OBS Chapter 52 Entering the Mountains
Chapter 52 Entering the Mountains
Chapter 52 Entering the Mountains
Xiong Zhou was a little confused, and his dog paws subconsciously gestured on the scroll depicting the Nanshan mountain range.
If we don't consider the overlap with the Chaoyang Mountains, the length of the continuous mountain ranges of the Qingqiu Mountains alone is 37.8 trillion li.
Converting this to the data from the previous life, it is roughly 2 light-years, which can be considered as the diameter of the solar system bounded by the Oort cloud.
Starting from Woye and heading to Danxue Sacred Mountain, one needs to pass through approximately 1 sacred mountains of similar size to Qingqiu.
Based on the crisscrossing patterns of the various sacred mountains, a rough estimate suggests that the straight-line distance is approximately 1 light-years, roughly one-tenth the diameter of the Milky Way.
Xiong Zhou was stunned for a long time, then let out a soft exclamation.
"Huh?"
[Senior Brother Su, are you planning to send your junior brother, who is still at the second level of cultivation, from the fertile plains to the Divine Mountain of the Pill Cave, 37.8 trillion miles away, within a year?]
"Is there a problem?"
You Su changed its posture, its nine tails swaying gently.
"You're not just an ordinary second-level Refinement cultivator; you possess the second-level Refinement Qi cultivation, which has reached the level of Derivation Technique. Your cultivation is far stronger than mine, who is only at the fifth level of Refinement Spirit."
"It's just that you don't have enough Qi in your inner world to support you in using the laws of heaven and earth to travel for a long time."
"Junior Brother Xiong Zhou, aren't you a second-generation immortal? Just use your connections to find a vehicle for transportation."
Upon hearing this, Xiong Zhou's mouth twitched.
Owning a flying boat capable of short-distance travel within the Tai Li Immortal Sect is already quite remarkable.
Throughout the entire Tai Li Immortal Sect, among the nearly ten generations of Tai Li True Disciples, apart from him, not a single disciple in the mortal realm possesses a flying boat entirely of their own for transportation.
Now, Senior Brother Su, you want me to find a custom-made vehicle that can be driven by Qi Refining Dual-Drive and can traverse a distance of 10,000 light-years within a year.
Putting aside how expensive this thing is, and not even mentioning whether anyone in the sect would actually provide this kind of customized service to a junior cultivator at the second level of the Refinement Realm.
The annual maintenance and upkeep required after purchase alone is an unbearable burden for him.
Is this something that a mere mortal being at the second level of Qi Refining could afford to raise?
He, Xiong Zhou, has indeed established a resource point at the fourth level of the Refinement Realm in fertile land, but it can't support a vehicle at that level, which is clearly aimed at the sixth level of the Refinement Realm.
Furthermore, even if he were to actually buy it back, given his limited understanding of the principles of the Evolutionary Law, the time it would take to pixelate such a unique, customized vehicle and then teleport it over via the [Gate of Another World] would be completely unknown without the help of the True Immortal Refiner.
Is the Phoenix hosting the Sweet Spring Banquet?
Xiong Zhou shook his head slightly. It's best to just listen to this.
The main purpose of this trip is to travel around and see different places. I will read ten thousand books in my main body at the Tai Li Immortal Sect and travel ten thousand miles in my avatar in the Mountain and Sea Realm.
If you happen to encounter a lucky opportunity, seize it; if you can't, then let it go and don't force it.
You still need to have the right mindset.
"Waaah."
[With Senior Brother Su's high regard for my connections, this kind of thing is really difficult to handle. The sect elder I'm most familiar with is Uncle-Master Lu. I can't very well go to the Qi Refining Immortal for something like this.]
"Waaah."
[I'm now preparing to depart for Danxue Divine Mountain. As for the Sweet Spring Banquet hosted by the Phoenix, I'll leave it to fate.]
"call."
[During my absence, I would appreciate it if Senior Brother Su could look after my family members remaining in Woye.]
