Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence.

Chapter 208 Provoking Discord?

On Emerald Lake.

The five ancestors of the Golden Core Realm floated above the lake with the Escaping Light, chatting and laughing with each other.

Among the five escaping lights, besides Taoist Sansha, Patriarch Yuanxu and Baihong Sword Immortal, there are also two strange Golden Core cultivators.

One of them was a big bearded man with a slender face, extremely tall and strong, wearing a cardigan; the other was a thin, slender young swordsman with an expressionless face, carrying a sword box on his back.

"It turned out to be him?"

Zhang Yao's gaze was fixed on the bearded man, revealing a hint of surprise:
"Pretty natural..."

Hundreds of years have passed since the Battle of the Cangjiang Water Mansion started by the Dubu League.

But as the first serious body-training cultivator he had ever seen, Zhang Yao was still very impressed with Man Tiansheng.

Back then in the battle at Shuifu, this person was defeated by Zhang Yao, and he ran away in panic. At that time, the battle was not over yet, and Zhang Yao couldn't care less about chasing and killing him.

"At the beginning, after the Dubu Taoist was defeated, the Dubu League fell apart. This person seems to have escaped from the territory of Dali all the way."

"Unexpectedly, a hundred years later, he has also reached the Golden Core Realm. Maybe there is some adventure?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao didn't pay too much attention to it.

With his current strength, even a cultivator at the early stage of the golden core of the body refining method is not enough for him to pay attention to.

"Boom!" "Boom!"...

The escape lights of Zhang Yao, Haihe Patriarch, Fairy Xiaguang and Fairy Feiying slowly descended from the sky.

"Huh? Here they come!"

Taoist Sansha and the others stopped chatting and laughing immediately, and looked over with unison.

"It really is him! The Qingxu Daoist back then..."

Man Tiansheng folded his hands on his chest and stared at Zhang Yao with burning eyes, with uncontrollable fighting spirit and flame in his eyes.

He has always been brooding about the defeat that year.

Later, he got the chance to train his body in the territory of Xu State, and after several hardships and twists and turns, he finally ascended to the Golden Core realm.

After refining the golden elixir, he can already be regarded as a high-level body-refining monk, and his strength is more obvious than that of the same-level monks, so that after learning of Zhang Yao's illustrious reputation, he still has the idea of ​​​​competition and shame. .

"Ok?"

Zhang Yao glanced at him, noticed the eagerness in his eyes, and couldn't help smiling.

"This bull is still as dumb as he was back then."

"That is Patriarch Qingxu!"

The gazes of Taoist Sansha and others were also focused on Zhang Yao, with the alertness in their eyes as if they were facing a great enemy.

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree.

This Patriarch Qingxu, who is so powerful in the southwest and dominates the whole country, has long been regarded by them as the number one enemy in this exploration of the Emerald Shrine, so they naturally pay special attention to it.

"..."

No one on both sides spoke, and there was no intention of being polite, and the scene suddenly became quiet.

Secretly, members of the two camps used their spiritual thoughts to communicate with each other, and Fairy Feiying and Fairy Xiaguang were still guessing at each other's tactical arrangements.

After waiting for about half an hour like this:
"Rumble..."

The calm lake surface suddenly set off monstrous waves, countless undercurrents turbulently surged, and layers of waves swept across.

"coming!"

Many Golden Core cultivators are all refreshed.

Everyone's spiritual thoughts shot down one after another, but they could see the strata at the bottom of the lake churning, the lake water diverted to the surroundings, and a magnificent palace with jade masonry and carved rails slowly rose out.

Seen through the divine sense, the whole body of this palace presents a greenish green color. It looks like it is made of sapphire, and it also looks like it is made of emerald. out.

"The Emerald Shrine... its reputation is well-deserved."

Zhang Yao took a deep breath to suppress the shock in his heart.

Of course, the portraits recorded in the jade slips are far more breathtaking than seeing is believing.

Different from other Jindan Patriarchs, Zhang Yao, as an astonishingly accomplished third-order formation master, was keenly aware of the subtle and subtle spatial fluctuations when the formation pulse was running.

"This Emerald Shrine was not originally located under the Emerald Lake."

In Zhang Yao's heart, a new judgment was born.

After the Emerald Shrine was opened last time, it sank back into the bottom of the lake and disappeared. Patriarch Haihe and Taoist Sansha also tried to search underground, but they found nothing after diving thousands of feet underground.

They thought it was because the emerald palace's cover-up method was too mysterious;
But now in Zhang Yao's view, this Emerald Shrine is not here at all on weekdays, but appears here in a specific period of time through long-distance space travel.

