frightfiction Chapter 570 Invasion
Chapter 570 Invasion
Zi Yu took the formation plate tremblingly and swallowed his saliva: "How can I persuade him? The ninth-level ancestor can be regarded as my ancestor..."
"That's easy to persuade. Tell him that if he refuses to surrender, I will destroy the entire Fuli Valley and wipe out your Sky Fox clan. Or, offer him the promise of rebuilding his body. Eighty percent of the souls in the cultivation world wouldn't be able to withstand such coercion and inducement."
"You...!" Zi Yu choked. She seemed to be meeting Bai Lan for the first time today. Gentleness was her illusion, and now was her true face.
"If he still refuses, it means this fox doesn't care about your Sky Fox Clan. Even if you bring it back to the valley, it will only be a lucky charm. It will not help the Fox Clan rise in any way. It is better to refine it and use it for my own benefit."
"If he doesn't agree, are you really going to destroy Fuli Valley?" Zi Yu couldn't help but shed tears as she spoke. She had already imagined a tragic scene of her family being torn apart and her loved ones dying.
Bai Lan wiped the tears from Ziyu's face and said softly, "How could that be, Ziyu? I have always treated you as a friend. How could I destroy Fuli Valley? I only want to kill the Fox King."
"What, what! You want to kill my mother!" Zi Yu suddenly raised her head and pushed Bai Lan's hand away: "No, no..."
"The Fox King has tried to kill me several times. If I don't avenge this, where will this headmaster's dignity be?" Bai Lan said, looking at the trembling Zi Yu again, and changed the subject: "But then again... for Zi Yu's sake, if you can convince the Fox King to hand over a wisp of his soul, I wouldn't be reluctant to let her live."
The broken window effect is obviously very useful for Zi Yu.
"Really?" Zi Yu breathed a sigh of relief and fell into deep thought: "...Are you really willing to spare my mother just for my sake?"
"Of course. Think about it, if I wanted to kill you, why would I have saved you so many times before?"
Bai Lan's numerous life-saving graces flashed through her mind, and Zi Yu, a fence-sitter, leaned towards Bai Lan again: "That's right..."
"You've been playing in the Boundless Sea for so many days, go back and see your mother." Bai Lan said, then looked at Su Ji and said, "The monsters in the Wuyun Continent's Hundred Thousand Mountains and the Qiyun Mountains are now in your hands. Go explore first to see if there are any traces of ninth-level monsters. If not, capture them all in one fell swoop."
Su Ji laughed heartily, "Yes! Master! I will definitely do better than Senior Sister Li!"
"Senior Li, come with me to the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect..." Before Bai Lan finished speaking, several sound transmission talismans on his waist lit up one after another.
It was Gongsun Lian, Hanxuzi, Jinheng and others... Could something have happened in Wuyunzhou?
"Master, something's happened! Just a stick of incense ago, a huge crack suddenly appeared in the sky above the Demon Palace. Demonic energy overflowed from it, and it was extremely strange. Tens of thousands of ghost cultivators rushed out... No, they shouldn't be ghost cultivators. These monsters don't have the aura of ghost cultivators, only demonic energy. The most powerful one is comparable to the late Nascent Soul stage. Fortunately, there are no traces of the Divine Transformation among them."
Unknown monsters invaded Wuyunzhou. Hanxuzi, Jinheng and others all said the same thing in their voice transmission messages: asking for help.
"Foreign invasion is such a big thing, and the Heaven has no reaction? When I was undergoing the tribulation, I was struck by lightning so easily, but now I am speechless?" Bai Lan frowned and asked Gongsun Lian.
"Heaven hasn't sent down thunder, but the crack in the sky seems to be shrinking little by little." Gongsun Lian said calmly, "Perhaps it's the work of Heaven, but the speed is frighteningly slow. I'm afraid it won't completely close in a year. I can't count on it."
One year? The speed at which the Heavenly Dao repairs the cracks is not as fast as the speed at which the cultivators are killed. We really can’t rely on the Heavenly Dao.
Bai Lan fell into deep thought. She first searched the system archives, but did not find any information about this war in the system's data. This was indeed a variable... Although this incident was an accident, it was still within Bai Lan's expectations. If a force like the system can covet the original power of this world, naturally there will be others coveting it. It is only a matter of time.
"Host, the main system cut off contact with me a minute ago." The system suddenly floated over and spoke in a low voice.
Bai Lan's expression turned cold: "Could it be that the monster invasion was caused by your main system?"
"No, that's not right. The main system's forces are solely mechanical, not those black, smoking creatures... Judging from past data, this incident is likely an invasion by extraterritorial demons... After weighing the pros and cons, the main system voluntarily abandoned this world, believing it was beyond saving." The system's expression was tense. "No world targeted by extraterritorial demons will be spared; all will inevitably be destroyed."
