Lu Qingshan and the nine hundred and ninety-nine human cultivators were teleported from the square to the mountain closest to the Jade Gate Pass in the blink of an eye.
The Jade Gate Pass stood in front of them.
At first glance, Jade Gate Pass was different from the city passes of the mortal world. As a pass to resist the Devil Race, it was built by the great cultivators of the human race with the power to move mountains and overturn seas. Its grandeur was unimaginable.
The neatly cut meteorites were stacked piece by piece to form a lofty city wall that was an entire 3km in height. Numerous formation markings were inscribed on it, and when looked at from afar, it was majestic like a tall mountain that resided like a crouching dragon, lofty and beautiful.
The Jade Gate Pass had been eroded by wind and rain for thousands of years. The Demons had attacked again and again. There were many messy marks on the city wall.
But it still stood in the Heavenly Mountain, blocking the abyss, suppressing everything and cutting off the path of the Demons. It also had a sense of history, as if it was telling people about the magnificence and prosperity of the Eastern Region's impregnable pass.
"So this is the Jade Gate Pass …" Lu Qingshan murmured.
"The newcomers are here." Shouts rang out.
The next moment, a dozen cultivators in black armor appeared in front of them.
The leading cultivator had a scar on his face, which made him look ferocious and ferocious.
Many cultivators couldn't help but look at him with strange expressions.
They were not afraid, but puzzled. Cultivators could even reconstruct broken limbs, so how could they leave scars on their faces?
The cultivator with the scar seemed to see the surprise in the newcomers' eyes. A fierce light flashed in his eyes. He laughed heartily. "Little guys, are you wondering why I have this scar on my face?"
After a pause, the cultivator with the scar revealed the answer. He said proudly, "This was left behind by the Soldier Demon!"
Lu Qingshan's heart skipped a beat. He immediately understood why the cultivator with the scar was so proud.
It was just like how the higher the food chain was, the fewer there were.
The Soldier Demon was the noblest of the Demons. Correspondingly, the Soldier Demon Clan's total population was not large.
Although it was said that the Eastern Region was fighting against the Soldier Demons, in fact, most of the time, the practitioners of the Eastern Region encountered the Soldier Demon Clan's affiliated demons.
However, the cultivator with the scar not only met the Soldier Demon, but also appeared in front of them alive. They only needed to think about it for a moment to understand what it meant.
In the Jade Gate Pass, killing Soldier Demon was the greatest achievement! How could he not be proud?
"The weapons held by Soldier Demon all contain indestructible Demonic Qi. Once they hit you, it is almost impossible for you to get rid of the Demonic Qi."
The scarred cultivator looked at the newcomers and explained with a grin, "That is to say, the wounds caused by the Soldier Demon can never be healed and will exist forever.
Every once in a while, the Devil Qi attached to the wound will erupt, causing you to be in so much pain that you wish you were dead. "
This was the reason why the scar on his face had always been there — he didn't leave it on purpose, he just couldn't do anything about it.
Behind such a calm sentence, one could imagine how much pain the scarred cultivator had suffered because of this wound.
"Let's not talk about this for now." The scarred cultivator shouted, "Newcomers, if you want to enter the Jade Gate Pass, you must first have your own identity mark …"
As he spoke, a hazy and illusory crystal plate appeared in his hand. Then, the scarred cultivator casually pointed at a newcomer and said, "You, come out for a moment."
The newcomer pointed out by the scarred cultivator hurriedly stepped forward.
The scarred cultivator handed the illusory crystal plate to the newcomer and said, "Put your Divine Sense into the crystal plate."
The newcomer followed his instructions and put his Divine Sense into the crystal plate.
In the next moment, the crystal tablet suddenly lit up, and then its shape actually started to twist strangely. It quickly changed, forming a dragon-shaped light shadow. After circling in the air, it finally turned into a rather charming "Xia" character.
"If it's a sect cultivator or a clan cultivator, before coming to the Jade Gate Pass, your clan or sect should have given you a token that represents your sect or clan's identity. You just need to imprint your imprint on the token.
