Chapter 118: The generals come out and the killing begins
The primitive ruins, high mountains, dense forests and vibrant life are a treasure land for life.

After thousands of years of restoration, the traces of destruction left by previous wars have disappeared among the lush vegetation and ancient vines.

Although it no longer has the vitality it had when the Green Emperor was alive, it can be compared to an ordinary paradise.

If no one disturbs it, perhaps in ten thousand years, this place will once again become a pure land of life suitable for spiritual practice.

But a few years ago, the Tomb of the Green Emperor was unearthed, and another round of war broke out in the original ruins, which once again devastated this land that had originally regained its vitality.

Since the war ended, countless monks have swept through the land like a swarm of locusts, picking away all the spiritual plants, causing the vitality of the land to become chaotic again.

From the holy land families to ordinary cultivators, almost all cultivators do not care about the life and death of this ruin and only regard it as a treasure hunting place.

Returning to this primitive ruin and walking on the land again, Li Zhi suddenly had a new understanding of this land.

Perhaps it was because the five companion fairy trees in the Taoist Palace secret realm had all condensed, allowing his Taoist Palace to completely reach a perfect level. At the same time, the "Five Gods Life-Nourishing Technique" began to work, causing Li Zhi's own divinity to surge, and his already keen spiritual perception grew to an incredible level.

You can even easily feel the pulse of the world and capture the joys and sorrows of nature.

There seemed to be a sad mood emanating from the heaven and earth of the original ruins, and the vitality between heaven and earth collapsed, unable to condense into a cave, as if there was a sign of degeneration.

Spiritual medicine, spiritual plants and spiritual veins complement each other. Perhaps it is because this balance has been broken that the world within the original ruins emits a sad emotion.

I don’t know if this is an illusion caused by Li Zhi’s sudden increase in spiritual awareness, or if it is true.

In short, after returning to the original ruins, he felt a kind of oppression from between heaven and earth.

As he got closer to the dark pool, the feeling of oppression became more and more intense.

When he saw some young monks from Zhongzhou around the Mingtan, he knew the source of the oppression.

It turned out that they came to explore the ruins.

I think there are many traces of environmental damage left in the original ruins.

They do know how to find a place. The two most important treasures in the original ruins are: one is the active volcano where the ancient temple where the Green Emperor stored his heart and imperial weapons is located; the other is the dark pool where the desolate tower is located.

At this moment, Li Zhi saw seven ice sculptures sitting not far from the Nether Pond, trying hard to melt the ice on their bodies with the help of the monks next to them.

It seems that they had jumped into the Nether Pond before to search for treasure, but were frozen into ice because they could not withstand the extremely yin energy inside.

However, in Li Zhi's opinion, the lives of the seven cultivators whose bodies were invaded by the extremely yin energy were ruined.

Li Zhi had experienced how difficult the extremely yin energy in the Nether Pond was to deal with.

Not everyone has the ability to expel all the extremely yin energy from the body, especially those cultivators who are still in the Dao Palace or the Four Poles Secret Realm.

If Li Zhi had not learned a secret method of releasing Yin energy from Duan De, it would have been quite difficult for him to expel the extremely Yin energy from his body.

Duan De has been digging ancient tombs underground for many years, but he does not have the yin aura of ordinary diggers, because he has a mysterious skill to protect his body.

Looking at the seven monks who had turned into ice sculptures, it seemed that cold and damp energy was constantly emerging from their bodies. Li Zhi knew that without a powerful person to help them promote blood circulation and eliminate the cold and dampness, they would probably never be able to completely eliminate the negative energy in their bodies by themselves.

Although the presence of Yin Qi in the body will not affect cultivation, the power of the heavenly tribulation will be increased when one is about to overcome it in the future.

With their strength, they would probably die directly from the heavenly calamity.

Li Zhi had no intention of showing up to greet them, but stayed in the dark and observed their movements.

Calculating the time, there are still a few days before the guardian general is born, so he is not in a hurry.

