Qin Di arrived at the town and headed west along the main road.
Although it had been 18 years since he was born on Gu Ming Planet, he did not fully devote himself to cultivation. On the one hand, he wanted to hide from the Heavenly Path, and on the other hand, he did not want to stand out before entering the sect. Thus, he did not fully devote himself to cultivation. His current skill level was not high, only equivalent to the Great Completion of Qi Refinement. If he crossed the mountains alone, he might encounter danger.
Planet Gu Ming was rich in Spirit Qi. In some inaccessible places, there were many high-level demon beasts. After so many years of conflict, if humans did not initiate an attack, the demon beasts would not eat humans. This was especially true for the small mountain village where Qin Di lived. It was a subsidiary territory of Longevity Mountain, so it was generally safer. However, this was the first time Qin Di had left home, so he did not know much about this world. Hence, he chose the safest method.
He stopped along the way and met some low-level Perfected Cultivators. Through constant communication, he gradually learned that Planet Gu Ming was one of the 72 Mother Planets. The Senshu here were mainly Earthly Immortal Sects, which was different from the Celestial Immortal Sects he had seen elsewhere.
All the cultivators of the Celestial Immortal Sects had to ascend and leave this world when they reached the end of their cultivation. Those of the Earthly Immortal Sects did not seek to ascend. As long as they stayed where they were, they could live forever.
Qin Di often looked up at the sky. His eyesight could see very far, and he could even see the Heavenly Path laws intertwining in the clouds.
He found that the sky membrane of Planet Gu Ming was very thick, almost thousands of times thicker than that of the Primordial World. The Heavenly Path here was extremely stubborn, and it was very difficult to ascend.
Because of this, it was said that no one from Planet Gu Ming had ascended for a long time. The last immortal to ascend was two million years ago! That person was called Zhong Cun. He was originally a nobody, but one day, he successfully ascended after experiencing 81 Heavenly Tribulations.
From then on, there was no one from the Celestial Immortal Sects. All that was left were the Earthly Immortal Sects.
Qin Di also knew that the so-called Celestial Immortal Sects reached their peak after advancing to the Ninth Stage of Earth Immortal. They had to change their cultivation mode and fly high into the sky. They relied on purifying the Great Purple-Green Medicine to accumulate power and finally become Celestial Immortals. The Earthly Immortal Sects did not reach their peak after the Ninth Stage of Earth Immortal. There were Tenth and Eleventh Stages above them … They were closely connected to the Earth and absorbed Celestial Essence Energy from underground. Therefore, as long as Gu Ming Planet did not perish, these Earth Immortals would not die.
Therefore, as long as Gu Ming Planet remained, these Earthly Immortals would not die.
"Logically speaking, as long as a Heaven Immortal ascends, they will take away their Immortal Essence Energy, causing the Spirit Qi of the Ancient Ming Planet to decrease. As time passes, this planet will gradually decline and become similar to the primeval world. Therefore, according to this model, as the ancestor of Earth Immortals, Zhen Yuanzi should have taken the initiative to seal the sky membrane and not allow anyone to ascend! "
"There's one more thing. If the amount of Earth Energy under Gu Ming Star is limited, then Zhen Yuanzi, as the ancestor of Earthly Immortals, will definitely suppress the other cultivators and prevent them from becoming Earthly Immortals. Or rather, even if they become Earthly Immortals, he will increase the difficulty of their cultivation and prevent them from leveling up smoothly!"
When Qin Di thought of this, he couldn't help but shiver. "If that's the case, then if I go to Wu Zhuang Guan to be apprenticed, will I be walking into a trap?"
"There are all kinds of people in the world of cultivation. Some people have trained their disciples to a certain level, and they will swallow them whole or kill them and take away their Heavenly Abodes. This is also a kind of 'Wedding Gown Technique'. I wonder if Great Deity Zhen Yuanzi is such a person?"
"If that's the case, then where did his reputation come from? According to the Journey to the West, Sanqing is his friend, the Four Emperors are his old friends, the Nine Luminaries are his juniors, and Yuan Chen is his guest. He is also Golden Cicada's friend, knows Guanyin Bodhisattva, and participated in the Queen Mother's Saturn Peach Banquet. If he really relied on suppressing other Earthly Immortals to advance, or swallowing his disciples to strengthen his own cultivation, then he is not an Immortal, but a member of the Demon Sect! "
The more Qin Di walked forward, the heavier his heart became.
