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

After Ye Ming left the Elder Tower, he flew straight to his cave.

Along the way, he kept thinking about what the Holy Emperor Tianyuan meant, and then carefully recalled all the details of the meeting.

He was very sure that he had never seen the Holy Emperor Tianyuan or his clones, and that he behaved normally in the hall, just like others and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

It was only when he was leaving that Saint Emperor Tianyuan noticed him, which meant that there was indeed no problem ahead.

Could it be that he really saw my qualifications as he said? But Ye Ming thought that the most likely possibility was that he saw that his cultivation was solid and his magic power was far superior to that of his peers.

After realizing that this was the only possibility, Ye Ming calmed down and looked at the jade talisman in his hand.

This talisman feels cool to the touch and has a calming effect if held for a long time. It is covered with silver tadpoles but does not emit much spiritual pressure.

But since Saint Emperor Tianyuan said that this thing can withstand a full-strength attack from an early stage of fusion, it is probably correct.

After looking over and over again and seeing nothing wrong, he suddenly had a thought and the jade talisman disappeared. Then a golden light flashed on his body and he sped up his escape speed.

No matter what the problem is with this talisman, as long as it is placed in the package space, any marking, induction and the like will be invalid.

Ye Ming had already made all the necessary preparations for the upcoming battle, so it would be better for him to conserve his energy now.

In a tall and majestic hall, Long Ning, dressed in a black robe, was respectfully reporting something to an old man in a green robe.

Long Ning said excitedly: "Third Elder, I found the murderer!"

"Calm down! You have practiced in vain for tens of thousands of years. What kind of murderer can make you so excited?" The old man in green robe said unhappily.

This old man had a dignified look on his face. Just sitting there quietly, he had an aura of authority without even getting angry. It was obvious that he had been in a high position for a long time. He was none other than Long Chuan, the third elder of the Long family, who was in the middle stage of the fusion stage.

"Uh, yes!" Long Ning took a deep breath and tried to calm his tone.

"Third Elder, do you still remember the trial in the Vast Sea Secret Realm more than 700 years ago?"

"How could I not remember that at that time, the head of the family wanted to cultivate a younger generation with a strong bloodline, and had just adopted a new trial method. Unexpectedly, when organizing such a trial for the first time, there was a mistake, and someone sneaked into the secret realm and killed many of the younger generation..."

The old man in green robe said a few words with disdain, but at the end, his expression suddenly became serious, and he looked at Long Ning with a gleam in his eyes and said: "Huh? Are you saying that you found the murderer?"

"Yes, Third Elder, the Elders' Council summoned us for a lecture today. There I saw a kid who was said to have ascended from the lower realm. Although this guy's cultivation has improved a lot compared to before, I will definitely not mistake the aura on his body!" Long Ning vowed.

"An ascended cultivator? The entrance to the Vast Sea Secret Realm is connected to the endless void. Sometimes creatures from other realms would mistakenly enter it, but most of them have low cultivation bases. Since this person ascended from the lower realm, it is very likely that he also entered it. I remember you said at the time that this outsider who came out of the secret realm was in the Spirit Transformation Stage. What is his cultivation base now?" The green-robed old man asked after hesitating for a moment.

"That man is Ye Ming, in the middle stage of Refining Void!"

"In that case, why don't you find a chance to capture him? With your level of cultivation, do you think you are afraid of him?" The green-robed old man's face darkened.

"Yes! Elder. But this man is from Tianyuan City, and now the aliens are about to attack the city. Will the Council of Elders..." Long Ning said with some doubt.

"Asshole! Why bother with them? One more or one less won't make much difference in guarding Tianyuan City. As long as we do it secretly, what will the Council of Elders do? Will they offend our Long family for an irrelevant junior?" the old man in green robe scolded unceremoniously.

"Yes, nephew understands!" Long Ning felt relieved after getting the support of the third elder.

Two days passed quickly.

