Mortal: I am the young sect master of the Thousand Illusions Sect

Chapter 2 The Sky-Reaching Jianmu Space

Su Mixin returned to the quiet room; he had another very important matter that urgently needed to be completed.

Su Mixin activated the several layers of isolation barriers.

Su Mixin raised her right hand, her gaze falling on the inconspicuous metal ring between her knuckles, and made contact with it using her divine sense.

"Feng Hou, open the Marauder's Map and monitor the surrounding area in real time. If anyone approaches this palace or uses their divine sense to explore this place, we will issue a real-time alert." Su Mixin's voice was deep and resolute.

"Received, Master." A clear, cold female voice came from inside the ring.

The next moment, a three-foot square piece of parchment flew out of the ring, hovering steadily in front of Su Mixin, emitting a soft white light.

As the white light flowed, a three-dimensional, illusory projection appeared on the parchment. It was a three-dimensional topographic map of the entire mountain where Su Mixin was located. The mountain was majestic and towering, and even the hidden caves and secret passages were clearly marked.

The image shows some green dots, which are the locations of the cultivators inside the peak. Some of these dots are moving slowly, indicating that they are actively engaged in activities.

Su Mixin scanned the projection and confirmed that there was nothing unusual.

He calmed his mind, sat cross-legged on the futon, closed his eyes, and slowly let his consciousness sink into his Niwan Palace.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, it was not a chaotic void like that of ordinary cultivators, but rather a hazy white light shrouded the center.

The moment her consciousness entered the white light, Su Mixin felt the scene before her suddenly change, and her body seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, instantly placing her in a huge space.

This is a hemispherical dome-shaped space, a hundred feet in diameter, surrounded by boundless dark chaos, like the primordial chaos before the beginning of time, with only faint air currents flowing slowly within it.

Beneath my feet was solid brown loess, rough to the touch, with a faint earthy smell, and incredibly stable to walk on.

In the very center of the space stood a towering tree with an astonishingly thick trunk, ten feet in diameter, requiring more than twenty adults to barely encircle it with their arms.

The giant tree was lush and verdant, its branches and leaves blocking out the sun. It was tens of feet tall, and its canopy pierced the edge of the spatial dome, disappearing into the chaos above, making it impossible to see its entirety.

Beneath the giant tree stood a stone platform with a diameter of four feet and a height of exactly three feet. The surface of the platform was polished smooth and flat, gleaming with a faint stone luster.

In the center of the round platform, a stone axe lay quietly. The axe body was simple and unadorned, dark gray in color, without any patterns, but the blade was exceptionally sharp, faintly revealing a restrained sharpness.

Just as Su Mixin had expected, the stone axe was enveloped in a layer of soft green light.

Su Mixin walked slowly toward the stone platform, her gaze shifting between the towering Jianmu tree and the stone axe, her eyes filled with undisguised anticipation.

This dimensional space created by the giant tree, including the giant tree in the center, is his greatest reliance for transmigrating and being reborn—his cheat code.

The instant he awakened his innate wisdom, his consciousness was forcibly pulled into this place, and the origins of this space instantly flooded his mind.

It turns out that everything originated from his previous life. At that time, he had a piece of amber that he carried with him. Inside the amber was a seed of unknown origin.

In his previous life, after he died of illness, his soul unexpectedly merged with a seed in amber, awakening the seed. As a result, the seed successfully recognized its master and parasitized Su Mixin's soul.

Afterwards, the seed carried and protected Su Mixin's soul as it plunged into the chaotic space of the heavens and the long river of time.

As the seed traveled through the long river of time, it successfully sprouted and grew into a giant tree, and even carved out a dimensional space within Su Mixin's soul.

Finally, one day, the giant tree sensed and found the world that Su Mixin had been obsessed with in her previous life. It decisively invaded this world with Su Mixin's soul. After that, Su Mixin was born successfully and lived a second life, reborn as the young sect master of the Thousand Illusions Sect.

This space protruding from the top of the giant tree is called the Tongtian Jianmu Space, and this giant tree is the Tongtian Jianmu.

The greatest supernatural power of the Tongtian Jianmu (a type of ancient Chinese tree) is its ability to connect various fantastical worlds.

Its greatest function is to help Su Mixin retrieve various treasures from the myriad fantasy worlds.

When Su Mixin first entered the space and saw the towering Jianmu tree, the stone platform and stone axe under the tree, she immediately thought of a very popular mini-game from her previous life.

"Chopping down trees"—that's the only gameplay in that mini-game.

In my past life, whenever I went online, I would be bombarded with comments about that mini-game.

Don't use combo attacks at the start. Even though combos increase your tree-chopping speed, the equipment you get each time you chop down a tree will either be mediocre or low-quality...

