Starting Immortal Cultivation from a White Dog

The ancient city wall of Nanzhao is built of huge, weathered dark blue stone blocks, with slippery moss and vines crawling between the stones. On the top of the wall, ancient, bold flame totems are carved.

The commander of the armored soldiers standing on the city wall at this moment was a middle-aged man with a fierce face and wearing heavy crimson armor.

Seeing the jade chariot being pulled by two ferocious dragons and guarded by twenty-eight demon kings, charging straight towards him despite warnings, he felt a chill run down his spine, alarm bells rang in his mind, and he shouted sharply, "Enemy attack!"

As he roared, he threw out a command arrow from his hand.

In an instant, the ancient flame totem on the city wall seemed to come alive, shining with dazzling light, and countless fiery runes swiftly moved and intertwined.

The immense earth fire essence was frantically extracted, instantly condensing above the city wall into a fire dragon phantom tens of feet long, its entire body shrouded in raging flames.

This fire dragon, with its scales fully revealed and its horns prominent, exudes a ferocious aura that could burn the entire world.

It opened its enormous mouth, let out a deafening roar, and charged down towards the jade chariot with raging flames.

"Roar!!"

The two dragons pulling the cart let out a roar that shook the heavens. Their dark green scales shimmered with a cold, hard luster under the rosy light, and their four sharp claws gleamed with a cold light. Moisture and mist naturally gathered around their bodies.

The two dragons suddenly swung their massive tails, covered in hard scales, and the two tails intertwined, like two divine whips capable of shaking mountains, sweeping across with the sound of wind and thunder and immense force.

"Boom!!"

With a deafening roar, the seemingly ferocious phantom of the fiery dragon was instantly shattered by the pure and savage physical power, turning into a shower of sparks that scattered across the sky.

Although the ancient city wall was inscribed with the forbidden laws of the Fire God Palace, it was no match for these two ferocious dragons without the activation of a Nascent Soul True Person.

boom!
After the two dragon tails shattered the phantom of the Eight Desolate Divine Fire Dragon, they slammed into that section of the city wall with unparalleled ferocity.

With a tooth-grinding cracking sound and a deafening roar, an entire section of the city wall collapsed in an instant.

Huge stone blocks, mixed with shattered incantation light, poured down like a mudslide, sending dust billowing into the sky.

Some of the armored soldiers on the city wall were instantly turned into mincemeat by the impact of the dragon, while others, along with their fire rhinoceros beasts, were buried by the tumbling boulders and died instantly.

Only a few quick-thinking individuals managed to leap down before the city wall collapsed, but they too suffered broken bones and their screams were drowned out by the massive crash.

A huge gap suddenly appeared in this section of the city wall.

Auspicious clouds and rosy light flowed atop the jade carriage, sweeping across the smoke and ruins, heading straight for the most magnificent and imposing palace in the city.

The Divine Fire Hall, one of the eight ancient temples in southern Xinjiang.

Such a huge commotion had already alarmed the entire ancient city of Nanzhao.

The once bustling crowd on the street instantly descended into panic.

The ordinary people looked up in horror at the magnificent jade chariot pulled by two dragons, and the twenty-eight demon kings around it, each with a different form but equally exuding demonic aura and menacing presence.

"Run! Another monster has stormed into the city!"

"Where are the Palace Master and the others? Why haven't they come out yet?"

"Where are the mages of the Fire God Palace? Quickly, please ask the Palace Master to make a move!"

The city descended into chaos. Ordinary people were terrified and scrambled back to their homes, locking their doors tightly.

"What kind of demon dares to offend my Divine Fire Palace!"

A roar of shock and rage exploded like thunder.

A streak of crimson light shot into the sky. When the light faded, it revealed an old man dressed in a red robe, with one shoulder exposed, walking barefoot.

This person is none other than Tu Jiu, the Yuan Shen Zhenren who was left behind by Chi Ye to guard the ancient city.

He sensed the powerful aura emanating from the two dragons, and his heart was filled with dread. If even the two dragons pulling the carriage were great demon kings, what kind of being must be inside the jade carriage?

He steeled himself and stepped forward to stop them, but in his heart he was already prepared to escape.

However, when the two dragons pulling the cart saw the Yuan Shen Zhenren blocking their way, their bodies churned with water vapor and clouds, and their dragon claws reached out from the left and right, carrying a vast power that could imprison the void and submerge all laws, and fiercely grabbed at Tu Jiu.

The innate divine abilities awakened by Jiang Yuan and Jiang Lan are respectively the Dragon Trapping Abyss and the Tide Gazing.

The Dragon-Trapping Abyss involves the power of the void and is a control-type divine power.

Even with the dragon's powerful physique and supernatural strength, once trapped in the abyss, it would be difficult to escape.

Wang Haichao is the purest water-based supernatural power, communicating with the water-based laws between heaven and earth, stirring up the tides, sweeping away everything, and submerging everything.

