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

Chapter 455 Sacrifice in the Destruction of the Town (Please Subscribe)

When the infant enters the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner".

Various pieces of information about it came to Zhu Yu's mind.

[The main soul of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner: Ghost Infant]

[Race: Huaiyin Ghost]

[Rank: Blood - Swimming "1%"]

【Mysterious Realm: Wood Control】

[Status: Severely Injured]

"So it was you..."

Zhu Yu suddenly realized why the ghost infant had appeared so suddenly, its aura vaguely familiar. It turned out that it was his old neighbor, "Huaiyin Gui," who had broken through the "Blood Travel" realm and shed the shackles of his old body.

She probably couldn't bear to leave him, so she chased after him.

That's what he thought; what the ghost baby really thought was irrelevant.

Coming to his senses, Zhu Yu looked down at the woman in red in the courtyard of the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" and, as if sensing something, chuckled and said, "Don't rush, I'll help you advance to the 'Blood Travel' realm next..."

He gently touched his chest, and the gruesome wound healed in an instant. He closed his eyes and focused his mind.

The long banner in his hand swayed with the sedan chair, and invisible sound waves rippled outwards. The monsters within a radius of a thousand meters sensed this and scattered and fled with screams.

whee...

The young couple, laughing and joking, rode in their sedan chairs like a gust of wind, weaving through the mountains and forests.

for a long time.

The sedan chair stopped in front of a black stone road less than ten feet wide. The boy and girl were still laughing and joking, but their dark eyes revealed fear. They tried to cross the black stone road several times, but never dared to actually cross it.

A wisp of black smoke escaped from the sedan chair.

He manifested as a middle-aged Taoist priest in a black robe, holding a long banner, with a cold and desolate expression. His gaze was fixed on the Black Stone Road, and information about it surfaced in his mind.

Its name is Yin Yang Dao.

It is another major protective barrier for mankind, besides the "Sun Flame".

It is not a monster, but a strange black stone made by humans from the corpses of monsters. Because it carries the aura of a high-level "monster", it can drive away low-level monsters and is often used by humans to pave roads.

Zhu Yu glanced at it and then looked away, looking up at the village across from the "Yin Yang Path" that was shrouded in a faint golden light.

"Xiaoxi Village——"

Without hesitation, he took a step forward, his body transforming into a wisp of black smoke, crossing the Yin-Yang Path, and silently merging into the darkness.

at this time.

Mi Zhenren and the others, who were rejected by Zhu Yu, were initially worried that the water ape would find them by following their trail. However, after several days of calm and no trace of the water ape, they gradually relaxed.

What puzzled and pleased them was...

Fang Cheng never returned after leaving.

Now the three of them were completely relieved. They would either go out to kill monsters and obtain black crystals, or go to other villages with weak yang energy and frequent monster invasions to secretly persuade the villagers to come to "Xiaoxi Village".

This will make the already weak solar flames in the village even weaker, and once the solar flames are extinguished, the village will completely cease to exist.

However, these things are irrelevant to them.

In just ten days.

Xiaoxi Village then gained fifty more people and became even more prosperous.

When Mi Zhenren and the others learned that the Blood Moon would arrive in five days, when the monsters would go mad and recklessly attack the village, they stopped going out and continued their daily patrols without fail.

This made the villagers of Xiaoxi Village even more respectful towards him.

This day.

Xiao Dinghai, accompanied by three guards, routinely patrolled the village to fetch water from the ponds used for irrigating farmland.

The guards were unaware that there was a spot at the bottom of the pond that was the location of the "Little West Village" Yangyan vulnerability, and also the location of the teleportation altar set up by Master Mi.

But Xiao Dinghai knew this all too well, so whenever he patrolled to the pond, he would use the excuse of caution to patrol around the pond once.

On the surface, he was on patrol, but in reality, he was extending his divine sense to check if there was anything unusual about the teleportation altar where the vulnerability was located.

