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

After Ye Ming left Bingyuan, he did not delay any further on the road and headed straight for the nearest teleportation point.

Then he teleported - traveled - teleported and traveled again, repeating this cycle over and over again. In less than a year, he was back here.

If he was still in the Void Refining Stage, it would take him three or four years to travel this distance. Now, with the improvement of his cultivation, his speed has increased several times.

The rest of the journey to Tianyuan City would take more than a month for an average person, but if Ye Ming flew at full speed, it would only take a few days.

Therefore, when he returned to the vicinity of this place, he slowed down a little and flew leisurely. He just happened to see a few people being chased by the earthworm monster.

The tactful old man among them was Xiang Zhili who ascended to heaven with him!
Xiang Zhili seemed to be awakened by Ye Ming's call. He immediately put away the strange expression on his face and said happily: "It's really Fellow Daoist Ye. I thought I was dreaming. Oh, by the way, Fellow Daoist Ye, your current cultivation level..."

As he spoke, Xiang Zhili looked at Ye Ming with curiosity, nervousness and horror. When he left Tianyuan City more than 300 years ago to avoid the siege by alien races, Ye Ming was still in the middle stage of the Void Refining Realm.

Only three hundred years have passed. Ye Ming's cultivation should be at most in the late stage of refining emptiness, right? While asking Xiang Zhili, he guessed so in his heart.

Although the attack that killed the demon shadow beast instantly seemed to be something that only a cultivator in the fusion stage could perform, he knew that when Ye Ming was in the middle stage of the refining void, he had the ability to kill a cultivator in the late stage of the refining void instantly, so he did not expect Ye Ming's cultivation to be higher.

Ye Ming saw Xiang Zhili's curious and eager eyes and found it a little funny. Then he pretended to be funny and let go of his breath a little. He said with a sigh, "My cultivation... is just like that."

"Greetings, Senior Ye!" After the middle-aged man in red robe and the graceful woman sensed this breath, their expressions became even more respectful.

"Ah, it's really the Fusion Stage!" Xiang Zhili was stunned and speechless. Is this Ye Ming still a human? He ascended to the sky at the same time as him. He had to go through so much hardship to cultivate to the Refining Void Stage, but the other party had already reached the Fusion Stage and stood at the top of the pyramid of the human race!
However, Xiang Zhili had experienced countless storms in his life and had an extremely strong character. He quickly adjusted himself and solemnly clasped his fists towards Ye Ming.

"Thank you, Senior Ye, for rescuing me. Otherwise, I might have died here."

"Hey, you're welcome. Given how familiar we are, you don't have to call me senior or anything like that. We can just treat each other as peers!" After filling the cup once, Ye Ming put away his joking thoughts and said seriously.

"This, I am being shameless. Congratulations to Brother Ye on your great progress. I will definitely come to your house to congratulate you someday." Xiang Zhili hesitated for a moment, then laughed and generously accepted Ye Ming's proposal. He knew Ye Ming's character, and since he said it, it must be from the heart.

Speaking of which, Xiang Zhili had experienced countless intrigues and deceptions in the past thousand years since he ascended to heaven. He relied on his prudentness to avoid conspiracy after conspiracy and finally reached the Refining Void Stage, which was considered to be among the ranks of high-level cultivators. Throughout the whole process, he hardly really trusted anyone. But for Ye Ming, he had an inexplicable sense of trust.

"Let's talk about congratulations later. It just so happens that I haven't been back for many years. Brother Xiang, please tell me about the situation in Tianyuan City in the past few hundred years."

It was a rare opportunity to meet an old friend, especially the lovely old man Xiang Zhili. Ye Ming was not in a hurry to leave and asked Xiang Zhili to introduce the situation directly.

"Of course that's no problem. Several years after the aliens attacked the city, I returned to Tianyuan City. In the city..." Xiang Zhili introduced skillfully.

The middle-aged man and the graceful woman would add a sentence from time to time.

After a stick of incense, Ye Ming turned into a thick golden light and shot up into the sky. After a few flashes, he was very far away and quickly disappeared from the sight of Xiang Zhili and others.

