Chapter 433: Paper Shedding City, the Industrial Revolution of the Mortal World
Conflict between the participants of the Immortal Sect Competition and the local people of the Xuanxiang Realm is inevitable.
Which of these youngsters is not a child of destiny?
The young man is full of vigor and passion in his heart. How could he remain indifferent after seeing all the things in the mysterious world?
Even in the previous Three Heavens Realm Trial, weren’t there a few people who wanted to bring some changes to that world?
Soon, there was another message.
Dan Zu: "Speaking of which, the timeline generated by this world evolution method is quite stable."
Danzu: "I thought that this method of generating time branches by relying on the influence of small variables would lack stability."
In addition to the main timeline where the Shenhua group is located, the remaining Yuanying group and Jindan group were cast into two time branches respectively.
Compared to the main timeline, the side lines are relatively weaker.
The first time branch, which is the time branch where the Nascent Soul group is located, the 'expressiveness' or 'actual combat power' of the local realm will be reduced to a certain extent.
The so-called "return to the void" is probably similar to the transformation into a god in the Taixuan Realm, and so on.
The second time branch, the time branch where the Jindan group is located, will be weakened again.
The "return to the void" here is even equivalent to Nascent Soul!
The participants in the Immortal Sect Competition who are in these two time lines feel as if they are entering the starry sky from the Central Continent, and the magical powers they perform will be amplified to a certain extent.
Tyrant: "Although Fellow Daoist Hongzun seems to be idle, his method of world evolution is indeed mysterious this time."
Hongzun: "/smile"
Hongzun: "The first half of the sentence can be removed"
Ba Zun: "/smile"
Hongzun: "/Physique and elegant speech"
Sword Ancestor: "This world evolution method may be used in more places in the future."
Dan Zu: "Brother, what do you think? /Eating melon seeds"
Jian Zu: "It's just an immature idea. When I have time in the future, I plan to find Yuan and take care of this matter."
Take precautions in advance and mention it first.
Dan Zu: "Yuan?"
What does this have to do with Yuan?
Hong Zun: "I have roughly guessed it..."
Danzu: “?”
No, you guessed what I said just now?
Yuan Jun: "Because of that time before?"
Sword Master: "Yes, I am not very good at this."
Sword Master: "No matter what you do, I will always support you, Junior Brother"
Mei Zu: "I am also a duck/Little yellow duck holds the heart"
Sword Master: "Go to hell/The little yellow duck spits out sword energy"
Meizu: "/sad"
Meizu: "/Spin and scatter flowers"
Mei Zu: "Finally I see you using this again!"
It has been a long time since she saw Jian Zun use this emoticon pack, and she really missed it.
Ba Zun: "Bringing Yuan back is indeed a good idea"
In fact, in his opinion, it is not necessary to find Yuan. Many young people who grew up in this era are very suitable...
But...just look for it, it's better than doing it yourself!
Dan Zu: “…”
Dan Zu: "Can't you speak human language?"
Qi Zun: "Brother Dao is not good at only a few things. Is this hard to guess?"
Qi Zun finally couldn't help but remind him.
However, Danzu simply ignored the message he sent and continued to send messages to inquire.
Danzu: "Stop playing tricks, why don't you just say it directly?"
Qi Zun: “…”
The performance is a bit too much!
Just isolate yourself!
This broken group doesn't matter!
Believe it or not, I will directly sell your dark history to that big mouth Huo!
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The mysterious world, the main timeline, the world of cultivation.
[Paper Immortal City], this city looks like a normal city from the outside.
But after arriving in the city, one can immediately discover the weirdness of it.
The city was very vast, and the concentration of spiritual energy was far higher than outside the city. Countless pale pages rustled and trembled to form the city wall. The talismans drawn with cinnabar were winding on the paper like blood scabs. Every gust of wind brought a sound of silk tearing, as if the whole city was slowly "shedding its skin"...
wrong!
It's just shedding its skin!
Every time the wind blows, torn pages of varying sizes will fall from the "city wall" and float down with the wind.
Dozens of people in tattered clothes who had been waiting below immediately rushed over and began to scramble for the papers that were blown down by the wind, pushing and shoving each other.
But what was very strange was that there was no scramble for it. It seemed that once the paper was in hand, it belonged to the person who got it...
Moreover, the strange situation does not end there.
The skin of everyone who scrambled to get those papers gradually became dry and their texture was like paper that had been soaked in water and then dried again.
