The Path to Immortality: Starting with an Analysis of Basic Concepts

Hong Sheng looked at her with a smile, without saying a word.

Lianhua Jiao's beautiful face trembled slightly. She turned around, reluctantly bowed to Li Zhen, and said:

"It was my fault for speaking out of turn. I apologize to Sister Lizhen and hope she won't take offense."

"Oh…"

A cold laugh came from the humanoid figure of light and shadow.

Lianhua raised an eyebrow, about to lash out, but sensing Hong Sheng's deep gaze, she pursed her lips and dared not utter a word.

Hong Sheng nodded in satisfaction, ignoring her completely. He turned to Zhu Yu, seemingly noticing his doubts, and explained telepathically:

"Junior Brother, there's no need to worry. The 'Evil Tide' is nothing serious; it's just a bunch of overconfident individuals trying to elevate themselves to the 'Foundation Establishment Realm,' and their remnants of their souls giving rise to evil monsters."

Hong Sheng put it simply.

But Zhu Yu dared not be careless in the slightest.

Did you not see how Hong Sheng made Lianhua lead the charge, and how she was so frightened that her face turned pale? And if it were really that simple, why would so many Foundation Establishment cultivators come?

"Thank you for the reminder, senior brother," Zhu Yu replied politely.

Hong Sheng nodded slightly, no longer mentioning the "evil tide," and instead introduced Zhu Yu to the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had arrived earlier than Lian Hua.

Time passed slowly.

Unbeknownst to them, twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators had gathered at the location of the reef.

"They're here..."

Hong Sheng paused, his gaze turning towards the Black Sea.

Zhu Yu followed his gaze.

In the deep, abyss-like Black Sea, billowing black mist surges, and one can vaguely see a colossal creature twisting and turning, while the waves become even more turbulent, crashing against the reefs.

Black mist billowed up, intensifying the erosion.

A membrane formed from condensed mana appeared on Zhu Yu's skin, blocking the black mist's erosion. He slightly sensed the depletion of his mana and glanced at the other Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Some people, like him, resisted with their magic, but most resisted with their physical bodies, or simply ignored this level of black mist erosion.

"Second level of Foundation Establishment?..."

As soon as the thought flashed through my mind, before I could think any further, a noisy and meaningless murmur and roar suddenly rang in my ears. The moment the sound came out, all sorts of random thoughts sprang up in my mind like weeds.

And it was at this moment.

The "evil tide" that Lianhua spoke of broke through the black mist and appeared.

A splash of color suddenly appeared in the boundless darkness.

It resembles a long, unmarked line that divides the Black Sea in two.

"That's a monster?... "

Zhu Yu finally saw clearly what the so-called "evil monster" really was.

They vary in size, some as large as mountains, others so small as to be invisible. They seem to be made of millions of objects chopped up and forcibly mixed together, resembling neither human nor beast nor object, but rather an indescribable aggregate.

As it approaches.

Zhu Yu suddenly felt the meaningless murmurs and roars in his mind amplified many times over, like a record suddenly losing its sound and bursting into a sharp scream, as if it were about to pierce through his brain.

Even with his current level of cultivation and spiritual strength, he couldn't help but feel dizzy for a moment, with a large number of chaotic fragmented images appearing before his eyes, as if they were about to drown his consciousness.

[Warning... Under the influence of an unknown aggregated will...]

[Warning... Under attack by an unknown aggregated will... Now blocked...]

next moment.

Zhu Yu felt his mind clear up and suddenly came back to his senses. The chaotic fragmented images disappeared completely, as did the murmurs and roars. When he looked again...

The vibrant colors of the "monster" have vanished, replaced by a blackness like the Black Sea, so dark that one might mistake it for waves if not looking closely.

The surging malice came crashing down like a tidal wave.

Hong Sheng, whose head was shimmering with nine mirror-like blood-red lights, noticed that Zhu Yu's eyes had regained their clarity, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"Such a strong will to soul, to wake up so quickly..."

