Zongwang: Unspeakable fear!

Chapter 996 The Primordial Calamity and the Theory of Destiny (4K, requesting monthly votes at the end of the month~)

Led by Xingli Daoren, Gao Yang took a seat in a pavilion.

With a casual wave of her hand, Xing Li conjured up spiritual tea and fruits on the long table in front of Gao Yang.

"Senior Zizai, this Moon Chasing Spirit Tea was personally refined by Master. Behind Master's Daoist temple is a celestial tree that absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon, sprouting new buds once every fifty years."

This Moon-Chasing Spirit Tea is made from the new buds of this immortal tree, and it helps cultivators comprehend the great laws of heaven and earth.

"Then we should definitely give it a try."

As Gao Yang spoke, he casually picked up the teacup in front of him. The tea in the cup was glowing with a faint moonlight, and the cool and elegant aroma of the tea entered his nostrils, giving him a slight jolt.

Gao Yang took a small sip, his eyes lighting up slightly. He then downed the tea in one gulp and praised it:

"It is indeed a rare treasure, ranking among the top three among all the immortal teas I have ever tasted."

Gao Yang's unreserved praise made Xing Li Dao Ren's smile even brighter.

"Senior is too kind. My master still has some in stock. I will go and fetch some later so that you can take them back and savor them at your leisure."

"Thank you very much then," Gao Yang chuckled and said without any hesitation.

After thinking for a moment, he took out three dimensional core solutions from his backpack, held them up in his palm, and sent them flying toward Daoist Xingli.

"Since you call me senior, how can I not give you a gift on our first meeting?"

As Xingli Daoist looked at the three dimensional core solutions that flew in front of him, he didn't know what they were, but the aura they faintly emitted was very similar to that of the Heavenly Dao, which made him realize that they were definitely treasures that were extremely beneficial to cultivation.

Looking at the core solution of the plane in front of him, Daoist Xingli finally shook his head and said respectfully, "Senior, this is too precious. I am unworthy of it."

Just then, a hearty and cheerful voice rang out: "Just take it as I told you to. Do you think you can sit on equal footing with me?"

Gao Yang raised an eyebrow and looked across the long table. It had been empty, but now a middle-aged man in a black robe appeared in the seat as if he had always been there.

Upon hearing this, Daoist Xingli immediately bowed and clasped his hands in greeting, saying, "Master."

This person is none other than the ruler of Ganyue City, the Ganyue Zhenren, a top-tier Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

"Why don't you thank Fellow Daoist Zizai?" Master Ganyue glared at Daoist Xingli with slight dissatisfaction, saying with a hint of disappointment.

Upon hearing this, Daoist Xingli accepted the core solution of the plane in front of him and then bowed to Gao Yang to express his gratitude: "Xingli thanks Senior Zizai."

Gao Yang nodded slightly and added, "This is the Purple Gold Elixir. It can increase your magical power after consumption, but you must consume it in moderation."

After speaking, he turned to look at the Moon Chaser opposite him and nodded slightly, saying, "Greetings, Fellow Daoist Moon Chaser."

When the Moon Chaser looked at Gao Yang, his eyes seemed to be two full moons, radiating a cool light.

At this moment, those round, crescent-shaped eyes were meeting Gao Yang's gaze.

"Fellow Daoist Zizai has heard of my reputation, but I have never heard of your Daoist name in this Southern Jambudvipa."

As he spoke, Master Ganyue leaned forward slightly, looking directly into Gao Yang's eyes, and asked, "I wonder what brings Fellow Daoist Zizai to my Ganyue City, and here to address me by name?

The words of the Moon Chasing Immortal were not exactly polite. Of course, if one possesses the pseudo-innate spiritual treasure, the Moon Chasing Talisman, then one has the right to be impolite to a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Gao Yang didn't care about Gan Yue Zhenren's attitude. If he had put himself in Gan Yue Zhenren's shoes, he might have acted more aggressively than Gan Yue Zhenren was at the moment.

He simply clenched his fist slightly, and a bright red crystal appeared in his hand.

“Fellow Daoist Gan Yue, I have come here only to inquire about some information from you. I have no ill intentions. Consider this payment for the information.”

While they were talking, Gao Yang had already placed a crystal of life essence in front of Gan Yue Zhenren.

"What is this?"

Instead of reaching for the bright red crystal in front of him, Master Ganyue looked up at Gao Yang and asked.

"The lifespan extension provided by longevity-extending items varies slightly depending on the user's strength," Gao Yang explained. "And the minimum extension is at least one percent of the total lifespan."

"Minimum lifespan extension of 100 years? And it's based on the overall lifespan extension?"

The expression on Gan Yue Zhenren's face became more serious, and his gaze toward the bright red crystal in front of him became more intense.

Master Ganyue withdrew his gaze and looked at Gao Yang with some caution, asking, "What does Fellow Daoist Zizai wish to learn from me?"

