Chapter 677 – Entering the Spirit World for the First Time
Chapter 677 – Entering the Spirit World
It turns out that those gray fog outside, is the white cold fog stained with gray-brown mountains and rocks, changed some appearance.
Xu Chuniang scanned the mountains and rocks, these mountains and rocks should be some kind of spirit mine, but the spiritual qi within it is pitifully small, unbearable.
She flew towards the top, straight out of the Desolate Realm and back into the Heavenly Beyond.
This time, she was accidentally caught up in the Desolate Realm, devoured an unknown white cold fire, and also dug up a jade stone of not bad grade, and a pile of soil that she didn’t know if it could be useful, so it was considered to be a great harvest.
The spirit materials she recognized were mostly below the Transformation God level.
When she arrived at the Spirit World in the future, she would have to make up for it, so that she wouldn’t pass by a mountain of treasures without realizing it.
Xu Chuniang slowed down her speed and took the initiative to probe her divine sense, keeping an eye out for any new Desolate Realms around her.
Seven or eight days later, she really stumbled upon a new Desolate Realm.
Just after stepping into this Desolate Realm, the chaotic and majestic aura made her heart vaguely uneasy.
Subsequently, the ground inexplicably cracked open, and then violently shook, and the entire Desolate Realm was thrown into chaos.
Xu Chuniang made an instant decision and decisively chose to withdraw.
What she had entered this time was an extremely unstable Desolate Realm, and staying there would put her life in danger at any time.
Shortly after escaping from the second Desolate Realm, she entered the third Desolate Realm.
The environment here was even harsher, with seawater backing up, volcanoes erupting, and several types of law turbulence.
Xu Chuniang spared some injuries and retreated at the first opportunity.
She realized that the vast majority of the Desolate Realms, to her, were dangerous, and in the end, she should not go there rashly.
After that, Xu Chunniang hadn’t actively searched for any more Desolate Realms, and when she encountered them along the way, she chose to avoid them from afar.
Following the guidance in the underworld with a single-minded rush, several years later, Xu Chunniang arrived in front of a patch of white awns, and the guidance in her heart suddenly disappeared.
She only stared at this white awn for a breath before her eyes stung and tears fell uncontrollably.
Just then, a white light scattered from the white awn and struck her.
Xu Chuniang’s figure directly disappeared in place.
“Huh, another one from the lower realms?”
“Fifth one this month, old rules, let her serve first.”
Xu Chuniang had just regained consciousness when she heard these two voices.
Following the voices, she didn’t move to look over, it was two cultivators, a man and a woman wearing uniform clothing.
What did they mean by serving?
Seeing that she had regained consciousness, the male cultivator among them took the initiative to say.
“Congratulations on your smooth ascension to the Spirit Realm. It’s just that today’s Spirit World might be a bit different from what you once thought.”
“The two …… seniors,”
Xu Chuniang settled her nerves and bowed her hand towards the two.
These two people’s cultivation she couldn’t see through, thinking that they were quite a bit stronger than her, a person who had just arrived in the Spirit World.
“I’m new to the Spirit Realm and know nothing about this place, so I’d like to ask the two of you to tell me something.”
The male cultivator who spoke earlier waved his hand, “The cultivation of the two of us is only at the late stage of God Transformation, so you can just address us as Dao Friends.
As for the matter of the Spirit World, a little later I will tell you all about it, this is also the responsibility of the two of us.”
Immediately, this person then recounted the current situation of the Spirit World.
In this person’s narration, the Spirit Realm was vast and boundless, and the five major cities occupied by the human race only occupied one percent of the Spirit Realm’s territory.
And the status of the human race, among the hundreds of ethnic groups in the Spirit Realm, was only the lower middle.
Especially in recent years, there were several ethnic groups that had been targeting the Human Race, leading to the war situation on the frontline, which was once all very tense.
“Known to the Human Race, there are a total of seven Mahayana level powerhouses, two of which are scattered cultivators whose whereabouts have always been uncertain. The other five, respectively, guarded in five large cities, enjoying the human race hundreds of millions of incense offerings.”
Xu Chuniang memorized all of this, “Dare I ask you, what is an incense offering?”
The two receivers glanced at each other, and the female cultivator among them gave a dry cough and explained.
“Incense and fire offerings are when the thousands of human races make offerings to these few Mahayana Venerables, condensing their wish power into incense and fire through a special form of worship.
This incense offering is similar to the worship of gods in the mundane world, and the specific use of the power of the incense, this is unknown.”
“Among them, we cultivators will be able to enjoy incense and fire offerings after we break through the God Transformation Stage and transcend to sainthood.
But in reality, in the Spirit Realm, Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators don’t have this qualification at all, not even at the Refined Void Stage.”
The male cultivator added, “Apart from the Mahayana Exalted, the only cultivators who have such qualifications are those at the Harmonization Stage who are the lords of some small cities.”
Xu Chuniang pondered, recalling back to the scene in the False Realm, where those mortals had treated the Evil Eye Beast like a god, worshipping and making offerings.
Could it be that the Evil Eye Beast was collecting the power of incense through this method?
Earlier, when she fought against the Evil Eye Beast’s holy body, under the shroud of the Law of Death, the Evil Eye Beast was originally invincible.
But later, it had offered up a ball of white qi and dispersed the Law of Death with ease.
I don’t know if that mass of white qi was related to the power of incense.
Xu Chuniang pressed down the doubts in her heart and asked about the conversation she had just heard.
“I heard the two of you say just now that those who are new to the spirit world seem to have to serve?”
“Not bad.”
The male cultivator nodded, his expression solemn.
“It’s not just you people who ascended from the lower realms, all cultivators are required to serve after breaking through the God Transformation Stage, or else they’ll be forced to drive away from the human territory.”
Xu Chuniang’s mood was slightly condensed, the price for refusing to serve would be a direct expulsion.
In the Spirit Realm, there were a hundred races, and the attitude of most of them towards the Human Race could not be described as friendly.
A cultivator who had just transformed into a god and was driven away from the human race’s territory was tantamount to a declaration of death in disguise.
It seems that the human race’s situation today is not optimistic, otherwise it wouldn’t have forced everyone to serve.
Seeing the worry in Xu Chuniang’s heart, the female cultivator smiled faintly and comforted.
“Although the days of our Human Race have not been too good these past few thousand years, they are far from being at the point of life and death.
Between the various clans, the Mahayana level powerhouses have long since made an agreement that they won’t go easy on us.”
The male cultivator nodded in agreement, “The few clans that are eyeing us are more interested in taking advantage of us.
The Human Race has been established in the Spirit World for countless thousands of years, and for a while, those few communities won’t be able to shake our foundations.”
Xu Chuniang was slightly relieved, “How long will it take to serve?”
“According to the rules set by several Mahayana Venerable Masters, all people, regardless of whether they are ascending from the lower realms or are native cultivators, need to serve for thirty years.
Only after thirty years of service are completed can they be restored to free agency, they can remain in the military or leave on their own.”
Thirty years, for a Spirit Transformation cultivator who enjoyed a life span of two thousand years, wasn’t that long.
It was just that on the battlefield, swords were blind, and every day there were high-ranking cultivators dying.
Less than half of them survived the thirty years of service.
The male cultivator paused briefly and continued.
“In the military if you can make war achievements, or pay a large amount of spirit crystals, you can end your service early, but the length of service shall not be less than five years.
As for Spirit Crystals, you can simply understand them as, Spirit Stones of the Spirit Realm.”
(End of chapter)