Chapter 3: Treasure Hunting

The boundless delineation of the three boundaries. It stands to reason that each of them does not interfere with each other, and the world is balanced.

At the foot of Luoyan Mountain, there are several large and small markets from northwest to southeast, for humans and demons to exchange products. The two worlds get along quite well.

But the Xuanmen monks had difficulty tolerating the demon world. Knowing the existence of the demon cultivators on the other side of the Red Sea, the monks with whom they have a deep hatred have never forgotten their hatred for a moment.

Since the Daojun of the Shangyuan Sect, there have been countless masters of the major sects who have crossed the Red Sea to explore the Demon Realm. The only ones who could come back alive were a few Taishang Ancestors who didn't usually see outsiders in a few major sects.

Two hundred years ago, Ling Shanzi, the ancestor of the Qingshan Sect, had reached a bottleneck in his cultivation, relying on the advanced cultivation of the late Yuan Infant to seek an opportunity to enter the Red Sea.

After crossing the Red Sea, he also saw the great city made of dark red boulders. I saw clearly the pillar of clouds supporting the far north border.

The Red City was built at the foot of the mountain. Behind the city, there are seven low peaks scattered around it. There is a hall built on each peak, and the stars and moons guard the holy palace built on the cloud pillar. He heard that it was called the Sanctuary. The Lord of the Sanctuary is enshrined as a Holy Venerable and lives in the Holy Palace all year round. The ordinary affairs of the Sanctuary are handled by the seven hall masters.

In the clouds and mist on the mountainside of the Heavenly Cloud Pillar, it was difficult for the monk to adjust his true qi. but the sanctuary can build a temple in the midst of it. It can be seen that the exercises of the Demon Cultivation in the Holy Domain have their own uniqueness.

Ling Shanzi didn't dare to trust his cultivation in the late Yuan Infant period, so he carefully hid his identity as a Xuanmen monk and sneaked into the Red City.

He was lucky enough to coincide with the seven-year convocation of the consecration. The people in the Sanctuary are proud to be able to be valued by the Holy Venerable for the treasures they enshrine. The Red City is bustling.

At the consecration meeting, the treasures selected by the master of the seven halls were enshrined on the seven pillars around the jade platform.

It is the beginning of the rising sun, and the sun shines on Yutai. The treasures placed at the top of the pillars shine brightly. It was an eye-opener for Ling Shanzi.

On one of the pillars is a fist-sized glass bead. Embedded in the bead is a red lotus flower about an inch high. As the sun fell, the red lotus slowly bloomed. Wisps of breath as red blood escaped from the glass beads and condensed into a huge lotus image in the air. It looks weird, but it exudes a sense of holiness, which makes it difficult to blaspheme.

The demon cultivators with low cultivation knelt down under the Huazhu one after another, bowing and worshipping, extremely pious.

While pondering what kind of treasure this bead containing a fresh lotus flower was, Ling Shanzi's natal flying sword gave birth to a strong feeling. In the late stage of the Yuan Infant, it was extremely difficult to improve the first line. It is a rare opportunity to enhance the power of the natal magic weapon. Ling Shanzi was at the level of the Supreme Ancestor in the Vast Continent, and it was extremely rare to be able to endure for a while when he crossed the Red Sea and went deep into the Holy Domain. At this time, his heart was itching, and he flew directly to the Huazhu and held the glass beads in his hand.

Ling Shanzi looked up to the sky and smiled, not afraid of the demon cultivators in the city.

There are tens of thousands of sects in the entire continent, and the highest cultivation is the late Yuan Infant period. Why should he be afraid?

Ling Shanzi laughed happily, and the people in the Sanctuary went crazy.

Even low-level demon cultivators attacked him desperately, with the posture of being pouted by Ling Shanzi on the ancestral grave, and forcibly dragged Ling Shanzi's footsteps with countless corpses.

Finally, when the master of the Holy Domain arrived, there was a fierce battle between the two sides. Ling Shanzi was outnumbered, fighting and retreating, and finally escaped into the Red Sea by him. Naturally, the Sanctuary refused to give up and chased after it. In the end, Ling Shanzi was forced into the depths of the Red Sea, and only stopped when he saw that he was swept into the Gangfeng.

When Ling Shanzi returned to the sect, he became a white skeleton that could only breathe. If it weren't for the abundant resources that the sect had collected for thousands of years, Ling Shanzi would have swallowed that breath.

Paying such a heavy price was just to find a treasure to refine the natal magic weapon.

There are only a few hundred Yuanying monks in the entire continent, not to mention a handful of Yuanhou monks.

The price is tragic, so that the Xuanmen monks of the Boundless Continent talk about the color change of the red sea. Since Ling Shanzi, no monk has dared to enter the demon realm.

I thought that the Xuanmen monks couldn't get by, and the annoying demon cultivators couldn't get by, and the two sides were cheap.

