240: Starry Sky Ancient Road

"Sword Ancestor..."

Gu Changsheng frowned, immediately understanding.

This was the Heaven and Earth Divine Soul in chaos with the Life Soul, fighting for control of the main body.

He immediately pointed out a spiritual light, which landed on the two Divine Souls, one black and one white, like snow meeting the scorching sun. After a long struggle, the Sword Ancestor finally suppressed the chaos.

"After all, I am old..."

The Sword Ancestor let out a long sigh, his wrinkled face drooping, revealing a hint of fatigue. He chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Back then, I coveted the power of the Heart Sword and single-mindedly pursued the strongest sword techniques and Divine Abilities.

As a result, during the wind disaster a thousand years ago, my Divine Soul was injured, causing my Three Divine Souls to wander and often fall into this chaotic state.

I estimate that I won't be able to pass the next Heavenly Tribulation..."

As he spoke, the Sword Ancestor's face showed a hint of sadness. He suddenly turned to look at Gu Changsheng: "This old Daoist wants to make a deal with Fellow Daoist."

"Sword Ancestor, please speak."

"If I die during the next Heavenly Tribulation, all the secret arts and spiritual materials accumulated over these thousands of years... and even my Natal Dao Artifact, the Sword Tomb, can be given to Fellow Daoist.

I only hope that Fellow Daoist can look after Shu Mountain for me."

Thousands of years ago, the young man who impersonated a Shu Mountain Disciple had grown into a Yang Spirit Realm magnate, leading a medium-sized Sect to become an overlord within a million li radius.

How could there be no feelings?

Gu Changsheng pondered for a moment, not directly answering, but instead asked, "May I ask, Sword Ancestor, how much time is left until your next Heavenly Tribulation?"

"There are still sixty years left."

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng propped his chin, a playful expression on his face, and said, "No, Gu refuses."

"Ah... this..."

The Sword Ancestor was stunned.

The terms of this deal should be quite favorable to Gu Changsheng.

Refuse?

"Gu believes that it would be more stable for Fellow Daoist to personally oversee Shu Mountain."

As he spoke, a precious umbrella entered his palm. The umbrella beads glowed with a misty profound light, emitting a special aura outwards. The vast Heavenly Might in the Void Realm continuously receded.

"This is... the aura of a painan stone..."

The Sword Ancestor's mouth dropped open in shock, his eyes full of disbelief.

"This treasure can be temporarily lent to Fellow Daoist for Undergoing Tribulation."

Gu Changsheng's words instantly lit up the Sword Ancestor's eyes.

The two quickly made an agreement.

Gu Changsheng would lend out the Tribulation Breaking Umbrella. If the Sword Ancestor survived the disaster, he would fully assist Gu Changsheng in finding spiritual items to Breakthrough to the Middle Stage of the Yang Spirit Realm.

"Fellow Daoist, please accept my bow!"

The Sword Ancestor bowed with cupped fists.

No matter how he looked at it, he was the one benefiting from this deal.

"Sword Ancestor, there is no need for such formality.

The core painan stone of this treasure has had most of its internal energy consumed when I underwent Heavenly Tribulation, and it needs to be replenished by smelting famous mountains from all over the world.

Does Fellow Daoist know the location of any famous mountains?"

Back then, in order to replenish the painan energy, the famous mountains in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains had already been plundered clean by him.

The Sword Ancestor paused, then spoke word by word: "Most famous mountains in the world are already claimed.

However, there is a place in the world with countless famous mountains, great rivers, and rare resources. It has even given birth to many spiritual items suitable for Breakthrough to the Yang Spirit Realm."

"Where?"

Gu Changsheng's eyes shifted, and he had a faint guess in his heart.

"The Starry Sky Ancient Road."

The Sword Ancestor said, word by word.

The Starry Sky Ancient Road, though named an ancient road, is actually a long, strip-shaped region spanning countless worlds, vast and boundless, its end connecting to the legendary Immortal Realm.

While the Immortal Realm discharges impurities, it also inadvertently leaks a massive amount of Immortal Spiritual Energy, making the entire Starry Sky Ancient Road incredibly rich in resources.

At the same time, due to the pollution, countless strange creatures and dangerous places have been born.

It is said that an Eight Tribulation Yang Spirit of an alien race once tried to reach the end of this road to smuggle into the Immortal Realm.

However, halfway through, he couldn't withstand the pollution, his flesh and blood mutated, his Dharma body disintegrated, and he became a strange creature, causing an area of several million li to become a Desperate Situation (dead end).

The Human Realm is a large world among the myriad worlds, but treasures suitable for the Yang Spirit Realm are still incredibly rare.

