Chapter 1074: The Evil God's Nightmare

In a piece of deeply solemn black darkness, a path of golden light lit up. The golden light condensed and turned into a path of divine sense bridge, extending towards the distance. On the sense bridge, a point of starlight lit up. Then, the void rippled, divine thoughts fluctuated, and one path after another of primordial spirits appeared.

Borrowing the Great Dream Heaven Lead, Wenren Wan's divine sense condensed into form. Also, from Qian Xuezhou's realm, fourteen cultivators above the Feather Transformation realm's primordial spirits appeared. Among these fourteen cultivators, ten were Feather Transformation, and four were Cave Void. If in the outside world, naturally, the Cave Void cultivators should be the leaders. But this was in the divine thought world, the road leading to the Evil God's nightmare. The leader could naturally only be the Great Elder of Xuanji Valley, Situ Zhenren.

Situ Zhenren looked around at all sides, then looked at the crowd again, ensuring that Wenren Wan's divine thought body was unobstructed and the other various primordial spirits out of body were also without mistakes. He nodded slightly, then his expression grave, he instructed: "This journey is extremely dangerous. You must remember to speak cautiously and act cautiously. On matters, you cannot act arbitrarily."

"In front of the Profound Heaven North Dipper Seven Stars Array, I have left a lamp of life for all of you, protecting a wisp of primordial spirit and storing a trace of vital energy. Once things are not good, orally recite the cause and effect incantation, and the Seven Stars Array will forcibly summon your primordial spirits back."

"But the forced primordial spirit tracing back is very harmful to the sea of consciousness. Unless it is at the critical juncture of ten thousand dangers, absolutely do not recite the incantation."

"At the same time, this incantation must be placed in your heart. Do not think about it, only recite when necessary, to avoid being perceived and cutting off your cause and effect vitality..."

The other crowd, all being divine thought cultivators, also knew the advantages and disadvantages of this place. Without exception, their expressions were grave, and they engraved Situ Zhenren's words in their hearts.

"There is one more thing..." Situ Zhenren looked at Wenren Wan again and instructed the crowd: "This girl of the Wenren family must be absolutely protected well."

"Mother and child are connected in heart, with divine sense bridging. If she has a mishap, breaks the sense bridge, we lose the return road, trapped in this boundless nightmare, it will be nine deaths out of ten."

The crowd all nodded.

Instructions finished, Situ Zhenren sighed slightly, looked towards the surrounding boundless darkness, and sighed slightly in his heart. He had not thought that one day, he would actually have to rely on himself to kill the Evil God. As "dead tribulation" went, it was too grand.

But then he thought, as a divine thought cultivator who cultivated heavenly mechanisms from a young age, one day, he could shoulder the mission of the common people, invade the Evil God's initial nightmare, perform the "deity slaying" act, and have this great deed. No matter whether he was alive or dead in the end, or what the outcome was, it counted as not having lived this life in vain. The only hope was that once he was polluted, there would be righteous persons to slay him, to avoid this residual body aiding the tyrant and bringing disaster to the world. Righteous persons would definitely exist. Once he brought disaster to the world, he would definitely not live long either.

Upon this thought, Situ Zhenren's heart became tranquil.

"Let's go." Situ Zhenren said in a deep voice, then alone led the way, walking in front.

In the crowd, a white-clothed female Zhenren supported Wenren Wan, closely following behind. The other divine thought cultivators followed behind Situ Zhenren, at the same time forming an array, protecting Wenren Wan in the middle.

The pale golden divine sense bridge, under the maintenance of the Great Dream Heaven Lead, scattered a faint purple light, extending towards the distance. But all around was vast, a piece of black darkness. This black color was gloomy, dark and heavy, oppressive, surging towards the crowd's location, as if it could swallow all light. The gold light of the sense bridge, the purple light of the Great Dream Heaven Lead, and the starlight of the Seven Stars Array were all being swallowed by this darkness bit by bit.

In the boundless darkness, only a wisp like an umbilical cord's blood thread extended from Wenren Wan's heart, leading to the endless darkness, maintaining the other end, not severed. Mother and child connected in heart, blood pulse the same origin. This was the crowd's only landmark. Also, in the vast darkness, the only vitality and hope.

Just like this, they kept walking forward, not knowing how long they walked. The divine sense bridge reached the other end, and the source of darkness also showed a hint in front of the crowd. This was a large piece of pitch-black mountains, looking out, extending continuously, permeating a gloomy and terrifying aura, and a barbaric ferocity, as if cast from this world's countless killings, despair, pain, and tragedy.

Situ Zhenren's pupils shrank. The other crowd's faces also changed.

"This is..."

"The Great Wilderness Three Thousand Abyssal Marshes?!"

