Chapter 395 Lighting up the New World
After Cao Bin's hand completely eliminated the last obstacle, Meng Zhou calmed down and did not do anything unnecessary.
Ten days later.
Meng Zhou had turned into a wolf demon and stayed quietly in a beast bag.
The owner of the beast bag, a cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan, had come to another nearby spiritual island under the guidance of two Jindan monks in the observation hall.
After he stood at the designated position, the formation was activated.
Starting from the edge of the spiritual island, faint space ripples converged to the center of the spiritual island, where the cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan stood.
In the process of convergence, the faint space ripples continued to merge with each other, and the space ripples became more and more obvious.
Finally, when the space ripples approached the cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan, they had turned into a space bubble, completely enveloping him.
This space bubble wrapped the cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan and did not stop changing.
Under the continuous promotion of subsequent space ripples, the space bubble quickly became smaller, and the cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan who was wrapped in it seemed to be compressed.
In this process, its traces were becoming fainter and fainter.
At a certain moment, when the space bubble that envelops the mid-stage Jindan cultivator becomes smaller than a fist, its traces become so faint that they are barely detectable.
Completely disappearing.
With such changes, the subsequent space ripples become smaller and smaller.
Finally, the spiritual island regains its calm.
And just half a day later, the spiritual island, which had just calmed down, has space ripples again.
However, this time the space ripples no longer surge from the edge of the spiritual island to the central area, but continue to spread from the central area of the spiritual island to all directions.
As waves of space ripples surged from the center of the spiritual island, a space bubble appeared in the center of the space ripples.
At first, the volume of this space bubble was very small, and its presence was very faint. The outline of a human figure standing in the center of this small space bubble seemed even fainter, as if it was an illusory outline drawn by a little light ink.
But as the space ripples from the inside out continued to surge one after another, the space bubble quickly grew larger, and the originally faint and small outline of the human figure inside also grew larger and quickly materialized.
When the space bubble disappeared along with the cessation of the space ripples, a cultivator looked outside in a daze, as if he had not yet fully adapted.
The Jindan cultivator in the observation hall did not wait for him to slowly adapt, and immediately took him to the heart-searching array according to the procedure to make sure that this person had not stained anything "dirty" on his body during his departure from the Xingxiu Sea.
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Meng Zhou, who was in the beast bag, could not feel any space ripples or space bubbles.
He did not even feel that his body had changed at all. From the perspective of the observer, as the space bubble quickly became smaller and changed from real to virtual, he did not feel anything special.
Although, he had known this kind of observation perspective very clearly through Cao Bin's memory.
It seemed that in just a moment, the surrounding environment had changed drastically, from the spirit island to the hall of a cave.
As a "hitchhiker", the Jindan mid-stage cultivator, after entering this cave in the third-level spirit vein somewhere in the Hongze wilderness from the Xingxiu Sea, as usual, first completed the task handover with the original guarding Jindan here.
Half a day later, as the original guardian Jiedan disappeared and left, he became the new owner of this cave.
The new guardian Jiedan seemed to be quite curious about this new environment. After roughly circling the area covered by the formation, he came to the core area of the third-level top-grade guarding formation.
He sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to experience it. After a while, he was ready to take out the formation flag given to him by the previous guardian Jiedan when the task was handed over, so as to accelerate his familiarity and control of this formation.
This was related to his personal safety during the guarding mission, so he had to pay attention to it.
What he didn't know was that just when he wanted to take out the formation flag, but hadn't taken it out yet, his eyes that were originally closed slowly opened.
The eyes were still the same eyes, but the charm contained in them had already changed fundamentally.
He reached out and patted the beast bag on his waist, and a sleeping wolf demon flew out of the beast bag.
At the moment when this "wolf demon" flew out of the beast bag, there was a smooth and smooth change, and the wolf demon turned into a person.
This person was none other than Meng Zhou.
