Chapter 384: The Situation of Tianyuan City
Because of the various characteristics of the Holy Island, monks from outside rarely know the details inside the Holy Island, and few people know where the Holy Island is exactly.
Some people say that the island is in a mysterious sea somewhere, while others say that the island is actually hidden in the sky.
Various rumors spread among both humans and demons, and people talked about them with relish.
Different from the mysterious Holy Island, Tianyuan City is indeed a very familiar place for both human and demon cultivators.
In ancient times, the powerful men of the human and demon races specially arranged a shocking fairy formation to cover the entire territories of the human and demon races in order to protect the continuation of their races and to prevent the outside alien races from invading the two races.
This formation is truly terrifying. It is said that its original intention of designing it was to resist the attacks of true spirit-level beings.
No one knows whether the immortal formation can block the attack of the true spirit, but since its appearance, it has indeed blocked countless dangers for both the human and demon races over the long years.
Around the human and demon races, there are several small tribes in the spiritual world. Their strength is comparable to that of the human and demon races. These small tribes often attack the human and demon races.
But in front of this huge formation, they were helpless and could not invade on a large scale.
If they wanted to attack the human and demon races, they could only attack the only gap in this formation.
This gap is Tianyuan City!
When this immortal formation was designed, a gap was left for Tianyuan City to communicate with the outside world. If the cultivators of the human and demon races want to leave their homelands and explore the wilderness outside, they can only go out through this gap.
If cultivators from outside want to enter the territories of the two tribes, they can only enter through this gap.
Tianyuan City is located at this gap. Its safety is related to the survival of both the human and demon races, so this city is quite detached.
The Tianyuan City Elders' Council is the place where the most powerful people from both the human and demon races gather, second only to the Holy Island.
This city is even more important to the ascended monks.
There are thousands of small interfaces under the jurisdiction of the human race, such as the human world where Ye Changsheng was born. If there are no problems in these lower-level interfaces and everything is normal, the cultivators can practice there to the late stage of Spirit Transformation and then ascend automatically.
These monks who ascend normally will generally be guided to the Feilingtai corresponding to their interface.
All of these flying spirit platforms are set up in Tianyuan City. In other words, normal ascending cultivators will appear in Tianyuan City as soon as they come up.
Only cultivators like Ye Changsheng who have sneaked across the border would appear in other places.
"This Tianyuan City is a place that Brother Ye must visit soon. Brother Ye may also know the specific reasons!"
“You first generation ascended monks carry a strong aura of another world on your bodies. If you want to wash away this aura of another world, you can only take a pill called Dust Elimination Pill!”
"And this kind of elixir, among the entire human and demon races, is only available in Tianyuan City, so Brother Ye and you must go to Tianyuan City!"
"In the spirit world, Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation cultivators have to go through a minor heavenly tribulation every three hundred years. If the ascended cultivators do not wash away their alien aura, the minor heavenly tribulation will become extremely terrifying. No one can survive it and will definitely perish under it!"
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Xu Ye told Ye Changsheng in detail about Tianyuan City and the Miechen Pill.
The cultivators in the spiritual world are not as comfortable as those in the human world. The Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation stages experience a minor heavenly tribulation every three hundred years, while the Refining Void, Fusion, and Mahayana stages experience a major heavenly tribulation every three thousand years.
This is the cultivators' death warrant. Each heavenly calamity becomes more and more terrifying, and there is no one who is not afraid of it.
The heavenly tribulation itself is already very terrifying, and if the ascending cultivator does not wash away the alien aura on his body, the heavenly tribulation will become even more terrifying.
It will change from an ordinary heavenly tribulation to a two-colored thunder tribulation. According to Xu Ye, no one can survive this two-colored thunder tribulation.
The only way to wash away the aura of the alien world is monopolized by Tianyuan City. If the ascended monks want to survive the heavenly tribulation safely, they must serve in Tianyuan City.
If you work for Tianyuan City, Tianyuan City will give the ascended monks a Dust-Mieting Pill every year. After taking it for three hundred years in a row, the alien aura on the ascended monks' bodies will be cleansed and completely integrated with the aura of the spiritual world.
From now on, everything will be normal, and the ascended monks will become no different from the native monks in the spiritual world.