Su nodded.
"Alright, not every totem of the Nanshan mountain range will participate in the Liquan Banquet anyway."
For example, Su himself only participated once before succeeding to the position of Qingqiu Totem.
After truly succeeding to the position of Qingqiu Totem, he never left the Qingqiu Mountains, fearing that some ferocious beasts, calamities, or evil creatures might come knocking on his door and destroy his fox den.
"Don't worry, junior brother, I will keep an eye on those bountiful families within the fertile land."
As soon as he finished speaking, the portal formed from the azure sky quietly transformed.
Beyond the gate was no longer the white-haired fox, Senior Brother Su, but a slightly undulating forest that seemed to stretch endlessly, with low roars of beasts echoing through it.
As Xiong Zhou stepped out of the azure gate, he immediately sensed an unusually significant change in the atmosphere flowing between heaven and earth.
No longer gentle, no longer soft, no longer as pleasant as a spring breeze, even the myriad things flowing between heaven and earth are now tinged with austerity, ferocity, and barbarity.
The primitive and wild beauty of nature left Xiong Zhou completely stunned.
Perhaps this is the true nature of the Mountain and Sea Realm—a brutal world of survival of the fittest, rife with bloodshed, and utterly unmasked.
The narrow strip of land between the Chaoyang Mountains and the Qingqiu Mountains, the area he named "Woye," was probably just an extremely fragile paradise unintentionally created by Senior Brother Su and the Crimson Flame Totem over the years. It only became completely stable after Xiong Zhou came to the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Xiong Zhou took a deep breath, and abundant Dharma principles overflowed from his body, slowly releasing a resonance that was in harmony with heaven and earth.
His presence began to merge with all things, as if he had become part of this hilly forest, almost one with all things, ethereal and formless.
In You Su's eyes, who was still watching Xiong Zhou from the highest peak of the Qingqiu Mountains, this junior disciple was like a painting with its edges erased, his presence and traces of existence extremely blurry and hazy, as if he would disappear without a trace from under her eyelids in the blink of an eye.
"Such powerful concealment abilities—is this a result of the Abundant Authority at the Transformation level?"
"Just like the vast and unfathomable laws of heaven and earth, they are elusive and difficult to describe, and their traces are hard to find."
"If I hadn't been in the Qingqiu Mountains, with the divine domain protecting me, and if I hadn't witnessed the entire process of this junior brother Xiong Zhou's concealment, I might have had to wait until he touched the divine domain before I could use the Qingxiao authority to confirm his current location."
"No wonder Junior Brother Xiong Zhou has the desire to engage in worldly cultivation. His methods, which are almost like sensing the heavens and earth, are something even I, a totem who has stepped into the path of cultivation, could hardly perceive. It is truly a life-saving tool for wandering the vast sacred mountains and crossing the boundless divine seas."
As Su watched the figure gradually disappear from sight, he murmured to himself.
As the bear boat ventured deeper, traversing millions of miles, the lush hills and forests gradually took on a profound ancient feel. Towering ancient trees reached for the sky, countless unidentified birds flitted among them, and various strange and exotic beasts lurked, hunted, and fought in packs.
Furthermore, numerous medicinal plants, which can be considered spiritual herbs, grow in certain corners of these hills and forests.
Xiong Zhou witnessed firsthand that ferocious beasts, some at the third level of Qi Refining and others even close to the fourth level, were lurking beside these cultivation resources. Furthermore, one fierce battle after another was fought over these resources, filled with bloodshed and extreme brutality.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind; the falcon waits for the mantis to pounce. Such conspiracies surrounding survival and self-cultivation are commonplace.
This is completely different from the ranking of true disciples in the Azure Sky Realm.
The clash between the reanimated corpses and the living beings brought a unique impact to Xiong Zhou's understanding through the collision of spirituality and inspiration.
The brutality of tearing flesh apart, the gruesome sight of bones being gnawed away, the dying struggles and the ruthless ferocity of mutual destruction—all of these left Xiong Zhou speechless and gradually falling silent.
