Chapter 296 The Vast World, the Foundation of the Apocalypse
Of course, this is just a worry, and Zhou You doesn't take it completely to heart.
If it can be done then, everyone will be happy.
If the Golden Spiritual Root and the Ancient Pill Seed Spiritual Art cannot coexist, then Zhou You will not hesitate to give up his skills, even if it means re-cultivating.
With the existence of the Heavenly Spiritual Root, even if you have to start all over again, with Zhouyou's current resources, you can easily enter the Nascent Soul stage again.
After all, there is no bottleneck for Zhou You. As long as you have the resources and skills, it is only a matter of time before you enter the Nascent Soul stage. The cultivation speed of Tianling Root is also fast. According to Zhou You's calculation, if you have Tianling Root and enough pills, Medicine, it doesn’t even take thirty years to enter the Nascent Soul stage!
This is the speed of making something from scratch!
Thirty years is most likely just a retreat time for monks in the Nascent Soul stage.
At most, it would be a waste of thirty years.
Exchanging thirty years for a Heavenly Spiritual Root is definitely a good deal. Once you have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, the path of cultivation in the future will be smoother and the cultivation speed will be faster.
So, after Zhou You figured it out, he calmed down and began to practice silently.
Not missing any opportunity to practice has become a habit of traveling around.
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Nanzhou is much larger than Lincheng, with a vast territory and many dangerous areas. Even if you fly, you don't dare to go too fast, otherwise you will easily fall into danger.
Some dangerous situations may not be too dangerous, but it is quite troublesome to get out of the dangerous situation, which will waste more time.
Therefore, in a place like Nanzhou, one must always be vigilant during flight, and it is best not to go too fast.
Therefore, it took three days for Zhou You and Xiao Zhuoran to finally reach the Xiao family's area.
The Xiao family is huge and has its own main city. However, Wangyue Village is not in the main city of the Xiao family, but to the north of the main city. It takes three or four hours to reach it by flying.
When they arrived near the main city of the Xiao family, looking at the main city of the Xiao family in the distance, even Zhou You's eyes flashed with a hint of complexity.
He had been in this main city for some time.
Later, he followed Xiao Yueying to Lincheng.
However, the main city of the Xiao family did not give Zhou You any sense of belonging, and there were no relatives or friends in it, so for Zhou You, there was nothing worth missing.
Of course, Zhou You still asked Xiao Zhuoran if he wanted to go back to Xiao's house.
Zhou You is not afraid that Xiao Zhuoran will not come back after he goes back. Even if Xiao Zhuoran leaves, it will not have much impact on Zhou You.
Zhou You had no intention of keeping Xiao Zhuoran from the beginning.
It was Xiao Zhuoran who asked to stay.
Therefore, Zhou You didn't pay much attention to Xiao Zhuoran's stay or stay.
However, Xiao Zhuoran still shook his head and said there was no need to go back.
He had already said goodbye to his father Xiao Kui. Although the Xiao family had several brothers, there was no need to go back and waste time. So after Xiao Zhuoran took a deep look at Xiao Cheng, he followed Zhou You through the Passed by, facing the scorching sun, and disappeared into the horizon.
After another two hours, they finally arrived at Wangyue Village.
Wangyue Village is peaceful and peaceful, with a rural look.
After Zhou You and the others entered the mountain village, Zhou You found Bai He's descendants according to the information left by Bai He.
According to Bai He, as an undercover agent of the Xiao family in the Zhengqi Alliance, his identity was hidden. His original surname was Guo, and he himself had hardly taken care of his descendants.
It is enough to just leave some treasures with them to ensure that his descendants can live a safe life.
Bai He asked Zhou You before his death, but he did not ask Zhou You to help his descendants to prosper. Along the way, he also gained new insights and felt that a person only needs happiness and peace for a lifetime, which is the most perfect life.
Therefore, Bai He just asked Zhou You that if the jade he left behind lost its spiritual energy, he hoped that Zhou You could give his descendants a treasure that could protect their safety for ten generations.
In addition, he also asked Yu Yu to bury one of his belongings in the village, which was regarded as returning to his roots.
Although Bai He turned into a blood demon in the end, Zhou You also got Bai He's head and brought Bai He's head back along the way. This can be regarded as Bai He's final confession.