And when he routinely released his divine sense to check.

His divine sense penetrated ten feet into the muddy pond, and a space of less than five square meters appeared in his mind. In the center of the space, there was a millstone-sized array base, which was inlaid with countless milky white spirit stones.

Xiao Dinghai glanced at it and confirmed that there was nothing wrong.

Just as he was about to withdraw his divine sense, he suddenly sensed a Taoist priest in a Taoist robe appearing in the space. He was stunned for a moment, and his expression changed slightly.

"Something's wrong, something's fishy—"

Fearing that the strange creatures might damage the array's foundation, Xiao Dinghai immediately wanted to jump into the pond. However, in his divine sense, he sensed that the Taoist had suddenly turned around, his dark and cold eyes seemingly looking at him.

His heart skipped a beat, and a chill ran through his body.

"It saw me—"

As soon as the thought flashed through his mind, Xiao Dinghai realized that the Taoist figure he had sensed with his divine sense had disappeared. His expression changed drastically, and a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

"Blood Realm Monster—"

"How is that possible? How did he find the vulnerability in the Yangyan?"

For some reason, Fang Cheng's face suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Damn it, it must be that treacherous villain—"

Xiao Dinghai cursed under his breath. Without thinking twice, he immediately reached into his robes to take out the "small lamp talisman" to warn the villagers and inform Master Mi and the others.

But as soon as he reached into his pocket, he felt a chilling coldness on his neck. His face froze, and when his gaze fell on the guard not far away, he saw fear in his eyes.

"So fast..."

With a crisp snap, the guard disappeared from Xiao Dinghai's sight, replaced by the pale and gloomy face of a Taoist priest.

"It's over..."

Zhu Yu gave him no chance to resist. With a quick contraction and expansion of the Ghost Domain "Pao Dan," Xiao Dinghai disappeared. He then turned his gaze to the three horrified and speechless guards.

His figure flickered, and by the time he regained his form, the three guards had vanished.

Zhu Yu remained indifferent, looking up at the brilliantly burning "Sun Flame" in the center of the village. After briefly assessing his own condition, he murmured, "My cultivation has been weakened by thirty percent...?"

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon Mi Zhenren, who had rushed out of the village entrance with a livid face, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"But that's enough..."

He raised his hand and planted the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" in the ground. The bell rang, the banner surface rippled, and three streams of light, one blue, one red, and one black, emerged from it, revealing the figures of a water ape, a ghost infant, and a ghost bride.

Zhu Yu raised his hand and waved.

Roar...

The water ape roared to the sky, and the pond water rose up and flowed into its body. Its body visibly expanded, and in just a few breaths, it transformed into a giant water ape that was nearly seventy feet tall.

The aura belonging to the "Blood Wanderer" realm was released unrestrainedly.

village.

Upon hearing the roar, the villagers all came out of their houses. When they saw the water ape with its billowing flames outside the village, they were all stunned. When they came to their senses, no one screamed or shouted. They suppressed their fear and silently led their families toward the "Yang Flame" in the center of the village.

Village entrance.

Li Zhan's gaze swept over the water ape, the strange infant, and the strange bride, then he looked at Master Mi with difficulty and asked, "Can we fight them?...?"

Master Mi paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and said decisively, "Go to Yangyan..."

Roar...

Just then, the water ape pounded its chest and let out a violent roar before leaping into the air.

"Walk."

Mi Zhenren's expression changed drastically, and he turned and ran towards the village.

boom...

A tremendous roar resounded, and without thinking, Master Mi leaped to the side.

next moment.

boom...

A fist the size of a house landed with a deafening roar, leaving a huge crater in the street. The shockwave swept through, and houses within a hundred meters around it vanished as if they had been plowed.

