Chapter 541 Zhengyang Visitor (5600, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

For all cultivators in the Tianyuan Realm, the existence of the Immortal Heaven and Nine Abyss is an open secret.

Before a certain realm, due to their short lifespans and the vastness of the world itself, cultivators don't need to know about the existence of gods and demons. They can spend their lives in the small circle of their hometown without ever opening their eyes to see the world.

But once they cultivate to a certain realm, even if they don't want to know or understand, their naturally elevated vision will make it impossible for them to ignore those behemoths hanging high in the sky.

Similarly, they cannot ignore the subtle relationship between gods, demons, and humans.

The most closely related to the Tianyuan mortal realm is the Immortal Heaven Divine Realm.

Long before the new Heavenly Demon Lord was born and unified the Heavenly Demons, the Immortals had already unified the order of the human world through faith, sacrifices, and the majesty of descending thoughts and punishments, using etiquette, canon, and doctrines to regulate the actions of human emperors and all living beings.

At that time, the existence of immortals and gods was related to all activities in the human world. They were everything: heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, stars, etiquette, culture, writing, calendar, festivals, and anything worthy of praise and worship.

The human world was an ant nest ruled by immortals and gods: vast, orderly, and interlocked. The succession of emperors and generals followed rules, and the emergence of geniuses and extraordinary people also had omens and signs.

Under the leadership of the 'Heavenly Dao', everything moved with 'Luck'. Even if there were occasional changes, 'Star Lords Descended to Earth' (xīng jūn jiàng shì) would go to correct them.

At that time, the Heavenly Demons could only eke out a living, because even fear belonged to the power of the immortals and gods. They were oppressed to the limit, and there were even signs of complete disintegration.

The hundreds of thousands of years of war between gods and demons was about to come to its final end.

Until that day.

Because of the long-term constraints of order and the long-term rule, a fire was nurtured in the hearts of the trillions of residents of the Tianyuan mortal realm.

A fire called 'Freedom'.

The deeper the oppression, the stronger the shackles, the more vigorous and hotter the flames burned.

Moreover, the more chaotic and unpredictable it became.

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord was born, shattering all order. His challenge to the Immortal Heaven broke the order that the immortals and gods had built in the human world. After a long period of chaos, because of the simultaneous demise of him and the previous Heavenly Emperor, the damage to the world caused the invasion of the extraterrestrial Kun monsters, weakening the Immortal Heaven and causing great disasters to the Tianyuan mortal realm.

The third-generation Demon Lord, the Great Desire Heavenly Demon King, stepped on the shoulders of the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord, built the current structure of the Nine Abyss Demon Lands and the Sea of Human Desire, and began to aggressively intervene in the human world, intending to taint the Tianyuan mortal realm with demon soil.

Naturally, the Immortal Heaven would retaliate—but most of the Immortal God lineage, which had been invaded by the extraterrestrial demon races of scales and fur, were now recuperating. In addition, the example of the battle between the Heavenly Demon Lord and the Heavenly Emperor made them unwilling to confront the Heavenly Demons head-on at this time.

The Heavenly Demons were also wary of the Immortal Heaven lineage's hard power, knowing how many trump cards this force, which had been sitting in the heavens and earth for hundreds of thousands of years, had, and were unwilling to break the balance rashly.

Therefore, the mortal world, the Tianyuan Realm, became their proxy battlefield for mutual struggle.

The New Dynasty was aided by the Immortal Heaven when the Zhengyang Kingdom, which had a higher support rate from the demon and god side, became powerful in the past.

At that time, the New Dynasty was still the Five Virtues Sect. Although Ming Zhengde was hailed as a genius reincarnated from a saint, the immortals and gods who knew that no Star Lord had descended to earth were not optimistic about this newly emerging small force.

Their support was just a wide net, providing certain cultivation methods, resources, and intelligence. Other than that, they didn't care, only hoping that the Five Virtues Sect would plant an uncomfortable nail in the Zhengyang Kingdom in their active Jinye, Xuanhai, and Qinglin generations.