"I'm freezing to death." Finally, someone expelled all the coldness from his body and broke the ice outside his body, saying while shivering.

"Fellow Daoist Wu, is this dark pond really the place where the desolate tower resides?" Not long after, another young genius from Zhongzhou also broke through the ice and asked Wu Sidao of the Four Symbols Holy Land with dark lips.

Generally speaking, even if one is looking for a place to store a magical weapon, it should be placed in a place with abundant spiritual energy, rather than in such an extremely gloomy place.

Li Zhi knew the young man named Wu Sidao. It was he who met the young monk at the edge of the ancient forest.

"Please forgive me, Brother Wang. I went there first and never went down into the Nether Pond. I didn't know there was such a strong and extremely yin energy at the bottom of the pond. When the mighty men from the Ji and Jiang families from the Yaoguang Holy Land attacked the monsters here, they did not inform everyone about this." As a guide, Wu Sidao explained to the young genius from Zhongzhou with an apologetic look on his face.

"It seems that it is impossible to pick up bargains in the pool. Fortunately, the ghost soldiers and zombies inside have been eliminated by the seniors, otherwise we would have jumped in without any preparation and would definitely encounter ghost soldiers blocking the way." The young man from Zhongzhou said with a little disappointment.

Then, he asked another young man who had just broken free from the ice next to him, "Brother Li, you are a disciple of the Yin-Yang Sect and are proficient in the way of Yin-Yang. You should be able to get to the deepest part of the Nether Pond."

Although Li Shixian was born in the Yin-Yang Sect, his cultivation has just broken through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm. He has not yet mastered the advanced method of controlling the yin and yang energies, and for the time being he cannot treat the extreme yin energy as nothing.

However, his condition could be said to be the best among the seven people who had just gone deep into the Nether Pool, and his complexion quickly regained its rosy color.

Then he said, "Yin alone cannot produce life, and Yang alone cannot grow. Since there is a dark pond here, there must be a corresponding Yang spring. The dark pond represents dead energy, which can nurture corpses or dark treasures. Since we have gained nothing from the pond, perhaps we can go to the corresponding Yang spring to look for it. Maybe there will be some good fortune left there."

"Brother Li, that's a great idea. Please lead the way." A group of people immediately complimented Li Shixian of the Yin-Yang Sect.

After chatting for a while, they left the Mingtan area.

Only after they disappeared over the other side of the mountain did Li Zhi emerge from the darkness.

Looking at the direction they disappeared, he thought to himself: "You must not disturb my guardian warriors, otherwise..."

Afterwards, Li Zhi came to the Mingtan again. Seeing that the Mingtan had not changed at all from more than two months ago, he felt much more relieved.

"Pfft!"

With a fierce leap into the water, Li Zhi fled towards the deep underground Yin veins.

As the depth got lower and lower, the cold air emanating from the pool water became stronger and stronger, and even began to freeze on his body surface.

Li Zhi immediately activated the Nine-Colored Flame Fairy Tree in the Taoist Palace secret realm, releasing a powerful firepower that directly burned away the Yin Qi that wanted to invade his body.

Then, he condensed a divine power barrier outside the body that could isolate the extremely yin energy.

Li Zhi immediately no longer felt the cold.

The speed of escape in the dark pool was therefore increased a bit.

Soon they arrived at an underground vein where he buried the purple jade crystal coffin.

Afterwards, Li Zhi dug out the purple jade crystal coffin from the Yin Vein.

Then he took the crystal coffin and fled towards the bottom of the Yinmai Valley.

The extremely yin energy there is far more dense than the extremely yin energy on the yin meridians.

Even the extremely yin energy formed terrifying liquid yin water ponds at the bottom of the valley.

Before this, Li Zhidao Palace Secret Realm had not yet been cultivated to perfection, and without the companion Immortal Fire Tree, he could not reach there.

Now, Li Zhi's strength has improved by leaps and bounds, and he can already go there.

Those pure and extremely yin waters are the supreme divine waters that nurture the corpse, just like the effects of divine spring waters rich in life essence on cultivators.

