Becoming an immortal and ancestor begins with the golden toad spitting out money.

Chapter 182 Golden Wind and Jade Dew
Regardless of what others think, Su Ji definitely wants to help these Golden Cave Sect cultivators regain control of their blessed lands.

Legally speaking, the blessed lands and grottoes belong to the Golden Cave Sect, and the evil spirits are the invaders. The Snow Mountain Bear Clan, the White Tomb Fox Clan, and other demon clans are merely the Golden Cave Sect's spirit beasts...

Even for these outsider cultivators, their initial purpose was to hunt down demons and protect the human race. Perhaps someone had their eye on this blessed land, but it was unclaimed.

Today, the Golden Cave Sect not only still has two immortals, but also two groups of humans who have embarked on different paths. No matter how foreign cultivators operate in the blessed lands in the future, they must take these people who survive the Golden Cave Sect as the core.

Su Ji's words truly resonated with the Immortal Lord.

The Immortal Lord not only wants to regain control of the blessed land, but also to suppress and kill all the demon immortals who betrayed the human race, and wipe out all those evil spirits without leaving a single one alive!

So much so that when Su Ji was about to leave to inform the major powers outside the city of this news, the Immortal Lord made some arrangements.

“General Jian Ri, although the demons have retreated to the western White Mist Rift Valley, there are still beings like the Golden Fiend Demon Cloud that threaten your safety.”

"In order to spread the news, and also because of this special connection... I, the immortal, will bestow upon you a treasure!"

As he spoke, the reliefs on the six white tiger pillars seemed to come alive, and as the six white tigers leaped up, they transformed into a colossal creature, filling the entire cave plaza with a powerful aura.

The two guardians, unable to withstand such pressure, quickly retreated to the side.

Su Ji pointed at the golden bead of the deflecting spirit artifact, and the immense pressure dispersed in front of him, allowing him to withstand the remaining pressure.

"call--"

Just then, a gust of wind suddenly rose from the huge white tiger, as if it came from the six white tiger divine pillars, or as if it came from the body of the white tiger relief.

The wind initially appeared extremely wild, but after flowing along the huge white tiger's fur, it transformed into a wisp of golden breeze on its forehead.

"This item is the Golden Wind Immortal Qi that I refined. It can be manipulated with my will. Once activated, it will possess the power of a low-grade perfect immortal technique."

The giant white tiger relief that the Immortal Lord had transformed into gently exhaled, and a wisp of golden wind swirled and came to Su Ji's front. Faintly, one could even see the phantom of a white tiger within the golden whirlwind.

"Thank you so much, Immortal Lord, for bestowing this treasure upon me!" Su Ji exclaimed, his excitement tinged with surprise.

Currently, even the highest-grade mystic arts are only comparable to the lowest-grade minor immortal arts. Even if Mo Linglong uses the power of the immortal artifact Linglong Immortal Furnace, she can only unleash the power of a lowest-grade major immortal arts at most.

Unless Mo Linglong can help the Golden Mountain Sect refine a low-grade but excellent immortal artifact this time, this wisp of golden whirlwind is the strongest technique that outsider cultivators have mastered in the blessed land.

This also shows how powerful this Immortal Lord is. With the six White Tiger Divine Pillars, he is definitely stronger than each of the eight minor immortals who have mastered the Dao Fruit of the Blessed Land.

Su Ji even had some guesses about the origin of these six White Tiger Divine Pillars.

It is said that there was once a White Tiger Immortal General in the blessed land of the Golden Cave Sect. These six White Tiger Divine Pillars are either the White Tiger Immortal General's weapons or the Golden Cave Sect's greatest reliance in controlling this blessed land.

Having reached this point, Su Ji bid farewell and departed accompanied by one of the guardians.

Before long, the two arrived at the place where Su Ji had broken through the mountain wall.

Upon seeing this, the half-human, half-fish guardian suddenly realized: "This is the deepest part of the mountain space. Originally, it was still more than ten feet away from this canyon, but due to the spewing of golden winds over the past tens of thousands of years, the mountain walls have become thinner and thinner."

