Mortal: Fengling Linggen, married Chen Qiaoqian

"Ling Yuling!"

When Yan Yun saw this beautiful woman, he was stunned at first, and then blurted out her name.

This is the Star Palace deacon who was as pure as a virgin and was rescued outside Tianxing City that year!
Seeing the other person's gorgeous peach-like face, Yan Yun touched his nose and forced a smile on his face.

"I never expected that after such a long time, Brother Yan could still recognize me at a glance. I am really honored! In addition, I wish you success in condensing your Nascent Soul and achieving the Great Dao!"

Ling Yuling smiled slightly, and her phoenix-like eyes examined Yan Yun carefully, and then a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

Although he was also unable to discern Yan Yun's exact level of cultivation, he was well aware that Yan Yun must be stronger than himself, and so the smile on his face became even more enthusiastic.

"Fellow Daoist Ling, you are really too kind. Hasn't Fellow Daoist also successfully condensed his Nascent Soul?" Yan Yun responded with a smile. He did not answer immediately, but turned to the cultivators behind him and ordered:

"Everyone, please go ahead. Fellow Daoist Yan and I have some personal matters to discuss. I will catch up with you later."

"Yes, Elder Ling!"

Hearing this, those star cultivators in the Jindan stage and the foundation-building stage saluted respectfully. The awe displayed on their faces seemed to show that they were filled with deep admiration for this "Elder Ling".

Yan Yun looked at the scene in front of him, his eyes flickered a few times, but there was no abnormal expression on his face.

Under the guidance of another old man in the late Jindan stage, these cultivators continued on their journey. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen beams of light disappeared at the end of the sky.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Brother Yan. I just received an order to go to an island that was attacked by the Anti-Star Alliance to provide assistance. I'm afraid I won't be able to spend more time with you for the time being!"

Ling Yuling turned around and sighed helplessly.

"I see. On my way here, I also heard that the noble palace and the Anti-Star Alliance seemed to have clashed again. No wonder you are helpless."

Yan Yun said leisurely.

After hearing this, Ling Yulin could only respond with a bitter smile. However, he then looked at Yan Yun carefully again, and suddenly a strange expression appeared on his face.

"Brother Yan, your current realm should be more than just the initial stage!"

After hesitating for a moment, he finally couldn't help but ask.

“Haha, I am indeed slightly ahead of Fellow Daoist Ling, but with Fellow Daoist’s talent and aptitude, I believe that you will be able to reach this level in the near future!”

Yan Yun laughed it off and answered vaguely.

When Ling Yuling heard this, her face suddenly became a little stiff. Deep down in her heart, it was like a turbulent wave, difficult to calm down.

It is really unbelievable that the other party is already a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

You have to know that it has been less than two hundred years since he and Yan Yun separated, and Yan Yun has actually advanced from a Jindan stage cultivator to the late Yuanying stage in such a short period of time. This is simply a shocking miracle.

After several emotional fluctuations, Ling Yuling finally returned to normal, but still couldn't help but reveal an envious tone in her mouth:
"It seems that Brother Yan is undoubtedly a rare cultivation genius. He has achieved breakthroughs in such a short period of time. I admire him very much!"

"I can't be called a cultivation genius, I'm just lucky."

Yan Yun certainly wouldn't deliberately show off anything, he just smiled indifferently and answered ambiguously.

"Brother Yan, do you have any important matters to deal with when you come here this time? If you need any help, I am willing to do my best."

Ling Yuling smiled slightly, no longer bothered by Yan Yun's cultivation level, and suddenly changed the subject and asked about Yan Yun's purpose of coming.

"It's nothing serious, actually. I'm planning to go to the open sea for a trip, and I may need to use the teleportation array of your palace." Yan Yun said frankly without hiding anything.

"If that's the case, then Brother Yan has found the right person. Recently, in order to prevent the monks of the Anti-Star Alliance from taking advantage of the situation, this palace has made adjustments to the outer sea teleportation arrays. Most of them have been closed, and only two are left as backup. I will give you a token. With this token, Brother Yan can use this palace's teleportation array freely."

Ling Yuling smiled gently, her clear eyes moving around, her appearance was the best in the world, no different from a peerless beauty.

However, her manners and words were not at all feminine. The fusion of these two opposite temperaments formed a unique and indescribable mysterious charm.

