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

In the reception room, Ye Ming looked at several familiar faces in front of him with a smile on his face.

"Fellow Daoist Jin, Fellow Daoist Gu, and Fairy Silver Light, long time no see!"

The visitors were Zen Master Jin Yue, the old man surnamed Gu and the Silver Light Fairy. The last one was a scarred young man whom Ye Ming had never seen before.

"Fellow Daoist Ye, you are finally back!" Jin Yue and the other three people who were familiar to Ye Ming all released their spiritual thoughts to scan Ye Ming, as if they were confirming something.

The strange young man bowed to Ye Ming and said, "My name is Gong Shao, nice to meet you, Fellow Daoist Ye."

While greeting, the scarred young man also glanced at Ye Ming secretly with his spiritual sense.

Ye Ming naturally knew what the others were doing. He released his breath and let the four of them sense it.

As a result, the four of them looked shocked and incredulous almost at the same time.

"Fellow Daoist Ye, you have really advanced to the late stage of fusion!" The old man surnamed Gu couldn't help but exclaimed.

Looking at the four people who were stunned, Ye Ming laughed: "I was traveling in the wilderness, and by chance, I was lucky enough to gain this level of cultivation. I am sorry to have surprised you all."

The four were so shocked that they couldn't recover for a long time.

Suddenly, the old monk Jin Yue said something out of nowhere: "Good! Good! It's really great goodness!"

The three Fairies of Silver Light were suddenly startled and turned to look at the old monk, revealing a puzzled look.

The old monk Jin Yue did not turn around, but continued to stare at Ye Ming, praising him: "If I remember correctly, you are only about 1,500 years old now."

Ye Ming nodded slightly. After careful calculation, he was exactly 1,490 years old this year, and he would be 1,500 in ten years.

"Fellow Daoist Ye has advanced to the late stage of fusion at such a young age. This has almost never happened in the recorded history of the human race. I believe that no one will be able to do it in the future. You should all know what this means!" Zen Master Jin Yue glanced at Fairy Silver Light and others.

"Yes, this means that Fellow Daoist Ye will be the next person in our human race who is most likely to advance to the Mahayana stage!" The old man surnamed Gu understood what the old monk Jin Yue wanted to say, so he said it for him, but this was also his inner thought.

“Moreover, with Fellow Daoist Ye’s strength of refining the void and destroying the body, he should be able to fight against a Mahayana cultivator at this moment!” The Silver Light Fairy blinked her beautiful eyes, her eyes full of interest in Ye Ming.

Although the scarred young man didn't say anything, he was also extremely shocked. He didn't know that Ye Ming was only 1,500 years old. Thinking about it now, he was really shocked by Ye Ming's talent for cultivation.

"Hahaha, what you said is exactly what I thought. I believe that with Fellow Daoist Ye's talent and opportunity, he has at least a 50% chance of advancing to the Mahayana stage. Maybe, the hope of rejuvenation of our human and demon races lies in Fellow Daoist Ye!" Old Monk Jin Yue laughed and said. He looked at Ye Ming as if he were looking at a rare treasure, with extreme enthusiasm.

Ye Ming felt a little embarrassed by what they said, so he held out his hand to stop them from flattering him. "You are too kind, how can it be that easy to advance to Mahayana? Throughout the ages, there have been countless people who were called geniuses, who advanced vigorously in the early stages, but were stuck at a bottleneck in the end, and never made any progress in their entire lives. I am not sure about Mahayana, so the only thing we have to do is to grasp the present. Please take a seat, you guys are not tired of standing and talking, but I am tired of looking up."

In the end, Ye Ming made a joke that was not too big.

The four of them relaxed, finally recovering from their shock and tension, and each found a chair and sat down as instructed.

After the four of them sat down, without Ye Ming asking, the old monk Jin Yue pointed at the scarred young man and introduced him to Ye Ming: "This Daoist Fellow Gong practiced under Emperor Tian Miao Ling for a period of time in his early years. He advanced to the fusion stage more than a hundred years ago. His magical powers are not weak. A few years ago, I invited him to join our Elder Council."

"Oh? So Fellow Daoist Gong is a disciple of Tian Miao Ling Huang. I'm so sorry!" Ye Ming was slightly surprised. He heard that Tian Miao Ling Huang was proficient in the art of puppetry and the puppets he refined reached a superb level. He wondered how much of this Gong Shao inherited.

