Chapter 578: Newcomer to the Heavenly Court Sect

The Third Senior Sister drove the animal skin for five days and finally arrived at the location of the Demon Nation's Founding Ceremony.

Originally, this place was a continuous stretch of mountains. Through the efforts of the Demon Alliance, it had been turned into a plain, and a towering Imperial City had risen from the ground, standing on the plain.

The city, cast from metal, was very conspicuous in the savage Demon Domain.

With great mountains standing tall and surrounded by ranges, the magnificent metal city stood in the embrace of the mountains, very eye-catching.

The metal city was pitch black all over, a heavy, suffocating mass, possessing great deterrent power.

As the Founding Ceremony approached, all forces with Integration stage cultivators received invitations. Most forces had arrived at the metal city in advance. Coupled with the Demon Alliance members stationed here, the metal city appeared very lively.

The Great Xia, the East Sea, the Demon Nation, and various loose cultivators gathered here, and forces from the entire Cultivation Realm came to witness it.

Originally, after organizing the Congwendao Sect's anniversary celebration, Lu Yang had recognized all the major sects of the Great Xia, but this time, many major forces he didn't recognize had come.

After all, the Demon Domain had been in chaos for 300,000 years. Suddenly saying they wanted to build a nation, everyone wanted to witness this historic moment.

The founder was even more extraordinary: the ancient Di Jiang, Zhu Tian. This was a Half-Immortal who had lived from ancient times to the present!

Anyone who had studied ancient history knew his great name!

"Demon City?"

Two large characters hung high on the gate of the metal city—Demon City.

When seeing these two characters, a vast aura rushed toward them, making people smell the ancient dust of history.

"Little Lu, Little Meng, over here, over here." Lu Yang's group landed at the gate of the Demon City and heard the Great Elder's voice transmission.

"Look to the left."

The two turned their heads and saw the Great Elder and the Third Elder squatting by the side of the road.

The Great Elder and the Third Elder were quite conspicuous. Passing demon clansmen glared at them fiercely, but due to the Demon City's rules, they couldn't attack and could only enter the Demon City indignantly.

With the Founding Ceremony imminent, fighting near the Demon City would be a slap in the face to the Di Jiang clan. Even if they had a grudge against the Congwendao Sect, they wouldn't dare to seek revenge or cause trouble at this time.

Based on this reason, the Great Elder and the Third Elder dared to reveal their true faces.

The Demon City had four gates. The Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Elders were guarding the other three gates. Upon learning that Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had been found at the East Gate, the three elders gathered here.

"Five Elders, did you successfully run away?"

Meng Jingzhou remembered that when they were chasing the five elders, the demon clans were so angry they were almost burning their essence blood. Could they still escape under such circumstances?

The Great Elder stroked his beard and laughed: "The five of us dared to come to the Demon Domain, so naturally we were well prepared. If they want to catch us, they should wait until they have cultivated to the Tribulation Transcendence stage!"

"Five Elders, long time no see." The Third Senior Sister greeted politely.

"Gan Tian, it's been almost a hundred years since we last met. It seems you have gained a lot in the Demon Domain. Among your peers, I'm afraid your cultivation is the highest; you are already at the peak of Void Refinement and will soon catch up to Little Dai." The Great Elder laughed. Gan Tian was a diligent and inquisitive girl. When she was cultivating in the Congwendao Sect, she often made them happy, which was the complete opposite of the annoying Ye Zijin.

They were both disciples of the Unspoken Daoist; why was the gap so large?

"Peak of Void Refinement?" Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou both showed surprised expressions. They had always thought the Third Senior Sister was in the Integration stage.

Wasn't it said that the cultivation fluctuation of the Void Refinement stage was very large? Why wasn't it reflected in the Third Senior Sister?

"Of course it's the peak of Void Refinement." The Immortal Fairy said lazily, "You didn't notice that this little girl hasn't done anything herself from beginning to end, but has been using magic treasures?"

After this reminder, Lu Yang suddenly realized that along the way, the Third Senior Sister had either used the ancient zither or animal skin, or used invisibility talismans; he had never seen her use spells or similar means.

"This girl is taking advantage of the time when her cultivation fluctuates in the Integration stage to inject magic power into magic treasures, storing it in advance, so that when her cultivation drops, the magic treasures can still be used as usual."

Lu Yang remembered that when he and Old Meng took the sect entrance exam, Old Meng brought several magic treasures with pre-stored magic power, all brought from home.

"When you reach the Void Refinement stage, you can try to protect yourself in this way."

Even so, Lu Yang felt the Third Senior Sister was bold enough. When cultivators were in the Void Refinement stage, they would choose to go into seclusion, live in hiding, become mortals, take the imperial exam to become officials, squat in jail... in short, they would do whatever was safe.

Unlike the Third Senior Sister, who was jumping around in the dangerous Demon Domain and still had the energy to take them tomb-raiding for archaeology.

Lu Yang had learned some things about the Void Refinement stage. He heard that the Unspoken Daoist often spent the weak stage of Void Refinement in jail.

Several of the elders stayed honestly in the sect and did not go out.

Many of the senior brothers and sisters chose to pretend to be mortals, eating and living with mortals, and when they encountered danger, they would reveal their cultivation to show off.

The methods were not the same.

"Fairy, how did you spend the Void Refinement stage?"

Lu Yang was curious. It was hard to imagine that with the Immortal Fairy's personality, she would go into seclusion.

In the ancient period, the situation was chaotic, and the path of squatting in jail and pretending to be a mortal probably wouldn't work.

"Simple. I refined clones. My cultivation fluctuated, and the clones' cultivation also fluctuated. From a probability point of view, it was impossible for both me and the clones to be in a low valley stage. There was always one whose cultivation was at a higher level."

Lu Yang considered it thoroughly: "What if you and the clones were both in a low valley stage?"

The Immortal Fairy felt Lu Yang's question was stupid and said as a matter of course.

"Of course, I would refine a few more clones."

"…Makes sense."

"This is…" The Great Elder had long noticed the person in the black robe following Lu Yang. They had been reminiscing and hadn't had time to ask about their origin.

A cold and crisp voice came from under the black robe, answering without the slightest hesitation: "Lu Yang is my Big Senior…"

Lu Yang was quick-witted and quickly said: "This is a newcomer to our Heavenly Court Sect."

The concept of the Heavenly Court was a concept fabricated by the five ancient immortals to deceive later generations. Jiang Lianyi had naturally heard of the term Heavenly Court.

Plus, the Immortal Fairy served as the Lord of the Heavenly Court. When Lu Yang invited her to join the Heavenly Court Sect, she agreed very readily.

As for the "Senior Brother" title, the Immortal Fairy insisted that Lu Yang belonged to the inner sect disciples, and Jiang Lianyi belonged to the unregistered disciples. Lu Yang counted as Jiang Lianyi's Senior Brother, Jiang Lianyi insisted on calling Lu Yang Senior Brother, and Lu Yang insisted that Jiang Lianyi counted as a senior.

It could only be said that each had their own persistence.

"A newcomer has come?" The Seventh Elder was happy. He trusted Lu Yang's eye for people. The person he pulled into the Heavenly Court Sect must be trustworthy.

The Seventh Elder paced with his hands behind his back and said in an old-fashioned way: "I joined the Heavenly Court Sect earlier than you, so I count as your senior. If you encounter anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me."

"The same goes for cultivation matters. I have quite a lot of experience in cultivation."

Meng Jingzhou: "…"

Third Senior Sister: "…"

"Okay."

The second update is at eleven o'clock.

(End of chapter)