The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

The moment the pill that refined Wolf Slaughter entered his stomach, it transformed into a stream of heat that rushed through his meridians to his limbs and bones.

The power was thick and scalding, churning and rolling within Shen Yifei's meridians.

The vortex in Shen Yifei's dantian spun wildly as he desperately tried to refine this power. However, Lang Tutian was, after all, an old monster who had reached the half-ascension stage, and Shen Yifei's entire body turned red from the ordeal, like a piece of red-hot iron.

Liu Mengli squatted down beside him, munching on spirit fruits to protect him. She ate one after another until she got really bored. Finally, she reached out and touched the heat on his head, and cried out in pain from the heat.

Shen Yifei sat there for a full three hours.

When he opened his eyes again, it was almost dawn.

He sensed the flow of spiritual energy in his dantian and found that his cultivation had indeed increased significantly. He was now stuck at the peak of the mid-stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm, only one step away from breaking through.

It seems that refining experts into pills is still the fastest way to increase one's cultivation. However, Shen Yifei always felt that doing so was somewhat against the rules, and he was afraid that one day he would be backfired by this method.

Shen Yifei saw Liu Mengli beside him, a pile of spirit fruit pits on the ground, one hand holding the other, "Master, you were burning hot just now..."

"Where am I burning?" Shen Yifei smiled kindly at Liu Mengli.

"Look, you burned my hand, can you blow on it for me..."

After saying that, Liu Mengli stretched out her hand in front of Shen Yifei.

Shen Yifei took a look and saw that one of her hands was indeed a little red, but she wasn't injured at all. This little devil was just being coquettish and playful again.

He was about to say something when suddenly his head spun, and with a buzzing sound, a series of images flooded his mind!

These are Lang Tushan's memories from before his death!

A dark and damp secret room.

Chains hung on the walls of the secret room, and more than a dozen women were chained to them.

Those women were all beautiful, with alluring figures, and they all seemed to have considerable cultivation.

They were drugged and unable to speak; they could only stare at a middle-aged man in a brocade robe pacing in front of them.

That middle-aged man was Hou Wanshan, the Marquis of Beiyuan.

The scene shifts to Hou Wanshan talking to a masked man in a black robe.

The man in black robes stood with his hands behind his back. "My lord, this batch of goods is of good quality; the Palace Master is very satisfied. Especially those few I instructed..."

Hou Wanshan nodded and bowed, "Don't worry, Lord Xuanming, they were all chosen according to the Palace Master's preferences, and I guarantee that not a single substandard item was mixed in."

The man in black nodded, turned to leave, but stopped after a couple of steps, turning back to add, "How did that matter go?"

Hou Wanshan said in a low voice, "The one with the blood-red eyes... the Palace Master said that he will personally take her bloodline on the day the altar is opened."

The man in black robes gave a satisfied "hmm," then pushed open the door and left.

Shen Yifei's heart tightened suddenly.

Bloodshot eyes, bloodline. These two words together just don't make sense.

Her mother, Youlan, was a demon princess, and the blood of the demon royal family flowed in her veins.

In the memory that the demon of love gave him, his mother's eyes were blood red!

Could the "blood-red eyes" that this old man mentioned be his mother?

Shen Yifei slowly stood up. Liu Mengli was still rubbing her hands. Seeing that Shen Yifei's expression was not right, she immediately dropped her lazy demeanor. "Master, you don't look well. What did you see?"

"That old bastard Hou Wanshan... is sending women to the Wanling Palace, one of whom has bloodshot eyes. He says he'll take her bloodline on the day the altar is opened," Shen Yifei said in a deep voice. "I suspect it's related to my mother."

"Blood eyes?" Liu Mengli narrowed her peach blossom eyes. "Blood eyes are not common in Lingxu... If your mother really has blood eyes, then she will probably be targeted when she enters Lingxu."

"What do you mean?"

