Li Yao was fascinated.
On his way, he had heard the names of a lot of top experts of the world of Cultivators from the conversations of the father and daughter of the Ling family and the barbarian Cultivators. Mother White Lotus Wan Mingzhu was one of them mentioned most frequently.
However, the barbarian Cultivators did not know much about the outside world. The father and daughter of the Ling family, on the other hand, naturally denounced Wan Mingzhu as a brutal, hideous ghost king from the standpoint of the court and the righteous Cultivators, but they did not explain in detail how the 'ghost king' came to be active in the southeast where the most powerful forces of the Cultivators were.
This was the first time that Li Yao had heard an explanation from a different perspective. Whether it was true or not, it was at least fresh enough.
"In fact, the White Lotus Cult rose in the southeast almost eighty years ago," Han Yuantai said. "The Cultivators denounced the White Lotus Cult as unpardonable fiends, claiming that they were 'slaying the fiends and defending the righteous Cultivators'. They annihilated the White Lotus Cult brutally and broke into the branches and even the headquarters of the White Lotus Cult dozens of times!
"However, soon after the Cultivators declared that the White Lotus Cult had been completely annihilated, new ghosts of the White Lotus Cult would be born in the prosperous land where the 'Jade Crystal Pellets' were hanging!
"Mother White Lotus Wan Mingzhu herself was' executed ',' executed ', and' obliterated 'by the Cultivators dozens of times. However, before long, she would come back to life in the seething resentment of the people and show up again!
"The southeast is an important town for training in the Great Qian Dynasty. As you said, of the hundred and eight natural paradises of the Ancient Sages Sector, the southeast boasts half of them. Almost all the powerful sects have established their headquarters, or at least their important strongholds, in the southeast!
"The southeast is the world of the Cultivators. Why are such brutal ghosts still inexhaustible after decades and even make the ghost king one of the top ten experts in the world? What else can it be if not the doom of the Great Qian Dynasty? "
Li Yao nodded his head slightly. "Well …"
Observing his face, Han Yuantai thought that the old monster's stance had changed. Overjoyed, he raised his voice even more excitedly. "The situation in the southeast is not so bad. There are almost a thousand Cultivation sects here after all. The dozens of riots of the White Lotus Cultivators are all over the place. The situation is still peaceful for now!"
"However, in the northwest of the Great Qian Dynasty, 'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng's rampage was even more unstoppable!
Li Yao nodded and said, "I've heard a thing or two about 'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng recently. I'm told that he is also a super expert who rose to prominence during my decades of seclusion. He is even more famous than Mother White Lotus Wan Mingzhu. What is his background? What are his backgrounds?"
Han Yuantai burst into laughter. "What background do you have? You're just a local rat! It's just that a hero doesn't ask where he comes from. In this great era where the world is changing and the world is changing, a good man can achieve great things with his courage and his fists! "
"The northwest of the Great Qian Dynasty used to be the center of the Ancient Sages Sector a hundred thousand years ago, and dozens of ancient dynasties rose from it. It was an out-and-out prosperous place. However, after tens of thousands of years of consumption, the spiritual energy here has been drained, and there is not a lot of resources here. It is an out-and-out cold and barren land.
"The folks in the southeast are still 'qualified' to be exploited by the Cultivation sects, but in the northwest, they don't even have a chance to be exploited, because there are barely any farmlands, ordinary farmlands, fertile farmlands, desolate farmlands, paddy farmlands, dry farmlands, terraced farmlands … There are barely any farmlands here!
"The land is so barren. The few farmlands that are somewhat decent are all under the control of the Cultivation sects. It is impossible for them to be leaked to the common folks.
"Even when the weather is good, a lot of folks are starving to death. It is needless to say how severe the famine is during a natural disaster!
"Famine is everywhere. Homeless people are everywhere. When the soil is gathered, they will become a mobster that roams everywhere like locusts. Every day that they can loot, burn, and kill is another day. When they are too hungry, they are bold enough to march at the headquarters of the Cultivation sects. Even the renowned experts of Yuanying are bold enough to lunge at them and bite off a piece of meat!"
Li Yao sneered and said, "The hungry folks in the southeast have some combat ability after they are transformed into ghouls by the 'Jade Crystal Pellets'. The homeless folks in the northwest can't possibly have the 'Jade Crystal Pellets', can they? Then, even if there are a million hungry mobsters, what can they do to the impregnable Cultivation sects and the capable Cultivators?"
Han Yuantai nodded heavily. "You're quite right, Master. That's what the court and the Cultivators thought at the beginning, too. Therefore, in the previous decades, they have been focusing on the southeast to deal with the White Lotus Cult. After all, no matter how many homeless people there are in the northwest, they are just ordinary people. When ordinary people attack the headquarters of the Cultivation sects, it will be nothing more than an egg hitting a rock.
"However, the Great Qian Dynasty is truly doomed now. All kinds of weird things are happening!
"The northwest of the Great Qian Dynasty is the place where the Ancient Sages Sector rose the earliest. The Cloud Qin Empire, the first unified dynasty in the Ancient Sages Sector a hundred thousand years ago, also rose from the northwest!
"Dozens of dynasties and countless ancient sects once established their capital in the northwest. Countless ancient tombs, residences, relics, and secret treasures are buried below the ground of the northwest. Despite the exploration of all the dynasties in the past, a lot of treasures still slipped through the net!
