She remained standing in the hall, gazing at the throne.

The ghostly officials had all dispersed, and the shadowy figure on the throne had also grown thinner.

"It seems your strength is only about the same as mine. You don't even need to come to the Nascent Soul stage to hurt me." Xi Heng casually picked up a sword and twirled it.

"You don't want to return to the grass?" The other person remained seated, but his voice already carried a hint of resentment.

"Yes."

"Take him away and never return." The young Black Tide said coldly, "If you advance through this, I wish you failure and death."

"Thank you, but no need for blessings." Xi Heng yawned and saw a black vortex appear on the ground in front of him, from which emerged a lily of the valley with jet-black petals and leaves that emitted a faint light.

An eerie atmosphere and a vibrant life force coexist on this lily of the valley. Its roots, like tentacles, constantly undulate, and at their thicker parts, black spots resembling eyes appear.

Xi Heng grabbed it with one hand, glanced at the young Black Tide on the throne, and then dispersed.

When it reappeared, it had already grasped the grass of no return and returned to the dark wetland of reality.

A flash of purple light appeared in his palm, and the extremely precious herb was added to his inventory.

"This time it went quite smoothly," she muttered to herself.

After visiting several abandoned cities, they learned about the origin of the Black Tide.

Come here, have a fight, and you'll get your target item.

"I'm still missing the Divine Soul and the Primordial Elixir." Xi Heng pondered for a moment, and spatial fluctuations arose around him.

Two or three seconds later, it left the damp, dark ground and returned to the boundless wilderness, and the special changes in its physical body gradually disappeared.

He took out a magnificent flying boat from his spatial storage, boarded it, and propelled it back to Changping Capital.

After a ten-day voyage, we stopped again at Changping.

This time, Xi Heng ignored the welcoming attendants at Tingzhouping. After landing, he caused spatial fluctuations and went to the Lingxue Temple's residence.

The moment the aura of a peak Nascent Soul cultivator appeared in front of his Taoist temple, high-ranking members of the Spirit Blood Sect rushed over.

She took out the Herb of No Return from her spatial ring and called it a transaction. After a brief negotiation, Shi Xuan, the vice sect leader of the Spirit Blood Sect, also came to meet her.

However, the Tai Su Dan was more precious than the Bu Gui Cao, and the deal that Xi Heng wanted to make could not be completed.

Afterwards, she went to Duguang Pavilion to get a token to ascend to the highest heaven and meet the Nascent Soul Elder, and went straight up to the familiar high heaven platform.

Three wooden palaces made of intertwined tree branches stand in the center of the platform, and deep within, the swaying human head slowly awakens, revealing its dragon might.

Ignoring the dragon's might, the girl walked straight forward. Just as she took out the Herb of No Return, she saw that the other party didn't even look at what she was holding, but stared straight at her.

"Hmm?" She looked down and didn't see anything special.

After a while, the half-dragon, half-human head in front of them opened its mouth and spoke:

"You carry a vow within you."

“…” Xi Heng hesitated for a moment.

After a moment of reflection, he remembered that in his previous life, when he exchanged the Nascent Soul cultivation technique with the other party, he had promised to lend a helping hand in times of crisis in this life.

This vow has indeed not yet been fulfilled, and it must have been sensed by the other party's special ability.

However, even though the time has changed, the vow seems unaffected—Xi Heng thought to himself.

After a while, he nodded to the other person.

"There is one."

"It seems to be a vow of protection." The other party closed their eyes, feigning deep thought: "Protect the Forest? Whom did you promise? Which of my old friends?"

“Senior, please don’t worry about it.” She shook her head and said, “I came here only for the Tai Su Dan. Although I promised to protect this world, I cannot complete it because my cultivation level is not high enough to reach the Nascent Soul stage.”

"Hmm..." the other person uttered a long, muffled sound.

After a while, he said, "Tai Su Dan, you can take it."

"Huh?" The girl blinked as if she hadn't heard clearly.

"My life is hanging by a thread, and I only have a few decades left to live," the elder said in a hoarse voice. "The Netherworld cannot be without a Nascent Soul cultivator to guard it, or calamity will befall us."

He spoke slowly, in segments: "Within the next hundred years, no one in Changping can become a Nascent Soul cultivator, but you have already reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm and can try to advance at any time. Why not leave it to you?"

"You're leaving it to me?" Xi Heng was a little skeptical.

After all, this was the first time she had met him in this world.

"There is one condition—if you successfully advance, you must assist in the birth of the next Nascent Soul cultivator in this world, or stay in this world for another three hundred years," the other party said calmly.

"The next Nascent Soul cultivator..." The girl thought for a moment, then remembered that there was a suitable person in the Spirit Blood Temple.

To fulfill this condition, simply assist the other party in achieving the Divine Transformation stage.

If the other party fails to get promoted, you can reload the save file.

If all else fails, staying here for three hundred years won't be a big problem; you can also continue your cultivation of the Nascent Soul technique during that time.

After a moment's thought, Xi Heng nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, the elder in front of him emitted golden light, forming a blurry human figure that walked into the hall behind and took out a wooden box made of delicate golden branches.

Xi Heng took it and opened it, and saw a golden pill with a dragon pattern inside, glowing with light.

A ripple of energy emanated from around the pill, causing a slight tremor in the spiritual energy within the body.

Even just holding it in your hand, you can feel the immense medicinal power gathering within it.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, closed the wooden box, and thanked the elder at the front.

However, she still couldn't understand why such a simple oath could earn her such unwavering trust, even leading her to send over a priceless treasure like the Tai Su Pill...

"You can purchase the auxiliary materials for the promotion down below. What are the main materials you still need?" the elder continued to ask.

"Only the divine soul above the Nascent Soul stage is missing," Xi Heng replied.