The gameplay involves playing as a pig demon who constantly chops down trees to collect equipment, then idles to increase cultivation and combat power, eventually transcending tribulations to become an immortal...

The scene of the Tongtian Jianmu Space has a striking resemblance to that of this game.

In fact, the way the Tongtian Jianmu gave Su Mixin various treasures from the fantasy world of the heavens was by cutting down the tree.

At this moment, Su Mixin walked to the stone platform and reached out to grasp the stone axe that was emitting a faint green light.

The axe looks old and heavy, but it weighs only a little over ten pounds and is very easy to use.

Su Mixin took the stone axe and walked to the side of the Tongtian Jianmu tree. She took a deep breath, raised the stone axe, and quietly circulated the spiritual power of the late stage of Qi Refining in her body, pouring it all into the axe.

Then he chopped hard at the incredibly thick tree trunk, and "Bang!" the stone axe embedded itself into the trunk, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

The green light on the stone axe suddenly intensified, then flickered violently before disappearing completely.

The powerful chop caused the stone axe to penetrate deeply into the trunk of the towering Jianmu tree. After the axe was pulled out, a huge wound four or five feet long was formed on the trunk.

Suddenly, a golden ball of light leaped out from the wound in the tree trunk, wobbled and came to Su Mixin's side, where it stopped hovering.

The wound on the tree trunk quickly closed, forming a raised burl in the blink of an eye.

Beneath the newly formed burl, there were two more burls of similar size.

Su Mixin held the axe in her right hand and reached out her left hand toward the golden ball of light. The moment her fingertips touched the ball of light, a message entered Su Mixin's mind.

The ball of light slowly disappeared, revealing the object inside—an oval stone about one and a half feet long, with a blue spiral pattern in the center.

The information in Su Mixin's mind clearly described this stone: Hearthstone, originating from a certain fantasy game world.

Function: It can bind and record a location, and after activation, it can instantly teleport back to that location.

Cooldown time: 24 hours.

Features: It can be upgraded as the master's cultivation level increases. For each major breakthrough, an additional bound teleportation point can be added. When activating it, the target teleportation point can be freely selected.

Su Mixin gripped the Hearthstone in her hand, her lips twitching slightly, somewhat speechless. What did she mean by "a certain fantasy game world"? Did she think everyone hadn't played World of Warcraft? This was clearly the classic Hearthstone from that game!

But despite his complaints, he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes.

A fixed-point teleportation system with a 24-hour cooldown is an extremely powerful cheat code in this vast cultivation world.

Someone in a previous life analyzed the world map in the original novel of Mortal Cultivation. The human realm alone is half the size of the solar system, while the spirit realm is comparable in size to the Milky Way. With this Hearthstone, countless conveniences are available.

Moreover, for him now, this is also a life-saving artifact that defies the heavens.

In this perilous world of cultivation, whether he is being hunted down or sneaking into dangerous places to explore for treasure, this hearthstone will provide him with a way out.

Not to mention, as his cultivation level increases, he can bind more teleportation points, making it a tailor-made escape and travel tool for him.

This Hearthstone is not the same as the Hearthstone in the original game.

This is to be expected. Anything that the Tongtian Jianmu (a magical tree) brings into this world from the myriad fantasy worlds will first have to pass through the test of the Heavenly Dao Laws.

Only when the Tongtian Jianmu tree, in accordance with the laws of Heaven, appropriately modifies objects from other worlds to better suit the Heavenly Dao of this world, will they be allowed to pass.

Su Mixin turned around and gently placed the stone axe back on the stone platform.

At this moment, the stone axe is spotless and unadorned, exuding only a vast, ancient, and profound aura.

It was completely unlike the dazzling, emerald-green light that he had seen when he first entered the space.

Only when the stone axe emits a green light can it sever the incredibly hard trunk of the towering Jianmu tree.

Once the inspiration faded, Su Mixin tried her best, but even with all her strength, she couldn't leave a single mark on the tree trunk.

How exactly can we activate the green light of the stone axe?

When he was first pulled into this space, the stone axe was initially surrounded by a green aura, but after just one swing, the green light completely disappeared and there was no further movement.

On several subsequent attempts to enter the space, no matter how he tried, the stone axe remained cold and silent, showing no reaction whatsoever.

When he broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining and re-entered the space, the stone axe miraculously revived and began to glow with a soft green light again.

At that time, Su Mi already had a guess in her heart.

Now that his cultivation has just broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, the stone axe, just as he expected, once again emitted a verdant spiritual light.

Upon careful calculation, it appears that whenever he breaks through to the early, middle, or late stages of Qi Refining, the Stone Axe will unlock an opportunity to chop down the Jianmu tree.

