Mortal: Fight monsters and upgrade, I will enjoy immortality!

"Huh, it's true." After hearing this, Xiang Zhili's face twitched and he asked fearfully:

"Then, Junior Brother, in your estimation, when will our first minor heavenly tribulation come? Will I have enough time to take the Dust-Extinguishing Pill that is enough to avoid the two-color lightning tribulation?"

"How would I know? The local cultivators' minor heavenly tribulation occurs every three hundred years, starting from the day they advance to the Divine Transformation stage. It's very easy to calculate. But the first minor heavenly tribulation for us ascending cultivators varies from person to person, and there's no fixed number. It may be a few decades, more than a hundred years, or even more than two hundred years." Ye Ming spread his hands, indicating that he didn't know.

"Well, okay." Xiang Zhili's face flashed with worry, and he took a deep breath and then said, "Then, what should I do next?"

"See my green armor?" Ye Ming patted the armor on his body.

"On the way here, I saw quite a few people wearing this kind of armor." Xiang Zhili nodded.

"If you want to obtain the Dust-Extinguishing Pill, you have to work for Tianyuan City. For us ascended monks, becoming a Qingming Guard is the best choice. The one wearing this green armor is a Qingming Guard. The so-called Qingming Guard is..."

Ye Ming explained in detail the things that need to be paid attention to after arriving in Tianyuan City, including the layout of Tianyuan City, the market town, the spiritual land, etc.

"I see!" Xiang Zhili stroked his beard and asked Ye Ming impatiently, "Is it convenient for me to go find the Senior Zhao you mentioned right now?"

"no problem!"

Afterwards, Ye Ming took Xiang Zhili to Zhao Wugui's place. Among the ascended cultivators in the Refining Void Stage, Zhao Wugui's attitude towards newcomers was relatively better, so Ye Ming was more willing to come to him.

The whole process that followed was not complicated. After Zhao Wugui gave Xiang Zhili a simple test, he agreed to let him become a Qingming Guard. He then processed an identity card for him and arranged for him to lead a team, etc.

At this point, Xiang Zhili became a member of the Tianyuan City Guard. So Ye Ming planned to leave and deal with his own affairs.

"Brother, I have said everything I need to say. Now you can familiarize yourself with the city. My spiritual land is in Yuping Mountain. If you need to find me, you can go there." Ye Ming told Xiang Zhili the specific location of the spiritual land.

"Okay, you can go and get busy, brother. Thank you for what you did today."

"polite!"

After coming out of Feiling Palace, Ye Ming left the stone tower and headed straight for somewhere outside the city.

Half a day later, a golden rainbow appeared over a valley outside the city.

The valley is lush and green, and apart from its beautiful scenery, there is nothing remarkable about it.

But the golden rainbow circled and suddenly fell into the valley.

The light faded, and Ye Ming's figure appeared in front of a stone wall more than thirty feet high.

He glanced around and found nothing unusual. He shook his sleeves and a golden talisman shot out, disappearing into the gray wall.

Then Ye Ming stayed quietly in front of the stone wall without saying a word.

After a moment, the stone wall in front of him suddenly moved.

A layer of gray and hazy light appeared on the surface of the stone wall, and then a two-meter-high passage appeared out of thin air in front of Ye Ming.

The passage is square in shape, with blue stone walls on all four sides, flashing with a faint spiritual light.

Ye Ming smiled slightly and walked in.

The passage is four to fifty feet long, and at the end is a white jade door blocked by a white light curtain.

Ye Ming made hand gestures without hesitation and muttered something. The light curtain in front of him immediately trembled and split in the middle.

He walked in leisurely.

Behind the door was a hall of thirty meters in size. Apart from more than twenty stone chairs and a huge stone table in the middle, there was nothing else in it.

There were already thirteen or fourteen cultivators sitting on these stone chairs, both men and women, wearing different clothes, but each of them had a cultivation level above the Spirit Transformation Stage.

When these monks saw Ye Ming coming in, several of them immediately greeted him with smiles on their faces: "Brother Ye is here too!"

"Brother Ye, don't forget the good stuff you promised to exchange with me last time."

"I heard that Brother Ye killed three more members of the Wood Clan this time. Tsk tsk, this really makes us Ascended Cultivators proud!"

……

Ye Ming responded to the greetings one by one with a smile on his face, then he found a stone chair in the corner of the hall and sat down.

As for the other monks who did not say hello, some nodded to Ye Ming, some had no expression on their faces, and some did not even look at Ye Ming.

