Longzang

Chapter 707 Supporting each other
After Yan Shi became an Immortal Lord, he lived in the same place in the northern mountain gate as when he was a True Lord.

This is a side hall, quiet and elegant, but not large in scale, only three zhang high. However, it is built on the mountaintop, surrounded by cliffs on three sides, which is the environment that Yan Shi likes.

Wei Yuan entered the side hall, and suddenly the scenery changed. The side hall disappeared completely, and endless void and countless stars appeared around them. Only the two of them were on solid ground.

This was not an illusion. Wei Yuan's divine sense could extend extremely far, yet he still couldn't touch those stars hanging in the void. Although he couldn't touch them, Wei Yuan could truly perceive their existence and distinguish the differences between each star.

Immortal Lord Yan Shi sat cross-legged in the air. When he saw Wei Yuan enter the hall, he said, "Come forward and speak with me."

At this moment, hundreds of stars floated around Immortal Lord Yan Shi, and behind him was a surging river that appeared and disappeared intermittently.

When they entered the hall, it appeared to be only ten zhang in circumference, but now the two were a thousand zhang apart. Wei Yuan dared not speed up and walked respectfully at a normal pace.

Immortal Lord Yan Shi laughed and said, "How long do you intend to go? With your unruly nature, you're a born rebel, why are you so restrained?"

In the blink of an eye, Wei Yuan was already in front of Yan Shi.

It wasn't until Wei Yuan stood before Yan Shi that he realized the starlight wasn't just decoration, but rather a series of scenes, some familiar, others completely new. Many of these scenes depicted apocalyptic catastrophes, with collapsing skies, tsunamis, and fissures in the earth.

Seeing that Wei Yuan had noticed those catastrophic images, Immortal Lord Yan Shi said, "That old bastard Zuo Xian Wang is still up to his old tricks and insists on sparring with me. These are all fragments of the small worlds we shattered, which we haven't had time to repair yet. The rest are things I'm dealing with right now."

At this point, Yan Shi sighed and said, "I never thought that becoming an immortal would require so much work. It was so much more carefree before ascending to immortality. No, I have to give that old scoundrel Chunqiu a good push. With his talent, if he focused on cultivation, perhaps fifty years would be enough."

Wei Yuan said, "With Ancestor Xuan Yue ascending to immortality, you will probably be even busier."

Yan Shi was stunned for a moment, then angrily said, "You jinx! That's right, if that old thief ascends to immortality, he'll definitely cause trouble, and who knows how many times we'll have to clean up his mess! Forget it, let him cultivate slowly. So when are you planning to ascend to immortality?"

Wei Yuan was stunned: "I'm afraid it's too early for me. There are still countless challenges ahead."

Yan Shi glared at him and said, "Ascension to immortality is just the beginning of a ten-thousand-year journey. What's so difficult about it? If you can't even do this, what are you doing cultivating immortality?"

What could Wei Yuan say? He could only say, "Our ancestor is right."

Yan Shi snorted heavily and said, "Ascending to immortality is not easy. So let me give you a simple explanation: you, Zhang Sheng, and Liu Li, the three of you should support each other and walk the path to immortality together, shall we?"

Wei Yuan said, "This is my duty, and I will do my best."

Yan Shi said, "You'd better do your best."

Wei Yuan nodded obsequiously, already understanding that his patriarch was in a bad mood. He would simply listen to whatever his patriarch had to say.

Immortal Lord Yan Shi flicked his finger, and a point of light expanded, revealing the recent war. However, there were many things on the battlefield that Wei Yuan had not seen. Several semi-transparent figures were constantly moving around. They approached a human cultivator, opened their mouths, and sucked out a transparent substance from the human's body.

After losing this transparent substance, the human cultivators would become sluggish and dull. Most of them were subsequently killed by the Liao tribe. A few lucky ones would suddenly fall from the city wall and disappear without a trace.

