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Chapter 169 The Fifth Generation Source Master, Zhang Lin (4k)

The mountains surrounding Zishan are all extensions of Jiulong, with majestic peaks that resemble coiled dragons, stretching across the land.

Sha Xiao stood in front of a tall stone ridge, confirming the direction.

This is due east of Zishan Mountain. The mountain range is reddish-brown with some purple tinges, and it is an extension of Zishan Mountain.

Sha Xiao probed downwards with her divine sense and discovered that the dragon vein had long been hollowed out, and an underground dragon path extended towards Purple Mountain.

"This is it."

Sha Xiao stepped on the ground, found an ancient mine, and jumped down.

After falling straight for three thousand meters, Sha Xiao had a thought, and the Azure Lotus Imperial Weapon flew out, emitting a faint blue light that illuminated the dark cave.

After confirming once again that there was nothing wrong with his equipment, Sha Xiao strode forward directly toward Zishan.

Not long after, an invisible wind blade, accompanied by a fierce whistling sound, hurtled straight toward Sha Xiao.

Behind the wind blade was a humanoid creature that was two meters tall, with wings on its back that could spread out to four meters.

The humanoid creature's claws were like knives, gleaming coldly, aimed straight for Sha Xiao's throat.

At the same time, strange vibrations emanated from his mouth, and peculiar sound waves reflected back and forth in the mine, exerting several times the power, making people's eardrums buzz.

"Tsk"

Sha Xiao clicked his tongue helplessly, and with a thought, he froze the humanoid monster that was rushing towards him in mid-air.

"Is that some kind of baboon?"

Sha Xiao looked at the humanoid monster that resembled a giant bat and muttered a complaint in a low voice.

Of course, he also knew why this thing could ignore his pressure and rush over.

This thing is a demonic bat, a descendant of a great bat demon whose bloodline has degenerated.

They have harsh living conditions and can only survive in extremely inauspicious and yin-filled places, making them very rare.

These guys, who were almost driven by instinct, couldn't sense Sha Xiao's power at all.

Especially the set left behind by Master Yuan, the quality of which was excellent, completely sealing his aura.

Therefore, in the eyes of these guys, Sha Xiao was a delicious feast.

In the original story, Ye Fan also got quite entangled with these guys.

Despite his complaints, he quickened his pace.

Although these guys are incredibly weak, easily killed by an ordinary Dao Palace cultivator, that doesn't diminish their value.

Fearing these guys would escape, and worried that any large movements would trigger the array patterns inside Purple Mountain, Sha Xiao had no choice but to stride forward and run quickly inside.

Running and capturing as he went, Sha Xiao quickly advanced more than thirty miles into the interior of Zishan Mountain.

"Phew, not bad, quite a haul."

Sha Xiao looked at the long line of demonic bats of varying sizes behind her and smiled with satisfaction.

His hard work along the way was finally worthwhile; these many demonic bats could be used as one of the main ingredients for refining the Six-Turn Five-Blessing Gu.

"Hmm, it would be too wasteful to use it directly. Let's leave it underground in Qingmao Mountain for a while first."

Sha Xiao pondered in her heart, sealing these demonic bats and solemnly putting them into the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

After tidying up these treasures, Sha Xiao used the radiance of the Azure Lotus Imperial Weapon to observe the surrounding environment.

The ground had been covered with a thick layer of grayish-white dust at some point.

The biting cold seeped upwards from the white ash.

As Sha Xiao took her first step, breaking the balance that had lasted for thousands of years, the bitter cold, like the extreme ice of the northern plains, crept upwards along the stone lining.

Delay.

The icy shards of ice spread up my calves, then fell off little by little, smashing down more white ash and making the cold even more intense.

Sha Xiao frowned. The Myriad Green Immortal Gu caused his heart to pound, and the speed of blood circulation throughout his body instantly doubled.

Crimson blood replaced the chaotic blood, and Sha Xiao silently transformed back into his sacred body.

The crimson blood exuded a vibrant energy, melting away the chilling ice shards.

But that chilling feeling clung to Sha Xiao like a maggot, never leaving, just waiting for the moment he weakened.

Even within Sha Xiao's body, at the deepest part of the crimson holy blood, wisps of chilling curse power were drawn out, ready to launch an attack from within and without.

Sha Xiao was not surprised but delighted. He quickly closed his eyes and carefully sensed the location of the cold, yin energy within his body.

This is a rare opportunity. If he can find the trajectory of that power, Sha Xiao feels that he might be able to uncover the red-haired calamity that is troubling the Holy Body.

Even if it cannot be completely solved, it can at least be prevented and alleviated.

But that aura seemed to possess sentience; the moment it sensed Sha Xiao's divine sense, it vanished in the blink of an eye.

"trouble."

Sha Xiao opened her eyes and exhaled a breath of white air.

