I have the best bloodline

Otherwise, how could the fox demon and the four-tailed fox demon remain completely still, as if they didn't exist?

"Senior Ruo, do you know how to tame inner demons and transform them into external avatars?"

After taking a bath, Su Yan manifested his human form and ran to the edge of the floating city's swimming pool. He looked at Ruonv, who was sleeping inside a snail-shaped wine pot, and asked with anticipation.

"Taming the inner demons?"

Slightly tipsy, Ruonv looked at Su Yan standing beside her, her words slurred. She raised her hand and pointed towards the abode of the gods, indicating that Su Yan should ask the gods how to improve his cultivation, while she remained drunk.

Since Su Yan began learning from the Heavenly God, Ruonv's life returned to its previous state. In the twelve hours of the day, she only maintained a certain level of sobriety when fetching wine and playing music with Su Yan. At other times, she was either drunk and asleep or floating in the pool like a corpse.

Su Yan was helpless in this regard. If he tried to wake Senior Ruonv, he would most likely be shoved in the mouth by Senior Ruonv and die drunk as well.

Su Yan roughly understood why Senior Bai Ze had specifically instructed him to make good use of the power of musical instruments before he left.

The reason probably lies with Senior Ruonv, right?

………………

Su Yan turned around and ran to the lake terrace, where he found the celestial being who was calculating the fluctuating odds with a booklet, and told him about the cultivation dilemma he was facing.

"How does one transform an inner demon into an external avatar?" The celestial being paused for a moment upon hearing this, then smiled and said, "Although an external avatar is called an avatar, it belongs to the category of supernatural powers."

"Based on my understanding of the Inner Alchemy method, you should now prepare to undergo the tribulation of lightning. Once you pass the tribulation of the Integration stage, you should be able to initially acquire the ability to refine inner demons."

The external alchemy practiced by the gods involves consuming large quantities of rare and precious materials to transform them into their own, directly achieving physical sainthood and thereby bringing their inner selves to a state of perfect harmony between spirit and form.

Bai Ze and the senior Ruonv all achieved sainthood through external alchemy, but later cultivators were not as fortunate and could only cultivate internal alchemy.

Therefore, the celestial being could not share his experience in taming inner demons with Su Yan; he could only share some of his people's experience in taming inner demons with Su Yan.

In the Immortal Realm, due to the difference in heaven and earth, those below the Integration Stage do not need to undergo tribulation. However, regardless of whether it is the Inner Alchemy Method or the Outer Alchemy Method, those at the Integration Stage need to undergo tribulation.

Without undergoing the tribulation of the Integration Stage, one's physical body cannot shed its mortal form and bear greater power, thus failing to develop individual innate abilities. Therefore, what Su Yan needs to do now is to undergo the tribulation.

"The tribulation of the Integration Stage is relatively simple. Just aim at the big eye of the tribulation and throw a punch, making the tribulation clouds amplify the power of the tribulation to its strongest. You withstand five rounds first, and then devour the tribulation in the final round." The god shared his tribulation-crossing experience with Su Yan.

Don't panic when you encounter a tribulation. Look for the eye of tribulation sent out by the tribulation cloud to examine the cultivator's body, raise your hand and stab it directly into its eye socket. Provocatively challenge the laws of heaven and earth to make the tribulation cloud unleash the full power of the tribulation.

First, endure five rounds of heavenly lightning, then beat the last lightning tribulation to the ground, pin him against the wall, and devour him alive.

By undergoing the tribulation of the Integration Stage in this way, the foundation will be more stable when advancing to the Integration Stage in the future. At the same time, it will save a lot of time and eliminate the need to accumulate spiritual power for the Transcendental Transformation process.

This is how the Celestial Race undergoes their tribulations; otherwise, they risk being looked down upon by their own kind.

"???"

Looking at the god's earnest explanation, which didn't seem like he was teasing or deceiving her, Su Yan slowly typed out a series of question marks in her mind.

Senior God, are you serious? Does one need to defy the laws of heaven and earth to transcend tribulation? This is my first time undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation at the Integration Stage, so please don't try to fool this junior with your empty words!

With a mixture of belief and doubt, Su Yan turned and ran towards the floating city to wait for Senior Ruonv to regain consciousness.

………………

A few more days passed, and the month came to an end.

Su Yan packed his bags briefly, putting the immortal wine given to him by Senior Ruonv, as well as the immortal crystals he earned from fighting in the arena and taking a cut from Senior Tianshen's loot, into a storage ring.

In the Immortal Realm, Immortal Crystals are not considered currency, but they are the most valuable and secure form of hard currency.

Immortal artifacts are not as valuable as immortal crystals. The ruthless people in the immortal realm never lack immortal artifacts. If they don't have any, they can borrow them from those who possess them. However, immortal crystals are consumables that all the gods and immortals in the sky need.

