Chapter Forty-six: Lotus Leaf Peach

  Ding Ling's current location was temporarily inaccessible to him. After some deliberation, Ding Yan ultimately decided to head to Dayan Mountain first.

  For him, the mundane world was full of too many unknowns.

  Originally, this should have been just a world that belongs to ordinary people, but now it seems that it is not just that. Perhaps, after the terrifying Dao Fang Dazhen, there are still some unknown secrets hidden.

  Standing in mid-air, Ding Yan looked down at the terrain below, searching for the location of Taiyin Mountain.

  The Jiulong Mountains, as the name suggests, look like nine giant dragons from above. The dragon heads are all gathered together, with a mountain in between, forming a situation where nine dragons converge on one peak, and the middle mountain is Dayan Mountain!

  Daiyue Mountain, within its boundaries, there is no living creature for hundreds of miles around, it can be called a desolate land.

  Even this Jiulong Mountain Range, few people dare to set foot in it. Even those ordinary countries do not have the courage to draw the Jiulong Mountain Range into their territory. As a result, the area of this Jiulong Mountain Range now belongs to the true empty zone. Except for a few monks, only poisonous insects and beasts survive among them.

  "In the vicinity of these Jiulong Mountains, there is actually a layer of miasma covering..."

  He took a few steps into the void and walked to the upper air of the Jiulong Mountain range, stretching out his hand to capture a ball of aura.

  The breath is grayish white, twisted and uncertain. After entering the hand, a strong burning sensation is produced, as if holding a ball of fire in one's hand. Ding Yan saw at a glance that this gas contains extremely potent poison, even a scattered immortal would be affected, and if inhaled in large quantities, it could even lead to death by poisoning.

  "It seems we can only walk now." With a squeeze, the mist dispersed, and Ding Yan slowly descended onto the mountain range below.

  Mountain has no road.

  The ground was covered with withered grass as high as a person, and thorny thickets were everywhere. Occasionally, there were some venomous snakes crawling among them, making rustling sounds. In such a place, ordinary people would not dare to venture in, let alone enter the mountains. They might not even be able to take a few steps before being bitten to death by those snakes, insects and poisonous ants.

  Ding Yan furrowed his brow, and with a slight movement of his mind, a faint layer of yuan force appeared around his body. The withered grass and thorny thickets around him automatically parted to either side.

  Repel Technique!

  A kind of technique.

  In Ding Yan's memory, many of the Taoist techniques and kung fu moves could no longer be used, but the spell remained unaffected. After studying for a long time, Ding Yan couldn't find an answer and finally thought that the power of the spell was too weak to produce a sense of rejection.

  After using the Drive Object Technique, Ding Yan stepped forward slowly through the thorny bushes.

  When he was in the air, Ding Yan had observed that his current location should be the one south of the Jiulong Mountain Range. To reach Dayan Mountain, he only needed to head north continuously.

  Pfft...

  A flash of clear air passed over his fingertips, and in front of him, a giant python as thick as a bowl was cut off at the waist, filling the air with a bloody smell.

  "Another poisonous python!" Ding Yan swept his sleeve and pushed away the python's corpse.

  This was already his sixteenth poisonous snake killed.

  Rare pythons that are rarely seen outside, here seem worthless. There are even some black mosquitoes and some fire-red ants, with unusually large heads, about the size of a baby's fist, gathering together, with an astonishing momentum, even Ding Yan saw it and walked around.

  After half a stick of incense time had passed, they finally made their way through that thorny thicket.

  Instead, there was a bare rocky mountain.

  Ding Yan recalled for a moment and remembered that this place seemed to be the neck of the giant dragon.

  "We should be arriving at Dashan soon." Ting Yan continued on his way.

  After walking for a while, a low-lying area appeared, and in this place, Ding Yan saw a pool of water.

  The water is clear to the bottom. On its surface, a lotus leaf floats, and strangely, on top of the lotus leaf, there is a fruit that looks like a peach, crystal clear and translucent, emitting an enticing fragrance.

