Hearing Uncle Wu say that the atmosphere of Xuanyuan Continent has a five-layer structure, Zhao Lin felt very familiar and awakened some memories from his previous life.
But after listening to it, I realized that the five-layer atmosphere here was completely different from what I remembered.
Six hundred feet upward from the ground, the area within this height is called the aura layer.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the spiritual energy layer is the highest, and there is no evil or evil energy. It is suitable for the survival of all kinds of creatures, including monks and mortals.
Monks above the Foundation Establishment Realm can control Qi and fly at this level, and monks in the middle and late Qi Refining Realm can also do this with the help of flying magic weapons.
But there is a big problem with the aura layer: the air is too dense.
This makes it extremely difficult to gain speed during flight.
If you want to fly faster, you have to go higher and enter the next layer of the atmosphere: the clouds.
Hearing this, Zhao Lin nodded secretly, thinking that this was only reasonable.
The wind resistance that a person encounters when standing forward is extremely large. Even if a monk has sufficient mana, it is estimated that it will be difficult to reach a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. It is even more impossible to reach a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour like an airplane.
Unless...the monk flies on his stomach or lying down.
But that is not only unsightly, but also prone to being attacked from both sides.
According to Uncle Wu's explanation, as the name suggests, the height of the cloud layer is near the cloud layer, between 600 feet and 800 feet above the ground.
But it is not absolute. If it encounters a high mountain barrier, this layer will also rise accordingly.
For example, on a thousand-foot high mountain, there are usually only aura layers and cloud layers on the mountain. If there are spiritual veins on the mountain and a spirit gathering array is arranged, then there will only be aura layer.
The air in the clouds is thin, and the resistance to flight is naturally smaller. Foundation-building monks can fly quickly in it.
However, the cloud layer is very "thin", with only about two hundred feet between the upper and lower sides. There are often evil spirits flowing from the "evil air layer" above, forming a turbulent flow of evil spirits.
The airship that everyone was riding in was flying in the sky. Although the airship was equipped with a protective array that could withstand the turbulent flow of evil spirits, it was still unavoidable from being impacted.
This was the reason why the airship was bumping and shaking just now.
Foundation-building monks can resist the impact of evil spirits for a short period of time, but if they want to fly in this level for a long time, only monks above the Purple Mansion realm can do it.
The third layer is the evil spirit layer.
The evil spirit layer is filled with evil spirits and can reach a thickness of thousands of feet.
The air here is thinner and the resistance to flight is smaller, but the fourth layer of Gang Qi often penetrates.
For the same reason, monks in the Purple Mansion Realm cannot stay in the evil spirit layer for too long, which is also very difficult for ordinary airships.
Only monks at the Golden Core Realm, Divine Transformation Realm and Lingzhou equipped with more powerful protective arrays can cope with it.
The fourth layer: Gangqi layer.
The strong winds in the Gang Qi layer are raging and extremely destructive. Low-level monks cannot survive here. Only monks in the realm of gods, long-distance ships, and large warships can travel through it.
The giant boat that brought everyone in was flying on this level.
The fifth layer is the void layer.
The void layer is close to a vacuum, with no spiritual energy, evil spirit or gang energy, but there are more powerful extraterrestrial thunders.
Any creature that appears here will be bombarded by thunder.
Even if a cultivator in the realm of gods takes a beating, he will inevitably end up in ashes.
Currently, no monks or spirit boats can fly in the void layer.
According to legend, only when a monk in the realm of transformation breaks through the realm, recasts his physical body and soul, and enters the critical ascension realm, can he withstand the thunder from the sky.
But whether you can survive depends on your cultivation and luck.
After Master Wu finished speaking, the teenagers all fell silent, silently recalling everything they had just heard.
"Become a god, ascend..."
Zhao Lin's heart was ups and downs. The monks in Xuanyuan Continent wanted to ascend, but they had to withstand the bombardment of sky thunder. It seemed that the road to immortality was long and difficult, and it was not easy to obtain.
After a while, Lin Chaoran broke the silence and asked: "Uncle Wu, is it difficult to control the airship we are riding on now? Were you the one who controlled the previous giant ship?"
Uncle Wu nodded, "To control a spirit boat, you need to control multiple magic circles at the same time, so that the spirit boat can attack and defend, accelerate and decelerate, rise and fall, turn left and right, etc. The larger the spirit boat, the more difficult it is to control it."
"Actually, I don't control the giant boat alone. There are two other Taoist friends assisting me. They are stationed all year round, so they didn't follow me down."
As he spoke, he glanced at the two green-robed monks sitting on the cloud platform and said, "You may not have thought that controlling a flying boat is also an art."
Zhao Lin thought to himself that he could drive in his previous life. Would it be faster to learn to control a flying boat?
Lin Chaoran bowed and thanked: "I see, thank you Master Wu for clarifying my doubts."
Master Wu introduced new disciples, and he had the responsibility to preach and teach. Seeing that everyone was listening with interest, he was also happy to talk more about the sect.
A strange and novel world of cultivation is revealed before everyone's eyes.
Chenghua Sect was founded fifty thousand years ago and is the oldest sect in Xuanyuan Continent.
The spiritual rice and spiritual tea widely grown in the world of cultivation today originated from the Chenghua Sect.
Chenghua Sect was the first sect to raise spiritual silkworms and use their silk to make robes.
Not only that, Chenghua Sect was also the first sect to create the Five Elements Magic.
The first to discover the function of spiritual veins and the method of making and cutting spiritual stones.
The first one created the runes and made the talismans.
The first one to figure out how to lay out a magic circle.
The first Foundation Building Pill in Xuanyuan Continent was also made by a monk from the Chenghua Sect...
Master Wu proudly laid out the achievements of the sect one by one. The young people listened with admiration on their faces and were very excited to join such a sect.
Zhao Lin's heart was slightly agitated, and he had an inexplicable liking for Chenghua Sect.
A disciple asked: "Uncle Master, when can we arrive at the sect?"
Master Wu laughed loudly when he heard this, "This is already the sect's territory!"
"Is it already the sect's territory?"
The disciple glanced down and asked in confusion: "Where is the sect in the barren mountains and mountains below?"
Uncle Wu stopped laughing and said seriously: "Our Chenghua Sect has a vast territory, and there are nearly one hundred thousand monks. They are not gathered in one place, but live scattered."
The young men were stunned when they heard that there were nearly 100,000 monks in the sect.
Zhao Lin was not too surprised. He had roughly estimated the number of Chenghua Sect monks before, and the number of one hundred thousand was not too much.
Uncle Wu continued: "Cultivation is inseparable from spiritual veins. Although the sect stretches for tens of thousands of miles, the spiritual veins are limited after all. Most monks practice in high mountains and deep valleys where spiritual veins exist."
"Our Chenghua Sect has thirteen high-level spiritual veins, as well as hundreds of medium and low-level spiritual veins, large and small."
"In order to facilitate management, the ancestors of the sect followed the example of the mortal world and divided the entire sect into thirteen states, with multiple counties under each state."
Having said this, Master Wu smiled casually, "Prefecture and county are just names. The actual perception is very different. You will understand when the time comes."
"The place we are going to now is Hanchi County in Southern Hezhou."
(End of chapter)
