Chapter 356 You and I Are Different (Part )
A ruined household.
This messy place, which looks like a moldy orange, was given a very vivid name by its messy residents - "run-down house".
As the name suggests, those who struggle for survival here, no matter they look glamorous and majestic, have built grand palaces on the ground below or even on planets, or huge underground palaces, or those who have built various "illegal buildings" here and there in the air and look shabby and poor, every one of them is a "downtrodden person."
If you weren't desperate, who would want to come to this damn place?
Nearly a million miles above the ground, there is an iron stick as thick as a thumb, about seven or eight hundred miles long. One end is stuck on the top of a black and yellow straw below, and the other end supports an open-air tavern shaped like a bird's nest.
The bird's nest was more than ten miles in diameter and was woven from a kind of extremely flexible golden grass that was thinner than a hair and several miles long. It was shaped like a large bird's nest. Thousands of mats of different sizes were laid out in the bird's nest, and all the guests sat on the ground.
Xing Tianli found a mat on the outer edge of the bird's nest.
With your shoulders leaning against the edge of the Bird's Nest and raising your head slightly, you can see the Tongtian Creation Tower quietly floating more than 600 miles away.
At this moment, the Tongtian Creation Tower has changed its shape.
The base is about one mile long and one mile high. In the middle of the four sides of the tower, there is a relief of a demon's head several feet high. The demon's big mouth is wide open, which is the entrance and exit. The scarlet fangs that seem to have blood plasma constantly gushing out form four extremely hideous gates.
At the top of the pyramid and at the four corners of the base, there is a furnace several feet high burning fiercely.
The pitch-black furnace spewed out dark green Yin Fire, and the flames were blazing. Inside, there were a large number of distorted faces that kept flashing and twisting, and making shrill, cruel and sharp cries.
Every hour, dozens of ghostly figures, filled with murderous aura, would float slowly to the five furnaces with huge iron buckets in their hands, and pour the pungent, scarlet, and sticky liquid of suspicious material in the buckets into the furnaces.
As a result, the flames in the furnace became more and more intense.
The Tongtian Yuling Banner transformed into the 'Zhoutian White Bone Banner' spiritual treasure form and differentiated into four clones, quietly standing on the top of the four doors on the tower. It was filled with evil aura and spiritual light. Suffocating, soul-stirring evil power permeated the surroundings. Anyone who got close would be subjected to a terrible soul attack.
With Xing Tianli's current cultivation level and the Tongtian Yuling Banner's current grade, if a real Daluo Jinxian gets close, his soul will be hooked away and he will become a ghost inside the banner.
Xing Tianli has been stationed in the "ruined house" for five or six days. Nearly a hundred unlucky guys have wanted to spy on the situation in the Tongtian Creation Tower intentionally or unintentionally, but were rudely seduced away by Xing Tianli.
Therefore, the evil reputation of Xingtian Carp and Tongtian Creation Tower spread among the local tyrants who were "down and out".
In recent days, there are fewer covetous eyes.
"Let's talk about this poor man. I'll buy you some drinks today." The purple ribbon Taoist robe on Xing Tianli's body turned into a white jade color, dry and always reminiscent of the color of bones. On the chest and back of the Taoist robe were two huge skulls, and green ghost fire was rising in the eye sockets.
At first glance, he looks like a heretic in this attire, not a good person.
In the past few days, among the "poor people" within a thousand miles, Xing Tianli has already gained a notorious reputation as the "Soul-Catching True Lord".
The person sitting in front of Xing Tianli was none other than the pig-headed man they had seen a few days ago, the one who rushed into the big tomb with a meteor hammer, was beaten to the point of vomiting blood, and escaped, losing even his weapon.
"Well, I'm not polite, little brother." The pig-headed man, Black Lie, was really rude. He waved his hand and called over a waiter from the Bird's Nest Tavern, a young man with a human head and an eagle body, with a sinister and evil aura, and skillfully ordered a bunch of drinks and food.
"How do I pay the bill?" The waiter widened his green eyes and looked straight at Xing Tianli.
"What are you collecting?" Xing Tianli looked at the child with certainty.
