Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest-Chapter 759: Departure
Chapter 759 -759: Departure
Upon arriving in the Foggy Mountain Realm, also known as the Bell World, Wang Chen not only lost all his cultivation level, but even his Immortal Cultivation panel, the cheat that defied the heavens, was sealed, transforming from the original luxurious high-end version into a shrunken beggar version.
Although skill experience points could still be farmed, the most important Heavenly Merit Human Virtue System was gone.
As a result, now there was a new Qi-Blood value.
And these Qi-Blood points were undoubtedly obtained by killing people, or more precisely, by executing martial artists.
Back at home, Wang Chen, through analysis and comparison, deduced that the number of points probably had a directly proportional relationship to the cultivation level of the person killed.
A First Order Skin Refinement martial artist was worth 1 Qi-Blood value, while a Second Order Flesh Refinement was worth 10 points.
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The group of bandits he had slain included a Third Order Bone Refining Realm individual, from whom he had received the only hundred Qi-Blood points.
This was very direct and clear.
The question was, what use was this Qi-Blood value, after all?
Wang Chen tried adding points to his cultivation technique, but there was no response whatsoever.
But when his attention shifted to the skills column, he immediately noticed a “+” sign silently emerging at the end.
That’s right!
[Qi-Blood -1]
[Skill: Bone-Tempering Tendon-Transforming Blood-Fueling Method (Grandmaster): 13/500]
[Qi-Blood: 131]
Wang Chen quickly figured out the exchange ratio between Qi-Blood and experience points—1:1.
Meaning 1 Qi-Blood point could add 1 skill experience point.
No matter how much you added, it was the same.
Wang Chen felt slightly disappointed with this result, knowing that the previous Heavenly Merit Human Virtue could add to attributes and cultivation techniques, where skill experience was the least cost-effective.
However, having something was still better than having nothing.
After some thought, Wang Chen dumped all his Qi-Blood points into the only skill he possessed.
[Skill: Bone-Tempering Tendon-Transforming Blood-Fueling Method (Grandmaster): 144/500]
It was time saved, as well as the resources needed for cultivation.
As for skills, there was another matter that was rather frustrating for Wang Chen.
Without nature’s spiritual energy, he could not practice spells, and despite practicing his Vajra Fist, Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm, and other martial techniques acquired from mortals countless times, they failed to show up in the skills column.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method, his main cultivation technique, didn’t receive the same treatment; otherwise, Wang Chen’s cultivation progress wouldn’t have been so rapid, breaking through to the Fourth Order Blood-Refining Realm in just a month.
According to Shi Laowu’s words, reaching the Blood-Refining Realm would place him among the mainstream martial artists in Red Cliff City.
Originally, the plan was for the village chief to take Wang Chen to Red Cliff three days later.
The sudden appearance of the bandits immediately disrupted this plan.
Since Shi Laowu couldn’t guarantee that the escaped bandits wouldn’t return for revenge, for safety reasons, as the only Bone Refining Realm martial artist in Little Stone Village, he had to stay for a while.
Not wanting to delay Wang Chen’s future, Shi Laowu decided to let his own cousin accompany Wang Chen.
Three days later, the time to set off arrived.
Shi Laowu’s cousin was named Shi Yan, and just the name sounded tough, but in fact, this man was one of the few shrewd people in Little Stone Village, with experience as a Traveling Merchant in many cities and thus was quite knowledgeable.
In the Foggy Mountain Realm, there were indeed merchants traveling back and forth.
However, Traveling Merchants didn’t need to brave the grave dangers of crossing the wilderness shrouded in mist.
They took the Holy Ancestor’s Way.
And the so-called Holy Ancestor’s Way was a network of passages sprawling beneath the Foggy Mountain Realm!
A long time ago, the Foggy Mountain Realm was completely dominated by fierce beasts, and the human tribes faced extremely harsh living conditions, almost reaching the brink of extinction.
But in the most critical moment, a powerful individual stood up and led the humans against the fierce beasts.
To survive, this warrior organized people to tirelessly dig underground tunnels day and night, partly to defend against attacks from the fierce beasts and partly to connect people living in different areas.
Together, they watched out for each other and jointly resisted the fierce beasts!
Latter, this warrior was revered as the “Holy Ancestor,” and the tunnels initiated by him were named “Holy Ancestor’s Way.”
Over the course of thousands of years, Holy Ancestor’s Way has undergone countless expansions and enlargements, connecting tens of thousands of villages and cities, allowing the human race to communicate, trade, and firmly establish themselves in the Foggy Mountain Realm.
And the Holy Ancestor’s Way is the only pathway from Little Stone Village to Red Cliff City!
The entrance to the pathway is located in the village chief’s house.
When Wang Chen left, two to three hundred people out of the more than four hundred in Little Stone Village came to see him off.
They were there to bid him farewell!
This was not only because Wang Chen had slain the bandits who attacked the village; in the past three days, he had ventured into the wilderness several times, bringing back thousands of pounds of prey.
Pure Second Order fierce beasts!
This was Wang Chen’s final gift to Little Stone Village, a way to conclude the karma he had with this village in this life.
All of this beast meat was of excellent quality. If used properly, it could greatly enhance the strength of Little Stone Village because the qi-blood of fierce beasts is most vigorous and is a nourishing supplement for martial artists.
Everyone was immensely grateful for Wang Chen’s generosity and learned that he was heading to Red Cliff City, they all came to say goodbye.
After saying farewell to Shi Laowu and others, Wang Chen followed Shi Yan into the tunnel leading to Holy Ancestor’s Way.
Carrying a torch, they walked a long way in the pitch-dark tunnel until it suddenly opened up, and even the space around them lit up.
A passageway resembling a mine tunnel appeared before Wang Chen.
“This is the Holy Ancestor’s Way!”
The path guide, Shi Yan, dropped the nearly burnt-out torch and said with a sigh, “I haven’t been here in three years.”
The reason Shi Yan, once a Traveling Merchant, no longer traded was because of a bandit attack three years prior, during which he not only lost his goods but also nearly lost his life.
He recuperated in Little Stone Village for a long time before he slowly recovered.
If it weren’t for Shi Laowu’s assignment, he wouldn’t have wanted to enter the Holy Ancestor’s Way again!
The Holy Ancestor’s Way isn’t completely safe; in fact, the underground is filled with all kinds of dangers.
Such as bandits, earth beasts, hidden torrents, cave-ins…
No one can say for sure how large or long the Holy Ancestor’s Way is now, or how many branches and side passages it connects.
For thousands of years, humans have continuously excavated and expanded it, and together with the natural caves and underground rivers, they’ve created an immense underground labyrinth. Anyone unfamiliar with it who enters would definitely get lost.
Although the Holy Ancestor’s Way is deep underground, it isn’t pitch black.
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The light comes from clusters of large and small mushrooms growing on the cave walls.
These mushrooms’ caps are covered with white spots and emit a faint glow.
The light from a single mushroom is negligible, but spread out in their thousands, their combined glow is enough to illuminate the long Holy Ancestor’s Way so that one need not grope around in the dark.
Shi Yan, noticing Wang Chen observing these mushrooms, smiled and said, “These are luminous fungi; they grow everywhere underground, but it’s a pity they’re poisonous and can’t be eaten.”
Wang Chen nodded.
“Let’s go,”
Shi Yan continued, “We still have a long way to go!”
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The first installment is here.
