Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 291 Hearing of the Upper Realm

Zhou Yang flew hundreds of miles in the opposite direction from the Seven Shadows until he encountered a magnificent river that was thousands of meters wide, and then plunged headfirst into the rushing water.

Before long, he found a giant fish that was twenty or thirty meters long and looked somewhat like a golden carp. This was a powerful fish monster that had reached the Innate Realm.

However, in front of Zhou Yang, this innate realm demon beast had no power to resist. He first used his powerful soul power to intimidate the giant fish demon beast, and then shrank his body and directly entered the belly of the golden fish demon through its ferocious maw.

At the same time, he unleashed several mysterious hand seals, causing his aura to continuously decline until it became almost imperceptible.

Only after he had finished doing all this did he catch his breath and use his soul to control the golden fish demon as it quickly fled downstream along the rushing river.

More than a month later, the lower reaches of the Qianwu River are near the Jinpingshan River basin.

Jinyang Mountain is an ordinary immortal mountain on the Qianyuan Continent. This mountain range is not very large, and even including the surrounding continuous mountain peaks, it covers an area of ​​only a few thousand miles.

However, a powerful immortal cultivation sect called the Jinyang Sect is stationed on Jinyang Mountain, making it quite well-known among the surrounding mortal kingdoms.

At this moment, on the vast, surging river below Jinyang Mountain, two young disciples who had just joined the Jinyang Sect and received flying swords were carefully practicing the feeling of flying on their swords.

However, the two were clearly progressing at different paces. One of them, a handsome young man with a jade pendant hanging from his waist, had already mastered the controls extremely well, sometimes soaring into the sky and sometimes skimming close to the river surface, constantly performing various high-difficulty maneuvers.

The other young man, who looked somewhat simple-minded, was also flying on a flying sword, but he was much slower and didn't dare to fly too high, making him look a bit clumsy.

"Hahaha, Jiang Fan, flying on a sword should be fast, covering a thousand miles in an instant! You're so leisurely, like an old lady taking a stroll, it's really unbecoming of a cultivator!"

The handsome young man laughed as he steered his flying sword past the honest-looking young man at a swift angle. The strong wind generated by the high-speed flight caused the honest-looking young man to sway slightly, almost falling off the flying sword.

The honest young man struggled to control the flying sword and finally managed to stand firm again.

He looked at his companion who was speeding away and couldn't help but say, "Junior Brother Wang, since you have already mastered the skills, you can leave first. You don't need to accompany me."

"To stay with you?"

The handsome young man, Junior Brother Wang, chuckled inwardly. "Who wants to stay here with you? I just wanted to tease you because of your stupidity!"

Despite thinking this, he said aloud, "I have nothing to do back home anyway. It's fate that we both entered the sect on the same day. I'll practice with you a little longer."

As he spoke, he once again maneuvered his flying sword back, but this time he flew extremely close to the river surface. The sharp wind even carved a long trench in the river. He wanted to use the same trick again to tease the stupid Jiang Fan.

However, at that moment, a huge black shadow rapidly rose from beneath the river between the two, and a large area of ​​shadow quickly approached the river surface.

"Um?"

The sudden appearance of the dark figure immediately alerted the two Jin Yang Sect disciples.

"Junior Brother Wang, be careful!"

Seeing this, the honest-looking young man couldn't help but shout a reminder. However, before he could even speak, the handsome young man had already retreated quickly, disappearing more than a thousand meters away in the blink of an eye.

"Splash splash~~~"

With a loud splash, a huge figure burst through the water and appeared on the surface of the Qianwu River.

It was a giant fish-like monster, more than twenty meters long, that looked somewhat like a golden carp. Its golden scales reflected a dazzling golden light under the sunlight.

Then the fish-like monster opened its mouth, and a young man in black suddenly darted out from it.

Not long after, Zhou Yang, using the alias Luo Feng, joined the Jin Yang Sect as a rogue cultivator and became an outer disciple of the Jin Yang Sect at the Golden Core Realm.

If Jin Yang Sect were placed on the Qian Yuan Continent, where cultivators gather, it could only be considered an ordinary sect that barely made it into the mainstream. Apart from the sect leader and the grand elder, who had reached the Void Realm, the strongest of the others was only at the late Void Realm.

However, the fewer experts there are, the lower the chance that Zhou Yang's identity will be exposed, which is exactly what Zhou Yang wanted.

The disciples of the Jin Yang Sect are treated quite well. Even a rogue cultivator like Zhou Yang, who joined the sect halfway through his cultivation journey, was given a low-grade spiritual weapon flying sword and a storage bracelet of the lowest level. He also received a fixed amount of pills and other spiritual items to aid his cultivation every month.

In addition, the management of the disciples of the Jinyang Sect is quite relaxed. Apart from occasionally going out to help the surrounding mortal kingdoms "slay demons and monsters", there are rarely any other tasks assigned.

Thus, Zhou Yang settled down at the Jinyang Sect quite happily for the time being.

Besides absorbing spiritual energy to cultivate his Qi, he spent the rest of his time immersing himself in the library of the Jinyang Sect, browsing through the vast collection of books accumulated by the sect over countless years.

Of course, books on cultivation techniques require a lot of contribution points to obtain, so Zhou Yang can't read them yet. His goal is the 'miscellaneous books' that are available for free for sect disciples to read.

The Jinyang Sect is, after all, a sect that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years. Even some of its "miscellaneous books" contain far more information than the books that Qi Ying casually collected in Junyang City.

Reading these books gave Zhou Yang a genuine understanding of the world's structure.

This world is almost boundless; even the founder of the Jinyang Sect, the Jinyang True Man who had reached the Tribulation Transcending stage, did not know just how big this world was.

In this vast world, there are two places that are particularly special.

One is the Abyss Continent, known as the holy land of cultivators, and the other is a vast sea area in the endless sea known as the Three Mountains Sea.

The Abyss Continent and the Three Mountains and Seas are not only much richer in spiritual energy than other areas of this world, but also have more obvious Heavenly Dao rules, making them easier to comprehend and cultivate.

Therefore, at least 90% of the cultivators in this world have gathered in these two regions.

The Abyss Continent is mainly occupied by cultivators of both the human and immortal paths, while the vast sea area where the Three Mountains and Seas are located is controlled by powerful demon cultivators.

These two regions are home to numerous sects of cultivators and forces of demon cultivators. Among them, the most powerful are the three sects, six schools, and one faction of the immortal and demonic paths of the Abyss Continent, as well as the three races of scaled, feathered, and beast races of the Three Mountains and Seas!

Each of these forces has a history of over a million years and contains countless powerful cultivators.

Most importantly, each of these thirteen forces controls a channel for communication with the upper realm!

(End of this chapter)