After cultivating immortality, she devoted herself to becoming an ancestor

Chapter 117 Retreat
Elder Chu didn't expect her to respond, and simply said to himself, "When you were a demon, your brain didn't work well. Even after becoming a half-demon, you're still a bit slow."

Sparrow in the fish plate agreed wholeheartedly, but unfortunately, after this soul transfer, her primordial spirit was severely damaged, and she couldn't even hear Elder Chu's last words before losing consciousness again.

Elder Chu pondered for a moment, then sealed the disk, collected his accumulated treasures, and left the Alliance headquarters without alerting anyone.

Meanwhile, groups of Nascent Soul cultivators visiting the Taiyi Sect arrived at Shaowu Sparrow Forest.

Even if the Golden Crow Elder and other ninth-tier demon kings were unwilling, they had to let people in, since 99% of demons didn't understand formations.

It was two hours later, near dusk, when they finally found a way to break the formation.

"This forest, with camphor trees facing the sun on the outside and bamboo planted inside according to the five elements to gather yin, is definitely a dragon-slaying and soul-sealing formation."

"Fellow Daoist Zhicheng, the demon race doesn't understand. You've been fighting for years, and you've never come in to take a look?" As the saying goes, talismans and arrays are inseparable. Elder Qing of the alliance speaks of arrays with ease.

The Sincere True Lord smiled wryly: "I came here by chance, and it was also during a battle with the Demon King."

Knowing this place was the sacred lair of the Sparrow King, no one paid much attention.

No matter what, the Sparrow King was raised in the Taiyi Sect. Although sending her pills back then triggered a major battle, the fault did not lie with her.

Moreover, she tried her best to mediate between the two sides, but she and the Floating Moon Sect Master were both assassinated.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu Kuang has arrived. Let's go break the formation together." He didn't want to talk about this anymore. The heartland of the demon race was not a place that all Nascent Soul cultivators of the Taiyi Sect could reach.

Just like Rosemary City under the Alliance's jurisdiction, before Zhu Kuang launched the operation to destroy the vines, very few cultivators were able to break into the location of the Butterfly King's cave.

Zhu Kuang Zhenjun agreed, and then instructed Lei Dun and Shi Yuan: "After the formation is broken, you must stay with the Nascent Soul cultivators who remain behind."

The demons of Shaowu Mountain are different from those elsewhere; they can turn against cultivators at any time.

"Yes, Master (Uncle)." The two were mindful of their boundaries and avoided causing any further incidents.

Lei Dun hesitated slightly: "Uncle-Master, if Chongming is right, and the boundary gate is severely contaminated, should we break it or save it?"

Zhu Kuang Zhenjun was also at a loss for a moment: "We'll decide after we see how it evolves. Once we realize that investing too much in it is no longer beneficial, no one can afford to keep using it to death."

……

"This dilapidated tower only has doors and windows numbered one, three, five, and seven, and each of these four floors contains a different magic array."

"I now suspect that it will self-destruct and explode during the process of breaking the formation." Juexing stood in front of the tower, hands on hips with the well-rested Little Dragon King.

Cheng Zhishun was still trapped in the space cabin. He lay on the jade bed with his legs crossed and said, "In my opinion, there is no self-destruct device."

The person behind the scenes must have calculated that as long as this gate remains here, the Taiyuan Realm will never be able to evolve a second gate.

The teleportation portal to the Dragon Palace was probably beyond their expectations.

He turned over and shouted at Shen Suiren, who was moving around, "You've been calculating since the first starlight appeared. Aren't you tired? You keep calculating and calculating. Be careful your mind and soul can't take it."

Luo Ning, why don't you persuade her to meditate and rest for a while?

Those high-level array cultivators outside will eventually find a way in.

"I can't persuade her." Luo Ning didn't want to, but calculating the Zhou Tian Formation was indeed mentally taxing. If she interrupted, the calculation would have to start all over again at the beginning of the year.

All she could do was stay by Nie Chengzhang's side, sometimes using healing spells on her, sometimes feeding her pills, fearing that she wouldn't be able to hold on.

"I wonder how she learned array formations. She was able to calculate such a complex array all by herself in the early stages of Foundation Establishment." Cheng Zhishun muttered to himself, realizing that he had no talent in this area.

