Lingzhang

Chapter 671: Sages of the Ancient Times
In an instant, before he finished speaking, Yue Hanzhang suddenly stopped where he was.

Yue Hanzhang couldn't help but stamp his feet.

At this moment, there was clearly no aura of supernatural power sweeping over him, but a chill as if haunted by a ghost instantly penetrated Yue Hanzhang's body and soul, making him freeze in place like King Qianyan the moment before.

The sound of this voice, at this moment, surpassed any supernatural aura, any Taoist magic and attacking skills.

Yue Hanzhang is at the second level of the outer scene, has mastered the upper level of counter-attack, and has a mechanical mind that provides chaotic dynamic algorithms at all times. He is the king!
Facing King Qianyan, Yue Hanzhang had the confidence to take him far away, maneuver around, and then defeat him with all his efforts!

A further extension of this confidence is that Yue Hanzhang is confident that even the supreme king of the ninth heaven in the outer scene, even the old ape king and the old lion king, are truly at the peak of the demon king.

They or they also cannot achieve the ability to get behind him silently and leave him unaware before making any sound!

Or, he was really possessed by a ghost, and all these things were just illusions in his mind, and Yue Hanzhang was naturally unable to resist the illusions he had imagined.

Either.

The person who spoke behind him was an existence whose cultivation level was above that of the Supreme King!

He has already died once.

This person could sneak up behind me so quietly, and could also take my life just as quietly.

Is this the outer sea of ​​stars?

He took a deep breath.

After figuring out these key points, Yue Hanzhang's mood became calm and peaceful.

All unnecessary emotions are useless; fear, awe, humility... everything is useless in the face of truly powerful strength.

Since everything is in vain, just face it.

The surging emotions in his heart were calmed in an instant. At the same time that Yue Hanzhang's mood returned to calm, music started playing in the quiet world and the mechanized mind instantly penetrated Yue Hanzhang's mind.

He turned his body slowly.

Then he slowly looked at the person who spoke with a pair of deep eyes that did not contain any light.

What came into view was an old man with white hair and a youthful face.

Looking at his appearance, it is hard to even say what features make him memorable at first sight.

If you must say, he was a little "younger" than Yue Hanzhang had imagined just now. Although he looked old, his face, including his eyebrows and eyes, did not show any signs of aging or old age.

It is as if it is the heyday of the Spring and Autumn Period, when all aspects of form, spirit and Taoism are still at their peak, especially in the "prime of life".

Then, the old man had his hair loose and was wearing a black robe. At first glance, the style seemed ordinary, but when you sensed it carefully, you could see that the aura was strong and every strand was taken from the hair of the demon king!
Even at this moment, when Yue Hanzhang looked over, the old man had his hands clasped in front of him, with a seemingly warm smile on his face. He stood there motionless, without any unnecessary movements.

However, there was a certain kind of awe-inspiring arrogance beneath his demeanor and expression that looked down upon everything, and it seemed as if it could not be concealed in any way.

It seemed as if that kind of domineering nature was the true nature of the person in front of him.

Then, Yue Hanzhang slowly exhaled the breath he had taken in. He nodded slightly and clasped his fists.

When he opened his mouth, he did not directly respond to the old man's question just now.

"I don't know what to call you, Senior?"

Hearing this, the "smile" on the old man's face became even brighter, but in Yue Hanzhang's eyes, there was only an aura of arrogance that could not be ignored from beginning to end.

"Friend Yue, just call me Old Lin. If you were frightened just now and feel resentful, you can call me Old Ghost Lin. My old friends all call me that. Maybe if you can improve a few more years, you will also be qualified to call me that."

When he finished speaking, Yue Hanzhang simply deepened his previous small nod, bowed slightly, and still clasped his fists and bowed.

"Meet Senior Lin."

Old Lin laughed twice, then raised his hand and gently stroked his beard.

"Just call me Elder Lin. No need to call me senior. You are too reserved."

"Oh - maybe I really showed up so suddenly and scared you. I'm sorry, I haven't dealt with anyone for many, many years."

"I have been paying attention to your affairs since the first time they were presented to the moment when the sutra curtain shone across the boundless sea of ​​stars."

"Others may be amazed at your feat of defeating the upper realms one after another."

"But what amazes me is the number of Taoist scriptures on the curtain of scriptures that you reflected twice."

"After living in the world for many years, this is the first time I have seen a Dao seal with the ultimate number of one yuan."

"The highest level of the Sutra that can be promoted to a higher level."

"My friend, you have created a monument in ancient history, and accomplished something that generations of geniuses and evildoers have never been able to accomplish. Moreover, this method has been replicated on the other two people who seem to have a close relationship with you."

"The heroic deeds have become established laws, with precedents that can be replicated. This is the great achievement of the living sages."

