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

"I'm sorry, Mother, I've made you worry. This seclusion has indeed exceeded my expectations," Ye Liuyun said apologetically.

Bei Ming Piaoxu nodded.

"It's good that you're alright. I'll call your father back right away." After saying that, Bei Ming Piaoxu took out the communication token and shouted into it.

"You rascal, Liu Yun has left the pass, why isn't he back yet?"

With that one sound, Ye Kai suddenly stood up over the Lin family's side.

"Hey? Old Ye, what's wrong?" Lin Du asked quickly when Ye Kai suddenly stood up.

"I'm not going anymore, Liu Yun has left the pass." He left these words behind and disappeared in a flash.

Lin Du was also taken aback when he heard this.

"She's out of seclusion! Thank goodness she's alright. That girl was really worrying this time." Lin Du quickly told the Lin family the news.

As for Ye Liuyun, she was already sitting in the courtyard talking with Bei Ming Piaoxu.

"You brat, what's going on this time? Why have you been in seclusion for so long? You've worried us to death." Ye Kai suddenly appeared beside the two of them.

Ye Kai and Bei Ming Piaoxu have both reached the Transformation Realm.

"Dad, I'm sorry to have worried you." Ye Liuyun quickly stood up and said.

"Father, Mother, you two talk to Liuyun first. I need to pass this message on to Qingxue." Lin Aoxue took out her communication device with her daughter and told Qingxue about Ye Liuyun's emergence from seclusion.

However, she did not receive a reply from Ye Qingxue. Generally, this would mean that Ye Qingxue is currently in seclusion for cultivation, so Lin Aoxue was not in a hurry.

After chatting with his family for a while, Ye Liuyun went to see the Lin family. Lin Heng was not at home at the time; he and Li Lianyi had gone to travel in the mortal world.

After meeting with her relatives, Lin Aoxue immediately called Yan Yu and Chen Yao over.

Over the course of five hundred years, although they were not as good as Lin Aoxue, they both reached the Nirvana Realm of Life and Death, and at the same time became Lin Aoxue's right-hand men in the Supreme Response Sect.

By the way, Lin Tianya has already reached the Celestial Realm. That old man's aptitude is truly exceptional.

As for why the Taishang Ganying Sect now possesses such a powerful formation, it is because Lin Aoxue, through the inheritance of Fuxi, mobilized the entire sect's resources after the Taishang Ganying Sect moved here to construct a Taiji Bagua Formation, which is indeed at the Emperor-level.

The Supreme Response Sect now possesses celestial beings, immortal artifacts, and imperial formations, making it a force comparable to a holy land. However, it has not revealed its true power to avoid conflict with the Nine Heavens Holy Land.

Upon seeing Yan Yu and Chen Yao, the four of them inevitably had a good get-together. The three of them took Ye Liuyun to tour various parts of the new Supreme Induction Sect, where she met some acquaintances, such as Ancestor Tianyi. It had taken him five hundred years to reach the Yin-Yang Realm from the Five Elements Realm, so her aptitude was already quite good.

The Supreme Response Sect currently has twelve Nirvana cultivators, and even more Nascent Soul cultivators.

"Third Sister, you won't be going into seclusion again after you emerge from this seclusion, right? To be honest, this time you've been in seclusion for far too long," Chen Yao said.

"Phew! Don't worry, I shouldn't be going into seclusion again anytime soon. During this seclusion, the outside world has undergone tremendous changes. As soon as I came out of seclusion, I first checked on the sect's affairs, and then went to the old site of the Supreme Response Sect. I didn't expect that it was already Eagle Clan territory. I was completely dumbfounded. By the way, what was the reason that made the Supreme Response Sect move away back then? Could the Eagle Clan alone force us to retreat?" Lin Aoxue asked curiously.

Lin Aoxue shook her head.

“Then you overestimate our Supreme Response Sect. The Eagle Clan are descendants of the Golden-Winged Roc, a divine beast of the demon race. How can we confront them head-on? If it weren’t for Senior Jin Rui of the Tiger Clan intervening, our Supreme Response Sect might have been destroyed,” Lin Aoxue explained.

After the four of them toured the core area of ​​the Supreme Response Sect, they went to the outskirts. Now, the Cloud Sect and the Cloud Mist Sect are both within the sphere of influence of the Supreme Response Sect.

The Yunxia Sect has merged with three other lower-level sects to become a faction of the Supreme Response Sect, named Yunxia Tower. The tower master is naturally Li Jianxin. Not only this, but also the Yunxia Sect and other major sects, under pressure from the return of the demon race, chose to return to the Supreme Response Sect after it moved here, becoming factions of the Supreme Response Sect.

