Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 39

Chapter 39 Gray World

Jiang Li wasn’t surprised by the existence of other worlds. Ancient texts had long recorded that the Immortal Realm ruled over countless worlds, each with a ladder to immortality. Anyone who met the criteria for immortality in that world could achieve it. The Jiuzhou world boasted the highest number of immortals among these worlds.

If there were an unknown world on the other side of the spatial rift, it was likely one of the many worlds ruled by the Immortal Realm.

Perhaps the ladder to immortality in that world still existed!

“How do I obtain Source Points?”

[Host can earn Source Points by completing quests or selling items. This system will purchase Source Points at one-third the price in the mall.]

“…Swindler.”

Buying at one-third, selling it to me at the original price—you wouldn’t say that if you had any conscience!

“I’ve completed several quests. Where’s the Source Point?”

[Host, do you want to select the side quest—Source Point Quest?]

“Yes.”

[Source Point Quest Published: Host, please go to Shouyang Mountain and dig up 200 kilograms of Shouyang Stone.]

This time, Jiang Li didn’t need to go to the Tianji Tower to inquire about Shouyang Mountain’s location. He had heard of it . It was once a renowned mining site, but due to the mine owner’s reckless mining, it had become a desolate mountain two hundred years ago.

It once produced a ton of Shouyang Stone a day, but now, they were lucky to unearth fifty kilograms. Since Shouyang Stone wasn’t essential for cultivation, the cost of mining was disproportionate to the income, so naturally, no one would continue to mine.

With Jiang Li’s skills, a diligent day’s digging would yield fifty kilograms.

Jiang Li pondered the task and decided it was a simple one.

He flew over Shouyang Mountain and dug up the entire mountain range, root and branch.

Jiang Li couldn’t believe that an entire mountain range wouldn’t contain two hundred kilograms of Shouyang Stone.

The system seemed unprepared for such mining and hesitated for a moment before determining whether this action counted as two hundred kilograms of Shouyang Stone.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the Origin Point quest. Reward: 50 Origin Points.]

“Teleport to the world we just found!”

[Another 56,800 Origin Points are needed. Insufficient Origin Points, unable to teleport.]   Jiang Li’s fists hardened.

Jiang   Li promised that if this monstrous system could materialize, he would be the first to cripple it!   You needed so many Origin Points, why didn’t you tell me earlier? This quest will take forever!   ”Looks like I can only sell things for Origin Points.”   Jiang Li browsed the store. It was filled with a wide variety of techniques. The cheapest could only be cultivated to the Golden Core stage, requiring only 100 Origin Points, while the most expensive could be cultivated to the Immortal stage, requiring a million Origin Points.   Jiang Li looked up at the setting sun and quickly wrote a book called “The Setting Sun’s Heart-Snatching Technique.” It could be cultivated to the early stages of the Fusion stage. Practicing this technique harnessed the setting sun’s afterglow. Anyone attacked by it would be involuntarily reminded of sad memories, losing their will to fight.   Selling this technique would net him over 10,000 Origin Points.   Jiang Li slapped his thigh, “Wouldn’t it have been this long ago? I’m now forced to move mountains!”   ”Cultivation techniques for the Tribulation Crossing stage are difficult to write. Aren’t there many techniques for cultivating to the Fusion stage?”   A Tribulation Crossing stage cultivator might only produce three or five techniques for cultivating to the Tribulation Crossing stage and achieving immortality in their lifetime. Even Jiang Li would take over ten days to write them.   But cultivation techniques for the Fusion stage were different. Jiang Li could easily write eight or ten techniques for cultivating to the Fusion stage.   He glanced at the lush green grass and wrote “The Cycle of Withering and Flourishing” and “The Art of Endless Life.” He glanced at the mountaintop and wrote “The Art of Moving Mountains with Giant Strength”…   Jiang Li sold all these casually written techniques to the system, instantly gaining over 110,000 source points.   ”Teleport to the Unknown World!”   [Begin Teleport]   This time, the system actually teleported.   The space around Jiang Li began to distort, gradually forming a channel to another world. He took a step forward, passing through the Nine Provinces barrier, the turbulent winds, and the barrier of the unknown world, arriving in the unknown world.   Jiang Li could immediately discern the system’s spatial manipulations, which were incredibly advanced.   So advanced, so advanced, that Jiang Li couldn’t understand them.   ”What the hell can I see? I know nothing about spatial manipulation.”   Jiang Li had been thinking of learning the system’s spatial jump, but then he suddenly remembered that he knew nothing about it.   ”When I get a chance, I’ll go to Mount Xumi and demonstrate it. The old Buddha Xumi is the most knowledgeable about spatial manipulation, maybe he can learn something from it.”   ”Is this the unknown world?”   Jiang Li frowned slightly upon arriving in the unknown world. The spiritual energy here was appallingly thin.   Standing alone in the endless desert, Jiang Li let the wind whip against his protective shield. The world was a murky gray, with not even a hint of green to be seen. Anyone spending any time there would develop depression.   Jiang Li measured the land, foot by foot, and found that the gravity in this world was the same as in Kyushu. He then grabbed a handful of coarse sand, finding the material structure was similar.   ”Why is the spiritual energy so thin?”   The distribution of spiritual energy in Jiuzhou is also uneven. A few places are known as forbidden spiritual energy areas. The spiritual energy is so scarce that even a cultivator with a single spiritual root could not reach the Foundation Establishment stage.   And the spiritual energy in this unknown world is even scarcer than Jiuzhou’s forbidden spiritual energy areas!   It’s impossible for a cultivator to be born in such a place!   Jiang Li swept his spiritual sense over the area, but couldn’t find a single person. He could only see a group of gray beasts, resembling wolves and leopards, burrowing in the ground. They seemed starving and began to eat the sand.   These gray beasts spotted Jiang Li and instinctively found him very tasty, seeking to share this unfamiliar creature.   With a single thought, Jiang Li imprisoned the entire group of gray beasts.   Jiang Li had never seen anything like this in Jiuzhou.

He scanned the beasts with his spiritual sense and discovered that they weren’t eating sand because they were starving; rather, their bodies were designed to eat sand.

Jiang Li had never seen digestive organs, respiratory organs, and so on. If Jiang Li hadn’t relied on his powerful spiritual sense to analyze, he wouldn’t have been able to discern the functions of these organs.

The beasts were very powerful; the leader had a body at the Jindan stage, and the others had bodies at the Foundation Establishment stage.

For some reason, Jiang Li instinctively wanted to stay away from these beasts; they made him feel very uncomfortable.

Next, Jiang Li scanned the world with his spiritual sense, his brows never relaxed.

He finally understood why the gray beasts fed on sand.

This was because there were only two things in this world: gray beasts and sand.

Not to mention humans, there weren’t even any other species.

If the system told him that this was hell and these beasts were creatures from the animal realm, he would have an 80% chance of believing it.

Compared to this place, Jiuzhou was simply a fairyland.

(End of this chapter)