Chapter 1: The Dark Abyss

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This is the origin of life and the end of life.

In this time and space, where wisdom and greatness are nurtured, the will of all beings converges into a brilliant galaxy.

The Milky Way lies between the universes, as if it has infinite vicissitudes and magic.

In the vast Milky Way, the pale blue and desolate world is like a huge round egg, slowly floating in the musical spectrum composed of stars.

Most of the earthly land is a vast mountain range, and countless mountain ranges condense into a series of dark yellow earth dragons, sleeping between heaven and earth, galloping, and roaring.

In the west of this land, there is a bottomless abyss that does not know tens of thousands of miles.

From the beginning of the abyss, it was covered by a gray mist. But hundreds of miles below the cliff, there are no obstacles, and there are no caves.

Here, five huge mountain peaks lie across the abyss like the palm of a great creature, like a small continent, on which rare birds and beasts, evil ghosts and demons, elixirs, elixirs, and palaces are innumerable!

At this moment, Du Ming, who was only nine years old, was sitting in a large hall on the peak of the Eastern Mountain.

There were hundreds of young men and women like him in the temple, most of them in their eight or ninth years of age, with panicked expressions and pale faces.

But there are also a very small number of teenagers who look calm, and even gather together in twos and threes, talking and laughing in low voices.

Du Ming was short and had a sallow face, but his dark eyes were full of essence.

He vaguely surveyed his surroundings and people, his gaze wandering, unmoving, revealing a very small city at this age.

The hall was darkly lit, and the floor was paved with a dark green hedron, and the main light came from the open main entrance of the hall.

On both sides of the hall gate is a black beast statue four or five feet high, which is described as hideous and has a cold breath.

For some reason, as long as Du Ming glanced at their locations, he would have a feeling of being watched by terrifying creatures, which made him shudder.

Du Ming was thoughtful, no longer distracted, but listened attentively to the conversation of the teenagers in front of him, and at the same time grasped a lot of information from it.

"In this initiation ceremony, I heard that in addition to our relatives and disciples in the sect, there are also many mortals who have been recommended by various countries, and even the inner sect senior brothers have snatched them from other realms! Hmph, these ants want to pass the Lingtai test like us and condense the Qi Conduction True Talisman, but it is really wishful thinking!" said a young man in brown clothes.

"This is not necessarily, according to Senior Brother Yuan of the Inner Gate, there are also many disciples outside the sect this time who are extremely talented, with strong spirits, and they are very suitable for cultivating the methods of our sect! I can't say that there will be a few elite disciples from the inner sect!" Another young man who was a little richer sighed.

"That's right, I can't afford to let that happen. Let me ask you, how sure are you about the Lingtai Talisman this time?" At this time, a fierce young man in black suddenly said to the two teenagers in front of him.

"It turned out to be Senior Brother Chen," the two young men bowed, hesitated, and said, "This kind of thing is all based on talent and luck, where can we be sure!"

The young man's eyes were cold, and he rebuked: "Monks practice qi, only rely on the heart to the idea of immortality, and all natural talent and luck are secondary! We people, all of whom have elders in the family who are practicing in the inner gate, have been exposed to it since childhood, and laid a solid foundation, what kind of opportunity is this? If such advantages cannot make you condense the true talisman, then you should not cultivate at all, and go to the mundane world to be a quiet warlock, drive away evil spirits and alchemy for the magnates, and seek wealth and prosperity for a lifetime!"

The two teenagers in front of him bowed their heads and were speechless when he said this.

"So that's the case," Du Ming's eyes were deep, and he secretly thought to himself: "Practice, what a moving word!"

He closed his eyes and pondered, and countless real and hazy memories flooded into his mind.

The single-minded pursuit of the Tao when he was a teenager, the lack of access to the Dharma in the era of the end of the law, and the unwillingness and helplessness at the end of his life.

I thought that death was the end, but I didn't want it to be endless darkness.

A mysterious green lantern carries his soul across endless time and space, to this world, and at the same time falls into a raging river with him.

When he woke up, he was brought here.

The uneasiness and vigilance when I first arrived, the observation and speculation after calming down, and the excitement and firmness after learning the truth.

"I'm here, I'm Du Ming, I only wish for eternal life!"

While thinking about it, Du Jing suddenly felt a burst of confusion among the teenagers around him, and they all exclaimed in low voices.

He looked up and looked at the front of the crowd, an eerie old man in a bright red robe.

The old man's face was expressionless, and he was followed by more than a dozen young people with a fierce demeanor and a moderate manners, all of whom were not like mortals.

The old man walked straight to the center of the main hall, the corners of his mouth twitched, revealing a cold smile, and said, "Let's start!"

Then he flicked his fingers and pinched the seal, and his fingertips suddenly gave birth to silver-gray mist out of thin air, which collided, intersected, and combined in his palm, and finally turned into a mysterious rune with an ancient breath and a strange shape.

The rune was held above his palm, vibrating and rotating at a strange frequency, spewing out countless silver-gray brilliance, changing into various strange forms in his palm, including gold, stones, plants and trees, flowers, birds, fish and insects, mountains, rivers, sun and moon. Of course, there are more hideous and vicious demons and ghosts, all fighting wantonly in the palm of the old man's palm, soaring and changing, like a pocket world!

Du Ming and the group of teenagers watched this magical scene in amazement, not only shocked by the magical power displayed by the old man, but also frightened by the tragic scene of thousands of demons fighting each other!

