016 - He Dao, going south

  "Pangu's true body! What a great calamity!" Ding Yue sighed after hearing it. At the same time, his heart was filled with doubts: Nüwa had indeed taken action, but why hadn't she used her heavenly powers? Even when she retreated wounded, she still didn't use them, why? And what about Daozu? How could he say "and"? Was the rumor wrong?!

  Finally, Ding Yue heard that just a few years after the great war between witches and goblins, the Taoist founder summoned all the great masters of the mystic arts to begin the third lecture on the Tao!

  "It's still rumors that harm people! Damn it! Nüwa has become a saint, but the Taoist founder hasn't merged with the Tao yet? And the Three Pure Ones are still messing around at this time, while the Western duo is not famous? At this time, it's all the witches' and demons' world! Everything is in chaos!" Ding Yue thought to himself, involuntarily cursing under his breath.

  The great war has passed for many years, but the vast land is still desolate and barren, the earth is fragmented, mountains have collapsed, and rivers flow backwards!

  This is still good, not the main battlefield. It's said that the area around Mount Bu Zhou is desolate for millions of miles, with no signs of life, and only remnants of powerful forces remain, making it impossible for ordinary people to approach, turning what was once a beautiful place into a dead land!

  Ding Yue looked at the earth and couldn't bear it, and also wanted to do a good deed, so he began to repair the earth, comb the veins of the earth, move mountains and seas!

  Hurry Mountain Whip has the mighty power to move mountains and overturn peaks, as Ding Yue's grasp of it deepens, capturing mountain peaks is like child's play, and can also extract spiritual veins.

  This is beneficial for combing the earth's veins, Ding Yue found the traces of the great war between witches and demons, slowly combing the earth's veins, pulling the spiritual veins, and recreating mountains and rivers!

  Anyway, the battlefield of this witch has no living creatures left. The great war of witches left a desolate land, and naturally, they won't live here anymore. They all moved away to find another place for cultivation.

  This also made it much more convenient for Ding Yue to act, after all, if there were people around, Ding Yue holding the Lingbao and swaggering through the streets would be difficult to escape being killed and having his treasure stolen, even if he was a late-stage Tianxian.

  After all, there are very few divine artifacts, and many Golden Immortal-level powerhouses don't even have a congenital divine artifact.

  As time passed, Ding Yue traveled the eastern lands, combing the earth and recreating mountains and rivers. His magnificent feat finally made Ding Yue's efforts worthwhile, and the ball of golden merit in his body slowly grew larger with time.

  After all, it's a great virtue! Not giving virtue is also unacceptable!

  But Dingyue's gains were clearly not limited to this, as his range of activities expanded, the treasures in his treasure basin also increased, and many rare and precious things came running to him on their own, entering his hands.

  Among them, the biggest gain was that Ding Yue accidentally bumped into the legendary Wuyi Mountain, broke the innate array of hiding Wuyi Mountain, and unexpectedly gained the famous Lu Bao Golden Money and a medium-grade spiritual root Dahongpao tea tree!

  Wuyi Mountain is also a famous blessed land, although not as grand as other famous blessed lands, but it has a unique beauty, revealing a spiritual atmosphere, with spiritual veins entwined underground, emitting dense spiritual energy. Its main peak is always surrounded by auspicious clouds rising high into the sky, with rosy light filling the air, like an immortal paradise!

  Ding Yue felt a little delighted at this, and also felt that he still didn't have a home, always wandering outside, and would eventually have to find a place to settle down!

  Then, Ding Yue re-laid the big formation and incorporated the originally existing innate great formation into it.

  Although this innate great array has no power, it can hide Wuyi Mountain very well and prevent people from discovering it easily!

  Although so, but Ding Yue still laid out many big arrays, hiding in them, playing a protective role.

  The comprehension of array methods over the past few hundred years has also allowed Ding Yue's Array Method to make progress and delight people, and he still has the ability to lay down several large arrays.

  After tidying up his new cave dwelling, Ding Yue again devoted himself to quiet cultivation for several years before once more throwing himself into the glorious task of combing the earth.

  But before long, Ding Yue discovered that he was not the only one doing this, as many cultivators were also doing it. After all, at this time, there were not many foolish people who did not want to accumulate merit!

  Ding Yue didn't care about others, just doing his own thing, until one day he found that everything in front of him was a beautiful landscape, with bright and beautiful mountains and rivers. Only then did he realize that this life didn't need to be worked on anymore, it was time to call it quits!

  Back in Wuyi Mountain, Ding Yue began his quiet cultivation.