The crowd involuntarily stopped and looked towards Situ Zhenren. Situ Zhenren's brows were locked tight, and in the end, he sighed: "Continue walking." Matters had reached this point, there was no way back. Even if it was a mountain of knives, a sea of fire, or an oil pot hell ahead, they had to go through it.

The crowd steeled themselves and continued walking forward. As soon as they stepped over the sense bridge and stepped onto the black mountain land, evil energy suddenly became dense, as if it could seep into the marrow. Yin wind howled angrily, containing shrillness. Situ Zhenren hurriedly pinched the incantation with his hand, called the Seven Stars Array light, and protected the crowd, to avoid being invaded by the Yin wind and evil energy, injuring the primordial spirit foundation. Then he looked around at all sides and saw three thousand black mountains, ghost energy covering the sky, white bones everywhere, and blood insects wriggling.

Continuing forward, they saw that all around was desolate, with occasional strange and eerie creatures crawling past, their shapes hard to describe. Or a human eye plus a demon leg, standing alone and walking; or severed hands as feet, severed feet as hands, walking backwards upside down; or beast shape with a human face, five senses misplaced; or single eye with a double mouth, appearance strangely lacking. These various creatures were like "toys" casually pieced together by a creator, containing both childlike interest and malice. Looking at them made one feel uncomfortable in heart, even with a vomiting sensation.

Situ Zhenren's expression was grave. The Great Wilderness Three Thousand Black Mountains, the endless abyssal marshes, were the places where countless creatures died and perished. According to Xuanji Valley's sealed forbidden records, this was also the birthplace of the ancient Evil God of Great Wilderness, naturally also its resurrected original nightmare.

"Don't speak, don't look randomly, to avoid alarming the evil things." Situ Zhenren said in a deep voice. The crowd of divine thought cultivators nodded.

Situ Zhenren held his breath and concentrated. Along the mother and child connected blood thread, he raised twelve points of spirit and continued walking deeper into the nightmare. The Great Wilderness endless abyssal marshes, the Evil God nightmare land, was strange and dangerous beyond measure. Situ Zhenren also did not know what was in this nightmare, and exactly what evil creatures were hidden, so he fundamentally did not want, and did not dare to have any extra matters. He only wanted to go to the Evil God's birthplace as soon as possible and exterminate this source of chaos. Before that, it was better not to have any extra matters.

But obviously, worldly affairs could not go as he wished. The Evil God nightmare was a naturally evil land, with demonic evil creatures everywhere. And every grass and tree, everywhere incubated unknown "polluting things". The soil on the ground might be rotten flesh. The weeds by the road might be wriggling worms. Inside the tree trunks, embedded with bleeding white bones. The water dripping from the sky might also be some creature's saliva... These various dangers were innumerable.

The cultivators' divine thoughts, walking through this evil mountain sewage, fundamentally could not guard against it. They had to maintain high-intensity focus for a long time and could not slack off. Otherwise, if they were not careful, it was easy to pollute the primordial spirit and leave hidden troubles. Fortunately, the Seven Stars Array protected their bodies and could eliminate most evil energy. The divine thought cultivators present could also be considered experts in this field, experienced and rich, with strong wills. Under mutual care, watching out for each other, they could actually resolve most dangers.

Further forward, they entered a piece of withered mountain forest. The Yin energy was even heavier and contained ferocious energy. Situ Zhenren stopped, frowned, and after a while looked towards a scholar-like Feather Transformation Zhenren beside him who was holding an Eight Trigrams disk in his hand. This "scholar" looked at the Eight Trigrams disk, pinching hand incantations. After a while, his gaze condensed, and he pointed towards a big tree three zhang outside on the right side. In the crowd, a Daoist immediately pointed with his fingers, controlled his peach wood sword, and stabbed it over. The peach wood sword carried exorcism power and stabbed the big tree. The big tree emitted a shrill roar, its bark shed, turning into mottled python skin, seeping out poisonous water, as if containing deadly poison. In the shrill roar, this big tree shook and turned into a snake body. At the top of the tree, a huge human face was revealed. This big tree was actually a terrifying human-faced giant python.

This human-faced giant python showed its original form and fought with the crowd of divine thought cultivators. After a fierce battle, it was suppressed by a Feather Transformation big man full of talisman patterns with divine thought force, then the Daoist sacrificed his sword and beheaded it with one sword. The Cave Void ancestor of Little Spirit Gate burned it with a fire technique. Divine thought killing was not the same as ordinary. Exterminating evil creatures was even more infinitely dangerous. Many evil creatures could not be judged solely from their appearance or ranked for their danger. Therefore, even though the crowd's divine thoughts were powerful, they absolutely dared not have a trace of carelessness. Any evil creature, whether strong or weak, must be thoroughly wiped out. Caution would absolutely not be wrong.

