The Cave Profound Realm is the sixth realm of immortal cultivation, surpassing the Yuan Dan Realm. It allows one to cultivate Dharma Forms and manipulate the primordial energy of heaven and earth at will, possessing the ability to summon wind and rain and alter the weather of a place. Therefore, it is revered as a human immortal.
Even though one can unleash many mysterious and divine abilities, the Cave Profound Realm is merely a preliminary step into the path of immortality, possessing only a fraction of immortal power; a Human Immortal is not yet a true immortal.
"It's just a drop in the ocean!"
Looking at the surging dark clouds beneath his feet, Feng Bingwen couldn't help but sigh. These clouds and rain were created by him using his supernatural powers and magic, covering an area of dozens of miles.
However, it cannot be said that it had no impact on this severe drought that affected several countries, but it was of little use, because within the area he could explore, there were thousands of miles of land shrouded in this drought.
At this time, Feng Bingwen, who was determined to alleviate the drought, deeply understood that human power has its limits. Even a rainstorm covering a county could not be sustained for long, let alone alleviate the disaster in a country.
This was only because his foundation far surpassed that of ordinary immortals. Otherwise, if it were another immortal, they probably wouldn't have been able to maintain the rain for even half a quarter of an hour, because the clouds in the sky were too thin. If they wanted to bring down rain, they would have to use their magic to create it.
"We can't go on like this; we need to find another way!"
The rain lasted only half an hour before Feng Bingwen stopped transmitting his magic power. The gloomy sky quickly cleared up, and the land that had just been moistened began to dry up again under the reappearing scorching sun.
The mortals, barely clinging to life, looked at the sun that had once again reappeared in the sky. Their hearts, which had been filled with excitement and exhilaration because of the rain, turned to despair again. Many people knelt down on the muddy ground that had just been soaked, kowtowing repeatedly.
"God, please let it rain a little more!"
"Don't stop! How can this little bit be enough?"
"Please, God, have mercy!"
The prayers of ordinary people rose and fell, and Feng Bingwen, standing high in the sky, could hear them clearly. But if he so desired, these mingled voices would not disturb him.
"We can't act blindly; we need to plan ahead!"
Moved by the suffering of the mortal world and the tragedies of humanity, Feng Bingwen, whose mind was restless, has now regained his composure. The emptiness emanating from his dantian tells him that supernatural powers alone are insufficient to save the people struggling in the face of disaster.
He had even considered returning to the mountain gate to borrow a mythical beast from that senior sister, but upon closer reflection, he realized that even if he brought that Dang Kang over, what difference would it make if the disaster wasn't resolved?
Even the auspicious beast that brings abundant harvests when it appears cannot make crops grow in a water-scarce environment.
What are the causes of the drought?
Feng Bingwen felt he had to find the cause first. As a cultivator, he immediately thought of the calamity beasts that could cause thousands of miles of barren land, the most famous of which was the drought demon.
But besides Kuiba, there are other calamity beasts that can also cause severe droughts: Feiyi, Yong, Zhuanyu, Mingshe, Pengshe... With just a little thought, Feng Bingwen came up with several kinds of calamity beasts.
However, it is unlikely that the root cause of the drought is these calamity beasts. Long ago, during the rise of the human race, these calamity beasts, which would have caused great interference and even harm to the production and life of the common people, were driven away or killed by the sages of the human race.
Humanity may have some bloodline of these calamity beasts remaining in the Nine Provinces, but it would never have led to the current situation. After all, even during the era when those calamity beasts ravaged the land, very few could truly cause widespread devastation; at most, they would only affect a single city or town.
The source of this severe drought must be somewhere else; it might even be the birth of a drought demon. Although the conditions for a drought demon to be born are extremely harsh, how many people can guess the mysteries of nature?
"Let's ask the gods!"
After calming down, Feng Bingwen felt that the drought was full of suspicious points and didn't make sense no matter how you looked at it.
Now he has decided to stop hiding from the world and deliberately avoid it. Due to the karmic entanglements, he is different from ordinary cultivators. If he had followed that approach, he would be nothing more than an ordinary mortal who is mediocre and at most seems precocious. How could he have achieved what he has today?
However, when Feng Bingwen followed the dilapidated official road to a small county town, he realized that something was wrong.
