Chapter 618 – Land of Buried Bones of the Elemental Infant

Chapter 618 – Land of Buried Bones of the Elemental Infant
“This is the selection requirements that I have set with a few senior brothers and sisters, please also ask the two senior uncles to take a look.”

Xu Chuniang was quite a bit uncomfortable, “Senior Uncle Yue, you can just call me like you always do.”

“Rites cannot be abolished.”

Yue Lingzheng refused with a straight face, “As the head of a clan, I have to lead by example even more.”

Xu Chuniang could not be persuaded any further, and took the jade slip handed over by Master Yue, and with a sweep of her divine sense, she went through all the processes.

The selection of new disciples was divided into three levels.

In addition to the spiritual root talent, the disciple’s heart and enlightenment would also be tested, which was much stricter than in the past.

If one’s heart and enlightenment did not pass, they would not necessarily be accepted even if their talent was good.

In order to save resources, the sect even had a new rule that all new qi cultivators could only enter the outer sect.

“Making this arrangement is also a desperate move.”

Yue Lingzheng explained, “Although there are eight Spirit Veins in the Sect, the root cause of the disappearance of the Spirit Qi cannot be solved, and these Spirit Veins will eventually become smaller and smaller.”

Admitting too many new disciples when there wasn’t enough spiritual qi would instead hinder the development of the sect.

Sheng Qingyun sighed softly and shook her head, “It’s really not as good as the next generation, is the End Times really coming?”

“Perhaps.”

Yue Ling Zheng shook his head with a bitter smile, as if he suddenly thought of something, he looked towards Xu Chuniang.

“Uncle Xu came back from the overseas cultivation world, I wonder if the aura overseas, has decreased?”

“During the years I stayed overseas, I did not notice any changes in the aura.”

“Perhaps it’s because the overseas land is vast and rich, and the loss of some aura won’t have much of an impact for a while.”

Xu Chuniang was about to speak, but in the end, she didn’t say what she had guessed in her heart.

She felt that it wasn’t that the End Times were approaching, but that there were other reasons for the change in aura.

“If the two master uncles have nothing else to do, they can come and observe the entrance election the day after tomorrow. If there is a good seedling that you see, you can first accept him as a registered disciple.”

Sheng Qingyun looked gloomy, “I don’t have the heart to take in a disciple, so I won’t go and join in the fun.”

Xu Chuniang also shook her head, “I intend to go to the Tibetan scripture pavilion to look up some things, and I don’t have this intention for now either.”

“Fine.”

Being rejected by the two, Yue Lingzheng was not disappointed.

The time of YuanYing cultivators was very precious, so naturally, they wouldn’t spend too much energy on these trivial matters.

After Yue Lingzheng left, Sheng Qingyun looked towards Xu Chuniang.

“You went to the Book Depository, but you wanted to find the reason for the disappearance of the aura?”

“Not bad.”

Xu Chuniang nodded her head, she could clearly feel that compared to eighty years ago, the aura in the heavens and earth was about one-tenth less.

If this continued, the strength of the entire Northwest Continent’s cultivation community would get worse and worse.

In the end, even breaking through to YuanYing would become impossible.

Sheng Qingyun sighed in her heart, “What if I say that this matter has no results?”

“Where there is a cause, there is a consequence, this matter concerns you and I, as well as all of our fellow disciples, and even the entire cultivation world of the Northwest Continent, so how can we just sit back and watch.”

Seeing the obstinacy under her eyes, Sheng Qingyun knew that she couldn’t stop this matter.

“That’s just it, you follow me.”

Although Xu Chuniang was a bit puzzled, she still complied, following behind Sheng Qingyun and heading towards an inconspicuous barren mountain.

“Over the years that the evil cultivators have occupied the Easy Sect, many mountains have been poisoned by them, but this Mountain of No Return, even every single blade of grass and tree is very well preserved.”

Sheng Qingyun didn’t use the Escape Technique, but instead, with her feet on the ground, she stepped onto this barren mountain called the Mountain of No Return.

“Do you know what is so special about this mountain?”