Even compared to other small forces who were overjoyed after receiving the aid of the immortals and gods and swore allegiance on the spot, the Five Virtues Sect, which had always been neither humble nor arrogant and refused to sign some contracts, was even considered the type that the immortals and gods extremely disliked.

Even if the Five Virtues Sect had won every battle since then, defeating all the troops sent by the Zhengyang Kingdom to encircle and suppress them and the rampaging Kun monsters, it was still the same.

It didn't matter whether a small force could win or not.

It didn't even matter whether it could annoy the Heavenly Demons or the Zhengyang Kingdom.

The most important thing was to be obedient, abide by the rules, and pay attention to order.

There should be seniority, clear levels, and a clear structure.

In this regard, the Five Virtues Sect was the biggest troublemaker—they rarely followed the instructions of the immortals and gods to fight, cooperated with other small forces to create trouble for the Zhengyang Kingdom, but fought their own battles and always won.

And apart from Ming Zhengde as the leader, although there was a hierarchy and power ladder within the Five Virtues Sect, the atmosphere was very harmonious. Even two sect members with a large difference in position and cultivation could chat and joke together equally.

This made the Immortal God side quite dissatisfied.

They had plenty of resources to pull out a batch of forces from the mortal world to attack the demon and god forces within the Zhengyang Kingdom, and could even split the Zhengyang Kingdom at any time, and officially start a proxy war with the demons and gods in the mortal world.

No matter how capable a disobedient guy was, he would only be an eyesore.

Therefore, sometimes, even though they knew that there were encirclement plans against the Five Virtues Sect within the Zhengyang Kingdom, and knew the routes of the Kun monsters, the immortals and gods would deliberately pretend not to know, and even if all the other small forces knew, they would not inform the Five Virtues Sect.

Unfortunately, the Five Virtues Sect had never been fooled and could always avoid dangerous situations.

The contradiction between the immortals and gods and the New Dynasty was like this, full of assistance and traps.

In the later stage, when the New Dynasty unified Central Continent and completely destroyed the Zhengyang Kingdom, the Heavenly Demons, knowing that they were at a disadvantage and that the general trend was gone, planned to change their target and prepare to corrupt the New Dynasty. The immortals and gods still did not intend to fully support the New Dynasty, but would rather protect the Zhengyang Kingdom, so as not to allow a truly dominant country to appear in the human world.

The result is well known—the Heavenly Demons who intended to take advantage of the situation to taint the demon soil were driven out of the human world by the immortals and gods and the New Dynasty, but they gained countless fears. The Zhengyang Kingdom also eked out a living and came to the Southern Continent, where gods and demons established absolute authority.

Similarly, the New Dynasty was able to establish itself with the tacit consent of the gods and demons and unify Central Continent.

Everyone had completed part of their goals and had a bright future.

All in all.

For most human cultivators, it is impossible for them to understand the affairs of gods and demons. How can those cultivators who don't even have the Heavenly Rank and can't even touch the True Person realm, and who have never left the small state where they live, understand the existence of beings who use the entire Tianyuan mortal realm as a chessboard to play games?

That is the power and strength that ordinary humans cannot directly understand.

However, not all gods and demons, and existences comparable to gods and demons, are like this.

Their existence itself can simply and crudely make people understand what power and authority are.

Now.

New Dynasty Year 1, October 20th, 12:00 noon.

Southern Marsh.

"Bang!"

The sound of a water bag being crushed empty-handed and a watermelon being smashed with a punch rang out.

However, unlike the sound of a water bag being crushed or a watermelon being smashed—this time, the dull cracking sound was like thunder, resounding through the thousands of miles of wilderness sky above Lin Yuan Prefecture in Southern Marsh, causing the sea of clouds to ripple and the world to shake.

An invisible aura permeated and spread in all directions.

