204: The demon tribe sent troops to promote Daoguo (asking for monthly tickets)

“Thump”

“Thump”

“Thump”

Along a covered walkway, the pattering rain fell, drip-dropping, as a rapid series of footsteps passed through, drumming on the wooden planks.

“Stop!”

A soft shout sounded.

From the center of the walkway ahead, a figure in similar green armor, with a horizontal saber, stood firm, his expression stern.

“This path is not permitted; step back.”

“There’s an urgent report from the west! I must see Lord Ninth Zhonglang!” The Patrolling Mountain Commandant from Guang’an Prefecture spoke very quickly.

“Where is your This General?” Liu Qing, who was blocking the path, asked, somewhat puzzled.

“The one who sent the report is my This General!” The Patrolling Mountain Commandant said, his expression hardening, “My This General sent people to monitor the movements at Weiyuan Pass and personally went out of the city to inspect. An urgent report just came in.”

“From Weiyuan Pass in the west, the Yao Race has mobilized their troops!”

Upon hearing this, Liu Qing’s eyes instantly flashed with sharp light, and his brows furrowed.

As the other party finished speaking,

“Clang, clang, clang”

The sound of armor clashing rang out.

On both sides of Liu Qing, along the side walls, two rows of armored soldiers appeared.

The Patrolling Mountain Commandant opposite was startled. How could the courtyard where Ninth Zhonglang resided be so heavily guarded today? It had never been like this before!

Just then, “Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh,” a few subtle sounds of air being torn.

Then, in the corridor between Liu Qing and the Patrolling Mountain Commandant, figures emerged, and powerful Qi surged forth.

A robust Hunter, dressed in green casual clothes with a fierce tiger embroidered in the middle, stepped forward, his large eyes narrowed, looking slightly downward, and said in a deep voice, “Ninth Zhonglang is in seclusion; no one is to disturb him. I will temporarily take over this matter; give me the letter.”

The speaker was Third Mountain General Chang Shan, also from Guang’an Prefecture.

The Patrolling Mountain Commandant dared not be negligent. With a flip of his hand and a slight bow, he presented a tightly sealed letter tied with a red ribbon with both hands.

Colonel Chang Shan took the letter, opened it, and his eyes swept over it, his brows furrowing deeply.

After a while, he put it away, his eyes flickering. “Have your This General constantly observe the Yao Race’s troop movements and marching progress. For now, do not act rashly, and notify your prefectural army to set up various Formations and traps outside West City, preparing for mobilization.”

“Everything else, wait until Ninth Zhonglang comes out of seclusion!”

“Yes!”

The Patrolling Mountain Commandant, having received the order, immediately turned and retreated.

At this moment, Colonel Chang Shan turned around, his brows furrowed and eyes stern, looking at the several figures behind him. “Everyone, Weiyuan City has mobilized its troops. It seems everyone needs to prepare. Last time, we killed over a dozen Heavenly Gate Devils. Now, after a few days, they are probably coming with great force.”

Qingyangzi of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, his expression unchanged, said, “It is indeed faster than Qing expected. I wonder how many of these Devils there are; they seem endless.”

In fact, after the last battle, they had already prepared for this, but it was much faster than their psychological expectation. At that time, they killed over ten Heavenly Gate Devils from Six Mountains, severely weakening Weiyuan Prefecture’s Devils. Now, it seems more powerful Devils are gathering.

“There will only be more!”

“This time, it will likely be a bloody battle. Everyone, quickly inform your Disciples to prepare. The Yao Race in Weiyuan City dares to mobilize under these circumstances, so they must have something to rely on. There might even be Dao Fruit Realm Devils.”

Colonel Chang Shan stated his conjecture, not as an alarmist, but because this possibility was very high.

The Heavenly Gate cultivators from the various Sects’ eyes flickered, they exchanged glances, and their expressions subtly changed.

“Chang Central Herald, what do you intend to do?”

