Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

"You're cautious enough. I've been acting for so many days, but I still can't dispel your suspicions. It seems I'll have to wait and see. I don't believe you can sit still," Ye Liuyun sneered.

Ye Liuyun has plenty of time to outlast Liyue in terms of patience.

And so the month came to an end, and the day of the ceremony for Li Bai to succeed as the leader of the Taishang Ganying Sect finally arrived.

Since the end of last month, the Taishang Ganying Sect has been making preparations, and disciples from various factions have returned to the sect. For a time, the Taishang Ganying Sect was extremely lively.

It's important to know that many people will never see the Taishang Ganying Sect change its leader in their lifetime, because each leader usually sits in that position for thousands of years.

However, Li Bai's position is only temporary. He has already agreed with his master that he will only serve as the current ruler for a short period of time, and he will abdicate once Lin Aoxue breaks through to the Transformation Realm.

Ancestor Tianyi naturally didn't care.

Originally, they needed Lin Aoxue to represent the Supreme Response Sect at the Yaochi Immortal Gathering a hundred years later, because they couldn't leave this small world without joining the Nine Heavens Holy Land. But now it's different. They want to participate in the Yaochi Immortal Gathering, but they definitely can't let Lin Aoxue join the Nine Heavens Holy Land.

Even if they were to join, they couldn't leave the Taishang Ganying Sect; that was their current thinking.

The Supreme Response Sect is also aware of its own limitations, but the Shangqing Palace still hopes that Lin Aoxue will become a disciple of the Nine Heavens Holy Land through the Yaochi Immortal Gathering. Therefore, the higher-ups still need to discuss this matter.

On this day, the Supreme Response Sect was truly a place where all the immortals came to pay homage. From all directions, a large number of cultivators rode flying mounts and other diverse mounts towards the Supreme Response Sect.

"How lively! Is this the territory of the strongest sect in the Southern Ridge of the Nine Heavens Domain? How peculiar! It feels like we've entered another world along the way." Some cultivators riding demonic beast mounts were seen smiling as they surveyed the mountains and lands of the Southern Ridge Northern Region.

Their attire was similar to that of the Nine Heavens Domain, except that they had many exotic beast patterns on their bodies. These cultivators came from the Immortal Spirit Sect of the Myriad Spirits Domain.

"The Nine Heavens Domain has only just broken free from the control of the Holy Land Small World and returned to the Divine Continent. I wonder if their strength is strong or weak. Elder, which is stronger, our Immortal Spirit Sect or the Supreme Induction Sect?" a female disciple of the Immortal Spirit Sect asked curiously.

This time, the Immortal Spirit Sect had two elders leading the group, one male and one female. The male elder rode a fire dragon, while the female elder rode a blue, feathered demon bird, which seemed to possess the bloodline of the Azure Phoenix.

The Azure Phoenix is ​​a descendant of the Phoenix, and according to legend, it is one of the Phoenix's direct offspring.

"I'll just tell you one statistic, and you'll know who's stronger and who's weaker. Our Immortal Spirit Sect has Nirvana Realm experts, while the Supreme Induction Sect doesn't," the female elder said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, the disciples of the Immortal Spirit Sect immediately began to show contempt for the Supreme Response Sect.

"They don't even have Nirvana Realm experts. What kind of great sect is this? I don't understand why our Immortal Spirit Sect would take the initiative to befriend the Supreme Response Sect." One disciple couldn't understand.

But the elder hadn't finished speaking yet.

"What would you think if I told you that the Supreme Response Sect has at least two hundred experts at the Transformation Realm?" the female elder said again.

Upon hearing this, some disciples were so startled that they nearly fell off their mounts.

"What? More than two hundred Nascent Soul experts? How is that possible? With so many Nascent Soul experts, their lineage must be incredibly powerful, right? Why aren't there any Saints?" A disciple found it unbelievable.

Because their Immortal Spirit Sect only has a total of thirty-odd Nascent Soul cultivators, and they are already the strongest sect in the northern part of the Myriad Spirits Domain.

