The Five Directions Realm's Crisis, the Calamity of All Living Beings, and the Division of Factions!

"A Demon Dao giant from the Blood Sea Lineage has crossed over to conquer the Five Directions Realm."

"Others fear the Heavenly Court and dare not attack rashly. The Blood Sea Lineage, backed by the Nether River Cult Ancestor, is completely fearless."

"To conceal the secrets of heaven, they intend to drag the Five Directions Realm into the Nine Netherworlds and merge them into the Netherworld Blood Sea before the Heavenly Court can sense it!"

Lu Qingfeng has lived through twelve lifetimes, from the Heavenly Fox Realm and the Bingling World, to the Chiyan Realm, the Evergreen Realm, and the Heavenly Shaman Realm.

Every realm has its share of tribulations, both large and small.

In the Chiyan Realm, there once existed a strange beast called the Red Smoke Colt that caused chaos, leading to the collapse of the three realms of immortals, gods, and humans.

The Evil Dragon of the Evergreen Realm wreaked havoc, feeding on all the spirits of the realm to refine its overwhelming Devil Cultivation Method. The Heavenly Court's Thunder Ministry dispatched gods to the mortal realm, and a great battle ensued, causing the entire Evergreen Realm to collapse. It took five thousand six hundred years for it to recover.

Another example is the Heavenly Shaman Realm.

Originally formed from the fragments of the High Antiquity Primordial World, it has endured countless calamities, but ultimately it is destined to perish.

To Lu Qingfeng, these were all rumors, more like the 'background' of his experience of the world.

This time.

In the Five Directions Realm, Blood Sea stretches across the sky.

All sorts of great calamities are no longer just rumors or background stories; we are finally going to experience them firsthand.

"The World-Destroying Tribulation."

Lu Qingfeng looked up at the sky, feeling a surge of killing intent brewing in his heart and in his eyes.

In an instant, my heart seemed to be filled with murderous intent.

"The Yellow Court Scripture!"

Lu Qingfeng recited the Yellow Court Classic mantra in his mind to dispel his killing intent, and felt a little scared.

"The Blood Sea stretches across the sky, and without anyone noticing, it can turn Spirit Birth in a realm into Demon Dao cultivators of the Blood Sea Lineage who only know how to kill. Even the four great immortal sects of the Five Directions Realm would find it difficult to suppress. Only by shattering the Blood Sea in the sky can this calamity be averted."

"Only--"

Lu Qingfeng shook his head inwardly.

The Blood Sea Demon Dao came prepared and went to great lengths to conceal the sky. How could the Blood Sea be so easily broken?

The horizon.

The Blood Sea is boundless, and from its very center, flames soar into the sky, attempting to evaporate the Blood Sea.

However, with a mournful cry, the flames were extinguished by the Blood Sea, and the blood-red light in the air grew even stronger.

"Within the Five Fire Gate, True Immortal shed blood!"

Lu Qingfeng looked westward again, where a black banner seemed to be fluttering, enveloping a Blood Sea. The Blood Sea touched it and was truly afraid, trembling slightly and shrinking back. However, in the next instant, the boundless Blood Sea surged westward, causing the black banner to fall from the sky.

It can be vaguely seen that the black banner seems to have been torn in the middle, broken in two.

On the Eastern Continent.

A massive seal, reaching for the sky, slammed down fiercely into the Blood Sea, causing it to tremble.

Unfortunately, the Blood Sea was vast. Even though it trembled, even though the blood waves rolled, and even though bursts of blood rained down from the sky, it would stabilize again after a short while. A portion of the Blood Sea separated and became entangled with the great seal. The seal, stained with blood light, let out a mournful cry and fell to the Eastern Continent.

The location of the Southern Continent.

A Golden Light illuminated the heavens and the earth.

"Ooh!"

A trembling cry rang out, and Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but look over—

"Golden Silkworm Gu!"

The familiar aura of the Golden Silkworm Gu enveloped the entire Southern Continent.

The Golden Silkworm roared towards the sky, swallowing a corner of the Blood Sea in one gulp. The Golden Silkworm Gu let out a satisfied cry, its body constantly shifting between Golden Light and blood-red light, clearly refining the corner of the Blood Sea it had just swallowed.

"Golden Silkworm Gu!"

A deafening roar echoed from the Blood Sea surged back, threatening to destroy the Golden Silkworm Gu. Seeing the dire situation, the Golden Silkworm Gu, unable to refine the Blood Sea within its belly, turned and fled towards the Southern Continent.

Unfortunately, it was a step too late and was overtaken by the Blood Sea. The boundless blood waves slammed into it, dimming the Golden Light on the Golden Silkworm Gu and causing it to fall into the Southern Continent and disappear.