As soon as Meng Zhou thought about it, a wolf demon that had been prepared in advance in the spirit gourd space and was exactly the same as the one he had just transformed appeared in front of him.
——During the ten days of waiting, Meng Zhou not only refined a wolf-shaped Tai Sui body, but also used the original wolf demon's heart essence and blood in advance to make the Tai Sui body complete the flesh and blood transformation.
He had made a "backup" early, and now he called it out immediately when he needed it.
When a blood-colored meatball that had just been extracted from Meng Zhou's body and was still slightly squirming was slapped into the wolf demon's body, Meng Zhou's hitchhiking into the Hongze Wasteland was completely over.
Then, Meng Zhou skillfully dealt with all the abnormal time traces he had left here, re-editing what needed to be re-edited, and directly erasing what needed to be erased.
After clearing all the beginnings and ends, Meng Zhou's figure had already skillfully escaped into the interlayer between the real world and the real world, floating away, without any nostalgia for this cave.
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“This is the Hongze Wasteland.”
Soon after leaving the cave, Meng Zhou entered a vast expanse of water.
Meng Zhou’s current experience is far from what he had seen before leaving the “Juye Wasteland”.
He not only knew that the eight wastelands in the outer domain actually referred to eight different wastelands.
In addition to the Juye Wasteland where he was originally located and the Hongze Wasteland where he was currently, there were six other wastelands, named "Wansong", "Lingyue", "Tianyun", "Lianlu", "Shiyuan" and "Gucui".
Each wasteland has its own unique characteristics.
In comparison, the Juye Wasteland where he was originally located was relatively the one with less prominent characteristics among the many wastelands.
The Hongze Wasteland where he was now was the one with the largest proportion of water among the eight wastelands.
In the entire Hongze Wasteland, nearly 80% of the area was vast waters, and this huge water area was almost connected into one, forming an endless ocean with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.
The 20% or so of land was dotted on this vast ocean in the form of islands.
In this Hongze Wasteland, most of the dangerous places and desperate places were also in the waters.
Because of the fluidity of the waters, many dangerous places are no longer fixed in a certain place, but wander around with the changes of the water currents.
For example, the famous third-level evil vein fog sea.
It is a place with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, covered by thick evil fog. Not only is its outline constantly changing, it has no fixed form, and its location is also moving slowly and irregularly.
If it is unfortunate enough to approach a human settlement area, a massive migration with families will be inevitable.
This natural environment, which is very different from the Juye Wilderness, has created a natural ecology and human activities that are very different from the Juye Wilderness.
The "human activities" here are not only the cultivation world composed of cultivators, but also the foundation of cultivators, the secular world of mortals.
In general, in this Hongze Wilderness, the secular world of mortals and the world of cultivators are not as clear as in the Juye Wilderness.
In the Juye Wilderness, mortals basically say goodbye to the secular world from the moment they embark on the path of cultivation. Everyone basically lives their own life and does not disturb each other.
But in Hongze Wilderness, it is not so clear-cut. A large number of low-level cultivators who are still in the stage of Qi training and foundation building even exist as guardians of mortal settlements.
A large settlement not only has a large number of mortals as the cornerstone, but also a large number of Qi training and foundation building cultivators as nerves and skeletons, and even powerful and long-lived Jindan cultivators as the core.
It is different from the cultivation sects in Juye Wilderness and the mortal kingdom in Juye Wilderness. It is a more complex and diverse "monster".
The cultivators in Hongze Wilderness are so "careful" to mortals, not because they are more kind, but because they have to do so.
Because the mortals in Hongze Wilderness are very fragile without the protection of cultivators, and their ability to resist risks is almost zero.
Sea beasts, tsunamis, fog, strong winds...
There are too many forces that can destroy them.
But no matter how weak mortals are, they are also indispensable cornerstones.
If there are no enough mortals, the cultivation world will gradually "wither" due to the interruption of the source.
