"It's a small matter, Brother Mo, feel free to go out. I will arrange everything in detail for you here. Even the residences of Xiong Xiuzhu and Tao Ao, I will help you rebuild them," Wu Kai said, directly assuring him.

Mo Wuji took out six Qi Condensation Pills. Asking him to help with such a small favor was really nothing, so he offered to help build a house for Tao Ao and his wife.

At this moment, Xiong Xiuzhu also realized that Mo Wuji could provide her with something to do, at least giving her hope for survival, otherwise she and Tao Ao simply couldn't survive.

Not to mention living in ordinary towns, the market towns around the Wuhen Sword Sect were basically for cultivators. There were also many ordinary people who couldn't cultivate, and they all had their own means, having already formed a circle. She, Xiong Xiuzhu, an ordinary person who couldn't lift anything heavy, had to take care of Tao Ao in this place. It was impossible for her to enter this circle and survive.

And to leave the Wuhen Sword Sect and go to the nearest mortal city, it was also thousands of miles away. The key was that there were desolate and uninhabited places everywhere along those thousands of miles. It was impossible for her, a mortal, to walk there.

"Thank you, benefactor, for saving our lives," Xiong Xiuzhu didn't care what Mo Wuji asked her to do, as long as she had something to do.

Mo Wuji nodded, "Go back and pack up, then move to my place. I live next to Blood Lotus Lake. The main thing you need to do is take care of my sister, Yan'er. Yan'er has suffered some trauma, and sometimes she's like a child, so I need you to put in more effort."

Hearing that she was just asked to take care of someone, Xiong Xiuzhu was even more grateful. At least it wouldn't be more difficult than what she was doing now.

……

Xiong Xiuzhu came quickly. Mo Wuji had just returned to his residence and told Yan'er that he would be going out for a while when Xiong Xiuzhu arrived here with her disabled husband.

Xiong Xiuzhu's husband, Tao Ao, was of medium build and looked rather handsome. However, both legs were broken and completely curled up in a wheelchair. Tao Ao didn't seem like someone who liked to cause trouble. Mo Wuji guessed that his legs were broken because someone had bullied him for no reason.

Mo Wuji could barely protect himself now, so naturally, he wouldn't ask how Tao Ao's legs were broken. It was already very difficult to survive among mortal cultivators. He had also glanced at Tao Ao's broken legs. With his current abilities, it was absolutely impossible to help heal them.

Tao Ao and his wife didn't think about asking Mo Wuji to heal his legs. They were already grateful to be taken in by Mo Wuji and to have such easy work.

Three days later, Yan'er had gradually accepted the very patient Xiong Xiuzhu. And Tao Ao and Xiong Xiuzhu's residence was also built with Wu Kai's help.

Mo Wuji was finally able to leave his residence with peace of mind. In this environment, he dared not relax for a single day. Whether it was to take good care of Yan'er or to protect his own life, he had to work hard to strengthen his strength.

……

At the Wuhen Sword Sect's main hall for sect affairs, there were already many people in the hall when Mo Wuji arrived. Mo Wuji knew that he, as a handyman disciple, wasn't qualified to take on any sect missions. His idea was to see if he could follow behind those disciples who had taken on missions and lend a hand.

Mo Wuji had been to the main hall for sect affairs more than once. Not long ago, he had also come here to help Stone Alchemist prepare medicine.

Today, after entering the main hall for sect affairs, Mo Wuji felt a little strange. In the past, when he came here, many disciples would come and go in a hurry, either forming teams, taking on missions, or contributing points and buying pills. Now, what Mo Wuji saw was completely different. On the contrary, many disciples were gathered together, discussing something in groups of three or five.

"Junior Brother Mo, congratulations," Mo Wuji was planning to listen to what these people were discussing when he heard someone call him.

