Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 71

[Chapter 71: Geography of Yue State (Congratulations to the leader of the Tianzi Dao Alliance!)]

The Southern Wilderness Immortal Cultivation World.

Tianxian Tower.

The purple clay teapot on the small stove was emitting steam.

Ge Hongdan was wearing a long-sleeved, wide robe and had her hair tied in a bun with an ebony hairpin. She looked quite homely and casual.

He picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Fang Xi: “For making tea, snow water is the best, followed by mountain spring water, and then rain water… This is the snow water I saved from last year. Last year, the weather was good and the first snow came at the right time. Fellow Daoist, please try it. How does it taste?”

“Not as good as the water from the spiritual spring!”

Fang Xi told the truth.

Ge Hongdan was suddenly speechless, and even a hint of inferiority appeared on his face.

After all, for a cultivator like him who had completely given up on the path of cultivating immortals, it was easy to obtain gold, silver, jewelry, and worldly power, but anything related to the world of cultivating immortals was basically wishful thinking…

But in the eyes of all the immortal cultivators, even a bowl of spiritual rice is much better than any delicacies from the mountains and the sea!
Even a patched and tattered robe is more impressive than a prince’s fur coat worth thousands of gold!

In the world of cultivating immortals, anything that is not related to cultivating immortals is at the bottom of the contempt chain.

“Haha…but this tea is good.”

Fang Xi laughed to ease the awkwardness, and asked, “Daoyou Ge, what do I need?”

“It’s ready, please look!”

Ge Hongdan calmed down and spread out a scroll on the table. On it were painted mountains and rivers. It was a topographic map of Yue State!
For the ancients, maps were very precious.

Even for cultivators, there is not much difference.

“Fellow Daoist, please look, Jiahe City is located here!”

Ge Hongdan pointed to a very small place on the map.

Fang Xi looked carefully and finally found the location of Jiahe City. There was a prominent sign at the Qingzhushan Market not far away.

The entire Qingzhushan market is located in the northeast of a territory called “Yue State”.

This map is very large, depicting not only the State of Yue, but also the neighboring State of Mu and State of Wu… It can be seen that the three kingdoms are in a tripartite situation, with the State of Yue located in the northernmost part.

At the junction of the three kingdoms, there is a huge mountain range that is shaped like a “Y” and divides the three kingdoms.

This is the ‘Mountain Range of Ten Thousand Beasts’. Rumor has it that there are even third-order Jindan-level monsters lurking in the depths.

And every crossable mountain pass has a cultivation market and a fortress.

These fortresses and markets are like a string of pearls, and the largest one is located at the junction of the three countries. It is marked with the four characters “Bai Ze Xian Cheng” in huge fonts!
“Is this the holy land of casual cultivators – Bai Ze Xian Cheng?”

Fang Xi stared at the location of the Immortal City, and there was endless yearning in his words.

The three countries of Yue, Mu and Wu each have a Jindan sect that suppresses everything, and even the source of foundation-building pills is monopolized by them. Only a handful of immortal cultivation families can pay a huge price to exchange foundation-building pills from the sect.

It can be said that independent cultivators are caught in the cracks and their survival is extremely difficult.

The only difference is that Bai Ze Xian City was originally just a cultivation market. Because it was located in a place that no one in the Three Kingdoms cared about, it quickly became the center of independent cultivation activities. It continued to develop by relying on the rich resources in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range. Eventually, after the independent cultivator Bai Feng Zhenren formed a pill, a city for cultivation was built!
Today, it can even be said that it is the only place in the Three Kingdoms where independent cultivators can obtain foundation-building pills, and it is regarded as a holy place.

“Yes… If I were thirty years younger, I would probably go to Bai Ze Immortal City and try my luck.”

Ge Hongdan also felt the same way.

Fang Xi’s gaze shifted away from Bai Ze Fairy City. There were all kinds of people there, and it was definitely not a good place to practice the ‘art of immortality’.

His principle of cultivation is not to fight or compete, to plant trees and develop them quietly, and never to go to places of great conflict where dangers are lurking.

Fang Xi turned his gaze upwards, looking towards the north of Yue State.

On the northern border of Yue State, there is a huge body of water called “Wandao Lake”. This lake is extremely huge. Once you go further north, it will be connected with “Damengze”.

This swamp is shrouded in mist all year round, which can even block the consciousness of cultivators in the foundation-building stage. Its range is so vast that it is said that even a Jindan ancestor would never return if he entered it.

According to legend, once one can cross the “Great Dream Lake”, one can go further north, to a world of immortal cultivation that is more powerful and prosperous than the Southern Wilderness.

There are countless islands scattered across the ‘Wandao Lake’, many of which have spiritual veins and are occupied by small sects and families.

The ancestral home of the Longyu Zhong Clan, one of the seven great immortal cultivation families of the Yue Kingdom, is located here.

Well, the so-called seven great immortal cultivation families of the Yue Kingdom are the foundation-building families headed by the Song family. They have foundation-building cultivators from generation to generation. They are listed as the thirteen major forces of the Yue Kingdom along with the foundation-building sects such as the Red Leaf Valley, and are subject to the Xuantian Sect.

But now, the Tianfu Shen family, the Heishui Situ family, and the Hongye Valley have all been destroyed, and only five of the seven major immortal cultivation families in Yue State are left.

It is said that the Song family promoted another immortal cultivation family, the ‘Tu family’, to help the ancestor of the Tu family build his foundation, with the intention of replacing one of the original families with the Tu family.

‘In Yue State, Xuantian Sect, where the Jindan Patriarch sits, is the king! Only those who have a foundation-building master are powerful families. As for the countless Qi-refining families and sects, and even the lowest-level independent cultivators, they can only struggle…’

Fang Xi sighed secretly and looked at Wandao Lake.

