Chapter 594: Chapter 400: Crossing the Spiritless Land, the Oppressive and Desperate Land of the Far North!
[In the year 5483 of the New Source Era, you began to digest the Divine Crystal Essence through the Qi of the Five Elements.]
[This crystal, which contains a vast amount of Void Abyss Beast Essence, is even more powerful than you imagined. It can almost replace all the Cultivation Pills you need at the Nascent Soul Stage.]
[You continuously cultivate with the help of the crystal.]
[In the year 5485 of the New Source Era, you left the Void Blessed Land, and you could feel that there were significantly fewer people in the Flying Star Cultivation Realm.]
[The Void Blessed Land is vast, abundant with resources, and holds both the danger and opportunity of Void Abyss—an opportunity that the Flying Star Cultivation Realm needs a long time to digest.]
[At the same time, this also means that the entire Flying Star Cultivation Realm has a retreat. When an irresistible enemy arrives, the core strength of the Flying Star Cultivation Realm can dive into the Blessed Land, and after destroying the Transmission Channel, even a Divinity Transformation level enemy would find it extremely challenging to locate this Blessed Land amidst countless Secret Realms.]
[In the year 5486 of the New Source Era, Yunmiao heard that Flying Star Cultivation Realm had acquired many new Sword Dao scriptures and returned to the Flying Star Cultivation Realm.]
[In the year 5488 of the New Source Era, Yunmiao exited her seclusion and told you she seemed to have a new insight.]
[A call is beckoning her, and she needs to leave this place.]
[You did not try to stop her, and a month later, Yunmiao left the western part of the Wanlang Mountains without any reluctance, and even you did not know where she was heading or if she had left the Wanlang Mountains.]
[In the year 5489 of the New Source Era, a faint call echoed in your soul as well.]
[It is a call that resonates within the hearts of all Five Spirit Root Cultivators, but cultivators with insufficient cultivation levels can’t detect this entity.]
[The inheritance of the Five Elements True Immortal is about to commence.]
[You left the Flying Star Cultivation Realm for the first time in a long while.]
[You left several Tier Seven and Tier Eight Arrays in the Flying Star Cultivation Realm. Now, in the Seven Stars Cultivation Realm, only Zhu Xing remains as a Nascent Soul Ancestor.]
[You meticulously explained the crucial points of the Teleportation Array setup to Zhu Xing so that once Venerable Peach Blossom breaks through to Divinity Transformation, they can enter the Void Blessed Land immediately.]
[Officially, the Flying Star Cultivation Realm still maintains three Mid-Stage Nascent Soul Ancestors.]
[However, both you and Yunmiao have left the Flying Star Cultivation Realm, and outsiders only know that the two of you are in seclusion.]
[You head north.]
[In the year 5490 of the New Source Era, you entered the long stretch of the Spiritless Zone.]
The Spiritless Zone is hardly a pleasant place for any Extraordinary Creature.
There is not a trace of Spiritual Qi here.
Even Golden Core Nascent Soul Cultivators who can lock their True Essence can only watch their power fade away bit by bit in this place.
Even Body Cultivators who specialize in the physical body will find their Qi-Blood gradually waning without adequate supplies.
Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Cultivators fare even worse as they can only watch their True Essence dissipate little by little.
In contrast, Martial Artists relying on absorbing Acquired Essence from grains and meats do slightly better.
Since they have never come into contact with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, they aren’t concerned with its density; all their strength originates from themselves.
However, this is ultimately due to their low level.
But these situations only apply to unprepared cultivators.
In fact, as long as there are Spirit Stones, it’s enough to handle the Spiritless Zone.
Yet Spirit Stones deplete rapidly in the Spiritless Zone, even if stored in a storage bag, and Spirit Stones represent a cultivator’s wealth. Thus, without a clear purpose, no cultivator would enter the Spiritless Zone only to watch their wealth vanish bit by bit.
Zhong Heng was different; he had set up a Tier Six Spirit Lock Array around him, perfectly securing the Spiritual Qi within three inches of his body, satisfying his daily needs.
Zhong Heng traversed mountains and valleys, wearing the stars and the moon.
He walked with the earth’s pulse, moving just a bit slower than flying, but conserving True Essence even more.
Furthermore, Zhong Heng sensed many things he couldn’t experience before.
According to the map, the southern and central parts of the Wanlang Mountains are continuous Spiritless Zones.
Only the eastern and western parts have ample, continuous Spiritual Qi areas.
The northern region also has Spiritual Qi areas, but they are somewhat small.
The Spiritless Zone is by no means desolate.
On the contrary, Zhong Heng witnessed several brilliant mortal civilizations within it.
In these mortal areas, there isn’t a trace of anything extraordinary.
Let alone Qi Refining Cultivators, even Innate Martial Artists don’t exist here.
Since Innate Martial Artists need to build the Heaven and Earth Bridge, absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, converting Acquired to Innate.
So, at most, there are only some Martial Artists rich in Qi-Blood in these mortal areas.
The limit of Acquired Martial Artists isn’t high.
This place aligns more with Zhong Heng’s worldview from his past life.
Yet the mortals here, for all their lives, would never imagine that there is a group of cultivators whose goal is immortality and wandering in freedom, residing in places they could never reach in dozens of lifetimes.
Zhong Heng was in no hurry to pass through the Spiritless Zone; he estimated spending an extra year or two on the journey would be entirely feasible.
He began to play among the mundane world.
Sometimes incarnating as a Divination Master, guiding bright prospects, personally witnessing changes in different lives.
Or transforming into a Daoist, engaging in discussions with mortals along the way, experiencing the world from a mortal perspective and ultimately leaving behind a Taoist legacy, ascending in the eyes of countless believers.
Or visiting the presence of an aging Monarch, imparting a bit of True Essence to extend his life for another sixty years.
Or transforming into a mighty eagle, surveying the land from above.
