Myriad Spirits Immortal Clan

Outside Four Saints City were enormous city walls and rows upon rows of True Lord palaces.

They stood like armored soldiers guarding the gates, each one a sentinel.

Within Four Saints City, however, crisscrossing paths and towering buildings formed what was essentially a small market town.

Unlike Demon Subduing City, where everyone came from righteous sects and interacted frequently, and where the imminent Demon Gate invasion left no one with the mind to do business, everyone was now focused on exchanging items with the righteous sects.

But this was Four Saints City, where four Divine Lords were stationed, enough to deter even all the Demon Gate's Divine Lords from breaking through.

With their worries eased, cultivators became more discerning in their choices of treasures and techniques, some even exchanging for spirit stones, planning to acquire spirit mountains in Xiao Mountain Prefecture and establish their own sects, as eight-tenths of Xiao Mountain and King Clarity Prefectures had been destroyed, leaving many spirit mountains vacant.

Over time, a market town slowly formed.

The spoils from slaying demon cultivators and the trading of spirit talismans and magical artifacts all took place in this market.

Only today, due to the Boundary Gate Competition, many had gone near the Boundary Gate, making Four Saints City much quieter.

Yet, many Qi Refining cultivators still walked about the city.

In the center of the city were four palaces, not the six-story structures Ye Jincheng had imagined, but four aerial palaces, floating like islands in the sky, suspended above Four Saints City.

In the Great Yu Realm, Core Formation cultivators could establish their own dojos in their mountain gates, while Divine Lords opened Heavenly Pavilions; True Origin Divine Lord's True Origin Mountain had the True Origin Heavenly Pavilion.

Heavenly Pavilions were closely tied to a cultivator's path to enlightenment; within a Heavenly Pavilion, a Transformation God cultivator's combat power would increase significantly.

However, like dojos, Heavenly Pavilions were usually limited to one, so Divine Lords' palaces in other locations could only be called Divine Palaces.

The four Divine Lord palaces in Four Saints City were just that: Divine Palaces.

Of course, these Divine Palaces, like other palaces, possessed no special power; Ye Jincheng, after observing with his Star Illusion Vision, realized it was clearly due to the power of formations.

Even so, it demonstrated the exalted status of one who had entered the Divine Lord realm.

Ye Jincheng was currently heading towards the True Origin Divine Palace on the northern side.

Upon arriving before the True Origin Divine Palace, Ye Jincheng waited quietly.

Soon, a righteous sect Golden Core cultivator emerged and looked at Ye Jincheng:

"May I ask if you are Senior Qianchen? The Divine Lord invites you in."

Although the Golden Core cultivator served a Divine Lord, he was neither arrogant nor haughty.

On the contrary, he treated people with courtesy, neither obsequious nor supercilious.

Ye Jincheng flew into the Divine Palace and immediately felt an overwhelming aura; at that moment, he even felt his breathing become somewhat labored.

"Senior Qianchen, this must be your first time visiting a Divine Palace; this palace possesses some of the power of a Heavenly Pavilion, requiring one to maintain reverence for the Divine Lord, or else you would be going against the will of heaven and earth," the Golden Core cultivator continued to explain.

Upon hearing this, Ye Jincheng was naturally filled with suspicion, but after inwardly showing respect, he indeed felt the aura lessen and returned to normal.

He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart; this was not the state Ye Jincheng desired.

"Junior Ye Jincheng of the Ye family greets Senior True Origin," Ye Jincheng landed before the Divine Palace, instantly drawn to the Dao contained within, but quickly cut it off; not everyone could withstand such Dao, and techniques that were incompatible could affect one's breakthroughs.

Ye Jincheng understood this point.

"Come in, you do indeed possess some talent," the voice of True Origin Divine Lord echoed from within the Divine Palace.

Ye Jincheng respectfully cupped his hands and bowed before heading into the Divine Palace.

The exterior of the Divine Palace naturally resembled a heavenly palace, with hidden immortal auras, but the interior was incredibly simple, giving off a sense of profound simplicity.

In the center of the palace, a cultivator wearing a plain white Daoist robe stood with his back to the palace gate, gazing at a beautiful screen.