Upon seeing these semi-transparent figures, Wei Yuan's expression changed drastically. He clearly remembered a scene where a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator suddenly collapsed right in front of him, falling outside the city, and then more than ten sharp arrows appeared in his body. At the time, Wei Yuan only felt slightly puzzled, not understanding why an experienced Dao soldier captain who was fighting well would suddenly fall. The battle situation was urgent then, and Wei Yuan only thought that his internal injuries had flared up, never expecting that someone had taken his life right before his eyes.

No wonder the casualties in this battle were so high!
Wei Yuan couldn't see the transparent figures, and the transparent figures seemed to be deliberately avoiding him. Then, Wei Yuan suddenly saw a woman with silver braids. She walked across the battlefield as if she were in an empty place. No one could see her, and she ignored everyone else, walking straight to Feng Tingyu's side.

At that time, Feng Tingyu was holding the Demon Blade. He had just killed a rampaging Liao clan Dharma Master in front of him. At the Demon Blade's request, he stabbed him a few more times.

The silver-haired Liao woman drew her short knife and plunged it into Feng Tingyu's heart!
Feng Tingyu immediately closed her eyes, then a leg flew up and kicked the silver-haired woman in the face at an impossible angle. The silver-haired woman protected her head with one hand, blocking Feng Tingyu's leg, and then used the hilt of her knife to stab Feng Tingyu's thigh, leaving a wound the size of a broad bean.

Feng Tingyu raised his hand and slapped the silver-haired woman across the face. The silver-haired woman, seemingly surprised by the blow, swung her knife and stabbed Feng Tingyu several more times. This time, Feng Tingyu finally stopped moving.

She threw Feng Tingyu into an empty house, then set up a magical barrier to isolate the inside from the outside before leaving.

She also wanted to get closer to Ji Liuli, but as soon as she approached, a pagoda faintly appeared above Ji Liuli's head, and she immediately looked around warily.

Seeing no opportunity to strike, the silver-haired woman turned to look at Wei Yuan. Above Wei Yuan's head, a gigantic bird's head appeared and disappeared intermittently, its single eye coldly scrutinizing everything in the world.

The bird's head turned its gaze and suddenly looked at Wei Yuan, who was watching the video! In an instant, Wei Yuan felt an extreme coldness, loneliness, death, emptiness, and a strong sense of threat.

This was the first time Wei Yuan had observed the shadow in the moon from a third-person perspective, but the feeling he got from the shadow was completely different from before.

"It's threatening me, telling me to stay away from you. Hmph, this thing clearly doesn't take me seriously!" Immortal Lord Yan Shi said angrily.

"This... what is it? To be honest, I don't really know either."

Yan Shi Zhenjun said, "Don't even mention you. I have consulted the palace records and found no trace of its origin. I only know that it must have come from some extremely high-ranking outer world."

You don't need to worry. You are like its window to this world; it has to go through you to do anything, so it should try its best to help you now.

"Who is that silver-haired woman? And what about those transparent figures? Why couldn't I see them back then?" Wei Yuan asked.

Yan Shi said, "The Liao woman should be one of that old man Zuo Xianwang's subordinates, probably a newly trained expert in recent years. Those transparent figures are images manifested by my immortal power, actually the old man's killing intent, it's normal that you can't see them."

Wei Yuan couldn't help but say, "The Left Wise King is an immortal, how could he possibly attack someone at the Dao Foundation stage? That's just too shameless!"

Yan Shi chuckled and said, "Didn't you just say that when two countries are at war, they will stop at nothing, so what are moral principles?"

Immortal Lord Yan Shi paused for a moment, then said, "Qingming is a celestial stone, and it is located in the Shattered Domain. True Lords cannot manifest themselves, and immortals are powerless to intervene. With the power of the domain, you naturally have a significant advantage on the battlefield."

But that battle was what war should truly be like. Many more arduous battles lie ahead; you must prepare early.

(End of this chapter)