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Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation-Chapter 365 - 360 Immortal Also Needs to Find a Job
Jian Zhengyan tugged at Ding Huan’s clothes, "Mr. Ding, one bowl it is then."
The waiter gave Ding Huan a cold glance, "What? Trying to scam our tea house?"
"Then, it’s just one bowl," Ding Huan smiled and, without any further ado, took a seat.
Jian Zhengyan breathed a sigh of relief and sat down opposite Ding Huan.
The waiter sneered, "With just that, you dare to cause trouble here?"
It was as if Ding Huan hadn’t heard him at all, instead, he turned to Jian Zhengyan and asked, "Mr. Jian, is that place across from here the Fourth Immortal Domain?"
Jian Zhengyan nodded, "Yes, but it’s hard to get in. Many newcomers want to enter the Fourth Immortal Domain, yet there are only three opportunities to enter each year."
"I need to ask further," Ding Huan quickly said.
Jian Zhengyan explained, "The first opportunity is just the normal way in at the start of each year. The domain gate to the Fourth Immortal Domain opens, and cultivators who enter need to pay ten thousand Immortal Crystals…"
"How can you obtain ten thousand Immortal Crystals when they are so hard to come by?" Ding Huan was puzzled.
Jian Zhengyan said, "In the Void, there are countless chances to strike it rich. The most common windfall is the Void Immortal Essence Sprout, which is formed by Immortal Essence Qi in the Void after countless years of condensation.
A single sprout can be exchanged for ten Immortal Crystals. For a double sprout, you can get one hundred Immortal Crystals, and triple sprouts are even more valuable, though they are virtually impossible to find."
Ding Huan was now aware that what was worth a hundred Immortal Crystals was only given one Immortal Crystal to him; these people were unscrupulous.
"If you have a triple sprout, sometimes one plant can grant you an opportunity to enter the Immortal Realm. Of course, even without Immortal Crystals, if you have many Void Immortal Essence Sprouts, you can directly exchange them for a chance to enter the Immortal Domain."
Ding Huan thought to himself that the Void Immortal Essence Sprouts must be rare, and the double sprouts even rarer.
A single sprout only exchanges for ten Immortal Crystals. To get ten thousand Immortal Crystals would take one thousand sprouts—that’s incredibly difficult.
"The second opportunity to get in is through Immortal Sect recruitment…"
"Immortal Sect recruitment?" Ding Huan couldn’t help but ask, though he really didn’t want to; this was completely beyond his understanding.
On Earth, there were various job fairs, but now in the Immortal Sects too?
Jian Zhengyan smiled, "Mr. Ding, it’s not odd that you don’t know coming here for the first time. The Fourth Immortal Domain is rumored to be the worst Immortal Domain, and all the Immortal Spiritual Energy there has owners…"
Ding Huan was speechless, "Mr. Jian, Immortal Spiritual Energy has owners? Does that mean if I cultivate in an open and unowned area, that area’s Immortal Spiritual Energy also has an owner?"
In Ding Huan’s understanding, claiming Immortal Spiritual Energy had an owner was like claiming ownership of the air.
Not even the most vile and arrogant rulers on Earth would dare say the air was theirs.
Jian Zhengyan earnestly replied, "Indeed. In the Fourth Immortal Domain, all places where Immortal Spiritual Energy can be generated are occupied by various large immortal families and Sects.
If you want to absorb Immortal Spiritual Energy for cultivation in the Fourth Immortal Domain, you must first join an Immortal Sect, which is what I referred to as Immortal Sect recruitment."
Ding Huan frowned, "Mr. Jian, if the Immortal Spiritual Energy is fixed, then the Immortal Sect’s Immortal Spiritual Energy is also limited. Why would they recruit new disciples to share the Immortal Spiritual Energy?"
Jian Zhengyan replied, "Mr. Ding cannot judge the Immortal Domain using the common sense of the Taoist Realm. In the Immortal Domain, Immortal Spiritual Energy is never fixed.
In the Immortal Domain, it’s possible to find new Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Dao Pattern Rules to create new Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes.
To acquire new Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes, one must constantly try various methods and means…"
"Mr. Jian, I still don’t quite understand. Is Immortal Spiritual Energy obtained by finding Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes? Since Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes can be found, shouldn’t any place suffice? Why must one join a Sect?"
The more Ding Huan listened, the more confused he became.
The method Jian Zhengyan described seemed similar to Bitcoin mining on Earth.
Jian Zhengyan explained, "Actually, I didn’t understand it at first either, but later I learned that in the Immortal Domain, Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes can indeed only be obtained in specific places.
I made it sound simple, but in reality, creating a new Immortal Spirit Spring Eye is much more complex. Every year Immortal Sects recruit cultivators with such talents to search for Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes."
Ding Huan asked, "Since these Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes can be created with new Dao Pattern Rules, why don’t people inside the Immortal Sects look for them themselves, instead of recruiting new people to search?"
Jian Zhengyan chuckled, "Searching for these Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes requires a lot of time and effort.
If you have a certain status within a Sect, would you use your time to enhance your own power or to find Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes for others?
Besides, if an Immortal Sect’s Immortal Spiritual Energy is abundant enough, they can engage in a variety of Immortal Businesses.
Such as Alchemy, Artifact Refining, cultivating Immortal Spirit Grass, and so on. All of these can yield substantial profits. And all of these require manpower."
So that was it.
Jian Zhengyan added, "Moreover, in the various Immortal Domains, there is a creature known as the Stealing Immortal Worm. These worms love to gnaw on the Protecting Arrays of Immortal Sects, then burrow into the Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes.