  "This is!! Lotus Leaf Peach!" Ding Yan exclaimed in surprise.

  The lotus leaf peach is a rare fruit that appears only once in a thousand years, with the effect of increasing one's lifespan. For many old monsters who are approaching their limit, the lotus leaf peach is a priceless treasure! Of course, it's not just that, which wouldn't be worth mentioning. The reason for the excitement is that in Dingshen's memory, the lotus leaf peach can make people enlightened to heaven and earth. For those who cultivate the Qiankun Dao Jing, the lotus leaf peach is a divine elixir!

  After arriving in this world, Ding Yan's Qian Kun Dao Jing has been unable to cultivate, except for a few successful rotations during the Illusory Nine Heavens, and after coming out, he was unable to cultivate again. Later, Ding Yan studied for a long time and found that the main reason was still that he could not feel the Heavenly Earth Yuan Force. If Ding Yan could take this lotus leaf peach, he would have an epiphany about the heaven and earth, which might solve this problem and further solve the cultivation method problem.

  "Who would have thought there's something like this here?"

  Although surprised, Ding Yan did not blindly move forward to pick it up, but instead slowly dispersed his divine sense to search for it.

  Whenever there is a strange object, there must be a monster guarding it! If you take it carelessly, you will surely have a fatal disaster.

  This was the experience accumulated by Ding Yan from his past life's cultivation. This kind of experience, seemingly insignificant, yet sometimes plays a very important role. If it were another loose immortal with less than a hundred years of cultivation who saw this scene, they would absolutely be stunned and blindly want to pick up the treasure, which could lead to their demise.

  As expected, at the moment when Ding Yanyu's divine sense scattered, a loud roar came from the bottom of the pool.

  The lake's surface, like a mirror, began to ripple and then became increasingly turbulent. A moment later, the lake's surface was churning as if it had been boiled, with lotus leaves floating on the water's surface and peaches on top of them seeming as if they would fall into the water at any time.

  Roar!!

  A huge white python emerged from the bottom of the lake, and a strong fishy smell came rushing towards me.

  Ding Yan's right hand formed a palm, and on the center of his palm, a dense aura of yuan energy emerged, mixed with a hint of immortal yuan. He slapped it onto the white python's skull.

  Bang!!

  The enormous counter-shock force sent Ding Yan retreating dozens of steps, his entire arm numb. The powerful demonic energy seeped into his meridians through the acupoints on his palm. As for the white python, it was slapped back into the water by Ding Yan's palm. A moment later, it emerged from the water again, letting out a deafening roar towards the sky.

  A strange aura emanated from it, stirring up a whirlwind in this place.

  "This white python's strength has probably reached the late stage of a loose immortal!" Ding Yan's expression changed.

  He finally understood why so many monks came here but none took away the lotus peach. It was all because of this terrifying white python.

  The realm of the Scattered Immortal is not comparable to the Refining Qi period, and there are only five major realms: Initial, Middle, Late, Pinnacle, and Perfection. Each step forward in these five major realms is extremely difficult. Currently, Ding Yan's cultivation is at the initial stage of the Scattered Immortal, but due to the many methods left over from his past life, many middle-stage Scattered Immortals are not his match.

  Of course, the cultivation of a loose immortal is not as simple as just following the usual routine.

  A loose immortal, if his cultivation breaks through perfection, the loose immortal tribulation will be triggered and he will pass the tribulation. However, the loose immortal tribulation is not only triggered after reaching a certain level of cultivation. If a loose immortal has only initial cultivation but has lived for 500 years.

  The era of the Scattered Immortals has arrived, appearing after 500 years!

  Five hundred years later, no matter what your cultivation is, the Scattered Immortal Tribulation will appear. Even if you only have early-stage cultivation, the Scattered Immortal Tribulation will still appear. In that case, for those with early-stage cultivation who become Scattered Immortals, they are basically doomed to die, with no choice but to disintegrate into nothingness.