"I would like to take some of your pure Primordial Qi, which is freshly extracted from the spiritual world and still carries the natural rhythm of the Tao... Can you give it to me?" The waiter raised his head and said fiercely, "If you don't have it, you can pay with living souls... But the quality and quantity of these living souls..."
'Primordial Qi'?The waiter used an extremely sharp and unpleasant language, without complex syllable changes. It relied entirely on frequency and intonation to express meaning, and at first glance it sounded like the chirping of birds.
It was precisely because of this 'poor man's' unique principles and laws, and this kind of language, that Xing Tianli actually understood it.
Can the 'Taichu Qi' be used to pay bills?Xing Tianli said in a deep voice: "I have the Primordial Qi of course. How much do you want for the food and wine that Brother Heili ordered just now?"
Xing Tianli said that he had the "Primordial Qi", and that it was extracted from the "spiritual world", which is the normal, cultivateable world, and it also carried the Primordial Qi with the "natural rhyme of Tao"!
The waiter's eyes lit up, and he knew something was wrong with the look that Hei Lie gave Xing Tianli.
That was the look of inexplicable surprise and extremely complicated eyes when a beggar huddled in the ruined City God Temple suddenly discovered that the nobleman who gave him a meat bun was a real rich young man.
Even with a hint of malice.
However, Hei Lie, whose cultivation level was only at the great perfection of a celestial being, suddenly remembered those restless guys who had been killed around the Tongtian Creation Tower in the past few days. He immediately and obediently dispelled the malice in his heart.
Among those unfortunate guys whose souls were sucked away by the Zhoutian White Bone Banner, who were turned into ghost slaves and driven by the Xingtian Carp to add fuel to the five furnaces, and whose voices and faces were clearly seen by countless "poor people" and local tyrants, there were several masters who had reached the Golden Immortal Realm.
The waiter smacked his lips and took out a crystal ball the size of a baby's fist from the messy feathers under his armpit. The material was not very good, it seemed to be full of impurities and it looked extremely turbid.
"Here, fill up this spirit crystal ball. It's enough." The waiter raised his head and said, "Boy, now that you have ended up in a place like 'down and out', don't rely on your family background to spend money recklessly. You will regret it someday... hehe."
The waiter smiled strangely.
Xing Tianli glanced at the waiter. If the waiter had this expression and tone, if he were a real prodigal son, he would probably show off all his wealth in a rage."Hey, fellow Taoist, you are right." Xing Tianli smiled dryly and said perfunctorily to the waiter.
He pointed his finger, and a wisp of extremely pure Primordial Qi with a hint of plant fragrance came out. The faces of Xiaoer and Hei Lie suddenly changed, and they hurriedly came to the Primordial Qi that was winding into the crystal ball, greedily feeling the abundant life breath in it.
Xing Tianli narrowed his eyes.
Is this primordial Qi so precious to a poor man?Soon, the crystal ball emitted a faint glow, and could no longer contain even a trace of Primordial Qi. It was already filled up. And the consumption of Xing Tianli, converted into earth and stone on a normal planet, whose specific gravity and material were the same as his hometown in his previous life, was roughly equivalent to the conversion of a cubic meter of rock.
The waiter was overjoyed and ran away happily with the crystal ball in his hands.
Wrapped around Xing Tianli's fingertips was a strand of primordial Qi that was about a foot long, as thick as his fingers, and slightly green in color.
Black Mane looked at this ray of primordial Qi with extreme greed, and saliva was almost coming out of the corners of his mouth.
Xing Tianli smiled and handed the strand of Primordial Qi to Hei Lie: "Brother Hei Lie, yesterday I went out for the first time and there were some scoundrels who wanted to rob me. Thank you for your righteousness, brother Hei Lie, for beating them away. I am really grateful. This is just a small gift for meeting you, you won't..."
"A great gift, a great gift!" Hei Lie hurriedly snatched the Primordial Qi wrapped around Xing Tianli's finger, carefully took out a prismatic spiritual crystal, and stuffed the Primordial Qi into it. As a result, a faint green color appeared in the finger-thick, three-inch-long spiritual crystal.
Xing Tianli looked at Hei Lie thoughtfully, and he felt it gently.