The scarred young man smiled bitterly: "Brother Daoist Jin, you are too kind to me. I only listened to the Spiritual Emperor's lectures a few times and stayed there for a while. I can't be considered a disciple of the Spiritual Emperor at all, and what I learned was just the basics. As for my cultivation and magical powers, they were the result of another adventure later. Of course, compared to Brother Daoist Ye, there is a difference between a firefly and the bright moon!" "Haha, Brother Daoist Gong is too modest. By the way, Ye has not been back for many years. Master, can you introduce me to the situation in the city?" Ye Ming chuckled and changed the subject.

"Of course! After the alien races retreated, Fellow Daoist Ye suddenly disappeared from the city. I thought that the Shadow Clan and the Wood Clan had sent people to cause trouble for you, which made me and others look for you for a long time. Later, I learned from the guards that Fellow Daoist had taken the initiative to enter the wilderness, and only then did I feel relieved." Old monk Jin Yue said.

"Thank you for your concern, fellow Taoist!"

"But what's weird is that not long after you left, the two elders Gu and Yan also disappeared. We haven't seen them since then." The old monk said, and his eyes, which were almost covered by his eyelids, flashed a gleam as he glanced at Ye Ming.

"Oh! Did those two disappear? That's a good thing. In the early years, they always suppressed the ascended monks. You know, every ascended monk has unlimited potential and has the possibility of reaching the end. But they were obstructed and persecuted by these two people, so that many Taoists died prematurely before they could grow up.

This is a huge loss for our human race! If they were still in the city, Ye would definitely deal with them. I didn't expect these two people to be away. It's really a bargain for them!"

As soon as Ye Ming heard Jin Yue talking about these two people, he said this immediately, without hiding his disgust for them in his words.

"This, ha ha, ha ha, speaking of this matter, I also have a certain responsibility." The old monk was embarrassed by this and laughed hurriedly. At the same time, his previous suspicion began to waver in his heart. Could it be that this person really didn't do it?

"Oh, that's great. Since the master also agrees with my opinion, shouldn't we change our thinking on the training of younger generations in the future?" Ye Ming slapped his thigh and said with great interest.

"This, this, let's discuss this later. Haha, where was I just now?" The old monk Jin Yue laughed dryly and changed the subject.

"Speaking of the disappearance of fellow Taoists Gu and Yan," said the Silver Light Fairy in a crisp voice with a strange look in her eyes.

The old monk came to his senses and continued, "Oh, yes, two elders died when the aliens attacked the city, and fellow Taoists Gu and Yan disappeared and never returned. As a result, I am the only human elder left in the city. How can this be possible?
So, I persuaded and persuaded three more Daoists from the Three Realms to join the Elders Council of this city. Daoist Gong was one of them, and Daoists Chen and Wang were not in the city at the moment and did not come. Now Daoist Ye has also returned, and the number of people in our Elders Council of the Human Race has finally been gathered. "

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Next, the old monk Jin Yue continued to talk about what had happened in recent years, and the old man surnamed Gu added a few words from time to time.

The Silver Light Fairy basically just listened with a smile on her face and seldom spoke. As for the scarred young man, he was even more straightforward. After sitting there, he never said a word.

Ye Ming listened with a smile, nodding from time to time, but his mind was not on this. When the old monk Jin Yue deliberately ignored the question about changing the method of training the younger generation, Ye Ming's opinion of the old monk had quietly changed.

He originally thought that the old monk was quite fair and upright, not caring about personal gains and losses, but now it seems that is not the case.

However, the old monk had always been quite polite to him when he was in the Void Refinement Stage, so Ye Ming did not show anything unusual.

Half a day later, everything that needed to be said had been said, and Ye Ming also had a general understanding of the overall situation in the city.

After listening to the introduction, Ye Ming asked about what he was most concerned about: "Who are the cultivators who have ascended recently, and what are their names?"

"In the past two to three hundred years, there have been more than ten younger generations who have ascended from the lower realms. They are..." The old man surnamed Gu introduced the newly ascended monks.

But Ye Ming did not hear the names of Chen Qiaoqian and other people from the human world, or people with similar characteristics. He was disappointed and thought he had to go to the lower world.

(End of this chapter)