Meanwhile, people like Li Zhen, Lian Hua, Jiu Shou, and Feng Hou also had halos appear in their minds. Some manifested mountains filled with broken swords, some manifested seas of flowers, some manifested myriad beasts, some manifested storms, and so on...

But the difference is.

Compared to Hong Sheng's pure nine-round blood light, Li Zhen and Lian Hua, who manifested the most, only had four rounds of light.

More often than not, it's just one or two halos.

Upon seeing this scene, Zhu Yu seemed to understand something. With a slight thought, a gray-black halo manifested behind his head. Through the halo, one could see a black sun, thick clouds, and a forest of burial mounds...

This is not some kind of supernatural power.

It's actually a little trick to use your "natal spirit."

By using the physical body to carry the projection of the "Life Spirit Void", it can resist the erosion of the "Black Tide" with very little consumption. Moreover, with the blessing of the "Life Spirit Void", it can freely use the "divine powers" it has cultivated, no longer needing the physical body to be just a shell carrying consciousness as before.

"I should take some time to sort myself out when I get back..."

Zhu Yu shook his head inwardly.

He broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm too recently, had no seniors to teach him, and no books recorded such details about using the "natal spirit realm," so he had to figure everything out on his own.

Lianhua and the others were somewhat surprised to see him adapt so quickly. Their gazes fell on the light and shadow manifested by his "natal spirit ruins," and their expressions varied.

"The word 'underworld' is quite fitting..."

Hong Sheng's eyes flashed strangely for a moment. Without thinking much, he turned to look at the approaching "evil tide," took a step, and his figure suddenly appeared a hundred feet away from the reef. Standing on the waves of the Black Sea, he reached out and grabbed, and strands of blood light surged from his palm, manifesting as a narrow katana nearly ten feet long.

The first crimson halo behind his head revealed a horrific scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and a terrifying killing intent surged forth.

Hong Sheng raised his arm and then swung it down.

"cut!…"

A slender streak of blood-red light burst forth, spreading wildly to both sides from Hong Sheng as the center. When the slender streak of blood-red light approached the surging monsters, it was already beyond sight.

Silently.

Whether as large as a mountain or as small as an invisible object, any evil monster that touched the thin blood-red light was split in two, turning into a pool of black mud that fell into the Black Sea.

Only a few scattered, iridescent lights remained, floating uncertainly in the black mist.

"hiss…"

Upon seeing this scene, Zhu Yu couldn't help but gasp. At that moment, he had only one thought in his mind.

Is Hong Sheng truly at the "Foundation Building Realm"?

He knew that if he were to encounter that blade imbued with overwhelming killing intent, he would have no choice but to die.

"Senior Brother Hong must be about to break through to the Golden Core stage, right?... "

Those who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage, including Li Zhen, Lian Hua, and Jiu Shou, all looked on with awe when they saw the figure standing there with a knife in his hand.

Hong Sheng looked at the nine out of ten evil monsters that had been eliminated, his expression unchanged. He put away his spiritual weapon "Spirit Slayer," reached out and grabbed, and the seven-colored light and shadow floating in the black mist converged on him like a tide.

After carefully collecting the resources left behind by the monster, he turned to look at Zhu Yu and the others standing on the reef, nodded slightly, and said:

"Next, I'll trouble you junior brothers and sisters to clean up the remaining ferocious beasts..."

"I respectfully obey the order of the 'Dragon-Slaying Immortal'."

Li Zhen, Lian Hua, Jiu Shou, and the others all cupped their hands in greeting.

Hong Sheng smiled and nodded, then his body disappeared without a sound.

"The Dragon-Slaying Immortal..." Zhu Yu thought to himself, "He's got some imposing presence..."

Without much thought, seeing Li Zhen, Lian Hua, and the others step into the Black Sea, he followed without hesitation.

After traveling about 100 zhang, the scattered turbulent currents, which had lasted for only a few li, dispersed one after another, each taking responsibility for guarding an area of ​​about 100 li.

