Let's start with Montenegro

By Angel Sanchez

Not knowing how long he had experienced the darkness, Su Chen opened his eyes, and in front of him was the ancient copper mirror. When his gaze landed on the copper mirror, the dim yellow body of the mirror became as clear as clear water.

At the end of the dynasty, the demonic chaos, in the plausible world of Liaozhai, Su Chuan woke up fro

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angelecia Shannon
• Release date: Feb 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869311887

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Let's start with Montenegro

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Let's start with Montenegro

Chapter 1: The Old Ancestor

    Not knowing how long he had experienced the darkness, Su Chen opened his eyes, and in front of him was the ancient copper mirror. When his gaze landed on the copper mirror, the dimly colored mirror body became as clear as clear water.

    Black hair like a waterfall covered a ghastly white face with demonic and three-dimensional features.

    He then noticed the pure black eyes of the man in the mirror, unadulterated, unseeing of any human emotion, enough to give anyone who looked into them a thrilling feeling.

    Is that him in the mirror?

    This is not his original appearance!

    His heart should have been pounding when something so bizarre happened to him, but he didn't.

    It's not because he's calm and bland when it comes to things, it's because he doesn't have a heartbeat.

    He placed his palms on the stone platform in front of him, and there was a sound of gold and iron being born, and he also saw sparks from his nails scratching on the platform.

    His current palm, with five slender fingers, could not see any flaws, and the nails exceeded the fingertips by inches. When he focused on the nails, they actually grew crazily until they were one foot, as if they were sharp swords, with a metallic luster, cold-blooded and ghostly.

    He moved his attention away from his nails, whereupon the maddening nails retracted at a rate visible to the naked eye.

    Su Chen tried to calm his breathing and digest everything he was experiencing right now.

    Just!

    No breathing!

    No heartbeat, no breathing.

    Su Chen's expression looked unusually cold and demonic, teaching people to fear from the bottom of their hearts.

    Did I die and then someone turned me into the monster I am now?

    Previously Su Chen was a businessman, just unfortunately suffered from a terminal illness, he did not resign himself to fate, he had been to the best hospitals around the globe, and under the judgment of countless authoritative physicians, he indeed had an incurable disease. While using money to renew his life, he also looked for some qigong masters, famous mountains and rivers of high recluses, but most of them are charlatans, even if there are one or two with real talent, it is not as good as those medical authorities.

    Under the discouragement and despair, Su Chen began to study Buddhism and Taoism in an attempt to gain peace of mind and be able to face life and death openly.

    However, with his illness and death approaching, the Taoist scriptures and Buddhist teachings could not calm his mind completely. Unwilling to let his illness torture him to death, Su Chuan finally chose to freeze himself, hoping that future technological development will be able to thaw him out and cure his terminal illness.

    No matter what, he wanted to live.

    It was just that such a return from the dead was difficult for him to understand for a moment.

    This is clearly not a hospital.

    Su Chen rationalized his thoughts and was suspicious that after his death, someone had used his frozen body to do some kind of experiment to turn him into a monster with no breathing or heartbeat.

    So, where are the people watching him?

    He looked around; it was a stone room where he couldn't find a light source, yet it was bright as day.

    Clean and refreshing with a hint of light fragrance.

    Old Ancestor, the Tree Demon Grandmother of Lanruo Temple wanted to pay you a visit, and the slave girl sent her away for you. There was a delicate and gentle woman's voice that seemed like a warbler's cry coming in from outside the door of the stone room.

    Old Ancestor, Orchid Temple, Tree Demon Grandmother?

    A bolt of lightning crossed Su Chen's mind.

    At the same time, he realized that people were coming around.

    It's me she's calling?

    There's no one else in the house since.

    Uh-huh. Su Chen answered softly.

    He thought his voice was light, but it came out like a strange wind blowing out of the abyss, cold and raw, harboring terror.

    The woman added, Although that Tree Demon Grandmother has a thousand years of Dao, I don't think the Old Ancestor would put her in her sights. It's just that the slave girl previously didn't know that the Old Ancestor had already left the gate and made an unauthorized decision, so please ask the Old Ancestor to take the blame.

    Oh. He didn't want to say too much when he didn't know what was going on.

    As for the woman's words, he couldn't help but be reminded of the story of Sinister Souls.

    He didn't feel like someone was screwing with him, because his body was really oozing with a lot of weirdness right now.

    As Su Chen pondered, he subconsciously focused on his current body.

    Pain!

    A pain that almost broke his spirit was born in his whole body, as if it bubbled up like a tidal wave all at once. If he hadn't been so used to the pain of his illness, I'm afraid he would have had to let out a hysterical roar right away to take a break from the suffering he was now experiencing.

    Nonetheless, he couldn't help but let out a muffled grunt.

    The voice was soft, still enough for the woman outside to hear.

    She knew that the old ancestor had always had little to say to these subordinates of theirs, and didn't care much about such demons as the tree demon grandma. Therefore, she had expected the old ancestor's response.

    It was just the muffled humming in the room that triggered her heart.

    Old Ancestor's injuries are not fully healed, I'm afraid.

    She struggled in her mind for several moments and made a bold decision.

    ...

    ...

    Su Chen ultimately did not resist the intense pain, and he fainted. In a trance, he saw a seven-colored Buddha light arise from the void, as if it was a rainbow.

    For some reason, when he saw this stunningly beautiful rainbow light, he didn't feel the joy of seeing something beautiful, but instead felt instinctive fear and disgust.

