Ning Xia didn't know that she and He Qing would pass by several old friends once they happened to meet each other. Otherwise, she would be sweating over her own life.
She followed He Qing to the Chengdong trading market, which was also one of the three major public sales markets in Dongli City.
The main products sold there are mid-to-low-end spiritual ores with known public prices. Most of the players there are knowledgeable. The difficulty of picking up leaks is relatively high, but it is not easy to bet on red-eye. This is completely different from the almost blind gambling on the other side of the Chengxi trading market, where there are many gamblers who almost even lost their own lives.
The North District Central Market is the core trading point in the entire Beili City. But not everyone can get there, and it is unlikely that anything will be missed. The price is also very expensive, and even if you buy it, there is no guarantee that the thing will be worthy of its value. That place is equivalent to a high-end store. With Ningxia and Heqing's rankings, it is naturally impossible to go there. Even if they go, they will just watch the excitement at most.
Therefore, it would be most suitable for them to come to the east of the city for their first time here.
It had been more than a day since they arrived in Dongli City, but there was still some time before the conference started. During this period, everyone naturally acted on their own. After all, they were just a cultivation sect and not a real school. They were generally only responsible for the organization and overall planning.
So Ningxia and the others saw that Chang Xuanju had settled down, and the leading monk had no special requirements or instructions, so everyone moved freely.
Ningxia is not familiar with this place, so it is natural that He Qing leads the way.
The two of them visited several famous local specialty shops along the road from Changxuanju. Most of the products in them were products processed from spiritual materials.
But this is all due to the added value. The materials themselves are nothing special, and some of the craftsmanship is not even as good as what she made herself. Ningxia seemed to be looking at the techniques and styles, and there was nothing that aroused her desire to buy.
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However, the inheritance of techniques in Middle-earth is indeed very different from that in the southeastern border, and even the emphasis is different. The former is relatively complete, most of the skills are in a complete set, the development rules are traceable, and the craftsmanship is also very mature. This is more in line with the original appearance of a medium to highly developed cultivation civilization.
Perhaps because of incomplete inheritance, the techniques and craftsmanship of the southeastern border will present an uncoordinated sense of fragmentation, and there may even be mismatching of styles.
The above may be a bit abstract, but let’s put it this way, take the teleportation array that Ningxia had thought about before as an example. There is also a teleportation array in the southeastern border, but it is full of restrictions and distance restrictions. The materials required for the layout are expensive and rare, and the functionality is relatively poor. It is a useless formation that is only applicable at certain times or specific occasions.
Teleportation talismans with slightly less functionality and restrictions, such as teleportation talismans and teleportation array talismans, are not durable and are basically disposable. They are more expensive and cannot transport people on a large scale.
But in fact, in the forgotten years of the past, the teleportation array in the southeastern border once had very comprehensive functions like the teleportation array in Middle-earth. However, after the war and the long years of evolution, the inheritance of the formation was cut off. Only one core of this formation has been lost, and even the outline cannot be filled in. New parts can only be filled in through restoration and innovation based on everyone's memory.
Therefore, the transmission array in the southeastern border has many restrictions and is useless to use, precisely because it is a completely broken product, and is kneaded together with various specious lines, even the energy chain that mediates the movement of spiritual power. It was also "borrowed" from the weapon refining field next door, so the teleportation array in the southeastern border was inevitably subject to many restrictions and was completely different from the one in Middle-earth.
Of course, the teleportation array is not a "people-friendly" or "common" formation in Middle-earth. Its functions and various spiritual materials required for its construction are destined to be impossible to use on a large scale. In Middle-earth, only high-level formation masters can do it. Arrange this formation. Moreover, even the supply of spiritual materials and spiritual energy required to set up a one-way teleportation array has reached the cost of holding a large-scale event in a large sect, so those people said that "the teleportation array is not available to everyone."
However, in terms of functionality, the teleportation array on the Middle Earth side is much easier to use than the one on the southeastern border, and it doesn't have so many restrictions. If you can gather the materials of the corresponding level and supply enough spiritual power, it can even support large-scale teleportation over relatively long distances, and the function is very powerful.
This is just a teleportation array. There are still many such missing skills in the southeastern border, which have been fermented over time and supplemented by various techniques. For example, the elixir refining technique has been lost for many years. Later, in order to achieve similar effects, alchemists from the southeastern border modified the spiritual plant quenching method and used it instead. Although the effect was rough, it was still barely usable.
Another example is the spiritual talisman path, which was once cut off in the southeastern border, and there were almost no middle- and high-level talisman masters left. The entire area has relied on those low-level magicians to hold on for many years, sticking to some existing basic methods of making magic charms to continue the tradition of magic charms.
Later, there were too many missing ones and they couldn't pass them on, so they had to shamelessly refer to the formation path next door that was actually almost cut off, and borrow some techniques to slightly make up for the talisman path. That's why Ningxia had previously felt that the drawing techniques and principles of some spiritual talismans were similar to those of formations, and they could learn from each other.
This was not until people later dug up many lost spiritual talisman inheritance in a secret place, which alleviated the embarrassment of Talisman Dao.
...There are too many such examples.
Even though Ningxia has been living in the southeastern border for many years, she has never seen the complete inheritance of the Middle-earth side. Having lived in such a modern society with supplementary technology, she often felt that the southeastern border was lacking in skills.
How should I put it? It just feels like technology has not kept up with the times. Obviously, the culture of cultivation has developed to this point, but many techniques and craftsmanship remain in a relatively primitive and old state, and are still incomplete and incomplete. There are even fewer innovations, because there are relatively few things that can be passed down, and there is not much material to create.
It was only after she came to Middle-earth that she truly felt what it meant to have a hundred flowers bloom. It turns out that third-grade and fourth-grade elixirs can also be so pure without too many impurities. It turns out that there are also such spiritual talismans that can be directly used. It turns out that there are so many ways to make magic weapons and spiritual tools, and they are not limited to a certain type at all. Several types of schools, it turns out...it turns out there are so many more. It turns out that this is what the cultivation civilization on this continent originally looked like.
The smile on Ningxia's face became shallower as she walked, and her mind became heavier. It was really too far off.
In such a closed and harsh environment, how did the southeastern border, which could not even be called complete in orthodoxy, get to where it is today, and it... where should they go?