However, the next scene made them even more surprised.

Among the monsters in the old man's palm, two heads suddenly fell from his palms, swelled in the air, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into two green-skinned monsters with bald arms and long bald arms.

The two strange men had red glint in their eyes, covered in dark green scales, fangs and claws, and let out a low grin.

They walked up to the old man, and each exhaled a cold breath, which condensed on the ground into a beautiful chair that looked like substance, which happened to be placed behind the old man.

This supernatural phenomenon simply gave Du Ming the illusion of being in the era of ancient gods and demons!

A young man beside the old man couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the faint red light in the eyes of the two green-skinned villains: "Among this [Demon Kingdom in the Palm] true talisman refined by Elder Yan, the two imps at random have actually reached the fourth-order [Manifest] level, and they can appear out of thin air and capture living beings. The elder's skill of cultivating spirits and controlling ghosts is indeed the first person in the sect!"

Elder Yan lowered his eyes slightly, and sat on the chair steadily, not responding to the young man's compliment.

He pondered for a long time before he spoke, and said, "The old man has been cultivating for hundreds of years, and he is most tired of such trivial matters. The sect's entry test, the old man has shirked it several times before, but as one of the inner sect elders of my [Nether Dao], this time he can't delay it!"

"So," the old man smiled coldly and said, "This test will be very strict. Those who can't condense the true talisman and guide the spiritual energy will be killed directly by the old man, and their souls will be refined with civil and military double fires, refined into psychic ghosts, and given to the disciples who have successfully entered the school as a reward!

His voice was low and hoarse, as if a cold wind was blowing through the hall, making all the teenagers present turn pale for an instant.

When many people heard the news, they couldn't help but sobbed in a low voice, and even some cowardly girls fainted directly.

Of course, there are also some people who are calm and determined, obviously knowing the news a long time ago.

Du Ming calmed down, his heart was not wavering, and he said secretly: "Is it true that the strong survive and the weak die, it is really the style of the Demon Sect!"

He sneered, but he was not surprised by this. In his previous life, he devoted himself to cultivation on the earth, and although he couldn't live forever, he also had some results, and gradually became clear in his magic, and he had seen many cultivators in the end of the Dharma era.

In the era of the end of the law, the aura of heaven and earth collapsed, and the magic power was not revealed. In order to refine the essence and live a long life, many people who practice Taoism even do not hesitate to enter the demon path, take the sword to the edge, and use the lives of others to complete their own souls, in a delusional attempt to make the soul pure yang and achieve the immortal Dao fruit in Taoist legends. Through the worship of living beings, immortal.

Some people disguise themselves as feng shui masters and use feng shui magic arrays as a medium to steal the luck of the powerful; some people set up evil cults to trick civilians into believing in them and steal the souls of the people; and some people kill mortals, absorb their souls, cultivate powerful ghosts, seek their own personal interests, and even directly steal the lives of others......

There are so many things like this, Du Ming has long gone from righteous indignation to insensitivity, and then to commonplace.

Therefore, he took the old man's cruel words as normal and did not have any discomfort.

However, the old man said that killing people and taking souls was so straightforward, and at the same time, the people behind him had no objections, a natural look, but it made Du Ming have a new understanding of the coldness and cruelty of this world.

The old man saw that most of the young people in the hall were frightened, and his face suddenly became gloomy, and he said: "Chu Lianshan, didn't you say that in order to save the old man's time, the selected disciples this time have already been screened and eliminated by the people below, why are there so many people who are so cowardly, it's just disgusting!"

The dozen or so people behind the old man looked at each other speechlessly, and finally looked at the young man who was flattering the old man before.

The young man named Chu Lianshan bowed slightly, secretly exclaimed bad luck, and said, "Elder Yan Mingjian, the selected disciples this time, because of Senior Brother Hua's order, specially selected more disciples from the many families and realms that have newly attached to my [Netherworld Dao], so as to appease their hearts. Therefore, compared with the usual, the disciple's qualifications this time are inevitably uneven, and I ask the elders to forgive me!"

The old man waved his hand and said in a cold voice: "That's it, you don't have to worry about these things." Let me ask you, are you ready to condense the materials for these boys this time? If you are ready, let's start quickly!"

That Chu Lianshan thought for a moment and said, "Returning to the elder, the spiritual seeds of condensing the true talisman, as well as the unique ghost control technique of my [Netherworld Dao], have all been prepared, and the small shifting array and the spirit viewing treasure mirror that will be used in the entry trial have also borrowed a set from the alchemy pavilion in the door. It's just that I don't know what the secret realm for these disciples to test in the future is......"

"Just use the Little Yellow Spring Realm, the old man remembers that the ghost things there have been cleaned up by the inner disciples not long ago, and now there shouldn't be a few of them that can reach the realm of the third-order ghost things again. Let's just let them go there this time. Hey, you must know that there was a senior brother in charge who made a move, killed an immortal ghost emperor from the [North Underworld], and evolved it with the sect spirit treasure [Eight Directions Qi Gathering Mirror] to form a small thousand worlds!

"Yes," Chu Lianshan said respectfully, "This year's selected disciples met the elders, and it was their creation!"

The old man waved his hand and said, "Well, I heard that there are several sons of luck among the disciples this time? Let them come forward first, and the old man will take a look!"