"Sect Leader Du?" A sudden and somewhat uncertain voice interrupted Du Shiqing's thoughts.

Du Shiqing turned around and saw a shop assistant wearing the uniform of a certain merchant house speaking to him. He didn't recognize the assistant at all.

"Are you calling me?" Du Shiqing looked at the assistant in confusion.

The assistant grinned. "It really is Senior. There's a letter here that someone asked me to deliver to Senior Du."

With that, the assistant respectfully placed a letter in Du Shiqing's hand.

Du Shiqing subconsciously took the letter and asked, "Who sent it?"

"I wouldn't know, I'm just responsible for running errands." After the assistant finished speaking, he turned and left, quickly disappearing from sight.

Du Shiqing inexplicably opened the letter, and after a moment, he was pleasantly surprised. "Senior Du, this junior is Loose Cultivator 2705. This junior has offended someone and dares not go to Yindu, so I entrusted someone to send this letter to Senior, wanting to meet Senior and ask for some guidance. If Senior Du is willing to meet this junior, please go to Yin Grave Beach; this junior will be waiting for Senior there. If Senior Du is unwilling to meet this junior, please ignore this letter. If this junior doesn't see Senior, I will leave on my own. Loose Cultivator Xinghe bows respectfully!"

In the vicinity of Yindu, there were few cultivators who didn't know about Yin Grave Beach.

Yin Grave Beach was a thousand or two miles away from Yindu City and belonged to the battlefield of ancient cultivators. It was said that a powerful Yin cultivator who was about to ascend was in seclusion here. As a result, a battle between cultivators caused problems for this Yin cultivator at a crucial juncture, causing his spiritual meridians to become chaotic, almost equivalent to cultivation deviation.

The Yin cultivator was furious on the spot and suddenly erupted before his death, killing all the cultivators fighting here. In the end, his own Yin energy exploded, and he perished here as well.

After this powerful Yin cultivator fell, this area was enveloped by Yin energy, and many Yin beads were even condensed.

As time passed, this formed a long beach of Yin energy. Because there was no spiritual energy here, and there was a high possibility of cultivation deviation when cultivating nearby, few cultivators were willing to come to this place for countless years. Even those who came here occasionally were just passing through. Even pure Yin cultivators rarely came to this place to cultivate. No matter how dense the Yin energy was, it was useless without spiritual energy.

In fact, Yin Grave Beach was a remote place that everyone knew about but no one wanted to come to.

Du Shiqing was looking for Loose Cultivator 2705. Loose Cultivator 2705 exchanged for the Immortal Mortal Art of the Heavenly Mystery Sect, which was related to the future of the Heavenly Mystery Sect. How could he not be anxious? Now that the other party had taken the initiative to find him, he immediately had to go.

However, Du Shiqing paused when he reached the gate of Yindu City. He left a short letter for the city gate guards, requesting them to hand it over to the people of the Heavenly Mystery Sect after their shift.

...

Several hours later, Du Shiqing appeared on the outskirts of Yin Grave Beach.

Just as the rumors said, as soon as he arrived here, Du Shiqing felt a strong Yin cold aura. In some places far away from Yin Grave Beach, substantial Yin energy fog had formed.

The Heavenly Mystery Sect cultivated positive energy techniques, but Du Shiqing's cultivation was limited, and he couldn't help but shudder a few times.

The surroundings were empty, without a single person. This made Du Shiqing a little puzzled. Since Loose Cultivator 2705 had called him here, he should be waiting for him here.

Just as Du Shiqing was still in doubt, a dirt grave not far from him suddenly exploded, and a coarse voice came out, "Sect Leader Du has indeed come."

Then, a short figure leaped out from the middle of the mound and landed a few zhang in front of Du Shiqing.

As soon as Du Shiqing saw this short figure, a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes. He quickly hid this hint of disappointment. No matter what 2705 looked like, being able to spend more than 10,000 contribution points to buy the Immortal Mortal Art was not an ordinary person. How could he, Du Shiqing, be the kind of person who judged people by their appearance?

"You're not Loose Cultivator 2705..." When Du Shiqing clearly saw the other party's appearance, he was shocked, and then he understood. He had seen the portrait of 2705, who was a pale-faced scholar. Now this person was clearly not a scholar, and his cultivation was very strong.

"Haha," the short cultivator laughed. "Sect Leader Du is indeed smart. I am indeed not Loose Cultivator 2705. I invited Sect Leader Du here just to ask for one thing."

Feeling that the other party's strength was stronger than his own, Du Shiqing's eyes revealed a solemn expression. "Please speak."

The short cultivator said calmly, "The Heavenly Mystery Sect doesn't have any outstanding talents, but it can climb into the top hundred of the five great empire sect contribution rankings, and even once reached the top fifty. This shows that the Heavenly Mystery Sect has some hidden methods. I also learned after investigation that something from the Heavenly Mystery Sect must have been exchanged for with high contribution points. There are only a few people who can exchange for Heavenly Mystery Sect things with high contribution points. Now, as soon as I mention 2705, Sect Leader Du comes. It seems that my guess is correct. The one who gave the Heavenly Mystery Sect contribution points should be 2705, right?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know about this," Du Shiqing said calmly.

The short cultivator laughed wildly again. "Sect Leader Du, it doesn't matter whether you know or not. Now, I only hope that you can do two things for me. First, you tell me who 2705 is and where he went. Second, what exactly did 2705 exchange from your Heavenly Mystery Sect? It requires so many contribution points."

