This is the fairy city in the center of Yueling Continent. It is named so because before the path to ascension was cut off, the last cultivator to ascend here was a Tongbei Mountain Ape.

And this old monkey ascended to heaven here.

When a cultivator ascends to heaven, strange phenomena will occur in the sky, and cultivators nearby will also gain some chance to become immortals.

Therefore, in the past, every time a monk ascended to heaven, it would attract a large number of monks to watch the ceremony.

The place where the cultivators ascend to heaven, because it is blessed by the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, will also carry a part of the rhyme of Tao, allowing the cultivators here to gain some opportunities in the process of practice.

Up to now, the Mountain Ape Holy City has long lost its fate as an immortal, but as the place of ascension of the last cultivator in the immortal world, it has long become a symbol.

The vast immortal city is covered with mountains and rivers, the immortal palace floats in the sky, and the spirit ships coming and going gather here.

As one of the four places that can lead to the core eighteen continents, Yueling Continent gathers three hundred immortal cultivation realms in the middle area and even the top cultivators in the marginal areas.

Let me put it this way, except for a few places like the Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World, in most of the Immortal Cultivation World, any high-level Nascent Soul cultivator who still has some aspirations, aims at the four ferry continents.

In addition to the Mountain Ape Holy City, the Moon Spirit Continent is divided into a total of 108 areas. Each area, like the Snow Palace, can be regarded as an independent force.

The same is true for the other three ferry continents, each with 108 regions.

There are a total of 432 independent forces in the four continents, but there are only 49 places available for each advancement order. These 49 places are not divided equally, but are snatched based on strength.

During one competition for places, only three of the 108 forces on Yueling Continent were able to obtain the places.

All foreign forces that want to seize the opportunity to obtain the entry order can only join one of the four continents. As for how to join, whether through cooperation, competition, or sneak attack, no one cares.

The prerequisite is that you must maintain your power when fighting for the advancement order.

As for the proof of maintaining power, it is the power token. Every power has a token to represent it, and whoever has the token represents qualification.

In a boat-shaped restaurant suspended in mid-air, Shen Lian occupied a large private room alone. Inside the room was a group of fairies at the Golden Core level, wearing cool gauze skirts, their snow-white bodies faintly visible, dancing in front of him.

Beside him, there was a female cultivator who was also diligently pouring wine and serving food.

There are wine, food and fairies, the scene is quite beautiful.

He followed Cui Shaoqing all the way from the Snow Palace Fairy City to the Mountain Ape Holy City, during which time he overheard a lot of news.

The circle of the Divine Transformation cultivators is the Divine Transformation cultivators, and the information revealed by the Divine Transformation cultivators in a few words is very useful to him.

He also didn't expect that Cui Shaoqing had good friends, and they were three cultivators of the same level at once.

These three cultivators of the same level are just like Cui Shaoqing. They have sealed their realm and suppressed it at the Nascent Soul level. They are here to attend the auction.

It is said that several spiritual objects flowed out from the Eighteen Core Continents.

During this period, Shen Lian tried to use the true mistletoe technique to continuously parasitize the spiritual leaves on Cui Shaoqing's body. The effect was better than he had imagined. One tenth of the entire spiritual leaf had been eroded by his parasitic technique.

After half a day, the graceful fairies retreated, looking at him with their big watery eyes, with a tender look as if they wanted to undress him.

In response to this, Shen Lian was as firm as a rock and did not give in at all. With a wave of his hand, the decadent atmosphere in the box dissipated. He came to the window and looked out at the Mountain Ape Holy City that was undulating like a giant beast.

The holy city that came into view was vast and boundless, with spiritual energy rolling like a dragon. Among the cultivators coming and going, there were many Nascent Soul cultivators, and their Golden Core cultivators were no match for dogs.

Occasionally, one could sense a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage passing by.

Of course, these Nascent Soul cultivators are nothing in Shen Lian’s eyes nowadays, but the problem is that there are too many Nascent Soul cultivators.

At least from the outside appearance, he did not see the so-called resource depletion.

