txolops Chapter 33 The Western Wilderness
Chapter 33 The Western Wilderness
According to the records of Changqing Jushi in "Changqing Fengwu Zhi".
The Western Wilderness is a vast region whose general outline resembles a horizontally placed shuttle.
The westernmost part of the shuttle extends deep into the Cloud Mist Mountains, and its tip is precisely where Li Ping's Fenglan Immortal City is located.
In his book, Changqing Jushi recorded that when he arrived at the Immortal City, he wanted to go deep into the Cloud and Mist Mountains to try to find out what was going on at the end of the Cloud and Mist Mountains.
After venturing tens of thousands of miles into the Cloud and Mist Mountains, they sensed the oppressive aura of more than one demon king, whose power was comparable to that of a Core Formation cultivator.
He found that his curiosity wasn't as strong as he had imagined, so he decided to turn back.
Later, by consulting the records left by the sage cultivators of the past, Changqing Jushi learned that there had been Core Formation cultivators who had explored the Cloud Mist Mountain Range long ago.
The Core Formation cultivator ventured nearly a million miles into the Cloud Mist Mountains, yet all he could see were endless, boundless mountains.
Finally, when he had almost run out of supplies, he had no choice but to turn back.
Based on this, Changqing Jushi judged that the area of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range was much larger than that of the Western Wilderness, and perhaps only Nascent Soul cultivators could truly explore its specific size and range.
To the south of the Western Wilderness lies a forbidden dead land devoid of any life.
Legend has it that in ancient times, powerful cultivators once fought there, and all life in that region turned to dust in the aftermath of their battle.
Even now, countless years later, their remaining power still prevents any life from surviving.
Initially, Layman Changqing believed that the idea of cultivators fighting was a misconception spread by ignorant mortals. The aftershocks of such a battle could annihilate life in such a vast area, something even legendary Nascent Soul cultivators could not have accomplished.
To verify this, he even chose to enter this vast dead land after making all the preparations, trying to find out why no life could survive there.
He easily found out the cause.
This reason also horrified him. It turned out that every place in this dead land was filled with a destructive aura, and the deeper one went, the more terrifying the aura became!
Any mortal who comes into contact with this destructive aura will instantly have all their life force drained and die.
Even he, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, only took less than a hundred steps before daring not to go any further.
Changqing Jushi's comment: The legend is not without basis.
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To the east of the Western Wilderness, at the other end of the shuttle, lie several kingdoms, the territory of demonic cultivators.
Changqing Jushi was a man who valued his life. For his own safety, he did not travel to these countries, but in his travelogue, he recorded a lot of information that he had painstakingly collected.
Based on the information he had gathered, Changqing Jushi vaguely guessed that the demonic cultivators did not seem to be a native force of the Western Wilderness cultivation world, but rather they crossed the endless desert to the east of the Western Wilderness and entered the Western Wilderness from the outside.
Behind these demonic cultivators, there seems to be an even more vast cultivation world than the Western Wilderness.
The reason these demonic cultivators entered the Western Wilderness in large numbers seemed to be to escape something.
In conclusion, Changqing Jushi expressed his concern about the invasion of the Western Wilderness by demonic cultivators.
He believed that if the kingdoms of the Western Wilderness did not unite as soon as possible to deal with the invasion of the demonic path, the Western Wilderness would eventually become the domain of demonic cultivators.
To prove his point, he gave an example.
More than a hundred years ago, the demonic sect "Blood Shadow Sect" invaded "Nine Carts Kingdom". The other kingdoms of the Western Wilderness stood by and watched. In the end, the "Heavenly Profound Sect", which originally ruled Nine Carts Kingdom, was destroyed, and Nine Carts Kingdom was occupied by the Blood Shadow Sect.
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Upon seeing this, Li Ping's expression finally changed. Sure enough, there was an even larger world of cultivation beyond the Western Wilderness.
Perhaps, in the cultivation world behind the "Endless Vast Sea" desert to the east of the Western Wilderness, there is an environment where Nascent Soul cultivators, or even Deity Transformation cultivators, can be born!
The Western Wilderness cultivation world doesn't even have fourth-order spiritual veins. After he breaks through to the Core Formation stage, he will probably have no choice but to go to that cultivation world to pursue a higher realm of immortality.
"Unfortunately, the exchange between the two cultivation worlds was severed by those suspected outsider demonic cultivators and the 'Endless Vast Sea,' otherwise, I could have learned more about that cultivation world." Li Ping thought to himself with a sigh.
Since he was determined to become a virtuous man, he naturally wouldn't rashly go to an unfamiliar place.
If he ever does ever set off for that cultivation world, he will definitely gather more relevant information beforehand.
After recovering from the shock of "there is another cultivation world outside the Western Wilderness," Li Ping noticed the example given by the Hermit of Changqing.
"Changqing Jushi was an ancient person from a hundred years ago, and going back a hundred years before that, it was more than two hundred years ago. That is to say, the Blood Shadow Sect destroyed the Heavenly Profound Sect more than two hundred years ago." Li Ping looked thoughtful. "According to the records, Fenglan Immortal City seems to have been established around that time as well."
Li Ping could vaguely sense it.
There seems to be some connection between the destruction of the Tianxuan Sect and the establishment of the Fenglan Immortal City.
However, he had too little information and although he had a few guesses in his mind, he had no way to confirm them.
Shaking his head, Li Ping continued reading "Changqing Local Customs and Culture".
Among the two kingdoms of Liang and Yan in the northern part of the western wilderness, the hermit Changqing stayed the longest.
The two countries are located at the border between the Western Wilderness Cultivation World and the "Northern Grassland". A large number of "Turkic" tribes are distributed on the Northern Grassland to the north.
The grasslands are barren and lack spiritual stones, materials, and other resources for cultivation. Therefore, these Turkic tribes would often gather under the orders of their tribal cultivators to raid southwards and provoke wars with the two nations.
Once a major war breaks out, the tens of thousands of miles of border between the two countries will be filled with the smoke of battle.
Cultivators fighting cultivators, and mortals fighting mortals, often take decades to subside.
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Li Ping was quite surprised by Changqing Jushi's account of the Turks.
He had originally thought that the relationship between the Turks and the Western Wilderness peoples was similar to that between ancient nomadic and agricultural peoples. Although their lifestyles were very different, they were actually the same race.
However, this is not the case.
To study the Turks, Layman Changqing spent half his life in both countries, during which time he collected and read a large amount of material from the Turks.
According to Turkic records, they were beings that existed at the dawn of the world, while humans were born much later, emerging naked from the earth at dawn one day.
Therefore, the Turks and the Western Wilderness peoples are actually two completely different ethnic groups.
Moreover, according to Turkic legends, in ancient times, the world was full of spiritual energy, and precious spiritual materials were everywhere.
At that time, cultivators did not need to rely on spiritual veins for cultivation, because the spiritual energy in any place in the world was more abundant than the best spiritual veins now.
Later, the world underwent great changes, and the cultivation world gradually evolved into its present form.
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Li Ping did not readily agree with the claim that "humans suddenly emerged from the soil one day."
However, Li Ping somewhat believed the claim that the environment of the cultivation world was not as good as it used to be after the great changes in the world.
The cultivation techniques I saw in the Wang family's secret techniques pavilion were probably the techniques practiced by cultivators in ancient times.
But now, the world has changed, and these cultivation techniques have been abandoned by cultivators, becoming useless techniques.