Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

Gu Hongling said slowly, "I hope the area affected by this ghost mist outbreak will be smaller. There are also several small patches of ghost mist dissipating near the Myriad Laws Alliance."

The area is only a few thousand miles wide; as long as one doesn't actively step into it, it will gradually dissipate over time.

Unfortunately, things didn't turn out for the better.

A few days later, sporadic news began to arrive.

The area affected by this outbreak of ghostly mist has reached nearly 100,000 li, and its spread has not slowed down but is instead accelerating towards the inland sea.

One after another, cultivators saw a large number of demonic beasts moving within the ghostly mist, as if they were carrying out some kind of command.

Even more bizarrely, some people even saw cultivators mixed in with the monsters.

In the Black Sea, monsters and cultivators are always locked in a life-or-death struggle, yet they are now living in peace.

No one knows whether those cultivators were controlled by the ghost mist, or whether they were those who died in the ghost mist and were resurrected.

But neither of these is good news.

The group made a quick decision, changed direction, and headed towards the nearest immortal city, Dongyang Immortal City.

In Dongyang Immortal City, there is a Nascent Soul True Lord presiding over the city.

The claim that a Nascent Soul True Monarch possesses boundless magical power is no exaggeration. Even the Ghost Mist would find it difficult to devour a Nascent Soul, especially one with a Celestial City as its support.

Moreover, there are teleportation arrays between the immortal cities, which can provide support from the Alliance of Myriad Laws.

Of course, given the current extent of the ghost fog outbreak, whether the teleportation array can still be activated is another matter entirely.

A few days later, the group arrived at Dongyang Immortal City.

Dongyang Immortal City is located on the east side of a large island. The city is several tens of miles in size, with towering walls covered with defensive restrictions.

The sea surrounding the island was densely packed with spirit boats of various colors.

After the ghost fog erupted, cultivators from nearby islands flocked to this area, and the city was already packed with over a million cultivators.

There are tens of thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators and hundreds of Core Formation cultivators.

Of course, in terms of quality and combat power, they can't compare to the Core Formation cultivators from the Black Sea camp.

When they entered the city, they ran into trouble; the guards stopped them.

The people Lin Zhao and his group who evacuated from the Black Sea camp had very special identities.

Hundreds of elite Core Formation cultivators from different factions possess combat power far exceeding that of ordinary Core Formation cultivators.

The sudden appearance of such a large fighting force at the gates of a celestial city would make anyone think twice; no one would dare to let them into the city so easily.

The Nascent Soul True Monarch of Dongyang Immortal City personally came forward to receive them.

Dongyang Zhenjun looked to be in his early fifties, with a square face and wearing a gray-blue Taoist robe. He concealed his aura very well, but one could still feel an invisible pressure standing in front of him.

He glanced at the group of cultivators who had disembarked from the spirit boat. Each of them exuded a murderous aura so intense it was almost tangible, and their eyes were calm yet cold.

He remained silent for a while, then nodded in agreement to enter the Immortal City.

Immortal City does indeed need a group of cultivators like this now.

Nascent Soul cultivators are not so easily swallowed by the ghost mist, but if the immortal city is breached, Nascent Soul cultivators will also be targeted and hunted down by powerful beings within the ghost mist.

This outbreak of ghost fog is approaching the scale of a large-scale ghost fog, covering an area of ​​no less than 100,000 miles.

The teleportation array could not be activated, and there was no outside support. Many forces were preoccupied with their own survival and had no time to attend to other matters.

With a group of Core Formation cultivators who fought their way out of the Black Sea helping to defend the city, the chances of success are much higher.

Those who cannot cross the ghostly fog will all die.

The city gates of Dongyang Immortal City slowly opened, and the spiritual light barrier flowed continuously on the city walls.

The moment the city gates opened, the barrier automatically cracked open, then silently closed again after everyone entered the city.

As they were all Core Formation True Immortals, Dongyang Immortal City distributed cave dwellings to everyone.

Ordinary Core Formation cultivators are assigned a second-tier top-grade peak cave dwelling—the spiritual energy concentration isn't very high, but the area is quite large, and all kinds of facilities are readily available.

As a figure on the Fengyun Ranking, Lin Zhao was assigned a third-tier cave dwelling, located halfway up a low mountain in the east of the city. There was an old silver-white pine tree at the entrance of the cave dwelling.

Lin Zhao stood in front of the cave entrance for a while, then looked up at the distant city wall.

The city's protective array has been fully activated. A pale golden light curtain rises from the top of the city wall, closing in the sky above the immortal city and covering the entire city below.

On the distant sea, a gray fog is approaching.

The boundaries of the fog were indistinct, but its speed was not slow.

Lin Zhao estimated that it would take about three days to reach the outer formation of the Immortal City.

Moreover, the number of demonic beasts and ghost mist cultivators that attacked in the early stages was not large, and the array restrictions around the immortal city blocked them all.

It's a celestial city after all; it's not so easy to conquer.

A month later, a large number of third-tier demonic beasts comparable to those at the Core Formation stage appeared.

Faced with a beast tide of this size in the wild, even Core Formation cultivators had no choice but to retreat.

However, with the support of the immortal city's formation, these Core Formation demonic beasts were easily captured by the city's defending cultivators.

Lin Zhao spent most of his time in the cave, occasionally meeting with cultivators from the camp to exchange information.

The main purpose is to exchange information about the dynamics of the ghost fog—the speed at which the fog spreads, the changes in the types of demonic beasts, and the faces of cultivators that have appeared in the fog.

He also did something else: using the power of his own Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel, he explored the characteristics of the ghost mist.

After more than a month, he roughly figured out what the ghost mist was.

Ghost Mist is essentially a type of domain, only of a higher rank.

It is not a domain released by a Core Formation cultivator, but rather a domain naturally formed after the power of heaven and earth is distorted, hence its exceptionally large range.

There are traces of the power of rules within the ghostly mist—not complete rules, but projections left after the rules were distorted by the power of heaven and earth.

These projections, intertwined in an orderly yet disorderly manner, created the various eerie phenomena within the ghostly mist:

Space distortion, the control of monsters, and the resurrection of the dead are essentially just products of the distortion of the power of heaven and earth.

For cultivators, the power of rules can only be comprehended by Nascent Soul Heavenly Lords, and only the Dharma Realm can produce similar effects.

But for heaven and earth, the power of rules is like instinct; the natural operation of heaven and earth is imbued with the power of rules.

Ghost Mist is essentially a simplified version of the Nascent Soul Realm, only its scope is ten times or even a hundred times larger.

Once the ghostly mist exceeds the 100,000-mile mark, its power is comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator's Dharma Realm; that would be a true natural disaster.

The ghostly mist tide that swept across millions of miles thirty thousand years ago was probably not at the level of the Dharma Realm, but rather a direct rampage of the power of the rules of the will of heaven and earth.

As for why the will of heaven and earth in the Cangyuan cultivation world went berserk, those who know, know!

In the end, it was only through the combined efforts of several dominant forces that the ghost fog outbreak was suppressed.

Lin Zhao finally understood that although the Cangyuan cultivation world was vast, many things were actually behind the shadow of the seven overlords.

Although the ghostly mist that erupted this time was powerful, it ultimately did not break through 100,000 li.

The Alliance of Ten Thousand Laws, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is not to be underestimated; it has already begun to take action.

Although the Myriad Laws Alliance does not have any Nascent Soul cultivators, it possesses several spiritual treasures. These spiritual treasures are generally the natal magic weapons of Nascent Soul cultivators, containing the power of rules.