Extremely yin water can also be used to refine equipment and weapons.

If the Three Yin True Spirit Sword of the Yanyun Sect was refined using the extremely yin water here, I’m afraid even Ye Fan’s holy body wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

Although there was no murderous intent in the extremely cold pool, Li Zhi felt an extreme aura of death from it, as if just a wisp of it could dissolve all the life force in the body of a cultivator in the Taoist Palace Secret Realm.

Li Zhi didn't dare to get close, and could only use his divine power to carefully send the purple jade crystal coffin into the extremely cold pool.

When the purple jade crystal coffin was submerged in the extremely cold pool, a ripple immediately appeared on the originally calm surface of the pool.

An extremely cold air suddenly erupted.

Li Zhi immediately controlled the divine light and rushed out.

But it was still disturbed by the cold air and was directly frozen into a lump of black ice.

Fortunately, the divine power in his body was not completely frozen, and Li Zhi was able to control the lump of black ice and fly out of the dark pool.

Afterwards, a big hole was smashed on the ground not far away, and then the cold air on the ice lump burst out completely, condensing into a three-meter-high black iceberg on the spot.

Inside the iceberg, Li Zhi swallowed ten liters of the holy spring water in succession before he eliminated the life-destroying dead energy in his body.

Then Li Zhi began to use mysterious methods to expel the cold and yin energy from his body.

The iceberg that froze him became harder and bigger because of the cold air.

I don’t know how many days have passed.

After Li Zhi dispelled the last trace of cold and evil energy in his body, he finally woke up.

Then start bombarding the indestructible iceberg.

Even until he was almost exhausted, he still failed to smash the iceberg. He only opened a five-meter-long passage inside it.

Just as Li Zhi was sitting inside the iceberg meditating to recover his strength.

Suddenly I heard a familiar voice coming from outside.

"Senior Brother Li, are you sure you can determine the location of the Yangquan through the Yin veins under the Mingtan?" It seemed to be one of the people in the group just now.

"Yang is born from Yin, and this is an eternal truth. I have previously obtained the permission of the elders to comprehend the sect's supreme secret technique, the Yin-Yang cycle of life and death. I have some knowledge of the changes of Yin and Yang. The Yangquan has sunk into the crater of the volcano and its location cannot be locked. However, with the help of the extremely yin land in the Nether Pond, I am confident that I can lock the specific location of the Yangquan in the volcano through the method of Yin-Yang generating Yang." Li Shixian of the Yin-Yang Sect said confidently.

"Brother Li, the cold and yin energy in the Nether Pond is too strong. We have only gone a few hundred feet deep before and could not go any further. Are you sure we can find the extremely yin vein at the bottom of the pool?" said another young man from Zhongzhou.

At this time, Wu Sidao of the Four Symbols Holy Land, who was the guide of this group of young monks from Zhongzhou, said, "Brother Li, Brother Wen, the extremely yin land in the Nether Pond is extremely terrifying. The yin spirits that were bred there were extremely powerful. They can even fight against the powerful. Wu thinks that you should think twice before doing this. If there are still horrible yin corpses that have never been born in the depths of the Nether Pond, I am afraid that you and I cannot handle it with our strength."

When Wu Sidao followed the elders of the Four Symbols Holy Land to participate in the battle, he witnessed the power of the black golden ape that walked out of the Nether Pond.

There was even a corpse of a real roaring beast that almost tore the powerful man of the Ji family to pieces.

"The Dao patterns here have long been wiped out. It is impossible for new Yin corpses to be born in such a short time. And my Yin Yang Sect has mastered the Yin and Yang Dao. We are best at manipulating the Yin and Yang Qi. We should have no problem resisting the Yin and cold Qi in the Nether Pond."

It is not known whether Li Shixian wanted to show off the strength of Zhongzhou Sect in front of the disciples of the Four Symbols Holy Land, or whether he was really confident that he could resist the cold and gloomy air in the Nether Pond.

