Zhou Yanzhi smiled and couldn't help but reach out to rub his little friend's head: "You discovered it. This is the biggest secret of the entire wilderness for nearly a million years."
A secret? Xiao Yu was stunned. Was Mr. Zhou teasing him? How could this be a secret?
"There's a saying that goes, 'Those involved are often confused.' Many barbarians don't realize this problem. And it was only after I became the young master of the Western Wilderness border region that I gradually realized it.
The spiritual energy of the entire Hundred Thousand Wilds is very thin. Unless there is a large supply of spiritual stones and spiritual food, otherwise, cultivation will be very slow. In fact, in the wild world, long ago, people relied on physical training to achieve enlightenment. It is said that millions and tens of millions of years ago, some people achieved divine enlightenment through physical training.
That's why some people here, even without spiritual roots, strive to cultivate their Qi. And the reason many people don't realize your question is because spiritual food is scarce here. Even if someone improves their cultivation by consuming spiritual food and plants, they tacitly keep it a secret.
"How strange! This place is clearly vast and sparsely populated, with ample cultivated land. Yet, in my memory, why is the spiritual grain harvest so low?"
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"The key to spiritual food is the word 'spiritual'. Sometimes, in a large field, there might only be one or two plants that are spiritual food. Furthermore, the spiritual pearls and spiritual stones here are also very low-grade. Compared to the spiritual pearls and spiritual stones in the central city of the Western Wasteland, the spiritual stones we handed over are only one-third of the quality of those in the central city."
“…So low!”
"In ancient times, humans lived by hunting, eating the flesh and blood of high-level demonic beasts to fill their stomachs and cultivate themselves. Spiritual food was domesticated over nearly a million years."
Xiao Yu recalled the past and realized that there were indeed very few delicacies here. Even the meat of low-level monsters was considered a top-tier delicacy. Most of the time, the treats offered by large families were to eat the meat of wild beasts, which were superior to ordinary animals and had particularly ferocious fighting power.
"Speaking of which, storage tools are also scarce in our area. Each year, I can only receive one hundred storage rings with an internal space of one hundred square meters or more from the Western Wilds headquarters. The largest storage bag is fifty square meters, but there is only a quota of five thousand. In my memory, the area under my management is equivalent to the entire Asian region. Wanxiang Pavilion has thirty branches.
The three-square-meter ones we have are usually only worn by high-level Qi Refiners. The market price of one is 100,000 spirit stones, but in reality, they are in short supply. So, when they enter the secret realm, they naturally won't bring anything 'useless' with them."
Xiao Yu: ...
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Xiao Yu and Zhou Yanzhi wandered around the valley again, but couldn't find the so-called purple orchid, so they simply gave up looking. They took out pots and pans and prepared to cook.
"That's it..." Xiao Yu's expression turned bad when he saw Zhou Yanzhi take out the so-called small bag of flour. It was really just a small bag, about the size of a bag of brown sugar in the supermarket, and it was not full.
Zhou Yanzhi: "A small bag like this can probably be sold for fifty spirit stones."
"Didn't you say before that it was thirty spirit stones per pound?"
“That’s the price when you’re lucky.”
When Xiao Yu saw the flour, he muttered to himself, this is too little.
But there was no other way, so he could only cut more radish and make some shredded radish pancakes. Because there were enough radishes, Xiao Yu was able to make thirty pancakes with the last bit of flour.
"This spiritual energy is too abundant." He felt so full after eating only two or three pancakes that he had to stop and refine it before continuing.
Because of this, after eating ten pancakes in a row with hot and sour radish soup and cold shredded radish, the two not only expanded their meridians by one tenth in just three days and three nights, but also raised their cultivation to the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining.
When the sun rose on the fourth day, the two packed up and left the valley.
Perhaps the valley previously belonged to Vine Peak, so there was only grass growing inside, no animals or spiritual plants, and no one passed by.
Here, the two of them had just walked out of the valley when they ran into a group of people. This group, like the group Xiao Yu had joined before, was looking for the Wood Spirit Fire.
However, this time, seeing that the two men were at the seventh level of Qi Refining and were well dressed, the large army simply ignored them.
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The two watched the large group leave in a grand procession, waited a moment, and then followed. Going against the flow at this moment would be unwise, especially when the entirety of the secret realm was interested in the Wood Spirit Fire. Rather than arousing suspicion, it would be better to assume they were trying to "pick up some slack."
In a world without the rule of law, those who are different can easily be attacked by the crowd.
"There's a cave over there with a door. It's quite secluded." Xiao Yu and Zhou Yanzhi followed the main group from morning to afternoon, encountering two other groups along the way. Some, like them, were just casual cultivators, following behind others. But now, as the sun was setting, they decided it would be best to find a safe place to rest. This final night might be the craziest.
Zhou Yanzhi pulled Xiao Yu along and they ran around in the woods for a while before diving underground and running towards the cave.
The cave was small, with a stone door, stone walls, and a bathtub-sized pool in the middle. The water in the pool seemed to be rich in spiritual energy.
The two of them didn't approach rashly. They first used their spiritual sense to test the water, and then used their divine sense to test the water. Even so, in the end, the water in the pool was drained out by the two of them and poured into the large water tank in the space.
As the last drop of water disappeared from the pool, the originally smooth, flat-bottomed pool suddenly transformed into a cave. My spiritual sense probed into the cave, revealing a staircase below.
Most importantly, this cave exudes a rich spiritual energy.
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