Consumables, as the name suggests, are used up and then gone, so immortal crystals are naturally very valuable.

Su Yan hadn't earned much during this period. The only significant amount he had was the Immortal Crystal Pillars that Daoist Ziying had used as his participation fee, which weighed about two tons.

Unfortunately, spirit stones cannot be exchanged for immortal crystals, otherwise Su Yan's pockets would not be so tight.

Having acquired so many unusable resources, Su Yan thought of sending them back to the cultivation world. Whether it was for Chongming to use to awaken the Queen Mother of the West, or for Wusheng Emperor to improve his cultivation level, it was better than just leaving them there to look at.

The cultivation world is like one's maternal home. No matter how kind the seniors in the immortal realm are, they are not as good as one's maternal family. If one's maternal family can stand up straight, Su Yan can naturally stand tall in the immortal realm without having to worry about trivial matters.

"Senior, I'm ready. Could you please open a portal to Zhaoyao Mountain for me?" Su Yan said to Senior Ruonv, who had promised him she wouldn't drink alcohol, as he approached the pool.

"Yes, the spatial portal is always open. Do as you please," Senior Ruonv said to Su Yan.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 559 The Lurkers in the Cultivation World

"Greetings, senior."

Ruonv raised her hand and opened a spatial portal, allowing Su Yan to skip months of travel and go directly to Zhaoyao Mountain in the Queshan Mountains of the Dukuang Wilderness region. Su Yan turned around with a bright smile and greeted the still somewhat hungover senior Ruonv.

"Yes, the portal is always open. When you want to come back, just call my name from where you are." The hungover Ruonv mumbled the words, then collapsed back onto the animal-hide sofa and fell into a deep sleep.

"set off!"

Seeing that Senior Ruonv had fallen again, Su Yan did not feel anything strange. He manifested his little fox form, lightly touched the deck with his little fox paws, and jumped straight into the space door in three steps.

"boom--"

The little fox was light and agile, and with an elegant posture, it leaped straight through the space gate. Then, Su Yan's head was embedded in the beam of a building, while the little white fur ball's limbs and tail hung in mid-air, swaying back and forth.

"My head hurts a little."

Senior Ruonv, still hungover, opened a spatial portal for Su Yan in the Wilderness of the Capital. Wanting the portal to be in a secluded location, she opened it in the attic of a certain building.

However, perhaps the effects of the alcohol hadn't worn off yet, causing the spatial door to shift slightly, resulting in Su Yan's head getting stuck in the beam as soon as he stepped out of the spatial door.

"Is this also breathable? Help me up."

As Su Yan was inwardly grumbling, she suddenly felt as if some humanoid creature was dragging her along.

With a soft "pop," Su Yan, whose head was embedded in the beam, was pulled down.

"My lord, you mustn't! That's a male fox!"

Su Yan's mind cleared, and the first thing he saw was a scene that shocked his wide-eyed eyes.

The man, whom the girls referred to as an "adult," appeared to be around twenty-three or twenty-four years old.

Under Su Yan's watchful gaze, the young master slowly and unsteadily climbed out of the bed. With the help of the fox-eared woman beside him, he dressed and was led to the door. He then sat in something resembling a wheelchair and left.

As soon as the young master left, the demon girls in the dormitory, whose faces were flushed and eyes were glazed, suddenly became clear-headed and no longer seemed to have any difficulty moving. They ran to the fox-eared girl and asked, "Big sister, how many spirit stones did Young Master Qian give us this time? Was he generous enough?"

Enough, enough.

The fox-eared girl smiled, raised her hand, and gently tapped the snake demon's head, saying reproachfully, "I won't say anything else about you, but your acting just now was too exaggerated. It was a bit too much, and it looked fake at first glance."

"Hey, Young Master Qian isn't a woman, how would he know about our daughters' affairs?" the snake demon said dismissively.

"Be more professional. Old Master Qian is our biggest patron; he gives us a subsidy every quarter to appease his son's pride."

With a stern face, the fox-eared woman scolded the unprofessional snake demon. Then, she took out the reward money she had just earned from Young Master Qian from her storage bracelet and distributed it all to the sisters who had just acted with her.

After doing all this, the fox-eared girl looked at Su Yan, who had suddenly appeared there, and then at the gap that had suddenly appeared in the dormitory beam, and said:

"Hey, you fox, which gang are you from?"

The fox-eared girl is different from Young Master Qian. Young Master Qian's body is so weak that he often hallucinates, so he naturally doesn't find Su Yan's sudden appearance strange. However, the fox-eared girl doesn't have those strange problems, and her cultivation level is at the Integration Stage.

The fox-eared girl witnessed Su Yan leap out of the void and get stuck on the beam.

He appeared here using spatial power.

"Sisters, are you short of spirit stones? I have some spirit stones I can give you, but I'd like to ask where I am right now and how far away I am from Mount Que?"