Perhaps because Zhu Yu was a newly promoted Foundation Establishment cultivator, everyone assumed that the area he was responsible for was less than ten miles.

At first, he felt that his senior brothers and sisters were pitying him for being a beginner in Foundation Establishment and were kindly helping him. However, when he used "Mysterious Water Thunder" to kill a monster as big as a carriage, shaped like a worm, and covered with dense tentacles.

This idea was then reversed.

The reason is that after this evil monster died, two fire-attribute "spiritual ruins" and some first-tier fire-attribute spiritual essences were left behind.

"This…"

Zhu Yu was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and put away the "Origin of the Spirit Ruins" and the "Essence of Spiritual Objects" with a wave of his sleeve. He then turned to look at the two True Immortals "Falling Cloud" and "Howling Wind" next to him. One of them was controlling a dense swarm of golden insects, while the other was waving his hand to quickly slash at the evil monsters with a dense swarm of cyan wind blades.

In a very short moment.

Zhu Yu alone noticed more than a dozen "Spiritual Ruins Origins", as well as many more spiritual essences of various kinds.

When he came to his senses, Zhu Yu looked at the few dozen or so evil monsters scattered within a ten-mile radius in front of him, and his face darkened.

It's he who thinks too much.

This isn't taking care of him; it's clearly dividing up resources.

Seeing that the monsters around him were being deliberately eliminated by the two immortals, "Falling Cloud" and "Howling Wind," Zhu Yu had no choice but to abandon his idea of ​​expanding the hunting area.

Fortunately, his senior brothers and sisters didn't take advantage of him completely.

They also left him a huge, spherical creature that looked like a monster pieced together from countless wild beasts.

This monster is huge.

The two real people, "Falling Cloud" and "Howling Wind," were only responsible for cleaning up two areas.

A flurry of thoughts flashed through his mind. Gazing at the monsters riding the waves of the Black Sea, Zhu Yu refrained from using "Mysterious Water Thunder." Instead, he lightly stomped his feet and silently chanted:

"Open the mass grave."

As his magical power dissipated, a dark gray halo, starting from him, spread wildly toward the location of the evil monster. When it touched the first evil monster, its body suddenly stiffened, and pale arms emerged from the dark gray halo, instantly tearing the evil beast apart.

A water-elemental spiritual ruin appeared on the spot, along with two clusters of water-elemental spiritual essences.

Zhu Yu nodded in satisfaction and, no longer holding back, unleashed his full power with the "Mass Burial Mound" technique.

One by one, the monsters were dismantled...

In just over ten breaths.

Within a ten-mile radius, only that ferocious beast, comparable to a second-tier creature, the size of a small mountain, and resembling a patchwork of countless wild animals, was struggling. Its body was covered with pale, molten corpses that constantly scratched and bit at its black, mud-like body.

Its nature is like the Black Sea, but even more filthy. The pale corpses are often only torn a couple of times or bitten a couple of times before being corroded into ashes.

And it starts to roll.

Countless pale, refining corpses were reduced to ashes.

Zhu Yu, however, did not care about this.

The pale corpse is not a physical object, but a manifestation of supernatural power. No matter how many of them die, as long as the user has enough magical power, countless pale corpses can be created.

Corpses like the "sea" are the ultimate treasures of the "mass grave." The more numerous and of higher quality they are, the stronger the pale corpses spawned by the "mass grave" will be.

Now, although the "Mass Burial Mound" has reached perfection, it still needs a large number of refined corpses and corpses as a foundation for suppressing evil before it can unleash its true power.

a long time.

After the "Falling Clouds" and "Howling Wind" immortals finished clearing out the evil monsters in their respective areas, Zhu Yu finally used his supernatural powers to wear down the second-tier evil monster.

It disintegrated into black mud and fell into the Black Sea.

There is no "Origin of the Spirit Ruins".

A blood-red crystal the size of a fingernail appeared on the spot.

