Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 424 Indistinguishable Between Good and Evil
After inquiring about the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness once again, Li Ji'an took Ning Sujin on a flying shuttle-like magical artifact controlled by the Venerable Fuxiang and headed to Fengyue Immortal City.

Magical artifacts are difficult to forge, and most are primarily designed for offense and defense. Magical artifacts focused on flight are extremely rare.

Master Fuxiang's Cloud-Piercing Shuttle has reached the level of a seventh-grade magic weapon.

While also flying through the Nine Heavens, his speed was twice that of Li Ji'an.

Three months later, Fengyue Immortal City, the largest immortal city in Huangtian Domain, came into view.

This place has the only fourth-order spiritual vein in the Yellow Heaven Domain, and the spiritual vein stretches for tens of thousands of miles, forming a large spiritual vein area that nourishes not only the Supreme Joyful Union Sect here, but also countless other forces, families, and independent cultivators.

Unlike the infamous Hehuan Sect, there are many cultivators here, and they seem to have no worries about being used as firewood by the Hehuan Sect, just like other immortal cities.

Under subtle probing, Venerable Fuxiang revealed the truth: although the Hehuan Sect has tens of thousands of disciples, less than half of them are qualified to be provided with a cultivation vessel by the sect. Moreover, disciples who practice dual cultivation techniques do not necessarily need to engage in sexual intercourse; in most cases, it is for mutual supplementation during dual cultivation.

Moreover, even if one engages in sexual intercourse, it is mostly for the purpose of breaking through bottlenecks.

Furthermore, the true art of sexual cultivation is not suitable for everyone. There are many cultivators here, and compared to the one or two hundred furnaces, at least ninety percent of the cultivators do not need to worry about becoming furnaces.

Of course, worrying is useless; if they want to cultivate in this spiritual vein, they can only pray that misfortune will not befall them.

Furthermore, the number of high-quality furnace cauldrons contributed by forces affiliated with the Hehuan Sect has been increasing over the years, further alleviating the pressure on these independent cultivators.

"Fellow Daoist Changqing, Sister Ning, if you don't mind, you are welcome to stay at my Daoist temple during the grand ceremony." Upon arriving at the Hehuan Sect area, Venerable Fuxiang extended a sincere invitation.

Li Ji'an smiled and said, "I appreciate your kindness, fellow Daoist, but since I'm new here, I'd like to accompany Ning'er to see this different world. I don't need to settle down in a Daoist temple for the time being."

Upon hearing this, Venerable Fuxiang's eyes flickered with a hint of envy as he glanced at Ning Sujin: "Fellow Daoist and your wife have a deep and abiding love, which I envy. This place has a unique charm, so you may accompany your loved one to enjoy it."

“Fellow Daoist Changqing, our Merchant Alliance also has a base in Immortal City, and you are welcome to stay here at any time,” Tong Jiesheng also extended a warm invitation.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist." After saying this, Li Ji'an bid farewell to the others and headed towards Fengyue Immortal City with Ning Sujin.

Through Tong Jiesheng and Master Fuxiang along the way, he gained a basic understanding of Tong Yaoyao's situation.

Having been treated this way by her own father, and then betrayed by her clan elder, she had long since lost all hope.

This made Ning Sujin even more eager to skin Huang Qiyu alive and tear him apart.

Having lived three lifetimes in the cultivation world, Li Ji'an had heard far too many stories like this. In the cultivation world, for the sake of advancing on the path of cultivation, many ethical principles were disregarded, and worldly morality was simply not worth mentioning.

Let alone Huang Qiyu's attempt to break through to the True Monarch realm, many elders of Qi Refining families can be so ruthless as to be astonishing in their pursuit of Foundation Establishment.

"My lord, please help me kill that beast!" Ning Sujin pleaded through gritted teeth after parting ways with the others.

Li Ji'an sighed and shook his head: "The Hehuan Sect has a profound foundation, Huang Qiyu is a quasi-True Monarch, and there are several senior figures in the sect protecting him. With all our current trump cards, the hope of killing him is very slim."

If we can rescue Tong Yaoyao this time, it will already be an incredibly difficult task.

Whether or not this thief can be killed is not something that can be forced.

