Lin Zhen's question caused all the cultivators, including Lingyun City Lord, to fall into deep thought.

As Lin Zhen said, before arriving here, the speed of cultivation of all of them was beyond the reach of other practitioners compared with those of the same era.

Except for the long-term retreat required when breaking through to a major realm, almost all of them were able to complete the previous three to five cultivation processes within the time they came here.

Before Lin Zhen mentioned this issue, they were all aware of it, but they all just thought that this was a change that would occur after their cultivation reached the level of an immortal.

After all, his own strength has become several times stronger than before, so it is natural that he will need more time to practice in order to achieve a breakthrough.

These practitioners seek explanations for themselves in this way, and because of this, they have never noticed the question raised by Lin Zhen.

"What you mean is that after a cultivator has cultivated his soul, even if he does not continue to absorb spiritual energy for cultivation, there is still some room for improvement in strength..." Lingyun City Lord's expression at this moment has begun to become gloomy.

Because Lin Zhen's words made him realize a very serious problem.

Just now, after the confrontation with Lin Zhen, the reason why Lingyun City Lord's aura suddenly became chaotic was because he suddenly noticed that there was a strange energy in his body.

Lingyun City Master has been practicing for ten thousand years and has experienced various realms and stages. Naturally, he knows that cultivators will have all kinds of inner demons due to various reasons during the process of cultivation.

These so-called inner demons are actually the result of the cultivator's distracting thoughts, such as greed, anger, obsession, and hatred. These desires are the bad roots of human beings. If the cultivator cannot overcome these emotions, then in the process of improving his strength and realm, he will

All kinds of distracting thoughts will arise.

These distracting thoughts are like playful children at first, they represent the various desires of the cultivator.

If the practitioner's willpower is strong enough, he can teach these children to let go of their obsessions and return to the right path.

But if the cultivator's will is not enough to suppress these children, then the situation will become very bad.

These children will subtly affect the mind of the cultivator, making people who are originally kind to others become irritable and irritable; turning people who are kind-hearted and willing to do good to others into small-minded people who benefit themselves at the expense of others; people who love peace and live alone and quietly,

Becoming murderous, staining your hands with the blood of innocent people...

These are just the tip of the iceberg of inner demons.

For cultivators, the emergence of inner demons is the biggest obstacle on the path of cultivation.

As the saying goes, if you want to defeat others, you must first defeat yourself.

This is even more true among practitioners.

Therefore, after suppressing the weird feeling in his body just now, City Lord Lingyun subconsciously thought that it should be his inner demon.

The reason why he attacked Lin Zhen before was because this inner demon gave him an uncontrollable desire to fight and an emotional rage.

Originally, the Lord of Lingyun City believed that after thousands of years of cultivation, his mind had long since become incapable of being moved by the outside world, let alone being easily angered by anyone.

But just now, that feeling of anger came suddenly, reminding him of the scene when he suppressed his inner demons for the last time thousands of years ago...

But now it seems that the weird feeling and sudden anger I just felt were not caused by inner demons.

If what Lin Zhen said is true, then these false auras are most likely a conspiracy left by a certain existence.

Thinking of this possibility, even someone as powerful as Lingyun City Lord would inevitably feel awe-inspiring in his heart.

After all, even he himself had fallen into the trap unintentionally.

If the being behind the conspiracy uses these false auras to achieve its unknown purpose, then all the cultivators in Lingyun City, including himself, have become the opponent's pawns...

However, the more Lingyun City Lord thought about this aspect, the more he felt that this matter was very possible.

Hearing the words of Lingyun City Lord, Lin Zhen nodded and said: "Just as my power has been improved just now, but I have not absorbed any spiritual energy at all, so I think that everyone present, whether it is a thousand years or a hundred years,

, your cultivation in Lingyun City is all useless."

"As for the improvement of your cultivation realm, it is entirely because it is your own strength. It is just because you feel that you are concentrating on cultivation and wasting precious time. As a result, these cultivation realms have gone through a very long process.

It just took time to slowly manifest itself."

Lin Zhen's words not only deny the spiritual energy here, but also deny the thousands of years of efforts of all the cultivators present.

At this moment, even if Lin Zhen's words were all true, these practitioners could not accept this fact for a while.

