122: Chapter 123 The Black Sun Covers Mountains and Seas

True Disciple of Array was incoherent, his eyes filled with terror and dread:

"It's a Venerable One! A Venerable One at the Heda Realm! No... it's an Immortal! A True Immortal!"

"We don't know where it came from, but it suddenly attacked Penglai Immortal Island! The Prodigies from the major Sects caught in the aftermath of the Venerable One's battle... nine out of ten died! Nine out of ten! I only escaped by tearing through the Void Realm using a life-saving Formation Plate bestowed by my Sect!"

The news struck the three like a thunderbolt, making their scalps tingle!

The Heda Realm was an existence above Soul Transformation, a veritable titan of a region, usually elusive and rarely seen. Why would such a being suddenly launch such a vicious attack on Penglai Immortal Sect and the younger generation?

"Do you know which Venerable One it was? What was the reason?" Xie Wuxin pressed, forcibly suppressing his shock.

The Venerable Ones of the Mountain and Sea all had names and reputations; they weren't difficult to identify.

"I don't know! I couldn't see! I only know It was shrouded in dark-golden Immortal Qi, Its methods ruthless and merciless. The aura of wondrous rhyme emanating from It... if any of us had truly seen It, we would have undoubtedly died!"

True Disciple of Array trembled all over: "My Dayan Array Sect is completely unreachable. I can't sense the auras of the elders anymore. I wonder if you all could..."

"I understand. First, we return to the Sect!" Xie Wuxin decided decisively.

The three took True Disciple of Array and sped at their fastest pace towards the direction of the Biyang Sword Sect.

However, when they arrived at the remembered location of their Sect's territory, they witnessed a scene that froze their Souls.

Nothing!

The region where the Biyang Sword Sect's mountain gate once stood, originally filled with soaring Sword Qi and floating immortal peaks, was now only a void of darkness!

The stars in the sky had shifted position; the continents and cloud seas on the ground had changed!

The entire Sect, along with the starry sky above it, had been utterly erased by an invisible, colossal hand!

"No! Impossible!"

Ye Xianfeng's eyes nearly burst from their sockets. He frantically activated his Sect token, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response whatsoever.

Xie Wuxin attempted to sense the Sect's sword seal using a secret method, but it was equally silent and unreachable, mirroring True Disciple of Array's failed attempt to contact the Dayan Array Sect!

Despair flooded over them like a tidal wave.

For the next several years, the four wandered like lonely ghosts across the vast Mountain and Sea.

Sometimes they would ascend to the heavens, searching the dead, silent starry void for other living beings.

However, wherever they looked, stars were dim, and many familiar divine and demonic phantoms of the Mountain and Sea had dissipated.

Occasionally, they encountered Cultivators from other Dao traditions, all in a state of panic and dread, speaking vaguely, only knowing that a world-shaking catastrophe had occurred.

On this day, Shen Moyan was meditating on a sea island when he suddenly felt something. He jerked his head up to gaze at the firmament.

There, in what was originally the blue sky, hung a massive black sun, pitch-black as ink, devouring all light!

The black sun hung in the sky, casting a suffocating darkness, a Dao Rhyme of the end of all things.

"This is...!"

Shen Moyan's pupils constricted sharply; the blood in his veins almost froze.

He was far too familiar with the aura of this black sun.

But the one before his eyes was infinitely more vast and terrifying, by billions of times, than the Dao Rhyme on that death exemption gold plaque.

It was the Xuanhuang Emperor Lord!

Simultaneously, the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth began to change bizarrely. After being absorbed into the body, it actually made one feel somewhat restless and agitated.

"The Spiritual Qi is problematic!"

Xie Wuxin's expression changed, having also detected it.

Shen Moyan also discovered that the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth was evolving in the direction of the Spiritual Qi of later eras.

He looked at the three beside him, a thought surfacing in his mind.

The three had perfectly round Golden Cores, their auras not insignificant.

He wondered what they would taste like... "This Spiritual Qi is distorting our cognition!" Shen Moyan jolted in alarm and hurriedly executed the Scripture of Severing All Manifestations to dispel the previous thought.

"Fellow Daoist True Disciple of Array! What's wrong with you?!" Ye Xianfeng cried out in shock.

They saw the Dayan Array Sect's Prodigy, True Disciple of Array, his face twisted in agony, the Formation patterns around his body in disarray. His body was visibly lignifying at a visible speed!

