Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 285 Secret
More than half a month later, Nie Zhaonan appeared on the top of a low hill, and Ling Yuling and the Twin Saints of Tianxing were naturally beside him.

The huge city gate was faintly visible in the distance, and in front of the gate there was a constant stream of carriages and pedestrians coming and going.

“Although Jinjing City is boasted by mortals and some low-level cultivators as being so majestic and magnificent, as if it is unparalleled in the world, this city is still far inferior to Tianxing City in our Chaos Star Sea. Tianxing City is the undisputed number one city in the human world.” Ling Xiaofeng said proudly as he looked at the big city in the distance.

"Tianxing City has been in business for ten thousand years, and it cannot be compared with Jinjing in front of us." Nie Zhaonan nodded.

"After such a long journey, we should get into the city as soon as possible and find an inn to rest." Nie Zhaonan took the lead and walked down the hill, heading straight for the huge city gate in the distance.

Ling Yuling followed Nie Zhaonan like a husband.

Since they needed a place to recuperate and recover from their injuries, the Twin Saints of Tianxing did not refuse.

Although Jinjing is not as good as Tianxing City, it also has its own unique features. Apart from the outermost wall, this city has six layers of huge walls from the outside to the inside, each one is five or six feet higher than the previous one. The last highest stone wall is even more than 40 feet high. It was built by the power of mortals alone, which is indeed an incredible miracle.

The reason why the city wall was built with three layers inside and three layers outside was not to guard against immortal cultivators. After all, immortal cultivators could fly and hide underground, so no matter how high it was, it would not be of much use unless there were powerful formations and prohibitions. The greater purpose of building such a city wall was just to play a symbolic role in ruling the country of Dajin.

However, in addition to the many city walls, the city of Jinjing is divided into thirteen major districts. The northernmost imperial city covers an area of ​​dozens of miles, and the other districts are not much smaller.

If Nie Zhaonan's guess was correct, the ancient demon was in a certain area of ​​the northern imperial city. I just don't know if I can encounter it.

It took Nie Zhaonan and his group less than half a day to walk from the city gate through three areas to reach a place inside the city.

This made the group of people, who had not been used to this speed for a long time, feel a little uncomfortable.

Now, they have arrived in front of a three-story restaurant.

This restaurant may look ordinary, but it is covered by a simple magic array. The mortals coming and going subconsciously ignore this place.

This is naturally a restaurant specially designed to entertain immortal cultivators.

After entering the restaurant and paying some spirit stones to check in, Nie Zhaonan and his party sat down in an exquisite private room.

"This spiritual wine is made from spiritual fruits. I believe it tastes good." Nie Zhaonan flicked the table in front of him, and a green wine jar appeared there.

"Haha, this spiritual wine was brewed by fellow Taoist? Then I must taste it carefully." Ling Xiaofeng said with a smile.

Judging from the fact that Nie Zhaonan gave two bottles of precious healing elixirs at once, we knew that he must be a person with no shortage of resources, and the spiritual fruit he mentioned must not be an ordinary thing.

"Husband, I don't have time to make wine. This is made by Sister Yuan Yao, and it should be ready to drink now." Ling Yuling opened the jar of wine, and a rich aroma of wine wafted out, filling the entire restaurant.

"Good wine!"

"I've never heard of such good wine in this restaurant!"

"Just by taking a whiff of the wine, my magic power has increased slightly!"

"This was brought by the distinguished guest upstairs." After taking a few deep breaths, a man dressed as a child explained.

The restaurant was noisy, but the private rooms were soundproofed, so it didn't affect Nie Zhaonan and the others.

"I'll pour the wine." Ling Yuling slowly stood up and poured out a few glasses of wine.

Wen Qing looked at this scene and sighed silently: This 'son-in-law' is good in every way, the only pity is that he is a little sentimental. The woman named 'Yuan Yao' should be Nie Daoyou's 'child bride', right? But it seems that Yu Ling should get along very well with them.

Looking at the smile on Ling Yuling's face that came from the heart, although Wen Qing didn't know what to say, there was always a small thorn in his heart.

But to be honest, his daughter is indeed not as likable as the girl named Yuan Yao. One can tell at a glance that this wine was made with great effort, specially made to please Fellow Daoist Nie.

Wen Qing had a lot of thoughts in his mind.

"Please." Nie Zhaonan picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

It tastes sweet and has a mellow aroma, not strong, but just right.

"It's really good. This is the first time I've tasted such fine wine. Not to mention the wonderful taste of this wine, its efficacy is no worse than that of ordinary elixirs. It is enough for Jindan cultivators to improve their magic power." Ling Xiaofeng smacked his lips, revealing a hint of aftertaste, and praised.

After Wen Qing finished drinking, he nodded slightly.