With Yan Yun's current character and cultivation, he naturally would not be seduced by the other person's beauty.

However, he knew very well that he had already gone deep into Tianxing City, and those simple prohibitions and guards could not pose a threat to him.

However, it would be best if we could avoid some unnecessary trouble.

So Yan Yun smiled slightly and took the token without hesitation.

Then, after the two chatted casually for a few words, Yan Yun stood up and said goodbye, turning into a green light and rushing towards the huge island in the distance.

Ling Yu looked at the direction where Yan Yun disappeared, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, she lowered her head and thought for a while, suddenly reached out and patted the storage bag at her waist, and a light silver sound transmission note appeared in her hand.

She whispered a few words to the talisman, then waved it gently. The talisman turned into a ball of fire that shot up into the sky and instantly disappeared into the void.

Then, she sighed helplessly, put on her cloak again, turned into a beam of light, and chased in the direction her men left.

When Ling Yuling's escape light disappeared in the distance, a silver light flashed in the nearby sky, and a faint green figure emerged strangely.

He looked up at the direction the sound transmission note was flying, moved his body, and disappeared without a trace again.

A quarter of an hour later, a man was quietly floating in the air dozens of miles away from here. It was Yan Yun himself.

At this moment, he had a blank expression on his face and his hands behind his back.

The figure in front of him flashed by, and a humanoid puppet appeared in front of him strangely, holding a flame like a fire snake in its hand, but it was firmly bound by a ball of silver light and could not move at all.

Yan Yun raised his eyebrows, grabbed with one hand, and with a "puff", the fire snake was caught in his hand out of thin air, and then exploded by itself, turning into a blazing fireball. He quickly used his spiritual sense to sweep through the fireball, and his face immediately became gloomy.

After his eyes flickered a few times, he suddenly threw the fireball in his hand away with force, then turned his head to look at the huge island where Tianxing City was located, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"It turns out that the news that I own the Void Sky Cauldron has spread throughout the Chaos Star Sea. It seems that I need to change my image."

Yan Yun whispered to himself, and then his face was covered by a layer of crystal clear light, and the outlines of his facial features became blurred. At the same time, his body made a series of crackling sounds, and his height suddenly increased by nearly a foot.

A moment later, he turned into a sturdy man with a dark complexion, then took back the puppet and rushed towards the Tianxing City not far away.

Yan Yun didn't know that at the same time he crushed the sound transmission talisman, in a dim underground cave on the top of the holy mountain in Tianxing City.

A figure sitting cross-legged suddenly moved, then stretched out his right hand and grabbed the void in front of him. Suddenly, many tiny flames appeared around him and gathered together.

The fireball that was shattered by Yan Yun unexpectedly re-condensed and fell into the hands of the figure.

The figure silently used his spiritual sense to scan the information in the fireball for a while, then flipped his hand and the fire disappeared.

"What on earth happened? Yu Ling actually used the escape talisman we gave him. This kind of talisman is extremely precious and rare. Since ancient times, ordinary people have not been able to use it. Did he encounter an accident? After all, he just left Xingcheng not long ago."

Suddenly, a gentle and moving voice came from deep on the other side of the cave, like the sweet whisper of a beautiful girl.

"In fact, he is fine. He just met an eye-catching person nearby. He is hereby notified to us and would like to invite this friend to our Star Palace and become our helper!"

Then, another figure expressed his opinion. It was obviously a man, but his voice was slow, steady and a little stiff, as if he did not speak often.

"Well, since this has aroused Yu Ling's interest, I would like to know which person is worthy of him asking us to personally take action?"

After learning that Ling Yuling was safe and sound, the woman finally relaxed her frown, but her body quietly moved to a corner. Curiosity drove her to see this mysterious figure with her own eyes.

"Thinking back to the incident of Xutian Ding more than a hundred years ago, do you still remember it?"

"Naturally, I still remember it. What does it have to do with this?"

The woman couldn't help showing surprise when she heard this.

"The strong man who successfully seized the Xutian Ding from Man Huzi and Wan Tianming, and the cultivator who saved Yu Ling that year, are actually the same person. Now this person has come to the outside of our Tianxing City again, intending to use the teleportation array to go overseas, and was bumped into by Yu Ling."

The man explained briefly.

