Chapter 17: The Inverse Heaven Treasure Mirror (Part 1)

  This protective heart mirror is not an ordinary magic weapon, it was originally the first of the three great sacred artifacts of Qianhui Valley, and belonged to a senior master of Qianhui Valley. A thousand years ago, the Orthodox Alliance joined forces to destroy the Demon Sect, and that senior master of Qianhui Valley relied on his profound cultivation and single-handedly fought against the Demon Sect's leader, Ye Tian, but ultimately died under Ye Tian's several dark and evil magic treasures. This protective heart mirror naturally fell into Ye Tian's hands.

  In order to avenge their fellow daoist and retrieve this sacred artifact, the five masters of Wuzhao Sect jointly launched a powerful divine thunderbolt, and finally defeated the Demon Sect, but this sacred artifact was never recovered, and Qianhui Valley regarded it as a great grievance. The demon lord Mo Kui was originally Ye Tian's trusted general, and this time Ye Tian sent him to investigate the Orthodox Alliance of Seven Sects. In order to avoid exposing his identity, he temporarily lent him this magic treasure to conceal the Demon Sect's aura.

  Unfortunately, Mo Kui was too impatient and exposed his identity in front of Zhi Shui Daozun and Piao Yu Daozun, causing the mission to fail. In a state of unwillingness, Mo Kui hid nearby, and not long after, he discovered Hailong with great surprise, and followed him to gather information, but unexpectedly brought himself a fatal disaster. And this protective heart mirror was lost on the ground when Hailong used the Blood Eight Trigrams to break through his chest.

  The protective heart mirror was originally an Orthodox artifact, and the Demon Sect could not exert its true power with their demonic skills, otherwise Mo Kui would not have been injured by that small iron stick with only a divine consciousness attached. At this time, the protective heart mirror fell into Hailong's hands, and under the attraction of the two Buddhist qi in his body, it suddenly entered the process of recognizing its master.

  For a long time, being suppressed by Ye Tian's magic power, this protective heart mirror suddenly released a large amount of sacred spirit energy when it was suddenly freed. And Hailong took advantage of the situation, and under the circumstances of good fortune, he successfully guided this sacred spirit energy into his own body. For someone like him who had just entered the realm of cultivation, having the purest sacred spirit energy from the sacred artifact to assist him would be extremely beneficial for his future cultivation.

  Two days later, in a certain secret lair of the Demon Sect.

  A tall middle-aged man sat cross-legged on a stone pedestal like an altar, with circles of black and red light constantly radiating outward from him.

  "The demonic form appears, all evil gathers in my hand, settled." A black crystal ball suddenly appeared before him, with a massive dark red halo swirling around it, the color of the crystal ball grew even darker.

  The light gradually disappeared, and the middle-aged man's right hand held a crystal ball that floated down to the ground. He slowly raised his head. His face was stern, his shoulders extremely broad, and he wore a black robe with a red cloak on his back. A half-black and half-white long hair fell from the center of his head, resting on both sides of his shoulders. A terrifying and dangerous aura constantly emanated from him. Two blood-red eyes flashed with fierce light, as if filled with anger.

  The middle-aged man's voice was thick and eerie, "Ma Kui, what exactly happened? Who beat you to the point where your body and spirit were almost destroyed? If I hadn't used the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl to stabilize your primordial spirit in time, I'm afraid you would have lost your soul long ago."

  "Big Brother Tie Tian, you must avenge me! If it were those righteous cultivators who beat me up like this, I wouldn't be so resentful. To think about it is really embarrassing... that day..."

  After a while, after listening to Mo Gui's narrative, the master of the Demon Sect, Rui Tian, suddenly trembled with rage all over his body. He fiercely raised the black crystal ball in his hand above his head and shouted: "You useless thing, you were actually outsmarted by a young Fow Tiger at the initial stage, you're not worthy to be kept." As he spoke, he was about to shatter the crystal ball in his hand.

  "Spare him, Lord." A clear voice rang out, and a dark figure appeared three meters away from Rui Tian's side.

  "Is he worth your pleading when he has no time for you?"

  Yin Shadow said: "Master, please calm down. Things are probably not that simple. Although Mo Qi was plotted against by someone under his carelessness, the person who plotted against him must have had a rare treasure in their hands. Otherwise, with such a big difference in realm, it would be impossible to severely injure Mo Qi again. At this time, our sect is just using people, and Mo Qi's cultivation is not weak. Why do you need to kill him? Let him atone for his crime by making contributions."