At this point, the answer is clear.

The opportunity to cut down the towering Jianmu tree is unlocked one by one as one's cultivation breaks through a minor realm.

Now that he has reached the late stage of Qi Refining, he has left three burls on the trunk of the Tongtian Jianmu tree.

When he first chopped down a tree, he got an ordinary-looking metal ring.

The information received states: Feng Hou, an artificial intelligence life form, comes from a fantasy science fiction world, and her previous owner was a cosmic venerable being.

Function: Assists in processing various information of the owner and can deduce feasible solutions based on existing information.

Features: The inhabiting AI takes the form of a ring, which also creates a small world within the ring, allowing it to be used as a miniature world ring.

Su Mixin's reaction at the time was one of astonishment and ecstasy. A fantasy science fiction world, and a cosmic venerable one. This world was so clear that it was about to emerge. It was the same world he had read in his previous life, "Swallowing the Stars".

The intelligent life forms inside are incredibly powerful; they are the best auxiliary partners for all life forms in that novel's world.

What's more, it also comes with a small world ring, which is so common in that novel's world that it's practically everywhere.

But in this cultivation world, we didn't see that after Han Laomo ascended to the Immortal Realm in the original story, he still had several tattered storage bags hanging from his waist.

Every cultivator is a Beggar Clan elder. The higher the cultivation level, the higher the rank. If you don't upgrade to a nine-bag elder by the time you reach the Nascent Soul stage, you're a poor ghost.

The artificial intelligence life form from another world was naturally localized as well. All the information it originally stored was formatted, and when Su Mixin got her hands on it, it was a complete blank slate.

Moreover, the mental energy techniques from her original world have been transformed into divine sense in this world. These techniques can transmit sound and even manipulate objects within a radius of tens of meters around Su Mixin.

In recent years, Su Mixin has thoroughly scanned the Thousand Illusions Sect's library, filling in a lot of stored information for Feng Hou in order to better arrange matters that would assist her cultivation.

Su Mixin also studied the accompanying miniature world, which covered an area of ​​100,000 square kilometers, roughly the size of a city in her previous life.

The earth is unfathomably deep underground, and the sky reaches its edge at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

This is comparable to a large blessed land in the world of cultivation.

However, it was just bare land, devoid of any spiritual energy.

In recent years, Su Mixin has collected a lot of low- to mid-grade spiritual herb seeds and seedlings. She has set aside a medicinal garden in the ring world, which has been planted on more than ten acres. Feng Hou takes care of it, so Su Mixin doesn't need to worry about it.

But this herb garden is now basically useless to Su Mixin.

Lacking spiritual energy, Su Mixin took a piece of Spirit Eye Jade from the sect's warehouse, claiming it was for her own cultivation.

However, in the vast world, this is a drop in the ocean, barely enough for a small medicine garden. The world's development is a long and arduous task.

Su Mixin remembered that there was a Spirit Eye Tree, the largest in this world, in the Yunmeng Mountains, and that this tree was destined to be with him, Su.

When Su Mixin cut down the tree for the second time, she obtained a piece of parchment that looked old.

The message I received reads: Marauder's Map, from the drawer of a school administrator in a fantasy Western world.

Function: After activation, a three-dimensional map can be formed on the parchment. The map is centered on the owner, and all creatures with spiritual energy fluctuations around it can appear as light dots on the map. The owner can classify, filter, hide, or show them.

Features: The map size grows with the master's spiritual cultivation level, and its range is thirty times the range of the master's spiritual consciousness.

Upon seeing this message, Su Mixin immediately knew where this fantasy world was—the famous Harry Potter series.

The live map he obtained, after being localized, was obviously improved and enhanced a lot. It not only displayed a three-dimensional map, but also improved the map range, no longer being a fixed point.

The map he currently uses displays human cultivators as green dots, demonic beasts as red dots, and demons as black dots. In the future, when he ascends to the Spirit Realm and faces all the races of the Spirit Realm, he can add new markers.

Just like the original live map displays people's names, when Su Mixin focuses her divine sense on a certain point of light, she can also obtain its name, and the race and category of monsters can also be displayed.

After Wind, a small world ring, a Marauder's Map, and a Hearthstone—Su Mixin obtained several heaven-defying treasures during her Qi Refining stage.

When Su Mixin first awakened her innate wisdom, she was also attracted to the little green bottle. However, firstly, the timeline was uncertain, secondly, the operation was difficult, and thirdly, it involved the Lord of Reincarnation, which had too much karma and posed a huge risk.

Now, Su Mixin thinks the little green bottle is nothing special and doesn't interest her at all.

In the future, I might consider making friends with Old Demon Han and trading some high-grade spiritual herbs.