Chapter Thirty-Five: Return to Nanhuang, The Name of Panwang

  The vast southern wilderness is infested with poisonous insects, yet it also has some of the most spectacular and rare scenic spots.

  Tangting Mountain, the most famous mountain in Nanhuang, is a place of dense forests and abundant spiritual energy, where countless spiritual veins converge. However, it is also one of the caves that make the demons of Nanhuang tremble with fear. The reason for this is that there is a ferocious and powerful star here, the demon ape Bai Qi.

  Huang Xiaoyao displayed his magical powers all the way, escaping from Qilin Cliff to the south, and after several months or years, he finally returned to Nanhuang again. This place was once his birthplace, witnessing the first era of Pangu's creation - the evolution of yuanqi; witnessing the rise, development, and decline of the ancient evil spirits; witnessing the glorious scene of the ancient gods expelling demons.

  Looking at the vastly different mountains and rivers, Huang Xiaoyou couldn't help but sigh at the passage of time, and marvel at the power of the way of time. Looking at the majestic mountain in front of him, he smiled mysteriously, for this was where he had once discussed the Tao with Bai Yuan. His heart suddenly recalled the taste of the Monkey Wine, and at the same time, he began to walk upwards.

  "Look at that guy, he's not afraid of death either. Doesn't he even ask what kind of place this is? Can any monster just barge in here? Speaking of that Bai Qi's overwhelming aura, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. But anyway, living and cultivating under the Tangting Mountains isn't a bad idea after all. As long as we don't offend Bai Qi, we can protect ourselves." A small dog demon at the foot of the Tangting Mountains said.

  "That is, Bai Qi, although he has a fierce and powerful reputation, killing demons without batting an eye, still protects the living creatures here. In the southern wilderness, there are so many great demons, no one dares to offend this place. Ah, you say, what did that Taoist come here for? Could it be to challenge Bai Qi?" Another small deer demon said.

  "Never mind what he's doing, let's just focus on our cultivation and avoid trouble. One careless move could lead to our demise." said the little dog demon.

  "Puppy, I heard that in the East, there is a powerful being called Zu Long who has established a force called Dragon Court. What do you think? Should we join them? Maybe we can get some good cultivation methods." said Xiao Lu Yao.

  "We won't go. Our cultivation is still not enough to be cannon fodder, and as a beast clan, we would have to go to the Qilin King's place anyway. But I think it's better here." said the little dog demon.

  With Huang Xiaoyao's divine power, she also heard the discussions of those little monsters, and her heart couldn't help but become curious.

  Who is Bai Qi?

  Not far away, two majestic and powerful demons emerged. Judging from their aura, they had a high level of cultivation, apparently at the early stage of Mahayana Golden Immortal. Moreover, both of their true forms were extremely rare and formidable demon beasts - one was a Long-Armed Ape and the other was an All-Powerful Ape, both being incredibly powerful masters.

  "Halt! Who goes there?"

  "Wandering Taoist has arrived, please report!" Huang Xiaoyao still had great respect for Bai Yuan, after all, when he was not yet powerful, he had gained a lot from discussing the Tao here.

  "We don't know him, our great king is in seclusion for self-cultivation and does not see guests!"

  "Hmph! Bai Yuan Dao You, old friend has arrived!" Huang Xiao Yao let out a cold hum, and the sound instantly spread throughout the entire Tang Ting Mountain, as if it had entered every nook and cranny.

  "Pffft!" The two apes suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, their eyes flashing with a look of shock. They had not expected that the Taoist in front of them, who did not have any strong aura, would be so powerful, and a single cold hum could injure their primordial spirit.

  "Scoundrel!" A loud roar, accompanied by a shocking rod shadow, rushed towards Huang Xiaoyao.

  A heavy and oppressive atmosphere envelops the entire Dangting Mountain, with an overwhelming pressure that is both shocking and awe-inspiring.

  Rumble! Flying mountains and walking rocks.

  "What kind of rodent are you, is our ancestral hall a place for you to run wild?"

  A hundred-zhang-tall figure appeared in front of Huang Xiaoyao, with a body covered in white fur, one red eye and one blue eye, holding a fiery giant club, exuding an aura of menace that shook the heavens.

