Is the cultivation world now only populated by demonesses?

Chapter 46. Who am I?

As the first rays of dawn appeared on the horizon, the debate between the two palaces had already begun.

Master Hanyi quickly climbed to the top of a cliff. Miaoyu Palace was located among the mountains, and there was a cliff between the mountains.

Looking down from the mountaintop, the first thing that catches the eye is two enormous iron chains, their cold, gleaming surfaces extending into the unseen depths.

This place is like the cliff of extraordinary encounter described in some storybooks, where the male and female protagonists fall from here and obtain supreme martial arts techniques, greatly increasing their power.

But in fact it is not the case.

If someone were to fall off this cliff, their body would surely be lost forever.

These two iron chains are part of the mountain-protecting formation, and their function is to continuously draw upon the Heavenly Pure Lotus below to stabilize the formation.

The environment below has been transformed into an extremely terrifying abyss of cold air by the Heavenly Purification Lotus. Anyone who falls into it will be turned into an ice sculpture.

Xian Qingqiu took out an object that resembled a six-pointed star but emitted a dark demonic aura. She said, "The Eight Sufferings Corpse Refining Array, which was made by the Corpse Puppet Sect from tens of thousands of wronged souls."

She tossed the hexagon into the sky, and the small six-pointed star grew larger in the wind, then unfolded, and black gas shot into the sky, flowing into the cold prison with the cold wind.

Xian Qingqiu smiled and said, "Using this formation to block the Heavenly Pure Lotus will temporarily isolate the Wonderful Jade Formation."

"Shut up!" The cold-clothed master's face was as cold as frost.

But Xian Qingqiu continued, "Does Master Hanyi know that Xia Lianxue, whom you despise so much, left behind by Master Hanshui, seems to have returned to the Dao Realm? When I went to the Corpse Puppet Sect to get this formation, I was planning to kill her while I was at it, but unfortunately, judging from her aura, she had already reached the fifth realm, so I had to give up."

It was not an accident that Lu Changyuan and Xia Lianxue encountered Xian Qingqiu while chasing after the Corpse Puppet Sect, nor was there any story of Xian Qingqiu chasing after the Corpse Puppet Sect.

Xian Qingqiu came out to meet Lu Changyuan and Xia Lianxue in order to cover the departure of the fifth-realm elder of the Corpse Puppet Sect.

"Xia Lianxue might have already started climbing the mountain to seek revenge on the real person."

The cold-clothed master said coldly, "After today, no matter what, she will die."

The moon rose from behind her, and the Cold-Clothed Immortal took out a broken sword and swung it at the iron chain.

Crash!

The iron chains rippled through the air.

The broken sword and a chain shattered together.

The Cold-Clad Immortal groaned, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, but his expression remained unchanged: "Only by breaking these two iron chains can the Heavenly Purification Lotus be severed. My key can only cut one chain."

She actually intended to destroy Miaoyu's foundation and cause Miaoyu to panic.

A flash of hatred crossed Han Yi Zhenren's eyes.

It took her five years to replicate this broken key using the Moon Illumination Technique, and then, with the help of the Wonderful Jade Heart Method and the power of the Six Realms, she finally managed to sever one of the chains.

Even so, she was still quite shaken by the protective array of chains that linked the mountain.

A muffled thunderclap boomed in broad daylight, and the protective array of the mountain flickered, as if the sky were about to collapse.

Ignoring his injuries, Master Hanyi once again soared into the air, transforming into a shooting star, and quickly arrived at the place where he had spoken with Master Zhulu the previous night.

This is the weakest point in the great formation.

The moon rose again, a cold moon rising from behind the cold clothes, and then violently struck the gap.

boom!
The impenetrable formation was actually smashed open, creating a breach.

The Cold-Clad Immortal coughed up another mouthful of blood, having fully absorbed the backlash from both severing the chains and crashing into the great formation.

"Thank you for your hard work, Fellow Daoist Hanyi."

