Chapter 187 Bait, I will be everywhere!
Looking at the flowing lights in the sky and the flying shuttle that was the same one that the master had used to take them flying, Lu Fang opened his mouth in shock.
"Master, are these people all immortals?" After a brief shock, Lu Fang suddenly asked.
"This place is called Arcturus, a world for cultivating immortals..." Jiajing used his spiritual sense to transmit a message to Lu Fang and briefly explained it.
Of course, Jiajing did not say much about the affairs of the Ming Immortal Sect.
Firstly, there was no need to say this, as he would not arrange for Lv Fang to be responsible for too many matters concerning the world of immortal cultivation in the short term. Secondly, knowing this, other than telling Lv Fang that he was an elder of an immortal cultivation sect in the world of immortal cultivation, had no substantive significance.
Not the fairyland!
But it is the world of cultivating immortals!
The master did not enter the fairyland, nor did he make contact with the immortals and receive rewards from the immortals to obtain the method of cultivating immortals. There is no one above the master. The master has entered the world of cultivating immortals!
Wrong, including him, everyone guessed wrong!
Lu Fang couldn't help but think of the various speculations that everyone had made about the source of his master's magic.
What's more, some people believe that the reason why the master vigorously develops the Immortal Dynasty and collects spiritual resources is to benefit the immortals, and even think that this is some kind of agreement reached between the immortals and the master.
It seems that their previous guess was extremely wrong, and the master had never reached an agreement with anyone at all!
"Master, where are we now..." Lu Fang looked at Jiajing, not understanding his master's real intention of suddenly sending a mountain from the Ming Dynasty into the world of immortal cultivation and bringing him here.
Lu Fang was not naive enough to think that his master suddenly brought him into the world of immortal cultivation in order to share secrets with him.
"An attempt..." Jiajing briefly told Lu Fang the purpose of sending this mountain into the world of immortal cultivation.
After listening to Jiajing's story, Lu Fang finally understood.
At the same time, it is also understood that the so-called spiritual beasts of the Ming Dynasty are not spiritual beasts in the true sense, but "pseudo spiritual beasts."
Not only that, in the world of immortal cultivation, beasts are divided into spiritual beasts, ferocious beasts, and more precious rare beasts.
In the world of cultivating immortals, no matter whether it is a spiritual beast, a fierce beast or an ancient beast, they all have a unified name - ancient beast!
As the name suggests, a fierce beast is a very evil creature.
The biggest characteristic is that they are powerful, but their intelligence is relatively low, or they have no intelligence at all, and they only know how to devour resources, become strong, and survive.
It is a bit similar to the "pseudo-spiritual beasts" in the Ming Dynasty today that have mutated due to spiritual energy. However, the ferocious beasts can cultivate themselves and have various innate magical powers, but this is not the case with the Ming Dynasty.
Spirit beasts are a race with unique advantages. Even in the world of immortal cultivation, spirit beasts have their own families and inheritance. To some extent, spirit beasts are not even worse than humans.
Some powerful spirit beast families are even comparable to the sects in the world of immortal cultivation. The most important thing is that the human race does not seem to be truly dominant in the world of immortal cultivation. There are many beasts that are stronger than humans.
These spiritual beasts can even transform!
Finally, there are rare beasts, which are creatures that combine the cultivation speed and attack power of fierce beasts with the wisdom and bloodline inheritance of spiritual beasts. They are extremely rare. (Note: See Chapter 145.)
It was only after hearing this that Lu Fang finally understood the gap between the so-called spiritual beasts of the Ming Dynasty and those in the world of immortal cultivation.
"Master," after a moment, Lu Fang suddenly hesitated and said, "I do have some different opinions..."
"Speak." Jiajing withdrew his gaze from the bustling mountains in the distance and looked at Lu Fang.
The reason why Lu Fang was allowed to get in touch with the world of immortal cultivation was that he was decided to sit at the gateway between the Ming Dynasty and the world of immortal cultivation, acting as a gatekeeper. This was because he was seen to be able to handle things properly and had the ability and courage to make decisions when faced with problems. Jiajing would naturally listen to him.