    The sea of bitterness is boundless, turn back to the shore!

    The seven-colored Buddha's light was like a huge mountain pressing towards him.

    Su Chuan suddenly woke up, he felt a coolness arising from the corner of his mouth, subconsciously pursed his lips, a fishy-sweet liquid couldn't stop flowing into his mouth, and then his body gave birth to an explosive boiling sensation.

    A frosty white wrist was pressed against his lips, and an opening was made, and the liquid that flowed out was the blood of the wrist's owner.

    Su Chen endured the severe pain and forced himself to get up.

    The owner of the white wrist was a young woman who was so beautiful that she was almost demonic, and at this moment, she was fearfully backing up a bit and prostrating herself towards Su Chen.

    The slave girl deserves to die for trespassing.

    Without continuing to take in blood, the explosive boiling sensation also quickly disappeared, at the same time, Su Chuan gave birth to a wave of disappointment, it seemed that his body craved for blood, but there was something else in his body that prevented him from taking in blood.

    He looked as calmly as he could at the woman crouching on the ground in front of him, though her head was bowed, her face was half exposed, a thousand times more beautiful.

    Such a woman, if she were in the world, would be a scourge.

    Now Su Chen was clearly able to manipulate her at will.

    Su Chen didn't have compassion because the other party was born with a lot of beauty, causing people to love her to the extreme. If it was a normal woman, she would not have slit her wrist and fed him her blood.

    He decided more and more that he had probably been reincarnated into a world with demons and ghosts.

    And now the identity of the body's original owner was feared to be a great demon. If she found out that he was an impostor, this delicate beauty was afraid that she would turn into a she-devil and dispose of him.

    At the same time, he associated with the other side said Old Ancestor, Lanruo Temple, Tree Demon Grandmother, know that this may be the world of Sinister Spirit.

    Is it hard to believe that I've become the Old Demon of Black Mountain?

    He was thinking of many things in his heart, and his eyes did not ripple. However, his current eyes were actually too deep, as if they were an abyss, and it would have been difficult to transmit any emotions.

    The woman sensed Su Chen's gaze, and she raised her head in fear.

    Even if she was well-intentioned, it was impossible to say how the already temperamental Old Ancestor would deal with her.

    The Black Mountain Old Ancestor, who had traveled across thousands of mountains and waters, would not care about the Tree Demon Grandmother with a thousand years of cultivation in Lanruo Temple, and even less about them, who were as small as mole crickets and dusty little demons.

    It was just that they were originally branches and leaves that were dependent on the great tree of the Old Ancestor, and they simply couldn't leave the Old Ancestor.

    Although the woman is very frightened, is still towards her have the right of life and death of the old ancestor explained: slave girl see old ancestor sleeping, I think the old ancestor that day and that old monk after a battle of the injury has not been well, just in a hurry, really can't find fresh human blood, had to use their own demon blood. And the old ancestor also ordered us not to go down the mountain for the time being, the slave girl also dare not disobey the old ancestor's decree.

    Su Chen gently nodded, from the other party's reaction, he roughly determined that the original owner should be a character whose likes and dislikes were hard to gauge, he said with a light demeanor, In the future, don't do anything similar.

    The woman did not hear the Old Ancestor's chastisement and was as if she had been pardoned. As for the words of the old ancestor, but also to keep in mind. In fact, they should have only done what the old ancestor commanded, previously she had been in a hurry, overstepping her duty as a slave.

    The fact that the Old Ancestor didn't chastise him was truly a blessing. It seemed that the old ancestor's injuries shouldn't be too serious, and he was still in a good mood. As she thought about this, she was even more relieved.

    She had been worried about her old ancestor's injuries before.

    I think that day, the old ancestor and the old monk battle, shocking, the old monk retreated before, Buddha blood like rain, so many demons speculate that the old ancestor is afraid of also injured not shallow.

    It was only due to the might of the Old Ancestor's absolute great demon that most of them didn't dare to come and test it.

    And Lanruo Temple's tree demon grandma because and the old ancestor do a thousand years of neighbors, has been safe and sound, some friendship, Fang some courage to visit the mountain, test the old ancestor's injuries.

    If Old Ancestor has no other orders, the slave girl will leave first so that she can inform the other ghost servants and demon servants in the mansion of Old Ancestor's awakening.

    The Old Ancestor had always been withdrawn, and the demonic might that occasionally leaked out was really not something they could withstand, so she naturally didn't dare to stay with the Old Ancestor for too long.

    Go down.

Chapter 2: The Magic Mirror

    In fact, Su Chen had many things he wanted to get out of the woman in front of him, but he knew he couldn't rush.

    When the woman retreated, Su Chen gave birth to an inexplicable sense of thought, he could know the woman's movements, even if the other party had already gone out a hundred feet, this sense of thought still did not fail.

    Just as quickly he developed a touch of fatigue and thus withdrew his sense of thought.

    This sense of thought did not disappear in the body either, and Su Chen's fatigue did not reappear.

    It seemed that as long as it didn't leave the outside of the body, it wouldn't make Su Chen feel sluggish.

    The appearance of this special sense of thought made Su Chen even more certain that he was now in the world of demons with extraordinary abilities. In addition to the slightest uneasiness about the unknown world, he also felt a little desire in his heart.

    Is it possible to achieve immortality in this life?

    It is not surprising that someone who has experienced a terminal illness would have such a mindset.