He continued to think, "Unless there's one possibility, and that is that Gu Ming Planet, as the mother planet, has an endless source of self-generating power! But how could a fixed planet have an endless supply of elemental energy? Then wouldn't it be water without a source, a tree without roots? "
Qin Di thought hard, and the speed at which he moved forward became slower and slower.
"Could that be the case? Gu Ming Planet is moving at a very fast speed, like a meteor streaking across the void. With a strong suction force, it can continuously capture planets, comets, and fragments of the Celestial Realm, causing this mother planet to become bigger and bigger, and the Spirit Qi to become richer. In this way, even if someone successfully ascends or advances to become a high-level Earthly Immortal, they won't be able to take away too much Celestial Core Power.
In other words, unless Gu Ming Planet can continuously produce Celestial Core Power, the size of the planet will increase every tens of thousands of years, and the thickness of the heavenly membrane will increase, making it more difficult for Heavenly Immortals to ascend. Without Heavenly Immortals leaving, more Celestial Core Power will remain on Gu Ming Planet. Because of this, Zhen Yuanzi's cultivation will continue to increase, and there will be no need to suppress other Earthly Immortals! "
Qin Di had not stepped into the local cultivation world, so he could not understand it no matter how hard he tried. He could only suppress his doubts and carefully ask people to understand the situation on Gu Ming Planet. He wanted to know which sects there were, which experts there were, and where those experts lived.
The further he went, the more Perfected Cultivators he met, and the more information he obtained.
It was said that Gu Ming Planet was very vast, and no one knew where the end of the sky was. Some places were even ruled by Demonic Cultivators and Demonic Cultivators, and no one had ever appeared there.
The mountain village that Qin Di lived in was less than 10,000 miles away from Longevity Mountain. It was a branch on the east side of Longevity Mountain. Therefore, he could be considered a native of Longevity Mountain!
Qin Di walked slowly for two months before he finally arrived near the main peak of Longevity Mountain.
There was a huge Immortal City about 100 miles away from the main peak of Longevity Mountain. This Immortal City had no city walls, and there were all kinds of houses and palaces arranged in rows. It stretched from the south to the north for dozens of miles, and no one knew how many people lived there.
After leaving the Immortal City and heading north, there was a straight bluestone road, and then a series of stone steps that rose higher and higher until they reached the top of the mountain.
The Five Manor Temple was located at the top of the mountain. From afar, it shone with golden light, inspiring admiration and reverence. The mountainside was surrounded by clouds and mist, and there seemed to be a group of Immortal Palaces.
Qin Di stayed in the Immortal City and went to the teahouses and restaurants every day to gather information.
Soon, he learned that Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi was not like what was described in Journey to the West, where only two Dao children, Qing Feng and Ming Yue, lived an extremely simple life at home. Here, Zhen Yuanzi established a sect called the Zhen Yuan Sect.
The Zhen Yuan Sect was not a small sect, and it was divided into three Daoist temples.
The lowest-ranking Daoist temple was the Eternal Spring Temple. The Eternal Spring Temple was located in the Immortal City, and cultivators below the Golden Core Realm lived there.
The higher-ranking Daoist temple was the White Cloud Temple, located halfway up Longevity Mountain. In the place where white clouds lingered, cultivators above the Nascent Soul realm and below the Dao Integration realm lived there.
Further up was the Five Manor Temple, which was located at the top of the mountain. Other than Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, there were five or six Earth Immortals there, and they were all personal disciples of Zhen Yuanzi.
It was said that there were originally forty-eight disciples under Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, but according to Zhen Yuanzi's rules, once a disciple advanced to the eighteenth stage of the Earth Immortal Realm, they had to leave the sect.
After those disciples left the Five Manor Temple, some went to remote places to cultivate, and some left Gu Ming Planet through the Teleportation Array to work in the Immortal World!
Qin Di did not know where those people went.
He thought to himself, No matter where they go, it's fine as long as I don't get swallowed by Zhen Yuanzi in one gulp!
Qin Di further understood that if he wanted to become a disciple of Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, he had to start from the bottom and go to the Eternal Spring Temple to take the test.
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