Chapter 518: Abyss Town: Man and (Un)Nature?
“What a strange person!”
“But these people look so cute.”
"Look, that old man actually has a baby face, it's incredible!"
"They all seem to have a whistle hanging around their necks. What's it for?"
"Who knows?"
"Wait, what's that accent they're speaking? Why can't I understand any of it?"
"Then it's not the common language of Douluo Continent, right? Otherwise, no matter how strange the accent is, we should be able to understand the general meaning."
"It's really strange that there are still places on the mainland that don't use the mainland's common language?"
"..."
The other members of the academy were also curious about the appearance of the residents in this town.
The Lord of Tianming City no longer kept everyone in suspense and told everyone the history of the town.
"This town is called Abyss Town. It has a long history, at least 20,000 years. The reason why the residents here look similar is actually because their ancestors have lived here for generations and have been affected by the ruins of the abyss."
"Will we be affected too?" someone worried.
Although this can barely be considered an alternative form of "eternal youth", it only affects the external skin, and the body may become shorter.
This is not worth it!
"Not at all." The city lord vouched for it himself. "We have also done experiments before. As long as they don't live here for more than three generations, there won't be any impact."
After hearing this, most people felt relieved.
But Zhou Qing couldn't help rolling his eyes.
No impact?
This is too absolute!
The impact of the environment on the human body is everywhere. The successive city lords of Tianming City have at most experimented out the approximate time required for the human body to be affected by this environment.
Assume that each generation can live for a hundred years, that is three hundred years.
However, Zhou Qing does not have to worry about being affected by the environment here. With the operation of the Innate Internal Meridian Diagram, and the internal world of the Bagua furnace established based on the eight extraordinary meridians and twelve regular meridians, he can keep his body in the best and most suitable state at all times.
Although Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina and others have not yet developed the prototype of the inner scene, fortunately they also understand the theory of Wu Ding Soul Furnace, and they have mastered the power of aura, straightened out their own aura, and can avoid being affected by the peculiar environment here.
Even while interacting with the strange aura of this place, Zhou Qing's soul power, qi and blood, and mental power were operating in a strange way, causing his throat and trachea to vibrate slightly, and as his breath was agitated, he couldn't help but want to sing out loud.
This made Zhou Qing realize that no matter how strange the ruins of the abyss were, they could essentially still be explained by the "aura theory".
The residents who have lived here for generations have been influenced by the unique aura here all year round, so that their bodies have begun to adapt instinctively and undergo corresponding changes.
but--
"It seems that the residents here have not awakened their martial souls?" Zhou Qing had a keen sense and realized that the residents in this town did not have martial souls, but they had soul power fluctuations, and even their qi and blood were quite vigorous.
"People living in this area cannot awaken their martial spirits." The city lord continued.
"But I can sense fluctuations in their soul power, and many of them seem to have physical fitness comparable to that of soul masters." In the Blazing Academy, some students have keener perceptions and can detect the fluctuations in the soul power of the residents. Those children who look five or six years old but are actually twelve or thirteen years old can jump between the roofs without relying on soul power, relying on their strong physical fitness. This really makes him curious.
"Maybe it's because of the special environment here, so they are physically strong and can cultivate soul power even without martial souls."
The city lord explained, "It's just that because they don't have martial souls, meditation is ineffective for them. They can only passively let their bodies retain the energy of heaven and earth during the process of physical training to improve their soul power."
But in the view of Zhou Qing and Tang San, the residents here just lack internal skills manuals like Xuan Tian Gong, rather than the kind of meditation method that only has a simple human meridian map.
The meditation method only teaches soul masters how to meditate on their martial souls. The meridian diagrams therein only help soul masters understand how their martial souls drive soul power to circulate in the body, so that they can actively control this process in the future.
Therefore, all the meditation methods on Douluo Continent, as long as no one realizes that breathing is the key to practicing internal strength, then even the advanced meditation methods will have no practical effect on the soul power cultivation for the residents living here.
"This place is so strange that one can cultivate soul power without a martial soul, which breaks the existing cultivation theory on the continent. So-"
A student from Thunder Academy asked, "The law that requires a spirit ring to break through the bottleneck, does it not exist here?"
"It really doesn't exist." The city lord confirmed his guess.
In an instant, most of the team members became excited.
In this way, couldn't they first cultivate to a high level here? For example, after their martial souls awaken, they would first come here to cultivate their soul power to level 30, and then go to the outside world to hunt for soul rings. Wouldn't it be possible to produce one soul ring in a thousand years?
Involuntarily, many team members turned their attention to the Notting team. Some even felt that the so-called "Soul Ring Secondary Refining Theory" was just a cover-up. The real reason why Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were able to make a thousand-year soul ring was that they were the first to discover the wonders of this place!
But the mayor of Tianming City poured cold water on these people and said, "Well, the royal family and major families of Xingluo Empire have also thought about this. But if it were so easy, this place would have become a strategic location long ago."
"It takes three generations for ordinary people to be affected by this place. However, if an awakened martial soul cultivates in this area for more than half a year, their appearance will change significantly, and even if they leave afterwards, they will not be able to recover. Even after leaving, their martial soul will no longer be able to absorb spirit rings, and their cultivation speed will become extremely slow. They can only return here to continue to improve their spirit power."
Unable to obtain spirit ring?
Suddenly, most soul masters lost interest in practicing here.
The soul skills of a soul master come from soul rings. If one cannot obtain soul rings, it is equivalent to not being able to obtain soul skills, and one’s strength will be greatly reduced.
Create your own soul skills?
Let’s put it this way, all the existing self-created soul skills on the continent were explored and summarized by soul master families and sect disciples over generations, and it is simply not something that can be completed by one generation.
The self-created soul skills of Zhou Qing, Tang San and others are also due to the basic theoretical knowledge analyzed, summarized and concluded by the great sages and researchers in their previous lives.
"Also, have you heard of the mutant?"
The city lord continued, "A type of intelligent creature that has evolved from a human being. It is similar to a human, a soul beast, or a soul-guiding device. It has different abilities and is good at fighting. Even a Titled Douluo cannot compete with it.
Fortunately, the mutants prefer to stay in the abyss ruins, and as long as humans do not provoke them, they will not actively harm humans.
Generally speaking, only people who enter the abyss ruins, pass through special areas, or encounter some strange things will transform into mutants, but people who are affected by this place and stay in the outside world for a long time will also have a chance to become mutants. The knights outside the mountain are insurance to prevent the residents here from leaving.
Although the residents who grew up here seem to have a natural instinct to venture into the Abyss Ruins and will not go out, we still have to establish protective measures just in case..."
(End of this chapter)
