Encounter Taotie by chance at the beginning and practice longevity skills

They continued walking forward and found a shop that was still open. The shop had no sign and there was only one person standing alone in front of the counter.

Lei Ze swept his spiritual sense and found that this guy was also a foundation-building cultivator.

The monk also spotted Lei Ze and the other two. He smiled and said, "Sir, you want to enter the city, right? It's hard to get a token now, so it's a little expensive. I see that there are five of you, so I'll give you a discount of 3 spirit stones each."

Lu Mengyun was a little confused after hearing this: "3 spirit stones? Is it so difficult to enter the city now?"

"Hasn't Mingyue City always been a free city?"

The monk chuckled after hearing this: "Big sister, are you kidding me? Look at the surroundings. What kind of free city is this?"

"I see that you are all foundation-building cultivators, so you should not be so inexperienced."

"Aren't all the people who come to Mingyue City now seeking the protection of the Mingyue Cult?"

"This is a chaotic situation."

Lei Ze nodded after hearing this: "Indeed, indeed, we are here to find a quiet place to practice well."

The monk looked at the women around Lei Ze and said with a smile, "I can see, brother, you are very lucky. There are so many women following you, and some of them are so beautiful. It is really not safe outside."

Lei Ze poured out 15 spirit stones from his storage ring and handed them to the monk: "Give me five tokens."

The monk was overjoyed, and then took out five tokens and handed them to Lei Ze: "Brother, if you need anything in the future, come and find me. I am Zhao Risheng."

After Lei Ze accepted it, he walked out of the store with four people who looked confused.

Lu Mengyun activated the soundproofing formation and asked, "Master... this..."

Lei Ze said: "He didn't know the reason either, he just knew that there was a war recently, but the inner city of Mingyue City has been very stable, so he started this business of reselling tokens."

"We'll find out once we enter the inner city."

Several people walked to the gate of the inner city. The gate of the inner city was heavily guarded. Three Jindan monks exuded a powerful aura at the gate.

Lei Ze handed over the token. After the guard checked it carefully, he nodded and was about to let him pass.

But one of the Jindan cultivators looked at the three female cultivators except Lu Mengyun and smiled evilly: "Stop, stop, stop. Who told you to go in?"

"The token is illegal, arrest them all."

As soon as he finished speaking, several foundation-building monks surrounded them.

The Jindan monk with a smirk on his face said, "You can deal with the men as you wish, and put the women in the confinement room."

Lei Ze frowned after hearing this. Mingyue City had actually become like this. He asked, "Daoyou, are you sure..."

Who knew that the monk said, "Who the hell are you talking to? You have no respect for your elders. This man must die."

Several monks around were also ready to make a move.

Lei Ze shook his head helplessly. He didn't want to get into a conflict so soon. After all, he knew nothing about the situation in Wuji Continent.

But this little thing doesn't seem to be very sensible. Hmm...it seems that the foundation-building stage is not enough in the war-torn era.

He turned his head to look at Xian Meng. Xian Meng understood Lei Ze’s meaning and instantly burst out with the powerful aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The expressions of several Jindan cultivators and foundation-building cultivators suddenly changed, and they looked at the aura of a Yuanying cultivator that burst out from Xianmeng in amazement.

The Jindan cultivator who had a smirk on his face just now suddenly panicked, and his tone softened unconsciously: "Fellow Daoist...Senior, is there any misunderstanding here?"

At the same time, he picked up the token and said, "The Nascent Soul cultivator is here to visit. Please welcome him personally..."

Before he could finish, Lei Ze came in front of him and smashed his head with a punch. White and red human body juices splashed everywhere, splashing all over the people around, but Lei Ze and his four companions were not stained at all.

The monks around were stunned by this scene. They stood there in a daze for a few moments, and then they found that their faces were stained with the juice from the monk's brain.

The faces of the surrounding monks were filled with fear and shock. No one expected Lei Ze to suddenly attack, and his methods were so brutal and decisive.

The remaining two Jindan monks involuntarily took a step back. They had never seen such a powerful and unreasonable attack.

Lei Ze glanced around coldly, then smiled and said to everyone: "Everyone, please be patient. I am not a bloodthirsty person. I am afraid that your city lord will come later, and killing people in front of your city lord will be a bit disrespectful to your city lord."

As soon as Lei Ze finished speaking, the remaining two Jindan cultivators looked at each other, cold sweats breaking out. Both of them swallowed involuntarily, and their Adam's apples kept rolling up and down.

Obviously, they had been intimidated by Lei Ze's momentum and dared not act rashly.