I saw a hint of doubt in Wu Sidao's eyes.

Li Shixian took out two large flags that were more than ten feet high. On one of the flags was embroidered a giant silver dragon that exuded a strong yin energy, and on the other flag was embroidered a three-legged golden crow that exuded a strong fire energy.

"Senior Brother Li, is this the Yin-Yang flag that our founder Li has been refining for eight hundred years?" A disciple of the Yin-Yang Sect in the crowd looked at the two flags in Li Shixian's hands with some surprise.

"Yes, it is the Yin-Yang Flag. This time I followed the Supreme Elder to the Eastern Wilderness for training. My great-grandfather gave me his Yin-Yang Flag for self-defense. With the Yin-Yang Flag in hand, the mere Yin-Yang land can't do anything to us." Li Shixian said very proudly while holding the Yin-Yang Flag.

It seems that with these two big flags in hand, there is no place in the world that he dare not go.

The Yin-Yang Banner was a weapon that a great elder of the Yin-Yang Sect had refined in order to surpass the Yin-Yang Mirror, the sacred weapon of the sect. When one day he was able to refine the two banners into one, this treasure would be comparable to the Yin-Yang Mirror.

One side represents the silver dragon of death, and the other side represents the three-legged golden crow of the sun and vitality.

It is said that the combination of yin and yang makes it invincible. It is not only a magic weapon, but also the embodiment of the ultimate secret technique of the Yin-Yang Sect.

The Yin-Yang Sect, as a super power ranked among the top few among the hundreds of schools of thought in Zhongzhou, naturally has an extraordinary heritage. In the level of strength in Zhongzhou, it ranks only below the four immortal dynasties, and even surpasses the nine ancient countries in Zhongzhou.

The means of inheritance are naturally extraordinary, and his Yin-Yang magic is unrivaled in the world.

Seeing that the cultivators from Zhongzhou did not seem to have any objections, Wu Sidao of the Four Symbols Holy Land felt a sense of impending disaster, as if he would be doomed if he entered the Nether Pond again.

Then, he said to Li Shixian of the Yin-Yang Sect: "Brother Li, Wu is not feeling well and cannot stand the cold air, so I will not go into the underworld pond with you. I will wait outside for you to return triumphantly."

"It's okay. Since Brother Wu is ill, just wait for us outside." Li Shixian of the Yin-Yang Sect laughed when he heard this. But there was a hint of contempt in his laughter, as if he looked down on Wu Sidao.

Other young people from Zhongzhou also laughed and tried to comfort Wu Sidao.

Although a hint of embarrassment flashed across Wu Sidao's eyes, he did not change his mind because of their ridicule.

Then I retreated to it again.

Seeing Li Shixian and others using the Yang flag to protect themselves and the Yin flag to clear the way, they jumped into the dark pool again.

Li Zhi in Xuanbing felt a little worried when he saw this.

He immediately took out the Luoyang shovel, concentrated all his strength, and dug a big hole in the iceberg.

The loud roar coming from afar scared Wu Sidao.

Let him quickly look in that direction.

Then, he saw a mysterious figure emitting murderous intent, walking out of an iceberg.

Seeing this, Wu Sidao turned around and left without saying a word.

Li Zhi ignored him and went directly to the side of the Dark Pond, using a secret technique to sense the movements below.

But soon, his expression changed.

He immediately performed a series of complex magical seals and directly charged into the dark pool.

As soon as the seal was cast into the dark pool, the water surface began to roll violently, as if a huge cold and gloomy air was about to burst out from the pool.

It also seemed that the actions of Li Shixian and others awakened a terrifying creature sleeping at the bottom of the pool.

Li Zhi hurriedly fled into the distance, not daring to be approached by the cold and gloomy air.

"Ah" Before he could fly far, he heard several rapid screams coming from the pool.

"Boom!" Then, the water in the dark pond exploded directly.

An extremely yin energy rose into the sky, the temperature around it dropped rapidly, and the sky was dyed black.

