Chapter 435 Undercover Investigation (3)
Ji Rong inscribed the situation of Xizhou on a piece of wood and asked Xiaobai to take it back to Danxue Mountain Range to find Qingpingzi and ask for two Yuxu Palace cultivators who could farm, coordinate relationships, had high cultivation, and were willing to endure hardship.
He then wandered around the Western Continent.
Although Xizhou deals in blood and flesh, it is much better than Buzhou. It still has six large blessed lands, and the exact number of other small treasure lands is unknown.
There is a self-proclaimed righteous and upright Puji Cave Heaven, located in the Puxian Mountains, which is ruled by the Mingyang True Immortal Jueming, who has attained immortality.
Puji Cave Heaven has many disciples who make a living by teaching the Dao and killing heretics, and are deeply loved by the common people of the continent.
At the end of the Gu River, in the blessed land of Langhuan, lives the Immortal Lord Ruyuan Yingxiu. She makes a living by weaving dreams and has few disciples. Currently, only three of her disciples are traveling outside the world, and their cultivation levels are not high.
There is a blessed land of rugged difficulty by the shore of Ear Lake. The current ruler is the fourth disciple of Yanhe Great Sage, the demon king Pingcui. They are all skilled in divination, and their disciples are quite capable.
The disciples here cultivate in seclusion in the grotto year-round and do not often go out, but the place is very lively. Cultivators often bring generous gifts to this blessed land to find a fortune teller to predict their fortune and misfortune.
In the middle reaches of the Li River lies Yongquan Fudi, the ancestral home of the Longgunfish clan. This place is bound together by the Longgunfish clan and does not accept outside cultivators; instead, they make a living by selling aquatic creatures.
The Wutang Mountains contain the Wuruo Cave Heaven, the territory of the Wuxue Falcon. This place also does not accept outside cultivators and makes a living by selling mountain beasts.
The mountain rhinoceros's current abode, the Howling Plain, also has a grotto called the Aohui Grotto. It was originally the territory of the Lion Clan of the Western Continent. When the mountain elephant and the mountain dog came to the Howling Plain, they drove them to the foot of Wutang Mountain and occupied the Howling Plain.
Within the territory of Xizhou, in addition to the mountain rhinoceros, there are also mountain weasels, mountain pheasants, mountain robins, mountain badgers, and mountain alligators, all distributed on the branches of the concave cave heaven.
Ji Rong did not reveal her identity, but met with everyone, remembering the good and the bad, and did not retaliate.
Twenty days later, Xiao Bai arrived with Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing, followed by three hundred armored soldiers.
Ji Rong asked in surprise, "Sister Qingqing, Brother, how could Juejun bear to call you two out?"
Gu Qingqing laughed and said, "You said you wanted someone who knows how to farm, is quick-witted and good at coordinating relationships, is capable, and is willing to endure hardship. You practically said it was the two of us, so of course you called us here."
Ji Zhuang, who was standing to the side, nodded in agreement.
"That's not what I meant. I originally wanted Senior Brother Wanfa to call two capable disciples from Jade Void Palace."
Ji Rong said, "There are quite a few cultivators above the Emperor Realm in the Western Continent. I'm worried about you."
"What's there to be afraid of?" Gu Qingqing raised her chin proudly and said, "Although we are only at the King Realm, we are Juejun's divine servants and we also carry Juejun's dragon scales. Who would dare to harm us if they had the guts of a god and gone mad!"
"Besides," Gu Qingqing scratched his leg happily, took out a tangled divine rune, and said, "In addition to the three hundred armored soldiers given by Lord Jue, Lord Shanshui told us to bring either mountain rhinoceroses or mountain crocodiles when we go out in the future. That's really respectable."
Ah Rong, Jue Jun said that we spend our days guarding the mines and farming in the Danxue Mountains. We should change our environment to hone our willpower so that we can have a chance to make further progress.
Don't worry, if a fight really breaks out, won't we just run away?
