The immortal practitioners of this era have their own methods of conforming to the Tao.

The most typical method is "perfection", which is to practice one's own skills to the limit, use oneself as the source to unite the heaven and earth, and achieve the state of unity with the Tao. The Five Elements Patriarch wanted to perfect his own Five Elements skills, so he took the risk of sneaking into the tomb controlled by the Ancient Sword Sect, and subsequent events happened.

Looking back now, the progress of the Five Elements Patriarch's cultivation may have been under the control of the Ancient Sword Sect from the very beginning.

He had no troubles in cultivating the first four attributes, and easily made up for the deficiencies. Only the last spiritual material, the Fire Pattern Mysterious Crystal, was restricted, and he had to sneak into the spiritual vein controlled by the Ancient Sword Sect to complete it.

This looks like a conspiracy no matter how you look at it.

Chen Luo doesn't care about the conspiracy inside, he cares about what he wants.

Huangye Valley is a nice and quiet place.

The spiritual energy in this area had been completely drained away when he had broken through before. The remaining thin spiritual energy was totally insufficient for ordinary Qi Refiners to practice. For this reason, Chen Luo specially set up a spirit gathering array outside the Yellow Leaf Valley and buried some spirit stones underground around it, barely restoring some momentum.

Those Qi Refining Realm disciples who were affected could sense the spiritual energy again, and even the dried-up spiritual spring in the backyard had some traces of water again.

Half a month passed like this.

Mu Jianyu and Chen Luo, who had recovered their cultivation to the Spirit Transformation Realm, sat in the backyard and discussed matters of revenge.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came into the courtyard.

The place where Chen Luo had carved the teleportation array before had a stream of light, and two figures fell back from the array. They were Huang Ye and Liu Hai, who were heading to Five Elements City. They were both in a state of disarray, covered in blood, and their consciousness was in a semi-hazy state. What controlled their bodies to return was the "insurance" that Chen Luo had added to them.

"The soul is damaged. Someone is searching its soul!"

Mu Jianyu appeared beside the two of them and sensed their situation with a press of his hand.

Chen Luo took out two pills and put them into the two men's mouths.

The pill melted in their mouths and soon turned into spiritual fluid that circulated throughout their bodies. The effects of the soul search were visibly restored, and their mental state was obviously much better. However, the sequelae still existed. After their souls were damaged, the two of them basically had no chance of refining their spirits anymore, and they would never be able to cultivate into a god.

However, this sequelae was not serious for Huang Ye and the others. They were both foundation-building cultivators, and their biggest dream was to condense a blood pill and become a Jindan cultivator. The two people who had not even thought about the Nascent Soul stage naturally would not care about the later stages of the Spiritualization Stage and Return to the Void Stage.

After repairing the injuries of the two men, Chen Luo raised his hand and took back their "brains" into his hands.

Two green balls of light flew out from between his eyebrows and fell into the palm of his hand.

"senior."

Huang Ye and Liu Hai woke up one after another. They looked around blankly, and only felt relieved after confirming the surrounding environment. After seeing Chen Luo, they immediately struggled to stand up.

They did not remember what happened after their souls were searched. They only thought that it was the great immortal Chen Luo who took action and rescued them from the Five Elements City.

"Go down and have a good rest. This mission was accomplished well."

Chen Luo praised the two of them, gave them some pills, and then let them go down to rest. The power of the pills can repair the trauma caused by the soul search, but it will take some time to fully recover.

"Is there any news from Zi Tianji?"

Mu Jianyu looked at the ball of light that appeared in Chen Luo's hand.

"There is some news, but it's different from what we expected."

Crushing the green light in his hand, a ripple flashed in Chen Luo's eyes.

The message Zi Tianji brought over was just one word: "change".

There are many ways to understand this word. Chen Luo didn't know what Zi Tianji had encountered, but he could roughly guess a thing or two.

During the ten years of his seclusion, Zi Tianji must have found out the whereabouts of Wusheng Daoist, but the result was very different from what they had initially imagined, so he used the word "change" to convey the message. The theft of the Fire Pattern Black Crystal Mine was not suppressed, and the impact of this incident was beyond expectations. Ten years later, the Ancient Sword Sect was still tracking down the escaped murderer. This situation made it impossible for Zi Tianji to convey the message to him openly, so he could only use this roundabout way.

Huang Ye and Liu Hai were discovered not long after they entered the city, and were captured and soul-searched. Their memories afterwards were all hazy. It was only the brain that Chen Luo temporarily attached to them that remembered everything, including the message that Zi Tianji secretly passed to him.

Now that Huang Ye and Liu Hai have disappeared, the Ancient Sword Sect should have received the news. If nothing unexpected happens, someone will come knocking on their door soon.

'Go ahead!'

Chen Luo had a flash of thought and stood up immediately.

No matter what plans and back-ups the Ancient Sword Sect had, he was not prepared to take them on. Not standing under a dangerous wall was the principle of life that his uncle taught him, and only by 'living can one become an immortal'. However, Chen Luo did not do nothing. If he wanted to get what he wanted, the Ancient Sword Sect would definitely not be able to get around it, so he left a clone here.

