Chapter 264 : What Kind of Strange Place Is This?
Chapter 264: What Kind of Strange Place Is This?
After sensing Li Tianwei's aura disappear completely, the Celestial Spirit's heart trembled.
Before he had left, the Celestial Spirit had clearly felt that this unknown existence had noticed it.
"Who exactly is he? He's only at the Nascent Soul Realm, yet he possesses such terrifying power. Even a Fallen Immortal obeys his commands."
"Could he be the reincarnation of some extraordinary existence from the Immortal Realm?"
"No... that's impossible. The Immortal Realm has already been completely sealed off. It can no longer connect to the lower realm. Even reincarnation is impossible."
Very quickly, the Celestial Spirit dismissed all those possibilities.
It knew very well the current state of the cultivation world.
That absolute severance was the most terrifying event of the past several thousand years.
Even True Lords of the Immortal Realm could no longer reach the lower realm through it.
While the Celestial Spirit was lost in thought, Zhang Qingrou, who had previously been on the verge of death, had already recovered completely under Li Tianwei's power.
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"What happened? I passed out."
"My body feels so warm!"
"Didn't I use Nirvana Phoenix Heaven? All the vitality I burned away has recovered, and it even increased quite a bit."
"Could this be true Nirvana? Destroying myself before standing anew?"
"As expected, my destiny and abilities are simply overwhelming."
Feeling the changes within her body after waking up, Zhang Qingrou could not help sighing in admiration.
Meanwhile, the Celestial Spirit, which had been deep in thought within the jade pendant, instantly had its train of thought completely disrupted by Zhang Qingrou's carefree attitude.
"Zhang Qingrou, when are you ever going to act like a normal person?"
The Celestial Spirit could not help complaining.
"This time we were simply lucky."
"A great expert descended and saved us."
"Otherwise, you'd already be dead."
The Celestial Spirit immediately recounted everything that had happened.
Originally, it had wanted to dampen Zhang Qingrou's overconfident attitude.
"Huh? I thought I had broken through destruction and been reborn."
"So it was actually a great expert who saved me."
"As expected, I'm someone who always turns misfortune into fortune."
After hearing the explanation, that was Zhang Qingrou's immediate conclusion.
The Celestial Spirit could only sigh helplessly.
It had completely given up on Zhang Qingrou.
Zhang Qingrou, however, paid no attention to what the Celestial Spirit was thinking.
After saying that, she immediately headed deeper into the Northern Spirit Domain.
"Aren't we going back?"
The Celestial Spirit could not help asking.
"Since I've already come to the Northern Spirit Domain, wouldn't it be a waste not to have a little fun first?"
"Although... I do feel like the Spiritual Energy here is a little strange."
As one blessed with great destiny, Zhang Qingrou's senses were naturally extraordinarily sharp.
The difference in Spiritual Energy between the two Spirit Domains was exceptionally obvious to her.
However, since this was another Spirit Domain, she considered differences in Spiritual Energy perfectly normal.
Very soon, Zhang Qingrou arrived at the nearest small city.
After descending slowly from the sky, she entered the city and immediately sensed that the people here were completely different from the mortals she had encountered in the Western Spirit Domain.
At the very least, their eyes shone with life.
Unlike the mortals back home, they were not frail and emaciated.
Their clothes were clean and orderly.
Moreover, the entire city bustled with large-scale construction.
Everything was peaceful.
Nothing resembled the Western Spirit Domain, where both the mortal world and the cultivation world had descended into complete chaos because of the Evil Demons.
It was as though this place were an earthly paradise.
"I remember you saying that now that the Evil Demons have descended, the situation in all Four Spirit Domains should be more or less the same."
"So why does it feel like the Northern Spirit Domain hasn't been affected at all?"
Zhang Qingrou could not help asking the Celestial Spirit.
"How would I know?"
"But with that great expert here, he probably eliminated all those Evil Demons."
"That's likely why this region is so peaceful."