"Perhaps in two or three thousand years, a layer of this mountain wall will be sheared away, revealing the space inside the mountain..."

The golden wind blowing from the Golden Wind Canyon is incredibly powerful, growing stronger the closer you get inside. What was originally just a small mountain stream has now become a canyon.

"Please wait a moment, Guardian. I will summon the envoys from the various powers in half a day at most!"

This time, Su Jigang discovered the Azure Whirlwind as soon as he entered the vicinity of the wind cave. It had only been a little over three hours since the golden wind pierced through the mountain wall.

"【The Mysterious Gate to the Netherworld】!"

Su Ji left Golden Wind Canyon directly, and as for the Azure Whirlwind Spirit Wind, he didn't need to bother to collect it.

Sure enough, less than two hours later, Su Ji returned, this time with a group of high-level cultivators by his side.

Given Su Ji's current status and strength, even if he only spoke, he could convince most of the gods and cultivators, not to mention that he had also received a wisp of golden wind bestowed by the Immortal Lord.

Therefore, the Golden Flame God of Jiuxiang County personally took charge of the area, accompanied by the Shackled Spirit General, the Golden-haired Woman, the Day-roaming Spirit General of Jinfeng County, the City God Spirit Official of Baiyan Mountain Range, the White-robed High Cultivator of Taibai Dragon Clan, and the Three Elders of Longshan Sect.

This time, although the number of people was much higher, they did not bring any attendants, and the team of less than ten people did not attract much attention.

Moreover, the cultivators did not fly directly to the mountain entrance in the East Sea, but entered the Golden Wind Canyon and arrived at the gap that Su Ji had opened up.

The guardian hadn't left, so they hurriedly went forward to greet him. All the cultivators looked on with emotion, for indeed, as Su Ji had said, this branch of humans in the Golden Cave Sect had changed.

“Fellow Daoist of the Golden Cave Sect, this is the Golden Flame Spirit Lord, and this is the Shackled Spirit General of Nine Fragrance County…”

Following Su Ji's introduction, the two sides exchanged friendly greetings.

Then, the Third Elder of Longshan Sect looked into the distance and smiled: "Is this the Azure Whirlwind Spiritual Wind that the Sun Guardian Spirit discovered in the mountain space?"

As he spoke, the Third Elder of the Dragon Mountain Sect walked to the Azure Whirlwind Spirit as if taking a stroll, and then used a special method to collect this special high-grade spiritual material.

This scene was considered normal by many cultivators, after all, the Third Elder of the Dragon Mountain Sect had long ago demonstrated his invincible defensive abilities.

Subsequently, the Third Elder of Longshan Sect directly handed the Azure Whirlwind Spirit Wind to Su Ji. Compared to the camaraderie forged in battle against the spirit vein monster not long ago, helping Su Ji retrieve the Azure Whirlwind Spirit Wind was merely a convenient favor!

"Thank you, Third Elder!" Su Ji said, but couldn't help but feel an urgent need to improve his own strength.

As things stand, Su Ji's escape techniques are already unmatched in the world. His offensive technique, [Earth Yang Surge], is only a little short of being perfect, while his movement-oriented [Shadow Escape] is still far from being perfect.

As for the Earth Yang Seed and its transformed Earth Yang Lotus, which can provide Earth Yang energy, change the environment, and even act as a defense, there should also be some requirements for their cultivation.

This time, although the Immortal Lord appeared again, he didn't say much, since he had already told Su Ji everything he needed to say earlier.

Subsequently, representatives of various factions, led by the guardians, arrived outside the cave.

Just as Su Ji had guessed, the area near the stone tablet forest was filled with the remains of cultivators and commoners buried in ancient times. The further down you went, the clearer the marks on the stone tablets became. Near the dock, you could even see the names of those who had recently passed away.