Su Yan did not answer the fox's question. After struggling out of the girl's arms, he took out some spirit stones from his storage ring as payment for asking for directions.

The conversation between the girls and the atmosphere in the dormitory reminded Su Yan of the childhood trauma he experienced in the Southern Prefecture. He didn't want to stay here for too long, so he quickly used the method of "testing the waters" personally taught by the princess to ask the girls in the brothel for directions.

Spirit stones are one of the mainstream currencies in the Immortal Realm, while the immortal crystals that Su Yan is hoping for are a non-mainstream resource, a precious item used only in trade between immortals and gods.

Therefore, Su Yan's probing was very effective. The fox-eared woman immediately stopped asking about Su Yan's background and stared longingly at the two hundred or so jin of spirit stones on the table, saying:

"Young Master is currently located in Zhaoyao Mountain City, which is more than 100,000 li away from the edge of Que Mountain," the fox-eared woman said, pausing slightly as if she had remembered something.

"By the way, if you are going to the Queshan Mountain Range, it is best to avoid the mountain roads of Zhaoyao Mountain in the near future. It is said that Zhaoyao Mountain is currently occupied by a group of people who use nightmares to suppress evil spirits. The old city lord was dragged out of the city lord's mansion and beaten to death by them because he offended them!"

"Old City Lord, what is your cultivation level?" Su Yan asked, slightly taken aback.

Inside Zhaoyao Mountain, aren't the reclamation workshops currently occupied by the Sect Master of the Weapon Sect and the Moon Rabbits? How did they end up in conflict with the city at the foot of Zhaoyao Mountain?

"The old city lord's cultivation has reached the Profound Immortal Realm, possessing boundless divine power. However, that group of Nightmare Suppression Disciples only sent one youth, yet they killed the old city lord. It's estimated that there's at least one divine being guarding the mountain." The fox-eared woman told Su Yan the information, but looking at the two hundred catties of spirit stones in her hand, she felt a little uneasy and said:

"Are you sure you don't need any extra services? If I'm just asking for directions and getting so much, it doesn't seem quite right to me."

“No need. Tell me about Zhaoyao Mountain in detail. I have loved falling asleep to stories of the Nightmare Slayers since I was a child.”

The interior of Zhaoyao Mountain is currently haunted. Although "haunted" is just a figure of speech, it's pretty much true. Ever since that group of people who use nightmares to suppress evil took over Zhaoyao Mountain, eerie screams have often been heard from the forest, and the mountain springs that flow out of the mountain have turned into a thick, blackish-red liquid.

Because the mountain spring flows past the old city lord's house, the common people can only use it after the old city lord has used it, so the old city lord is naturally dissatisfied with the demons in the mountains.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the old city lord went up the mountain, he ran out of the mountain in a panic. A young man chased after him and killed the old city lord in front of everyone.

Even in Zhaoyao Mountain City, some important figures from clans and families were killed and dragged back into the mountains.

This happened in the last half month. The people inside the mountain city were completely helpless about it. All the capable cultivators had already run away. Those who remained in the mountain city were either those who had built up their families and couldn't escape, or ordinary people with low cultivation levels who couldn't attract the attention of the Nightmare Suppression.

Not only in Zhaoyao Mountain City, but the group of demons in the mountains also threaten more than twenty nearby cities.

Fox-eared girl and her sisters also wanted to run away, but their hometown was in Zhaoyao Mountain or the nearby mountains, so they couldn't run far. Rather than losing everything and starting over, they decided to just let things take their course.

In any case, being born freely and dying randomly is a tradition in the immortal realm.

"Are my family members really that cruel?" Su Yan asked in surprise, secretly taking a deep breath.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 560 The Little Fox Brings Fortune!

"Is Senior Blissful Immortal here?"

Su Yan noted down the location of the brothel and the location of the spatial gate. He then climbed out of the brothel and walked alone on the road of Zhaoyao Mountain City, looking at the path that the fox-eared girl had specifically pointed out to him for entering Zhaoyao Mountain.

Walking on the deserted streets at night, Su Yan called out the name of the Blissful Immortal.

The Blissful Immortal told Su Yan that Zhaoyao Mountain has now become a base for the cultivation world to invade the immortal world. However, according to what the Fox-Eared Girl said, the combat power inside Zhaoyao Mountain is obviously quite fierce and brutal. Not only can it kill the old city lord who is a Xuan Immortal with one hand, but it can also endanger the safety of more than twenty nearby cities.

With over twenty cities, there should be at least three to five Xuanxian or one or two Zhenxian-level beings, right?

Are my family members really that fierce? As Su Yan walked towards Zhaoyao Mountain, she became more and more uneasy. She decided to ask Jile Xian to see what the situation was like inside Zhaoyao Mountain.