Ming Dynasty: Emperor Wanshou is cultivating immortality!

Qiankun Realm, the depths of time.

Jiajing, dressed in a white robe, had his eyes closed, and half of a spine was floating in front of his chest.

No one knows what state Jiajing is in at this moment, and no one knows what Jiajing is doing at this moment.

Only he himself knows that at this moment, he has already traveled into the sky. Of course, this sky is not an imaginary existence, but a real space.

At least, at this moment, Jiajing was inspired by some mysterious force and believed that he was in the legendary fairyland.

"Is this the fairyland?" On the devastated land, Jiajing looked at the ruined palace ruins in amazement.

At first reaction, his intuition told him that this was not the legendary fairyland, but a dilapidated secret space.

"Crack!" He subconsciously took a step forward, and heard a sound of something breaking under his feet. He looked down and saw that it was a human leg bone breaking under his feet.

"Shua!" As the bones broke, there seemed to be a faint roar of anger and fear, "The fairyland is a cemetery, I won't accept this, I won't accept this..."

Is the fairyland a cemetery? Hearing this, Jiajing's heart tightened for no reason. He looked around at the devastation. As far as the eye could see, there was a gloomy sky and gray fog between heaven and earth.

Jiajing didn't know why he appeared in the legendary fairyland, but his intuition told him that his current state should not be the appearance of his real body, but the entry of his consciousness.

The reason why he could consciously enter the legendary fairyland was probably because of that half of the spine.

That’s right, for hundreds of years, after the world of immortal cultivation had experienced the flames of war and the rampage of innate weapons, all major forces have now long forgotten why they started the war in the first place.

Even at the end, at the beginning, the rumor that as long as all the items were collected, there would be no need for cultivation and one could directly enter the creation spine of the fairyland seemed no longer so important.

In this way, these spines of creation were naturally collected by the forces of the Ming Dynasty.

The Spine of Creation, which should be priceless, is even priced at some immortal cultivation chambers of commerce and is exchanged for spiritual energy.

Someone from the world of immortal cultivation knows that there are at least twenty-six spines of creation, but looking at the entire world of immortal cultivation, the total number of times it appears is less than twenty-six.

Therefore, wanting to collect all the Ridges of Creation is nothing but a dream.

There are also many people who would never tell others even if they got it. This makes it even more difficult to collect all the items.

In addition, the world of immortal cultivation was filled with war and fell into endless turmoil, followed by the outbreak of a strange plague.

After that, naturally no one paid any attention to the Spine of Creation anymore.

Perhaps some people with clearer minds will sit down and quietly think about why the world of cultivation has become what it is today, but those with clearer minds will soon understand.

The reason why the world of immortal cultivation fell into collapse was that the war that was triggered at the time of creation was just the trigger.

The real reason lies in the collapse of the old order that has been formed over the years.

Perhaps the deeper reason is because of the practice system.

The existence of the innate cultivation system has greatly reduced the difficulty of cultivating immortals.

The stronger the strong, the more resources they accumulate and occupy. Those who have huge resources want more resources, while those who don’t have them have even less and can only continue to be oppressed.

Under this set of immortal cultivation world rules that operate under the innate cultivation system, naturally nothing will happen in the beginning.

This is because no matter how many resources those big forces possess, they are enough to meet the needs of lower-level forces and individual cultivators.

It can be said that everyone who cultivates immortality has hope!
Therefore, such an environment is more suitable for the "chicken soup" that has been passed down in the world of immortal cultivation for a long time: The road to immortality is long, and who can say that we are mortals? We are actually unpolished jade, which will shine in the universe in time.

To put it simply, the outcome is still uncertain and you and I are both dark horses.

However, with the passage of time and the scramble for resources, a power tower of exploitation and pressure was formed.

Finally, in today's era, the underlying order has collapsed, and the power tower formed by this order has collapsed.

The emergence of the Spine of Creation allowed the immortals of various forces to see a way to escape. After that, various forces poured into Arcturus, and the flames of war began to spread, coupled with Daming's natal weapon.