The ground centered on the Nether Pond began to freeze rapidly, and biting snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

Li Zhi, who saw this scene from afar, had a hint of anger in his eyes and an astonishing murderous aura emanated from his body.

"Ow!"

At this moment, a silver dragon rushed out of the dark pool and flew towards the sky.

Upon seeing this, murderous intent flashed in Li Zhi's eyes, and he immediately cast a spell in the direction of the Mingtan.

In an instant, a world as dark as ink appeared there, with howling cold winds and roaring ghost soldiers and horses transformed from evil spirits.

Rushed directly towards the silver dragon that wanted to leave.

"Boom!" The silver dragon exploded directly after being attacked by the group of evil soldiers.

An open area was blasted out in the fog.

Li Shixian appeared at the scene with a pale face and a large flag in his hand.

At the same time, another yang flag was inserted on his back, and a golden sun appeared behind his head, emitting infinite golden flames to dispel the evil spirits around.

Seeing that the evil spirits continued to attack him, Li Shixian began to wave the big flag in his hand. Silver dragons flew out from the flag and fought with the evil spirits.

"kill!"

Seeing that there were endless Yin soldiers to kill, Li Shixian quickly swallowed a pill and directly burned his own magic power to activate the Yin-Yang Banner.

Want to get out as soon as possible.

However, it was as if the underworld had descended, and after those ghost soldiers were defeated, they were quickly reborn.

The scene was so horrifying that even though he had unleashed all the power of a powerful magic weapon, he was still unable to disperse the ghost soldiers around him, and he couldn't even see if there were any more powerful beings behind the ghost soldiers.

"Great-grandfather, save me." Seeing that he could not hold on any longer, Li Shixian immediately shouted towards the big flag, as if he wanted to activate the powerful divine consciousness within the Yin-Yang flag.

However, before the mighty man's divine consciousness could condense into shape, a pitch-black spear emerged from the dark fog and directly dispersed the mighty man's divine consciousness.

At the same time, the Yin Flag in his hand was shattered, and the Silver Dragon Flag instantly broke into hundreds of pieces of various sizes.

"The Yang flag changes shape, the golden crow blooms, and escapes!"

Seeing this, Li Shixian was frightened out of his wits, and immediately, regardless of his own condition, he tried to use the ultimate secret of the Yin-Yang Flag, wanting to make the Yang Flag behind him transform into a three-legged golden crow to take him away from the area covered by fog.

The three-legged golden crow appeared, emitting a burst of extremely yang divine power, dispersing the yin energy around it.

However, the three-legged golden crow, which was the incarnation of the magic weapon, had just flown a few hundred meters when it seemed to have hit a solid and immortal wall.

The three-legged golden crow transformed from the magic weapon let out a scream and turned into a yang flag that fell into Li Shixian's hands.

At this moment, a huge hand exuding tremendous power suddenly reached out from the mist and directly grabbed Li Shixian and the Golden Crow Yang flag around him.

At this moment, Li Shixian was unable to even resist and disappeared in the overwhelming dark fog.

Afterwards, the surging dark fog quickly converged, and finally left a picture exuding the breath of the underworld in the air.

An ancient tree in the underworld exudes mysterious power and takes root in the void. Around the ancient tree grow many plants that seem to be found only in the underworld.

Wu Sidao, who had already escaped a long way, suddenly turned back and saw this scene. A look of disbelief flashed across his eyes, and he exclaimed, "That is the Pure Land of the Divine King."

Where he could not see, a purple jade crystal coffin shrouded in dark mist was lying quietly at the roots of the ancient God King tree.

Wu Sidao was so frightened that he increased his speed by another 30% and flew directly towards Yandu.

After three years, strange changes occurred again in the Demon Emperor's tomb. It was suspected that a great god king had crawled out of the pool. This was a big event.

Just after he disappeared in the direction of Yandu, the God King's Pure Land in the sky completely disappeared.

