"Everyone, hurry up! With what we prepared a few days ago, this should be enough. Throw all the corpses into your spatial rings. Don't worry about getting dirty now. I'm talking to you! Hurry up!"
The heretical cultivators bickered amongst themselves as they worked, extracting the spiritual roots of mortals with poor aptitude who had been rejected by the sects and adding them to a black, unidentified fluid.
This mixed spiritual root was not meant to be implanted into them, but rather to be processed using a special secret method, and then through a mysterious ritual, to create a pseudo-ascension energy fluctuation, opening up the ascension channel between the two realms.
The reason why the guardians at the Nascent Soul stage colluded with them to govern Tianwu City in this way was to act in a reasonable way, without disturbing other guardians and big shots, and to collect these "slaves" with spiritual roots.
The slaves held captive by Tianwu City either owed money or committed crimes. Their lives could be traded, and no one would pursue them even if they died. This was the maximum the city protector could do. He couldn't really make enemies everywhere like the evil cultivators, to the point that he wouldn't even dare to undergo the tribulation of lightning.
"Everything is ready, sir. The ceremony may begin." After checking everything and placing the spiritual roots in their corresponding positions, the leader of the evil cultivators said to the city guardian, "Don't worry, this passage can be maintained for ten breaths, which is enough."
"Hmm, everyone spread out and be on guard. I'm going to circulate my internal energy."
"yes!!!"
A buzzing sound vibrated in the air... The city guardian drew circles with his palms in front of his chest, and a huge amount of spiritual power belonging to the Nascent Soul stage was brewing within it. Streams of huge air currents burst out from his body, forming visible ripples that spread out layer by layer.
"Boom—boom—!"
"Crack, crack... Bang—!!!"
As if something shattered in the sky directly above, a series of deafening sounds of space breaking followed. Then, the air around the city guardian trembled violently, and the pile of spiritual roots exuding a bloody aura was enveloped by a beam of light. The surrounding energy spread in all directions like ripples on water.
The fluctuations were extremely strong, clearly audible even from thousands of meters away, let alone the evil cultivators nearby. None of them dared to move, but seeing the joy on the faces of the Nascent Soul stage city guardians, they knew that the ritual had been successful.
"Boom—Crack—Bang!!!"
The commotion in the sky intensified. A streak of colorful light flashed across the heavens, instantly painting half the sky with its hue, making everything else appear dim and as if it might vanish at any moment. A look of ecstatic joy spread across everyone's faces—this meant the passage between the two realms was about to be successfully opened!
"Bang—!"
The second sound descended, louder than the previous shattering sound, yet it only caused the city guardians to tremble slightly.
The city protector, watching the ever-widening crack in the sky and the fluctuations of spatial energy within it, revealed a fanatical glint in his eyes: "Hahaha... I've finally succeeded! Hahaha...!"
Just as the energy channel was becoming more and more stable and was about to open, a noisy commotion suddenly came from afar, as if other cultivators had broken in.
"What's going on? Didn't you activate the illusion array?"
The evil cultivators were unaware of what was going on, but this long-planned smuggling advancement was absolutely not to be missed. Unlike the guardian of the city who was in the Nascent Soul stage and still had a few years left to live, their deadly tribulation was getting closer and closer. If they didn't find a way to avoid it, they would definitely perish under the tribulation.
"Go and intercept them immediately, don't disturb the ceremony," the leader of the evil cultivators ordered.
A group of evil cultivators pulled out their weapons, each exuding a murderous aura, and surrounded the city's central guardian.
"Wow! Brother Mo, there's definitely something fishy going on in Tianwu City, hiding so many evil cultivators. By the way... what are they doing? Why are the city guardians standing with them too?"
Chu Fan naively thought the city guardians were just a bit fussy, and never considered the possibility that they might be colluding with evil cultivators. After all, although the selected city guardians had no hope of ascension, their character still needed to be strictly examined.
Yu Ling was immune to such brainless people. The ruthless Dao of the Out-of-Body stage made him more and more like a poker face, and his voice began to lose its emotion: "No matter what they want to do, judging from their bloodlust, it's probably not a good thing. Let's stop them first."
"Alright!" Chu Fan charged forward first.
The city guards had excellent eyesight and naturally recognized the two as the same two they had just thrown away. Good heavens! They're like persistent ghosts, why are they here again?!
After the two were thrown out, they were almost flying back to the sect when Chu Fan remembered Su Wang's instructions. He quickly relayed the message to Yu Ling, and the two turned back.
On the way here, Yu Ling's cultivation level had been completely stabilized, and she could break through to the Nascent Soul stage at any time. Originally, she planned to take Su Wang and the others back with her and urge Chu Fan to cultivate diligently and ascend as soon as possible. However, how clever she was! Just by looking at the spatial spiritual energy floating everywhere in the sky, she knew what Chu Fan's special physique had attracted. He was just another guy who wanted to take a crooked path to ascend.
I wonder if ascending to the heavens with Chu Fan from here counts as completing the mission.
Just give it a try if you think of it. Even if you don't succeed, you can go to the Upper Realm first and wait for your cultivation level to improve slowly. So Yu Ling used the excuse that there was something fishy about Tianwu City to coax Chu Fan to come here with her, and postponed Su Wang's matter again.
Seeing Chu Fan, as always, meddling in other people's business and rushing in to fight the evil cultivators, Yu Ling didn't join in. Instead, she remotely transmitted her voice to the Nascent Soul stage city guardian who was presiding over the ceremony:
"Guardian of the City, helping evil cultivators is a crime punishable by heaven. Are you desperate and grasping at straws because your lifespan is nearing its end?"
Seeing that the main force was not causing trouble, the city guard also wanted to delay. He replied telepathically, "I admit that I made a mistake, but life is more important. If you don't cause trouble, I can forgive and forget and take you two to ascend together."
That's wishful thinking, wanting to ascend together? Probably not.
Based on Yu Ling's understanding of the Heavenly Dao of her original world, once the first person manages to sneak up, the passage will be shattered by a bolt of heavenly lightning, and it will only be faster, ensuring that no second person can take advantage of the situation.
"There are other ways to extend one's lifespan. Why resort to such a heinous and harmful method? My Ten Thousand Swords Sect possesses a first-grade life-extending pill. If you cooperate with me now and return to the right path, bringing these evil cultivators to justice on the spot, I can forgive your past grievances and extend your life."
First-grade life-extending pill?
The Myriad Swords Sect does indeed possess such a thing, but it's reserved for the sect's Nascent Soul elders. The city guardians don't believe that Yu Ling, a mere Nascent Soul stage peak master, could have the authority to control pills.
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