"So it's not lacking in the essence of heaven and earth..." The other party narrowed its eyes, turned its head to the back and said, "The spiritual resentment within this divine tree is what you need. Just take a portion."

Xi Heng had encountered many great grudges and had long understood that these great grudges, these aggregates of resentment, were a special kind of spirit.

I had previously speculated that the Black Tide or the Changpingjing Divine Tree could satisfy the condition of 'divine soul above the Nascent Soul stage', so it's not surprising to hear it now.

"How can I obtain it?" Xi Heng asked politely.

"Enter the divine tree, find the spirit's resentment, and cut off two-tenths of it." The elder spoke quite simply, as if she believed she could accomplish it easily.

"Where is the gate to the sacred tree?"

"You've already mastered the art of space so skillfully, why do you need doors?" The other person chuckled softly.

"Let's follow the proper procedures," the girl said casually.

"That's fine..."

The other person nodded with their swaying, aged head.

Then a burst of golden light emerged from her fingertips and drifted away.

"Follow the light, and you will find the path." After saying this, the elder slowly closed his eyes.

Xi Heng performed a Taoist salute, then turned and left with the golden light.

Golden light drifted out of the platform and fell straight down as if pulled by gravity.

She let the wind tousle her hair and followed the golden light to a spot on the tree trunk right on the surface of the clouds.

At this moment, Xi Heng seemed to be stepping on clouds, approaching the giant tree trunk wall in front of him.

The golden light first merged into the surface of the giant wall, and the tree trunk then emerged with patterns and opened up.

Gradually, a cave resembling a cliff face appeared.

The cave walls, with their many intertwined branches, extend inwards.

The golden light was gone, and Xi Heng entered it, stepping on the steps made of tree branches to go further inside.

Meanwhile, many spells prepared for battle have begun to be activated.

The golden light magic of the Sun and Moon's selfless power protected her body layer upon layer, causing even Xi Heng's hair to radiate a little light.

The steps gradually shortened beneath their feet, and light appeared in the depths.

The girl formed a longsword from the flames of resentment and held it in her hand, slowly walking towards the bright light.

As the distance drew closer, a dozen seconds later, my left hand reached forward and touched the bright light in front of me.

The light then burst forth, filling Xi Heng's surroundings like a flashbang exploding, turning everything in front of him into white.

When the white light disappeared and he opened his eyes again, Xi Heng had already arrived in the inner space of the divine tree.

Beneath my feet lies the water reflecting the light from above, and though tree walls limit the distance in all directions, the space still feels vast.

Looking up, one can see a woman whose body is covered in wounds and cuts, each wound oozing black mud downwards, suspended upside down in the air, swaying steadily and evenly like a pendulum in a clock.

The black mud resembled her blood, constantly squeezing out of her flesh, scattering on the ground and dissolving into the water.

Ripples spread across the water's surface, and the human-shaped pendulum slowly opened its eyes, gazing at the scene with its deep purple pupils.

"Are you here to save me, or to kill me?" the man asked in a hoarse voice.

“Neither.” Xi Heng looked at the person who was being considered for promotion: “I’m just here to pick up something. Please don’t resist.”

"It shouldn't hurt too much."

……

Volume 1: Chapter 335, Tonghua Dashen

Inside the divine tree, in a spacious area surrounded by tree walls.

Xi Heng, holding a sharp blade, slowly stepped forward.

A faint light emanated from the far walls, but by the time it reached the center, it was extremely faint.

Therefore, the scene here is dark, and the black mud that has been submerged in the water occasionally emits wisps of black smoke, making it seem eerie.

Even more bizarre was the woman swaying upside down in the air like a pendulum.

She was covered in a sticky garment made of black mud, obscuring most of her face and making it impossible to see her features or figure. Her disheveled hair floated upwards against gravity, swaying with the even movement of her body.

Only her pair of bright, jewel-like purple eyes remained untouched by the black mud and grime, even gleaming like two fireflies swaying left and right in the air.

Black mud emanating from its wounds and fissures fell to the ground, transforming into a twisted monster that seemed to crawl out of the underworld, and attacked Xi Heng, who had already shown hostility.

The girl covered the blood sword with golden light, and when a huge, four-legged, standing snake-like monster approached, she raised the sword and slashed.

A flash of golden light, and the demon exploded into black mud scattered on the ground with a bang.

As ripples spread across the water beneath their feet, several ghost generals brandishing long halberds charged towards them once more.

Clang——

The halberd was shattered the moment it touched the blade, and the ghost general's waist was also cut open.

Xi Heng continued to step forward, but suddenly heard the water rippling behind him.

Turning around, one could see that the black mud that had just shattered had reassembled into a single entity, transforming into a giant hand that swept across the water and grabbed fiercely.

The sound of rushing water echoed, and with a single slash, the giant hand was cut in two and turned into shattered black mud.

"Tsk." The girl sidestepped the splash of dirt, then turned to look at the strange woman and said, "Don't resist, relax, or it might hurt a lot."

After all, it involves cutting off one-fifth of the spirit's resentment, so the damage must be quite severe.

However, it didn't matter to Xi Heng; this guy was just one of her promotion materials.

She only spoke a few more words because she had a slight human-like appearance.

"Traitor—" The other party replied with only these two angry words.

"You're the ones who took it upon yourselves to treat me as a major enemy, and now you're accusing me of betrayal." Xi Heng yawned and casually chopped the heavy punch that came his way into pieces.

"Actually, I was originally a cultivator, a fairly standard one."

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly disappeared.

When he reappeared, the sharp blade in his hand had already pierced through the chest of the woman with the pendulum swing in the air.

With a slight tremor of his wrist, he released another burst of sword energy, cleaving open the enemy's entire chest.

The monster's interior is similar to that of a human, with a separate heart and lungs.

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