Especially when he followed Cui Shaoqing from the Snow Palace Region in the north all the way south and passed through several other regions along the way, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators was far beyond his imagination.

High-level monks from all over the world are gathering here.

At this moment, Shen Lian even suspected that it was not a coincidence that he was sucked in by the huge vortex.

"Advancement order, forty-nine places."

Shen Lian squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. He needed to change his next cultivation strategy. Coming to Yueling Continent was completely different from what he had imagined before he left Tiannan.

The strange phenomena in the wilderness had previously attracted hundreds of Nascent Souls from dozens of nearby areas, but this place was like a magnet, attracting high-level Nascent Souls from the entire world of immortal cultivation.

“Advance Order, this is like leaping over the Dragon Gate. Top Nascent Souls from all four continents are gathering to compete for this opportunity. I just don’t know if what’s behind this Dragon Gate is a dragon or a cauldron.”

"They are all gods, but they are still hiding it. Is it just because of the rotten smell?"

At this moment, Shen Lian couldn't understand many things. Was the decay of his body due to his advancement to the Divine Transformation stage?

After all, he was not far from the Spiritual Transformation Realm.

I dived into Yueling's world of immortal cultivation and discovered that the water here is very deep.

"First, push the parasitic technique left on Cui Shaoqing to perfection, and completely control his movements and the communication between him and other Divine Transformation cultivators, so as to explore more secrets."

After a brief thought, Shen Lian made a decision in his heart.

Cui Shaoqing is equivalent to the circle of gods he has integrated into, and is a channel for obtaining information.

What he has to do next is to prepare for his advancement to the God Transformation stage.

Find old clams and auxiliary elixirs to refine the Haisheng Mingyue Pill.

As for the gap between the physical cultivation realm and the spiritual realm, in fact, if he advances to the spirit transformation realm, it will be easier for him to plunder the physical cultivation spiritual objects.

…

Five years later.

In a high-level cave in the Holy Ape's blessed land, Shen Lian slowly opened his eyes. A powerful vitality surged in his lower dantian, surrounding the Fuyao tree and outlining a phantom like a crabapple leaf.

Done.

The spiritual leaf on Cui Shaoqing's body has been completely parasitized by him.

The parasitic Fuyao wood can absorb the vitality of the spiritual leaf. If the spiritual leaf is taken back in the future, the spiritual energy in the spiritual leaf can be directly transferred to the Fuyao wood.

"How strange! As a swordsman, Cui Shaoqing shouldn't be so slow even if his perception is restricted. Could it be that I am too strong?"

During the process of allowing the parasitic seed to completely control the spiritual leaf, no accidents occurred, which made Shen Lian a little suspicious.

For two years, Cui Shaoqing and his friends stayed in the Mountain Ape Holy City, waiting for the so-called auction.

Shen Lian also took this opportunity to take a look around the Mountain Ape Holy City. It was indeed a gathering place for people from all over the world. He encountered many things here that he had never heard of in Tiannan.

The auction that Cui Shaoqing mentioned also started in the ninth year since he came to the Mountain Ape Holy City. The participants were all sealed spirit masters like Lao Cui, and there were twenty-three of them.

Moreover, this is only on the Yueling Continent. The auction is held in a special space. There are teleportation arrays and spiritual manifestation arrays in this space, which directly connect the four continents where the ferries are docked.

Including the other three continents, the number of spiritual masters participating in this auction reached one hundred.

As he was surrounded by many gods, Shen Lian did not dare to mobilize the parasitic spirit leaf. He could only wait quietly for the auction to end and listen to the communication between Cui Shaoqing and others on the way.

More than twenty spiritual objects were sold at this auction, of which four came from the Core Continent. Shen Lian only passively heard the names of three of them.

A Three Thousand Tribulations Spirit Leaf.

A secret method of eliminating the three declines and excluding spirits.

A fifth-level, lower-grade longevity pill.

At this moment, he just knew that the spiritual leaf he was parasitic on was called Three Thousand Tribulations and came from the Fairyland.

