High in the sky, Lu Zhong woke up.
He realized that he was falling at a very fast speed. If he continued at the current speed, even if his injuries were not worsened by the high heat of the friction air, he would fall to the ground at several times the speed of sound, causing a huge noise.
Maybe the monks will think that a treasure has been born.
With the level of Linghuan Realm, it is not surprising to attract a monk in the integration stage.
To be cautious, he turned over his hand and took out something.
It's a fairly rare ore.
The level is not low, enough to forge spiritual treasures.
After letting this thing replace him and become a falling meteor, Lu Zhong was suspended in mid-air, looking at the vast land below, randomly looking for a direction, and flew straight there.
Flying close to the ground.
The further he flew forward, the more he marveled at the abundance of spiritual energy in the Linghuan world.
It's obviously just a wilderness, but its spiritual energy concentration is comparable to that of a second-level spiritual vein.
In some places, it can even reach the fourth level.
One can imagine how high the concentration of spiritual energy in those places would be if it were the Holy Land of Cultivation in the Linghuan Realm.
After flying forward for more than ten thousand miles, Lu Zhong looked down from a high place and finally discovered a gathering place of monks in the distance. Judging from the phenomenon of spiritual energy transpiring, there should be a fourth-level spiritual vein here.
Seeing that the injury worsened, it was difficult to continue suppressing him.
So he lowered his height and fell downwards.
It was only after getting closer that I realized that the gathering place of monks here is not small, with nearly ten thousand auras. Counting the surrounding cities, the number of monks is in the tens of thousands, and among them, the one with the highest cultivation level has actually reached the stage of becoming a god. .
"It really deserves to be in the spirit world!" Lu Zhong thought complexly.
Like all the monks' cities, this "Linjiangfang City" in front of you basically doesn't matter where you come from as long as you pay the spirit stone to enter the city.
Therefore, he entered the city smoothly.
Later, he spent thousands of spiritual stones to rent a third-level cave for a hundred years.
In this way, Lu Zhong settled down for the time being.
...
In the quiet room, Lu Zhong sat cross-legged.
The ground in front of him was already scattered with medicine bottles.
However, after taking so many pills, his injury still did not improve. On the contrary, there were faint signs of deterioration. This showed that the current injury was no longer something he could solve.
Realizing this, Lu Zhong knew that he needed to heal the injury now.
You can only seek higher levels of power.
Either take the risk and ask a high-level monk to take action;
Either obtain a sixth-level, seventh-level, or even higher-level healing elixir.
Either way, it's extremely difficult to do.
"That's all. Even if the injury worsens, it will last at least a thousand years. There is no rush now."
Now Lu Zhong still has a lot to do.
On the one hand, he had previously promised to collect sacred trees for the other party.
Now, it's time to cash in.
On the other hand, after the spirit energy is exhausted, it is necessary to use the method of collecting energy as soon as possible to restore it.
Otherwise, without the protection of divine energy, the Yang Shen exposed to time and years will soon decay and die, and will no longer be able to help the monks continue to live forever.
Moreover, once Yang Shen dies, it will seriously affect the advancement of cultivation.
In severe cases, the road can even be cut off.
There is no reason why Lu Zhong didn't pay attention to it.
Just when he was thinking about how to arrange his time.
A yellow talisman flew in from outside.
Lu Zhong took it and found that it was a communication talisman.
There was a message on it, but the neighbor next door came to visit.
"I heard that a Taoist friend has moved here. The poor Taoist is Dewey who lives not far away. He came here specifically to visit today." A monk who was dressed in gray clothes and dressed as a Taoist monk was standing with a jar of wine. at the door.
Lu Zhong looked at him for a few times and confirmed that he was indeed a pill-forming monk before opening the restriction.
However, he did not get out of the way.
The meaning is very clear, I don’t want to make friends with outsiders.
Seeing this, the old Taoist looked a little unhappy, but he still handed out the wine jar in his hand, "Since fellow Taoist is not free today, I won't bother you too much. This is a jar of self-brewed Zhuru fruit wine, which is good for spiritual cultivation." It’s a little helpful, but if you need it again in the future, you can just come to me, I will definitely give you a preferential price!”
After that, the man turned around and left.
Lu Zhong held the wine jar and thought that he was actually a door-to-door salesman.
He wanted to go back, but unexpectedly, another figure came from a distance. She was a beauty in palace clothes. Her cultivation level was slightly higher than that of the old Taoist just now. She was already in the late stage of pill formation, and she was holding a bamboo basket in her hand.
After a conversation, the female cultivator announced her name as "Su Yue".