Zhou You came to the door of Bai He's house and saw that his descendants were happy, happy and healthy, and everything was within Bai He's expectations. He felt relieved, so he secretly strengthened the jade left by Bai He and injected spiritual power into it again to ensure that they The 20th generation was safe and healthy, so they came to the village under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree on a hillside.
Zhou You dug a pit, put Bai He's head in a box, and buried it in it. After digging out the tomb, he carved a stone tablet and wrote "The Tomb of Guo Donghe". Then he bowed deeply to Bai He's tombstone, leaving a few pots behind. After drinking wine, he took Xiao Zhuoran away.
Xiao Zhuoran saw all this and felt deeply.
After they left Wangyue Village and sat on the Golden Feather Eagle for a long time, Xiao Zhuoran said: "If one day I die unexpectedly, I hope... you can take me back to Xiaocheng, so that I can give an explanation to my father. .”
Zhou You glanced at Xiao Zhuoran indifferently, said nothing, and just nodded silently.
Then Zhou You looked ahead in confusion.
Both Bai He and Xiao Zhuoran have a place to belong after death.
So after I die, will there still be a piece of land for me to return to my roots?
How to find the place of return when traveling around a world that does not belong to this world?
After much deliberation, the only place I can think of when traveling around is the hut on the edge of Erhai Lake.
Perhaps, that is where I return to my roots.
Zhou You took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and continued practicing.
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The rest of the journey seemed quite boring.
The place they want to go to is the distant Apocalypse City.
From Nanzhou to Tianqi City, there are Yuezhou and Lanzhou in between. Yuezhou is not as vast as Nanzhou. It is only about half the size of Nanzhou. However, it will take about ten days to cross Yuezhou.
It only took them fifteen days to cross Nanzhou.
As for Lanzhou, it goes without saying that it is even more vast than Nanzhou.
This Lanzhou is an endless grassland. It is conservatively estimated that it will take a month to cross it.
Zhou You originally thought about using a teleportation array.
However, the teleportation array is not open to the outside world. It is almost always built by major families or cultivating sects and is specially open for internal use. If no one recommends it, it is impossible for casual cultivators to use it.
Of course, there are also some cities controlled by big forces. In order for the monks to reach their next city faster, they also set up teleportation arrays. However, this kind of teleportation array is more complicated. Firstly, the teleportation distance is not very far. Secondly, There is a fixed point.
The direction of the teleportation was not the direction they were traveling in. It took a certain amount of time to find the teleportation array. After the teleportation, it took a certain amount of time to return to the main route. This was equivalent to taking a lot of unnecessary detours.
Therefore, instead of wasting spirit stones to use the teleportation array, it is better to go all the way north and fly to Apocalypse City.
In this way, you can see how vast this vast world is.
Sometimes I don’t even dare to think about traveling around.
It takes such a long time to cross a southern continent, and how huge must the entire Daqi Kingdom be?
What about other more advanced immortal-cultivating countries? The land they occupy is definitely wider, so how big do they have to be?
How vast is the entire world of cultivating immortals?
Can a monk complete the entire world of immortality in his lifetime?
Zhou You couldn't answer this question for himself.
He only hopes that one day he can see this world, how big it is, and even be able to step out of this world of immortality and go to the outside world to see how vast it is.
Only at this time did Zhou You feel his own insignificance.
More than a month passed in the blink of an eye.
They traveled around Yuezhou and Lanzhou.
There were many things encountered along the way, but in the end they didn't cause any trouble.
Zhou You has now reached the early stage of Yuanying, and is considered a high-level monk in the entire Daqi Kingdom. Except for Tianqi City, there are only two or three Yuanying monks in other top immortal cultivating sects.
It can be seen that Nascent Soul monks are rare.
At this level, no one is willing to offend a Yuanying monk easily.
Therefore, there is no need to hide your cultivation when traveling around, and you can avoid most troubles.
The monks below the Nascent Soul level had already chosen to run away from Zhou You when they saw him, for fear of causing Zhou You displeasure and thus causing death. However, the monks at the Nascent Soul stage, even if they encountered Zhou You, would only give him away from a distance. .
Almost no one comes to deal with it.
In fact, I met only a handful of Nascent Soul cultivators along the way.
After all, they are Nascent Soul monks, the top beings in each sect, at the level of ancestors. They are usually either in retreat or on the road to retreat. They rarely hang out outside, and naturally encounter fewer people.
"I don't know if Brother Wang has been to Tianqi City."
