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

In a seemingly ordinary palace, with a flash of white light, Ye Ming's figure suddenly appeared on a huge magic circle.

He raised his eyes and glanced around, then slowly walked out of the teleportation circle and headed outside.

Outside the palace was a huge hall with a radius of one hundred meters. Some people were coming in and out of several other halls around the huge hall.

At the exit of the huge hall, there were two rows of Qingming Guards holding "Strange Spirit Plates" and carefully checking every cultivator entering and leaving.

Behind these Qingming guards, there was a Tianwei in golden armor, with his arms folded, staring coldly at everyone in the huge hall.

The Qingming guards in the magic circle outside the city are only responsible for guarding the teleportation magic circle to prevent it from being destroyed by aliens and some beasts. The guards here are the ones who are truly responsible for checking identities.

Ye Ming saw the surrounding situation clearly at a glance. Except for the different guards, everything else was exactly the same as it was back then.

After arriving here, he did not hide his cultivation level, and his powerful spiritual pressure was immediately sensed by everyone in the hall.

"Combined period!"

Everyone was shocked. Those Qingming Guards in the Spiritualization Stage could only roughly sense that Ye Ming was in the Fusion Stage, but they didn't know which stage he was in. But the Tianyuan Guard in the middle stage of the Void Refining Stage could immediately see that Ye Ming was in the late Fusion Stage.

His face changed immediately and he quickly walked over and bowed deeply to Ye Ming.

"Junior Ding Yu, nice to meet you, Senior. What's your name? Hey, you are... Senior Ye!"

The Tianyuan Guard greeted Ye Ming respectfully, but just as he was about to ask Ye Ming's name, he took a closer look at Ye Ming's appearance, and a light bulb went off in his head, and he recognized Ye Ming.

"Do you know Ye?" Ye Ming was slightly surprised. He was sure that he did not know this skinny man.

"The name of the senior was known to everyone in Tianyuan City in the early years. It has only gradually faded over the years. But among us who experienced the siege by foreign races back then, there is no one who does not know Senior Ye!" The skinny man smiled bitterly and looked at Ye Ming with curiosity.

"So that's how it is. Which elder is on duty in the city now?" Ye Ming nodded and asked lightly.

“To reply, Senior Ye, in recent years, Zen Master Jin Yue has been in charge of the overall situation in the city. Senior, your cultivation…” The skinny man first responded respectfully, then asked Ye Ming hesitantly, glancing at those strange spirit disks.

Ye Ming took a quick glance and understood what the man meant.

In order to prevent aliens from disguising themselves as humans and demons and sneaking into Tianyuan City, everyone returning from the wilderness must be tested several times with the Alien Spirit Disk before being allowed to pass.

This regulation was enforced more strictly after the Lei Luo Zhenren incident that year. No matter who the person is, whether they know him or not, they must be tested.

Although Ye Ming didn't know what would happen next, at least he knew the previous rules before he left, so he didn't make things difficult for the Tianyuan Guard.

Instead, he smiled faintly and said, "Ye has acquired this level of cultivation by chance in the wilderness. You should follow the usual procedures."

"Thank you, Senior Ye, for your understanding!" The skinny man breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand.

The Qingming Guards immediately came forward, circled around Ye Ming, and then returned to their original positions. After seeing that the strange spirit disk in their hands had no reaction, they were truly relieved, and their eyes looking at Ye Ming were full of envy and awe.

By this time, many people had recognized Ye Ming's identity.

When the skinny man saw that Ye Ming really had no problems, he felt relieved.

He knew that Ye Ming was only in the middle stage of the Void Refining Realm when he left Tianyuan City, but now he has reached the late stage of the Fusion Realm, which is too unbelievable. The first thing he thought of was whether Ye Ming was possessed by an alien race, so he had been on high alert and was extremely nervous.

After confirming the result, he immediately expressed his opinion: "Congratulations to Senior Ye for his great progress in cultivation and becoming the backbone of our human race! From now on, if you have any orders, I will do my best to help you!"

The late stage of fusion! Tianyuan City has not seen an elder with such a level of cultivation for many years.

This skinny man was well-informed. In addition to some well-known information, he had also heard about Ye Ming joining the Council of Elders. At this moment, he was thinking whether he could get support from Ye Ming.