"Although we, the people of the Golden Cave Sect, live in the sea and underground, we still respect the customs of ancient times and bury our dead in this area..."

As the guardian recounted the story, many cultivators felt the indomitable spirit of the Golden Cave Sect members and also appreciated the grandeur of that time and the difficulty of enduring tens of thousands of years of hardship.

Next, the group of cultivators, led by the guardians, arrived in the East Sea.

In fact, some cultivators had already arrived in this East Sea when the cultivators were fully exploring this blessed land. However, even though the East Sea contained some demonic beasts and spiritual herbs, they were of little use to the outside cultivators who entered in their soul form. They did not want to fight against the demonic beasts here in order to explore the deeper ocean, so they focused more of their efforts on places like the White Mist Rift Valley in the west.

Then one could see that the water was teeming with all kinds of creatures, even more abundant than the large lake outside. There were even neat underwater habitats, which were obviously cultivated and managed by the Jinkuzong fish people to obtain food more efficiently.

Many of the cultivators were in spirit form, so they didn't need to breathe. They quickly followed the guardians to an underwater rift valley.

Unlike the deep abyss at the bottom of Qili Lake, this underwater rift valley has many culverts underneath, filled with breathable air.

As we continued our journey, we finally arrived at an underwater space filled with fantastical elements.

Although it is underwater, it has a lot of air like it is on land, and the huge underground space feels like another world.

Su Ji's small telescope was also suppressed here, but he could still vaguely see the boundary and estimate that this place was at least four or five miles square.

Those half-human, half-fish humans naturally came into Su Ji's view as well, and just as he had guessed, these people possessed some characteristics of fish to varying degrees.

Seemingly to keep their scales moist, each household has a small pond in front of their door, and large and small water tanks are placed in their yards or in front of their doors.

Besides the guardian's golden scales, there are also white, blue, yellow, and multicolored scales. Some only have scales on their arms, while others have scales that grow all the way up to their necks...

As the guardian led the way, he explained, "Generally speaking, the more scales a person has, the stronger their bloodline power. Once you cultivate to the level of a Bloodline Demon General, the scales on your body will begin to grow in large numbers until they cover your entire body..."

"The color of the scales can be purified or even mutated through cultivation. Among them, gold and silver are the most in line with the origin of this world and have the strongest combat power."

In response, Yantianchou provided its analysis results.

"From the moment we entered this space, the pervasive energy of heaven and earth was different from that of the outside world. The energy of heaven and earth outside the world leans towards 'yin,' while here it leans towards 'yang'..."

"Judging from the fact that the old yin osmanthus tree in the Bright Moon Spirit Realm grows yang osmanthus flowers, yin and yang are not isolated, and there is a possibility of mutual generation."

"Therefore, this space should be the [Geng Metal] corresponding to [Xin Metal] in the blessed land, and it is highly likely to contain a small Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit."

The Immortal Lord once said that this blessed land contained eight small worlds and Dao fruits, which were occupied by traitors of the demon race and treacherous immortals.

Now, Yan Tianchou says that there is a high probability that there is still a small Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit here, which contradicts what the Immortal Lord said.

"Could it be that after the level of the blessed land was lowered, this space and the Dao Fruit of the small world were born?"

Of course, it can also be said that it was precisely because this space and the Dao Fruit of the small world that the blessed land was downgraded from medium to low grade.

Yan Tianchou had other guesses: "According to Mo Linglong, the three Dao Fruits of the Golden Cave Sect are still intact. Apart from the Immortal Master and the True Instrument Daoist, the other immortal who died was not mentioned much. Could it be that this small space is related to him?"

Although the three immortals all wielded the Lesser Dao Fruit of [Xin Metal], they were also able to use the Dao Fruit to create space and then generate the Lesser Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit of [Geng Metal]...

Furthermore, Yan Tianchou had other opinions regarding the power of that immortal lord.

"If that deceased immortal had rendered meritorious service, the Immortal Lord shouldn't have deliberately avoided mentioning it. Perhaps that person did something wrong, or perhaps he wasn't even dead at all!"