If it's a rogue cultivator, let me know. We provide a special rogue cultivator token here. "The scarred cultivator said again.
The new cultivator chosen by the scarred cultivator was not a rogue cultivator. He immediately took out a sect token from his storage ring and pressed the word "Xia" into the token.
A flash of light appeared on the token. It looked the same as before, but in reality, there were many more things.
"A token imprinted with an identity mark will have three important functions.
First, it will be used as proof of your identity to enter and exit the Jade Gate Pass, the other six mountains, and even Heavenly River City. Moreover, it will be completely bound to you.
Only you can use the special function of this token.
Second, it will record your battle achievements in the foreign battlefield and convert them into battle merits so that you can check them at any time.
However, you must remember that you need to carry the token imprinted with your identity mark with you.
This is because once you put the token into your storage ring, it will no longer be able to record your battle achievements. At that time, if you can't obtain any battle merits, you can't blame me.
Finally, this identity mark also records the spirit materials that can be exchanged for battle merits. You can also check it with your spiritual sense at any time. "The scarred cultivator explained the function of the token in detail.
This illusory crystal plate called the identity mark was actually a spirit art developed by the spirit cultivators of the Heavenly Secret Temple.
Its three functions were all extremely important in reality, especially the ability to record battle achievements.
This was because battle merits were the most important reward for killing demons. It was also an important motivation for cultivators to risk their lives to enter the foreign battlefield.
However, cultivators often acted alone. When calculating battle merits, how to count them, as well as the possible problems of overreporting and lying, all had to be resolved.
On the side of the human race, the way to count battle merits was that after a cultivator killed a Demon, they had to take the eyeballs of the Demons they killed back as proof.
However, later on, the human race discovered that many times, the battle between cultivators and Demons was a life and death struggle. There was no way to stop and leave the Demons' corpses intact.
This was especially true for spirit cultivators. When a heavenly lightning struck down, the Demons would be directly turned into ashes. Not to mention eyeballs, not even a strand of hair would be left. Then, wouldn't the Demons be killed for nothing?
And if cultivators were to be restrained in order to leave the Demons' corpses intact, it was no different from courting death.
Furthermore, in many cases, cultivators often didn't have time to clean up the battlefield and had to quickly leave.
In the end, there were also some human cultivators with evil intentions who faked the eyeballs of the Devil Race in order to obtain battle credits.
Combining all of the above situations, the great cultivators of the Tianji Temple created a new spiritual art specifically to solve this problem. Furthermore, as they continued to improve it, many new functions were added, and finally, it became what it was today.
According to Lu Qingshan's understanding, this was actually a personal "database" that he could carry around with him.
…
After the scarred cultivator finished explaining the functions of the identity mark, the dozen or so black armored cultivators began to distribute identity marks to the newcomers in an orderly manner.
Lu Qingshan quickly received his own identity mark, and then quietly branded it on the Sword Sect token that Xi Xiang gave him.
"Try to use your divine sense to explore the token." After seeing that all the newcomers had their own identity tokens, the scarred cultivator said.
Lu Qingshan did as he was told.
The next moment, several lines of flamboyant ancient characters entered his eyes.
Identity — Blank
Sect — Sword Sect
Authority — E (To upgrade to the next level, "D", must accumulate more than 100 battle merits.)
Battle merits — Zero
This information was personal information that belonged to him.
And above the identity column, it was blank.
This was because, due to various special circumstances, human cultivators often had the need to hide their identity.
Therefore, the Jade Gate Pass would not directly ask the newcomers for their identity, they would write down their name themselves.
Of course, you could even write a fake name, but after that, that fake name would become your code name in the Jade Gate Pass.
Lu Qingshan thought for a moment, and finally wrote his real name behind his identity.
Identity — Lu Qingshan.
…
Below his personal information, there was a list called "Treasure Trove".
Lu Qingshan's divine sense casually swept across it, and the list was immediately opened by him.