Therefore, the closer combination of mortals and cultivators in Hongze Wilderness has nothing to do with good or evil, but is the special creation of the natural environment.
It is for this reason that the importance of a spiritual island, a spiritual island with a large enough area and sufficient spiritual quality, is self-evident.
And three of the six third-level spiritual veins in Hongze Wilderness are such spiritual islands.
Among the other three, one is also on the sea surface, but it is pure water, with only scattered coral reefs exposed above the water and dotted in between;
The other two are simply on the seabed, all of which are places that are not suitable for mortals to reproduce on a large scale.
Meng Zhou compared the changes brought to Hongze Wilderness by Xingxiu Palace after it came out of the mountain, and sighed in his heart:
"The means of Xingxiu Palace in Juye Wilderness are really gentle."
In the eyes of the cultivators in Juye Wilderness, the advent of Xingxiu Palace has brought catastrophic changes to the five domains.
During the chaos that lasted for several years and was completely disordered, it is unknown how many cultivators died and dissolved in the soil of an unknown area, and it is impossible to count them specifically.
But if they knew the changes in the Hongze Wasteland, they would know that "disaster" is also a result of comparison.
Compared with the Hongze Wasteland, the changes in the Juye Wasteland can only be regarded as "skin-and-skin impact".
In the nearly two hundred years since the Xingxu Palace closed the mountain, the biggest change in the Hongze Wasteland was that the three third-level spiritual islands that were originally guarded by the Xingxu Palace and were not allowed to enter by outsiders suddenly ushered in explosive development.
Not only did the number of practitioners who practiced Qi, built foundations, and formed elixirs increase sharply, but the number of mortals expanded even faster.
At first, the number of mortals was not so terrifying.
But just like a green grassland with no natural enemies and extremely rich resources, what would happen after the first nest of rabbits came here and reproduced for more than ten generations?
The whole grassland was filled with rabbits until the number of rabbits reached the limit that the grassland could carry!
When the Xingxu Palace came here again after nearly two hundred years, when they wanted to regain control of the three spiritual islands, they saw mortals who were almost everywhere in the spiritual islands, densely packed like "rabbits" that were flooding.
Faced with this situation, Xingxiu Palace made the same decision as Juye Wilderness.
Perhaps considering that implementing this decision here would require a greater mental burden than in Juye Wilderness, the Xingxiu Palace Yuanyings who descended on Hongze Wilderness not only came two at once, but they were all male cultivators.
The only "gentleness" they showed was that they did not expel them immediately, but gave them three more months.
Once the three-month deadline was up, no resistance, pity, begging, or curses could stop them from taking back the Spirit Island and driving all non-Xingxiu Palace humans into the sea.
Under this ruthless action, how many mortals died in the belly of the fish, and how many unspeakable tragedies occurred, only God knows.
Perhaps, Xingxiu Palace also knew that it had committed a huge sin in the Hongze Wasteland.
These messages were basically sealed inside the Hongze Wasteland by tacit understanding. When the Jindan guarding this area returned, they never mentioned this information.
Therefore, before entering this area, Meng Zhou's understanding of all this was also very vague.
It was not until his true body entered and he was far away from the third-level Spirit Island that he learned more about everything in detail from the settlements he met along the way, as well as the resentment directed directly at Xingxiu Palace.
If resentment could kill people, I'm afraid that Yuanying Zhenjun would not be able to bear it in person.
Another unexpected gain for Meng Zhou was that the existence of Lihen Sect was not a secret in Hongze Wasteland.
Even the worship of the three-headed statue of Lihen Sect was an open activity in many human settlements.
Of course, after the advent of Xingxiu Palace, this behavior was also severely cracked down by Xingxiu Palace.
For this matter, the Yuanying Zhenjun of Xingxiu Palace went to the battlefield several times and fought fiercely with the three-headed statue in the vast sea.