Xiao Zhuoran looked at the undulating mountains in the distance and couldn't help but murmur. He stood up and held a map in his hand. On the map there was a mountain range that looked like a dragon, which was almost the same as the mountain range in front of him.
On the map, behind the mountains is a huge, towering city.
The giant city is like another world, with mountains, rivers, canyons, waterfalls, heaven and earth, and everything in the world.
There are fairy mountains hanging upside down and flying boats and wild cranes everywhere.
That huge city is the legendary Apocalypse City.
Apocalypse City is not so much a giant city as it is a miniature world.
It is said that its size is even greater than that of Nanzhou.
This shows how huge this city is.
That is the place that almost every monk yearns for.
After all, Apocalypse City is located on a giant spiritual vein, which is said to be a rare pseudo-fifth level spiritual vein.
In other words, at the center of the spiritual vein, the richness of the spiritual energy has reached the fifth level, which is the spiritual vein level that can only be used by monks in the transformation stage.
As for the fourth-level spiritual veins, they are present throughout Apocalypse City, everywhere.
It can be said that if you find any place to practice in Tianqi City, the spiritual energy will be richer than that of ordinary top sects.
It is at least the third level of spiritual energy.
This is also the reason why every monk wants to stay in Tianqi City.
but.
It is not easy to stay in Tianqi City.
The qualification for permanent residence in Apocalypse City is extremely rare. You must either become a disciple of a certain force in Apocalypse City or become a member of the imperial court.
Otherwise, if ordinary monks want to stay in Tianqi City, they must pay spiritual stones.
Generally speaking, the first month is the cheapest.
It costs one thousand low-grade spiritual stones a month.
These thousand spirit stones are only the qualifications to enter the city. If you want to practice in the city, you must rent a cave in the city. No matter who you rent the cave from, you cannot open a cave without authorization.
Otherwise, once discovered, he will be thrown into a sky prison and imprisoned for at least twenty years. There is no aura in the sky prison.
As for the cost of renting a cave, according to Zhou You's knowledge, the cheapest cave requires three thousand spiritual stones per month.
A slightly better one would cost ten thousand spirit stones for a month.
This is really not something that ordinary monks can endure.
And...that's just the first month's cost.
Starting from the second month, the fees will gradually increase.
In the second month, the entrance fee alone will cost five thousand spirit stones.
In the third month, the entry fee is 10,000 yuan.
In the fourth month, the entrance fee is 20,000 yuan.
After that, an additional 10,000 spiritual stones will be collected every month until the maximum is 100,000 spiritual stones.
In other words, if you continue to stay in Tianqi City, you will eventually need 100,000 spirit stones every month, which is just the entrance fee.
This rule takes ten years as a cycle, that is to say, in the tenth year, the fee to enter the city will be recalculated, starting from one thousand spirit stones in the first month, and five thousand spirit stones in the second month.
If it is less than ten years, the calculation will be based on the actual length of stay.
Even if you leave Apocalypse City during this period, Apocalypse City's formation will still be recognized.
This shows how high the price ordinary monks have to pay if they want to live in Tianqi City for a long time.
Of course, Qin Yuan is different. He is an outstanding disciple of Taibai Academy, and Taibai Academy is affiliated with Daqi Imperial Court. Therefore, Qin Yuan only needs a letter of recommendation from the dean of Taibai Academy to enter Tianqi City. You can register with the Daqi City Guards, and no matter how long you stay, you won't be charged a single spiritual stone.
Zhou You looked at the endless mountains in the distance, his eyes flickering slightly.
Behind that mountain range is Apocalypse City, which the entire Daqi Kingdom monks yearn for.
Apocalypse City not only has the richest spiritual energy in Daqi, but also has the most abundant cultivation resources in Daqi. Things that cannot be bought in Apocalypse City are absolutely impossible to buy elsewhere in Daqi.
This is the foundation of Tianqi City.
It is said that although Daqi has no god-transforming monks, it has the means to deal with the god-transforming monks in Tianqi City. Therefore, even those fifth-level immortal cultivating countries will not suppress Daqi Kingdom too hard.
Otherwise, once they use the trump cards in Tianqi City, ordinary god-forming monks will not be able to withstand them.
"finally reached."
Zhou You took out a breath and looked at the mountains getting closer and closer, feeling calm.
During the nearly two months of travel, he had seen too many magnificent rivers and mountains, and he had expectations for Tianqi City, but he was not too excited.
He will come to Apocalypse City no matter what. (End of chapter)