Sending this piece of mountain from the Ming world to the world of immortal cultivation, in addition to breeding spiritual beasts, he naturally has other ideas, but they require constant pondering and speculation, so it is naturally better that Lu Fang has an idea.
"The master sent this piece of mountain here, just to capture some spiritual beasts, or to let the pseudo-spiritual beasts in the mountain combine with the ancient beasts in this world, and then give birth to offspring, so as to fill the gap in spiritual beasts for my Ming Dynasty. However, in my opinion, this piece of mountain actually has great potential..."
Lu Fang paused for a moment, glanced at Jiajing, and then continued, "Master, look at those immortal cultivators."
"If these people see a living treasure mountain, or if they see some treasure in this treasure mountain, it will definitely cause some fighting, and then we can reap the benefits..."
Lu Fang stopped talking here, he believed that his master could understand his intention.
After knowing that there was no immortal behind his master but a world of immortal cultivation, all the premises of Lu Fang's thinking were based on how to make the Ming Dynasty gain more benefits.
In addition to various spiritual resources, what the Ming Dynasty lacks most are the cultivation techniques, elixirs, and magic weapons of immortal practitioners.
If this mountain could be used to trigger fights among immortal cultivators, or if this place could be regarded as a battlefield that would attract countless people.
Then everything on the battlefield will belong to the Ming Dynasty!
"The mountain itself is part of the Ming Dynasty. If I can really turn it into a living thing and attract countless cultivators, even if someone with great magical powers takes it away, I can call it back at any time. After previous tests, I have the magical power that is unique to me to travel between the two worlds. Even if something unexpected happens during this period, it will only be the loss of a piece of wasteland that is useless to the Ming Dynasty..."
"On the contrary, if we can attract more immortal cultivators to come here and stir up fights, this can also be a way to gain benefits." When Jiajing thought of this, the light in his eyes became brighter.
It has to be said that Jiajing was moved by Lu Fang's proposal.
Although he is now an elder of the Daming Immortal Sect, the foundation of the Daming Immortal Sect is too shallow. It is not enough to support the development speed of Daming. Daming is too poor, so poor that it can have anything!
Even if they are just a few possessions of some independent cultivators, if they accumulate into a large amount, they can still be arranged for the Ming Dynasty.
Furthermore, even if the Daming Immortal Sect develops in the future and obtains more powerful inherited skills, it cannot bestow such skills on the lower-class people and subjects, right?
And that’s not all!
Even if a cultivator takes away a blade of grass, or a grain of sand, or a handful of soil from the "mountain" in front of him, it is equivalent to taking away a part of his own life object.
In this way, one can find the whereabouts of one's natal object through one's natal object at any time, which means that one can enter any place in the world of cultivation from Daming at any time!
It is equivalent to drawing a map in the world of immortal cultivation. As long as the natal object is there, you can reach it.
"...hiss." Thinking of this, even Jiajing couldn't help but take a deep breath in his heart, "I will be everywhere in the world of cultivation!"
"Huh," Jiajing exhaled softly after a short while, looked at Lu Fang, and said, "Not bad, you deserve a reward!"
"Thank you, my master!" After hearing that her opinion was adopted by her master, Lu Fang immediately showed a smile on her face.
"Let's go and see how the immortal cultivators fight." Jiajing, in a good mood, spoke to Lu Fang while heading towards the bustling mountain not far away.
Seeing this, Lu Fang naturally hurried to follow.
This was his chance to get in touch with the real world of cultivation. His master wanted to take him to see it, so naturally he would not dare to be negligent in the slightest.
At this time, many monks had already entered the mountain.
However, at this moment, whether standing on the edge of the mountain and seeing the layer of soil that was obviously suddenly superimposed, or going deep into the mountain and feeling the obvious lack of spiritual energy within a radius of two miles, everyone was confused at this moment.
"Mr. Guo, what did you see?"
At the edge of the mountain, under a soil layer as high as a person, several monks stopped and stared. The one who spoke was a middle-aged man in a red robe, who was in the middle stage of Qi training, about the fifth or sixth level of Qi training.