"This level of space teleportation...even in ancient times, is quite amazing."

While Zhang Yao's mind became more dignified, he also looked forward to the rewards in the Emerald Shrine:

"It seems that the background of this Emerald Shrine is much more powerful than I imagined."

"Let's go!"

The ancestor Haihe greeted him, and immediately, along with Zhang Yao, Fairy Xiaguang, and Fairy Feiying, they broke through the lake and fled towards the Emerald Palace at the bottom of the lake.

"Let's go too."

Taoist Sansha opened his mouth, and hurriedly flew down with Yuanxu Patriarch and Baihong Sword Immortal, followed by Man Tiansheng and the young swordsman.

Just a few breaths later:
Everyone passed through layers of lake water and came to the Emerald Shrine.

Before the shrine, all the water in the lake was emptied, and the powerful air-forbidden formation forced everyone to lower down the light and land in front of the jade platform.

Passing through the jade platform and stepping on the 99 emerald steps, the gate of the Emerald Shrine is closed, but there are nine obvious hexagonal gaps.

"Om!" "Om!"...

A crystal-clear emerald-green token flew out from the bodies and storage bags of the nine Golden Core cultivators, emitting thousands of rays of light, covering their respective masters.

The light from the front section converged into a hexagonal shape and shone on the gap. It can be seen that the light converges like a stream of water.

"boom!"

The gate of the Emerald Shrine opened suddenly, revealing a spacious and bright hall.

The nine emerald orders flew back and were taken back by their respective owners. Zhang Yao, Haihe Patriarch and the others looked at each other and stepped into the hall first.

The moment you step into the hall:

Zhang Yao's eyes flickered, as if he had come to a colorful passage, all kinds of grotesque scenes flickered back and forth like a revolving lantern.

"The first level is here."

Zhang Yao's heart was calm, and he didn't intend to panic at all.

The target selection and level process of the Emerald Shrine is fixed. He already knew it in his heart and made sufficient preparations.

Soon, the colorful passages disintegrated and turned into twisted and illusory routes, turning the surrounding world into a maze.

After observing around for a while, Zhang Yao chose a route and strode forward without any hesitation.

The first test is to test the strength of the soul and mind.

The weaker the soul and the poorer the ability to sense the mind, the harder it is to distinguish the real from the fake maze scene; on the contrary, the stronger the mind is, the easier it is to see through the simulated truth.

And this distinction between strength and weakness is based on the same realm as the benchmark, not absolute strength, which is naturally great news for Zhang Yao.

"It's simple enough."

With the strength of Zhang Yao's soul and mind, he can see through the fake faces in seven or eight of the ten routes at a glance.

This greatly reduced his trial and error costs. At most, he only needed to try once or twice before he could find the real path and go to the next stage of the maze of divine thoughts.

After walking in the maze for about a quarter of an hour:

"Wow!"

The vision suddenly opened up, and the illusory maze around it collapsed.

Zhang Yao squinted his eyes, saw his surroundings clearly again, and suddenly came to the last part of the first hall, in front of him was a closed ancient sapphire door.

"It's really amazing!"

There was a trace of solemnity in his expression.

He turned his head and found that the distance between his position and the position where he stepped into the entrance of this palace was only a dozen feet.

But even within this short distance of a few dozen feet, he has traveled at least a few thousand feet in his induction, which is enough to show that the formation in the Emerald Shrine aimed at the soul is far from what he can see.

"At least a top-tier formation of Tier [-], and maybe even a Tier [-] formation!"

Just as Zhang Yao was facing this, his expression suddenly changed.

A mysterious message came from the sky and flooded into his mind. It was the basic message from this Emerald Shrine.

The message is simple:
In addition to a general introduction to the rules of the Emerald Shrine, it is emphasized that the testers in the Emerald Shrine, except in certain specific areas, cannot attack each other, and violators will be expelled from the Emerald Shrine.

"In a specific area?"

Zhang Yao was keenly aware of this word, and immediately understood it in his heart.

No wonder Haihe Patriarch and Xiaguang Fairy deduced that there might be a confrontational level in the latter part of the Emerald Shrine, precisely because of the hidden information revealed by this message.

Except for the confrontational levels, the exploration process itself is not dangerous, but the real danger is after the exploration is over.

"Not yet."

Zhang Yao withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention to the numerous Golden Core cultivators in the first hall.

Except for him, the rest of the people were stumbling forward with their eyes closed, at a speed slower than a snail.

The fastest Sansha Taoist is still seven or eight feet away from the Qingyu Ancient Gate where he is, and it will take at least a quarter of an hour according to the time calculation.

