Chapter 313: Chapter 151 Sky High Plateau_1

Atop the ruins of a new city known as the Grand Capital, the Great Celestial Hound issued a command to all forces in the Mu Kingdom to march eastward within three days.

Meanwhile, far away in the ancestral hall of the Divine Path Religious Sect on Dajiang Mountain, Yu Zaoqian and Shuten-doji, the second of the three Great Demon Kings, deployed their hordes of demons, also heading for a desolate wilderness in the east.

Their sole aim was to follow the command of the demon in the Celestial Vault and fell the tree whispered about.

From the moment the demon began whispering, the dusk sun hanging high in the sky ceased any further shifts.

Even when the usual twilight hour passed, the dusk sun didn’t rise again to bring daylight, everything seeming to be eternally frozen, right before sunset.

Under the dim light that shone upon the earth, an unimaginable number of demons fermented, with the will of the heavens guiding all demons towards the path of the Divine Tree.

The demon army trekked through mountains and rivers, their aim all along was just one, to destroy the Divine Tree.

Even the three Great Demon Kings could not comprehend what the whispered Divine Tree was, yet they were bred from the momentum of the demonic horde and inherently unable to go against the cosmic will.

In the village at the foot of the mountain, Three-field Yuu could clearly sense the ever-increasing number of demons in the wilderness as dusk fell and the sun no longer rose to the sky.

And beyond the wilderness, even more demons were continuously rushing to this land.

These demons did not attack the village, nor did they slaughter creatures, but gathered in the wilderness dozens of miles away from the mountain, encircling the entire mountain and surrounding villages.

This situation thoroughly terrified all the villagers under the mountain.

They hurriedly came to the village where Three-field Yuu resided, urgently discussing this strange occurrence.

The village elder found Three-field Yuu and asked him:

“Yuu, you’re the most remarkable man among our several villages. We all hope that you could climb the mountain and ask the Lord Mountain God what’s happening?”

Three-field Yuu, now 28, was no longer young in this world overrun with demons. For over a decade, he’d climbed the mountain without being disturbed by any demons, which had made him something of a legendary figure amongst the surrounding villages.

Whenever disputes arose in the village, they turned to Three-field Yuu for justice.

With such a bizarre occurrence on the plateau today, the villagers naturally hoped to find answers from Three-field Yuu.

Before the villagers’ hopeful eyes, Three-field Yuu could only smile bitterly:

“The Lord Mountain God has sealed off the path up the mountain, outsiders can’t climb. I also have no solution for this situation.”

The villagers were skeptical, but could not press Three-field Yuu further based on his denial.

In fact, Three-field Yuu was not lying, he simply hadn’t told the whole truth.

The moment dusk fell, Shen Yuan sealed off the mountain, stopping outsiders from entering the mountain, but Three-field Yuu was not considered an outsider.

Three-field Yuu had a faint guess in his heart that these gathering demons might be related to the sun-blocking Divine Tree planted by the Lord Mountain God.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered the scene of his first meeting with the Lord Mountain God.

“What I planted is the sun and moon!”

In these dozen years, Three-field Yuu had thought about this matter oh so many times and asked the Lord Mountain God for the reason, yet he never received an answer.

“Perhaps today is the chance to get the answer!”

Since the Lord Mountain God had taken the initiative to seal off the mountain at this time, Three-field Yuu did not want anyone to disturb the Lord Mountain God by climbing the mountain.

All he can do now is to pray for the successful outcome of the Lord Mountain God.

Underneath the Divine Tree on the high mountain…

Shen Yuan had shed the crude clothing he had been wearing for years and put on a white and gold robe.

The robe previously gifted by the temple priest of Yunmeng Dragon Lord Temple had long been damaged during the fight with the Spider Demon. This robe was a new magic vestment that Shen Yuan had refined using Artifact Refining methods.

At the moment, he no longer concealed the aura that he had hidden for over ten years. The powerful aura stirred the Elemental Qi within miles and attracted the ubiquitous Elemental Qi to him.

Skies filled with glowing rosy clouds, earth sprouting golden lotus, the Elemental Qi manifesting various anomalies around Shen Yuan. The massive Divine Tree also began to absorb the Spirit Energy in the surroundings voraciously, with a colossal Spiritual Energy Vortex appearing above it and continuing to expand.

Yet at this moment, Shen Yuan’s realm remained at the Later Stage of Qi Cultivation.

However, the strength Shen Yuan displayed at this moment, was in no way inferior to that of Spirit Refining True Being.

This is because over the last decade, Shen Yuan chose to not focus on advancing his cultivation, but rather to deepen his understanding of the Path of Refining Elemental Qi, and to re-cultivate his Qi using the method of the ancient Qi Refiners.

After arriving in this land, Shen Yuan realized that this world was too small, a tiny island isolated from everything else with its own cosmos.

Breaking through a small realm here was acceptable, yet if one were to break a large realm, the weak cosmic rules would inevitably damage their fundamental strength.

Ji Zhaoyang and Dong Youzi barely reached the Peak of God Refinement over the course of the decade, also due to this reason.

Spirit Refining True Beings had a strong connection with the cosmos, weak cosmic rules naturally had a greater impact on them. Even if they could break through a small realm, they would need to cultivate for several years upon returning.

But if Shen Yuan were to break through to the Spirit Transmutation Realm in this place, the impact brought about by breaking through a large realm is not something that could simply be remedied with the investment of time.