Cui Shaoqing and several fellow Taoists gained nothing from this trip, so they gathered together and then dispersed.

…

Shen Lian did not leave with Cui Shaoqing. The true mistletoe technique was very magical. The mutual induction was not entirely based on divine thoughts, but also on the spirituality of the spiritual plants. Therefore, he was not afraid of Cui Shaoqing leaving.

The reason why he did not leave was that the Holy City was the core area of ​​the Moon Spirit Continent and had the reputation of the last ascended monk. Some newly arrived Nascent Souls from the outside world would come here, not for anything else, but to get some good luck for their own cultivation power.

The owner of the Holy Ape Blessed Land saw the opportunity and organized an exchange meeting for the practitioners within the blessed land every once in a while, and as the host, he would only charge 10% of the fee.

This is equivalent to collecting money without doing anything, and everyone is happy to do it.

The reason why Shen Lian moved into the Holy Ape Paradise was for this internal barter exchange meeting.

Inside the cave.

Shen Lian's fingertips were surrounded by colorful colors, and the power of the five elements was intertwined between his hands. Each strand of these five-colored rule threads could materialize and turn into some object within the attribute.

However, these manifested objects are all illusory, and he has not reached the state of turning the illusion into reality.

The number of threads of rules that he brought back from the wilderness amounted to more than five hundred. He was able to get so many thanks to Farmer Lingzun. All the threads of rules collected by the old man were given to him at a low price.

To comprehend the thread of rules does not mean to refine it into the body, but to first comprehend it and then learn how to transform the power of rules, and then integrate it into one's own magic power and turn it into one's own combat power.

Spring goes and autumn comes, and fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, a colorful halo appeared above the head of Shen Lian, who was sitting cross-legged in the cave. The five elements were intertwined inside the halo, and each attribute manifested a different spiritual object. For example, the wood attribute produced the scene of the spiritual essence of plants and trees, and the water attribute was a vast lake.

After the five different scenes merged into one, they did not break apart after colliding with each other, but formed a scene of mountains, lakes, wild grass fires, and looming gold and stones.

At this moment, he had reached a bottleneck in his comprehension of the Five Elements Rules, and one more step would be the first level of transformation.

Shen Lian was thinking about how to make the Five Elements rules and the Yin-Yang rules communicate smoothly with each other. He had been lucky enough to control a trace of the Yin-Yang rules before, but the thread of rules he obtained did not contain any rules of Yin-Yang attributes.

What we need to do now is to derive Yin and Yang from the Five Elements and make them communicate with each other.

In the process of comprehending the Five Elements, Shen Lian also had a new understanding of the Dao of Heaven and Earth. The Five Elements circulate, and Yin and Yang are not fixed.

For example, the growth and withering of plants is the cycle of life and death, which is also the external manifestation of yin and yang. The vitality in a cultivator means that he has sufficient yang energy, and the decay after death will cause growth. This situation can be extended to the five elements.

Shen Lian felt that he had touched the changes between the Five Elements and Yin and Yang, but he could not break through this window paper for the time being.

A small copper bell hanging outside the cave rang crisply, waking him up from his meditation. Shen Lian then tapped the talisman paper on the table in front of him.

A spiritual light lit up on the talisman paper, and the little man carved on the talisman paper slowly stood up, and then swelled up like a balloon, and turned into a little man in green clothes, stretched his muscles and bones, and flew out of the cave.

The ringing of the copper bell is the call signal of the barter society.

As for why a puppet at the Jindan level was allowed to participate in the exchange meeting...

Mainly just follow the crowd.

The Holy Ape Blessed Land covers a vast area. Under the area is a fourth-grade superior spiritual vein that branches off from a fifth-grade spiritual vein. All the caves are built around this mountain range.

Each cave has its own fourth-order superior-grade protection and breath-suppressing formation to ensure the safety and secrecy of the cultivators.

The puppet was attached to Shen Lian's spiritual consciousness. After flying out of the cave, he saw lights flashing everywhere.