In the void where the 'poor man' is, there is an extremely complex primordial Qi surging.
In terms of concentration alone, the primordial Qi here is even thicker than the primordial Qi in the so-called blessed land.
But the primordial Qi here is too complicated.
To be precise, there is no real 'primordial Qi' here, but rather there is 'acquired spiritual energy' that is transformed after being infected by various laws of the Tao.
Moreover, all the acquired spiritual energy seemed to be dead!They are extremely dense, extremely strong, entangled with countless strange Dao rhymes and spiritual inspirations. However, these acquired spiritual energies are all lifeless, just following some strange laws of this world, flowing and flowing naturally. If you really want to absorb and refine them, you can barely maintain the daily life of the cultivators.
But taking such a mixed acquired spiritual energy into the body... just dispelling the impurities in it is enough to drive people crazy.
The primordial Qi has no attributes. No matter what Taoism you practice, no matter whether you are good or evil, you can absorb and exhale the primordial Qi and improve your cultivation... and the acquired spiritual energy, because it has been infected by the laws, has its own spirituality.
Monk who practices fire-attributed skills, you take a deep breath, and ten thousand kilograms of acquired spiritual energy of various attributes, such as water, soil, poison, light, etc., are directly poured into your body, and among them, the fire-attributed spiritual energy that is truly useful to you is probably only half a penny!
From ten thousand kilograms of impurities, extract half a penny of "nutrients" that are useful to you.
This is the common problem faced by the 'impoverished' monks!
Especially the acquired spiritual energy here, it's all dead and lifeless, without any activity at all... The spiritual energy here can be used to maintain one's own cultivation and not drop in rank, but if one wants to improve one's cultivation, it's not impossible, but it's very difficult, very, very difficult!Xing Tianli nodded slowly.
How powerful and terrifying is the immortal soul of the Golden Immortal. With just a few words, he roughly understood the situation of the "poor family" by analogy and inspiration brought by his sudden inspiration.
He lowered his head and looked toward the dead rocky planet below.
"Brother, down there is where the real big shots live." Black Lie glanced at the big rock below with a sullen look and said with emotion, "The closer you are to the ground, the more active the spiritual energy in the void will be, and the more Primordial Qi that is beneficial to your cultivation will be captured."
"Within 3,000 miles of the ground, we, the little immortals, have the opportunity to slowly increase our cultivation. Even though it's a little slow, at least there is growth."
"But, in an area 3,000 miles above the ground, without a strong enough backer, you can forget about having a foothold there."
"As for those palaces and pavilions on the ground, hey, only the prominent figures in the big forces are qualified to occupy a piece of land there."
"Don't even mention underground. The real bosses all live underground."
"It is said that there are several very small spiritual caves underground, which rely on a few rare treasures to maintain their activity. Every day, a certain amount of primordial qi containing fresh spiritual energy can gush out. I don't know how those big guys do it, but the areas near those spiritual caves are truly full of birdsong and flowers, and are truly blessed places. They are where 'people' should live."
The waiter with a human head and an eagle body walked over with small steps, holding a huge tray.
On the tray were two wine jars more than a foot high, with a pungent smell of alcohol wafting out.
Behind the waiter were two other boys from the same tribe as him, also holding large trays. On one tray were piled large, fat, white pieces of meat the size of a palm. On the other tray were thumb-thick, half-foot-long, green bugs with red stripes on their bodies, which looked quite scary and crawling around alive.
"Come on, come on, the best wine in the bird shop, 'Mushroom Roast'. And the most filling 'Big Maggot Meat'. Well, this time the 'Star Beast Intestines' are still so fresh? Did you find the star beast dung pile that just excreted?"
Xing Tianli shut his mouth.
The three women beside him, Liu Xie, Liu Yan and Liu Jing, had dark complexions and covered their mouths tightly, determined not to touch this so-called delicacy.
When people here speak, every word and every sound, driven by strange laws, is transformed into meaning that outsiders can directly understand... This meaning goes straight to the soul and is even clearer and brighter than seeing a three-dimensional image explanation.
The grilled mushrooms are still edible.
