The Great Wild God - Chapter 341
Chapter 341 Blackstone City
After leaving the Guitou Reef and heading east, the islands and reefs gradually began to gather in the sea area of more than ten thousand kilometers.
These small islands and reefs, which were only a few feet in radius, were exposed to the sea at low tide; Hundreds of kilometers in radius, mountains rose and fell, jungle dense, streams and rivers criss-crossed, there are also many human gathered and live.
Even in the valleys and basins near the sea, there were quite a few cities and harbors. There were also quite a few fishing boats fishing in the waters near the islands and reefs.
There are also many exquisite and majestic island mountains that are sealed by magic formations. It seems that there are quite a few wandering cultivators who have established gates here and recruited disciples to cultivate …
Continuing to fly six to seven thousand miles east, a vast expanse of land rose from the distance.
This was the Ji Yue Island that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers.
The Ji Yue Mountain stretched across the island from south to north. The middle foot of the mountain range was the most unusual and steep. There were more than a hundred majestic peaks over seven to eight thousand feet tall. Spirit mountains and valleys were filled with countless spirit veins, spirit acupoints, and abundant spiritual energy. They were also the gates of the Scarlet Star Palace, the strongest sect in the Ji Yue Kingdom.
Ji Yue Island had quite a lot of spiritual veins, but more than ten thousand years ago, it was also a barren place, and it was difficult for only a few million Sheng Fan natives to survive in the jungle.
However, because Ji Yue Island was quite close to Cloud Continent, and the area of the island was large enough to avoid the attacks of demonic beasts in the sea, a large number of wandering cultivators who were unable to establish themselves in Cloud Continent had flown over to Ji Yue Island in succession in ancient times.
In the early days of Ji Yue Island, wandering cultivators were gathered. In order to compete for all kinds of cultivation resources, it was the norm to have a bloody storm.
In the eyes of rogue cultivators, those ordinary islanders were as small as ants. Being enslaved by rogue cultivators was still an ordinary matter, and the calamity of exterminating a clan in a city would occur from time to time. Their livelihood would be extremely difficult.
After that, a rogue cultivator named Chi Xingzi accidentally entered a cultivation ground left behind by a True Monarch of the Nirvana Realm in the depths of the Fallen Sea Star, inheriting the dao heritage of this ancient great power.
After Chi Xingzi cultivated to the Dharma Realm, he entered the Ji Yue Mountain Range to establish the Scarlet Star Palace, to restrain the loose cultivators from fighting, and to support the Shaoxi Clan in establishing a city on Ji Yue Island. Only then did Ji Yue Island develop rapidly.
Ji Yue Island’s area wasn’t much larger than Cang Lan’s, and Chi Xingzi hadn’t broken through to the final stage, transcending life and death. However, under the protection of Chi Xingzi, the islanders that Ji Yue Island had reproduced in the past ten thousand years were more than ten times larger than Cang Lan’s.
Chen Xun was far away from Ji Yue Island. He could see that the valleys, basins, and plains near the coast were densely packed with village cottages. It was a dark feeling. Even in the heart of Cloud Continent, such a prosperous secular society was rarely seen. It was hard to imagine that this was an island in the depths of the Falling Star Sea.
The Blackstone Harbor where the Guihai Pavilion ships docked was the largest port city in the northwest of Ji Yue Island.
The Chi River, which flowed down from Ji Yue Mountain, also went out to sea from Blackstone Harbor. The mouth of the river was twenty to thirty kilometers wide, and the boats inside and outside the mouth of the river were crisscrossed, and the sail masts covered the sky and the sun.
Two fairly strong sealing formations were set up on the two stone islands outside the estuary to protect Blackstone Harbor from the giant demons that invaded the hinterland of Ji Yue Island from the estuary.
Apart from the two stone islands, which were directly under the jurisdiction of the Crimson Star Palace, the main city of Blackstone Harbor and the nearby strongholds did not refuse to allow rogue cultivators to enter.
The Crimson Star Palace and the Shaoxi Clan had been managing Ji Yue Island for tens of thousands of years. Apart from the three experts who had cultivated to the Dharma Aspect Realm in the Crimson Star Palace, the patriarch’s Shaoxi Clan was also a forest of experts.
Apart from the Scarlet Star Palace’s respected status on Ji Yue Island, which was even higher than the Young Xi Clan’s bloodline, there were hundreds of famous sects and clans founded by other rogue cultivators in the past ten thousand years, and they were distributed throughout the entire island.