“Hey! It’s very simple. Because the Nine Heavens Domain was previously controlled by the Nine Heavens Holy Land, anyone who wanted to leave the Nine Heavens Domain had to get the consent of the Nine Heavens Holy Land. As a result, everyone’s path to advancement could only pass through the Nine Heavens Holy Land. Now you understand why the Supreme Response Sect doesn’t have any Nirvana experts, right?” The male elder also spoke up.

The people weren't idiots. If they still couldn't understand this, then they must be out of their minds. This was basically telling them that because all the experts who could cultivate to the Nirvana Realm had been recruited by the Nine Heavens Holy Land, the Supreme Induction Sect had no Nirvana experts.

"This, this Nine Heavens Holy Land is too domineering!" The cultivators of the Immortal Spirit Sect's goodwill towards the Nine Heavens Holy Land plummeted in an instant.

“We in the Myriad Spirits Domain have also experienced something similar. It’s just that you don’t know about the years when our Myriad Spirits Domain was controlled by the Myriad Spirits Holy Land. I’ve heard that under the control of the Myriad Spirits Holy Land, other forces were less free than those demonic beasts,” the female elder of the Immortal Spirits Sect said with a wry smile.

The cultivation areas of these powerful beings from the Heavenly Abyss were all controlled by the Holy Land, which is why they used the titles of those Heavenly Emperors as their domain names.

"Disciple understands." The disciples of the Immortal Spirit Sect no longer looked down on the Supreme Response Sect.

Meanwhile, to the west of the Northern Region, a dark cloud was seen rapidly drifting towards Tianyi City.

However, these dark clouds were not ordinary dark clouds; strange, chilling sounds seemed to emanate from them.

Upon closer inspection, one can discover a large number of insect-like demonic beasts churning within the dark clouds. The cultivators within these clouds are from the Gu God Domain, and several Nascent Soul cultivators from the Supreme Induction Sect are also following them in the distance around the clouds.

They acted as if they were on guard against cultivators from the Gu God Domain.

These dark clouds were actually formed from the condensed alien energy emitted by demonic beasts and cultivators.

The cultivators and disciples of the Five Poisons Sect rode terrifying centipedes, scorpions, spiders, snakes, and all sorts of venomous beasts. These beasts looked extremely ferocious, and even when being ridden by their masters, they still howled madly.

As for the cultivators of the Five Poisons Sect, their attire was also quite unique and polarized. The female cultivators wore beautiful, shimmering silver clothing, while the male cultivators were rather wild, some even exposing their upper bodies and covered in various tattoos.

"The style of the Southern Ridge where the Taishang Ganying Sect is located is quite peculiar. Isn't the Taishang Ganying Sect supposed to be a pure Taoist sect?" A disciple of the Five Poisons Sect said, looking at the very modern city below with a puzzled expression.

“Hmm, it is indeed very strange, but there are so many cultivators in Nanling. It seems there are no mortals.” Another young man riding a demonic snake pondered.

The cultivators of the Five Poisons Sect all exuded an evil aura. If such cultivators had been in the Nine Heavens Domain before, they would definitely have been considered evil cultivators.

There were also other sects from the Northern Region around, and these sects avoided the Five Poisons Sect cultivators like the plague.

"How terrifying! These strange-looking fellows must be cultivators from the Five Poisons Sect of the Gu God Domain. They are completely evil and heretical! I don't know why the Supreme Response Sect would invite them."

The cultivators from the sects in the Northern Region disliked the Five Poisons Sect cultivators very much.

"Let me remind you, this is not the Southern Frontier. Curb your bad habits from the Southern Frontier. Our Gu God Domain has not yet had a conflict with the Nine Heavens Domain. Don't provoke trouble, or you'll have to bear the consequences yourself." The Five Poisons Sect also sent two elders, both of whom were experts at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul Realm.

"Yes, Elder." The disciples immediately fell silent.

The jungle law of the Gu God Domain is extremely serious. Just how serious?

To give an example, all the forces in the Gu God Domain only believe in force and nothing else. It is common for disciples to kill each other. The Five Poisons Sect is the same. If I am stronger than you, you better behave yourself and don't try to reason with me, otherwise I will cripple you at best and take your life at worst.