For a time, all life within hundreds of miles of the place where the thunder rang out, whether it was beasts and demon insects that acted during the day or those that were nocturnal, all froze at the same time, and then either trembled and lay prostrate on the ground with their tails drooping, or howled in fear and fled into the distance at the fastest speed.

Flocks of birds jumped from the forest and scattered, while ants and insects lurked underground, motionless as if dead.

Then.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Flesh and blood fragments rained down, and countless fragments of corpses containing a large amount of spiritual energy mixed with carapace fragments turned into rain and fell on the human world.

Among them, the largest fragment was even tens of meters wide and nearly a hundred meters long. It seemed to be the exoskeleton ram of some kind of insect demon beast. Now that it fell from a height of several thousand meters, it caused huge waves on the ground, and cracks burst open, and a violent wind surged outward, flattening everything within hundreds of meters, and even causing the trees in the forest several thousand meters away to shake violently.

"There are indeed enough evil creatures in this southern land. No wonder it was the main battlefield for the Kun monster invasion and the place where many evil creatures landed after the sinking of the Southern Continent."

A voice that sounded quite young rang out, with a thoughtful meaning: "It seems that even if there is no spiritual energy in the world, as long as there are evil thoughts and resentment, it can still promote the evolution and mutation of creatures and create 'demon monsters' that are beyond ordinary beasts."

"In other words, wish power and curses can replace spirituality? I probably understand why immortals and gods and Heavenly Demons chose these two paths."

The figure of a long-haired youth slowly landed on the ground.

And in front of him was a huge, complete form of insect demon that was at least over five hundred meters long and had the strength of a True Person!

This insect demon was black all over, and under the light of the sun, it reflected a colorful spiritual light, which can be described as iridescent black.

In the past, it probably had a pair of extremely strong wings, comparable to divine gold, and a ram with dazzling runes flashing on it, which seemed to be able to condense the killing energy of the five metals, turning it into a divine light that could penetrate everything and was indestructible, smashing all barriers. The extremely strong body structure was as solid as a mountain and could withstand all attacks.

The reason why I say probably and seemed is because in the first moment it pounced out, intending to attack the youth passing by in the sky, it was directly punched into flesh and blood fragments by the other party. No magical powers, visions, or even true strength were displayed, and its soul had already been annihilated, turning into an evil soul flashing with earthy brown light in the youth's hand.

[Evil Soul of the Mountain-Moving Giant Armor]

[Born from the resentment of countless Kun monsters and human deaths, an evil soul nurtured by the earth energy of mountains]

[A chaotic, beastly soul that knows neither good nor evil]

[After use, it can improve part of the physical strength]

[It can also be calcined by spirituality and turned into an 'Unloading Ridge Divine Power' spirit attachment, attached to all equipment and props]

[The demise of the body and soul is not the final passing, the wishes of intelligent life are lodged between heaven and earth]

[The thing that responds to their despair is their ultimate incarnation]

Su Zhou held this not-so-large evil soul in his hand, standing in front of the remaining wreckage of the giant insect, with a look of understanding: "Among the Kun monsters, are there also quite a few who possess intelligence? In the past, I heard from Wang Haitian and Ming Zhengde that the Kun monsters were all mindless guys. Now it seems that they are indeed 'demons'. Even if their mode of action is like insects, they do have souls and intelligence."

"Otherwise, the resentment and spiritual energy after death would not be able to nurture such a powerful demon beast."

——It seems that it is not quite the same as I thought. My perspective is limited by the Tianyuan mortal realm.

Outside the Immortal Heaven, Nine Abyss, and the mortal realm, there is probably also a 'demon evil lineage' that exists in the void and is jointly rejected and opposed by the three.

"Ming Zhengde probably knows about this too. I wonder if he will try to use the power of this lineage to break the balance between gods and demons."

After thinking for a while, Su Zhou shook his head: "Probably not—this demon evil lineage has wreaked havoc on the human world for many years, and Ming Zhengde has never had anything to do with them in his 30,000 lifetimes, which is enough to prove that these demon evils are guys who cannot communicate or cooperate at all."