"Where did the City Emperor go?"
With a casual flick of his wrist, Feng Bingwen, who had vanished from the sight of mortals, landed in the town's temple. Perhaps due to the recent disasters, the City God Temple, which did not have the power to bring rain, was bustling with worshippers.
However, the incense that rose from the birds simply dissipated into the void, without any deity to guide or gather it back, and was wasted in vain.
What exactly happened here?
Feng Bingwen frowned. Since there was a temple, there must be gods. He could also smell the unique sandalwood fragrance of the incense and the gods, but it was very faint and seemed to have not manifested in the secular world for a long time.
"trouble!"
Five-colored light swirled in Feng Bingwen's eyes. He was searching for the location of the City Emperor's domain. Even if the gods of this place had truly met with an accident, their domain would not collapse in a short time.
As a living immortal, Feng Bingwen quickly found the Dharma Domain hidden in the void. Ripples of immortal light spread beneath his feet, transforming into a road that extended to the end of the city's defensive Dharma Domain, easily breaking it open and extending into it.
Let alone a law domain without divine obstruction, even if that county emperor were still alive, Feng Bingwen could force his way in without asking his opinion. Of course, Feng Bingwen would not do such a domineering and unreasonable thing.
Upon stepping into the City Emperor's Domain, a faint, stale aura assaulted my senses. This was not only because the domain had not been opened or connected to the mortal realm for a considerable period of time, but more importantly, because the life force within it had begun to die out.
"Something really did happen!"
Feng Bingwen looked at everything before him with a serious expression. The sacred landscape that should have been nestled among green hills, clear waters, bamboo groves, bridges, and pines was now tinged with a grayish-white hue.
This was arguably the most miserable City Emperor Domain he had ever seen. A well-managed City Emperor Domain could even rival the blessed lands of immortal sects. Its only drawback was that it was only maintained for a very short time, often only a few hundred years.
"Kid, you look like you've run into big trouble!"
A seemingly teasing, yet not entirely relaxed, aged voice suddenly rang out, followed by a celestial wheel carrying dazzling celestial light leaping from Feng Bingwen's body and hovering behind his head.
"What did you see?"
Without turning his head, Feng Bingwen strode toward the only palace and temple complex in the City Emperor's Domain. To be fair, the incense and deities enjoyed during their heyday were no less than, and perhaps even more so than, those of human emperors.
"I didn't see anything, but the situation is very bad. If you're smart, you should pack your bags and leave now, pretending you didn't see anything!"
The five-colored immortal light swept across the entire domain, which was already in decline and showed signs of decay. The domain was about half the size of a city, and this was only after the domain had begun to collapse. Otherwise, it would have appeared even more vast.
"If you've noticed anything, just say so. Don't utter such useless nonsense!"
Feng Bingwen was well aware that the trouble he was in was considerable, but...
"I am the Supreme Dao Child, traveling within the human realm. If I were to retreat when faced with trouble, wouldn't it be a laughing stock? You, a dignified spirit artifact, don't you feel ashamed to utter such words?"
"Hey, you ungrateful brat, I'm just looking out for your life."
"Isn't it still you I have? If we really run into something, I can just use you as a shield. You're not going to abandon me and run away, are you?"
Feng Bingwen walked into the desolate and dilapidated City God Temple. There was no god left here. What did this mean? It was self-evident. After the gods who worshipped the incense fell, there were hardly any remains. In essence, there was no difference between the gods and their five guardian spirits.
"Of course! I'm just afraid I won't be able to protect you. If something really happens to you, I won't be able to explain it when I get back!"
"Then you'd better put in a little more effort and, while you're at it, help me find out what's going on here!"
What else could it be?
He still spoke in that shameless old man's tone; just hearing his voice was enough to conjure up the image of a disrespectful old scoundrel in one's mind.
"Isn't it obvious? All the incense offerings and religious offerings here have been wiped out, not even a trace left!"
"What do you think was responsible?"
Feng Bingwen stopped in front of a collapsed palace, where the signs of fighting were most obvious, and the desolate law domain had already shown the result of this fierce battle.
All of this is undeniably terrifying to contemplate. This is Donghua Continent, where the divine way reigns supreme. To attack the gods and spirits, even if they are merely county-level emperors, would attract the attention of the continent's divine emperors.
