"Blood!?" Li Cheng颐 watched the warship slowly decelerate, its hull colliding with these blood droplets. The entire warship seemed to flow like water, deforming and bypassing the droplets, returning to its original shape on the other side.

He himself was inside the warship, deforming and twisting along with it, bypassing the blood together.

"It's hard to imagine that even after death, one's blood can remain intact for so long."

"This is what's called transcending the Three Realms, being outside the Five Elements." Xuan Yunzi shook his head. "Only such beings, after their death, will their bodies not enter the cycle of all things, remaining eternally unchanged, truly unique. Because among all things, in any time and space, in any region, there is no food chain that can decompose them, that's all."

Li Cheng颐 nodded. He had heard this famous Daoist saying in his previous life, but he never expected such an interpretation.

The warship quickly descended.

A gray land below gradually became clearer.

Traditional Chinese-style pavilions rose and fell on the ground.

The gray fog also thinned, revealing neatly arranged ancient streets between the pavilions.

There were people walking on the streets, but they were all wearing gray-black cloaks, heads lowered, faces unseen.

The ubiquitous ancient blood droplets still floated in the air.

He leaped out.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the City Lord's mansion first." Xuan Yunzi led the way, looked at the direction, and headed towards a six-story spire not far away.

Beneath the gate-shaped archway, a sparse stream of people entered and exited.

Directly in front stood a memorial arch, with a plaque hanging above bearing the four characters 'Suo Sheng Mie Si' (Locking Life and Extinguishing Death).

His own body temperature of over a thousand degrees actually caused a layer of white frost to condense faintly on his skin.

Li Cheng颐 also jumped down.

"Here, don't casually talk to people. Many are not living people, but just phantoms that have been staying here for a long time. If you talk to them, you can indeed obtain some knowledge and information, but after a short time, you will be pulled into their time and space, unable to return to your original time and space. I had a junior sister before who was pulled into a cataclysmic era billions of years ago, and never returned."

"Let's go down." Xuan Yunzi said, pointing to the ground.

The warship opened a fish-shaped slit below.

Everyone was covered from head to toe in gray-black cloaks, but Li Cheng颐 could see from the corners below the cloaks that they were all wearing Daoist robes.

As soon as he came out, he felt an icy wind that chilled his body.

Dense blood droplets blocked all means of transportation, and even walking required constant attention to avoid bumping one's head.

There were two five-story red-lacquered pavilions nearby, gloomy and sinister.

*Poof!*

The two landed lightly, using the floating blood droplets to slow down.

His hair, eyelids, and beard began to freeze.

"This is Jimmie City (City of Stillness)."

"Bumping to death?" Li Cheng颐 frowned. Having reached this realm, could one still be bumped to death?

"Magic is forbidden here. In the extremely chaotic moment of stillness, no cultivation system can be used. Originally, we ourselves should not exist, but because of the great magic power of the founding ancestor, we can enter this place." Xuan Yunzi landed in a spacious open space in the square.

"Don't wander around outside. These ancient bloods move when they encounter blood wind, and many people have been bumped to death." Xuan Yunzi reminded.

Xuan Yunzi sighed.

Li Cheng颐 was shocked. Since joining Tian Ju Ge (Heavenly Gathering Pavilion), he had lost count of the number of times he'd been shocked and his worldview overturned.

He originally thought that in this world, in this Black Sea, as long as he constantly increased his strength and speed, he could overcome everything with brute force.

Now it seemed that this was not the case at all.

The two walked one after the other, and soon came to the foot of the spire.

A figure greeted them from inside the tower, with a three-foot white beard, a thin figure, and densely packed small blood-colored eyes on his forehead, clearly not a human.

"Junior Brother Xuan Yunzi, it's rare to see you, the inspector of the True Division, personally bringing a newcomer." The Daoist greeted with a smile.

"Senior Brother Qian Yan, this is Bai Lu, a disciple recently accepted by my master." Xuan Yunzi pulled Li Cheng颐 behind him forward and pointed him out.

"This is True Lord Qian Yan who is stationed here, you can call him Senior Brother."

Li Cheng颐 quickly saluted.

"Bai Lu greets Senior Brother Qian Yan."

"Actually, a disciple of the Four Elders??" All of Qian Yan's eyes blinked and widened slightly, clearly shocked.

"How long has Senior Tian Xuanzi not accepted a disciple?"

"It's been tens of thousands of years, I believe." Xuan Yunzi said.

"Tsk tsk... lucky fellow." Qian Yan was obviously a little jealous, and did not say much to Li Cheng颐. He turned and pushed the door, entering the spire.

"Come in, there are two newcomers who have arrived as well. You can all register together."

The two followed in, the tower was an ordinary Chinese-style ancient hall.

In the center of the wall hung a picture of a phoenix eating rice.

Li Cheng颐 felt that he seemed to have seen it wrong, and looked carefully again, it was really a picture of a phoenix eating rice???

A group of phoenixes stood on the ground like chickens, constantly pecking at millet.

"Oh, that is a genuine work left by Ancestor Yiyuan. It is the Holy Phoenix Eating Rice Painting you are thinking of." True Lord Qian Yan introduced casually.

"Does this phoenix really eat rice?" The one who asked this was not Li Cheng颐, but a young man in white short clothes standing in the hall.

The young man had a handsome face, and behind him was a gorgeous, slender scimitar inlaid with countless gems, gold, and crystals.

Li Cheng颐 had noticed this person as soon as he entered the door.

This guy was also looking around like him, obviously a newcomer too.