Like Su Ji, Su Ji would have great trust in the Immortal Lord, but would be wary of the people who might have been bewitched by the Undying Demon King.

It's not possible for cultivators of the Golden Cave Sect to completely trust outsiders, so deliberately hiding their strength or concealing certain things is a normal practice.

While Su Ji and Yan Tianchou were brainstorming, the guardians led the group of cultivators to the center of this underwater space, to a courtyard that looked small but was quite exquisite.

At this moment, Su Ji's small telescope was also able to see details further away.

The area near the water cave was very damp, clearly an environment deliberately created by the half-human, half-fish people. There were only ponds and ditches, and hardly any crops could be seen.

The environment becomes drier further in, with clumps of mushrooms growing everywhere. Many fair-skinned people come and go, moving freely as if they had night vision, even in the poor lighting conditions.

"These must be the Jade Beauties!"

Just as Su Ji was sighing, the guardian exchanged a few words with the gatekeeper outside the courtyard, and then said, "Taoist Zhenyi knows you are coming and is currently burning incense and waiting..."

Compared to the Immortal Lord who needs to merge with the Dao of Heaven and Earth once every thirty years to awaken, Zhenyi Daoist is a "living fossil" who has lived from ancient times to the present.

The phrase "longevity and long life" refers to a true person like Zhenyi Daoren.

After being admitted to the hospital, a fragrant aroma wafted over, which subtly stirred Su Ji's spiritual senses.

Upon hearing this, Su Ji couldn't help but feel a surge of joy: "Could it be that the Spiritual Smell is about to awaken as well?"

Su Ji's spiritual vision corresponds to the Lesser Thousand-Mile Eye, and his spiritual hearing corresponds to the Lesser Wind-Following Ear. If he can unlock his spiritual smell, he will be able to deduce a supernatural ability that can distinguish various auras in the Yin and Yang realms in the future.

Clearly, the incense lit by Daoist Zhenyi was no ordinary incense; it might even be a divine product, which explains its great help to Su Ji's spiritual senses.

"Please come in, everyone!" The guardian opened the door and gestured for them to enter.

In that instant, Su Ji saw the so-called True Daoist, as well as the incense burner from which wisps of green smoke rose and a white jade bottle.

"What a fine Daoist Zhenyi!"

Judging from her appearance, the Taoist Zhenyi, who has lived for over 16,000 years, looks only 20 or 30 years old. Although she only wore light makeup, she still looks like a celestial being.

As for that incense burner, one glance was enough to tell that it was not an antique, and it even gave the impression that it was no less sophisticated than Mo Linglong's Linglong Immortal Burner.

"Indeed, for a True Immortal who has lived for over ten thousand years, it's likely that he has a broad understanding of all the arts of cultivation, so forging a Celestial Artifact wouldn't be difficult for him..."

Given enough time, anything is possible, which is why many people are willing to reincarnate to be reborn.

Just as Su Ji was feeling sentimental, the Taoist Zhenyi spoke up: "Please be seated, everyone!"

As he said this, Daoist Zhenyi waved his hand toward the white jade bottle on the table, and immediately streams of fine wine flew out and landed in front of each cultivator.

Yan Tianchou immediately began to analyze the jade bead in front of him, which was probably formed from only a few drops of jade liquid: "This thing contains a special spiritual essence of creation, which should be the longevity item that the True Man relies on!"

The so-called immortality of the True Man is not about cultivating to the point where one can live forever without doing anything, but about constantly consuming elixirs, spiritual liquids, and even refining the spiritual essence of heaven and earth.

As a result, many immortals have secluded themselves in the mountains in search of the secret to immortality. Some did so to refine the spiritual essence of the mountains, while others gathered all things to make elixirs and miraculous medicines.

As expected, the Taoist Zhenyi nodded and smiled, "You are all guests, please drink the Longevity Dew that I have refined!"

(End of this chapter)