Chapter 248: Western Continent, I can eat as much as you have! Decided to announce the Immortal Cultivation World
There are four continents in the world of immortal cultivation on Arcturus. The southern continent is under the jurisdiction of the White Horse Academy, while the western continent is under the jurisdiction of the Dazhu Academy.
The two southwestern continents are adjacent to each other, but there is a vast ocean in the middle, and above this ocean, there are many mysterious worlds.
They may be on an island or hidden deep under the sea. In these secret worlds, there are academies of all sizes.
Although these academies are not as good as the four major academies in directly ruling a vast continent, any academy that rules a secret world may have strength and foundation comparable to any super sect.
Of course, where there are strong ones, there are also weak ones. It does not mean that any small academy will be stronger than a major sect in the Central Plains. This may not be the case for some academies with greater background and smaller scale.
However, Arcturus is, after all, a world of immortal cultivation under the Confucian rules, and all academies, regardless of size, represent Confucianism.
Therefore, even some super large sects would be polite when encountering these small Confucian academies.
The Western Continent, although it is not quite appropriate to call it a continent, the main reason is that it consists of two parts.
It is mainly divided into two parts: the southern region and the northern boundary.
The Southern Region is the most peculiar because it is dotted with large and small natural lakes, and the land is between the adjacent lakes.
The same is true. The entire southern region is like a honeycomb of different sizes. Each pit is a large lake. On each large lake are islands of various sizes.
Therefore, the Southern Region is also known as the "Archipelago" in the southern continent, and the most famous of them are the Seventy-two Islands in the Southern Region.
Of course, this does not mean that there are only these seventy-two islands in the entire Southern Region, but these seventy-two islands represent the seventy-two places for cultivating immortals on the Southern Continent.
In addition, many large lakes will have underground volcanoes erupting every thousands or tens of thousands of years. Every time a volcano erupts, the spiritual energy will be polluted.
The spiritual energy of an entire area will become poisonous spiritual energy within the next hundred, thousand or even tens of thousands of years.
As for the northern border, it is made up of one mountain range after another.
Looking down from a high altitude, the entire northern border looks like the ground is bulging as if something has come from underground.
Each bulge represents a mountain.
There is no way to know exactly how many mountains there are in the entire Northern Territory, because the territory is so vast, and there are frequent earth dragons in the Northern Territory, causing old mountains to collapse and new mountains to rise from the ground. Therefore, even the academy has never counted all of them.
It is also because of the special terrain of the entire Western Continent that the environment of the entire cultivation world is extremely harsh.
Similarly, every large-scale earthquake that causes an entire mountain range to collapse or a new ground vein to break will cause a large amount of ground vein poison gas to gush out, and the spiritual energy in the area will also be polluted.
It would take a hundred years at the shortest and thousands of years at the longest for these toxins to dissipate and recede. It can be seen that it is because of the environment of the South Region and the North Region that the cultivation environment of the entire Western Continent is so bad.
But even so, the Western Continent is still the most desired place for countless independent cultivators, evil cultivators, demon cultivators, or cultivators wanted by academies in other continents, who regard it as a pure land!
The main reason is that although this place is also under the jurisdiction of the Confucian academy, it does not have the rules and regulations of other continents.
The most direct difference is that, for example, under the jurisdiction of the White Horse Academy in the southern continent, there is a rule in the clan system that every new sect will be protected by the academy within three generations of its leader.
No sect can fight against each other, or fight with the intention of destroying the sect. They should stop fighting when they have reached a certain point.
After more than three generations, they can attack and oppress each other without restraint, and the academy will not care about it.
But in the Western Continent, there is no such rule in the clan system of Dazhu Academy, and each clan is responsible for its own affairs.
However, if two immortal cultivation sects or families want to attack each other, they need to submit an application to the academy in advance and can only start a war after obtaining permission from the academy.
If a sect invades, the invading party needs to pay a fine of 30% of the total wealth resources of the invaded sect to the academy.
Similarly, the invaded party can also pay a certain amount of security money to protect the incense and legal system of their own sect.
(Note: For details on the sect’s legal system, please see Chapter 37.)
Of course, you cannot ask the academy to protect you from being invaded, because the academy is not responsible for the life and death of other sects.
After all, cultivating immortals is against the will of heaven, and the path to immortality is difficult and bumpy. In the process of cultivating immortals, one may encounter unexpected events at any time. If one expects the protection of a strong person, then there is no point in cultivating immortality.
No strong person can protect a weak person all the way to becoming an immortal!
Not only that, in the southern and northern regions of the Western Continent, right and wrong, good and evil, have never been clearly distinguished.
For example, in the world of immortal cultivation in the southern continent, there are no so-called evil cultivators or demon cultivators who form sects or families. Many so-called demon cultivators and evil cultivators are labeled because they have committed crimes.
Secondly, there are some independent cultivators who inherited some skills that are against the will of nature from secret places, and their behavior is cruel and ruthless, so they are called demon cultivators or evil cultivators.
But in the Western Continent, there are indeed evil sects and demonic sects and families.