    But this longing, which had gradually grown from a little to a great deal, did not continue to spread within him, and the sense of thought wandering through his body made him realize a fact which was like cold water poured over his face.

    His body might now be said to be in jeopardy.

    Under the thought-sense wandering, all the details of his body were fully presented in his mind.

    Now that the inside of his body has suffered such severe damage that there is hardly any intact area, it is incredible that he is still alive.

    He also found a seven-colored Buddha light hovering over his abdomen, and outside of the light was a cloud of eerie, icy breath.

    It should be the demonic aura of the body's original owner.

    Su Chen guessed so.

    He could clearly feel that the eerie and icy demonic aura was extremely hostile to the Buddha's light, and the two were like water and fire.

    Perhaps they had previously had a great battle, resulting in the body's original owner's soul being scattered, only to be cheaper for Su Chen.

    Except that his sense of thought was apparently very binding to the demonic aura.

    Su Chen slightly moved a thought, and the demonic aura became very introverted, temporarily avoiding the possibility of the demonic aura clashing with the Buddha's light.

    However, Su Chen was not able to be as binding to the Buddha's light as he was to the demonic aura.

    He could feel the surging power in the Buddha's light, a power that if it suddenly erupted, he was afraid that he would be left with no bones left.

    It's a big pitfall.

    Su Chen had to find a way to fix it.

    However, Su Chen's most problematic issue at the moment was the injuries within his body.

    This body was afraid that it would hardly be able to withstand any tossing and turning, and might collapse completely at some point.

    The Black Mountain Old Ancestor was an alien, and Su Chen was currently clueless as to how to repair the body of an alien. He could only think from his surroundings, hoping to discover that the Black Mountain Old Ancestor had made some arrangements to restore his injuries or clues about repairing his injuries before he left.

    Su Qing searched the stone room, and other than the bronze mirror, he did not find any strange items for the time being.

    He then focused on the bronze mirror.

    This copper mirror was very special, when Su Qing bet his eyes on the mirror, the originally dim mirror surface would become clear, and the image inside was as clear as a figure in a glass mirror.

    Su Chen looked at himself in the mirror and his heart moved.

    He touched his finger to the body of the mirror and something marvelous happened. The mirror body gave birth to a layer of soft white light, and an image surfaced on its surface.

    No, rather it was a fragmented memory from the old Black Mountain Ancestor.

    After Su Chen saw these images, the images were deeply engraved in his mind and could not be erased.

    Through these memories, Su Chuan learned that the closest demonic forbidden place to the Black Mountain Cave was the Lanruo Temple, and that tree demon grandma living inside had a thousand years of cultivation and was able to enslave a hundred ghosts.

    The woman who slit her wrists is called Yuki, and is a civet cat in her original form.

    At that time in the snow just transformed, very weak, was being a jackal wolf demon chase, was the old demon of the Black Mountain rescued to bring back to the Black Mountain, and then she gave herself the name of Little Snow.

    The lifespan of the demon race after transforming into their forms was not short, and they could live for at least a thousand years. On the other hand, even if a tortoise or a mountain rock is transformed into a demon, it is impossible to live for tens of thousands of years or even immortality.

    Ten thousand years was a big limit, and in this world, it seemed that no demon race had ever passed this hurdle since the beginning of time.

    Montenegro old demon is the mountain petrified form of the demon, in fact, only six or seven thousand years of cultivation only. But this in the demon, is already rare longevity, an old ancestor deserved. It is only by instinct to gulp the sun and moon, plus from time to time to suck the blood of Yang Qi, will become a big demon.

    In fact, many of the great demons in the world relied on their natural instincts as well as the accumulation of time to cultivate great aptitude. In other words, as long as one can live long enough, any small demon can become a great demon.

    It was just that the Great Demon had another hidden worry, and that was the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.

    This thunderbolt was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the world's top cultivators, not knowing when it would fall.

    Throughout history, there is no shortage of great demons that are no less than the Black Mountain Ancestor, but there are few who can survive the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.

    Originally, Black Mountain Old Ancestor is also approaching the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, so he has been looking for Yuan** pure demonic ghosts, in an attempt to use this to enhance his cultivation and increase the possibility of passing the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.

    The Tree Demon Grandmother of Lanruo Temple, who can command a hundred ghosts, has sent a few female ghosts to Old Man Black Mountain, but none of them were very satisfactory to Old Man Black Mountain.

    Subsequently, the old man of Montenegro hit the idea on the Great Snow Mountain's seven-colored Buddha light relics above, he was amazingly powerful, made the means of stealing the sky and stealing the relics, thought that God did not know what the ghosts and ghosts, back to the cave will be the relics swallowed, ready to refine the Buddha's power therein, the results have not yet begun to refine, one of the three great Dharma kings of the Great Snow Mountain, Star Wheel King of the Ming Dynasty, was killed in the Montenegro, and the old demon a big battle.

    Although the black mountain old ancestor will be the other side of the serious injury to force back, he also suffered serious injuries, and woe is not the only thing, the relics of the Buddha's light and the old demon in the body of the demonic power of the violent conflict, resulting in the black mountain old ancestor injuries on top of the injuries, go on fire into the devil, and then the soul flew into the soul of the scattered, and then there is a Su dust to replace the black mountain old ancestor of the results.

    These memories were really helpful for Su Chen to understand the environment he was currently in, but Su Chen also looked for a more important memory.