"Well……"

Zhang Yao turned his head and looked at the transparent jade disc beside the ancient sapphire gate.

On the transparent jade biscuit, there are rows of golden characters, obviously representing some kind of name, but Zhang Yao can't recognize what kind of characters it is.

"Could it be some kind of ancient text derived from Yin etched and Yang engraved?"

Zhang Yao had some guesses in his mind, but he couldn't judge.

The historical gap caused by the great destruction of ancient times has caused many things to be lost. The language and characters that are passed down in the world of cultivating immortals and the mortal world today were fabricated by the later sages of immortality on the basis of ancient fragments.

However, it is also because of this that the writing and language that were not unified in ancient times were unified after ancient times, and the same language was used everywhere.

"In the ancient times, there were so many arrogance."

Looking at the words on the transparent jade bi, Zhang Yao sighed with emotion.

No need to guess, this must be some kind of list or something, followed by a number-like symbol, which should be a time scale.

Zhang Yao's soul is already very strong, enough to rival soul cultivators at the same level, but he can't even make it to the last place in the top ten list, which shows how fierce the competition was in ancient times.

And in all levels of Emerald Shrine:

It is necessary to wait for all the testers to complete the level, either succeed or fail, and then the door to the next level will be opened.

This meant that Zhang Yao was the first to break through the first test, and he could only wait patiently for the rest of them to pass—they were all Jindan monks, so it was impossible for him to pass the first test.

Zhang Yao waited quietly for a while:
"Um?!"

Taoist Sansha finally arrived in front of the Qingyu Ancient Gate, and suddenly opened his eyes.

After he was in a daze for a while, he quickly reacted, with a hint of joy in his eyes:
"Finally out..."

Immediately afterwards, he noticed Zhang Yao beside him, and his heart tensed up, but he soon relaxed.

He also realized that this was the interior of the Emerald Shrine, no matter how arrogant and vicious Zhang Yao was, it would be impossible for Zhang Yao to attack him unless he wanted to be expelled.

"He is indeed number one, but I don't know how far he is ahead of me..."

Taoist Sansha had been mentally prepared for a long time, but when things came to an end, his mood was still a bit complicated.

In the last exploration, he was the first in all aspects, and finally beat everyone, and won an ancient spirit treasure.

But for this exploration, there are too many strong people, let alone the first place, he can't even guarantee the top three, so he can only try his best to stay behind and seek a turnaround.

"Daoist Qingxu."

While thinking about it, Taoist Sansha suddenly opened his mouth and said:

"I have something I want to tell you."

"Oh?"

Zhang Yao glanced at him and said casually:
"What does Fellow Daoist Sansha want to say?"

He wanted to see what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the three evil Taoists.

This person is not stupid enough to provoke the relationship between Patriarch Haihe and Fairy Xiaguang before they wake up, right?

However, to his surprise, Taoist Sansha really did this:
"Friend Daoist, I don't know what Haihe and Xiaguang told you, but you must be careful of them!"

Taoist Sansha looked dignified, and said:

"Do you know how I persuaded Yuanxu Patriarch and Baihong Sword Immortal to join me in dealing with Haihe and Xiaguang after we left the Emerald Shrine?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yao was really interested and gestured:
"Then talk about it."

"The reason why I persuade them is actually only one point."

Taoist Sansha looked calm, and said:

"I'm sure that among Haihe and Xiaguang, there must be someone with a problem!"

"Patriarch Yuanxu and Baihong Jianxian finally agreed with my judgment and decided to form an alliance with me."

Zhang Yao narrowed his eyes and said:

"What do you rely on to judge?"

"It's simple."

Taoist Sansha slowly opened his mouth and said:

"We have actually attended the regular gathering on the Emerald Lake many times, but this is the first time for Haihe and Xiaguang to attend."

"Needless to say, Haihe is an outsider and has been excluded all the time. It was only in recent years that he was reluctantly accepted and qualified to participate in the Emerald Lake discussion."

"As for Fairy Xiaguang, it has been 60 or 16 years since she achieved the Golden Elixir, but her master, Fairy Hongxia, was still alive, and Fairy Hongxia always participated on behalf of the Luoxia Sect. change."

Having said that, he paused, and his tone became more solemn:

"I never believed that there would be random coincidences in the world."

"We Jindan monks have gathered in Emerald Lake many times in the past, and every time it was calm and nothing happened."

"But the last time five years ago, after Haihe and Xiaguang participated, the Emerald Shrine suddenly appeared. Isn't this suspicious?"

(End of this chapter)