Alien Hotel.

Chapter 343 Weird and Exotic

It was a banquet, and both the host and the guests had a great time - Hu Li was the happiest, followed by his eldest nephew who ate voraciously, and the inner disciples who hardly looked up to communicate with the guests throughout the whole meal and just kept their heads down to eat.

"Alas, I wanted to let these useless guys see the world, but it turns out that their eyes are all covered by medicine oil," Yuan Ling Zhenren looked at his disciples helplessly, shaking his head and sighing like a worried doctoral supervisor, "You guys, after you learn from me, you can only become quack doctors."

As he said that, he waved his hand and said, "Go, go, go, go, go back to your rooms and do your homework after you have eaten and drunk enough. I have set up a furnace of soul-calming pills, but half a month has passed and none of them have been refined. If there is no progress this month, I will punish you to clean all the pill furnaces on the entire Yunling Peak!"

So a group of young practitioners who were originally whispering and chatting were instantly shocked, and hurriedly saluted Yuan Ling Zhenren, bowed to Yu Sheng and others, then turned around and flew into the mountains to complete the final assignment assigned by the master.

Yuan Ling Zhenren shouted at their backs: "Don't forget to go to the back mountain in the evening to check on the medicinal gardens you are responsible for! You guys don't have enough spiritual plant points this year!"

Yu Sheng was watching curiously and said casually, "I feel like you are a mentor in a university in the border area. You are totally different from the image of a great master in a fairy sect that I imagined."

"Why do you think my name on the border communication came from?" Yuan Ling Zhenren sighed helplessly, "I have to take care of this bunch of stupid disciples, manage the affairs of the sect, and every now and then I have to clean up the mess for my troublesome senior brother and deal with his 'confidantes' who come to visit from time to time. When I am busy, I have to send out seven or eight incarnations. It's only thanks to Xuan Che's progress that he can share some of the burden with me... Oh, let's not talk about it, let's not talk about it."

Yu Sheng couldn't help but laugh when he heard that, and then he suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, I brought you a gift when I came here."

"Gift?" Yuan Ling Zhenren was slightly startled and waved his hands repeatedly, "Hey, we are friends not for fame or gain, why should we be so polite..."

Then a piece of Linghu Black Iron fell in front of him with a "dong".

"...But then again, it would be disrespectful to refuse a gift from a friend...Is this what Xuan Che mentioned?"

Yuan Ling Zhenren changed the subject and fixed his eyes on the piece of "black iron".

"You are quite frank and transparent," Yu Sheng smiled, "Yes, this is the 'Spirit Fox Black Iron' that I showed Xuan Che before. It is a specialty of Hu Li's hometown. It can be made into the core of a weapon spirit. I think this thing should be useful to you too."

"Okay, okay!" Yuan Ling Zhenren clapped his hands in delight, "Good stuff, it's really good stuff, then I will accept this generous gift - you should stay in Qianfeng Lingshan for a while, and I will take you to see the scenery of Taixu Lingshu. I'm not bragging, this Taixu star has thousands of wonders, even if you look at the starry sky, it is a famous treasure land..."

At this point, Yuan Ling Zhenren couldn't help but wave his hand, sighing with a hint of regret: "In fact, I have always wanted to build a good cultural tourism business for Taixu Lingshu, but the other old guys only know how to bury their heads in cultivation, and their minds are very rigid."

Yu Sheng immediately thought of the "Qianfeng Lingshan Cultural Tourism Promotion Product" that Xuan Che had brought to him before...

At this moment, Xuan Che next to him broke the silence again. This honest young man brought up the main business: "Master, why don't you first talk about the new 'strange secret realm' that appeared on the Taixu Lingshu? What exactly is that secret realm?"

When talking about this, Yu Sheng also remembered the reason why Xuan Che was called back to the sect this time, and immediately looked at Master Yuan Ling with curiosity: "Yes, I am also a little curious about this matter - after all, you should also know that a 'Mist City' suddenly appeared in Jiecheng recently, and there have been activities of hermit societies in the border area and Feiyu Star Region."

Yuan Ling Zhenren's expression became serious, and after a moment of hesitation, he spoke: "That strange secret place is not in Taixu Lingshu, but on the satellite next to Taixu Lingshu, 'Taiyou'."

Yu Sheng: “…on a satellite?”

"There are three moons in the sky around Taixu Lingshu, namely 'Taiyou', 'Hengming', and 'Changan'. Among them, 'Taiyou' is the largest moon, and it is also the alien planet that the cultivators on Taixu Star first set foot on after transcending heaven and earth," Yuanling Zhenren explained. "There are many mines, factories and immigration points built thousands of years ago, but later as we spread to other places in Feiyu Star Region, the 'ancestral land' centered on Taixu Star was protected, and the same is true for the 'ancient moon' of Taiyou.

