Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu
Chapter 528: 295: Look at the dark hole ahead, truly it is a great demon cave!

Chapter 528: Chapter 295: Look at the dark hole ahead, truly it is a great demon cave!

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Water Country, Heavenly Gorge Mountain Range.

Chen Dan walked through the forest, with Ling Ji sitting on his shoulder.

“Sis, it’s quite unseemly for you to sit on my shoulder like this.”

“If others see us, they’ll gossip about our royal family again.”

Ling Ji didn’t care, “In the Ancient Era, there weren’t so many strange rules.”

Chen Dan plucked a fruit and handed it to Ling Ji’s waist, “Sister, how do you think this era compares to the Ancient Era?”

Ling Ji said, “It’s very strange.”

“What’s strange about it?”

Ling Ji said, “Over time, the overall power of cultivators should be getting stronger, and the entire cultivation world should be more advanced.”

“But according to my recent observations, after over a hundred thousand years, you are actually lagging behind compared to the Ancient Era.”

“Only the elixirs you refine are somewhat interesting. Although there were similar things in ancient times, they weren’t as effective as the ones you make.”

“It feels to me like the whole world is continuously weakening.”

“Yes, that’s right, the whole world is becoming increasingly fragile.”

“At the very start of the Ancient Era, the gods hadn’t yet gone into hiding, and you could see them walking on the earth, but now, you can hardly see them at all.”

“But I once met one!”

When she said this, she was extremely confident.

Ling Ji bit into a fruit, only to spit it out. The fruit was filled with blood, not at all like the juice of a normal fruit.

“This land is polluted.”

“The fruits it bears have a strange taste.”

“It’s an aura that people detest.”

Chen Dan pondered Ling Ji’s words, “Could it be that the battle between the Jiguang Sect and the Holy Spirit Sect caused countless disasters, leading to the loss of divine power skills and texts, causing this regression of the era?”

Ling Ji shook her head, “Regressing by ten thousand years is understandable, but over a hundred thousand years of regression just doesn’t add up.”

“Some things, you only need to know they’re possible, and then keep trying until you achieve them again.”

“At least there’s a clear goal already.”

“Even if texts are lost, future generations can still infinitely attempt.”

“But now, I don’t see any traces left by the Holy Spirit Sect, as if they never existed.”

After a while, the two discovered a village ahead, with collapsed houses and desolate fields. The entire village seemed shrouded in twilight.

Scattered along the roadside were disordered bones, here a piece, there another.

As they continued forward, they suddenly saw a little girl lying on the ground gnawing on a piece of flesh.

This little girl appeared to have no lower body, only the upper half remaining.

Ling Ji said, “She’s no longer human.”

Chen Dan also noticed the peculiarity, with her only lower half left, her face and arms were full of bloated lumps, looking extremely terrifying.

Yet her lower body was a mass of black smoke.

Seeing the two appear, the little girl was visibly frightened, letting out a piercing scream from her throat full of lumps.

The village suddenly seemed to come alive, with many beings similar to the little girl flying out of a pit, only more thoroughly mutated.

Their flesh twisted, lacking skeletal structure, and their lower bodies completely transformed into black smoke.

Among them, several had completely turned into a mass of black smoke, with frightening red light flickering in their eyes.

A large number of mutated humans flew out, screaming at Chen Dan and Ling Ji.

For a moment, it was as if demons were dancing in chaos.

Looking around, it truly was a demonic cave of the human world.

Chen Dan said, “It seems the news from Uncle Wushang was true, the entire Water Country has become a demon cave.”

“Is there any hope for these things?”

Ling Ji shook her head, “There’s nothing I can do; they’ve been completely assimilated by the evil spirit.”

Chen Dan easily captured a black smoke creature, “Their strength is in the Qi Refining Realm. The completely transformed black smoke creatures roughly have the strength of eighth to ninth level in the Qi Refining Realm.”

“If all the Water Country’s mortals have turned into this, the war might last a very long time.”

“At times like this, Yan Lie’s fire is quite handy, burning everything in its path.”

Ling Ji shook her head, “It’s not just that. The ground of the Water Country has already become a breeding ground for evil spirits.”

“Beneath this earth is nothing but writhing flesh.”

“If we’re going to set it on fire, it would take at least a year or two to completely burn it away.”

Chen Dan said, “So, we need a lot of cultivators skilled in fire magic?”

“Yan Lie can indeed cast the divine skill of meteor shower, which is really useful.”

Ling Ji said, “After burning everything to ash, there would be an entirely new land, new mountains and rivers. At that time, I want to give every mountain and river a beautiful name!”

While the two continued to explore the current situation of the Water Country, Chen Qing was holding a meeting in the palace.

“The situation in Water Country is worsening. According to our explored information, it has now completely become a demon cave.”

“Moreover, the land has been polluted by Tai Sui, turning into Tai Sui’s Demon Soil.”

“In this situation, only by burning everything with fire can Water Country be completely leveled.”

“I intend to appoint Yan Lie as the general to form a Demon-slaying Army specifically trained in fire skills. What do you all think?”

Qitian Feng said, “We don’t have many fire element Gu in our inventory. We’ll need to buy a lot from the South Sea King and the Flame King.”

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