The First Immortal of Destiny

Just as Shen Mo was about to continue fishing for treasures from the bitter sea, his five senses slightly shifted, sensing seven Divine Bridge Realm cultivators coming from afar on escaping light, landing outside the bitter sea.

"Why are there others entering this Immortal Mansion Dungeon?" Shen Mo and the others immediately looked towards the Silver-haired Child.

The Silver-haired Child, equally surprised, promptly explained that he had not spread the news of the True Immortal cave mansion’s emergence. Apart from the four of them, no one else knew the entrance to the Immortal Mansion was located in the Wind Flame Mountain Sky Pit.

"Is it possible... that Senior Ciji left clues six thousand years ago?" Qin Zhen asked.

"Hard to say!"

"Anyway, the longevity banquet hasn’t ended yet, and my past self, along with four other daoists, set off for Wind Flame Mountain! Moreover, we all took an oath not to reveal the True Immortal cave mansion’s information to outsiders."

"If you don’t believe it, you can ask Kang’s boy...

"Fellow Daoist Ciji had not even informed his family, only those who traveled with us knew about the True Immortal cave mansion!"

This statement was quickly confirmed by Kang Haoxiu, as after showing up at the longevity banquet, Immortal Master Ciji disappeared and left not a word; the Kang Family members thought he went traveling or went into seclusion, but centuries later, with no news of Immortal Master Ciji, they suspected he had fallen outside.

After the explanation, Kang Haoxiu continued, "Judging by their attire, they don’t seem to be from Phoenix Continent, it seems they come from another continent. Perhaps this Immortal Mansion Dungeon has more than just one entry at Wind Flame Mountain!"

Five Dragon Mountain, Jade Spring Mountain, the Kang Family’s ancestral land at Canluan Lake, and Wind Flame Mountain, all are located on the same immortal continent, named ’Phoenix’.

How vast Phoenix Continent is, only True Immortal characters might know, as Divine Bridge Realm cultivators cannot traverse it all in a lifetime; if these individuals are from another continent, they certainly did not enter the Immortal Mansion Dungeon through the entrance at Wind Flame Mountain Sky Pit. There must be a spatial rift somewhere unknown to Shen Mo and others!

The next moment.

A strange brilliance flickered in Shen Mo’s eyes, he activated "Insight into All Beings", and a large number of middle-grade Spirit Stones in his robe sleeves turned to dust, silently absorbed into the Sword Zone.

As Kang Haoxiu speculated, these seven Divine Bridge Immortal Masters indeed were not cultivators from Phoenix Continent but hailed from another great immortal continent, "Cangwu Continent".

Additionally, Shen Mo discovered that they were not cultivating the way of justice, instead taking powerful demons as teachers, walking the Demonic Path. Even if they achieved True Immortality, they would be Demon Immortals or Evil Immortals, truly evil cultivators...

Their soul fluctuations and auras were unlike those of righteous path cultivators, lacking the warmth and purity, faintly emanating a brutal and cruel air;

If not for the information feedback on the panel, Shen Mo might even have thought they were demons wearing cultivator guises!

"It seems I... have had the fortune of seeing cultivators of this sect before, their attire and aura were identical, they should belong to a large sect called the ’Ancient Demon Palace’. The Ancient Demon Palace is located on the distant Cangwu Continent, billions of miles away from our Phoenix Continent." Shen Mo couldn’t openly declare he possessed the Destiny of "Insight into All Beings", so he found an excuse to reveal the identities of those seven.

"If so, that means this Immortal Mansion indeed has other entrances."

The Silver-haired Child slightly nodded, feigning ease, "It’s not a problem! How could the True Immortal cave mansion be so easily entered? Even in my past life, with Immortal Master Ciji and others, we reached the Formless Realm, only one step away from True Immortality, yet we still fell within this Immortal Mansion. No matter how many come in, many will die, it shouldn’t affect our subsequent plans."

Despite his words, a shadow crossed his eyes.

Aside from retrieving the Five Dragon Divine Chariot and other magic treasures, the Silver-haired Child also wished to reform the Formless Realm, then delve deeper into the Immortal Mansion to retrieve a few Immortal treasures;

Now realizing the Immortal Mansion had more than one spatial rift, it was not good news for him!

As Shen Mo and others discussed, the Divine Bridge Immortal Masters from the Ancient Demon Palace also sensed the presence of Shen Mo’s group. Seeing them safe above the bitter sea, they tried using dim escaping light to cross the bitter sea.

Unexpectedly, before covering a hundred miles, one person suddenly halted his escaping light, with a pondering look, gazed at the "Immortal" figure sitting high in the Ninth Heaven, and then loudly expounded his understanding of the Great Path, and his cultivation.

Though quite far away, Shen Mo and the others could hear his words through their five senses.

One cannot say his cultivation path was inadequate, but it stood contrary to the righteous path cultivators’ concept of "The Way Follows Nature," seeking to emulate the strongest and most sinister demons to perfect himself, aiming to achieve True Immortality and eternal life, truly walking the Demonic Path!

Yet, whether it be the Grand Dao, the Trivial Path, or the Demonic Path, none could satisfy the thirteen "Immortals" above the Ninth Heaven, they require the ones who hear the Dao to articulate their "tattle and prate."

The next moment, that Ancient Demon Palace Divine Bridge showed confusion and fear on his face, then his spirit light abruptly extinguished, and his body fell involuntarily towards the bitter sea.

"Splash!"

This person crashed into the water, waving his arms frantically for help towards his comrades, but soon sank entirely into the depths of the bitter sea.

Subsequently, one after another, the Ancient Demon Palace cultivators began to repeat the process... as if having heard something, stopping their escaping light, then looking up and loudly expounding their own Dao, then one by one falling into the bitter sea, struggling painstakingly!

Clearly, they all failed to acknowledge or articulate the Dao that the thirteen "Immortals" preached.

It wasn’t until the fourth comrade fell into the boundless bitter sea that the remaining three Ancient Demon Palace cultivators realized it, starting to study, analyze, and articulate the absurd Dao that entered their minds, to answer the "Immortals’" silent question!

Not surprisingly, the remaining three did not directly fall into the bitter sea;

However, their auras became chaotic and strange, fluctuating violently, as if there was a fundamental conflict in their cultivation method, and their formidable cultivation level was in jeopardy.

One of them even triggered the Three Disasters and Six Tribulations, with invisible tribulation flames underfoot burning away his Dao Body and burning out his soul, leaving only a charred skeleton to fall into the bitter sea; the remaining two quickly stabilized their cultivation, but it was apparent they had damaged their Dao Foundation. For now, they had only suppressed the hidden danger, but would need to exert considerable effort in the future to correct it, eliminating the influence of the "tattle and prate"!

Out of the seven, only two preserved their lives, and they looked at Shen Mo and others with malicious intent;

After all, in the mindset of these two Ancient Demon Palace Divine Bridge cultivators, if they hadn’t seen Shen Mo’s group unharmed, they wouldn’t have been so careless!

But given their current disadvantage in numbers and their loss of cultivation level while responding to the "Immortals’" question, the two Ancient Demon Palace cultivators did not act immediately, instead, they remembered Shen Mo and the others’ soul auras deeply, then retreated far away.