His skin became rough, showing ring-like patterns, his limbs turned into roots and branches, and green leaves sprouted from the top of his head.

"Spiritual Root manifestation! The mutated Spiritual Qi has activated the wood Spiritual Root within him!" Xie Wuxin's eyes turned icy cold as he instantly deduced the cause.

In just a few breaths, True Disciple of Array transformed into a ginseng radiating vast Spiritual Qi.

And his Golden Core was lodged in the center of the ginseng, round, golden, and incredibly alluring.

A flash of sword light, and the fully formed ginseng was severed at the root by Xie Wuxin.

Expressionless, Xie Wuxin drew the ginseng into his hand, placed the Golden Core into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed.

Pure life Origin and Formation Dao Rhyme surged into his body, temporarily suppressing the erosion of the surrounding mutated Spiritual Qi on his Sword Heart.

"Sword Child! What are you doing!" Ye Xianfeng's eyes nearly burst, his heavy sword pointing directly at Xie Wuxin. "He was our Fellow Daoist!"

"He is no longer True Disciple of Array, merely a potent medicinal herb."

Xie Wuxin's tone was indifferent, his eyes holding only cold.

"And I've tested it."

"Consuming this person has a suppressing effect on our own mutation."

At these words, Shen Moyan and Ye Xianfeng fell silent.

"The times have changed. Hesitation is death. If you cannot accept this, you may seek your own path."

"Bastard!" Ye Xianfeng roared, his Mountain-Crushing Sword Intent erupting, ready to fight Xie Wuxin.

But when he looked at Xie Wuxin, his gaze was drawn to the area of his Dantian, a trace of greed flashing in his eyes.

A profound chill surged in Shen Moyan's heart.

Even these Sword Sect Prodigies with steadfast Dao Hearts had their minds affected.

His figure shot backward, the Azure Wave Stillness Step executed to its limit, instantly putting distance between himself and the other two.

He saw clearly: Xie Wuxin, by consuming the ginseng, could temporarily stabilize his mind, but his Sword Heart was already tarnished. Ye Xianfeng, while On the surface wanting to stop him, actually desired to kill and consume people.

Both were infected! This place was not safe to linger!

Xie Wuxin gave Shen Moyan a cold glance but did not Prevent. His form transformed into a streak of sword light and clashed with Ye Xianfeng, disappearing into the chaotic sea region.

"Is this the beginning of the ancient great calamity..." Shen Moyan suppressed the shock in his heart.

He released his Divine Sense, enveloping all directions.

Between heaven and earth, the aura of immortal elegance was gone, replaced only by a The pervasive crimson and Wailing cries across the fields.

The Yao Beasts that usually occupied the mountains and forests were now fleeing in panic, Like a lost dog.

Their perception of the Spiritual Qi changes was far sharper than humans'. They only felt a terrifying aura that made their Souls tremble filling the world.

All notions of Bloodline dignity and territorial instinct were replaced by the primal instinct for survival.

Demonic birds took flight in panic, blotting out the sky, not knowing where to flee. Giant beasts trampled through forests, running wildly, smashing through mountain peaks without realizing it.

They didn't even bother hunting the panicked human Cultivators, instinctively wanting only to distance themselves from that high-hanging black sun.

Whenever Shen Moyan passed by a minor immortal Dao Sect, he witnessed scenes of utter horror: Cultivators preying on each other, Savage as a monster.

He saw a Golden Core Cultivator, howling as his body distortion, transforming into a bizarre spirit fungus, which was then frantically torn apart and devoured by his companions.

He saw several Foundation Establishment Cultivators fighting over a Golden Core corpse. The victor Swallow the flesh and blood of the loser, straining with all his might to suppress his own mutation.

But as the concentration of mutated Spiritual Qi increased, and he hadn't consumed enough, he too transformed into a human-shaped great medicine.

Once spiritually endowed immortal mountains and blessed lands now had Depleted spiritual veins and Withered Spirit Herb. Protective mountain Formations Shattered under attack from within and without.

Relying on "Seeing Xiyi," Shen Moyan forcibly resisted the erosion of the mutated Spiritual Qi on his Golden Core, Conceal all aura. He moved like a ghost across the desolate seas, avoiding those Cultivators who had descended into madness.

"Why did the Five-Colored Heavenly Realm bring me to this insane era?"

Standing on an immortal mountain engulfed in great flames, Shen Moyan coldly watched all this unfold, Doubts lingered in my mind.