Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 250 The Scroll, Danger? The Granary!

The golden flying boat broke through the clouds.
After leaving the suspended mountain, it sped northwest.

An invisible barrier covered the golden flying boat, keeping out the cold winds and thick clouds from the sky.

The flying boat was enormous, no less than a large ship that traveled between Wangxian and the Five Directions.
The six people spontaneously split into two teams and stood at opposite ends of the deck.

Li Wushou gazed at the sea of ​​clouds, but his eyes were fixed on the airship above, observing the three elders: Gongsun, Shen, and Yun.

After the airship entered a stable period, the three of them simultaneously activated their magical domains.

Li Wushou's mind sharpened, and he focused his attention on looking over, wanting to see what these three were up to.

Seeing that the Dharma Domain had separated the surroundings, Elder Shen took out a scroll from his robes and handed it to Elder Yun.

"This is a thank-you gift that the painter asked me to pass on to Elder Yun."

Elder Yun took the scroll, took a deep breath, and then eagerly opened it.

The scroll depicts a little boy with rosy lips and white teeth, who looks about four or five years old and has a very honest appearance.

But his eyes were very mature, with a hint of vicissitude.

The doll lay half-reclined on a dark cloud, with only half of its body exposed. It strained its arms as if it were pulling itself out of the cloud.

After taking a look, Elder Yun immediately smiled.

He nodded to Elder Shen and said with some emotion:
"The artist's skill is truly astonishing!"

Elder Shen, seeing this, also looked pleased and nodded in agreement:
"Therefore, we should do our best to support the painter to become a god. This would be a blessing for Huazhou, and also a blessing for you and me."

Elder Gongsun solemnly stated:

“It’s not that we are unwilling to help the Dragon God, but the Dragon God’s restaurant has been burning incense for too long. Even if we elevate the Heavenly God, we may not be able to eliminate the alienation. This is not out of selfishness, but also for the sake of the Suspended Mountain.”

These words seemed to strike Elder Yun deeply, as he always made decisions from the perspective of Suspended Mountain.

Personal relationships and grudges were not his primary considerations.

Although deep down he actually preferred the Dragon God who had dedicated hundreds of years to the Hanging Mountain, what Elders Gongsun and Shen said was not without reason.

If there were a younger, more mysterious deity, it would certainly be better to stand on the side of the Suspended Mountain.

After a moment's hesitation, Elder Yun replied solemnly:

"Now that I've promised the artist, I will do my utmost for the sake of Suspended Mountain!"

Elders Gongsun and Shen exchanged a glance, then excitedly echoed, "Everything is for the sake of Suspended Mountain. We will follow Elder Yun's lead without question!"

The three men were filled with passionate fervor, which made Li Wushou roll his eyes.

How can someone accept bribes and do favors while speaking with such righteous indignation?

These three are indeed elders of the Suspended Mountain; even their hypocrisy is at the elder level.

But what exactly does this painting mean?
Li Wushou also didn't quite understand it; he had never been able to understand the paintings of the artist Yan Qiubai.

The three people over there, after indulging in self-pity for a while...

Suddenly, Elder Yun solemnly pierced his heart, took out a few drops of his heart's blood, and carefully dripped them onto the scroll, landing precisely on the dark clouds in the painting.

The dark clouds on the scroll floated slowly and mysteriously, seemingly no different from the sea of ​​clouds before Li Wushou's eyes, both so vivid.

In the next instant, dark clouds surged on the scroll and rose up from it.

Elder Yun's hands were shrouded in dark clouds. After a long while, the dark clouds dissipated, and the scroll in Elder Yun's hands disappeared.

Li Wushou saw it clearly: the scroll also turned into a wisp of smoke and merged into the black clouds, along with the doll in the painting, which disappeared into Elder Yun's ruptured heart.

Just as I was about to continue concentrating, my vision suddenly started to flicker.

Li Wushou frowned slightly. It turned out that Elder Lü and Elder Yuwen had also simultaneously opened two Dharma Domains beside Li Wushou.

Seeing that Gongsun, Shen, and Yun had opened up their domains as if they were plotting something, the two of them thought that the three of them should also unite their forces in the same way.

Elder Lü was particularly worried that the incident involving his own protector might have displeased Li Wushou, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to get closer to Li Wushou.

Unexpectedly, their actions only made Li Wushou more dissatisfied.

With a hint of helplessness, Li Wushou withdrew his gaze and asked:
"Elders, what is this?"

Elder Yuwen was a lean old man with gray hair, clearly quite old.

