Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 703

[Chapter 701: Ruins (Additional chapters for monthly tickets)]

Black Rock Market.

Fang Xi performed the secret technique of tortoise breathing. His breath was intermittent and his escape light was looming, and he approached quietly.

His target, of course, was the two triangular rhinos.

But at this moment, his expression couldn’t help but become a little strange.

Then, Fang Xi took out a tiny bat-shaped puppet and blew into it.

Click, click!

The puppet immediately took action, flapping its wings and disappearing into the market…

A moment later…

Fang Xi sighed helplessly.

He thought for a moment, then landed on the ground and transformed into a stern-looking young man in black. He adjusted his aura to the level of foundation building and swaggered to the outside of the market town.

The entire market town had been reduced to ruins, with only a few broken walls still standing strong, and even some faint glow of formations flickering on them…

This is the remnant of the ‘Six Brahma Water Gate Formation’.

The two triangular rhinos at the time were unable to completely break the formation here. The remaining formation patterns were entangled with the local spiritual veins, forming some unique restrictions that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.

Most of the so-called relics in the world of immortal cultivation came from this way.

The location of the city gate has long been a ruin, and there are several gaps on the city wall, which seem to be the passages for the wild beasts to advance in the past, and now they can pass through freely.

When Fang Xi walked in, he saw that the streets were dilapidated and there were bloodstains in many places.

He walked to a street and found that the place seemed to have been tidied up and had a bit of presentable appearance.

There were obviously people living in the few buildings that had not collapsed.

Even if you go further in, you can see several shops, all tucked away in corners, guarded by low-level formations, and the monks inside are on high alert.

“The wild beasts in Black Rock Market have all retreated…”

“Not only did they evacuate, but there are still some survivors, although there are only about a thousand people in total… Distributed in such a huge market, it’s not much different from living in a ghost town…”

Fang Xi seemed to understand something.

Those two triceratops rhinos might have their own nests. After hunting, when they are full and satisfied, they will naturally leave.

I just don’t know why those wild beasts also left.

However, after careful sensing, Fang Xi made a discovery.

The inner city seemed to be the most dilapidated place. The most concentrated spiritual energy seemed to have been broken down a lot. The restrictions of countless private caves were connected with the big formation, forming the most complicated and strange “mixed formation”. It was extremely dangerous for low-level cultivators…

“That night, no one knows how many of my fellow gods died…”

“However, I am no longer a deity, so they are no longer my comrades…”

Fang Xi thought with some amusement in his heart and walked into a shop.

This shop was built like a fortress, with countless huge stones and wooden boards piled up on the outside, and a hidden formation inside, which was cleverly concealed so that the fluctuations in mana were very slight.

This form made Fang Xi show a hint of interest.

When he arrived at the formation, he saw an old man with white hair, wearing a black robe and holding a spiritual weapon in his hand.

Seeing Fang Xi coming in, the white-haired old man looked alert: “Strange cultivator… where did you come from?”

“Alas… I was from Honbō City. I escaped that night, but it turned out to be even more dangerous outside. Almost all of my team members were killed, so there was no way for me to come back…”

Fang Xi replied with a sigh.

“Haha… you must have suffered a lot, right? The wilderness today is not something we can set foot in. Without those Divine Masters sweeping out the wild beasts and evil spirits day and night, it will only become more and more dangerous… It’s better to just hide in the ruins of this market town, maybe we can wait for rescue.”

The white-haired old man’s face relaxed a little, and he started to solicit business: “Do you want spiritual rice? And wild beast meat… You are in for a treat, this wild beast meat is extremely rare. If it weren’t for a few of them dying before and being picked up by us, you would not have been able to taste it…”

“Wild beast meat?”

Fang Xi’s face showed a conflicted expression: “Can I eat it?”

“The meat of these wild beasts has been refined by alchemists. It is edible, of course, and it is also very filling. With our cultivation level, if we eat a piece the size of a fist, we can survive for three days without eating spiritual rice… But we can’t eat too much. At the beginning, some Qi-refining juniors ate a little too much and died directly due to their bodies exploding…”

The white-haired old man sighed: “Nowadays, spiritual rice is more rare than wild beast meat…”

Fang Xi looked at the several kinds of spiritual rice in the store and found that they were all low-grade, which made him speechless.

In the human territory, this kind of spiritual rice cannot be compared with the meat of wild beasts.

However, prices are only affected by the market.

The wild beasts were huge in size, and any one of them was enough to feed tens of thousands of people for a long time.

A lot of them died at that time. Even though most of the meat was eaten by their own kind, the remaining leftovers were enough for the remaining species to eat for a long time.

Although some wild beast meat is poisonous or too nutritious for blood and qi, it is difficult for low-level cultivators to eat it.

But alchemists and spirit chefs are specialized in solving such problems.

It seems that there are still such talents staying in Heiyan Market.

“Thank you. I’ll buy ten kilograms.”

Fang Xi took out the spirit stone and made a deal before asking, “Now that we are living in this city, what should we pay attention to?”

“Since we are doing business, I will tell you…” The white-haired old man sneered, “You can live in any house in this city that you like, as long as there is no one living in it… Of course, even if there is someone living in it, you can throw them out as long as your cultivation is high enough!”