Who knew that two hundred years had passed, and the Demon Realm had finally found out that Ling Shanzi was the one who stole the treasure back then. The Holy Venerable of the Demon Realm led his masters to retaliate, quietly crossed the Red Sea, and attacked the Qingshan Sect in a big way.

The Demon Cultivator came unexpectedly, so that other sects didn't have time to come to the rescue. Half of the mountain protection array was destroyed, and the masters of the Qingshan Sect were unable to resist.

The two Supreme Elders were entangled by the masters of the Demon Realm, and they lacked skills. Seeing the demon cultivators wantonly harvesting the lives of the disciples in the sect, they had no spare strength to save them.

At the moment of crisis, Ling Shanzi, who was still recuperating from his injuries, appeared on the battlefield. He is not the opponent of the Demon Venerable, and he can't break the opponent's body protection. When the natal flying sword was thrown out of his hand, he had no hope. However, the flying sword embedded with the Red Lotus Bead accidentally pierced the Demon Venerable's body. The Demon Realm retreated, and the Red Lotus Bead was brought back to the Demon Realm along with Ling Shanzi's Natal Flying Sword.

Strange treasures are gained and lost. Ling Shanzi was seriously injured and difficult to treat. No matter how you think about it, it's a loss-making transaction.

The disciples of the Qingshan Sect who accidentally saw the Taishang Ancestor on the battlefield were also frightened enough—Ling Shanzi was like a human skin skeleton. The exposed skin is newly grown flesh, red and white, and it is hideous and terrifying. That face had no nose, no lips, no ears, and only a few holes remained. The only eyeball in the empty eye frame was black and glowing, and at a glance, the disciples' scalps tingled. Since then, I have a new understanding of the Chihai Gangfeng.

In that battle, the Qingshan Sect became famous in the Boundless Continent and squeezed into the top Xuanmen faction.

Only a few people in the Qingshan Sect knew about it. In that battle, Qin Yousang, a disciple of Ling Shanzi who was in retreat, was taken away by the people in the demon realm.

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Qingshan Sect has nine peaks and three cliffs, and there are many talents. The three cliffs are held by the three ancestors of the sect, and their status is transcendent.

Qin Yousang is a natural beautiful jade material in the legend. At the age of four, he entered the Qingshan Sect. Thirty-year-old Yudan. alarmed the Taishang Ancestor Ling Shanzi, who was recuperating from his injuries, and accepted him as a closed disciple. He successfully married a baby in his eighties, cultivated to far surpass the two senior brothers Xiao Shinan and Yu Jiansheng, became the master of the Dripping Cliff, and became one of the elders of the Qingshan Sect.

When the demon world struck, he was in retreat to impact the middle of the primordial infant.

Ling Shanzi saw that the sect was crumbling and his disciples were slaughtered, so he appeared in front of the people to fight with the Demon Venerable. I didn't expect the front door to exorcise demons, and the back door to enter the thief. Another team of masters from the Demon Realm sneaked in from the back mountain and attacked the Dripping Cliff. The barrier was broken, and Qin Yousang, who had advanced in retreat in the cave, was seriously injured by the true qi backlash. didn't find Ling Shanzi, and the demon cultivator took Qin Yousang away.

Listening to the praise of the major sects of the Xuanmen, the Qingshan Sect has words of suffering. It was a matter of the face of the sect, and the high-level of the Qingshan Sect could only silently cover up the abduction of an elder of the sect. The disciples of the sect all thought that Qin Yousang was still in retreat, and looked forward to his smooth advancement and the addition of another mid-Yuan Infant master to the Qingshan Sect.

The Demon Realm actually had the means to safely cross the Red Sea and not be attacked by the Gangfeng. It made the Xuanmen Sect of the Boundless Continent deeply worried.

It feels like the Demon Realm is a turtle that only shrinks behind the Red Sea, but the Xuanmen does not have this layer of tortoiseshell defense. It's so unfair.

The cruel stories of the demon cultivators of the past were once again turned out of the pile of old papers. It is as if there is a boulder hanging above the head at any time, and a ruthless killer with a sword and devouring blood will appear on the side of the couch at any time. If you don't step on the demon realm, the Xuanmen monks are like a stalk in their throats, and it is difficult to sleep soundly.

Treacherous places are always accompanied by strange treasures. The Red Sea does not grow a single grass, but it is rich in a kind of black crystal chrysanthemum silk ore that can improve the quality of refining, as well as various exotic beasts that are rare in the Boundless Continent. The whole body of the alien beast is full of materials. You can't let these cultivation resources be monopolized by the Demon Realm just because of the danger of Gangfeng.

For the defense of demon cultivation, but also for the resources of the Red Sea.

The people of the Xuanmen realized that thousands of years of peace had ended with the Demon Cultivators' smooth crossing of the Red Sea. The war between the two realms may be in the near future.