Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 702

Chapter 700: Thin Spiritual Energy

In the ancient city, two figures walked side by side, communicating with their spiritual sense.

“Qin Luan, you unfortunate creature, why did you choose this world?”

“Li Fugui, don’t bite me back. I was the first to arrive in this world, and you followed!”

Qi Sha Daozi snorted coldly, not discussing the issue further. “Why didn’t you bring Song Ying and the others with you?”

“Having arrived in an unknown world, I don’t have the confidence to protect them. And you, the little princess of the mermaid clan and the little princess of the Southern Dragon clan who always stayed by your side, why aren’t you here?”

“Same reason.” Qi Sha Daozi shrank his neck, not wanting to discuss the topic.

In the days since he returned to Jiuzhou from the Wanyan World, Yu Xiaomeng and Li Jiaojiao had attacked him every night. If it weren’t for his strong willpower, he would have fallen for their gentle temptations long ago.

“It’s been a year since Mr. Jiang destroyed the Immortal Realm. We can finally say we’ve passed the test of the Wanyan World.”

Qin Luan sighed. With the Wanyan World’s lack of communication, he hadn’t been aware of such a massive event as the Immortal Realm’s destruction. Upon returning to Jiuzhou, he observed the bustling Wanyan World traversal and learned that the Immortal Realm was no longer the goal of cultivators. It felt like a lifetime ago.

Jiuzhou had undergone tremendous changes in just one year.

After Qin Luan rested for a few days in Jiuzhou, Jiang Li issued him a new mission. Like the other candidates for Emperor, Qin Luan’s mission was to explore and save other worlds.

Speaking of this, Qisha Daozi became visibly excited, secretly pulling out a palm-sized stone tablet to show off. “Look, this is a reward from the Human Emperor, a genuine Qisha Monument.”

Qin Luan scoffed at the Seven Killings Monument. “It’s an immortal artifact, without intelligence. With your Divine Transformation stage cultivation, you can only use it as a brick.”

“You’re jealous.”

“That’s not true.”

“According to the coordinates and corresponding world name given by Senior Brahma Tower, this world should be called the Xuanming World. Did you notice? Although this is a world of immortal cultivation, the spiritual energy is thin and unsuitable for cultivation. It’s far inferior to the Nine Provinces.” “

Indeed, there’s a Chamber of Commerce up ahead. Let’s go take a look.” Qisha Daozi also noticed this. According to local legend, they were in a city of immortal cultivation, full of immortal cultivators, and spiritual energy was quite abundant.

However, according to their observation, the spiritual energy here was so thin that it couldn’t even support Nascent Soul stage cultivation.

If this was so here, one could imagine how thin the spiritual energy was elsewhere.

The two entered the Chamber of Commerce and discovered that spirit stones were extremely valuable in the Xuanming World. In Jiuzhou, gold and silver could be exchanged for spirit stones, but in the Xuanming World, spirit stones were considered strategic resources, treasured by cultivators and absolutely not exchanged for useless gold.

“The principles of alchemy are the same as in Jiuzhou, but the steps are more complex. From melting the herbs to congealing the pill, there are at least eighteen steps, each designed to maximize the utilization of spiritual energy. Even herbal residues are refined into waste pills.”

“Waste pills have a market here too,”

Qin Luan analyzed, having some knowledge of alchemy.

Jiuzhou alchemists never turned herbal residues into waste pills; it was too troublesome. They were better off feeding the pigs to improve the quality of the pork.

Qi Sha Daozi walked around, grabbed the shopkeeper, and asked, “Shopkeeper, why don’t you have a Spirit Gathering Array?”

The shopkeeper’s face changed, and he glanced around. Seeing no one around, he lowered his voice and said, “Sir, a Spirit Gathering Array can gather spiritual energy, but it’s banned by the government and can’t be sold to the public.”

“But since you’re asking, I guess you know its value and have enough Spirit Stones. As long as we have Spirit Stones, we can get any treasure from Tianbao Pavilion.”

Qi Sha Daozi was speechless. Jiuzhou’s Spirit Gathering Array was printed in the appendix of the “Cultivation Guide.” Here, the Spirit Gathering Array was the same as the Demonic Array.

Qi Sha Daozi had plenty of Spirit Stones. He took out a dozen mid-grade Spirit Stones and bought the Spirit Gathering Array. It was obvious at a glance that it was just an ordinary Spirit Gathering Array.

The two left the Chamber of Commerce and took out a notebook titled “Records of Exploration of Myriad Worlds.”

Cultivators who traveled to other worlds were required to record their observations daily and leave a copy at the Human Emperor Palace upon returning to Jiuzhou.

Qin Luan wrote: “Xuanming World, a continental world, has produced four immortals in history. It is speculated that the highest achievement of all of them was Earth Immortal.”

“This world has the characteristics of thin spiritual energy.”

“According to investigations, Xuanming World originally had abundant spiritual energy. With each immortal who ascended, a large part of the spiritual energy was lost. When the fourth immortal ascended, he almost absorbed all the spiritual energy of Xuanming World.”

“The cultivators of Xuanming World believe that to cultivate immortality, one must sever mortal ties and break away from the past. The four immortals also hold this view. After ascending, they no longer have any contact with Xuanming World, let alone feedback of spiritual energy.”

“After that, Xuanming World entered the Huiling Era, which means that spiritual energy is thin, the path is obscure, and cultivation is difficult.”

“The characteristics derived from the scarcity of spiritual energy include: maximizing the amount of spiritual energy wasted during cultivation; the clear division between the Mortal City and the Cultivation City, with the Cultivation City absorbing all of the Mortal City’s spiritual energy for cultivation, leaving the Mortal City devoid of any spiritual energy. However, even within such a Cultivation City, spiritual energy is equally scarce; spiritual stones, spirit-gathering arrays, and other items are controlled items, prohibited from circulation without permission…”

“Preliminary speculation suggests that the Xuanming World’s scarcity of spiritual energy has nothing to do with the Immortal Realm.”

Qin Luan closed his notebook and saw people all around him rushing toward the city center. Their expressions were gloomy, and some were weeping.

“What happened?” Qin Luan frowned.

“Let’s go and take a look,” said Qi Sha Daozi, heading toward the city center. Qin Luan followed.

…

In the center of the city, a blood-formed formation appeared, resembling the wails of ghosts, a bloody and ominous atmosphere.

There were five Jindan-stage cultivators in Xiuxian City, all present. One of them was at the peak of the Jindan stage, the leader of the five and the city’s lord.

At the center of the blood-stained formation, bound children lay, too young to even reach cultivation age.

They had been bound, drugged, and laid to sleep on the ground.

The entire city gathered around the blood-stained formation, silent and silent, not a single smile on their face.

“Master told me this is a demonic formation, used to achieve breakthroughs!” Qisha Daozi whispered. This was his first encounter with a demonic cultivator.

Qin Luan’s face also turned pale.

“My child, my child!” A woman in the crowd completely collapsed, crying and throwing herself at the formation, wanting to take her child away.

The woman was a cultivator in the Qi training stage. She burst out with all her strength, trying to snatch the child away in public. The others were no weaklings either, and several of them rushed over and subdued the woman.

“Sister Zhang, I know you’re feeling bad, but we’ve already agreed that whoever’s child is drawn will be sacrificed in blood. If your child isn’t sacrificed in blood, then another child will be used to replace it. Whose child will you choose to replace your child with?”

“Everyone will not forget your child. During Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival, they will burn paper for your child.”

(End of this chapter)