Due to all the seemingly coincidental but actually traceable reasons, the Spine of Creation, the "culprit", is not important.

Over the years, Daming has collected a total of twelve Spines of Creation.

The number of vertebrae of an adult is at most twenty-six. The number of vertebrae of the mysterious goddess who was born in chaos and created the universe and the immortal and mortal worlds would not be too exaggerated.

At least, judging from the video that Li Changqing had shown before, that section of spine was no different from that of an ordinary person.

"If this is really the fairyland, then what happened? Why is there no trace of the immortals?" A shadow unconsciously rose in Jiajing's heart.

If in the future myself, or even the entire Daming Immortal Dynasty, ascend to the Immortal Realm and continue on the road of expansion, wouldn't entering the Immortal Realm be embarking on a path of self-destruction?
"Boom!" Suddenly at this moment, in the distance, at the end of the horizon, a beam of light shot up into the sky.

Guiding channel, ascension?
When he saw this beam of light, almost instinctively, the origin and function of this beam of light emerged in Jiajing's mind.

Jiajing could naturally see the current scene clearly, which meant that someone had ascended to the fairyland.

With an idea in his mind, Jiajing took a step forward.

The next moment, he had arrived at the end of the horizon where the connecting passage was.

His guess turned out to be correct. At this moment, he was not his real self, but was in an ideological trance!

"Is this the fairyland?!" After the guiding passage dissipated, a doubtful female voice sounded.

This is a female cultivator who is dressed in linen clothes, has a graceful temperament, and wears no makeup. She has a special aura when she stands still.

Those who can ascend from the lower world to the fairyland are all people with outstanding talents, extraordinary character and powerful destiny.

But at this moment, this female cultivator, like Jiajing before, couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart as she looked at everything in front of her.

The female cultivator looked around the entire world, and there was no one!
Well, of course she couldn’t see Jiajing. On the contrary, because her real body ascended to the fairyland, she felt a chill in her heart at this moment, as if someone was watching her from the dark.

And she herself was like a meal entering the belly of a giant beast. There was only one fate waiting for her, and that was to be digested and absorbed and then completely dissipated between heaven and earth.

"What the hell is going on?!" Since the female cultivator was able to ascend to the upper realm, she must be a respected person in the lower realm. After a brief shock, she quickly calmed down.

I have ascended, but I am the only one in the fairyland!
Under Jiajing's gaze, the woman flew up and headed towards an ancient bronze palace in the distance that seemed to have sunk into the ground.

Seeing this, Jiajing immediately followed.

After a while, the two arrived at the depths of the ancient temple.

The entire ancient temple was littered with white bones lying in all directions, and judging from the color of these bones, it was obvious that these "immortals", well, let's call them immortals, had been dead for some time.

However, at this time, Jiajing and the female cultivator's attention was all focused on the ancient bronze temple, on an ancient bronze wall in the middle.

To be precise, it is an inscription on an ancient bronze wall.

"Since a certain day, I have been suffering from a strange disease. My life has been invaded by the laws of heaven and earth, and has gradually changed."

When he saw this passage, Jiajing narrowed his eyes.

In my mind, I instinctively thought of the natal weapons developed by the Daming natal laboratory.

"It has nothing to do with our Ming Dynasty. This fairyland perished long ago. I think it's just a coincidence..."

Shaking his head slightly, Jiajing continued to look down.

"At first, I suddenly felt my nasal passages blocked, tears and mucus flowed like a stream, and I sneezed continuously. Within three days, I had chills and fever, and palpitations, and the heat toxicity lingered in my body for ten days."

"I thought it was just a common cold, but the medicine I took didn't work. Instead, my eyes gradually turned red as if soaked in cinnabar, and the bloodshot in my pupils was like a spider web."

"I felt my soul stagnate, and within ten days I had transformed into an evil spirit. My eyes were bloodshot, and black miasma was entangled around my body..."

