Ascension Through Generations

This is an island in a lake with an area of ​​nearly a hundred miles. The island is extremely full of spiritual energy, and the clear and transparent lake water is faintly fluorescent, constantly lapping at the shore.

On the edge of Spirit Island, there are mountains of bones piled up on the beach. Most of them have rotted, but they can still be seen as the skeletons of various human beings.

These demonic beast bones range from large to small, as small as the bones of a baby, to as large as the spines of giant beasts hundreds of feet tall.

Not only on the beach, decaying bones can be seen everywhere on the ground inside the island. In such a dim environment, green will-o'-wisps are floating everywhere in the wilderness outside the city, making the atmosphere even more eerie and terrifying.

What is even more shocking is that a mountain of bones has been piled up in the center of the island. The number of bones there is incalculable, and it is piled up to a height of more than 700 feet.

At the top of the White Bone Mountain, a bone altar was suddenly opened. In the center of the altar stood a skull statue more than ten feet tall. On the forehead of the statue was a seemingly ordinary white human skull, with a mouthful of colorful... of orbs.

A white bone ladder made of countless skeletons leads from the foot of the mountain to the altar on the top of the mountain.

At this moment, hundreds of figures were climbing up the Bone Ladder. Even though their limbs were scratched by bone spurs and their limbs were dripping with blood, and even though their faces were crying and begging for mercy in despair, they did not dare to stop.

Because everyone who stopped where they were was picked out of the crowd by the inhumane sand thieves, and then all of them were thrown into the bone mountain and fed to billions of ghost ghost ants.

The Black King City was built around this mountain of bones. A series of extremely luxurious buildings and palaces of different styles are located around this mountain, each covering a vast area.

In a large circle to the outside, there are neat and orderly markets and streets, which are completely different from the chaotic order of the legendary sand pirates.

But Zhao Sheng could tell at a glance that all the city buildings and every street were actually part of a certain high-level formation, and the core of the formation was in the mountain of bones.

The large urban area on the outermost edge of Black King City is very consistent with the traditional image of a sand bandit's nest in the eyes of the world. Countless stone houses and wooden buildings are built very haphazardly, and large shacks are scattered in the corners. It looks very chaotic and disorderly.

In the outer city, violent killings can be seen everywhere in broad daylight without any cover-up.

The tradition of respecting the strong in the world of immortality is vividly reflected in Black King City.

…

Zhao Sheng hovered over the spirit island, secretly releasing his soul and spiritual energy to sweep across the island, and in the blink of an eye, he took in all the scenes of the Black King City.

"It's wonderful, it's a coincidence that it couldn't have come sooner! I just happened to experience the mystery of the Inner Demon Initiation Method." Zhao Sheng raised the corner of his mouth and said to himself as his eyes fell on the White Bone Mountain in the center of the city.

As soon as he finished speaking, the whole person quietly turned into a phantom, and instantly appeared in the corner of the Bone Altar on the top of the mountain.

The person who presided over this initiation ceremony was an old man with yellow hair and a kind face.

This person's name is Sha Tongtian, and his status is very important. He is one of the deputy city lords of Black King City, and he is also an old demon who has been promoted to Nascent Soul for many years.

Sha Tongtian looked extremely indifferent, as if he had already lost his humanity. This person was completely unaware of Zhao Sheng's arrival.

Soon after, the first person to climb to the top of the mountain finally appeared. It turned out to be a frail woman.

But people should not be judged by their appearance! This woman looks weak and slender, but she is the one with the highest level of cultivation among this group of people, and her strength has reached the level of golden elixir.

The reason why I climbed the ladder honestly was because this Bone Mountain was too evil, and its strange restraining power completely suppressed everyone's cultivation.

As the first person climbed to the top of the mountain, the second, third, and even more people successfully climbed to the top, but they were all forced to walk to the center of the altar and stand under the skull statue.

Hundreds of immortal cultivators climbed the Bone Ladder at the same time, but only a few or thirty were able to stand under the statue alive in the end. The other losers became food for the ghost ants.

Zhao Sheng restrained his breath and stood at the edge of the altar invisibly, observing Sha Tongtian's every move expectantly.

Looking at the injured and lifeless people, Sha Tongtian suddenly smiled cruelly, and said in a gentle voice: "Listen, we will hold an initiation ceremony later. If you can persist to the end, you will survive. Otherwise, there will only be one Words die!”

When the thirty or so survivors heard this, they all felt excited, and their eyes suddenly filled with the desire for life.