"It is precisely because of this great and wise achievement that I have long admired you!"

"So, when you illuminated the sutra curtain just now, I saw that this was actually a corner of the outer star sea. Fortunately, more than a hundred years ago, I had a bloody battle with a wandering demon here, and I had a deep impression of it."

"That's why I set out right away, wanting to see you in person. I didn't expect there would be such an unexpected surprise."

"You are indeed a wise man in the world!"

"If the technique you just used was also invented by you, your talent and ability, and your blessings and achievements to the human race, should be greater than mine."

"I have only lived a few years longer than you."

"Besides, the achievements I made in the past have long been lost in the years and buried in ashes and dust."

"You have never received any favor from me, so there is no need to address me as your senior."

After talking about this point, and seeing that Mr. Lin still didn't tell the truth, Yue Hanzhang had to act as the "supporting actor" and decisively asked another question following the tone of the conversation.

"I haven't asked you yet, Mr. Lin, I wonder if you are——"

Look, Yue Hanzhang had to ask it first, then Mr. Lin spoke calmly with a smile full of emotion.

“I haven’t achieved much. In fact, I almost went the wrong way in the past.”

"I don't know if you young people have ever heard of the path I created—"

"Human Yuan Golden Pill!"

“Looking back now, it is still a road full of dangers, but it is also this groundbreaking use of supernatural powers that has given our human race a glimmer of hope to survive the dark ages.”

"Later, new methods were constantly created, and the Golden Seal of Receiving Scripture was born, replacing the Human Yuan Golden Elixir."

"The branch I have stretched out from the mighty tree of the human race is about to wither."

"Fortunately, before I died on the broken road, someone else came to open up the road. On top of the already relatively complete foundation building realm, they adopted some of the spirit of the path I created in the past and extended it to the Nine Seal Golden Elixir realm."

"Thus, with the help of that overlapping rhyme of Tao, I have successfully taken another step forward on the path of Tao, and have reached the same destination as the new method."

"Today, the path I created is no longer passed down in this world. I am just an ordinary old monk."

That's what I said.

But it was the first time that Yue Hanzhang saw the lingering domineering aura of Mr. Lin slightly dissipate, and a kind of pride in his past deeds appeared on Mr. Lin's face.

In place.

With the blessing of a mechanized mind, Yue Hanzhang was "doing two things at once" and said some flattering words to Mr. Lin in a manner that seemed to come from the heart.

However, the part of the domineering aura that disappeared from Elder Lin turned into an even deeper chill that penetrated Yue Hanzhang's spiritual world.

Of course he knew the most famous, yet also the most notorious, Renyuan Jindan practice method in the Dark Ages!
In that wild era when the wild animals that first experienced radiation had already completed their transformation into monsters, and humans had just begun to use supernatural powers.

In order to survive in an extremely harsh environment.

Our ancestors made extremely brutal use of the demonized organs in the bodies of those extraordinary monsters they were lucky enough to hunt.

Almost in the process of trial and error using human lives, the ancestors of the human race came to understand how to coordinate these demonized organs with each other, came up with the concept of the birth of extraordinary Taoism, and discovered the evil factors.

Therefore, the Renyuan Jindan practice method stood out.

The demonized organs are boiled in the original recipe and then shared among the people. Those who cannot hold on will die immediately.

For those who can hold on, their qi sea and dantian will be broken open, and the "golden pill" condensed by the extraordinary Taoism will be taken out from their physical and spiritual world.

With this person's refining, most of the evil factors have been eliminated.

If a true cultivator can refine this Ren Yuan Jin Dan like the golden seal of later generations, he can obtain extraordinary Taoism!
This kind of practice is very bloody!
It is even difficult to define whether, in the early days of the Dark Ages, more humans died at the claws of monsters or at the hands of their own people.

There was even a point at which people in later generations commented that the reason why that era was called the Dark Ages rather than the Bloody Ages was that the key to the name was not the massacre of the demons.

And it is precisely in the bloodiness and darkness of the Renyuan Jindan practice!

However, even the most demanding historical critics of later generations had to admit it.

It is precisely because of this Renyuan Golden Elixir practice that, on this basis, there are the formulas for the Zhushou Golden Seal, the partial charm of the Nine Seals Golden Elixir realm, and the concept of extraordinary Taoism and even the path of Taoism.

The first shovel of soil on the foundation of all subsequent human Taoism buildings was laid at that time.

Yue Hanzhang originally thought that this had already become a long-standing chapter in ancient history.

But he never expected that the person who created this path was still alive, and was staying in the outer starry sea forever, standing right in front of him.

A person with both good and bad reputations.

A person who, in order to fight against the demons, was the first to use the butcher knife on his own people.

The more he thought about it, the colder Yue Hanzhang felt in his heart.

