Taoist cultivation begins with being a miner

The monks who had been following them went into the alley to search, but there was no one there anymore.

"Where are they? Where did they go?"

"I don't know. I clearly saw him go inside just now, but he's disappeared now."

"Find it! Find it for me! Dig three feet into the ground if you have to! I must get that Soul-Nourishing Fruit!"

"yes!"

……

Demon world.

Lu Yan put away the teleportation gate and then took out the Soul Nourishing Fruit.

As expected of a good item that cost me a thousand mid-grade spirit stones, even a light touch to the soul makes it cheer with joy.

After many twists and turns, they finally found Xuefei's hiding place.

"You're back!" Xuefei, who looked a little haggard, said happily when she saw Lu Yan.

"Hmm, how have you been lately? Have you encountered any danger?" Lu Yan nodded.

"No, it's just that Master's condition has worsened a bit," Xuefei said, shaking her head.

"Have you finished all the antidote pills?"

"Um."

"I'll refine some more." Without much preamble, Lu Yan immediately started refining pills.

After refining some antidote pills, Lu Yan began to refine Soul Warming Pills for himself.

Lu Yan practiced and consumed the medicine simultaneously until, a month later, his spiritual energy reached the tenth level of Qi Refining.

Lu Yan only spins the "ghost" character on the roulette wheel, as his current focus is on enhancing his divine soul.

Another month passed, and with the help of the Divine Soul Origin and the superior-grade Soul Warming Pill, Lu Yan's Divine Soul had been raised to the peak of the Qi Refining stage.

After informing Xuefei, Lu Yan began to seclude himself to consume the Soul Nourishing Fruit.

The reason I've been working so hard to improve my soul during this period is to maximize the effects of the Soul Nourishing Fruit.

As soon as the Soul Nourishing Fruit was swallowed, a vast amount of divine soul power began to erupt within his body. Lu Yan quickly mobilized his divine soul to absorb and refine it, then absorb and refine it again.

Ten days later, Lu Yan's soul had reached its limit and could no longer expand, but Lu Yan still gritted his teeth and endured the pain of expansion to continue absorbing.

When he could no longer bear it, he quickly used the Azure Smoke Jade Soul Pendant and several top-grade divine soul artifacts to stabilize his soul.

Lu Yan knew he had succeeded when he felt a strange change in his soul.

From then on, his soul had reached the Foundation Establishment level, and his divine sense could detect any movement within a radius of a hundred feet.

Moreover, the divine sense of the Foundation Establishment stage has one more thing than that of the Qi Refining stage, and that is the pressure.

When fighting against cultivators in the Qi Refining stage or demonic cultivators in the Demonic Soldier stage, one can use one's divine sense to suppress the opponent.

More importantly, after his soul broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, his Qi Refining cultivation also increased from the seventh level to the eighth level, and his Demonic cultivation broke through from the eighth-level Demonic Soldier to the ninth-level Demonic Soldier.

At this point, Lu Yan's strength increased dramatically, and he had no rivals below the Foundation Establishment stage or below the Demon General stage.

After his soul broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, Lu Yan did not rush to leave seclusion. Instead, he took out the soul secret technique he obtained from the auction house: Soul Piercing Thorn.

The Soul-Piercing Thrust is a secret attack technique that uses one's own soul to attack the opponent's soul, making it impossible to defend against.

However, the prerequisite for learning is that one's spirit and soul must reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

It took another ten days to learn how to use the Soul Piercing Thorn, but with Lu Yan's current soul strength, he could only use it three times at most; any more than that would damage the essence of his soul.

After quickly tidying up, Lu Yan left the pass.

"Yo~ Congratulations, Miss Xuefei, you're now a level seven magic soldier." Lu Yan congratulated Xuefei upon sensing her breakthrough in strength.

"Not nearly as good as you. Although you appear to be a level nine magic soldier, we sense that you are very strong," Xuefei replied, shaking her head.

"Miss Xuefei, how is your master doing during my seclusion?"

"As always, to stop the poison from spreading in the body, we need a higher-grade antidote."

"Miss Xuefei, you are my savior. I will definitely find a way to wake her up." Lu Yan patted his chest and made a promise.

"Thank you. Can I ask you something?"

"Please speak freely, Miss Xuefei."

"What kind of demonic cultivator are you? Although your appearance is very similar to our Frost Demon clan, I can sense the difference in our origins."

Or rather, you are different from all demons, even from magical beasts.

"Why have I never seen anyone like you before? Not even in the books?" Xuefei asked, expressing her doubts.

"Um..." Lu Yan cautiously asked, having reached the crucial question, "Has Miss Xuefei heard of him?"

Lu Yan had been eager to know the answer to this question.

During his time at Star River Fortress, Lu Yan searched everywhere but found no information about people, as if no one had ever existed in this world.

Or perhaps it's just a matter of different names; the world has other names for people.

"Never heard of it," Xuefei replied after a moment's thought, shaking her head.

"I see~ Then you can consider me a demon cultivator from the human-demon race. My real name is Lu Liu. Call me whatever you like." Then Lu Yan said the most regrettable thing he had ever said in his life.

……

On the way to Night Demon City.

"Six, when exactly will you be able to refine second-tier pills?" Xuefei asked as she hurried along the road.

Lu Yan: ...

Lu Yan was speechless at Xuefei's way of addressing him.

"I'm not sure either. It could take a few years at the earliest, or more than ten years at the latest, since alchemy is an extremely complicated field."

Lu Yan himself couldn't guarantee that he could refine a second-tier pill; he could only pray that the roulette wheel would spin out a second-tier pill's inheritance bead.

"Don't worry, even if I can't refine it now, I'll find a way to get it," Lu Yan reassured Xue Fei.

"Thank you, Liu," Xuefei said sincerely.

Lu Yan: ...

In the morning, Lu Yan and Xue Fei discussed it and concluded that if they wanted to develop their careers, they would have to go to a bigger place.

Places like Star River Fortress were no longer suitable for Lu Yan, so the two of them headed towards Night Demon City.

Lu Yan and Xue Fei traveled for half a month, encountering demonic beasts fifteen times and robbed by demonic cultivators fourteen times.

However, they were all incredibly weak. Not to mention the Soul Piercing Thorn, Lu Yan didn't even get a chance to use it once; Xue Fei took care of them all.

The two, one human and one demon, amassed a considerable number of magic stones.

At first, Lu Yan thought that Xuefei, this rich woman, had a mountain of magic stones in her storage ring, but Xuefei told him that she had used all her magic stones to buy antidote pills and various medicinal herbs, otherwise she would not be working for the Demon Fighting Arena in Star River Fortress.

Outside Night Demon City, Lu Yan sorted through all the magic stones.

There are currently five medium-grade magic stones and one thousand five hundred and sixty low-grade magic stones.

Not bad, you're quite well-off.

Only then did Lu Yan begin to carefully examine Night Demon City.

Compared to Worry-Free City, Night Demon City is much more magnificent, with protective formations on its walls and demon generals stationed there.

After all, it had been ruled by the Moonlit Demon Clan for generations, and its foundation was far beyond what Ye Wuyou's Wuyou City could match.

There are dozens of satellite castles of varying sizes around Night Devil City, each of which is much stronger than Star River Castle.