The Path to Immortality

After successfully refining the third stage of the Fiery Sun True Fire and accidentally mastering the method of transforming the True Fire, Fang Ping had a preliminary method to face the enemy in the Foundation Establishment period.

In the following time, in addition to regularly accepting alchemy commissions from his fellow disciples, Fang Ping put his focus back on cultivation.

After being promoted to the Foundation Establishment stage, it seems that he has a lifespan of 200 years and his status has also leaped. He should be more relaxed and free, but in fact, Fang Ping has become even busier.

Every day, just practicing the Great Sun True Method and building the Great Sun Dharma Body takes up nearly half of his time.

The Taiwei Yangshen Chapter and the Body Strengthening Method are also two unshakable items.

The remaining time, except for the ancient Taoist texts that he occasionally has to take into account, Fang Ping mostly spends on the formation.

It must be said that the Tianshu Formation Plate obtained from the Tianfeng Patriarch is really a treasure of the formation.

With its help, Fang Ping's attainments in the formation have improved rapidly, and he has mastered two top-grade basic formations in succession.

Now, he has begun to try to comprehend the real first-level formation.

Fang Ping also spent a lot of time on the choice of the first first-level formation.

In the end, he chose the first-level low-grade formation [Bi Bo Fu Mo Formation].

From the records in the formation inheritance of Tian Feng Patriarch, this formation is the same as the first-level middle-grade [Bi Bo Tian Feng Formation].

To be precise, it is a simplified version of the latter. It consists of ten prohibitions, which are both offensive and defensive. It can be used to protect the cave and to kill strong enemies. It is the most practical one among the first-level low-grade formations.

In addition to this factor, there is another very important factor for Fang Ping to choose the Bi Bo Fu Mo Formation.

The formation flag of the basic formation can be carved with spiritual jade.

But starting from the first-level formation, ordinary spiritual jade is no longer enough to carry the huge power of heaven and earth, and special magic tools or even spiritual tools are required to support it.

Fang Ping is not a weapon refiner. If he wants to set up a first-level formation, he must spend a lot of spirit stones and ask a real weapon refiner to help customize the formation flag blank, and then carve the formation pattern himself.

However, the spiritual weapon-level formation flag cannot be customized by just anyone.

The Jade Wave Subduing Demon Formation is different.

Due to its special relationship with the Jade Wave Sky Wind Formation, and the fact that Fang Ping has eight ready-made spiritual weapon-level Jade Wave formation flags from Dangyan Peak, he only needs to take out one of them as the main formation flag of the Jade Wave Subduing Demon Formation, make a slight adjustment, and then find a weapon refiner to customize nine magic weapon-level sub-formation flags, and he can quickly make a set of Jade Wave Subduing Demon Formation products.

Moreover, due to the high configuration of the main formation flag, the arranged Jade Wave Subduing Demon Formation will be more powerful than the normal Jade Wave Subduing Demon Formation and can withstand more fierce attacks!

With these advantages added together, it is not difficult to understand why Fang Ping would make this choice.

Once this formation is set up, he will have another powerful trump card that is enough to protect himself.

………

Just when Fang Ping was busy improving his strength.

Half a year passed quickly.

A shocking news came from the north.

The Demon Lord of the Illusionary Demon Sect, somehow learned that the Supreme Elder of the Tianxing Sect, Tianhe Zhenren, had secretly gone out, and set up an ambush on the way, killing Tianhe Zhenren in one fell swoop.

Tianhe Zhenren, the Yuanying Great Monk who had been in charge of the Tianxing Sect for hundreds of years, died on the spot, and only the Yuanying escaped, and is currently missing!

The only Yuanying monk in the Chen Kingdom who could still compete with the Demon Lord was killed, and the Illusionary Demon Sect unified the Chen Kingdom, which was unstoppable.

Only three days later, the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance was officially established.