Therefore, in the Gu God Realm, it is common to see beast-like behaviors such as killing each other within the same sect and killing each other between masters and disciples.

This is one of the reasons why the Gu God Domain and the Nine Heavens Domain are so difficult to work together on.

Chapter 525 A Mixed Bag (5000 words)

A moment later, at the main gate of Tianyi City, the cultivators of the Five Poisons Sect and the Immortal Spirit Sect bumped into each other by chance, or rather, the Supreme Response Sect deliberately arranged for them to bump into each other.

The Supreme Response Sect sent people outside Tianyi City to receive these two major foreign forces. The Five Poisons Sect arrived, while the Immortal Spirit Sect was further away and arrived later.

Furthermore, the two territories are adjacent to each other, so they have had their share of conflicts.

They weren't exactly enemies, but they weren't exactly friends either.

"Elder Huolong, look, those are the Five Poisons Sect members over there, right? They actually dare to come to the ceremony of the Supreme Response Sect?" After the Immortal Spirit Sect disciple arrived, he glanced at the Five Poisons Sect cultivators floating in the air not far away, waiting for the Supreme Response Sect's guide, and said with a look of disgust.

The two elders of the Immortal Spirit Sect are Elder Fire Dragon and Elder Luan Phoenix, which are their Daoist titles, not their real names.

However, most cultivators do not use their real names in the cultivation world; they use their Taoist names or aliases instead.

The main cultivation method in the Myriad Spirits Domain is the inheritance of the Beast Taming lineage of the Daoist sect. Although it is somewhat peculiar, it is still considered a legitimate Daoist cultivator. This can be seen from their attire, which is similar to the style of the Nine Heavens Domain.

"Tch! The Supreme Response Sect only gave them a token invitation, but they actually had the nerve to come. Don't they have any self-awareness at all? And they didn't even try to be discreet on someone else's turf. They all looked like fierce demons, it's really annoying." Another disciple from the Immortal Spirit Sect said sarcastically.

Indeed, compared to the Immortal Spirit Sect, the Five Poisons Sect is a bit too flamboyant. Each of them exudes a strong aura of Gu poison. This is a special energy produced by their unique cultivation method, but it is still magic power, only it belongs to the unorthodox sect.

This is a cultivation path created by those powerful individuals who have reached the Heavenly Abyss Realm. It can be said to have originated from the Daoist sect. Its essence is still cultivation, but its power is different from that of ordinary Daoist cultivators.

The founder of the Gu God Realm, the Heavenly Emperor of Ten Thousand Gu, achieved his Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm by following the path of Gu poison, so even unorthodox methods can lead to the pinnacle.

It's not just that the art of Gu poison is extremely cruel to cultivate, but also that this power is quite violent. Most cultivators who practice Gu poison will gradually lose their personality and become extremely ferocious.

Such things are indeed difficult for the average cultivator to accept.

"Elder Chi Lian, look, those are the people from the Immortal Spirit Sect, right? Why do I feel like they're mocking us?" The cultivators from the Five Poisons Sect must have seen the cultivators from the Immortal Spirit Sect as well.

They became quite annoyed when they saw the people from the Immortal Spirit Sect staring at them with unfriendly eyes.

The powerful figures sent by the Five Poisons Sect were Elder Chi Lian of the Snake Altar and Elder Xue Wu of the Centipede Altar.

"Why care about other people's opinions? No matter what outsiders think, the facts prove that our Gu God Domain's method of refining poison and fusing Gu is a cultivation method recognized by the heavens." Elder Chi Lian said with a disdainful look.

That is indeed true. Although there is discrimination against unorthodox sects in the cultivation world, as long as you are strong enough, such discrimination will only be seen as a sign of your ignorance.

The two forces waited here for a while. After all, they were major sects from other regions, so naturally, they had powerful figures from the Supreme Response Sect personally come to guide them.

These two major forces were invited in by powerful figures sent by the Supreme Response Sect to the border between the two regions; they didn't barge in on their own.

If they break in without the permission of the Taishang Ganying Sect, it would be tantamount to starting a war.