A layer of shimmering white shield rose around Mi Zhenren. With a few leaps, she reached the edge of the Yang Flame. Turning around, she didn't see Li Zhan's figure. Her heart sank. Looking at the approaching water ape, she turned to the seemingly stunned village chief and said in a deep voice, "Village chief, if you don't want to die now, then offer sacrifice to the Yang Flame..."

Faced with her piercing gaze, the village chief finally snapped out of his daze. He didn't say anything, turned around, looked at the villagers huddled together, took a deep breath, and said softly, "Those over twenty years old, come with me..."

Having said that, without caring whether anyone was listening, he smiled lightly and leaped towards the "Sun Flame".

A strange thing happened.

As he approached the "Sun Flame," the village chief seemed to shrink. When he was less than an inch away from the "Sun Flame," he had already turned into the size of a mosquito and rushed into the "Sun Flame" like a moth to a flame.

With a tearing sound.

The village chief silently turned into dust and fell to the ground.

The "Yang Flame" expanded slightly, almost imperceptibly.

The villagers fell silent for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen middle-aged people with graying hair stood up, broke free from their relatives' arms, smiled at them, and leaped towards "Yangyan".

The sounds of tearing and ripping were incessant, and faint sobs could be heard.

It seems they are wary of "Yangyan".

The water ape stopped when it got within ten zhang and began to walk slowly around it, occasionally throwing wooden beams and pebbles at the "Yang Flame," but they were all blocked by a light golden light shield.

However, "Sun Flame" is not without its costs.

Each time it is intercepted, "Sun Flame" weakens by one point.

Master Mi frowned and said coldly, "Not enough."

The crowd rioted for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a dozen or so people on the verge of adulthood stood up and, amidst faint sobs, threw themselves into the "Sun Flame".

A short while passed.

"continue."

Mi Zhenren's cold, emotionless voice rang out again.

The commotion intensified, and after a brief commotion, accompanied by cries, more than a dozen teenagers and even younger people were either pushed out of the crowd and personally sent into the "Yang Flame" by Master Mi, or were thrown directly into the "Yang Flame".

And their dedication.

It provided a full half-hour of safety for the crowd.

But the word "continue" came out of Mi Zhen's mouth.

The crowd became agitated for a moment.

A dozen or so villagers in their prime exchanged glances, stood up in unison, bowed to Master Mi, and said, "Please, 'Guardian,' dedicate your life force to extend the life of 'Little West Village' and prolong the burning time of the 'Yang Flame'."

"continue."

Master Mi didn't even glance at them, his gaze sweeping around the surroundings.

"Lord Garrison Commander..."

Before the villagers could say anything more, the figure of the "guardian" suddenly disappeared. When they came to their senses, what came into their view was a slightly swaying golden flame.

Tear...

A burning sound, like moths drawn to a flame, rang out.

The villagers' clamor abruptly ceased, their eyes fixed on the cold-faced Master Mi with terror.

Time passed slowly.

The tearing sound would occur every now and then.

Cries, shouts, and the sounds of fighting continued to rise. The villagers dared not provoke Master Mi and instead looked at the other villagers.

When the "Yang Flame" is weak.

Without Mi Zhenren speaking, the villagers would send the defeated villagers up to her to be placed into the "Yang Flame," and then a new round of fighting and selection would begin.

Life-or-death situations are when a person's potential is most unleashed.

As the villagers fought, one of them actually activated his Qi and Blood, becoming the second Qi and Blood Realm martial artist after Master Mi. He dared not provoke Master Mi, but the other villagers were no match for him.

"You, you, you come out—"

Before the "Yang Flame" could weaken, the villager named Gou Lengzi raised his hand and lightly tapped, breaking the limbs of the villagers who had beaten him hard earlier, and dragged them out.

He smiled obsequiously at Master Mi, then sat back down, but the surrounding villagers, as if struck by a strange phenomenon, scrambled to the side.

Dog Lengzi completely disregarded this, his gaze fixed on the water ape, the strange infant, and the strange bride moving around the "Yang Fire" outside, his eyes burning with desire.

