Chapter 436 Is this the right way? !
A few minutes later, a ray of sword light rushed out of the jungle and reached the highest point of the entire mountain range.
He stepped on a small branch in a rather casual manner, his eyes looking into the distance, his face full of melancholy.
【Name: Chi Jiuyu】
【Age: 23】
[Realm: Early Stage of Divine Transformation]
[This time the system is installed: Balance of Time (20%)]
[Current points: 1]
[Current ranking: 1]
Hey ~
The Jiuyu Patriarch finally merged with the secular world.
She became a vulgar fisherman.
After all, it is a 10 percent liberation of system performance, and she has already experienced the powerful functions of this system.
It would be stupid to really give up and choose that useless server-wide announcement!
As for supplies...
Looking back along the way, although spiritual objects are very rare, this is also a world of returning to the void energy level. As long as you are willing, you can always find a way to replenish them.
"Hey~"
With another sigh, Chi Jiuyu withdrew his gaze.
Next…
Just look for those gods who are closer to your age, and avoid those old guys in their fifties or sixties.
According to the performance of the last Immortal Sect Competition, those old guys were more exaggerated than each other. Even if I was leading by 10% now, I probably wouldn't be their opponent...
After all, the system's functionality will be reduced to a certain extent when used by contestants...
Eh? !
Chi Jiuyu suddenly realized something was wrong.
If you think about it this way, isn’t the suppression that the one who returned to the void suffered before a bit exaggerated?
He was even about to fall back to the void and fall to the spirit realm!
Even though there is a huge age gap, according to the system introduction, it shouldn't have dropped to that level!
emm...
Then what a poor foundation this must be!
With such a poor foundation, he still wants to advance to the Return to Void stage...
So old and useless!
Chi Jiuyu kept slandering in her mind the 'Immortal Lord Bugui' who had just attacked her.
After all, if that guy hadn't suddenly attacked her just now, she might have had time to search for the equipment dropped by the physical cultivator!
The Jiuyu Patriarch has always held a grudge.
"gone!"
As soon as he stepped on the mountain top, a strong wind suddenly blew up, accompanied by a sonic boom, and a line of sword light that was invisible to the naked eye rushed into the distance.
With such a big commotion just now, maybe other returning to the void will go to that city, and maybe it will also attract some old silver coins from the Supreme Dao Sect, or contestants from other sects...
To sum up, although the system performance has been released by 10%, she really wants to sneak back and give Fanxu a hard blow.
But, at this stage, you’d better hide yourself well and don’t reveal too much information, otherwise you will be tricked by those old guys from Tai Shang Dao Sect!
Who said that Patriarch Jiuyu doesn’t know how to be steady!
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At the same time, in [Paper Shedding Immortal City], in the Qingfu Hall.
Zhao Ruoming had quietly approached the golden elixir in the hall.
With multiple layers of protection and the protection of Qian Yuan's Immortal Jade Purity Light, not even a trace of unnecessary fluctuations leaked out.
Even the city lord of [Paper Shedding Immortal City] who was in the God Transformation Stage had not yet discovered that the control of his city defense formation had been seized.
Not to mention a small golden elixir.
In fact, even if Zhao Ruoming stood directly in front of him, he would not be able to find anything unusual!
In fact, Zhao Ruoming did the same.
After going deeper into Qingfu Hall, he came to an ancient and quiet green-tiled house along a winding path.
Moss climbed up the ebony door frame through the cracks in the stone steps, and the copper ring glowed dimly among the mottled vermilion paint.
There are two almost identical trees planted on both sides of the house. They are lush and look to be more than three meters tall.
It looks full of life, but the leaves rustling in the wind make a rustling sound similar to that of paper, which is quite creepy.
If you look closely, you can find that the color of its leaves is much brighter than normal leaves.
The door was closed and Zhao Ruoming stared at it for a while.
Just after frowning, his figure suddenly turned into a wisp of invisible and intangible, yet pure and yang "qi", which easily bypassed the large formation arranged around the house and entered through the tiny gap between the doors and windows.
When the spirit is dispersed, it becomes qi, and when it is gathered, it becomes shape.
For a god-transforming cultivator like Zhao Ruoming who has a very solid foundation, this is a basic operation.
After entering the house, the floating pure and yang energy gathered together, revealing his true form again.
Looking around, the room seemed a bit crowded.
There was an oil lamp on the table, the flame was as small as a bean, and it gave off waves of disgusting "aroma".
There were many incense burners placed all around, and the room was filled with sandalwood, which also had a disgusting smell.
