I flew on a sword at the magic academy

Shi Daohan suffered a devastating blow; his internal organs were shattered, his body was covered in blood and gore, his skin was torn open, and his broken bones, stained with blood, were clearly visible.

Because her true form was still at the Horagaka Academy in the West, she didn't have many spiritual herbs and medicines on her. After consuming them all, she could only heal herself using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

It was a slow process; it took her more than half a month to recover to about 70-80% of her injuries, and another three months to reconnect the broken bones and tendons.

More than two months later, her external injuries had completely healed, and her skin remained as white as snow, without leaving any scars or blemishes.

The external injuries have healed, but the internal injuries have only recovered to about 70-80%. To fully recover, simply absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is not enough; high-grade spiritual herbs and medicines are needed.

"Almost half a year has passed in total, it's time to go out and travel." Shi Daohan transformed into a long rainbow and appeared on a high mountain.

Looking around, there were no bustling crowds, no tall buildings, and no flowers, trees, or shrubs. The land was a reddish-brown expanse, a scene of desolation and barrenness.

The land was boundless, empty and desolate, without a trace of life. Only a few barren mountains stood scattered on the land, dotting the horizon.

Shi Daohan was certain that he had returned to China, but he did not know which of the nine provinces of China he was currently in.

She sped along, and finally, two hours later, she saw a village on the desolate and barren land.

But as she approached, her brows furrowed. The village was nestled in a ravine between two mountains. It wasn't very big, probably only a little over a hundred households, but she couldn't see a single living person.

The entire village was shrouded in a heavy atmosphere of death, with an extremely foul stench of decay filling the air, and the sounds of ghosts howling and wolves wailing could be heard coming from within the village.

Clearly, the village had recently suffered a massacre, with no one surviving.

"In this day and age, such things still happen in the mortal world..." Shi Daohan frowned. This was not the cultivation world where murder and annihilation of entire families were common. Who could have done this?

She approached the village but saw no corpses, not even a pool of blood. She guessed that some evil cultivators from the cultivation world might have sneaked into the mortal realm and sacrificed the entire village alive.

She used her spiritual communication technique to report the situation to the Town Administration Bureau, and then traveled to the cultivation world via a teleportation array.

Unlike the West, where the cultivation world and the mortal world exist on the same plane and are separated only by array barriers, the cultivation world in China was created separately by ancient sages and is completely isolated from the mortal world, existing on a different plane.

Ordinary people cannot reach the cultivation world without special channels or guidance from cultivators.

The cultivation world has three thousand Dao states. Just by hearing the name, one can feel that the territory of this world must be very vast, and indeed it is. If one were to walk across the boundary of a single state, it would take at least forty or fifty years to reach the end. It can be described as boundless. This is the supreme power of the ancient sages.

Shi Daohan returned to the cultivation world through special channels, and at the same time changed his appearance to avoid being recognized.

She arrived in the desolate state, the most chaotic of the three thousand states, where bandits roamed freely and bloodshed was frequent due to the scarcity of resources.

"Of all the desolate regions in the entire province, only the northern region is truly barren. The southern region still retains some of the charm of the Jiangnan water towns. Have I arrived in the northern region?"

Shi Daohan muttered to herself, along the way she had only seen a few oases, which were completely different from the Jiangnan water towns of the Southern Region. She felt that she should be in the Northern Region of the Desolate State.

Seven days later, she heard earth-shattering shouts of battle erupting on the horizon ahead, as a massive conflict broke out.

"That direction... is the Immortal Spirit Ancient Domain!" Shi Daohan exclaimed in shock.

The reason why Huangzhou is well-known among the three thousand provinces is not only because of its chaos, but also because of the Immortal Spirit Ancient Domain.

There are countless top-grade pure spirit stones there, as well as various rare and precious materials buried underground in ancient times. It is a blessed land, but also a forbidden zone for life that people keep at a distance.

Because deep within this ancient land, danger lurks everywhere, and even quasi-saint level experts dare not venture there.

Outside the forbidden zone, all the major transcendent forces and aristocratic families of the Three Thousand Provinces have established branches here, each occupying a region and ordering people to mine spirit stones here.

Of course, these powerful forces and aristocratic families only dared to excavate in the relatively safe outer areas of the Immortal Spirit Ancient Domain, and did not dare to go deep into it, not wanting to invite annihilation.