Ji Yue Island stood up in an orderly manner, but it was still the first place for wandering cultivators in Cloud Continent to avoid calamity.
As for the disciples of the various sects in Cloud Continent, if they entered the Fallen Star Sea Calendar or hunted down the rebels and bandits wanted by the sect and God-controller Mansion, they would also choose to establish themselves on Ji Yue Island …
Blackstone City did not refuse to allow loose cultivators from Cloud Continent to enter, but they had to pay ten jin of Scarlet Essence Copper before they could temporarily establish themselves in Blackstone City.
Master Shi Long had entered and exited Blackstone City many times before, and he had a token to enter and exit Blackstone City. However, more than ten years later, Chen Xun put on his Blood Shadow Magic Robe and pretended to be Master Shi Long. If he wanted to enter Blackstone City, he would still have to pay ten kilograms of Scarlet Essence Copper to the military commandant stationed at the city gate.
Stone Dragon was a lonely person. Apart from wearing a blood-shadow robe as his identity, he usually didn’t recognize people with his true face. As for Heaven Origin Realm cultivators, changing their appearance was the most common method. Strong cultivators usually only used the slightest difference in their auras to identify other cultivators.
Du Liangyong and Zhao Hongling also used their hearts to gather information about Master Shi Long after killing Zhu Yuelian, but their results were still very limited.
Such a person was the easiest to impersonate, so there was no need to worry about revealing any tricks.
If a rogue cultivator wants to stay in Blackstone City for a short period of time without delaying his cultivation, he can rent a cave at Elephant Mountain in the north of the city to cultivate.
The Elephant Mountain was more than a thousand feet tall, and there were four or five spiritual veins in the mountain. After the array was sealed, the spiritual energy in the mountain was abundant, sufficient for the daily cultivation of Heaven Origin Realm cultivators.
The Elephant Mountain was also the territory of the Crimson Star Palace. Normally, there would be Daoist Primordial Core warriors stationed there, and it was strictly forbidden for loose cultivators to fight in the Elephant Mountain. Therefore, the Elephant Mountain Cave was the most popular place for loose cultivators to settle in Blackstone City.
Master Shi Long also rented a cave in Elephant Mountain. After Chen Xun entered Blackstone City, he flew straight to Elephant Mountain in the north of the city.
“Senior Shi Long!”
Chen Xun had just flown to the gate of Elephant Mountain when a Reincarnation Realm cultivator flew out. The appearance of a middle-aged man was very ordinary. He wore a robe embroidered with four scarlet stars, blocking his path and saluting him.
“What is it?” Chen Xun stopped and asked in a low voice.
“Senior Shi Long’s cave residence in Elephant Mountain had expired three years ago. According to the agreement between Senior Shi Long and Elephant Mountain, Elephant Mountain had already removed the restrictions set by Senior Shi Long and retrieved the cave residence. This middle-aged cultivator from the Crimson Star Palace said politely, “We have already preserved everything that Senior Stone Dragon has stored in the cave. We will wait for Senior Stone Dragon to come and collect it.”
“I still want to live here, what should I do?” Chen Xun raised his eyebrows. He thought to himself that this person was the deacon disciple of the Crimson Star Palace in the Elephant Mountain. He had dealt with Master Shi Long before, but he actually used his clothes to argue with him. It seemed that he didn’t need to worry about anyone in Blackstone City noticing any flaws.
“Then this junior can find another cultivation cave for Senior Shi Long.”
“Humph!” Chen Xun coldly snorted as he followed the middle-aged cultivator towards the mountain gate. However, he thought to himself, he didn’t know if there were any Origin Core Realm experts among the wandering cultivators living in the Elephant Mountain. He was also worried that the soul aura left behind by Master Shi Long would reveal a flaw if he forcefully lifted the restriction on the cave residence. If he were to change to another cave, there would be nothing to worry about anymore.
The Elephant Mountain had five spiritual veins. The closer the cave was to the spiritual veins, the more abundant the spiritual energy would be, and the rent would be divided into three grades and nine grades.
The most expensive cave would cost 20,000 jin of scarlet copper per year, but it would occupy a small mountain peak the size of a thousand mu. Apart from the secluded terrain, there were also independent gates to enter and exit, so there was no need for others to disturb or peep at it.