Perhaps because of this, it is rumored that the overall strength of the immortal cultivation world in the Western Continent is much stronger than that of the other three continents.
The Dazhu Academy is the strongest among the four academies, and it overwhelms the Baima, Qiuju and Ao Shuang academies.
It is closely related to the tough and barbaric environment in which immortals are cultivated.
Of course, this is one of the reasons why the Western Continent's world of immortal cultivation attracts countless independent cultivators and they flock to it.
In addition to the relatively free environment for cultivating immortals, the most attractive thing about the Western Continent is that it has many more resources for cultivating immortals than the other three continents!
In the Western Continent, countless immortal cultivation chambers of commerce, sects and families transported the rich immortal cultivation resources of the Western Continent out.
Things like refining materials and spiritual herbs and precious medicines were shipped from the Western Continent to all over the world of immortal cultivators in Arcturus, and even outside the region, opening up cross-domain and even cross-world trade.
For example, the immortal cultivation world of Dakang Star, which is also under the jurisdiction of the Confucian Academy, or even other star regions farther away.
In addition, compared to the Southern Continent, the Western Continent does not need large-scale wars to open up wasteland and expand its resource-rich land.
Take the Southern Islands for example. Every time an underground volcano erupts, it means the breaking of the earth veins and the emergence of a new land.
It only takes three to five hundred years, or even thousands of years for the poisonous spiritual energy to dissipate, and then countless monks, sects, and families will flock to the area.
Some relics of a secret world buried somewhere deep underground from ancient times or even earlier times will be revealed.
Throughout the entire Southern Region, there are too many places filled with poisonous spiritual energy, waiting to be unsealed. There are also many places that can be unsealed in a few years, a dozen years, dozens or even hundreds of years.
This is much more cost-effective than starting a war, where every time you start a war you lose one less land of resources.
There are still many wastelands in the southern continent that have not been developed. The reason why they are not developed is that after each visit, the academy needs some time to digest them, and will only open them when they are almost digested.
To put it bluntly, Baima Academy is intentionally controlling resources.
The spiritual stone veins were mined by some sects and families and transported to various places after the blockade of these areas with poisonous spiritual energy was lifted.
The spirit stone veins are formed after the spirit veins "die". Every time the land collapses in the South Region or the North Region and the veins collapse, a large number of spirit veins will be destroyed and thus "die".
(Note: See Chapter 157 for details.)
These spiritual veins are contaminated by poisonous spiritual energy and then drawn into an unknown depth underground, where they brew and settle, and will take shape after tens of thousands of years.
And those old spirit stone veins that had been there for who knows how long were brought to light again with this opportunity.
Therefore, the so-called purity of spirit stone came into being.
The purity depends on the year when the spirit stone vein was formed. The older the year, the higher the purity. For example, a spirit stone vein from ancient times is definitely of top quality, and if it is even older, it is of top quality.
"Senior, please wait a moment. I will go find our steward." In the reception room of Wangyue Tower, the young steward bowed to Jiajing, stepped back a few steps, and then turned and left. "The Western Continent, which has such rich resources, is indeed more suitable for the Ming Dynasty to develop its power in this world..." After listening to the young steward's introduction to the Western Continent, Jiajing thought in his heart.
He went directly from Daming to the Western Continent, and his first stop was Lingxu Island, one of the seventy-two islands in the Southern Region.
The place where he was at this time was Fengling Town, in the southwest of Lingxu Island, the easternmost corner of Qingmu Prefecture.
The scale of the entire Fengling Town is not very large in the world of immortal cultivation. Of course, if it were placed in the Ming Dynasty, the area it covers would be roughly as large as the entire Nanzhili area.
Jiajing had long been accustomed to the vastness of the world of immortal cultivation.
In fact, it has been half a year since he came to the Western Continent from the Ming Dynasty.
In the past six months, he was not in a hurry to find spirit stone mines, or to cooperate with certain forces in the Western Continent in the spirit stone business. Instead, he traveled around the Western Continent and the 72 islands in the Southern Region.
Of course, during the process, he did not forget to restore his appearance to that of a middle-aged man in his forties.
This was naturally to avoid being noticed by others or leaving traces while traveling in the Western Continent.
He knew very well that his future enemy would be the White Horse Academy, or even the entire world of immortal cultivation, so he had to be cautious in all his actions.
Before the Ming Dynasty has the strength to fight against the four major academies, he cannot show off and must be cautious in everything he does.
Along the way, his understanding of the Western Continent was exactly the same as what he had just discussed with the young deacon.
Finally, he chose this Lingxu Island, Qingmuzhou, a small place in the east, Fengling Town. The main reason is that this place is remote, but at the same time it is Qingmuzhou, a place for spiritual stones.
In Fengling Town, there are several low-grade spirit stone mines, which are controlled by the four major immortal cultivation families in the town.
Well, it would be better to say that it is a group of independent cultivators rather than a family of immortal cultivators.
In addition to the spirit stone business that they jointly run, the four major families also run weapon refining, alchemy, talisman formation and medicinal herb businesses respectively.
