Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 247 Gaoji Daoist

a few days later.

At Jinzun Tower, Li Ping arrived right on time.

Xu Guike was also a cultivator who was single-minded in his practice and did not care about material possessions. He even kept his wedding banquet with his Daoist partner very simple.

There were only two banquet tables in total, with a dozen or so guests.

The group at the table consisted of Xu Guike and Lin Yue, two friends they had met in Feixue City over the years.

At the other table was Li Ping and Ji Shuxuan's family.

It is worth mentioning that Ji Shuxuan's eldest son married a female cultivator two years ago, so Ji Shuxuan's family now consists of six people.

"Uncle Li!"

"Grandpa Li!"

"Fellow Daoist Li!"

"Master Li Dan!"

……

Li Ping entered the private room and immediately attracted the attention of everyone inside. Ji Shuxuan, who was in charge of welcoming guests, quickly invited him to take a seat.

As he took his seat, Ji Shuxuan's family, as well as the Foundation Establishment cultivators at another table, all greeted him warmly.

Especially those Foundation Establishment cultivators who came to the banquet as friends of Xu Guike and Lin Yue, all looked at Li Ping with eager eyes after recognizing him.

This is not only because Li Ping's cultivation has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, but also because he is a high-level alchemist.

Who wouldn't want to befriend a high-level alchemist?

In addition, there are rumors that Master Li's sister is a Core Formation cultivator.

The elder brother of a Core Formation Realm cultivator holds such a prestigious position that who would dare to provoke him?

Li Ping smiled and nodded to each of the cultivators who greeted him, then sat down in his seat.

After sitting down, Li Ping's gaze swept over Ji Shuxuan's family.

Ji Shuxuan's eldest son was only ten years old when Li Ping first arrived in Feixue City twenty-two years ago, and had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation.

He is thirty-two years old this year, and has grown into a slender and refined young man. His appearance is somewhat similar to that of Ji Shuxuan when he was young, but his cultivation level is only at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Two years ago, he fell in love at first sight with a young female cultivator and they planned to become her Daoist partner.

Generally speaking, cultivators rarely get married so early. However, Ji Shuxuan considered that his son had the aptitude of five spiritual roots, making it difficult for him to achieve anything on the path to immortality, so he agreed to the marriage.

At the time, Li Ping was in seclusion and did not attend the wedding banquet. Afterwards, he sent two bottles of precious elixirs as a wedding gift.

Ji Shuxuan's second daughter is twenty-eight years old this year. She has the aptitude of four spiritual roots, but her cultivation level is only at the third level of Qi Refining.

During a casual conversation, Ji Shuxuan mentioned that he was reluctant to let his daughter get married, so he planned to find a son-in-law to live with her at home.

Ji Shuxuan's third son, Ji Nianyun, was the most talented of his three sons, possessing three spiritual roots and being an inner disciple of the Flying Snow Sect.

He is only twenty-one years old this year, but his cultivation level has already reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, on par with his older brother who is more than ten years older.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will be the one to take charge of the Ji family after Ji Shuxuan passes away.

After chatting with a few younger people for a while, Xu Guike and Lin Yue walked hand in hand into the private room, both of them beaming with happy smiles.

Everyone stood up and offered their blessings.

Xu Guike accepted everyone's blessings with a smile, without making any fancy gestures.

With everyone as witnesses, he announced that he and his senior sister had become Daoist partners.

He then immediately announced the start of the banquet.

Everything is extremely simple.

It was precisely because the process was so simplified that Li Ping only found the opportunity to take out the jade box containing ten second-grade high-quality spirit talismans that he had prepared in advance when he was leaving the wedding banquet.

As he was leaving, he smiled and slipped the jade box into Xu Guike's hand, saying it was a gift to congratulate him and Lin Yue on becoming Daoist partners.

Xu Guike accepted it with a smile.

……

The original location of Silvermoon City.

Xiao Yunzhi's figure appeared in the sky. She looked down at the city that had been reduced to ruins, a hint of anger in her eyes.

She knew that the ruins below were originally a main city no smaller than Flying Snow City, inhabited by nearly ten million mortals and cultivators.

However, during the Ice Sea Beast Tide several years ago, the main city was breached by a combined attack of demonic beasts and barbarians, and all the cultivators and mortals in the city perished. Even the two Core Formation cultivators were unable to escape.

This included Master Muyun, who came from Feixue City to provide support.

As a Confucian cultivator, Xiao Yunzhi took it upon himself to protect the righteous path of heaven and earth. Witnessing such cruelty to the people, Xiao Yunzhi felt extremely heavy-hearted.

After calming her emotions, she then used her divine sense to survey the area below and investigate the cause of the chaos.

After the massacre, both cultivators and mortals became food for the demonic beasts.

Only mottled bloodstains and a few corpses remained in the ruins of the city. In addition, after the beast tide receded, the cultivators from the nearby main city had searched Silvermoon City again and again.

Xiao Yunzhi investigated carefully for several days, but found nothing at all.

However, based on the information provided by Shi Yutong, she also discovered something strange.

When faced with the beast tide, the Barbarian Bone Tribe did not retreat to the depths of the continent. Instead, they actively cooperated with the monsters to attack Silvermoon City, which was the main reason for Silvermoon City's eventual fall.

Xiao Yunzhi knew very well that the superhumans were not demonic beasts, and their intelligence was no less than that of humans. Theoretically speaking, the Barbarian Bone Tribe would not stoop to such a suicidal act of taking humans down with them.

