Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Compared to the requirements for advancing to Level 3, the conditions for advancing to Level 4 seem somewhat simpler.

At least, there was no requirement to find the corpse of some Tier Four bee demon.

Otherwise, Ji Yuan felt that even if he searched both continents thoroughly, he wouldn’t find it.

A day later, he flew out from within the formation, put away the Inverse World Array that protected the mountain, and left behind the array that the Hundred Insects Old Immortal had set up, choosing not to take it with him.

In any case, it’s a suitable resting spot.

It is night.

Hu Li watched as Elder Qiu disappeared into the vast night.

And just a month after Ji Yuan left the Profound Crystal Mountain, a name gradually spread throughout Shuinan.

Even many people in the North of Water heard about it.

That was the emergence of an Elder Qiu Demon in Shuinan.

He killed both righteous and demon cultivators alike.

It’s said that the most egregious thing he did was that while flying overhead, a demon cultivator on the ground looked up at him.

He descended and asked the demon cultivator what he was looking at.

The demon cultivator said he wasn’t looking at anything.

As a result, the Elder Qiu Demon said, “I flew over from the sky, and you don’t even want to look at me, isn’t it obvious that you’re looking down on me?”

And then he killed him.

After this incident spread, people in Shuinan increasingly resented the Elder Qiu Demon.

Later, someone else encountered Qiu Qianhai and ran into the same problem.

This person was smarter.

Saying he admired Elder Qiu’s heroic presence and was full of admiration and envy.

He thought he could escape the ordeal this way, but to his surprise, this time the Elder Qiu Demon said.

“Who are you to be worthy of looking at me?”

And he killed this demon cultivator as well.

Afterward, the Elder Qiu Demon earned the label of being “capricious.”

Anyone who encountered him either got killed or hid far away.

Until a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator, fed up with Qiu Qianhai’s antics, declared he would kill him…

Upon hearing the news, Qiu Qianhai fled from within the territory of the Joy Palace, destination unknown.

A month later.

South of Coastal City, on a hilltop with a pavilion.

Amidst gathering wisps of black fog, an old man wearing a black robe materialized.

As soon as he appeared, he exuded a dense Yin energy, causing a few cultivators nearby who were enjoying the view to quickly flee.

After appearing, the old man gazed northward at the towering Coastal City.

“It does look somewhat different compared to before.”

The old man was indeed Ji Yuan.

After a mid-stage Core Formation demon cultivator declared his intent to kill him, Ji Yuan left the territory of the Joy Palace.

Not that he feared that demon cultivator, but fighting a mid-stage Core Formation demon cultivator was unnecessary for him.

With that time and effort, wouldn’t it be more enjoyable to kill several Foundation Establishment demon cultivators?

Moreover, Ji Yuan indeed intended to return to the territory of the Water Dragon Sect. First, to retrieve his belongings from the overseas isolated island, and second, to see if Ren Kui and Liu Yuan had left any messages, especially in this Coastal City.

Earlier, Ji Yuan had learned from Hu Li that Coastal City was in the process of constructing a transcontinental teleportation array.

Such an important matter naturally needed to be observed.

Now, Ji Yuan had already gone to the overseas island and retrieved the stored belongings along with the corpse puppet.

Even though a considerable amount of time had passed, the island hadn’t been targeted by anyone.

Which was a rare stroke of luck.

As for now…

The already towering Coastal City appeared even grander now; to put it bluntly, the city walls had become taller. Besides that, they were also constructing outer city walls outside the original walls.

It seemed that the Yun Family Castle had been demolished.

Ji Yuan had gathered some information along the way.

Apparently, the Yun Family, once the largest noble family in Coastal City, had been wiped out by the Demon Dao.

This meant that Yun Qianzai’s family was no more.

He hadn’t even become the family patriarch yet, and the family was gone.

The reason was related to the construction of the outer city of Coastal City.

It was said that on the day of land allocation, the Sect Leader of the White Bone Sect, the White Bone Demon Monarch, was in charge. As he passed over the elegantly designed Yun Family Castle, he inquired about the Yun Family.

Upon learning that the Yun Family had once been affiliated with the Water Dragon Sect, he mercilessly employed the “Bone Transformation Technique,” refining the entire Yun Family into bones.

It inevitably reminded Ji Yuan of his previous visit to the Yun Family.

Well… I can’t beat him now; there’s nothing I can do.

Once I condense my Nascent Soul in the future, I’ll definitely demand an explanation from the White Bone Demon Monarch!

Coastal City is in the process of building the outer city.

But the transcontinental teleportation array is not being built within the city but on the endless sea east of Coastal City.

Once the location was determined, the White Bone Demon Monarch summoned a bone-forging mountain-moving ape to transport several giant mountains from afar, fill them into the Endless Sea, and then flattened the mountain tops, forcibly creating a piece of land above the sea for constructing the teleportation array.

Ji Yuan squinted his eyes and looked over but couldn’t see the land where the array was being built, as it was obscured by a large fog array.

All he saw was a sea of fog.

’I don’t know when the array will be completed. If it’s finished, one might even see people from the Cangluo Continent on the Extreme Abyss Continent.’

Ji Yuan thought to himself and looked toward the south again.

’Fortunately, the island where I left my messages is located in a southern position.’

’Otherwise, if it had been filled by the White Bone Demon Monarch, it would have been a pity.’

Ji Yuan thought, then used the Black Mist Dispersal Technique again, his form flickering a few times over the sea before arriving at a reef.

Recalling his last visit when he watched the sunset with Phoenix Peach, now he wondered… whether they had reached the Desolate Ancient Continent.

“Alas.”

Ji Yuan looked at the twilight spreading over the sea and couldn’t help but let out a sigh.

Then, he didn’t perform any sealing techniques but instead headed to the highest point of the reef, summoned a magic sword, and dug up a piece of turtle shell from underneath.

It was an ordinary turtle shell.

He then repeated the process, digging up two more turtle shells from different spots.

This was the method Ji Yuan had devised earlier.

If he left messages using some sort of divine technique, the spiritual qi fluctuations on it would be easily detected.

Contrarily, using the most primitive, mundane method wouldn’t draw attention.

Even if a cultivator’s divine sense swept over the island and noticed these three turtle shells, they would just assume they were left by dead sea turtles rather than messages left by someone.

But even if discovered, it wouldn’t matter.

Because Ji Yuan, Ren Kui, and Liu Yuan had their own unique messaging system.

After collecting the turtle shells, Ji Yuan found a nearby island and decoded the contents written on the shells.

Only one message was left by Ren Kui.

Liu Yuan, however, left two messages.