After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

The Qiongshan Sect has set up a mist formation throughout the entire mountain. This lowest-level formation has no offensive power, but it also consumes very little spiritual energy. It can only be used to confuse mortals, and it has no effect on cultivators.

Huo Yu spread his divine sense and swept it across the entire Qiongshan Sect, quickly gaining a thorough understanding of its strength.

The entire Qiongshan Sect currently has only two hundred Qi Refining stage disciples, most of whom are below the fourth level of Qi Refining. There are sixteen Foundation Establishment stage disciples, one of whom is at the peak of Foundation Establishment, four are at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and the rest are at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

The more troublesome thing is that there is also a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, who is quite difficult to deal with given Huo Yu's current cultivation level of late-stage Foundation Establishment.

In addition, another discovery made Huo Yu give up the idea of ​​directly attacking the mountain gate.

When Huo Yu probed with his divine sense, he discovered that what he needed was currently inside the belly of Qiongshan Mountain, which was the mountain spirit nurtured by Qiongshan Mountain.

In his previous life, he obtained the Qiongshan Mountain Soul by pure accident. A little mouse broke into his barrier and, by some unknown method, managed to take away the Buddha Heart Lotus from within the barrier alive.

That Buddha Heart Lotus was prepared by Huo Yu for his natal spiritual fire. When he found it, it hadn't fully bloomed, so he left a restriction on it, intending to take it when it matured. Unexpectedly, before the Buddha Heart Lotus could mature, it was picked by someone else.

Huo Yu sensed the destruction of the barrier the moment it was broken and followed the marks left on it to find the Qiongshan Sect.

The Buddha Heart Lotus was picked before it matured, rendering it useless to him. Nevertheless, Huo Yu went to the Qiongshan Sect and made that little mouse pay the price.

After destroying the Qiongshan Sect, Huo Yu casually took the mountain spirit from the mountain's belly.

A mountain spirit is formed when a mountain is situated on a spiritual vein and absorbs spiritual energy over many years. Once a mountain spirit is born, the mountain gains sentience and can embark on the path of cultivation.

However, Huo Yu could tell at a glance that this Qiongshan Mountain Soul was not naturally born. There were no spiritual veins beneath Qiongshan Mountain, and this mountain soul was merely a physical body without any intelligence; it was, in fact, a good object for nourishing the soul.

As for how the spiritually barren Qiongshan Mountain could give birth to a mountain spirit, Huo Yu did not delve into it.

Calculating the time, there are still about ten years until Huo Yu destroys the Qiongshan Sect. However, the cohesion of the Qiongshan Mountain Soul is far less than in the previous life.

However, the scarcity of spiritual energy in Qiongshan is almost the same as in my previous life. In such a spiritual environment, the mountain spirit, let alone condense and grow stronger, will probably only slowly dissipate.

Huo Yu frowned; this discovery was completely unexpected.

Judging from the current state of the Mountain Soul, its restorative effect on his soul is probably less than the spiritual energy he consumed in extracting the Mountain Soul.

Now, Huo Yu faces two choices: either wait ten years until the mountain soul condenses to the strength of its previous life before taking it, or investigate the reason why the mountain soul was born in Qiongshan and find a way to quickly "ripen" it.

After weighing the pros and cons, Huo Yu chose the latter.

The Qiongshan Mountain Soul was the easiest of all the divine soul-type spiritual objects he knew of to obtain; the others were simply beyond his reach with his current strength. But he didn't have time to wait ten years; he needed to repair his divine soul as soon as possible and then find Long Yucheng.

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As a transmigrator who theoretically possesses a system, Long Yucheng's first nineteen years in this cultivation world can be described as utter failure.

Without any cultivation techniques, magical treasures, or spiritual power to rely on, he was completely helpless.

So how did he know this was a world of cultivation?

Because of the first task issued by that unlucky system:

[Main Quest] Join any cultivation sect

Reward: System Activation

That's right, he couldn't even activate the system.

From the moment he came into this world, this system has been with him for a full nineteen years, displaying only this one line of text: no artificial intelligence, no points mall, and no cheat codes.

In general, his life over the past nineteen years has been nothing like that of an ordinary person; in fact, it has been almost exactly the same.

And the worst part is that he has no money. In the mortal world, being without money means you can't move an inch.

When Long Yucheng woke up in this world, he was an abandoned baby left in the wilderness. If he hadn't been lucky enough to be adopted by an old hunter who was passing by, he might have been reincarnated a second time on the spot.

When he was fourteen, the old hunter passed away. Long Yucheng sold what was left in his family and, with his meager savings, embarked on a aimless journey to seek immortality.

Five years have passed, and Long Yucheng hasn't even touched the gates of the immortal path, let alone cultivated immortality.

In this world, cultivators and mortals are clearly separated. In the past five years, Long Yucheng worked hard to earn money whenever he ran out of travel funds, and continued on his journey once he had enough. He traveled through three countries, stopping and starting along the way, without encountering a single cultivator—of course, it is possible that he did, but he did not know.

There are various legends about cultivation sects among the people, but when Long Yucheng traveled thousands of miles to the legendary cultivation sect, he found that it was either a fraud or a desolate wilderness, and he didn't see a single cultivator.

The worst time was when he mistakenly entered a fake Taoist temple, was drugged with sleeping pills, and sold to an illegal coal mine, where he almost lost his life.

However, he also turned misfortune into blessing, as he unexpectedly found two transparent stones about the size of a thumb deep in the mine.

These two stones, one white and one green, seemed to contain wispy white fluff inside. Based on his experience from countless cultivation novels before his transmigration, Long Yucheng concluded that these were spirit stones, the hard currency of the cultivation world.

It was thanks to these two spirit stones that Long Yucheng was finally able to glimpse the gates of the cultivation sects.

Looking at the towering, cloud-shrouded peaks before him, Long Yucheng's legs trembled slightly.

A quarter of an hour ago, he was carried here like a chick. For Long Yucheng, who had never experienced flying, this was extremely exciting.

But this was an opportunity he had exchanged for two spirit stones; it was his first appearance as the protagonist in the cultivation world, and no matter how cowardly he felt, he couldn't show it.

There were dozens of people around, just like Long Yucheng, who had been brought here by those black-clad cultivators who flew on swords. The majority of them were children and teenagers, and nineteen-year-old Long Yucheng was considered "old" among them.

Most people collapsed to the ground like noodles the moment they were put down, unable to even stand. Some managed to stand, but their faces were pale and they trembled like leaves. In comparison, Long Yucheng's performance was relatively calm.

The black-clad disciples rode back and forth on their flying swords, setting down one boy after another. After nearly a quarter of an hour, everyone had finally arrived.

As a majestic bell tolled through the mountains, the entrance examination for the Qiongshan Sect officially began.