"Well, the Holy Phoenix used to not eat rice, but Ancestor didn't know this before drawing this picture. After the painting was completed, it became a fact. So in countless dead-end spaces and Black Sea regions, all Holy Phoenixes had to start eating rice. Because eating rice became one of the nutrients they were destined to supplement. If it's missing, it will cause malnutrition and illness."

True Lord Qian Yan introduced.

"This…" Li Cheng颐 and the young man looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"My Daoist name is Chunfan, how should I address this Senior Brother?" The young man approached a few steps and asked softly.

"Senior Brother is too polite, I am Daoist Bai Lu." Li Cheng颐 replied politely.

"So it's Junior Brother Bai Lu, we are truly destined. I didn't expect that when I arrived at Jimmie City, we could choose our paths together." Chunfan sighed.

"Indeed, we are destined." Li Cheng颐 nodded. At this time, True Lord Qian Yan went out again and soon brought back a young female Daoist with a somewhat familiar appearance.

"Que Ru?" Li Cheng颐 recognized the other party at once. It was actually Daoist Que Ru who took the initial test with him, also from Uncle Guang Li's school in Midrann.

Far away from home, suddenly seeing a fellow villager, both were a little surprised.

"Junior Brother Bai Lu?"

"Senior Sister Que Ru, are you well?" Li Cheng颐 stepped forward and said with a smile.

"Not bad, you passed the preliminary test so quickly?" Que Ru was very surprised. She was able to pass by using her Saintly heritage, knowing a few tricks to obtain the qualification to enter this place, Jimmie City.

One should know that those who can enter here are either descendants with backgrounds like her, or true geniuses with extremely powerful qualifications.

Thinking of this, her gaze towards Li Cheng颐 became more gentle.

"Okay, all the people in this batch are here, let's go inside." True Lord Qian Yan greeted Xuan Yunzi and began to lead the three of them up to the second floor of the spire.

Xuan Yunzi finally greeted Li Cheng颐, then turned and left.

He personally brought someone over just to show an attitude. Some things are implied.

Presumably the higher-ups in Jimmie City can understand.

Li Cheng颐 followed the three people in front and slowly went up to the second floor.

The second floor was a viewing hall full of various paintings.

"Here are the remaining paintings of Ancestor Yiyuan, you can come here to see if you are interested. Among them is the quite famous Painting of the Immortal Dragon Eating Qi." Qian Yan said with a smile.

He pointed to a painting depicting several white dragons entwined, looking up at the sky, breathing out white air.

"The Immortal Dragon clan used to eat people, extremely brutal. Later, the Ancestor was dissatisfied with their excessive hunting of the human race, so he went to persuade this clan. But the Immortal Dragon patriarch was arrogant and rude, and refused to be persuaded.

So the Ancestor said angrily, 'If you are unwilling to eat fewer people, then eat air for me.'

After returning, the Ancestor painted this work. From then on, the Immortal Dragon clan could no longer eat any food, they could only eat Qi to maintain their own survival.

Therefore, the entire Immortal Dragon clan quickly declined, their strength greatly reduced, and from then on, their bloodline gradually degenerated, becoming Rainbow Dragons. Later, the Rainbow Dragons continued to degenerate, until they disappeared from the stage of history."

Li Cheng颐 was shocked. He didn't expect that the Immortal Dragon was actually the ancestor bloodline of the Rainbow Dragon.

Moreover, without using knives or soldiers, just a casual painting completely wiped out a powerful dragon clan. What level had the founding ancestor, Daoist Yiyuan, reached…

Afterwards, Qian Yan introduced several other paintings, all similar to the Immortal Dragon, initially monster groups that ate people, but were changed in their diets by the Ancestor's painting.

Under Qian Yan's introduction, the three quickly learned how the Ancestor silently cleared a safe and stable area for mankind in that dark, brutal, and chaotic era.

Because of the Ancestor's great works, there were more than fifty races here, all forced to become vegetarians. Among them, six ate air, three drank water, and another race was changed by the Ancestor to only eat and not excrete because they were too gluttonous, ate too much and wasted too much. Their bellies grew bigger and bigger, and eventually they self-destructed and perished.

Li Cheng颐 seemed to recognize that the race was very similar to the Pixiu he had seen in his previous life.

"Okay, having seen the glorious past of this sect, next is the selection of time." True Lord Qian Yan led the three to continue up to the third floor.

"You are all at the Qi Fire realm. To step into Divine Fire, you need to understand all the principles of a small range of time and space. Before that, you need to choose the forbidden knowledge system you want to learn, in order to determine the direction of your future efforts."

True Lord Qian Yan said simply.

The third floor was an exhibition hall similar to a museum.

Crystal exhibition pillars with lights were erected along the walls, and various items of different shapes and styles were placed in the pillars.

There were ancient masks, rotten weapons, twisted wriggling purple tentacles, half-melted colorful chocolate castles, broken technological weapons with flashing electronic fluorescence, and ancient-style elixir porcelain bottles.

And so on, dense crystal pillars, most of which were labeled with metal tags, and the tags were written with people's names.

"Each of these crystal pillars contains a forbidden knowledge path, and each path can reach the final peak and achieve your own Saintly position.

In addition, mastering a complete forbidden knowledge will also be very helpful for you to open up your own dimension of the universe in the future." True Lord Qian Yan reminded.

The three heard this and immediately went forward to examine it carefully.

One went to the left, one went to the right, Li Cheng颐 fell behind, so he simply walked to the middle.

(End of this chapter)