However, individual cultivators will not be prohibited from traveling together in these areas.

A moment later, two streaks of light descended from the sky and landed in front of the two forces.

"Haha, it must be Fellow Daoist Chi Lian and Fellow Daoist Xue Wu from the Five Poisons Sect. Welcome, fellow Daoists from the Five Poisons Sect, to our Supreme Response Sect's new leader's enthronement ceremony. I am Elder Tianmu, the Grand Elder of the Supreme Response Sect. Greetings, everyone." Elder Tianmu said with a smile to Chi Lian and the others.

As soon as Tianmu appeared, a faint but terrifying pressure emanated from his body. The people from the Five Poisons Sect immediately felt an invisible pressure and instinctively withdrew the power they were radiating outwards.

"Such a powerful aura! This Grand Elder of the Supreme Induction Sect has probably reached the Great Perfection of the Eighth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm." After sensing the oppressive aura emanating from Tianmu, Chilian and Xuewu immediately exchanged a glance and then analyzed Tianmu's strength in their minds.

The Transformation Realm of human cultivators is divided into nine levels of the Primordial Spirit, and each level is further divided into Minor Success, Major Success, and Perfection, which is slightly different from other realms.

Tianmu is at the eighth level of the Primordial Spirit Realm, while these two are only at the minor level. If they were to fight, Tianmu could easily defeat them with a single blow.

The reason Tianmu released his aura as soon as he arrived was purely to give the Five Poisons Sect members a warning and to make them behave themselves.

"Hehe, thank you for troubling Fellow Daoist Tianmu," Elder Blood Centipede replied politely.

Then the members of the Five Poisons Sect followed Elder Tianmu to the location of the Supreme Response Sect. The Supreme Response Sect dared not bring this group into Tianyi City, so they arranged accommodations directly within the Supreme Response Sect.

As for the Immortal Spirit Sect, their treatment was significantly better.

Elder Tianjian led them into Tianyi City, showed them the sights, and then took them to the residence of the Supreme Response Sect.

After the group from the Five Poisons Sect followed Tianmu into the headquarters of the Supreme Response Sect, they all showed expressions of shock, because the headquarters of the Supreme Response Sect was several times larger than that of their Five Poisons Sect.

"Is this the largest sect in the Southern Ridge of the Nine Heavens Domain? It's much larger than our Five Poisons Sect. And as soon as I entered this place, I felt an invisible pressure. This place must be covered by a huge and powerful formation." Chi Lian and the others were talking with their divine senses while looking at the Supreme Induction Sect's headquarters.

Investigating the specifics of the Taishang Ganying Sect was one of the purposes of their visit.

Although Tianyuan had told them that the Supreme Response Sect did not have any Nirvana cultivators, it was not afraid of Nirvana Five Elements Realm cultivators at all.

The Taiyi Divine Sword, the supreme heavenly weapon of the Supreme Response Sect, is unlike any ordinary low-grade heavenly magic weapon. This sword can fully regenerate at any time and place, and its spirit is far more powerful than that of ordinary low-grade heavenly weapons.

The spirit of the weapon can also cultivate. Don't think that its strength has stagnated. Over the years, the Supreme Response Sect has put a lot of effort into making the Taiyi Divine Sword devour rare refining materials. Its grade may not be able to change, but the Taiyi Divine Sword has three weapon patterns.

What is this artifact pattern? It's similar to the pill pattern on a elixir. One artifact pattern is equivalent to doubling the power. The Taiyi Divine Sword has three artifact patterns, which means that once it unleashes its full power, it can unleash three times the power of a low-grade Heaven-rank magic weapon, roughly equivalent to the power of an early-stage Nirvana Yin-Yang Realm cultivator.

However, using the power of the artifact runes once comes at a high cost. Unless a Yin-Yang Realm expert attacks the Supreme Induction Sect, they will not allow the Taiyi Divine Sword to use the power of the artifact runes.

The Five Poisons Sect members soon arrived at the market area of ​​the Supreme Response Sect disciples. Just like the last Nanling Grand Gathering, many pavilions for guests to stay in had been added around the market.