Even if they had an irreconcilable hatred for Silvermoon City, they had no reason to risk the lives of their entire tribe just to destroy Silvermoon City.

In fact, such an operation is not just stupid, it's downright insane!

Only a complete madman would do that!

Xiao Yunzhi sighed inwardly: "If we can figure out the motives of the Barbarian Bone Tribe, we might be able to find out the truth behind the series of events, including the destruction of Silver Moon City and the death of True Master Muyun."

Whoosh!

Xiao Yunzhi shook her spirit beast pouch and poured out the earth spirit rat that Li Ping had lent her.

In fact, she didn't have high hopes that the Earth Spirit Rat could find anything in the ruins below, after all, a large number of cultivators had already carefully searched the ruins again and again.

Anything of real value has already been looted by them.

If it weren't for the fear that the icy sea monsters might return, perhaps cultivators would have already rebuilt their city in this third-tier spiritual land.

But since she was already here, Xiao Yunzhi figured a little more time wouldn't hurt to let the Earth Spirit Rat show off its skills.

The earth spirit rat was released by her, its little eyes darting around for a while, and its nostrils constantly sniffing.

"Squeak~"

To her surprise, after carefully sensing it, it transformed into a black streak and flew towards the ruins below, emitting a rapid, low growl, signaling Xiao Yunzhi to follow.

"Are there still treasures hidden in these ruins that haven't been taken?" Xiao Yunzhi wondered, and followed the earth spirit rat downwards.

Soon, they found themselves in front of a pile of broken buildings.

"Squeak squeak squeak~"

The earth spirit rat stretched out its forelimbs, pointing at the ruins in front of it like a human, and then used both its hands and feet to make a "digging" motion.

Xiao Yunzhi understood its meaning. With a wave of her hand, a sword beam flew out from her sleeve, directly blasting the pile of broken buildings apart.

The earth spirit rat's little eyes suddenly lit up, and it transformed into a ghostly light and darted out, its target being a gray sphere in the pile of abandoned buildings!

……

After a while.

The Earth Spirit Rat held up the gray sphere with both hands, floating in front of Xiao Yunzhi like a treasure.

"What is this?"

Looking at the dusty, round ball held by the Earth Spirit Rat, Xiao Yunzhi couldn't perceive anything special about it; at least, she couldn't sense any spirituality in it.

This is enough to prove that the gray ball is just an ordinary object, and not a magical artifact or spiritual material.

But considering the special nature of the Earth Spirit Rat, Xiao Yunzhi patiently scanned the sphere with her divine sense.

What surprised her even more was that she could clearly see the gray ball there, but when she scanned it with her divine sense, there was nothing there at all. The gray ball actually had the special ability to block divine sense.

Now, the gray ball had completely piqued Xiao Yunzhi's curiosity.

With a slight bend of her wrist, she grasped the gray ball in her palm and slowly infused it with magical power through contact.

Once the magic entered the gray sphere, it vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.

But Xiao Yunzhi could see that after she injected her magic power, the gray ball trembled slightly, as if it wanted to break free from her palm and fly away.

If the one holding the black ball were a Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment cultivator, they might actually let it succeed.

But now, Xiao Yunzhi, who holds the gray ball, is a Core Formation cultivator.

Under her immense magical power, the gray sphere struggled for a while, but eventually fell silent. However, at this moment, a barely perceptible look of solemnity appeared in Xiao Yunzhi's eyes.

Without making a sound, she tightly gripped the gray ball with one hand and put the earth spirit rat back into her spirit beast bag with the other.

Immediately, a crimson beam of light shot into the sky, heading towards the icy sea.

……

a few days later.

In the crystal-clear sky, a crimson streak of light flashed and disappeared.

Xiao Yunzhi looked down and, with her divine sense, could clearly see the surging seawater beneath the ice, dozens of feet below.

Clearly, she has reached the icy sea region.

With a sigh of relief, Xiao Yunzhi said calmly, "We are now in the Ice Sea area, tens of thousands of miles away from Silvermoon City. Fellow Daoist, you can come out with peace of mind."

Apart from herself, there was no one else around. Xiao Yunzhi seemed to be talking to herself.

But the next moment—

"Hehe... I didn't expect that even though I was hiding within the Jiezi World, I would still be discovered by your spirit beast." A slightly stiff voice rang directly in Xiao Yunzhi's ear: "I am Gaoji Daoist of the Tianqiao Sect. May I ask your name, fellow Daoist?"

"The Heavenly Skill Sect?" Xiao Yunzhi was taken aback.

Noticing the change in Xiao Yunzhi's expression, the stiff voice that identified himself as Gaoji Daoist spoke calmly: "What? Fellow Daoist seems quite surprised?"

"I am True Person Chiyan. As far as I know, the Tianqiao Sect has been destroyed for nearly a thousand years. I did not expect that there would still be Core Formation cultivators alive." Xiao Yunzhi expressed his doubts.

"Hehe... I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Chiyan to know about the destruction of my Tianqiao Sect." Daoist Gaoji spoke again: "To tell you the truth, I was indeed a cultivator of the Tianqiao Sect a thousand years ago. After my fall, I used special methods to refine my soul into a puppet, which is how I survived to this day."

Xiao Yunzhi wasn't sure if what he said was true or false, so she turned to ask about something else: "I see. Fellow Daoist Gaoji said that there might be a Nascent Soul cultivator lying in ambush in Silver Moon City. I wonder what that means?"

"Aren't you curious, Fellow Daoist Chiyan, why Silver Moon City was destroyed?" Daoist Gaoji didn't answer the question, but instead asked Xiao Yunzhi.

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