The Celestial Spirit also found it rather strange, but quickly arrived at what seemed like the most reasonable explanation.
"Really?"
"I still feel like something's off."
Even after hearing that answer, Zhang Qingrou remained unconvinced.
Just then, she suddenly sensed the aura of a Qi Refinement cultivator.
She immediately turned around.
The moment she saw the person's figure,
she was completely dumbfounded.
"What the heck?"
"That little kid is actually at the fifth layer of Qi Refinement!"
She saw a child squatting in a corner of the street, using a tree branch to write and draw on the ground, occasionally pausing to think.
Zhang Qingrou initially assumed it was some bored cultivator disguising themselves as a child.
However, after carefully sensing him, as well as the unmistakable childish innocence between his brows,
it was obvious that he truly was a child.
Before Zhang Qingrou could recover from her shock, several more children ran out from another street.
Each of them also possessed Qi Refinement cultivation.
Some were stronger, some weaker.
A few of them were even casually playing with simple spells while fooling around in the streets.
Meanwhile, the pedestrians merely glanced at them with slight envy.
It was obvious they had long since become accustomed to such sights.
The moment Zhang Qingrou was still feeling puzzled,
the Celestial Spirit's heavy, astonished voice rang out.
"Xiao Rou..."
"I think you're right."
"There's definitely something strange about this place."
"Those children clearly don't possess Spiritual Roots."
"Yet they have Spiritual Energy and have actually become cultivators."
"And there are quite a few people on these streets who also possess cultivation auras..."
"...but none of them have Spiritual Roots."
The instant the Celestial Spirit finished speaking, even Zhang Qingrou, who was usually carefree, felt a chill run down her spine.
An inexplicable sense of fear welled up within her.
"In that case..."
"Run?"
That was Zhang Qingrou's first thought.
The Celestial Spirit naturally agreed.
When it came to escape techniques,
Zhang Qingrou possessed unparalleled talent.
Despite only having Golden Core cultivation, she could display speeds that even Nascent Soul cultivators could not match.
That was precisely how she had managed to escape the Evil Demons.
After consecutively using several escape techniques, Zhang Qingrou had already crossed several hundred li, yet she continued fleeing without stopping.
"I've run so far."
"I've finally escaped that creepy place."
"The large city ahead should be normal, right?"
Looking at the great city before her, Zhang Qingrou finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's stop there and rest."
Just as Zhang Qingrou prepared to settle down temporarily in the large city ahead, suddenly, a tremendous fluctuation of Spiritual Energy spread through the air.
At the same time, a massive dark silhouette slowly emerged among the clouds.
"That's a Spirit Ship..."
"And the fluctuations from activating a teleportation formation."
"Is this the headquarters of some great sect?"
Looking at the enormous Spirit Ship suspended in the sky, together with the formation fluctuations erupting from the great city below,
Zhang Qingrou immediately assumed she had wandered into the territory of some incredibly powerful sect.
"Keep running?"
The Celestial Spirit asked.
"Of course."
"This is probably the headquarters of some great sect."
"If they discover we've trespassed here, we'll probably be hunted down."
Without the slightest hesitation, Zhang Qingrou chose to continue escaping.
Very soon, after repeatedly casting escape techniques,
she tried to find somewhere normal within the Northern Spirit Domain to rest.
Unfortunately, things did not go as she had hoped.
After fleeing twice more, she believed she had finally reached an ordinary place.
Instead, she arrived at yet another great city.
There was still a Spirit Ship.
There was still a teleportation formation.
This time, Zhang Qingrou even entered the city directly.
Inside, there were countless cultivators.
Most of them were in the Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment Realms.
There were very few Golden Core cultivators.
Yet every single one of them shared the same characteristic— they were cultivators without Spiritual Roots.
"What the hell kind of place is this?!"
After witnessing all of this, Zhang Qingrou finally realized something was terribly wrong.
If only one place had been abnormal, perhaps she had simply gone to the wrong location.
But when every place was like this, Zhang Qingrou finally understood that this matter was anything but simple.