"Master, think about it. Emperor Yuan, the Palace Master of Wanling Palace, has lived for ten thousand years. After Wan Shuo's fall, he occupied Lingxu and has been collecting all kinds of female cultivators. When your mother came here back then, wasn't she targeted by Wanling Palace, and then..." Liu Mengli didn't finish her sentence, but the meaning was already very clear.

"Let's go, let's deal with that old bastard Hou Wanshan first."

When Shen Yifei returned to the inn, Shi San, who hadn't slept all night, was squatting at the inn's entrance waiting for them.

Seeing Shen Yifei return safely, he was both surprised and delighted: "My lord! Are you... are you alright? Last night, there were wolves howling outside the city for quite a while. I thought it was Wolf Butcher coming down from the mountain..."

"He's come out of seclusion." Shen Yifei patted his stomach. "Hehe... I've already brought him here."

Shi San's eyes widened, and after a long pause, he managed to squeeze out a sentence: "My lord... Wolf Slayer... you... ate him?"

"Mmm, I ate it, it was crunchy!"

After hearing what Shen Yifei said, Shi San was completely shocked. It turned out that the master he had recognized was actually a man-eating demon.

Seeing his dazed expression, Shen Yifei patted him on the shoulder. "What are you daydreaming about? Come on, let's go to the Marquis of Beiyuan's residence. Aren't you a servant there? You can show me the way and help me get familiar with the place."

Shi San snapped out of his daze. "My lord...you...you're going to attack...attack the Marquis of Beiyuan's residence?"

"What fighting and killing? I'm just going to pay a visit to Marquis Beiyuan! Lead the way!"

Left with no other choice, Shi San led Shen Yifei toward the Marquis of Beiyuan's residence.

Along the way, Shi San's legs were cramping, and he kept looking back at Shen Yifei, afraid that his new master might suddenly bite him.

"My lord..." Shi San swallowed hard, turned around and whispered, "The Marquis of Beiyuan's mansion maintains three hundred guards, most of whom are at the Tribulation Transcending Realm. There are also eight guest elders in the mansion, each of whom is said to be a half-step Ascension expert. In addition, the Marquis himself is a powerful Ascension Realm expert..."

"Ascension Realm? There's an Ascension Realm?" Shen Yifei originally thought that someone like Lang Tutian, who was at the half-step Ascension Realm, was the strongest fighter!

"My lord, although I am not capable of cultivation, I still have some knowledge of these realms."

"Hmm... tell me about it."

Shen Yifei then realized that the realms of the Spirit Ruins were different.

This was due to my carelessness!

"My lord, you may not know this, but in the Spirit Ruins, beyond the Tribulation Realm lies the Ascension Realm." Shi San slowed his pace, falling half a step behind Shen Yifei. "The Ascension Realm is further divided into three levels: the early Ascension stage, the middle Ascension stage, and the peak Ascension stage. Marquis Hou Wanshan is at the middle Ascension stage."

"Mid-stage Ascension?" Shen Yifei stopped in his tracks. "Who the hell set this rule?"

"Sir, this...you don't know either?" Shi San looked at Shen Yifei as if he were a monster.

My master is really strange. As a cultivator with a high cultivation level, he can even eat Wolf Slaughtering Sky, yet he doesn't even know this most basic thing!

"My lord... after cultivating to the Tribulation Transcending Realm, as long as there is an opportunity, one can break through to the Ascension Realm. This is a rule set by the Five Elements Demon God when he created the Spirit Ruins."

After listening to Shi San's story, Shen Yifei stopped on the bluestone street and remained motionless for a long time.

According to Shi San, the cultivation system of Lingxu is different from that of the cultivation world.

In the cultivation world, after transcending the tribulation, one should ascend to the Immortal Realm. But in the Spirit Ruins, there is an Ascension Realm after transcending the tribulation.

According to Shen Yifei's understanding, the Ascension Realm should be infinitely close to that of an immortal.

Shen Yifei found it increasingly interesting the more he thought about it.

Wan Shuo has created his own world and even set a new set of cultivation rules.

What is his purpose in doing this?

Shen Yifei suddenly had a bold guess!

Could it be... that there is another immortal realm within Wan Shuo's cultivation system?