"I said, I don't know. If there's nothing else, I'll leave," Du Shiqing took a few steps back.

The short cultivator grinned hideously. "Want to leave? Now that you're here, don't even think about leaving for the rest of your life if you don't explain clearly."

Du Shiqing laughed. "I understand. You must be from the Lei family. Only your Lei family would be so shameless."

"That's right, I am Lei Mang from the Lei family. Don't think that you, Du Shiqing, are a sect leader. It won't take much effort for me, Lei Mang, to kill you," the short cultivator said sharply.

His Lei family couldn't find the whereabouts of 2705, but they found some clues from the changes in the ranking of the Heavenly Mystery Sect.

Du Shiqing laughed again. "Although I, Du, have a low cultivation, I am not someone who can be threatened by demons and monsters."

Lei Mang was not angry this time. He stared at Du Shiqing with a hint of mockery. "After I kill you, I will kill everyone in your Heavenly Mystery Sect, including your disciples and your adopted daughter."

Du Shiqing's tone was calm. "Your Yulin Lei clan has this tradition, and you can indeed do it. I'm not surprised."

"Aren't you worried that your sect will be destroyed and your disciples and relatives will be killed by me?" Lei Mang stared at Du Shiqing in confusion.

Du Shiqing smiled faintly. "Whether my Heavenly Mystery Sect is destroyed is not up to a small Lei clan to decide. The sect motto of my Heavenly Mystery Sect is that there are only Heavenly Mystery Sect disciples who die standing, and no Heavenly Mystery Sect disciples who live kneeling. Heavenly Mystery Sect disciples are not threatened. A small Lei clan is not qualified to make the people of my Heavenly Mystery Sect kneel and beg for life."

Lei Mang's face turned extremely ugly, and he roared, "Do it!"

Dozens of rays of light wrapped around Du Shiqing from all directions, and then several figures pounced out.

...

"Crack!" The Heavenly-grade spirit stone in Mo Wuji's hand finally turned into dust. This was the second of the three Heavenly-grade spirit stones he had obtained from the woman's storage ring.

In order to speed up his cultivation, Mo Wuji gritted his teeth and used this Heavenly-grade spirit stone that had been used a little before.

As this Heavenly-grade spirit stone disappeared, Mo Wuji broke through the sixth level of the Detachment Realm and advanced to the seventh level.

In nearly half a year, Mo Wuji directly crossed six levels of the Detachment Realm. Although this cultivation speed could not compare to Yan'er's mutated five-element spiritual root, it could definitely kill most cultivators of the same rank.

Mo Wuji naturally knew why he could cultivate so quickly. In addition to the rich spiritual energy in the advanced spirit refining room, the Immortal Mortal Art of the Heavenly Mystery Sect was definitely indispensable. Of course, there was another important factor, and that was the Heavenly-grade spirit stone.

Mo Wuji was really reluctant to use the last Heavenly-grade spirit stone. He wanted to save it to break through the tenth level of the Detachment Realm and enter the Human Immortal Realm.

If it was really as the rumors said, that Human Immortal Realm cultivators could fight against the Origin Core Realm, then it would definitely be worth it. At least he wouldn't have to run away in embarrassment every time he encountered a strong Origin Core Realm cultivator.

Even without using the Heavenly-grade spirit stone, Mo Wuji's speed of absorbing spiritual energy was still terrifying. The entire advanced spiritual energy room was filled with rich spiritual energy, forming vortexes of spiritual energy around him.

Fast absorption of spiritual energy did not mean fast cultivation speed.

A month passed, two months passed...

Three months later, Mo Wuji finally broke through the seventh level of the Detachment Realm and advanced to the eighth level.

This made Mo Wuji a little helpless. In such a rich spiritual energy room, and with 101 meridians fully opened to absorb spiritual energy, it still took three months to cross from the seventh level of the Detachment Realm to the eighth level. Thinking about before, it took him less than six months to advance from the first level of the Detachment Realm to the seventh level.

The only difference was that he had used Heavenly-grade spirit stones before, but now he didn't.

Taking out the last Heavenly-grade spirit stone, Mo Wuji hesitated again and again, and finally said to himself, "Use it. Only by turning the spirit stone into one's own strength is it the most reliable. We'll talk about the future later."

Holding the Heavenly-grade spirit stone and performing the technique again, the spiritual energy vortexes around Mo Wuji had an inexplicable aura. Mo Wuji's originally slow-rising cultivation also rapidly increased at this moment.

Half a month later, Mo Wuji directly broke through the eighth level of the Detachment Realm and advanced to the ninth level.

A month later, Mo Wuji cultivated to the peak of the ninth level of the Detachment Realm. An invisible and intangible ring-shaped spiritual rhyme formed in his body. Almost at the moment this ring-shaped spiritual rhyme formed, the restriction of Mo Wuji's ninth level of the Detachment Realm was blasted open, and he directly advanced to the tenth level of the Detachment Realm.

That ring-shaped spiritual rhyme must be a sign of entering the Human Immortal Realm, Mo Wuji thought excitedly. He was sure that the ring-shaped spiritual rhyme in his body that was above everything else was related to the Human Immortal Realm. Other people's spiritual rhymes could be seen with the naked eye because they had spiritual roots. But he had ordinary roots and completely relied on his own cultivation to create the extreme realm. That was why he had formed an invisible and intangible extreme realm spiritual rhyme in his body.

(Sitting in front of the computer for too long, I have a headache. The third update will be delayed a bit...)