"Haha, let's talk about it when we have a chance!" Facing this man's obvious intention to surrender, Ye Ming just smiled, and then a golden light flashed on his body, and he disappeared.

Leaving behind a bunch of people looking at each other in bewilderment.

Then there was a "boom", and the atmosphere exploded. These people immediately started discussing all the incredible things about Ye Ming... After Ye Ming left the giant tower, he went straight to his former cave.

Everyone he met on the road, whether they knew him or not, saluted Ye Ming. Those who knew him were naturally shocked, amazed at Ye Ming's terrifying cultivation speed; those who didn't know him were curious about who Ye Ming was and why he came to Tianyuan City as a guest.

Ye Ming ignored all of this and quickly returned to the cave on the eastern edge of the city.

Although the mountain path outside the cave was not covered with weeds, it looked like no one had walked on it for a long time.

The restrictions at the entrance of the cave seemed to have not changed much since when he left.

"Is it possible that Ling'er hasn't come back yet? Or has she been in seclusion for a long time?" Ye Ming asked with doubt. He raised his hand and waved it. The forbidden light curtain of the cave surged, revealing a bright entrance.

On both sides of the entrance, a large number of sound transmission notes, communication jade slips and other items were spinning around like headless flies, moving around in a disorderly manner. It was obvious that they had been accumulated here for a long time and no one had cleaned them up.

Ye Ming ignored all this and walked straight into the cave.

There was no one in the living room, bedroom, practice room and other places, and the floor, tables, chairs and furniture were covered with a lot of dust.

Seeing this situation, Ye Ming knew that no one had come to this cave since he left. Sure enough, when he came to the quiet room where Ling Yuling practiced, it was empty and looked like no one had used it for many years.

Finally, Ye Ming came to the spiritual medicine garden.

There are many rare and precious medicinal herbs planted in the garden, and many of them are more than ten thousand years old. However, no one has taken care of it for many years, so it looks a bit messy and the growth is not satisfactory.

He stood in the middle of the medicine garden, tilted his head and thought for a while, then his mind moved and the spirit walked out of his body.

"There are some things next door that cannot be moved for the time being. We will have to occupy this place for at least two to three hundred years. You will live here from now on and clean up this place by the way." Ye Ming pointed to the medicine garden and gave instructions.

The incarnation nodded, said nothing, and quickly arrived at the medicine garden. Although his injuries had not yet healed, the wounds on his body and the big hole in his chest had healed, and he only needed to rest for a while.

After Ye Ming took a look at the incarnation, he turned and walked towards another medicine garden.

This place covers several acres and cultivates tens of thousands of neon grass plants, all of which have already unfolded their tenth leaf, and are over a thousand years old. They are still more than two hundred years away from unfolding their thirteenth leaf, nearly three hundred years.

Originally, Ye Ming was going to feed it to the gold-eating worms, but he didn't expect that the gold-eating worms would advance ahead of schedule through the infusion.

In this case, these neon grasses would be useless. But since they have been planted for a thousand years, why not wait another three hundred years for them to unfold all their leaves and see if there will be any changes.

After confirming that there were no problems with these spiritual herbs, Ye Ming turned around and returned to the cave hall. After making a pot of spiritual tea, he waited quietly.

On his way back, he did not hide his cultivation level at all. A powerful person in the late stage of fusion entered Tianyuan City, and those people from the Elder Council would definitely come to take a look.

Sure enough, before Ye Ming finished his cup of tea, several figures appeared at the entrance of the cave with flashing light.

They were an old monk with white eyebrows, whose wrinkles almost covered his eyes; an old man in a white robe with silver hair but a delicate face; a young man in a Confucian robe with a scar on his face; and a woman with silver hair and a mask on her face.

The four of them landed on the ground without saying a word. The old monk with white eyebrows raised his hand, took out a sound transmission talisman and was about to activate it.

But at this moment, a light voice sounded in the ears of several people.

"My fellow Taoists are here! I am tired from the journey, so I will not go out to greet you. You can just come in!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of white mist surged out of the restriction at the entrance of the cave, revealing a long passage.

"It's really Fellow Daoist Ye!" The white-browed old monk and the silver-haired old man looked at each other, took a deep breath, and walked into the passage with strange expressions.

The scarred young man looked around curiously and followed closely.

A strange light flashed in the beautiful eyes behind the mask of the silver-haired woman, and she walked in calmly.

(End of this chapter)