The material it uses is the 'powder mushrooms' that grow naturally in the remote corners of the rocky planet below, which are brewed after fermentation. This 'powder mushroom' is actually a basic agent of poison, containing paralytic toxins, a toxin that can have a certain effect on celestial beings.
The liquor brewed with it is stimulating when it enters the mouth and takes effect very quickly when it enters the stomach. Even a celestial being can feel a little tipsy with just half a catty or eight ounces. In this "downtrodden" place with scarce supplies and not much entertainment, this mushroom liquor is the most popular supreme wine among monks of all levels.
But what about that big maggot meat and the star beast intestinal worms...
Just as the name suggests.
Anyway, Xing Tianli and the three girls of Liu Jing would never touch them. Xing Tianli quietly used a forbidden spell, and the air around him rolled, and an invisible shield condensed outside his body, isolating the smell of these two "delicacies".
The three daughters of Liu Jing were even more shocked as if they had seen a ghost. They moved their buttocks and directly moved behind Xing Tianli.
Liu Jing even stretched out a finger and used his great strength to make his claws sharper than an ordinary flying sword, and started poking at Xing Tianli's kidneys.
Asshole!Is this the 'delicacies of heaven' that he tricked them into believing?
Xing Tianli smiled dryly, bowed to Hei Lie, picked up the double-boiled mushroom, but declined the invitation to share the two delicacies with him.
Hei Lie unceremoniously picked up the wine glass, clinked it with Xing Tianli, drank it in big gulps, and then devoured the two delicacies. The big maggot meat was fine, but the worms actually made sharp crying sounds when they entered their mouths. When Hei Lie's big teeth chewed, the worms made painful, wailing and crying sounds like children.
Xing Tianli's scalp felt numb.
The more Hei Lie chewed, the more excited he became. He ate heartily and soon his face turned slightly red. He said to Xing Tianli generously, "Brother, I know the rules. You are a newcomer, so you must want to find a reliable person to get information... Hey, I have eaten your wine and your meat, so I, Lao Hei, will tell you everything I know!"
Shaking his head, Black Lie sighed, "But listen to my advice. You feel sick of this meat now and don't want to touch it... Heh, I've seen many down-and-out young masters like you. You'll get used to it sooner or later, heh, sooner or later you'll get used to it."
Xing Tianli smiled politely.
He was unwilling to take up this topic.
He didn't dare to swear or say something like he would never touch this kind of thing in his life. He absolutely couldn't say such things. If he said them, what if one day...right...
Three glasses of wine.
The toxicity of this mushroom is really not to be underestimated.
Black Hye's tribe is unknown, and his characteristics are unclear, but looking at his physique, he is clearly a physical practitioner. The principles of his practice are even more mysterious. It seems to be a mixture of earth and gold, yet with a strong sense of fighting on the battlefield.
In short, his body strength is absolutely strong.
But it was just three cups of wine, about two liang cups, three cups, six liang, and Hei Lie was a little shaky. And the fine wine in those two wine jars was at least fifty jin, and he was going to pack it up and take it away?You’re welcome.
Looking at Hei Lie with a flushed face and shaking body, Xing Tianli began to ask Hei Lie in detail about various information, among which he mentioned Hei Yuan intentionally or unintentionally.
Black Hyena laughed 'hehe'.
“Sure enough, you are also here for Heiyuan… But, brother, if you can avoid going, then don’t go.” Hei Lie raised his head and a tear quietly slipped down the corner of his eye.
"Once upon a time, Lao Hei was a rich and powerful man... Hey, it's because of Lao Hei's grandfather, an old man who is so stubborn."
"Restore the family heritage and take back the ancestral land... Well, bring the elites of the clan and all the belongings accumulated over the years to the Black Abyss... Hey, once you go, you never come back. All the elites are gone, the family is in decline, and the old guy has provoked some rivals and enemies. Look at what I am like now!"
"They're all going to dig graves to make a living."
Hei Lie cursed angrily: "But now, the graves floating over here are more difficult to deal with than the last one... Thousands of years ago, entering a new grave would always allow me, Old Hei, to eat and drink well for a year or two. But these years, every time I go in, I can't even afford the old woman's King Kong soup."
(End of this chapter)