Ye Ming didn't care and closed his eyes to rest. Then, more monks entered the hall one after another, and some acquaintances came forward to say hello.

After waiting like this for a short while, there were about twenty monks in the hall, and no monks came in for a long time. No one in the hall spoke, and they just sat in meditation with their eyes closed.

After a while, a faint male voice suddenly came from outside the hall: "It seems that everyone who can come has come. There are still a few Taoists who have missions to complete and cannot attend this party on time. In this case, let's get started."

Hearing this voice, everyone in the hall suddenly opened their eyes and looked outside.

I saw a middle-aged man walking in from the gate. He was wearing a loose white robe and had a faint smile on his face.

"Meet Senior Wen!"

"It turns out that the person hosting this party is Senior Wen."

There was a slight commotion among the people in the hall upon seeing the middle-aged man in white robe. Apparently, most of them recognized him.

Ye Ming also showed a look of understanding. This person was the Lianxu cultivator who evaluated the merit cards for the Qingming Guards. His surname was Wen, and he was also an ascended cultivator.

"No need to be so polite, everyone." The middle-aged man in white robe pressed his hands together, motioning everyone to sit down.

Then he walked to the main seat at the big stone table in the middle and sat down. He smiled and said in a friendly manner:

"I will host this gathering. The process is the same as usual. We will first hold an exchange meeting and share some of our cultivation experiences. If you have any difficulties in cultivation, I will also give you some guidance. However, you must pay the price you deserve. Finally, if you think you have any useful information, you can also report it to me. As long as it is useful, there will be no shortage of elixirs such as Dust-Extinguishing Pills."

"Thank you, Senior Wen!" After hearing the words of the monk surnamed Wen, all the monks became more spirited.

Immediately afterwards, an old man with a black mole walked to the stone table, took out a few items from his storage bracelet and began to introduce them.

……

The subsequent exchange meeting was hosted by the monk surnamed Wen and the process was uneventful.

Ye Ming also used a piece of ten thousand year old black jade to exchange for an auxiliary material for practicing the Dharmakaya Golden Body.

After the exchange of items, everyone began to talk about their own insights into cultivation, or their unique understanding of certain secret techniques.

However, most people spoke in a relatively simple or extremely vague manner. Some people spoke in extremely detailed terms but deliberately stopped talking when it came to some key points.

Others who are really interested in this are not in a hurry and will send a message later. The two of them will conduct an alternative one-on-one exchange using treasures or other experiences and skills.

This kind of gathering was actually organized by the cultivator surnamed Wen, Zhao Wugui and others.

They would gather together those monks who had ascended to Tianyuan City in the past two to three hundred years and had not yet advanced to the refining stage, organize gatherings regularly, share their knowledge and resources, and form a small group.

After joining this small group, these newly ascended spirit cultivators had a backer. The local void-refining cultivators generally did not dare to cause trouble to them openly. Apart from carrying out tasks such as patrolling the wilderness, there would not be much danger.

When Zhao Wugui found Ye Ming and invited him to join the organization, he explained the relevant matters of the organization. After listening to it, he agreed immediately.

Joining this organization not only provides a good communication platform, but also does not require you to bear any responsibilities or obligations.

Ye Ming naturally would not refuse such a good thing.

After the various Jindan monks finished exchanging their experiences, it was time for them to ask questions to the monk surnamed Wen.

These people either took out materials and treasures, or used intelligence information to ask the cultivator surnamed Wen for advice on the problems they encountered during their cultivation.

After receiving the benefits, the monk surnamed Wen would also provide detailed answers and make people return satisfied.

The Brahma True Demon Art that Ye Ming practiced was a dual cultivation method for both the Dharma and the body. Even if he asked some questions, the monk surnamed Wen might not be able to answer them. Therefore, he did not raise them, but planned to wait for the elders in the fusion stage in the city to give a sermon before asking them for advice.

With his achievements in killing foreign monks, these elders in the fusion stage generally would not refuse to answer the questions he raised.

The party lasted for most of the day before everyone dispersed.

After Ye Ming returned to Tianyuan City, he went straight to the market. After wandering around for two days, he found Xiao Yan and went to Tianguang Hall with her to listen to Elder Lei Luo's sermon.

After listening, Ye Ming raised his own cultivation questions to Elder Lei Luo. When the elder looked at Ye Ming's achievements in the tasks he had completed, he answered them one by one without hesitation.

Afterwards, Ye Ming left Tianyuan City contentedly.

However, before leaving, he traded some Hualing Pills with Xiao Yan as a token of gratitude for her hospitality towards him and Xiang Zhili.

(End of this chapter)