Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 1017: Chapter 378: Beginning With Slaying Nascent Souls!

Without needing more explanation, Ji Yuan also knew that the two of them were definitely using voice transmission to discuss what had just happened.

“You two, what’s wrong?”

Yin Bone Master’s voice sounded within Ji Yuan’s sea of consciousness.

Immediately after, Ma Gui said, “I just asked Fang Zhong of Celestial Killer Mountain. He heard from Senior Grave Digger that… it seems to be the legendary Butcher Mountain, right in the core area of this Rashamon Sea.”

“Butcher Mountain?”

Ji Yuan blurted out.

“Junior Brother Hu, you know of it?”

Ma Gui pressed.

“I don’t… but I keep feeling the name sounds somewhat familiar.”

On this point, Ji Yuan wasn’t lying, because at the beginning he truly didn’t know, but very quickly he recalled it.

He remembered where exactly he had heard the three words “Butcher Mountain.”

Fallen Immortal Gully, the ancestral land of the Merfolk Race, the place where he obtained the Chasing Lightning Cloud.

Back then, that unknown senior who had already sat in death had once told Ji Yuan.

He said that what was truly fast was actually this Stepping Star Wheel.

And this Stepping Star Wheel was on that Butcher Mountain.

But if one wished to obtain the Stepping Star Wheel, one had to first obtain the Chasing Lightning Cloud… Ji Yuan now already possessed the Chasing Lightning Cloud.

“I have heard a little of it…”

Yin Bone Master said slowly.

“Brother Yin Gu, speak quickly.” Ma Gui couldn’t wait and asked.

After all, this Butcher Mountain was a place that could make a group of Nascent Soul Cultivators so curious, even excited.

Ma Gui couldn’t help but be curious.

“I only saw it in a fragmentary ancient record, so I don’t know if it’s true or false.” Yin Bone Master first left himself a way out, then continued:

“It says this Butcher Mountain is actually a Divine Mountain that drifted here from another continent. Within it are countless Miracle Treasures, as well as all kinds of Treasures of Heaven and Earth suitable for Nascent Soul Cultivators. So every time Butcher Mountain appears, it will plunge the entire Jiyuan Continent into a storm of blood.”

“This… no wonder Master and the others are so excited.”

Ma Gui muttered.

While the three of them were talking via voice transmission, they saw Bone Nightmare Old Demon suddenly turn around, open up the Restriction once more, and say:

“Proceed according to the original plan. Remember, you must choose to be a Loose Cultivator; you must not join the Yin Ghost Sect!”

Ji Yuan and the other two exchanged a glance and all nodded in unison.

“Alright!”

“Also, Ma Gui, Yin Bone, you two must do your utmost to force your way into the core area. I estimate that will be where the decisive battle is. As for Hu Beizhi… your strength isn’t enough. Withdraw once you complete the task.”

This was also something Bone Nightmare Old Demon had carefully thought through.

Although Hu Beizhi was strong among those of the same level, he truly wouldn’t be enough once he entered the core area.

Rather than have him die in there, it was better to keep him outside and use him as cultivation fodder for Fire Spirit Ghost Mother.

“Yes.”

Ji Yuan was the first to respond and agree.

Ma Gui and Yin Bone Master exchanged a look, and in the end it was Ma Gui who quietly asked, “Master, has Butcher Mountain appeared?”

“Almost for sure. So when the time comes, you should also try to see if you can find an opportunity for Nascent Soul Formation.”

“Yes!”

At the mention of Nascent Soul Formation, Yin Bone Master immediately agreed.

Similar conversations were also sounding on the other high platforms.

It was just that regarding Butcher Mountain, Bone Nightmare Old Demon didn’t explain too much.

Either he also knew that this place offered little chance for people like Ma Gui.

Or he simply didn’t know much himself.

Several months flashed by.

During these few months, the Seven Holy Lands no longer had anyone leave, but conversely, many, many Core Formation Stage cultivators arrived.

They didn’t dare come close, however, only watching from afar.

The fact that the Eight Holy Lands had all arrived meant this Great Secret Realm was definitely about to emerge!

The news spread from one to ten, ten to a hundred.

Even more Core Formation Cultivators came and went here.

Ji Yuan even suspected that some Nascent Soul Cultivators were hiding in the dark, just waiting to fish in troubled waters and slip inside.

On this day.

As usual, Ji Yuan was on the high platform with his eyes closed, resting and recuperating, while also silently comprehending the Sword Manual, seizing every moment to improve his strength as much as possible.

In a daze, he suddenly discovered that from deep underground seemed to come a sigh.

Immediately after, a faint sound rang out.

“Boom—”

The sound wasn’t too loud or too soft, yet it resounded in everyone’s heart, as if a tightly closed stone door… had suddenly opened.

Ji Yuan stood up almost instantly. He was about to step forward when he suddenly sensed something.

He looked up.

He saw that above the sky canopy, at some unknown point in time, there now hung an incomparably massive Bronze Gate. It spanned the heavens, driving away clouds and scattering mist.

Even the endless wind and sand within this Desert Prison, under the suppression of this Bronze Gate, became well-behaved.

The Bronze Gate was exactly the same portal that could be conjured by the Yin Ghost Sect Token; the shape was identical.

As Ji Yuan was thinking this, he saw the Bronze Gate suddenly open a… crack.

When he blinked again, he saw one black and one white divine light streaking over from afar, flying straight into the portal and disappearing.

“Go!”

Old Demon Celestial Killer shouted loudly.

The three Demon Dao sects—Celestial Killer Mountain, Bone Nightmare Sect, Soul Refining Hall—rose up together, flying straight toward the Bronze Gate in the sky.

Ji Yuan was among them!