As soon as Tu Jiuyi saw the two dragons reaching out their claws, he felt a sense of alarm. Although Jiang Yuan's Dragon-Trapping Abyss Divine Power had no killing power, its suppression and control effects were extremely outstanding.

Before the dragon claw even got close, the space around Tu Jiu instantly became incredibly viscous, as if he were sinking into a swamp.

A look of panic appeared on his face, and his body was engulfed in blazing protective divine flames as he summoned several defensive magical treasures.

However, Jiang Lan's Tide-Gazing Divine Power swept over, instantly extinguishing the protective flames on his body. Even his magical treasures dimmed and floated in the tide, unable to function for the time being.

The couple joined forces and immediately gained the upper hand upon meeting, leaving Tu Jiu with no chance to resist.

At this moment, inside the jade carriage, Wu Tian still had not gotten up, and his eyes, covered by the five-colored light, had not been fully opened; only his thoughts stirred slightly.

The next moment, a supernatural phenomenon occurred: a golden bow of blazing fire appeared.

This divine power condenses the fierce energy of the ancient arrow that shot the sun, possessing incomparably terrifying destructive power. It can draw in the golden light of the sun, turn fire into arrows, and swallow the killing intent of heaven and earth. When an arrow is shot out, it is like the will of heaven.

If Heaven wants you dead, what can you do?!

hum!
As the bowstring was drawn back on its own, a golden light, woven from countless tiny incantations, rested on the bowstring.

boom!
The golden arrow vanished in an instant, tearing through the sky.

"Pfft!"

With a soft sound, Tu Jiu, who had just been trapped and suppressed in the Dragon Abyss and whose protective measures had been broken by the Tide of the Sea, had no time to react. A flash of golden light appeared before his eyes, and he lost consciousness.

His body stiffened abruptly, and the light in his eyes instantly froze and dimmed.

Immediately, a blinding flame erupted from the inside out, and his physical body and primordial spirit were completely burned to ashes by the flames, dissipating into the world without leaving a trace.

From the moment Tu Jiu appeared and attempted to stop him, to his suppression by the dragon and his eventual instant death by Wu Tian's casual arrow, his soul scattered, the entire process was as fast as lightning, so fast that the other cultivators in the city couldn't react at all.

At this moment, the other cultivators of the Fire God Palace saw this terrifying scene from afar and were so frightened that their last bit of resistance collapsed completely. They scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in all directions, and no one dared to step forward to stop them.

Wu Tian's jade carriage descended smoothly in front of the Divine Fire Palace.

The vertical line between his brows cracked slightly, releasing a dazzling golden light that pierced through numerous obstacles and pinpointed the location of the treasure vault.

It was a hidden space located hundreds of feet deep beneath the temple, tightly guarded by no fewer than ten layers of ancient restrictions. Such a heavily guarded forbidden area would be extremely difficult to break through unless a wandering immortal personally arrived.

But for Wu Tian, ​​it meant nothing.

His Taiqing Immortal Light is most effective against so-called restrictions and formations. In particular, his Taiqing Immortal Light is different from that cultivated by his predecessors and sages, as it incorporates the mysteries of time.

The celestial light of the Supreme Purity descended, causing even time to stand still.

No matter how mysterious the restrictions and formations are, as long as they are frozen in place for a moment by the Taiqing Immortal Light, Wu Tian can come and go at will, as if entering an empty place.

"You wait here, I'll be right back."

Wu Tian stepped out of the jade carriage, using the Taiqing Immortal Light to pave the way, and proceeded unimpeded to descend hundreds of feet underground, arriving at the underground treasure vault in no time.

The interior of this treasure vault is extremely large, clearly created using sophisticated void manipulation techniques, making it far more expansive than it appears from the outside.

Among them were a dazzling array of treasures, and Wu Tian casually glanced at them and saw top-quality materials used to refine magical artifacts, such as the Earth Core Fire Lotus, Thousand-Year Warm Jade, Crimson Yuan Copper, and Vermilion Bird Bloodstone.

In addition, there are elixirs sealed with special secret methods; magical weapons suppressed with incantations; and rows of bookshelves displaying numerous jade slips, each exuding a different Daoist charm.

Wu Tian was dazzled by the sight; it truly lived up to its reputation as a major collection, with these treasures piled up like mountains.

However, he soon turned his attention to two of the treasures.

One was a magnificent palace dress made of phoenix feathers and decorated with a picture of a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix; the other was a jet-black iron whip wreathed in wind and thunder.

The aura of these two magical treasures surged forth, condensing into extraordinary phenomena. They were full of spirituality and were truly rare treasures.

At the Dao Embryo and Primordial Spirit realm, cultivators mostly use magical treasures.

The so-called magic weapon is made by imprinting one's own supernatural powers and mysteries into spiritual materials and refining them with special techniques. It can reveal a portion of the supernatural powers and mysteries simply by activating it with magic power.

The protective tools used by practitioners, from the most basic incantation tools and ritual implements to the most precious Dharma treasures, all share the same fundamental principle.

Spell artifacts contain incantations and require low-grade spiritual materials to contain them.

