Destiny is ashes

Chapter 586: Feathering Path and Vehicle Killer (Monthly Ticket Plus)
Beiguan Lake and Marsh area.

This place is surrounded by two mountains. Behind the pass is a plain area close to the lake. The spiritual veins are relatively stable and soothing. There used to be a large number of aquatic demons and mountain monsters that reproduced and rested here.

Since the pioneering war forty-two years ago, a large number of dangerous large aquatic monsters in the lake areas have been eliminated. However, when conquering the mountain monsters, they were besieged by the surrounding monster groups and failed, resulting in the complete destruction of the settlements around the lakes and the fortress clusters in the mountains became the nests for the rebirth of monsters.

Decades have passed, and the number of aquatic demons is still small, but they are beginning to recover. Instead, a large number of dangerous elements from the wilderness have arrived around the pass area. They have gradually seized part of the local land from the demons. Although it is extremely dangerous, it is not much more difficult than surviving under the wanted list of the Sky Monitoring Bureau and other wilderness forces.

Gang Hai was on the sentry tower of the temporary camp, looking through a telescope at the abandoned fortress area in the northeast.

Gang Hai himself is a secret agent of the Guiyi Army, but the mercenaries under his command are not. The mission of this investigation and inspection team is a task assigned to him by the Guiyi Army after going through many transfers. The most he can do is to take this task more seriously.

Gang Hai has a high prestige among his subordinates. After all, mercenaries rarely meet a leader who is not only good at fighting but also responsible and fair in distributing money.

Not to mention, Gang Hai is also a "corpse-reincarnation monk" with a transformation rate of over 90%, or in other words, a "ascension monk".

The so-called corpse transformation refers to the ascension to heaven, which is one of the primitive ways of immortality. It means "the dissolution of the form". It originally meant that the soul of the practitioner transcended the body and could "escape the catastrophe and ascend to heaven" to achieve Yin God and Yang God. It was a description of the cultivator's ability to cultivate the spirit at that time that surpassed the lifespan of the physical body and the death of the spirit in the body.

In ancient times, corpse transformation was mostly done by using bamboo sticks to replace one's decayed flesh. Swords, weapons, water, fire, and lightning were also used for disintegration. In essence, it was using otherworldly things to replace one's mortal body, making the body go from tangible to intangible. Then, the intangible could be used to derive the supernatural power of death and all living things. This was the beginning of the [Ghost Immortal Way], one of the [Five Immortal Ways] in later generations.

After the emergence of the Ghost Immortal Dao, the Transmigration of Corpses was completely replaced and became a heritage in history. However, the Ghost Immortal was invisible and intangible, and could not resist the erosion of demonic energy. In the later era of catastrophe, it was not as good as the ancient Transmigration Dao. Therefore, this series of techniques was picked up again.

Those who now practice the path of ascension no longer need to use bamboo sticks, weapons, swords, water, fire, and thunder to dissolve their flesh and blood. They can slowly replace their flesh and blood with magical devices, completely condense their spiritual will and upload it to their immortal foundation, thus achieving the accomplishment of 'ascension to the sky'.

By using this method to build the foundation, even if the flesh shell is damaged and the body disappears, one will still not die. As long as the immortal foundation is still there, one can continue to control the body of the heavenly machine to practice.

It can be both invisible and visible, and can be converted at will. Except that one needs to work part-time as a weapon cultivator to maintain and upgrade one's body all the time, and also as a formation cultivator to maintain one's immortal soul, which consumes a lot of resources and energy, and only smart people can understand it, there are no other disadvantages.

Simply put, it is a superior inheritance that only a true genius can understand.

But this does not mean that ordinary people cannot even touch it.

On the contrary, as long as it doesn’t matter whether you can understand it or not, it is easiest for ordinary people to practice the way of immortality.

It doesn't matter if they are not talented enough or cannot practice Qi, formation, and weapon at the same time. As long as the Yuhua Dao monks take shelter in the group company and the company is responsible for maintaining their bodies or immortal souls, they can concentrate on practicing the Dao and leave all related maintenance and upgrades to the "wisdom of the people".

No matter how fast a person practices in the art of formation and refining equipment, he can never compare with the entire company group. With the most perfect body and soul, the immortal monk is almost fearless of evil spirits and can fight with the most powerful demons in the most dangerous areas without worrying about falling into evil.

