Chapter 554

"Big Brother, in the few years you were in secluded cultivation, the other thirty-five cities accomplished a great thing; the Wan Mo Ku was wiped out, and those demonic cultivators can no longer be arrogant."

Ning Zhong told Li Rui about the things that happened during the three years he was in secluded cultivation.

Li Rui nodded.

That Wan Mo Ku was originally just a bunch of rabble.

It was a bunch of demonic cultivators gathered together to plunder the resources of the Jin Ting Cave Heaven.

Divine Firmament City only needed to have enough patience to eradicate them.

This was not surprising.

Not to mention, there were powerhouses like He Wenxuan taking action.

A matter with a ten-out-of-ten chance of success.

Ning Zhong continued, "This time, being able to eradicate the Wan Mo Ku, Elder Tan actively contacted all parties, and his contribution was not small; he has now become a proper city lord, and although it is not one of those ten inner cities, it is still a promotion."

"But if we talk about who had the greatest contribution, it must be Fu Rui."

"His talisman arts were supernatural, and he even used the Ten Thousand Mile Soul-Chasing Talisman to find the headquarters of the Wan Mo Ku, catching those demonic cultivators off guard."

"Of course, compared to Big Brother, he is still far too weak."

Ning Zhongtian added a final sentence.

Li Rui laughed in anger: "I don't have that ability."

His attainments in talisman arts were high, but they were still within the scope of the Purple Mansion Realm; that Ten Thousand Mile Soul-Chasing Talisman was a genuine Dao Body Realm talisman, and he asked himself that he could not yet activate it.

Of course.

This was for now; in a few months, when the Great Dao gradually stabilized, it wouldn't be impossible to do so.

At this time.

Tan Hu also interjected: "Big Brother, I heard that Fu Rui is valued by the immortal envoy and is very likely to become a core member of Bai Yujing."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but feel depressed:

"You tell me, the immortal envoy originally came to select our people to join Bai Yujing, but now it's good, it actually benefited that brat Fu Rui."

Li Rui pointed out: "Hu Zi, don't go around saying these things randomly."

"Oh."

Tan Hu then nodded obediently.

As the saying goes, disaster comes from the mouth.

That Fu Rui had great fame in Divine Firmament City, and his attainments in the Dao of talismans were not low; more importantly, he originally had no enmity with Fu Rui, so there was no need to offend people for no reason because of a slip of the tongue.

That would be the least worthwhile thing.

'Immortal envoy...'

Li Rui was thoughtful.

Immortal envoys like He Wenxuan actually existed in every major immortal sect.

The most important thing that allows an immortal sect to stand for ten million years without falling is not magic treasures or elixirs, but talent.

Besides the descendants of the families within the sect, there are the sect entrance examinations and the immortal envoys taking on disciples.

Like He Wenxuan coming this time, he was directly selecting the outstanding people in the Jin Ting Small Cave Heaven to become core members of Bai Yujing.

The core members of Bai Yujing are directly comparable to the true disciples of the Divine Firmament Palace and Wan Fadian.

Their status is extremely high.

Although He Wenxuan came to select talents from the Jin Ting Small Cave Heaven, if Fu Rui was amazing enough, he would also be selected.

There was no rule that it could only be someone from the Small Cave Heaven.

Wouldn't that be equivalent to snatching away the good fortune that should have belonged to the Yu Kingdom?

It was inevitable that Tan Hu would be angry.

But in Li Rui's view.

This was just a case of being less skilled than others.

If Fu Rui was really strong enough to snatch the quota, it was just that the Yu Kingdom didn't have the ability, and he couldn't blame others for being stronger.

As for him...

He had no intention of going to Bai Yujing at all.

The strongest in Divine Firmament City, even the strongest city lord, was still a long way from the Dao Lord.

But if he went to Bai Yujing, he might be noticed by the Dao Lord; he knew very little about the Dao Lord's methods, and if he were discovered, it would be a disaster.