Chen Xun secretly felt that the Crimson Star Palace really knew how to do business. He sent out a Origin Core Realm expert to guard the cave. Over a dozen disciples and deacons would be able to harvest over a million Crimson Essence Copper in a single year after renting out the cave.
Chen Xun entered a stone tower and chose his temporary residence in Elephant Mountain. He took out ten large red copper ingots from his bag of holding and handed them to the middle-aged cultivator. “Send me something here. If there’s nothing else, don’t disturb my cultivation.”
The middle-aged cultivator hurriedly took the ten Scarlet Essence Copper Ingots and placed them on the ground. With his cultivation base, he couldn’t hold the 200,000 jin copper essence in his hand, and even if he pressed it down, it would put him under the meat sauce. He thought to himself, twenty years ago, when he was so poor that he had become a Stone Dragon Grandmaster, he had spent so much money this time and rented the most expensive Xiuzhu Peak for ten years. It seemed that the rumors that he was colluding with pirates weren’t necessarily false.
As long as rogue cultivators did not commit crimes within the borders of the Ji Yue Kingdom, the Crimson Star Palace would not ask.
Although Master Shi Long’s temper was a little cold, he took the restrictive iron medallion that opened Xiuzhu Peak’s cave and flew directly towards Xiuzhu Peak. The middle-aged cultivator did not care about him.
The name of the Xiuzhu Peak was the talisman. A thousand mu of Purple Spirit Bamboo grew on the mountain, and its plants were over ten zhang tall. He didn’t know that it had grown in the mountain for hundreds of years now, and it was abundant in spiritual energy. It was enough for a Heaven Origin Realm expert to cultivate. To Chen Xun, it was better than nothing, and he could temporarily settle down.
Apart from several secret rooms in the grottoes, there were also a few bamboo houses in the valley, with additional small magic arrays as restrictions on entry and exit.
This type of small magic array was not set up on spiritual veins or spiritual acupoints. If a powerful enemy attacked, it could only last for an incense stick of time, but it could prevent other rogue cultivators from accidentally intruding.
Very quickly, the middle-aged cultivator brought along two True Yang Realm disciples and delivered the many items that Master Shi Long had deposited in the Elephant Mountain.
As for rogue cultivators, they would always carry important items with them. The ones that were deposited in the Elephant Mountain were the books that they used for their daily lives, as well as some books about the customs of the Ji Yue Kingdom, saving Chen Xun the extra preparation.
Originally, Chen Xun didn’t need to be so extravagant and wasteful with the Void Origin Pearl, but to disguise himself as an Empyrean Stone Dragon who had broken through the bottleneck of the Heavenly Origin realm and cultivated into an Origin Pill in the past ten years, he also needed a certain amount of
Chen Xun settled down on Xiuzhu Peak and just as he spread out his divine sense to search for Zhao Hongling’s location in Blackstone City, he sensed a familiar aura flying towards Elephant Mountain. It was Zhao Hongling, who was wearing a hat and veil to cover her face.
“Madam Du!” Chen Xun revealed his divine sense and sent a message in a secret voice.
“Senior, where are you? When Red Silk heard that Master Shi Long had entered Blackstone City, she knew that he was dressed up as Senior. He was just about to go to Elephant Mountain to find Senior.” Zhao Hongling asked in surprise.
‘”Master Shi Long has a grudge against Sea Pavilion. The disciples of Fan Ziya also know the details. Although you’ve disguised yourself, it’s still easy for others to see the flaws. Find a densely populated place with a chaotic aura. I’ll meet you there.” Chen Xun sent mentally.
Zhao Hongling couldn’t tell how high Chen Xun’s cultivation was when he was at the Ghost Head Reef, but even a peak Heaven Origin Realm Stone Dragon would find it difficult to block Chen Xun’s sword strike.
A few days ago, the ship was three to four hundred miles away from the Ghost Head Reef, and Chen Xun was able to easily transmit a secret message. It could be seen that Chen Xun’s cultivation was at least at the peak of the Origin Core Realm.
Zhao Hongling really didn’t know why Chen Xun would do anything to conceal his whereabouts with his tyrannical cultivation.
However, Zhao Hongling naturally obeyed Chen Xun’s orders and said, “There is a Treasure Appraisal Conference in the Treasure House of Zhao Market Fang today. Hong Ling originally came to pay her respects to Senior on the pretext that she could find a few useful magical artifacts at the Treasure Appraisal Conference.”
Chen Xun said, “Alright then, you go to Zhao Ji Fang’s Treasure Pavilion and wait first …”