Thinking like this, he turned around and looked around this Southern Marsh world.

Everywhere he looked was green. Countless streams crisscrossed the forest like giant nets, converging into rivers and rushing, creating countless swamps and secret places along the way.

In the distant distance, there were large lakes like seas, shimmering with waves. Many boat shadows moved back and forth along the lake, catching schools of fish. All living beings were full of vitality, with a wild vitality.

The Southern Marsh State, one of the ten states of the New Dynasty, as its name suggests, is located in the south of Central Continent, adjacent to the Southern Prison Sea, and was once directly opposite the Southern Continent.

Unlike the more fully developed Central Continent, Qinglin State, Baishan State, and Jinye State, the vegetation coverage rate of Southern Marsh State is as high as 93%. The areas where humans live are only a few scattered large cities, and most of the villages and townships are located in the jungle, and they need to use their wits and courage to fight against various powerful beasts and even demon evils all day long.

Within the New Dynasty, there are even rumors full of strange labels and prejudices such as 'people from Southern Marsh State eat insects since they were young, everyone is a jungle survival expert, shoots arrows with a hundred hits, and can even communicate with wild beasts'.

Of course, by the same token, Baishan State also has similar labels and prejudices such as 'people from Baishan State have lived in the mountains since they were young, everyone can dig tunnels, play with stones with excellent eyesight, and can even appreciate ores' and 'people from Jinye State can all farm, and they will carry a few pots of flowers for growing vegetables wherever they go, even on the sea...'.

However, it can also reflect the hardships of the people of Southern Marsh State.

Since Su Zhou transformed into the Candle Sun Divine Bird version 1.55 (newly loaded with the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Immortal Method), after flying all the way from Central Continent to Southern Marsh State, he had to stop and kill many kinds of demon beasts that were almost crazy and deliberately came to attack him.

Among them, there were huge flying bird monsters that could control hot winds, moths that shimmered like rainbow-colored suns, erect lizards that spewed huge flames, and winged flying dragons that released lightning with three heads.

To this, Su Zhou, who was forced to do so, had no other choice.

He could only crush them all the way.

Just like the 'Mountain-Moving Giant Armor' just now, it was the most powerful one among them—although it still could not escape the fate of being killed with one blow, it at least made Su Zhou stop for a moment.

However, it was not without gain—on the way of crushing them, Su Zhou also noticed many extraordinary details from these strange demon evil beasts that could not be seen in other states.

One of them is that the Tianyuan mortal realm has 'lizards' and 'flying dragons' with obvious dragon and snake bloodlines.

Since Su Zhou descended to Tianyuan, after his own dragon and snake bloodline was noticed by the God Emperor and Demon King, he thought that this world was completely occupied by divine birds and that there was no world of the dragon and snake lineage.

But who knew that in Southern Marsh State, not only were there various snake-type demon beasts, but also huge lizards and flying dragons with extremely obvious dragon and snake demon beasts.

Although most of these dragon and snake lineage demon beasts were draped with feathers, they looked more like furry balls of fur than hideous scaly reptiles.

But what kind of person is Su Zhou?

He is the covenantor of Yala—does he not know which one is a dragon?!

Although each one has feathers and looks furry... but a dragon is a dragon, and a snake is a snake!

Just like the feathered serpent god, although it has feathers and wings, it is still like a dragon and snake!

"So, this is the disguise of your bloodline in the perfect world, Yala?"

In the soul space, Su Zhou teased the snake spirit: "Sure enough, I was right at the beginning. The origins are originally one, and dragons and birds are one family!"

"...Annoying, annoying!" On the Wisdom Tree spirit, the red snake spirit was silent for a while, and then obviously became angry and said: "You should continue on your way!"

To this, Su Zhou just chuckled a few times and did not reply.

At this moment, above the sky, two figures were flying rapidly all the way, descending towards the direction where Su Zhou was, and then respectfully came to the youth's side.

