Chapter 183, Holy Guard
Chapter 183, Holy Guard
The appearance of the Soul Star and the awakening of Qianmen Fort not only shocked all the cultivators, but also made Liu Chengxiong, who was guarding outside the stone army formation, change his expression drastically. However, soon, an uncontrollable ecstasy appeared on his face.
"General Liu, what happened?"
First, the Fusang sacred tree suddenly appeared, then it disappeared, and now the white star appeared, dispersing the gray fog and revealing the majestic and magnificent appearance of Qianmen Fort. With these waves of changes, Prince Gu felt that he was overwhelmed.
Liu Chengxiong was in a good mood and said happily: "The soul star is lit, and Qianmen Fort has awakened."
Relying on the information provided by Gu Jinfan, the Xin Guo Mansion has explored many ruins and collected many ancient books. Prince Gu has read almost all of the ancient books, and he obviously knows about the Soul Star.
Prince Gu looked at the white star in the night sky, his eyes flickering. It turned out to be the Soul Star!
When the Demon Prison was first established, not only did ferocious beasts and big demons often escape from prison, but there would also be large-scale attacks by the demon clan to rescue the big demons in the prison. Every time a riot broke out, demons would take advantage of the chaos to sneak into the center of the formation and the four major points of the formation to cause damage. Once, they almost destroyed the Demon Prison that had been built with great difficulty.
Because of this, the holy masters of the five holy places in the Central Continent flew up to the sky and met with Emperor Suzaku, Emperor Azure Dragon, Emperor Black Tortoise, and Emperor White Tiger, and discussed the decision to establish nine checkpoints outside the Demon Prison to guard the Demon Prison.
The soul star with rich and pure soul power was fished out from the Soul River in the Nether Ruins by the Four Emperors together. It is a unique reward given to the Demon Guards who guard the Demon Prison.
Each level is linked to a soul star. By absorbing the soul power emitted by the soul star, the Demon Suppression Guards can continuously strengthen their own spirits during their 500 years of military service in guarding the Demon Prison.
Moreover, in order to ensure that the soul stars have sufficient soul power, the four emperors joined forces to use the magical power of space shifting to open a branch of the Soul River that flows specifically through the nine soul stars.
However, with the arrival of the Great Extinction of the Four Spirit Realms, space was blocked, the water of the Soul River was cut off, and the Soul Star lost the nourishment of the Soul River. Its soul power was completely lost, and it fell silent.
Now that the Soul Star is lit up, it is most likely because the previous appearance of the Fusang sacred tree has broken through the space barrier and allowed the water of the Soul River to flow again.
Looking at the ecstatic Liu Chengxiong, regret flashed across Master Gu's eyes. His soul star lit up, and with the replenishment of soul power, Liu Chengxiong could continue to practice and strengthen his soul without worrying about his soul dissipating. In all likelihood, he would not cooperate with the Mansion of the Duke of Xin again. The plan of the Mansion of the Duke of Xin to gradually seize Qianmen Fort had fallen through.
Seeing Liu Chengxiong begin to summon the demon-suppressing guards, looking like he couldn't wait to return to the city, Prince Gu couldn't help but ask, "General Liu, are you going to ignore those who sneaked into Tanggu? There are demons in there, what if they destroy the center of the formation?"
Liu Chengxiong glanced at Master Gu and thought to himself, those cultivators who entered Tanggu had brought out the sacred Fusang Tree. Their strength and methods were far beyond his expectations. If they faced them head-on, who knows who would suffer.
Now that the soul star is lit, he has soul power to supply him with cultivation. His spirit will not dissipate in a short period of time, and he is not so eager to seize the body of others.
Since he was not going to capture the Nascent Soul cultivator, he didn't bother to care about those people in Tanggu.
Liu Chengxiong wanted to return to the castle quickly, but Prince Gu happened to mention the monks in Tanggu at this time, which really annoyed him. However, Qianmen Fort had awakened. According to the rules of the nine checkpoints, the demon-suppressing guards in each checkpoint had to select a 5,000-man holy guard to guard the safety of the holy land.
