After the Skyfall

Chapter 813 A Gift from Afar

After Li Yi finished arranging things for all the cultivators, he returned to his home in Tianchang City.

Peace Financial Building.

The building is now deserted, overgrown with weeds, and several unidentified trees stand lushly. Despite the short time that has passed, it feels like it has been abandoned for over a decade. It's hard to imagine that this used to be a high-tech building.

This is because the concentration of spiritual energy on Earth is too high, causing vegetation to grow rapidly. If no one takes care of it, even a city can be quickly eroded by nature.

Li Yi glanced at it, then cast a spell to quickly clear away the weeds and dust nearby.

As he tried to enter the building.

Suddenly, the tightly closed doors of the building opened.

"Welcome home, Master." A woman's voice rang out, and a graceful, blue-haired lifelike robot appeared at the gate, flashing a sweet smile.

"AI AI Lan Ji." Li Yi was stunned for a moment upon seeing this.

To everyone's surprise, Lan Ji's mainframe was left inside the building.

But then he thought about it again and understood.

Leaving someone inside the building is definitely unrealistic; it's practically suicide. However, leaving an AI here is the most suitable option. After all, when Zheng Lan and the others fled to all corners of the world, the AI ​​Lan Ji was no longer needed, so keeping it here to guard the house is also an option.

Li Yi entered the building and found it clean and tidy, with many places showing signs of maintenance. It was clear that Lan Ji had been maintaining the building. However, Lan Ji did not venture outside the building.

Clearly, this was because someone had given orders to keep Lan Ji inside the building and not to go out, in order to avoid any danger.

"Lan Ji, I entered the building last time, why didn't I see you?" Li Yi suddenly asked.

He had been here before, but only briefly, and he hadn't found Lan Ji.

"Master, I have been in hibernation for a period of time. I will only be activated and awakened when the power in the building is turned on again," Lan Ji said with a smile.

"So that's it."

Li Yi immediately remembered that the building had indeed lost power when he came last time, but now the power was back on, obviously because order in Tianchang City had been restored to some extent.

If the water and power are constantly cut off here, it means the city has fallen, and activating Lan Ji won't help.

"However, the main structure of this building is damaged, and many parts are broken, so there's not much point in maintaining it. I'll have to rebuild it when I have time, and it would be best to have the Heavenly Craftsman reforge a new Dao artifact." Li Yi looked at everything familiar and couldn't help but sigh.

He still remembers how happy he was when he first got the building. He not only had a new home, but also a place to practice his spiritual cultivation in peace. But in the blink of an eye, everything has changed.

But until the new home is rebuilt, this place can serve as a temporary resting place.

"Lan Ji, who is in charge of managing Tianchang City now?" Li Yi suddenly asked.

The fact that Tianchang City was able to restore order and restore water and electricity under these circumstances must mean that there are capable people here; otherwise, the place would have been in chaos long ago.

“According to the information I’ve received, the current administrator of Tianchang City is the Cultivator Association, and the person in charge is Li Shaoqing,” Lan Ji said.

Li Shaoqing?
Suddenly, a memory from the past surfaced in Li Yi's mind.

He knew Li Shaoqing. He used to be the vice president of the Cultivator Association and had a strong talent for cultivation. After entering the Golden Academy, he disappeared without a trace. At that time, Li Yi guessed that Li Shaoqing had probably crossed over to another realm.

Unexpectedly, Li Shaoqing has now returned.

Moreover, judging from the timing, the other party should have returned after the invasion of the Demon God Realm.

"I thought Li Shaoqing would never come back after running away, but I didn't expect him to choose to cross over and return to protect Tianchang City at the most critical moment," Li Yi said with emotion.

Although he has now driven away the Demon King of the Demon God Realm, the Demon God Realm was at its peak when Li Shaoqing returned, so staying in Tianchang City at that time required immense courage.

Li Yi asked Lan Ji some more questions about Tianchang City. Lan Ji knew some of the information, but not others.

After all, as a fourth-generation artificial intelligence, it was confined to the building and could only obtain information from the outside world by receiving signals. Moreover, the signal recovery time in Tianchang City was not long, so Lan Ji naturally could not obtain more information.

"Alright, continue with your previous orders and maintain the building properly. I grant you permission to move around the building." Li Yi then issued new instructions, lifting some restrictions on Lan Ji.

"Yes, Master." Lan Ji still had a smile on her face.

Li Yi then went to the top floor of the building to cultivate. Although his physical strength and magical power had recovered during those days at the Earth Defense Line, his primordial spirit dharma form had not yet recovered because he had forcibly controlled that physical bodhisattva form.

"After Xuan Yuezi and the others have finished building the Dao Court, we will go to the Four Seas and Eight Continents in the next few days to bring them back temporarily. Although the Four Seas and Eight Continents are safe, the spiritual energy is thin and not suitable for cultivation. Moreover, there are dozens of cultivators here, so we don't have to worry about safety."

He sat with his eyes closed, and his primordial spirit manifested, with a red lotus blooming in radiance, constantly nourishing his primordial spirit.

If it weren't for the Crimson Lotus, Li Yi's primordial spirit dharma form wouldn't have been able to cultivate so quickly.

However, Li Yi felt that after this period of time passed, he still wanted to go to that strange place where time flew by, and take advantage of the time flow there to break through to the Three Flowers Realm in one go.

During Li Yi's cultivation.

There's been a lot of activity around Tianchang City.