After exterminating the human-faced giant python evil thing, Situ Zhenren pointed with his finger, spied its vital energy, and discovered that its evil force had extinguished and it was truly wiped out. Then he felt relieved. But at the same time, his expression became even more grave.

"Next, you must be more careful." The appearance of large evil creatures meant that the following road would be one step harder than the previous one.

Thereafter, along the way, as Situ Zhenren predicted, evil creatures gradually increased, and all contained ferocious energy. These evil creatures would "eat" people. Their desire to attack was very strong, and they were extremely insidious. Fortunately, in the crowd, that scholar-like Feather Transformation primordial spirit was from the Yi number family, proficient in heavenly mechanism arts, and moreover could manifest the life phase cultivation treasure, the Eight Trigrams exorcism disk. With this, he could foresee fortune and misfortune, seek good and avoid evil. As long as there were evil creatures lurking or demons disguised on the road ahead, it would cause the Eight Trigrams exorcism disk to tremble, and that scholar could foresee in advance, see through the truth, calculate the evil's location, and let the crowd turn danger into safety. If they could not discern the demonic, they would be ambushed. While if they could discern the demonic, they could strike first. This one attack and one defense, the situation difference was huge. Evil creatures and demons, dying one or two, even ten or twenty, were irrelevant to the Evil God. But this group of divine thought cultivators, as long as one person was injured or died, it was a huge loss. It would greatly affect the success or failure of this journey, and even the crowd's life and death.

Just like this, the crowd in the land full of evil creatures, carefully and cautiously, with hearts in their throats, advanced little by little. Along the way, they again experienced several battles, exterminating several ferocious evil creatures. The scenery in front changed, and in the desolation, a piece of withered forest actually appeared. Above the withered forest, dense things were hanging. Situ Zhenren lifted his eyes to look, his heart trembled, and he immediately said:

"Don't look!"

The crowd was not clear, but still obeyed Situ Zhenren's words, their gazes avoiding that piece of withered forest.

"Don't look, don't listen, walk from the left side, keep walking, don't turn back."

The crowd remembered Situ Zhenren's words, lowered their heads, their gazes towards the ground, deaf to everything, only along the left side, they kept walking forward, bypassing that piece of withered forest.

In the crowd, walking at the end, was that wandering Daoist. He similarly lowered his gaze and kept walking forward. Suddenly, a rough and hoarse voice rang beside his ear:

"Look at me..."

"Looking at me..."

The Daoist was curious in his heart. For a moment, he really wanted to turn back to look and see who was talking to him. But his reason told him that this was the evil creature's trick and he could not easily believe it. He then restrained his mind, focused his gaze, and only looked at the ground. But as he kept looking, the ground became a bit blurred, and an even clearer voice rang in his ear:

"You saw me."

The Daoist was startled in his heart, thinking it impossible. He clearly didn't turn his head, how could he see these things? He hurriedly turned his head to confirm, but as soon as his head turned, before seeing anything, the Daoist said in his heart:

"Oh no, tricked!"

But it was already too late. His primordial spirit reacted slowly, but his actions were one step faster. By the time he realized the problem, the Daoist had already turned his head. In an instant, he saw a head hanging on the withered forest. This was a human head, only the head. The flesh on the face was rotten, but only the eyes were intact and permeated with a gray-white and evil strangeness, just staring at him. Not just one head. The Daoist saw this head, and at the same time also saw the whole withered forest. His face instantly turned pale. The withered forest was desolate, with bare branches hanging, which were dense human heads.

"I saw you!" The head staring at the Daoist grinned a strange smile. At the same time, all the heads in the withered forest all turned over, cracked their mouths, and smiled sinisterly. They all said:

"I saw you!"

In an instant, thousands of sinister and shrill voices gathered together, like demonic sounds piercing the ears, straight through the Daoist's eardrums, stabbing into his mind, making him dizzy and about to split, his primordial spirit flickering unstably. Walking in front, Situ Zhenren's expression greatly changed, exclaiming: "Not good!" He immediately urged his primordial spirit, triggered the true incantation, drew the Seven Stars Array light, and protected the crowd's divine thoughts. But the Seven Stars Array light could resist evil energy, but was not very able to resist the evil sounds' bewitchment. The crowd's ears still echoed the shrill howls. One after another human heads and ghost faces, as if right beside their ears, were saying to them:

"I saw you!"

"You can't escape!"

"Stay forever..."

And the one feeling most painful was Wenren Wan. His cultivation was only at the Golden Core stage, unable to have his primordial spirit leave his body. His divine thought was manifested by the Great Dream Heaven Lead, originally with the weakest thought force. Plus, he had forcibly chiseled his sea of consciousness, constructing a bridge with divine sense, bearing the load of the crowd's forced crossing through the black fog and entering the Evil God's nightmare. At this time, his divine thought was already fragile, and coupled with the disturbance of the demonic sounds, in an instant, his divine soul body showed signs of cracking.