Over there, Shen Suiren finally stood in a position: "The point where the three formations intersect is here. If the Little Dragon King hits me, I'll be a foot in front of him."

"Alright!" The little dragon king ran to her side, his little fists flashing with sparks, and slammed down with a thud. Only some dust flew up on the ground, not even leaving a crater.

"Oh, so you dare to be harder than my fist?"

"Don't use too much electricity, increase the lightning spiritual power."

Juexing and Nie Chengzhang were also there. Shen Suiren herself really didn't have the strength to do anything more.

As the three of them smashed the ground together, Luo Ning helped her to sit down on the side, saying, "You should meditate and recover quickly. I'll go help too."

"Uncle Luo, don't go. Water elemental power is of little use to it."

"I need your protection." As soon as Shen Suiren relaxed, she felt a throbbing pain in her forehead.

Luo Ning quickly poured out all the pills from the storage bracelet, "Let's see which ones I can take. At the beginning of the year."

She had just opened the bottle cap when the person in front of her went silent, startling Luo Ning so much that she quickly touched her nose to check for breath.

"I was too tired at the beginning of the year and fell asleep." The little fox king scratched her ear. Only now did she realize that it was really inconvenient not having a contract with Sui Chu, as she couldn't share many of her thoughts.

"Come quick, look! What did we smash?" The Little Dragon King jumped up excitedly. They had smashed a pit half a foot deep, and inside was a strange, blood-red rock.

Luo Ning shushed him and placed a flying carpet on the ground for Shen Suiren.

She took a closer look and exclaimed, "Something from the underworld?"

"Yes." Juexing stared at the stone, which was a foot square. "To actually get such a large Soul-Snatching Stone, no wonder the Ghost Fire can also become a spirit with the Illusion Array."

"Little Dragon King, use your lightning to shatter it! This thing sucks away life force and destroys people's souls."

The Little Dragon King didn't understand: "If it's broken, does that mean it can't hurt people anymore?"

"We must fill back the Yellow Springs to prevent it from harming people completely. Using lightning to shatter it only temporarily breaks this barrier." Juexing, who guards the entrance to the Yellow Springs at the Great Buddha Temple, knows this very well.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the Little Dragon King immediately shattered the Soul-Snatching Stone into dust. Just as Juexing picked it up with his fire elemental power, the entire tower swayed slightly several times.

Then they saw Zhu Kuang Zhenjun leading the way, with many Nascent Soul cultivators throwing out fire talismans to clear a path. They were only a hundred feet away from each other, but there was a thin veil-like layer between them, so they couldn't see very clearly.

"Senior sister, Sui Chu and I are here." The little dragon king jumped up and waved, but was bounced back by the thin veil with a thud.

Nie Chengzhang dodged and caught the man precisely, preventing him from falling.

"Screech!" The moment Chongming saw them, he rushed over, engulfed in flames.

In the blink of an eye, a hole was burned in the thin gauze, and Zhu Kuang and the other Nascent Soul cultivators quickly jumped in before the gauze could automatically close up.

The others rushed straight to the tower, muttering, "It's a teleportation gate, it's a portal."

The Heavenly Dao has once again descended a boundary gate upon the Taiyuan Realm…

Only Zhu Kuang Zhenjun took the little dragon king, stepped forward to take his pulse, and inquired about the condition of his disciple: "What distressing thing has she done this time?"
"Did we suddenly see the tall tower at the beginning of the year?"

"Yes, she broke through the superimposed nodes of the array."

"I've exhausted my energy, and I can't open my storage ring, so I can't retrieve the Divine Elixir." As Luo Ning spoke, he saw the Little Fox King and Cheng Zhishun jump out of the space room one after the other.

She quickly checked her storage ring and found that once the array's core was broken, she could now put and take things in.

Meanwhile, the Little Fox King was already complaining, demanding that Zhu Kuang severely punish Sui Chu, forcing him to be confined to the mountain for two years and forbidden from leaving.

"If we don't go down the mountain, we won't have anything to eat." Shen Suiren only managed to doze off for a short while, but the noise from the crowd made it impossible for her to fall asleep.