The conflict broke out in the area occupied by Wuyang Mountain in the Immortal Spirit Ancient Domain, where a group of bandits stormed in.

This group consisted of only forty or fifty people, but none of them were ordinary. Each of them rode a ferocious beast with gleaming scales and roars that shook the heavens, their murderous aura soaring into the sky.

This is a group of ruthless bandits who kill without blinking an eye. Their bodies are filled with a bloodthirsty aura, and they are clearly wicked people who inspire fear in others.

Seventy or eighty savage beasts roared and howled, like a black torrent, all rushing into the area occupied by Wuyang Mountain.

Leading the group was a middle-aged man who appeared to be in his thirties, riding atop a heavily armored black rhinoceros and carrying a large banner. He looked quite imposing.

"boom!"

He threw the large flag in his hand to the ground. The flagpole was like a pillar supporting the sky, with a majestic momentum. The flag was fluttering in the fierce wind, and blood-red light shot into the sky.

"kill!"

These bandits were no ordinary people; they carried all sorts of weapons and charged with wild beasts, making the ground rumble.

"Who dares to trespass on my Wuyang Mountain branch?!"

The powerful warriors stationed here were all alarmed and rushed up into the sky. Leading them were three old men with white hair and beards.

"Your grandpa, Nangong Huang, is a bit short on cash lately, so I'm borrowing some spirit stones from you. Any objections?" The middle-aged man riding on the armored black rhinoceros shouted, pointing his spear forward and radiating a terrifying aura.

"The fifth most notorious bandit in the desolate province, Nangong Huang?!"

The cultivators of Wuyang Mountain were all stunned, and the three elders in the lead all changed color, drawing their weapons to defend against the formidable enemy.

However, this fifth-ranked bandit of the desolate state was even more valiant than rumored. With a mere sweep of his spear, he instantly shattered more than a dozen cultivators behind the three elders of Wuyang Mountain into a bloody mist, not even having time to utter a scream.

"Nangong Huang! The Nangong family is a prestigious clan, how can you, as a member of the Nangong family, be so cruel and tyrannical?!" The three elders from Wuyang Mountain glared angrily.

"Don't mention the Nangong family to me. I have nothing to do with them anymore!" Nangong Huang, wielding a dragon-patterned spear, charged forward on his beast.

The three elders of Wuyang Mountain joined forces, one of them wielding a gilded bronze hammer that swelled to the size of a mountain in the wind and radiated divine light as it crashed down.

"Clang!"

The sharp tip of the Panlong War Spear struck the gilded bronze hammer, which was as large as a small mountain, and shattered it on the spot.

The old man's expression changed drastically, and he quickly retreated. Unfortunately, his speed was no match for Nangong Huang's, and he was soon caught up. The Panlong Spear pierced straight through the old man's chest, leaving a large amount of blood.

"Bang"

With a flick of his wrist, Nangong Huang sent the old man flying into pieces, which shattered into a cloud of blood mist in mid-air.

"Nangong Huang, you!"

The two elderly men beside them were furious. Everything had happened so fast that they had no time to stop it.

"Don't rush, I'll send you on your way with him!" Nangong Huangwu wielded the Panlong Battle Spear, and with overwhelming combat power, he killed the two old men on the spot.

This was a shocking scene. Nangong Huang defeated three renowned figures from Wuyang Mountain in succession. There was no fierce fighting; it was a complete crushing of their combat power.

"Nangong Huang!"

The two Supreme Elders of Wuyang Mountain crossed the void and arrived, their faces filled with shock and anger.

"As a direct descendant of the Nangong family, you have come to the desolate state and become a bandit, committing acts of tyranny. How can you face the ancestors of the Nangong family?!" a senior elder from Wuyang Mountain demanded.

"Stop spouting nonsense! After my uncle left the Nangong family, I completely severed ties with this family and have no connection with it whatsoever. If you mention those three words to me again, don't blame me for going on a killing spree at Wuyang Mountain!" Nangong Huang's eyes flashed with cold light, and his aura became even more violent.

[Nangong Huang, the fifth most notorious bandit in the desolate state, actually comes from the extraordinary Nangong family.]

In the distance, Shi Daohan was surprised. She had heard of this person's name and deeds, but she had not connected him with the Nangong family, a transcendent family.

"Fine, we have no right to interfere in your feud with the Nangong family, but why did you forcibly enter and plunder our Wuyang Mountain spirit stone mining area?" another Supreme Elder of Wuyang Mountain spoke up.