Seeing the high morale of everyone, Sha Tongtian nodded seemingly satisfied, then turned to face the skull statue and recited an ancient curse that no one could understand.

As the sound of this curse spread throughout the Bone Altar, Zhao Sheng felt invisible divine thoughts erupting from Sha Tongtian's body, and instantly disappeared into the colorful orb between the eyebrows of the statue.

In an instant, the orb burst out into a large dazzling and colorful brilliance, instantly covering the entire bone altar and all the survivors under the statue.

Zhao Sheng did not dodge or dodge, his body was "immersed" in this dazzling and colorful brilliance.

Suddenly, countless people's wild laughter and roars sounded inexplicably in his ears, and then an unusually powerful and strange spiritual wave appeared out of thin air, trying to break into his Zifu Soul Sea in a arrogant and domineering manner.

But they were all blocked by the power of the soul, and they were still unable to do anything about the true king who transformed into a god.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng made a slight opening and felt that strange spiritual thought finding its way in, invading the Zi Mansion space.

In an instant, countless memory scenes burst into his mind at the same time, as if the memories of thousands of people were forced into his mind at the same time. The scenes were all burning, killing, looting, and pure violence!

In an instant, just like all the evil deeds in the world are nakedly displayed in the depths of your memory at the same moment,

This is an immeasurable torrent of memory!

Normal people's minds cannot hold on for a breath in front of it, and will be easily washed away by the "torrent", and then be contaminated, assimilated, and brainwashed by the massive memory fragments, and finally become a member of the collective memory.

In a trance, countless "yous" appeared. You were burning, killing and looting, enjoying the bliss of the world, and dying in extreme madness.

Zhao Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and two divine lights exploded in his eyes, destroying the weird mental fluctuations that invaded his soul with one thought.

At this time, he truly understood why the sand bandits in the endless desert kept killing them and why they always reappeared!

It turns out that the truth of the inner demon initiation method is actually a kind of evil magic that distorts the will and assimilates the soul.

This kind of evil magic seems extremely evil, but its intention is extremely profound, and it seems to originate from some kind of great law. The mystery of the method is really subtle and unpredictable, and even he has difficulty deciphering it for a while.

Zhao Sheng even got a glimpse of a higher-level magic principle from the principle of this method. He had a vague feeling that this evil method was probably the work of a certain demon giant in the spiritual world, and even the Black King City and even this underground space. This man opened it with his own hands.

"None of the successive gods of the Black Sand Realm took action to destroy the Black King's City. It seems that there is an amazing secret hidden in it. No wonder the Black King's City has always stood firm."

When he thought of this, Zhao Sheng's eyes suddenly froze, and he was already retreating.

At this moment, most of the thirty or so survivors had their minds collapsed and became "living corpses" driven only by desire.

When the last ancient mantra fell, there were only seven people in the center of the altar who could still remain conscious, including the golden elixir female cultivator.

It's just that they are not much better at the moment. Everyone's eyes have become cruel and evil, and their whole bodies are full of violence.

"Kill them!"

Following Sha Tongtian's order, the seven "new sand pirates" all showed excited and cruel smiles, and they attacked the "living corpse" next to them without hesitation.

Scenes of bloody and violent scenes soon appeared on the Bone Altar, which immediately made the sand bandits guarding around them laugh and cheer wildly with excited expressions, and scream and roar incessantly.

As the thick smell of blood filled the air, the dazzling light in the air was unconsciously stained with a layer of blood. At this moment, two pure white flames quietly appeared in the depths of the eyes of the skull statue, seeming to be staring at something.

Zhao Sheng felt a chill in his heart. At the moment when the blood flames condensed, the whole person disappeared from the place out of thin air, but he didn't know that he had escaped unintentionally.

…

Beimen City, Ping'an Square.

Deep in a magnificent and luxurious mansion, Zhao Sheng's figure suddenly appeared in the corner of the garden, and then he flashed and flew into a hall.

"Master, you're back!" Sha Sheng heard the footsteps outside the door and looked up, just in time to see Zhao Shengfei coming in. He quickly threw down the chicken legs in his hand and shouted happily.

Mr. Han, who was waiting on the side, saw the master appear. He immediately paid homage with a smile on his face and sang loudly.

Zhao Sheng nodded at him and said to Sha Sheng, "The master's business is done. Sha Sheng, please go with me."

oh!

Sha Sheng reluctantly looked at the table full of food, stood up slowly, walked around the table and walked to the master's side.

Zhao Sheng waved his sleeves and swept away. After a gust of wind, the master and apprentice were no longer in the hall, but there was an extra white elixir bottle on the dining table.

