Seeking Immortality

Three days later. On the seventh day of the foggy month, the dragon and the phoenix gather together. It is auspicious to travel far away, but be cautious in offering sacrifices.

Although the prosperous Middle Earth is known to be prosperous and fertile, everything in the world has its ups and downs. Even in the prosperous Middle Earth, it is inevitable that there will be one or two sandy and barren mountains, such as the Gadfly Mountain.

The Gadfly Mountain is located 300 miles south of Jiuhua Mountain, covering an area of ​​about 1,000 mu and about 100 feet high. In addition to the barren scene with no grass, it is really an inconspicuous barren mountain. There is no one living within a hundred miles around. The mortal humans who once lived here have moved to those prosperous places early. The top of Jiuhua Mountain is even more desolate.

At this moment, there was a sudden roar from the top of the Gadfly Mountain, which was originally quiet. In the roar, the seemingly hard ground on the top of the mountain was about to crack, and a deep and dark cave suddenly appeared in it.

Then, a violent gray gust of wind suddenly rolled out from the darkness, and quickly appeared on the top of the Gadfly Mountain, blowing wildly.

Suddenly, the gray gusts on the top of the mountain began to condense together, and slowly condensed into a human shape. When the human shape appeared, the gusts on the mountain suddenly disappeared, but a young man in white suddenly appeared on the top of the Gadfly Mountain, looking quietly into the distance, with a look of emotion on his face.

This man in white was particularly conspicuous with a jade pendant surrounded by purple air hanging around his waist. He had long hair tied up, a delicate face, and a calm and elegant expression, but the faint scar on his right cheek and the phoenix tattoo under his left eye made him look more vicissitudes and mysterious. It was Xu Qingfan who had just sneaked away from Jiuhua Mountain in the name of retreat.

Under the sunshine, looking at the land below the mountain, Xu Qingfan murmured to himself: "Finally I'm down the mountain. How long have I not seen the outside world?"

I have to say. Living in Jiuhua Mountain for many years, up to now and fifty years, apart from practicing in seclusion, he has been dealing with the mundane affairs of Jiuhua Mountain. Only occasionally teaching Ting'er to cultivate immortality, or chatting with Jin Qinghan and others can be used as leisure. Even if Xu Qingfan's mood is calm, he will feel bored and monotonous. And now, after fifty years, he went down the mountain again. Xu Qingfan has changed from the ignorant boy who barely reached the spiritual silence period to a master who has reached the middle stage of the virtual pill, one of the high-level people in Jiuhua Mountain. Although his mentality is different and he no longer has too much yearning for the prosperity and bustle of the mortal world, looking at the endless scene of heaven and earth. Xu Qingfan still couldn't help but feel open-minded.

Suddenly, Xu Qingfan remembered the wishes he had when he first cultivated immortality. One was to kill the blue-eyed cloud-kicking beast with his own strength, the second was to reach the realm of the Jindan stage and comprehend the ethereal heavenly way, and the third was to use the long life of cultivating immortality to visit the scenery of various places in the vast land of Shenzhou.

When Xu Qingfan just had these three wishes, although he was looking forward to it, he did not dare to look forward to it. Because with his qualifications, it was a slim hope to complete these three wishes. And Xu Qingfan only imagined it occasionally when he was wandering in his mind, but he himself had no confidence whether it could be realized.

But now, time has passed silently, and it has been a hundred years since he cultivated immortality. Unknowingly, Xu Qingfan has already completed two of his wishes. Looking back, even Xu Qingfan himself seemed like a dream.

"When all the troubles now are over, I will put down all the burdens on my body. Just like I imagined at the beginning, I will travel around the world."

Xu Qingfan murmured.

Eating wind and drinking dew, traveling to the North Sea in the morning and returning to the mountains in the evening, free and unrestrained, the so-called immortal.

With Xu Qingfan's current magical power, in the eyes of ordinary people, even in the eyes of those low-level immortals, he is considered an immortal, but in Xu Qingfan's eyes, this is an immortal.

