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The battlefield outside the territory is the battlefield between ancient immortals and ancient demons.

According to ancient legends in the world of cultivation, the extraterrestrial battlefield was originally a small world directly connected to the world of Kyushu, and was also bound by the laws of heaven in Kyushu. However, due to the invasion of demons, it turned into a lawless and chaotic place.

In the entire Kyushu cultivation world, no cultivator knows the specific location of the extraterritorial battlefield. Every time they go to the extraterritorial battlefield, the cultivators need to pass through the giant teleportation immortal formation built by several ancient immortals to directly teleport the physical body to the outer battlefield, and in it. After more than ten days, the cultivators who successfully survived will be teleported back.

Even great monks at the Nascent Soul stage who can see into the boundless sea of ​​​​void cannot understand the underlying principles of these immortal teleportation arrays, let alone where these teleportation arrays are pointing. It is said that this is an attempt by the ancient immortals to isolate the connection between the world of cultivation and the world of demons. , deliberately blocking the secrets of heaven to prevent the malicious Nascent Soul Ancestor from finding the specific location of the extraterrestrial battlefield through the boundless sea of ​​​​void.

According to the original intention of the ancient immortals, it is best to permanently separate the outer battlefield from the world of Kyushu.

However, the battlefield outside the territory produces a precious elixir called [Blood Demon Grass]. The foundation building pill necessary for cultivators to break through the foundation building stage uses Blood Demon Grass as the main material.

In order not to cut off the path to immortality for future generations, the ancient immortals specially set up nine teleportation formations, allowing cultivators from Kyushu to visit foreign battlefields every five years and play a death game of killing people and grabbing treasures. Nevertheless, in order to prevent cultivators from causing damage to the ancient enchantment and to reopen the entrance to the world of cultivation and the demon world, only cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage and magic weapons and elixirs that do not exceed the level of the Qi Refining Stage can be transmitted through the ancient teleportation array.

Infected by demonic energy, the entire extraterrestrial battlefield is shrouded in a terrifying existence called demonic mist.

This kind of magic mist can quickly erode the body-protecting Qi of cultivators. Any monk who comes into contact with the magic mist will have the demonic Qi enter his body in just a quarter of an hour, and lose his mind and become a demon who only knows how to kill.

Every time the Immortal Teleportation Formation is activated, the power of the ancient immortals will briefly clear away the magic mist covering the outer battlefield. However, as the transmission is completed, the magic mist will rise again from the blood sea outside the outer battlefield and move toward spread across the continent. As time goes by, the area occupied by the magic fog will become larger and larger. In the final stage of the extraterrestrial battlefield trial, all cultivators will be driven to a very small area under the pressure of the magic fog.

When the cultivators were forced to gather together, it was difficult for the trialists who had their own agendas not to fight.

It is said that 500 years ago, the location of the safe zone in foreign battlefields was still fixed. In the center of the extraterrestrial battlefield at that time, there was a 100-foot-high glazed tower built by ancient immortals - the Tongtian Pagoda.

With the Tongtian Pagoda as the center, a ten-mile radius is the so-called safe zone.

Protected by the immortal power left behind by the Tongtian Pagoda, this safe zone is still protected by the Heavenly Way of Nine States. Therefore, if the tester does not want to fight, he only needs to desperately escape to the area covered by the Tongtian Pagoda, and he will be considered successful.

But just 500 years ago, as the ascended immortals Lu Yang and Xiao Huang successfully took away the most precious Xuantian Ring that suppressed the Tongtian Pagoda, the entire pagoda collapsed. From then on, the safe zone position of the extraterrestrial battlefield became no longer Fixed.

Everyone can only judge the approximate location of the safe zone based on the direction in which the magic tide shrinks.

If 500 years ago, if you didn't want to fight, you could get away by quickly entering the safe zone, then whether a cultivator can finally get out of the foreign battlefield depends entirely on hard power and character.