The purpose of transforming puppetry into an evil method that can join the brain was to help me do these dirty and tiring work.

"You are..."

Mu Jianyu was a little puzzled. Looking at Chen Luo who suddenly left behind a clone, he wondered what news he had seen.

"We've been discovered, leave this place first."

Chen Luo got up and left without saying a word.

For safety reasons, he copied more than a hundred brains proficient in fighting techniques to the puppet this time, and also kept the evil spirit in the soul flag. During the ten years of seclusion, Ouyang Lian and other weapon refiners had their brains busy. When upgrading the soul flag, they also refined several secondary flags. These soul flags could also control the evil spirit, but the damage of the secondary flags would not affect the main body.

The speed at which the Ancient Sword Sect came over was faster than Chen Luo had expected. Only a cup of tea after he left, a breath of air came over.

It is a transmission seal.

The location is in the courtyard where Huang Ye and Liu Hai are.

The ocean-like divine consciousness swept down recklessly, and all the disciples in the Yellow Leaf Valley felt this mountain-like pressure. A large number of Qi Refining Realm disciples sat on the ground with pale faces, staring blankly at the sky, not knowing what had happened.

For them, this change was completely beyond their cognition and was at the level of a change in heaven and earth.

Buzz!!

The spiritual energy dispersed, and a figure stepped on the void and appeared right above the Yellow Leaf Valley.

"Fellow Daoist, are you from the Ancient Sword Sect?"

Chen Luo's figure flashed and appeared in mid-air. The divine consciousness that was originally crushing down recklessly was instantly blocked by him.

"There are some tricks."

The white-haired old man in the air turned his head, swept his spiritual sense over Chen Luo unscrupulously, and said in a flat tone.

"Are you the accomplice of the Five Elements Old Ghost?"

The cultivation level of the clone was in the middle stage of Return to Void, which was consistent with the memory of the Five Elements Ancestor. The total time before and after the incident was only about ten years, which was too short for a Return to Void cultivator, and there was almost no possibility of a breakthrough. The white-haired old man appeared here openly because he was sure of this.

The cultivation of returning to the realm of perfection.

The Five Elements Ancestors in the past were all defeated by him. The man in front of him was as strong as the Five Elements Ancestors. Even if he was stronger, he was not much stronger. In order to capture this man alive, he also invited three helpers. Those three people were also strong men in the Return to Void Realm like him.

Buzz!!

Almost at the same time, three powerful auras came from outside.

These three people, from three directions, formed a square sealing formation with the white-haired old man in the air, blocking the Huangye Valley inside and cutting off all retreat routes.

"Haha, I have to thank Palace Master Zuo for this time."

"The reward for this mission is very generous. We should make a lot of money."

After setting up the Sealing Formation, smiles appeared on the faces of the other three people.

"Could it be that you have found the wrong person?"

Chen Luo suddenly said that he often used the soul-searching method and knew the flaws of this magical power better than anyone else. With the strength and realm of the Five Elements Patriarch, even if someone searched his soul, the memories he read from the past would definitely be incomplete, and it would be impossible to know his appearance.

"Still trying to quibble."

The white-haired old man at the beginning lost his patience. He raised his right hand, and a flash of spiritual light appeared in his hand. A brown flying sword flew out of his hand, surrounded by sword energy, and turned into a giant sword. The other three monks also sacrificed their own spiritual swords, and the sword light spread out, transforming into countless flying swords in this sealed four-sided formation.

"If you don't cherish the opportunity I gave you, then let me take your soul back for interrogation."

In an instant, sword energy exploded and attacked Chen Luo.

Chen Luo sighed.

He had wanted to test how the Ancient Sword Sect locked him down, and whether there would be any Hedao old monsters in the future. Now it seemed that these people were used to being high and mighty, and never took independent cultivators seriously. No wonder the Five Elements Ancestor took such a big risk to break through the Hedao realm, the status of independent cultivators was really too aggrieved.

Knowing the answer, Chen Luo stretched out his hand, and ripples appeared on his palm.

Ding Dong

A drop of water-like ripples spread out. Chen Luo's figure standing in front of the four people wavered for a while, and then it rippled like water, dissipating bit by bit. A large piece of white mist also rose in the Yellow Leaf Valley that they blocked. This wisp of white mist appeared very suddenly, and almost in an instant it enveloped the entire formation.

The sword rain summoned by the four people disappeared in an instant after flying into the white mist, and no sound was heard back.

“Something is wrong!”

The monk in the southeast was the first to come to his senses. The other three also sensed something was wrong. This situation was completely different from what they had initially imagined.

There is something wrong with this casual cultivator. He is not at all a strong man of the same level as the Five Elements Ancestor described in the mission.

Woohoo!

A sound appeared in the mist. A gray-white banner swept past, and a large gray-white shadow flew out. At first, it was mixed with the mist, and the few people couldn't see clearly until one of the shadows broke out of the white mist, and the few people could see clearly what these things were.

“Soul Cultivator?!! This person is a Soul Cultivator!!”

The first sword cultivator to react turned green in the face. (End of this chapter)