In the sunshine and breeze, Xu Qingfan just kept looking at the scenery outside Jiuhua Mountain and breathing the air outside Jiuhua Mountain. After a long time, he sighed with satisfaction, and suddenly a cloud of auspicious clouds rose under his feet, carrying Xu Qingfan away from the top of the Gadfly Mountain.

The auspicious clouds under his feet, the colorful clouds, the fluttering sleeves, seemed like an immortal.

Since he comprehended the magical power of "Desolate Wind", Xu Qingfan has not flown with clouds for a long time unless it is necessary, but often uses the stunt of turning into wind to fly. First, after turning into wind, the speed is faster and more flexible, and it is secretive and not easy to get hurt. Secondly, it is also because after turning into wind, Xu Qingfan can feel some freedom and unrestrained pleasure in the wind.

But at this time, Xu Qingfan was flying on the clouds, because after turning into wind, he could only use his spiritual sense to explore the surroundings. Xu Qingfan now wanted to stand quietly on the cloud and take a closer look at the scenery of Shenzhou. After all, he had longed for it.

Unfortunately, Shenzhou was no longer the Shenzhou in Xu Qingfan's mind.

"The other two things Uncle Liu told me are too dangerous to achieve with my current cultivation. I'd better go to the market first and find the old beggar to help me refine and upgrade the magic weapon. This will be a little safer."

As Xu Qingfan left and his back gradually disappeared, only this gentle sentence remained in Gadfly Mountain, with a trace of longing in his contemplation.

Xu Qingfan stood quietly under the auspicious clouds, quietly looking at the chaos under his feet.

On the mountain road, fighting, roaring, crying, madness, trembling, countless negative emotions were spreading in this noise.

It turned out that a group of bandits were surrounding and killing dozens of people who looked like refugees.

Before Xu Qingfan accepted Liu Huaxiang's secret transformation, he had learned about the situation outside Jiuhua Mountain from Liu Huaxiang, who had gone down the mountain to collect the essence of wronged souls. In Liu Huaxiang's words, the world of immortal cultivation was in chaos, while the mortal world was left with endless despair. Wars were rampant, banditry was rampant, and order was in chaos. Even in those big cities, people were killed in the streets under the scorching sun every day, but the murderers walked away. Due to years of war, young and strong men in the vast land of China were becoming increasingly scarce, and the army was powerless, so many people were forced to take up arms. Even the leaders of one side did not feel safe at all. Not to mention control.

At that time, Liu Huaxiang had asserted that as long as this chaos continued for a hundred years, the number of humans in the mortal world might only be less than one tenth.

Now, it has been nearly fifty years since Liu Huaxiang asserted.

While cultivating immortals, they also protected the world of immortal cultivation in the mortal world, but because of their own chaos, they had no time to care about the successive wars and disorderly chaos in the mortal world.

This kind of scene under Xu Qingfan's feet was the seventeenth time that Xu Qingfan had encountered during the short period of time since he came down the mountain. He was very angry when he encountered such a scene several times before, and he killed the murderous robbers, villains and even the out-of-control officers and soldiers instantly. But when Xu Qingfan encountered this situation one after another, he only felt a strong sense of powerlessness.

Even if he could save a group of people, other places were still in chaos. People were still being killed. At this time, the entire Shenzhou was crazy. Human life seemed so worthless at this time. Even if Xu Qingfan did nothing and ran back and forth, how many people's fate could he change? Even if Xu Qingfan could kill tens of millions of people by himself, what changes could he make to Shenzhou?

Whenever he realized this problem, Xu Qingfan always felt a strong sense of helplessness in his heart. A kind of powerlessness and frustration of yearning for peace. Encountering chaos. But unable to change.

At this time, some of the strong and strong among the refugees were fighting hard with the robbers. Although they were outnumbered and only had sticks and canes in their hands, they were determined to protect their families and managed to tie with the bandits holding sharp blades in a short time.

