Mortal: Fight monsters and upgrade, I will enjoy immortality!

After walking down for nearly a thousand feet, Ye Ming's eyes suddenly brightened and he appeared in a huge hall of nearly a thousand feet. There were nearly a hundred soldiers in the hall, divided into three teams, passing by in a hurry, and seemed to be extremely busy.

There were more than a dozen exits around the hall, with people coming in and out, and the exits looked exactly like the one he was in now.

When he subconsciously looked up, he couldn't help but be surprised.

He saw that the hall he was in was not a hall in the general sense at all, but a huge circular cylindrical existence, like a hollow giant tower, with no cover on the top. Bright light shone in through the transparent light curtain, illuminating the entire cylindrical hall.

The stone platform and passage they had just come out of were only inside the mezzanine wall of the tower.

This was the first time Ye Ming had seen such a huge stone tower. He couldn't help but stop and take a few more looks.

When he lowered his head again, he saw that the woman in black was just waiting for him quietly, with no intention of urging him. He touched his nose and said, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, fellow Taoist."

"Haha, almost every cultivator who comes to Tianyuan City for the first time will have an expression like yours. What's more, you come from the lower realm, so it's even more normal." The woman in black smiled, and then led Ye Ming forward.

When Ye Ming walked to the exit of the hall and looked into the distance, his heart skipped a beat and he was amazed once again.

As far as the eye could see, there were huge blue towers towering into the sky, densely distributed, more than a hundred of them. And at the base of these towers, there were pavilions and towers, one next to the other, and there were countless of them. Some were a thousand feet high, and some were more than a hundred feet high. Every building seemed to be several times larger than what he had seen before.

He didn't know about other places, but what he saw in Longling City was too small compared to here.

"Fellow Daoist Ye, let's go!" After calling out, the black-clothed woman took Ye Ming and rushed down, heading straight for a thousand-foot-high palace not far away.

This pavilion is divided into ten floors from top to bottom, each floor has an entrance, and in the middle is a gate about thirty feet high, with a silver plaque with three large characters "Fei Ling Temple" hung on it.

The woman in black took Ye Ming and flew into the fourth floor of the hall.

After entering, there is a small hall with six or seven corridors extending in all directions around it.

In the small hall, several monks in different costumes gathered together, talking about something with a smile.

Ye Ming took a quick look and immediately realized that these people were all early stage Jindan cultivators like him.

As soon as Ye Ming and the woman in black entered, these people immediately noticed them and their eyes swept over to them.

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Xiao, didn't you just leave not long ago? Why are you back again? By the way, who is this fellow Daoist..." A young man with sharp features and a handsome appearance asked with a smile.

The woman in black frowned inadvertently, as if she was quite displeased with this person, but she still said calmly:
"This is Fellow Daoist Ye from the outside world. You guys can chat slowly. I will take Fellow Daoist Ye to rest first, and I have to report to the Heavenly Guards."

After saying this, the woman smiled at the few people and continued walking forward with Ye Ming.

Ye Ming also nodded to a few people.

It was not until the two men's backs disappeared at a door that these people were suddenly startled and started to make a commotion.

"Huh? Coming from the outside world, could he be an ascended monk?"

"Which world did you ascend from?"

"No way. I heard that the first generation of ascenders must have at least the late stage of the Spiritualization stage. This person is only in the early stage like us. How could he be an ascended cultivator?"

……

The woman in black led Ye Ming into a corridor. Every few steps in the corridor, there was a stone door, and inside was an independent secret room.

When they arrived in front of a suite with several rooms connected together, the woman in black stopped and turned to Ye Ming and said:

"Fellow Daoist Ye, it's getting late today, and the Heavenly Guards are usually resting or have other things to do. I will take you to meet the Heavenly Guards tomorrow, and you will definitely have other arrangements by then. This is my temporary resting place for the next few days, and I will be going out on a mission soon. I had planned to return it, but now it seems that it is not necessary. Please inconvenience me and rest here for one night." "Haha, thank you for your help." Ye Ming had no objection.

Then, the woman took out a silver token, pointed it at the restriction at the door, and the restriction and the door were opened silently.

After opening the ban, the woman in black threw the token to Ye Ming.

"This is the control token of this cave. The cave is sealed by a unique restriction. If someone else doesn't have the token, even a Void Refining cultivator can't easily break the restriction."

"Thank you, Brother Daoist Xiao!" Ye Ming took the token and played with it in his hand for a while.

After entering the stone house, they found that it was just as the woman said. It was composed of several secret rooms connected together, like a small cave. There was not only a special secret room for cultivation, but also an alchemy room and a weapon refining room.

