Chapter 210 Blood Sea Spirit Stone Civilization!
[You don't know exactly where the Netherworld Blood Sea is, you only know it is in the Western Wasteland.]

[But it doesn’t matter. According to the instructions in the letter, you use the power of the Golden Immortal to directly break through the space and cross over to that direction several times in succession... After a while, you see an endless blood-red world! ]

[The Blood Sea, according to legend, is a place formed by Pangu's filthy blood. However, compared with the twelve witch ancestors who were also formed by Pangu's blood, the Blood Sea is undoubtedly the most filthy place. This place has always been filthy, and things like residual souls will float here under the control of instinct. ]

[Therefore, the Blood Sea has always been famous for the sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling. Back then, the Houtu Samsara Palace once thought of moving here! ]

[However, due to political considerations, Emperor Jin Tian forced the Samsara Headquarters and the Wu Clan to stay near the important human town of Shouyang Mountain to facilitate monitoring and suppression. Hou Tu had no choice but to stop mentioning the relocation...]

【Since the end of the Dharma era, the Heaven Palace has disappeared, reincarnation has ceased, and the prehistoric area has inexplicably expanded by an unknown amount, causing the already vast sea of ​​blood to completely turn it into a bloody world! 】

[You looked around and saw the bloody sea water connecting the sky and the earth. Standing on the beach, you could only feel an indescribable fishy smell coming to your nose, which made you, a dignified Golden Immortal, feel nauseous and almost vomit...]

[What will surprise you even more is that there are actually people living in this sea of ​​blood, and they are not just scattered villages, but prosperous cities one after another! ]

[This is incredible, because in your opinion, the Sea of ​​Blood has never had a large number of people gathering there. After all, what kind of people can get used to living in such an abstract environment?]

[But the fact is in front of you. There are cities one after another on the Blood Sea coast. Your divine sense quietly scans them and finds that they are extremely prosperous, with a large population and thriving industries. They are even comparable to the Heavenly Court that you have carefully governed! ]

[More importantly, there are almost no mortals here. The people living in the city are all cultivators, but their cultivation is generally low, far from being a true immortal. It is probably because of their qualifications.]

[Among them, those with good aptitude have very good cultivation, and there are even many True Immortals! ]

[What you saw and heard in this short moment basically refreshed your cognition. You were stunned and even doubted your life: How could the sea of ​​blood be so prosperous? ]

[From this perspective, you immediately think of Zhongzhou's "Utopia" model. After all, in order to support such a large number of monks, there must be millions or tens of millions of mortals as the spiritual energy foundation.]

[But as you walked further and further, you gradually began to doubt this idea: because you did not find any real mortal settlements, and the number of mortals in these cities was far less than that of monks, so this could not be the Utopia model of Zhongzhou! ]

[You can't help but feel dazed, as if this Blood Sea realm is still in the mythical era, and an "iron curtain" covering the Blood Sea has cut it off from the desperate Dharma Ending Age! ]

[Here, the immortal path seems to be the genuine immortal path of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is completely different from the cannibalistic immortal cultivation outside...]

[Wishes are beautiful, but you are used to seeing beautiful wishes being torn off by reality and their bloody true colors: Zhongzhou, the fairyland... every imagined pure land either maintains its brilliance by secretly cannibalizing people, or is simply a complete scam! ]

[So, you quickly wake up from your unrealistic fantasies and calmly face this seemingly beautiful sea of ​​blood: if they are living in peace and quiet, then someone must be carrying the burden forward, this is an eternal truth.]

[Only what kind of spiritual energy supply is this vast Blood Sea monk settlement built on? ]

[In order to explore this secret, you even temporarily forgot the primary task of this trip. After all, a group of obviously pirated "Jin Bing", "Xuan Du", "Di Jun" and the like are really not that important in front of such a wonder.]

[So you concealed your cultivation level and sneaked into one of the cities as an ordinary cultivator. You wanted to go on a secret visit and see the true face of the sea of ​​blood...]

In a certain market town in the Sea of ​​Blood, a young man in a simple black robe was wandering around calmly and curiously.

Yes, the market town!

These cities in Xue Xuan's eyes are called "Fangshi" by the locals. According to them, cities belong to mortals, while the status of cultivators is different, so they are called Fangshi.

However, no matter how fancy they are, as human beings, there is no essential difference in the settlements:

There are still streets here, where many monks of different levels of cultivation sell all kinds of miscellaneous items. The wealthy ones will rent a store, while the poor ones will set up stalls on the spot.

With Xue Xuan's eyes, he naturally looked down on the things they sold, but he was also surprised because most of these things were spiritual objects!

In ancient times, resources were abundant, and there were so many precious natural treasures that they had to be packed in sacks. For example, Xuan Du once collected fifty sacks of natural treasures from the Witch Clan.

But now in the Dharma-Ending Age, even spiritual energy must be extracted from the souls of mortals, not to mention the various natural treasures derived from spiritual energy. Therefore, if a cultivator wants to refine some elixirs or magic weapons, he has to spend a lot of spiritual energy and time to cultivate them.

Of course, the spiritual objects obtained in this way are of poor quality... But even if the quality is very poor, spiritual objects are still in short supply. After all, in the Dharma Ending Age, everyone is poor, so it's good to have some...

