PDLP Chapter 185 Using Evil Leaks as a Pretext
Chapter 185 Using Evil Leaks as a Pretext
The True Dragon Clan has returned and has made a high-profile announcement of their marriage agreement with the Sun Moon Cult.
The news caused a global uproar.
Although Xun Yuan Tianjun had mentioned this matter before, this time, since it came from the mouth of a true dragon, it was clearly a done deal.
Moreover, the Sun Moon Cult was one of the core members of the previous pro-war faction, while the True Dragon Clan was the strongest among the forbidden beings of the Primordial Era. Their identities were highly symbolic and representative.
Thus, with the encouragement of those with ulterior motives, the trend of advocating peace intensified.
"Even the Sun Moon Cult has gone down this path, so what's the point of advocating war now!"
"Yeah, if we follow the main side, we might get betrayed later."
"Let's talk about alienation. How exactly does one become alienated?"
While the world was discussing it, the Sword Sect and other pro-war forces remained unusually silent.
Almost every race in the world is paying attention to this wedding.
Meanwhile, more primordial forbidden races returned, and news of this spread quickly.
"The White Tiger Clan will return to the Immortal Realm in about ten days."
"The Golden-Winged Roc clan returned two days ago, returning to the forbidden Ling Mountain!"
"The Xuanwu clan has also arrived. This clan is the slowest, taking about a month. They should be the last group..."
The White Tiger, Golden-Winged Roc, and Black Tortoise are all pure-blooded forbidden creatures, extremely powerful. In addition, there are other groups such as the Bi'an, Fei Yi, and Yaksha.
Ten thousand years ago, there was an unusual movement at the source, and these races generally fled to take refuge in the most secret places in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Only the Bright Venerable led the saints to quell the rebellion in the Immortal Realm.
Ten thousand years later, a true catastrophe struck, but these tribes returned one after another.
"Even the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are not safe. Once the source stirs, all places will collapse and perish."
"Even forbidden creatures have to find their own way; they have the path of mutation to take. But what about us ordinary people? Are we just waiting to die?"
"Alas, alienation, alienation! But alienation requires resources; it requires the birth of alien offspring!"
The world is abuzz with discussion and countless emotions.
The once-empty forbidden mountains have reopened, and the primordial forbidden races have returned in droves, numbering nearly a hundred.
The Celestial Court was bustling day and night. The Heavenly Lord Xun Yuan held a Peach Banquet for half a month, inviting the various forbidden clans to discuss important matters.
"The Yaksha clan will begin recruiting human concubines from this day forward!"
"The Bi'an tribe will embark on a path of alienation."
"The Golden-Winged Roc Clan is now recruiting sons-in-law. Anyone with the bearing of an emperor may marry our clan's princess!"
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With the Celestial Court's continuous mediation and the exemplary leadership of the True Dragon Clan, many forbidden ancient clans have declared their willingness to support the path of alienation.
In an instant, the call for war was completely drowned out, and no one mentioned it anymore.
“Taking the path of alienation also has benefits for ordinary people; even low-level cultivators will receive the protection of alienated forces.”
"Yes, this is good for everyone!"
"At all costs, for the greater good of humanity!"
The Celestial Court dispatched many highly respected figures and senior experts from the Celestial Realm to advocate the Path of Alienation on various occasions. The situation was almost one-sided, and even the lower-level cultivators began to support the Path of Alienation.
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News kept reaching back to the land of a thousand rivers.
Liu Ziwen and others were all deeply worried.
Although the Yuan Clan is far weaker than other major powers, it is actually a pro-war faction.
Because the Abyss Clan all came from the Abyss Realm, and their relatives and friends were almost all buried in the gray fog. They had witnessed the entire Abyss Realm fall and deeply understood just how terrifying the gray fog was.
However, given the current state of the world, the Abyss Clan, along with a few scattered sects like the Sword Sect, are truly as weak as fireflies in the night wind.
"Don't worry, just do your best."
Li Lan remained calm; he had actually anticipated all of this.
The balance of power between the pro-war and pro-peace factions is simply not on the same level.
The Celestial Court is a product of the Supreme Celestial Emperor's ten thousand years of cultivation. How many Celestial Venerables, Great Sages, and Celestial Saints are there within it? No one knows; its foundation is beyond comprehension!
Many of the forbidden ancient clans are all behemoths, and these clans are not warlike. If they dared to fight, why would they have fled ten thousand years ago? Now they have returned to find a way to survive, so they naturally hit it off with the Celestial Court.
With these two forces merging, unless a truly warlike Immortal Emperor suddenly emerges, even the resurrection of a figure like Ming Zun wouldn't change the overall situation.
"Unfortunately, the common people are completely unaware of the gray fog and have been misled..."
Liu Ziwen sighed.
The Celestial Court shouts that it will spare no effort to protect the overall situation, but what is the reality? The price is these low-level cultivators and ordinary people, while the overall situation is only the overall situation of the Celestial Court, the major powers, and the forbidden clans!
Li Lan simply said calmly, "Prepare a congratulatory gift for me."