Yue Hanzhang then understood more and more why Mr. Lin seemed so concerned about his reputation just now.

It was like he was instinctively making up for what he had done in the past.

So, after a few words of "sincere" flattery, Yue Hanzhang decisively changed the subject and mentioned the critical issue that Mr. Lin had mentioned at the beginning.

"Senior, are you very concerned about my attack and killing techniques?"

Hearing this, Elder Lin nodded very solemnly, and as his expression became more serious, the domineering aura he had just shown emerged from him again.

"That's right!"

"Logically speaking, my rash appearance and asking you directly for your secret method may seem like a forced sale, but there is a reason. This method is too difficult to pass, so I have no choice but to do so." "I will find a way to compensate you later."

"Speaking of this secret method itself, there are some things that I cannot explain too thoroughly."

"You are very smart. You will be able to instantly figure out what I have explained about the other realm above the ninth level of the Outer Scenery King."

"It's not that I'm stingy with the secrets of the path of cultivation."

"But you can see that unless you reach this level of cultivation, the entire Dao League does not have any handwritten notes or legal inheritance related to our level."

"This is determined by the characteristics of the cultivation path of the Ninth Heaven in the outer scene."

"You are in the outer realm of the Dragon Map, and you are refining the natural Dao Scenery. The key lies in both the Dao Scenery and nature. In fact, in many cases, it is easy to create a Dao Scenery world, but it is very difficult to make the Dao rhyme of the multiple Dao Scenery worlds consistent and natural."

"The young man named Qianyan Wang who was just killed by you is the best example."

"If I remember correctly, he is the first generation Qianyan King, right? This name is very familiar, and it is often in aristocratic families with orderly inheritance that such a king with a noble title is easy to appear."

"They are not too untalented, nor are they too gifted to be cultivated."

"On the contrary, it's because they are so smart!"

"The family has an orderly inheritance, a top path, with various scriptures passed down from generation to generation, and later generations consciously stand on the shoulders of their predecessors to achieve higher achievements."

“Therefore, during the practice of outer Jing Chong Tian, ​​one often has to read a large number of ancient sages’ books for assistance and verification.”

“But sometimes, people are afraid of not reading the book thoroughly enough, and sometimes they are afraid of reading it too thoroughly.”

"There are too many things to be fully realized. The world of Dao scenes is indeed exquisite, but it has lost a bit of naturalness. Once this naturalness is lost, the many Dao scenes cannot be consistent, and disharmony is born."

"This is just the influence brought by the scriptures passed down by our ancestors."

"What if I can help you understand the higher level of the Dragon Diagram Sutra with just a few words?"

"This barrier will be deeply rooted in your mind, allowing you to instinctively consider a higher level during the process of cultivation."

"Once you think too deeply, this world of scenery will lose its natural charm."

"In fact, there is no need to think too deeply. You should take off your shoes according to the river you cross. In many cases, you only need to take care of the present. When you practice in a state of external scenery, the obstacles will come naturally."

"If you do this step well, it will be perfect!"

"As for higher-level considerations, we will have to wait until we stop at this area before considering them!"

"So there are some things that I won't tell you, and you shouldn't guess. Even if you guess something confusing, don't ask."

"This is for your own good."

"Okay, now that I've explained this, I want to ask you -"

"Do you know that all the human and demon races in this world, all the beings that stand on the outer scene, are stationed in the outer star sea for a long time. What is the reason?"

To be honest, if Mr. Lin hadn’t mentioned this, Yue Hanzhang really wouldn’t have known that all the people and monsters who had broken through the realm were actually stationed in the outer starry sea.

why?
Is there anything big that is worth all the beings above the outside world facing together?
The strongest beings of the human and demon races are fighting at a higher intensity in the outer starry sea?

wrong.

High-intensity fighting will be transmitted to lower levels layer by layer. If there really is a bloody battle outside the domain, the star domains of the Taoist Alliance and the demon clan will not remain as peaceful as they are now.

Are these most powerful people personally starting the development of more unfamiliar star fields?
Not right either.

To be honest, the current Star Field No. 18 was a designation from a long time ago. Since then, there have been continuous developments of various small star fields, but the overall pace has slowed down suddenly.

Because the eighteen large star fields are all-encompassing, all kinds of energies are brewing in them, turning into a treasure land for cultivation.

The abundance of resources is more than enough for the current human and demon races to practice cultivation.

After all, only cultivators at the Dragon Map Outer Realm can set foot in the starry sea.

The growth of this realm of existence is only a tiny part in each generation.

The number of Taoist monks who have set foot on the starry sea in the past few decades is not even as many as those who have died at the hands of Yue Hanzhang in this period.

……

After many thoughts surged through my mind one after another.

Yue Hanzhang spoke uncertainly with a tone of guessing.

"A wandering evil spirit?"

Mr. Lin nodded vigorously.