"True Person Candle Sun! Thank you very much, thank you for removing this powerful insect demon that has been wreaking havoc around Lin Yuan Prefecture for more than ten years!"

One of them, who looked older, had a happy expression on his face. His strength was at the high level of the Heavenly Rank, and he bowed repeatedly to Su Zhou with respect, even with tears in his eyes: "This insect demon is powerful, and ordinary True Persons can't do anything about it. Even if the powerful True Persons from Kyoto come to slay the demon and eliminate the evil, relying on its armor comparable to divine iron, it can directly escape after suffering losses..."

He is the administrator of Lin Yuan Prefecture. His strength is not enough to eliminate the demon evils. He can only protect the safety of a part of the human settlements with the state and government formation, but he cannot develop the surrounding wilderness.

"I didn't expect True Person Candle Sun to be so powerful that he could directly kill it without manifesting his main body!"

"All the residents of Lin Yuan Prefecture will thank you!"

On the other side, a man who looked younger also hurriedly followed up and nodded respectfully. He was the district chief in charge of this area, and his strength was also at the beginning of the Heavenly Rank. He usually struggled to develop in this area under the threat of powerful demon evils.

Su Zhou came and bombarded countless powerful demon beasts, which can be regarded as opening up a sky for them, crushing the precarious boulder, so naturally they had to rush to thank him.

——As expected of the divine bird Candle Sun, it is indeed a sign of innovation. As soon as it comes, it opens up a new situation!

Respectfully paying tribute to Su Zhou, the two New Dynasty officials at this moment truly had endless respect for the youth in their hearts, and they completely believed in the name of Candle Sun, which was gradually beginning to circulate among the people: "After today, we will erect a statue of you in the center of the state and government to commemorate your actions today!"

"Hey... you can thank me if you want to thank me, but don't waste money and resources."

Naturally, Su Zhou would not be repulsed by this, after all, it was indeed what he did, and he should accept it if he should accept it.

Moreover, the Blade of Extinction needs this kind of wish power, and having a good reputation in the local Tianyuan mortal realm can naturally bless this magic weapon that saves the world and helps the people.

However, just when Su Zhou was planning to take advantage of the situation to ask these two local officials of Southern Marsh State for some legends and news about the former 'Suppressing Demons in Prison'.

He suddenly frowned.

"You guys step back for now."

Waving his hand, interrupting the topic, Su Zhou let the two of them retreat, and he looked at the forest on the other side that seemed empty: "There are guys who don't want you to know who are coming."

Hearing this, the two New Dynasty officials were immediately slightly stunned. They looked at each other, and then a trace of understanding and unease flashed on their faces.

"Then we will take our leave first and go to apply for reinforcements!"

Without any hesitation, they took off together, guarding each other as they left this wilderness forest.

Then, Su Zhou looked to the side.

He chuckled: "Those demon beasts that attacked me all the way were really too strange. If you insist on saying that they were guarding their territory, or were just mindless, chaotic beasts, then they should have run away when they sensed my aura, instead of coming over to attack me. There must be relevant personnel pushing them behind the scenes, intending to test my various data."

"Right, unnamed True Person from the Zhengyang Kingdom?"

At the same time, Su Zhou's voice fell.

A figure emerged from the forest.

"That's right."

This figure did not have any aura of existence. Only after speaking did it seem to materialize from nothing, and could be perceived.

This person had a worried face and ordinary appearance. He was just an ordinary middle-aged man. After appearing, he nodded slightly to Su Zhou, his tone as respectful as the previous New Dynasty officials: "They are indeed our hidden agents in Southern Marsh State, obstacles affecting the normal development of the New Dynasty here, and recently, they are also tools we have tried to use to test your strength and various data."

"True Person Candle Sun, don't be in a hurry to attack—my name is Han Shiling, and I am the leader of the Zhengyang Kingdom's relevant intelligence department."

"Similarly, I am also directly under His Majesty the Holy Emperor, the number one 'Zhengyang Sleeping Stone'."

Seeking monthly tickets!

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