There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Xuan Ling glanced at Old Daoist Wu and said, "It should be that disciple of Senior Wu, located to the north of the Broken Sky Mountains."

Upon hearing this, Wu Laodao's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head and said, "He is already a disciple of Master Zhigong, which is the basic condition for obtaining their help."

Yuan Zheng glanced at Old Daoist Wu, then placed a piece and changed the subject, saying, "It's been a long time since Zhongzhou has been this lively. First, there was the advancement of the Jade Purity Sect to the fourth realm, and now there is the advancement of the Earth Vein cultivator to the fourth realm. The cultivation world has finally ushered in a golden age."

This is just a polite remark. The people present are not ordinary cultivators. They all know that the sudden appearance of so many cultivators from the Xuanmen and Tianmen realms is definitely not just for show. There is an even bigger change waiting for them in the future!

At this moment, the ground suddenly shook more violently, and Shen Xiaozhu immediately transformed into a stream of light and appeared in the front hall of Qianmu Temple to comfort the lower-level disciples who did not know what had happened.

As Liu Shuang felt the ground tremble, her envy for the orthodox cultivators of the Xuanmen sect resurfaced in her heart. Then, she met Yang Rong's gaze and saw the confidence and determination in Yang Rong's eyes, which brought a warm smile to her face.

"Wow~"

Suddenly, a cheer came from above Qianmu Temple. Yuan Yuan, who was playing with the spirit dog, immediately raised her head and then transformed into her true form and soared into the clouds.

It was Yu Lian who appeared. Her huge body shimmered with azure light. The spirit snakes in the nearby river sensed her presence and immediately disappeared into the river.

"Rain Lotus~"

Yuan Yuan approached Yu Lian and tried to get closer, but Yu Lian blocked her with her tail. Her golden vertical pupils were full of disdain. "I don't know you. Don't come any closer."

Yuan Yuan nimbly dodged the attack and asked, "Yu Lian, are you here to take me to Jupiter?"

Yu Lian said irritably, "All you ever do is play games?"

"What else is there besides playing?"

"... "

As the two sisters playfully landed at Liu Shuang's dojo, everyone immediately stepped forward to pay their respects. Yu Lian was not modest at all, and accepted their greetings with her head held high. Her gaze kept glancing at Yuan Zheng on the outside, making Yuan Zheng feel uneasy.

After exchanging pleasantries, Yu Lian took out a glass bottle from the storage array at the back of her body and said to Liu Shuang, "This is Sacred Heart Grass. It was refined into Sacred Heart Pills by the Upper Pill Sect. It's enough for your grand-disciple's cultivation to reach the second realm. It was specially cultivated by your master."

Liu Shuang accepted the glass bottle and said, "Thank you for your concern, Master."

Yu Lian then said, "You haven't visited your master on Jupiter all these years..." She turned to look at Shen Xiaozhu, who was riding over on a cloud, and immediately changed the subject, saying, "Xiaozhu's primordial spirit cultivation has improved again."

Shen Xiaozhu landed in the courtyard, bowed respectfully to Yu Lian, and replied, "Replying to Martial Uncle, I dare not say that I have made progress; I am merely cultivating every day."

"Very good."

Yu Lian glanced at Liu Shuang, but only briefly, before looking at Yang Rong and saying, "You should take your master out for a walk."

Yang Rong replied, "That is exactly what I was thinking."

Liu Shuang wanted to say something, but under Yu Lian's gaze, she could only reply, "Alright, now that Lei'er has reached the second realm, and you all have a bright future, I'll go out for a walk to clear my head."

As she said those words, her aura subtly changed, as if she had come to a realization.

Yu Lian observed Liu Shuang's changes. Sometimes, it's necessary to force things. She was very satisfied with her actions just now. Then, she looked north with 'puzzle' and said, "Is there a cultivator from the Earth Vein Sect advancing to the fourth realm? Hmm, there's also a cultivator from the Jade Purity Sect advancing to the fourth realm. It's so lively?"

Without waiting for anyone's reaction, she said, "I'll go take a look," and then vanished from everyone's sight in a streak of light.

With Yu Lian's current cultivation level, she arrived near the Broken Sky Mountains in the blink of an eye. Then, she transformed into a streak of azure light and appeared in the sky above the Broken Sky Mountains in an instant. She then frowned slightly because the earth veins here were thick with energy, and since she cultivated water spirit, she naturally disliked earth veins.

The entire mountain range was shrouded in a thick, earthy yellow aura, which flowed slowly through the mountains like tangible sand. At the top of one of the peaks, an earthy yellow beam of light, more than a hundred feet in diameter, shot straight into the sky, turning the heavens amber.