"Sister Yuanyao's cooking skills are really good!" Ling Yuling put down the wine glass, her eyes shining.

This wine is made from the many rare spiritual fruits that Yuan Yao collected from Zixiao Cave Heaven, and is refined using the secret winemaking technique. Naturally, it is extraordinary.

Just looking at his daughter who continued to pour wine, Wen Qing felt a sense of crisis.

It would be fine if Nie Zhaonan was just an ordinary person, but his daughter was the young master of Xing Palace and had such a huge dowry from Xing Palace, so there was no need for his daughter to compete for favor.

But no matter from the perspective of wealth or cultivation, Nie Zhaonan is the most top-notch cultivator in the human world, and it is almost certain that he will advance to the realm of Divine Transformation in the future. This requires Yu Ling to be more sensible and try to please Fellow Daoist Nie more.

It seems that as a mother, I have to find an opportunity to teach her, Wen Qing planned.

In Wen Qing's opinion, if a monstrous person like Nie Zhaonan could not advance to the stage of Divine Transformation, then there would be even less hope for him and his wife.

"I used to think that Fellow Daoist Nie was a cultivator from the Great Jin Dynasty. Now I know that Fellow Daoist Nie is not from the Great Jin Dynasty. Fellow Daoist really deceived the two of us!" Without thinking as much as Wen Qing, Ling Xiaofeng talked about Nie Zhaonan's background with great interest.

Hearing his slightly blaming words, Nie Zhaonan smiled lightly and said, "I didn't reveal my identity because I didn't have enough strength at the beginning. In fact, I am from Tiannan, born in an ordinary sect. It was by chance that I discovered an ancient teleportation array, and then I came to the Chaos Star Sea." The Twin Saints of Tianxing were both from the Chaos Star Sea, and with Nie Zhaonan's current strength that allows him to roam the human world, there is no need for him to hide his origins too much.

"Tiannan?" Wen Qing asked in surprise, "I didn't expect that fellow Taoist was actually born there."

As a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, although she had never been to Tiannan, she had a general understanding of it. Tiannan was just an ordinary immortal cultivation world, which could be said to be somewhat poor. She did not expect that the powerful Nie Zhaonan actually came from there.

“My husband is now very famous in Tiannan. If he didn’t care about fame and material things, Tiannan would have been unified long ago and he would have become the master of Tiannan.” Ling Yuling said simply, her words full of admiration for her husband.

“Unifying Tiannan, plus the Chaos Star Sea, is indeed a great help, but that is only for ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators. For cultivators like us who are seeking opportunities and want to break through to the God Transformation stage, forces are no longer of much help. I believe Nie Zhaonan is thinking the same thing.” Ling Xiaofeng took another sip of wine and said with a deep gaze.

"That's right." Nie Zhaonan nodded, "I came to Dajin with the intention of looking for opportunities."

In fact, the greatest opportunity to advance to the Goddess stage is to practice the 'Yuanci Divine Light'. As long as one practices this magical power, advancing to the Goddess stage can be said to be a sure thing. After all, even Han Li, with his pseudo spiritual root aptitude, can advance to the Goddess stage with this. This shows the extraordinary nature of the 'Yuanci Divine Light'.

Unfortunately, Nie Zhaonan has a special spiritual root with thunder attribute. He cannot practice this magical power before his spiritual root is replenished.

Speaking of which, completing the five elements of spiritual roots is also one of the conditions for advancing to the realm of refining emptiness.

However, because he practiced the Taiyi Divine Thunder Art, Nie Zhaonan did not need to complete the five elements of spiritual roots. He only needed to refine the five kinds of divine thunder flying swords of gold, wood, water, fire and earth to form the final five elements divine thunder sword formation, which could replace the functions of the five elements of spiritual roots and successfully advance to the realm of refining emptiness.

Because it is the natal magic weapon, the effect of the five flying swords is naturally better than the supplementary spiritual roots, and it is more suitable for oneself. I just don't know if I can use it to practice the Yuanci Divine Light at that time.
"Daoyou just arrived in Dajin, and you have obtained the natural treasure of Fortune Divine Sand. My husband and I are also blessed by you. Daoist Fellow Nie is really blessed!" Wen Qing suddenly said with emotion.

The couple had been in Dajin for decades, and in order to have the opportunity to create the magical sand, they spent a lot of effort to find the Yellow Wind Desert, not to mention that they were seriously injured as a result.

"This is all thanks to the two fellow Taoists, otherwise I would not have this opportunity." Nie Zhaonan raised his glass and smiled faintly.

"No, no, fellow Daoist relies on his own strength. What does it have to do with us?" Ling Xiaofeng thought that Nie Zhaonan was just being polite, so he didn't think much about it and raised his glass as well.