After all, it is not a day or two, nor a year or two, but hundreds of thousands of years.

If the aura here is nothing but false, then wouldn't all the time they spent here be meaningless?

At this moment, all the cultivators who were watching had confused looks on their faces.

Their eyes were dull, their limbs were hanging limply, and their faces were expressionless.

That state was like suddenly losing his soul and turning into a walking corpse.

wrong!

The pores all over Lin Zhen's body suddenly exploded, and an extremely unpleasant feeling arose in his heart.

The performance of these cultivators at this moment made Lin Zhen aware of the problem.

Just like when Lin Zhen saw these cultivators before, he felt that there was something strange about them that could not be described.

Now, these weirdnesses are infinitely magnified.

Lin Zhen knew very well that these cultivators had all gone through very hard training. Whether it was their bodies, spirits, or souls, they had been tempered far beyond ordinary people.

Therefore, even if he knew the fact that his thousands of years were wasted, Lin Zhen did not believe that these cultivators would suddenly become so demoralized that they would become like walking corpses.

If only a few of these cultivators showed such an attitude, Lin Zhen would not find it strange. Instead, he would think that this is human nature.

After all, not everyone has a will of steel.

However, now, all the cultivators present showed the same expression.

Even their movements are so uniform.

Just one look at this scene sent chills down Lin Zhen's spine.

Fortunately, the Lingyun City Lord opposite did not show the same expression or movement.

Otherwise, Lin Zhen would definitely find a way to escape from this weird place as soon as possible.

"Senior City Lord, have you noticed..." Lin Zhen's tone was deep. When he said this, he released the power of his soul and paid full attention to all the cultivators around him.

Lingyun City Lord naturally also noticed that something was wrong. At this moment, his face was so cold that it looked like water would drip out at any time.

"It seems that we idiots who call themselves immortals have all become the prey of a certain guy." When Lord Lingyun said this, his whole body exuded an awe-inspiring murderous aura that made people's skin crawl.

This time, it was not because of something that affected City Lord Lingyun's mood, but because City Lord Lingyun had already fallen into anger at this moment.

This was the first time in ten thousand years that he took the initiative to make himself angry.

He couldn't help but be angry. When he thought that all the cultivators in Lingyun City, including himself, were wasting their precious time in vain, the Lord of Lingyun City became furious.

At this moment, a cultivator around him suddenly spoke and let out a numbing sneer: "Hehehe..."

The attention of Lin Zhen and Lingyun City Master fell on the cultivator almost at the same time.

After sneering a few times, the cultivator said in a very hoarse voice: "I didn't expect...that someone could see through the secrets here..."

His voice is not only hoarse, but if you listen carefully, you will feel that something is stuck in his throat when he speaks, making it sound harsh and harsh, making people feel uncomfortable.

Lin Zhen and Lingyun City Lord are not ordinary people either.

After hearing this, they immediately understood that there must be someone behind the scenes who was borrowing the cultivator's body to talk to them at this moment.

"Who are you?" Lin Zhen asked coldly.

"I am Immortal Lord Lingyun." This sentence was not spoken by the cultivator just now, but by all the cultivators around him at the same time.

Although their voices were different, at this time, they sounded at the same time with great tacit understanding. The voices were integrated together, and there was no disharmony in the sound.

Immortal Lord Lingyun! Lin Zhen was shocked when he heard this name.

This place is called Lingyun City. Lin Zhen originally thought that this name was thought up by the Lord of Lingyun City.

But now it seems that this is not the case...

"Immortal Lord Lingyun..." Before Lin Zhen could speak, Lingyun City Lord opposite him repeated the name in a deep voice.

He immediately laughed at himself and said: "Haha... It seems that the name of Lingyun City was also taken by you by subtly tampering with my consciousness, right?"

This time, the person who responded to City Lord Lingyun was a female cultivator floating to the left of City Lord Lingyun, about a few meters away from him.

"It seems that our city lord is not stupid..."

Lingyun City Lord's face became even more gloomy, and his voice seemed to be slightly hoarse due to anger: "What is your purpose, and what did you do to them!"

Lin Zhen noticed that the current state of Lingyun City Lord seemed to have reached the edge of explosion.

It seemed that he felt extremely angry that these cultivators were being controlled by the so-called Immortal Lord Lingyun.
Chapter completed!