Ji Rong thought so too. She summoned the mountain gods, including the mountain rhinoceros, and greeted Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang. Then she asked Xiao Bai to take the mountain python and mountain rat back with her.
This time, Ji Rong flew directly to the highest peak of the Niannu Mountains.
The higher you go, the colder it gets, and snowflakes begin to flutter down from the sky.
After passing fifteen peaks in succession, they did not see a trace of cultivators, only some flocks of sheep foraging on the snowy cliffs, and a few scattered white snow leopards lurking in the shadows.
Ji Rong lured one of them over and observed them carefully. Although these creatures possessed a certain level of intelligence, none of them had developed any wisdom.
Ji Rong had no choice but to put them back. They stopped at the highest point, and in less than three breaths, Ji Rong's claws sank deep into the snow.
Though the ice and snow are cold, and the wind and frost are fierce, they do not hinder Ji Rong now.
Her mind sank, and she released the tree trunk. Countless roots pierced through the ice and snow, inserting themselves into the frozen soil. Ji Rong searched bit by bit for the remaining spiritual flow in this mountain land, only finding some broken, unflowing specks of spiritual liquid deep within the nearly depleted spiritual veins.
Disappointment rose in Ji Rong's heart. With such severe depletion, it was no wonder that the mountain python said it needed to be replenished with spirit crystals.
Just as Ji Rong was retracting her roots, she suddenly realized that the mountaintop wasn't devoid of spiritual energy; rather, it was concentrated at the broken sections of the mountain, frozen into ice by the water and sealed inside. If the ice and snow here were consumed, this spiritual energy would dissipate.
Ji Rong then asked, "Mountain python, mountain rat, can you extract the spiritual energy from the middle?"
The two mountain gods, the mountain python and the mountain rat, both shook their heads and said, "My lord, although we can extract it, doing so consumes too much of our source energy."
Ji Rong nodded and said, "Then let's go to the next mountain range."
After crossing the Niannu Mountains, Ji Rong and her group headed directly to the Bingtian Mountains. On the highest peak of this mountain range, she found many dilapidated ruins, beside which lived a group of hairy oxen.
Ji Rong transformed into an ordinary bird, stepped forward, gave them some spiritual herbs, and asked, "This place is harsh, why don't you go down the mountain to live?"
The leader, a mere mortal demon cultivator, shook his head and said, "They'll capture us; we can't go. We are descendants of the Heavenly Ancestor and cannot be slaves."
After parting ways with the herd of yaks, Ji Rong saw some snow pigs, dozens of yellow donkeys, and some birds nesting on a snowy cliff.
When the snow pigs saw Ji Rong coming, they all ran away, but one young donkey in the herd ignored the leader's warning, broke away from the herd, and curiously approached Ji Rong to sniff him.
Ji Rong took the opportunity to give it five low-grade spiritual herbs and one mid-grade spiritual herb. After tasting one of the low-grade spiritual herbs, its eyes lit up, and it picked up the other spiritual herbs and ran back to its clan.
Seeing this, Ji Rong patted Xiao Bai's head and said, "Go and take a look."
Little White nodded, transforming into a streak of white light and closely following the herd of donkeys. They climbed high mountains, waded through icy ravines, and passed through snow-covered pine forests. Every time they reached a new place, they would look around cautiously.
After going around in a huge circle, we finally stopped in front of a large ice wall.
They leaped forward as if hitting a wall, disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.
Xiao Bai flew over and took a look. There was a space inside the ice wall, with no passage above and a river below. There were several mouths in the middle, each one extremely cold. Below each mouth was a crack covered by ice. Xiao Bai went closer to look and found that the place looked small but was actually wide, and there was wind flowing through it, so it must be quite deep. Then he returned to Ji Rong to report.
Ji Rong laughed and said, "This must be a treasure hidden under the ice and snow. Little White, Mountain Python, Mountain Rat, come quickly to my neck, let's go and take a look."
As the saying goes:
I searched high and low, but couldn't find it; then I found it without any effort at all.
It is evident that those who practice cultivation should be appropriately generous.
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