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Lu Ping didn't know in advance that he was coming to participate in such a grand event before coming to the East China Sea, so although Lu Ping carried almost all of his net worth on him, he suddenly couldn't take out treasures such as spirit demon peaches in exchange for what he needed, so he had to seize the big alchemy in the month before the start of the Phantom City event.
Phantom Island is a large island in the Fallen Secret Realm, there is a huge mountain range on Phantom Island called Phantom Mountain, and Phantom City is located at the foot of Phantom Mountain.
Phantom Island is the only place where a giant spirit mine is located overseas, this giant spirit ore vein is distributed in the mountains of Phantom Mountain, and with this giant spirit ore as the center, there are four large spirit ore veins distributed on the four large and medium-sized islands around Phantom Island.
Because of the amazing wealth contained in the Phantom Island and the four islands around it, this place was considered by the overseas cultivation circle to be the center of the entire Fallen Secret Realm, and they built a city on the four islands to jointly divide the ownership of these five spirit veins.
Back then, for a giant spirit vein and four large spirit veins, the entire overseas human race cultivators and overseas demon races launched a decades-long battle, and finally because the Fall Secret Realm was closer to the sea of the human race, the human race occupied a lot of advantages, the giant spirit vein and two large spirit ore veins were occupied by the human race, while the other two large spirit veins were taken by the demon race.
Since the three spirit veins captured by the human race were jointly captured by the entire overseas human race cultivators, these three spirit veins were naturally divided by the entire overseas human race cultivation world after the war.
In addition to the Crystal Palace, which is the only giant sect that occupies the largest share of the giant spirit vein, the other eight large sects include the four major sects of the East Sea, the South China Sea occupies three, and the only one belonging to the North Sea is the Flying Spirit Sect, and after the Flying Spirit Sect destroyed the faction, the Flying Spirit Sect's share of the Giant Spirit Vein was divided among the other eight sects.
The remaining two large spiritual veins were owned by the overseas medium-sized sects that participated in that war, but there were twenty-five overseas medium-sized sects that had the qualifications to divide these two large spiritual veins, of which eleven were in the South Sea, only ten in the East Sea, and the least in the North Sea, there were originally five, and later the Canghai Sect, which was originally one family, split and became the Canghai Sect and the Canglang Sect, and their strength was naturally greatly reduced, so they were squeezed out of twenty-five sects, and finally replaced by a medium-sized sect in the East Sea, leaving only four in the North Sea.
Naturally, these twenty-five medium-sized sects were not the only ones in the entire overseas cultivation world, but these twenty-five sects had the greatest power among all the medium-sized sects, so they began to learn from the Nine Great Sects' move to divide the giant spirit ore veins, and occupied these two large spirit ore veins as well.
And after the start of every overseas trading event, the most fundamental reason why each faction had to be led by the Dharma Phase Monk was that after the auction of the event, the ancestors of each faction would gather to discuss the redistribution of these three spiritual veins.
Although the rise of the boudoir was supported by the four large sects of the East China Sea, either overt or covert, but when it came to the distribution of interests in the giant spirit vein, the share of the Flying Spirit Sect had already been eaten up by the other Eight Great Sects for thousands of years, and now if it was to be spit out again, I am afraid that the previous Four Great Sects may not be able to support them again.
The True Spirit Sect also came this time with a request, the True Spirit Sect and the Xuanling Sect, as the leaders of the Beihai cultivation world, were only in the middle of the twenty-five medium-sized sects that divided the two large spiritual veins, but in the middle stage of the True Spirit Sect's Tiankang Ancestor's advanced Dharma phase, Tianlin and Tianling advanced the Dharma phase, and now after the return of the Tianqin Ancestor, the True Spirit Sect already has four mid-stage Dharma Phase cultivators and five Dharma Phase Initial Cultivators, a total of nine Dharma Phase Ancestors, such strength can also be ranked in the top ten among the twenty-five medium-sized sects overseas, Therefore, the True Spirit Sect also wanted to expand its share in the two large spirit veins.
Led by Tianqin Ancestor, Xuan Sen and Xuan Xu, two monks in the late stage of alchemy forgement, plus Xuan Tian, Xuan Hui, Xuan Ru, Xuan Bei, Xuan Zhu, Xuan Yu, Xuan Su, and Lu Ping, a total of eleven people came to the center of the Fallen Secret Realm, the phantom spirit city where the only giant spirit ore vein in the overseas cultivation world was located.
This is also the limit of the number of people that the ancestor of a medium-sized sect can bring into the Phantom City, and if other monks want to enter the Phantom City, they must first reach the middle stage of pill forging, and they also have to add ten high-grade spirit stones to enter the city.
Lu Ping and the others landed on the ground ten miles away from the Phantom City, the entire Phantom City was shrouded in a huge defense formation, and the Forbidden Air Formation began to take effect ten miles away, so everyone had to walk into the Phantom City.