  "Are you that little thing, coming to the Hall of Mountain to provoke?" White Ape looked down at Huang Xiaoyao with a condescending attitude, his red and blue eyes emitting a glow, as if he wanted to see through him.

  "What does it have to do with me?" Huang Xiaoyao had already figured out Bai Yuan's origin, and it turned out that he was the grandson of the white-haired old man from back then.

  "Looking for death!" The white ape didn't say another word, and with a fierce aura, the giant club came crashing down towards Huang Xiaoyao.

  "Huh? What's going on?" The white ape asked in confusion, seeing his giant club hovering in mid-air, unable to move up or down, struggling with great effort.

  No earth-shaking, no shattering of rocks, no destruction of trees, everything seemed to have come to a silent and still calm.

  "What?" The two apes guarding the mountain gate had their mouths wide open, as if they could swallow two large cows.

  "One finger?"

  Isn't it? Only to see a finger standing upright under the giant club, the finger emits a mysterious light, and a small finger seems to contain the momentum of holding up the sky.

  "Roar!" The white ape's body suddenly doubled in size, reaching a height of 200 zhang, its eyes shooting out red and blue rays of light. Its massive arms lifted upwards, and the giant club instantly broke free from the control of that powerful force.

  "Giant Ape Smashes Mountain Club! Power Subdues Mountains and Rivers!"

  Rumbling! This is a force carrying the power of water and fire, with a momentum that shakes the heavens.

  "Not bad, but still a bit off! The power of the Wild God! The Savage Tower."

  A void and illusory twelve-story pagoda appeared out of thin air with an imposing momentum, swallowing infinite stick shadows and devouring infinite water and fire powers.

  "Bastard, behold my divine power, the Water-Fire Pupil, the harmony of Yin and Yang!" A red-blue Taiji diagram suddenly appeared out of thin air, containing a devouring force that was about to engulf Huang Xiaoyao's Savage Sacred Tower.

  At this moment, a mysterious black hole appeared out of thin air, as if it could swallow space, and the swallowing force caused a distortion in space. The Tai Chi diagram had just appeared when it was swallowed up.

  "Little White, how did your grandfather teach you? You've grown up so big and yet still so unruly," said Huang Xiaoyao.

  "Huh? Little White, Little White, who are you? Are you a great master?" The white ape stopped its movements, its eyes filled with tears, and suddenly transformed into a human-sized white ape.

  "Wooo, great master, you've finally come. My grandfather... my grandfather is dead." White Ape said with tears in his eyes.

  "Hmm? When was this?" Huang Xiaoyao said in a low voice, with a surge of anger in his heart.

  Although I didn't have much of a relationship with Bai Yuan Dao Ren, after all, it was the first time Huang Xiao Yao had transformed and discussed the mysteries of life and death with him, so he could be considered to have taught me the way.

  "Just in the first thousand years after you left, the southern wilderness was filled with demonic energy, as if a demon king had been born. Poisonous insects flew all over the sky. Grandfather was afraid that the demonic energy would affect the Hall of Mountain, so he went to check it out. Unexpectedly, he was killed by that demon and ended up being devoured by countless insects. I'm so angry! I regret not being strong enough!" White Ape cried sorrowfully.

  "Mount Bai Man? Alright, let's go up first and then you can tell me more about Mount Bai Man."

  After Bai Qi's narration, Huang Xiaoyao finally knew about the situation in Ba Man Mountain.

  Bai Man Mountain, the southern wilderness, a great land of demonic caves, where hundreds of poisons converge, the convergence of earthly evil spirits and ominous energy, forming strips of toxic veins, gathering various poisonous insects and demons, with extremely fierce and sinister energies.

  When it comes to ancient poisonous insects, one must mention a kind of ancient divine insect - the Golden Body Divine Cicada.

  Golden Body Cicada, its entire body is like gold and iron, extremely hard, it feeds on various metals, it has the ability to melt and refine objects, forging an indestructible golden body, it also has wings, able to fly up to the 9th heaven and down to the 9th underworld, it is invincible, further divided into four-winged, six-winged, eight-winged, ten-winged, twelve-winged, extremely ferocious, but its strongest ability is still - Soul Devouring.