A group of highly skilled cultivators observed the direction of the earth's veins and the positions of the celestial bodies, finally determining the location of the Daoist court. Then, they used their great magical power to change the landscape, move mountains and fill seas, and began a massive demolition and construction project.

Such a commotion naturally attracted the attention of all the evolved beings in Tianchang City.

"What's going on? The ground suddenly shook again. Could it be that a powerful demon from the Demon God Realm has come to Tianchang City again?"

"It's not the aura of a great demon. I saw many experts flying around in the sky, somewhat like cultivators from the Xuanxian Continent."

"I hope the city won't be in danger again."

Faced with this strange change, many people were panicked and uneasy. They had failed to escape in time and were stranded in Tianchang City, living in constant fear. Later, they heard that a powerful figure named Yang Wei had taken shelter there, so the great demons of the Demon God Realm chose to spare the city.

This gave them a narrow escape from death. They thought that Li Shaoqing's return from the Cultivator Association to manage Tianchang City would improve things.

But today's commotion has reignited the fear in many people's hearts.

soon.

Several figures rushed out from somewhere in Tianchang City.

These people possessed extraordinary auras, no less than those of powerful demons, and were now gazing in the direction from which the commotion was coming.

“There are at least several dozen cultivators. They seem to be building a base, and each of them is incredibly strong. But it is certain that they are definitely not cultivators from the Xuanxian Continent. The aura of those cultivators is easy to identify.”

Li Shaoqing stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze cold as he stared at the sky outside the city.

After observing for a while, he finally came to a conclusion.

"President, some of them are dressed like Earthlings. Should we go over and ask them?" a nearby evolved being whispered.

Li Shaoqing hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Let's not go for now. Let's visit them after they finish building their base. They are probably friends, not enemies. Tianchang City is very close to the Demon God Realm. If it were a powerful figure from an unfamiliar world crossing over, they wouldn't choose to stay here."

"By the way, let the AI ​​ask the survival base if they have any information about these people. The global signal has been recovering rapidly in the past few days. I think this is related to the great battle a few days ago. It's just that we are outnumbered and weak. We are not qualified to get involved in that level of battle."

"Just arrange for some people to take turns keeping watch, make sure to keep people calm and avoid causing panic. I believe that order will be restored to the earth. This is our home, and we must protect it."

While Li Shaoqing was chatting with other members of the cultivators' association...

suddenly.

From the direction of the Xuanxian Continent.

A streak of light descended directly towards Tianchang City.

This anomaly wasn't only noticed by Li Shaoqing and his group; it was also seen by the Taoist masters who were busy outside Tianchang City.

"That's the scent of cocklebur."

Shenxu Daoist, Yuanyang Daoist, Wu Laodao and the others immediately relaxed their vigilance. Since it was Cang Erzi's magical energy, there was no need to pay attention.

However, after this magical power landed above Tianchang City, it made a turn and headed straight for the top floor of the Heping Financial Building.

Li Yi, who was in the middle of his cultivation, suddenly opened his eyes.

Upon seeing the incoming magical power, he immediately reached out and grabbed it.

The magic power was destroyed.

A storage ring appeared in his hand.

"It was delivered by cocklebur." Li Yi paused for a moment.

He then examined the storage ring and was immediately surprised to find it filled with treasures from the Xuanxian Continent, including top-grade spirit stones, materials for crafting immortal artifacts, complete cultivation inheritances, including methods for cultivating to the True Immortal level, as well as various spells, alchemy, artifact crafting, and array formations.

To put it bluntly, this storage ring contains all the essence of the cultivation world of the Xuanxian Continent.

Cocklebur has been quietly reaping many good things in the past few years.

Among them, a box of pills caught Li Yi's attention.

Timeless Elixir!
Upon seeing this elixir, Li Yi's thoughts immediately returned to his time at the Golden Academy.

He had once snatched this kind of elixir from a cultivator.

Consuming it will reduce your lifespan by ten years, but in return, your body will experience ten years of life in a very short time. It is a kind of elixir that accelerates cultivation.

Li Yi had previously instructed Cang Erzi to help him collect these kinds of pills.

Clearly, Cang Erzi had kept the promise in mind. However, the last war was so rushed that he probably hadn't kept these resources with him. So, after returning to the Xuanxian Continent, he made a point of sending them back.

"I wonder if the Time-Saving Pill will still be of any use to me at my current level." Li Yi picked up a Time-Saving Pill and swallowed it.

He wanted to test the drug's effectiveness.

soon.

Li Yi felt his body changing, his blood and qi were being rapidly depleted, and his demand for cosmic energy was increasing rapidly. However, he restrained his impulse and did not recklessly absorb the cosmic energy from Earth.

The problem of energy pollution on Earth remains unresolved.

What Li Yi really wanted to experience was whether his primordial spirit dharma form would be affected by the Time-Extending Pill, allowing him to pass through ten years at once, so that he wouldn't need to go to strange places to cultivate.

But it's a pity.

Although ten years have passed in the physical body, the primordial spirit and Dharma form have not been affected.

"As expected, the effects of the Time-Saving Pill are no longer significant for me at this stage," Li Yi thought to himself. He no longer lacked physical cultivation, but rather spiritual cultivation.

Only by quickly unleashing the three flowers on his head can he possess the combat power of a demon king.

However, the Time Pill is still very useful, and its effect on cultivating Divine Blood Warriors is very obvious. For example, the alien blood warrior Long Yu, whom he brought back this time, can quickly become a Mountain Lord level powerhouse with the help of the Time Pill.

This is the benefit of different worlds complementing each other.

(End of this chapter)