Suddenly, a bandit chopped down the refugees blocking him with an axe, and with a ferocious look on his face, he rushed towards the group of old and weak people who were trembling not far in front of him. And the closest to him. A village woman holding a baby was screaming loudly. But she could not stop the bandit from rushing towards her.

Seeing that the village woman and the baby in her arms were about to die, Xu Qingfan frowned. He was about to stop him.

But just as Xu Qingfan took out the "Rainbow Ruler" and had no time to make a move, he suddenly heard a loud shout from the sky: "How dare you!!"

The voice contained extremely powerful spiritual energy, which made the bandits' ears tinnitus. Some bandits even felt that the loud shouting even shook their bodies apart, and they fell to the ground with weak hands and feet. But strangely, the refugees did not show any abnormality in the shouting, and still used the wooden sticks in their hands to hit the robbers in front of them. For a while, many of the robbers who had the upper hand were killed or injured by the short sticks in the hands of the refugees.

In the madness of the vast land of China at this time, even the poor homeless people like refugees had to become cruel in order to survive and protect their families.

But Xu Qingfan had no time to sigh about these things at this time, but looked up in the direction of the sound from the sky, but suddenly a black dot appeared in the sky, vaguely in the shape of a **, and flew towards here quickly. In a blink of an eye, a man in green suddenly appeared in front of the refugees.

But the man in green had a middle-aged face, and according to Xu Qingfan's judgment, he had the cultivation of the initial stage of spiritual silence. A white jade plate under his feet carried him in the air, and his face was full of dust. At this time, he was coldly looking at the bandits who were shaking and shouting "God, spare my life". Suddenly, he snorted coldly and raised his right hand. Suddenly, green light flashed around him. When the light faded, he saw that the bandits had died, but there was no abnormality in their appearance.

"Qingling Soul Piercing Technique? So this young man is a disciple of Qingxu Sect? That's good, it saves me a lot of investigation."

Xu Qingfan murmured.

Among Liu Huaxiang's three last wishes, one was related to "Qingxu Sect". When Liu Huaxiang went down the mountain to collect the blood of wronged souls for Xu Qingfan to perform the secret method, he heard that the leaders of "Qingxu Sect" and "* Sect" Qinglingzi and Jiuze Zhenren were overthrown by their disciples and other leaders were appointed. He was full of doubts. Jiuze Zhenren Xu Qingfan didn't know much about him, but Qing Lingzi, the head of "Qingxu Sect", was very wise, did things without leaking any water, and had a good reputation. How could he be overthrown suddenly? At the same time, Liu Huaxiang's old friend, who was also a cultivator in the Mahayana period, Qing Lingzi's master Zizhen Immortal, did not react at all. Liu Huaxiang instinctively felt something was wrong, but at that time he felt that he had been targeted and time was urgent. So he did not react, but left a will for Xu Qingfan, asking Xu Qingfan to sneak into "Qingxu Sect", find Zizhen Immortal, and hand him a letter.

But Xu Qingfan had been in Jiuhua Mountain for a full fifty years, and he didn't know the situation outside Jiuhua Mountain. Although he saved some innocent people in the past few days, he only knew some things in the mortal world. He still didn't know the changes in the world of immortal cultivation over the years. Since this man in green was an immortal cultivator and a disciple of "Qingxu Sect", Xu Qingfan didn't have to make a lot of inquiries.

At this moment, the man in Tsing Yi had already calmed down the refugees, turned around and left with his weapons amidst everyone's shouts of thanks.

Xu Qingfan's heart moved slightly. Ye Yuyun followed the man in Tsing Yi from a distance until he was sure that the refugees could no longer see him and others. Xu Qingfan suddenly revealed his figure and shouted to the man in Tsing Yi who was flying with his weapon. He said, "Fellow Taoist, please stay."

