Whether to choose a carefree journey through the world or give up most of one's freedom in exchange for top-notch "martial arts secrets" has never had a definitive answer from ancient times to the present.

  Ji Ning was unmoved because he had the divine abilities, secret techniques and mystic arts of the Black White Academy.

  "The Daxia dynasty has been tempting them time and again, trying every means to make some of the Yinglong Guards become inner guards." Ji Ning sighed inwardly "The most important thing is that the Daxia dynasty has never forced anyone, everything was voluntary! Those who joined couldn't blame anyone else. What a wonderful tactic indeed!"

  "Gentlemen."

  Yu Lan Dao Ren said loudly, "Become the Yinglong Guard and you can also bring blessings to your tribe. You can carve out a piece of land with a radius of 10,000 miles in the territory of your tribe. As long as you are alive, this 10,000-mile land will be absolutely protected by the Yinglong Guard! Absolutely no force dares to invade! Including An Bang Hou!"

  Ji Ning smiled, recalling when he was a young man and had met Mu Xiao in person.

  "Even if you die, this land will still be protected for a thousand years." Yu Lan Dao suddenly smiled, his smile blooming like a hundred flowers. "If you become the inner guards of the Li Long Wei, even if you die, your clan's territory will be protected for ten thousand years!"

  "Ten thousand years?" Ji Ning exclaimed.

  "Ten thousand years? Such a long time, cultivating in secret. The tribe will surely cultivate formidable figures."

  "A thousand years of peace?"

  It was previously unrecorded in books. Except for a small number of people who knew in advance, most new dragon guards were extremely shocked.

  "Want to join the Imperial Guard? You can at any time." Yu Lan turned around and said, "Let's go, go define your territory for your clan."

  They went to an ancient temple hall, where each new dragon guard went in to mark their territory.

  "Ji's, Wan Jian Cheng." Ji Ning tapped the map lightly with her brush and drew a circle around Wan Jian Cheng, roughly spanning a thousand miles in diameter. The four city strongholds of east, south, west, and north were all barely included within it.

  The old man sitting at the desk nodded, took over the map made of beast skin drawn by Ji Ning, rolled it up and put it away. Ci Shi handed a token to Ji Ning and said: "Take it, let a cultivator who is at least at the level of the Purple Mansion refine it, and then hang it in front of the gate of the City Lord's mansion in Wanjian City."

  Ji Ning took it and immediately left the ancient temple hall.

  One by one they go in, and one by one they come out to mark their own tribal territory. Some scattered cultivators do not have a tribal territory, so I won't draw it for now.

  "Want to join Yinglongwei Inner Guard? You can at any time."

  A lotus leaf appeared under Yu Lan's feet and floated up. The voice still echoed "Now you can do whatever you want, but remember one thing, you are all members of the Dragon Guard. Every ten years, you must complete a merit task. This is your responsibility as a member of the Dragon Guard. If you can't... you will be caught and forced to do it. If you can't complete it, you will be expelled from the Dragon Guard."

  The sound is still echoing in mid-air.

  Yu Lan Dao people have stepped on the lotus leaves and floated away to the distant cloudy mountain peaks.

  "Senior brother, what shall we do now?" asked Mu Zixiao.

  "What can we do?" Ji Ning shook his head. "Although this Dragon Guards Division has many Dao Treasures, they must be exchanged for merit points. We don't have any merit points now... Let's go accept a mission and complete it. The Dragon Guards won't bother us again. First, let's go accept the mission, then we'll go to Anping City and sell all the gains from the Great Desolate Swamp."

  Muzi smiled: "Right."

  "Go."

  Ji Ning had a small green snake coiled around his arm, a large white dog following behind him, and Mu Zixiao by his side.

  In just a moment, Ji Ning and the others received their mission.

  "Return to Anqing City!"

  Ji Ning, Mu Zishuo, Bai Shuizhe and Qing Qing immediately boarded the dragon-headed warship and swiftly broke through the air to enter the clouds.

  "Senior brother, this task isn't that difficult." Mu Zishuo said "If I'm being honest, we can totally choose tasks worth 20 or 30 merit points. With the two of us working together, even Wanxiang True Person would be hard-pressed to defeat us!"

  "Humility is a virtue." Ji Ning said, "If we were to encounter any of the Blood Shadow Master, the Lazy Master, or the Fire Saint Master, could the two of us defeat them?"

  "They, they...……" Mu Zi Shuo opened his mouth slightly.

  Really can't compete with you.

  That is absolutely comparable to the complete Tao of Yuanshen Dao people who have attained a complete Tao.

  Ji Ning said, "Don't think that just because you've killed a few Wanxiang True Immortals and some powerful Wanxiang demons, you're invincible. Moreover, the two tasks we chose are both 'Ten Meritorious Deeds', as long as we complete them within a hundred years, we can live freely and at ease."

  "That's right, a hundred years of leisure is enough." Mu Zi Shuo nodded and gritted his teeth, "Not going to the Military Affairs Hall, I really don't know that there are so many evil people on this earth, what kind of people are there?"

  "Hmm." Ji Ning's eyes also flashed with murderous intent.

  Inside the Military Temple, there are many tasks, and most of them are to kill some extremely sinful people. The 'sin' here refers to the sin determined by the Heavenly Dao, killing these great sinners... can also increase the luck of the Great Xia Dynasty. The Great Xia Dynasty naturally continues to do this for a long time.

  "These two, one was slaughtering ordinary people to cultivate his 'Blood Prison Demon Eye'. The other was giving birth to a 'Ghost Infant King', I don't know how many infants were killed. Mu Zishuo shook his head "And these are just tasks worth only ten merits, those worth tens of thousands of merits, hundreds of thousands of merits... require killing truly powerful demons, frightening existences that even the Great Xia Dynasty is worried about. Endless sin and guilt surround them, yet they can still withstand the three disasters and nine calamities."