  Since the first pair of twelve-winged golden cicadas appeared on Bai Mian Shan, they have ruled over all the poisonous insects there, and it has become a kingdom of poisonous insects.

  However, the poisonous insects have their limitations, that is, their intelligence is generally not high. Even the strongest Twelve-winged Golden Cicada has only the intelligence of a child and initially only instinctively swallowed the essence of heaven and earth to cultivate itself, without thinking of contending for hegemony or harming the Southern Wilderness.

  However, after a great practitioner awakened at the bottom of Bai Man Mountain, the situation on Bai Man Mountain changed greatly.

  "So that's how it is, is that Pan Wang very powerful?" Huang Xiaoyao asked.

  "He's too powerful. If I were to say that his physical body, I could crush him with one blow, but the source of his power lies in his soul. His soul's energy seems endless, capable of controlling other creatures. The poisonous insects on Mount Ba Mian are all his incarnations. Originally, there was only a pair of twelve-winged golden cicadas on Mount Ba Mian, but after his reproduction, now there are tens of thousands of golden cicadas on the mountain, emerging every day to harm the Southern Wilderness, devouring the souls and spirits of living beings to supply Pan Wang's cultivation." Bai Qi seemed to have thought of something and shuddered involuntarily.

  Huang Xiaoyao's eyes involuntarily floated up with scenes of tens of thousands of poisonous insects biting, and his face suddenly turned solemn.

  "Bai Man Mountain, Pan Wang, Jin Chan's clan, Soul Devouring Divine Ability. Could it be that Pan Wang is a strong practitioner of the Soul Cultivation Path? The Soul Cultivation Path is extremely mysterious and unpredictable. I am also cultivating the Soul Cultivation Path, but what I cultivate is the evolution of the soul's essence, which helps to purify the soul and comprehend the laws of the universe. However, I am unable to use so-called 'soul power'. This may be my limitation. If I could control countless poisonous insects with soul power like Pan Wang, how powerful would that be? It seems I will have to meet him someday. For now, let's focus on digesting the spoils of this Three Clans War, absorbing all that blood and obtaining so many divine ability seeds, which has further perfected my Tian Dao Zhi Hun and Wan Xue Zhi Xin. Let me take some time to comprehend it." Huang Xiaoyou thought to himself.

  "Bai Qi, now reincarnation has not come out, your grandfather's soul may be drifting in the world, maybe one day can be reborn."

  Of course, Huang Xiaoyao was just comforting Bai Qi, the reincarnation had not yet escaped, and the soul had returned to heaven and earth, so how could there be a possibility of rebirth?

  "Ah, really? Great master, can I apprentice under you? I want to become stronger and avenge my grandfather."

  "Hehe, I'll take you as a nominal disciple then. Show me your skills and let's see if they can be improved."

  "Alright, this technique was passed down to me by my grandfather. Later on, I awakened the Water and Fire Double Pupils and made some improvements. Take a look." Bai Qi said as he demonstrated his way, revealing two large paths - one red and one blue - which gradually transformed into white and black.

  "It turns out that it's the way of yin and yang, assisted by a strong physical body. Your divine ability in this great way is quite good, but your cultivation of the physical body is far inferior. Alright, from now on, you continue to cultivate this yin-yang divine ability, and for the physical body, cultivate my method instead."

  Huang Xiaoyao said, and a book appeared in his hand. It was the "Wanxue Secret Classic". The cover was densely packed with various symbols. Huang Xiaoyao flipped through the pages, revealing mysterious and profound Taoist principles that emitted a wild and untamed aura. The aura floated up, forming a symbol that entered Bai Qi's forehead.

  "Huh? 'The Great Dragon's Nine Revolutions', physical body nine revolutions, to prove the way with power? Too powerful! Cultivating to the ninth revolution, undying and indestructible, the physical body is imperishable. Haha, thank you, great master!" Bai Qi excitedly jumped up.

  "Alright, go ahead, I'll stay here in seclusion, don't let anyone disturb me. When I come out of seclusion, I'll go with you to meet that Pan Wang."

  "Yes!"