"My life force suddenly woke up, and it devoured my immortal essence, swallowing up all my tens of thousands of years of cultivation. At first, I was relieved, thinking that I was the only one who suffered this disaster. Unexpectedly, more than a month later, miasma spread everywhere in the immortal world, and immortals infected with the plague were everywhere. Some staggered in the cloud palace, with blood gushing out of their seven orifices like a spring; some curled up in the alchemy room, with the mysterious miasma wrapped around their bodies like ink."

"Before Yujing, the star god's eyes were as red as torches, swinging his sword to slash the void; in the depths of Guanghan, the fairy's black hair turned white, and she laughed wildly in front of the mirror. The ten continents and three islands, where fairy music once lingered, have now become a place of gloomy winds. There are also crazy people wandering the streets of heaven, asking everyone they meet: Do you also feel the trembling of your dantian?"

"It looks like a ghost demanding life, shocking..."

"This disaster did not befall just one person..."

"After the immortals died, their cultivation, spirit, energy, and soul all returned to heaven and earth, leaving only their dry bones."

"There is a supreme celestial being who observes the stars, predicts fate, and refines elixirs. He has spent thousands of years trying to continue the path to immortality. However, the way of heaven has collapsed, the laws have been distorted, and the newly ascended ones are infected by evil spirits as soon as they enter the immortal world, and their spiritual platforms are covered in dust in an instant."

"At first, you may still be able to hold on, but after a hundred days, your body and soul will be destroyed, and only ashes will be scattered across the wilderness."

"I have engraved this book with my remaining obsession, hoping that those who come after me will know: The immortal path will die, and all realms will become graves! I will not resign myself to this! I will not resign myself to this! Even if my soul is scattered, I will still keep a glimmer of clarity, waiting for the day when the sky will be bright again..."

"Hiss!" After reading the inscription on the ancient bronze wall, the female cultivator couldn't help but take a breath and exclaimed:
"A strange plague?!"

At this moment, Jiajing's expression also became solemn.

At first, he naturally would not believe that the plague that turned the fairyland into a cemetery and killed all the immortals was the same as the Ming Dynasty's natal weapon released against the world of immortals.

But at this moment, through the various descriptions on the ancient bronze wall, he couldn't help but think in this direction.

What's more, the female cultivator in front of him was obviously the one who ascended to the fairyland from the world of cultivating immortals. The world of cultivating immortals had already been eroded by the strange destiny, so she was naturally not unfamiliar with it.

Suddenly, Jiajing noticed that this female cultivator could tell her strange destiny, which meant that at this moment he was traveling in the fairyland, not in the past or the future, but in the present.

This makes it even more certain that the current fairyland, just like the remaining will of the immortal and what is recorded on this ancient bronze wall, is a cemetery!
But why is this so?

Why is there a strange plague in the fairy world?
Jiajing was naturally very clear about the origin of the so-called strange plague and strange destiny in the world of cultivating immortals. That was a virus developed by the Destiny Laboratory that specifically targeted the destiny of cultivators.

But where did this plague in the fairy world come from?

The most important thing is that the power it creates is almost exactly the same as the innate weapon developed by the Ming Dynasty.

The same thing happened when the innate will awakened and then devoured the cultivators. In the process, the cultivators became neither human nor ghost because of the laws of heaven and earth, or the obsession combined with the innate will form a weirdness. "Could it be that the innate plague that is spreading in the world of immortal cultivation now actually came from the fairyland..." The female cultivator's guessing voice sounded, "In the future, the world of immortal cultivation will also be like this fairyland, turning into a cemetery with all living things destroyed?!"

Well, it’s no wonder that she thought so. If Jiajing didn’t know clearly that all this was caused by his natal weapon, he would probably think like him that it was an invasion of plague from the fairyland.

Although he didn't know why this happened, this journey to the fairyland and everything he saw in the fairyland made Jiajing feel vaguely that there seemed to be something hidden behind all this?
It was as if something was guiding me.

Well, this feeling was not just a sudden whim of Jiajing, nor was it arrogance.

But it is based on something!
Jiajing clearly remembered that he had been practicing in the depths of time in the Qiankun Realm before. It was just that while meditating and taking a short rest, he thought of the current world of cultivating immortals and associated it with the Spine of Creation.