  Walk on the right path, requires insight, requires tempering the mind of the way, one step at a time.

  But if you take the wrong path, it will be much faster.

  Although it will lead to guilt and retribution... the power of the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations will be even stronger. However, the evil path can also make one's own strength soar, and withstanding the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations will become much easier.

  However, the evil path is strong for a while but not long-lasting! When facing the heavenly tribulation, those who walk the right path still have the possibility of becoming celestial immortals, and even if they are not, they can become scattered immortals... But those who walk the evil path almost have no chance of becoming celestial immortals. Those who become scattered immortals are also very few. Because the heavenly tribulation of the evil path cultivators is too terrifying!

  "We've arrived at Anping City." Muzi Shuo looked down.

  "Little Qing." Ji Ning looked at the small green snake on his wrist "Give me half of your Ten Thousand Year Ice."

  Wow.

  The green snake transformed into a mist and condensed into a blue-clothed girl, her eyes wide with anger, shouting: "That's mine, Master! That's what I worked hard to get!" You, you... how did you become so cruel? In the past, you were such an innocent young man, but now you've changed so much, it's as if you're not even human anymore.

  "Shut up." Ji Ning said, taking a deep breath before continuing, "You stingy person, you can't even use such a large piece of Thousand Year Ice. I'll help you sell it on Tianbao Mountain and exchange it for enough yuan liquid to boost your strength. Do you understand?"

  Qing Qing blinked her eyes and muttered: "No embezzlement is allowed."

  "You come with me and I'll help you change the yuan liquid, is that okay?" Ji Ning said helplessly, this little Qing was too stingy.

  "Here you go." Qing stretched out her small hand, and with a whoosh, a small mountain-like mass of thousand-year-old glacial ice suddenly floated above her palm.

  Mu Zi suddenly opened his mouth and roared, "You little green snake have so much thousand-year-old ice, yet you only gave me that tiny bit? I was so grateful to you!"

  Qing Qing didn't even glance at the raging Mu Zishuo, and with a swift stroke of her palm, she split the ancient ice mountain in two using her yuan force. She took one half for herself and handed the other half to Ji Ning.

  "Let's go, to Tianbao Mountain."

  The dragon-headed warship dived downwards and flew towards the lower part of that massive and ancient Anping City.

  Back in Anping City, Ji Ning and Mu Zishuo both felt an indescribable sense of familiarity, after all, they had lived here for more than three years.

  Half an hour later in Tianbao Mountain, Ji Ning and his group came out.

  "Yours." Ji Ning handed a jade bottle to Qingqing beside him.

  Qing Qing took over and carefully checked inside, where there were exactly 5,300 kilograms of yuan liquid, which was the proceeds from Ji Ning selling off the Ten Thousand Year Ice just now. Only then did he nod in satisfaction.

  Ji Yu shook his head and smiled.

  "Uncle Bai, this is yours." Ji Ning also transformed into a human-shaped Uncle Bai with white clothes and white hair... His appearance was even more similar to that of his own father, only gentler and more affectionate.

  After Bai Shuizhe took over, he was shocked to find that there were as many as 8,000 kilograms of yuan liquid inside. This made him extremely surprised and shook his head, transmitting a message to Ning'er: "Ning'er, such a large amount of yuan liquid will greatly enhance your strength, don't waste it on me."

  "I still have six thousand kilograms of yuan liquid." Ji Ning also mentally communicated, "More or less eight thousand kilograms... it doesn't affect me much. I need to cultivate to the yuan Shen stage, and yuan liquid is needed in large quantities, tens of thousands of kilograms. Moreover, according to the tradition of my Black and White Academy, one must comprehend a complete Dao before being allowed to enter the yuan Shen stage. I am still far from comprehending a complete Dao."

  "It doesn't benefit me much, but it will be of great help to you, White Uncle. Now that Xiao Qing is the Great Demon King, your strength has increased, and this way you can also help me better." Ji Ning said through mental communication.

  Bai Shui Ze hesitated for a moment before finally nodding.

  This time in Tianbao Mountain, Ji Ning almost got all the treasures from the Great Wilderness, including Dong Xue's protective treasure. The treasures of Long Qi's Dragon King were also sold out, even his life-bound magic treasure was sold at a high price. One of the life-bound magic treasures of the Dragon King 'Two Dragon Whiskers' is much more precious than ordinary heavenly magic treasures.

  Ji Ning and Mu Zixiao both obtained over 10,000 kilograms of yuan liquid.

  Muzi bought quite a few materials.

  Ji Ning only bought a bottle of "Huolian Oil" for 500 yuan. This was to nurture the "Golden Flame Earth Fire".

  "Let's go back to Hei Bai Xue Gong. It's most peaceful to cultivate inside the palace, and we don't have to worry about anyone disturbing us," said Ji Ning.

  "Hmm, we should all go back and concentrate on our cultivation. I think I can reach the state of Wanxiang Yueman." Mu Zishuo exclaimed excitedly "Brother Shi, you should also be able to reach Wanxiang Yueman." He had no idea that Ji Ning had given 8,000 kilograms of yuan liquid to Bai Shu, and thought that Ji Ning also had over 10,000 kilograms of yuan liquid.

  "Come on, let's go back and cultivate together."

  The two of them and their two spiritual beasts headed towards the Black and White Academy at once.

  They have all fallen out of the top five in the monthly rankings now, and I've had a cold for the past few days, so updates have been late too. I'm really sorry about that. April will be busy for me as well. But this month, I really want to fight for first place, so here's a promise: April will definitely see an explosion! And it'll be a huge one! All because I want to compete for first place.

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