Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Out of consideration for prudence.

Upon arriving at the Second Ring Road Market, Li Ping had transformed into a middle-aged, yellow-faced cultivator.

Since the auction wouldn't start for several days, he wasn't in a hurry to go to the auction venue, but instead wandered around the market.

Considering the trading needs of many cultivators, the market has specially opened up a street thousands of feet long for them. For a small amount of spirit stones, cultivators can have a stall here.

Although there are no restrictions on cultivation level for setting up stalls in the market, most of the cultivators who set up stalls are actually at the Foundation Establishment or Qi Refining stages, and it is rare to see Core Formation cultivators setting up stalls.

Core Formation cultivators in the Great Zhou Dynasty are not as rare as those in the Western Wilderness, but they are not exactly common either. They are either sect elders or family patriarchs, and it is impossible for them to lower themselves to set up a stall.

If they really have a need, they can order their disciples to do it without having to do it themselves.

Even those rogue cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage mostly just throw their items into shops if they have anything to sell.

Perhaps setting up a stall could earn a few more spirit stones, but a Core Formation cultivator's time is far more precious than those few spirit stones.

Therefore, there wasn't much good stuff on the stall. Li Ping only managed to buy a few uncommon spiritual materials, which he planned to use to refine high-level puppets in the future.

However, he didn't find it boring. He mingled in the crowd, stopping from time to time to check the items on the stalls.

Having previously acquired a fourth-tier corpse refining technique from the black market, he wondered if he could find another high-tier technique in this market.

Just as Li Ping passed by the enormous and magnificent auction house in Lingxiao City—

A celestial banquet is being held in the top-floor hall of the auction house.

The main character of the Immortal Banquet was Fairy Lingdie of the Great Zhou Dynasty. She was an extremely beautiful girl wearing a light blue robe. Although she looked young, her cultivation level was not low, and she had already reached the mid-stage of Core Formation.

However, such cultivation might be considered high and mighty in the outside world, but it's nothing special in this hall.

The hundreds of cultivators qualified to participate in this immortal banquet were either saplings or demonic offspring from various immortal and demonic sects, outstanding young talents from the Confucian sect, or exceptional geniuses who had taken rogue cultivators as their masters. Each and every one of them was a dragon among men.

Unique spiritual roots are rare in the cultivation world, but among this group, they represent the worst aptitude. There are dozens of cultivators present who possess the aptitude of heavenly spiritual roots.

With exceptional talent and coming from powerful forces with abundant cultivation resources, there were many cultivators in the hall who had reached the late stage of Core Formation.

However, Fairy Lingdie was still the absolute protagonist of the fairy banquet, all because of her identity.

She is a princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the only descendant of the current Holy Emperor and Holy Empress, both Nascent Soul cultivators.

In terms of background, some of the cultivators present may be no less impressive than Fairy Lingdie, such as Qin Cang from the righteous Taiyi Sect, Fang Zhengchu from the Great Zhou Confucian Sect, and Xing Jiuyou from the demonic Liantian Holy Sect!

However, although these people have strong backgrounds and have all been apprenticed to Nascent Soul cultivators, they do not have Nascent Soul cultivator parents like Fairy Lingdie.

A Nascent Soul stage master may not care about the life or death of their disciple, but what about the parents of a Nascent Soul stage master? Would you dare to touch their only daughter?

Moreover, as the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Yu family may be stronger than other major sects, but they still have to be given a certain amount of respect in name.

Now that Fairy Lingdie has appeared, others are willing to give the Great Zhou royal family some face.

However, Fairy Spirit Butterfly wasn't a sociable person. During the celestial banquet, aside from occasionally exchanging greetings with other sect geniuses, she spent most of her time sitting quietly alone. (Does she prefer fantasy novels?)

"Huh!"

Suddenly, Fairy Lingdie's expression shifted. After scanning the crowd at the celestial banquet, she moved lightly to the window of the hall, looking at the bustling crowd on the distant street with a hint of doubt in her eyes.

But in the end, she didn't find anything.

Gently patting the small spirit beast at her waist, Fairy Spirit Butterfly murmured, "Little Jade, you said you sensed that person's aura, were you still half asleep? No way!"

As she spoke, a hint of emotion flashed in Fairy Lingdie's eyes.

About 150 years ago, she took a liking to the abilities of a Foundation Establishment cultivator and wanted to bring him into the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce.

At that time, the cultivation world in the Western Wilderness was in chaos. That person wanted to use the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce to leave the Western Wilderness, and she took the opportunity to propose to sign a membership contract with him.

However, the person was still somewhat hesitant about joining the Chamber of Commerce, so she simply retreated to advance, wanting to force the other party to make a decision. She deliberately pretended to be indifferent and left behind a Yinghai Token.

To her surprise, the person never contacted her again, and even the Yinghai Token that she had specially left for him was found in a valley, obviously buried by him before he left.

"Li Ping, you're being way too sneaky!"

But sensing the consciousness emanating from the spirit beast within her storage pouch, Fairy Lingdie also had some doubts: "Could it be that Li Ping really came to the Great Zhou? Perhaps he's in Lingxiao City? If he's still alive, then he should have already formed his core by now."

After struggling for a moment, she finally gave up on her plan to find Li Ping.

Although Li Ping's healing abilities are extraordinary, they are not without alternatives.

The other party saved Xiaoyu's life, so she shouldn't bother him anymore.

Just as Fairy Lingdie was leaning against the window in thought, a young cultivator in a white robe walked up to her and stopped a few feet away, smiling as he said, "Fairy Yu, is there anything I have done wrong in our hospitality?"

Fairy Lingdie looked up and discovered that the person who had come was Pei Yanzhi, the host of this immortal banquet and a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.

Pei Yanzhi possesses a Heavenly Spiritual Root and has also become a disciple of one of the Three Elders, making him the most promising candidate for Nascent Soul formation within the Lingxiao City lineage.

The message about Pei Yanzhi flashed through her mind, and Fairy Lingdie smiled: "Fellow Daoist Pei, you are joking. I just felt that the hall was a bit stuffy."

Pei Yanzhi glanced suspiciously out the window, then quickly looked away and said with a smile, "Then I'm relieved. By the way, as far as I know, there's a Five Elements Herb in this auction that's eight thousand years old. This might be useful to you, Fairy Yu."

"Oh? Is it true?"

Fairy Butterfly was indeed intrigued.

Pei Yanzhi smiled and nodded: "Of course it's true."

As he nodded, he was silently thinking to himself, "The legendary five-colored bird of the Holy Empress is on the verge of transformation. Judging from Yu Menghan's reaction, the legend is indeed true."

"After all, the Five Elements Grass contains the power of the five elements, making it a rare auxiliary spiritual object for the Five-Colored Sparrow to transform into.

……

Li Ping, disguised as a yellow-faced cultivator, wandered around the market for several days, carefully inspecting almost every stall, and found more than ten second-hand magical artifacts containing inheritance.

But he either couldn't be bothered to learn these skills, or he had already learned more advanced techniques that were no longer useful to him.

Disappointed, Li Ping shook his head and walked into the auction house.

The grand auction is about to begin.

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