The organization that Cannon Fodder belongs to stealing the origin of the world sounds very grand, but in fact, it is all done secretly. If it really has combat power, it would have invaded the world of cultivation directly like the demons from outer space, and there would be no need to send systems everywhere to collude with the Son of Destiny in such a sneaky way.
"No one can stop me from unifying the world of immortal cultivation. If gods stand in my way, I will kill gods; if Buddhas stand in my way, I will kill Buddhas; if demons stand in my way, I will destroy demons." Bai Lan took a deep breath and exchanged a glance with Su Ji and Li Yuanzhen. In their puzzled gazes, he grabbed the two gods-transforming cultivators and flashed back to the Void Stone, heading straight for the Demon Palace teleportation array.
Taking the teleportation array in the Void Stone, they could return to the Demon Palace in an instant. Gongsun Lian, who was waiting outside the teleportation array, saw Bai Lan and her eyes suddenly lit up. When she saw Li Yuanzhen behind Bai Lan, her expression was even more delighted: "You came so quickly! And you brought two Divine Transformation cultivators with you!"
Bai Lan quickly walked towards the outside of the teleportation array. In an instant, he extended his divine sense to cover the entire Demon Palace to observe the situation there. Then he looked at Gongsun Lian and said, "Tell me in detail, what's going on with those demons?"
"Those demons are very troublesome. There are countless of them from the Nascent Soul stage to the Foundation Establishment stage. They have no physical body. Ordinary attacks have little effect on them. Only spiritual attacks are quite effective. The cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage in the Yuling Sect have all practiced Soul Severing, so the losses this time are not heavy. By the way, this is what is left after beheading them." Gongsun Lian said as he handed over a blood-red magic core.
The demonic energy on this magic core is even more dense than the demonic energy used by the demon cultivators in the world of cultivation. Its aura is quite similar to the Soul-Breaking Spear that she once used. There must be a connection between the two.
"These demons are quite powerful, but not very smart. Their babbling is incoherent, perhaps because they don't speak the same language... However, those with Nascent Soul cultivation levels do understand the language of the cultivation world. They didn't seem to anticipate that the cultivators in the Demon Palace would commonly use the Soul Severing Blow. After a brief battle, they lost their previous arrogance and began to discuss countermeasures."
Bai Lan listened carefully, then looked at the magic core in his hand, turned to Li Yuanzhen and Su Ji, and spoke in a deep voice. "You two, if nothing unexpected happens, there are only three rifts in the sky above Wuyun Island right now, one above the Demon Palace, the Qingyuan Sect, and the Jinqi Sect. First, you two try to repel those monsters, and then set up this teleportation array at the entrance of the rift."
Bai Lan said as he handed three large teleportation arrays to Li Yuanzhen and Su Ji.
The other end of the teleportation array is connected to an enclosed space inside the Void Stone.
Ever since she broke through to the Nascent Soul stage and integrated the Xirang into the Void Stone, her control over the Void Stone has reached its peak. She possessed the power of the earth's rules. Within the Void Stone, she is comparable to the God of Creation.
As long as Bai Lan wanted, he could use the power of rules to separate out a cage-like area, lure these extraterritorial demons into it, and imprison them temporarily.
Such a sudden invasion by foreign enemies will catch the cultivators off guard. If a high-level extraterritorial demon takes action, the high-level cultivators in the cultivation world will be fine, but the low-level cultivators will suffer heavy losses. It will be like the low-level disciples playing a game of elimination. However, the extraterritorial demon is willing, but Bai Lan is not.
She would imprison all these extraterritorial demons, and then manipulate the rules within the Void Stone to separate the extraterritorial demons of different levels and lock them in a trial field. After that, every two disciples of the Yuling Sect would fight against one extraterritorial demon, exchanging demon cores for contribution points. In this way, the so-called invasion would become a trial. As long as they fought more often, the Yuling Sect monks would know the weaknesses of these demons and would be more adept at dealing with them in the future.
"Send a few more Nascent Soul cultivators to guard the mouth of the rift. Once they sense the aura of an extraterritorial demon in the God Transformation stage, immediately close the teleportation array. Don't let the wolf get in. The extraterritorial demon in the God Transformation stage will be handed over to you two fellow Taoists to deal with outside." It's okay if the world of cultivation is shattered, but the Void Stone must not be shattered.
Bai Lan took out the jade brick that Sui Yun had given her earlier from her spirit beast bag and handed it to Li Yuanzhen without hesitation: "If it really doesn't work, just throw it out. Someone will come out of it and help you."
