If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1335 Exploring the Mysterious
Baiyun Mountain is ten thousand feet high and covers an area of ​​forty to fifty miles in circumference. It is a majestic mountain.

Yet this enormous creature appeared out of nowhere without affecting or alarming any mortals. Even when it stood directly in the mortal realm, it was merely shrouded in a wisp of celestial mist.

To ordinary people, it appears as if a thick fog suddenly descended upon a certain area within Mount Mangdang, enveloping the surrounding mountains and valleys in a hazy, misty atmosphere, with water vapor swirling around.

If mortals force their way in, their five senses will be confused, and they will wander around in circles, thinking they have broken through the fog and that there is no difference between inside and outside. In fact, they have simply bypassed Baiyun Peak.

Even for cultivators, breaking through the fog barrier requires a considerable level of cultivation.

If it were Xiaoyu, who hadn't yet entered the Jihe Water Palace, she would most likely be affected by the fog and wouldn't be able to reach Baiyun Cave smoothly.

"The key to encountering a celestial abode is one's fortune. If one has enough fortune, even if one is just a farmer chopping wood on the mountain, does not know martial arts, and cannot see through the illusion of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, one can still smoothly walk to the gate of the celestial abode."

Then they entered the Immortal Cave to learn the Heavenly Gang Mystic Arts.

If one lacks sufficient fortune, even an immortal who forcibly enters the cave will be blind to the incantations imprinted on the walls, unlike others who can see them.

Meng Qi stood outside the fog barrier, gave a brief introduction, and then turned to look at Wu Yazi, saying, "Fellow Daoist, this is the only way I can take you."

"Master, aren't you going in to take a look?" Xi Juan asked, somewhat reluctant.

In recent days, Master Meng has also explained many profound principles to them.

Compared to Wu Yazi's more specialized Daoist teachings, Meng Qi's sermons are more basic, systematic, and beginner-friendly.

Meng Qi laughed and said, "When I attained enlightenment, there was only Baiyun Peak in Yunmeng Marsh, and no Baiyun Cave."

The reason why Baiyun Dongjun is now ranked among the "Six Great Sword Immortals of Qin" is because the day he attained enlightenment was not far from the Qin Dynasty, so they were from the same era, only hundreds of thousands of years later than the old Taoist!
Therefore, the "Ape Master" you speak of is merely a junior in front of this old Taoist.

A celestial abode built by a junior is of no appeal to this humble Daoist.

Unless I take on a disciple in the future, I might bring him here to broaden his horizons.

"Wow, the Taoist priest has lived for hundreds of thousands of years!" Second cousin Di Hua exclaimed in amazement.

Jin Xunu curled his lip, inwardly showing great disdain.

"True Lord, go about your business. We'll meet again someday," Wu Yazi said.

In fact, she herself did not intend to act as Xi Juan's nanny forever.

How can you grow without experiencing things firsthand?
Xi Juan is not lacking in talent, nor in immortal techniques and cultivation; what she lacks is the opportunity to gain experience in the cultivation world.

"Xi Juan, Di Hua, this is your destiny in the immortal realm. You can only find your own destiny by trying and fighting for it."

In the next few days, you will need to approach Baiyun Peak on your own, investigate information related to the Immortal Abode, and then formulate a plan.

If you encounter danger, as long as you are within the Baiyun Mountain area, just shout "Teacher, save me!"

The enemy can't kill you all in an instant, but I can appear in the next instant and kill him.

Xi Juan was very insightful and immediately understood that her teacher regarded this "encounter with a celestial being at the Ape Lord's Immortal Abode" as a trial.

It was both an opportunity to broaden his experience and a test for him.

"Teacher, please take care. Your disciple is leaving now." He bowed deeply and then walked decisively into the fog.

His cousin, Di Hua, immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times to the old Taoist Wu Ya Zi before hurriedly catching up with his younger cousin.

"Jin Xu Nu, do you want to try your luck with a chance at immortality?" Wu Ya Zi asked.