“Wait!”

Saying this, his gaze lifted, his eyes flashing with sharp light, looking towards the end of the corridor.

“Wait for Ninth Zhonglang to come out of seclusion.”

The other seven, their eyes blazing, also turned their bodies to look in that direction, their eyes flickering with unusual light.

They had some conjectures.

But they had not yet confirmed them.

At this moment, in a simply decorated, ancient and elegant room in the courtyard at the end of the corridor, sealed by Restrictions, a faint spiritual light flickered.

And in the center of this room, on a futon, Chen Yuan floated three feet above it, his eyes closed.

Beneath his buttocks, clouds surged.

At this time, his Physical Body emitted a brilliant golden light. In his Dantian, the Dantian furnace flared greatly, a golden glow, as blazing as the great sun, illuminated his entire body, making it transparent.

His bones emitted a faint divine light, blood vessels surged within them like rivers, and every strand of hair emitted a crystalline brilliance.

Beneath his clear skin, golden meridians covered his entire body, especially where the Mystic Apertures were opened, like twinkling golden dots.

His entire Physical Body was overflowing with precious light, even his hair emitted a faint glow, and a strange fragrance emanated from this Physical Body.

Clearly, Chen Yuan’s Physical Body was undergoing some incredible transformation.

Even more incredibly, something was happening within his Niwan Palace!

Within the Niwan Palace, Qingshan was gone, only a vast sea of clouds.

And amidst the surging clouds, stood a blue-gold tiled glazed pagoda!

This pagoda was formed from thirty-six Qingshan Dao Seeds as its body, Golden Core True Fire tempered into glazed gold tiles, and Sword Intent Dao Seeds as its keel.

The pagoda had nine levels. The upper five levels were shrouded in clouds and mist, while the lower four levels had various colorful bas-reliefs, shimmering with light, and moving, floating, and appearing incredibly lifelike.

Those were ferocious Devils, and from bottom to top, the Devilish Qi became increasingly terrifying, as if alive. Roars of Devils shook the Niwan Palace, like the roar of ten thousand Devils. An ordinary person hearing it would probably be instantly shaken to death!

The first level contained small Devils equivalent to the Human Race’s Body Forging Realm.

The second level was for the second Realm.

The third level was for the third Realm.

The fourth level was for Heavenly Gate Devils.

These were the Devils Chen Yuan had slain, now recorded within this pagoda!

Like the Mountain Lord of Qingshan County, the Gǔdiāo from the Devilish Dao Fruit Grand Assembly, the Six Mountains Yao Race of Weiyuan Prefecture—

Large and small, too numerous to count.

A vast killing intent filled it!

The pagoda’s base spewed clouds, a profound and mysterious Qi, floating and sinking in the sea of clouds with this nine-story pagoda.

At this moment, this blue-gold glazed pagoda was still in a state of being both illusory and real. Countless Devils roared and struggled within it, and the pagoda trembled incessantly.

Just then, outside the Niwan Palace, the golden lines on Chen Yuan’s Physical Body flashed, all surging towards Chen Yuan’s glabella.

In the center of his glabella, dozens of golden lines converged, instantly bursting into brilliant golden light, radiating dazzling divine light.

There, the skin and flesh churned, and the golden light converged, like a red-hot iron needle, seeming to want to open something, or as if something was trying to drill out from under the skin.

Slowly, a golden flesh seam was opened!

In an instant, within the Niwan Palace world, as if a skylight had been opened, a brilliant golden light suddenly descended from the sky, fiercely striking the blue-gold glazed pagoda, which contained ten thousand roaring Devils, trembling between the Void Realm and reality!

With a loud clang, the golden light continuously poured into the giant pagoda. The Devil bas-reliefs, which were floating on the pagoda body and trying to break free, slowly quieted down and became still. The soul-stirring roars of the Devils also gradually disappeared.

Correspondingly, the pagoda body slowly solidified.