"Strange!" The white-robed old man who was being questioned pinched his beard and looked at the red-robed monk, saying, "From what I've seen of the terrain, it doesn't look like an earth dragon turning over or the soil surging. It looks more like..." As he spoke, the old man shook his head and said to himself, "It doesn't make sense..."
"What does it look like?" A casual cultivator who was watching the scene asked impatiently when he heard the old man speak halfway.
"Don't disturb Mr. Guo," the middle-aged man in red heard someone urging him, and immediately turned his head and scolded, "Mr. Guo is a sixth-level Qi training master, a master of formations and prohibitions, and only he can see the strangeness here!"
Master of formations and prohibitions? !
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the surrounding casual cultivators suddenly became serious, and their originally watching expressions suddenly became serious and respectful.
Although formation masters are not as popular as the masters of forging flying shuttles in the world of cultivating immortals, nor as respected as alchemists, they are also people with considerable talent.
Formations and restrictions are often inseparable. Apart from sects and families that need to use formations and restrictions, the most popular group is the independent cultivators. After all, the path of independent cultivators is difficult.
He often hangs out in various ruins and forbidden areas. If there is a formation master or a prohibition master in his own group of cultivators, he can survive when he encounters some desperate situations!
Therefore, after hearing that this old man called Mr. Guo was a master of formations and prohibitions, all the casual cultivators showed respect to him.
"Haha, everyone, you don't have to be like this. I'm just an ordinary person." The old man called Mr. Guo felt the respect in everyone's eyes and immediately said, "In my opinion, this place is not simple!"
At this time, Jiajing and Lu Fang also rushed over from a distance.
Hearing this, Lu Fang subconsciously looked at Jiajing. The meaning in his eyes was very clear. Could it be that this man saw something?
However, Jiajing did not respond, but looked at the group of wandering cultivators and the middle-aged man in red standing next to the old man.
"Just wait and see..." Jiajing's face relaxed slightly.
When Lu Fang first came to the world of immortal cultivation, he was wary and awed by everything, especially among this group of immortal cultivators, many of whom had much higher cultivation levels than him, which made him subconsciously pay attention to them.
So it was almost instinctive to think that these immortal cultivators had seen the origin of the mountain.
However, when he saw the ambiguous look on his master's face, he suddenly seemed to understand something in his heart, and then he looked at the old man and the group of cultivators with a bit of scrutiny in his eyes.
"Mr. Guo, have you discovered anything?" a casual cultivator in the crowd asked.
Others also responded.
The red-clothed man who had spoken first had a glimpse of triumph in his eyes. He glanced at the old man without leaving any trace, then took a step forward and said, "Everyone, there must be some kind of treasure or secret ruins that have not yet been discovered."
"But it was Mr. Guo who discovered something strange. Isn't it a bit unruly for us to ask so directly?" Hearing what the man in red said, everyone present had different expressions.
Although they didn't like what the man in red said, it was the truth.
In fact, the circle of independent cultivators also has its own rules of survival. For example, if someone discovers some secret ruins, others want to share it. They can either form a temporary alliance with this independent cultivator, and then explore the secret realm together. The treasures obtained afterwards can be distributed according to work, and the person who contributes the most will naturally get the most.
Otherwise, just go your separate ways and explore on your own, and don't rashly inquire about the information obtained by others.
Of course, there is another special situation. That is, if you are really powerful and act secretly without being discovered, you can just follow this person and then interrogate or kill him in secret.
The world of immortal cultivation is huge, with all kinds of relics and secret places emerging one after another. The academy will not sit idle and care about the struggles for interests among these independent cultivators. As long as it does not affect the normal sects, families, or immortal cultivation cities, their life or death has nothing to do with the academy.
The cultivators present were all veterans who had experienced a lot of hardships and naturally knew the rules. So when they heard the words of the man in red, although they were dissatisfied, they also acquiesced.
Moreover, although Mr. Guo looked kind, how could such an old man not know the rules? Therefore, everyone also beat around the bush, and immediately a casual cultivator spoke up, "Then what do you say we should do?"
