Chapter 1006 - 99: Leaving Seclusion, An Encounter with True Immortal Mo Mei
No money leads to being unable to sustain my Dharma Aspect Army.
Each Dharma Aspect is skin and bones from hunger, with their realm around the First Layer of Human Immortal, lacking the energy to advance their realm.
How much money would it take to raise them into an elite army?
"Forget it, continue sending them to mine, and see what the Golden Core profits will be like in the future."
"Also, let’s see what treasures lie in that Immortal Venerate ancient tomb that I can use to revive my body."
Ning Zheng’s over a hundred bodies are too weak.
Cultivators like him from the clone series are bottomless pits, like painters!
Ning Zheng walked out of the cave mansion, passing calmly by the female cultivator at the front desk.
That female cultivator was used to it, glanced at Ning Zheng, noted down this transaction, and mumbled to herself, "As expected, barely a stick of incense passed, and he needs to enter seclusion again. Isn’t it better for him to stay outside for seclusion?"
"Our shifts here are fast, three years per rotation. I feel I’ll be seeing this weirdo often in the coming three years."
Ning Zheng glanced at her.
Three years, I should at least become a True Immortal by then, right?
As he left, he suddenly looked toward the Middle Grade Cave Mansion in the distance, "Now, as a Celestial Immortal, I am eligible to enter the Middle Grade Cave Mansion."
It is said that the Middle Grade Cave Mansion has ten attributes of cave divisions.
It can aid in enlightenment of the corresponding laws.
Generally speaking, Celestial Immortals would consume Enlightenment Pills inside, read enlightenment books...making it easier to comprehend one’s attribute laws.
But all this reading, renting caves, costs money!
The Celestial Immortal you imagine: very elegant, spending days in the Middle Grade Cave Mansion, reading books, comprehending the path, a life full of class touch.
The actual Celestial Immortal: struggles to earn money to buy books, enlightenment pills, rent cave mansions.
Also heard.
The Immortal Realm discriminates against outsiders.
If an outsider buys Celestial Immortal-level cultivation resources, enlightenment pills, books...the prices are hiked several times, extorting them to death!
Why should a poor fellow try to cultivate immortality?
To cultivate the Immortal Path, one needs a background!
Even if Ning Zheng produces these enlightenment movie Golden Cores in great numbers in the future, the monopoly on Celestial Immortal resources won’t be broken.
Advocating democracy and freedom to help those impoverished outsider immortals gain benefits? Only selling my Golden Cores to outsiders?
Impossible, I won’t bring disaster upon myself.
Instead, he will join the local monopoly commercial alliance.
Ning Zheng isn’t as foolish as some protagonists from righteous novels.
He’s too poor to cry, can’t even sustain himself, would he raise banners for other outsider immortals?
If one truly raises banners for others, it should be when one has risen oneself.
Only with power can one speak out.
Without power, speaking out for the bottom tier is overreaching without strength, it’s foolish!
When he has the power, Ning Zheng doesn’t mind enacting the tale told by smiths:
Leading a group of natives, ushering in the Fourth Calamity, the mighty army of the Fourth Calamity, attacking the Immortal Realm.
"It’s not impossible, seize the ancient tombs of the Immortal Venerates, overthrow Embers Celestial Immortals, True Immortals...take them into possession, we have our base camp, our ancestors, and history."
"By then, we would ascend rapidly, truly have our foundation and manpower."
Ning Zheng’s eyes sparkled, believing the future holds promise.
Embers!
It’s really a good thing, having Embers immortals join our side is a wonderful method! A swift rise, with plenty of foundation.
And compared to those Celestial Immortals coming out of the Middle Grade Cave Mansions, full of confusion, not breaking through in seclusion, he was quite fortunate.
At least there’s hope through effort.
He glanced again at the Middle Grade Cave Mansion, then decisively left.
However, upon leaving, he suddenly saw a True Immortal walking out of the Upper Grade Cave Mansion in the distance.
True Immortal Mo Mei, she walked out of the cave mansion alongside Night Emperor and his wife, introducing the surroundings and instructing their cultivation.
These two were also First Layer Celestial Immortals.
Rather absurd.
Yet thinking it over, it makes sense; she’s been in seclusion for nearly a month, three thousand years.
The Tenth Layer Human Immortal realm can be reached with money, most likely these three thousand years were spent breaking through to the First Layer Celestial Immortal.
However, for Mo Mei True Immortal, an elite among True Immortals, two First Layer Celestial Immortal beast tamers barely make the stage.
She seemed to notice Ning Zheng’s gaze, nodded with a slight smile.
Ning Zheng returned the smile, then left decisively, secretly cursing in his heart, "I’ve entered seclusion several times, and she’s only now ending her first seclusion."
...
After Ning Zheng left.
Mo Mei True Immortal withdrew her gaze from Ning Zheng, stated plainly, "This person is extraordinary, with an incredibly heavy foundation, a perfection expert of the Flawless System."
"And this person is extremely young, I wonder which lineage he descends from, which hidden sect’s heir?"
The Flawless System, theoretically the ultimate cultivation path of Three Calamities and Seven Tribulations perfection route, is not uncommon in the Immortal Realm.
However, its general applicability is too low.
Each generation of heirs has only one, the master seeks talented disciples across countless worlds, failing to find them easily leads to discontinuity.
In Mo Mei True Immortal’s view, this person is also an heir from a Great Sect of singular lineage.
After all, he’s too young, a freelance path wouldn’t produce such a young and wealthy, with such perfection in the system.
"The Immortal Realm’s winds are rising, a grand era is truly approaching."
Mo Mei True Immortal turned her head, cautioned Night Emperor beside her, "A time speed of one day equaling a hundred years has only been spreading in the Immortal Realm these years."
"Rumor has it a certain ancient tomb was discovered, offering remnants of ancient powers... the world has changed greatly, ancient cultivation techniques are mostly unusable, but plenty of good things remain."
"Earlier, we absolutely didn’t have this unique time speed cave mansion granting us a day equating a hundred years to shore up our foundation."
Mo Mei True Immortal sighed.
Previously everyone’s time speeds were evenly matched.
If in those times, even seeing these two potential ones, it wouldn’t have been worth self-harming my foundation to swap beasts."
Because those thousands of years in combat power weakened periods are enough for rival sects to kill me thousands of times.
But now.
In the cave mansion, it’s resolved in over a month.
As long as I’m cautious in the sect, avoiding leakage of news, over a month is not enough for rival sects to respond, and I bypass my weakened periods.
"The times are changing."
Mo Mei True Immortal said, "The ancient time powers we’ve received have accelerated time flow outside the Immortal Realm across All Heavens World... more immortals will ascend, an unprecedented major explosion will occur in the Immortal Realm."
Night Emperor’s heart too surged; dangers bringing opportunities.
Mo Mei True Immortal said, "We ought to make an appearance too."
"Where shall we make an appearance, return to the sect?" Night Emperor couldn’t help but ask.
"No, to the front-line Secret Realm." Mo Mei True Immortal replied, "The worlds of All Heavens are like gravel, sliced by Ancient Gods, some worlds hide well as ancient tombs."
"This time, we are heading to an ancient superior’s tomb."
Night Emperor’s heart swayed.
They’re also going to enter a Secret Realm?
He can now reenter Sword Casting Manor with a small identity, though busy with cultivation, he’s aware of the changes happening next door.
Feeling a bit uneasy.
Using a smith to venture tombs, strike heavily, fearlessly.
But when the main body ventures into a tomb-like dungeon, it’s somewhat terrifying.