"Such a powerful Divine Chi, and a faint hint of demonic energy." Zi Xuan had already summoned the Water Spirit, which appeared in front of the Floating Island.
Her strong drive stemmed from the fact that she discovered Lin Yeping's face in her memories had become Jing Tian, and she wanted to distract herself.
"A demon?" Xu Changqing seemed to have been injected with adrenaline, and immediately Sword Flight.
He had already attributed the impending eruption of the underwater volcano to this suddenly appearing Floating Island.
Jing Tian took a step forward, and a blue portal opened up before him. The next moment, he appeared beside Zi Xuan, with Long Kui and the others following closely behind as they passed through the portal.
In the end, it was Xu Changqing who arrived at the Floating Island last.
Passing through the mist, the entire island was laid out before them. Traces of human life remained on the island, but apart from flowers, trees, and a few insects and birds, there was no other life.
At the bottom of the island is a passageway that shimmers with light, and the island seems to contain a hidden world.
"This must be very valuable," Xue Jian couldn't help but exclaim.
As they approached Hou, they discovered it was a Spiral Cloud Crystal Tunnel. At the end, Seven Inverted Floating Islands appeared in the Indigo Mist.
At the base of each island, an aerial walkway woven from bronze chains extends, with Glowing Quartz Stairs that follow each step and then shatter into Stardust upon passing through.
"That's really interesting."
The little monkey tried to back away and discovered that the Stardust had been reshaped into Glowing Quartz Stairs.
"The exit seems to be on the last Floating Island?"
Zi Xuan's eyes shimmered with a moist light that pierced through the almost omnipresent Indigo Mist.
"These mists," Jing Tian spread out his palm and collected a wisp of mist, "Are truly ingenious, weaving Water Spiritual Power into such an intricate way. If one's strength is not enough to overcome the sum of this layer of Accumulated Spiritual Power, and one does not know Spatial Arts, then one can only obediently walk on this plank road."
This is the accumulation of time and superb skills. Only a god with an infinite lifespan could create it. To put it in an easier way, it's like knitting a sweater continuously for thousands of years, with the same style and size.
This repetitive and mechanical work
Even though he already knew that the master behind it was Shui Bi, he couldn't help but admire her patience.
Perhaps for Shui Bi, this is equivalent to rest?
Just like Xi Yao's habit of spacing out on the divine tree, endlessly counting the fruits on it.
"Squeak, squeak." The Hua Ying hummed twice, as if it were trapped in a spider web and shrouded in mist.
"Hua Ying said why didn't you say so sooner," Xue Jian translated.
"That's obvious." Jing Tian pressed his palm against the bluish-gray mist. "It bounces back gently while also having a hidden pull, like the combination of a soft mattress and a whirlpool in water."
Reaching the last Floating Island, at the end of the quartz staircase, and passing through the Indigo Mist, the group arrived at the next level.
Suspended Chessboard-like Mica Plates, each with flowing Liquid Light Patterns.
The moment everyone leaped onto the floating platform, the platform carried them towards the coordinates in the mist. Lightning bolts occasionally shot out from the abyss, splitting the floating platforms in two like glass.
"That was fast. And they've completely destroyed our escape route," Jing Tian said. The group had reached the end of this floor. "It seems the owner of this place has already discovered us."
The next level is an inverted cone-shaped floating island covered with Bronze Discs, each disc having Star Chart Compass embedded in its center, with hidden rotating gears that mesh to produce a buzzing sound.
"Stop first." Jing Tian stopped the group that wanted to go to the island.
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire floating island suddenly flipped over, and a vertical passage appeared before everyone's eyes, with the fallen chain ladder rattling in the wind.
"How insidious!" Xue Jian said angrily. "We could have fallen straight to the first floor if we hadn't been careful."
"This is a test, and also a sign of mercy." Jing Tian led everyone onto the passage. "There are no restrictions on flight techniques on this level, so that ordinary people who accidentally wander in can leave easily."
"Brother Jing, do you mean the island's owner isn't the mastermind behind it all?" Xu Changqing asked in surprise.
They have now reached the fourth floor.
This level is incredibly dangerous.
Divided into mirrored islands by a thick Lead-Gray Dense Fog, the left floating island extends Whalebone Drawbridge, while the right island is suspended by Spider Silk Walkway.
Every path is treacherous, all converging at the Eye of the Storm's Siphon Vortex.
The broken mica flakes in the vortex refracted twelve Moon Discs within the cyclone, seemingly about to tear the intruders apart.
Xue Jian tried throwing in a pebble, and it instantly turned into dust.
"These are standard security measures." Jing Tian flew up and appeared in front of the vortex, standing upright in mid-air. His hand plunged straight into the center of the Moon Discs, yet he was unharmed. "As long as you walk through the normal passage, there is no danger to your life. This is just to discourage people from taking any risks."
"And another thing is to kill the intruders who don't follow the rules."
This place already shows some of the style of the Xi Feng.
The Xi Feng in this world is the game version.
