Eternal Life: My Millennia in the Jiaofang Division

"you win!"

Zhou Lie sighed, then stopped talking nonsense and directly mobilized his magic power to start refining the incense peach wood branches.

Zhao Mu smiled slightly.

In fact, his original plan was to directly search the soul array and then kill the opponent.

But then he suddenly thought that Zhou Lie, the possessed demon, could be used in the Hanhai Continent, so he changed his mind.

Ignoring the array of peach trees refining incense, Zhao Mu lowered his head and began to study the stone statues.

He tried pouring mana into the stone statue to figure out its internal structure, but his eyes suddenly widened.

Because under the exploration of magic power, this stone statue turned out to be extremely ordinary. Not only did there not be anything strange inside, but even the previous strong demonic energy disappeared. It seemed that it was really a stone statue carved from ordinary stone.

"What's going on?" Zhao Mu frowned.

Of course he knew that the stone statue could not be an ordinary stone.

The only explanation is that the stone statue has hidden its power in some way, and only a specific method can make it manifest its mystery again.

"It seems that I have to ask him how to activate the stone statue."

Zhao Mu looked at Zhou Lie.

Time passed in a hurry, and a few days passed by in the blink of an eye.

The fragrant peach wood branches were gradually refined by Zhou Lie, and the essence of his body also underwent earth-shaking changes.

The demonic body that was corrupted from the inside was transformed into the body of incense and righteousness.

From then on, Zhou Lie no longer had to worry about dying because of the demonic decay of his body.

But on the other hand, his cultivation level dropped sharply, from the sage realm to the sea of ​​suffering realm, with staggering losses.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

Relying on incense and peach wood to convert to the divine way, the ultimate strength does not depend on the practitioner's own cultivation, but on the level of merit.

Just like Master Changkong back then, although he was only in the Saint Realm, after converting to Shintoism, he was directly promoted to the Quasi-God Realm by virtue of his great merits in guarding the desperate situation of Han Yuan and protecting the common people.

Zhou Lie obviously had no great merits in this life.

Therefore, his cultivation level declined instead of rising, and he was almost beaten to the bottom.

After a long time, Zhou Lie took a long breath and slowly opened his eyes.

He felt his own cultivation level and said bitterly: "My lord, is the degree of my cultivation level declining a bit too exaggerated?"

"Who's to blame? Isn't it your fault?"

Zhao Mu shook his head and said: "It can be seen from your merits that for thousands of years, you may not be full of evil, but you must not have done many good deeds to benefit the people."

"That's why your cultivation level dropped to this level after you converted to Shintoism. In fact, you should have burned incense even if your cultivation level had not been lost directly."

Zhao Mu waved his hand: "Okay, don't worry about cultivation. It will be of great use to you if Pindao lets you convert to Shinto."

"In the future, as long as you follow Pindao's instructions and perform your duties as a priest, you will naturally be able to accumulate a lot of incense merit, restore your cultivation, and even become stronger."

"Yes, my lord!"

Zhou Lie promised.

"Let's get down to business."

Zhao Mu pointed to the stone statue in his hand and asked, "Where did you get this stone statue?"

"Reporting to my lord, this stone statue was picked up by my subordinates at the edge of the Southern Territory and the Endless Wasteland."

Zhou Lie replied.

"Endless Wasteland? What are you doing there?" Zhao Mu was surprised.

The Purple Void Continent is divided into five major regions, namely the Eastern Divine Land, the Western Trial Land, the Southern Land, the Northern Demonic Land, and the Demonic Realm of Death located in the center of the continent.

The five major domains are separated by endless wasteland and have no borders with each other.

The endless wasteland is extremely dangerous, and there are countless terrifying beings in it. Even masters of the Domination Realm cannot guarantee absolute safety when they enter it.

Therefore, ordinary monks would not even dare to get close, let alone entering the endless wasteland.

Therefore, it seems a bit strange that Zhou Lie would actually go to the edge of the endless wasteland.

"This subordinate did not go there voluntarily."

Zhou Lie smiled bitterly and said: "My subordinate is a disciple of Qingxiao Sect. He has been practicing in the sect for many years. Even after he became a disciple, he has never left Qingxiao Sect too far."

"Until one day four thousand years ago, when my subordinate was practicing in Qingxiao Sect, he suddenly felt a demonic nature emerging from his body, and he went crazy."

"At that time, I thought I was going to die, but I didn't expect that a mysterious voice appeared, which reduced the damage caused by the demonic nature to my body."

"The voice claimed to be the Demon God and said that my qualifications are suitable for cultivating the Demonic Way. If I can go and worship him as my teacher, it is not impossible to become the master of the Demonic Way in the future."

"My subordinate actually refused at the time. After all, Lord, you also know that in the hearts of us immortal cultivators, the devil is usually not a good thing."

"But it's a pity that the demon god didn't give his subordinate a chance to refuse. He directly affected his subordinate's mind and made him involuntarily leave Qingxiao Sect and go all the way to the endless wasteland."

"In the end, my subordinate picked up this stone statue at the junction of the Endless Wasteland and the Southern Territory, and became his puppet from then on."

Zhao Mu pondered slightly: "Then do you know what this stone statue looks like and who it is? Did the so-called demon god tell you his true identity?"

"No, he has always called himself the Demon God." Zhou Lie shook his head.

It seems that it is impossible to determine whether the stone statue is related to Ancient Emperor Xingyue from Zhou Lie.

Zhao Mu thought for a moment and then asked: "Then do you know why the devil chose you?"

"I know. I asked him before."

Zhou Lie nodded and said, "The demon god told me that I had been parasitized by something with demonic nature in the past."

"Although that thing has been cleared by some mysterious existence, there is still some demonic nature in my body."

"And the existence of this demonic nature determines that my body will not reject the demonic energy of the stone statue, so the demon god chose me."

So that's it!

Zhao Mu suddenly realized and naturally guessed that the demon god was referring to the incarnation of the poisonous miasma spirit.

But...

Zhao Mu pondered and asked, "Did the demon god tell you where the mysterious existence that helped you clear the parasites in your body came from?"

"No."

Zhou Lie shook his head: "The demon god said that the mysterious existence seemed to have cut off the fate of cause and effect long ago and was not in the secret of heaven, so he didn't know who the other party was."

Fortunately!

Zhao Mu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the demon god was not aware of the existence of the original body, so he could rest assured.

He asked again: "The last question, why do you restrict the 12th-grade masters of the Eternal Galaxy from breaking through the Immortal Realm?"

"Restrict the masters of the Eternal Galaxy from breaking through?"

Zhou Lie asked in surprise: "Master, are you mistaken? I have never done such a thing?"

"More than three thousand years ago, I followed the instructions of the Demon God and brought the stone statue into the Eternal Galaxy, and then hid in the Pregnant Sword Star."

"Over the years, I have been refining the stone statue and have never done anything else?"