Mortal: Fengling Linggen, married Chen Qiaoqian

"Then I will follow your wishes."

"After Fellow Daoist Yan returns home, I will teach you the method of refining the Scarlet Soul Banner. You can collect other auxiliary materials first to avoid wasting too much time in the future."

The little boy responded nonchalantly, and as his figure swayed, his illusory body gradually dissipated into the air.

Hearing this, Yan Yun was of course very happy.

Then he waved his sleeves, and the green light on his body suddenly shone brightly.

The speed of escape increased to the extreme, transforming into a soft green light that penetrated the atmosphere.

In an instant, it disappeared above the surrounding sea level.

Several months later, Yan Yun finally returned to Tiannan through the ancient teleportation array.

He captured all the six-winged frost centipedes guarding the teleportation array, then destroyed the teleportation array again and left the underground cave silently.

In the next two months, Yan Yun set foot on the Yunmeng Mountains of Xiguo again.

He merely told Lu Luo through a sound transmission note that he had returned, and then flew straight to Zimu Peak without meeting Elder Lu.

At this time, Nangong Wan was in seclusion and practicing.

Yan Yun naturally would not choose to disturb Nangong Wan's practice.

For practitioners like them, the brief separation of just a few years is actually just like a blink of an eye.

The entire Tiannan cultivation world, including those who were watching the situation, was completely unaware that he, Tiannan's leading cultivator, had once stayed outside the Luoyun Sect for a short period of time.

Upon learning that Yan Yun had returned, Lu Luo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the Luoyun Sect is relying on Yan Yun's great reputation to maintain its status, unless three or four more Nascent Soul cultivators can appear in the sect.

Otherwise, apart from Yanyun, Luoyun Sect's status as a super-large sect would seem a bit shaky.

However, as soon as Yan Yun returned to the cave, he immediately sent a jade slip to Liu Yu via flying sword.

It recorded in detail all the auxiliary materials needed to refine the Red Soul Banner, and requested her to do her best to help collect them during her retreat.

Then, he stepped into the secret room and began to practice the last level of the Qingyuan Sword Technique with all his strength and refine the Five Cold Flame Demons at the same time.

Time flies, time flies!
In the blink of an eye, another fifty years have passed!
During this period, Yan Yun noticed that Nangong Wan had come out of seclusion, so he immediately interrupted his practice, came out to spend a good time with his lover, and walked hand in hand for half a year.

During this journey, Yan Yun enjoyed Nangong Wan's gentle care to the fullest. When the two of them had a great time and returned to Zimu Peak again, they naturally began their boring and tedious life of seclusion and cultivation again.

In fact, this is also a kind of helplessness for practitioners. On the one hand, they have great magical powers and extremely long lifespans that are difficult for mortals to achieve.

On the other hand, they must always keep practicing unremittingly before their limited life span, just to pursue the almost unattainable wish of immortality.

If someone is born with extremely high will and determination, they may not think that cultivation is a painful thing, but for most practitioners, this situation is undoubtedly a dilemma.

Continue to pursue the supreme path of practice, but the future seems to be getting more and more distant and long.

It is really unwilling to face the fact that the spiritual practice in this life is limited to boring and unremarkable meditation and retreat.

If we do not make further attempts to practice, it would be equivalent to missing out on the precious opportunity to embark on the journey of cultivation in this lifetime.

Even if the chance of reaching the great road is slim, no one can give up easily.

Moreover, every time one breaks through a realm, one can enjoy the tremendous benefit of doubling one's lifespan, which undoubtedly prompts many cultivators to strengthen their determination.

Therefore, in this world of cultivating immortals, we can clearly see the serious polarization phenomenon.

On one end were the middle and low-level cultivators with mediocre qualifications and low cultivation. Although they had just completed their apprenticeship, they knew that the possibility of advancing again was slim.

But they are not willing to spend the rest of their lives in seclusion and cultivation. They prefer to live a leisurely life with romance, wives and concubines.

Some people even decided to return to the secular world, establish their own large families, and become local rulers.

On the other hand, those high-level monks felt that they were very close to the path of immortality.

They seize every minute and second, devote themselves wholeheartedly to cultivation, and ignore everything else.

Yan Yun and Nangong Wan undoubtedly belong to the latter.

Now, they are in the late and middle Nascent Soul stages respectively, and can be considered top cultivators in the human world.

As long as they successfully ascend to the spiritual world, they will be able to get closer to the true path to immortality.

Therefore, although they have a deep affection for each other after forming a partnership, they are quite restrained in pursuing sexual pleasure.