There are not many islands with abundant spiritual energy in this big lake, only dozens of them. A small part of them are occupied by small Qi-refining sects, Qi-refining families, and even individual cultivators. Among them, there is an alliance force called “Thirty-Six Islands” that confronts the Longyu Zhong family.

Nowadays, the Qingzhu Mountain market is still very chaotic, and has even become a black market. It is extremely unsafe. Fang Xi certainly cannot go to such a place.

To practice the art of longevity, it is best to have a place with spiritual veins.

Fang Xi then turned his attention to the Wandao Lake area.

The population here is mainly composed of Qi-refining cultivators, and their forces are stable, just in confrontation. No major wars have taken place in recent decades, so it is relatively stable.

There are many islands with scattered spiritual veins. Most of them are of first rank or even inferior, and the resources are not very abundant.

Overall, it is not seen by the big powers, but it is very suitable for development.

“Wandao Lake is so big, maybe we can find new spiritual veins… Even if the first-level ones are not good enough, the second-rate ones will do…”

“When the time comes, I can set up formations and practice longevity techniques. At the same time, I can also meditate to improve my cultivation…”

“Once the spirit body is refined, I will go to Bai Ze Immortal City to plan the foundation-building!”

Fang Xi’s bottom line goal is to cultivate into a ‘Green Wood Spirit Body’!
Otherwise, with his low-grade spiritual roots, he may not be able to successfully build his foundation.

Even if he could continuously obtain a large amount of spirit stones through trade between the two worlds, and even swallow a large amount of elixirs to cultivate without caring about the elixir poison, both trade and purchase of elixirs require channels, and if the quantity is too large, it is very likely to attract the attention of foundation-building cultivators!
Once a spirit body is achieved, the amount of elixirs required will be greatly reduced.

“We still have to plant trees first. This is like sharpening the knife before cutting wood.”

“The demon tree is still growing very fast…if it doesn’t meet expectations, we can stop the loss in time.”

“Let’s set it for twenty years first! I’m only twenty now, and I’ll only be forty in twenty years! If I find that the art of immortality is really hard to cultivate by then, I can still turn back.”

Fang Xi secretly set a deadline for himself.

“However, the necessary things still need to be purchased…”

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He glanced around Wandao Lake and saw the sign of “Baochuanfang City”, which made him even more satisfied.

Although there are many good things in Qingzhushan Market, the problem is that the stores are too big to take advantage of their customers, so Fang Xi doesn’t want to go there a second time.

He now has a lot of good stuff on him, so he can go to another market to sell them, and then buy inheritance and formations…

“Yes, it’s really good stuff!”

After some preparation in his mind, Fang Xi looked up and said to Ge Hongdan: “Thank you, fellow Taoist!”

As he spoke, he took out ten spirit stones and handed them to Ge Hongdan.

“Haha, you’re welcome.”

Ge Hongdan held the spirit stone and smiled from ear to ear.

For cultivators, this is hard currency.

No matter how much power one has in the secular world, it is still difficult to obtain.

He took the spirit stone and began to drink tea, and then he became curious: “Fellow Daoist, do you want to go to Bai Ze Immortal City?”

“That’s exactly what I meant!”

Although he had no such idea at all, after all, there were already many Lian Dan ancestors in the Immortal City, and there was no telling how many foundation-building masters there were. That was why Fang Xi didn’t want to wander around under their noses.

But necessary concealment is still necessary.

“I have a few friends in Bai Ze Xian City. If you go there, you can visit one or two of them…”

Ge Hongdan smiled and gave several contact information.

Fang Xi wrote them down one by one and expressed his gratitude.

After the transaction was completed, he strode out of Tianxian Building.

…

Wandao Lake is six or seven thousand miles away from Qingzhushan Market!

This is just the straight-line distance.

There are mountains, rivers, bandits and thieves on the road… Therefore, ordinary people in ancient times might not even be able to leave their hometown in their entire lives, and those who could go to the county town were extremely capable people.

Fang Xi used his physical skills to travel quickly, maintaining the minimum consumption. He could run effortlessly for a whole day, faster than a galloping horse, and could travel five or six hundred miles.

Although he has the Black Cloud Bag as a means of transportation, the magic power of a Qi-refining cultivator is limited. It is too luxurious to use it all the time to travel, and it is easy to be caught off guard when encountering danger.

Therefore, he basically traveled by physical means, or rested on horseback. When he encountered a big river blocking the way, or a cliff, he would temporarily steer the Black Cloud Fly over low.

In this way, we took a long detour and estimated that we could reach Wandao Lake within 20 days.

More than ten days later.

Fang Xi lived in the open air all the way and only went to big cities occasionally for entertainment.

One day, seeing that it was getting dark, he found a cave to rest at night.

“If it weren’t for the conveniences of fasting pills and cleansing talismans that cultivators have… traveling long distances would be even more fatal.”

After swallowing a pill of fasting medicine, Fang Xi also sighed at the transportation in ancient times.

“I have heard that… some large markets have regular caravans traveling between them. Riding a pack animal would save a lot of trouble… and be safer.”

There was a market in Qingzhu Mountain before, but now… it’s a black market!
Therefore, there are no so-called caravans coming and going.

Fang Xi could only travel alone.

Fortunately, he is a low-key person and does not cause trouble. Apart from the fatigue of the journey, nothing special happened along the way.

There was no robber cultivator jumping out to kill people and steal treasures, nor was there any female cultivator in distress coming to rescue him.

After a night’s rest, Fang Xi was full of energy and continued on his journey, arriving at Yu County in the north of Yue State.

(End of this chapter)