Glancing at Ye Changsheng, Xu Ye smiled and said, "Brother Ye, don't think that serving in Tianyuan City is a hard job. In fact, being able to join the Tianyuan City Guard is something that many cultivators from the three realms and seven lands, both demons and humans, would love to have!"
"I am a humble man, but after I broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, I went to Tianyuan City to serve for thousands of years. I only returned to the clan after I broke through to the Spiritual Transformation stage!" Xu Ye said with a laugh.
"It seems that serving in Tianyuan City should have many benefits!" Ye Changsheng said with a smile.
Xu Ye nodded in agreement and said, "Practicing in Tianyuan City is much faster than practicing in other places. The spiritual veins in Tianyuan City are extraordinary!"
"Of course, this is only the most basic of the many benefits of staying in Tianyuan City . More importantly, Tianyuan City definitely has what the Three Realms and Seven Lands have, and Tianyuan City also has what the Three Realms and Seven Lands don't have!"
"Apart from the mysterious Holy Island, that is where the resources of both the human and demon races are most abundant and concentrated!"
"For us Divine Transformation cultivators, if we go to other places, it will be very difficult to find elixirs that can help us advance our cultivation!"
“But in Tianyuan City, not only can we find elixirs that can help the Divine Transformation cultivators improve their mana, we can even find elixirs that can help the Void Refining cultivators improve their mana!”
"And all kinds of things that can help the Divine Transformation cultivators break through the bottleneck often appear in Tianyuan City. Therefore, throughout the ages, many ascended cultivators are still unwilling to leave Tianyuan City even after serving for three hundred years!" Xu Ye said with a look of great regret.
Ye Changsheng nodded slightly upon hearing this. Tianyuan City is a place where high risks come with high returns. It is difficult to find such abundant cultivation resources in other places of the human race.
Even the main cities of the Three Emperors cannot compare with Tianyuan City.
This is because this is the only passage for humans and demons to enter and exit the wild world. If the monks who returned from the wilderness obtained any precious things and wanted to sell them, they must sell them in Tianyuan City first.
As a result, all kinds of rare materials that can be used to refine treasures and all kinds of elixirs that can help people advance have emerged in endlessly.
At this point, Xu Ye chuckled again and said, "First-generation ascended cultivators like Brother Ye all have amazing potential, and the proportion of them advancing to the Void Refining stage is far beyond the reach of descendants of ascended cultivators like me and native cultivators in the Spirit World. That's why first-generation ascended cultivators like you are often more valued by the Elders' Council."
"And the reason why our Xu family is on good terms with Brother Ye is also due to this consideration!" Xu Ye said very frankly and directly.
Ye Changsheng still believed what he said in his heart.
To make friends with an ascended cultivator , the Xu family didn't have to pay anything. They just told some common sense of the spiritual world to Ye Changsheng and others who had just arrived, and showed them some goodwill.
These few people who smuggled in had just arrived in the spiritual world and were unfamiliar with the place, so it was easy for them to feel panic and confusion.
At this moment, a native family from the spiritual world shows you kindness, welcomes you warmly, and tells you some key information. It is hard for you not to have a good impression of them.
In this way, the Xu family made friends with several ascended monks at almost zero cost, and the probability of this ascended monk cultivating to the Void Refinement Stage was very high.
The strongest person in the Xu family is a cultivator of the Void Refining Realm. So you can imagine how much profit they made from this!
So, when he saw the space crack appear here, the Divine Transformation cultivator from the Xu family hurried over with a very enthusiastic look on his face.
As the two of them talked, they gradually approached where the Xu family was.
Ye Changsheng also sensed from the spiritual perception of the spirit beast contract that the Bing Feng was actually following them from a distance and was not too far away from them, so he felt relieved.
Not long after, Ye Changsheng followed Xu Ye to a hilly area.
After arriving here, the spiritual energy became increasingly thinner. In the tens of thousands of miles they had traveled, there wasn't even the worst spiritual vein.
It is rare that the Xu family established their family in such a remote place.
As if seeing the surprise in Ye Changsheng's heart, Xu Ye laughed and said, "Brother Ye, are you wondering why our Xu family established the family in such a desolate place?"
"Brother Ye, just look carefully at your feet and you will know!"
Hearing Xu Ye's words, Ye Changsheng carefully observed the ground. After a moment, a look of understanding appeared on his face, and he said:
"I see. There is actually a copper vein with considerable reserves here. No wonder you would rather sacrifice some spiritual energy and build your family here."