"If I also had that power—"

Thoughts arise.

A seductive voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

"Do you want power—"

Dog-Lengzi's expression changed instantly. He looked at "Lord Garrison," then paused, stunned. "Not 'Lord Garrison'—"

"Don't look at her, don't overthink it. My name is Qingyangzi, the very being you humans fear—"

Gou Lengzi's expression changed drastically.

"Don't be afraid. Do you know Fang Cheng? That's right, he's the 'guardian' of Xiaoxi Village. I gave him the elixir, which allowed him to break through to the 'Ascension Realm.' He now works for me—"

Dog Lengzi's body stiffened, his eyes wide with disbelief. "Guard Fang is actually a treacherous villain—"

"Yes, yes—"

"Guard Fang only has one year left to live, and his vital energy has long since stagnated. Logically, he shouldn't be able to break through—"

Dog Lengzi immediately understood, his eyes flashing with hatred!

He wasn't a good person. He didn't feel anything special about Fang Cheng becoming a traitor. What he hated was that Fang Cheng should have dragged them down with him to become traitors.

If so.

So many people wouldn't have died in "Xiaoxi Village".

Far away by the pond, Zhu Yu, who had destroyed the foundation of Master Mi's town, sensed the thoughts transmitted by "Dog Fool," paused for a moment, then clapped his hands and praised, "He's a talent, it's a pity he's not human—"

A thought subtly stirred within me.

The seductive voice of Zhu Yu echoed in Gou Lengzi's mind once again.

"Destroy the statue, and I will bestow upon you the same miraculous elixir as Fang Cheng, helping you break through to the 'Ascension to the Sun' realm, and adding five years to your lifespan—"

""

Dog Lengzi's eyes lit up, and his breathing became heavier.

"Cough, choose death, or cough, like Fang Cheng—the choice is yours—"

After he finished speaking, a sudden silence fell.

Gou Lengzi struggled for a few moments, then remained silent. When the "Yang Flame" weakened, he broke the limbs of several villagers, just like last time, and sent them to Master Mi.

Watching the group throw themselves into the "Sun Flame".

Then he glanced at Master Mi, who seemed to have done something of utmost insignificance.

Gou Lengzi lowered his eyelids, turned around and went back to the crowd. Looking at the villagers who were desperately trying to get away from him, their eyes filled with resentment, he suddenly thought of something.

If the strange creature were to leave...

Who will bear the responsibility for relying on the people for sustenance?

The village chief? He's dead.

The garrison commander? Impossible.

Who else could they cough on?

hiss--

Dog Lengzi snapped to attention. He wasn't stupid. His previous actions must have offended the villagers. If the town came to inspect, he would most likely be the one pushed out to take the blame.

read this.

Instead of feeling afraid, he felt a surge of ruthlessness.

"If that's the case, then let's all just stop living—"

As for what Zhu Yu said...

Dog-Lengzi only believed less than 30%, and his chances of survival after the sculpture was knocked down were only based on a blind grasp of less than 10%.

Take a deep breath, suppress the jumble of thoughts in your mind, and quietly approach the sculpture.

Three feet closer.

Dog Lengzi suddenly erupted, gathering all his energy and kicking the sculpture hard with his leg.

click-

The "Yang Flame" sculpture was not made of any divine wood. Under the immense power of his advancement to the Qi and Blood Realm, the sculpture's legs exploded. Immediately afterward, Gou Lengzi kicked over the sculpture's arm that was supporting the "Yang Flame," and the "Yang Flame" flew into the air.

The protective shield flickered for a moment before collapsing with a deafening roar.

His actions happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that even Master Mi, who had focused all his attention on the water apes and other monsters, had no time to stop him.

As the enormous shadow descended, Mi Zhenren, enraged, laughed coldly and cursed, "You dog—"

boom--

The fist, as big as a house, fell, turning Mi Zhenren into a bloody pulp.

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