"Simple, just follow the rules!" The man in red said straightforwardly, "Why don't we form a temporary alliance, with Mr. Guo as the temporary leader, and then we can all explore this place together. If we find treasures, we can share them according to our contributions!"
"Now, those who agree with my proposal and are willing to explore this place with me and Mr. Guo, please come closer."
"Those who don't want to can leave now!"
As soon as he finished speaking, three cultivators who had reached the middle stage of Qi training stepped forward and stood in front of the man in red and the old man.
Someone takes the lead, and soon others start to line up.
After a short while, there were only six or seven of the original group of more than twenty independent cultivators left standing there.
"My fellow Taoists, since you have made your choice, please come in." The man in red looked at the dozen or so people around him, bowed to the remaining six or seven people, and made a gesture of invitation.
Obviously, this is the independent cultivators "drawing a line" among themselves.
What this means is that from now on, this is our exploration territory, and you need to enter from other places.
"Goodbye!" The remaining six or seven cultivators bowed and left quickly, heading to other places.
Jiajing and Lu Fang stood not far away, watching the scene quietly.
"So it was to recruit people..." Lu Fang said suddenly.
"Let's go." Jiajing didn't stay for long and turned to leave. This was the living world of independent cultivators. Although Liu Quan had mentioned the time when he was an independent cultivator with the three Dugu brothers when they were drinking together before, this was the first time he actually experienced the fight among independent cultivators.
"There are many independent cultivators like this in the world of immortal cultivation..." Jiajing and Lu Fang walked on the outskirts of the Endless Mountains and re-entered the mountain from another place.
"Master, I think that this group of independent cultivators must not pass through the mountain and enter the Ming Dynasty..." At this time, Lu Fang suddenly spoke.
"Tell me what you think." Jiajing said calmly.
"People's minds change. I am worried that the existence of the immortal world will be known to others in the court, which will affect the stability of the Ming Dynasty," said Lu Fang, after a slight pause, and then continued:
"Although whether or not one can enter the world of immortal cultivation is up to the master alone, I think it is better to let them have awe in their hearts."
Lu Fang was a household slave of the royal family, rising and falling with the royal family. Now, thanks to the great favor of Jiajing, who brought him into the world of cultivating immortals, naturally, everything he thought about was for the royal family.
"Heh," Jiajing chuckled after hearing what Lu Fang said, and then patted Lu Fang on the shoulder, "Good servant..."
"It turns out that the master has already made the decision. I was just being too smart..."
Being patted on the shoulder and praised so intimately by his master, Lu Fang immediately broke out into a smile.
At this moment he also realized that his master had actually already made a decision on what he had just proposed.
But come to think of it, who is our master?
In the court, smart people like Xu Jie and Yan Song were easily manipulated by him, and he was adept at manipulating people's hearts and minds. In the art of wielding power, how many emperors in ancient times could match him?
How could the master not have thought that exposing the world of immortal cultivation to other people in the court in advance would cause people to change their minds?
As time went by, the monks who entered the mountain and wanted to search for the secret realm were all confused.
Many Foundation Establishment cultivators who possessed spiritual awareness used it to cover the entire mountain area, and only then did they discover that the loud noise before was most likely not the remnants of an earth dragon turning over.
It was because a mountain covering an area of more than 20 acres suddenly appeared on the original ground, and the vibration came from this!
But then everyone became confused again.
A mountain covering an area of more than 20 acres falls directly into the depths of the Endless Mountains. Who is responsible for this?
It is absolutely impossible for a cultivator at least in the Foundation Establishment stage to lift up such a huge mountain by himself. Even a cultivator at the Golden Core stage would have difficulty doing so. It would take a cultivator at least in the middle to late Golden Core stage to do so!
Could it be done by some ancient beast deep in the Endless Mountains?
In addition, everyone also found some animal corpses on the edge of the mountain that seemed to have been cut in half by something, and some wild beasts that had spiritual energy but did not have the natural magical powers that a spiritual beast should have.
The mountains in the world of cultivating immortals, even if they come from the depths of the endless mountain range, the spiritual energy contained in the spiritual beasts and plants inside the mountains will not be so thin, just like the spiritual energy absorbed by ordinary beasts and plants.
