Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 330 Impact on Transformation, Azure Hand

On the dark silver flying boat.

As Li Ping recalled his experiences in the illusion, a hint of the vicissitudes of time flashed in his eyes.

"This Mo Yun is quite an extraordinary person. He actually managed to deduce a third-order array inheritance all by himself." He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In layman's terms, Mo Yun has successfully filled the gap in the Tianxuan Sect's lack of knowledge about third-order array formations.

Mo Yun had a great talent for array formations, and he devoted his life to the study of array formations. However, unfortunately, his starting point was too low, and he failed to form a Nascent Soul.

Limited by his lifespan of five hundred years, his mastery of array formations ultimately only reached the lower third rank.

"But now, all of this is mine." Li Ping's consciousness looked at the Tree of Inheritance on the first gray island in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Above the branches of the Tree of Inheritance that originally represented talisman making, alchemy, puppet making, and weapon crafting, a new branch, radiating lush greenery, has appeared, with a line of small characters faintly visible on it.

[Array Master: Tier 3, Low Grade]

After spending countless hours and decades of effort, and even risking his life to kill a third-tier demonic beast, he finally achieved his goal of becoming a third-tier low-grade array master.

"Then, next, we should repair that teleportation array."

Recalling the profound knowledge of array formations that kept surfacing in his mind, Li Ping smiled slightly: "My mastery of array formations should surpass Xiao Yunzhi's, and even among array formation experts of the same level, my foundation is much more solid and firm than hers."

"After all, Xiao Yunzhi's mastery of array formations was achieved through her own painstaking research and deduction; it's shallow and insignificant. How can it compare to my direct awakening of 'peerless talent,' a proof that lasts forever!"

With a smile, Li Ping activated his divine sense, and the flying boat beneath his feet shot out like lightning, heading straight for the location of the teleportation array.

To his surprise, the airship had only traveled less than a thousand miles when a strange pressure suddenly descended, making him feel a chill run down his spine.

Immediately afterwards, the spiritual energy in the air became chaotic, forming countless vortexes of spiritual energy thousands of feet above the ground in the blink of an eye.

Under pressure, his magical power also went out of control for a moment, and the flying boat spun wildly in the air, almost falling directly down.

"What is this?" Amidst the intense fluctuations of spiritual energy, Li Ping regained control of his internal magical power and stood on the flying boat, looking in the direction from which the fluctuations of spiritual energy were coming.

Countless visible points of spiritual light converged into countless multicolored rivers of spiritual energy, surging towards that direction, as if a giant black hole had appeared there, devouring spiritual energy, creating an extremely dazzling and mesmerizing scene.

Li Ping was alright; he used his divine sense to observe it.

The low-level demonic beasts that filled the Cloud Mist Mountains were all kneeling on the ground, trembling and panting heavily, looking like they were having difficulty breathing.

As far as the eye can see, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has been almost completely drained.

The sky was thick with dark clouds, and bolts of lightning as thick as buckets leaped and churned within the rolling clouds. The terrifying power made Li Ping shudder; he feared that any one of them could turn him into a charred corpse.

Li Ping recalled his memories of various strange phenomena, and his face slowly turned to shock: "Could this be... a demonic beast attempting to transform into human form?"

Whether it's a cultivator or a demon beast, the gap between each level is like a chasm.

However, for demonic beasts, the biggest gap is undoubtedly between the third and fourth tiers.

The third tier is a demon beast, but the fourth tier can be considered a demon race.

Fourth-tier demon race members not only possess intelligence indistinguishable from humans, but also begin to transform parts of their bodies, and the degree of transformation increases with their cultivation level.

It is said that once a demon reaches the late fourth tier, it will basically no longer retain any characteristics of a demon beast.

However, just like how humans need to undergo the tribulation of heavenly lightning to refine their bodies after their core is shattered and they are transformed into a nascent soul.

For a demon beast to shed its beastly body and transform into a human form, it must also undergo a tribulation of heavenly lightning, known as the "transformation lightning tribulation".

However, the tribulation lightning of a demon beast's transformation is far more terrifying than the tribulation of a human when forming a nascent soul.

After all, given the naturally ferocious bodies of demonic beasts, the heavenly tribulation that would be enough to kill human cultivators would probably be like a tickle to them.

As for why Li Ping judged that the strange phenomenon in front of him was a demonic beast attempting to transform into human form, rather than a human cultivator attempting to reach the Nascent Soul stage, the reason is quite simple.

The biggest difference between human cultivators and other races is that human cultivators must have spiritual veins to advance.

For example, if you want to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, there is absolutely no chance of success without a fourth-order spiritual vein.

There are no fourth-order spiritual veins in the Cloud Mist Mountains, so no cultivator would be foolish enough to form their Nascent Soul here.

Li Ping was 100% certain that this strange phenomenon was caused by a demonic beast attempting to transform into human form.

"Once this demon beast successfully transforms into human form, there will be another fourth-tier transformed demon in the Cloud Mist Mountains, and the Western Wilderness cultivation world will be in dire straits." Li Ping's expression was grim, and his eyes flickered uncertainly.

The transformed demon possesses intelligence comparable to that of humans, and even if the righteous and demonic factions of the Western Wilderness put aside their past grievances and joined forces, they would still be no match for it.

At that time, the cultivators of the Western Wilderness will live in fear of being unable to control their own destiny, just like the cultivators of the far north.