Seeing this situation, Situ Zhenren was greatly alarmed and immediately said:

"Quick, Three Purities Bell!"

The white-clothed female Zhenren beside Wenren Wan, hearing this, endured the evil sounds' disturbance, immediately pinched the lotus incantation with her hand, and a clear white divine thought circulated. A bell appeared in front of her, of gold and jade quality, engraved with ancient seal scripts. This treasure was the Three Purities Bell, a supreme treasure on the divine path. Only those with the Great Dao lineage and a pure heart could refine it and also urge it.

The white-clothed female Zhenren strenuously urged the Three Purities Bell. Instantly, a clear sound spread, extinguishing the evil sounds. The crowd's ears no longer had demonic sounds disturbing them, and Wenren Wan's state also improved greatly.

"Quick, walk!" Situ Zhenren said in a deep voice.

The crowd no longer hesitated. Borrowing the clear and upright sound of the Three Purities Bell's cover, they hurriedly retreated, away from the withered forest, and also away from the countless evil strange heads hanging above the withered forest. Having left the withered forest and arrived at a place of black-gray mountains, the crowd just recovered from the shock and rested slightly. But time was urgent, there was no time for excessive rest.

"Continue walking, we must hurry to the depths of the black mountain," Situ Zhenren stood up and was about to say something, but his gaze swept, and he suddenly frowned.

One less?

The crowd looked at each other and immediately their faces also changed, realizing the problem.

"The scholar?"

"Didn't he escape the withered forest with us?"

"Is there such a thing?"

"I can't remember whether he escaped or not..."

The crowd's expressions all involuntarily became heavy. Situ Zhenren's brows were locked tight. He only pondered for a moment, then opened: "Go back and look." Everyone had worked together for a while. If he was in danger, it was impossible to see death without saving him. Moreover, this scholar's position was special. Whether it was the cultivated heavenly mechanism arts or the Eight Trigrams exorcism disk, they could be of great use.

The crowd went back and didn't walk long before they saw the scholar's figure outside the withered forest. He didn't get trapped in the withered forest and swallowed by ten thousand demonic sounds, which counted as unfortunate in luck. Situ Zhenren and the others all breathed a sigh of relief. But before the crowd's hearts really let down, the big man in the crowd who was full of talismans frowned: "His appearance... a bit strange?"

Clearly, it was empty all around without anyone, but this scholar, with his back to the crowd, seemed to be hugging something and making intimate actions. The big man frowned, went forward to pull him, and was immediately startled, hurriedly pushing him away. The scholar turned around, and the crowd then saw that his face and neck were full of fresh red lip prints. These lip prints, left by who knows what, were fresh red like blood, still wriggling, like insects, sucking blood and swallowing flesh, making the scholar's flesh body decay and rot little by little. Even the lip prints were still breeding, spreading little by little...

The crowd saw this and their color changed. Situ Zhenren also sucked in a cold breath. And on the scholar's face, infatuated and regretful colors intertwined. He seemed greedy for desire, unable to extricate himself, but in his heart, he also clearly knew that he had been tricked and was struggling in regret, bitter and unwilling.

Situ Zhenren knew that the situation was urgent and immediately dared not hesitate at all. He took out the Pure Yang Talisman and stuck it on his heart, suppressing the fresh red pure desire, but bloody and cruel "lip prints" that were constantly spreading towards his chest. And under the suppression of the Pure Yang Talisman, the scholar's primordial spirit, as if burned by the fierce sun, emitted white smoke. But the evil energy was still spreading.

Situ Zhenren's fingertip contained starlight. He pointed at the scholar's forehead with his fingers, taking advantage of the few traces of clarity brought by the Seven Stars entering god, and hurriedly said:

"Quick! Recite the incantation!"

The scholar's mouth and teeth opened and closed, seeming unwilling. Situ Zhenren said: "If you don't leave, you will truly be body and spirit both destroyed!"

The scholar gritted his teeth, seemingly because of his "incompetence", with both shame and pain on his face. He silently recited the incantation that Situ Zhenren had told him in his mouth. Then the Seven Stars Array light flashed, and his entire primordial spirit began to distort, being forcibly pulled away from the nightmare by the Seven Stars force. But he was already "polluted". After that, whether he was alive or dead, what the outcome would be, Situ Zhenren was not clear either.

Situ Zhenren slowly sighed. He looked around and his heart gradually sank. He did not know exactly what had happened. But obviously, some unknown monster had secretly acted, bewitched the scholar, and polluted him. They hadn't even seen the Evil God, yet among the fourteen people, one had already been lost. And this Evil God's nightmare had finally revealed its invisible, sinister fangs...