After the struggle between the four sides.

The Blood Sea still stretched across the sky, Four Directions Immortal Gates fell silent.

"It's not quite right."

Lu Qingfeng shook his head.

Although the Five Fire Gate, the Pestilence-Dispelling Immortal Sect, the Five Dipper Palace, and the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect are the four top immortal sects in the Five Directions Realm, they have many True Immortal and even more true treasures from the upper realm.

However, against the well-prepared Blood Sea, it was still like an ant trying to shake a tree. Apart from the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect gaining a slight advantage with its Golden Silkworm Gu, the other three major immortal sects were all defeated.

"The Five Directions Realm are in danger."

Lu Qingfeng shook his head inwardly and walked out of the cave abode.

Whew!

As soon as they stepped out of the cave abode, they saw a demonic bird swooping down from the sky. Its eyes were bloodshot and it exuded a strong aura of killing intent.

"Boom!"

With a flap of its wings, flames swept out, engulfing a thousand feet, threatening to turn the area within a thousand feet centered on Lu Qingfeng into scorched earth.

[Demon Beast: Flamecloud Condor]

[Grade: Tier 3]

[Description: Corrupted by the will of the Blood Sea, his mind is filled with chaos and bloodlust, knowing only how to kill.]

The Flamecloud Condor is a third-tier demonic bird, already Spirit Birth and a mind no different from that of an ordinary person. However, the Flamecloud Condor that Lu Qingfeng encountered at this moment was irritable, chaotic, and completely devoid of any intelligence.

It was clearly influenced by the sea of the Blood Sea in the sky.

"Lost his or her mind."

The Demon Beast tainted by the Blood Sea initially struggled to adapt, engaging in rampant killing and fighting, losing their minds. Only after their strength increased did they slowly regain their rationality, but by then they had already been transformed into Demon Dao cultivators of the Blood Sea Lineage, their personalities drastically altered.

Lu Qingfeng shook his head, waved his sleeve, and a Sword Qi pierced the sky, first shattering the thousand-foot Sea of Fire, the flames scattered and the void disappeared, and then the Sword Qi pierced straight through the sky, penetrating the eyes of the Flamecloud Condor and splitting its entire body in two.

[Faction Selection: Five Directions Realm / Heaven's Retribution Blood Sea!]

"The Five Directions Realm".

Demon Dao methods can be used as a supplement; with the Yellow Court Scripture at his disposal, there is no need to focus on cultivating Demon Dao.

[Congratulations to the player for killing a Flamecloud Condor (Tier 3), gaining 0.000000000001 experience points.]

Name: Lu Qingfeng (Qing Yuanzi)

Race: Human

[Faction: Five Directions Realm]

"During the 'Five Directions Realm Crisis' event, killing cultivators from the opposing faction will earn you Merit."

"For players, it's experience points."

Combining the Grand Luo Insight and the system prompts, Lu Qingfeng quickly gained an understanding of the Five Directions Realm after the great changes.

Lu Qingfeng never expected that after cultivating for so long, he would have to 'level up' by fighting monsters.

However, third-tier Demon Beast were too low-level. Lu Qingfeng's cultivation had already reached the Spirit Void Fusion, equivalent to a tenth-tier Demon Beast. The experience points gained from killing third-tier Demon Beast were negligible.

"Experience points are equivalent to Merit."

"In this era of great calamity, the way to gain Merit is not limited to killing Blood Sea cultivators."

Despite the Blood Sea in the sky, Lu Qingfeng remained calm.

After pondering for a moment, he hurried towards Yushan Island.

Blood Sea has descended; a great calamity has arrived.

The entire Five Directions Realm were plunged into chaos, and Yushan Island was no exception.

Heaven, earth, and ocean!

Countless Demon Beast fought fiercely and then rushed towards Yushan Island.

Crazy!

Bloodlust!

Under the impact of the Blood Qi and the influence of the Blood Sea in the sky, many cultivators on Yushan Island were also affected. Even with the prestige of the Thirteen True Person suppressing the conflict, it continued to occur frequently and even showed a trend of escalation.

Outside the Fire Crow cave abode.

The four True Person, including Fire Crow Daoist and Sikong Qinglian, stepped out and stared at the Blood Sea in the sky, their faces grave. They looked at each other, and then saw a figure flying in from beyond the sky.

Upon seeing this, Sikong Qinglian raised an eyebrow slightly, "Rain Mountain Pavilion!"

"Rain Mountain Pavilion?!"

Fire Crow Daoist and the others also looked at the newcomer. Lu Qingfeng, dressed in a green robe, walked through the air and landed in front of the four of them.

"This humble Daoist, Qing Yuanzi, greets the four True Person."