His style of doing things was that no matter how great the temptation, he would not step into a field he knew nothing about.

At least he needed an eighty percent chance.

Now was not the time.

He had already taken that step of proving the Dao through strength, and the path ahead was smooth; there was no need to add danger to himself for benefits that could only add flowers to the brocade.

In the Endless Sea, on a desolate island.

A red light flashed and disappeared.

At this time.

In a cave.

The blood pool rolled, and a humanoid monster formed entirely of blood slowly walked out of the blood pool. The blood gradually faded.

Soon, it revealed the appearance of a gloomy middle-aged man with a hooked nose.

If any city lord of the thirty-six cities were here, they would definitely recognize at a glance that this person was a demonic cultivator with great fame in the Wan Mo Ku, the Undying Ghost Lord, Zhuo Sha.

"Hmm..."

Zhuo Sha let out a murmur.

His consciousness also began to return.

"I am actually still alive?"

In Zhuo Sha's chaotic sea of consciousness, the first thing was confusion.

If he remembered correctly, he should have died in that great battle long ago.

That's right.

He was dead.

He had been smashed to pieces by a casual strike from that middle-aged Daoist from Bai Yujing, and then killed by those guys from the thirty-six cities; the other side was very well prepared.

They even spent a heavy price to buy the Immortal-Fixing Hoop.

In the end, even his spiritual fetus could not escape, and he ended up with his spirit and soul destroyed.

So, since he was already dead, why would he appear here?

Just as Zhuo Sha was puzzled.

He saw several incomplete corpses neatly placed in the cave; besides his own, the others were also corpses of demonic cultivators from the Wan Mo Ku.

Zhuo Sha recognized that these corpses were all Dao Body Realm demonic cultivators, and there was even a leg bone of that Heaven-Human Realm great demon from the Wan Mo Ku.

For a moment.

His scalp went numb.

'What on earth happened?'

Just as he was shocked.

Zhuo Sha then discovered that there was another person in the cave.

And the reason he hadn't discovered it at first was that the person was too strange; he was clearly right before his eyes, yet gave people a feeling of being ethereal and void.

Zhuo Sha was originally a great demonic cultivator of the Dao Body Realm with extremely broad knowledge.

A situation he had seen in an ancient book suddenly flashed in his mind.

"The corpse-liberated immortal is the transformation of the corpse form. It is the refining and shedding of the true self, the escape and transformation of the physical body, the hidden adaptation of the five elements..."

This person before him.

Having form but no substance, it was clearly formed by extremely pure spiritual energy.

Detached from the mortal body.

It was clearly a corpse-liberated immortal!

Even with Zhuo Sha's mental state, his head buzzed.

'I was actually resurrected by a corpse-liberated immortal?!'

As soon as the news of Li Rui's exit from secluded cultivation spread, Tan Yu was the first to visit.

"Daoist Changqing, I heard you have exited secluded cultivation; your strength must have greatly improved. Congratulations, congratulations."

As soon as Tan Yu entered the door.

He laughed heartily and cupped his hands in congratulations.

Having been promoted to city lord and properly becoming a C-rank elder, on par with Li Rui, he was in high spirits, and even his temperament had become much more cheerful.

He looked at Li Rui with a smile.

Others might not know.

But he knew.

Li Rui had been in secluded cultivation to open the Purple Mansion, a true Purple Mansion Realm, and in terms of realm, he was even higher than him, so he naturally had to come and build a good relationship.

He even changed how he addressed him.

Addressing him as Daoist.

In the immortal cultivation world, there was no habit of calling each other brothers; everyone just said Daoist.

Li Rui: "There has indeed been some improvement."

He smiled and welcomed Tan Yu into the room.

But just as the two sat down.

Their expressions changed in unison.

It was a sound-transmission talisman.

And it was news from Divine Firmament City.

Tan Yu widened his eyes, murmuring in disbelief:

"Fu Rui... is dead??"

(End of chapter)