When the white vapor came into contact with the outside air, it instantly froze the void, producing a crackling sound.

That force was too fast; it vanished without a trace before he could even touch it.

"Damn it, now I know why even the Western Emperor can't solve this problem."

Sha Xiao cursed under her breath.

Although it was only for a moment, thanks to his unique perspective as the Supreme Being of the Gu Realm, he still managed to glimpse a corner of this curse.

This curse is completely and utterly bound to the divine power of the Holy Communion.

They have mixed into the foundation of the Holy Body Path and are part of the Holy Body's powerful strength.

To accurately remove it, a Holy Emperor would be needed to remove it from the Heavenly Heart Mark.

"This curse was probably planted by them when the hybrid monster attained enlightenment. It was both a means of controlling the hybrid monster and a form of retaliation against the Holy Body."

Sha Xiao opened her eyes and let out a somewhat disappointed sigh.

It will be difficult for him to eradicate this curse in a short period of time.

Composing himself, Sha Xiao did not shy away from seeking medical help. He continued to ignite the powerful blood and energy of his Sacred Body, forcefully sweeping away the cold and yin energy, and strode forward along the gray-white road toward Purple Mountain.

Not far along, numerous stone carvings appeared on the cave walls, all left by ancient diggers using knives and axes.

The very simple pattern records the various aspects of the excavation back then. Sha Xiao did not rush to skim over it just because she knew about it from the original work, but instead patiently looked at it carefully.

The entire stone carving is clearly a historical record that was consciously collected and carved by later generations.

The story is etched from the outside in, in chronological order from beginning to end.

At first, the diggers unearthed strange things, and many people died.

But it's clear that these diggers didn't stop; they continued digging deeper.

Soon, on the stone wall, a creature with a single horn between its eyebrows was unearthed from the mine by the ancients; almost everyone had perished.

This person, with horns growing from between his eyebrows, has six arms and a pair of wings, and looks down upon the world.

In the scene, he roars to the sky, the earth cracks, the mine collapses, and underground magma gushes out.

Looking at the Daoist aura on the stone carving, Sha Xiao had some guesses about the person who carved it and the beings in the painting: "Is this the Eight Legions left behind by the Undying Emperor? Impressive, their strength is indeed extraordinary. I'm afraid I can't match that aura now."

As you continue walking in, the story unfolds.

The humanoid creature with a horn between its eyebrows knelt down and kowtowed to a huge source.

The peerless divine source has not yet appeared, but the number of corpses around it is increasing, piling up into mountains, and many people's clothes are still there.

Sha Xiao saw the clothing of Yaochi, the Jiang family, the Ji family, and others inside. Moreover, those clothes belonged to people at least at the level of Supreme Elders.

The blood gathered into a real river, meandering into the distance, like a scene from hell.

The creature with a single horn between its brows, six arms under its shoulders, and wings on its back knelt devoutly beside the divine source from beginning to end.

"Tsk tsk, what a disaster."

Sha Xiao shook her head, showing no sorrow whatsoever for the great catastrophe of the past.

It is quite obvious that the operation to excavate Zishan was orchestrated by these few extreme factions themselves.

As you continue downwards, the amount of blood and corpses increases, staining the entire stone wall red.

It wasn't until the very end, when a powerful human being shrouded in a halo descended from the sky, that everything began to change.

Its appearance was obscured, and it was impossible to determine whether it was male or female. Its entire body was surrounded by auspicious colors, with only the character "帝" (Emperor) inscribed above its head.

As soon as the Great Emperor descended, the humanoid creature with horns between its brows, who devoutly guarded the divine source, was directly slammed into the ground and suppressed.

The unparalleled being within that peerless divine source was directly forced to break its source, leaving it no choice but to confront the Great Emperor Wushi, who was bearing the Wushi Bell.

The stone carvings depicting the subsequent battle scene have long since vanished, unable to bear the weight of the two figures' Daoist essence for long.

In the end, we saw the Great Emperor Wushi suppress that peerless figure back into the source and seal him away completely.

That aura was overwhelming, and the ancients, with their simple strokes, managed to capture a bit of the soul, expressing the supreme power of that emperor.

The clouds in all directions vanished, the aura pierced the sky, the stars and moon trembled, and a trace of the emperor's power actually remained on the stone wall.

"Tsk tsk, I know who drew this."

Sha Xiao stood before this stone wall, quietly sensing the Daoist aura mixed with the might of the Great Emperor Wushi.

He let out a long breath, opened his eyes, and was certain that this was definitely painted by Gu Tianshu.

Seeing the stone wall where the Great Emperor Wushi had summoned the Wushi Bell, Sha Xiao couldn't help but complain, "Using the Wushi Bell to deal with an Immortal Empress? This is definitely a trap!"

People who are unaware of this history, such as Gu Tianshu, would naturally not notice anything amiss.

But to Sha Xiao, who knew everything, all of this seemed utterly illogical.

