Chapter 1149: Arriving at Lü Mountain, Meeting the Founding Ancestor of Lü Mountain

This place was quite different from what he had imagined.

Lu Ding had expected to see people struggling to survive, a world shrouded in darkness, a broken land, and bizarre supernatural phenomena everywhere.

But unexpectedly.

Looking down from above, the scenery was beautiful and simple.

No chaotic anomalies.

No grand environment that matched the name "Demon Continent."

Overall, it looked like the rural areas of Great Han from the sixties and seventies of the Third Circle.

But there were also cities, villages, towns, and so on.

The only difference was that technology hadn't intervened here yet.

Moreover, the natural resources here were so abundant it was almost exaggerated.

Especially the various mineral resources - if they could be mined and transported back to Great Han, it would be like adding wings to a tiger.

Lu Ding pondered and spoke: "Great-Grandmaster, I heard Senior Gongyang mention earlier that our Demon Continent has a great centennial demon-feeding activity. How is it that..."

The Great-Grandmaster explained to him: "The centennial demon-feeding is indeed real, but after the battle, things get repaired. Lü Mountain will do its best to stabilize the Demon Continent's environment, after all, other people still live here."

"The Demon Continent bridges the First Circle above and the Second Circle below. Those who can come here include not only reincarnated demons but also reincarnated humans. Demons being reincarnated deserve death, but humans being reincarnated here - we can't just kill them all, right?"

"We try our best to stabilize their living environment."

"Let them experience birth, aging, sickness, and death here."

"Unless absolutely necessary, even when we conduct large-scale demon capture and hunting operations, we won't use mass destruction methods. This is also why our Lü Mountain excels in single-target combat."

Lu Ding understood now. He had already noticed some clues earlier - from the Great-Grandmaster's first appearance when he fought those foreign Spirit Refinement cultivators, and later when the various Senior Uncles and Junior Uncles dealt with Lu Lin with the same practiced coordination as catching a stray dog.

Now with the Great-Grandmaster's explanation.

Lu Ding got it.

The strength of Lü Mountain's techniques lay in single-target elimination and single-target control.

Once you got hit, you'd know what true stats meant. Once you got tagged, you'd know what mechanics meant.

But that didn't mean Lü Mountain's area control was weak - it was just that breaking through with precision was even stronger.

As the Flying Vessel penetrated deeper into the Demon Continent.

Lu Ding gradually saw Lü Mountain's true appearance - towering into the clouds, steep as if carved by knives and axes, with dense arrays clinging to the mountain's surface. Just looking at it was enough to trigger trypophobia.

Sturdy!!!

Too sturdy!!!

The Flying Vessel swept forward.

Just as it landed steadily on a platform of Lü Mountain, figures with grand auras came rushing from all directions on the mountain.

The air itself seemed to freeze at that moment.

From within the crowd.

A female cultivator with a coiled bun, holding a warning ruler, walked out and shouted: "Kneel!!"

Good heavens.

The Junior Uncles, Senior Uncles, and Great-Grandmasters beside Lu Ding knelt down in perfect unison. He glanced to the side, but somehow, the female cultivator who had been far ahead moments ago had already arrived beside Lu Ding.

Even he hadn't reacted in time.

The female cultivator used one hand to levitate Lu Ding with her technique, not touching his skin directly, while holding Wang Qingge's hand with the other: "Children, don't mind them. They're disobedient."

She continued: "You're all grown adults, and you leave without saying a word!!"

"Especially you!!"

The female cultivator pointed her warning ruler at the Black-Robed Great-Grandmaster: "You've been mischievous since childhood. I thought you'd settled down, but here you are, still running wild!!!"

"You deserve a beating!!!!"

The warning ruler landed on the Black-Robed Great-Grandmaster's back two or three times, making him grimace in pain.

The Black-Robed Great-Grandmaster endured it: "Master's Wife, I was wrong."

Hearing him admit his mistake, the female cultivator, who had been cold-faced, immediately softened her expression and stopped her hand: "Wrong?!"

"Every time I scold you, you say you're wrong, but do you ever actually change?!"

"Go, kneel before incense in the usual place. If you don't finish it, you're not allowed to get up."

Only then did the Black-Robed Great-Grandmaster and the others get up and say: "Understood."

Then Lu Ding watched as each of them skillfully formed hand seals, raising giant incense sticks that shot straight into the sky. Even Lu Ding was frightened just looking at them - he couldn't see the tops of the incense no matter how high he looked. How long would they have to kneel for this?

He quickly spoke up to plead for them: "Senior."

The female cultivator looked at him: "Child, you should call me Ancestral Master's Wife. Don't plead for them. They're always like this - knowing their mistakes but never changing. It's a good thing I'm the one dealing with them. If your Ancestral Master were here, he'd hang them up and whip them."

"Come, come, quickly follow me. Your Ancestral Master heard you were coming back, and he's so happy he's rolling around on the ground."

Lu Ding: ??????

Something felt off to him.

The Ancestral Master was so happy he was... rolling around?

The Ancestral Master's Wife led the two of them along the way, stopping before an old, worn-out shrine deep within the pavilions and towers.

"Child, go on in. He's been waiting for you for a long time. I'll stay outside with this child. Whatever you see inside, don't be afraid. Your Ancestral Master means no harm."

Lu Ding looked at the small shrine before him and nodded: "Understood, Ancestral Master's Wife."

He then instructed Qingge: "Wait for me here, okay?"

Wang Qingge held up her wooden sign:

【Mm-hm!】

Lu Ding stepped inside.

In an instant, the scenery around him transformed, and darkness flooded in.

When his senses returned.

Lu Ding found himself standing in the middle of a starry sky.

He felt a gaze upon him and abruptly looked up, only to see a face emerging on a colossal black sun with fuzzy edges radiating outward, staring straight at him.

Its size was absolutely absurd. Even if Lu Ding activated his Dharma Form, his enlarged body couldn't even begin to compare.

Even with its might restrained, it still gave Lu Ding a terrifying sense of overwhelming power he could never hope to resist.

The black sun spoke: "I was planning to scare you with a shout, but I didn't expect you to notice me."

"Lu Ding, I am the Founding Ancestor of Lü Mountain on the Demon Continent. Mortals call me the Demon Ancestor, titled: Nine Heavens Sun-Seizing Talisman-Holding Lü Qi Ancestral Method Holy Domain Punishing Demon Dao Lord. You don't need to be afraid. I'm a good person. My current appearance is simply an irreversible result of conducting too many experiments during my cultivation practice."

"Back in the day, after I ascended, I roamed the world with my wife, enduring countless trials. Eventually, we discovered this Demon Continent. After years of planning and scheming here, I created various techniques based on the Demon Continent's unique geographical environment. I personally tested each one, continuously improved them, and passed them down to my disciples."

"That's how the complete inheritance of Demon Continent Lü Mountain came to be."

"As for myself, I kept trying on those wrong paths, and in the end, I couldn't turn things around, which is why I ended up like this. It all started with the..."

The Ancestral Master kept talking, and talking - about how he created his techniques, when his hands began to change, when his feet began to change, which year he discovered where he could improve.

Which year he suddenly snapped back to reality and realized which technique was wrong.

Listening to all this gave Lu Ding a massive headache.

Finally, at his wit's end, he cupped his hands in salute: "The Ancestral Master has worked hard."

The Ancestral Master lay sprawled across the starry sky: "Not hard, just a bit unfortunate in life. Back in the day..."

Oh no, here he goes again.

Lu Ding: Ugh!!!!!