Seeing that Li Wushou frowned immediately, fearing that his actions with Elder Lü had displeased the latter, he quickly explained:
"The Dragon God told Elder Lu and me before he left that the High Priest had not yet been to Evil Calamity Island, and instructed us to explain the situation of Evil Calamity Island to the High Priest."

At this moment, Elder Yun over there had already closed his eyes and swallowed pills to repair his heart. Seeing this, Li Wushou could only calm himself down and said to Elder Yuwen:
"I would like to trouble you, Elder. I would like to hear the details."

Elder Yuwen noticed that Li Wushou's expression had softened, and he breathed a sigh of relief, though he also felt somewhat helpless.

This high priest Li Wushou is just as rumored; he doesn't discriminate between meat and vegetables, and he'll beat up anyone who offends him!

With a sigh, he remarked that the Floating Clan was still counting on the other party for help.
So what if you have a bad temper? As long as you're capable!

Elder Yuwen then began to introduce Evil Calamity Island to Li Wushou, while Elder Lü enthusiastically filled in any gaps in his knowledge, adding his own comment from time to time.

After a short while, Li Wushou finally gained a deeper understanding of Evil Calamity Island and this mission.

Aside from the information about Evil Calamity Island that the patriarch of the Floating Lineage initially announced, the two spoke in more detail.

This includes details such as the three main tasks, the appearance of star fragments, what indicates the presence of star fragments, and how to refine the collected star fragments.

Li Wushou was indeed completely ignorant about this matter, but after listening, he gained a much clearer understanding.

The two also discussed many precautions regarding evil and calamity.

For example, the gravity on Evil Calamity Island fluctuates due to the influence of star fragments. Once a Golden Core cultivator enters, they must pay close attention to the changes in gravity to avoid overloading their soul and making it difficult to sustain the journey.

For example, it seems that due to its magnetic properties, Evil Island has a natural attraction to all kinds of evil spirits, and evil spirits in the vicinity of Evil Island will involuntarily gather towards Evil Island.

Secondly, the evil spirits on Evil Calamity Island should have a king. While not necessarily a completely unified king, he should be able to command a considerable number of evil spirits.

The last time Huazhou was attacked by the other side was only a little over ten years ago.

At that time, there were a large number of evil spirits acting in a planned manner, which was obviously under unified command.

Master Fu Kong even forcibly descended to Evil Calamity Island to investigate, but due to the repulsion of the magnetic force, he ultimately found nothing.

Therefore, if such an evil king truly exists, one can imagine how cunning he would be.

Therefore, even though the strongest evil spirits on Evil Calamity Island are at the Golden Core level in the conventional sense, they still have to be careful.

If they were targeted by that hidden evil king, and surrounded by a large number of evil spirits from his organization, it would be extremely dangerous, and they might even perish.

As the two spoke, Li Wushou rarely interrupted, only nodding in response. Partly, he genuinely didn't understand the place; partly, he was finding it difficult to contain his emotions.

Originally, Li Wushou was just listening silently. At the beginning, he hadn't really realized what the evil spirits represented.

This was also his own fault, so ever since the painter appeared, most of his attention had been focused on the painter and the girl beside him.

After boarding the flying boat, he kept staring at those three pretentious elders.

But the more he listened, the more excited he became, because he suddenly realized something.

According to Elders Yuwen and Lu, this Evil Calamity Island should be a place where a large number of evil spirits from the surrounding seas gather, and they are constantly gathering.

A paradise for evil spirits, a forbidden land for the living—this is it!

This would indeed be dangerous for ordinary people, but what about for Li Wushou?
This could very well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

The dark figure behind him trembled with inexplicable excitement after hearing this.

It can't wait to experience that bittersweet feeling.

Li Wushou himself was in the same situation. He had just refined his golden core into a dragon seed, and at this moment, both his golden core and his divine soul were bursting with heartbeats and vitality, which was exactly the time when he needed to be nourished.

Whether they are flesh-and-blood monsters or evil spirits, these are all targets for Li Wushou's hunting.

This is hardly some kind of evil island.

This is clearly a gigantic, infinitely renewable granary!

After learning all this, Li Wushou's plan quietly changed.

The original main quest, collecting star fragments, has become a secondary quest that is done incidentally.

At the same time, Li Wushou decided to act separately from Elders Lü and Yuwen.

This is not because Li Wushou did not take the Dragon King's instructions to heart.

On the one hand, after they separate, he can eat more freely and unrestrainedly.

On the other hand, he planned to decide based on the situation, and when the mission was about to end, he would first check how well the two elders, Yuwen and Helu, had collected their materials.

If Yuwen and Lü had collected far too few star fragments before the end, then...

So he planned to steal the star fragments collected by Gongsun, Yun, and Shen.