After hearing Xu Qingfan's voice, the man in Tsing Yi's reaction was far more violent than Xu Qingfan expected. The man in Tsing Yi's body shook violently the moment Xu Qingfan spoke. Then suddenly turned around. He took out a blue spiritual sword, and his body was filled with spiritual energy. Green light flashed, and then he stared at Xu Qingfan with wary eyes.

Seeing the reaction of the man in Tsing Yi, Xu Qingfan was slightly startled, cupped his hands and said, "Fellow Taoist, don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm."

At this time, the man in Tsing Yi looked at Xu Qingfan carefully and was suddenly stunned. Then quickly put away the magic weapon in his hand and the aura on his body. Then he bowed to Xu Qingfan and said: "It turned out to be a senior in the world of immortality. You also know the situation in the world of immortality now. But it is the junior who overreacted. Junior Wan Yusheng, please ask the senior for his surname."

Xu Qingfan saw the contrast between the front and back of the man in Tsing Yi. He was slightly stunned and understood what the man in Tsing Yi was thinking. He thought that the man in Tsing Yi originally thought that Xu Qingfan had ill intentions towards him, but now he couldn't see through Xu Qingfan's cultivation at all. At that time, I immediately knew that Xu Qingfan had at least reached the Danjie stage of cultivation. If he wanted to do something bad to him, he could just do it. There was no need to say hello at all, but he didn't care in his heart. It was just the first time he was called a senior. , I can’t help but feel a little weird. But he still smiled and said: "I'm a casual cultivator, Xu Fan. I saw that fellow Taoist just used the technique of stabbing the soul with the green spirit, but is he a disciple of the Qingxu sect?"

However, Xu Qingfan thought that Jiuhua Mountain was in the period of closure at this time. If he claimed to be an elder of Jiuhua, he did not know what subsequent reactions would be elicited, so he simply called himself a rogue cultivator and used his previous name of "Xu Fan".

Hearing Xu Qingfan's words, a trace of doubt flashed in Wan Yusheng's eyes. After all, there are very many monks in the alchemy stage among the casual cultivators in the world of immortality today, and those casual cultivators who have reached the alchemy stage are all well-known people in the world, but they are I have never heard of the name "Xu Fan". What's more, given the current situation in the world of cultivating immortals, do any casual cultivators dare to leave the cult at will?

Although he was confused, Wan Yusheng's face remained calm. He just bowed to Xu Qingfan again, and then said: "It turns out to be Senior Xu. Please forgive me for the rudeness that I just made."

Xu Qingfan smiled and said, "You haven't answered my question yet. Are you a monk from Qingxu Sect?"

Hearing Xu Qingfan's question, Wan Yusheng showed a look of sadness and hesitation on his face. After a long time, he said solemnly: "This junior was indeed a disciple of the Qingxu Sect before, but now, according to the world of immortality, he is a disciple of the Qingxu Sect. traitor."

Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned and asked: "According to the world of immortality? What's the explanation?"

Hearing Xu Qingfan's question, Wan Yusheng was stunned and asked: "Senior, don't you know about the changes in my Qingxu Sect?"

Xu Qingfan's heart moved slightly, and then he said calmly: "I have been cultivating in seclusion for many years. Now that I think about it, it has been a hundred years, so I don't know much about the current world of immortality. I would like to ask fellow Taoists to clarify my doubts." When Xu Qingfan said this, a look of surprise flashed in Wan Yusheng's eyes, but he did not answer Xu Qingfan's question. Instead, he said: "Senior, you came out at the wrong time. The world of immortality is really in chaos now. According to some seniors, But it’s a harbinger of the coming catastrophe.”

Under Xu Qingfan's continuous questioning, Wan Yusheng slowly told Xu Qingfan about the changes in the world of immortality over the years, which made Xu Qingfan secretly shocked when he heard it.