When he first heard Li Qingning introduce the situation on the battlefield outside the territory, the first thought in Yang Lu's mind was:

Isn't this the cultivation version of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds"?

Aren’t the so-called safe zones and demonic tides just shrinking the circle and running away the poison?

If the extraterritorial battlefield more than 500 years ago was not a typical PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, today's more cruel "random shrinking mode" extraterritorial battlefield trial is a perfect replica of the chicken game in the world of cultivation.

There are nine super teleportation arrays in the entire Jiuzhou cultivation world that can be teleported to battlefields outside the territory. The only ancient teleportation array in Zhongzhou is located not far from the mountain gate of Wuliang Sword Sect.

Every time the extraterritorial battlefield trial is about to begin, nearly 200,000 monks from all over Zhongzhou will gather on the outskirts of Yunlai City on the edge of the Wuliang Mountains, waiting patiently for the moment the teleportation formation opens.

Even with so many people teleporting at the same time, the entire ancient teleportation formation seemed to be able to do so with ease. No one knew where the limit of this immortal formation was.

Due to the influx of a large number of cultivators in Yunlai City in a short period of time, and these cultivators are all going to the battlefield outside the territory to fight for their lives, they do not take Lingshi coins seriously when they spend money, which makes Yunlai City naturally become The largest Cultivation Workshop City in Zhongzhou, every time before the start of the extraterritorial battlefield trial, various high-standard auctions are held one after another. The Wuliang Sword Sect’s magic weapon self-operated mall will also purchase Qi Refining period magic weapons in large quantities, and then they will be sold in large quantities. The cultivators who participated in the trial snapped up all the items.

Two weeks before the trial started, Yang Lu and Li Qingning had already arrived in Yunlai City.

The reason why this time is neither too early nor too late is mainly because Yang Lu successfully broke through the bottleneck of the fourth level of Qi refining two days ago and became a mid-stage Qi refining monk, barely reaching the minimum standard for controlling the escape light.

As Li Qingning said before, the process of breaking through the mid-stage Qi refining threshold is indeed very similar to constipation.

Yang Lu had to use all his strength to guide the spiritual energy into his body. He clenched his fists, tightened his whole body, and turned red. The spiritual energy reserves in his body gradually approached his limit, and then he felt that the spiritual energy level in his body suddenly exceeded a certain level. After reaching the threshold, the spiritual energy reserves in the body increased rapidly again, and the whole person felt intoxicated.

That feeling is indeed like that of a patient who has been constipated for a whole week and finally went to the toilet!

Yang Lu's process of breaking through the bottleneck this time was very smooth. He succeeded after just one attempt. The main reason was that the "Infinite Heart Sutra - From No Way to Mastery" was a serious heaven-level skill that he practiced, and the efficiency of guiding spiritual energy was very high. He is much stronger than the monks of the same level who practice ordinary skills, and he also takes a double dose of Qi Gathering Powder to speed up the gathering of spiritual energy, which causes his explosive energy to reach its own critical point much more efficiently than ordinary monks.

It is said that those monks with inferior spiritual roots who practice yellow-level skills, even if they try to break through this simplest bottleneck in the middle stage of Qi refining, they have to try an average of seventeen or eight times before they can succeed!

After advancing to the middle stage of Qi refining, Yang Lu immediately learned the technique of controlling the escape light.

The technique of controlling the escaping light is not complicated. In Yang Lu's words, it feels similar to driving a car using a brain-computer interface. The only difference is that the cultivator needs to control the strength and speed very carefully, otherwise there will be an embarrassing situation where the flying sword cannot hold the bend. If the flying sword loses control in a densely populated area, it is easy to cause a serious air traffic accident.

However, the population density of the cultivation world is not too high. As long as you deliberately avoid the major cultivation cities along the way, even a novice light-escape driver like Yang Lu will most likely not have any "light-escape disasters".

It took the two of them about three or four days to cross the distance of more than 15,000 miles and arrive at Yunlai City on the edge of the Wuliang Mountains.