Lu Qingfeng cupped his hands in a gesture of respect and smiled.

I had originally planned to return to Yushan Island after my cultivation reached a higher level and I reached a bottleneck. Now that the Blood Sea has emerged, it's better to open the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion as soon as possible to avoid any unforeseen complications.

"The Rain Mountain Pavilion has truly mastered the art of cultivating inner strength. He has been missing for twenty-four years, keeping this humble Daoist waiting for him!"

Fire Crow Daoist spoke up, his tone unfriendly.

Lu Qingfeng looked up and immediately smiled, "So it's Fellow Fire Crow."

Lu Qingfeng coveted the Fire Crow Daoist's skill in raising Fire Crow Dao Soldiers.

"Rain Mountain Pavilion".

Water-Walking True Person looked at Lu Qingfeng and shook his head, saying, "Since you are from Yushan Island, you should be of the same ilk as us. It is unwise of you to disappear like this."

"Oh?"

Lu Qingfeng looked at the blue-robed True Person and said with a smile, "This must be Fellow Daoist Shui Xing. May I ask what you have to teach me?"

"With the Five Directions Realm in chaos, the Bamboo Mountain Sea must be in complete disarray by now. We are all Rogue Cultivator, and being alone, we are inevitably subject to constraints everywhere. It seems that the Rain Mountain Pavilion is holding back when it comes to us."

"It's disheartening."

Water-Walking True Person spoke calmly, his eyes clearly showing some displeasure as he looked at Lu Qingfeng.

What is his identity?

Although Lu Qingfeng was comparable to True Person, he was still Spirit Void Cultivator after all. He had waited for twenty-four years, and now his emotions were building up, so his words were quite unfriendly.

"What Water-Walking True Person said is wrong."

Lu Qingfeng glanced at Water-Walking True Person and saw a layer of blood-red light flashing in the hazy light. Although Water-Walking True Person blocked it out, a wisp of black energy still lingered above Water-Walking True Person's head.

"Robbery energy!"

Under the great calamity, no Spirit Birth can escape it. The calamity arises spontaneously, and those with virtuous immortals and those with profound Merit may be able to turn misfortune into good fortune and avoid the great disaster. But ordinary cultivators will inevitably have to go through it.

We can't get through it.

He then died.

The Water-Walking True Person has calamity energy growing on his body, so he is clearly destined to face a calamity.

Lu Qingfeng then looked at Sikong Qinglian, Fire Crow Daoist, and Huoyun True Person, and saw that all three of them had varying degrees of black energy on them. Among them, Fire Crow Daoist's was the most concentrated, while Huoyun True Person's was the least concentrated.

"Um?"

What do you mean by that?

Water-Walking True Person was surprised that Lu Qingfeng dared to retort. Anger flashed across his face, and he squinted at Lu Qingfeng.

Lu Qingfeng stared at Water-Walking True Person, and saw that as he spoke, the black aura above his head trembled slightly, enveloping Water-Walking True Person's face from above, and becoming even denser.

"No wonder it is said that when the Primordial World began, countless immortals and powerful beings chose to live in seclusion. Even so, while people were sitting at home, disaster still came from the sky."

The most famous examples are Lady Shiji and the East Sea Water-Dividing General, who were so fearsome that they would utter "Fellow Daoist, please wait!" during the Investiture Tribulation.

The Water-Walking True Person's cultivation was not profound. When the calamity struck, he did not retreat into seclusion to avoid disaster, but instead came out to flaunt his abilities.

The calamity intensifies.

The day of our impending doom is not far off!

"This humble Daoist is all alone, merely seeking a place for seclusion. Fellow Daoist Shui Xing, you concern yourself with everything, do you perhaps intend to interfere with all aspects of my cultivation?"

Lu Qingfeng shook his head, looking helpless.

"Brother Shui Xing, please calm down."

Seeing that things were not going well, Sikong Qinglian quickly stepped forward to comfort them, and then looked at Fire Crow Daoist and Daoist Huoyun, "Now that Rain Mountain Pavilion has returned, why don't we gather the other fellow Daoists and notify the Five Peaks Sect, the Hundred Ghosts Gate, Hollow Bamboo Sect to jointly track down the whereabouts of the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion?"

"Snort!"

Upon hearing this, Water-Walking True Person let out a cold snort, finally suppressing his anger.

Lu Qingfeng looked over.

The black aura on the Water-Walking True Person's face had faded considerably, gathering at the top of his head. The black aura at the top of his head grew increasingly dense, and some black aura remained on his face as well.

Still behind schedule (35/40)

I've scrapped four and a half chapters of the actual events section, so the big release is probably ruined. I'll just have to see how things go.

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