Although his cultivation has not recovered, his essence still exists. As a returning to the void cultivator, he saw the problem of the old man above at a glance. Although the man on the stage disguised himself very well and had the fluctuations of a second-step spiritual cultivator, his essence could not be deceived.

There is a gap between Return to Void and Transformation to Spirit that low-level cultivators cannot sense.

The strength of the soul!

The soul of a Returning Void cultivator can leave his body, ignoring the wind and rain outside, and wander freely in the world. However, the soul of a Transformation God cultivator can only move around his body. Once he leaves too far, he will be blown away by the strong wind. This is a qualitative difference, and cultivators of the same level can see through it at a glance.

Although the 'Five Elements City Lord' sitting above is powerful, his essence is still a deity.

"Fortunately, the headmaster was not informed."

Zi Tianji withdrew his spiritual sense, turned around and left the crowded square.

A few days later.

The disciple-recruiting ceremony was successfully completed, and three outstanding geniuses became disciples of the Five Elements Patriarch and became the new generation of Five Elements City's direct disciples. The remaining eliminated disciples were also accepted by the surrounding sects, which brought this ceremony to a perfect end.

On the second floor of a low residential building, a hand opened the window and looked at the team going away below.

This area is the slums of the Five Elements City and is not located on the spiritual vein. The people living here are all mortals under the jurisdiction of the Five Elements City, just like the mortal city given by the Ebb Tide Valley when Chen Luo purchased it.

"It seems that it is difficult to find his true form using normal means."

Lowering the window panel, Zi Tianji crushed the jade slip in his hand.

Zi Tianji bought this jade slip at a huge price, but the news was still false.

The people who sold the news may not know that the Five Elements Ancestor walking outside is not the real one. In the eyes of ordinary immortal cultivators, whether it is returning to the void or transforming into a god, they are all levels that they will never reach in their lifetime. Because they cannot reach it, they cannot distinguish the true from the false.

But this result was obviously not what Zi Tianji wanted.

The information he bought said that the Five Elements Patriarch would pass by this place today and drink tea and play chess with an old man. This was a habit he had kept for many years. When he bought this information, Zi Tianji had already lurked here early in the morning and used some means to control this mortal family, pretending to be their relatives. After that, he spent several days squatting, and in the end, he did wait for the person, but it was still his clone who came.

"We can only use some special methods."

Without caring about the two unconscious people in the house, Zi Tianji turned around and went downstairs.

The delay was quite long. If it continued, wouldn't it be like saying he was incompetent? How would the headmaster view him?

After passing two streets, Zi Tianji turned and walked into the alley. He walked all the way to the end and stopped outside a talisman shop. He stretched out his hand and knocked on the door three times. Soon the door was opened, and a head with a vigilant face popped out of the window.

"Wait till night to buy the talisman. The store is closed now!"

"I'll buy my way."

Zi Tianji was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he raised his hand and threw a small bag of spirit stones in.

The person inside took the spirit stone, checked it carefully, and quickly closed the window.

With a creak, the side door opened.

Zi Tianji, who was familiar with the process, turned around and walked in. Inside the room, an old man with a smile on his face sat at the table with two cups of tea next to him. Seeing Zi Tianji coming in, the old man immediately stood up and greeted him. Zi Tianji had completed several transactions with him before, each of which was a big deal of more than 50,000 spirit stones, which increased his points a lot. If he had a few more similar transactions, he could be promoted to an elder, and at that time, the treatment and resources he enjoyed would be completely different.

"Fellow Daoist, you're back so soon? How about it, is our information accurate?"

"I want news about the Five Elements Patriarch's personal disciple."

Zi Tianji didn't waste time and directly told the news he wanted to buy. Every time he came to trade before, he would buy some irrelevant news. He mixed these news with the news of the Five Elements Patriarch, making it difficult for people to guess his real purpose. But the successive failures had exhausted his patience.

This time he was ready to cut the Gordian knot.

Capture the disciples and search their souls directly!

Get the news he wants as quickly as possible.

"This news about the ancestor personally passing on the teachings to his disciples is not cheap." The old man narrowed his eyes, and the smile on his face became brighter.

People who trade in information are naturally not good people. The old man is not alone, there is a powerful force behind him. In the eyes of these people, as long as there are enough spirit stones, there is no news in the world of immortal cultivation that cannot be sold.

"Three thousand middle-grade spirit stones."

Zi Tianji threw the spirit stones he had prepared in advance onto the table.

The previous deal he and Chen Luo made in Qingyan City yielded a lot of rewards, and spirit stones were just a number to him. Moreover, even if the real spirit stones were insufficient, he could use the "Qi Gathering Technique" to create some fake spirit stones to exchange. As long as the transaction location was changed quickly, those people in the dark would not be able to catch up with him!

"make a deal."

The old man's eyes lit up. He had only wanted to raise the price, but he didn't expect Zi Tianji to be so straightforward and take out 3,000 medium-grade spirit stones at once. According to the exchange rate of spirit stones, he could earn at least 2,000 medium-grade spirit stones from this deal.