Although dual cultivation has a positive effect on improving one's cultivation, the techniques they practiced did not involve such content.

And this increase in power seems almost insignificant to them at the moment.

On the contrary, they are worried that they may become overly addicted to it and damage the foundation of their practice, so they do not force matters between men and women and just try them out briefly.

However, because they both pursued the same heavenly path, their relationship naturally reached the state of a loving couple with a mutual understanding and harmony.

Therefore, when they went into seclusion again, they no longer left the cave easily.

Until one day, a deafening thunder suddenly came from the sky above Zimu Peak, and then the vitality of heaven and earth within hundreds of miles around the peak was strongly shaken.

Countless colorful fist-sized balls of spiritual light.

They emerged without warning from underground, rocks, and trees in the nearby mountains, and then quickly gathered towards the Zimu Peak.

Finally, they condensed into a huge bright spiritual cloud above the mother peak, covering an area of ​​several acres, flickering and rotating in the sky.

This spiritual cloud happened to be located below the cave where Yan Yun was.

Such a spectacular scene instantly attracted the attention of Yanyun disciples on Zimu Peak, and also attracted Nangong Wan who was in retreat.

They looked up at the sky in amazement, observing the omen before them.

Since Zimu Peak is very close to Luoyun Sect, the top leaders within the sect will naturally receive such information.

They immediately sent out more than a dozen dazzling rays of light, which shot out from the Luoyun Sect's forbidden formation and headed straight for the Zimu Peak.

Lu Luo and another woman named Song who had advanced to the Nascent Soul stage were the first to be affected. They looked solemn and extremely worried.

Among the figures that arrived later, there was a woman in a white robe with a happy look on her face. This person was Liu Yu.

Although her cultivation has not made significant progress over the years, she represents Yanyun.

His status in the sect has surpassed that of most Yuanying-stage elders, and he has become the number one person under the Yuanying-stage elders.

Even Lu Luo and the woman surnamed Song had to be in awe of her.

Liu Yu felt a little excited. If Yan Yun could really move up to a higher level, her status would be elevated, bringing her endless benefits.

She was once at the height of her power, and it would be difficult for her to go back to practice again after tasting all the sweetness.

Now in the secular world, her status is on par with that of cultivators of the same level, and even old monsters in the Nascent Soul stage, which makes her extremely intoxicated. She knows that her talent is mediocre. After repeated failures in the Nascent Soul training, she gave up the delusion of forming a Nascent Soul and devoted herself to assisting Master Luo in creating a reserve world.

Although I have not been able to comprehend the great truth, I am not willing to spend the rest of my life in mediocrity.

Therefore, the rapid rise of Chujie is partly due to her hard work.

This move made Master Luo very happy, and he gave her more power.

However, when everyone arrived outside the mother peak, they were blocked from entering by a ban.

Seeing that the vortex of spiritual energy was about to approach the mother peak, Liu Yu anxiously sent a message into the restriction.

Soon, the fog at the entrance dissipated and everyone passed through quickly. Once out of the fog, they saw Mu Peiling holding a yellow flag, waiting respectfully.

"Two elders, Miss Nangong has been waiting here for a long time. Please follow me."

Mu Peiling put away the yellow flag and pointed to the distant sub-peak. No one on the scene objected and immediately followed him to the sub-peak.

At the top of Sub-peak, Nangong Wan, wearing a pure white dress, looked like a fairy from heaven. She stroked her brows and glanced at Lu Luo and the others, her eyes flickering.

Beside him were two male and female monks, Tian Qiner and male disciple Shi Jian.

They both formed the elixir decades ago, and Tian Qin'er took the anti-aging elixir to keep her appearance the same as before, so she has been as beautiful as a flower for many years.

After meeting the woman surnamed Song and Lu Luo, the two men quickly returned to Nangong Wan and waited respectfully.

“Elder Nangong, did Junior Brother Yan break through the bottleneck of the Spiritual Transformation Realm alone?”

When Lu Luo arrived, he asked Nangong Wan.

“Except for breaking through the Divine Transformation Realm, ordinary bottlenecks would not have such a huge momentum. However, this celestial phenomenon has lasted for a while, and it seems that the progress is not ideal.”

Nangong Wan answered with a hint of worry.

"Why is the progress so slow? The celestial phenomenon caused by Junior Brother Yan is so astonishing, how can the progress be slow?"

Lu Luo was surprised.

"If I can summon the spiritual cloud to descend to the top of the mountain and merge with my husband, I will have a 90% chance of breaking through this time."

"However, Lingyun's landing process was quite difficult, showing that he has not yet mastered the way of heaven and earth's vital energy. Therefore, the outcome of this breakthrough may not be smooth."

