The path to immortality through martial arts begins with being forced into marriage!

Cui Yi took a deep breath and sat down cross-legged.

"Ready."

As soon as he finished speaking, a stream of light flew out from the moon and instantly disappeared into his brow.

A massive amount of information flooded into my mind.

The Hidden Spirit Technique is not very difficult; in fact, it can be described as exquisite!

Even without using the Floating Pagoda for deduction, relying solely on his own comprehension, Cui Yi mastered the Hidden Spirit Technique in less than an hour!

It's called cultivation, but it's more like an instinctive realization.

The complex energy circulation routes of the Hidden Spirit Technique, directly inherited by Xi Yue, were etched into the depths of his soul like a brand.

At this moment, he only needs a single thought to change the energy within his body at will.

Cui Yi stood up, a thought flickering in his mind.

The vast, ocean-like aura of the peak Core Formation stage instantly receded like the receding tide.

In the blink of an eye, he went from being a being who could make any Core Formation cultivator tremble to an ordinary Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivator.

With another movement, he went from the mid-Foundation Establishment stage to the early Foundation Establishment stage, and finally fell to the first level of Qi Refining.

At this moment, Cui Yi's aura was as weak as that of a beginner who had just embarked on the path of immortality.

The feeling of weakness was so real that even when he closed his eyes and sensed it, he almost believed that he was just a novice at the first level of Qi Refining.

"It's done!"

A slight smile appeared on Cui Yi's lips.

With this Concealing Spirit Technique, things will be much easier from now on.

As long as you stick to your gun and don't break through, no matter how much the outside world doubts you, it has nothing to do with you!

Xi Yue's figure had already disappeared. Before leaving, she didn't forget to take the Soul-Nourishing Wood that Cui Yi had stored in the Floating Pagoda space with her.

Having already broken through his cultivation level, and with nothing else to attend to for the time being, Cui Yi saw no need to remain here any longer.

But when he pushed open the door to the training room, he was still startled by what he saw.

The training rooms are located on both sides of a passageway, which is quite spacious and will not be congested even when there is a large flow of people.

But at this very moment, the passageway was packed with people!

Dozens of cultivators dressed in the robes of Dan Tower stewards stood in twos and threes at various points along the passageway, talking in hushed tones.

At the end of the passage, at the entrance to the underground level, several elders with significantly stronger auras stood with their hands behind their backs, their faces solemn.

The moment Cui Yi appeared, dozens of eyes, whether onlookers discussing or on guard patrols, locked onto him.

"stop."

Cui Yi suddenly stopped and looked up to see a middle-aged deacon with a serious expression blocking his way, scrutinizing him repeatedly.

"This is a routine check at Danta. Your cooperation is appreciated."

Cui Yi remained calm and simply shrugged.

For the next few minutes, he answered whatever the other person asked, his tone calm and natural, without the slightest sign of panic.

The questions asked were extremely simple: his name, cultivation level, and the length of time he had spent cultivating in the cultivation room.

Cui Yi had already rehearsed these answers countless times in his mind, and his responses were flawless, without the slightest flaw.

After looking him over several times, the deacon finally dispelled his doubts, nodded slightly, apologized, and waved for him to leave.

Cui Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and walked slowly forward, the discussions of the cultivators on both sides of the passage clearly reaching his ears.

"Have you found out exactly which training room it was?"

"No, there are a total of twenty-two intermediate-level training rooms on the three underground floors, and thirteen of them were in use at the time."

"We've checked all thirteen rooms. Twelve are alchemists from inside the Pill Tower, and one is a rogue cultivator from outside."

"They all said they were just practicing normally and there was nothing unusual about it."

"You believe it?"

"You have to believe it whether you want to or not. They said they felt that fluctuation themselves and thought there was something wrong with the formation in the cultivation room. They were so scared that they almost went into a qi deviation."

"Where did the sound come from?"

"I don't know. Several elders are investigating, and they say they need to use a secret method to trace the source of the aura."

"Tracing the scent? Is that thing reliable?"

"Who knows... but we've been given a strict order to find out today."

"You didn't see it, the president was alarmed and personally sent someone to inquire."

"But I've never heard of anyone breaking through that would cause such a commotion. I've seen Core Formation breakthroughs, and I've seen Golden Core breakthroughs, but none of them have this kind of spectacle."

"That's why we need to investigate. If someone really broke through their limits and caused this, what level of cultivation would that person have to be?"

"Nascent Soul?"

"Bullshit! Northern City hasn't produced a Nascent Soul cultivator in centuries. If someone truly broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, the entire Northern Territory would kneel in welcome. Why are we here speculating?"

"What is that...?"

"I don't know, that's why I need to investigate."

Cui Yi lowered his head, his lips twitching slightly.

The commotion he caused seemed to have gone too far. Fortunately, Xi Yue was there to cover for him; otherwise, this trouble would have been impossible to resolve.

Having made such a huge mess, Cui Yi decided to go to the northern wilderness to gain some experience.

His purpose in returning was to slay demonic beasts and gain lifespan.

However, the benefits he gained from refining Cui Yuanhua's corpse were so great that he postponed the most important matter of the trip.

According to the time he and Xiao Yuli agreed on, he had at most ten days left before he should be able to return.

Accumulating lifespan must be put on the agenda as soon as possible!

Half an hour later.

The northern wasteland, the outer region.

Cui Yi stood on a low hillside, his gaze sweeping across a rocky beach in front of him.

In the rocky wasteland, a huge, grayish-brown monster was lying on a boulder, basking in the sun.

The monster resembled a wild ox, but was more than three times larger. It had a row of sharp bone spurs on its back, and the breath it exhaled from its nostrils carried scorching sparks.

Rock Armored Ox, mid-stage of Foundation Building.

This kind of monster has thick skin and strong defense, and even ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators would have a headache if they encountered it.

But for Cui Yi at this moment, it was too weak, so weak that he didn't even bother to draw his sword.

Cui Yi raised his hand, his fingers forming a sword shape, and casually swung it.

An invisible sword aura shot out from his fingertips, and before the Rock Armored Bull could even react, its massive head was separated from its body!

Is this the power of the Core Formation Realm?

Cui Yi's figure blurred, and he appeared next to the carcass of the rock-armored ox.

He raised his hand and placed it on the corpse. With a thought, the pagoda trembled slightly.

An invisible suction force emanated from the palm, and the enormous corpse shrank at a visible speed, its life force completely devoured and refined by the Floating Pagoda.

"Refining complete. Lifespan gained: three months."

Only three months?

This number made Cui Yi shake his head.

The greater the gap between one's own cultivation level and the cultivation level of the living beings absorbed by the pagoda, the more lifespan one gains will be affected to varying degrees.

But Cui Yi never expected that the mid-stage Foundation Establishment realm would only be worth three months of lifespan!