In some places, the earth's energy forms countless vortexes, each with a crystalline spiritual light floating at its center, constantly being refined by the earth's energy. Occasionally, pebbles are swept into them and instantly ground into fine sand. Further away, hundreds of mountain peaks light up with array runes, echoing the central pillar of light and forming a huge array network covering thousands of miles.

Like the Jade Purity Sect, hundreds of giant flying boats float around the outer edge of the mountain range. All the flying boats maintain a fixed distance, neither approaching the core of the earth vein array nor straying far from the protection range. Occasionally, when the earth vein energy violently vibrates, these flying boats will adjust their positions in sync.

After the nearby magic array detected Yu Lian's aura, a cloud of auspiciousness immediately rose from the largest flying boat and arrived a hundred feet away from Yu Lian in the blink of an eye. It respectfully clasped its hands and bowed, saying, "This humble Daoist Bai Wan greets Venerable Ling Yuan. I was unaware of your arrival and was unable to greet you from afar. I hope you will forgive me."

Yu Lian, perched majestically on the clouds, reflected Bai Wan's figure in her enormous golden vertical pupils. She said, "Recently, a disciple of the True Monarch has been promoted, and I came to congratulate him. However, I unexpectedly sensed that a cultivator with strong earth veins in this place has also been promoted, so I came to take a look."

She was telling Bai Wan that she was just passing by and that there was no need for her to be too nervous.

Bai Wan was much more relaxed and whispered, "The Underground Cave Sect still has one spot for the Fourth Realm, which was promised by all the True Monarchs."

She was explaining that the advancement of the Underground Gate was not against the rules.

Yu Lian flicked her forked tongue and said, "There should be two spots, right? The Underground Cave Sect originally had one spot for the Fourth Realm, and it wasn't filled when Lord Liuyun fell. As for Zhi Gong, I remember it was her master's spot."

Bai Wan was taken aback. Of course she knew there were two spots available, but one of them had been promised to…

She slightly raised her head to look at Yulian.

Yu Lian ignored Bai Wan's thoughts and continued, "Currently, all the sects of the Xuanmen are actively recruiting cultivators for the Fourth Realm, but the Diku Sect has not produced a single Fourth Realm cultivator in nearly a thousand years. The True Monarchs are already somewhat dissatisfied with this." Bai Wan realized what was happening and various thoughts ran through her mind. She felt that having one more spot would not be a bad thing for the Diku Sect, so she quickly said, "It is our negligence. We will definitely do our best to cultivate more cultivators who are suitable for advancing to the Fourth Realm."

Yu Lian nodded in a pretentious manner, her gaze passing through Bai Wan and looking at the Broken Sky Mountain Range behind her. She said, "I seem to have heard Wang Ping say a long time ago that the stability of the earth veins does not lie in using magic arrays to restrain them, but in letting nature take its course. The power of these earth veins cannot be restrained by the magic arrays you have set up. What you are doing is actually blaspheming the True Lord, which is why no one has been able to advance for thousands of years."

These words startled Bai Wan. Just as she was about to ask something, Yu Lian had already transformed into a streak of light and left.

This trip to the Broken Sky Mountains was naturally Yu Lian's intention, and the final warning was also intentional. After all, Wang Qian's advancement was driven by her, and it was necessary to confirm it one last time.

Her final warning was a conclusion Wang Ping reached after careful research: a sleeping True Monarch would most likely be averse to any external noise, and the Earth Cave Sect's practice of suppressing the earth's vein power would not only fail to appease it, but would also cause the sleeping Earth Script True Monarch to instinctively resist, thus preventing anyone from successfully advancing.

Bai Wan and the others understood this principle very well. That's why the underground sect used to mostly use appeasement methods in the past. However, no one had advanced in thousands of years, so they gradually switched to using magic arrays to suppress cultivators. Cultivators often prefer suppression because it makes them feel that everything is under their control.

After leaving the Broken Sky Mountains, Yu Lian returned directly to the Thousand Trees Mountains. After chatting with Liu Shuang and the others for half an hour, she used the teleportation array above the Thousand Trees Mountains to return to the Nine Profound Mountain Dojo on Jupiter.

Wang Ping was meditating under the spirit tree outside the courtyard of the temple. The space around him was layered, making it seem as if he had entered another dimension.

He was sensing the spatial characteristics under the rules of the Wood Spirit. His method was to observe the changes in space by observing time in order to capture its traces of existence, and thus manifest it in the great net of the rules of the universe.

Yu Lian didn't rush to disturb Wang Ping, because the advancement of the puppet Wang Qian couldn't be accomplished in a short time. She landed on the spirit tree, exchanged a glance with the calico cat lying on the tree, and then the water spirit array around her gently swept by, refining and devouring the extra spiritual energy that Wang Ping had generated during his cultivation.