  Huang Xiaoyao had no choice but to go into seclusion, for he faintly felt that his accumulation from just one lifetime might be enough to lay the foundation for the Carefree Path. The Carefree Soul cultivates the Dao of the path, while the Million Blood Secret Scripture cultivates the blood vessels.

  Moreover, he saw Zulong becoming increasingly powerful and had already entered the realm of Hongjun.

  He couldn't help but admire Zulong, who was Hongjun? Who was Luohou? They were all powerful beings among the 3,000 Chaos Demons, with unparalleled mastery over the Great Dao. If Pan Gu wasn't the son of the Great Dao and hadn't received its favor, they would have been able to rival him.

  However, Zu Long relied on his own strength to achieve the Dao fruit of Hong Jun and others.

  Of course, if Huang Xiaoyou were in the position of the Ancestral Dragon, with the aura of the Hongyuan and the complete inheritance of the Hunyuan Tianlong, he would also be so powerful, and even more powerful with his precognitive knowledge, and even dominate the Hongyuan.

  However, Huang Xiaoyou was not lucky and wanted to become stronger. The only way to achieve the foundation of the Carefree Path was through his own efforts.

  What is the foundation of the Tao? The saint's foundation of the Tao is the Hongmeng purple energy, the Hunyuan demon god's foundation of the Tao is the indestructible true spirit that merges with one of the three thousand great paths, while Huang Xiaoyao's carefree ultimate Tao's foundation is the heart of ten thousand bloods cultivated from the power of bloodlines, which can carry the three thousand great paths, eight hundred side doors and the carefree soul, as well as the state of mind that can contain the Hunyuan.

  Of course, apart from the power of blood and the carefree boundary, what is called a state of mind is just Huang Xiaoyou's guess, it is his analysis of the Hunyuan Demon God's Tao, and it is also a wild hope in his heart.

  After forming the foundation of the Dao, Huang Xiaoyou can now cultivate a certain great Dao with peace of mind and have the power to protect the Dao.

  Now, just fight if you can win, run away if you can't.

  Perhaps that day is not far away, Huang Xiaoyao thought to herself.

  East of the vast wilderness, the majestic Tianlong mountain range is magnificent and atmospheric, emitting a strong vitality, with an unparalleled aura, rolling merits and virtues covering the sky and earth, various flying dragons and scales can be seen everywhere, and countless great gods are on their respective mountains, swallowing clouds and spitting out mist, cultivating the Tao of divine powers.

  The Ancestral Dragon Mountain, with a colorful and vibrant cloud sea above, makes the mountain's majesty and grandeur even more apparent. The palace halls stand tall, with all sorts of rare treasures and spiritual roots visible everywhere. A dark-colored Heavenly Dragon climbs up the rocks, encircling the countless tens of thousands of feet high Ancestral Dragon Mountain that seems to have no peak, exhaling a mysterious yellow aura.

  The Dragon Emperor's Hall, the main hall of the Ancestral Dragon Mountain, the Dragon Emperor wears a nine-dragon crown on his head, wears a nine-dragon robe, sits on the nine-dragon throne, with a stern face and an unparalleled overbearing aura.

  "I report to the Dragon Emperor, today the vast land east of the Tianlong Mountains is under the rule of the Dragon Court, and all living beings have submitted to its governance, without any exception... however..." said a burly man dressed in armor.

  "Speak freely, Ao Bai Shen Jiang." said Long Huang.

  "There is a great divine being of the human-snake tribe who refuses to submit to the Dragon Court's control, and has even advised the Fuxi God King to leave the Dragon Court." said Ao Bai.

  "What did Fuxi say?"

  "The subordinates did not dare to approach and listen to their conversation, but it seemed that she had said something to Fuxi God King, and Fuxi God King seemed to have been moved." Ao Bai said.

  "I understand, you can go now."

  "Yes! I bid you farewell!"

  The Dragon Emperor furrowed his brow, slowly standing up from the throne, looked back at the throne, and muttered to himself: "Good fortune and disaster, the Dragon Court seems powerful, but is fraught with crisis. The Ancestral Dragon wants me to be the Emperor of the Dragon Court, yet he hides away to cultivate the Great Dao. Does he really think I'm a destined person? Hmph!"