Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

What he didn't say was, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

That kid has the aura of True Monarch Qingyuan on him.

Clearly, this is someone that True Lord Qingyuan has taken a liking to.

Although he was imprisoned on Black Fiend Peak for a thousand years and could not leave, he still received the basic treatment of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

But offending True Lord Qingyuan is a different matter altogether.

He has lived for over two thousand years and knows very well what kind of existence True Monarch Qingyuan is in the sect.

That's an existence that could truly crush him with a single thought, and even a Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't ask a single question.

This is not the way to court death.

Although his time is coming to an end, he still has more than three hundred years to live, which is longer than a lifetime for an ordinary person.

It's not worth it for a junior.

That said, today's young people are really amazing.

The sect has three Nascent Soul cultivators: Beichen, Xuanyang, and Yushu.

On the surface, they all appear to be at the late Nascent Soul stage, but in reality, they have all reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

Especially Xuan Yang, who is only a little over a thousand years old, yet his cultivation has already reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage; his talent is truly exceptional.

If he could advance to become a Nascent Soul cultivator...

It might actually help me escape from captivity.

It's just that I don't have much time left.

Even if they escaped imprisonment, what could they possibly do?

Tian Du Zhenjun sighed, and the black energy gradually dissipated, returning Black Energy Peak to silence once more.

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Half a day later, the two arrived at a stone forest.

The Stone Forest is vast; looking down from above, thousands of stone pillars rise abruptly from the ground.

At the center of the stone forest is a nine-story altar.

It was a hundred feet long, narrowing upwards in layers, each layer covered with runes.

The arrangement of the runes does not follow any rules of formations and is completely different from the rune style commonly used by the Yunhai Cangming Sect.

The two stepped onto the altar.

A slight tremor came from beneath my feet, as if the altar had sensed someone coming up.

On the top floor, in the center, is a black jade lotus platform.

Zhao Kun placed the black jade plates onto the lotus platform.

He began chanting the incantation.

His voice was deep, but his pronunciation was clear.

The syllables of the incantation are strange; they are not from a commonly used language, but rather from some ancient way of pronunciation, with a particular pause between each syllable.

The patterns on the altar lit up.

Starting from the top layer, the lights illuminate downwards in concentric circles.

Lin Zhao stood to the side, listening to Zhao Kun chant the incantation. As he listened, he noticed that his lips were also moving slightly.

It wasn't intentional; it was as if those incantations had always been in his mind, but had never been awakened.

【Qingwei Guiyuan Mantra】

As the strange soul projections were collected on the jade plate, the remaining gray-black traces began to slowly dissipate, peeling off the surface of the plate one by one, flowing down along the patterns of the lotus platform, flowing through each layer of the altar, and finally disappearing into the depths of the altar.

Three days later, everything returned to normal.

Zhao Kun explained, "By coming here, you will naturally learn this Qingwei Guiyuan Mantra. Many people in the sect know this secret technique; it's not some closely guarded secret."

Legend has it that reciting this mantra can help people overcome calamities and prevent them from being trapped in the cycle of reincarnation.

It's said to have come down from above, but nobody knows if it's true or not.

Some people recited this mantra tens of thousands of times in an attempt to increase their chances of forming an infant, but in the end, they still perished under the heavenly tribulation.

But it does have some effect against certain special things.

Lin Zhao did not reply.

His eyes were fixed on the top of the altar.

The Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel was spinning in his sea of ​​consciousness, and he saw some extraordinary scenes.

Above the altar, a phantom vortex hangs suspended.

Beside the vortex were countless phantom images of people, the mortals who had died in the dynasty.

They lined up, and the end of the line connected to that vortex.

Each person's features were faint, but amidst the chanting of the Pure and Subtle Rebirth Mantra, those mortals twisted beyond recognition by demonic energy...

At this moment, it returned to its original state, its consciousness began to return, and some people bowed and paid their respects towards the altar.

They walked into the vortex one by one.

Lin Zhao didn't know where the other end of the vortex led.

But he knew that was not the end, but another journey.

The last figure stepped into the vortex, which slowly closed and disappeared.

Lin Zhao came to her senses, remaining outwardly calm, but inwardly she was in complete turmoil.

Zhao Kun stood right next to him, without reacting at all.

Only he can see these things.

Whether it was because he himself was a reincarnated person, or because of the supreme divine power of the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel, he did not know.

But he understood one thing: this was not something he was currently capable of pursuing.

He suppressed his distracting thoughts and gradually pushed down his surging emotions.

He decided that he would study the Qingwei Guiyuan Mantra regularly.

Even if it doesn't work, you should still recite it a few more times.

If it really works, then we've hit the jackpot.

On his way back, Zhao Kun mentioned the Law Enforcement Hall again.

This time, they were very direct, inviting Lin Zhao to come over as a guest.

Lin Zhao chuckled and said that he still needed to gain more experience in the next few years and there was no rush.

Zhao Kun didn't say anything more.

In the following years, Lin Zhao's Five Mountains clones began to take on sect missions.

Although it's not dangerous, it's troublesome and time-consuming.

A single trip can take anywhere from a few months to one or two years.

The reward is not high; a single mission only yields a few Cloud Sea Jade Tokens.

After several years of hard work, I've only managed to get less than ten.

This is the normal pace for a Core Formation cultivator—the three times he was lucky, getting over two hundred coins in one go during the sect competition, the Cloud Tower challenge, and the Yan family mission, would have taken an ordinary Core Formation cultivator hundreds of years to accumulate.

Meanwhile, the Azure Lotus clone, far away on the Endless Demon Sea, has been sailing at sea for eight years.

Eight years.

The Dinghai finally entered the inland sea.

The division of the Endless Demon Sea is not complicated—it consists of the outer sea, the inner sea, and the Black Sea.

The Inner Sea is the core of the cultivation world, with dozens of immortal cities and tens of thousands of islands forming a colossal entity:

Alliance of All Laws

The Alliance of All Laws has established a massive defensive line stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles.

Along the defensive line, there is a Sea-Suppressing Tower every few thousand miles. The Sea-Suppressing Towers are like eyes, responsible for detecting the movements of the monsters.

Beyond the defensive line lies the Black Sea, teeming with endless monsters. The deeper one ventures, the larger and higher their rank become.

The Alliance of Ten Thousand Laws fought against the monsters on this defensive line for thousands of years.

The Dinghai docked at a medium-sized island.

Lin Zhao and the others disembarked and went to collect their identity tokens.

An anonymous identity token issued by the Wanfa Alliance.

The tokens are divided into ranks, with ten ranks in total. The first and second ranks are for Qi Refining, the third and fourth ranks are for Foundation Establishment, and the fifth and sixth ranks are for Core Formation.

As for the seventh, eighth, and ninth stages, they correspond to the Nascent Soul stage, and legend has it that the tenth stage corresponds to the Heavenly Lord of the Transformation stage.

The token's rank is upgraded by accumulating merit points through monster hunting. The higher the rank, the more items you can exchange for.

With this token, you can sell the materials you hunt monsters to the alliance for resources—the price of monster cores and blood crystals is decent, but the prices of other monster materials are very low, but at least it's a way.

Many cultivators here lack the training of a sect or system, and they don't know how to refine pills or craft weapons; they rely entirely on hunting demons for a living.

Most importantly, demon-hunting merits can be exchanged for various cultivation techniques, supernatural abilities, and secret arts.

The Alliance of Ten Thousand Laws may not have many other resources, but it has an extraordinary amount of cultivation techniques and supernatural abilities.

After receiving their tokens, everyone was ready to leave.