The person who called him was an old acquaintance, Fei Bingzhu from the Spirit Medicine Warehouse. He was fortunate enough to have Fei Bingzhu's help back then, selling him a stalk of Water Velvet Vine. What was rare was that Fei Bingzhu hadn't taken advantage of him, selling it to him at a normal price.

Now that Fei Bingzhu said congratulations to him, it was clear that he knew Stone Alchemist had successfully refined the pill, and he didn't have to change places.

"I can only say that I'm lucky, Stone Alchemist's Pill Dao is too amazing," Mo Wuji laughed and walked over.

When he walked near Fei Bingzhu, he asked in a low voice, "Senior Brother Fei, today I see so many people gathered together, what are they discussing?"

"Our Wuhen Sword Sect's Wuhen Sword Mountain is open. Do you know Wuhen Sword Mountain? Even the Heavenly Pole Hall's Heavenly Pole Medicine Mountain might not be comparable to our Wuhen Sword Mountain. Wuhen Sword Mountain hasn't been opened for nearly a thousand years. How many good things do you think are inside this time? Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with us," Fei Bingzhu sighed as he spoke.

Mo Wuji finally understood why those people were gathered together discussing it. They were enthusiastically discussing Wuhen Sword Mountain. That was right, if he was qualified to enter Wuhen Sword Mountain, which hadn't been opened for a thousand years, he would also secretly discuss it with others.

"Senior Brother Fei, since Wuhen Sword Mountain hasn't been opened for a thousand years, why is it suddenly open?" Mo Wuji knew that he wasn't qualified to enter Wuhen Sword Mountain, but he couldn't help but ask a few questions.

Fei Bingzhu pointed to the sky and said in a low voice, "Ten years ago, the first layer of the Five Elements Desolate Domain opened. The five major empires all wanted to obtain the greatest benefits from it, so they fought each other. As a result, they suffered heavy losses to each other. Finally, the five major empires negotiated and agreed to use a competition to obtain the resources of the first layer of the Five Elements Desolate Domain."

"What is the Five Elements Desolate Domain?" Mo Wuji became even more confused.

Fei Bingzhu patiently explained, "You're a new handyman disciple, so it's normal that you don't know. Do you know that very few experts from our five major empires can enter the Third Heaven of the Celestial Realm? There aren't even any true Heavenly-level sects?"

Mo Wuji nodded, "I have heard of that. Does this have anything to do with the Five Elements Desolate Domain?"

Fei Bingzhu said, "Of course it does. It is said that the Five Elements Desolate Domain has cut off the source of spiritual energy from the five major empires' regions. With the resources of the five major empires' regions, it is difficult to advance to the Third Heaven of the Celestial Realm. For countless years, those who have been able to advance to the Third Heaven of the Celestial Realm have been top-level talents. Even so, they can only linger in the First Heaven of the Third Heaven of the Celestial Realm. However, after passing through the Five Elements Desolate Domain, although there aren't Celestial Realm Third Heaven cultivators everywhere, there are far more than in the five major empires' regions."

"If that's the case, then everyone can just pass through the Five Elements Desolate Domain together, right?" Mo Wuji said in confusion.

Fei Bingzhu chuckled, "What you say sounds good, pass through the Five Elements Desolate Domain together? Do you think the Five Elements Desolate Domain is so easy to pass through? What's more, now only the first layer of the Five Elements Desolate Domain is open. Even if you pass through the first layer, you won't be able to find where to enter the second layer from. Many experts from the five major empires have tried to enter from the first layer, looking for the second layer, but they haven't come out. It is said that even experts who have reached the Third Heaven of the Celestial Realm have fallen in it. Of course, no one knows if any experts have passed through.

Later, everyone knew that the Five Elements Desolate Domain couldn't be opened by force, so they simply fought over cultivation resources in the first layer. Countless cultivators have died in there in recent years, which has also led many sects to start recruiting large numbers of disciples."

"Then wouldn't it be enough to send experts in to snatch it? What's the use of recruiting disciples?" The more Mo Wuji listened, the less he understood.