However, not long after Yunzong returned, something happened there: the Yunzong's Supreme Elder Li Qianqiu was discovered to be practicing forbidden techniques. Although the Supreme Induction Sect does not completely prohibit its subordinate forces and disciples from practicing some unorthodox techniques.

However, Li Qianqiu's practice of the Blood Demon Sect's evil arts to sustain his life was still not permitted by the Supreme Response Sect. But it was Murong Huan and the others who pleaded for Li Qianqiu, and in the end, Li Qianqiu stopped practicing the Blood Refining Technique and passed away peacefully. The Supreme Response Sect did not pursue the matter further.

If this had happened many years ago, it would probably have been a disaster.

The northern region of the Southern Ridge has now been completely occupied by the demon race. It can be said that the human forces that were originally in the demon realm have basically all moved to the Southern Region or left the Southern Ridge.

The ancestral land of the Tiger Clan is currently located there. The Tiger Clan is now the royal family, and apart from the Dragon Clan, the Tiger Clan and the Phoenix Clan are the strongest.

The four chatted for a long time, and as they flew, they arrived at what used to be Qixia Town. However, this place has now become a huge city called Qixia City, and it is completely unrecognizable from what it used to be.

Because of the problem with the demon race, there are no longer any human kingdoms in the Nine Heavens Domain. The previous human kingdoms were all abolished by the major sects in various places. For example, in the Southern Lingnan Domain, there is only the Supreme Response Sect. Those human cities are places where mortals and cultivators live together, and the order is managed by the cultivators.

Many more cities have sprung up here, making the population much denser than before. There's no way around it; all the cultivators and mortals from the entire Southern Ridge are concentrated in the Southern Region, so it's bound to feel much more crowded.

The four of them, in high spirits, toured almost the entire Southern Region, even reaching the border between the Southern and Northern Regions, a place that had now become a battlefield between humans and demons.

Although the battle between humans and demons has not fully commenced, complete peace between the two sides is impossible.

They agreed that humans and demons could fight each other in specific areas, and that every hundred, five hundred, or one thousand years, a small-scale or large-scale battle would be held between the two races to balance the numbers of humans and demons.

The full return of the demon race has caused resources on the Burial God Star to become scarce all at once. Compared to five hundred years ago, cultivation materials are now nearly five times more expensive.

What used to cost ten spirit stones now costs fifty.

Because most of the training grounds were occupied by the demon race, although humans of certain cultivation levels were allowed to enter and obtain resources, the danger level was much higher than before, so the price of cultivation materials had definitely increased. However, these things had no impact on Ye Liuyun, as she had no shortage of them.

After their visit, Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue returned to the residence of the Supreme Response Sect.

"Hey, by the way, didn't you say you were going to contact Qingxue? Where is she? Why hasn't she arrived yet?" Ye Liuyun asked as soon as he returned to Lin Aoxue's palace.

“She’s in seclusion. I sent her a message earlier but she didn’t reply. Then I asked Grandma, and she said she’s in seclusion breaking through to the Nirvana Realm and shouldn’t be out for a while,” Lin Aoxue replied, sitting up on the bed.

When Ye Liuyun heard that his daughter was about to break through to the Nirvana Realm, he felt ashamed. Most of his peers and acquaintances had already broken through to the Nirvana Realm, while she had only just entered the Vajra Realm. Although her soul realm had also entered the Nirvana Realm, it seemed too hidden compared to her physical cultivation.

"Really? Sigh! Judging from your appearance, you'll probably reach the Divine Realm in a thousand years at most, while I estimate I'll only reach the Undying Realm. Sigh!" Ye Liuyun sighed repeatedly.

Lin Aoxue was clearly unhappy when she heard Ye Liuyun say this.

"Why are you bringing this up again? It's so annoying. Come on, let me help you get rid of your worries." Just as Ye Liuyun was saying some discouraging things, Lin Aoxue suddenly appeared in front of Ye Liuyun and pushed her onto the bed.

Ye Liuyun tried to resist, but Lin Aoxue immediately pinned her hands down and gagged her. Ye Liuyun could only make muffled sounds. With her current cultivation level, she had no power to resist Lin Aoxue.

"Waaah...wait, my dear wife, I won't be the bottom." Ye Liuyun struggled to utter her protest.

"Shut up. Judging from your nonchalant attitude, your dream must be a wet dream. You may not care, but I've been suffering for five hundred years. Today, I'm going to devour you clean." Lin Aoxue declared domineeringly.

Upon hearing Lin Aoxue's words, Ye Liuyun clearly felt guilty, and his resistance gradually diminished.

Chapter 724 An Unexpected Incident (5000 words + 1500 monthly votes bonus chapter)

If they are not seen for a hundred years, they are already as enthusiastic as fire; if they are not seen for five hundred years, their enthusiasm will surely be as intense as a volcanic eruption.