It turns out that many drastic changes have taken place in the world of immortality in recent years. First, Jiuhua Mountain was closed, and then the "* Palace" was destroyed overnight. Then the "* Sect" took over the "* Palace" and became one of the new six holy places. However, Soon after, Jiuzizhenren, the head of the "Japanese Sect", was overthrown by his disciples, and his eldest disciple Deng Tianbao became the new head of the "Japanese Sect". Almost at the same time, Qing Lingzi, the head of the "Qingxu Sect", was also overthrown by an elder with ulterior motives. Wan Yusheng was Qing Lingzi's direct disciple. During the chaos, he escaped with some elders and brothers. After leaving the "Qingxu Sect", they were declared traitors by the "Qingxu Sect". Although the entire world of cultivators knew that Wan Yusheng and others were innocent, there was nothing they could do. In recent years, he has been hunted by the "Qingxu Sect" and some unknown monks. That's why Wan Yusheng was so nervous when he met Xu Qingfan just now, and he claimed to be a traitor of the "Qingxu Sect".

And according to rumors in the world of immortality, at the same time that the "Qingxu Sect" and the "Five Elements Sect" were in trouble, the other two sects of the Six Holy Lands, the "Ciyun Temple" and the "Five Elements Sect", also encountered some elders who united to overthrow the current incumbent. The leader's situation arose, but both Master Xu Heng of "Ciyun Temple" and Zeng Lianxian, the leader of "Five Elements Sect", managed to suppress the chaos by relying on their strength and prestige.

Things have reached this point, coupled with the previous catastrophe in Jiuhua Mountain and the chaos in the Imperial Palace, no matter how dull everyone in the world of immortality is, they can feel the undercurrent surging in the entire world of immortality, and people are panicked for a while.

At the same time, the most powerful sect outside the Six Holy Lands, the "Bahuang Palace", suddenly increased in strength and was actually still faintly above the Six Holy Lands. It has been annexing some small sects over the years. "Ciyun Temple" and "Five Elements Sect" wanted to stop it, but the strength displayed by "Bahuang Temple" was too strong, and "Qingxu Sect" and "* Sect" had ambiguous attitudes after the change of power, so they had no choice but to I can try my best to check and balance the "Bahuang Palace" and slightly slow down the pace of the "Bahuang Palace"'s annexation.

And just forty years ago, in the world of immortality, casual cultivators and traveling monks from various sects continued to disappear suddenly. There were no less than a thousand of them, and there were even some monks in the alchemy stage among them. Although various sects have united to investigate everywhere, no clues have been found. Until now, those cultivators dare not go down the mountain alone. Even if they make purchases, dozens of people must go together.

After listening to Wan Yusheng's description, Xu Qingfan was also secretly shocked. He did not expect that the situation in the world of immortality would be so changeable and dangerous at this time. He couldn't help but be on guard. The relaxation he felt when he first came down the mountain was long gone.

After finishing speaking, Wan Yusheng said to Xu Qingfan: "The current situation in the entire world of cultivating immortals is exactly like this. It is in chaos and people are panicked. Senior, the senior casual cultivators in the world of cultivating immortals have gone into seclusion one after another. I advise you to do the same. Do it. Otherwise, it will be very bad if you are targeted. Although you have great skills, there is no guarantee that you will not be damaged under the siege. "

Looking at the frowning Wan Yusheng, Xu Qingfan thought of Liu Huaxiang's death, and his heart moved slightly, and asked: "So, Taoist friend is the direct disciple of senior Qing Lingzi?"

Wan Yusheng said: "Exactly."

Xu Qingfan asked: "As far as I know, Qing Lingzi's master, Zizhen Immortal, has reached the stage of great achievement, so he will ignore the Qingxu Sect's rebellion?"

Wan Yusheng shook his head sadly and said: "The ancestor went into seclusion two hundred years ago and has not yet come out. Otherwise, there would be no way for those guys to rebel."

When Xu Qingfan heard what Wan Yusheng said, he always felt something was wrong in his heart. He felt that the matter of Immortal Zizhen might not be that simple. But he didn't just say anything, he just raised his hands and said: "Thank you, fellow Taoist, for letting me know. I have something else to do, so I have to leave now."