But in this Blood Sea Market, there are so many spiritual objects that they can be seen everywhere, and the varieties are very rich, including minerals, plants, and even animals!

What does this mean?

"It seems that there is an absurd amount of spiritual energy here..."

Xue Xuan silently sensed the heaven and earth, but no matter how he sensed, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had long been exhausted. This place was the same as the outside world. The Dharma Ending Age was very fair.

Then... where is the source of their spiritual energy?
With this question in mind, Xue Xuan turned his attention to the deal in front of him:

A young monk was picking and choosing at a street stall. After a while, he picked out a large melon that was surrounded by spiritual energy and started to negotiate the price with the old stall owner:

"How much is a pound of melon?"

"Two spirit stones for one pound." "Fuck! Is the melon rind made of spirit stones, or are the melon seeds made of spirit stones?"

"Do you want it?"

"...I want it. Here you go."

Xue Xuan focused his attention on the two stones that the young man handed over:

This stone is sparkling and looks very beautiful, but what determines its value is the spiritual energy within it!

[This stone is called "Spirit Stone"! ]

[Obviously, it is the target you are looking for. The reason why the immortal way is so prosperous in the Blood Sea Realm and is different from the outside world is because of this small spiritual stone.]

[You carefully studied it and determined that the spirit stone is the source of spiritual energy for the monks here. When they practice, they will draw spiritual energy from it.]

[The use of spirit stones here is obviously more than that. In fact, in addition to providing spiritual energy for monks, spirit stones are also widely used in breeding, planting, alchemy, refining and other fields! ]

[It even serves as a universal currency. ]

[Basically, it can be said that the immortal cultivation civilization along the Blood Sea is completely built on the resources of spiritual stones. While other cultivators are still finding ways to eat people, they have already started mining! ]

[This discovery makes your eyes light up: If all the cultivators in the world can use spirit stones to cultivate immortality, then can they ignore the Dharma Ending Age?! ]

[So you quickly found the origin of the spirit stone: the blood sea! ]

[According to local people, the spiritual stones were dug from the bottom of the Blood Sea. The bottom is thick with spiritual stones. It is simply a gift from heaven! However, the owners of various towns have been making laws to strictly prohibit private mining of spiritual stones. Violators will be punished for "treason"! ]

[Everyone complained that this was a way for the abbots to monopolize the spirit stone industry and maintain their authority...]

[Of course you are not afraid of a group of laws set by true immortals. Not long after, you went deep into the sea of ​​blood. When you looked at the bottom of the sea, you saw: Sure enough! ]

[The seabed is full of thick crystal spirit stones, the total amount of which is difficult to measure. The huge amount of spiritual energy in them is tightly locked in the stone body, thus making this endless spiritual energy resource protected from the evil hands of the Dharma Ending Age.]

[But you didn't smile at all, only dullness and bitterness on your face...]

[Sure enough, there is no such pure land in the world. These so-called "spiritual stone veins" have completely exposed their true faces in your eyes: souls! Endless souls! ]

[Since the end of the Dharma, the souls of countless prehistoric creatures who died in the endless years have mostly sunk into the sea of ​​blood in a daze, and have been deposited on the bottom of the sea ever since.]

[Over time, the souls were pressed layer by layer until they became solid objects, becoming the so-called spirit stones...]

[After realizing this, you can't help but sigh: I've heard that the Netherworld Sea of ​​Blood is a natural garbage dump, and confused souls will follow their instincts and drift toward the sea of ​​blood until they sink to the bottom of the sea, never to be reborn.]

[I didn't expect that when this legend appeared before my eyes, it turned out like this! ]

[“In the Dharma Ending Age, where can you find monks who don’t eat people?”]

[You laugh at your own unrealistic thoughts: using spirit stones to cultivate is still cannibalism! ]

[However, this method of cannibalism is more respectable than that of Zhongzhou, because the monks of Zhongzhou still eat souls after all, while the monks here eat "stones."]

[Comparing the two, the Blood Sea is undoubtedly better. Moreover, the local cultivators probably don't know the nature of the spirit stone, so they have no psychological burden when eating it, and they use it all as a mine...]

[It is precisely because of the spiritual stones that the cultivation of immortals in the Blood Sea has become so popular. Relying on the mountains to make a living, and relying on the sea to make a living, the cultivators of the Blood Sea have directly constructed an ecosystem that is completely different from other places with the spiritual stones! ]

[Even better, since the Blood Sea is where souls return, confused souls will instinctively drift over from all over the prehistoric world, continuously replenishing the Blood Sea Spirit Stones.]

[When the Blood Sea monks saw this, they were probably sighing: This spirit stone is really good, it’s actually a renewable resource…]

[Faced with this kind of immortal cultivation civilization that thinks it is normal but is actually weird, you don’t know what to say. All the words you want to say are gathered in your chest and turned into an extremely powerless sigh.]

[In the end, you did nothing but let them continue to live day after day. After all, not knowing that you are eating people is also a different kind of happiness...]

[After solving a problem that had troubled you, you finally gathered your energy and decided to find that "Jin Bing" to ask for clarification. Everything needs a reliable answer, even if he can't be the real Jin Tiandi.]

【But, is it really impossible? 】

[There is something strange and beyond your expectation waiting for you ahead...]

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(End of this chapter)