Cultivation Starts from Killing Pigs

Chapter 422 - 344: Moon Palace Project, Boarding the Immortal Ship Again

Kunlun Mountain is the center of the Divine Continent, where the capital of the Kaiyuan Divine Dynasty is located. Below it is a vast plain arranged in the Eight Trigrams, with eight giant cities. After several years of development, they have become increasingly prosperous.

The scale of a city is restricted by many factors, the most important being industry and transportation. A huge industrial system is needed to support enough population, and developed transportation prevents the city from being paralyzed.

Originally, the human race was primarily agricultural, and such large cities were impossible. But Zhang Kui broke the monopoly from the top, spreading the cultivation method among the people, inadvertently breaking the shackles of civilization.

Within the Divine Land Barrier, the climate is favorable. Coupled with the drive of the Merit System, cultivators participate in people’s livelihood. Some refined puppet beasts for farming, some Insect Masters periodically eliminate pests, and some Alchemy Masters created spirit medicines to increase production, leading to consecutive yearly bumper harvests with no famines.

This is both a good and bad thing because the massive number of farmers have no livelihood. If no solution is found, resentment will inevitably boil over.

Fortunately, the twelve Spirit Mountains are large in scale. Based on their unique characteristics, they formed a vast system around spirit plants, spirit medicines, spiritual ore, and artifact refining... Numerous people gather beneath the Spirit Mountains to make a living, also forming a sprawling city group across the Thirteen Provinces.

In the past, a cultivator needed to expend a vast amount of resources and required the efforts of countless people behind them, thus the rise of National Guardian Clans and the Astronomical Bureau.

Now, a child entering the Immortal Dynasty’s Mengxue, driven by the Merit System, receives careful guidance from cultivators, with nearby merchants providing various cultivation tools, supported by countless people making a living from this.

Posing as a sect in the guise of a nation, a brand-new cultivation civilization...

No one knows what the current Divine Dynasty truly is, but from top to bottom, one can sense its grand and thriving life force.

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As residents of the eight cities of the Divine Dynasty capital, they can glimpse the future direction of the Divine Dynasty from various trivial matters. From the selection of Star Officials in different regions to amusing anecdotes of team captains, there are endless topics to discuss daily.

These topics are also spread by merchants through the Divine Path network to various parts of the Divine Continent, gradually becoming known as "Gossip," thriving in teahouses and taverns.

As the source of gossip, the capital city residents naturally take pride, but they also have their own troubles, namely not being able to live in peace.

Since the establishment of the Divine Dynasty, Zhang Kui has refined starships, refined Earth Evil Silver Lotuses, and achieved immortality. He is either making constant noise or radiating divine light, and now there are often lightning and thunder, with clouds rolling.

The capital residents have grown numb.

Amid the continuous thunder, the number of immortals in the Kaiyuan Divine Dynasty has been steadily increasing, from Yuan Huang, followed by Bao Wuxin, Great Venerate Toad, Cyan Flood Dragon, City Lord Jin, Sea Eye Yaksha King... totaling eight.

Of course, this is the accumulation of thousands of years in the Divine Continent, but behind it, more than twenty Mahayana fell, over fifty dispersed their cultivation and reincarnated, and the rest went into seclusion, refining their pure mana, with the number of Celestial Pavilion Mahayana in the Divine Dynasty constantly decreasing.

The new path to immortality is too arduous, and only outstanding ones among the Mahayana can succeed. Therefore, the Golden Core Skill, once abandoned by most due to its difficulty, is increasingly valued.

With eight immortals sitting in town, the Divine Dynasty has greatly increased its room for maneuver, and in a short time, completely cleared out the Underworld.

However, everyone knows that the real test has just begun...

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The universe is vast, and the stars are radiant.

Above the orbit of the Celestial Essence Star, nine mighty figures float. If an ordinary cultivator were to probe, they would only see nine glaring balls of light, representing Zhang Kui, Yuan Huang, and others.

Yuan Huang gazed at the stars and communicated with admiration: "Indeed, only this star space’s Bursting Spiritual Qi can form Immortal Power in a Little World."

Just like the Earth Demon Skill, without completely achieving a great success and comprehending its Dao rhythm, Zhang Kui’s Celestial Gang Skill is impossible to teach, but he can summarize some basic magic techniques to instruct others.

Bao Wuxin looked down at the vast blue Celestial Essence Star below, a trace of helplessness flashing in his eyes, "The Divine Dynasty is the foundation. We cannot always cultivate here, drifting without a home, and if something happens, we cannot take care of it."

"This is rather simple..."

Zhang Kui gently shook his head, "Kunlun Mountain is the Heaven and Earth Bridge of the Divine Land Array. We could refine an Immortal Mountain to float above, directly connecting to the stellar Bursting Spiritual Qi, achieving the best of both worlds, but there is currently no time."

Everyone nodded, all understanding Zhang Kui’s meaning.

The Celestial Essence Star Reincarnation has already been damaged. Although it can last for decades, time flies, and it must be resolved soon.

Cyan Flood Dragon hesitated, "I know the Sect Leader’s skillful skill can refine the entire Celestial Essence Star... This plan is too astonishing, and should something go wrong, we can escape, but the Divine Continent might have no survivors."

The others also had solemn expressions.

Only after becoming an immortal does one know the terror of immortals.

If the Mahayana represents the pinnacle of the mundane, able to control a region of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, within the domain of an immortal, the Heaven and Earth Laws will change, thereby affecting the surroundings.

For example, a fire attribute skill, a Mahayana can turn an area into a sea of flames, while an immortal can transform their domain into an inexhaustible source of fire, and the phrase "devastate heaven and earth" is not an exaggeration.

If so many immortals work together, refining is uncertain, but destroying the entire Celestial Essence Star is all too easy.

"It seems everyone is not yet acclimated..."

Zhang Kui’s eyes remained calm as he gazed at the vast starry sky, "Do you know the vastness of this Star Sea? Do you know on what basis the Immortal Dynasty governs the Star Realm? Do you know how many ferocious beasts lurk within the dark stardust?"

"Without the ambition to transform heaven and earth and shift the stars, how can we stand firm in this Dark Cosmos and confront those terrors?"

Transform heaven and earth?

Zhang Kui’s words made everyone thoughtful.