Li Zhi, dressed in a Taoist robe, reappeared at the edge of the Nether Pond. Next to him was a purple jade crystal coffin that exuded an extremely restrained yin energy.

The inside of the coffin was pitch black, as if it was filled with a mysterious liquid.

Li Zhi hurriedly checked the situation inside the coffin, and only after a long time did he breathe a sigh of relief.

The transformation process of the guardian general was interrupted and he almost failed.

He was also required to send the purple jade crystal coffin into the extremely cold water pool in advance, otherwise Li Shixian and others' mischief below would render his guards useless.

Previously, Li Shixian of the Yin-Yang Sect performed the Yin-Yang reversal technique at the Yin meridian, directly causing the Ji Yin cave underground to undergo abnormal changes.

If Li Zhi had not cast a spell at the critical moment to free the purple jade crystal coffin from the extremely cold water pool, his bodyguards would probably have encountered a major accident.

Once contaminated by the extremely yang energy, it is hard to say how much power this corpse of the Great God King can still exert.

Afterwards, Li Zhi left with the purple jade crystal coffin.

Shortly after he left, three important figures from Yandu appeared beside the Mingtan.

A supreme elder of the Yin-Yang Sect, a supreme elder of the Four Symbols Holy Land, and an uncle of the emperor of the Guhua Dynasty.

They looked at the changes around the Nether Pond, a hint of surprise appeared in their eyes, and then they jumped into the Nether Pond one after another to investigate.

A moment later, they came out of the dark pool unharmed.

The Grand Elder of the Four Symbols Holy Land was the first to ask the Grand Elder of the Yin Yang Sect: "Brother Daoist, is this the method of your Yin Yang Sect?"

"Yin gives birth to Yang, but unfortunately the person who cast the spell was not skilled enough, so he failed." The Yin Yang Sect's supreme elder said calmly.

"It seems that there is a terrifying figure hidden here that we don't know about." The emperor's uncle of the Guhua Dynasty also spoke. The dragon energy on his body evaporated and condensed into a ferocious dragon head behind him, as if sniffing something in the air.

“No matter who it is, if he kills more than a dozen disciples of my Yin-Yang Sect, I will dig him out.” Then, a trace of murderous intent flashed in the eyes of the Yin-Yang Sect’s supreme elder, but his tone remained calm.

"It is suspected that the corpse of the Great God King has transformed here. I'm afraid it's no small matter. We should investigate it first." The Supreme Elder of the Four Symbols Holy Land said with a frown.

The Grand Elder of the Yin Yang Sect waved his hand to collect the broken pieces of the Yin Flag on the ground and said, "This is the Yin Flag fragment of the Yin Yang Flag that my Senior Brother Li refined. It is extremely powerful, but now it has been shattered. Brothers, please wish me to find that mysterious person."

The uncle of the Guhua Dynasty did not agree with him, but said: "The fellow Taoists of the Ji family are in the city, go and ask them about the situation. They know best what is in the dark pond. As for the mysterious man that Wu Sidao saw, we will talk about it later."

The Grand Elder of the Four Symbols Holy Land had a strange look in his eyes, then nodded and said, "Since you said so, let's go visit the fellow Taoist of the Ji family first."

A gleam of greed flashed in the eyes of the Yin Yang Sect's supreme elder.

In the end, nothing more was said.

As powerful beings who have lived for hundreds of years, how could these three people not see the signs that a treasure had been unearthed in the Nether Pond earlier?

Otherwise, how could the magic weapons refined at their level be smashed into pieces.

Even the king's magic weapon can't do it.

Holy soldiers appeared in the Nether Pond.

This was the unanimous judgment of the three people, but none of them said it out loud.

While they were communicating, the huge divine consciousness had already begun searching the surrounding environment, and no clues would be missed by them.

The iceberg that first froze Li Zhi was observed back and forth by them, trying to extract Li Zhi's breath from it.

But Li Zhi didn't know all this.

At this moment he has sunk into the magma pool.

　One update tonight. Good night everyone.

　　
　
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