He carefully reviewed the rules passed down by the founder of the Floating Character lineage. The other party only told everyone to collect star fragments, but did not specify the form.

They stole the star fragments from Gongsun and his group and put them in their own pockets. If you have that ability, who dares to say it's not collecting?

Having made up his mind, Li Wushou began to look forward to Evil Calamity Island.

The golden flying boat moved at an extremely fast speed, seemingly following a predetermined flight path. Li Wushou couldn't even detect any signs of human control.

Having reached an agreement, Li Wushou and his two companions withdrew from the legal domain.

The three elders, Gongsun, Yun, and Shen, all looked at Li Wushou and his companions.

Elder Yun's emotions were unreadable, but Li Wushou could easily sense the confidence and indifference towards the three of them from the eyes of Gongsun and Shen.

Li Wushou narrowed his eyes.

Gongsun and Shen were not fools, as they were able to cultivate to the level of elders.

They hadn't missed the fact that Li Wushou had just pounded all the golden pills into the ground at the Suspended Mountain Square.

But the fact that these two remained so confident is rather intriguing.

Although these five people were far stronger than ordinary protectors, a Golden Core cultivator was still a Golden Core cultivator. Li Wushou did not believe that any Golden Core cultivator could disregard him. Who gave them the courage?
An artist?
Is it the same painting as before?
What does that actually represent?
Just then, the golden flying boat suddenly trembled, and the world outside the barrier suddenly became hazy, as if covered by a thin layer of mist.

There was no need for Elders Lü and Yuwen to explain; Li Wushou understood that they had flown out of the territory of Huazhou.

These fogs are actually the eerie fogs within the Land of Misfortune, only they are thinner on the surface of the open sea, unlike the dense fogs that gather in other places such as Huazhou.

The reason why it was not manifested in the world before was because the opening of the Suspended Mountain in Huazhou isolated most of these strange fogs outside the Huazhou territory.

Now that they have left Huazhou, these strange mists naturally appear.

However, because the eerie fog here is so thin, its corrosive effect on the immortals is not as severe as in the Misty Lands, so the immortals can still move around in the outer sea.

"Coming!"

Elder Lü, who had been observing the Cloud and Mist Realm, suddenly pointed ahead and said to Li Wushou:

"High Priest, please look ahead. That area shrouded in dark clouds is Evil Calamity Island!"

Li Wushou looked in the direction Elder Lü was pointing.

Lead-gray clouds, like a heavy curtain, covered the island.

A thick, eerie atmosphere permeated the island, and the salty sea breeze howled past, while wailing sounds echoed from within the island, like the lamentations of living souls.

Streaks of blood-red lightning occasionally tore through the thick clouds, flashing across the sky above the island. Li Wushou could vaguely see the white bones scattered across the island, as well as strange shadows.

Just as Li Wushou was about to concentrate on probing, a sudden suction force descended, pulling Li Wushou's mind in.

A cool sensation flashed between his brows, the low mountain within the divine palace trembled, and his mind instantly broke free from its entanglement.

Li Wushou frowned slightly. Was this the strange magnetic force?

Sure enough, as the golden flying boat moved forward, the magnetic force gradually became chaotic, sometimes attracting, sometimes repelling, sometimes moving east, sometimes west, without any pattern.

Elder Lu explained in a low voice that this was because many star fragments had fallen into the surrounding sea. The star fragments were scattered, resulting in chaotic magnetic fields.

Li Wushou nodded slightly. After a moment, the speeding golden flying boat gradually slowed down and finally hovered over the shallows of the island!
The airship trembled slightly, emitting a soft hum.

The barrier above their heads quietly opened a portal, and the experienced elders Gongsun, Shen, and Yun took the lead, leaping out of the flying boat and disappearing on the beach in the blink of an eye.

Elders Lü and Yuwen slowed down their movements to take care of Li Wushou.

The three of them leaped out of the portal one after another, and the flying boat behind them suddenly shrank and merged into the void.

Li Wushou focused his mind and knew that the flying boat was hidden in the clouds and mist. According to Elders Lü and Yuwen, the flying boat would reappear in ten days and take them back to the Suspended Mountain.

But it won't wait for you once the time is up; it will return once the time is up, so you must be punctual!
Elder Lü and Elder Yuwen were anxious when they saw Li Wushou hovering in the air above the beach. They were already weaker than the three from the Kongzi Clan, and now that everyone else had already gone in, they were still lingering on the beach. If this continued, they would surely lose.

Just as he was about to urge Li Wushou to hurry up, he saw Li Wushou's figure suddenly disappear from the spot.

Only one sentence remained in my ears:
"Let's split up and get ready, then meet back here in ten days!"

(End of this chapter)