"Whatever did it, I think you should inform the Supreme Dao right now!"
Do you think I can't handle it?
Feng Bingwen neither agreed nor disagreed, but instead asked a question.
"If you were to take action, could you have created this scene?"
"It should work!"
Feng Bingwen pondered for a moment and slowly nodded. After all, he was only a county-level emperor. If he were a prefecture-level emperor, he would probably hesitate.
"Then, if I were to ask you to destroy a city emperor, would you dare?"
"This isn't a question of whether I dare to or not. Given my status, why would I do such a thing?"
Feng Bingwen shook his head, but although he said that, he understood what this spiritual artifact was trying to express.
"The guy who made the move either has a screw loose or he has the audacity to provoke the gods. Do you, a mere mortal immortal, have such audacity?"
"No!"
Feng Bingwen has this much self-awareness.
"so……"
"Let me take another look!"
Feng Bingwen did not linger in this law domain for long. After leaving the law domain, he followed the official road connecting the cities and searched for several more cities. Without exception, the scenery in each city was exactly the same as what he had seen.
Incense smoke drifted and scattered throughout the temple, no god to gather it. At this point, Feng Bingwen had nothing to hesitate about. Although he didn't mind getting involved in karma and quickly accumulating good deeds, this matter was clearly beyond his capabilities.
"This is absolutely absurd!"
Standing atop a section of the city wall, Feng Bingwen looked down at the county town below. Compared to the villages decimated by famine, this county town was relatively populous.
But the people walking on the streets all looked pale and staggered, and if it weren't for the fact that they looked perfectly normal in the sunlight, they would have looked like living corpses.
This was not what surprised Feng Bingwen. What truly ignited his anger was the city's market, because what was sold there was not cattle, sheep, pigs, or dogs, but rather, vegetable people!
During a great famine, people ate each other!
The human tragedies that were only briefly mentioned in history books reappeared before Feng Bingwen's eyes, and Feng Bingwen, who witnessed all of this firsthand, felt a sense of powerlessness.
He is a celestial being of this world, the Supreme Dao Child, but even if he exerts all his strength, how many people can he save?
"Sigh, I'm still too young!"
Seemingly sensing the surging anger in Feng Bingwen's heart, the spiritual artifact hidden within him couldn't help but sigh.
"I've seen similar things at least eight hundred, if not a thousand!"
"So, do all the immortals who truly live forever have developed hearts of stone?"
"It's not that I'm heartless, it's that I'm powerless!"
"Even celestial beings are powerless?"
Feng Bingwen couldn't help but laugh.
"Don't think too highly of celestial beings. If crops can't grow in the ground, just like the rain you just forcibly summoned, a celestial being can force crops to grow and help 10,000 people survive a famine. But as you see before you, if the number of disaster victims increases tenfold or a hundredfold, even a celestial being can't withstand it, not to mention the entanglements of karma and cause and effect. This will directly destroy the celestial being's longevity."
The Five Elements Heavenly Wheel sighed.
"Yes, I know."
Feng Bingwen nodded without refuting. Human power has its limits, and so do immortals. Only ignorant mortals would think that immortals are truly omnipotent. Perhaps only those who reach the level of Dao Venerable can suppress disasters and ignore all cause and effect with ease.
What are you going to do?
Just as he was rambling on and on, expressing his feelings, the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel was suddenly startled, because he discovered that the murderous immortal artifact in the young man's hand was once again hovering above his head.
"I can't save a country, nor can I solve this massive disaster that stretches for thousands of miles, but I can take care of this city right here!"
Feng Bingwen's gaze turned cold. He didn't know how the Heavenly Book defined the standards of good and evil, but he couldn't bear to watch the tragedy of cannibalism unfold before his eyes, even if it was out of necessity for survival.
"Kid, don't mess around. A rain shower is already enough trouble for you, and you still want to manage the whole city!"
"I know what I'm doing!"
"You have no sense of right or wrong! You're ruining your future!"
The Five Elements Heavenly Wheel cursed in exasperation, "There is a difference between immortals and mortals. If immortals interfere too much in human affairs, it will inevitably backfire. It's only a matter of time."
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