The Path to Immortality

Fang Ping is a weak person after all, and his words cannot change the general situation.

The fact that this matter can be spread and attract a lot of attention has played a role in itself.

He shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and then replied with a communication talisman.

He selectively talked about his experiences when he went out. At the end of the communication talisman, Fang Ping casually mentioned the matter of body tempering in the spirit pool on the grounds of asking for a fellow Taoist, hoping to get some information from this senior brother.

In fact, there is more than one spirit pool in Luoyang Sect.

But if you want to borrow the spirit pool, it is not free, and it requires a lot of sect contributions. Sometimes you are unlucky and encounter more than one person applying, you may have to pay a sum of spirit stones, otherwise you can only wait for another ten years.

Fang Ping does not want to waste too much time on sect chores, so he must first find a solution from other places, preferably the kind that can be solved directly with spirit stones.

After replying to Liu Wuchen, he turned to check Jiang Yucheng's message.

The communication talisman of this senior brother Jiang seemed to have been sent a few days ago.

The content of the first half was similar to Liu Wuchen's, and he also shared some recent news and changes in the sect to consolidate his friendship with Fang Ping.

The difference was that in the second half of the communication talisman, Jiang Yucheng revealed a piece of news that made Fang Ping look a little solemn.

"The two-world passage in the Youquan Mountain Demon Realm has recently shown signs of instability. Demons and alien monsters have rushed out from deep underground and attacked the creatures near the surface."

Demon Realm!

As early as ten years ago, when Fang Ping was looking up spiritual vein information in the Sutra Library, he had seen the news of the Demon Realm.

In this world, the qi of heaven and earth is divided into two types: clear and turbid.

Since the creation of the world, the clear spiritual qi has gradually condensed and eventually formed the spiritual veins in the world.

Wherever there are spiritual veins, there are places with rich spiritual energy and vitality. They are occupied by countless immortal monks and become caves and sects.

The turbid air slowly settled, mixed with the killing and hostility of all living things in the world. After thousands of years of evolution, it gradually turned into a demon domain.

Demon domains are large and small, and they often breed various demons and ghosts, who are cruel and bloodthirsty by nature.

A small demon domain may only have a small area, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a demon cave. It is regarded as a treasure land by some demon sects, and later generations occupy it to raise Yin spirits and demons.

A large demon domain is vast and boundless, and it is like a world of its own, and is regarded as a reflection of the immortal way of this world.

The turbid demonic air in the demon domain is a highly toxic thing for cultivators. If they are contaminated too much, it will even pollute their souls and foundation.

Fortunately, in most cases, the demon domain is not directly connected to the immortal world, but is separated by an indestructible barrier.

But the world is vast, and there are always some special lands with relatively weak space.

By chance, it was torn apart, and gradually formed a two-world channel connecting the demon domain and the immortal world.

Every three to five hundred years, when the demonic energy in the Demon Realm is active, demons and other monsters will even rush out of the ground in groups along the two-world passage, attacking human cultivators and setting off a demonic calamity.

There is just such a two-world passage leading to the Demon Realm under the Youquan Mountain in the southeast of Liang State.

Thousands of years ago, in order to monitor the Demon Realm of Youquan Mountain and prevent the demons in the Demon Realm from invading the surface during the demonic calamity, the several major immortal sects that ruled this area at the time spent a lot of resources to build a large formation at the entrance of Youquan Mountain and regularly sent people to maintain it.

With the suppression of the large formation, the threat of the Demon Realm of Youquan Mountain to the surface of the immortal world has indeed been greatly reduced.

Since then, although the several major immortal sects in this area have changed several times, and even the royal dynasty that ruled the secular world has changed twice, the Four Symbols Demon Refining Formation on Youquan Mountain has always stood firm.

Now, the two major immortal sects closest to Youquan Mountain, Luoyang Sect and Hehuan Sect, are responsible for maintaining this formation.

The other three of the five major sects in Liang State, Qingxu Sect, Lingshou Sect, and Cangjian Tower, although they do not send people out on weekdays, will share the corresponding resources needed to maintain the formation.

"The two-world channel of Youquan Mountain shows signs of instability... Could it be that a new wave of demonic calamity is coming?"

But hasn't it been only two hundred years since the last demonic calamity?

According to previous experience, the next demonic calamity will not come until more than a hundred years later at the earliest!

If luck is good, it is not impossible to erupt in another two or three hundred years!

Is it an accident?

Or is there some variable that has come earlier?

Just when Fang Ping was a little worried, another communication talisman flew in from outside the cave.

It was Liu Wuchen who had just received Fang Ping's reply and gave a reply.

In Liu Wuchen's communication talisman, the matter of the Demon Realm of Youquan Mountain was also mentioned.

But unlike Senior Brother Jiang Yucheng, Liu Wuchen was more optimistic about this matter.

He believed that the demonic energy fluctuations in the Demon Realm of Youquan Mountain might just be accidental. Such accidents have happened many times in the past, so there is no need to worry too much.

Generally speaking, it will subside on its own in a few months or a year or two.

"It turns out there are many similar situations."

Knowing that this is not a special case or an accident, Fang Ping felt much more relieved.

As for the matter of the spirit pond that Fang Ping asked about, he also gave Fang Ping a definite answer.

As far as he knew, in addition to applying directly to the sect, there was a natural spirit pond in the family forbidden land of the vassal cultivator family of Luoyang Sect and the Xu family of Jueyun Valley.

"Xu family!"

Fang Ping was not unfamiliar with this cultivator family.

A few years ago, the sect's spirit stone veins were exhausted. One of the four exploration teams sent out to open up new veins was ordered to explore the Jueyun Valley near Xu's family, and successfully surveyed a possible trace in the depths of the Jueyun Valley. A small vein of spirit stone that has been mined for hundreds of years.

Since then, the Xu family, which already had some background, has prospered rapidly by taking advantage of the convenient location and making a living by helping the sect mine and garrison the mine.

For such a rising family, ordinary conditions may not be able to impress them.

"That's all, let's ask first."

Fang Ping didn't think much about it and found a senior brother on Yunyang Peak who knew the Xu family monks as a go-between to help introduce Xu Chongdao, the eldest brother of the Xu family, who was at the eighth level of Qi training.

A few days later, Fang Ping met Xu Chongdao by taking the opportunity to attend a lecture in the lecture hall.

This person is very impressive and talented, and at first glance he has the gentle and gentle temperament of a gentleman. But when he took the initiative to greet him, Fang Ping clearly saw a hint of arrogance inadvertently revealed in his eyes.

"Junior brother Fang, right? I heard that you want to borrow my family's spiritual pool?"

He went straight to the point and made clear Fang Ping's intention.

Fang Ping nodded: "I wonder if Senior Brother Xu can make it easier? I'm willing to pay some price for this."

Xu Chongdao said casually: "You, a disciple from another academy who came up from the outer sect, also want to borrow the spiritual pool of my Xu family? Who gave you the courage to ask? Even if you can afford the price, I am afraid that your qualifications will be stained. It’s my Lingchi.”

Fang Ping's expression suddenly changed.

He suddenly remembered that although the Xu family was just a vassal force of the Luoyang Sect, it was not taken seriously in the Luoyang Sect. In fact, the relationship with the Other Academy Faction and the Master and Disciple Faction was not bad.

But after discovering the spirit stone mine, he was won over by the family faction, and now he is a serious family faction force.

Faced with the other party's unabashed humiliation, he turned around and left without saying a word.

"Oh, these days, no one dares to come to our Xu family, without even looking at their own background."

Xu Chongdao sneered, flicked his robe, turned around and walked into the lecture hall.