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

Ye Ming looked at this scene not surprised but happy.

"Okay, that's it, these spirit insects are finally devouring each other and advancing!" he said happily.

"Indeed, in the past two years, I have gradually put more than two thousand plants of neon grass with their eighth leaves unfolded into the cave. The one just now was the last wave. If this still cannot stimulate them to devour each other, I will have to activate the magic circle to force them to advance. But if that's the case, the number of mature gold-eating bugs we get in the end may not be too many." The incarnation continued.

"Yeah!" Ye Ming nodded and said nothing.

If you calculate carefully, the recent years are exactly the time when the batch of neon grass he brought from the human world has unfolded its leaves. During this period of time, batches of neon grass have matured one after another.

As for the gold-eating worms, after hundreds of years of continuous infusion, they had already absorbed enough of the essence of the five elements and reached the conditions for advancement to maturity decades ago.

However, according to Ye Ming's previous instructions, the incarnation had to wait until the colorful grass matured and unfolded its leaves before the gold-eating insects could advance. Therefore, he stopped the magic circle that infused the five elements' essence and imposed other protective measures on the insect swarm to temporarily stop their advancement.

It was not until the first batch of neon grass unfolded its leaves that the ban was reopened and the spiritual herbs were fed to the animals. Until today, the gold-eating bugs have begun to devour each other.

The mutual devouring and biting between the gold-eating bugs were extremely brutal. Those with weaker strength were devoured one by one, and their entire bodies, including the energy essence contained in them, were absorbed by the strong ones, making the strong ones even stronger as a result.

The whole swallowing process lasted for an hour, and Ye Ming stood outside the door and watched quietly for an hour.

At this time, there were only about 150 gold-eating beetles left in the entire insect swarm. Each of the remaining beetles had grown much larger, more than half a foot in size, and their aura was several times stronger than before.

At this point, the hundreds of beetles bit each other for a while, and ended up being evenly matched. No one could do anything to the other, and it seemed that they were equally strong.

After fighting for a while, the swarm of insects gradually calmed down.

Afterwards, these beetles scattered and landed on a tall spiritual tree in the center of the insect room. They stabbed their extremely sharp limbs into the tree trunk or branches and lay there motionless.

But the aura they emitted became intermittent and extremely unstable.

"This should be the time to lay eggs!"

Ye Ming had seen a similar scene several times in the human world, so he was basically sure of it after just one look.

According to past experience, this process takes anywhere from a few months to a year. These beetles will lay more eggs, which will then hatch into stronger beetles.

This time, the gold-eating worm is advancing to the mature stage. I wonder if there is any difference in this process.

This requires waiting patiently.

Ye Ming looked for a while, then turned and left.

Next, Ye Ming inspected every part of the cave. After seeing that everything was normal, he returned to the practice room and began to consolidate his cultivation.

A year later, a golden rainbow shot up into the sky from the five-colored light shield and headed straight towards Tianyuan City.

Two days later, Ye Ming appeared on the top of Tianyuan City with his disappearance hidden.

Looking back at the road he had traveled, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It took three or four days to travel the distance when one was in the Spiritual Transformation stage, but now it only takes less than two days to get there. After advancing to the Void Refinement stage, the speed of escape has doubled.

He turned around, moved his body, and flew towards the city center with ease.

Soon, Ye Ming arrived outside a giant tower located in the center of Tianyuan City.

This tower has a simple shape and is extremely tall. Each floor is dozens of feet high, stacked one on top of the other. A rough count shows that there are at least dozens of floors.

The tower was gleaming with various colors of spiritual light, and mysterious runes were engraved on it, which was extremely mysterious. The most peculiar thing was that the huge forbidden light curtain that separated the human and demon races in the city was connected to both sides of the tower, but it did not penetrate into the tower. It looked like the giant tower was completely embedded in the light curtain.

On the giant door on the first floor of the tower, which is more than ten feet high, are engraved three large gold-plated characters: "Elders' Tower".