Ning Sujin sighed inwardly, but she understood the difference in strength. Nevertheless, she was still indignant: "Husband, if cultivation produces such a beast, whose fault is it?"

Li Ji'an smiled helplessly and looked up at the sky: "Cultivation here is to follow the way of heaven. The way of heaven is ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs, without distinguishing between good and evil."

"To be unable to distinguish between good and evil is to aid and abet evil, and to be guilty of the same crime as evil!" Ning Sujin said without any restraint.

Ding~
Li Ji'an's heart skipped a beat. "To be unable to distinguish between good and evil, and to be guilty of the same crime as the wicked?"

He never considered whether the so-called "Way of Heaven" was good or evil.

Before transmigrating, I was instilled with the idea that "Heaven and Earth are ruthless and treat all things as straw dogs" from a young age, and I understood that the will of Heaven and Earth is just an objective operating rule.

It is an inanimate object, and cannot be changed by the will of external things; rules are rules.

But at this moment, I suddenly realized that whether it is a person or a rule, if good and evil cannot be distinguished, then it is evil!
If the rules are evil, then the fault lies with those who made them, and they should be corrected or changed...

"Then who established the rules of Heaven?"

Li Ji'an subconsciously looked up.

"Phew~" After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and slowly shook his head.

All of this is still too far away for him, and it's not something he, a mere mid-stage Core Formation cultivator, should be concerned with.

"Sujin, don't overthink it, just do what you can," Li Ji'an said solemnly.

Ning Sujin took a deep breath and nodded slowly, understanding that without strength, everything was in vain.

In the following months, Li Ji'an took Ning Sujin on a tour of the Hehuan Sect's territory, from the ice plains in the north, where they could see the land covered by glaciers, to the oasis in the east, where they witnessed the source of life in the desolate desert... Although it seemed like a tour, they were actually surveying the terrain and preparing for their retreat after rescuing Tong Yaoyao.

Ning Sujin's ability to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune could only sense whether Li Ji'an's decision would bring bad omens, but she could not sense whether the rescue would succeed. Therefore, Li Ji'an could only do his best to plan and make the whole plan as perfect as possible.

After thoroughly exploring the surrounding area, Li Ji'an arrived at a third-tier high-grade spiritual vein dojo in the southern part of the Hehuan Sect, carrying the token given to him by Duanmu Xiao.

This place is the site of a deal that Master Hongzhu made with the Hehuan Sect back then.

However, judging from the current situation, this place is clearly inferior to the Tianyin Pavilion's place in the Tiancang Domain.

The story of how Changqing Talisman Master displayed his superior realm to protect the Core Formation Daoist site during the siege of Funiu Mountain by several major forces has already spread throughout the entire Huangtian Domain.

Furthermore, there are several versions of the story that Master Fuxiang later led a group to besiege Mount Funiu, and that he eventually became friends with Master Changqing.

Of course, the cause and effect between Changqing Talisman Master and the barbarians in the desert city was already common knowledge.

Today, Master Changqing enjoys a stellar reputation throughout the entire Huangtian Domain and is the envy of countless independent cultivators.

Therefore, when Li Ji'an arrived at Tianyin Pavilion, Master Hongzhu was very polite to him.

When he saw Duanmu Xiao's keepsake, Master Hongzhu seemed even closer to him.

"Fellow Daoist Changqing, it is an honor for our Tianyin Pavilion to have you here. Hongzhu greets you with courtesy."

Looking at the dignified and elegant Tianyin Pavilion Master before him, Li Ji'an hesitated for a moment before getting straight to the point: "Fellow Daoist Hongzhu, you are too kind. I have come here in advance to inform you that on the day of the grand ceremony, when all the heroes are eliminating the demon, in order to avoid having to send our disciples to the demons for sexual exploitation again, and to return the spiritual resources that the Demon Sect has deprived and plundered over the years to the public, the Pavilion Master will have a decision to make at that time."

This was the only plan he had devised after careful consideration that might allow him to rescue Tong Yaoyao from Huang Qiyu.

This was merely going with the flow, prematurely igniting the resentment that the Hehuan Sect had suppressed for many years in this region.

Whether he succeeds or not depends on his strategic skills and his first strike at that time.

(End of this chapter)