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye. Wang Ping opened his eyes from his meditation. The layers of space around his body were immediately calmed by the rules of the starry sky. Yu Lian immediately sensed this. The water spirit array around her body quickly closed and she landed on Wang Ping's shoulder. The calico cat only glanced at Wang Ping, twitched its ears, and then continued to sleep.

"How is your cultivation going?"

Yu Lian asked Wang Ping while sensing his emotions.

Wang Ping stretched out his left hand and gently touched it, and the space seemed to be moved. He seemed to want to construct a spatial passage, but this passage could not be opened.

He couldn't observe the end of space like he had before when observing time, because there was no guidance like when observing time. He stared at the half-finished spatial passage and said to Yu Lian, "The ancient wood spirit, with its eternal life, observed the true meaning of the river of time and the existence of space within the endless river of time. Now, our cultivation has the inheritance of the wood spirit's life, which has accelerated this process tens of thousands of times. We only need to cultivate quietly."

After five hundred years of cultivation, his compatibility with the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' had reached 50/100. However, this was a hundred years ago. No matter how much he cultivated during those hundred years, his compatibility could not increase by even a little bit. Now he understood why the True Lords' cultivation was so slow.

Furthermore, he sensed that if this cultivation could not be sustained, there would be a decline in memory, which would also lead to a decline in strength. This should be the reason why the True Lords stopped progressing. The Dragon Lord, on the other hand, most likely cultivated through slumber, which also effectively preserved his human consciousness.

Yu Lian nodded thoughtfully, then her tail swayed gently, connecting with Wang Ping's primordial spirit consciousness, and she said, "Your puppet is ready to officially advance to the fourth realm. I have given the underground sect a hint, and we are just waiting for them to remove those magic arrays that suppress the power of the earth veins."

Upon hearing this, Wang Ping summoned a bronze mirror. This was a mirror array he had spent two hundred years refining. The star god cores required for the array were collected from the spoils of the extraterrestrial war. There were more than a thousand of them, which were barely enough to allow him to observe most corners of this starry sky using the transfer talisman.

He could easily manipulate the puppets that were already marked with his teleportation talisman. As the mirror surface inside the bronze mirror changed, a scene of a dimly lit underground cave soon appeared.

The energy within the cave was incredibly dense, even condensing into energy particles visible to the naked eye, which swirled around the person meditating on the futon in the center of the cave—the puppet king, Qian.

"Yes, you are in good condition. Your primordial spirit and consciousness are incredibly strong. Your spiritual meridians are stable and active. You are just one step away from advancing to the fourth realm."

Wang Ping offered his evaluation.

Yu Lian said proudly, "To help him cultivate to this level, I refined a lot of spiritual energy so that he could obtain it unexpectedly."

She was clearly enjoying herself; manipulating the fates of others was obviously a pleasurable thing for her. However, Wang Ping wouldn't allow her to do so, otherwise, countless people in this starry sky would have their fates manipulated by her, which would surely attract the attention of the True Lords.

“Given his current state, as long as the power of the earth veins remains stable, his advancement is highly likely to proceed without any problems.” Wang Ping checked the puppet’s status using the light screen panel. His primordial spirit had been cultivated to (101/100), and the compatibility of the refined mountain power had also reached (96/100).

The stability of the reconstructed earth vein power is very low and extremely unstable. It jumped three times in just a moment, and the stability of each of the three jumps was below (40/100).

If the stability issue isn't resolved, even Wang Ping won't be able to forcefully advance this puppet to the fourth realm.

"We need to go back to Zhongzhou Star, but we can't let anyone know."

Wang Ping extended his left hand and began to deduce the problem.

Yu Lian knew that Wang Ping meant to personally infiltrate the core of Zhongzhou Star to stabilize the state of Diwen Zhenjun and buy some time for the puppet to advance.

Fifteen minutes later, Wang Ping stopped the deduction, and Yu Lian hurriedly asked, "How was it?"

Wang Ping nodded and said, "It's worth a try, but we'd better not attract the attention of other True Lords and sever all possible entanglements."

"How to do?"

"Afterwards, I will erase this memory from our consciousness, and even everything recorded in this timeline will be deleted."

"What's the point if there's no record? But your concerns are valid."

Wang Ping chuckled softly, then his figure flashed, appearing from the spirit tree at the edge of the cliff on the mountaintop. He gazed at the endless forests of Jupiter, his consciousness instinctively sweeping over the sleeping area of ​​the small mountain. Then, he took Yu Lian and entered the interior of the wood spirit energy, his figure disappearing without a trace. (End of Chapter)