  Time slowly passed, and Ding Yue's realm also grew slowly, but in the later stages of his Tianxian cultivation, he was slower than a snail. Except for the growth of his Fa Li, which could comfort him a little, Ding Yue really couldn't find anything else to comfort himself with.

  Moreover, Ding Yue also felt that his path was uncertain. Throughout his cultivation journey, he had always been slowly exploring on his own without anyone to guide him, taking many detours. He hadn't realized it before, but now as he looked back, Ding Yue discovered how much he had gone wrong.

  Ding Yue carefully cleaned up the flaws in his body, revising them. He didn't dare to be careless, or else he would go crazy for real.

  One day, the heavens suddenly shook, and a purple gas rose from the ninth heaven, spreading across the sky and earth. Countless strange phenomena appeared as a result!

  "I am Hong Jun, today I will merge with the Dao!" A calm and majestic voice came from the Ninth Heaven.

  In an instant, a boundless and overwhelming pressure filled the sky and earth, far exceeding the scene of Nüwa's ascension to sainthood, causing Ding Yue to involuntarily kneel and prostrate himself on the ground!

  After a long time, Ding Yue slowly got up and looked at the empty sky.

  Hongjun has merged with Dao, so Sanqing and Xifang's duo should be quick too. If it's any slower, there will really be nothing for them to do.

  A few days later, Ding Yue left Wuyi Mountain and rushed straight south!

  Although Ding Yue's speed was not slow, it was still not enough compared to the boundless and endless vast land of Honghuang. Therefore, Ding Yue specially captured a dragon-whiskered beast that was hidden in the wild mountains and swamps!

  This dragon-bearded beast has a lion-like body, with two long golden whiskers that can hang straight down to its feet. It also has two golden horns, sturdy and powerful, and its entire body is covered in smooth, shiny golden fur, reaching over one zhang (3.33 meters) in height. Its four claws have golden clouds on them, making it look quite impressive. When it moves, its speed is extremely fast, even surpassing that of Ding Yue's during his early days as a heavenly immortal. It was only by using a large array to trap it that Ding Yue was able to capture it!

  Riding on the Longxu beast, Ding Yue let it fly smoothly, crossing mountains and rivers along the way, occasionally resting to search for treasures, and only entering the southern part of Honghuang after dozens of years.

  The southern wilderness of Honghuang has many desolate mountains and vast swamps, a paradise for ferocious beasts. The demonic, witch, and human tribes are scarce here. With his profound magical powers and spiritual treasures protecting him, Ding Yue charged forward recklessly, but also gained much in the process!

  One of them is a calabaza vine!

  Don't get me wrong, this gourd vine is not that gourd vine which grew a number of powerful spiritual treasures in defiance of the heavens.

  This gourd vine is a medium-grade spiritual root, with a lush green body! It has grown nine small gourds of different colors!

  These nine small gourds are not spiritual treasures, but rather nine gourd spirits similar to calabaza dolls, they just haven't been born yet!

  Ding Yue was overjoyed and carefully transplanted the calabaza vine to the third floor of the Tian Di Tower, his heart filled with delightful thoughts of what the nine calabazas would look like in the future!

  That day, Ding Yuefeng was in the sky when he suddenly felt someone fighting below!

  Let the dragon beast stop and take a closer look, but in a small valley there is a lush bamboo forest, and in that bamboo forest lives a group of eight or nine national treasures!

  At this time, the national treasures were not doing well. A group of golden-winged divine eagles were flying in the sky above the bamboo forest. These divine eagles flew in the air, shaking their golden wings and emitting golden arrow feathers, attacking the national treasures!

  Although the situation was not good, those national treasures were not completely without resistance. Each of them possessed yin-yang spiritual powers and shot out beams of yin-yang divine light, causing the group of divine eagles to fly high and dodge in a hurry!

  "How interesting!" Ting Yue was delighted, and hastily lowered the cloud head. The Tian Yu bowl overturned and suddenly covered the dozens of divine eagles inside, collecting them.

  Then looked at those national treasures, found out it was a family, two big ones, six little guys!

  Without saying another word, Ding Yue simply expressed himself and made this group of national treasures surrender, putting them away, along with the bamboo forest!

  This bamboo forest is also a spiritual root, Qingkong bamboo, but it's of lower quality!

  All along the way, Ding Yuecai discovered all sorts of wonders on the vast and desolate land, too many to count, and he also picked up quite a few.

  Like a five-coloured phoenix, emitting radiant light is the white deer; with beautiful wings is the white crane!