His love with Shui Bi was not as beautiful as in the TV Series Version; it was tragic: he won the goddess's heart with his voice and exchanged it for his appearance from the Demon Lord, but the goddess no longer recognized him. She stayed in place and turned into a stone statue while waiting for him to keep their appointment. Xi Feng kept challenging Chong Lou in order to regain his voice.
In this world, Xi Feng was originally the right-hand man of the Demon Lord Chonglou.
Shui Bi was Divine Official came to capture Fei Peng.
She and Xi Feng fell in love at first sight and, on a whim, eloped to the mortal world together, where they stayed for a thousand years.
"What a pity, we arrived too early." Jing Tian had already led everyone to the last floor.
There are no paths to walk on this level, only floating platforms.
After stepping onto the first Moonstone Floating Board, subsequent floating platforms gradually appeared in the fog.
"How about coming to the party?" Xu Changqing held his immortal sword, moving forward while cautiously observing his surroundings.
"If we come too late, this floating island will sink to the bottom of the sea," Jing Tian said as if he were taking a walk in a garden. "To suppress the seabed, most of the mechanisms will be abolished, and after the seawater flows in, each level will be even more beautiful."
"The only problem is that there might be more sirens."
In Jing Tian's view, the sea monster was not troublesome. The coral, fish and other seascape that the sea monster brought with it were more important. Even the sea monster itself was just an embellishment.
Moreover, one can travel freely without following the island owner's arrangements.
"We're here." After stepping onto the last floating platform, Jing Tian looked up.
At the center of the thunderstorm that appeared out of nowhere, a Bronze Pavilion was slowly descending, and the bronze bells under the eaves remained motionless amidst the swirling hurricane.
Up in the attic, a man and a woman were looking at them.
"Is the accumulation of Underwater Fire Spiritual Power related to the two of you?" Xu Changqing asked.
A thousand years of companionship has completely distorted Xi Feng's Shui Bi of dress, making her no longer the dark style unique to the Demon Realm, but now she looks like a god.
Xu Changqing also failed to detect a trace of demonic energy.
"Good to know," Xi Feng said. "Please leave quickly and don't get in the way."
Damn it, talking like that, you're practically begging for a fight to break out.
"Speak like a human," Jing Tian said. "Also, I hate it when people look down on me."
He seemed to simply take a step forward casually.
A golden sacred mountain, visible only to him and Xi Feng, descended, pressing Xi Feng down to one knee.
"He and I came to suppress the erupting underwater volcano," Shui Bi quickly explained, her gaze lingering on Jing Tian and the others' faces. "Fei Peng, Xi Yao?"
She did not recognize Long Kui.
She is a new god created by the Fruit of the Divine Tree. Even though she is a traitor who enters the human world, she cannot escape the memory cleansing from her bloodline by Fuxi. The first new god in her memory is another goddess, Kui Yu.
"Long time no see, Shui Bi." Jing Tian nodded and withdrew the golden divine mountain from Xi Feng's body. "This is for your sake."
"You are General Fei Peng? How could that be?" Xi Feng knew of Fei Peng.
The person her lord, Chong Lou, was secretly meeting.
"How could I fall into the cycle of reincarnation and not recognize my true self?" Jing Tian said. "So-called reincarnation is nothing more than a projection of the Cold Marrow."
He wasn't bragging.
Leaving aside the neurotic Fei Peng in the TV timeline, who was treated leniently for not arguing with Fuxi, yet stubbornly refused to understand human speech, which led to his being banished to the cycle of reincarnation.
Fei Peng and Xi Yao in the game's timeline are honest people. If they secretly carry the [Zhao Dan] or the [Azure Sky Wind God Pearl] with them during reincarnation, they will not lose their memories, and their spiritual energy will not become dormant.
Therefore, in the game's timeline, the god who recognized Jing Tian immediately mistook him for someone who had regained his spiritual power and secretly ran back to the divine realm.
"How did you escape the pursuit of the gods?" Zi Xuan asked curiously.
She observed that Shui Bi's spiritual energy was not particularly strong, and although Xi Feng was strong, it was still inferior to that of the red-haired Demon Race.
"This was his idea." Shui Bi looked at Xi Feng. "He Mana to create this Floating Island, making it drift in a different place every day. You know, seven days in heaven is equivalent to a thousand years on earth, and a day on earth is less than Setsuna in heaven. Although I am a god and the gods can sense my presence, they cannot know my location in such a short time, so we have been safe and sound for thousands of years."
"As for the Demon Realm, no one would care if I were here or there. Even Chong Lou wouldn't care, let alone the other demons," Xi Feng said.
"Chong Lou knows," Jing Tian said. "He just doesn't care."
His gaze drifted into the depths of the mist, where a dark figure lurked.
"Gods and demons? How could that be?" Xu Changqing felt like his head was about to explode.
"Oh no!" Shui Bi's expression changed. "We've been on the sea for too long. The Divine Dijiang is here!"