At this point, the red-robed middle-aged man finally expressed his shock and confusion, "Brother Xiang, is this Senior Ye really the one who shined so brilliantly during the alien siege? Back then, wasn't Senior Ye only at the middle stage of the Void Refining Realm? How come only three hundred years have passed and he has already reached the Fusion Realm? This, this is too fast!"

The middle-aged man in red robe arrived at Tianyuan City later and had not participated in the alien siege, so he did not know Ye Ming. He only knew about the existence of such a person as Ye Ming through other channels. However, because the information was too different, he did not immediately connect this Ye Ming with that Ye Ming.

"Haha, who else could it be but him! Well, let's leave this place quickly and try our luck somewhere else." Xiang Zhili grinned, looking like he didn't want to say more.

The graceful woman and the middle-aged man in red robe looked at each other and saw envy in each other's eyes... Ten days later, when the huge wall of Tianyuan City, like a mountain in the distance, appeared in front of him, Ye Ming's face was filled with complexity.

After wandering outside for so many years, and dealing with alien races and beasts all the time, Ye Ming naturally felt homesick. Now he finally returned to the human and demon races again.

More importantly, Ye Ming was always concerned about his wives. He wondered if Ling Yuling had returned safely from the wilderness, and if Chen Qiaoqian and the others had successfully ascended to the spirit world and arrived in Tianyuan City.

Ye Ming kept running away, with all kinds of thoughts flooding through his mind like a tide, and soon he arrived near the city wall.

In this direction, not far from the city wall, there stood a teleportation array several meters in size. On both sides of the array stood a dozen Qingming guards wearing green armor.

The magic circle flashed, and several figures were teleported out. After talking for a few words with the Qingming Guards standing by, they turned into several stunning rainbows and flew away. This was the teleportation magic circle that led to Tianyuan City.

Because this city faces the wild area, there is no gate at all. If ordinary people want to enter the wild world, they can only go through this teleportation array. The position of this array is not completely fixed. It will change its position every once in a while to prevent foreign races from taking advantage of it. This is what Ye Ming told himself when he was talking to Xiang Zhili and others.

As for the temporary missions of the garrison guards in Tianyuan City, there are some more secretive teleportation arrays.

The light dimmed, Ye Ming stopped his escape and slowly came to the sky above the teleportation array.

With Ye Ming's obvious escape light and his swaggering appearance, the Qingming guards below had naturally discovered his presence long ago, and immediately swept their divine thoughts over him.

Ye Ming ignored these thoughts and moved directly, landing on the ground in front of the teleportation array.

"Hey, Captain!" A cry of surprise suddenly came from the mouth of a Qingming Guard.

Ye Ming was slightly startled when he heard this. After a quick glance, he found a pure and sweet-looking woman among these Qingming Guards. This woman's appearance was unusually familiar. She was Shi Shi, one of his subordinates when he served as a Qingming Guard in Tianyuan City.

At this moment, her cultivation had advanced to the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and she looked at Ye Ming in surprise.

"So it's you, fellow Taoist Master! Congratulations on your great progress in cultivation." A smile appeared on Ye Ming's face, and he said slowly.

"It's really the captain! I didn't expect to meet the captain here. I thought I had the wrong person!" Shi Shi said happily when she saw that it was really Ye Ming.

"Well, I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance before entering the city. How are the other fellow Taoists in the team doing now?" Ye Ming asked with a smile.

"Well, several of those who were with us back then died in the alien siege. Some of the remaining people chose to leave Tianyuan City. Now, only Jiang Han and I remain in the city." Shi Shi said.

After hearing this, Ye Ming pondered for a moment and said, "Well, if you two don't mind, you can come find me when you are free. I have some important things to do, so I will go into the city first."

"Hehe, of course I don't mind. We'd love to be able to meet with the captain." Shi Shi was overjoyed when she heard that, and quickly moved to the side to make way for the teleportation array behind her.

After Ye Ming nodded slightly to Shi Shi, he entered the teleportation array. With a flash of light, he was suddenly teleported away.

(End of this chapter)