"...This magic method is really cruel."
On the roadside, Zhao Ruoming's face was solemn, and his pupils had turned into a pair of slowly rotating yin-yang fish.
Qianyuan Guanshi’s true pupil.
He used the method of the Supreme Taoist Sect and combined it with his own innate magical powers to create a magical power that was no less effective than the Taixu Golden Eye in the Sword Sect's "Taixu Sword Canon".
At this moment, the entire [Paper Shedding Immortal City] has changed its appearance in his eyes.
A giant lay on the ground, with only a thin layer of skin covering his bones. His skin was as pale as paper and his white bones exuded a sense of death.
This is the true appearance of [Paper Shedding Fairy City]!
Become a god?
No, it should be the perfection of spiritual transformation.
The entire [Paper Shedding Immortal City] was clearly made from the remains of a cultivator who had reached the pinnacle of spiritual transformation!
The most important spiritual soul was dug out, the essence of blood and flesh was drained, leaving only a skin bag wrapped around the bones.
The city wall is the "skin", and the roads and houses are the "bones"!
"The Dharma that I practiced during my lifetime should be related to this piece of paper..."
His mind raced, Zhao Ruoming reached out to catch a piece of paper that was floating over, and activated the analysis function of the bracelet. A mysterious light instantly shone on the paper and swallowed it up.
To be honest, this paper... or the method of [Paper Shedding], did not seem very advanced in his opinion, so it would not take long for him to parse out the basic information.
Then I can use this local method as a cover, and it might be easier to act...
Thinking in his mind, Zhao Ruoming withdrew his gaze, still carefully covering himself, and then walked forward.
Ink-like liquid oozed out of the cracks in the bluestone street, and the sticky texture made a squeaking sound every time he took a step.
Stop and go along the way.
The emaciated "paper figures" can be seen everywhere on the roadside, with bright cinnabar depicting their facial features, which looks quite creepy. Zhao Ruoming was unmoved.
Although he only maintained the minimum Qianyuan Guanshi Zhentong, he could also sense that those paper figures were empty and were clearly just puppets made of paper.
After walking for quite a while, his Qianyuan Guanshi Zhentong finally sensed some "life", as well as some breath of Qi training and foundation building.
There is also a golden elixir, but only one.
It was a workshop-like building with a bright red gate and a plaque with a few large characters on it: [Qing Fu Tang]
'Go and have a look.'
With a thought, the Yin-Yang fish in Zhao Ruoming's eyes rotated faster, and then floated directly into the Qing Fu Hall.
With the help of the formation virus to seize control of the formation, he has already briefly explored this [Paper Shedding Immortal City].
There is indeed a Shenhua, but there is only one, and he is just a small fry who can be killed with ease.
It's safe for now.
However, it is not ruled out that the other party has hidden his cultivation level and is actually in the Return to Void Realm.
In the "Solid Survival Guide", there are many cases of people dying due to carelessness, and he doesn't want to follow in their footsteps.
So he didn't even dare to investigate carefully, and could only explore bit by bit.
Following the "vitality" observed by Qianyuan Guanshi Zhentong, he carefully touched the Qingfu Hall.
Across the courtyard wall, Zhao Ruoming saw a dozen young boys and girls sitting upright and breathing.
Everyone looked tattered, with cut marks all over their exposed skin and pieces of brightly colored paper glued to the wounds.
A very scary and absurd scene!
Wisps of spiritual energy were swallowed into their bodies, but only a small part of it flowed into the spiritual sea, and the vast majority flowed into their "skin".
The colorful pieces of paper on the wound were nourished by the spiritual energy and gradually transformed into fair and delicate skin!
And with the influx of spiritual power, bamboo fiber patterns emerged, and the 'skin' that the paper had transformed into actually glowed with a faint spiritual light.
A young man stopped breathing and looked at the skin on his arm that had completely transformed into 'spiritual skin' with an expression of ecstasy.
"I've saved enough! I've saved enough!"
As if he could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart, he actually tore off the piece of paper outside the 'spiritual skin', and then peeled off the 'spiritual skin' just like that!
Perhaps it was because he had been skinned too many times, so not much blood flowed out...
Some young boys and girls around him noticed the movement and opened their eyes, looking at him with envy in their eyes.
Collecting enough Green Talisman Skins means being able to redeem oneself from the Green Talisman Hall, get rid of the identity of "Talisman Paper", truly become an outer disciple of the Green Talisman Hall, and embark on the road of cultivating immortals!