Perhaps because he had seen Ye Ming standing outside the giant tower and watching him for a long time, a Qingming Guard wearing green armor flashed out from the ten-foot-high giant door on the bottom floor of the giant tower, walked a few steps to Ye Ming, and said respectfully: "Junior Xin Yu, nice to meet this senior. I wonder what brings you to the Council of Elders?"

"My name is Ye Ming. I have just advanced to the realm of refining emptiness recently. I have come here to report to the elders' council." Ye Ming said calmly with his hands behind his back.

Hearing Ye Ming introduce himself, the Qingming Guard looked up in surprise and took a closer look at Ye Ming. Then a strange look appeared in his eyes. Isn't this the Ascended Monk who is quite famous among the Ascended Monks? I didn't expect that I hadn't heard of this person for a hundred years. It turned out that he had gone to attack the Refining Void.

"What? Is there any problem?" Ye Ming's face darkened when he saw that the Qingming Guard opposite him had been looking at him but did not take any action.

"Ah no, senior, please wait a moment. I will report to the elder right away!" The Qingming Guard's body suddenly shook, and an inexplicable chill ran through his whole body. He was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his face. He said hurriedly.

Then the man took out a palm-sized magic plate, tapped it several times, whispered a few words, and then looked at Ye Ming with a smirk.

"Senior, wait a moment!"

Ye Ming ignored this person. He was obviously a local cultivator, and the kind who was hostile to them, the ascended cultivators.

The giant tower here is where the Elders' Council, the highest-powered institution in Tianyuan City, is located. There are ten combined monks stationed here all year round, five each from the human and demon races.

In fact, even if Ye Ming did not come to report after he advanced to the Refining Void stage, nothing big would happen. He just planned to go into the wilderness immediately to hunt powerful ancient beasts.

When one reaches the Void Refinement Stage, if one wants to obtain the elixirs needed for cultivation, the previous missions of patrolling the wilderness cannot satisfy the daily cultivation needs at all. One may not encounter an alien in the Void Refinement Stage even after patrolling for several or even dozens of years.

Therefore, you can only go deep into the wilderness to hunt ancient beasts to obtain elixirs to improve your cultivation. There are endless ancient beasts in the wilderness, not only in the Void Refining Stage, but also in the Fusion Stage. In addition, there are a large number of natural treasures in the depths of the wilderness. As long as you have enough strength, the wilderness is a natural treasure.

However, it was uncertain how long it would take Ye Ming to return from this trip, perhaps several decades at the least, or one or two hundred years at the most. Now that he was passing by here, it would be convenient for him to go in and report.

Not long after, a white light flashed from the magic disk in Qingmingwei's hand, and a clear female voice came from it:
"Let him come up!"

"Yes, Elder!" Qingming Wei bowed from a distance towards the giant tower.

Then Ye Ming was led into the giant tower.

The first floor of the giant tower is a hall that is dozens of feet wide. Except for a counter made of precious spiritual wood in the front, the rest of the hall is empty.

There were two people sitting behind the counter with their eyes closed in meditation, one was in the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, and the other was in the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm.

When they saw Ye Ming coming in, the two of them just raised their eyes and looked over here, then closed their eyes and ignored Ye Ming.

"Well, senior, please follow me." The cultivator named Xin was a little embarrassed. After a dry cough, he called Ye Ming to walk to a corner of the hall.

Ye Ming didn't care about it and followed the man.

After turning a corner, he suddenly saw three magic arrays lined up behind the wall. With Ye Ming's current level of array formation, he could tell at a glance that these three were small teleportation arrays, and they were bidirectional.

At this time, the monk surnamed Xin took out a jade talisman that shone with white light from his storage bracelet, handed it to Ye Ming, and pointed at the teleportation array and introduced it:
"Senior, the elder is on the 49th floor. This is the jade talisman that marks the 49th floor. You just need to carry it with you and you will automatically go there when you use the teleportation array."

"Hmm!" Ye Ming nodded slightly as he took the jade talisman, then walked up to the teleportation array in the middle. After casting a few spells at the array, he disappeared in a white light.

(End of this chapter)