen Qing's stele forest scenery, the blue light and imperial aura intertwined, finally stabilizing and sealing the crack, and the gray fog gradually subsided.

With the crisis temporarily averted, Mu Changchun breathed a sigh of relief and was about to ask Chen Qing about the details inside the cave and Yun Wuchen's condition.

But then Chen Qing's brows furrowed suddenly.

He felt the Buddha image within him, which had been temporarily suppressed, stirring again, so he abruptly raised his hand to stop Mu Changchun and said, "King Mu, we can discuss the details later! I need to go into seclusion immediately, and I hope you can do me a favor!"

Before the external scene manifested, Mu Changchun might have asked another question, but now he simply nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist, please go into seclusion. If you need anything, just say so! Come, arrange a quiet room for Sect Leader Chen to meditate in seclusion!"

"Thank you! There's no need for special arrangements; I just need to borrow this space." After expressing his gratitude, Chen Qing turned his gaze to Liu Shuang'er, who had just arrived and was equally astonished by the Nascent Soul's external appearance, and said, "Fellow Daoist Liu, please protect me!"

Seeing his solemn expression, Liu Shuang'er nodded without hesitation: "Don't worry!"

Chen Qing said no more, his body transformed into a streak of light, and he sped toward a secluded stone platform at the edge of the valley.

Before the person even arrived, several array flags shot out, setting up layers of restrictions, and warning runes lit up, completely covering the surrounding area within a hundred feet.

After sitting cross-legged, Chen Qing formed a hand seal to suppress the churning Buddha image in his dantian, and his mind became clear and focused.

He paused for a moment, then suddenly felt a strange sensation, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

However, Chen Qing then shook his head.

"Dream!"

(End of this chapter)