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

After a long while, Ling Yuling suppressed the discomfort in her head and couldn't help but snorted: "Tell me, did you do this on purpose?"

"What do you mean by intentional?" Ye Ming pretended to be stupid.

"I recalled the whole process carefully and found that when I was controlling the gold-eating beetles, these beetles would continuously absorb my spiritual consciousness. Have you known about this situation a long time ago?" Ling Yuling jumped over, hugged Ye Ming's body, grabbed Ye Ming's waist with her small hands and twisted it hard.

"Hiss! It hurts, let go!"

This amount of force was actually insignificant to Ye Ming and had no effect at all, but he still cooperated by shouting in pain.

"Hmph, I told you not to cheat me!" Ling Yuling let go of her little hand, then hugged Ye Ming and kissed him.

"Tell me what's going on?"

Ye Ming stopped joking and explained seriously: "It's actually very simple. If these mature gold-eating bugs are simply released without being commanded to do anything, they will not devour the master's consciousness.

But as long as you command them to move, they will inevitably devour your spiritual consciousness. The amount devoured by a single spiritual insect is not much, and any Nascent Soul Transformation cultivator can easily deal with it. Once the number reaches more than a hundred, the amount devoured will reach a very considerable level. With your current spiritual consciousness at the early stage of Transformation, you can't hold on. Even if you have cultivated the seventh level of the Great Evolution Art to perfection, you can only hold on for a little longer."

"This, doesn't this greatly restrict its use?" Ling Yuling said rather depressedly.

"Just be content! You know, one hundred mature gold-eating bugs can pose a great threat to a combined cultivator. Why do you have to offend a combined cultivator when you have nothing to do? And if it's a cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage, you only need to summon forty or fifty of them to deal with it. Isn't that enough?"

"Hehe, that's true! If you control forty or fifty of them, your spiritual sense will be enough to sustain a battle and avoid being hindered."

"However, although this gold-eating insect is powerful, there are things that can restrain it."

"Oh, what is that?" Ling Yuling pricked up her ears.

"Treasures like wood and jade can overcome it. In addition, spider spirit insects can also overcome it. However, if you want to overcome a mature gold-eating insect, you need a very high level of cultivation."

"Anymore!"

Just when Ling Yuling was about to ask something, a loud rumbling noise came from outside, and the entire cave shook violently.

"Someone is here to cause trouble, you better stay here and don't go out!" Ye Ming's face darkened. He patted Ling Yuling's shoulders and asked her to stay. Then he flashed and flew out.

"Yes, okay!" Ling Yuling agreed obediently, but she thought in her heart, it should be okay for me to take a sneak peek.

A flash of light appeared on the five-colored light curtain of the mountain protection formation, and Ye Ming's figure appeared from it. He could immediately see an old man standing in the air hundreds of feet away.

The man looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with a three-foot-long beard on his chin. He had a dignified and upright appearance, and was wearing a brocade robe with a valuable jade pendant hanging around his waist. He was obviously a person of high status.

"Middle stage of fusion! Who are you? Why are you attacking my cave for no reason?" Ye Ming saw that the other party's cultivation level was high enough, and his heart trembled, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Attack without reason? Haha, you are pretending to be innocent. It was you who killed my disciple Huang Weilong!" The bearded old man laughed out of anger at Ye Ming's words.

"I don't know what a great dragon or a great snake is. I have been practicing well in the cave, but I didn't expect to be attacked for no reason by you, senior. I remember that Tianyuan City has a rule that other cultivators cannot enter other people's spiritual land without the permission of the owner, let alone attack other people's caves. Although you are a fusion cultivator, can you easily violate the rules?" Ye Ming asked in a deep voice.

"Hmph, even if you deny it, you can't cover up the fact that you killed the Tianyuan Guards in this city. As a member of the Council of Elders, I must stand up and uphold justice and bring you to justice. Otherwise, where is the dignity of the Council of Elders in Tianyuan City!"

The bearded old man didn't take Ye Ming's duties seriously at all. He spoke in a dignified manner, then spread out his hands and raised them lightly.

