Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 186 - 184: Arrival at Immortal Sun City

Even if Daoxuan Country cannot rank in the top three among the dozens of countries in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, it can definitely rank in the top five.

This country has a long history that can be traced back more than ten thousand years. Over these millennia, the royal family of Daoxuan Country has changed countless times, yet the country’s name has never changed.

What also hasn’t changed is the true ruler of this country, with its population of over two hundred million, the renowned major sect of the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, the Profound Sun Immortal Sect.

The Profound Sun Immortal Sect has a rich history, said to trace back twenty to thirty thousand years.

For tens of thousands of years, although the Profound Sun Immortal Sect has never produced a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal, it has always had Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators, and the sect’s legacy has been preserved intact.

In recent millennia, the Profound Sun Immortal Sect seems finally to have reached a flourishing era, with all sorts of geniuses appearing in endless numbers, and the sect’s influence has reached its peak in thousands of years.

Currently, the Profound Sun Immortal Sect, including the newly formed Nascent Soul Master Cyan Yang, has nine Nascent Soul Stage Great Divine Power Cultivators in existence, which even includes a "Half-Step True Immortal" at the Ninth Layer Nascent Soul Stage!

In terms of strength, only a few sects across the entire Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm can compare.

Moreover, the Profound Sun Immortal Sect is not only powerful itself but also has a close ally that is slightly weaker, the Yuqing Daoist Sect.

The alliance between the Yuqing Daoist Sect and the Profound Sun Immortal Sect has lasted over ten thousand years. The "Profound Purity Dao Alliance" formed by the two sects is one of the top powers in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, hinting at becoming the number one power in recent years.

Zhouyang, upon entering Daoxuan Country, immediately sensed the power of the Profound Sun Immortal Sect from the sidelines.

Standing on the back of the Eagle Lion Beast, he looked down, seeing that within Daoxuan Country, there was a Tier Two Spirit Mountain every hundred miles, a Tier Three Spirit Mountain every five hundred miles, a Tier Four Spirit Mountain every thousand miles, and a Tier Five Spirit Mountain every five thousand miles!

On these various sizes of Spirit Mountains, there are disciples of the Profound Sun Immortal Sect or clan cultivators stationed, and besides their daily cultivation, these stationed cultivators have tasks of slaying demon beasts, bringing rain, imparting dharma, and controlling epidemics for mortals.

Slaying demon beasts—many demon beasts have evolved from wild beasts, and livestock and poultry raised by mortals may evolve into demon beasts. These demon beasts, evolved from wild beasts, mostly attack humans, so when mortal governments discover demon beast attacks on humans, they will immediately report to the stationed cultivators on nearby spirit mountains.

Bringing rain—if a place has been experiencing a drought for a while, the mortal government will go to the spirit mountain to ask cultivators to perform a rain-inducing spell. If faced with a great flood, they will also request cultivators to stop the flood through magic, but changing the weather of a place is not something below a Golden Core Stage Cultivator can accomplish.

Imparting dharma—the low-tier cultivators on various spirit mountains of the Profound Sun Immortal Sect will preach outside the mountain at the "Dharma Transmission Square" once a month. However, the preaching does not involve explaining cultivation techniques but focuses on explaining the methods of health maintenance and medical treatment, encouraging mortals to extend their lifespan through these means, thus guiding them in another way onto the path of longevity.

Controlling epidemics—if a large epidemic or natural disaster strikes somewhere, the mortal government will notify the higher-ups while seeking help from nearby spirit mountains. The cultivators on the spirit mountains have a responsibility to assist.

Apart from these tasks, the cultivators on various spirit mountains of the Profound Sun Immortal Sect also oversee the magical combat between passing cultivators and practice various combat arrays of the Profound Sun Immortal Sect.

In fact, the Zhou Family Cultivators also perform these tasks.