Further in, behind a desk piled with account books sat a middle-aged man with a skinny body, almost skin and bones.
He was dressed in blue, with his black and white hair neatly groomed. At the moment, he was holding a brand new account book in his hands and flipping through it, his sunken eye sockets filled with fatigue.
He turned to the last page before putting down the account book in his hand and sighing.
"Hey~"
"..."
Zhao Ruoming remained calm and continued to observe in the dark.
Then he saw a scene that surprised him.
"It's not enough, it's still not enough..." He just muttered a few words in a low voice.
The middle-aged man took out a small knife from his storage bag and cut his already skinny and shriveled arm with it.
The blade enters the flesh and cuts directly upwards.
In the end, a piece of skin three point two inches long and one point two inches wide was cut off from the arm.
In an instant, the room was filled with fragrance!
A strange and fresh fragrance filled the entire room, like orchid and musk, long and distant, making people involuntarily want to indulge in it.
The severed skin glowed in the dim light, with strange bamboo patterns winding through the crystal clear texture.
"Counting this golden talisman skin... it should be enough."
He pointed his finger at the talisman skin, and with a flash of light, the fragrance in the room gradually weakened.
He carefully placed the processed 'talisman skin' in a brocade box that he had prepared in advance. After putting it away, he began to treat his wounds.
However, the wound cut by the knife was not filled with flesh and blood, but some dry and yellow grass, and even withered branches that served as support...
Just like those young boys and girls who were meditating and breathing, he simply took a piece of brightly colored paper and stuck it on the wound, then prepared to close his eyes and regulate his breathing.
"Why did you do that?"
The sound suddenly rang out in the room.
"Who?!"
In his deep eye sockets, he scanned the surroundings with a sharp gaze, but found nothing. Just when he thought that the voice he had just heard might be his own hallucination...
Without warning, a hand stretched out from the dense sandalwood fragrance and picked up the brocade box containing the "Golden Talisman Skin" in front of him.
When he looked up, he saw a handsome man in Taoist robes, holding a brocade box in his hand, looking at him quietly.
The Yin-Yang fish pattern in the eyes slowly rotates, which is extremely mysterious.
"Refining paper into skin, turning hay into flesh and blood, filling dead wood with bones... You are wasting your own potential in this evil way, do you know that?"
Zhao Ruoming's tone was extremely serious.
Originally, he planned to search his soul directly, since he was a vicious and evil demon cultivator.
But judging from the man's behavior just now, the real situation seemed to be more complicated than he imagined.
"Evil ways...?" The middle-aged man looked confused. "This is the [Paper Shedding Pastoral Spirit Immortality Way] passed down by the Tianji Palace. It is the supreme righteous way. How can it be called an 'evil way'?"
"I am Yan Han, the head of the Qing Fu Hall, and I am in the Resource Coordination Department of the Tianji Palace." He stood up from behind the desk and looked at Zhao Ruoming warily: "This golden talisman skin is to be presented to the worship of the Tianji Palace. Senior, please don't make the mistake!"
Tianji Palace is one of the three main orthodox sects.
Anyone who dares to embezzle the offerings from the Tianji Palace is basically seeking death!
'Paper-molted pastoral spirit immortal path...'
Zhao Ruoming's heart moved slightly, and he immediately put down the brocade box in his hand: "Tell me about this Tianji Palace."
"You don't know Tianji Palace?!" Yan Han blurted out.
In this world, there are actually immortal cultivators who don't know about Tianji Palace, one of the three major righteous sects? !
How did you, a primitive man, achieve such a high level of cultivation?
Illegal cultivators in ancient times?
"Just say what I tell you to say." Zhao Ruoming snorted coldly.
The vast magical power of the Spirit Transformation Stage poured out and crushed in all directions!
The lights flickered, and the dense sandalwood fragrance in the room was directly dissipated. The account book on the top kept turning, making a rustling sound.
The terrifying power made Yan Han feel suffocated and even short of breath.
Yuanying Great Power? !
It turned out to be a powerful Yuanying!
Yan Han was surprised
The magical pressure was released and then retracted.
If the lights were not still flickering and the scent of sandalwood was not still lingering in the room, he would probably have thought that nothing had happened.
"..."
After two seconds of silence, under the pressure of Zhao Ruoming's "tyranny", Yan Han glanced out the window and could only confess everything he knew.
Although...what happened today was actually quite confusing to him.
"Tianji Palace is one of the three major sects of the righteous path."
"The right way?!" Zhao Ruoming was stunned.
Refining people for consumables, peeling skin for talisman paper, removing bones and cutting flesh, cracking bones and squeezing marrow, you tell me this is the right way? !