A wisp of blood slowly flowed in from the crevice, eventually forming four human figures.

Blood Demon Palace, Azure Blood True Man, Six Realms Opening Yang!
Among the remaining people, one had only one hand and one foot; he was the town elder. Looking at the other two, they were also at the fifth level of the Jade Balance Realm.

"Stop talking nonsense, where are the other people?"

"Fellow Daoist Hanyi is really anxious."

A dry, withered voice echoed, and another figure emerged from the crack. This figure resembled a withered tree, emaciated as a rake. Corpse Puppet Sect, Corpse Master, Sixth Realm Opening Yang!
The withered corpse, devoid of any color, its aged skin cracked open, revealing a chilling smile: "Azure Blood, Chasing Deer, and me, this is three against three."

A coffin suddenly appeared in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, the coffin grew larger and split in two, from which two more fifth-realm elders of the Corpse Puppet Sect walked out.

The cold-clothed master's voice was icy: "Don't include me in this."

The Corpse Master said, "That would be even better. Three against two. A few years ago, when the Food Buddha Sect was breached, our demonic path lost face. Now we finally have a chance to regain our dignity."

The Taoist sect, in alliance with the other three sects, shattered the Buddhist sect's gates, and the demonic path remained quiet for several years. Now that they have the opportunity, the demonic path naturally wants to take revenge.

“Then let’s stick to the original arrangement: Canglan Sect will take the mountain gate, my Corpse Puppet Sect will take the Heavenly Pure Lotus, and your Blood Demon Palace will take Miaoyu’s treasure vault.”

Master Qingxue smiled and said, "Good."

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"It's time to climb the mountain, fairy."

Xia Lianxue opened her eyes in a daze and found that Lu Changyuan was already sitting not far away drinking tea.

She had a nice dream last night and learned some good things.

She slept very well next to Lu Changyuan, and in fact, she always had. It seemed that she could forget all her troubles when she was with Lu Changyuan.

The young master has always had the power to calm everything down.

"Sir?"

"I'm here."

"who am I?"

Lu Changyuan squinted and then said, "You are Xia Lianxue."

Xia Lianxue then seemed to wake up from a dream: "Yes, I am Xia Lianxue. Young master, we should go mountain climbing."

"But he was half asleep? He doesn't even remember who he is."

The fairy shook her head, her eyebrows and eyes extremely gentle, looking like a daffodil with morning dew, quite pretty.

"I was just wondering, after I've avenged myself against Master Hanyi, will you be leaving, young master?"

Lu Changyuan turned his back, opened the window, and let the morning breeze blow away the lethargy of the night.

"Why do you say that suddenly?"

Xia Lianxue looked at Lu Changyuan's back, but her eyes suddenly seemed to double, as if she saw Lu Changyuan had changed into a white dress.

"Young master has been helping me all along, but I have nothing to repay you with."

Lu Changyuan laughed and said, "Only when you have achieved a certain level of cultivation can I latch onto your coattails."

"I will." Xia Lianxue patted her face and got out of bed: "Let's go, young master, we should go hiking."

Lu Changyuan still did not answer her whether he would leave after the Miaoyu Palace incident was over.

But not answering often means there is an answer.

Xia Lianxue said with a smile, "Young Master, if we want to return to the palace, we'll have to walk. My disciple token is useless now, and if we approach rashly, we'll be attacked by the great formation."

"Then let's walk there."

If they were disciples of Miaoyu Palace, they only needed to hold a token to enter the mountains and be directly teleported to the entrance of the Immortal Palace by the mountain-protecting array. Xia Lianxue's true inheritance token had already expired, so the two of them could only walk up.

That is, to walk the path of ordinary people.

First cross a thousand mountains, then climb ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps.

Lu Changyuan paused for a moment: "Was Miaoyu's protective mountain formation this powerful before?"

“It wasn’t like this before, young master, but it’s said that many years ago, someone shattered the great formation, so the sect upgraded it.”

(End of this chapter)