    That is the bronze mirror.

    The bronze mirror was a treasure that Old Man Black Mountain had acquired by chance, and when someone looked into it, the yellowish mirror became clear, which was only one of its properties. Its real function was to give the holder of the mirror an answer to a reasonable question, or to fulfill a request that it felt was reasonable, after which it would impose a condition, and if the holder of the mirror could not fulfill it, then the mirror would not give any more benefits.

    It has its own judgment on the holder of the bronze mirror, and not just anyone can become the one who holds it. And after becoming its holder, it is impossible to ask a question or request and then replace it with someone else to continue asking questions for him and try to muddle through. Suffice it to say that if the Brass Mirror finds it unreasonable or unfavorable to it, it will not offer help.

    As for what questions or requests Old Black Mountain Ancestor had made, Su Chen did not seek them out from those memories.

    In short, it's a mirror that serves a great purpose, but after it helps you, it makes conditions that are highly dangerous, and if you keep relying on it, sooner or later you'll get yourself trapped.

    Even so, Su Chen couldn't find a better choice today.

    Drinking hemlock is always a no-no. Could his situation be any worse?

    In a mood of trying, he touched his fingers to the body of the mirror, following the way he remembered Old Black Mountain Ancestor's use of the copper mirror, and silently asked in his heart, Help me solve the trouble on my body.

    There were two troubles on him, one was that his body was close to collapse and he needed to find a way to fix it, and the other trouble was the Buddha's light, which was a time bomb.

    The brass mirror didn't respond.

    Su Chuan's heart snapped, could it be that the bronze mirror still regarded him as the previous Black Mountain Ancestor, and the previous Black Mountain Ancestor didn't fulfill the conditions proposed by the bronze mirror? Or it didn't treat Su Chuan is as its current holder.

    No, with the marvelous ability of this bronze mirror, it's impossible that it didn't realize that I'm not the original Black Mountain Old Man. Is it unwilling to take me as its new holder, or does it consider my request unreasonable?

    For he had two troubles upon him, and his fitful intention was to solve both together, and it is probable that this problem was not recognized by the bronze mirror.

    Should I ask it to help me repair my body's injuries, or should I ask it to help me with the trouble with the Buddha's light?

    It was reasonable to say that the hidden dangers of the Buddha's light were extremely great, and even if Su Chen's body recuperated, he could be injured again because of the Buddha's light.

    But Su Chen had no choice.

    The pain in his body was still increasing, and he could clearly feel his body disintegrating and collapsing under that sense of thought.

    The injuries on his body had to be figured out immediately.

    Help me heal my body.

    He decisively glared at the brass mirror.

    Su Chuan hadn't guessed wrong, the bronze mirror had responded this time.

    A cultivation recipe called the Day Change Rebirth Technique appeared in Su Chen's mind.

    Su Chen couldn't help but sigh in relief. He had a new judgment about the Copper Mirror, it needed the Copper Mirror holder to do something for it, and thus did not want Su Chen to die. The Copper Mirror's rules were by no means rigid, and it had its own intentions. Therefore it would choose the person it thought was useful to it to do things for it.

    Now is not the time to think about that.

    Su Chen discarded distracting thoughts and immediately initiated this gong method, it seemed that the demonic body had long been immersed in this gong method for a long time, and was familiar with it. He sat on his knees and made seals according to the mantra, and in a short while, a hot stream was born in the center of his eyebrows.

    This is the first step of the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique, which stimulates the potential of the whole body and redeems a person who is dying from serious injuries to a glimmer of life.

    The heat flow quickly spread throughout the limbs and bones, and the severe pain on Su Chen's body was greatly relieved as a result, which was simply unbelievable.

    This was also the first time that Su Chen felt the charm of cultivation, turning the impossible into the possible, and fighting with the heavens.

Chapter 3 Siu Sin

    Temporarily free from the fear of his life, Su Chen had the time to consider the current situation.

    He learned from the memories of the Black Mountain Old Ancestor that although there were three great Dharma Kings in the Great Snow Mountain, the Sun Wheel Dharma King and the Moon Wheel Dharma King had not been preaching the Dharma in the world for an aeon of time, and it was rumored that these two people had probably passed away or turned into rainbows and flew up to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

    This was also the reason why the Black Mountain Old Ancestor dared to go deep into the Great Snow Mountain and steal the Buddha Light Relic.

    Moreover, the seven-colored Buddha light relics were not inherited from the Great Snow Mountain, but a certain generation of Dharma King of the Great Snow Mountain obtained from the ancient relics of Ananda's Dharma Kingdom, such as this level of treasure, there are still several other treasures in the Great Snow Mountain. The Great Snowy Mountain may not go to the end of the line with the Black Mountain Old Ancestor for the sake of this item.

    Moreover, Star Wheel Ming Wang was seriously injured by Black Mountain Ancestor, the Great Snow Mountain is not the sole ruler of the Western Land, there is still the Everlasting Sect as the mortal enemy of the Great Snow Mountain. Unless the other party learned of his current situation, in a short period of time, the Great Snow Mountain was afraid that it would not come back to look for trouble from Old Man Black Mountain.

    He was thinking about it when a phrase appeared in his mind that

    Bring it to me.

    An image surfaced in his mind of a sword grave with an unknown number of dharma swords buried inside, and the image was fixed on a rusty iron sword.

