I can gather experience beads

When Cao Rui emerged from the teleportation, he felt a pair of large amber eyes suddenly appear in front of him, and there was only a dozen centimeters between him and those eyes!

He was startled and his body shrank back suddenly, quickly coming back to his senses from the teleportation array.

He looked closely and found that the big eyes belonged to a child floating in the air.

The child looks only three or four years old, with a very cute round head and wearing a golden bellyband.

But if you look closely, you will find that his body surface is covered with obvious mechanical patterns, which shows that he is not a real human being, but a puppet child.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, challenger." A crisp voice was heard. Cao Rui looked in the direction of the voice and a little baby wearing a bellyband appeared in front of him. It blinked its big eyes and had a bright smile on its face, making people want to get close to it.

"Hehe, congratulations on passing the first level. I'm Tianji baby, and I'll be your service ambassador for the next level! If you have any questions, you can ask me." The little baby said in a baby voice, as if he was full of pride in his identity.

Tianji baby? Cao Rui raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but mutter in his heart, is this another one of Tianjizi's bad taste?

However, now that we have come this far, we can only keep moving forward.

Cao Rui looked around and found himself in a hall of several hundred square meters, surrounded by teleportation arrays of various colors, flashing mysterious light.

He and baby Tianji stood in the center of the hall.

"What's your name?" Tianji baby asked curiously, staring at Cao Rui with his big eyes.

Cao Rui looked at the puppet and replied softly, "Yu Yijian."

"No, don't lie to me. I have the heart of heaven and can distinguish the truth from falsehood. Your name must be a pseudonym." Tianji baby shook his head, put his fingers in his mouth, and spoke seriously.

Cao Rui frowned slightly, thinking that this little puppet was really smart. The Heart of Heaven? Was there really such a thing? It could actually see through his lies.

He asked doubtfully, "Is my name important? Will it affect the next level?"

Tianji baby nodded seriously and said, "Yes, it will have an impact."

Cao Rui was silent for a moment, but finally decided not to hide it anymore and said, "My name is Cao Rui."

"Cao Rui..." Tianji Baby's body circled in the air for a while. The so-called Tianji Heart should have confirmed that Cao Rui was not lying. After stopping, Tianji Baby asked: "Cao Rui, what do you want to get in Tianji Fortress?"

"A powerful magic weapon? Or a top-grade elixir? Or a golden elixir opportunity?"

Hearing this, Cao Rui thought for a moment and then said, "Only children make choices. Naturally, I want them all."

"Hehe, you are really interesting Cao Rui."

"However, my father designed more than 30 levels in Tianji Fortress, and each level has a corresponding treasure."

"You have to give me something specific before I can recommend you the next level."

"Otherwise, with so many teleportation arrays, you will have to randomly select the level yourself."

Cao Rui frowned slightly when he heard this: "Your father?"

"My father is Tianjizi. I was created by him, so naturally I am his son." Tianji baby said.

"That does make some sense." Cao Rui nodded slightly.

This Tianji baby is obviously a puppet, but his emotional intelligence and IQ are no different from those of humans.

A thought arose in Cao Rui's mind. Since they could communicate, he wondered if he could take this puppet away?

After thinking for a while, Cao Rui said, "Hasn't your father already flown to the spirit world? How about I be your foster father? It's pitiful for a little kid like you to be here with no one to take care of you."

Baby Tianji was stunned for a moment, "What did you say, Cao Rui?!" Baby Tianji came to his senses with a puffy face and said, "You want to be my father?"

Seeing this, Cao Rui quickly said, "Don't be angry, I am serious. You can use your divine mind to distinguish the truth from the false. How about telling me what the price is for raising you?"

"Humph, I need to take a lot of elixirs every day, can you afford it?"

Cao Rui patted his storage bag and took out a bottle of Bailu Dan that he had refined himself: "What a coincidence, I happen to be an alchemist."

"Follow me, and you will never be short of this kind of medicine in the future."

Cao Rui waved his hand, and the bottle of Bailudan fell in front of baby Tianji.

Baby Tianji looked at the pill bottle suspiciously, opened it and took a look, a look of joy appeared on his face, he tilted his head back and poured the whole bottle of elixir into his mouth.

“Great quality!”

"Cao Rui, did you really make this pill?" Baby Tianji looked at Cao Rui.

Cao Rui nodded, "That's exactly what I made."

"Can you provide me with one bottle every day?"

Cao Rui nodded, "Okay." The four thousand doses of Bailudan elixir in the Zhangtian bottle were about to mature. One bottle a day could supply baby Tianji for a long time.

The Heart of Tianji confirmed that Cao Rui was not lying, and when Baby Tianji looked at Cao Rui, it was as if he saw a delicious meal.

He had been in Tianji Fortress for so long that he had long since eaten up all the elixirs left by Tianjizi. He hadn't eaten a decent elixir for a long time.

But the excitement on baby Tianji's face quickly faded: "Well, even if the pills you refine are very suitable for me to feed and grow up, I can't go with you at the moment." Baby Tianji said as he thought of something.

"Why? Tell me why."

It's 'no way' rather than 'can't.'

Seeing that he could kidnap this rare puppet baby, how could Cao Rui be willing to give up?

"My role is to help my father look after the Tianji Fortress, so I can freely enter and exit every location in the Tianji Fortress and guide those who challenge it."

"Therefore, my body is actually bound to the Tianji Fortress."

"I can't leave Tianji Fortress."

"Unless someone can clear all the levels, I can't leave Tianji Fortress."

"There are more than thirty levels. How difficult is it?" Cao Rui asked with a frown.

Tianji baby shook his head: "I saw your performance at the entrance of the fog. Although your swordsmanship is sharp, your body is not strong enough. Some levels test the strength of the body. You will definitely die if you enter."

"Alas, the cultivators who enter the Tianji Fortress are getting weaker and weaker. It will be basically impossible for anyone to pass more than 30 levels in one go in the future."

Cao Rui heard this and said, "Since the checkpoint is so difficult to pass."

"Your father created you without considering this. Could it be that he wanted to trap you here for the rest of your life?"

"In this case, there is no such thing as father-son love. The so-called father-son love is probably just your wishful thinking." Cao Rui said provocatively.

Tianji baby curled his lips slightly, but did not refute Cao Rui. He admitted Tianjizi's mistake and shook his head: "Besides, Dad did give me other opportunities."

"Alas, when my father designed me, he used his own flesh, blood, and soul. Although my body is a fixed puppet, I have a complete Dantian and soul in my body. Theoretically, if there are enough elixirs, I can continue to advance to the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages..."

"As long as I advance to the Golden Core Stage, I will be able to break free from the constraints of the Tianji Fortress and go to the outside world."