"Haha, fellow Daoist, you've seen that our Xu family went through a lot of controversy in order to gain a foothold here."
"If several important figures in the clan hadn't made up their minds in the end, I'm afraid we wouldn't be here!"
"As a result, although our clan became rich because of this mineral vein, the cultivation of our clan members was also greatly affected."
Xu Ye said with a look of great admiration.
This may be the reason why the Xu family is kind to others, makes friends everywhere, and wins over ascended monks.
If you have wealth but don't have enough strength to protect it, you can only make friends with more outsiders.
Only in this way can they deter those who covet their wealth.
A moment later, the two appeared in front of a small mountain range, where Ye Changsheng felt a wave of restriction.
"It seems that this is where the Xu family is!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
Sure enough, Xu Ye took out a magic weapon with great familiarity and fiddled with it for a while. Suddenly, a passage appeared from the clouds covering the mountains.
"Brother Ye, please follow me!" Xu Ye said, and flew into the passage.
Ye Changsheng's eyes flashed, and he flew in as well.
The formation covers more than a dozen mountaintops, on which many buildings are densely packed.
The mountain is full of monks, but there are also a large number of mortals living at the foot of the mountain. People are coming and going, and it is quite lively.
Under the guidance of Xu Ye, Ye Changsheng came to a hall unimpeded. The hall was empty except for one person sitting in the main seat in the center.
This is a man in white with a bookish look on his face. His cultivation is also in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm. When he saw Ye Changsheng coming, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Brother, I have brought the person here. This is Fellow Daoist Ye. Just like Fellow Daoist Xiang, Fellow Daoist Hu and others from previous years, he also ascended from the human world where our ancestors were born!" Xu Ye bowed and said to the man in white.
Then, he said to Ye Changsheng: "This is my elder brother Xu Jiao, and he is also the current patriarch of our Xu family!"
"Greetings, Patriarch Xu!" Ye Changsheng said with a bow.
The man in white stood up and laughed, and also bowed and said: "Fellow Daoist Ye's visit really brings honor to the Xu family. Fellow Daoist Ye, please take a seat!"
Ye Changsheng smiled slightly and sat on a stool next to Xu Jiao without any hesitation, while Xu Ye also sat opposite him.
Xu Jiao clapped his hands gently, and a moment later two young girls came into the hall holding teacups and poured a cup of tea for each of the three people sitting there.
"I haven't asked for Brother Ye's full name yet?" The man in white took a sip of tea and asked with a smile.
"I am Ye Changsheng!"
"Oh, it seems that fellow Daoist is indeed born in the same human world as Ancestor Bingpo. A few years ago, when a fellow Daoist named Xiang was a guest in our Xu family, he mentioned that he had a junior brother named Ye who might come up!" said the man in white.
"Fellow Daoist Xiang? Is that Senior Brother Xiang Zhili?" Ye Changsheng asked.
"Yes, there was also a Fellow Daoist Feng who came with him. Before them, there was a Fellow Daoist Hu. It is said that there is also a Fellow Daoist Dao, but he did not come to our Xu family!" said the man in white.
“Well, these are people Ye met in the human world!”
"Haha, these Daoists have all gone to Tianyuan City with the help of our Xu family. Along the way, Daoist Ye must have heard about various things in the spirit world from my third brother. What are Daoist Ye's plans?"
Ye Changsheng chuckled and said, "Of course I have to go to Tianyuan City. Does Ye have any other way out?"
The man in white smiled faintly and said, "Daoyou is right. For a cultivator to ascend to heaven, there is only one way to go, Tianyuan City!"
"But, what you don't know is that although staying in Tianyuan City has many advantages, your situation as an ascended cultivator is not that good!"
"What do you mean, fellow Daoist?" Ye Changsheng asked with his eyes flashing slightly.
"As we all know, the Ascended Monks not only have great potential, but their fighting abilities are also better than those of the native monks in the Spirit World. Therefore, I don't know whether the Elders' Council of Tianyuan City intentionally or unintentionally often sends Ascended Monks to perform some dangerous tasks!"
“As a result, although the probability of ascended monks breaking through to the refining realm is higher, the number of people who die due to carrying out too many dangerous tasks is also relatively high. Therefore, over the years, the proportion of ascended monks among the high-level monks in Tianyuan City has always been very low!”
