Wet viviparity

Chapter 856 Black Mountain, Great Dharma Gate
The black mountain before them looked gloomy and lifeless, devoid of any vegetation. But who would have thought that this was actually a fake ancient forbidden mountain created using the Great Technique of Revealing Diagrams and Shifting Forms?

The Great Technique of Unveiling the Image and Shifting Forms is an unparalleled secret within the Xuanmen (Mysterious School). It allows one to replace or even destroy the true form by using a false form. Even a mountain as large as Mount Tai can be destroyed by this technique. It is truly a great method that directly points to the changes of the Heavenly Dipper—shifting stars and changing constellations.

The creation of this fake mountain right under the nose of Yunyu Temple is no small feat, it must have been the work of the entire Taiping Mountain community. If Yunyu Temple is defeated in this great calamity, it would not be unjust.

Following the incantation taught by Lu Zhenjun, Ji Ming drew talismans in mid-air. As his fingertips passed by, several talismans fell into the mountains and drifted to various places on their own. Gradually, golden light surged up from the outside of the mountains, outlining a large circle that encompassed the entire terrain of the Black Mountain for hundreds of miles.

"receive!"

Ji Ming's shout was like thunder, and the massive mountain began to tremble slightly, rising from the ground in the circle. It then contracted, and the overlapping rock layers produced a rumbling sound. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, it had already transformed into a palm-sized ink mountain, which floated lightly into Ji Ming's palm.

The mountain wasn't large, but Ji Ming was so heavy that he froze in place just by holding it up.

Seeing Ji Ming in this state, Zhang Xiaoyuan, covered in sweat, said with schadenfreude, "You should train your physical body more. This false mountain is bound by a restraining circle, which has reduced its weight by seventy or eighty percent. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to lift it, let alone carry it to the Ancient Cave for a battle."

"This mountain is a false form of the ancient Yin Jin Forbidden Mountain, sharing the same origin and energy. If this false form is destroyed..."

The "Unveiling and Shifting Technique" is, as the name suggests, a technique that, once activated, can temporarily separate the form and energy of a target object, much like temporarily peeling a painting off a scroll.

Simply reduce the original form by any means on the removed picture, that is, the false form, and then put the false form back on the original true form, just as the removed picture is pasted back onto the scroll. The reduction on the false form will be manifested on the true form.

"Look at this place on the mountain."

Zhang Xiaoyuan pointed to a deep gorge in the artificial hill, where there were many treacherous waves and rapids. Six or seven figures gathered there, and the God of Danger was there.

Clearly, these figures were not actually in the fake forbidden mountain on this palm-sized road, but in the real forbidden mountain. However, the situation in the real forbidden mountain was also reflected in the fake forbidden mountain and was seen by Ji Ming and Zhang Xiaoyuan.

Zhang Xiaoyuan introduced Ji Ming: "Those two boys, a man and a woman, a few feet tall, dressed in black and red respectively, are Man Shenying and Xu Shenying, two of the Four Fiends. They address each other as brother and sister, and even the patriarch would find it difficult to calculate their background."

The one with a human face and a red horse's body is one of the Four Fiends, transformed from the corpse of an ancient god who died twice.

Master Xuan Ying has gone to the Hermit of the Western Divine Pillar to retrieve a divine staff specifically designed to subdue this evil spirit. That staff is the very same magical treasure his enemy used to kill him the first time he was killed. Upon seeing this treasure, he will be filled with boundless fear and collapse without a fight.

Ji Ming looked at the fierce figure with a red horse and human face in the artificial mountain in his palm. He never expected that the other party had already reached the level of a demon god comparable to a sixth-realm Yang God Earth Immortal. Just because his strength had been figured out, he seemed to have become a fish on a chopping board.

This was the first time Ji Ming had learned about the battles between the fifth and sixth realms, and he had even witnessed a battle between someone like Lu Zhenjun. It was like hearing a thunderclap in silence, and he benefited greatly from it.

At this moment, he also understood why there is a saying that "mastery of divination is the dividing line between the first and the third tier of cultivators." Even at the fifth or sixth level, this saying still makes a lot of sense and can still distinguish between first-rate and second- or third-rate cultivators.

Ji Ming couldn't help but squeeze the Yuanbi Ruyi, reminding himself that just because he had the Yuanbi Ruyi, he could protect himself without worry and not be afraid of being surrounded by enemies of the same realm, and that he could act at will. This level of water is very deep, and he still needs to see and learn more.