Therefore, most of the time, the Yang Spirit Realm powerhouses of the Human Realm often explore the depths of the Starry Sky Ancient Road, or enter other alien worlds that have been drawn in by the Human Realm, searching for treasures... A few days later.

Two figures pierced through the Void Realm, faintly breaking through a barrier.

Gu Changsheng felt his eyes light up, and the brilliant Starry River Ancient Road came into view, with stars everywhere.

Immediately after, an indescribable pollution spread, and a baseless violent Qi was born in his heart.

He immediately activated the Wisdom Sword Technique to strangulation (strangle and kill) that wisp of pollution.

Looking back, a misty profound light rose around the Human Realm's fetal wall, continuously isolating a massive amount of pollution, with less than one percent of the filth penetrating through.

"The Yellow Springs Great Emperor was truly astonishing and brilliant, actually setting up a Formation that sealed heaven and earth around the entire Human Realm.

Otherwise, if the pollution had permeated all at once, countless Cultivators and Mortals would have likely mutated on the spot."

Gu Changsheng sighed.

These days, he and the Sword Ancestor sat and discussed the Dao, learning many secret pieces of information.

Often, news widely circulated in the Yang Spirit Realm was simply inaccessible to those at the Profound Cave Realm level.

"Not only that... this Formation also has the effect of attracting small worlds and concealing its own coordinates.

Since then, the Holy Realm, wanting to attack the Human Realm again, couldn't even accurately pinpoint its location, unknowingly helping the Human Realm avoid countless disasters.

Even the current number one expert in Formation Dao — Old Ancestor Sealed Essence — once said that the Yellow Springs Great Emperor's attainments in Formation Dao were a hundred times greater than his own."

The Sword Ancestor exclaimed.

Old Ancestor Sealed Essence was the one who originally created the World-Breaking Formation Plate.

He was also an Eight Tribulation Yang Spirit Realm powerhouse in the Human Realm who was still active and whose news would occasionally spread.

In reality, a Six Tribulation Yang Spirit was considered upper-middle class in the Human Realm, wielding considerable influence.

Seven Tribulation Yang Spirits rarely showed their faces.

They were usually the leaders of the Southern Wilderness, Western Extremities, Northern Plains, and Eastern Region.

As for Eight Tribulation Yang Spirits, they were always like a Dragon, seen only by its head and not its tail.

Their level had already transcended a single region, their gaze fixed on the myriad worlds, pursuing the final Ascension.

"Three hundred years ago, I once traveled to a Secret Realm on the Starry Sky Ancient Road and saw a famous river mountain that should be suitable."

"Good."

Both of them generated Escape Light (escape light) beneath their feet, shooting towards the vast and boundless starry sky.

Half a month later.

A waterfall, tens of thousands of feet high, fell vertically, like a white ribbon, spanning the Void Realm.

Clang —

A thick Sword Qi slashed across the sky, accompanied by a painful wail. Seven or eight gray giant pythons, thousands of feet long, were cut into eight segments. Foul blood spread along the turbulent silver river water.

Gu Changsheng flicked his Sword Qi, piercing the gray giant python's abdomen. A giant claw of green Origin Qi condensed in the Void Realm, pulling out a fist-sized inner core from its belly. A rich essence Qi rushed towards him.

The various exotic beasts born on the Starry Sky Ancient Road were collectively called Starry Sky Ancient Beasts.

Due to their inherently harsh environment, they were bloodthirsty from birth and possessed extremely high Innate essence.

For example, this gray giant python in front of him was an Ancient Beast of the Yang Spirit Realm.

Its strength was roughly comparable to a Two Tribulation Yang Spirit.

Especially its ancient profound light scales, which had astonishing defensive power, comparable to a Four Tribulation Yang Spirit.

The strongest gray giant python even required the Sword Ancestor to personally take action to kill it.

"These Ancient Beasts born on the Starry Sky Ancient Road are truly difficult to kill."

Gu Changsheng played with the inner core.

"Perhaps this beast was not born from the Ancient Road..."

The Sword Ancestor's expression was solemn as he looked at the bright red comb on the head of the largest gray giant python. It had traces of green secret patterns remaining, faintly forming a cauldron shape.

It was exactly like the alien Dingwen (Cauldron Mark) race in his memory.

This race cultivated divine patterns, which gathered on their foreheads.

This gray giant python in front of them had a high probability of being a Dingwen race Yang Spirit powerhouse assimilated by pollution.

This was already commonplace on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

The Sword Ancestor turned to look at the Void Realm and sighed, "In this starry sky, the biggest trouble has never been exotic beasts, alien races, or dangerous places... but the ever-present... pollution."