Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

His trip was not just for birthday celebrations.

He also took on a mission.

Investigating the "Mysterious Alliance"

The Mysterious Alliance has been extremely active in the Endless Demon Sea for the past century, creating more than a dozen so-called "ancient relics" and "Nascent Soul remains" to deceive countless cultivators into going on adventures.

Some people gained opportunities from them, while others died inside. The Misty Heaven Alliance relied on these relics to influence and control these cultivators.

I have no idea what they're planning.

As the strongest force in the Cangyun cultivation world, the Heavenly Law Divine Sect, besides the seven overlords,

Few forces can be taken seriously by the Heavenly Law Divine Sect.

But the Mysterious Alliance is one of them.

Although they are not Nascent Soul Heavenly Lords, their methods are strange and they have many hidden techniques. Ordinary Nascent Soul Heavenly Lords probably cannot do anything to them.

Investigating the Mysterious Heaven Alliance is risky. Sending a Nascent Soul cultivator would make them too conspicuous, while sending an ordinary Core Formation cultivator wouldn't uncover anything.

Moreover, they are prone to backlash; nine out of ten ordinary Core Formation cultivators cannot withstand the bewitching methods of the Bewitching Heaven Alliance.

Just then, his holy son was coming to the Endless Demon Sea, so the task fell to him.

Even if we reach Dragon Abyss Immortal City and rely on its power, it will likely be difficult to investigate thoroughly.

The Core Formation cultivators of the Immortal City and the Core Formation cultivators of the Bewildering Heaven Alliance are not on the same level in terms of skill.

Tianhao tapped the table lightly, wishing he could bring Lin Zhao in if he had the chance.

That guy has the means and strength, and he's a secret disciple of the Yunhai Cangming Sect, so it's impossible for him to be bewitched by the Mitian Alliance.

He is the most suitable candidate.

However, for a disciple of Lin Zhao's rank, ordinary rewards would probably not be enough to entice him.

He couldn't possibly take out a fourth-tier magic weapon, but Lin Zhao might not lack a third-tier magic weapon.

Tianhao shook his head.

There's no rush. We can figure out the situation once we get to Dragon Abyss Immortal City.

Come to think of it, he had never actually been to Dragon Abyss Immortal City.

His father was a cultivator from Zhongzhou, and his mother was from Longyuan Immortal City.

This place is practically his hometown, so he can visit it more often and bring back some local specialties.

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Lin Zhao was naturally unaware that Tian Hao was plotting against him.

He was just an avatar; he didn't need to consider so many things.

These matters are naturally handled by his main body and the Five Sacred Mountains clones; he can simply focus on playing and cultivating outside.

He returned to his room, closed the door, and placed the eight ghost crystals in a row on the table.

After several months of treatment by the Divine Soul Sword Tower, the residual ghost energy inside the Ghost Crystal has been completely purified, and the mist flowing inside has changed from gray to gold.

Lin Zhao sat down cross-legged, picked up a low-grade third-tier ghost crystal, and held it in his palm.

Golden mist seeped from the crystal's surface, traveled upwards along the palm, and entered the sea of ​​consciousness.

His main body and his two avatars' consciousnesses were always synchronized. While the Azure Lotus avatar was enhancing its divine sense here, his main body and the Five Sacred Mountains Dharma Body, far away in the sect, were also experiencing synchronized changes in their divine senses.

One month later, the first Ghost Crystal was completely digested.

The three mid-grade Tier 3 Ghost Crystals are of even higher quality, and each one requires at least three months to be fully digested.

It will take about a year to absorb all eight.

Lin Zhao estimated that after digesting all eight Ghost Crystals, his divine sense should be able to break through to the late stage of Core Formation.

Lin Zhao opened her eyes and looked out the window.

The sea was calm, and in the distance a fish leaped out of the water, its scales flashing in the sunlight before falling back in, creating a small ripple.