"Yes——"

"I am one of the earliest pioneers of the human race's extraordinary path. My words and deeds can almost be compared with ancient history itself. There is also a secret in it——"

"When we first set foot in the boundless sea of ​​stars, there were already a large number of wandering demons and evil spirits in this vast star region."

"It's earlier than the birth of the human race, the demon race, and even the starry sky demon race!"

"The subsequent stories passed down by the world about the process of the human race and the demon race transforming into wandering demons and evil spirits are all records of wandering demons and evil spirits after we have further understood them."

“So, before the extraordinary era, the ancestors of the human race often looked up at the starry sky, explored the starry sky, and wondered whether there was other life in the starry sky.”

"And these wandering demons and evil spirits may be the 'aliens' that our ancestors once explored and imagined. Unfortunately, these aliens failed to develop extraordinary civilizations. Instead, they were deformed into wandering demons and evil spirits the moment the blood rain descended on the world."

"Back then, we drove these wandering demons and evil spirits out of the star field behind us, which gave us the holy star field of the Dao League and the demon race, and these dozen resource star fields."

"Since you were able to create this method, I think you must have had experience dealing with wandering demons and evil spirits in the past."

"There are always some fish that slip through the net, and there's nothing we can do about it."

"And you have understood, and you should know, the remaining instincts and obsessions of these wandering evil spirits."

"Those that last as long as their shells exist."

"In the past, we were limited by our strength and could only drive them away."

"Now, in this outer sea of ​​stars, there are countless wandering demons and evil spirits, thinking about fighting back to their 'homeland'."

"There are even more 'natives' from the outer star seas who are constantly attracted by the Dao Alliance, the Demon Clan Holy Land, and the 'sweet scent' emanating from everyone's practice."

"That's why we're stationed here."

"That's why, although we don't encourage, we don't reject those who follow us and take the initiative to set foot on and explore more outer space."

"That's why I rushed to find you as soon as your method appeared in the world."

"We will not let go of any method that can help deal with wandering demons and evil spirits."

"Don't think that I am so powerful just because I have lived from the Dark Ages to this day."

"My realm is above yours, this is indeed true."

"But discussing realm with wandering demons and evil spirits is like a joke."

"There is always a limit to our daily training, and the gains in a short period of time are always limited by the endurance of the body and mind."

“But the wandering demons and evil spirits, their physical and spiritual worlds, are constantly extracting the surging energy from the source of extraordinary power. Every moment, every breath, every gasp of yours and mine, every leap of thought… those wandering demons and evil spirits are becoming more powerful!”

"They live a life worse than death, but because of this they break free from the barriers that restrict them..."

"But your wonderful method...your wonderful method may give us more inspiration..."

I heard this.

Yue Hanzhang nodded belatedly.

He had never imagined that these wandering demons and evil spirits in the outer space would pose such a great threat to these powerful people, and could even make the human race and the demon race put aside their bloody grudges from the mortal world and jointly guard the defense line of the star field.

of course.

Yue Hanzhang immediately began to think more.

Such garrison seems somewhat passive.

A more proactive approach should be to mobilize all the Taoist alliances and demon clans in the vast starry sky.

But these powerful people did not do so.

Moreover, is my own magic method really that important?
The key to its display of power is not how effectively it attacks and kills wandering demons and evil spirits, but the process in which the wandering demons and evil spirits' physical and spiritual worlds collapse inwards, devouring everything and forming spiritual creatures in the sea of ​​Tao.

Perhaps, this is exactly what Mr. Lin cares about.

The wandering evil spirits have incorporated the Daojing world into their bodies, and even used the source of extraordinary power as the "core drive" of the world.

Putting aside all concepts of life and death, all distortions, no matter how you look at it, this seems to represent a higher energy level.

perhaps.

This is also the reason why all the powerful beings are guarding the outer space.

They saw a glimpse of the spirit of their own future path in the wandering demons and evil spirits.

Just thinking of this, the sound of music became louder in Yue Hanzhang's mind.

His thoughts stopped abruptly.

Since Mr. Lin didn't say anything, Yue Hanzhang didn't guess. Even if he guessed and was confused, he didn't ask.

Then, he changed his mind and looked at Mr. Lin calmly.

"If I can help you seniors and make a contribution to the human race, I will be very happy. However, words are meaningless. It is better for Elder Lin to take action personally and capture the wandering evil spirits that are only at the level of the external scene with his supreme Taoism."

"How about I personally perform the seal for you?"

Hearing this, Mr. Lin's whole face was filled with a bright smile.

He seemed not to have expected that Yue Hanzhang would actually put forward conditions, but he nodded happily.

"No problem! Once you condense the Dao Sea Spirit Object, it will be yours! It will not be counted as compensation for me spying on your secret technique!"

(End of this chapter)