A thought came to his mind, and he played with the collected heirloom spines. When he explored them with his divine sense, his consciousness was inexplicably brought to the fairyland.

According to the image of the Spine of Creation that Li Changqing had given him, the energy of this object had long been exhausted, and it had turned into completely mortal bones. Logically, it should not have any magical properties.

However, through the exploration of his own divine sense, he was able to pull his consciousness into the fairyland. Is this something a mortal can do?
Some things, no matter how impossible they are, but after experiencing them for real, you have to believe them!

Therefore, Jiajing firmly believed that it was no coincidence that his consciousness traveled to the fairyland and saw the conditions in the fairyland.

All the incredible things mentioned above came together, and even Jiajing couldn't help but link the plague in the fairy world with the Ming Dynasty's innate weapon.

But this matter is really unrelated.

Unless it was Daming’s innate weapon that traveled through time, from the present to the past, and even to the fairyland?

Thinking of this, Jiajing shook his head: "If that's the case, then what's the purpose?"

"I want to reform the Ming Dynasty, unify the world of immortal cultivation in the future, and stop the court from expanding indefinitely."

"As long as the entire world of immortal cultivation is unified and the innate cultivation system is abolished, the huge supply of resources will be relatively inexhaustible."

"But if there really is someone behind this, then what is the purpose of the other party using a strange plague to poison the fairy world?"

"It doesn't make sense..." Thinking of this, Jiajing threw the absurd idea out of his mind.

"Perhaps, the cause of all this lies in the fairy world itself, and has some connection with the Spine of Creation."

After that, Jiajing no longer investigated the matter further.

Instead, he began to wander unconsciously in the fairyland.

In a blink of an eye, his figure can appear anywhere in the fairyland.

It’s not that Jiajing was not at all disturbed by the current fairyland turning into a cemetery, but Jiajing was used to considering things in a result-oriented and profit-first manner.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has not yet officially unified the entire world of cultivation.

The abolition of the innate cultivation system was not implemented.

It will take at least three to five hundred years, or even a thousand years, for everything to be completed and become stable.

Therefore, it is still too far-fetched to consider the issues of the fairy world at this time.

The main reason is that after completing the creation of the world this time, Jiajing also traveled to the fairyland. Somehow, he realized that it would not be difficult for him to enter the fairyland again next time.

He will have plenty of time to explore the fairyland in the future.

There was no need to spend more time on something that seemed far away at this time. Besides, he had raised such a large group of tigers and wolves in the cabinet, and they were all shrewd.

What he is best at is all kinds of conspiracies and calculations.

By then, he would tell his cabinet think tank about the affairs of the fairy world. With collective brainstorming, would he be afraid that they could not figure it out?
Thinking of this, Jiajing began to tour the fairyland.

During this period, Jiajing also tried to observe some of the immortals' skills in some relics.

Unfortunately, there seemed to be something blocking it. Even if I saw it at the time, I would gradually forget it afterwards.

So Jiajing completely gave up the idea of ​​​​making a fortune in the fairy world. In fact, through the immortals, one can basically infer the essential difference between immortals and cultivators.

After a cultivator reaches the Mahayana stage and turns to cultivating as an immortal, the spiritual energy in his body has already begun to transform into immortal energy.

There are nine tribulations in total. After nine tribulations, all the spiritual power of the immortal will officially transform into immortal energy.

At that time, the guiding channel to the upper realm will descend.

Let the immortals who pass the test leave this world and enter the fairyland.

In this way, it is not difficult to infer that the skills practiced by immortals must be supported by principles first.

Even if he had obtained the true immortal method, there was no immortal energy to cultivate in the entire Ming world.

Therefore, Jiajing would not force it!

Perhaps, one day in the future, I will collect all the spines of creation and open the passage to the fairyland...

Well, the fairy world is currently plagued by plague. Who knows if opening the passage will bring the virus from the fairy world directly into the human world?

