Chapter 557: The Last Step

"Forget it, I think you have just been tempered by phantom demons, and it's your first offense, so don't take this as an example. Well, let's go back and cultivate ourselves." Guardian Yue said, flicking his sleeves.

"Thank you, Guardian Yue, this disciple will leave." Shi Mu turned and walked out of the Illusory Demon Palace as if he had been pardoned.

After coming out of the Xuanling Pagoda, Shi Mu looked up to the sky and let out a long breath, and then the light on his body turned into a stream of red light and fled away.

After a while, the red ray of light fell again, and when the light faded, his figure landed in his mansion.

As soon as he stepped into the yard, he saw Qi Feng was giving orders to several servants. When he saw Shi Mu, he hurried over, cupped his hands at him, and said respectfully:

"Mansion Master, you are back!"

"Um."

Shi Mu responded casually, stopped talking, and walked towards the main house.

Before taking a few steps, Shi Mu heard Cai Er's figure ringing in his ears:

"Shitou, you came back so soon? Could it be that you have already broken through the magic path?"

Cai'er got out from nowhere, fluttered her wings and landed on Shi Mu's shoulder.

Shi Mu thought for a while, then nodded slowly.

"What's the matter with you, Shito? Why do I feel that you are a little out of your mind? Is there some peerless beauty in the magic magic way, who has taken your soul away?" Cai'er tilted her neck and sized up Shi Mu, jokingly said.

Shi Mu was taken aback for a moment, then seemed to have remembered something, grabbed Cai'er and looked at her carefully before his eyes.

Cai'er's two wings were held by Shi Mu, and she yelled in fear:

"Shitou, what are you going to do to me? Cai... Cai'er's meat is not tasty..."

When Shi Mu heard this, he couldn't help but chuckled, threw Cai'er out, and strode towards the main house.

...

the next day.

The news that Shi Mu passed the test of the Dao of Illusion, and obtained the qualification to be promoted to the Millennium Disciple, quickly spread throughout the entire Yellow Rank region.

Shi Mu became famous all of a sudden, and his limelight was unmatched, even overshadowing Zhao Jian who was taken away by the Holy Lord Qinglan.

In the next few days, disciples who were familiar with him in the past, such as Qing Changtian, Ma Long, Zi Ling, etc., came to congratulate him one after another, and some people who had not had much contact with him in the past also came to make friends with him , even the top ten people on the Qinglan list all brought important gifts to Shi Mu's mansion.

Shi Mu doesn't like this kind of entertainment. Except for those who are acquainted with each other, those who are not acquainted with each other can't be turned away, and Qi Feng will handle it.

As the number of times increased, Shi Mu felt ashamed and always avoided seeing him, and occasionally socialized. He came and went, and unexpectedly made many friends.

...

Half a month later, it was the official date for Shi Mu to be promoted to a thousand-year disciple, and all his new and old friends came to see him off.

Suddenly, nearly a hundred people gathered in front of the Xuanling Pagoda.

"Brother Shi, after becoming a thousand-year-old disciple, don't forget me. Come back and walk around in your spare time." Qing Changtian said with a smile.

"Brother Shi, you must come back to visit us often." Ma Long said.

"That's natural..." Shi Mu laughed.

Before Shi Mu finished speaking, he suddenly felt a strong wave of spiritual power, and he quickly raised his head to look into the sky.

Above everyone's heads, the originally blue sky with white clouds floating suddenly opened a huge black hole, and a huge dragon claw covered with golden scales protruded out of it.

Shi Mu's heart trembled, and he felt a very familiar aura coming from the dragon's claws.

"what is that?"

Just as everyone was exclaiming in shock, the huge dragon claw swiped, and the crack widened in an instant, and then a huge nine-headed golden flood dragon with a body over a hundred feet suddenly protruded from it, and its nine huge heads let out a long roar at the crowd.

"Aw..."

After the nine-headed golden dragon roared, golden light radiated from its body, and its figure rapidly became smaller in the golden light, turning into a tall man in a golden robe.

"Little Shi Mu, let me see how you can escape this time, old man?" the man in the golden robe shouted coldly.

"Ao Zu..." Shi Mu gritted his teeth and said.

"The old man came here today only to seek revenge against this son alone. He has nothing to do with others. Get out of here quickly!" the man in the golden robe Ao Zu shouted, and the majestic aura of a holy powerhouse surged out instantly. , an unspeakable violent coercion swept towards everyone.

"Holy...Holy rank powerhouse... run away!" Everyone looked shocked when they saw this.

"Brother Shi, this person is definitely not something we can fight against. If you can escape, run away!" After Qing Changtian finished speaking, a blue light flashed on his body, and he ran away first.

"Brother Shi, little sister, I'm weak, so I'm leaving first." After Ma Long said a word, he turned into a ray of light and flew away.

"Brother Shi, take care!" Zi Ling said, the purple light on her body shone, and her figure disappeared.

But for a moment, none of the hundreds of people who surrounded him were left, and all of them disappeared. Ao Zu turned a blind eye to the escape of these people, and just stared at Shi Mu.