But just like Old Taoist Dewey, he is also a door-to-door salesman, but he sells spiritual food. As if the monks here are well versed in business, Su Yue also gave away a box of spiritual food for free.
Although it is not expensive, it is worth dozens of spiritual stones.
Regarding this woman, Lu Zhong did not let her in as before, but spent some time and sent this one away as well.
He originally thought that things would end here, but he didn't expect that the visiting monks came one after another, receiving a total of seventeen people and receiving gifts piled up in a hill. Finally, no one came to the door again.
"Living near the river is not easy!" Lu Zhong said with emotion.
From the behavior of these monks, we can get a glimpse of the difficulty of obtaining resources here.
Among the people who just visited, there are not only winemakers and spiritual chefs, but also talisman masters, weapon refiners, and alchemists. Although there are many repetitions, there are as many as eight professions. From the gifts they gave, we can also know All of them are skilled in their craftsmanship, but the monks who have mastered their craftsmanship in this way have a very difficult life.
Even in order to compete, they have to take the initiative to visit.
The purpose of giving gifts is naturally to create good relationships.
In this way, Lu Zhong will probably think of them first if he needs them in the future.
"Could it be that I've been renting a house for hundreds of years and attracted attention?"
Lu Zhong couldn't help but become suspicious.
But no matter how you think about it, a mere five thousand in rent doesn’t seem like a lot of money, right? He really didn't know why these people thought that he was a future big customer worthy of giving gifts to build a good relationship.
If you can't figure it out, just forget about it.
He returned to the quiet room and continued to perform exercises to heal his injuries, trying to stabilize his injuries.
At the same time, avatars were also sent.
On the one hand, it is to inquire about information, whether it is a trade fair or an auction, to see if they can use this to find out information about the sale of high-end healing elixirs.
On the other hand, it is to collect information on the spiritual world.
After seeing the customs of the monks here, Lu Zhong felt that it was necessary to learn more about the Linghuan world.
Ever since, time passed day by day.
By collecting information through the hands of the incarnation, Lu Zhong gradually learned a lot more about the Linghuan world.
According to the records in the classics, the place he is currently in is a region called Feng Yuan Realm, which is hundreds of millions of miles in diameter and is part of the vast spiritual world.
The Feng Yuan Jie Zhi mentioned the Dao Alliance.
Most of them are Spring and Autumn style of writing.
Even if it is mentioned occasionally, it is only briefly mentioned and never described in detail.
"Is this the supreme Taoist alliance in the Linghuan world?" Lu Zhong couldn't help but feel strange about this. If the Taoist alliance collapsed overnight, he would still be able to understand it even if he was scolded and cast aside.
But now, what is going on with this extremely secretive attitude?
Everywhere is indescribably weird.
Really unable to understand, Lu Zhong could only continue to look down.
Geography, humanities, history...
Reading bit by bit, he had a basic understanding of the Feng Yuan Realm.
Generally speaking, this is a place where immortality flourishes.
The overlord who rules this place is a huge force called the "Tu Palace". It is not a sect in the ordinary sense. According to a few words in the classics, it looks like a country that is beginning to take shape.
There is nothing inconsistent in calling it the "immortal cultivation country".
The palace owner is Mahayana, and there are a group of monks with different levels of cultivation under him, who together form a bureaucratic organization. In the form of a country that rules this vast land of hundreds of millions of miles, all sects, families, groups, and even individuals doing business must pay taxes regularly.
The tax amount is not low at all, almost 30% of the total income.
Seeing this, Lu Zhong finally understood.
Why do the monks in the monastery have a difficult life?
It turns out that the root cause lies in this.
After looking through it, Lu Zhong found that the world of Linghuan was far less beautiful than he imagined.
It is true that the concentration of spiritual energy is high, but it is only good for low-level monks.
For high-level monks, everything is full of exploitation.
To cultivate in the Immortal Cultivation Kingdom, you have to face high taxes.
Even if you have mastered the cultivation of gods and mastered a superb art of cultivating immortals, you will probably work hard for a whole year, and the spiritual stones earned after deducting various taxes will only be enough for your cultivation.
If you don't want to pay taxes, you can only choose to wander in the wilderness outside the country.
The Great Wilderness generally refers to the wilderness outside the country where immortals are cultivated.
It is a place untouched by immortality and a paradise for heretics and wild creatures.
Killing people everywhere and following the law of the jungle.
Even if a monk is in the Void Refining Stage, once he strays into it by mistake, he may never come out again. It is said that only monks in the integration stage are qualified to cross the wilderness.
Not to mention, disasters will spread every once in a while.