"Therefore, a lot of people in the northwest make a living by excavating ancient tombs, residences, and relics. They are known as' Earth Rats', or tomb robbers!
"The ancient tombs, especially the tombs of the high-level Cultivators, were often set up in the most auspicious places where spiritual energy was abundant. Also, special runes and barriers would be installed to preserve part of the spiritual energy inside the tombs. Even the magical equipment that the owners used when they were alive would be buried together with them. If …"
Li Yao interrupted him coldly. "You are fooling me again. The tombs of the high-level Cultivators must've been immensely powerful. Even if a Cultivator barged in recklessly, they would've been melted into pus if they were not careful. How can regular tomb robbers come and go freely?"
"Of course," Han Yuantai explained, "it would've been the case if the tombs were more recent than ten thousand years ago. But however powerful the Cultivators are, they cannot resist the passage of time and the changes of the world!
"Spiritual gas can vaporize, venom can dry up, and magical equipment and traps can decay and collapse. Even the most solid mausoleum from a hundred thousand years ago could've been triggered and malfunctioned after a world-shaking earthquake, exposing the most central mausoleum. As long as they were lucky enough, even ordinary people could've entered the mausoleum easily and returned with a full harvest!"
Li Yao thought for a moment and realized that it did make sense.
He had excavated some ancient relics before. The underground fortress of the Star Ocean Imperium on Spider Den, the tomb of 'Chaos' Ba Yanzhi, and even 'Kunlun', the planetary warship left by the Pangu civilization, had all been seriously decayed and collapsed.
That was why the latecomers had been able to enter the tombs and retreat easily.
"The rats who steal the tombs are ordinary people in the beginning," Han Yuantai continued. "But if they are lucky enough to survive in the tombs where spiritual energy is abundant for a long time, it is possible for them to have fortuitous encounters and even soar into the sky and become Cultivators!
"'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng was a rat in the beginning.
"It was also one of the few professions in the northwest that gave him a chance of survival.
"According to the rumors, he accidentally discovered an ancient tomb from ninety thousand years ago, but the owner of the tomb had long been transformed into a ten-thousand-year-old Drought Demon.
"Later, there was no telling what kind of fortuitous encounters Qi Changsheng had in the ancient tomb, or what the ten-thousand-year-old Drought Demon saw in him, but he ended up with an indestructible body of a Drought Demon!
"Of course, the profession of a rat is not allowed to belong to any Cultivation sect.
"Raiding tombs and exploring relics are the rights of the Cultivators. If the ordinary people with dirty hair and stinky breath were qualified to inherit the ancient residence, wouldn't everything be a mess?
"Therefore, Qi Changsheng soon became a brutal bandit wanted by almost a hundred sects in the northwest!
"Qi Changsheng is truly a tough bandit. He was besieged by hundreds of Cultivators from dozens of sects before he grasped the 'Thousand Miles of the Crimson Land' technique. In the meantime, he fought his way out of the encirclement of hundreds of Cultivators with a broken saber and escaped to a thousand miles away!"
"It is said that the dry land in the dozens of square kilometers nearby was dyed red by blood. The blood clouds were boiling and did not disperse for three days and three nights. It was truly a soul-stirring battle!
"After he broke out of the siege, Qi Changsheng decided to go all the way. He summoned all the rats in the northwest and joined the army of refugees!
"How could the rats who had been living in the ancient tombs for tens of thousands of years not be capable at all? Their participation significantly increased the capability of the army of refugees. After countless refugees were sacrificed, they finally broke into the headquarters of the first Cultivation sect!
"After the headquarters were broken, everything was much easier!
"The crystals, magical equipment, marvelous pills, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and Cultivation arts of the Cultivation sect all belonged to the refugees!
"A lot of Cultivators were captured by Qi Changsheng, too!
"Qi Changsheng purposely spared a large number of low-tier disciples and Qi Condensation cultivators from the sect, but had them slaughter the high-tier Qi Condensation cultivators of the sect, including their masters, uncles, and grandmasters, and eat their flesh and blood!"
"Even if the high-level Cultivators had been killed by Qi Changsheng a long time ago, their flesh and blood would still be cut off and eaten!
"Whoever dared to refuse would be minced into pieces immediately. They would also be eaten by the rest of the Cultivators!
"Killing their Master with their own hands, and even devouring their Master's flesh and blood, is the crime of deceiving their Master and destroying their ancestors. No one can save these low-level cultivators!"
"Henceforth, the low-level Cultivators could only join Qi Changsheng's side willingly. It was impossible for them to be accepted by any Cultivation sect!
"In the meantime, he released false news and pretended that he was still attacking the Cultivation sect in order to attract the reinforcements of the other Cultivation sects.
"However, he left a large number of refugees where they were as bait while he personally led the low-level Cultivators who had just joined him to form an elite squad. Taking advantage of the fact that the army of the four sects had arrived and their rear was empty, he ambushed their headquarters!"
"After taking down the headquarters, he did the same thing again. All the Cultivators that he captured were divided into two groups. The low-level Cultivators would besiege and kill the high-level Cultivators. After they committed the crime of betraying their masters, they would join his group!
"After they joined his group, they would attack the headquarters of the third Cultivation sect without stopping for a moment!
"Just like that, the army of low-level Cultivators under Qi Changsheng's command grew bigger and bigger like a rolling snowball. They marched forward and swept across the entire northwest!
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