The moment Mr. Han saw the elixir bottle, he rushed to the table like a hungry tiger, grabbed the elixir bottle, then hurriedly opened the elixir seal and poured out a milky white elixir, which was the first-order top-grade elixir solid nourishing elixir.

It's not that Zhao Sheng is generous, but this pill is already the most rubbish and useless pill in the Sumeru space.

After leaving the mansion, Zhao Sheng quickly purchased a spiritual cave in the inner city and temporarily settled Shasheng here.

A few days later, there were more than a dozen beautiful maids in the cave.

At the same time, Zhao Sheng also officially assumed the responsibility of being a teacher. From then on, Sha Sheng lived a life of darkness, and only various delicacies could soothe his young heart.

In order to live up to the special physique that Sha Sheng was born with, Zhao Sheng took great pains to create a major training method "Red Refining Ten Thousand Transformations Body" for his apprentice after painstaking meditation.

This method is a fire body refining method, which is mainly used to refine the strange poisons in the world. It can not only continuously stimulate the potential of the physical body, but also cultivate the unique spiritual power of fire poison. Once it is refined, it will have few opponents at the same level.

If one reaches the Dacheng state in cultivation, there is a certain chance of transcending levels to fight.

A few months later, the chaotic spiritual power in Sha Sheng's body was successfully transformed into a purer red refining spiritual power, and his cultivation level also improved, reaching the fourth level of Qi refining.

During this period, Zhao Sheng had sneaked into the Xinglong Mountains where the Zhao family was located several times, secretly knowing the inside and outside of the Zhao family, and fully grasping all the secrets of the Zhao family and the current status of the family.

Of course, it also includes the grievances and hatreds between the Zhao family and the Beiming family. Therefore, we know where the biggest threat currently facing this branch comes from.

This time, he returned to the Black Sand Realm for roughly three purposes. The first was to see how the Zhao family in the Black Sand was developing; the second was to prepare for his future ascension, and the last purpose was for the cross-border building. Teleportation array.

It's a pity that he went through the Zhao's Scripture Collection Pavilion and read all the manuscripts left by Zhao's ancestors, but he didn't see any record of successful transmission back to "Xingxu".

After discovering this extremely regrettable fact, Zhao Sheng also felt a little disappointed, but he quickly suppressed this regret deeply.

In fact, he just wanted to go back to Tianzhu Realm to have a look, and did not necessarily want to return to his hometown. This thought in my heart is not an obsession at all!

Out of some consideration, Zhao Sheng did not intend to reveal his identity, but instead changed his identity to contact Zhao.

…

Years pass by in a blink of an eye.

On this day, deep in the Xinglong Mountains, in a deep valley covered with green mountains, a gurgling stream with clear water meandered through it. Clouds were rising in the spiritual fields on both sides of the bank, and from time to time, gentle and crisp bird songs could be heard from the spiritual fruit forest. .

In the steepest area of ​​the valley, the stream has nine twists and turns, with dense rocks on both sides. At the bend, the water slows down and converges into a deep green pool.

There is a platform cut from a huge stone on the edge of the deep pool. Sitting cross-legged on it is a young and beautiful man in a green robe, lowering his head and playing with several spiritual rice plants whose grains are as crystal clear as agate.

He has good facial features, handsome face, and aloof temperament, making him appear to be extraordinarily worldly.

Not far from this person, an old man in black robes was sitting opposite an old woman with white hair. There is an apricot-yellow alchemy cauldron with three legs and six ears between the two of them. You come and go and inject a series of alchemy auras into it. It is obvious that some kind of competition is going on.

Among them, the black-robed old man's clothes are very neat, without any wrinkles, and the black silk on his head is meticulously tied high. The whole person looks clean and tidy. He is Zhao Yuedu, the only Yuanying ancestor of the Zhao family.

The white-haired old woman opposite him looked much more slovenly. She was wearing a moon-white robe with scattered red patterns embroidered on it. Her shoulders were drooped on both sides, and she supported her head with one hand. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes were sleepy. Seems extremely lazy.

This person can actually compete with Zhao Yuedu in his alchemy skills, so his status is naturally extraordinary.

This person's true identity is the Great Elder of the Wuque Palace Alchemy Peak, the Grand Master Chen Mingye, who is known as "Holy Hand Alchemy Heart", and is already in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.

In addition, she is not only a great master of alchemy, but also one of only five masters in the spiritual farming industry.

It is worth mentioning that Zhao Yuedu is one of the five spiritual farming masters.