"Now most of the mines and factories on Taiyou have been closed, and the old settlements have been relocated. Most of the things left behind have been turned into memorials for future generations to visit and pay tribute to.

"And the 'bizarre secret realm' that appeared this time is in an ancient mine that was sealed three hundred years ago. After preliminary investigation, there should be a foreign realm at least three meters deep underneath, and the degree of danger is still unknown."

"A foreign land with a depth of three?" Yu Sheng blinked. "Well, if it's a foreign land, it should be quite common. L-3 is not particularly deep. When I heard 'mysterious secret land', I thought..."

Before he finished speaking, he noticed that Xuan Che and Yuan Ling Zhenren both had strange looks on their faces, and they obviously had something to say. "What's the matter?"

"...We are not in the border area," Xuan Che said dimly, "Foreign lands are not common in our area."

Yu Sheng: “…”

Even Irene beside her couldn't help but grumble at this time: "At the border, it's normal to have eleven alien lands in eighteen stops on a bus. Even a small shop next to a farmer's market can be an entrance to an alien land. But outside - if an alien land pops up, it will shock the top authorities, not to mention that this one is at depth L3."

Yu Sheng was immediately ashamed, and the main reason for his shame was that he was ridiculed by a mindless puppet like Irene...

Seeing this, Yuan Ling Zhenren coughed twice and continued, "Outside the border, foreign lands are indeed rare, but the Feiyu Star Region is vast, and we practitioners often have a higher level of 'spiritual vision', so we are not so unfamiliar with foreign lands. The foreign land that appeared in Taiyou this time is called 'strange', and there is a reason for it."

Yu Sheng became curious: "What exactly is going on?"

Yuan Ling Zhenren said in a serious tone: "...Every group of people who enter the foreign land sees different things. Even the same group of people who enter the mine at different times of the day will see different scenes."

Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment.

This is indeed different from the "normal foreign land" he knows!
Then, he began to think quickly, trying to understand what Yuan Ling Zhenren described based on his current experience.

The first thing that came to his mind was the "abnormal" exotic fairy tales and the various "subsets" that appeared in the "story collection" of fairy tales - this kind of exotic world with different "subsets" as the stage was the only kind of exotic world he knew that could present different scenes to each explorer.

He expressed his guess and told Yuan Ling Zhenren the general situation of the "fairy tale".

"Different scenes appear depending on the 'subsets'?" Yuan Ling Zhenren stroked his beard and thought carefully. "It sounds somewhat similar, but the situation is still a little different... That foreign land has a clear entrance and exit, and its interior is also a physical space. From the classification point of view, it should be a foreign land of the 'wilderness' or 'country' type, not an 'abnormal'. In my opinion, that strange secret place is more like constantly changing itself. Every time it is opened, its interior will be completely reconstructed."

"So, what did everyone who went in see?" Irene couldn't help but ask.

"Some people saw only a strange mine with a changed structure, some saw an endless underground cave, and some even saw a large area of ​​the earth's surface, with the sun and the moon in the sky, wind, rain, clouds and fog, and other weather changes. The strangest situation was that they saw a town covered by the night - sometimes the lights were on in the town, sometimes it was pitch black, sometimes you could hear people talking in the houses, and sometimes it was dead and silent everywhere. There was also a bloody smell in the town, but no matter what, there were no actual active 'residents' in the town."

Yuan Ling Zhenren paused for a moment and added, "There is no pattern to the occurrence of these situations, and the probability of occurrence is completely random. We tried to arrange for monks with different personalities and different items to enter the mine at different times of the day, but we still couldn't summarize the pattern. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the exploration so far has been relatively conservative and the sample size is still too small. After all, it is really weird down there, and in a special place like 'Taiyou', we really have to be cautious."

Yu Sheng opened his mouth, thought for a moment, and then asked, "What about the entity that appeared in it?"

"This is another extremely strange place... There is no entity in it."

"No entity? There is not a single entity in the alien realm at depth L-3?!"

"That's right. At least so far, the exploration team hasn't found any entity in the mine," Yuan Ling Zhenren nodded slowly. "At most, we heard some strange voices in that 'town' and saw some puppet shadows under the lights. As for the 'entity' that actually appeared in front of the explorers and could actively move, attack or communicate, it never appeared once."

Yu Sheng blinked, lowered his head and looked at Irene at his feet.

The little doll crossed his arms and looked serious. "This is really a bit weird. Although not every alien domain will generate entities, the deeper the alien domain, the greater the probability of generating entities. Depth 1 or 2 is still okay, and the probability of 'peace' is still high, but at the L-3 level... rocks will fly up and hit people."

Yu Shengze thought for a moment, then looked up at Master Yuan Ling: "...Can we go take a look?"

(End of this chapter)