When the cultivator turned around, Ye Jincheng saw a middle-aged Daoist in his forties.

This Daoist had eyebrows like distant mountains shrouded in mist, but his eyes contained the desolation of ages; even a single glance made Ye Jincheng feel as if he had been seen through.

"Divine Lord Senior," Ye Jincheng cupped his hands, unwilling and unable to meet his gaze again.

"What brings you here today?" True Origin Divine Lord walked to a nearby seat, sat upright, and looked extremely solemn.

Behind him was a landscape screen depicting flowers, birds, and fish, with vivid and lifelike artistic conceptions.

But what surprised Ye Jincheng was that the fish and birds within were legendary Kunpeng, transforming from fish in water to birds in the sky, soaring ninety thousand miles upwards, vast and extraordinary.

The landscapes within were endless seas of suffering, boundless and limitless.

The mountains were continuous and desolate, the flowers were heartbreaking crabapples…

The artistic conception was endless; Ye Jincheng even became immersed in it, only recovering after a long while.

Upon recovering, Ye Jincheng was immediately shocked and repeatedly cupped his hands:

"Junior was momentarily immersed and has been impolite; please forgive my rudeness," Ye Jincheng said, then remembered True Origin Divine Lord's earlier question and bowed deeply.

"Reporting to Senior, this junior has come to seek guidance and become a disciple," Ye Jincheng didn't beat around the bush and directly took out three jade boxes.

The three jade boxes contained his apprenticeship gifts.

Having witnessed the power of a Transformation God cultivator, even though he still harbored reservations, he had to admit that if True Origin Divine Lord truly wanted to harm him, he would be helpless.

He couldn't go to the Eastern Region, and the Southern Region was out of the question; only the Western Region remained, but the Western Region was full of Buddhist cultivators, and it was uncertain whether the Ye family could integrate, not to mention that Buddhist Transformation God cultivators might also be scheming.

The three apprenticeship gifts were a fifth-order water spirit pearl, a spirit peach that extended lifespan by a hundred years, and a fifth-order Star Quenching Fruit.

These three treasures, if placed at any fifth-order auction, would be worthy of being the finale, enough to show Ye Jincheng's sincerity.

"There are over a dozen Transformation God cultivators in the world; why choose me?" True Origin Divine Lord did not accept the gifts, but looked into Ye Jincheng's eyes and asked slowly.

Upon hearing this, Ye Jincheng was still stunned, after all, this apprenticeship was not initiated by Ye Jincheng, but rather hinted to him by True Origin Divine Lord through Star Origin True Lord.

In addition, he indeed owed the righteous sects a great debt, even including the latter going to the Eastern Region to help, which led to the idea of coming here to become a disciple.

Being questioned now naturally made him somewhat dazed.

But soon, he replied:

"Reporting to Senior, this disciple seeks apprenticeship for three reasons: first, for the Dao; this disciple seeks little, but believes his Dao heart is firm; seeing Senior's Dao, which arises with the situation and aligns with the will of heaven, fills me with admiration and I cannot extricate myself; second, for hatred; this disciple is deeply mired in the Demon Gate turmoil, during which many clansmen were killed by demon cultivators, and my heart is filled with hatred, hoping to be relieved; third, for righteousness; the righteous sects are among the leaders of the world's righteous path, resisting the Demon Gate in the south and caring for the world, and have also shown kindness to the Ye family, which this disciple cannot repay, and can only take on the great task of the master and expand the glory of the righteous path."

"Well said, for three reasons, without concealment or falsehood to this old man, today I will accept you as my disciple!" True Origin Divine Lord suddenly spoke, accepting the three apprenticeship gifts one by one.

Then he sat back in his grandmaster chair.

Seeing this, Ye Jincheng quickly took out spirit tea and began to serve it; he still chose Fortune Longevity Tea; although Clarity Tea was good, it was not suitable for elders, and the fifth-order spirit tea tree was still a sapling and had not yet reached the point of producing fifth-order spirit tea.

Therefore, only this Fortune Longevity Tea was the most suitable.