After traveling millions of miles again, and passing a small hill once more, Xiong Zhou suddenly bristled as his paws sank into the thick, soft grass, and abruptly looked to the left at the horizon.
"Boom..."
Vast stretches of towering ancient trees were rolling, hill after hill were crumbling, and the earth was shattered for miles.
A ten-thousand-foot-tall ferocious tiger with saber-like teeth, its feet planted firmly on the ground, stands in confrontation with a ten-thousand-foot-tall python, also shrouded in dark blue qi and covered in blood-red patterns.
"Roar!"
"Hmph!"
The ferocious tiger and the giant python roared fiercely, shattering the land within a ten-mile radius.
Suddenly, they engaged in a fierce battle. Vast blue mist descended like an ocean, and one after another, cold, blood-red beams of light streaked across the sky.
Within a radius of 100,000 li, the capital of heaven and earth trembled, and the current slowly flowed towards the location of the two giant beasts, accompanied by the flying of blood-red scales and the falling of tiger fur.
This vast land is like a terrifying millstone, grinding all the creatures nearby into fragments of flesh and blood, crushing them into blood-red remains.
The beasts were terrified and frantically fled from this terrifying area. However, their speed was too slow. The beast tide that should have been stirred up was instantly suppressed by the spreading aftershocks of the battle, turning into a pool of blood and flesh that sank into the cracks that had appeared in the earth.
The aftershocks, carrying a terrifying force, swept across Xiong Zhou's wildly ruffled fur like a scorching gust of wind, causing him to instinctively squint.
"These are ordinary beasts at the third level of Qi Refining, nearing their limits, fighting with all their might."
"It's not about fighting for anything; it's just about killing the opponent to use as resources for my own advancement, forcibly breaking through my limits, and trying to step into a higher realm of cultivation."
The "Quest for Heaven" was activated silently, and the heavenly secrets, without any concealment, were delivered by a wisp of the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm and sent into the inner world for Xiong Zhou's reference, leaving him speechless.
"Roar!"
A roar that pierced the sky resounded as a ferocious tiger, covered in wounds and bathed in blood, crushed the giant python's head with a single stomp, causing the taut python's body to slump and its vast life force to slowly dissipate.
The sound of flesh being torn apart rang out, and the crunching sound of bones being chewed echoed. The colossal python, thousands of feet long, disappeared bit by bit from the gaping maw of the ferocious tiger.
The vitality and spirituality belonging to the giant entered the ferocious tiger's belly completely, and like a furnace, it began to melt and digest. After about a quarter of an hour, under Xiong Zhou's watchful eye, the ferocious tiger's aura rapidly rose, directly breaking through its own limits, and its life level was sublimated. The injuries caused by the giant python were completely healed, and even the hideous scars left on its body in the past no longer existed.
This ferocious tiger has reached the fourth level of the Refinement Realm in terms of its life essence.
"roar..
'
The ferocious tiger seemed to sense some kind of terror directed at it, and growled softly, as if warning something that was approaching.
Suddenly, a wild goose appeared in the sky. It neither landed nor attacked the ferocious tiger, but simply circled high in the sky, waiting for what was about to happen.
One by one, vines with leaves resembling wind chimes moved about, coalescing into a vibrant aggregate that transformed into a large, dark deer, standing like a wild goose in the sky atop a hill, quietly waiting.
A large pig, less than half a meter tall and covered in golden fur, burrowed into the ground from afar, gnawing on a bamboo shoot that exuded a crisp, spiritual energy, its eyes fixed on the ferocious tiger, which had recently advanced and whose realm was not yet stable.
The flames, fueled by the overwhelming sense of death and the immense calamity, rose beneath the tiger's feet, scorching his body and igniting his blood and bones.
Rolling magma erupted from the depths of the earth, a calamity powerful enough to distort the very essence of heaven and earth. It transformed into shackles, binding the ferocious tiger step by step, threatening to kill it on the spot, leaving no trace of its body.
