I am a mortal who has achieved enlightenment through burning my secrets

Chapter 172 The Mortal World Daoist
"The Heavenly Palace? What is that? And these so-called City Gods? What force is behind all this?"

After struggling to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage in the Chaotic Star Sea, he was fortunate enough to arrive in the Great Jin Dynasty via an ancient teleportation array. He had assumed that the Great Jin Dynasty was indeed the legendary holy land of cultivation.

As soon as he settled in the first ordinary town, he discovered all sorts of strange things, making him dare not linger in the city.

That night, in order to find out the reason, Han Li traveled overnight to another town thousands of miles away to investigate.

Under the bright moonlight, the streets were deserted. As soon as Han Li stepped into the street, he noticed something was amiss.

This is a large city with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Not only is there no watchman in the vast city, but there isn't even a single brothel.

Are the people in this city all averse to lust? That's impossible, isn't it? This isn't some Taoist sanctuary.

"what?"

Han Li carefully scanned each house with his divine sense, only to find them all strangely empty. Left with no other option, he had to expand the scope of his search.

Ten zhang, twenty zhang...

In this eerie place, Han Li was extremely cautious in his every move, afraid that his divine sense would be discovered.

One hundred zhang, two hundred zhang, five hundred zhang...

Five hundred feet away, Han Li finally detected human presence, and it seemed there was more than one.

Han Li used his movement technique and sped towards that location.

In the open space in front of the City God Temple, a dense crowd of people knelt, bowing repeatedly towards the temple and chanting prayers. Strands of invisible power of will emanated from these mortals, ultimately converging on a gourd in the hand of the statue.

This gourd is merely an insignificant magical artifact, only good for storing wishes. Even if some foolish person were to steal it, probably no one would use it.

However, it was precisely this simple thing that made Han Li feel a chill in his heart. He had only seen this kind of power to manipulate people's hearts in one person.

"I wonder what the connection is between this Heavenly Palace and Xiao Wuji?"

In Han Li's eyes, Xiao Wuji has always been synonymous with mystery and power. Although he has become Xiao Wuji's disciple, he doesn't necessarily know much about him.

"Speaking of which, my lifespan is not long. I wonder if my master has any spiritual medicine that can help me break through!"

Unlike his smooth sailing in the original timeline, Han Li is now living a very difficult life with Xiao Wuji's "help". He seems to be living a carefree life in the Chaotic Star Sea, but even breaking through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage is extremely difficult.

Now, with his lifespan nearing its end, he has barely broken through to the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage. Moreover, he has searched the entire Chaotic Star Sea but has never heard of any spiritual medicine that can help people break through to the Divine Transformation stage.

"Forget it, I'll wait a bit longer. This is still the Great Jin Dynasty, after all. I refuse to believe I can't find a spiritual herb that can help me break through!"

"If all else fails, then go find him!"

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Inside the Kunwu Palace, Xiao Wuji toyed with the demonic core he had refined from the dried corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix. He had shown it to Linglong, and the energy within this near-eighth-tier demonic beast core definitely exceeded that of a fully refined Void Refinement demonic beast's core. If it were refined into a pill, it could probably allow him to immediately break through to the Void Refinement stage.

But Xiao Wuji didn't want to do that. There were many ways to break through to the Void Refinement stage, and there was no need to waste this excellent magic core.

As for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's bone wings, they could be used to craft a flying magic weapon. However, Xiao Wuji was more interested in experiencing the legendary flying combat techniques. During the simulation, "he" had praised the benefits of flying combat techniques more than once.

However, he has not yet obtained a single method for crafting a flying combat technique, so he can only put it aside for the time being.

However, the essence of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix would be quite useful to him; his Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul might be able to evolve into the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Martial Soul. Moreover, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix possesses both wind and fire attributes, so he might even be able to integrate it with the bloodline of the Wandering Heaven Kunpeng.

Then, when he unleashes his Martial Soul True Form, he might be able to transform directly into a Soaring Heavenly Phoenix to fight. This is far superior to any True Spirit Nine Transformations, truly achieving safety and no risk.