Either the overflowing herd of beasts in the wilderness, or the growing heretical forces, or the new, unknown and powerful alien species emerging in the wilderness, are all full of threats to the Fengyuan world.
It is precisely because of this that the high taxes imposed by the Tu Palace have become a matter of course.
Although it is frighteningly high, monks in this world can endure it.
After all, only by paying taxes can the Tuwang Palace have the money to form and maintain a huge army of tens of millions of monks to deal with threats from inside and outside the Feng Yuan Realm.
On this point, any monk with some brains will know how to choose.
It is only natural to spend money to eliminate disasters!
Lu Zhong couldn't help but suspect that perhaps it was these constant threats from the outside world that could not be completely eradicated that allowed the monks in the Fengyuan Realm to evolve a "state", an administrative organizational structure that was far more efficient than sects and families.
Of course, it could also be coming from other places.
According to the geographical map, there are more than ten immortal realms such as "Cangshi Realm" and "Yuzhen Realm" near Fengyuan Realm, and they also adopt the structure of the Immortal Realm to deal with the endless threats in the wilderness.
"In the final analysis, it's all because the Immortal Dao is weak and not the master of this world."
From a few words, Lu Zhong could even vaguely see that heretics were the force that controlled this world. Then I thought about the various evil interceptions I encountered along the way when I was teleporting across borders.
He was even more certain of his suspicions.
If nothing unexpected happens, this is a world where Taoist alliances have collapsed, evil has gained the upper hand, and Immortal Taoism is at a disadvantage.
The wilderness is surrounded by dangers, so the monks have to stick together to survive.
Even the structure of the country has evolved.
It is to mobilize resources more efficiently and quickly to deal with threats from all evils.
Otherwise, Lu Zhong felt that given the characteristics of immortal cultivators, they would probably still cultivate immortals according to the laws of the jungle, with the goal of finally ascending to immortality, and continue to maintain the social structure with sects, families, and casual cultivators as divided units.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong gave up the idea of taking a flying boat flight to other worlds.
The Feng Yuan world is like this, and other worlds of cultivating immortals may not be much better.
Even if there is a world of cultivators who do not have to pay taxes, they will definitely use other means, such as conscription or compulsory military service, to mobilize and utilize the strength of the cultivators in the kingdom to face the growing threats in the wilderness.
As for why, upper-level monks such as Mahayana and Tribulation-Transcending monks do not change this situation.
Lu Zhong can probably guess the reason.
Maybe it’s not that I don’t want to, but that I’m unable to do it.
He has seen the power of evil many times, and knows that their power level has already exceeded the tribulation stage. Although it is unlikely to reach the true immortal level, their strength is definitely far beyond the tribulation stage.
Otherwise, it is unexplainable that the Taoist alliance that once spread all over the world would be destroyed overnight.
"Logically speaking, such a world should be guarded by immortal envoys."
This is another place that makes Lu Zhong feel strange.
Given the importance of the Linghuan Realm, it is almost equivalent to a cradle that continuously cultivates true immortals.
Based on his knowledge, and in conjunction with Guan Daozi's words on how to become a true immortal, it is absolutely impossible for a true immortal to be like the common people who walk around in the immortal world.
This further highlights the importance of the spirit world.
In fact, even if a true immortal comes to the world and cleanses away all evil, it is not strange at all.
But the current situation is.
The whereabouts of the immortal messenger who was supposed to exist are unknown.
The real immortal ignored this, as if he didn't notice anything.
"Forget it, it's useless to think too much."
It was too painful for Lu Zhong to think about it. The water here was too deep, and it was beyond the reach of his little transformation spirit. Instead of spending energy on these secret things, it is better to find a way to stabilize the injury first.
He wanted to go further, so there was still a need to preserve his physical body.
The original ones are better than the recondensed ones.
Unfortunately, Incarnation has been slow to progress in this regard.
According to the information I heard, due to the constant fighting on the border, any high-level healing elixirs would be allocated to the monk army. Very few of the elixirs he needed would be left in the relatively peaceful mainland.
Helpless, Lu Zhong had to send more incarnations.
This time, the target is not limited to healing elixirs, but also any means that can stabilize injuries. He didn't believe that such a huge Feng Yuan world didn't even have the means to transform into gods to heal injuries.
Finally, hard work pays off.
It took Lu Zhong more than thirty years and millions of spiritual stones to finally find out that there is a place called "Xiaotang Valley" 780,000 miles away from Linjiangfang City. There is a magical place there. The medical spring can heal the injuries of monks who transform themselves into spirits. It is said that it is also effective on monks in the Void Refining Stage.
(End of chapter)