    Su Chuan knew that this was the condition put forward by the bronze mirror, according to the memories of the old Black Mountain Ancestor, if he couldn't finish this matter, the bronze mirror would never give him any help in the future.

    However, the hidden danger of the Buddha's light, there was a great possibility that he would have to rely on the bronze mirror. Therefore, the conditions proposed by the bronze mirror could not be directly ignored.

    However, before this, Su Chen naturally preferred to seek other methods. In the memories of Old Black Mountain Ancestor, none of the holders of the bronze mirror had ever had a good ending, and now it also included the original Old Black Mountain Ancestor.

    According to the memories of Old Man Black Mountain, this bronze mirror seems to be able to help people solve their problems, but in fact, through this method, it also manipulates the people who own it step by step to do some extremely dangerous things for him.

    If you want to take something, you have to give it to me first. That's not something he's unfamiliar with.

    On the other hand, Su Chuan also recognized that the bronze mirror needed someone to do something for it, proving that it was in a predicament of its own, unable to take the initiative to get what it wanted.

    All in all it's a double-edged sword.

    Su Chen thought that if the person who possessed it could not restrain the desire to use the bronze mirror, he was afraid that he would fall into the puppet of the bronze mirror step by step.

    It was hard for Su Chen to say that he could always restrain the desire to use the bronze mirror, but he would keep reminding himself.

    He found a black cloth and covered the bronze mirror.

    He couldn't do it with a mind that was originally devoid of anything, so he had to remind himself of the evil of the bronze mirror through this method for the time being.

    Under the influence of that sense of contemplation, the demonic aura was very introverted and temporarily avoided clashing with the Buddha's light.

    Su Chen cultivated the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique to treat his injuries on one side, while on the other side, he began to study that mysterious sense of thought.

    He found that when he thought of nothing, this sense of thought could dominate his spirit and enter a realm of oblivion and forgetfulness.

    In this realm, the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique would actually operate spontaneously, progressing even faster than when he cultivated with all his heart.

    When he is out of this state, his mental state is very full and his mind is all much sharper.

    But it's not easy to have a single thought.

    After Su Chen deliberately didn't think about anything, he was instead prone to having distracting thoughts.

    It was a good thing that he had some experience with this sort of thing. He grew his fingernails out half a foot, as if it were a small knife, and found some random wood to carve, and gradually he would enter a state of concentration until there were no distractions.

    Occasionally he practiced calligraphy, which can also lead to concentration.

    It was a pity that the Black Mountain Cave didn't keep fish, or else fishing would be a good way to go.

    Su Chen slowly found the trick, which was inner peace, very helpful for him to enter that realm of forgetfulness and oblivion.

    Because Su Chen instructed Xiao Xue and these subordinates not to disturb him without something extremely important.

    Therefore, the demon servants and ghost servants of the Black Mountain Cave naturally did not dare to get too close to Su Chen on weekdays.

    With the introduction of the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique, Su Chen's injuries slowly gained momentum. From time to time, he would leak a trace of demonic qi out.

    This demonic aura will escape the cave and teach people outside the mountain to see it.

    Therefore those demons who were outside the Black Mountain spying on the movements of Old Black Mountain Ancestor understood that Old Black Mountain Ancestor was most likely not in serious trouble.

    The fight between the demons is brutal and tragic.

    However, without full certainty, no demon would be willing to mess with a great demon.

    Not far from the Black Mountain, the Tree Demon Grandmother is even more very regretful, she went to spy on the injuries of the Black Mountain Old Ancestor the previous time or reckless, I do not know whether it will cause the Black Mountain Old Ancestor's dissatisfaction.

    It is not too late to mend.

    She took out a bell.

    Late at night, the Lanruo Temple was gloomy and windy, and the grass above a newly erected grave was lush and eerily green. After the sound of a bell, the soil on the grave loosened strangely.

    I don't know when, in front of the empty grave appeared a solitary white woman, eyes like flowing waves, fingers like spring bamboo shoots, extremely beautiful appearance.

    Just a face, very pale, not half blood color.

    Cold wind, the woman is as light as nothing, floating up, white ribbons flying in mid-air, both bizarre, but also poignant and beautiful.

    Finally, she lifted her gossamer skirt and landed in front of the eerie tree demon basilisk with a flourish.

    Tree Demon Grandmother's gloomy face tried its best to squeeze out a smile, but it looked even more bizarre and appalling.

    Hsiao-tsing, how does grandma treat you?

    Grandma treats me very well, if not for grandma, I would have already been a lonely ghost, and might have been captured by the ghostbusters. The woman's voice is light and slow, even without intentional decoration, it is still like an ethereal euphemism, moving to the extreme.

    Well, grandma likes you from the bottom of her heart. I know you don't like to seduce those smelly men, so grandma won't force you. Now grandma has a heavenly good thing for you, as long as you agree, you will have endless blessings in the days to come. Tree Demon Grandmother narrowed her eyes at the woman.

    When the woman heard this, she was not half surprised, and sighed softly in her heart as she said, Grandmother's good intentions, Xiao Qian does not dare to disobey.

    Tree Demon grandma face smile bloomed, but the tone of voice is ghostly said, That's good, you go to freshen up and dress up, grandma overnight to send you up to black mountain old master's cave. When you get there, serve his old man well, maybe in the future grandma will have to rely on you.

    The woman's eyes finally couldn't help but tremble in silence after listening to the Tree Demon Grandmother's words.