Including the Blood Knife Sect, the Fighting Mad Sect, the Ghost King Sect, the Corpse Refining Sect and several other demonic Jindan sects, all joined the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance and obeyed the Demon Lord's dispatch.

Even some of the remaining righteous sects and monks' families, seeing that the general trend was difficult to resist, also turned to the camp of demon cultivators.

Under the order of the Demon Lord, the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance, which swept across most of the Chen Kingdom's cultivation world, marched towards the mountain gate of the Tianxing Sect and launched the final fierce attack on this Yuanying Sect that has been passed down for thousands of years!

As of the latest intelligence, the fierce battle is still going on.

But anyone can see that with the death of Tianhe Zhenren, it is only a matter of time before the Tianxing Sect, which is defending the mountain gate, is breached!

Although similar predictions have been made in the past few years, when they really came, the cultivation world of Yue and Liang was still shocked by this bad news.

No one expected that Tianhe Zhenren would be ambushed by the Demon Lord and killed in one fell swoop.

This variable caught the cultivators of several nearby countries off guard by the sudden change in the situation.

Once the Huanmo Sect unifies the Chen Kingdom and integrates the entire Chen Kingdom's cultivation world, it will inevitably expand to the surrounding areas.

On the east and west sides of the State of Chen, there are either swamps stretching for 100,000 miles, full of poisonous miasma and monsters, which are not suitable for expansion, or a bunch of scattered small countries with scarce cultivation resources.

Even if they want to invade, it is not worth sending a large number of demon cultivators, just let one or two vassal forces attack.

For this reason, there are only two most likely directions of attack, either north or south.

If they go north, the Magic Demon Sect must confront the Sword Talisman Sect of the State of Gan.

The Sword Talisman Sect also has a Yuanying Zhenren sitting in the head, named Yuanji Zhenren, who has been close to the middle stage of the Yuanying long ago. However, due to the resources of Yunzhou, he went out to travel and seek opportunities a decade ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

The Sword Talisman Sect can only confirm that its own supreme elder is still alive and well based on the soul lamp of Yuanji Zhenren.

It was only after Yuanji Zhenren traveled far away that the Demon Lord of the Magic Demon Sect dared to openly show up, seize the opportunity to launch a war between Taoism and demons, and unify the cultivation world of the State of Chen.

In this case, if the Magic Demon Sect goes north to attack the Sword Talisman Sect, it is likely to force the Yuanying Zhenren who is traveling outside to return, thus provoking a new Yuanying war.

But the Demon Lord is only in the early stage of the Yuanying, while the Yuanying Zhenren of the Sword Talisman Sect was close to the middle stage of the Yuanying a decade ago. No one can say whether he has been promoted now.

In this case, it is better to avoid the strongest opponent for the time being than to challenge him right away.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Sword Talisman Sect has not made up its mind, the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance can urgently recall its own Yuanying Zhenren and go south all the way, first attacking Yue State, then Liang State, and then sweeping across the entire Yunzhou.

By then, it will not be too late for the Magic Demon Sect to concentrate all its efforts on dealing with the Sword Talisman Sect.

Because it is easy to make a choice, anyone with a discerning eye can see that before the return of Yuanji Zhenren of the Sword Talisman Sect, who is most likely to stop the Demon Lord, the Yue State may never have a peaceful day.

And once the Yue State's cultivation world is breached, the next target will be Liang State!

………

“It’s finally here!”

After receiving the news that the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance was established and the Tianxing Sect’s mountain gate was on the verge of collapse, it was impossible for Fang Ping to say that he had no worries in his heart.

But the trend of the rise of demons and the decline of Taoism has existed for decades and is not a sudden thing.

In particular, half a year ago, Yang Feng, who was well-informed, had already predicted the situation in half a year, allowing Fang Ping to prepare mentally.

Because of this, although the bad news was sudden, he quickly calmed down.

In fact, it was not just Fang Ping. The four major Jindan immortal sects of Yue State and the five major immortal gates of Liang State had also made various plans early.