As long as the Holy Guards wear the Holy Orders issued by the Holy Land, their spirits can walk around the world for a long time even without a physical body.
As long as the Qisheng Palace appears in the world, he, the supreme commander of Qianmen Fort, can also appear in the world.
He had never been out of the Nine Netherworld and knew nothing about the human world. The Xin Guo Mansion had a high status in the human world. If he went to the human world in the future, he would inevitably have to deal with the Xin Guo Mansion.
In addition, with the replenishment of soul power, although he does not have to worry about the dissipation of his soul for the time being, if he wants to cultivate to the level of Hedao, the problem of his physical body will have to be resolved sooner or later.
The highest realm that soul cultivators can reach is the Out-of-Body Realm. To advance to the Hedao Realm, the physical body and the primordial spirit must be united. The Xin Guogong Mansion was able to go to the Nine Netherworld so early to make arrangements, so it must have seized a lot of cultivation resources in the human world.
If a cultivator wants to continue to cultivate, he needs a huge amount of cultivation resources. Unless there is no way out, he will generally leave room for the forces that have mastered many cultivation resources.
Thinking of this, Liu Chengxiong finally gave some face to Gu Shizi and explained: "Qianmen Fort has just awakened, and there are many things to deal with. This general must go back and take charge to avoid unrest. As for those who sneaked into Tanggu, don't worry too much. The core of the formation is not so easy to destroy."
After saying that, Liu Chengxiong ignored Prince Gu's reaction and said directly to the demon-suppressing guards behind him: "All the generals, listen to my orders and return to the city!"
Liu Chengxiong rode away with the Demon-Suppressing Guards. Prince Gu looked at the crater. Although he really wanted to go in and see what had happened in the Tanggu, he did not dare to take the risk. He could only regretfully chase Liu Chengxiong with his followers.
In the Tang Valley, at the bottom of the hot spring, countless streams of pure fire spiritual energy formed by the gathering of spiritual energy continuously flowed into Hua Changxi's body, quickly filling her dry qi sea.
When the Qi Sea turned into a vast ocean again, Hua Changxi's eyes slowly opened. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a bright light red world. Blood-red, crystal clear tree roots were crawling everywhere, and on the red roots were densely packed white stones like pebbles.
Seeing the red tree roots and white stones, Hua Changxi's pupils trembled.
The red roots are the roots of the sacred Fusang tree, and the white stones are soul crystals.
At this moment, she was lying between two several-meter-wide roots of the sacred Fusang tree, with white soul stars all beneath her.
"What is this place?"
Hua Changxi recalled what happened before she fell into a coma. Master Baili and his apprentice seemed to have put her into the bath, so this should be the bottom of the bath.
She actually sank to the bottom of the bath, and the bottom of the bath was connected to the Fusang sacred tree, and there were so many soul crystals.
But how could she breathe freely in the water?
Hua Changxi discovered that there was a layer of red light surrounding her, which protected her like a filter, allowing her to absorb the fire spirit freely in the "water" without being affected by anything.
Before this, she had guessed that she might be a fire spirit. Now seeing the red gas shield on her body, she was sure.
All spirits can automatically generate an aura shield to protect themselves in extreme environments!
After confirming that she was a fire spirit and could move freely in the "water", Hua Changxi sat up with the help of a tree root next to her. Looking at the roots of the sacred Fusang tree, she felt a pang of fear in her heart. It was a close call, as she almost couldn't get out of the space crack before.
Thinking of the process of coming out of the space crack, Hua Changxi's heart moved, and the Floating Light Sword appeared in her hand.
What she didn't expect was that the Floating Light Sword had the ability to tear apart space!
If the Floating Light Sword had not forcibly torn open the space crack that was about to close, she would have been lost in the space crack and died from exhaustion of spiritual energy.
There were also branches of the Fusang sacred tree, which were also chopped off with the Floating Light Sword. Unfortunately, although she had subdued the Great Sun Divine Flame and had a closer connection with the Floating Light Sword, she still could not pull the sword out of the scabbard, so she had to spend a lot of effort and wasted a lot of time when chopping the branches of the Fusang sacred tree.
Putting away the Floating Light Sword, Hua Changxi began to examine his body.