"Huh..."

Zhu Yu's eyes widened in surprise. He withdrew his supernatural powers, summoned the object to his palm, and examined it closely. It appeared to be a fragment knocked off a complete crystal, with jagged edges.

Before he could examine it closely, a surprised voice came from the side.

"Hey, this is the 'Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts.' Junior Brother, you're in luck."

Zhu Yu turned his head and saw a frail-looking but handsome young man smiling at him.

He nodded in greeting, "Senior Brother Zhuiyun." Then, he asked with a puzzled look, "The Essence of Ten Thousand Beasts? What are its effects?"

True Immortal Zhuiyun did not conceal anything and truthfully stated, "The 'Essence of Ten Thousand Beasts' is born from the aggregation of the divine souls of ten thousand beasts, and its effect is to help demonic beasts revert to their ancestral bloodline."

He paused, then smiled and said:

"If you are useless to him, you can sell him to Senior Brother Nine Heads. He is an honest man and will definitely not let you suffer a loss."

After speaking, he nodded slightly and leisurely walked back to the island.

"Helping demonic beasts revert to their ancestral bloodline..."

Zhu Yu's eyes lit up. He gathered his sleeves, glanced at the other Foundation Establishment cultivators, and saw that they had finished cleaning up one after another. Without lingering, they returned to the island.

Confirmed to be unaffected.

They did not linger in the "Foundation Building Realm" and returned to "Qingping".

Tomb Island.

The core hill, with a plaza at the summit.

A bronze gate ten feet high appeared silently, its doors wide open, and Zhu Yu stepped out, his divine sense spreading out like a tide.

Summon Xiao Hei, who was lying under the Starry Sky Tree on the mountainside, and Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai, who were watching the servants cultivate at the foot of the mountain, to the top of the mountain.

Woohoo…

Xiaoqing and Xiaobai returned the fastest. When they saw Zhu Yu standing with his hands behind his back in the square, they rushed over with a howl. But when they were about three zhang away, they suddenly stopped and carefully stretched out their arms.

"Whoa?..."

Xiaoqing looked puzzled. Why doesn't it hurt anymore?

Xiao Bai cleverly noticed the dark gray halo behind Zhu Yu's head, but instead of alerting Xiao Qing, she controlled her body and leaped to Zhu Yu's side, which startled Xiao Qing so much that her eyes widened.

"Silly Naga..."

A smug glint flashed in Xiao Bai's eyes. She affectionately touched Zhu Yu's arm and let out a joyful "woo-wah!"

Zhu Yu smiled and patted their heads, his gaze fixed on them, and his panel appeared.

[Target: Xiaoqing/Xiaobai]

[Race: Thunderstorm Naga]

[Bloodline: Naga Serpent]

[Cultivation Level: First Tier Perfection: 6/30]

[Innate Spells: Naga True Form, Summoning Tides, Snake Control, Troop Recognition...]

[Status: One body, two souls, healthy]

About a year has passed.

Although Xiaoqing and Xiaobai are gluttonous and fond of dressing up, their cultivation has not lagged behind, and they have already accumulated the essence of the Six Paths Spiritual Ruins.

"Not bad..."

Zhu Yu nodded in satisfaction, pondered for a moment, and a bronze door ten feet tall appeared beside him. He reached inside and took out a rusty bronze box.

Wave to open.

A vertical pupil, as if carved from a sapphire, flew out from it.

Woohoo…

When Xiaoqing and Xiaobai saw it, they couldn't take their eyes off it, and their round, chubby faces showed excitement and longing.

Zhu Yu thought to himself, "Just as I expected..."

Last time it was the Naga horn, this time it's the Naga eye. He even suspects that "Lan" may have split up a Naga serpent.

Based on the information he had previously reviewed.

The "Naga Serpent" belongs to a mythical lineage from another world.

Legend has it that it is a natural water deity, a guardian beast of the Buddha, with nine heads, a single horn, and a snake's body...