Amidst the loud horn sounds, the entire Tianyuan City was suddenly crowded with people. Both mortals and monks were organized and walked towards the city wall facing the wilderness. Soon, the three layers of the city wall, which was more than 200 miles long, were filled with teams of monks or mortal body cultivators.

The mortal body cultivators were a very important force in Tianyuan City, and their number was extremely large. They were divided into teams and entered the predetermined positions.

Each team consisted of dozens to hundreds of people, lined up along the city wall dozens of feet apart, with no end in sight.

Among these people, most of them are low- and mid-level body cultivators who are equivalent to the foundation-building and core-forming stages. They hold various spiritual tools in their hands and look solemnly outside the city wall.

The so-called spiritual tool is a magical tool that is refined through special refining techniques and does not require spiritual power but only needs spirit stones to be driven.

It can also be said that it is a magical tool specially tailored for body cultivators. After holding this magical tool, even if they have no magic power in their bodies, they can still drive the spiritual tool to attack the enemy.

The power of this kind of spiritual tool varies according to the materials used to refine it and the different spiritual stones that drive it. There are low-level spiritual tools that can only exert the power of ordinary magic tools, and powerful spiritual tools that can rival high-level magic tools.

However, those high-level body cultivators, who are equivalent to Nascent Soul stage cultivators, are much more casual. They are either unarmed or holding more powerful spiritual tools. They are scattered among teams of body cultivators and act as team leaders, responsible for organizing and commanding their team's body cultivators to attack and defend, or cooperating with other teams, etc.

Of course, the task of the body cultivator is mainly to deal with the aftermath of the alien attack, reduce the pressure on the city defense restrictions, or deal with the low-level cultivators of the alien race.

Aliens above the Nascent Soul and Spiritualization stages have to be dealt with by cultivators or demon cultivators.

The monks of the human and demon races stood in the air above the city wall, and also lined up along the direction of the city wall. Moreover, the monks of the two races did not mix together, but each was responsible for the defense of half of the city wall, about a hundred miles long.

The height at which a monk stands varies depending on his level of cultivation.

Nascent Soul cultivators are basically responsible for the low-altitude defense near the city walls together with the Body Refiners.

The Spiritualization Stage cultivators stood two or three hundred feet above the city wall, close to the outer edge of the city defense formation. During wartime, their positions could be changed at any time, mainly defending against the enemy outside the formation. If they were unable to defeat the enemy, they could find an opportunity to hide inside the formation.

When one reaches the level of Void Refinement, each strike contains immense power. If one gets too close to the city defense formation, it can easily have a significant impact on the formation.

The aftermath of their magical powers or accidental attacks from magic weapons may hit the city defense formation and become a help for the alien races in attacking the city.

Therefore, all the cultivators in the Void Refinement Stage stood at a height of two to three thousand feet above the city defense formation, and in order not to affect each other, all of them dispersed, with a distance of several hundred feet between them.

As for the cultivators in the fusion stage, the range of their magical powers is even greater. Therefore, all those above the fusion stage are thousands of feet high in the sky.

In this way, personnel were arranged on the walls of Tianyuan City according to their levels of cultivation, forming a three-dimensional protective barrier.

Although the area to be defended is more than a hundred miles wide, there are a large number of cultivators in the city, and there are more than a thousand people in the Void Refinement Stage alone.

If everyone were to line up here, the distance between each person would be only a dozen feet. For a Void Refining cultivator, this would be almost like standing next to each other, and they would not be able to use their magic at all during a fight.

Therefore, for a barrier like the one just introduced, there are two lines, front and back, and the distance between the Void Refining cultivators is one or two hundred feet. This will not affect the fight between the two, but also allow them to echo and support each other, thus improving the resilience of the defense.

In addition, more than half of the people in the city have not yet come to the city wall. They are used as substitutes. After these people in the front fight for a period of time, the same number of people in the city will be arranged to take over.

The remaining people will serve as the reserve team, and they will be sent into battle wherever there is a need or emergency.

(End of this chapter)