On the left, a kind-looking old man was sitting diagonally on a donkey.

"Daoyou, long time no see."

The donkey spoke and greeted with a smile, but the kind old man closed his eyes and rested.

This is the technique of possessing a spirit in a suspected tomb. The donkey and the old man are actually one and the same.

Shen Lian nodded, "Fellow Daoist Mao, long time no see."

On the right, a flying sword pointed at the void and flew through the air like a zombie on the road.

Then, a burly man covered in curly hair rode on the neck of a puppet that looked like a girl and flew by with an arrogant look on his face.

The donkey and flying sword were both very normal, but there were also some abnormal ones, for example, two kidneys jumping around in the distance. As for the paper figures, monsters, etc., they were even more commonplace. The appearance of Shen Lian's puppet figure was handsome.

I don't know when this rule was passed down, but all Taoist friends in the Holy Ape Blessed Land's barter meeting must participate as substitutes.

After each barter meeting started, a group of demons and ghosts patrolled the whole venue, and they seemed to be very harmonious.

The green-clothed puppet stepped into the venue. Shen Lian had participated in six sessions in a row and had purchased some minerals and elixirs.

The participants looked like monsters, but the host was not. She was a normal beautiful woman in red with a great figure and a charming look in her eyes.

Luo Shangxia glanced at the dozens of strange-looking people gathered in the venue and didn't say anything polite.

"As usual, if you have something, just come up and show it."

"If you dare to cheat, I will just crush you to death. If you don't believe me, come and try to see if my knife is sharp."

…

There was nothing in the venue, but instead a stream, waterside pavilions, rockery and strange rocks, but each place had a number, starting from one.

The monks who come in can choose a number at will, and when exchanging items, the display will start from the monk occupying the small number.

Then a goat with bloodshot eyes jumped towards the beautiful woman.

"My fellow Taoists, I am just throwing out some ideas to inspire others."

As he spoke, the goat opened his mouth, and a still beating organ flew out. The organ was shrouded in demonic energy and surrounded by wisps of illusory figures.

"A fourth-grade, top-quality old demon's internal organs in exchange for a fourth-grade, top-quality defensive talisman."

"I'll trade with you."

A voice came from a blood coffin that fell into the water.

…

Sitting in the pavilion overlooking the water, Shen Lian was not in a hurry. He could get one or two useful things every time he went to the barter session. This was just the beginning.

"I have a blood soul heir that can help fellow Taoists successfully give birth to children with spiritual roots. As for the grade, I cannot be sure, but I can only guarantee that there are spiritual roots."

A skinny old woman walked onto the stage. She was just a paper figure, holding a blood-red peach in her hand.

When these words were spoken, many monks paid attention.

It is too difficult to have children after cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage, and everyone who came to the Yueling Continent understands the dangers here. If they can give birth to children, it may be a good way out.

"I want to exchange some information. Is there any cultivator who knows how to sneak across the Void Sky Abyss?"

The old woman's withered and pale face looked a little strange, and her empty eyes made it impossible to tell what expression was changing.

After saying this, the paper body swayed in the wind as if it had lost its spiritual power.

Hearing the sound, Shen Lian narrowed his eyes. Although the Void Sky Abyss is dangerous, it has attracted many cultivators to come here over the years.

But he couldn't understand why the cultivators had to enter the core eighteen continents. Is there really a way to ascend there?

This reason doesn't hold water for him.

Moreover, after research, Shen Lian discovered that the so-called advancement orders, regional forces on the continent, and so on, actually further intensified the possibility of fighting among the top cultivators gathered from all directions.

The result is the same. Every time the battle for the advancement order begins, the first killing on the continent will begin, and everyone must first compete for a force to gain the qualification.

Then, these qualified forces will fight further to obtain the final forty-nine places.

After the two battles, the high-level Nascent Soul cultivators who gathered from all directions were chopped off like leeks.

If the core eighteen continents were really a fairyland, why would they seal off the realm of a group of gods including Cui Shaoqing? If anyone lingers outside, wouldn't it be enough to just kill them all in?

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