"Roar!"
A pained roar erupted from the tiger's gaping maw, sharp and piercing.
The will of the mountains and seas sensed that this ferocious tiger had broken through its realm and transcended its life essence, and began to unleash a Yin Fire upon it.
This is a brutal selection process.
In each realm, the total amount of cultivation resources is limited within a given timeframe, insufficient to support an infinite number of immortal beings. All cultivation achievements that are "unqualified," whose contribution to the expansion of the laws of the realm is far less than the demand for resources from the realm, or whose destruction of the realm is far greater than the contribution to the laws of the realm... all have a chance to be recycled and reforged, becoming nourishment for the new life of all beings.
This is the instinct of the will of heaven and earth.
It is also the shackles and constraints imposed by the will of heaven and earth on all living beings.
The power of the Yin Fire surging from the depths of the earth grew ever stronger. Not only were three beings whose life essence had reached the fourth level of Refinement waiting quietly on the side, but even some beings at the third level of Qi Refinement, or even the second level of the Mortal Realm, began to gather here.
Instinctively, I sense great terror here, but also a great opportunity and destiny to leap forward.
Time passed day by day, and the eerie fire that rose from the depths of the earth began to slowly dissipate.
At the same time, the ferocious tiger burned by the Yin Fire was almost turned into a charred mess, its vitality dim and its energy weak, but it was not completely dead and there was hope of recovering to its full strength.
As long as he can successfully weather this impending external calamity.
"Roar..."
"
The ferocious tiger grinned, growling softly, threatening the surrounding beasts.
However you look at it this way, it seems like a futile struggle, a mournful cry before its fall, which makes the gathered beasts restless, ready to rush forward and divide up the opportunity and destiny.
Before the next breath could be waited, as this spectacle of seizing opportunities and destiny unfolded, the geese hovering in the sky lowered their heads, the deer standing atop the hill drew its long whip, and the giant pig that had finished gnawing on bamboo shoots raised its long tusks and charged forward.
"boom!"
Three beasts, each at the fourth level of the Refinement Realm, unleashed their full power, tearing the ferocious tiger, which was in a slump, to shreds. Drops of viscous precious blood, chunks of charred tiger meat, and tiger bones covered with Dao patterns spread out violently in the area.
"Boom!"
Like wisps of flowing clouds, a vast expanse of azure blue, mingled with the sky, spread across the high heavens, creating a strange phenomenon that covered an area of tens of thousands of miles.
The beasts rioted, and the meat grinder reappeared.
The three beasts, whose essence was similar to the fourth level of cultivation, were both cautiously gathering the blood, flesh, and bones that had burst from the ferocious tiger to collect cultivation resources, and casually patting among the many beasts, selecting suitable prey to satisfy their appetites.
"Ding!"
Suddenly, a clear sound rang out from the sky, the vast and strange phenomena subsided, and the ferocious tiger, having comprehended the laws of heaven and earth throughout its life, began to curl up, transforming into a stream of light that descended into a tiger bone, completing the incomplete Dao patterns engraved within it and evolving into a spell.
Xiong Zhou blinked as he looked at the precious bone that was right at his feet, radiating a watery blue light, and which had been transformed from an ordinary tiger bone.
It snatched it up and turned to leave.
"roar!"
"Hey!"
"Yo!"
Three beasts, whose essence was similar to the fourth level of Qi Refining, roared and launched attack after attack, cutting through the beast horde and crushing one strange beast after another. They rushed to the place where the azure-glowing treasure bone appeared, driving the Qi of heaven and earth to sweep across thousands of miles, searching the heavens and the earth.
However, the precious bone containing all the insights and understandings of the ferocious tiger, the greatest fortune in this opportunity, vanished without a trace right before their eyes.
Ten miles away, Xiong Zhou, who was maintaining a state of resonance with heaven and earth, slowly looked back at the spot where he had been standing, and continued to stroll towards the Danxue Divine Mountain.