Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

Another Golden Core expert. Looking at the two masters above their heads, Zhang Ling and the other cultivators felt a little uneasy.

"Have those two arrived?"

"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Hu from the Yanhuo Sect has already arrived. Only the Fellow Daoist from Yuanfeng Kingdom has not yet arrived."

"Fellow Daoist Hu, is that Fellow Daoist Hu Min with mid-stage cultivation? This old man hasn't seen him for decades." The two's voices gradually faded as they flew towards a place not far away.

Every time the Fenyan Valley opens, the Three Kingdoms and Nine Sects will send three Golden Core cultivators, plus the city lord of Luoxing City, making it four Golden Core cultivators.

Golden Core cultivators are powerful. The Fenyan Valley has not been formed for a long time, and the spiritual objects growing in it are not very attractive to them, but due to the special environment of the Fenyan Valley, it is very suitable for some special spiritual medicines to grow.

Among them, the most important materials are the main ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills: the Yanyang Flower (炎阳花: Flame Sun Flower) and the Tianxing Grass (天星草: Sky Star Grass).

In addition, there are also a large number of rare spiritual mines and other things that are difficult to find outside, so they are jointly controlled by the Nine Great Sects, and sealed with formations to form a secret realm.

After the Golden Core cultivators left, many eyes turned to look at the rogue cultivators.

Zhang Ling felt at least seven or eight divine senses sweep over him. These gazes were all from disciples of the Nine Great Sects.

The disciples of Qingyun Temple mostly dressed as Taoists, with cold expressions. The cultivators of Baihe Mountain (白鹤山: White Crane Mountain) wore white cloud robes, like Confucian scholars in the secular world, very refined.

The most bizarre were the cultivators from Yuanfeng Kingdom. The cultivators from the Beast Control Sect (御兽宗: Beast Taming Sect) did not seem to have uniform attire, each person was different, with only one thing in common: several leather bags were hanging from their waists.

Among them were storage bags, but most of the bags were spirit beast bags. These are magical items that can hold living creatures, and are more valuable than storage bags.

The people from the Joyful Union Sect (极乐谷: Happy Valley Sect) were all in pairs, a man and a woman. The women were dressed very gorgeously, and the male cultivators mostly had gloomy faces.

There were also the cultivators from the Giant Demon Sect, who wore black robes, wrapped tightly so their faces could not be seen clearly.

Each of the Nine Great Sects sent a full fifty disciples, and their cultivation levels were mostly comparable to those of the rogue cultivators, but there were many more people at the peak of Qi Refining than among the rogue cultivators.

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The next day.

At the edge of the sinkhole, ten teams were ready to go.

In front of everyone, four Golden Core cultivators stood in the air, discussing something.

Besides the city lord of Luoxing City and the middle-aged Taoist from Baihe Mountain, the remaining two were an elder from the Yanhuo Sect (炎火宗: Flame Fire Sect), a tall man.

And a beautiful woman in purple, a Core Formation expert from the Joyful Union Sect.

At this time, the four seemed to have finished their discussion, and the burly Golden Core cultivator from the Yanhuo Sect walked out alone and stood at the edge of the sinkhole.

This person first looked at the boundless sky, and then with a wave of his hand, flames emerged. On closer inspection, it was a bead the size of a fist. Without any action from him, the flame bead changed on its own, instantly condensing into a flame serpent more than ten zhang long.

The fire snake soared into the sky, circling the fire bead once, and rushed towards the sinkhole.

Then a shocking scene appeared, the fire snake only flew out a few zhang before it seemed to touch something. A ripple appeared in the originally empty air, and a gust of wind sounded.

Then with a roar, the fire snake turned into powder. A large amount of cloud and mist appeared inexplicably in front.

The white mist surged, gathering overwhelmingly, and for a time everyone could not see the movement in front.

As everyone was frightened, the clouds and mist churned violently, turning into countless wind clusters with a whoosh, and kept raging, forming a wind wall that was impenetrable.

Looking along the wind wall to both sides, all were boundless clouds and seas, not knowing where they extended to, everywhere was a white howling sound.

Zhang Ling, standing below and seeing this scene, looked grave. The restrictions here were indeed powerful. What originally looked like just a huge sinkhole instantly turned into this.

I wonder what kind of formation the Nine Great Sects have set up here.

Seeing the clouds and mist, the expert from the Yanhuo Sect shook his head and returned to his original position. The other Golden Core cultivators did not say much and closed their eyes to rest.

Then every quarter of an hour, the elder of the Yanhuo Sect would do the same thing once. He seemed to be testing the strength of the restrictions. Until the sixth shot, the clouds and mist in front had weakened by more than half.

"Fellow Daoists, it's almost time."

Seeing this scene, the other three Core Formation cultivators flew out at the same time.

The city lord of Luoxing City flicked his sleeves, and a five-colored disc flew in front of him. There were vaguely dense runes flashing on it, which was not an ordinary thing at first glance.

The remaining two also each took out a dazzling treasure. One was a yellow jade Ruyi (如意: scepter), and the other was five identical black flags.

These treasures gathered in the clouds and mist, each emitting strong spiritual power fluctuations.

Rumble!

Bursts of loud noises came from the clouds and mist, and various colors of light intertwined together, making the disciples of the various factions and rogue cultivators watching behind extremely nervous.

The flame bead flickered and transformed into more than a dozen fire snakes, constantly traveling through the clouds and mist.

The yellow Ruyi emitted a yellow glow, and the clouds and mist illuminated by it turned into nothingness like white snow seeing the sun.

The five-colored disc released by the city lord shone with five-colored light, transforming into a huge disc phantom that was constantly rotating. Bursts of roaring sounds rang out, and five-colored beams of light soared into the sky with the disc as the center.

The beams of light were powerful, and they were also engraved with mysterious array patterns. For a time, the clouds and mist rolled. In the blink of an eye, the sky within a few miles changed drastically, and gusts of wind pressure rolled towards the surroundings.

Although the Qi refining cultivators below all looked up, everyone's face was not very good at the moment.

Unexpectedly, after observing with divine sense for a while, Zhang Ling's head felt tired. This was a sign that his divine sense had been consumed a lot.

The spiritual power fluctuations in the clouds and mist were too strong, and their cultivation base was too low to observe for a long time.

This scene lasted for a short time, and the four Golden Core stage cultivators also had some tired expressions on their faces after continuous casting for a long time.

The clouds and mist in front almost disappeared. At this time, the Joyful Union Sect elder, who had not been shot all the time, also shot, and the five black flags suddenly flew up.

The small flags swelled against the wind, and suddenly became five huge banners more than ten feet high.

The five giant banners shook and reached the sky above the disc phantom, each standing in the five-colored beam of light. The banners seemed to absorb enough spiritual power, and five black light clusters condensed on them.

These light clusters condensed and then converged towards the center. Finally, a huge black light cluster twenty or thirty feet wide was formed.

After the light cluster formed, it rotated at high speed, and when it collided with the surrounding clouds and mist, it actually knocked out black cracks in the sky. Within a few breaths, a black vertical pupil like an eye was formed.

The black pupil seemed very unstable, and countless cracks appeared densely around it.

Bursts of thunder came from it, and at the same time, strong wind pressure appeared around it.

If the other two Golden Core experts had not extinguished these dangers with treasures, the cultivators below would have already suffered.

This situation lasted for a short time, and the vertical pupil in the sky opened wide, forming a dark black hole.