"Could there also be a Divine Transformation cultivator on the other side of the jade brick?" Li Yuanzhen's eyes lit up. What other surprises did the Yuling Sect have that she didn't know about?
"No, the one on the other side of the jade brick is True Lord Suiyun." Suiyun's cultivation is only at the Nascent Soul stage, but her strength is certainly not weaker than that of the Divine Transformation stage.
Hearing the woman's name again, Li Yuanzhen took a deep breath and nearly smashed the jade brick in his hand. "You're right. If things really reach a point of no return, she...will indeed be a good helper."
Although they did not see the extraterritorial demon with their own eyes, the two of them had already realized the importance of the matter from Gongsun Lian's words. Without stopping for a moment, they quickly left the Demon Palace and began to act separately.
Bai Lan never worried about the efficiency of the Jindan stage cultivators, but he still saved a file just in case. After preparing to load the file multiple times, he took Gongsun Lian outside and casually caught a lone Jindan stage extraterritorial demon, and returned to the Void Stone to study it.
She needs to carefully study the species of extraterritorial demons, observe their cultivation methods, and study their combat logic.
Bai Lan has always been good at turning enemies into resources. There are a large number of extraterritorial demons, but from a certain perspective, the magic cores dropped from them can also be considered a resource.
The magic core is about the same size as a spirit stone, and it also contains demonic energy.
If that’s the case, why can’t the magic core be used as a spirit stone?
Practice, refine medicine, refine weapons, and even set up formations, all of which can be used as energy for refining puppets, so as to deal with the extraterritorial demons in turn.
The demonic energy in this world is thin, and demonic cultivators absorb spiritual power and then use techniques to convert the spiritual power into demonic energy to assist in their cultivation. The process is obviously more complicated than that of ordinary cultivators.
The invasion of extraterritorial demons may not be a bad thing. Instead, it provides an opportunity for the demon cultivators in this world to improve their cultivation.
As long as there are enough magic cores, Bai Lan can even put a large number of magic cores into the void stone and embed them into the ground like spiritual veins, thereby opening up a world half filled with demonic energy and creating a demonic realm belonging to the demon cultivators, corresponding to the spiritual veins in the world of cultivation.
Since spiritual power can be continuously generated through the chaotic power of the five elements, as long as she can find a way to continuously generate demonic energy, the demon cultivators can directly absorb the attraction of the demonic energy and thus greatly increase their strength.
What is particularly important is that the extraterritorial demons can be harmed by divine consciousness, which means that they possess divine souls.
Having a spirit soul means that their lives can be bound by their own spirit souls. Bai Lan then has the hope of taming them, treating them as spirit beasts, taming and raising them, thereby enhancing the strength of the cultivator.
Bai Lan had no choice but to take the wild resources that came to his door.
"What... are you thinking about?" Gongsun Lian looked at Bai Lan in front of her, whose eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and whose expression was getting more and more crazy. She always felt that she was planning some "good idea" again.
"I was confused. The invasion of extraterritorial demons is not a bad thing at all. It's clearly a good thing, a great joy! Hahaha!" Bai Lan suddenly looked at Gongsun Lian: "Lian'er, there is hope for the revival of the demon path!"
"Ah?" Gongsun Lian touched Bai Lan's forehead: "Are you okay..."
"I'm fine!" Bai Lan stood up suddenly and looked at the Jindan stage extraterritorial demon held in Gongsun Lian's hands. His expression was as pity as if he was looking at a storage bag. "Now that I see it, this extraterritorial demon is quite cute if you take a closer look."
Gongsun Lian looked at the extraterritorial demon in her hand, then looked at the smiling Bai Lan, frowned, and fell into deep thought.
As Gongsun Lian said, this extraterritorial demon looks very much like a ghost cultivator, with black air all over its body and no physical body. However, the ghost cultivators have ghost energy in their bodies, while they have demonic energy in their bodies. Their attack methods are not as complicated as those of cultivators. They are all straightforward, but extremely aggressive.
"Ho ho! Ho ho!" The demon roared and shouted at Bai Lan, but Bai Lan ignored the demon's shouting, just circled around him and said slowly: "He is full of demonic energy. This little thing can also be considered a monster."
While thinking, Bai Lan opened and closed his eyes, and practiced the Heart Sutra of Guangmu Miaofa. His pupils suddenly turned golden and emitted a ray of Buddha's light.
And at the moment when the Buddha's light hit the demon, the demonic energy on the demon's body began to burn as if it was being scorched by the scorching sun. The intangible black mist also quickly dissipated in an instant, and the whole demon roared and turned into a demon core.
Bai Lan picked up the magic core on the ground in silence: "Sure enough, the Buddhist practice method can restrain it."