After counting the spirit stones, the old man reached out and tapped the table three times. After a moment, someone came in from outside, bringing with him a green jade slip.

"Here is the information you want. With the reputation of Shadow Pavilion as a guarantee, if you miss any item, we will return you one thousand mid-grade spirit stones."

Zi Tianji took the jade slip, glanced at its contents, then stood up and left.

The wooden door closed.

The house fell into darkness again.

The old man sat in the secret room, playing with the still warm teacup in his hand, and gave an order to the darkness without turning his head.

"Tell Feng Xiaotian that someone is buying information about him. Tell him to be careful."

Feng Xiaotian is the seventeenth disciple of the Five Elements Patriarch and one of the VIPs of Shadow Pavilion. Not long ago, Shadow Pavilion owed Feng Xiaotian a favor for doing business, and took this opportunity to repay the favor. As for professional ethics.

He only guarantees the accuracy of the information, and other matters are not within the scope of the transaction. If Zi Tianji had the same status as Feng Xiaotian, he would definitely not be treated like this.

Five days later.

A spiritual vein in the north of Wuxing City showed abnormality. The seventh disciple of Wuxing Patriarch went to solve the problem, but his whereabouts were unknown afterwards. Feng Xiaotian, the seventeenth disciple who was supposed to be in charge of the matter, escaped because of his injury.

Dark cave.

The seventh disciple curled up in a damp cave, screaming in pain.

"Who are you? What benefit did Feng Xiaotian give you? I'll pay you ten times!!"

"I don't know who Feng Xiaotian is, and I don't care about your grudges."

Zi Tianji stretched out his hand and pressed it on the forehead of the seventh disciple.

Soul Search!!

With a scream, the gray-white power invaded like a whirlpool, and then quickly rolled back. After a while, Zi Tianji retracted his right hand, and wisps of gray-white aura floated out from the body of the seventh disciple and merged into his palm.

After the soul search was over, Zi Tianji no longer paid attention to the seventh disciple in the cave.

Just as he guessed, he only needed to show his intention, and someone would naturally help him do the rest.

Whether he was taking advantage of the situation or killing someone with a borrowed knife, he achieved his desired goal anyway.

This world of cultivation has never changed. Where there are interests, there are bound to be disputes. The Qionghua Sect was split into seven sects in this way. Now that the times have changed, the same is true for the nineteen disciples of the Five Elements Patriarch.

A life controlled by desire.

A cycle of suffering.

If you fail to become an immortal, you will end up being an ant.

"Even these disciples don't know who his true identity is. This old fellow's cultivation has reached this level, but he is still so afraid of death." Sensing the contents in his mind, Zi Tianji's figure flashed and disappeared on the spot.

Although we didn't find the target, we did get some clues.

The next thing to do is to follow these clues. Within three months, we will be able to find the true form of the Five Elements Old Ghost.

Half a quarter of an hour later.

A strange young man in a black robe appeared outside the cave.

After his spiritual sense swept through and sensed the breath in the cave, the young man squatted down, took out a black medicine cauldron from it, and threw a handful of soil into the cauldron. A strong stench floated out from the cracks of the medicine cauldron. The black smoke seemed to be a living thing. After flying out of the medicine cauldron, it turned in the air and poured into the cave.

"Feng Xiaotian! Is it you?! I will fight you!"

A voice filled with murderous intent came from the cave, but it soon became quieter and the fluctuations of spiritual energy disappeared.

After waiting for a while and making sure there was no sign of life inside, the man in black pushed open the cave and walked in.

In the damp and cold cave, a black corpse huddled in the corner, its eyes staring straight at the entrance of the gate, black blood coagulated on its cheeks, making it look like a ghost from the underworld, horrible to look at.

"Brother, have a safe journey. I will help you get revenge."

Feng Xiaotian stopped and spoke quietly to the corpse inside.

Chen Luo was still practicing in the cave.

The power of the spiritual veins promoted his cultivation. Under the guidance of the Immortal Emperor Changqing, the skills in Chen Luo's body changed again.

The originally blurry road becomes clear.

From the initial stage of returning to the void to the perfection of returning to the void, there is no more doubt. The technique he mainly practices has officially advanced to the wonderful method of returning to the void at this moment. This is a technique that is not deduced by the "Tao", and is completely different from the "Corpse Immortal Tao". If he practices to perfection one day, he will condense into the "Tao". If he dies, his body will decompose like the ancient cultivators, and his "Tao" will appear in the outside world and be borrowed by others, becoming the foundation of the Tao Sect.

"The divine consciousness has actually broken through to the perfection of returning to the void."

He opened his eyes, and invisible ripples spread out from his forehead. All the puppet clones in the cave paused for a moment, and then became more agile. The four strange insects in the insect breeding room became restless. Outside the cave, the clone transformed by the illusionary god Gu also raised his head, and his face showed a smile exactly like the original one. (End of this chapter)