Once inside the Panfeng Forest, Mo Wuji immediately heard whistling sounds all around him. His spiritual will swept outwards, detecting vortices of wind everywhere. Just as Chi Bing had said, the spiritual energy here was quite abundant.

"The spiritual energy here is very abundant, but because there are too many Panfeng winds, it's not suitable for cultivation. Moreover, the spiritual will is also affected. Once discovered by powerful divine beasts, it's difficult to escape," Chi Bing explained.

Mo Wuji didn't particularly care. He had the God Storage Meridian, and even though his spiritual will was affected by the Panfeng winds, it wouldn't prevent him from sensing danger. Besides, his Wind Escape Technique should be quite safe in this environment.

Chi Bing had visited the Panfeng Forest many times and was very familiar with it. She led Mo Wuji and Chi Chuan, winding and turning through the forest for two days, until they arrived at a place that seemed completely unremarkable.

"Here?" Mo Wuji looked around in puzzlement. He was a level four Grand God Array Master, but there was no natural concealment array here.

Chi Bing smiled slightly and casually threw out a grey array flag. A faint, rippling entrance appeared before Mo Wuji.

"I discovered this place by chance. Without my array flag to open it, it's impossible to find this location. I once offended a God King, and I escaped here, advancing from God Monarch to World God, and cultivated for tens of thousands of years. By the time I came out, that God King had long forgotten about my existence. Come in with me," Chi Bing said, stepping into the rippling entrance.

Once everyone had entered, Chi Bing retrieved the array flag.

Mo Wuji looked at the scene before him in awe. It was simply a secluded canyon. Dense spiritual energy blanketed the canyon, and a clear stream meandered through it. A few low-level demonic beasts, seeing the newcomers, didn't seem afraid.

This reminded Mo Wuji of the Diseased Wood Plains in the cultivation world. There was also a hidden place like this in the Diseased Wood Plains, which Mo Xiangtong, Shi Yi Niang, and Jing Lengbei had occupied. Later, he had even saved Jing Lengbei and gone to Tianhai to search for Mo Xiangtong. The last news he had received was that Mo Xiangtong and Shi Yi Niang had obtained a celestial abode and disappeared.

He wondered how Mo Xiangtong and Shi Yi Niang were doing now, and how Yuan Zhenyi, who had prepared to cultivate martial arts, was faring.

Mo Wuji sighed, putting aside his sentimental thoughts.

"Wuji, what do you think of this place?" Chi Bing asked, smiling at Mo Wuji.

Mo Wuji nodded. "This place is very good. It's not only suitable for cultivation but also for refining pills."

Having said that, Mo Wuji also summoned Da Huang and introduced him to Chi Bing and Chi Chuan. Da Huang's aptitude was heaven-defying, but due to the restrictions of the rules in the Immortal World, Da Huang's cultivation had been stuck at the sixth level of the Nurturing God Realm, unable to progress.

Within this hidden canyon, Chi Bing had already built a place for cultivation. With Mo Wuji's support of a large number of pills, Chi Chuan, whose aptitude was average, also chose to go into closed-door cultivation with Da Huang and Shuaiguo.

Chi Bing was further solidifying her cultivation in preparation for advancing to God King.

Mo Wuji then took out his pill refining furnace, preparing to refine God Jade Pills.

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At the same time, Nirvana Dao City was overcrowded. Mo Wuji hadn't guessed wrong. Entering Nirvana Dao City at this moment, it was difficult to find even a temporary resting place, let alone a place to stay.

All the inns and restaurants in Nirvana Dao City were fully booked. At this time, even with divine crystals, it wasn't certain that one could find accommodation.

As for the Reputation Tower Square of the Nirvana Dao City, there wasn't even room to stand. Countless cultivators were coming here to challenge the various Dao levels, hoping to gain the qualification to participate in the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment.

The reason for this was that after the Dilo Commerce was bloodied, the Nirvana Learning Academy suddenly changed the conditions for loose cultivators to participate in the assessment and the number of participants. As for the reason, no one knew except for the Nirvana Learning Academy.

Originally, loose cultivators could only participate in the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment by passing the combat competition or obtaining the title of King in various Daos.

Now, the Nirvana Learning Academy directly increased the number of loose cultivator participants to one hundred, and these one hundred did not include loose cultivators who had obtained the title of King.

All loose cultivators who had obtained the title of King could directly go to the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment office to register, without having to go through the Loose Cultivator Alliance.

The one hundred places given to loose cultivators were completely allocated by the Loose Cultivator Alliance based on ability. For example, there were eighty places for loose cultivator combat, and these eighty places were the top eighty in the loose cultivator combat competition.

As for the other Daos, as long as one could obtain the title of Level Four Grand God Master in the Nirvana Dao City Reputation Tower, such as Grand God Pill Refiner, Grand God Array Master, etc., they could participate in the Loose Cultivator Alliance's assessment selection.

Because the number of loose cultivators participating in the assessment had increased several times, it led to countless loose cultivators flooding into Nirvana Dao City.

Even though the Kings were released separately and the number of loose cultivator participants increased to one hundred, it was still a drop in the bucket for the entire loose cultivator community.

In fact, even if the King spots weren't set aside, they wouldn't take up many spots. Even large sects didn't have many people who could obtain the title of King in various Daos, let alone loose cultivators. Even if some talented loose cultivators obtained the title of King in a certain Dao, they would have been snatched away by major sects or family forces long ago. Where would they continue to stay among the loose cultivators?