Once an Immortal Spirit Spring Eye is infested by these Stealing Immortal Worms, the spring is pretty much useless. Even if you block these worms from entering the Immortal Spring Eye, after they have gnawed on the Protecting Array, they can devour great amounts of Immortal Spiritual Energy.
All of this requires dedicated people for protection and defense, so Immortal Sects need to continually recruit."
Ding Huan sighed internally; how was this any different from the mortal world?
"The third opportunity to enter the Immortal Domain is for big Immortal Sect families to find Immortal Servants. This requires fewer people and those who do get in usually have the worst conditions."
After Jian Zhengyan finished speaking, he sighed inwardly as he saw no sign of the Immortal Spirit Tea arriving.
Even after giving up two superior Spirit Veins, Ding Huan might not even get a glimpse of the tea bowl.
Considering the cultivator who had previously left the Immortal Realm, Ding Huan asked, "Since it’s so difficult to enter the Immortal Realm, why do those who go in still come out?"
Jian Zhengyan replied, "Being recruited by a sect of the Immortal Realm does not mean you can live without worries.
If you have no abilities within the Immortal Sect, unable to help find the Immortal Spirit Spring Eye or lacking talents like Alchemy and planting Immortal Spirit Grass, and if you can’t help get rid of Stealing Immortal Worms, then the Immortal Sect can expel you.
Once expelled by the Immortal Sect, you can only wander around in disorder in the Immortal Realm. Outside of the Immortal Sects, there is virtually no Immortal Spiritual Energy anywhere else.
So, it’s better to leave. After leaving, you could search the Void for some Void Immortal Yuan buds. Or, like me, you could linger on in Void City, barely clinging to life.
It’s very hard to get in, but quite simple to leave; you can easily walk out of the Immortal Domain’s protective barrier from just about anywhere."
Ding Huan remained silent, his preconception of a harmonious Immortal Realm, with constant feasts of peach every three days and a Ginseng Fruit meeting every five days, was utterly shattered.
What Jian Zhengyan meant was that without any ability, one couldn’t survive in the Immortal Realm, let alone achieve immortality.
"If you’re not ordering the Immortal Spirit Tea, hurry up and leave. Our tea house isn’t free to sit in."
At this moment, the waiter finally showed up, but instead of bringing the Immortal Spiritual Tea, he directly shooed Ding Huan away.
Ding Huan said to Jian Zhengyan, "Mr. Jian, please go ahead, I have some matters to attend to."
"Yes." Jian Zhengyan, although he hadn’t tasted the Immortal Essence Tea, didn’t dare to linger and quickly left the tea house.
Once Jian Zhengyan had left, Ding Huan then said,
"I gave you two superior Spirit Veins, and you downgraded from two bowls of Immortal Essence Tea to one, and now there isn’t even one bowl. Not only is there no Spirit Tea, but we aren’t even allowed to sit here?"
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"How dare you swindle the Void Tea House, seeking death..."
The waiter raised his hand to smack Ding Huan.
He frequently drank Immortal Essence Tea in the tea house and his aura was certainly not inferior to the one whom Ding Huan had killed earlier.
Almost simultaneously with the waiter’s action, Ding Huan also made his move, striking with a punch as usual.
When this punch blasted forward, he not only locked the waiter’s Domain, but a Yellow Blossom Kill also bombarded the waiter’s True Yuan Domain.
The waiter might have drunk plenty of Immortal Essence Tea, but he was still just at the Immortal Bridge Realm level, his True Yuan not yet transformed into Immortal Essence.
Here, he was barely maintaining his presence without it dropping.
Sensing the overwhelming strength of Ding Huan’s Domain, the waiter was shocked and panicked, no longer concerned with slapping but instead desperately trying to retreat and break free from Ding Huan’s Domain.
Before he could escape, a whirlpool killing intent blasted into the depths of his Divine Will, causing it to shatter instantly.
The scent of death overwhelmed him, and the waiter screamed frantically, "You dare to kill me..."
Ding Huan had indeed not killed the waiter, but his punch had shattered the waiter’s Purple Mansion.
Blood spurted from the waiter’s mouth as a look of despair flashed through his eyes.
He was neither a core disciple of an Immortal Sect nor a nurtured individual from a major family.
With his Sea of Consciousness broken, what chance did he have to live?
At that moment, all he felt was regret. He had thought a clueless newcomer had arrived, easy to bully, but it turned out he was dealing with a ruthless person who had inadvertently thrown his own life away.
Ding Huan’s foot pressed on the waiter’s head as he spoke indifferently, "What’s the point? Tell me, by saving on two bowls of Immortal Essence Tea, how much could you have gained?"
The waiter’s gaze became vacant, too disoriented to even beg for mercy.
He knew that without Ding Huan killing him, he would still die.
About a dozen figures rushed over, surrounding Ding Huan.
Some cultivators who had been drinking tea in the tea house hurriedly rushed out; such matters, once involved, could likely cost them their lives.
Seeing that the newcomers were all at the Immortal Bridge Realm, Ding Huan breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, it wasn’t surprising; would a true Immortal be doing business in such a lowly place?
"You’ve got quite the nerve," the first person to speak was actually a fierce woman.
Seeing this woman, Ding Huan was suddenly reminded of Sister Tou he had seen upon his arrival at the Four-direction Star Land. This woman, though fierce-looking, was fierce only in expression, still looking very much a woman.
Ding Huan spoke lightly, "If we’re going to talk reason, then I’ll bring out the evidence. If we’re not, then act quickly, I have other matters to attend to after this."
Hearing Ding Huan’s words, not just the fierce woman, but the rest of the people also looked at him in surprise.
Ding Huan was definitely a newcomer, so on what basis was he not afraid of the dozen-plus people there?
Unlike them, these dozen or so people had not been weakened by the lack of access to Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.
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