"I see. As far as I know, this man surnamed Yan was just a Jindan-stage cultivator back then. Is such a person worthy of our recruitment?"

The woman was puzzled by this.

"Haha, maybe you will find it hard to believe. Yu Ling even speculated that this person has been promoted to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul cultivator! If this is true, it is amazing that he could reach such a realm in just two hundred years."

The man smiled slightly.

"When the Xutian Cauldron was lost from the Xutian Palace, we sent a specialist to investigate the background of the person who got the cauldron. It is said that this person is very likely not a local cultivator! He should eventually return to his hometown! Could he be from a powerful sect in Dajin? Otherwise, it is hard to imagine how he could cultivate to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul in such a short time without the full support of the sect."

The woman had a deep understanding of Dajin and shared her views without hesitation.

"Regardless of whether he is a Great Jin cultivator or not, since he was able to obtain the Void Heaven Cauldron, it shows that this person has had great opportunities and fortunes."

"If it weren't for the Yuan magnetic divine light that the two of us cultivated, which has a repulsive effect on the five elements magic weapons, and if it weren't for the fact that the Xutian Incomplete Map is of no use to late-stage cultivators, we late-stage cultivators would not be able to set foot in the door of this palace. How could we allow others to take away such a spiritual treasure!" The male cultivator revealed a hint of regret when he mentioned this.

“If the Yuanci Divine Light is truly cultivated to the great perfection realm, the power of the five elements can be transformed into one's own use. How could it be impossible to control the five elements instruments? It's just that the two of us were unlucky and ultimately failed to achieve our wish.” After hearing this, the female cultivator could only respond with a wry smile.

"Indeed, if I had known the result would be like this, I shouldn't have invited you to practice this half-understood Yuanci Divine Light together. To be honest, I am ashamed to say that I have failed you."

The man pondered for a long time, his tone full of guilt.

"This matter has nothing to do with you. If we had not sought other ways, we would never have been able to break through to the Spiritual Transformation Stage in our lifetime. In fact, if it had not been for the accident at the end, perhaps we would have successfully advanced to the Spiritual Transformation Stage and at least be able to enjoy an extra thousand years of life."

The female monk shook her head calmly.

"That's true. I never expected that to cultivate the Yuanci Divine Light to the final stage, one would need the five elements of spiritual roots. However, those with such chaotic spiritual roots are not only unable to cultivate the Nascent Soul, but they can't even successfully complete the foundation building and Dan formation. How can they be qualified to cultivate this Yuanci Divine Light?"

“No wonder this technique has never been successfully cultivated even though it was created a long time ago. I, Ling Tianlei, thought that I had reached the late Nascent Soul stage in 500 years, and my talent for cultivation was no less than that of the masters of the Star Palaces of all generations. I also conquered the three invincible problems of the Yuanci Divine Light in one fell swoop. However, I never expected that I would still fail in the end.”

"The ancient cultivator who created the Yuanci Divine Light obviously set up this trap on purpose to challenge us, the descendants. I really don't understand what his intentions were, and why he didn't mention in the previous chapter that practicing this technique requires satisfying these contradictory conditions. Otherwise, I would have chosen to give up practicing this technique anyway."

The male monk was very emotional and seemed to be full of resentment towards the ancient monk who created the Yuanci Divine Light.

Another female monk also sighed helplessly, and after a while she slowly consoled him:

"Forget it. Regardless of whether this technique is really a prank by an ancient cultivator, the spiritual roots of a cultivator cannot be easily changed. Fortunately, we discovered it early and stopped our cultivation in time. Otherwise, if we continued to cultivate on Yuanci Mountain, the five elements in our bodies would explode at the same time, and we would probably explode and die."

"In fact, we should be grateful to Liu Dao and Wan Sangu. If they hadn't forced us to come out of retreat early, we probably wouldn't have been able to detect the abnormal changes in our bodies until now."

"Humph, Liudao and Wan Sangu were both defeated by me back then, so they are not worth mentioning at all. If it weren't for the restrictions of Yuanci Mountain, I would have already rushed into their lair and killed them all. Moreover... this problem... may not be unsolvable!"

The male monk snorted coldly, and his tone became a little weird.

"What do you mean? Have you found a way to change your spiritual roots?"

The originally calm and composed female monk became excited upon hearing this. (End of this chapter)