    Tree demon grandma saw her not return, smiled: You are happy bad right, after all, follow the black mountain master can be a thousand times stronger than follow grandma. You want to think of the Black Mountain master's side of the maid Xiao Xue, but two or three hundred years of cultivation, in the area of thousands of kilometers, can be said to be the wind to get the wind, the rain to get the rain, and even grandma saw her, have to respectfully call a small snow sister. Your appearance is better than hers by an unknown amount, and in the future, you will definitely be able to win the favor of Master Black Mountain even more than her, and I just hope that you don't forget the goodness that Lou Lou has shown you in the past.

    The woman knows that things are not the same as what the tree demon grandma said, she knows that in the past, Lanruo Temple also has a few sisters were sent to the Black Mountain by the tree demon grandma, and none of them have ever appeared again.

    I heard that he was drained of his Yin energy by the Old Demon of Black Mountain and was never recovered.

    But what can she do if she doesn't agree? She has learned too much about her grandmother's methods. Just because she refused to agree to seduce men, these days really suffered a lot of torture. If she didn't agree again, she would be immediately dispersed.

    Xiao Qian will then listen to Grandmother's arrangement.

    Good, that's good.

Chapter 4 Thirty years

    There was a small, clear pond in the Black Mountain Cave, which was opened by the Old Black Mountain Ancestor. The water has the effect of gathering Yin.

    The small pool has been around for hundreds of years and has absorbed a lot of moonlight, the water ripples as if the moonlight is flowing. When people gaze upon it, they can be quite calm inside.

    Su Chen was sitting quietly by the small pool.

    He did not have half a bit of ferocious gas leaked out, but the silence around the pool is frightening, the pool side of the spring grass on the small insects, all seem to fall into a false death, do not dare to have the slightest movement.

    Su Chen, however, sighed softly in his heart, the second layer of the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique was precisely to enter a realm similar to the unity of heaven and man, constantly drawing on the essence of the sun and moon, taking over the creation of heaven and earth to repair the injuries of the physical body.

    When he entered this realm, it should be hard to distinguish between things, and it wouldn't be so quiet around him. He was never able to do that.

    But Su Chen didn't get frustrated.

    The potential of his fleshly body inspired by the first layer of the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique had already helped him stabilize his injuries and was on the verge of getting better.

    It's just that at the current rate of progress, it may not be possible to heal the injuries on his body for hundreds of years.

    This was also the reason why Su Chen wanted to step into the second layer of the Sun Changing Rebirth Technique.

    Wanting to be fast is not good enough.

    He admonished himself, his mood returning to calm.

    Old Ancestor, the Tree Demon Grandmother from Lanruo Temple has brought a gift to visit your door. Do you want to see it? Little Snow asked respectfully from a distance towards Su Chen.

    She had been waiting here for some time, and when she saw the old ancestor return to his senses, she dared to ask.

    If she didn't see that the gift was extremely pure in yin qi and would definitely be beneficial to the old ancestor, she wouldn't be in such a hurry, and would directly let that ill-intentioned tree demon basilisk wait for a few days and nights.

    Su Chuan through these days has already felt clearly that he is like a god in their hearts, so no matter what he says or does, little snow and other demon servants and ghosts will not be suspicious or have other ideas, so the attitude of talking and doing things to them does not have to consider too much.

    But naturally, the outside world demons would not have the same kind of devotion that Snow had for him.

    However, he was now able to control quite a bit of demonic qi, and although he was not yet able to use it freely, it was enough to create the might of an overwhelmingly great demon to deter the other party.

    Let it in.

    ...

    ...

    Empty stone cave hall, Su Chen sat silently on the black and ghostly throne, the lower head was Xiao Xue, and the rest of the demon servants and ghosts were lined up on both sides in a serene manner.

    The Tree Demon Grandmother of Lanruo Temple and a woman with a phoenix cape were prostrate below Su Chen.

    The woman's name is Siu Sin, and she is the gift from the tree demon grandma.

    Su Chen's fingers gently clasped on the handrail made of an unknown material, and the stone walls of the hall echoed with the sound of metal, and the invisible and morose killing chance seemed to diffuse and spread out as a result.

    The Tree Demon Grandmother didn't dare to breathe, and a bead of sweat dripped from her forehead.

    God have mercy, it was also the first time it knew that it, a thousand year old demon, could actually break into a cold sweat.

    The ear-piercing metallic sound echoed eerily, and every time Su Chuan lightly knocked on the handrail, the pressure on the Tree Demon Grandmother increased by one point.

    It would have preferred that the Black Mountain Master above it had gone straight into a rage, all better than the torment of this moment.

    This layer upon layer of pressure on its heart was far more terrifying than the tortures it normally inflicted. It simply didn't know what would happen next, and the unknown was the most terrifying fear.

    Tree Demon Grandmother has some regrets, the previous test was really reckless, that's why Old Master Black Mountain wants to torture it like this now.

    And next to the carefully dressed Xiao Qian, at this time, although her head was lowered, but her vaguely visible demeanor was much more bland than the Tree Demon Grandmother.

    Even Yuki looked at her that high, thinking that this female ghost was different.

    The female ghosts sent by the tree demon grandma on the previous occasions were either demonic or a dusty and disgusting, such as Xiao Qian's fresh female ghost, which was still the first time she had seen.

    She thought to herself that this Xiao Qian, the old ancestor eat it, it must be very agreeable.