In short, this mountain is ordinary, but it also reveals strangeness everywhere. To say it is extraordinary, many foundation-building monks have directly used their spiritual sense to penetrate the entire mountain and check it, but there is nothing strange about it.
For a moment, all the monks were disappointed.
Not only did they fail to find the entrance to any secret ruins, precious medicine that had been rare for thousands of years, or peerless magical weapon in the mountain, but because of the previous commotion here, many powerful ancient beasts appeared from the depths of the Endless Mountains and attacked everyone.
"Boom!" A cultivator was blasted away by a gray wolf that had reached the late stage of foundation building and was spitting fireballs from its mouth. Then he was swallowed by the fireball in mid-air and turned into a pile of flying ash.
Upon seeing this, the other wandering cultivators immediately scattered.
Not long after everyone dispersed, there was a sudden fluctuation in space, and then the ninth-grade storage bag on the ground that had not been burned disappeared.
In an open space not far away.
Jiajing clearly monitored the entire mountain through his natal chart.
Whenever a cultivator dies or an ancient beast in the Endless Mountains is killed, the corpse, storage bag, and magic weapon that fall will be absorbed by the mountain and finally appear in Jiajing's hands.
"Master, it works!" Looking at the mountain cat on the ground whose cultivation had reached the first level of Qi training, and several storage bags of different colors, Lu Fang suddenly became excited.
As he spoke, he directly opened all the storage bags.
Then he fell to the ground with a loud "crash", and bottles, jars, clothes, and books were scattered all over the floor.
"Master, it's a method for cultivating immortals!" Lu Fang picked up four yellowed books and looked at Jiajing excitedly.
Jiajing took a quick glance and saw four books of exercises, one of which was a body-building exercise, "Ghost Shadow Steps"; one was a body-building exercise, "Five Elements Body-building Art"; and one was a wind-attributed exercise, "Qingfeng Jue".
Well, what made Jiajing laugh was that on the back of the book "Qing Feng Jue", it was written: "Sale price: Five hundred taels of spiritual source". It was obvious that this was the skill that was bought by some casual cultivator.
Five hundred taels of spiritual energy is actually a considerable fortune for a casual cultivator.
It’s a pity that this casual cultivator didn’t even leave his name behind. Just because he suspected that there were ruins or secret places emerging, he went into the mountain to explore. He was attacked by an ancient beast and then died.
"There is also a Peiyuan Pill!" Jiajing was not interested in the relics of these wandering cultivators. Instead, Lu Fang was rummaging through the bottles and jars on the ground with great interest.
Unfortunately, the most valuable relics of these wandering cultivators were a Peiyuan Pill sealed in a small jade bottle that they were reluctant to eat, and a few books on immortal cultivation techniques that were not considered very good.
Jiajing only needed to glance at these skills with his spiritual sense and was able to roughly distinguish some things.
Not to mention the 'Emperor's Scripture' that he practiced.
Just the cultivation techniques collected by Dugu Ying and others in the inheritance pavilion of the Daming Immortal Sect are incomparable to these.
However, for Jiajing, these are not the key points. The key point is that Lu Fang’s previous proposal is really feasible!
What he needs to do now is to find a way to let these wandering cultivators take some things from the mountain before leaving.
Even if it's just a grain of sand, a blade of grass, or even splitting a mountain, as long as they can bring him to various places in the world of immortal cultivation, the gains from this trip will be huge for him!
As for the mountains, if they are gone, they are gone. He can always send more land from the Ming Dynasty.
"Wait, that is..." Just as Jiajing was secretly using his natal object to observe the changes in all living things in the mountain, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.
"Li Changqing!" Jiajing didn't expect that such a small fight would alarm him.
Jiajing didn't know how high Li Changqing's cultivation level was.
However, the black cat that rescued the people of Daming Xianzong that day was actually at the Nascent Soul stage. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that his cultivation level is probably at least the Golden Core stage.
"I didn't expect to catch such a big fish..." Looking at the gentle young man holding a black cat, walking in the mountains, and looking at the mountain curiously, Jiajing had an idea in his heart.
"..."
(End of this chapter)