Let's talk about a certain place in the Tianlan Mountains right now. Currently, if we're talking about places on the entire Burial God Star where we can hide from the perception of powerful individuals, besides the several forbidden areas, then it's the Tianlan Mountains.

This place was formed by the lightning phenomenon created by Ye Liuyun's synthesis of pills. Even divine cultivators would be blinded and unable to see anything here. The headquarters of the demonic path, which has been causing chaos in various parts of the Burial God Star for nearly three hundred years, is now located in the Tianlan Mountains.

The name Tianlan Mountain Range was used more than 500 years ago. Later, this place was renamed the Heavenly Punishment Forbidden Land because anyone who takes a slight leap into the air here will be struck by heavenly lightning. In any case, it is certain that even Wang Tongtian, who is at the Celestial Realm, cannot withstand it.

Since the return of the demon race, this place has become a dead zone. No humans have entered, and the demon race dares not enter at all, so it has become a lucky place for this so-called demonic path.

Where is the headquarters of the Demonic Path? Speaking of which, I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the headquarters of the Demonic Path is the same headquarters that the Reverse Immortal Alliance built in the Tianlan Mountains back then, which is now occupied by the Demonic Path.

Moreover, these two organizations seem very similar, both spreading a rebellious ideology that is completely opposite to the philosophy of immortality, and they are not doing anything humane.

After Lin Tianya killed Tianyuan's clone, the Reverse Immortal Alliance scattered and disappeared, or rather, fell into silence.

Therefore, this so-called demonic path is actually the Rebellious Immortal Alliance.

Taking advantage of the return of the demon race and the weakness of the human race, those guys from the Rebellious Immortal Alliance suddenly gathered together again, recruiting some unruly cultivators and sects from all over the continent, and then formed their own sect.

Their current leader is a woman.

Inside the main hall of the Demonic Path headquarters, a woman with black hair and a cool demeanor, dressed in a white dress, sat high in the dimly lit hall. This woman was different from the others; she did not have any evil aura. On the contrary, she was surrounded by an ethereal fairy aura and was also very beautiful.

But this beautiful woman was actually the founder of the demonic path; her name was Tianya.

"Alliance Leader, our demonic path's influence has spread throughout the Eastern Continent, and we already possess the power to rival the immortal path. So why do we continue to hide in this godforsaken place, the Heavenly Punishment Forbidden Land?" a powerful figure from the demonic path questioned.

These people were used to being carefree and undisciplined cultivators in the outside world, but now that they have joined the demonic path, they have been subject to many restrictions.

“Yes, our Demonic Path members are no less powerful than any force in the Flying Immortal Domain. We should take this opportunity to make a high-profile appearance and promote the ideals of the Demonic Path. Our ideals of the Demonic Path are not about doing whatever we want and going against the heavens, are they? What’s the point of hiding and holding back all this time?” Another powerful member of the Demonic Path also spoke up.

These people who spoke were all cultivators from the Nirvana Secret Realm, and there were quite a few of them. In any case, they were definitely more than the Supreme Induction Sect. It seems that the Reverse Immortal Alliance has not been idle for the past few hundred years, as it has managed to gather so many Nirvana cultivators.

Sitting on the throne of the alliance leader, Tianya looked at these Nirvana cultivators, who were so eager to emerge from the world. He did not say anything immediately, nor did he interrupt them. Instead, he quietly watched them complain.

After everyone had finished arguing, seeing that Tianya remained silent, they gradually stopped speaking.

"Have you finished speaking?" Tianya smiled slightly and then asked.

Okay, now it's their turn to be speechless.

"Since you're all silent, then I'll say a few words. I know you're eager to emerge into the world and let the demonic path live under the watchful eyes of the mortals. But the question is, have you considered whether we truly possess the foundation to contend with the immortal path? Although our members are scattered throughout the Flying Immortal Domain, is there even one who can be considered truly capable? If we were to emerge into the world, any random holy land could easily annihilate our demonic path," Tianya continued.

These words caused the Nirvana cultivators present to fall into deep thought.

"Alliance Leader, the human immortal path is currently mainly dealing with the demon race. They don't have time to bother with us. Forgive my bluntness, but although our demonic path doesn't have a holy land-level power to protect us, we have many members. If the immortal path wants to wipe us out, it will take a lot of effort. Besides, the immortal path forces in various regions are not united. I think now is the best time to develop the demonic path. If we miss this opportunity, we will never have another chance." A Nirvana Life and Death Realm expert said.