    The endless ear-piercing strange sounds stopped, and Su Chen finally opened his mouth, and the voice that was like a strange wind from the Nine Hells was like heavenly music in the ears of the Tree Demon Grandmother at this moment.

    It was really afraid that the other party would not say a word and suddenly swallow it in one gulp.

    Demons eating people is common, and demons eating demons is even more common.

    After all, ordinary mortals were already complements, let alone demons who had practiced for hundreds or thousands of years.

    I'll take the gift, and don't let me see you again in the future.

    Yes.

    The big stone in the heart of the Tree Demon Grandmother finally landed, its body was so soft that it almost paralyzed on the ground, but at this moment, it did not dare to make any stops and crawled all the way out of the stone cave hall.

    Xiao Qian turned back slightly and looked at the departing back of the Tree Demon Grandmother, feeling both pleased and amused in her heart.

    She didn't know what her next fate would be, but to see such a humble side of Tree Demon Grandmother, it was a bit of bad luck.

    A moment later, Xiao Xue turned toward Su Chen and said, Old Ancestor, I would like her to go wash up and then send her to your room?

    Su Chen shook his head and said, ''In the future, she will be your slave girl, just teach her to do things. If anyone else comes to the door to ask for an audience, you will send them all away. I want to cultivate in peace and quiet during this period of time."

    Taking in Xiao Qian wasn't out of curiosity, but rather it showed that Su Chen's punishment of Tree Demon Grandmother had come to an end, which was also in line with the outside world's demons' impression of Black Mountain Ancestor.

    Because Old Man Black Mountain had already collected several female ghosts from Tree Demon Grandmother here, many demons were aware of it.

    If he didn't accept it, the Tree Demon Grandmother might instead think that Old Black Mountain Ancestor's refusal to accept its gift was a sign of determined killing intent, and might force the other party to jump over the wall.

    There was no need for Su Chen to take this risk.

    Not to mention that letting the Tree Demon Grandmother leave in such a posture was enough to make the surrounding demons that were secretly spying understand that the Old Black Mountain Ancestor's might was still there, and dissuade them from their mischievous intentions.

    Weakness was shown to be strong, this was a means for Su Chen to protect himself at the moment.

    After all, it's a world of the weak and the strong, making oneself continuously stronger is the king's way. Su Chen didn't feel self-satisfied because he had shocked the Tree Demon Grandmother, instead, he was more alert.

    It's a world where demons run rampant.

    He can't afford to be lax.

    Su Chen then left and continued to cultivate the Changing Sun Rebirth Dharma, cultivation was not a one day effort, but rather cumulative. If it really took hundreds of years to recover from the injuries, then hundreds of years would be fine, provided that the Buddha's light wouldn't clash out with the demonic qi in his body.

    Fortunately, with the control of the Mysterious Thought Sense, Su Chen clearly judged that the demonic qi and the Buddha's light would not clash in a short period of time.

    He was immersed in his cultivation, and almost didn't care about the outside world. Although as a stone demon he didn't need to eat, Su Chuan's soul was after all a human being and still had the appetite left over from his previous life, and nowadays his demon body also had a sense of taste, so when he occasionally came out of his fixation and wanted to eat a little bit of food as a pastime, he instructed Xiao Xue to do so.

    He also found the recent dishes to be a bit more palatable than they had been.

    He knew it wasn't Yuki's handiwork, after all, Yuki's cooking had never improved.

    It should be that Siu Sin.

    He didn't care too much about it, though he guessed.

    Why care about the hen that lays the eggs when you know they are good.

    Besides, now that Xiao Qian was in the Black Mountain Cave, not Lanruo Temple, Su Chen didn't have to worry about any Ning Caixian or Yan Chixia.

    Time went by like this, day by day, and before you knew it, it was thirty years.

    A demon's time is truly worthless.

Chapter 5: The Rare Person

    Hsiao-tsing was born as a young lady of an official family and lived a life of fine clothes and food. She was born with a good life, and even after her death, she did not hide her natural beauty. Tree demon grandma think she is very useful, although because of Xiaoqian does not yield, often tortured her, but also did not call her as a subordinate to use.

    Entering the Black Mountain Cave, Hsiao-tsing had thought that she would have to face an extremely horrible fate, and she thought about whether to continue to fight or to wait for the end of her ghostly life.

    It turned out to be more than she expected.

    She became a ghost servant of the Black Mountain Cave, and she, who had never touched the water of the sun with her ten fingers, was extremely talented in cooking, which was something she had not thought of before.

    Thirty years passed, and she gradually integrated into this strange demonic cave.

    Chopping wood and building fires every day, through spring, summer, fall and winter.

    Such a life is repetitive, yet peaceful, too peaceful to be the life of a demon or devil, as if it were a paradise.

    The old ancestor hadn't done anything to her, and didn't even pay much attention to her.

    And the strangeness of the Black Mountain Cave came from the silent old ancestor.

    Perhaps it was too boring, after adapting to the life in the Black Mountain Cave, Xiao Qian gradually became a bit more bold, she would occasionally take advantage of nothing to look at the old ancestor from afar.

    At first she was a little apprehensive, but then she realized that her sister Yuki, who disciplined her, was the same way, often sneaking glances at her old ancestor.

    Sister Yuki's gaze at Old Ancestor was infatuated.

    Siu Sin didn't.

    But she was honestly curious about the old ancestor.

