Chapter 788: Ji Nan Strikes Demons from Ten Thousand Miles Away
Shi Feiyang ascended with the entire nation, engaging in a battle of spells with the celestial generals in the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm for three days and nights, while three years had passed in the Mortal World.
Due to Shi Feiyang obscuring the Heaven's Secret and disrupting the Heavenly Number, they couldn't precisely predict information about Shi Feiyang and could only rely on guesses.
At the beginning of his ascension, the Giant Wood God initially dared not act rashly.
Back when Central Earth was divided into three, the Giant Wood God of the Mysterious Sect, Xin Ru Nun of the Buddhist Sect, and Blood God Deng Yin of the Demon Cult calculated with deep focus and all concluded that Shi Feiyang was the greatest stumbling block to achieving their "grand ambitions"!
However, each of the three was very proud and found the others disagreeable, with no one yielding to the other.
Shi Feiyang chose Xin Ru Nun as the first target because he calculated that the Giant Wood God would definitely not come to assist. Since Xin Ru Buddha had a demonic nature, she was closer to Deng Yin's side, and if Shi Feiyang were defeated, the two would surely join forces against the Giant Wood God.
Now, watching Shi Feiyang ascend, the Giant Wood God remained suspicious: a nation-wide ascension, unheard of since ancient times within the myriad of worlds! How could this Evil Dragon be so foolish—as he reached the Golden Immortal realm, unwilling to be implicated by his father's affairs, he could have directly ascended to the Immortal Realm to establish an immortal enterprise and enjoy eternal immortal blessings, so why choose self-destruction?
The Evil Dragon, with his cunning schemes and deceitful tricks, must have done this deliberately, luring him to first strike Deng Yin with mutual destruction, only to return from the vast universe with the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain to clean up the aftermath, capturing both sides in one go!
The Giant Wood God shared this suspicion with Ji Nan and Lu Yu. The three calculated together, increasingly convinced that Shi Feiyang had such an intention.
After all, no one under the heavens would be stupid enough to choose self-destruction when they could ascend!
So they waited, and waited for over two years, with no sign of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain returning.
Meanwhile, Deng Yin and the Princess of Stone God were nearly successful in jointly practicing the "Blood Buddha Scripture."
"We can't wait any longer!" The three discussed and decided to launch a probing attack on Deng Yin's side, to see if Shi Feiyang would appear.
Over the years, he had exhausted the Taiyi Venerable's Infinite Salvation Method, scouring the whole world for soul bodies, even retrieving many shattered souls from crevices, then reshaping their bodies in the True Yang Jade Liquid Pool for reincarnation. Most were sent to the Eastern Extreme Qinghua Changle Heavenly Realm.
Among them were many cultivators who, before their deaths, had dueled to the point of soul scattering. Resurrected by the Taiyi Salvation Venerable's Mystical Technique, those who were powerful in life were kept by his side, all turning to the Taiyi Venerable to help him universally save sentient beings.
Additionally, he summoned people from the Changle Heavenly Realm.
Speaking of the Changle World, it formed naturally in the Dragon and Han era, and Yuanshi Tianzun had once preached the Mystical Treasure Law there, educating the masses with the "True Treasure Talisman."
After countless calamities over the years, the world experienced many tribulations.
The Miao Yan Palace of Taiyi Salvation Venerable is in the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm, and he established the Qinghua Holy Realm, merging it with the Changle World as the abode for his followers.
The Changle World, like the Buddhist Nirvana, is a Mixed World where mortals and immortals coexist. It can be simply understood as half in Heaven, half in the Human World, complicatedly involving the Main God's power and the spiritual cultivation of the world's beings.
In short, each world is dominated or created by one being, formed by the collective willpower of the sect leader and all its followers.
Such is the Nirvana, and so is the Changle World.
The Giant Wood God needed manpower and couldn't directly summon people from the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm. Though the Miao Yan Palace is the Green Emperor's dominion, it serves as an administrative place under the dominion of the Heavenly God across the Three Realms. The Divine Generals and Heavenly Soldiers, including the Grand Saint of Nine Spirits in the Miao Yan Palace, those earnestly receiving the Talisman in Heaven, cannot descend to the Mortal World, or they'll violate Heavenly laws and face heavy penalties.
However, the Divine Soldiers and Generals from the Changle World can, for it truly belongs to the Green Emperor, filled with his followers, only receiving blessings from the Green Emperor Talisman.
The Giant Wood God first summoned over a thousand Sword Immortals he had sent earlier, plus over a thousand originally left on Taishan, totaling over two thousand. He divided twelve hundred each between Ji Nan and Lu Yu and went to West Kunlun for a probing attack.
Among these "Changle Heavenly Generals" were Sword Immortals from the Emei Sect who had ascended, such as Master White Cloud, Li Wenyan, Yu Fangheng, the Laughing Monk, and others, all under Ji Nan's command.
Ji Nan, always proud, remained steady and broad-minded, while Lu Yu, with a bizarre and extreme temperament, followed the Green Emperor Sect under the Giant Wood God's lead, practicing the Taiyi Scripture, transitioning from a side door to the orthodox Mysterious Sect. Over the years, their mana had greatly improved, and they attacked Kunlun Mountain directly towards the altar above the Star Constellations Sea without scheming.
Deng Yin and the Princess of Stone God were still in seclusion, practicing the Blood Buddha Great Method together, leaving external affairs to be handled by the Red Corpse God Monarch.