It is precisely because of this convenience that Xiao Wuji has recently been thinking about how to acquire more martial spirits for himself. Nine transformations of the True Spirit—nothing beats nine martial spirits.

Boom! !

As Xiao Wuji pondered, a medicine cauldron wobbled and landed in front of him. The next moment, a figure that bore a striking resemblance to Xiao Wuji materialized on the cauldron.

As expected, this cauldron is the Myriad Dust Cauldron, and the figure is none other than Xiao Wuji's Dharma body, as well as the spirit of this cauldron, who calls himself the Daoist Lord of the Dust.

The man, dressed in a light pink robe, began to complain, "It's no good! The spiritual energy in this world is too thin; I can't unleash my full power at all!"

"Even if you want to refine pills or forge weapons, you'll have to mobilize most of the spiritual energy in Kunwu Mountain, which will affect the cultivation of your subordinates!"

"Don't worry, I've already had several hundred million spirit stones prepared. In the future, 70% of the spirit stones mined in this realm will also be used to supply you."

"Your only task is to keep an eye on this realm for me..."

Xiao Wuji had anticipated this situation. After all, in the world of immortality, treasures that only require blood sacrifice to refine would become unusable by mortals in this world due to insufficient spiritual energy.

He naturally made corresponding preparations for the situation of the Dharma Body. Hundreds of millions of spirit stones were already in place at the foot of Kunwu Mountain, and more spirit stones were being transported here continuously.

With these spirit stones, he could ensure that his Dharma Body could always deliver a devastating blow. Even if someone rebelled in the future, or if any escaped fugitive tried to overthrow the rule of the Heavenly Palace, his Dharma Body could suppress them instantly.

"Furthermore, in the future, you will be required to obey my summons at any time to go to the spirit world and help me kill enemies!"

As Xiao Wuji walked out of Kunwu Palace, he saw that the mountain path was full of Nascent Soul cultivators kneeling on it, and he even had the thought that staying in this world wouldn't be so bad.

However, upon noticing the two frail and aged Nascent Soul cultivators, Xiao Wuji immediately dismissed the idea. Without ascending to the Upper Realm, how could one speak of immortality? Without ascending, he might very well be one of those kneeling on these steps in the future.

Apart from a few Nascent Soul cultivators, Xiao Wuji didn't assign many tasks to others. Their main task was to pray, to pray incessantly. The power of their prayers in a single day was far more effective than the power of hundreds of thousands of mortals praying for a day.

"That one, that one, and that one... drag them all into cages, then give them Heavenly Star Powder, and hand them over to the 'Jiaofangsi' for training..."

Xiao Wuji casually selected a few beautiful female cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage who were nearing the end of their lives. Bibi Dong, who was always standing guard in front of the Kunwu Palace, immediately flew over and used spider silk to bind the women and send them into the spatial birdcage.

During this time, these people did not struggle at all and let Bibi Dong do as she pleased.

Of course, this is now. Once they have all taken the Heavenly Star Powder, dispersed their Nascent Souls, and returned to their original nature, they will probably start struggling desperately.

Therefore, Xiao Wuji established the Jiaofangsi (Imperial Music Bureau) specifically to train these people.

Those kneeling here are all people with poor comprehension. They don't even have the qualifications to cultivate with Xiao Wuji, so naturally they can't enjoy any good treatment. Their greatest value is to obtain an ageless appearance before they grow old and lose their beauty, and then graduate smoothly from the brothel.

After they graduate, they will be assigned to Xiao Wuji's many women as maids, or sent down to the lowest level of the world to select talented and beautiful women for Xiao Wuji and teach them cultivation. Once the women they choose have completed their cultivation, they can return to the Heavenly Palace as accompanying maids.

As for those whose appearances were far inferior, Xiao Wuji would also refine them into dual cultivation puppets to supply his male cultivators. In this way, a considerable amount of spiritual herbs could be saved.

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(End of this chapter)