In fact, if it weren't for the Twin Saints of Heavenly Stars, it would be unknown when the Divine Sand of Creation would be discovered, and it would not have appeared in this time period, let alone Nie Zhaonan being able to obtain it.

However, on the other hand, Nie Zhaonan also played a key role in enabling the Twin Saints of Tianxing to give up practicing the Yuanci Divine Light and come to Dajin.

Several people were drinking and chatting in this private room. After finishing a jar of spirit wine, Nie Zhaonan took out another jar, as if he had an endless supply.

"Jinjing is worthy of being the capital of the Great Jin. The number of people coming and going is really incomparable to our Chaos Star Sea." Looking at the endless stream of people outside the window, Ling Yuling sighed.

Although most of the crowd are ordinary people and cultivators are relatively rare, the huge number is indeed shocking.

The entire Jinjing city has a population of probably hundreds of millions. In terms of population, it is worthy of the title of the largest city in the human world.

"A mortal's life span is one hundred years, no matter how much longer, it is meaningless to cultivators like us." Ling Xiaofeng shook his head.

It’s not that he looks down on mortals, it’s just that there is a substantial gap between mortals and cultivators, whether it’s lifespan or the means they can use.

"A mortal's life does not have much meaning. No matter if he sits high in the government or is remembered for generations, once he dies, everything is in vain." He was just an ordinary person in his previous life. Nie Zhaonan was filled with emotion as he watched this scene.

As a mortal, no matter how powerful or wealthy you are, you will eventually grow old, get sick and die. Your beauty will fade and you will eventually turn into a handful of earth.

"Eternal life is what everyone desires, no matter if they are mortals or cultivators." Wen Qing put down his wine glass and said slowly.

"Why say all this? We can easily live for a thousand years, and even longer in the future, or even live forever. There is great hope!" Ling Yulin said confidently.

This confidence did not come from herself, but more from her husband. Only she and her sisters knew what a great opportunity her husband had.

Inexhaustible spiritual medicine, a completely independent cave with abundant spiritual energy.
"Now we have a great chance of advancing to the Divine Transformation stage, but what happens after that? In this human world, no cultivator has ascended to the immortal realm for nearly ten thousand years." Ling Xiaofeng looked at Wen Qing beside him with a bewildered look in his eyes.

They also have some other opportunities in this Dajin, and coupled with their own foundation, the two of them do have great hope of advancing to the God Transformation stage.

"How could this be? No one has been able to ascend for ten thousand years." Ling Yulin was stunned when she heard it for the first time.

Originally I could practice smoothly, but I didn't expect to face the seemingly unsolvable difficulty of "ascension".

“In ancient times, the invasion of the demon world caused a great change in the vitality of the human world. It was no longer possible for the cultivators of the God Transformation Realm to successfully practice to the late stage of the God Transformation Realm and ascend to the spiritual world. Even advancing to the middle stage of the God Transformation Realm was extremely difficult. The few remaining cultivators of the God Transformation Realm in the human world were all, without exception, only at the early stage of the God Transformation Realm, or at most at the peak of the early stage of the God Transformation Realm.” Nie Zhaonan said the secret with a calm expression.

"Brother Daoist Nie actually knows so much and so clearly!" Wen Qing said in shock, not understanding why he knew so much about the Divine Transformation cultivators.

"Does Brother Nie have a way to ascend to the spiritual world?" Seeing Nie Zhaonan's calm expression, Ling Xiaofeng turned his attention to other things.

"Normal ascension is no longer possible. The only way is to sneak into the spirit world through the space nodes. But that can only be done after advancing to the God Transformation stage. Otherwise, the powerful force of the barrier can easily crush the Nascent Soul in the body of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Only after advancing to the God Transformation stage can the Nascent Soul be further condensed and resist the invasion of the force of the barrier." Nie Zhaonan said again.

Having said that, Nie Zhaonan secretly estimated that the degree of refinement of his Nascent Soul in his body was no worse than that of a Divine Transformation cultivator, so there would naturally be no problem in resisting the power of the world.

Seeing Nie Zhaonan's confident look, the Twin Saints of Heavenly Stars, as the masters of the Star Palace who had ruled the Chaos Star Sea for hundreds of years, knew very well that Nie Zhaonan had a great chance of sneaking into the spirit world, and might even have mastered a space node.

However, they also knew that now was not the time for them to ask. It would not be too late to ask about the space nodes after they advanced to the God Transformation stage.

Nie Zhaonan's idea at this time was naturally to sneak into the spiritual world through the space node of Beiye Xiaoji Palace. The space node here was left by Fairy Bingpo. Not only was the space very stable, but it was also safer.

Although the space nodes in Xiaoji Palace would be forced to be destroyed by the people of Xiaoji Palace according to the original trajectory, with Nie Zhaonan here this time, he would naturally not let this happen.

(End of this chapter)