Liu Ziwen hesitated and said, "Are you going to the Sun Moon Sect? But... we haven't received an invitation."
The invitations to the Sun Moon Cult's grand wedding had already been sent out all over the world, and the Thousand Rivers Abyss Clan seemed to have been overlooked.
The Sun Moon Sect didn't seem to want Li Lan to go.
"They don't need to invite me, I'll go myself."
Li Lan spoke calmly.
He gazed in the direction of the Sun Moon Sect, repeatedly recalling Shangguan Xiaoxiao's words from that day.
Report your favor on the golden platform, and bring Yulong to die for the king.
Since they have already resolved to die and are not afraid of death, how could they become alienated in order to survive?
Shangguan Xiaoxiao didn't want Li Lan to go, but he couldn't refuse.
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After arranging everything, Li Lan set off once again.
His goal is the Wanyuan Mountain Range.
Today, this place is desolate. The scene of various forces competing to mine is no more, and the remaining mines and mines are overgrown with weeds.
The Wanyuan Mountain Range appeared extremely desolate, and even the source energy in the air had become diluted.
The Tengshe Water-Drawing Formation created the Thousand Rivers Land, but destroyed the Ten Thousand Mountain Range. From this perspective, it's no wonder that the True Dragon Clan coveted the Thousand Rivers Land.
Li Lan entered the mine and walked along the way. It was like a ruin. The stone walls, which were once full of spirit stone ore, were now cracked. The spirit stones had all turned into waste rocks. The spiritual energy and source energy had been taken away by Tengshe.
"It's still there!"
Suddenly, some dark figures appeared in front of him. Li Lan took one look and immediately perked up.
That's a mining ghost!
These mining ghosts roam around all day, waiting for the living, but this place has lost its value, so who would come?
The stone skin on Li Lan's body had already surfaced. He approached quietly, then suddenly struck, grabbing a mining demon!
"Roar!"
The mining monster resisted fiercely. Although it was like a withered corpse, its strength was extraordinary, making it difficult for Li Lan to restrain it.
Li Lan frowned, and suddenly a thought struck him. The gray tree energy flowed in his dantian, and Li Lan's skin suddenly changed, becoming grayish, wrinkled, and bloodless.
At this moment, he seemed to have transformed into a strange creature, his face radiating a deathly chill, and his eyes appearing somewhat eerie.
The frantically struggling miner suddenly stopped, and the surrounding miners stared blankly at Li Lan. Then, they all suddenly knelt down, as if lowly servants had seen a superior being.
Li Lan was surprised; he had only tried it casually, but it actually worked.
--The Wanyuan Mountain Range was once the ancestral home of the True Dragon Clan. These strange things were created because the Black Emperor visited once.
Therefore, Li Lan guessed that the strange creatures and these things should be quite close, but he never expected them to be so effective!
Li Lan was overjoyed and immediately wrapped all the mining monsters in raw ore skin.
--The stone skin of the Immortal Source can seal the mining ghost. This is some common knowledge in the Source Arts. However, it is extremely difficult for ordinary Source Masters to do this, because to seal the mining ghost, you must first capture the mining ghost. Who can capture it?
Only Li Lan can do that.
After sealing them with stone skin, he threw them into his storage ring like mummies, and then Li Lan continued forward.
"Truly astonishing!"
Before long, he arrived at the cave where he first met Long Bao. Outside the cave, there was a "poisonous discharge" where thick drops of blood kept dripping down, eventually pooling into a pool of blood.
Within the blood pool, mysterious tentacles seemed to be emerging, their energy extremely astonishing. Even a powerful being who fell in would likely be instantly reduced to rotten blood.
Moreover, the most terrifying thing about evil diarrhea is that as long as you see the evil diarrhea itself or hear the sounds within it, you will be affected.
Back then, various forces mined ore in the Wanyuan Mountains, but if they encountered a leak, they could only detour or shut down the mine.
There's simply no way to deal with it.
"Fortunately, there was enough stone skin."
Li Lan once again took out a large amount of stone skin from his storage ring. These stone skins were obtained from places such as the Nine-Headed Forbidden Mountain and the Primordial Demon Abyss. He sewed them into stone skin bags. Unaffected by the evil leakage, he filled bag after bag of viscous blood from the blood pool.
If anyone were to witness this scene, they would be utterly dumbfounded. These evil scourges are so terrifying that even immortals and saints would not dare to face them directly. Yet Li Lan handled them with the ease of drawing water.
The blood pool filled dozens of bags before it reached the bottom, and at the bottom was a twisted monster. The monster resembled a giant octopus, but had a human body, sticky tentacles, and was covered with strange fleshy tumors.
Li Lan used his special technique to carefully approach the monster, dragged it up, and put it into a bag. The monster's tentacles twisted, but it did not resist.
After collecting the blood from the pool, Li Lan couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.
"Keep searching and see if there are any other signs of foul play!"
Li Lan continued her search.
To the world, the evil spirit is a nightmare; once you see it, you'll either die or be badly injured. But to him, it's a treasure that he can use to deal with his enemies!
The more the better.