"What a joke!" Nangong Huang spat, saying, "This area outside the Immortal Spirit Ancient Domain should belong to the entire Desolate State. What virtue or ability do you so-called aristocratic families have to seize and occupy this land? Just because your fists are strong enough, you think you can be unreasonable? You can seize land here to mine spirit stones, so I can rob you here!"

"Bang"

After saying that, he planted the Panlong War Spear heavily into the ground, enveloping the entire land in bloody light.

"Even thieves have their code of honor. I don't want to hurt innocent people. You two old geezers, come at me together."

He waved to the forty or fifty bandits behind him and said, "You go and get the spirit stones. I'll handle things here."

"I don't want to harm the innocent. You two old geezers can go now!" Jiang Yi, the Ninth Bandit, waved to the knights behind him and said, "You go and get the source. I'll hold off these two old geezers."

At this time, Shi Daohan also took advantage of the chaos to sneak into this area of ​​spiritual stone mining in Wuyang Mountain.

She was merely a spirit, and the original body hadn't given her many resources. Because of a mishap during her traversal of the void, she had basically used them all up. Now, she could only rely on herself to fight for any resources she wanted.

However, she had barely slipped in when she heard someone say that the leader of Wuyang Mountain was on his way after learning about the situation here.

"Damn it, I just wanted to grab some spirit stones in the chaos to tide me over, how come even the sect leader of Wuyang Mountain has personally come out?!" Shi Daohan thought to himself.

Half an hour later, outside the spirit stone mining area of ​​Wuyang Mountain, a hole was torn open in the void, and it really was the sect leader of Wuyang Mountain who had arrived with his people.

"Nangong Huang, how dare you come to my territory and cause trouble!" the Wuyang Mountain sect leader shouted coldly.

"So what if you act wildly? What do you want?" a contemptuous voice rang out.

In another location, the void was also torn open, and countless people and beasts roared as they charged out.

"Li Shangyun!" The sect leader of Wuyang Mountain had icy eyes, surrounded by 108 divine rays, as if many worlds were floating within him.

"Hehe, any surprises?"

This is a handsome young man with delicate features.

"You fiend, how dare you show your face again? Very well, I'll finish you off right here today!"

Behind the sect leader of Wuyang Mountain were a group of elders and venerable figures, one of whom coldly shouted.

"It's still uncertain who will emerge victorious!" The third greatest bandit of the desolate state also appeared, standing side by side with a young man named Li Shangyun.

"boom"

The heavens and earth trembled, and a fierce battle broke out, causing panic to appear among the cultivators of Wuyang Mountain.

"The seventh great thief, Li Shangyun, and the third great thief, Qi Daozhen, have also arrived!"

The spiritual stone mining area in Wuyang Mountain is in complete chaos, with fighting taking place everywhere.

Shi Daohan was surprised to learn from the shouts of the crowd that Li Shangyun, the seventh great thief of the desolate state, who was the handsome and elegant young man, was actually a demon king of the demon race!

The fifth, seventh, and third great bandits—three of the nine great bandits of the desolate state—arrived at once, their original intention being to ambush the leader of Wuyang Mountain!

Shi Daohan was shocked, but she couldn't care less about that now, because the strongmen under the three bandits had already rushed in, and she could only run around aimlessly with the crowd.

During her escape, she was also looking for the spirit stone warehouse in Wuyang Mountain, hoping to make a fortune, but she found that it was also the target of the three bandits' men, so she had no choice but to give up.

Finally, she found an ancient tower, which was also a warehouse for storing spirit stones. However, because it was too small, the strongmen under the three great thieves didn't even bother with it, which allowed her to get a bargain.

The shouts of battle were deafening all around, and the people from Wuyang Mountain paid no attention to this place. As a result, no one noticed Shi Daohan, allowing her to successfully get close.

The stone tower is ten meters high. Shi Daohan pushed the stone door several times, but found that it did not budge at all. Several layers of restrictions were placed on the stone door.

At this critical juncture, she had no time to calm down and figure out how to break through the stone door. She simply raised her fist and started smashing it repeatedly, trying to forcefully break it open with brute force.

"boom"

The stone tower shook violently, and after Shi Daohan's tenth punch slammed down, the stone door was finally broken open. Fortunately, the restrictions on it were not too complicated, otherwise it might have taken some more time.