Tianya knew they were anxious, after all, three hundred years had passed since the establishment of the Demonic Path. In those three hundred years, the Demonic Path had absorbed nearly a hundred Nirvana cultivators, including five Thunder Tribulation Realm cultivators.

The strongest Tianya was a cultivator at the Celestial Realm; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to command the demonic path.

"Everyone, I can only say please be patient, because the time is not yet ripe. I am secretly contacting some holy lands. If this is successful, our demonic path may suddenly have several more holy land-level forces to guard it. At that time, that will be the time for us to emerge openly and legitimately." Tianya revealed a secret to everyone.

These words stunned the Nirvana cultivators present.

"Oh? Is that so? I wonder which holy lands they are? If any holy lands join our demonic path, it will certainly guarantee the status of the demonic path in the Eastern Continent."

"Yes, if a holy land joins us, it would be acceptable for us to be born later."

These Nirvana cultivators' attitudes immediately changed when they heard that a holy land-level force might join them.

"Everyone must be patient. No one wants centuries of effort to turn to ashes in one day, right?" Tianya said again.

That's for sure. It's not that they're in a hurry to be born, but rather that they don't understand what Tianya's plans are, because Tianya basically doesn't tell them what he's doing.

Many of these powerful individuals who joined the demonic path did so for personal gain, and it's clear that Tianya is no ordinary person; she can bring them substantial benefits.

After Tianya finished speaking, he disappeared, and the others also left.

When Tianya returned to her residence, she immediately revealed a face full of mockery.

"Alas! A motley crew, they can't accomplish anything great." Tianya said, then casually waved her hand to open a passage somewhere, and went inside. When she came out again, she was in a desolate and eerily dark place.

Tianya looked around, then knelt down on one knee.

"Tianya welcomes Your Excellency," Tianya said respectfully.

As soon as these words were spoken, a strange power quickly gathered in front of Tianya, and then condensed into a pair of eyes that no one dared to look directly at.

"Speak your mind. I cannot waste too much of my power." A deep and majestic voice rang out.

After thinking for a while, Tianya said.

"Your subordinate has been following His Majesty's orders to establish the Demonic Path for over three hundred years, but we have yet to recruit any Holy Land-level forces to join us. Without a powerful force to hold our ground, it is impossible to accomplish anything with just that rabble. His Majesty previously said that when the time is right, Holy Land-level forces will come to join us. I wonder how long we will have to wait?"

The mysterious man did not immediately answer Tianya's question.

"What, can't wait any longer?" the mysterious man asked in return.

Tianya quickly shook his head.

“Your Majesty, I am patient, but the problem is that these newcomers need to see the true strength of our Demonic Path. For the past three hundred years, we have only been engaging in small-scale activities. Although the reputation of the Demonic Path has spread, it is still far from being a significant force. I believe that the Demonic Path needs a real opening ceremony to establish itself on this God-Burial Star,” Tianya said.

The mysterious man pondered for a moment after hearing Tianya's explanation.

"Okay, so what do you want to do? Tell me?"

Without any hesitation, Tianya answered with a cold gaze.

"Your Excellency, I want to destroy the Supreme Response Sect, or at least subdue it."

Tianya's words startled the mysterious man, who then couldn't help but laugh.

"Haha, Tianyuan, I didn't expect you to still be thinking about this. Back then, I was attracted by the evil in your heart, wanting to see just how far your evil could go. That's why I found you this body with a rare physique. I never imagined that the evil thoughts in your heart would be trapped by a small sect like the Supreme Response Sect."

Indeed, this seemingly aloof and jade-like woman in white is actually Tianyuan, who changed bodies back then. Tianyuan's creation of the Reverse Immortal Alliance was actually at the behest of this mysterious person.

"Your Majesty, as long as this matter remains unresolved, it will remain a thorn in my side, and I must remove it," Tianya said, his eyes blazing with murderous intent.

The mysterious man hesitated slightly when he saw Tianya's determined gaze.

"However, the Supreme Response Sect is not what it used to be. It is much more difficult to deal with than before. Your senior brother is already a Celestial Realm expert, and he is definitely stronger than you. In addition, with that Emperor Formation, it is basically impossible for you to destroy the Supreme Response Sect," the mysterious man warned.

The reason Tianya was so eager to destroy the Supreme Response Sect was because she saw its terrifying rate of development. If the Supreme Response Sect were given more time, even a Divine Realm expert might be born, making it even more impossible to destroy it then.

"I still want to give it a try," Tianya said with a serious expression.

Having said all that, the mysterious man decided not to waste any more words.

"I need to consult the Master about this matter. If the Master agrees, then you can proceed as you wish," the mysterious man said.

Tianya nodded.

Their conversation ended there.

Meanwhile, at the Supreme Response Sect, Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue spent a whole week together before finally leaving their residence.