"Magic Technique", "Cultivation Technique", "Spiritual Materials", "Magic Tool", "Elixir", "Secret Technique", and "Auxiliary Technique", a total of seven major categories were imprinted into his eyes, and the division was very orderly.
Under each major category, there were many sub-categories. For example, under the "Magic Tool" category, there were so-called "Defensive Magic Tools", "Offensive Magic Tools", "Auxiliary Magic Tools", and so on. It was extremely rich.
Within each sub-category, there were all kinds of Spiritual Items, and there was a dazzling array of them.
Every Spiritual Item could be exchanged with Battle Achievement.
Lu Qingshan casually opened the "Auxiliary" category, and instantly, countless images and corresponding text descriptions appeared before his eyes.
However, most of the images were gray, and this was because his authority was not enough — the more precious the Spiritual Item, the higher the authority level required to exchange for it.
In these gray images, there were the items that Lu Qingshan valued the most.
"Spiritual Crystal — 10 Battle Achievement for one (Requires Level D Authorization)."
To him, one Spiritual Crystal was equivalent to 50,000 EXP.
In the Jade Gate Pass, one Spiritual Crystal required 10 Battle Achievement, which meant that every point of Battle Achievement could be converted into 5,000 EXP.
This was the reason why Seven Mountains and One River was a treasured training ground in the eyes of the players in his previous life.
.....
Lu Qingshan quickly came back to his senses after roughly browsing through the Treasure Trove list.
This was because he was unfamiliar with it the first time, but familiar with it the second time. He had already gone through this Treasure Trove list countless times in his previous life. Looking at it again now, there was not much novelty to it.
However, the other new cultivators did not have the same experience as Lu Qingshan. To them, all of this was filled with novelty, and their eyes were filled with pleasant surprise. Looking at the massive Treasure Trove, they were completely stunned and dazzled, and could not come back to their senses for a long time.
The scar-faced cultivator was not in a hurry. He stood there with a smile, quietly waiting for everyone's novelty to pass.
After another seven minutes, most of the new cultivators had drawn their attention away from the Treasure Trove.
"Everyone, look over here. Next, I'll bring you to a simple understanding of the Jade Gate Pass and the situation of the Extraterritorial Battlefield." The scar-faced cultivator raised his voice slightly and said with a smile, "Follow me."
.....
Under the scar-faced cultivator's lead, everyone finally entered the Jade Gate Pass.
They were first brought to the tall city walls of the Jade Gate Pass.
Here, there was a wide area where they could see the situation outside the city walls.
It was a desolate and blood-red area. One could not see the end of it at a glance. It was unimaginably huge.
"The area you see is the Extraterritorial Battlefield. There are countless Demons in it. As long as humans leave the Jade Gate Pass and enter the Extraterritorial Battlefield, they can be attacked by the Demons at any time.
This is the place where humans produce the most powerhouses. Of course, it's also the cruel place where human cultivators die the most. "
"If you keep going deeper into the Extraterritorial Battlefield, you'll see a spatial passage that's about a hundred miles long and ten miles wide.
Through that spatial passage, you can enter the territory of the Abyss Soldier Demon Clan, "the scar-faced cultivator said calmly.
"Unfortunately, we humans don't have the strength to counterattack the Abyss.
In fact, most of the Extraterritorial Battlefield is under the control of the Demons.
We humans have only built a dozen or so small city passes in the Extraterritorial Battlefield with great difficulty. They're used as bridgeheads to prevent the Demons from attacking the Jade Gate Pass without warning.
After you familiarize yourself with the general situation, you can go to those small city passes and kill the Demons! "The scar-faced cultivator looked at the desolate land in the distance with a glint in his eyes.
"The first thing you have to remember is the most important thing. In the Extraterritorial Battlefield, danger exists at every moment. As long as you leave the pass, you have to be vigilant and not be careless.
In history, there have been human cultivators who were attacked by Shadow Demons when they were just three miles away from the Jade Gate Pass' gate. "
Hiss —
The new cultivators could not help but suck in a breath of cold air when they heard this.