The Wanyuan Mountain Range was too vast, so naturally there was more than just the Blood Pool Evil Leak. Before long, Li Lan had already found two other evil leaks.
A white bone flower emits a strange fragrance. Any cultivator who smells this fragrance will die covered in pus and blood. If they see it, they will frantically scratch themselves until all their flesh is torn apart.
A strange, alien source stone, inside which seems to be sealed a blood-red infant. The infant is no bigger than a palm and occasionally emits eerie cries that can drive people mad!
Li Lan put both items away.
"These are all good things..."
Li Lan couldn't help but sigh.
These are all his trump cards!
He will definitely attend Shangguan Xiaoxiao's wedding with the True Dragon Clan, but there will certainly be dangers there. Therefore, he needs to keep some trump cards up his sleeve!
To be honest, he had only seen the Evil Leakage, the Primordial Demon Ape, and the Nine-Headed Forbidden Mountain in the Ten Thousand Yuan Mountains. Although these were also forbidden areas of the ancient races, none of them contained these things.
These things were likely created by the eerie aura of the big black dog. They were extremely terrifying. Even when Luo Tian Dasheng and Dugu Yibai entered the Wanyuan Mountain Range, they avoided these things.
That shows how powerful it is!
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“Master, as you predicted, public opinion has already taken hold, and even if that mysterious immortal venerable were to step forward now, it would be of no use.”
In the Celestial Court, in the Lingxiao Palace, Gu Ling came to report.
Xun Yuan Tianjun was clearly in a good mood. For the past month, he had been socializing and discussing matters such as alienation with various clans.
The major powers among the human race, such as the Dao Realm and the Holy Land, are usually unruly and do not show much respect to the Celestial Court. Now they are all coming to him for help, asking him to act as a go-between and arrange marriages with the forbidden ancient race.
And what about the Forbidden Ancient Clan? They also wanted to select human women with better aptitude, and at the same time, they all wanted to learn about the Supreme Immortal Emperor's research on the path of alienation, and so on.
Therefore, he truly felt like he was becoming the ruler of the Celestial Court, commanding all under heaven!
Of course, he also knew very well that all of this was because he had a true Immortal Emperor as his master!
"The wedding of the True Dragon Clan invites all the major realms and holy lands of the human race to attend."
Xun Yuan Tianjun smiled slightly and said, "The various forbidden ancient clans should also not be absent... Hmm, our Celestial Court will invite another Celestial Venerable to take the stage."
He spoke calmly, then sneered, "Last time, that person set me up with a scheme; this time, I'll return the favor with a scheme of my own!"
He had already planned it all out.
The grand wedding of the True Dragon Clan is the strongest declaration of the path of alienation.
If that mysterious person still had any fighting spirit, they would have tried to stop him. And as soon as he appeared, he would be trapped in a deadly situation.
But what if the other party doesn't come?
That's fine too.
An opponent who has begun to feel fear, has become self-aware, and has retreated into hiding... can no longer be considered an opponent of Xun Yuan Tianjun.
He raised his eyes and glanced indifferently at the black iron plaque hanging above, on which eight large characters, “Xun Yuan Tianjun, a stupid dog,” were as red as blood.
His eyes were as cold as frost; all this shame... should be washed away this time!
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"Is this the Immortal Realm?"
now.
Two humanoid beings easily crossed the northern border and appeared above the Immortal Emperor.
These two were the strange creatures that the Feather King had summoned from the gray fog; one was named Qisheng, and the other was named Luolin.
"It really brings back memories..."
Lorraine looked at the few plants growing beside him, the flowers, and the butterflies fluttering on them. He subconsciously took a step forward and reached out, but the moment his gray hand touched them, the bee froze and fell to the ground, the petals withered, and the plants dried up and broke...
Lorraine paused slightly, taken aback.
"Once the path of parasitism is cleared, you and I will naturally be able to return."
Qi Sheng smiled faintly and said, "Let's go to the Land of a Thousand Rivers and see if the so-called Black Emperor's envoy is real or fake!"
Lorraine said, "When the Black Emperor left the Realm of Wishes, he took too much power with him. If we find him... the two of us might not be able to get him back to the Realm of Origin."
Qi Sheng said, "As long as we confirm that he is still alive and in the Immortal Realm, that's enough."
“I am under the watchful eye of the Origin Realm, and the adults can descend upon me at any time.”
Upon hearing this, Lorraine was slightly pleased and nodded!
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A land of a thousand rivers.
"Have you memorized all the cultivation methods?"
In their secluded retreat, the cat teaches Longbao.
"Yes, I've remembered them all..."
"Cultivate diligently. Remember, your protector is a fellow surnamed Li. Follow him closely; only he can protect you all."
The cat raised its little paw and gently patted Longbao's head.
Longbao's round eyes were full of doubt as he asked, "Sister Cat, are you leaving?"
"Soon, those people will come and eventually see me. I need to go and hold off the Origin Realm, otherwise that guy surnamed Li will be in danger, and that dog might get into trouble too..."
The cat stretched and said, "Meow, life is tough for cats!"
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