The consequence was that Xingxiu Palace completely became an evil character like a "demon" in Hongze Wasteland, full of hostility and hatred;
Lihen Sect became the patron saint of Hongze Wasteland, unless Xingxiu Palace was ruthless and carried out an indiscriminate cleansing of the humans in Hongze Wasteland.
Otherwise, the belief in Lihen Sect could not be eradicated at all, but turned from light to dark, making it even more difficult to eradicate.
Not to mention whether Xingxiu Palace could come up with such determination, even if it was really determined to do so, could it really do it?
It is true that the power of Xingxiu Palace has an overwhelming advantage over Hongze Wasteland, but it is not infinite.
It is even more impossible for Xingxiu Palace to smash all its strength into this place.
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After arriving in Hongze Wilderness, Meng Zhou spent a day to understand all this, and the feeling in his heart was really complicated.
The determination and ruthlessness of Xingxiu Palace in executing the decision of "reclaiming the third-level spiritual vein" shocked Meng Zhou.
The infiltration and even "kidnapping" of the entire human group by Lihen Sect made Meng Zhou feel absurd.
"It turned into a regular?!"
This time, in addition to the core plan, Meng Zhou actually had some additional ideas.
One of them, Meng Zhou had a beautiful idea.
If he was lucky enough to find traces of Lihen Sect's Jindan cultivators in this area, he would pack them all and collect them in his spirit gourd space.
You know, the first fourth-level skill he mastered, "Blood Rebirth", was stuck in the realm of great success and could not go further because of the lack of cultivation materials.
Meng Zhou dug out all the Lihen Sect's Jindan in Juye Wilderness, and only let his "Blood Rebirth" reach the step of great success.
Now, because of the core plan, he had to frequently go to the other seven wastelands, so Meng Zhou's mind was naturally active.
"If I can catch more Lihen Sect's Jindan and collect them, I must not miss the opportunity."
But now, after a deep understanding of the "ecology" of Hongze Wasteland, Meng Zhou was silent.
Many Lihen Sect's Jindan completely overlap with the core guardian of a human settlement.
If they are captured, the settlement will be seriously injured and may even fall apart immediately.
Even Xingxiu Palace did not do this.
They only targeted the act of gathering to "worship the statue of Lihen God". As for whether those Jindan monks practiced the methods of Lihen Sect, as long as they did not run into their guns head-on, they would ignore it.
Thinking of this, Meng Zhou shook his head.
He decided not to dwell on this, and to do the right thing first.
After leaving the third-level spiritual vein guarding the Jindan of Xingxiu Palace, Meng Zhou entered a sea of fog and chose a secret place in this dangerous third-level evil vein as a place to stay.
After entering the "Lotus Space" and sitting cross-legged, Meng Zhou began his own actions after adjusting his state to the best state.
He first waved his hand lightly, and fifty "original" Tai Sui bodies of the peak level of the third-grade middle grade appeared in front of him.
Then he stretched out his finger and flicked it, and fifty balls of the huge amount of heart essence and blood stored in the spirit gourd space flew out and shot at the fifty Tai Sui bodies respectively.
Soon, as these heart essence and blood spread inside the fifty Tai Sui bodies, they quickly completed the transformation of flesh and blood.
Then, Meng Zhou injected fifty balls of the third-grade middle-grade soul clones into the eyebrows of the fifty Tai Sui bodies that had completed the transformation of flesh and blood.
——This is also the reason why Meng Zhou chose the third-grade middle-grade Tai Sui body instead of the third-grade upper-grade.
If he used the third-grade upper-grade Tai Sui body, with his current ability, after completing the transformation of flesh and blood, each of them would have the cultivation of the ninth level of Jindan.
In this Hongze wilderness, with such strength, they can ignore any obstacles and walk sideways.
But to drive them, you need a third-grade upper-quality soul clone.
The limited masterless divine will prevents Meng Zhou from producing so many soul clones of such quality.
