"Of course, this was the situation ten thousand years ago. As for how it is now, I'm not sure. However, even if there have been changes, they shouldn't be too great." said Xingdi.

  "More than ten thousand years, who knows what changes there will be." Qin Lingyun whispered.

  Although Qin Lingyi appeared to be skeptical of Xingdi's words on the surface, in reality she believed Xingdi's speculation that this place was Tianxuan Realm. However, whether there were indeed many cities established by cultivators as he said, remained unknown.

  A blue flash of lightning flashed across the dense green mountains and disappeared instantly on the horizon.

  After flying for about half a time, Qin Lingyun suddenly found that there were three figures walking on the mountain road below. The middle one was a middle-aged man dressed as a hunter, with dark skin, a large green bow and a tube of feathered arrows on his back, and a curved knife hanging from his waist.

  On either side of the middle-aged man was a young couple, who were not very old. They walked along the mountain path while gazing at the prey in their hands, looking very excited.

  Qin Lingyun suddenly appeared in front of the three people, transformed from thin air into a ray of light. The younger man and woman were startled, but the middle-aged man in the center only showed a hint of reverence in his eyes, and his expression did not appear flustered.

  A middle-aged man bowed to Qin Lingyun and said, "The immortal has shown courtesy, my humble name is Wang Shan, I don't know what matters I can assist the immortal with." It was clear that this middle-aged man had definitely seen other cultivators before.

  Looking at the somewhat flustered young men and women, Qin Lingyun and Yan Yuese said slowly: "Don't panic, just point out the largest city nearby."

  Upon hearing Qin Lingyun's request, Wang Shan, who had been somewhat nervous in his heart, finally calmed down. He thought for a moment and said: "This is the outer periphery of Jiuli Mountain, and the largest city nearby is Qingyachen, which is about thirty miles away from here. That place is where the Upper Immortals reside."

  Wang Shan knew in his heart that for a "superior immortal" like Qin Lingyun, the city she was asking about would naturally be a city built by cultivators, which was precisely Qingyao City. The mortal cities surrounding Qingyao City were merely its affiliates.

  "So much thanks." Qin Lingyun's body was shrouded in a flash of light, and she flew towards the direction of Qingyao City pointed out by Wang Shan. In less than half an hour, from afar, a huge city pool stood towering, and many flashes of light from different directions landed on the ground when approaching the city pool, without anyone flying directly into the city.

  Qin Lingyun also fell to the ground, looking around, the entire city gate was at least twenty feet high, and the walls on both sides were shining with a faint halo, as if there was a huge shield in the sky above the city that enveloped the entire city.

  The top of the city gate had three huge characters carved on it - Qing Ya City.

  Xing Di was still floating beside Qin Lingyu, his hands clasped behind his back, and he said slowly: "It seems that my prediction was not wrong, this place is indeed the Tianxuan Realm. However, Qingyachen City seemed to have never existed a thousand years ago, it's possible that it was built later."

  "You're still outside and won't enter the storage bag, you'll be discovered by others." Qin Lingyun said discontentedly.

  Xing Di snorted proudly: "Little girl, do you think anyone can discover my existence? Without the cultivation of the Condensing Dan stage, it's impossible to perceive me."

  "In other words, now only I can see you and sense your existence among all the cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage."

  Xingdi nodded: "It's like that, the cultivators of the Dan stage are extremely rare. In a city, there would be one or two at most, so it's impossible for anyone to discover Lao Fu."

  Since Xingdi was so confident, Qin Lingyun didn't say anything more and walked towards the direction of the city.

  At the city gate stood two monks wearing yellow robes, and every monk who entered the city would take out a piece of low-grade spirit stone and place it in their hands.

  "I didn't think that entering Qingyacheng would require paying a low-grade spirit stone, but I don't even have one spirit stone." Qin Lingyun felt poor for the first time. The spirit stones in her storage bag had all been used up, and now except for some beast skins and other things, her storage bag was empty.

  In a place not far from the city gate, Qin Lingyun was at a loss for a moment, while Xingdi said in a cold voice: "Just find a nearby cultivator, secretly kill him, snatch the storage bag, and the spirit stone will be yours."

  Qin Lingyun shook her head silently, Xingdi's words were indeed easy to say, but if that cultivator had some hidden cards and a strong backing, she wouldn't even know how she died. Moreover, she had no grudges with the other cultivators, and for the sake of some spirit stones, she couldn't bring herself to kill others.

  Seeing Qin Lingyun not following his words, Xing Di said with a tone of "hating iron for not becoming steel": "How come you just don't get it? Be quick and clean in your actions, who would know that the cultivators who died at my hands back then were not less than 80,000, and I didn't have any trouble at all."

  "If the cultivators of the Ice Jade Demon Palace are all like you, then their demise is only a matter of time. It's true that the strong prey on the weak, but there must be some limits, otherwise they would not be human beings, but beasts."

  A hint of satisfaction flashed in Xingdi's eyes, but his face remained expressionless: "Since you don't agree with my suggestion, how do you plan to enter the city without a spirit stone?"

  Qin Lingyun's storage bag still had some medicinal herbs and spiritual pills, including a considerable amount of Qi-increasing Pills and Yellow Spiritual Pills, as well as some Speed-increasing Pills and Hunger-suppressing Pills, but was lacking only in Spiritual Stones.

  Just as Qin Lingyun was thinking about how to enter the city, a thick and honest voice came from beside her.

  "Fellow Taoist, why are you standing at the gate and not entering the city? Nightfall is approaching soon, it's very dangerous to stay outside the city."

  Qin Lingyun turned her head, only to see a tall and robust man with a silly smile on his face standing not far away. He had a huge broadsword on his back, with two sleeves rolled up high, revealing two thick arms. Behind the man was a young boy, about 12 or 13 years old, with very lively eyes, wearing green clothes, and slightly shorter than Qin Lingyun. Standing next to the tall man made him look even smaller.

  Qin Lingyun's eyes narrowed slightly, and her consciousness swept over the two people. From the spiritual light on their bodies, she could see that the tall man was about a sixth-level Qi-refining warrior, while the young man behind him was a fifth-level Qi-refining cultivator. They didn't seem to be bad people with ill intentions.

  Qin Lingyun's heart skipped a beat, and she smiled sincerely: "I forgot to bring the spirit stone when I came out, so I couldn't enter the city."

  The honest-looking man seemed to hesitate for a moment before continuing: "Alright then, I'll give this piece of spiritual stone to you, fellow Taoist."

  "Give it to me?" Qin Lingyun was taken aback, are there still people like this among the cultivators? If not with ulterior motives, such behavior is indeed a bit silly, but it did help Qin Lingyun out of a predicament.

  "Thanks a lot." Qin Lingyun took the spirit stone handed over by that cultivator.