Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The magic weapon was also changed from the Azure Lotus Sword to the Flying Swallow Sword Seal.

His entire demeanor changed from sharp and assertive to that of an ordinary Core Formation cultivator in the early stages.

That day, Lin Zhao arrived at a new sea area.

It is a sea area belonging to Star Spirit Island.

Star Spirit Island is a gathering place for foreign forces.

This place is neither as xenophobic as Dongji Island, nor as desolate as Biluo Island.

Sects, families, and merchants from all over the continents are there, with all sorts of backgrounds, and no one will ask too many questions about your origins.

These newcomers share a common characteristic: they have just moved here, have shallow roots, and lack manpower.

They need to recruit various cultivators to fill the gaps in combat power, and the conditions they offer are often quite good, with few restrictions.

Lin Zhao needs to find a Nascent Soul sect to temporarily join.

Firstly, he still had half of the monster materials left to process.

Ordinary Core Formation forces simply cannot consume so many Tier 3 materials; they can only digest them within Nascent Soul forces.

Secondly, there's his background. After all, he's not a cultivator from the Endless Demon Sea, and many local forces would mind that.

It's different on Star Spirit Island. Everyone here is an outsider, so no one will bother to investigate your background.

While slowly selling some monster materials, Lin Zhao inquired about the forces that had recently moved in.

He wasn't looking for a traditional Nascent Soul sect—those sects had too many rules and were too complicated.

He wants to find newly relocated people, those who haven't settled in yet, who urgently need manpower, and who have the loosest restrictions.

A few months later, he targeted a faction.

Yuehua Sect.

They moved here from Liuzhou and the Hundred Arts Immortal Alliance more than ten years ago.

The sect's strength is not strong among Nascent Soul cultivators; it only has one True Monarch Moonflower, who recently advanced to the Nascent Soul stage.

I heard that True Monarch Yuehua is very young and wants to take a chance, so he brought his sect to the Endless Demon Sea.

They built a fairy city, Moonlit Fairy City.

The immortal city has just been completed and is recruiting a large number of cultivators from outside the city.

In the early days of the Immortal City, everything was in disarray and needed to be rebuilt. There were very few restrictions and the conditions were very lenient. Core Formation cultivators were directly given the position of Guest Elder.

Lin Zhao went there under the guise of Flying Swallow Daoist, a cultivator at the early stage of Core Formation and a third-tier weapon refiner.

This status is neither too high nor too low; it's just right.

The person in charge of recruiting cultivators in Moonflower Immortal City was an elderly cultivator in the late Core Formation stage, surnamed Chen, whom everyone called Elder Chen.

Old Chen saw that his weapon-forging techniques were clean and efficient, so he nodded and let him join.

A Core Formation cultivator with the status of a third-tier weapon refiner is considered a rare talent in the Immortal City.

The Immortal City imposes very few restrictions on its guest retainers.

As long as a certain number of weapon-refining tasks are completed each year, the rest of the time is free to move around.

Lin Zhao and several Core Formation cultivators recruited by Elder Chen traveled together to the location of Moonflower Immortal City.

Moonflower Immortal City is located in a sea area surrounding Star Spirit Island.

The Moonflower Island, spanning two thousand miles, has its immortal city built atop its main peak.

The island's sacred peaks were rearranged, with layers of caves carved out on the mountainside, and twelve markets were established on the island.

It wasn't large in scale, but it had everything it needed—an alchemy room, a weapon-refining peak, a spirit beast garden, a medicine field, and a scripture pavilion.

The problem is that there are too few people.

The entire Moonflower Sect, including visiting cultivators, has only 100,000 members.

There are over a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators and more than thirty Core Formation cultivators, most of whom are guest elders like Lin Zhao.

The Moonflower Sect is mostly composed of female cultivators, with only about ten Core Formation Realm cultivators, which is not considered very strong among Core Formation sects.

The fact that I was able to advance to the Nascent Soul stage was purely due to good luck; a Moonflower True Monarch appeared.

Such a cultivator structure is normally insufficient to support the operation of a celestial city.

But with True Monarch Yuehua present, the Nascent Soul True Monarch is a celestial city.

Lin Zhao was assigned to the Weapon Refining Peak, which suited him perfectly.