"That creature covered in black fur, carrying a black-sheathed sword, is called the Monkey King. He is the mortal enemy of the Martial Ape Master of the Immortal Ape Cave in Su Shi Village. He has long since cultivated into a demon immortal, but somehow he was invited here by the Cloud and Rain Temple."

Beside him were two long-armed swordsmen of varying heights, both his prized disciples, transformed from long-armed apes, possessing extraordinary swordsmanship. Fortunately, the two elders with hooks and sickles from Mount Nanmu were not present. These two elders had broken free from their confinement and were also enlightened beings among demons. His master was very wary of them and had specially refined a batch of external elixirs to restrain them.

Ji Mingqi said, "When I came here, I heard Senior Brother Li Zhu say that the Three Officials would use the external elixir from Prince Pool under Yixian Mountain in the Five Poisons Blessed Land to distract the old demons and monsters of Xuanshi Village under Nanmu Mountain. How did it become a distraction of the two elders?"

Could it be that the two elders are going to help their demonic son, the Yin'e King, to obtain that external elixir?

More than a thousand years after the two elders were sealed away, the Five-Colored Demon Village had long since fallen apart.

Among them, Chishi Village has completely lost its legitimacy, Qingshi Village has also changed its appearance and become the Qingzhen Temple and Qianhua Cave of the Crying Ancestor, while Sushi Village and Xianyuan Cave no longer recognize the jurisdiction of Nanmu Divine Mountain and have become their own. There is also Huangshi Village, which is said to have only a few big cats and small cats left.

Only the Black Stone Village and the Scorpion Basin Cave of the King of Yin'e were well-managed, and he also had demons from the Ghost Mother Cave and the Treasure Image Cave under his command. In addition, he was one of the two elders' sons, making him one of the leaders of the demons in the south.

"No."

Zhang Xiaoyuan continued waving his fan and said, "Have you forgotten the matter of Panhu Dashan conspiring with Yin'e Dawang to kill Du Gou Dawang of Chishi Village?"

King Poison Hook and King Yin'e, the master of the Scorpion Basin Cave in Xuan Shi Village, were brothers born of the same mother. However, they had hated each other since childhood. As a result, when the Scorpion Immortal lineage of Panhu Mountain plotted to seize King Poison Hook's Yuan Dan, King Yin'e turned a blind eye to it.

The above is a long-standing story circulating in Liling. When Ji Ming was plotting to obtain the Divine Scorpion Pearl, the second primordial spirit treasure refined from the thousand-year-old primordial essence of the Poison Hook King, he pondered the hidden stories behind it quite a bit.

After World War II ended, the elders of the Five Immortals Sect revealed the truth of the matter. When the Scorpion Immortal lineage was plotting to obtain the Yuan Dan, the Yin E King did indeed contribute to the scheme and provided a crucial secret report.

“The events of that year have not been forgotten with the passage of time,” Zhang Xiaoyuan said quietly. “Now that the two elders have broken the seal, they naturally want to know the cause of their child’s death. The current situation of King Yin’e is conceivable. He needs this furnace of external pills more than anyone else.”

The two elders, Hook and Sickle, were caught in a dilemma: whether to stand by and watch King Yin'e obtain the elixir and achieve immortality, or to stop this demon child suspected of poisoning his brother. They had no intention of participating in the great calamity.

"Is that elixir from outside the furnace truly an elixir that can make one ascend to immortality?"

Ji Ming was very skeptical of the authenticity of the external pill, but he also knew that King Yin'e was not a simple demon, so how could he easily believe in the effectiveness of this pill? He would only be willing to risk taking it after verification.

"Replacement guaranteed."

Zhang Xiaoyuan laughed.

Seeing Zhang Xiaoyuan's knowledgeable demeanor, Ji Ming suddenly realized that Lu Zhenjun had never given up on Zhang Xiaoyuan and that everything was being planned for him to become a future Zhenjun, including the intelligence he was exposed to.

If he hadn't risen to prominence unexpectedly, hadn't mastered the Yuanpi Ruyi, and hadn't accumulated various backgrounds and achievements, he would be the one holding the fan today, while Zhang Xiaoyuan would be taking over the sect leader's sword and supporting this false mountain.

(End of this chapter)