The ten-mile path was just a moment of effort for Lu Ping and the others, and soon the majestic Phantom City appeared in everyone's eyes.
For thousands of years, the monks stationed in the Phantom City had continuously painted various forbidden formations on the city walls to strengthen the city walls.
At the city gate, a Crystal Palace monk in the late stage of forging alchemy led several monks from other sects to check the monks entering and leaving the Illusion City.
There were a total of eight such city gates in the entire Phantom City, and the monks of the Crystal Palace did not show the slightest strange expression in front of the cultivation of the Lyra Ancestor Dharma Phase Monk, obviously there were not a few Dharma monks who often entered and exited the Phantom City, and as a monk of the Crystal Palace, there was obviously no need to show any humility towards a Dharma Physiognomy monk from a medium-sized sect in the North Sea.
Taking a token that looked like jade but not jade handed over by Tianqin Ancestor, the Crystal Palace monk just checked it roughly, then returned it with both hands, and then a group of eleven people walked into this city, which was said to be the second largest in the entire East China Sea.
And the largest city is naturally owned by the Crystal Palace, the first major faction in the East China Sea, and the name of that city is called Crystal Palace!
Just as everyone was about to enter the city gate, a whip suddenly sounded from behind Lu Ping and the people, and when everyone looked back, they saw a gorgeously decorated car coming towards the city gate.
The faces of Lu Ping and others all became bad, and even the faces of the Crystal Palace monks guarding the city gate and others were also a little solemn.
In front of the cart sat a monk who was driving the car, this person was holding a long whip in his hand, and at first glance he was not a mortal object, he was driving the nine race monks who were trapped in the brackets to run forward.
The cultivation of the entire body of the nine cultivators seemed to be imprisoned by the nine brackets around their waists, but it did not prevent the nine people from using the escape technique to pull the frame and move forward quickly.
When they got closer, Lu Ping and others had already noticed that the first of the nine cultivators were the three monks in the early stage of pill forging, and the six monks behind them were also in the late stage of hemolysis, and the monk who drove away the nine with a long whip was a demon cultivator in the middle stage of forging pills.
Obviously, the monks in the cart must be demons, and these nine human monks who were used to pull like livestock were the demon race "favorites" that Lu Ping had already been famous!
When he arrived at the city gate, the demon cultivator who was driving the car jumped out of the car, glanced at Lu Ping and the others indifferently, and then threw a scroll-like golden silk into the hands of the Crystal Palace monk.
The Crystal Palace monk glanced at the demon cultivator coldly, opened the silk to check it, and then raised his hand to signal everyone behind him to let them go.
The demon monks who were rushing to the car threw out their whips as if no one was around, and the nine "human favorites" exerted force under their feet, and the cart quickly passed through the city gate and rushed towards the middle of the phantom city.
After the cart walked away, Xuanxu Zhenren asked the Crystal Palace monk next to him for advice: "This Taoist invited me, I don't know what kind of people are in that carriage, but obviously these people are undoubtedly demons, why can they also enter the Phantom City?"
The Crystal Palace monk saw that Xuanxu Zhenren was a master of forging the ninth layer of elixir, and his expression was a lot more polite, and he said helplessly: "The Illusion City is strictly prohibited from entering the demon race on weekdays, but this trading event is the entire overseas cultivation world, so naturally high-level monks of both human and demon races can participate. The person in the big car just now, if I expected it to be true, should be a master of the Bihai Spirit Snake Clan, that is the only demon race among the overseas demon clans that can compete with my Crystal Palace, if you see it, it's best to stay away, the Bihai Spirit Snake Clan is not something you small sects can afford to mess with."
"Aren't you afraid that these demon cultivators will provoke trouble in the Phantom City, which is the entrance to the only giant spirit vein overseas!"
The Crystal Palace monk sneered and said: "In this phantom city, there are as many as eighteen Dharma Ancestors of various factions stationed on a daily basis, two in the late stage of the Dharma Phase, and eight in the middle stage. It's just that the human and demon races have been at odds for a long time, and the two sides are evenly matched, so we must also maintain respect for the demon race's powerhouse."
Xuanxu Zhenren asked about the situation in the Phantom City and the news of this grand event, and then handed a storage bag into the hands of the Crystal Palace monk, and said: "Please explain to the Taoist friends, these things also invite the Taoist friends to go to the city to drink a cup of spiritual tea in their spare time."
The Crystal Palace monk was polite, and then he put the storage bag under his subordinates, and when Lu Ping and others walked away, he opened the storage bag and saw that there were ten high-grade spirit stones inside.
The Crystal Palace monk took a sip and said, "I'm from Beihai, I'm really fucking poor!"
A monk on the side smiled and said: "Lianshan Daoist be content, if you are a monk from the East Sea and the South China Sea, who can look down on us gatekeepers!"
The Crystal Palace monk said unluckily: "That's true, this is really not a good errand, I can only hope to get rid of those loose cultivators, but I'm afraid that such loose cultivators will be poorer."