Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

In a cave by the river.

Feng Xishuang put away the second-tier puppet she had made, planning to improve it further when she returned.

Then, Wei Ling spoke up, mentioning that she and Feng Xishuang had received another mission. This mission was rather strange; it required them to kill a Core Formation stage demonic cultivator who was wreaking havoc in Chenguan County.

It was simply murder; there were no other requirements.

Li Ping couldn't help but feel a little puzzled after hearing this.

Judging from the way the Datong Society controls other cultivators, it doesn't seem like a righteous force. So why would it issue demon-slaying missions, pay contribution points itself, and have its members maintain order in the cultivation world?

This mission is a little different from the last one in Linshui County.

Although the mission in Linshui County also involves killing demonic cultivators, killing them is only a side objective. The real target is a demon-attracting grass whose fruit is about to ripen in the demonic cultivator's cave.

This time, however, the mission itself was to kill.

"Remember to do your research before you act," Li Ping reminded the two. "The cultivation world is a very complex place. You can kill people, but don't kill those with a powerful background, lest you end up being the scapegoat."

If this were in the Western Wilderness, with Feng Xishuang and Wei Yiling's strength, they could kill whomever they wanted, and no one would dare to bother them afterward.

But the Great Zhou was different.

Under the rule of the Immortal Alliance, everything is governed by rules and laws.

Killing someone without cause will break the law and land you on the bounty list of the Demon Slayer Bureau, forcing you to live a life of humiliation and humility.

Of course, breaking the law is one thing, but what's most frightening is breaking the rules!

If one accidentally kills someone with a powerful background, such as a prodigy of the Great Zhou royal family or a true disciple of a Nascent Soul sect, it would violate the unspoken rules of the cultivation world.

Then there's only one way out: death.

Wei Yiling nodded solemnly, deeply moved by this sentiment.

After all, if Li Ping hadn't killed Hua Hong back then, causing the two of them to be targeted by Hua Wuji, she wouldn't have had to betray her sect, leave the Western Wilderness, and come to the Great Zhou.

Now, things have finally stabilized in Da Zhou.

Everything is moving in a positive direction, and she doesn't want to leave her hometown again.

"Don't worry, we'll investigate before we take action," Wei Yiling said solemnly after thinking for a moment.

……

After watching the two leave, Li Ping went for a walk around Caibai Pavilion as usual, but found nothing.

During this time, he also called over two old repairmen in the shop and asked them a few questions.

He hadn't noticed it before, but after Meng Wanjun reminded him, he observed carefully and indeed found that the physical condition of the two old cultivators, Chu Xiu and Chen Guang, was much worse than it was thirty years ago.

Especially Chu Xiu, who looked ruddy-faced and energetic, but there was a lingering black aura between his brows, his eyes were cloudy, and his skin was like dry old tree bark, layer upon layer.

He looked like his time was about to come.

Chen Guang was in slightly better condition than Chu Xiu, but not by much.

For a high-level cultivator like Li Ping, thirty years is just a blink of an eye.

But for the two old men, it represented a quarter of their lives.

Those who cultivate immortality do not fear ghosts and gods, and they take life and death lightly.

Chu and Chen both appeared very composed in front of Li Ping.

Chen Guang worked hard all his life to establish the Chen family of immortal cultivators. Although no genius descendants were born in the family, his bloodline and his will to live on immortality were passed down.

As for Chu Xiu, among the offspring he has conceived through years of hard work, three possess spiritual roots.

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However, these three offspring are still young and all possess the worst five spiritual roots, so Chu Xiu himself will not live to see the day when they achieve success in their cultivation.

Li Ping learned from the two men that because the two old men had known each other for more than 30 years and knew each other well, they had arranged a marriage for their respective descendants, and the two families had become husband and wife.

……

Back in his cave, Li Ping continued his secluded cultivation.

During his seclusion, a year quietly passed.

After passing through the pass, he learned from Meng Wanjun that:

Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang have gone out and have not returned yet.

In addition, regarding the matter of purchasing materials for refining the Spirit Sealing Rope, which Li Ping had entrusted to him during his seclusion, all materials except the main material have been successfully purchased through Cai Baixuan's channels within the past year.

The main material, the tendons of earth-attribute monsters of rank three or above, is not actually a difficult material to find in Lingxiao City. The reason they didn't find anything was mainly because they didn't have enough time to search.

The two old men told Meng Wanjun that they estimated there should be a result within one or two years.

Li Ping nodded, his gaze falling on the earth spirit rat lying in the courtyard.

Over the past year, this spirit beast has been consolidating its realm and further developing its innate supernatural abilities.

Through consciousness communication, Li Ping learned that after advancing to the third rank, the Earth Spirit Rat's treasure-hunting talent was further enhanced. The treasures it found were not limited to natural treasures, but it could even find various man-made magical artifacts.

It no longer relies on smelling the scent to find treasure, but rather on sensing the so-called treasure light.

It took Li Ping a while to realize that the good stuff it was talking about was the two third-tier bronze corpses he had buried underground to raise.

In addition to its treasure-hunting talent, the power of its earth-遁神通 (earth-遁神通, a type of magical ability) has also been further enhanced, with significant improvements in both speed and stealth.

It will be much easier to infiltrate with Li Ping in the future.

As for combat strength, although the rat itself was very proud, Li Ping automatically ignored it.

It should just stick to being a treasure-hunting rat; Li Ping has other beasts to fight with.

……

Having learned that nothing unexpected had happened that year, Li Ping returned to his training room to continue his practice.

A year later, when he emerged from seclusion again.

Wei and Feng have returned to Lingxiao City. In the past two years, under the orders of the higher-ups of the Datong Society, they have traveled to several counties and killed two Core Formation stage evil cultivators and more than ten Foundation Establishment stage evil cultivators, which can be considered as punishing evil and promoting good.

What's even more amazing is that during these missions, they not only received contribution points from the Great Harmony Society, but also obtained the storage bags of the slain evil cultivators.

Afterwards, he sent the evidence of killing these evil cultivators to the Demon Slayer Bureau and received another reward.

It can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

After recounting her experiences over the past two years, Feng Xishuang smiled faintly: "Master Li, I heard that you were searching for the tendons of third-tier earth-attribute demonic beasts. Coincidentally, there was an item on the Datong Association contribution exchange table that met your requirements, so I exchanged it for you as a thank you gift for instructing me in puppetry."

As she spoke, Feng Xishuang took out a jade box, three feet long and a palm wide, from her storage bag, opened it, and placed it in front of Li Ping: "According to the person who made the exchange, this is a large tendon extracted from the body of a late-stage third-tier dragon-scale lizard!"

"Oh? A late-stage Tier 3 Dragonscale Lizard?" Li Ping was somewhat moved.

He looked into the opened jade box and saw a large tendon, about the thickness of a forearm, with a pale yellow, crystalline luster, resembling jade, coiled inside.