Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1831: Chapter 498: No Loot Boxes, Play It Safe

The Ancient Sea God can find this clear point.

He will obtain a large amount of firsthand information during this process, theoretically much more detailed than any records.

However, Yu Ziqing probably also noticed that the ingrained mindset of the Ancient Sea God is incompatible with that of humans.

He indeed knows enough, possibly more than any individual entity.

But the difference in core thinking makes it impossible for him to understand many things, to empathize with many things.

This is why when the Ancient Sea God attempts to alter many events, he only ends up changing some of the processes while failing to alter the outcome of any event.

What Yu Ziqing cares about now is the way the other party gathers intelligence.

The Ancient Sea God doesn’t need to seek out underlings like the Cliff Divine King to provide him with information.

He only needs to focus on the key nodes, and the less critical parts, even if they don’t ripple through the river of time, don’t really matter.

Yu Ziqing blinds himself to guard against this.

He is certain that whether his eyes recover or not will one day be a minor splash in the river of time.

As long as he doesn’t remove the black cloth, then when he recovers, the Ancient Sea God will never know.

Bidding farewell to Juice, Yu Ziqing wobbled back to the village.

After a century, the place has changed quite a bit. At least there are obviously a lot more buildings, and they are quite grandly constructed.

Yu Ziqing walked slowly, and could "see" not far away a damaged building where two ten-year-old kids were swiftly carrying materials, doing repair work.

There was also a hungry ghost, standing about ten feet tall, as brawny as they come, fitting the aesthetic of Jinlan Mountain, roaring commands while supervising the work.

"You’d better hurry up. The village chief will need this place in three days.

When the time comes, if the village chief finds out, you’ll all get beaten, along with us.

After we’re done being beaten, when you recover, be prepared to get beaten again.

According to the rules of the mountain, whoever damaged it has to repair it to its original state.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you."

Yu Ziqing smiled; Jinlan Mountain is as vibrant as ever.

The village chief still likes personally tutoring the younger generation. Even after more than a hundred years, he hasn’t grown tired, which is rare.

It’s good; maintaining a youthful mindset is important.

Yu Ziqing, Stepping on Snow Without Trace, made no sound landing, gradually approaching, and when he got closer, the hungry ghost saw Yu Ziqing and immediately showed a look of surprise.

The hungry ghost immediately abandoned the two youths, raced over to Yu Ziqing, and flopped flat on the ground with a thud.

"Congratulations, Sir, on leaving seclusion!"

"Stand up, there’s no need for formalities."

After a century, among the hungry ghosts of Jinlan Mountain, some have gradually become stronger too.

The hungry ghost in front of him is already Fifth Tier, with a brawny and muscular frame, looking nothing like a hungry ghost.

It seems that as time passes, even without a career change, there will still be changes in hungry ghosts as they grow stronger.

The strongman hungry ghost led the way, introducing Yu Ziqing to the new things that have appeared over the century.

Yu Ziqing’s identity was revealed back then; after resisting the Heavenly Tribulation and becoming blind, he supposedly went into seclusion.

Emperor Dui is from Jinlan Mountain. Once this news spread, many people began to speculate on why Jinlan Mountain has risen so quickly, how it happened, each with their own theories.

Quite naturally, Jinlan Mountain turned from a coveted treasure in the eyes of a few to a coveted treasure in the eyes of the public.

Dazhen routinely sends people to study, sending people to Dadui’s academy has long become a standard practice.

Over on Dali’s side, people also try every means possible to send people to Jinlan Mountain for further studies.

Even later, people from Daqian began discreetly finding ways to send their younger generations to Jinlan Mountain.

When it comes to influence, the most immediate is the rise in status of Body Cultivation.

There’s no need to mention Dazhen; Dali explicitly stipulated quite a while ago, in essence, that Body Cultivators should not be regarded as expendable livestock.

Daqian has always been the place where Body Cultivation had the lowest status, but this has improved somewhat over the years.

Of course, it’s not because of anything the court of Daqian did, but because Body Cultivators from Jinlan Mountain, with good aptitude, willing to work hard, and abundant resources, have already reached the Great Cultivator stage.

Knocking down several Qi Refining cultivators, not just one or two, and making a name for themselves, has naturally started to change preconceived notions.

Everyone assumes Body Cultivation is at a disadvantage simply because most of the world is filled with cultivators below the Fourth Tier.

At the first three tiers, Body Cultivators are indeed relatively disadvantaged, as Qi Refining cultivators have many ways to enhance their combat power, with talismans and Magical Treasures alike.

But at this stage, Body Cultivators still can’t even perform the iconic flight of a cultivator.

So naturally, they seem lacking.

True strongmen know that at Ninth Tier, one-on-one, at the same Realm, there’s a high probability they’re not a match for a Body Cultivator.

Unfortunately, no one goes around shouting about this, and even if they do, the masses of low-tier cultivators only see what they can see, which is low-tier Body Cultivators being underwhelming.

Furthermore, most cultivators don’t expect to reach Ninth Tier, and many don’t even expect Seventh Tier.

What they rely on is their present life; whichever is more advantageous, that’s the one they choose.

The overall improvement is there, but not particularly significant.

Once, from the locust forest to the middle of Jinlan Mountain, it was pretty much empty, but now, many areas have vast building complexes.