Magical artifacts contain magical spells and require mid-grade spiritual materials to contain them.

Magical artifacts possess supernatural powers, which require high-grade spiritual materials to contain them.

However, when it comes to the grade of magic treasures, while the quality of the spiritual materials is important, the inner supernatural power is even more crucial.

Even if the material is ordinary, as long as the inner supernatural power is strong enough, the quality of the magic weapon will be extremely high.

Therefore, many cultivators also refer to them as divine weapons, which are weapons that contain supernatural powers.

However, not all magical artifacts are divine weapons.

The magical treasures refined by Dao Embryo cultivators using supernatural seeds are just ordinary magical treasures because their supernatural powers are incomplete and their inner principles are flawed.

The magical treasures refined by the Yuan Shen Zhenren using supernatural powers are the true divine weapons. When activated by magical power, they can unleash supernatural power, making them extremely powerful and excellent weapons for self-protection and life preservation.

Each Nascent Soul True Person has different specialties and cannot be proficient in all aspects. Having a few handy magic treasures and divine weapons to make up for one's shortcomings can greatly improve one's strength.

Especially divine weapons forged from extraordinary phenomena are also known as extraordinary treasures; when their supernatural powers and phenomena are unleashed, their power is even greater.

That palace dress was fine, but that thunder whip was quite good. It was extremely compatible with Wu Tian's Nine Heavens Thunder Whip phenomenon. The two working together would surely unleash even more powerful divine abilities.

In fact, there are treasures even more powerful than rare treasures.

A great cultivator at the third level of the Primordial Spirit realm can create a Dao scripture that perfectly suits him. By imprinting the complete Dao scripture's profound meaning onto rare and precious materials, he can refine Dao artifacts containing the Dao scripture.

The power of Dao artifacts has almost no upper limit; it depends only on the strength of the Dao principles and Dao scriptures they contain.

Magical artifacts, divine weapons, and rare treasures differ greatly in power.

Dao artifacts are far superior. Even a great cultivator at the third level of the Nascent Soul realm can only refine a rudimentary form of a Dao artifact, while only an immortal can refine a complete Dao artifact.

A magical artifact carried by an immortal can even manifest several supernatural phenomena, making it incredibly powerful.

For example, Zhu Yeshuang relied on the ancient sword Qingli for cultivation in the first half of her life, and Wu Tian obtained the Sun-Shooting Ancient Arrow, both of which were Dao artifacts refined by predecessors and sages.

Wu Tian hadn't refined any magic weapons on Suspended Peak before because his cultivation was improving too quickly; it was very likely that his cultivation had already broken through before he could successfully refine the magic weapon.

Even the power of ordinary magical artifacts is not as great as his own supernatural abilities, and it would waste a lot of time and energy, so he temporarily put it aside.

Now that he has obtained the ancient artifact, the Sun-Shooting Arrow, he looks down on ordinary magical treasures and divine weapons even more.

However, the two treasures he saw at this moment were also rare and precious items.

"I never expected that there would be two extraordinary treasures in this treasure vault, and judging from their appearance, their inner supernatural powers are also quite remarkable."

However, his gaze did not linger on the two treasures for long, but instead turned to an eight-story, jet-black altar not far ahead.

At the very top of the altar, the ancient bronze table that was originally used for offerings was now empty, with only a faint but extremely sharp and fierce arrow-like intent remaining.

"As expected, it's not here..."

Wu Tian sighed slightly. This was to be expected. Finding the ancient arrow that shot down the sun would certainly not be so simple.

He shook his head, no longer wanting to linger. With a sway, the strange phenomenon of the Sun-devouring Celestial Dog appeared behind him.

"swallow."

He didn't stand on ceremony at all, and took a light inhale.

Behind them, the Sun-Devouring Heavenly Dog opened its gigantic maw, and a terrifying and irresistible suction force suddenly arose, like an invisible giant hand, enveloping every corner of the entire treasure vault.

Whether it's spiritual materials as heavy as mountains, tightly sealed elixirs, magical artifacts and treasures radiating spiritual light, or ancient texts and jade slips carrying Daoist scriptures...

Everything seemed to lose its weight, transforming into colorful torrents that, like rivers flowing into the sea, surged continuously and roaring into the belly of the Sun-Devouring Heavenly Dog.

In just a short while, the treasure vault, which was originally filled with radiant light, spiritual energy, and piles of treasure, became completely empty. The ground was so smooth that one could see their reflection in it. It was truly a case of "scraping the ground three feet deep," leaving not a single useful fragment behind.

After doing all this, Wu Tian silently turned the jade carriage back and ordered, "Let's go, to the Yin Huo Palace in Xiangxi."

Before long, the jade chariot soared into the sky, leaving behind only the collapsed ancient city walls and the looted treasure vault.

Wu Tian lay in the jade carriage, taking stock of the treasures he had taken.

"That phoenix dress is perfect as a gift for my senior sister."

"That lightning whip can be kept, to complement the Nine Heavens Lightning Whip..."

...(End of chapter)