The Immortal Monks and the company complement each other. The powerful Immortal Monks become the company's senior executives, while the weak Immortal Monks become servants whose bodies and souls are controlled by the company.

Just like the Fengdu Guards, just like all the core legal guards of the four major groups.

Among the people, the practice of Yuhua Dao is also gradually spreading.

This technology first appeared in the group, and then spread because of the Guiyi Army. At this point, any cultivator who has been seriously injured and lost his way will try to choose the path of immortality to continue his practice.

Gang Hai is such a cultivator. He is extremely powerful and not afraid of getting hurt. In addition, he has good talent. He is an instrument cultivator and his formation is barely enough for his own use. He can maintain the magic weapons of all the brothers in the team.

No one will disrespect such a leader, and he will definitely have dignity.

[It's weird, too quiet]

At this moment, Gang Hai put down the telescope in his hand, and said in a heavy tone: [Just now, a disguised inspection team passed through the pass, but they did not encounter any attack... Could it be that the group of people have discovered something wrong? ]

The mercenary at the side said: "It has been so many days. There should be other teams hired to investigate besides us. Boss, we didn't alert the enemy, but others may not." [Continue to observe. After an hour, if there is no response, just launch a rocket.]

Gang Hai knocked on the guardrail of the sentry tower with his fingers. He said decisively: "Our employer doesn't care about catching the mastermind anyway. Let's blow it up first. There will definitely be a reaction."

"He's still the boss, he's tough, blow him up!" The mercenaries laughed and didn't think Steel Skeleton was extreme at all.

At the same time, the sound of a shuttle breaking through the air was heard in the distance. Steel Skeleton and his companions looked over and found that it was an old-fashioned shuttle, which should be from the surrounding safe zone or the wilderness forces: [Whose side is this? This is to alert the enemy...]

Unexpectedly, just as this old shuttle that seemed to be planning to launch a drone was flying rapidly, suddenly, bright lines of fire suddenly appeared in the fortress area.

Accompanied by sharp cone-shaped spiritual energy explosions and roars, three missiles hit the shuttle and blasted it into pieces in mid-air!

【What a fool! 】

The mechanical eye shrank and then expanded again, adjusting the focus. Even though the steel skeleton had little flesh and blood on his body, he couldn't help but gasp and curse: [Surface-to-air missile? ]

[How could they have this level of weapons?!]

But before Gang Hai could figure out why this group of wilderness cultivators who were merely attacking the inspection team could obtain surface-to-air missiles that were difficult for a mercenary group led by their foundation-building cultivators to obtain.

In the distance, another sound of breaking air was heard.

Another shuttle was also approaching rapidly.

However, this shuttle was obviously not of the same class as the previous ones. Not only did it have an anti-killing shield, it could also detect the explosion ahead. Although it was unable to make a sharp turn due to its high speed, the pilot still made the shuttle turn thirty degrees to the maximum extent possible and rapidly increased its altitude, trying to rush into the evil cloud.

But, it's too late.

Several more lines of fire lit up, and several missiles rushed out and bombarded the shuttle.

The shuttle was shaking violently. Its shield and structure, coupled with the reinforcements of the monks inside, gave off a light yellow luster, helping it to survive the first wave of attacks.

But its speed had been completely lost, and the entire shuttle was shaky and became a sitting target in the sky.

Less than twenty seconds later, another round of missiles came flying out and hit the shuttle.

It exploded.

Fortunately, before the explosion, several figures jumped out of the emergency hatch.

"what."

An Jing was the first to react to the violent explosion and jumped down from the shuttle. He laughed out loud: "What a grand opening ceremony."

Listening to the nervous shouts of my classmates and teacher behind me, the sounds of people jumping down one after another, gazing at the ground rapidly approaching me, and feeling the tranquility of the violent wind of falling, I not only did not feel the slightest bit of nervousness, but I even had a sense of complacency that I had expected.

In the violent explosion of the shuttle above his head, he laughed, his eyes lit up with red light, staring at the place where the missile rose: "Come on."

A huge sword box appeared in his hand, and the spiritual energy furnace roared and increased in pressure.

——Let me see what you can do!
(End of this chapter)