Mythical beasts mostly refer to innate gods who retain their animal form and have not yet cultivated the form of Pangu.
Secondly, the divine status of the beasts created by Shennong is still preserved.
Dijiang, on the other hand, is the latter.
It is Spatial Divine Beast, and its duty is to capture those gods who have defected to other realms.
Right now, the ripples starting to spread through space and the increasingly intense vibrations that seem to arise out of nowhere are signs that it is about to arrive.
"We should be able to handle it," Xi Feng said calmly. "Moreover..."
He glanced at Fei Peng.
With this powerful First Divine General who can rival the Demon Lord, they have nothing to fear unless Fuxi descends upon them.
"No, didn't we agree at the beginning of our alliance that we would never harm either the gods or demons for the rest of our lives?" Shui Bi shook her head.
The two got into an argument.
"Come with me to the Demon Realm! They can't go to the Demon Realm."
"Neither the realm of gods nor the realm of demons is as free as the human world. If I go to the realm of demons with you, what will the other demons think of you? Will they accept us? If we could go, we would have gone long ago. Why wait until now?"
"Fool!" Chong Lou couldn't help but show himself. "Xi Feng, why does my Demon Realm care about rules like the God Realm? All beings from the Six Realms exist in the Demon Realm. Stop nagging. If I were you, I would have tied this woman up to the Demon Realm long ago. You have no demonic nature at all!"
"My Sovereign Lord," Xi Feng said, his joy evident in his voice, "You have arrived."
He almost immediately realized that what Jing Tian had said earlier was true. As long as the Sovereign Lord supported them being together was there, what did they need to care about the mere Dijiang Beast?
"Demon Lord." Shui Bi took a step back, and subconsciously looked at Fei Peng.
"If we trace the origins of gods and demons, they are all creations of the Three Sovereigns," Jing Tian said. "The conflict between gods and demons is nothing more than a replay of the war between humans and gods. Shui Bi, you don't need to worry about whether you are guilty or not. You only need to ask yourself if you still want to be with Xi Feng."
Shui Bi's reluctance to go to the Demon Realm was not the reason she stated.
Rather, she believed she was guilty.
She loves the Xi Feng, but doesn't want to fall into demonic ways; she remains a god.
"I think so," Shui Bi murmured.
Dijiang seemed to have noticed the change in her attitude.
The frequency of the surrounding vibrations had reached its peak. In the space that was twisted into Mangekyo and imperceptible to ordinary people, a strange beast appeared, its body flowing with crimson clouds, its six legs treading on the void and creating ripples, its four wings spreading out and revealing cracks, and its faceless body surrounded by twelve mysterious lights.
Following them were two Giant Spirit God wielding weapons.
"Oh no, it's the Demon Lord!"
"Run!"
Just as the two gods turned to retreat, Dijiang had already half-entered the spatial tunnel.
"Hmph!" Chong Lou an eyebrow.
The ripples in the space subsided instantly. Dijiang was stuck in mid-air, and the mysterious light reflecting the twelve seasons around him disappeared. The two Giant Spirit God riding the clouds almost fell from mid-air.
In terms of the Dao of Space, no one in the Six Realms can rival the Demon Lord possesses the purest bloodline of Shennong.
"Chirp, chirp—"
Upon hearing Dijiang's cry, Xue Jian subconsciously translated, "It said that the Demon Lord should spare its life. It was just a guide. The Demon Lord must know that its appearance wouldn't actually cause such a commotion. This commotion was just to remind the captured god to escape."
The two Giant Spirit God, each ten feet tall, nodded in agreement.
"Yes, yes, yes."
"We're just going through the motions."
"We were just doing our job."
"We won't say anything when we go back."
"Tell your superior." Chong Lou intentionally or unintentionally blocked Fei Peng. "Xi Feng is my subordinate. If you don't want to violate the Three Sovereigns Covenant, don't cause him any trouble."
Good bro!
Jing Tian couldn't help but sigh.
He certainly knew what Chong Lou meant. Chong Lou was worried because he had said he didn't want to return to the God Realm yet, so he didn't want the people in the God Realm to notice him.
Taking such good care of his feelings, no wonder he's the game version of Chong Lou.
On the other side, the two Giant Spirit God replied in unison, "Yes."
The twelve rays of mysterious light surrounding the Dijiang Divine Beast were restored. It immediately pushed off the void with its calves, creating ripples as it completely entered the passage.
"Wait for us!"
"Thank you Demon Lord, for sparing our lives!"
The two Giant Spirit God also plunged in.
"That air tremor was really weak," Xue Jian exclaimed in surprise. "That guy really wasn't lying."
"The realm of gods has fallen," the Demon Lord said disdainfully.
"Are they gods?" Xu Changqing wanted to deny everything he had seen, but having learned to observe qi from the very beginning, he had already sensed the vast divine Divine Aura emanating from the beast and the two gods.
They went through the motions in handling affairs, even giving advance notice when apprehending traitors, and fawning over the enemy to save their lives.
He has now completely dispelled the mystique surrounding God.