-- After clearing out all the Lihen Sect strongholds in the Juye Wilderness, Meng Zhou harvested a total of 250 masterless divine wills. If he refines them into soul clones, he can get 50 third-grade upper-quality ones, or 125 third-grade middle-quality ones.
But this was the number at the peak. In order to avoid being discovered by him when setting up Lian Ziling, all the Tai Sui flesh and blood that exploded in front of him, and the soul clones inside were not preserved, and were destroyed along with the self-explosion.
Just the time in the "Qihuang Sect" lair, the loss of the ownerless divine will exceeded twenty copies.
Therefore, he simply cannot produce soul clones that can arm fifty third-level upper-grade Tai Sui bodies.
Between quality and quantity, Meng Zhou chose quantity.
After the third-level middle-grade peak Tai Sui bodies completed the flesh and blood transformation, each of them also had the cultivation of the sixth level of the Jindan peak. Although they could not walk sideways in the Hongze wilderness, as long as they did not deliberately commit suicide, there would basically be no safety problems.
That's enough.
As the fifty groups of soul clones merged into the eyebrows of these Tai Sui bodies, the fifty Tai Sui bodies that completed the flesh and blood transformation "came alive" one after another.
"They" who "came alive" did not stay for a moment. After leaving the "Lotus Space", they merged with the surrounding waters.
Only Meng Zhou knew that "they" were quickly dispersing in all directions.
Before "they" left, Meng Zhou distributed 200 high-grade spirit stones to each of them.
The purpose was to allow "them" to keep moving like a "perpetual motion machine" until these spirit stones were used up.
This time alone, Meng Zhou issued 10,000 high-grade spirit stones.
Despite such extravagance, Meng Zhou did not even blink, but felt a sense of lightness that "reduced the burden" on the spirit gourd space.
These fifty Tai Sui bodies that were rapidly dispersing to various parts of the Hongze Wasteland had only one thing to do, which was to establish a sufficient number of "visual anchor points" for him in the shortest possible time.
In this regard, the Hongze Wasteland had a special advantage.
Because nearly 80% of the area was water, the "visual anchor points" he arranged could all be built with the "Qianying Water Mirror" as the core.
There was no need to "adapt to local conditions" or to carry out special matching designs, and it could be pushed forward without thinking.
As long as the action force is sufficient, the "visual anchor point" can be quickly spread all over the Hongze Wasteland like scattering sesame seeds.
Just after these Tai Sui bodies dispersed, Meng Zhou focused his attention on the soul pool in the sea of consciousness.
The calm soul pool suddenly became active.
The life-giving poison that was dormant in it "woke up" continuously.
Under Meng Zhou's thoughts, it escaped from the soul pool and the sea of consciousness, turning into a series of "transparent round mirrors" and a series of life-giving poison flying swords.
A life-giving poison flying sword was inserted into the reserved slot of a "transparent round mirror" and escaped from the "lotus space".
In an instant, a new area was born next to Meng Zhou's original "interpretation world".
This new area was basically all in a fog.
Only one small point was lit up by this "transparent round mirror".
Then, with the traction of this "transparent round mirror" under the "visual anchor point" arranged by the Tai Sui body that was dispersed in advance, it began to move in the Hongze Wasteland.
A small "bright spot" turned into a thin "bright line".
There are far more than one "transparent round mirror" that escaped from the "lotus space" and scattered into the void of the Hongze Wasteland.
The boiling soul pool is "spitting out" the accumulation that has lasted for more than ten years and has never stopped.
One by one, the "transparent round mirrors" took shape in front of Meng Zhou, and then disappeared one by one, leaving no trace, escaping from the "lotus space" and quickly dispersing in all directions of the Hongze Wasteland.
Wherever they passed, the "lines" eventually turned into a rapidly expanding "surface".
With Meng Zhou's location as the center of the circle, the brand new world of the Hongze Wasteland quickly lit up in the "interpretation world". (End of this chapter)