After being reborn, I took my childhood sweetheart to cultivate immortality.

The cultivators outside the city had assumed this was a perilous situation. Unexpectedly, at this crucial moment, representatives from the various sects of the Lingchuan Continent finally arrived.

The Lingchuan Continent has five major sects: the Nine Yang Sect, the Holy Sword Sect, the Cloud Shadow Sect, the Heavenly Mystery Sect, and the Hundred Flowers Pavilion. There are also more than twenty smaller sects, as well as the Joyful Union Sect, which is despised by righteous cultivators.

This time, each of the five major sects sent one Void Transformation stage elder, ten Body Integration stage elders, and several disciples of other cultivation levels. The Nine Yang Sect went even further, with even its Tribulation Transcending Elder, Qingfeng, personally leading the team.

The leader of the Nine Yang Sect, Elder Qingfeng, immediately slashed at the wolf demon with his sword upon arriving at the battlefield. As an elder in the Tribulation Transcending stage, this sword strike contained boundless power.

The wolf demon, already at the tenth level, was no ordinary creature. After dodging the sword strike, it leaped up, its entire body instantly growing to over ten meters tall.

The demon and the Taoist both flew into the air and began their battle. A true clash of masters is no simple matter. In an instant, the battlefield was filled with flying sand and stones, and the sky and earth seemed to collapse.

Each interaction of spiritual energy seemed to possess an overwhelming power, as if the entire sky was trembling.

The demon and the Taoist fought further and further away, gradually heading towards the Dragon Hidden Mountains.

Here, after reinforcements arrived, the battle situation instantly turned around. With everyone working together, it didn't take long for the demonic beasts to be slaughtered and routed, with less than 10% of them escaping back to the Dragon Hidden Mountains.

Seeing that the demonic beasts were either dead or had fled, City Lord Ji Hanzhou ordered the city guards to clean up the battlefield, and the remaining cultivators all returned to the city to rest.

We can't kill all the escaped monsters. If there are no monsters in the Dragon Hidden Mountains, some low-level cultivators will go there to improve their combat power.

Furthermore, if there were no demonic beasts in the Dragon Hidden Mountains, the spiritual herbs and fruits within would soon be completely harvested by cultivators, turning the area into a useless wasteland.

Xu Qingman suffered serious injuries in this battle. Although she had taken a healing pill, she would not recover immediately.

After Yu Jinchen carried her back to the inn, Lei Zhensheng and the other cultivators also returned.

Fortunately, they all returned alive. Meng Lanchuan and a cultivator named Lan Sinian were seriously injured, and their spiritual consciousness was also severely damaged.

Even with high-level healing medicine, it would take at least one or two years to recover. However, compared to those cultivators who lost their lives on the battlefield, they were quite fortunate.

According to those who returned from cleaning up the battlefield, this was the largest number of cultivators killed in a century. Although the tenth-tier wolf demon who instigated the attack had been killed by Ancestor Qingfeng, Dragon Hidden City still suffered considerable losses.

Even the eight Nascent Soul stage experts under the city lord are gone, let alone those in the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages.

The next day, City Lord Ji Hanzhou announced that he would be replenishing the guard team.

Early in the morning, Meng Nanchuan said he had something to say and invited everyone to gather in his room.

"Senior brother, fellow Daoists, I'm going to sign up to join the guard team." As soon as he entered the door, Meng Nanchuan dropped this bombshell.

Before the others could speak, Lei Zhensheng objected urgently, "Junior brother, how can you stay here? We agreed to go back together, your injury..."

"Brother, listen to me."

Meng Nanchuan interrupted him and continued, "You all know how serious my injury is. We've all been out for more than half a year, and we don't know how things are at home."

"Moreover, I heard that the City Lord's Mansion promised that as long as one signs up to join the guard team, the City Lord's Mansion will provide free medical treatment to the wounded. And joining the guard team is not the same as selling oneself; we can leave at any time."

As soon as Meng Nanchuan finished speaking, Lan Sinian also immediately decided to stay.

In fact, Lan Sinian had long planned to do this. He was a rogue cultivator, unmarried, and his master had passed away long ago, so no one cared whether he went back or not.

Meng Nanchuan was different. After all, he was a disciple of the Cloud Mist Sect, and if he didn't go back, his master and fellow disciples would still be worried about him.

Seeing that the two were determined to stay, the others could no longer persuade them and could only silently support them.

Now that they were all gathered together, the rest of them started discussing how to get back.

The sooner the better, since the Dragon Hidden Mountains are at their best for treasure hunting after the beast tides. If they go too late, they might not get anything good at all.

After deciding to leave, the group waited for the two who were staying to make arrangements, sold the monsters they had acquired, replenished their supplies of pills and talismans, and then immediately set off.

The Dragon Hidden Mountains were teeming with people, perhaps because they arrived late. They had been here for two days and hadn't even managed to gather a single low-grade spiritual herb.

However, they weren't in a hurry, so they simply flew south on their swords. After more than ten days, they encountered fewer and fewer people, and only then did they decide to continue.

Firstly, this place is already deep in the mountains, and flying on a sword would easily attract the attention of demonic beasts and cause trouble. Secondly, since so many people have come to the Dragon Hidden Mountains to gather herbs, there must be a lot of good stuff. We're going back soon, so we should at least bring back some good items.

Less than an hour later, Lei Zhensheng suggested, "Fellow Daoists, why don't we all split up? It's not good for so many people to gather together. Anyway, we can use the communication talisman if anything happens."

Yang Yunwei: "Okay, I also think it's better to separate, otherwise we won't be able to find a large place in a day."

"agree"

……

Finally, the group split into five teams and went their separate ways. However, they agreed to all head south and meet again in twenty-five days at the same spot where they had initially gathered the fire lotus.

Xu Qingman and Yu Jinchen teamed up alone, and everyone agreed not to disturb their time together.

Before parting ways, Yu Jinchen instructed them that anyone in danger could call on the two of them to rescue them. Furthermore, they were told not to stray from the designated route, as the others couldn't wait there indefinitely.

This time, Xu Qingman and her companion ventured deep into the northeast, a region they hadn't visited before, and where there were fewer cultivators.

They sensed the aura of a high-level demonic beast in this very area last time. The two of them believed that the territory to the east previously belonged to that ninth-tier demonic beast, which had been killed by Ancestor Qingfeng.

The territory of a ninth-tier demon beast is definitely a good place. During this period, those great demon beasts in the northeast will definitely go to fight for that territory. As long as the two of us don't get too close, we will definitely be fine.

After traveling rapidly for several days without stopping, they reached the northeastern outskirts of the mountain range. Along the way, they only encountered a few cultivators sporadically, whose destination was likely also there.

The two of them would avoid people when they encountered them, so it was best to be careful and try to avoid getting into trouble.

As Xu Qingman walked, she suddenly stopped and asked, "Jinchen, do you smell a strange fragrance?"

Yu Jinchen shook his head. "Strange fragrance? I don't smell anything. No, wait, there seems to be a faint, almost imperceptible fragrance wafting over. Let's look for it."

The two followed the direction from which the fragrance wafted and were fairly certain that there was indeed an unusual scent ahead.

It smells like fruit and flowers, an indescribable fragrance. The closer you get, the more refreshed you feel.

"Slowly, we should be almost there. Be on guard. Generally, the better the item, the more powerful the monster guarding it."

"Well, I see."