"Eat and refine this Soul-Stabilizing Pill, and you don't need to worry about the rest." True Monarch Zhu Kuang very decisively sent her and the two little ones into the spatial hut.

Then he called out to a few young men, "Luo Ning, all of you go in. Breaking the formation next might affect the minds of those at a lower level." Shen Suiren knew she couldn't help much next, "Grandmaster, the soul lamp shines brightest in front of the tower gate. I don't know which floor my father is trapped on."

But there seemed to be no sign of life inside the tower. I'm inclined to believe he's at the bottom, near the soul lamp…

Before she could finish speaking, Zhu Kuang Zhenjun used his spiritual power to press on her sleeping acupoint and took away the soul lamp: "Chongming, I'll set up a defensive array for you. You can hold onto the array token and ignore everyone outside."

Chongming took the spatial hut: "Don't you need me to go in and help break the formation?"

"Don't listen to them. This formation is clearly from a Nascent Soul or higher formation master."

"Even if you exhaust your magical power to break through the illusion, you still won't be able to break through it in a single day." It was only during this moment when the Great Zhou Heavenly Array was loosening that someone used more than a dozen Heaven-Shattering Thunderbolts, which by chance allowed Chongming to see the tower.

Zhu Kuang really wants to thank the person in charge.

She was unaware that the person who ordered the cultivators to use the Heaven-Shattering Thunder was none other than Lian Qiao.

Before being imprisoned in the court of law enforcement, Lian Qiao received a message from Sui Chu in her secluded cave, informing her of her father's recognition at the beginning of the year. She then saw a message from Sui Chu stating that Chief Shen had betrayed his cause.

She couldn't contain her anger at that moment. It was the beginning of the year, and it was as if the new year was her nemesis. Last time it caused her to lose her hand, and this time it was going to cause her to be imprisoned.

In a fit of anger, she demanded that Que San send someone to kill Sui Chu, no matter the method.

When she calmed down and wanted to withdraw the previous order, Xi Yu Zhenjun and the guards had just detained her, so the order could not be withdrawn in time.

At that moment, she listened to the guards discussing that a new gate had been found, and she couldn't help but feel puzzled.

So she gathered her chaotic thoughts, walked to the iron gate, and asked the Core Formation guard, "Senior Sister, do you know where the New Realm Gate is?"

"Could my uncles travel to another realm and find my father?"

"In the Sparrow Forest of Shaowu Mountain, the cultivation world sent so many Core Formation cultivators but couldn't find it. Unexpectedly, the Divine Bird Chongming was able to see it on its first visit to Shaowu Mountain."

"As expected of a divine bird that can see through everything, she and Sui Chu should have been us..." Senior Sister Jie Dan was speaking enthusiastically when she suddenly received a look from her companion, so she immediately stopped talking.

He coughed lightly and said, "Lian Qiao, I can't chat with you while you're imprisoned. You should continue your cultivation."

After saying that, she and her companion immediately pretended to meditate and cultivate.

Lianqiao stood alone behind the iron gate, her eyes lowered in resentment: How could it be such a coincidence? Could it be that Que San personally went to the rescue and was captured and had his soul searched by Sui Chu's grandmaster?
She was so conflicted for three days that she couldn't even send a message to her mother, while Shen Suiren slept soundly in the small space for three days.

After taking the calming pill and waking up, he was not exactly radiant, but he was certainly full of energy.

Therefore, they can hear the arguments inside and outside the tower very clearly.

She released her divine sense and exclaimed, "The sect leader is here too, and all the leaders of various sects are present. How long have they been arguing?"

"In two days, three factions emerged: one faction supported continuing research to break the formation and open the teleportation portal, while the other faction insisted that the teleportation portal was severely contaminated and could not be controlled, so it should be destroyed."

The last group felt that both sides had valid points. "Luo Ning couldn't help but sigh; the more people there were, the more divided their opinions became."

Then he continued, "You didn't see it? The day before yesterday, they worked together to clear the formation outside the tower, and everything went smoothly."

Afterwards, they found a way to cross the blood pool and enter a level, pulled out the soul-capturing lantern, and not only did the remaining souls inside dissipate, but the chains on the fifth level instantly emerged through the window and immediately intertwined and fastened to the tower.