Jin Xunu countered, "Old Daoist Meng has been unwilling to reveal the identities of Baiyun Cave and the White Ape. Do you understand why, sir?"

Wu Yazi said, "We don't need him to say it. Now it's our turn to encounter a destiny of immortality, we will bear all the risks, and we don't need him to get involved in the karma."

Jin Xunu sneered, "Old Daoist Meng dares not say, but I dare to say! There is a divine monkey in the world named 'Long-Armed Ape'."

Among gibbons, the white gibbon is the most intelligent.

The "White Ape Lord," one of the six great sword immortals of the Qin Dynasty, was a white ape with a long arm.

His master was Zhao Chunu, who was also among the "Six Great Sword Immortals of Qin". However, Zhao Chunu was not actually the reincarnation of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden. She descended directly to the mortal world, just like the master. She used the transformation technique to become the "Female Sword Goddess" of Yue.

Having heard this, with your intelligence, sir, you should understand the true owner of this White Cloud Cave Immortal Fate, right?
"Hehe, the white ape's title of 'Lord of the White Cloud Cave' is even a celestial post bestowed by the Jade Emperor himself."

Wu Yazi looked up at the sky and sighed, "No wonder Meng Zhenjun was so confident that Baiyun Cave was very special."

It's fine if those with unorthodox methods don't enter the White Cloud Mountain Immortal Abode, but once they do, they'll be wiped out in one fell swoop.

"Damn it, the cave hasn't even truly opened yet, and the Heavenly Court's envoy has already arrived with the 'Book of Good and Evil'!"

In the "deep divine dimension," which is beyond the comprehension of mortals and even cultivators, more than a dozen Heavenly Court envoys are shuttling back and forth in the sky, extremely busy.

Jin Xunu also looked up at the sky.

His divine rank is not low; he is a "King," but his cultivation mainly lies in combat power. He is not very skilled in divine eye techniques, and even if he were, it would be useless. It is difficult for gods within the Heavenly Court system to directly see through the Heavenly Court's talisman envoys using the divine techniques within the Heavenly Court's divine system.

The Heavenly Court established the divine office of "Talisman Envoy" with the fundamental purpose of supervising the divine, immortal, and human realms on behalf of the Jade Emperor.

The divine arts of the celestial deities primarily originate from divine talismans and the celestial divine system. The Jade Emperor would not use his own divine arts to break through his own surveillance system.

On the contrary, the immortal eye techniques of the Taiyi Xuanmen make it easy to see the Heavenly Court Envoys and the Divine Officials.

"Now that you've seen the Heavenly Court's envoy, do you still want to go in and try your luck at becoming an immortal?"
If you secretly learn the Jade Emperor's techniques, it's like handing him a handle to use against you.

What's worse is that, given your good fortune, you're definitely not going to learn the complete Thirty-Six Heavenly Arts.

Only by mastering all thirty-six Heavenly Gang Techniques can one possibly derive a Heavenly Immortal Technique.

It's such a waste to sacrifice oneself and incur such great karma, yet not receive the celestial arts.

The master loses out, but I lose out even more.

"As a follower of the Divine Path, learning immortal techniques and supernatural powers can only increase my combat power, but do I lack combat power?" Jin Xunu said.

Wu Yazi gave a strange smile, "Originally, I wasn't very interested in the Ape Lord's Immortal Abode. But now, I feel that this is an extraordinary opportunity for me, an incredible opportunity that I absolutely cannot let go of."

If you don't go, go back to the cave and wait for me to return.

Leaving these words behind, she took a step forward, and "Wu Yazi" vanished on the spot, while a seventeen or eighteen-year-old beggar boy appeared five miles away.

Baiyun Peak was shrouded in a layer of mist.

It wasn't that we passed through the fog and arrived directly at a fairyland filled with birdsong, fragrant flowers, and bright sunshine.

The entire mountain was constantly shrouded in white mist, and people who went inside were also constantly surrounded by the mist.

Either one enters by chance or through supernatural powers and magic, breaking through the illusion.

Even Xi Juan wasn't afraid of being misled, let alone his teacher.