But Zhou Family Cultivators do so because the mortals of the Zhou Family and the cultivators of the Zhou Family share a common ancestor, so with everyone being part of the Zhou Family, the Zhou Family Cultivators will act in this way.

However, how many mortals do the Zhou Family have compared to the number of mortals in Daoxuan Country? How vast is Daoxuan Country’s territory?

The fact that the Profound Sun Immortal Sect can achieve this across the entirety of Daoxuan Country, this frightening level of execution is what astonishes Zhouyang the most!

He has passed through many countries along the way, but no other country’s mortals could match the living standards of those in Daoxuan Country.

With mortals living so well, it is evident how well the cultivators of the Profound Sun Immortal Sect live.

"Brother Zhou, why is it that the mortals here in Daoxuan Country live so much better than those in other countries we’ve passed through?"

On the back of the Eagle Lion Beast, Xiao Ying recalled what she saw in the mortal cities she and Zhouyang visited before and asked him this question, her beautiful eyes full of confusion.

"There are many reasons, and even if I explain more, Ying’Er, you wouldn’t understand. You just need to know that the main reason is that the Profound Sun Immortal Sect is powerful enough, has deep foundations, and abundant resources!"

Zhouyang looked at the girl’s confused expression, shook his head, and simply said a few words, unwilling to elaborate further.

Of course, he wouldn’t tell the young girl that the reason mortals in Daoxuan Country live so well is that the Profound Sun Immortal Sect has gained a large amount of resources through successive external wars, enabling them to establish countless spirit mountains across the country and lay this foundation for eternity.

And even a powerful entity like the Profound Sun Immortal Sect can only achieve this within Daoxuan Country; even if they occupy other territories outside Daoxuan Country, they cannot extend their care similarly.

Moreover, the girl does not know, but he knows that beneath the seemingly prosperous lives of mortals in Daoxuan Country lies a profound crisis.

That crisis is that, to maintain the foundation of their rule, the Profound Sun Immortal Sect relocates mortal families who have not produced descendants with spiritual roots for several generations out of Daoxuan Country every few years, freeing up space for the mundane descendants of their disciples to move in.

This way, it can both enhance the loyalty of disciples within the sect and serve to optimize mortal bloodlines, increasing the likelihood of newborn mortals possessing spiritual roots.

The bloodline of cultivators tends to dilute and degrade. After the mortal descendants of Foundation Establishment Cultivators are passed down for seven or eight generations, the likelihood of producing spiritual roots becomes virtually indistinguishable from that of ordinary mortals. However, the bloodline effect of High-Tier Cultivators can last longer, but it too will eventually become ineffective.

Therefore, what the Profound Sun Immortal Sect is doing, in Zhouyang’s view, is actually quite understandable.

After all, if the Profound Sun Immortal Sect were to decline due to the lack of quality disciples, the living standards of ordinary people in the Daoxuan Country would inevitably decrease as well.

However, such matters are always clear to onlookers. For those involved, being driven from a comfortable place to one with very poor living standards is no different from falling from heaven to hell. The stark contrast is enough to drive some mentally fragile people to madness or even suicide!

Xiao Ying was quite obedient to Zhouyang. Seeing that Zhouyang did not want to discuss this topic further, she sensibly refrained from asking more questions.

The two continued riding the Eagle Lion Beast, flying within the borders of Daoxuan Country for four or five days, finally reaching their destination—Immortal Sun City.

Immortal Sun City is situated within the Cloud Sun Mountain Range of Daoxuan Country. The entire city stretches over 1,700 miles in length from east to west and over 1,200 miles in width from north to south, with a total of ninety-three Immortal Mountains within the city and over a hundred thousand cultivators!

Across the entire Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, the prosperity of Immortal Sun City ranks only below that of Liuyun Immortal City, standing on par with several other Immortal Cities.

The city is vast, with varying weather throughout. It’s normal for it to rain and thunder in the east while the west basks in bright sunshine.