  He had been cultivating for three thousand years, and in terms of individual strength, he was still above Jie Tian Dao Zun and Wu Yun Fo Zun. After listening to An Ying Wu Xiao's explanation, he suddenly calmed down. The demon Kuai in the black crystal ball was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, and his human face was filled with a pleading expression.

  Heaving a deep sigh, Ji Tian said: "Mo Que, this time I'll let you off. From now on, it's up to you what you do. Later, Mo Yan will take you to find a good quality living being to reincarnate into. You have 100 years, only 100 years. If within 100 years you can't recover your original cultivation, then don't come see me again."

  Mo Kui barely escaped with his life and hastily said: "Thank you, Master Zong, for sparing my life. From now on, I will definitely get close to you and assist you with all my might."

  "Right now, our strength is not enough to clash with the Orthodox hard, you order the five demon executioners to immediately go and find out where that kid who killed Mo Gui is. It's essential to bring him back to see me. He should be on his way back to Lianyun Sect at this moment. Let the five demon executioners search from Fanxin Sect all the way west, they should be able to find his whereabouts. At the same time, intensify the training of those captured kids, especially those with good qualifications. Even if it means using the Open Heaven Great Method, let them become proficient within a hundred years. In at most five hundred years, it will be our turn to counterattack against the Orthodox."

  Wu Xiao said: "Sect Master, recently the Evil Sect and the Demon Sect have been making frequent moves. Shouldn't we warn them?"

  He snorted coldly and said, "Who cares about their lives or deaths? If they want to collide with the righteous path, let them be. I'm afraid that by then, they won't even know how to die properly. You must expedite the matter of capturing that little brat. I have a premonition that he will somehow affect our great undertaking in the future."

  "Yes, Master. Oh, right. Master, there's something I don't know if I should mention or not."

  A red light flashed in Tiān Yǎn's eyes and he said: "Speak. You are my adopted daughter, from now on even this position is yours, what can't be discussed?"

  Wu Xiao said: " Sect Master, you are now close to the Devil's Turning boundary. If you break through this boundary, I'm afraid that in 500 years, with your cultivation, there is a possibility of meeting the Devil's Tribulation. You see..."

  Ji Tian raised his hand to stop him from continuing, saying: "I am clear about my own situation, even if I have to face the demon calamity, I will definitely destroy those despicable righteous paths first. Especially those five small people of Zhào Xiān, if I don't beat them until their bodies and spirits are destroyed and they can never ascend again, how can I be at peace? Just thinking about how he almost perished under the Shén Yuè Tiān Léi a thousand years ago, Ji Tian's chest surged with furious energy.

  The voice in the void gained a hint of humanization and whispered softly: "Old Master, are you confident that you can overcome the demonic tribulation?"

  He let out a soft sigh, shook his head and said: "I'm afraid that in this world, whether it's me with my evil path or those self-proclaimed righteous paths, no one has the confidence to overcome the calamity. We can only take things one step at a time. For us demonic cultivators to become demon immortals by overcoming the calamity, there hasn't been any successful examples yet. I've lived for thousands of years already, if it really doesn't work out in the end, I'll just have to use the Heavenly Demon's Body Dissolution Technique to abandon my physical body and restart my cultivation. I don't have any other hopes except that within my lifetime, I want to lead our demonic sect to dominate the Divine State, thoroughly eliminating those so-called righteous paths. Alright, go do what you need to do."

  "Yes, Your Lordship."

  "Oh, right, after catching that little guy, don't hurt his life first. After retrieving the treasure, bring him to see me immediately. I want to see what kind of person can destroy Mo Qi's physical body with the cultivation of Fuhu Boundary, maybe he is really a talent."

  "Wo, Master, are you planning on taking him in as your own?"

  "We'll see about that, let's wait and see. Hmph, Maou's physical body won't be destroyed for nothing."

  ……

  It was unclear how much time had passed, but Hailong's lost consciousness gradually cleared up. The sounds of insects and birds, as well as the faint smell of blood, continuously stimulated his senses. He rubbed his blurry eyes and muttered to himself, "Where am I?" As his consciousness recovered, Hailong slowly recalled everything that had happened before. The ground was now covered in a deep purple-black color, with bloodstains standing out particularly clearly. Instinctively, he touched the area around his chest, where the protective mirror was still intact, and a warm flow of energy continued to circulate between his heartbeats. His entire body felt like it had an inexhaustible supply of strength.