This place was specially arranged for distinguished guests of the Five Poisons Sect's caliber. Not only them, but guests from other major sects in the Nine Heavens Domain also agreed to stay here. Most of the others will probably stay in Tianyi City, and will be brought to the Supreme Response Sect when the ceremony officially begins.

"Your disciples are staying here, and we will have them settled in. Please come with me to the main hall of the sect for a chat. Our envoy from the Nine Heavens Holy Land and guests from other major sects in the Nine Heavens Domain are also there," Tianmu said with a smile.

The two members of the Five Poisons Sect nodded, then gave their disciples a word of advice: never cause trouble in private.

If they want to cause trouble, they should do so openly and reasonably in discussions and exchanges.

Although the members of the Five Poisons Sect were used to being arrogant, they were still aware that this was not their territory.

After Elder Tianmu finished speaking, a disciple of Tianmu Peak at the peak of the Four Extremes Divine Soul Realm led a group of ordinary disciples of the Blood Dao Palace level and flew up from below.

"Fellow Daoists of the Five Poisons Sect, I am Xuanzhao, a direct disciple of Tianmu Peak. Please follow me."

One of the disciples of the Five Poisons Sect glanced at Xuanzhao briefly after seeing him, and then followed him down.

After leading them to their lodgings, Xuanzhao explained the rules to them, telling them not to wander around and that if they needed anything, they could buy items at the disciple market. Whenever there was an important event, the disciple market would allow the purchase of goods with spirit stones.

Spirit coins are only suitable as regional currency for cultivators, while spirit stones are the universal currency in the cultivation world.

After the Five Poisons Sect members withdrew their Gu poison magic, they no longer appeared so evil. On the contrary, their female disciples were all very beautiful, and their exquisite attire made cultivators from other forces and disciples of the Supreme Response Sect take a few more glances.

"Those must be disciples of the Five Poisons Sect. The female disciples are dressed so beautifully, while the male disciples seem a bit too unconventional and wild," some cultivators murmured.

When the Five Poisons Sect came to the Supreme Response Sect, it was like a speck of black ink falling into pure white paint, making it stand out conspicuously.

In fact, after the Nine Heavens Domain returned to the Divine Continent, the Supreme Response Sect immediately issued an order to cancel the arrest and pursuit of cultivators practicing unorthodox sects within its territory.

They could do that before, but not anymore. Even the Nine Heavens Holy Land can no longer use such dictatorial methods. In other words, even if you cultivate unorthodox methods in the Nine Heavens Domain, as long as you don't harm people or kill innocent people indiscriminately, the Nine Heavens Holy Land and the major sects in various places will no longer interfere.

Since the Nine Heavens Domain has returned to the Divine Continent, it must adapt to the various cultivation methods available there.

If you continue with this policy of prioritizing Taoism above all else, it will attract the attention of surrounding forces that are not purely Taoist, and you will become the target of everyone's criticism.

However, although they have lifted the restrictions, the problem is that the major powers in the Nine Heavens Domain have already gotten used to it and are still unable to face this issue in the short term. Perhaps it will be fine in a few hundred or even a thousand years.

Let's look at Lin Aoxue over at the Goddess Pavilion.

The more people there are, the more trouble is likely to occur. Therefore, the Goddess Pavilion where Lin Aoxue is located has further strengthened its defenses and even dispatched an elder from Taiyin Peak to oversee the area.

"Ah! How boring! I want to participate in that Dao Discussion Conference to see the cultivation levels of cultivators from other regions and outer realms. Liu Yun, please let me participate. Seventy percent of my power is enough." Lin Aoxue said, lying on the bed with a bored expression.

Ye Liuyun rolled his eyes.

"Even if I agree, do you think your master and the others would agree to let a pregnant woman participate in such a dangerous sparring match?" Ye Liuyun asked rhetorically.

That's the truth. Li Bai and Tianyi Ancestor would definitely not allow it. At most, they would let Lin Aoxue go and take a look.

"Damn it, if I had known there would be such a big event soon, I would have gotten pregnant later." Lin Aoxue was very unhappy.

No one expected this.