“If you want to find a woman, you can go to the streets in the east. There are many former fairies there… hehe…”

…

“It sounds like a chaotic place without order…”

Fang Xi’s face changed: “No one is here to take care of it? Where is the Tianfan Army?”

“Don’t mention those bastards anymore. They run away faster than anyone else when something happens…”

The white-haired old man spat fiercely.

He dared to do so because he saw that Fang Xi only had the foundation-building cultivation level and could not be a soldier of the Tianfan Army, so he dared to be so unscrupulous.

“Yes, they run faster than rabbits…”

Fang Xi thought of Master Yuanyin’s final escape and agreed speechlessly.

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The two cursed the Tianfan Army for a few times, and suddenly they felt that their relationship became much closer. The white-haired old man smiled and said, “Little brother, listen to me. There are only two forces in this Black Rock Market that you must not offend. One is the ‘Tianfan Gang’, which was established by several Jindan cultivators who are said to be related to the Tianfan Army. The other is the ‘Leihuo Hall’, which worships ‘Leihuo Zhenren’ as its leader. Local residents and shops must pay tribute to it…”

“Well… For a cultivator to fall into a gang, is this a sign of moral degradation or a distortion of human nature…”

Fang Xi complained in his heart, but answered solemnly: “Thank you for reminding me, I remember…”

“Well, one last thing. When choosing a house, try to choose one that is a little out of the way…”

The white-haired old man gave a final reminder.

Fang Xi walked out of the rice shop, a thoughtful look on his face: “Try to choose a remote place… Does that mean that there will be wild beasts coming to look for food occasionally? If you live in a remote place, it will be less likely to be hunted than if you live in a crowded place…”

“Perhaps the wild beasts left these people behind not because they despise them, but to keep them as seeds…”

Even farmers and hunters know that they cannot exhaust all the fish in the pond.

Now, for these human cultivators, the wild beasts and ancient wild beasts in the wilderness seem to be no different from domestic animals?
‘This is the cruelty of natural selection and the survival of the fittest…’

“But can I wait here for a while… maybe the Triangle Rhinoceros will come over to have a bite of food occasionally?”

A thought suddenly emerged in Fang Xi’s mind.

Anyway, he doesn’t want to go to Tianfan City now. In other words, it is better to hide in the outside world and wait for news before the situation in Tianfan City becomes clear.

“We can contact Liu Xu and Yun Xi to get some information…”

“I have now broken through to the initial stage of Return to Void. I cannot continue to practice until my body breaks through. At most, I can practice some magical powers and secret techniques. I have no need for spiritual veins or elixirs. It is the same wherever I go…”

…

Fang Xi headed eastward, occasionally releasing his spiritual sense.

Now the formation of the Black Rock Market has been distorted, and some places have become extremely dangerous.

For example, many caves and residences of the Incarnation and Return to Void realms in the inner city had long been destroyed by wild beasts. The remaining ones also had private formations and vicious restrictions. Now they were mixed together, and even he would have a headache just looking at them. If a cultivator was willing to risk his life, he might go and try his luck.

It wasn’t long before he arrived at the streets that the white-haired old man mentioned.

From a distance, it looks desolate, with only a few secluded alleys and ruins in corners, and occasionally a beautiful figure flashing by.

Fang Xi observed carefully and found that there were handkerchiefs and cloth strips tied on the door as tokens. Occasionally, a male cultivator would knock on the door and then disappear in a flash. He immediately understood…

‘Without the high-ranking monks, a different order has automatically formed at the bottom…’

He smiled slightly, walked past the streets and headed towards a more remote place.

Finally, it stopped near the outer wall.

The spiritual energy here is relatively thin, and it was originally where low-level monks lived.

However, nowadays, there are only less than four or five families living in such a large block, and they are far apart, which exactly meets Fang Xi’s needs.

He looked towards a makeshift wooden house, a smile on his face: “There is another Nascent Soul hiding… well, it looks like he is recovering from his injuries.”

“I said, with so many high-level monks, there will always be a few who come back. Now it is possible that a god-transforming monk suddenly jumps out from a corner… After all, the most dangerous place is the safest place.”

A certain Return to Void cultivator thought so.

After Fang Xi surveyed the terrain, he chose a sunny slope and began to build a cave.

He had previously obtained a storage bag from a cultivator named Yi. When he remembered it now, he hurriedly searched through it and finally found a few spiritual tools worthy of a foundation-building cultivator.

These top-grade spiritual weapons were thrown to the bottom of the storage bag by the scholar named Yi, and no one knew how much dust they had accumulated.

According to Fang Xi’s estimation, these items were either old items that had accompanied him since he was weak, and he had a lot of sentimentality towards them and was reluctant to throw them away, or they were items that were prepared to be rewards for his disciples.

Otherwise, a cultivator who has reached the Divine Transformation stage would have no use for these spiritual weapons.

He flipped his hand and a black flying sword emerged. After being infused with magic power, it instantly became as big as a door panel. It split the mountain and cut the rocks, and dug a hole on the hillside, constructing the general shape of a cave, and built a circle of fences on the outside.

Boom!
Such a noise naturally attracted several neighbors.

Some of them just peeked through the cracks in the door, and the Nascent Soul cultivator didn’t even raise his eyelids.

Another wooden house built by a river opened its door, and a chubby boy of seven or eight years old ran out, looking at everything curiously…

(End of this chapter)