After they sat down, Xiao Yan smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Ye, there is a lot to say about the ascended monks and Tianyuan City. I don't know where to start. Which aspect do you want to know first?"

Ye Ming's eyes flickered, and he said slowly: "I have one thing I don't understand, why can you recognize the aura of another world on me as soon as you see me? It's okay for you, but the people with lower cultivation at the teleportation array can also do it. Is there any method?"

This question has troubled Ye Ming all the way. When he first ascended, no one in the Long Family Secret Realm recognized this aura. Later, when he was rushing here, few people recognized it. But once he arrived here, the situation was immediately different. He always felt uneasy if he didn't solve this question.

When Xiao Yan saw that Ye Ming asked this question first, she couldn't help but look at Ye Ming in surprise. Then, a light flashed in her hand, and a round magic plate appeared. It was shining brightly, and silver runes were faintly visible on it.

Xiao Yan held the magic disk and slowly explained: "This is a sensing disk, which can roughly sense the magic power of the cultivator, but its main function is to sense some special auras, and the aura of the ascended cultivator is one of them.

We, the Qingming Guards and the Black Iron Guards, both have this kind of magic disk, but the ones in the Black Iron Guards' hands are of a lower grade. However, this thing is not 100% effective. If the person being detected is good at hiding, this thing may make a mistake in sensing, or even fail to sense at all."

"So that's it!" Ye Ming felt relieved, and then asked the other party: "What's going on with the Qingming Guards and the Black Iron Guards?"

He knew something about this when he read books in his previous life, but those were just superficial bits and pieces, which were certainly not as good as asking in person. After all, if he wanted to become one of them, he should first understand it clearly.

"Haha, you will know the details later, I will just tell you briefly now. Qingming Guard is an important force in Tianyuan City to resist foreign races. Only Divine Transformation cultivators can serve as such, and the treatment is pretty good. Moreover, all Qingming Guards are Divine Transformation cultivators, but Divine Transformation cultivators are not necessarily Qingming Guards.

The Black Iron Guards are composed of Nascent Soul cultivators. Each Qingming Guard leads ten Black Iron Guards. They usually practice on their own and lead them together when carrying out missions.

The superior of Qingming Guard is Tianyuan Guard. Only the best among the Lianxu cultivators can serve as Tianyuan Guard. When they are on duty, they all wear golden armor, which makes them easy to recognize. Moreover, Tianyuan Guard has great power, and each of them can freely travel around the area without restrictions.

Moreover, he could openly kill anyone who was considered a threat to the human and demon races. His power was so great that even the Three Emperors would be wary of him.

It is said that a long time ago, the Tianyuan Guards had a precedent of wiping out hundreds of immortal cultivation sects within a month. However, no one knows the specific reason, and the Three Emperors and other beings also turned a blind eye to it.

As for the one above the Tianyuan Guard, there is the Council of Elders, which is composed of more than a dozen fusion-stage cultivators and is responsible for all matters concerning the entire Tianyuan City."

"Black Armor, Qingming, Tianyuan, and the Council of Elders, so that's it." Ye Ming nodded, thinking that these were probably the armed forces of Tianyuan City, and they should also have some management functions.

At this time, Xiao Yan added: "The Qingming Guards usually need to perform tasks and can get a certain amount of compensation from them. There are two types of tasks. One is to patrol regularly outside Tianyuan City and close to the wilderness. It is rotated about once every six months. The rewards and remunerations of this kind of task are relatively low, the risks are also smaller, and it will also take up a certain amount of training time.

Another way is to accept some special tasks issued by the Elders Council, but these tasks are generally very difficult and dangerous, such as going to the interior of an alien race to do something. However, once you complete this kind of task, the reward is also quite generous, and once you complete it once, you will not get another chance for the next few decades or even hundreds of years, so this form will also give you more time to practice. "

At this point, Xiao Yan paused for a moment, letting Ye Ming digest and absorb what she had said, and then continued:
“As for the benefits of the Qingming Guards, in addition to the valuable spiritual stones for cultivation, they can also choose a large spiritual land within the jurisdiction of Tianyuan City as a place for cultivation. Outsiders are not allowed to enter without permission.

In addition, the most irresistible thing is that every ten years, all Qingming Guards have the benefit of listening to the sermons of the Heti Elders. During this process, they can also raise the confusions encountered in their cultivation to the elders and will receive corresponding answers.

This is a temptation that all the Divine Transformation cultivators cannot refuse. Therefore, not only the Qingming Guards, but also all the Divine Transformation cultivators who joined Tianyuan City rarely leave voluntarily. "

"I see, I understand!" (End of this chapter)