There were a few Grand God Masters in various Daos, but not many. Therefore, those who could obtain the title of Grand God Master as a loose cultivator, and whose cultivation was still at the Nurturing God Realm, had a very high chance of participating in the assessment.

The biggest competition for loose cultivator assessment was still combat. The vast majority of loose cultivators only had the path of combat to participate in the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment.

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In the hidden canyon of the Panfeng Forest, Chi Bing, who was wholeheartedly absorbing spiritual energy for cultivation, suddenly opened her eyes. She looked at Mo Wuji's location with surprise.

The aroma of pills that made her whole soul feel invigorated came, and Chi Bing knew that Mo Wuji must have refined the God Jade Pill. She hadn't seen the God Jade Pill, but she could be sure that this was the aroma of the God Jade Pill.

Mo Wuji had refined the God Jade Pill in less than a month, which was really unexpected for Chi Bing.

In her opinion, refining a top-grade five-grade divine pill like the God Jade Pill definitely required a month of meditation before refining the pill, and then a period of enlightenment before finally starting the pill refining process.

As expected, Chi Bing had just thought of this when Mo Wuji's voice came from the door, "Sister Bing, the God Jade Pill is ready. You can try to break through to God King at any time."

Chi Bing stood up abruptly, excitedly opened the restriction, grabbed the jade bottle from Mo Wuji's hand, and opened it. "This is a top-grade God Jade Pill?"

Mo Wuji replied, "Yes, there are two top-grade God Jade Pills here. If it's not enough, I have more."

Mo Wuji didn't spend more than a month refining this furnace of God Jade Pills. After coming here, he only refined all the divine spiritual herbs he had into pills first, and then started refining the God Jade Pills.

The main divine spiritual herb of the God Jade Pill, the Bright Jade Divine Flower, was too rare. He didn't know where Chi Bing had obtained this one from, but Mo Wuji was sure that if he failed in refining this furnace of pills, he probably wouldn't have another chance to refine the Bright Jade Divine Pill. Using up the remaining divine spiritual herbs would also be a good way to familiarize himself with the process.

"One is enough. For this kind of divine pill, if one can't break through to the God King Realm with one pill, then the rest are useless. I plan to spend another month in enlightenment, and then go to the Panfeng Forest to break through to God King," Chi Bing didn't say thank you to Mo Wuji. She already knew what kind of person Mo Wuji was.

They addressed each other as siblings, so there was no need for thanks.

"Okay, Sister Bing, when you go out to break through to God King, I'll protect you. I need to go and refine something myself now," Mo Wuji didn't disturb Chi Bing's enlightenment.

He was sure that Chi Bing had a 70% chance of breaking through to the God King Realm. It was a premonition.

Although Chi Bing was a loose cultivator, her foundation was much deeper than those sect disciples. He saw several treasures on Chi Bing, whether it was the Silence Dao Sand or the Bright Jade Divine Flower, they were all priceless treasures. The grey array flag that opened the canyon in the Panfeng Forest was also a treasure. Did these things come out of thin air? Obviously, they were obtained by risking her life.

Just like himself, wasn't every good thing he had obtained by risking his life?

The Hongmeng Vitality almost made him die at the bottom of the Wusheng River, and the Earth Elemental Bead almost made him die in the Immortal Trench of the Half Immortal Domain. The Fire Source Crystal, the Water Source Crystal, the Sacred Dao Talisman…

The Rootless Divine Iron he had obtained not long ago was also a hidden danger, and he could be crushed to pieces if he wasn't careful.

A cultivator needed these life-and-death experiences to gain valuable wealth and even more valuable insights. From this point of view, Chi Bing and he were the same kind of people.

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Returning to his cave, Mo Wuji immediately took out the Rootless Divine Iron and the River Algae Water. He wanted to refine his own magic treasure.

Even though Mo Wuji had set up a concealment restriction, the aura was still instantly detected by Chi Bing as soon as he took out the Rootless Divine Iron.

Chi Bing nodded. This newly recognized younger brother of hers was definitely not just a Level Five God Pill King. With Mo Wuji's cultivation, if he was really an ordinary Level Five God Pill King, he would definitely not be able to be as free as he was now.

Similarly, if Mo Wuji was a Level Five God Pill King, it was impossible for him to obtain a treasure with such a top-level aura. Chi Bing quickly stopped paying attention to Mo Wuji and immersed herself in the enlightenment of the God King Realm.

Originally, Mo Wuji had planned to refine the magic treasure in the Immortal World, but because Chi Bing had brought him to this hidden canyon, he dared to refine it here.

The weight of the Rootless Divine Iron was uncertain, sometimes as light as a feather in the hand, and sometimes as heavy as a world.

Mo Wuji sacrificed the Azure Clothes Heart, and the cyan flame wrapped around the Rootless Divine Iron. The three golden fire lines were extremely clear in the cyan.

One after another hand seals were permeated into the flame by Mo Wuji, and the Rootless Divine Iron quickly began to melt under the Azure Clothes Heart.

Just like when Mo Wuji refined divine spiritual herbs, the impurities that were originally not much in the Rootless Divine Iron were directly taken away by Mo Wuji's hand seals.

After several days, the Rootless Divine Iron began to change shape.

At the moment of adding the River Algae Water, one after another restriction array patterns were permeated into the weapon embryo by Mo Wuji. Mo Wu was surprised to find that no matter what level of array pattern restriction he carved, it turned into the original Level One Divine Restriction when it fell into the weapon embryo.

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