"The Five Elements Desolate Domain is not an ordinary place. It is said that there are restrictions from the rules of heaven and earth there. Only Top Pulse Realm and Foundation Spirit Realm cultivators can enter the first layer. If people with higher cultivation bases enter, they will be crushed and fall by the rules of heaven and earth if they don't come out for a long time. Several Celestial Position Third Heaven experts disappeared after entering, and it is rumored that they were crushed and fell by the rules of heaven and earth," Fei Bingzhu said with a look of you-don't-understand.

Mo Wuji still listened in a daze. What was this crushing by the rules of heaven and earth? He asked Fei Bingzhu, but Fei Bingzhu had only heard about it. He himself didn't understand either.

"Isn't the empire controlled by top-level sects? Why is it an imperial war, not a sect war?" Mo Wuji stopped asking about those profound things. He also understood that Fei Bingzhu's words were completely hearsay, and Fei Bingzhu himself, like him, didn't understand.

Fei Bingzhu chuckled, "Isn't an imperial war just a sect war? Sects are just using the name of the empire to divide territory. When the real fighting starts, it's still a battle between cultivators from different sects. Our Wuhen Sword Sect also participated in it. Later, the major sects felt that the war was too costly, so they simply changed it to a civil competition.

Because the spiritual herbs and resources in the Five Elements Desolate Domain are all top-level, the value of each one is difficult to estimate. Many medicinal materials can allow cultivators who have reached the Third Heaven of the Earth Realm to directly cross from the Earth Realm into the Celestial Realm. Therefore, the competition was changed to a Pill Competition, held every three years, and then the number of places to enter the Five Elements Desolate Domain is allocated according to the competition results."

"Is it because our Wuhen Sword Sect's competition results are too poor, so we are opening Wuhen Sword Mountain, wanting to cultivate more alchemists?" Mo Wuji vaguely guessed the reason why Wuhen Sword Mountain was opened.

Fei Bingzhu nodded, "That's right, but it's not to cultivate more alchemists, but to improve the level of existing alchemists. Strive to get a better ranking in the next competition and get more places to enter the Five Elements Desolate Domain. Don't think that many people will die in the Five Elements Desolate Domain. In fact, even if more people die, because of the heaven-defying spiritual medicines and treasures inside, the major sects still want to send more people in. If they get a spiritual fruit that can allow someone from the Third Heaven of the Earth Realm to advance to the Celestial Realm, don't you think the sect would immediately become a quasi-Celestial sect?"

"The Wuhen Sword Sect should represent the Star River Empire, right? As long as the Star River Empire has places, the Wuhen Sword Sect can still get places, right? Could it be that after the Star River Empire gets the ranking, it will have another internal competition, and then allocate it to various Immortal Gates?"

"It's not like that. After the new rules for the Five Elements Desolate Domain civil competition came out, each sect represents itself in the Pill Competition, and it has nothing to do with the empire. The Star River Empire's Guardian Immortal Gate is the Heavenly Pole Hall. If our Wuhen Sword Sect's results in the Pill Competition are better than the Heavenly Pole Hall's, our sect will have more places to enter the Five Elements Desolate Domain than the Heavenly Pole Hall."

Between one question and one answer, Mo Wuji completely understood. No wonder the Wuhen Sword Sect even opened the Wuhen Sword Mountain, which hadn't been opened for a thousand years. This was obviously the best moment for the major Immortal Gates to improve their ranking. Once the Wuhen Sword Sect obtained more places in the Five Great Empires' Pill Competition, it would be able to obtain more top-level resources in the Five Elements Desolate Domain. If the Wuhen Sword Sect could obtain a treasure to advance to the Third Heaven of the Celestial Realm, then the chain reaction would be that the Wuhen Sword Sect would immediately leap from a middle-to-lower-level Earth-level sect to a quasi-Celestial sect.

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