Even for mortals, a distance of three miles wasn't considered too far. For cultivators, it was only a step away.
Yet, there were Shadow Demons lurking just three miles away from the Jade Gate Pass?
How daring were the Demons? How terrifying was the Extraterritorial Battlefield?
"In addition, the Demons will launch a large-scale campaign every decade or so. They will attack all the small city passes and Jade Gate Pass that we humans have built. That is the most tragic time." The scar-faced cultivator described the cruelty of war to the new cultivators. "In every large-scale campaign, we humans will suffer heavy casualties."
"Because, in terms of strength, the Demons are far superior to us humans!" The scar-faced cultivator said in a deep voice.
More than half of the thousand new cultivators were aware of this situation, but there were also some who were not very clear about the situation. Their faces immediately revealed shocked expressions.
When the scar-faced cultivator saw this scene, he could not help but sigh. He slowly said, "Although I don't want to admit it, it is the truth. The Demons have always been stronger than us humans.
Back then, the reason why we humans were completely defeated was because the strength of the various human sects was not united.
In fact, the fundamental reason was because the difference in strength was too great.
This is because, in terms of division, the Demons' situation is much worse than us humans. But even so, they still had the strength to crush us back then … "
All the new cultivators fell silent as their breathing quickened.
"That is why Dao Ancestor Xia established the Da Xia Kingdom. It is to unite the strength of us humans.
After all, our strength is far inferior to the Demons. If we do not unite, we humans can just surrender and admit defeat. "The scar-faced cultivator continued, exposing the predicament of humanity in front of the new cultivators.
"In addition, in terms of the Extraterritorial Battlefield in Heavenly Mountain, the Jade Gate Pass is fine. After all, nearly eighty percent of the human cultivators in the Eastern Region are gathered there. There is also the Sword Sect's Senior Azure Cloud Sword Immortal presiding over it.
Therefore, the Demons have always been helpless against us. The casualties of the Jade Gate Pass in every campaign are not too great.
However, the situation of the other dozen or so small city passes is not so optimistic. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is tragic. "
"Fifty percent!" The scar-faced cultivator extended his right hand to the new cultivators. "This is the casualty rate of the cultivators in the small city passes in every large-scale campaign!"
"How can it be so high?" A new cultivator could not help but exclaim in disbelief.
"This is the Demons' overt scheme. Their strength is clearly far superior to ours, but every time they attack our small city passes, the forces they send are just slightly stronger than ours.
And in battles where they are evenly matched, the casualties are usually the heaviest. "
"Ah, why is that?"
Most of the new cultivators' expressions turned solemn. Clearly, they had already guessed the Demons' scheme. However, there were still a few cultivators who had yet to wrap their heads around it.
The scar-faced cultivator thought nothing of it as he patiently explained, "Because the Demons know that if the forces they send are far stronger than ours, we will give up on those small city passes …"
"And the Demons want us to defend those small city passes with our lives, so as to constantly expend our strength."
"But, aren't the Demons also expending their own strength?" Another person asked.
"It is not the same, because the Demons are completely different from us." The scar-faced cultivator said in a deep voice, "The strength of us human cultivators is obtained through long periods of cultivation by those with spiritual roots. It needs to be accumulated slowly.
But the strength of the Demons comes from their bloodline. As long as they continue to give birth, they can continuously cultivate warriors of the Demons.
However, if the number of these powerful Demons is too high, the Abyss World will not be able to bear it and will begin to descend into desolation and destruction. This is also the reason why they want to invade our human race's Firmament Heaven.
To the Demons, attacking our small city passes will not only expend our strength, but also eliminate the number of Demons that they are already overburdened with.
This kind of loss is completely beneficial to them. "
"If this continues, the growth of our human cultivators will not be able to keep up with the rate of depletion. We will only become weaker and weaker." The scar-faced cultivator said, "This is exactly what the Demons want."
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