The sounds of Qi Refining cultivators could be heard from below deck.

Some people lamented not catching the spirit fish, while others stirred up trouble, occasionally erupting into loud, unrestrained laughter.

Speaking of which, the Azure Lotus clone has been around for several years now.

He set off from Tongming River when he was seventy-eight years old, and is now eighty-three.

time flies.

His main body was in seclusion at the sect, where his cultivation level improved significantly.

The Five Sacred Mountains' avatars have made substantial progress in their research on the rules of metal at Zhaoyang Peak.

Lin Zhao shook his head, put away the Ghost Crystal, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes to cultivate again.

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Deep within the cave at Tianxing Peak.

Lin Zhao's main body is still in seclusion cultivating, and his cultivation level has improved significantly, getting closer and closer to the peak of the early stage of Core Formation.

Meanwhile, his Five Sacred Mountains clones were in the Treasure Pavilion, using their fourth-order spiritual veins to restore the fourth-order Spirit Gathering Pool of the Luo Tian Palace.

Of the twenty-three spirit-gathering pools in the Luo Tian Palace, the outermost one is already more than half full of spiritual liquid.

It has been twenty years since Luo Tian Palace came into Lin Zhao's hands.

This fourth-grade high-quality magic weapon can automatically absorb and release spiritual energy from outside the void to restore itself.

With the addition of the Spirit Gathering Pearl and the spiritual veins of Tianxing Peak, a three-pronged approach is adopted.

Lin Zhao estimated that in another twenty years, once this fourth-grade low-level spirit gathering pool is fully restored, it will be able to condense a golden divine lightning bolt, comparable to a strike from a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

As for the three fourth-grade high-quality spirit-gathering pools deep within the hall, if they could be restored, the divine lightning they emitted would be comparable to a strike from a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

But that's a long way off.

With a golden divine lightning bolt in hand, plus the fourth-tier life-saving jade talisman given to him by True Monarch Flying Snow,

By then, Lin Zhao will have two fourth-tier techniques at his disposal. In the Core Formation realm, he'll be practically invincible.

Lin Zhao shook his head, suppressing the thought.

There are too many powerful figures in the cultivation world. Not long ago, Qinglian's clone was blocked on Moon Eclipse Island by a half-step Ghost King and almost couldn't leave. Trying to walk sideways is a waste.

Keep a low profile.

Besides restoring the Spirit Gathering Pool here, Lin Zhao is also comprehending the rules of metal.

There have indeed been some tangible gains over the years.

Before him was a piece of special metal, the size of a human head, gleaming golden and constantly flashing with various unique spiritual lights.

The various colors of the spiritual light, sometimes cold and silvery-white, sometimes blazing red gold, sometimes deep and dark yellow, each correspond to a completely different spiritual power characteristic.

The light flowed, intertwined, and changed on the metal surface, as if it were alive.

【Tianxi Gold】

It is a special third-tier spiritual object that Lin Zhao has researched over the years.

At least in Lin Zhao's knowledge, there are no such spiritual objects in the cultivation world.

He used tens of thousands of metallic spiritual objects and spent decades, relying on the powerful deductive force of the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel, to create it from nothing.

Those tens of thousands of metals, of different kinds, each with its own internal structure, spiritual energy conduction characteristics, hardness, toughness, and reaction to the power of the five elements, are all different expressions of the rules of metal.

Before the Five Sacred Mountains clones appeared, they were there, sensing the properties of these metals piece by piece.

The process was extremely slow and extremely tedious.

However, after deduce thousands of first-order metals, the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel only faintly caught a trace of the extremely vague metallic rules.

Based on these insights, Lin Zhao combined his own material rules with the rules of metal, creating a powerful synergy.

By fusing these tens of thousands of different metals, this third-tier spiritual object was finally born.

Heavenly Dawn Gold.

Tianxi Gold has four main characteristics: devouring, transformation, simulation, and replication.