Jiajing is confident that he can solve the strange destiny created by the destiny weapon.

However, the plague that appeared in the fairy world, although similar to the innate weapon he created, was not of the same origin after all.

Jiajing couldn't guarantee that he would be able to control that thing after it invaded the Ming world.

Therefore, we must be extremely careful!
Of course, Jiajing's visit to the fairyland was not without gain. At least he understood the realm above the immortals.

The lowest level of immortals is human immortals, followed by earth immortals, celestial immortals, divine immortals, mysterious immortals, golden immortals, and Daluo golden immortals. After Daluo golden immortals, there are three more levels.

They are respectively the Golden Immortal, the Quasi-Sage, and the Saint.

In fact, both quasi-saints and saints belong to the Daluo Golden Immortal, and above the saints is basically the ancestral realm.

As for what the ancestral realm is, even in the secret realms of some ancient forces in the fairy world there are only a few words about it.

Some say that to reach the ancestral realm is to be one with heaven and earth.

Some people also say that reaching the ancestral realm is the legendary way to heaven.

Some people also say that after reaching the ancestral realm, one can leave the fairyland and arrive at the world of the creator, or perhaps create a world in the chaos of some unknown place.

In short, no one knows how mysterious the ancestral realm is.

The more Jiajing learned about the various realms of the immortals in the fairy world, the more he feared the horrific plague that was raging throughout the fairy world and turning it into a cemetery.

He was sure that the plague raging in the fairy world, although similar to his own innate weapon, was even more powerful and terrifying than the innate weapon he developed!
The soul has been wandering for nearly a thousand years.

Jiajing still failed to explore the entire fairyland.

Even if he could reach any place in the fairyland with just a thought, the entire fairyland was too vast.

It is so huge that even if Jiajing's current cultivation has reached the Mahayana stage, he can cover the entire Ming world in a single thought.

I still feel that I am so insignificant in such a vast world, like an ant.

If we give Jiajing a specific description, then the size of the entire fairy world is equivalent to the sum of the entire world of immortal cultivation.

In the world of cultivating immortals, there is an integration of many star fields including the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Three Enclosures, the Big Dipper, the Southern Dipper, etc.!

Yes, this is Jiajing’s impression of the fairy world!
Such a vast world is simply not something it can explore in a short period of time.

However, this exploration of the fairyland also left a deep impression on Jiajing.

That is, the entire fairyland has really turned into a cemetery, with no living creatures left.

Another three hundred years passed.

In the end, Jiajing no longer had the heart to explore this monotonous, devastated cemetery world.

With a thought, Jiajing arrived at the place where he first saw the female cultivator.

What Jiajing didn't expect was that what was left there was a crystal clear skeleton.

Without thinking, Jiajing knew that the female cultivator could not survive and was eroded by the plague of the immortal world and eventually passed away. The female cultivator also chose the Bronze Ancient Temple as her burial place.

At the same time, Jiajing also saw the message that the female nun left to those who came later.

The last words of Fairy Yunque:

"I am Luo Qingxuan, a wanderer from Yunque. I have gone through countless tribulations before entering this world."

"Now that I see the immortal world crumbling and bones filling the fields, I know that the so-called ascension is nothing but entering a new hell of reincarnation."

"The immortals have either turned into dry bones or turned into evil spirits, and the laws of heaven and earth have all been turned into dust. I also feel that the evil spirits in my dantian are growing, and I am afraid that within three days, I will follow in their footsteps."

"The immortal path has collapsed, and the immortal world has turned into a cemetery. Even if one has the power to reach heaven and earth, one will eventually be unable to escape the calamity of having one's soul torn apart."

"I am writing this in blood with my broken body to warn the world, I hope you will..."

The subsequent handwriting is illegible, and only stains of blood can be seen soaking the stone wall, and one can almost hear the sound of crying blood.

After reading it, Jiajing couldn't help but sigh.

This female cultivator escaped the innate weapon of the immortal world, but ultimately could not escape the plague of the immortal world.

In the end, you can only die with regrets.

"..." (End of this chapter)