As an expert in the Spirit Transformation Stage, Nangong Wan shared her insights.

Upon hearing this, everyone turned their heads to look at the spiritual cloud in the sky. They saw that the spiritual cloud tried to descend to the mother peak several times, but was blocked by an invisible force and was unable to do so.

This made everyone's heart sink to the bottom, but Lu Luo had no time to investigate further and could only concentrate on the sky in the distance.

Although the Song woman didn't say a word, her eyes flickered and her heart was far from as calm as her appearance. The other cultivators had mixed feelings.

But in front of the two Nascent Soul elders, no one dared to speak casually and could only wait in silence.

At this moment, the spiritual clouds in the sky in the distance suddenly vibrated, making a strange low-frequency buzzing sound.

Then, the entire cloud rolled and tumbled, accompanied by a heart-shaking roar.

There was a bang and the colorful light instantly dissipated into the air.

At the same time, the spiritual energy and light balls that continuously poured into this place gradually became illusory with the elegant sigh of the mother peak.

In an instant, the surroundings of Zimu Peak returned to their original state.

Nangong Wan saw this and smiled with a hint of regret, saying:
"Senior Brother Yan had almost reached the threshold of becoming a Spiritual Transformation, but unfortunately he failed at the last moment."

"However, Senior Brother Yan's current strength is enough to prove that he has enough potential. As long as he works harder, he will be able to enter the Spiritual Transformation Stage in no time."

"Indeed, Junior Brother Yan's strength is enough to support him in multiple attempts. Entering the Spiritual Transformation Realm is definitely not out of reach."

Lu Luo expressed deep regret, but still nodded in agreement.

"That being said, my husband is acting steadily. If he decides to try to break through to the Spiritual Transformation stage, he must have made all the necessary preparations. His cultivation must have reached a bottleneck, and he has just chosen to take this last step."

"It seems that unless there is another opportunity, even if we try many times, it will be in vain."

Nangong Wan pondered for a moment and smiled helplessly.

Lu Luo and the woman surnamed Song knew the truth. What they said just now were just words of comfort. After hearing what Nangong Wan said, they didn't want to say more.

Liu Yu was also filled with regret. Just as she was about to express her opinion, Yan Yun's clear voice came from the mother peak:

"Wan'er! Senior Brother Lu and Junior Sister Song have arrived. Please invite them to the cave residence for a chat."

"I failed to break through to the Spiritual Transformation this time, and I may need to leave Tiannan for a while. There are some things I need to explain to them. By the way, please ask Liu Yu to come as well."

"Brother Lu, Sister Song, let's go to the Mother Peak together."

Nangong Wan frowned slightly, then smiled faintly and looked at Lu Luo and the female cultivator named Song.

The two understood each other and immediately cast magic, transforming into several beams of light that quickly rushed towards the mother peak.

The remaining Tian Qin'er and Shi Jian were not invited by Yan Yun, and looked disappointed, so they had to stay and wait.

All Jindan stage disciples obeyed the orders carefully, and no one dared to leave without permission.

At this moment, the female cultivator surnamed Song had disappeared above the Mother Peak, and everyone began to discuss a little.

At this time, several monks who were familiar with Shi Jian and Tian Qin'er invited them to chat together. The two were in a good mood and were quite talkative.

Although he had formed the Dan a long time ago, he practiced in Zimu Peak all year round and had good feedback from his communication with everyone.

Nangong Wan and the others stayed in Yanyun Cave Mansion for several hours without seeing anyone return, which aroused everyone's suspicion...

Three months later, a green light rose from the Luoyun Mountains and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

A few days later, news came from Luoyun Sect that Elder Yan had left the sect and embarked on his journey again.

The travel destination and travel time are vague and no one can give a clear answer.

However, many sects seemed to be secretly glad about this matter, because they already knew that Yan Yun's attempt to reach the God Transformation stage had failed, and their concerns were resolved with this incident.

Although Yan Yun has become the most outstanding master in Tiannan, his lifespan will increase to more than two thousand years after he successfully achieves spiritual transformation.

Such a long time is undoubtedly too heavy for some sects that are ambitious to get rid of oppression.

Therefore, it seemed natural for outsiders to take advantage of the fact that Yan Yun had not yet completed the breakthrough and that his long journey was justified.

Based on past experience, simple spiritual practice often cannot break through bottlenecks, and seeking external opportunities is an inevitable choice.

However, the possibility of success is extremely low, otherwise the three great cultivators of Tiannan would not have stagnated in the late Nascent Soul stage for hundreds of years. (End of this chapter)