Chapter 605: Chapter 304: Wife-Slaying
"Greetings, my lord."
Within a stone hall on Mangya Mountain, Li An respectfully bowed to Yi Lingwei.
"The Immortal Attraction Platform’s construction has already achieved initial success. According to my grandmother’s method, we still need to extract a strand of her Primordial Spirit and place it within the platform. Thus, when the Hongmeng Immortal Light descends, she will have a chance to directly achieve the Immortal Dao."
Yi Lingwei asked, "Do you know if she ever gave you this item?"
Li An replied, "To report to my lord, she hasn’t... However, since it is needed now, I will take a trip to Giant Tomb Island to ask her for it."
Yi Lingwei nodded, "That’s exactly my intention."
"However, there are two other tasks you need to accomplish on this trip."
"Please command me, my lord."
Yi Lingwei flicked her jade-like hand, and a brilliant light shot towards Li An. He reached out to catch it, finding a storage ring in his palm. She said, "There are two items in this ring."
"The first is a portion of Exotic Demon Source. Don’t ask what it is; just give it to my grandmother, and she will naturally understand its meaning."
"The second is a portion of formation flags. You are from the Dao Sect; once you return to the Spirit Realm, find a way to place these formation flags in the Dao Sect’s territory. Once the Spirit Realm is breached, various factions will divide the territories. The Dao Sect is the foremost power in the Spirit Realm, and our Yi Clan must seize control of it."
"Prioritize the first task, and you can execute the second one as the situation allows. If there’s danger, send my grandmother’s Primordial Spirit first, then proceed with the second task."
Many doubts flashed through Li An’s mind, but he showed none of it, simply saying, "Li An obeys."
"In a few months, the Exotic Realm will descend into the Spirit Realm again. I will arrange for you to leave Mangya Mountain by then, so prepare yourself."
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Three months later, during the transport of corpse waste, Yi Lingwei concealed Li An among a pile of corpses from which Spirit Medicine had absorbed all life essence, having her servants throw him into a nearby valley.
Usually, used corpses are simply burned, but Yi Lingwei repurposed them as waste, tossing them into this valley to breed poisonous gases as a safeguard around Mangya Mountain, preventing others from approaching.
The stench here was overpowering, and the gases poisonous. Yi Lingwei had given Li An antidotes in advance, so he felt no discomfort. Enduring it, he remained hidden for nearly a month before quietly sneaking out and entering Bian Province.
"Finally, I’m out."
Li An muttered as he hastened along his way.
According to Yi Lingwei, with this descent of the Exotic Realm, a passage will open from Bian Province, and many "pigs" reared in the Immortal City will be released back to the Spirit Realm, allowing Li An to blend in and return.
The passage will be vast, enveloping the entire Immortal City, so Li An hid in a mountain ridge surrounding the city, biding his time to escape.
Half a month later, the Exotic Realm’s world began to invade the Spirit Realm. There was a fierce collision of Heaven and Earth Dao, creating a massive heavenly vortex above the Immortal City. From that vortex, one could clearly see the Spirit Realm’s Heaven and Earth Dao being shattered, powerless against the Eleven Heavens’ Heavenly Dao!
"Return to the Spirit Realm!"
"This realm is the true Immortal Realm. Take back our closest kin and friends, establish a sect — how glorious that would be!"
"Heh, to become a True Immortal, a legacy of three or more Immortals is necessary!"
In an instant, many cultivators from the Spirit Realm were flying toward that colossal vortex.
Li An recognized many familiar faces.
A monk from the Brahma Sect, now glowing with golden light, had become an Arhat; a prodigy from the Five Elements Sect, enveloped in five interweaving halos of light... He even saw a familiar face from the Dao Sect, none other than Zeng Xueyao.
When the Emperor Origin Realm merged with the Spirit Realm, Zeng Xueyao had descended with Zhan Qingxuan, bringing Li An and others back to the Dao Sect. Later, due to Zhan Qingxuan’s betrayal of the Dao Sect, Zeng Xueyao was affected and sent to oversee the Daoist Temple of the New Continent, guarding the teleportation arrays.
Eventually, even the temple leader changed, and Li An lost track of her.
Now it seems, with her bleak prospects within the Dao Sect, she had chosen a path unacceptable to the sect...
This was within Li An’s expectations; while the Dao Sect held sway in the Spirit Realm, its members weren’t monolithic. Every faction consisted of many individuals with varying interests.
Moreover, Zeng Xueyao wasn’t the only disciple of the Dao Sect; there were many others he recognized but couldn’t name.
"These people are the genuine ’spirit traitors’ nurtured by the Exotic Realm."
This Immortal City was a baited cage for such spirit traitors. Once Zeng Xueyao and others entered the Exotic Realm, they barely had contact with any other places as the city remained sealed, keeping them within its confines.
Yet they were oblivious, indulging in the countless Immortal Dao Materials and opportunities amassing within the city. Upon achieving Immortality and progressing in realm, they realized that to advance to True Immortal and beyond, collective effort was essential.
As such, they naturally saw returning to the Spirit Realm to find more comrades and follow the Exotic Realm’s edicts as their path.
"These individuals likely hold the key to the Exotic Realm’s invasion of the Spirit Realm."
Li An murmured to himself.
So far, the Exotic Realm still couldn’t completely manifest in the Spirit Realm.
Even the creatures of the Exotic Realm would be repelled by the Heaven and Earth Dao upon entering the Spirit Realm.