He couldn't afford to be careless. In this primordial world, those who weren't careful would have long since perished and their true spirits entered the cycle of reincarnation. Or rather, how many of those who could cultivate steadily to the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal were truly naive and innocent?

Gao Yang hadn't even explained his business yet, but he immediately brought out this longevity treasure, which shows that what the other party wanted to know was definitely not simple.

Gao Yang smiled and asked, "I wonder how much Fellow Daoist Gan Yue knows about the Eastern Continent?"

"Eastern Continent of Divine Victory?"

Master Ganyue raised an eyebrow, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I don't know what aspects you would like to know. I have knowledge of the three sects of Taoism, the holy lands of immortals, the clans of gods, and the Ruins of the East Sea."

The Moon Chasing Immortal knew quite a lot, so Gao Yang wasn't surprised. As a Great Luo Golden Immortal, the other party had lived for at least several thousand years. Although he was currently in the Southern Continent, how could he have cultivated to this day without a lineage?

Seeing this, Gao Yang asked, "I wonder what this sacred land of immortals and the clans of gods are?"

Upon hearing this, the Moon Chaser Master provided an answer for Gao Yang:

"The Land of Immortals is the fairyland and cave dwellings where many immortals cultivate. These immortal cave dwellings are scattered among the famous mountains and rivers of the Eastern Continent of Divine Victory, and are mostly places where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathers."

As for the clans of gods, this naturally refers to the sacred sites and inhabitants of the innate and acquired deities, such as the Nuwa clan of the great goddess Nuwa and the Fuxi clan of the great god Fuxi.

"Did the great god Zhurong leave behind any clan?" Gao Yang asked.

"Zhurong, the God of Fire?"

Gan Yue Zhenren glanced at Gao Yang, then at the crystal of life essence on the table, and nodded, saying, "The Great God Zhu Rong naturally left behind a clan. The Zhu clan lives in Yu, and can be considered a first-class power in Dong Sheng Shenzhou."

This is undoubtedly good news, meaning that after Gao Yang arrives in Dongsheng Shenzhou, he will be able to solve his own problems with the help of Zhu Qing and the Zhu clan.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Gan Yue." Gao Yang bowed respectfully, then asked, "Fellow Daoist Gan Yue, do you know how to reach Dong Sheng Shen Zhou from this Nan Zhan Bu Zhou?"

Master Gan Yue's gaze unconsciously showed a hint of interest: "Fellow Daoist, are you going to Dongsheng Divine Continent?"

"I need to go there for something."

"Fellow Daoist is not from my Jambudvipa, is he?"

While Gan Yue Zhenren's words appeared to be a question, his tone was unusually certain.

Before Gao Yang could answer, he continued, "If you are not from the Southern Continent, you are probably not from the Eastern Continent either, otherwise you would never have come to this sea of ​​troubles."

"Then, fellow Daoist, are you aware that for those from other continents who wish to come to Nanzhan Yi, leaving Nanzhan Yi is as difficult as ascending to heaven?"

Gao Yang's expression was solemn as he earnestly said, "Please explain the reasons to me, fellow Daoist."

Master Ganyue stared at Gao Yang for several breaths before sighing softly and wiping his hand across the table: "If it were the previous information, I would still find this longevity treasure a bit too hot to handle. But if it involves secrets across states, then it is worth the price."

Gao Yang nodded, looked at the other person, and waited for them to continue.

Master Ganyue looked at Gaoyang and asked, "Fellow Daoist, the Southern Continent is a sea of ​​right and wrong, do you know why it is called a 'sea of ​​right and wrong'?"

Gao Yang replied, "Because of immeasurable eons."

"Yes, because of the Great Tribulation."

The voice of the Moon Chaser Master carried a hint of melancholy, “This primordial calamity is predetermined, with one cycle of twelve periods, each period lasting 10,800 years, for a total of 129,600 years.”

Every period is a minor calamity, and every epoch is a major calamity. At the end of an epoch, all living beings vie to cross over, to survive the major calamity that will reshape the primordial world.

At the end of each eon, all beings also need to struggle to cross over, to cross over the small eon that is enough to kill even immortals.

The current primordial world is in the middle of the sixth tribulation. Although there are still tens of thousands of years before the great tribulation, the small tribulation is not far away.

Since the great eon has not yet arrived, and the lesser eon still has some time to go, the struggle over the passage of the great eon unfolds in Jambudvipa.

Taoists, Buddhists, humans, demons, and witches have all come here to compete for destiny.

Or rather, Jambudvipa exists for this very purpose.

"So, the desire to leave the Southern Continent and go to the Eastern Continent is related to destiny?" Gao Yang asked slowly, his eyes lowered.

"Fellow Daoist, your mind is as clear as a mirror."

Master Ganyue nodded slightly and continued, "The concept of destiny is not ethereal. In the primordial world, the amount of destiny determines the number of beings who can survive the great calamity."