With Emperor Wushi's strength, even if he was only a newly ascended Quasi-Emperor, Sha Xiao felt that with a little effort, he could directly suppress the Undying Empress.

The Wushi Bell displayed on this stone wall already possesses a trace of supreme power, indicating that the Wushi Emperor had already become an emperor at this time.

If he wanted to, he could have killed the Immortal Queen with a single finger; why would he need to take out the Boundless Bell and eventually seal her away?

Sha Xiao thought about Hei Huang's character and shook her head.

Hmm, Emperor Wushi must have done something to the Immortal Empress.

He couldn't say exactly what he had done.

However, he was certain that the fact that the Immortal Emperor no longer cared about his eldest son and that his love-hate relationship with the Great Emperor Wushi after entering the strange world was definitely related to this.

Otherwise, having already entered the strange world, given the nature of the Undying Emperor, he should have focused all his energy on paving the way to immortality, so why would he still be entangled with the Great Emperor Wushi?

After examining the stone wall and noting down the Daoist essence belonging to Gu Tianshu, Sha Xiao continued walking into the interior of Zishan Mountain.

After walking another thirty miles or so, the grayish-white soil beneath Sha Xiao's feet had grown from a thin layer to an ankle-deep layer.

"Tsk tsk, quite a few people died here. It's probably a dead lineage. No wonder the Ji family forgot about the records of Zishan in the original story."

Sha Xiao stepped deeper into the interior, treading on the ashes scattered on the ground.

Gradually, he passed through the ashes, and the ground beneath his feet turned into white bones that had not decayed or become clean even after tens of thousands of years.

These bones, having endured tens of thousands of years, are incredibly fragile and crumble at the slightest touch.

"It's pitiful. He was once a warrior from a powerful family, but now all that's left in the palace is this pile of rotten bones."

Sha Xiao looked at the bones scattered on the ground and sighed.

With a flick of his right hand, he retrieved the Five-Turn Killing Move, the White Bone Chariot, from the hollow opening.

Sha Xiao then took out a blood-red Gu worm that resembled a book; this was a fifth-level bloodline Gu.

He rolled the Bloodline Gu into a long strip and injected it into the White Bone Chariot.

The fifth-level bloodline gu immediately burrowed into the hollow bones of countless white bones like a small snake.

The crimson light blended seamlessly with the white bones, making the bones appear even more lustrous.

"Go, gather up these warriors who have persevered until now. After all, a covenant was signed; bring them home."

"Boom!"

The white bone chariot slowly drove towards the road paved with bones, its crimson light flashing as it pulverized and absorbed irrelevant bones, enveloping and collecting the bones belonging to the Ji and Jiang families.

Suddenly, with a clanging sound of chains rattling and an aura a hundred times colder than bone ash, the white bone chariot rushed towards it.

Sha Xiao's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he suddenly blocked the way in front of the white bone warship.

He stared at a dark, deep hole in the rock wall of the mine, about a hundred feet away, from which the sound of iron chains swaying was coming.

That cave was incredibly deep, its biting cold chill chilling and terrifying, emanating a tangible substance that felt like needles when it touched the skin.

Ding usually experiences pain.

From the depths of the black hole, a barely audible roar could be heard, revealing a locked-up, ferocious creature spying on him from within.

Sha Xiao clearly saw many ghostly figures among the piles of withered bones shatter with that roar, turning into yin energy and being swallowed into the black hole.

"Is that you?"

With a question in his heart, Sha Xiao raised the stone knife in his right hand and stepped in front of the stone cave.

The radiance of the Azure Lotus Imperial Weapon shone into the stone cave, and he was determined to find out more.

"Splash!"

The roar and the clanging of chains vanished instantly, and a wisp of Yin energy, powerful enough to corrupt even a Dao-slaying king, formed a vengeful ghost that suddenly burst forth.

"Sizzle"

Although the yin energy was completely consumed by the brilliance of the imperial weapon in just one second, that being had vanished.

Sha Xiao carefully entered the stone cave, and a large, barely healed purple hole appeared before him.

That being clearly used some unknown means to lure a part of Purple Mountain here, blocking Sha Xiao's possibility of tracking it.

"It really is you, Zhang Yu, the fifth-generation Source Cleansing Master."

Sha Xiao stared at the gradually healing purple mountain stone wall without the slightest surprise.

After thinking for a while, Sha Xiao did not chase after them, but slowly retreated.

Chasing after Yuan Jieshi in a place like this would be the work of a madman.

Anyway, Zhang Li doesn't owe Zishan anything. Once he rescues Zhou Yi and Jiang Taixu, he'll have plenty of time to catch him.

Standing on the muddy ground, which had only seen the sun again after tens of thousands of years, Sha Xiao put away the white bone chariot that had completed its bone collection mission and continued walking into the interior of Purple Mountain.

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