The beggar Xiaoyu wore a tattered straw hat and only a sleeveless shirt in the dead of winter. His trousers, covered in patches, were very short, exposing half of his calves.

She carried a gourd of wine at her waist and a shimmering green bamboo stick in her hand. Upon reaching the foot of the mountain, she quickly circled the area of ​​Baiyun Peak, which stretched for dozens of miles. A layer of mist enveloped Baiyun Peak, while a magical array was set up at its foot. Staying on the mountain was fine; only the mist obscured the view, posing no immediate danger. However, forcibly venturing up the mountain and triggering the magical array... even Xiaoyu felt a fatal crisis.

Considering the identity of the big boss behind the scenes, it's not surprising.

She paused the other methods of killing her adoptive fathers in her mind, and used all her computing power on the "Jade Emperor's method of forceful killing". Then, with the enlightenment she gained from fusing one-tenth of her Purple Mansion, she directly observed the immortal array on White Cloud Peak.

The effect was very good; she was rapidly comprehending, understanding, and then breaking the magic array.

However, the speed at which the Jade Emperor's method of forceful killing was deduced was not significantly different from before; it remained extremely slow.

"Hey kid, beggar kid, I'm calling you, come here."

When Xiaoyu, the beggar, was walking around Baiyun Peak for the third time, someone finally noticed her and called out to her.

Actually, some people had seen her before, but they didn't pay much attention.

She ran around Baiyun Peak three times before it seemed a bit strange.

Xiao Yu, the beggar, glanced back and saw a purple-haired old monster. He had long, magenta hair, an afro hairstyle, and a Taoist robe woven with gold thread that was open at the chest, revealing thick chest hair.

His appearance leans more towards dignified than evil.

But Xiaoyu could see through the aura above the purple-haired monster's head at a glance—a fierce pillar of black and red energy.

He turned out to be an old monster. Oh, with Xiaoyu's current level of cultivation, this kind of evil cultivator who has just crossed the threshold of immortality can only be considered a "minor monster".

Seeing that the other party was just a minor monster, she remained calm and did not respond. She continued to shrink the ground to an inch with her feet, and her eyes shot out three feet of dark light as she recklessly probed the White Cloud Peak Immortal Array.

There were at least 1,500 cultivators like her who were exploring the immortal array.

Well, at this time, at least two thousand people had arrived at Baiyun Peak, and new people were still arriving.

For example, Liu Ji brought over a hundred brothers with him. Besides the bandits who had become outlaws, the heroes of Pei County also came upon hearing the news.

Everyone wanted to enter Baiyun Mountain, so naturally they tried to break the immortal formation at the foot of the mountain.

"Beggar brat, I've called you several times, and you've seen me, so why don't you pay any attention to me?" The purple-haired monster roared, leaping hundreds of feet across to block the beggar Xiaoyu's path.

Xiao Yu the beggar was already gathering internal energy in his right palm, and he was about to unleash the "Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms".

Suddenly, he used his telepathy to capture a message from her mind that stirred her interest and triggered her spiritual awareness.

—Is there any connection between me and the master of this purple-haired monster, "Lord of Bewitching Mind"? But I don't know any Lord of Bewitching Mind.

Xiao Yu was puzzled and immediately stopped the urge to kill the other party with a single palm strike.

"Who are you calling 'kid'? I have been cultivating for 3,800 years, and you are only 342 years old, a purple-haired brat. You have no respect for your elders and you're acting all high and mighty in front of me." She had a young face, but her words were mature and old-fashioned.

The purple-haired monster instinctively contorted his expression and was about to roar, but upon hearing "three hundred and forty-two years old," the ferocity on his face froze, then quickly replaced by surprise and horror.

Three thousand eight hundred years old might be an exaggeration, but three hundred and forty-two years old is indeed his current age.

He took two steps back, creating some distance, before bowing and saying, "This humble one is blind and failed to recognize you, senior. I hope you will forgive me."

"Stop talking nonsense, what are you doing blocking my way?" Beggar Xiaoyu said impatiently.