The exquisite and magnificent buildings throughout the city also bloom in myriad styles, each with its own extraordinary flavor.

Some powerful shops even refine special magical artifacts placed above the shop, so that cultivators can see the store’s name shimmering with spiritual light from miles away.

Zhouyang had previously visited Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal City established by the Beast Taming Sect, but when he saw Immortal Sun City, he realized that despite both being established by major sects, the disparity between the two cities was evident at a glance.

The most significant difference is that Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal City does not restrict air traffic; any cultivator who completes the entry formalities can fly within the city, just like in Zhenyue Immortal City that he had visited.

However, only cultivators above the Golden Core Stage can fly within Immortal Sun City.

Cultivators below the Golden Core Stage, like Zhouyang, although unable to fly, can still use beast vehicles, Void Traveling Tower Ships, and other modes of transportation to quickly reach any area within the city. Of course, if you don’t want to spend the Spirit Stones, you can only walk or ride on land with a mount.

The Void Traveling Tower Ship is a major feature of Immortal Sun City. Zhouyang still remembered the shock of seeing the Chen Family Ancestor’s Void Traveling Tower Ship for the first time.

But in Immortal Sun City, this type of Void Traveling Tower Ship is just a relatively upscale means of transportation, and you can ride it for just a few Spirit Stones.

Moreover, unlike the Void Traveling Tower Ship owned by the Chen Family Ancestor, those within Immortal Sun City are all puppet mechanism artifacts driven by Spirit Stones. As long as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator provides divine sense navigation, they can command the tower ship to fly to various places within the city.

When Zhouyang brought Xiao Ying into the city to handle the entry formalities, he only spent an extra ten Spirit Stones to obtain an "Immortal Sun City Travel Guide," which included a map of the city, marking the locations of major landmarks and introductions on which transportation tools could reach them.

This "Immortal Sun City Travel Guide" might take Xiao Ying some time to figure out how to use, but for Zhouyang, the moment he got it, he understood how to use it.

After briefly examining the jade scroll, he eagerly pulled Xiao Ying towards a Void Traveling Tower Ship platform within the city and spent four Low-grade Spirit Stones on two jade stone tickets, each bearing the name of their destination.

About a quarter-hour later, they awaited a Void Traveling Tower Ship numbered "Twenty-Four." The two then waved their tickets at the dedicated platform, and the controlling cultivator aboard the ship released an attractant spiritual light, bringing them onto the ship.

Inside the Void Traveling Tower Ship, Zhouyang found that the internal space was not large, about half the size of the Chen Family Ancestor’s ship, accommodating only fifty or sixty people.

Considering that a cultivator only needed Foundation Establishment cultivation to control such a Void Traveling Tower Ship, it was understandable.

As cultivators generally preferred less talk, though there were over a dozen other cultivators with varying levels of cultivation beside Zhouyang and Xiao Ying, the ship was exceptionally quiet. Even when Zhouyang and Xiao Ying wanted to communicate, they either set up a sound insulation barrier or used voice transmission.

When they reached their ticketed destination, the tickets in their hands would emit a soft glow to remind them of their stop. At this point, they only needed to place the tickets into a wooden box within the tower ship, and the controlling cultivator would similarly transport them to the disembarkation platform outside the ship.

After getting off the ship, Zhouyang spent eight Spirit Stones on another set of Void Traveling Tower Ship tickets, and the two waited for more than a quarter-hour before boarding another ship to reach a different location in the city.

After getting off this time, Zhouyang led Xiao Ying out of the Void Traveling Tower Ship station and walked along a bluestone avenue for over a thousand meters to arrive at the entrance of an Immortal Inn named "Yunlai Immortal Inn."

"This is it. Elder Cao mentioned when we parted that after I arrive in Immortal Sun City, I only need to tell the proprietress of this inn that I’m looking for him, and she will help me contact him!"

Zhouyang looked at the sign hanging above the entrance of the inn, his face filled with anticipation as he spoke.

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