    In the rumors of the outside world, the ferocious and powerful Black Mountain Old Ancestor's daily life was really unimaginable. He is a very quiet person, either sitting by the pond, either carving, or writing some words. She quietly picked up and looked at the waste paper that recorded the words.

    Some of the sentences she'd seen before, some she hadn't, but they were all sentences that were quieting to read.

    There were a couple of lines that stood out to her.

    Walk to the end of the line, sit back and watch the clouds rise.

    Drunkenly, I don't know that the sky is on the water, and the boat is full of dreams pressing against the river of stars.

    The osmanthus blossoms fall at leisure, and the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty.

    All of these lines are beautiful, and even more so, they have an indefinable emotion, as if they are beyond life and death.

    She really wanted to talk to her old ancestor, just a few words.

    Unfortunately, such opportunities are really hard to find.

    Old Joe doesn't like to be disturbed.

    He is the silent mountain, the mountain is always speechless, yet he shelters the peace of the living beings on one side. The peace of the Black Mountain Cave comes from the old ancestor.

    Xiao Qian didn't know what kind of demon the old ancestor was, but it must not be a vicious one.

    Old Ancestors were fundamentally different from demons like Tree Demon Grandmother.

    Perhaps the heavens knew that her heart was sincere, and on this day Sister Xiaoxue was a little unwell, so she asked Xiaoqian to send dishes to the old ancestor.

    Normally she wouldn't get a chance like this.

    But lately, Sister Xiaoxue did have some problems, and it seemed that something had happened to her cultivation.

    She was a little worried, but couldn't help, and Sister Snow clearly didn't want to bother the Old Ancestor with her business.

    The old ancestor was resting in the pavilion by the pool, with nothing else on his hands, and Xiao Qian served the wine and food over.

    Why you today?

    Xiao Qian was a bit dazed, she didn't expect the Old Ancestor to open his mouth and speak to her.

    It turned out that the old ancestor wasn't unconcerned about everything.

    Moreover, she realized that the old ancestor's voice had changed a bit. At that time, the old ancestor's voice was like the wind of the Nine Sepulchres, cold and strange, making people fearful.

    It is now like a silent abyss, not rippling, but daring one to make any slights.

    She subconsciously looked at the old ancestor and couldn't help but be attracted by his gaze.

    The eyes of the old ancestor were pure darkness, invisible to the filth of demons, like the starry sky at night, one could not help but be immersed in them.

    It took a while for Siu Sin to come back to her senses.

    She then realized that she had been too rude in not answering her old ancestor's words.

    The Old Ancestor was always the ferociously famous Black Mountain Old Ancestor.

    Siu Sin was instantly apprehensive.

    When she had only entered the Black Mountain Cave, she was a bit lifeless, so she was bashful. However, after living a peaceful life for thirty years, she cherished the present life very much.

    She warily said, Little Sister Snow is sick, so she asked me to deliver the food to Old Ancestor for her.

    Demons get sick too? Maybe they're having trouble with their cultivation. Su Dust said in his heart.

    But Yuki's trouble was certainly nothing compared to his.

    Because he had already faced death once, Su Chen cherished this new life while being much more indifferent than in his previous life.

    It is not true that there is great terror between life and death.

    But this great terror lies in the unknown.

    At least for the moment, Su Chen knew that a person's death might not be like a lamp going out, and there might be a new beginning.

    The Changing Sun Rebirth Technique's repair of the body favored remodeling the physical body.

    When Su Chen practiced the Changing Sun Rebirth Technique during these thirty worldly years, he was also slowly transforming his current body.

    The transformation of demons into human beings is something that has been happening since ancient times, which implies the truth that the human body is definitely more suitable for cultivation, otherwise why would all the demons who have been cultivating hard for thousands of years seek to attain the human body?

    It's just that the structure of a demon's body is fixed after the demon transforms, so some demons leave traces of their original form.

    Old Black Mountain Ancestor's incarnation was already very close to a human body, but there were still some imperfections.

    After Su Chen understood this, he naturally had the sense to utilize the current opportunity to make some corresponding improvements.

    The remodeling of the physical body was easy to say, but the pain experienced when actually manipulating it was truly excruciating.

    It's a long-lasting torture.

    Although that mysterious thought sense could help Su Chen perform some subtle operations in his body, there were still several times when Su Chen almost collapsed.

    When he's on the verge of a breakdown, he'll dive into the pool or do something else to distract himself.

    The demons from the ghost servants in the cave certainly didn't know what kind of life the quiet old ancestor had actually been living these thirty years.

    It's good to know that the payoff is rewarded.

    The injuries that were originally expected to take hundreds of years to recover from were shortened by a much shorter period of time. This proved that his judgment was not wrong.

    Su Chen expected that even if he was delayed in stepping into the second layer of the Sun Changing Rebirth Technique, he would still be able to largely recover the injuries to his physical body in one or two aeons of time.

    On the other hand, Su Chen unearthed other functions of the Mysterious Thought Sense, such as making his five senses very sharp, easily detecting changes in his surroundings, and even when he placed his thought sense on ghost servants or even other living creatures, he could perceive their inner emotions.

    In addition, Su Chen also explored that Mystic Thought Sense had the ability to foresee danger, an ability that was currently not very strong, similar to a whim.

    Recently, the images of demonic energy and Buddha's light clashing occasionally flashed in Su Chuan's mind, which was the Mysterious Thought Sense's foreknowledge of danger.

    Once this incident happened, the efforts of the past thirty years would be in vain, and