The purple-haired monster was conflicted.

He had previously thought the other party was just an ordinary superhuman, but seeing how skillfully "he" used the Shrinking Earth Technique, he became itchy to use it and planned to forcibly exchange Taoist techniques with "him" using a trashy technique.

Now that he has realized that the other party is unfathomable, how could he dare to seize by trickery and force?
“Senior, I am from Dongyang City in Dongsheng Divine Continent. I am a disciple of the ‘Bewitching Heart Venerable’ of the East Sea, and my title is ‘Purple-Haired Demon Lord’. Cough cough, senior, you can just call me ‘Purple-Haired’.”

The beggar Xiaoyu's expression softened slightly. "So you're Fellow Daoist Mixin's disciple. What do you want with me?"

—Damn it, knowing that my master is the Venerable Mind-Bewildering, you still dare to call yourself "Laozi"? If I could figure out your true nature, I would definitely tear you apart alive.

The purple-haired man hardened his heart, but his face showed surprise and delight. "Senior knows my master? May I ask how you are addressed?"

"I am Xiao Feng, the Nine-Fingered Beggar!" said the beggar Xiao Yu.

The purple-haired demon lord searched his memory several times, but couldn't recall anything.

Looking down at her hands, all ten fingers were present.

Xiao Yu the beggar gave him a disdainful look. "What did your master teach you? You came here to explore the mysterious and seek wonders, and you might even obtain celestial immortal techniques. How could you so openly reveal your true appearance and real name?"

She pointed to Liu Ji and the others who were peering in their direction, "Look at those bandits. They're just a bunch of good-for-nothing mortals who know to dye their eyebrows and foreheads red with paint and cover their faces with yellow cloth."

Although it wasn't very useful, at least they considered it and made an effort.

How can you be even worse than a mortal?

Her voice was not soft, and Liu Ji and the other bandits immediately looked embarrassed and shrank back.

The purple-haired demon lord was also somewhat embarrassed and extremely annoyed. "If I obtain the opportunity to become an immortal, I am not afraid of others coveting it."

Xiao Yu the beggar looked at him with the same eyes that looked at an idiot, "Are you a pig brain? For us unorthodox cultivators, killing and robbing are commonplace, how could we possibly have the fortune to obtain immortal opportunities?"

To obtain immortal techniques, one must ultimately kill and plunder.

Take those mortal bandits, for example. Their strength is a bit low, but their luck is abundant. Once they enter the cave and obtain their immortal destiny, I'll slaughter them all, chew their hearts and livers, and torture their souls, hahahahaha~~~”

Amidst the beggar Xiaoyu's eerie, cackling laughter, Liu Ji and the others got goosebumps.

"The devil! This is the old devil! Brother Ji, we've been targeted! Let's get out of here!" Lu Wan was somewhat frightened.

Liu Ji looked around, pointed in one direction, and said, "Let's go over there. There are a few Taoist cultivators with an air of otherworldly grace there. One of them is an old acquaintance who had drinks with us before."

Liu Ji was frightened away, and the purple-haired demon lord's expression became even more unpleasant.

"Senior, why are you shouting so loudly? To tell you the truth, I've had my eye on them for a while now. Guess who they are? Liu Ji of Pei County, a hidden dragon of the Central Plains, who is said to have even beheaded the First Emperor not long ago."

His group of brothers were known as the '108 Heroes of Pei County'.

With their luck, they will surely acquire a Heavenly Dipper Technique.

Now that they're on their guard, they've even gone to find cultivators from the Xuanmen sect. What are we going to do?

He used a secret method to transmit his voice, which was filled with resentment.

—If I hadn't glimpsed your thoughts, why would I have bothered to remind Liu Laosan?

Now that my identity as the "Peerless Old Demon" has been exposed, I can no longer pretend to be a beggar to deceive my "godfather".

Before we even got started, we lost an account. Are you going to compensate me?

Xiao Yu, the beggar, sighed inwardly but sneered on the surface, "That's why I called you stupid. Come with me."

(End of this chapter)