The formation changed before their eyes, and they were not only powerless to stop it, but were also swept out of the tower and unable to re-enter. They were extremely annoyed at having to re-analyze the formation. Luo Ning watched coldly, thinking that a group of arguing Nascent Soul cultivators were no different from his own Qi Refining stage self.

The Little Fox King coughed up some melon seeds and complained, "That last faction is two-faced; they have no stance."

"Never mind them, where is my soul lamp?"

"Take it, Uncle Master."

"How many of you are Juexing?"

"It was too crowded, so they moved to another small room."

"That……"

"You want to ask about the chain mark on the fifth floor?" Luo Ning guessed her question.

Shen Suiren nodded: "Yes, what is the alliance's stance?"

Luo Ning poured her a bowl of ginseng soup to replenish her blood: "There was no indication of anything. Elder Chu's place is deserted, and his so-called grand-nephew knows nothing about it."

The soul search revealed that Master Chu was indeed unaware that the communication talisman he sent to Huang Wenzhu was faulty.

Furthermore, he had been raised by Elder Chu since he could remember, and after completing his cultivation journey, he focused solely on weapon crafting for a hundred years, having no connection whatsoever with the teleportation portal.

"They came prepared, but we don't know which side is behind this."

Those who insist on destroying the tower may be worried that it was a conspiracy by other realms. Shen Suiren finished the soup while holding his breath; the blood-nourishing soup tasted bitter.

"Let me see outside." She quickly extended her divine sense far away and discovered that in addition to the five layers of chains binding the tower, there were two antenna-like structures flying around the top of the tower.

So he asked, "King Chongming, can you see where the flying rope is stretching to?"

Chongming thought for a moment and then said, "At the beginning of the year, perhaps you and your grandmaster were right. It would be better if the tower were destroyed. As long as the tower exists, there will be endless arguments, which is very annoying."

She was initially just curious about the structure inside the teleportation portal, but after watching the argument for two days, her curiosity had mostly faded.

"Perhaps your father really is trapped under the tower. Even if the blood pool burns away, the tower may not collapse, but new changes will be discovered."

After saying that, she got up and took the initiative to walk towards the tower gate.

Shen Suiren could see clearly at this moment that the place where the lanterns were hung was now covered with fine barbed wire, and the dried blood pool had been thickened by half a foot.

When the Nascent Soul cultivators saw Chongming approaching, one of them asked, "King Chongming, what is your opinion?"

Chongming turned around and threw the two spatial chambers to Zhukuang: "Burn them."

Since the human race couldn't make up their minds, she would.

Shen Suiren felt a ball of fire rush into the tower, instantly scorching the blood pool and turning it into a pool of blood.

Countless figures floated across the water and were swallowed up; the Nascent Soul cultivators tried to stop Chongming's attack on the fire, but it was too late.

"Grandmaster, the Soul Lamp." Shen Suiren wanted to see what changes had occurred, so Zhu Kuang Zhenjun casually sent it into the spatial room.

Over here, several Nascent Soul cultivators from the Taiyi Sect stared intently at the ever-evaporating blood pool and sighed, "Most of the faces that flashed by were disciples of our sect."

Before the words were finished, several snapping sounds were heard, and the chains wrapped around the outside of the tower were breaking.

"Retreat, Chongming, retreat quickly!" Seeing the Chigan Pagoda tilting, Zhu Kuang Zhenjun used his spiritual power to entangle Chongming and retreat with the others.

Shen Suiren stared intently as the blood pool exploded, and half of the tower base instantly shattered.

She noticed with her sharp eyes that the other half of the tower base was open, and countless chains were surging out from it, trying to pull the tower back into place.

At that moment, the soul lamp in her hand suddenly burst into flames. "Grandmaster, Father is under the tower."

"Senior brother, upon hearing the Dao, cut the chains." Zhu Kuang Zhenjun flew back without hesitation, and together with his fellow disciples, they drew their swords and cut the chains.

The other Nascent Soul cultivators were all astonished and uncertain when they saw the tower collapse with a crash after several of the ropes broke, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly become active.