Suddenly, within a radius of dozens of miles, there was a gust of wind and clouds, and points of colorful spiritual light emerged and quickly gathered towards the old man.

This person actually attracted the vital energy of the nearby heaven and earth in an instant.

"Hmph, you old bastard, if you want to take revenge, just say it directly. There's no need to make it so high-sounding." Seeing that the old man opposite wanted to take action, Ye Ming didn't pretend anymore. He clasped his hands together, and his body glowed with golden light, instantly completing the transformation of the Brahma True Demon Art.

It turned into a three-meter-tall giant shining with golden light, with its body covered with a layer of fine and thick scales. As the golden light flowed, it flashed with astonishing cold light. Both its limbs and torso revealed streamlined muscle lines, which were obviously full of amazing power.

"Huh? You are actually a high-level body cultivator, but do you think you can escape punishment just like that?" The bearded old man was slightly stunned after seeing Ye Ming's changes. But after a cold laugh, he didn't care anymore.

At the same time, he clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and the energy of heaven and earth that had gathered into a ball suddenly rolled violently, forming a terrifying giant sword.

The entire sword was probably two or three hundred feet long. The colorful sword radiated a terrifying pressure that knocked down the flowers, plants, and trees within a few miles around. Before it was cut down, a fierce wind was formed, blowing sand and rocks on the ground.

"Sword of Vitality!" Ye Ming's pupils shrank, and a black light flashed in his left and right hands. A strange black blade and a dark hill appeared in each of them.

Just as the battle was about to break out, a shout came like thunder.

"stop!"

These two words seemed to contain tremendous power, and the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth shook violently.

Ye Ming and the bearded old man looked in the direction of the sound almost at the same time.

I saw a long purple rainbow appearing in the sky dozens of miles away, flying towards here at lightning speed.

In just a moment, the purple rainbow came between the two of them, and the light faded, revealing a Taoist priest in a green robe and a middle-aged man with a pale face and no beard.

The Taoist priest was about forty years old, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a pale golden complexion, and his cultivation had reached the middle stage of fusion!

The middle-aged man with a white face and no beard was Zhao Wugui, an acquaintance of Ye Ming.

As soon as the Taoist appeared, he clicked his tongue and said disdainfully: "I was wondering who was so arrogant that he dared to attack the cave of the younger generation. It turned out to be you, Gu Yi. Tsk tsk, no wonder you have been so arrogant recently, it turns out you have advanced to the middle stage, no wonder, no wonder!"

"Lei Luo, keep your mouth shut. It's none of your business to judge how I act!" The bearded old man said gloomily, still holding the giant sword ready to strike.

However, the Taoist priest looked at the other party with a more provocative expression, and said with a cold light in his eyes: "Hehe, as an elder, do you want to break the law? If so, I don't mind destroying you here!"

"You are going too far!" The old man with a long beard was furious. He moved the magic formula in his hand and was about to drive the giant sword in the sky to cut down.

But when he saw the expectation in the eyes of this hateful Taoist priest, he was shocked and stopped the impulse.

The hateful Taoist priest in front of him was very powerful. As a veteran cultivator in the middle stage of fusion, his strength was unfathomable. He had just advanced to the middle stage. Once he started fighting with him, he would most likely bring humiliation upon himself.

"Humph! I won't argue with you!"

After taking a deep breath, the bearded old man snorted coldly and waved his hands. The giant sword of vitality in the sky suddenly rolled and surged, then disintegrated and turned into bits of vitality again, merging into the heaven and earth.

Once these spiritual lights dispersed, the surrounding strong winds disappeared instantly.

Then, the old man turned around and looked at Ye Ming with eyes as sharp as knives.

"Boy, your crime of killing Tianyuan Guards is undoubted. The elders will not let you go. Just clean your neck and wait!"

After saying this, the old man flicked his sleeves, his body swayed slightly, and he turned into a stunning rainbow. He flew towards Tianyuan City without looking back and soon disappeared into the sky.

(End of this chapter)