Those who are strong need more fortune to sustain them, while those who are weak need less fortune.

That is why all living beings in this primordial world constantly fight, not only for themselves, but also for everything behind them.

If one wants to leave the Southern Continent, then one needs to gather enough fortune.

For a Golden Immortal like you, fellow Daoist, to leave, you would need a hundred times your own fortune.

"A hundredfold increase in luck?"

Gao Yang raised an eyebrow, his gaze towards Gan Yue Zhenren revealing a hint of hostility.

He now possesses the fortune of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, a hundred times greater than that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal. That would probably be the total fortune of several Quasi-Saints, or even a Sub-Saint.

In other words, if Gao Yang wants to leave the Southern Continent, he needs to kill a hundred Great Luo Golden Immortals, or several Quasi-Saints, or even one Sub-Saint.

Such a quantity is basically impossible for an ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortal to achieve.

Or rather, even if it could be done, it would take a very, very long time.

In this process, they may even face revenge and assassination attempts from the victim's relatives, friends, and elders.

You might get away with it once or twice, but if you stand by the river long enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet eventually. If you do it too many times, you'll eventually face an inescapable pursuit.

This is why the Moon Chaser Master previously said that leaving Jambudvipa was "as difficult as ascending to heaven."

“Yes, a hundredfold increase in fortune.” A touch of emotion appeared in the eyes of True Person Gan Yue. “Therefore, Fellow Daoist Zizai, it’s not necessarily true that one cannot attain freedom in this Southern Continent.”

Don't waste your life on this.

"Was it a pointless loss of life?"

Gao Yang looked at True Person Gan Yue with a calm smile on his face, "I am very grateful for Fellow Daoist Gan Yue's generous answer, but there is still one question. How can we know the specific amount of luck, which is so ethereal?"

Master Ganyue sighed, and with a flick of his hand, a piece of pure white jade appeared on the table.

"This is a sub-dish of the Jade Disc of Fortune, a replica of the Jade Disc of Creation. It has few functions, but it can record and reflect changes in fortune."

In this Southern Jambudvipa, almost every power has such a sub-disc, and this sub-disc is given to you, fellow Daoist.

"Fellow Daoist, you only need to inject a wisp of magic power to activate it."

Gao Yang picked up the sub-disc of the Qi Luck Jade Disc on the table and, as instructed, infused it with a wisp of solar battle qi.

The next moment, a golden beam of light, three zhang long, shot out from the jade disc and stood between the two.

"Three zhang of fortune?" Master Ganyue exclaimed in surprise, his gaze towards Gao Yang flickering slightly.

Seeing that Master Ganyue did not continue speaking, Gaoyang did not ask any further questions.

This fortune is easy to understand. Since arriving in the Southern Continent, he has killed three Great Luo Golden Immortals: Lei Ying of the Leize Witch Clan, the red-haired strongman, and the disciple of Huang Yu Zhenren. This corresponds to three zhang of fortune.

In other words, the fortune of a Great Luo Golden Immortal is one zhang (approximately 3.3 meters).

In other words, the day when the fortune emitted by the sub-disc of this fortune jade disc reaches a hundred feet will be the day he is able to leave the Southern Continent.

Three years is a tight timeframe to kill a hundred Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

As Gao Yang thought this, a wisp of killing intent unconsciously emanated from his body.

Master Gan Yue was startled, feeling that Gao Yang, who was holding the Qi Yun Zi Die, was like a divine sword about to be drawn from its sheath. Although it was not yet drawn, the sword intent was already soaring into the sky.

After thinking for a moment, Master Ganyue quickly added, "Fellow Daoist Zizai, if you want to collect fortune, remember to kill as many alien races as possible, including witches, demons, and Buddhas."

If you are also a human or a Taoist, try not to take the initiative to attack. After all, you are holding a human sub-disc. If you kill too many humans and Taoists, it will be difficult to leave later.

Of course, if someone provokes you, then you have no scruples.

Gao Yang looked at Gan Yue Zhenren, put away the Qi Luck Disc in his hand, and bowed respectfully.

"I will remember what Fellow Daoist Ganyue said today. Thank you."

Master Ganyue waved his hand and said, "Heh~ Fellow Daoist Zizai, there's no need for this. We've never met before, and you've never been to this small border town of mine."

Gao Yang understood upon hearing this, so he nodded and said, "Of course, I have never met the Moon Chaser."

"So good."

As soon as Gan Yue Zhenren finished speaking, he vanished from the spot.

Along with him, Daoist Xingli also disappeared.

When Gao Yang looked up again, he saw that all the spiritual fruits and teas in front of him had disappeared, leaving only a jade tea box on the table.

The meaning is quite clear: if there are no traces, then Gao Yang should not leave any traces in Gan Yue City.

Gao Yang picked up the tea box and disappeared from the spot.

(End of this chapter)