The Red Corpse God Monarch's magic had grown tremendously over the years. After Shi Feiyang gifted him with Heavenly Blue Divine Sand, removing the hidden dangers of practicing the "Chi You Three Disks Scripture," he gained Demon Refinement techniques, growing in mana faster and stronger than Jiulei God Monarch, surpassing his peers, and ranking only second to Deng Yin among the Demon Lords.
This day, while cultivating in the Demon Palace, an anomaly arose in his Lifebound Demon, sensing something amiss, he hurriedly emerged to check, extending his Demon Eyes to gaze at the Eastern sky.
A vast meteor suddenly emerged from the East, as if hurled from outer space. Inside, a column of blue light, enveloped by raging flames, pierced the atmosphere, forming an arc that plunged directly toward the Star Constellations Sea!
He recognized it at a glance—it was Ji Nan's Green Sun Pillar!
This object was originally a large meteor drifting in outer space, not an ordinary meteorite, but a fragment ejected after a star exploded.
Ji Nan's dwelling, Heiga Mountain, is located at the junction of two seas in the Northwest. The mountain is extremely tall, not beneath Tianpeng Mountain in the Southeast. The summit, Luo Shen Ridge, reaches the sky, probing beyond the atmosphere.
In the past, when Ji Nan was still an Independent Immortal, he needed to pass the Four Nine Heavens Tribulation. After meticulous calculations, he learned that on a certain year, month, day, and hour, a vast meteor would pass across the sky. He then set up an altar on Luo Shen Ridge in advance, waiting for the meteor to naturally move westward, and used Mysterious Immortal Technique to forcibly drag it down. He spent thirty-six years honing it into a supreme treasure.
Later, relying on this treasure, he successfully passed the heavenly tribulation and smoothly cultivated to Heavenly Immortal, overcoming various tribulations with little effort.
He should have ascended long ago, but due to his deep love for Sha Hongyan, he willingly gave up his Heavenly Immortal Position, choosing to remain as an Earth Immortal.
This treasure is called the Green Sun Pillar, embodying the Shaoyang righteous aura of Jia Wood Thunder from the East. He approached the Giant Wood God, calculating that this treasure matched the spells of the Green Emperor lineage. After conversion, using the Green Splendor Technique for repeated sacrificial refinements, the treasure became increasingly mystic.
This time, he launched the treasure from Taishan, first flying out of the atmosphere to an extreme height, absorbing energy from the Cosmic Void, then, like an outer meteor, re-entered the atmosphere, directly striking towards the Star Constellations Sea. If it landed successfully, the entire sea would be blasted apart, and the Blood Lake Demon Palace and more, which Deng Yin and others had spent years building, would be reduced to ashes. The ordinary Blood God's sons would also be burned into wisps of smoke by the intense impact and the surrounding Yang Fire!
Red Corpse God Monarch and several other old demons recognized this as Ji Nan's most powerful treasure, and all frowned in unison.
While magic is powerful, it emphasizes varied transformations and ensnaring minds. Though there are skills like direct assaults, to withstand the full-force strike of the Green Sun Pillar seems impossible.
Firstly, the Green Sun Pillar is powerful, containing Shaoyang righteous aura, impervious to all evils!
Secondly, Ji Nan is formidable. Two hundred years ago, he was at the Heavenly Immortal level. Over these years, his Mana has advanced profoundly, unfathomable!
The combination of these two qualities made it impossible for them to withstand it head-on, not even with the combined efforts of four old demons.
However, they had anticipated warfare with the Giant Wood God for a long time. Ji Nan, being the Great Protector under the Giant Wood God, naturally had his strategies planned ahead, having foreseen Ji Nan's methods.
They directly pushed Cang Xu Elder forward.
Cang Xu Elder, mentally unstable, and accompanied by Green Robe Ancestor and Shang Heyang, two "grandsons," were long manipulated within this demonic den.
Red Lotus Demon crafted a Lifebound God Card using it to restrict Cang Xu Elder's Primordial Spirit. Upon sensing this, Cang Xu Elder naturally resisted with all his might, suppressed forcibly by the four demons, prohibiting his Primordial Spirit, and with the Crystal Divine Token, they could simply manipulate Cang Xu Elder's thoughts.
Red Lotus Demon excelled in this method and had once crafted a Lifebound God Card to restrict the Saintess...
He held the Crystal Token, reciting a demon curse unto it, muttering as if conversing with a most intimate person in plain speech.
Cang Xu Elder was at the back mountain playing with snakes, capturing various kinds and infusing fire into their bodies, using the Yang Fire, Sun Divine Flame, Nanming Leaving Fire, Qiantian True Fire, Innate Bing Fire...
Ordinary snakes could not endure this, instantly reduced to ashes.
He was puzzled, "How could it be?"
So, he captured some Snake Demons, pinched their necks, and infused fire into their bodies.
The Snake Demons generally could not withstand such intense fire either; even if they survived, it was with immense pain and severely injured Primordial Qi, twisting and screaming for mercy.
Cang Xu Elder, however, perseverantly extracted their Primordial Spirit, using fire to refine them, as the Snake Demons howled miserably...
"How could this be? How could this be?" It was entirely not the result he desired!
Just as Cang Xu Elder was perplexed, suddenly, a flood of willpower was transmitted into his mind, making his eyes instantly blood-red, filled with hatred.
Suddenly turning around, he glanced at the massive flaming meteor descending from outer space, shifted his body and flew into the air, blocking the meteor's forthcoming trajectory. With a wave of his hands, twelve demonic lights emerged from behind him. With a roar, all twelve demonic lights shot towards the meteor!