Lei Ze smiled and said, "Don't be so nervous, you two. I won't kill you two. You two were quite nice just now and wanted to let us in."

When the two heard Lei Ze's comfort, they did not relax their vigilance at all. Instead, they became more nervous, with beads of sweat dripping down their foreheads.

Suddenly there was a silver bell-like laughter: "Hahahahahahaha."

"Your Excellency really gives me face."

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman in white clothes embroidered with a silver moon walking slowly, with a look of majesty and coldness in her eyes. Behind her followed several followers with high cultivation. Obviously, this person was the mayor of Mingyue City, Mingyuexin.

Ming Yuexin looked at the corpse in the house and ordered a few frightened foundation-building monks: "Drag him away and clean up this place."

Then he said to a Jindan cultivator behind him: "Xiao Li, Xiao Wang is dead, you take his place."

She glanced at Lei Ze and the others and said, "What business has brought you to Mingyue City? With your ability, you should be able to find a place to stay in this chaotic world. Why did you come to Mingyue City?"

Lei Ze smiled and said, "Lord Mingyue, it is not polite to entertain guests at the city gate."

Ming Yuexin frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Daoyou, please follow me."

Afterwards, he took Lei Ze and a few others to the center of the inner city, where the Mingyue Sect was located.

There was no conversation along the way, but Lei Ze noticed that there were fewer people in the inner city, especially mortals. And the mortals here were not as carefree as before. Instead, they were mostly servants and maids.

They came to a stately palace. Ming Yuexin stopped, turned to Lei Ze and said, "Come in, sir."

Lei Ze nodded, motioning for everyone to follow him, and followed Ming Yuexin into the palace. The palace was richly decorated and full of spiritual energy, and was obviously a good place to practice.

Ming Yuexin led them to a spacious reception room, motioned for everyone to take a seat, and then ordered someone to serve tea. She sat in the main seat with a questioning look in her eyes.

"Fellow Daoist, can you tell me now what brings you to Mingyue City?" Mingyuexin asked straight to the point.

Lei Ze looked at Zhou Ke'er and Lu Mengyun. The two nodded, tore off the human skin masks on their faces, revealing their true appearance.

Lu Mengyun said: "I wonder if the Lord of Mingyue City still remembers me. At that time, you told us that if we wanted to come back one day, Mingyue City would always welcome us."

"I never thought that as soon as we came back, someone would want to do something bad to us."

Ming Yuexin opened her eyes wide in surprise when she saw the true faces of Lu Mengyun and Zhou Keer. Then she smiled apologetically: "It turns out to be Miss Lu and Miss Zhou. I'm so sorry."

Ming Yuexin looked at Lei Ze again and said, "If I am not mistaken, you are the legendary Taoist friend Liu Bang."

"Fellow Daoist, I apologize to you all. Your industry committee has indeed brought prosperity to our Mingyue City. But..."

Ming Yuexin paused, a complicated look on her face. She sighed and continued, "But times have changed, that won't work anymore."

Lei Ze asked, "Fellow Daoist, can you tell me that after we left Mingyue City, we were not on the Wuji Continent. We are at a loss as to what to do about the current situation."

Mingyuexin nodded slowly and thought for a while, as if sorting out the memories of more than fifty years ago.

"Miss Lu and Miss Zhou left Mingyue City more than fifty years ago. I remember hearing rumors that the Qingyun Empire was going to start a war."

"After that, the number of cultivators and mortals traveling to Mingyue City decreased significantly, but Mingyue City was still very prosperous."

“A few months later, the Cang Yan Dynasty was taken down, but Ming Yue City was still fine, so Ming Yue City began to recover from that.”

Lei Ze and the others listened to Ming Yuexin's story attentively. They knew that the following information was the most important.

"It happened about twenty years ago. The countries that had been living in peace suddenly started a war."

"Especially led by the Qingyun Empire, they united with the Nebula Realm and the Jade Empire and began to expand madly towards the east."

Lei Ze frowned slightly. This shouldn’t be the case. Isn’t Jiang Changqing from the Qingyun Empire? Why did his subordinates start expanding like crazy after the leader died?

Jiang Changqing is dead and cannot be any deader. I have confirmed it myself.

Seeing Lei Ze's puzzled expression, Ming Yuexin said, "Daoyou, with your status, you should know that there are one or two Divine Transformation cultivators behind these sects."

Lei Ze nodded.

Ming Yue Xin sighed softly: "Later I found out that the reason why it was so chaotic was because all the Divine Transformation cultivators disappeared overnight."