For a time, Zhao Ruoming's worldview suffered a severe shock.
Through Yan Han's narration, he finally had a general understanding of the Xuanxiang Realm.
This is a world that is extremely difficult for him to understand!
Spiritual objects are strictly controlled, ordinary people can only become consumables, and practitioners are just cattle and horses.
Part of what you gain from your practice will actually be taken away by the so-called 'Xuan Xiang Tian Gui'. You have to pay taxes to make a breakthrough, and you have to sell your body to practice!
The reason why Yan Han established the Qing Fu Hall was because he owed a loan to the Tianji Palace when he broke through the Jindan stage.
The interest has been compounded until now, and even the flesh and bones have been used as interest to pay to the Tianji Palace!
In the true sense, 'all living things are grass and trees, and all things are cattle and horses'!
Only when one reaches the first level of Return to Void can one truly escape the fate of being exploited.
People like Yan Han are considered to have a "kind heart". Even though he is about to be captured by the Tianji Palace to pay off his debts, he still sticks to the bottom line and does not exploit those young boys and girls who want to embark on the path of spiritual practice.
In this [Paper Shedding Immortal City], there are many people who are more extreme than him.
[Jishenfang], one can exchange one's own flesh and blood organs for spiritual objects and skills.
[Jilehui], can exchange part of one's own soul for spiritual objects and skills.
【Five Senses Hall】, which can counteract the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch in exchange for the secrets of spiritual objects.
The 'paper people' he had seen before were people who had given away everything they had but still failed to embark on the path of cultivation.
Neither alive nor dead, neither human nor ghost, you can only wander around the world without any awareness.
In comparison, this Qing Fu Tang is really good. At least Qing Fu Tang only wants your skin...
What a fucking world!
Zhao Ruoming endured the discomfort in his heart and asked, "Why do you only want their skins? You can obviously want more."
Yan Han's [Paper Shedding Spirit Immortality Way] involves not only skin, but also flesh, internal organs and even bones.
"There's no reason, I just don't want to..."
"Ok?"
"..." Yan Han was silent for two seconds, then suddenly looked up at Zhao Ruoming and said something inexplicable, "I have been to the mortal world."
"So I know what a disgusting world this is."
"I don't want to, and I don't want to, do that."
No matter what you say, he just doesn't want to!
He had no ability to change any of this. He wanted to continue living, but he didn't want to be swept away by this disgusting world!
This is a persistence that many people find ridiculous in this day and age.
I can't be evil, but I don't have the courage to completely withdraw from being good.
Even though I'm not living a good life, I still have some compassion that is useless and will only harm my life.
"..."
Zhao Ruoming moved his lips, but didn't know what to say.
Is this person in front of me a bad guy?
According to the standards of the Taixuan Realm, it is obviously calculated, with people being used as consumables and their skins peeled off to make talisman paper.
Even before the era of great change, this was an undoubted devilish practice.
But what about in this mysterious world... ?
As the son of an immortal, Zhao Ruoming was born with innate supernatural powers. He was promoted to a deity at a young age and was proficient in all laws. He had only experienced one major setback in his life, but at this time he could not give an answer.
In this world, are people like him good or evil?
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In fact, it's not just him. Many participants in this Immortal Sect Competition have gradually begun to understand this world while gathering intelligence.
It is inevitable that you will witness what Zhao Ruoming has witnessed.
They will realize that this is an extremely cruel world that is completely in conflict with their own values.
In this situation, what choices will they, as the leaders of the younger generation, make? This is actually part of this Immortal Sect Competition.
Just when Zhao Ruoming was speechless because of what he saw in the [Paper Shedding Immortal City], another passage leading from the mortal world to the world of cultivation appeared - [Wuwang Forest].
A streak of green light passed through the formation and landed lightly in the forest.
As the light surrounding her body faded away, it was revealed that she was a woman with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, elegant temperament, and wearing a blue-gray Taoist robe.
Zhao Ruohan.
She was also one of those whose "birth point" was in the mortal world, and she arrived in the cultivation world later than Chi Jiuyu.
Glancing around, his eyes, like deep springs, were filled with a faint spiritual light.
Call ~
A mountain breeze blew gently, and the forest leaves rustled.
A light fragrance came with the mountain breeze. Following the scent, I saw a green curtain made of vines wrapped around a big tree not far away. Where the vines hung, a few white wood fragrance flowers were swaying in the wind.
The petals are transparent and lustrous, as if carved from the finest white jade.
Spiritual creature? (End of this chapter)