  But they were all some weak in magic power, those deep and profound magical beasts, even Ding Yue did not dare to face them head-on, could only avoid them from afar.

  Among them was a fiery red divine bird with phoenix blood, also of the heavenly fairy level, but its body was extremely fast and tyrannical, making it impossible for Ding Yue to hit or catch up, entwining him for over a month before leaving in boredom.

  This made Ding Yue feel extremely depressed!

  Hundreds of years later, Ding Yue finally saw the sea again, only it was no longer the East Sea, but the South Sea!

  This time, Ding Yue didn't travel tens of thousands of miles to the South China Sea just for fun. He came here for the legendary Penglai Island, also known as the Isle of the Blessed, although it's possible that the island hasn't appeared yet. Still, he wanted to search for it.

  Although there is Mount Wuyi, it is located in the Desolate Wilderness, and the Desolate Wilderness often has great wars, so it's not very safe after all.

  To know that in the last witch war, countless innocent monks died miserably, many of whom were sitting inside the mountain gate and were wrongly killed by the war!

  So Ding Yue paid attention to the immortal island of Nanhai, although there are more immortal islands in Donghai, but Donghai will not be a peaceful place in the future, and there will be many disputes!

  As for the owner of Putuo Island, heaven knows where he is now? Ding Yue directly ignored him!

  The South China Sea is not like the East China Sea, which is densely packed with islands and has countless scenic spots. The South China Sea, on the other hand, has rolling waves of emerald green as far as the eye can see, with very few islands!

  Ding Yue added that it was time, so they split up and spread out to search in a carpet-like manner, and also released the dozens of Golden Winged Divine Eagles to help with the search.

  This divine eagle was no ordinary creature. Its wingspan exceeded one zhang, its entire body covered in golden feathers, and a pair of eagle eyes that could see even the smallest details from thousands of miles away!

  Years have passed, and although Ding Yue has searched the vast ocean for thousands of miles, it's still just a drop in the bucket compared to the boundless sea. Feeling that this isn't working, Ding Yue dove into the sea and personally reclaimed a group of low-powered but numerous three-eyed fish!

  These three-eyed fish are only the size of ordinary sea fish, about the length of an adult's arm. Their entire body is covered in dark blue scales and they have three eyes with piercing blue gaze that can see through illusions!

  Tens of thousands of Three-Eyed Fish scattered out, and Ding Yue felt that he didn't need to lift a finger, so he found a small island and began to cultivate in peace.

  Although Ding Yue's actions after arriving in the South China Sea were cautious, his momentum was still a bit too big. However, just a few days later, a deep-sea demon king emerged from the sea surface, leading tens of thousands of aquatic soldiers to launch a surprise attack!

  This demon king is only in the middle of the heavenly immortal, with weak magical powers and no powerful magical treasures. As soon as he appeared, he was knocked down to the deep sea by Ding Yue and didn't dare to show his head again.

  But the demon king was not willing to give up and quickly reported the situation to his superior.

  The superior of this demon king is not the Demon Tribe Heavenly Court, but the Dragon Tribe that dominates the four seas!

  A leader of the Dragon Tribe heard about it and felt suspicious, so he summoned several thousand naval soldiers to come.

  This dragon tribe leader was originally a water dragon, although not a true dragon body, the bloodline is not pure, but the cultivation is extraordinary, the peak of the heavenly immortal, and the water army under his command is not comparable to that demon king's miscellaneous water army, but a group of water crocodiles, with no weak magic.

  The dragon king was cautious and did not shout for a fight when he came up, but instead asked: "Fellow Taoist, what brings you to the South Sea?"

  Ding Yue saw the Southern Sea Dragon Clan being summoned, and he couldn't help but feel a headache. The Dragon Clan was a regional overlord, and although it wasn't as powerful as its ancient glory, it was still one of the major powers in the Primordial Chaos. It dominated all four seas, and neither the Demon Clan nor the Witch Clan dared to provoke this master of the four seas.

  It is said that the Dragon Clan was one of the three major tribes in ancient times, with a profound foundation. Although it's not as prosperous as before, no one knows what unknown tricks the Dragon Clan has up its sleeve!

  If Ding Yue thought that the Dragon Clan was the one in Journey to the West where anyone could bully them, then Ding Yue would have crossed over again a long time ago. The memory of being hunted down last time was still fresh in his mind.

  (I found that I have collected a lot more, almost two pieces away from breaking 100, this is quite good for the Green Cow, thank you everyone!)