Shi Mu's face was calm, he felt a little disappointed, and the look in his eyes dimmed a bit.

"Stone, even if everyone leaves you, I will not leave, I will fight side by side with you!" At this moment, Cai Er, who had been standing on Shi Mu's shoulder, suddenly waved her wings and said to Shi Mu .

After hearing this, Shi Mu was taken aback, the light in his eyes suddenly brightened a bit, he opened his mouth, took out the Ruyi iron rod, and held it tightly in the palm of his hand.

"Old thief Aozu, come on, you and I will finish it today!"

He stopped drinking, waved his arm, and the wishful stick in his hand radiated black light, and white air currents rolled up around him.

It swept across from left to right suddenly, and a black stick shadow tens of feet in size pierced the void, making a horrifying piercing scream, and attacked Aozu.

"Small tricks!" Ao Zu said disdainfully.

With one hand flexed into a claw, he suddenly stretched out towards Shi Mu, and a huge golden dragon claw pierced out of the air, directly smashing the huge stick shadow into pieces.

The golden dragon claws continued to plunge down brazenly, and grabbed Shi Mu.

The expression on Shi Mu's face remained unchanged, and with a roll of the long stick in his hand, several white tornadoes suddenly hit upwards, directly bombarding the golden dragon claws, but they dispersed immediately, only making the dragon claws fall at a slight speed. a stagnation.

He took this opportunity to tap his toe sharply, and stepped back.

At this moment, the golden dragon claw suddenly radiated golden light, appearing on top of Shi Mu's head like a teleportation, and pressed him to the ground.

"Boom!"

After a loud bang, the ground under Shi Mu's body split hundreds of fissures, the largest of which extended directly to the white tower.

"puff"

Shi Mu tilted his head and opened his mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood. His body was firmly held down by the dragon's claws. Although he was holding the Ruyi Iron Rod tightly in his hand, he couldn't swing it a little bit.

"Stone!" Cai'er flew down beside him, wailing in a miserable way.

"Run away..." Shi Mu gritted his teeth and spit out a few words.

"I... I won't run away! Shitou, I think you are doomed this time. We are masters and slaves. You treat me well, and I will die with you!" Cai'er said firmly.

"You... well, since you want to die with me so much, then I will give you a ride." Shi Mu said with a sudden cold expression.

I saw the light on his body suddenly brighten, and the flames surged out. As soon as the red ape dharma appeared, he let out a roar, raised his thick arms upwards, and pushed the golden dragon claw away a few points.

Shi Mu stood up, a black light flashed on the Ruyi stick in his hand, and he swung it down, hitting Cai'er heavily.

There was a muffled "bang".

Cai'er's body suddenly burst into bloody flowers.

"Ah... Shishi, why!" Cai'er asked with blood on her feathers.

"If it's really Cai'er, although her cultivation level is low, she will definitely find something before the danger comes, and she will be the first to escape. However, when the golden flood dragon appeared just now, you didn't have any vigilance, and at this moment you actually said that you want to be with her." I live and die together? What's more, Qinglan Sacred Realm is extraordinary, how could it be so easily torn apart by you?" Shi Mu said.

"Jie Jie Jie... I didn't expect that you wouldn't even trust the spiritual pet that you get along with day and night." Cai Er suddenly let out a strange smile and said.

"You're wrong. I don't believe in you just because I believe in Cai'er." After Shi Mu finished speaking, his expression froze, and a raging flame suddenly ignited on the long black stick, and then fell down suddenly.

Cai'er was hit by Shi Mu's stick, and immediately dissipated into a puff of black smoke.

Shi Mu raised his head to look at Ao Zu in the golden robe suspended in the air, and at this moment, he was also dissipating gradually, turning into a cloud of black mist, and the surrounding trees, hills, and even the Xuanling Pagoda also dissipated.

Immediately afterwards, black mist surged up all around, covering the surrounding space again.

Shi Mu's eyes blurred, and he found that black crystal path appeared again under his feet.

In the following time, every time he took a step forward on the path of illusion, he would fall into an illusion.

All these hallucinations are closely related to his past memories, old friends such as Jin Xiaochai, Aunt Zhen, and even Liu An and others appear in the hallucinations one by one.

These illusions are very real, and the illusory content often points directly to the weakness in his heart. Even with Shi Mu's mind, he often falls into them unconsciously, unable to distinguish reality from illusion, and almost sinks into it several times.

Fortunately, relying on his strong will and a little understanding that often walks between life and death, he often wakes up at the last moment and breaks through step by step.

I don't know how long it took before Shi Mu's eyes changed, and he once again broke through an illusion and returned to the black crystal path.

At this moment, the surrounding area is densely covered with fog, and it is impossible to see anything except the soles of the feet.

"The last step!"

Shi Mu exhaled softly, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for a while, then murmured.

Every time he experienced an illusion, he faintly felt that the will in his heart became firmer, as if Fan Tie had been tempered time and time again, becoming more tenacious.

He took a deep breath and continued to move forward.

However, as soon as this step was taken, a white light burst out in front of the black path, and a white light door appeared out of thin air. (To be continued.)