Xu Chuniang’s divine sense quickly swept over Mount of No Return and shook her head in confusion. There was not even half a bit of aura on this mountain, and it was completely impossible to see what was so special about it.

Sheng Qingyun smiled faintly, ”No wonder you can’t see it, I didn’t take it seriously when I first came here either.

But this Mountain of No Return is where all the generations of YuanYing cultivators of the Easy Sect have buried their bones.”

Xu Chuniang was slightly startled, and her divine sense carefully swept through the Mountain of No Return, but she didn’t even see a single burial mound or tombstone.

“Don’t look for it, if we really set up burial mounds and tombstones, wouldn’t they have long been dug up by that group of evil cultivators?”

Sheng Qingyun smiled blandly, “My generation of cultivators, even though they have cultivated to the YuanYing stage and become an ancestor-like existence in the eyes of others, if they can’t break through to the Realm of Transformation of God, the thousand-year path will always be an empty one.”

Saying that, she walked to a tree, took out an altar of spirit wine and slapped it open, spilling all the spirit wine in the altar.

“Cultivators who are able to break through to the Transformation God Stage are all those who are not burdened with great fortune and luck, and the loss of spiritual qi has made the emergence of Transformation God cultivators even more difficult.

Back then, my master ancestor consulted countless ancient texts, and in the end, he even went deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains in an attempt to find the reason for the constant loss of spiritual qi.”

“Hundred thousand mountains?”

Sheng Qingyun returned to her senses and explained.

“You were only at the Foundation Establishment cultivation level when you left the sect, it’s normal that you don’t know about this.

The Hundred Thousand Great Mountains are located in the Western Region, and continuing west past the Immeasurable Mountains, with your and my footwork, we would have to walk up for three to five months even if we were to make all-out efforts to catch up.”

After listening to her recount the mystery of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Xu Chuniang had a guess in her heart.

The answer, most likely, was hidden in the Endless Mountains of the Western Regions.

“Did your master ancestor, back then, find the reason?”

Sheng Qingyun shook her head, “I don’t know, because the master ancestor left this time and hasn’t been able to come back since.

This tree was planted by my own hands, and my master ancestor’s clothes grave is under this tree.”

Sheng Qingyun stroked the thick tree, a look of remembrance appearing in her eyes.

“Back then, there were a total of five YuanYing cultivators who traveled to the Great Hundred Thousand Mountains in a group.

One was for the purpose of exploring and practicing, searching for various exotic treasures, and the other was also to try and see if they could find the reason for the disappearance of the aura.”

Xu Chuniang vaguely guessed the ending.

“Did they …… fail?”

Sheng Qingyun nodded, a look of deep pain in her eyes.

“Yeah, five YuanYing cultivators, only one of them came back alive in the end.”

Since then, the Hundred Thousand Mountains had become an unspoken taboo place in the cultivation world, and no one dared to venture into it easily anymore.

Xu Chuniang remained silent for a long time and said thanks.

“Thank you, Master Ancestor, for telling me this, otherwise I wouldn’t know how long I would have to look into it if I were to rely solely on my rummaging through ancient texts in the Tibetan scripture cabinet.”

Sheng Qingyun frowned slightly, “After hearing so much, do you still want to go?”

“Master Ancestor thinks, compared to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and the Dead Sea, which one is more dangerous?”

“Both are dangerous, even if you successfully cross the Dead Sea, you may not be able to walk out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The YuanYing senior who luckily escaped with his life back then once said that there are great evils in the mountains.”

“But Senior Ancestor, I want to find the reason why the aura has disappeared, and for my own sake as well.”

Xu Chuniang spoke frankly and straightforwardly, “With the existing concentration of aura in the sect, one would have to cultivate hard for thirty to fifty years to increase one layer of cultivation.”

“You’re still young now, there’s plenty of time to cultivate, and progressing slightly slower is better than taking risks.”

Sheng Qingyun still didn’t agree with her idea, anyway, YuanYing cultivators had a thousand years of lifespan, even if they cultivated hard for a few hundred years, as long as they could break through to the late stage of YuanYing, it would still be very good.

“But has Master Ancestor thought about the fact that perhaps after a few hundred years, the aura will completely disappear?”

(End of chapter)