The partner that Jiajing chose was the Jin family, which was engaged in the equipment refining business. The reason was naturally because he was attracted by the Jin family's equipment refining technology.
In fact, after learning about the chaotic but resource-rich world of immortal cultivation in the Western Continent, Jiajing fell in love with this place.
In such a chaotic place, if the forces of the Ming Dynasty suddenly came in, it would naturally not attract the attention of the top forces.
After all, every year, countless cultivators pour into the Western Continent from all over the cultivation world of Arcturus.
Moreover, the large and small independent cultivation forces that are established every year are too lazy to even pay attention to the Dazhu Academy that rules the Western Continent.
"Even if I stationed a large army of immortal cultivators in this corner of the Western Continent, no one would notice..."
Jiajing sat on the chair, but he was constantly thinking in his mind how to control the entire Fengling Town.
In the southern continent, in the Great Wilderness, the Daming Immortal Sect cannot move forward no matter what for the time being. And in the Central Plains, in Yanzhou, the Tomorrow Building run by Lu Fang is also under development and cannot be moved.
On the contrary, this chaotic Western Continent is the freest place compared to the Ming Dynasty!
In fact, for Jiajing, everything managed in the Southern Continent is a springboard, a springboard for the Ming Dynasty to step into the world of immortal cultivation.
When the Ming Dynasty entered the Immortal Dynasty and needed to develop rapidly, this "stepping stone" temporarily lost its function due to environmental constraints.
The Ming Dynasty now has to find a "higher springboard", and this springboard has already been selected.
It’s this Fengling town!
Jiajing even planned to tell the people in the cabinet about the existence of the Immortal Cultivation World...
"Thump, thump, thump." Just as Jiajing's brain was working at high speed and he was constantly thinking about how to plan this place, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the side hall, and Jiajing also put away what he was thinking.
"Junior Jin Ao, the Patriarch of the Jin Family, pays respect to the senior!"
Hearing this, Jiajing also looked at the head of the Jin family in front of him.
The head of the Jin family, Jin Ao, looked to be about 40 years old, with a burly figure, a leopard head, round eyes, deep eyebrows, a square face, and a very honest appearance in his speech and behavior.
"Swish!" His spiritual sense stretched out and swept towards the person in front of him. In an instant, Jiajing saw through the other party's cultivation level.
In the late stage of foundation building, however, most of the opponent's acupoints and meridians are damaged and blocked, and he may not be able to break through in this lifetime.
However, in this remote town of Fengling, the cultivation level of the late foundation building stage is enough. Of course, what is interesting is that somewhere in this Jin family, there is a faint fluctuation of spiritual power similar to the Golden Core stage.
The reason why it is called "quasi-golden elixir" is mainly because of the fluctuation of spiritual power of the golden elixir period, which is a bit like the golden elixir period spiritual power that Dugu Xiong burst out at the last moment before his death.
Obviously, this Jindan cultivator hiding in the Jin family must have encountered some problems when he was breaking through.
However, for Jiajing, a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core, it poses no threat at all. If a fight really breaks out, it will not be difficult to destroy the opponent.
To exaggerate a bit, if it is a real life-and-death battle, even if the opponent is in the late Jindan stage, Jiajing can fight him fiercely.
After all, his native country is the Ming Dynasty. It is recorded in "The Emperor's Scripture, Volume Nine" that his native country is a dynasty. When he fights, he can use the power of an entire country to fight against others. Monks at the same level are definitely not his match.
Although Jin Ao was being wantonly scanned by the spiritual sense of this unknown Jindan stage practitioner, he did not show the slightest dissatisfaction on his face. Instead, he stood obediently in place with a smile on his face.
In the world of cultivating immortals, using spiritual sense to scan others without permission is extremely rude, and can even be considered an act of starting a war.
However, if the difference in their cultivation levels is too great, this situation will naturally not exist.
"I came from the Southern Continent," Jiajing withdrew his spiritual consciousness and went straight to the point, saying, "I came to the Western Continent this time to find a long-term and stable spiritual stone business for my family."
"Of course, there are also some magical instruments and objects... I wonder if Master Jin is willing to take on this business?"
Coming from the Southern Continent, Spirit Stone business?
It seems that the other party's family has a lot of power in the southern continent...
After hearing Jiajing's words, Jin Ao instantly had a rough guess in his mind.
Except for the Western Continent, the use of spirit stones is prohibited in the Southern Continent and other continents.
Once discovered, they will either be executed or imprisoned forever. The other party came from the Southern Continent, seeking long-term spirit stone business. It is obvious that they are quite powerful, and there may be a super giant behind them.
Or maybe some families in the academy.
"Of course," Jin Ao said directly, "I wonder how much you want, senior?"
Spiritual stones are free in the Western Continent. As long as you dare to ask for them, I will sell them to you!
"I'll take as much as you have!" As soon as Jin Ao finished speaking, Jiajing didn't hesitate and said directly.
Can’t one world take in a few spirit stone mines?
"..."
(End of this chapter)