  "It seems that this is indeed a good thing, I don't know if the airflow inside will help me improve my realm. Listening to the wind, investigate." A yellow light flashed, and Haicheng saw his own realm, he was disappointed to find that he was still stuck in the early stages of Fútǔ.

  "This is terrible, it seems that advancing to this realm is really not easy. Never mind, let's hurry up and run first. I don't know how many days have passed, if the people from Mo Sect come, I'm afraid I'll be in big trouble." Thinking of this, Hailong didn't care about his growling stomach, recalled the cyan armor outside his body, and flew northward at high speed.

  It was because the Sea Dragon changed direction that he temporarily escaped the pursuit of the Demon Sect. He had just left when the Demon Sect's expert arrived at the riverbank. Because they didn't find any trace of the Sea Dragon, and this place is close to the Fan Xin Sect, they didn't stay for long and immediately followed the river westward, searching for the Sea Dragon's whereabouts.

  Ten days later.

  A figure kept darting back and forth in the forest, its complex foliage unable to impede his progress. The man's clothes were tattered, with most areas except for a few important parts shredded into strips by thorns, his face smeared with dirt and stubble making him look exceptionally disheveled. For ten days, Ha Long had been sprinting northwest without daring to stop, taking only remote mountain paths, drinking from springs when thirsty, and eating wild fruit when hungry, relying solely on the sun to guide his direction. To avoid revealing his identity, he stored all his magical tools except for the Blood Eight Trigrams and the unremovable Heart Mirror in the Qian Kun Ring. Strangely, the small iron rod given by the strange man refused to enter the ring, and whenever Ha Long tried to use the ring's blue light to touch it, it would suddenly grow thicker and longer, extremely mysterious. The Qian Kun Ring also seemed to reject it, as its glow would dim abruptly when coming into contact with the iron rod. Thus, the small iron rod became the third magical tool that could not be stored in the Qian Kun Ring.

  Within ten days, he had traveled thousands of miles. Originally, he was not familiar with the situation on the Divine Continent, and now he didn't even know where he was.

  Panting, he sat on the ground, and Hai Long took out a fruit that he had picked yesterday, wiped it clean with his tattered clothes, and took a big bite. "Damn it, now even I don't recognize myself, they'll never find me, right? Humph, wait till I reach a higher realm in the future, I'll make all you bastards kneel down and beg for mercy. Screw you, Magic Qi, if you dare to bother me again, I'll cut off your fifth limb." As he muttered to himself, Hai Long couldn't help but reveal his indignation. For the past few days, besides rushing around, he had been meditating in stillness, but no matter how focused he was, his cultivation didn't seem to have improved even a bit, and he remained stuck at the initial stage of Fow Tiger.

  Leaning against the big tree, Hailong closed his eyes and felt the fresh air in the forest, slowly entering a dreamland. These days, he had been too tense to escape with his life. It wasn't until now that he felt safe enough to fall asleep. The situation of the meridians in his body appeared before his eyes again, and the originally yellow-green mixed energy inside him had gained a blue hue after absorbing the spiritual energy from the Heart Mirror. Although Hailong vaguely felt that the three energies together were somewhat unharmonious, he didn't feel any discomfort, and since he was still on the run, he didn't pay too much attention to it. The three strands of energy slowly moved forward, entwined together, with almost equal strength, without any rejection between them. Especially the blue airflow that had been infused later was extremely friendly with Hailong's cultivated Heart Mirror green airflow, and the two energies seemed to be able to transform into each other. In the circulation of the three energies, Hailong could feel that the green energy represented by the Heart Mirror would absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth as he urged it on, while the blue airflow would absorb some unknown energy through the Heart Mirror, and the yellow airflow would directly absorb Buddha's energy from the small iron rod. The three airflows absorbed different energies simultaneously, although they didn't grow stronger, but made Hailong's inner enlightenment clearer and clearer. The impurities in his body had long been eliminated, and under the action of the three energies, his bones and meridians underwent a certain transformation.

  "Ssh, ssh." The faint rustling sound awakened the sea dragon from its meditation. It opened its eyes, and two icy glints flashed by. With its back against a large tree, its body floated up silently, without making a sound. In the blink of an eye, it had already arrived at a spot with lush branches. Under mental control, it concentrated three different attributes of magic power in its hand, ready to respond with the Blood Eight Trigrams at any moment. At the same time, its other hand took out the Illusory Dragon from the Qiankun Ring, and its eyes stared fixedly in the direction where the sound came from.

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