Li Ping was in even more distress, because the teleportation array couldn't be moved. Every time he traveled between the Western Wilderness and the Great Zhou Dynasty via the teleportation array, he would risk being discovered by a transformed demon.

"So many years have passed, and not a single fully-formed demon has been born in the Cloud Mist Mountains. Yet, just when I was about to repair the teleportation array, a demon suddenly attempted to transform?"

Li Ping looked towards the core of the vortex hundreds of miles away, his eyes filled with frustration.

Even now, facing the threat posed by a fourth-order transformed demon.

He even considered not repairing the teleportation array at all, but leaving the Cloud Mist Mountains right now, crossing the Western Wilderness, and going across the Vast Ocean to the Great Zhou Dynasty and never returning.

Demonic beasts rely mainly on their bloodline for cultivation, and their requirements for spiritual energy environment and quantity during advancement are not as demanding as those for human cultivators.

Just as Li Ping hesitated and pondered, the fluctuations of spiritual energy in the world gradually subsided.

Clearly, the demonic beast that was advancing had absorbed enough spiritual energy to advance.

"Hey!"

Accompanied by a sharp, long howl that seemed to tear the heavens and earth apart, a terrifying pressure surged out from the gathering point of spiritual energy in all directions like a tidal wave.

Li Ping's expression changed drastically; the demonic beast had successfully advanced to the next level.

Moreover, the howl of this monster sounded somewhat familiar to him.

At the same moment the shriek rang out, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have sensed it as well. In the ink-black sea of ​​clouds, thick electric snakes, as thick as buckets, flowed and intertwined, forming a net of lightning that covered the area below.

boom!

Li Ping seemed to see a volcanic eruption.

Just as the lightning net descended, a divine bird with a wingspan of nearly several hundred feet, its entire body enveloped in flames, rushed towards the lightning net.

In a short time.

Thunder and fire filled the sky for hundreds of miles, and the aftershocks even reached Li Ping's location.

However, Li Ping couldn't care less about any of that. He stared wide-eyed at the divine bird in the sky, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart, because he recognized the divine bird that was undergoing the tribulation of transformation.

Although it had grown much larger and its appearance had changed somewhat, Li Ping could see very clearly that this firebird undergoing tribulation was the same late-stage third-tier Fiery Arrow Eagle that had once attacked Fenglan Immortal City.

At that time, two Fiery Arrow Eagles appeared outside the Immortal City and almost breached it.

Fortunately, Huang Yunzi arrived in time and together with Fenglan Zhenren, they killed the mid-stage third-tier female eagle, while the late-stage third-tier male eagle escaped on its own.

Unexpectedly, more than 140 years later, the escaped male Fiery Arrow Eagle has actually evolved into human form.

"Once it survives the tribulation of transformation, the Immortal City will be doomed." Li Ping sighed.

This bird suffered such a great loss in the Immortal City, even losing its mate to humans. Now that it has advanced, how could it not seek revenge?

"Me too, we need to hurry!"

Upon recognizing the Fiery Arrow Eagle, Li Ping lost all hope and abandoned his plan to repair the teleportation array. He took advantage of the Fiery Arrow Eagle's ongoing tribulation and the healing of its injuries after the lightning tribulation to stabilize his cultivation level.

He needs to hurry to the Immortal City to inform Ji Shuwen about this and ask her to lead all the cultivators and mortals in the Immortal City to evacuate.

As for himself, he also needed to hurry up and escape.

The child of the Fierce Arrow Eagle is still in his spirit beast pouch.

Although he saved his child's life and nurtured the Wildfire Sparrow to near the third tier, Li Ping had no intention of using this relationship to curry favor.

Because in the eyes of the Fierce Arrow Eagle, he was a "human trafficker" who enslaved his children.

Who would give a human trafficker a friendly look?

This bird probably wouldn't be satisfied unless it tore out his soul and tortured him severely.

……

He glanced deeply at the fierce arrow eagle shrieking wildly amidst the lightning snake net on the distant horizon, then prepared to urge the flying boat to turn around and head towards the Immortal City.

But before he could do all that, another unexpected event occurred.

Amidst the scattering of lightning and fire in the sky, a colossal azure hand, tens of thousands of feet long, materialized out of thin air. The instant the hand took shape, it also attracted the hostility of the thunderclouds.

More lightning bolts formed densely, and then swept down on the giant hand.

But the giant hand was not afraid at all; instead, it clenched its fist and smashed it hard against the lightning net.

The dense network of lightning bolts was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, easily smashed into nothingness before the giant hand.

However, the arrival of the lightning net seemed to have angered the giant hand. After smashing the lightning net, it did not stop, but continued to smash the low-hanging thunderclouds in the sky.

"Whoosh~"

With just one punch, the dark clouds that stretched for miles vanished instantly, the lightning tribulation disappeared in a flash, and the warm sunlight shone down.

But before it could even rejoice at having survived the tribulation, a large cyan hand descended from the sky, reaching straight for it.

The Fiery Arrow Eagle moved swiftly, transforming into a streak of fire that shot out and vanished into the void in an instant, disappearing without a trace.

But its struggles were clearly futile in the face of this azure hand that could even shatter the tribulation lightning.

After a series of loud explosions, the Fiery Arrow Eagle reappeared in the sky and was grabbed by a large blue hand.

"Waaah~"

The fierce arrow eagle kept crying out in agony.

The next moment, the cyan hand disappeared, along with the Fiery Arrow Eagle that it had been holding.

"This?" Li Ping was dumbfounded.