Ignoring the looks from others, the young man ran out of the room and headed towards a side room.
Blood flowed down the fingertips and flowed all the way.
When he ran to the destination, the boy's face had become extremely pale.
It was not until this moment that the dizziness before his eyes reminded him to stop the bleeding. He quickly took out a piece of brightly colored paper from his arms and stuck it on the wound.
"..."
The scenes before him made Zhao Ruoming look extremely ugly.
It is true that the files of the Supreme Taoist Sect record some cases of demonic practices, but how can a few lines of text in a book compare to seeing it with one's own eyes?
What's more, he saw more than just this young man.
In the warehouse not far away, there were boxes of packaged "Green Talisman Skins".
What made him find it even more difficult to accept was that some withered figures covered with white paper, like paper dolls, were thrown out of Qingfu Hall.
Every inch of their skin had been peeled off, and even the paper used was not the specially made brightly colored paper.
“Qing Fu Tang…!”
If Qing Fu Tang wants to be tough, what about the other forces in this city?
Flesh, blood and soul as ink?
Bones as pens?
He suddenly remembered the withered 'paper figures' he had seen on the roadside before.
Empty and empty, like a puppet.
Would those paper figures also be...
The more he thought about it, the colder his heart became. He even didn't want to think about it anymore...
Turning to the side, Zhao Ruoming looked at where the golden elixir was.
Just as I was about to set off, an invisible wave seemed to be exploring something.
When~
A distant bell sound was heard, and visible folds of sound waves were coming.
A colorful rainbow-like trail was dragged through the mist, with small gilded characters like fireflies swimming in it, as if the truth of the world was manifested.
As the sound of the bell passed by, pure and transparent spiritual energy, true essence and even magic power in [Paper Shedding Fairy City] rose up and sank into the small gilded characters that looked like fireflies.
In an instant, the energy of everyone in the city became much weaker, but everyone was used to it.
Looking at the colorful rainbow lights spreading into the distance on the horizon, Zhao Ruoming was stunned.
Absorb cultivation?
Hey!
What the hell kind of world is this!
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Mortal world.
Because of the existence of the 'Xuan Xiang Tian Gui', in this mortal world devoid of spiritual energy, apart from large sects that occasionally come to select 'seedlings', there are basically no other practitioners staying.
But the mortal world did not stop developing because of this.
On the contrary, several major countries have developed to the level of the first industrial revolution, using steam engines as power machines and ushering in an era in which machines replaced manual labor.
If things can continue to develop like this, perhaps one day the mortal world will counterattack the cultivation world?
emm...
It is highly unlikely. Before technology develops to a very high level and understands and leverages the rules of the world, it is impossible to pose a threat to those who practice Return to the Void.
Even though most of the returning to the void in this world are "pigs" that were born.
But returning to the void means returning to the void!
Even if there is a country in the Xuanxiang Realm that has developed technology to that level, it must be driven by Fanxu behind the scenes.
Following the current trend...
If Fanxu had not seen the potential and chosen to invest, the "flames" of these industrial revolutions would have burned a little brighter and would have been suppressed by some practitioners who noticed something was wrong.
Of course, Chi Jiuyu's 'initial birth point' was not in a country that had just started the Industrial Revolution.
Panyun is just a small country with the same system as a feudal dynasty. It is nominally a vassal state of another powerful country, the Cangxuan Dynasty.
The current emperor of Panyun has been on the throne for thirty-five years, and two of his princes have died from outlasting him.
When he was in his prime, the emperor of Panyun Kingdom was still diligent in governing the country, but as his body aged, he began to pursue "immortality".
The emperor searched the whole world for a chance to become an immortal, and the situation became even more difficult for Panyun Kingdom, which was originally in an ordinary geographical location.
On the one hand, he had to satisfy the Cang Xuan Dynasty's growing appetite, and on the other hand, he had to find the "immortal secret" for the emperor.
It is no exaggeration to say that the people of Panyun Kingdom are in dire straits.
In the sky high.
Chi Jiuyu sat on the sword of his own natal sword, holding a string of candied haws in his hand, looking at the relatively prosperous Panyun Kingdom's imperial city below.
Originally, she planned to go directly to the cultivation world of this world, but after looking around along the way, she found that the emperor of Panyun Kingdom was really a piece of shit!
So, before heading to the spiritual world, she prepared to give that dog emperor a big gift! (End of this chapter)