It was unknown how much time had passed.

Under the infusion of golden light, the entire pagoda body completely stabilized.

Lifelike, exquisitely carved, and unusually ferocious bas-reliefs covered the four levels of the pagoda body.

Once the pagoda body was stable, the golden light pillar suddenly condensed into a thin beam of light, which then shot directly onto the lintel of the first-floor pagoda door.

“Boom!”

A loud sound.

Then, the thin golden line gradually condensed into a vertical golden light mirror above the pagoda door.

As this golden light mirror finished condensing, the window in the sky of the Niwan Palace world suddenly closed, and the golden light pillar also disappeared.

The previously surging sea of clouds also became calm at this time!

The blue-gold glazed pagoda quietly floated and sank in the center, spewing clouds.

At this moment, above the sea of clouds, a golden figure condensed, revealing Chen Yuan’s Divine Soul.

Chen Yuan looked up at this “cloud-piercing” pagoda, a hint of excitement and anticipation flickering in his eyes.

He had finally broken through to the Dao Fruit Realm!

Although, in reality, it had only been about a month from his Breakthrough to Dao Soldier to entering the Dao Fruit Realm.

But too many things had happened during this time, one after another, giving him a strong sense of pressure and crisis.

Although it was just a minor Realm within the Fourth Heavenly Gate, the gap between Dao Soldier and Dao Fruit was like a chasm.

Because from the Dao Fruit Realm onwards, martial Cultivators begin to initially touch and comprehend the level of the “Dao,” and can initially utilize the power of heaven and earth.

Though very little, it was a world of difference.

He had encountered so many Fourth Heavenly Gate cultivators, and the vast majority of them remained in the Dao Soldier minor Realm, which showed how difficult it was to advance to the Dao Fruit Realm.

This hurdle was difficult because it required finding one’s own “Dao.”

The Luck points from the Banshan Tiger Talisman could accelerate his various Cultivations, but in this aspect, he needed to comprehend it himself.

Chen Yuan relied on a path of slaughter, first understanding “momentum,” or rather, Dao Heart. Then, in the process of killing, he resonated with the This General trend of heaven and earth, and captured the Breakthrough opportunity himself.

It was profound and hard to describe.

His momentum and Dao were simple and crude, just one word—kill!

His thoughts gradually settled, and his gaze focused on the pagoda.

This was the Dao Fruit that had been nurtured within his Niwan Palace.

A pagoda!

This pagoda gathered all his Divine Ability and true intent.

Mountains as the pagoda body, sword as the keel, Golden Core True Fire for tempering, Dharma Eye golden light for Restriction...

Chen Yuan’s body swayed, transforming into a streak of light, and he directly shot into the pagoda.

As his body entered, it was incredibly vast inside, clearly not matching the external size. Chen Yuan was not surprised; the Dao Fruit condensed all his Divine Ability and true intent, and this Pot Heaven technique was naturally included within it.

He observed that there were stone rooms inside the pagoda, and wherever his gaze fell, enlightenment struck him—they were used for locking Devils and refining demons.

Chen Yuan went up four levels, but the fifth level was enveloped in white mist, and he couldn’t go up; he couldn’t visualize a way to ascend.

The fifth level should be the level capable of suppressing the Martial Treasury.

Chen Yuan looked up at the white mist above, his eyes shining.

Martial Treasury, oh Martial Treasury!

It’s not far off now.

He didn’t continue to dwell on it. His body flashed, and the next second, he appeared outside the pagoda.

Next, he prepared to test the power of his “Pagoda Dao Fruit.”

At this moment, he closed his eyes, then opened them again, his consciousness returning to his Physical Body. Then, with a flick of his sleeve, a large number of spiritual lights appeared.

One by one, Devil spirits emerged.

Then, Chen Yuan snorted and inhaled, drawing these restrained Devil spirits into his nose.

What would be a good name for this Dao Fruit?