He happened to use the weapon-refining peak to wash off the materials on his hands.

Lin Zhao has three things to do next.

First, he replaced the remaining monster materials with refining materials that could enhance magic weapons. He then used this time to upgrade the magic weapons he had.

Secondly, one must comprehend the three sword techniques: the Great Five Elements Sword Technique must be practiced to the point where one can arrange sword formations; the Three Killings Sword Technique must be practiced to draw evil energy into the body; and the Great Void Guiding True Technique must be studied.

Third, wait until the main body breaks through to the mid-stage of Core Formation. Once the main body breaks through, the clone can also advance to the mid-stage of Core Formation by using the spiritual items collected over the years.

These three things cannot be rushed; they require some time.

Lin Zhao settled down temporarily in Moonflower Immortal City.

Refining Peak is a spiritual peak located to the west of Immortal City.

It was originally a complete mountain peak, but when True Lord Yuehua built the Immortal City, he found it an eyesore and simply flattened the top of the mountain with a single sword stroke.

Then they drew fire from the ground and built a row of weapon-refining rooms on the mountainside.

It is specifically designed to meet the magical artifact needs of the Immortal City.

The peak master is an elder of the Moonflower Sect, a female cultivator in the mid-stage of Core Formation, surnamed Liu, with a good temper and not much to say.

Besides her, there were three Core Formation Guest Elders on the peak, each leading a team of weapon refiners, divided into three factions.

Lin Zhao was one of them.

But he basically doesn't get involved.

There are only about ten weapon refiners in his lineage.

Four of them are Foundation Establishment Refiners and are skilled enough to independently refine second-tier magic weapons.

The rest were all Qi Refining Apprentices, there to assist them.

After Lin Zhao arrived, the furnace was only opened once every few months, and a batch of magical artifacts would come out. Every year, he could also produce several third-tier magical treasures.

When Peak Master Liu accepted the magical treasure he handed over for the first time, he was stunned for a moment.

But I didn't ask any further questions; as long as the Moonflower Sect's mission was completed, that was enough.

The Moonflower Sect ignored him for the rest of the time.

His lineage of weapon-refining apprentices, however, were quite pleased.

Following a guest retainer who doesn't really manage things, there's not much work to do, and you can even learn from him and study weapon-forging techniques.

There was a little girl named Xiaoqin, who was at the seventh level of Qi Refining. She was very brave and ran around in front of him.

Every time Lin Zhao opened the furnace, she would rush to watch; this girl was clearly trying to steal her teacher's skills.

Lin Zhao didn't chase her away. He found the girl quite pleasing to the eye, and she resembled his two daughters at home somewhat.

Lin Zhao would occasionally offer a few words about the intricacies of weapon crafting, but only touch upon them briefly.

Several years have passed just like that.

That day, Lin Zhao sat under a large banyan tree on the mountainside of Refining Peak, its canopy providing shade for half an acre of land.

He leaned against the tree trunk, holding a jade slip in his hand, his eyes half-closed.

The sound of clanging and banging came from the direction of the stove in the distance, and sometimes the sound of the stove exploding.

Lin Zhao didn't care; he figured they could just bomb it a few more times.

Footsteps came from the other side of the mountain path.

Old Chen and Xie Qing walked over one after the other.

Elder Chen was the late-stage Core Formation cultivator who recruited seven Core Formation cultivators to Moonflower Immortal City back then.

It is said that he was a trusted confidant of the Moonflower True Lord since his youth.

He didn't concern himself with the core affairs of the sect; he was assigned to oversee the recruitment and placement of new members.

Of the Core Formation cultivators he recruited back then, only two remained: Lin Zhao, who used the alias Flying Swallow Daoist, and Xie Qing.

Over the years, the three of them developed a friendship.

Lin Zhao is lazy and doesn't like to get involved in things, but she can complete her tasks.

Xie Qing is the commander of a guard team in Immortal City, and he is a straightforward person.

Elder Chen was an old man from the Moonflower Sect and knew a little about everything.

Xie Qing spoke first: "Brother Feiyan is hiding in peace and quiet here again."

Lin Zhao opened his eyes and put away the jade slip: "There are only a few people in my lineage, what's so unsavory about it?"