"Upper Realm..."
Chu Mu stood before the window and gazed into the distance. A small river flowed past, while neat rows of farmland stretched all the way to the foot of the mountain.
Extending his gaze farther, he saw a lush mountain forest. The trees towered majestically, utterly beyond comparison with those of the mortal world.
Of course, in the Spirit Realm, the very concept of the mortal world no longer existed.
The Spirit Realm's spiritual energy was incomparably dense. Even though nearly all the Spirit Veins had been monopolized by various factions, the Spirit Realm was ultimately far too vast.
Even the spiritual energy that merely escaped into the surroundings was enough to completely erase the concept of the mortal world from the Spirit Realm.
Take this small town where he had settled, for example. Viewed through the concept of the Lower Realm, it was simply an ordinary secular town.
It was an agricultural age: people rose with the sun to work and rested when it set, and then... generation after generation.
And in fact, that was precisely how it was.
Yet in this ordinary little town, not one of the residents was a mortal.
After countless generations of reproduction and exposure to the dense spiritual environment, the essence of mortality had long since vanished entirely from the Human Race of the Spirit Realm.
From birth, every person possessed spiritual nature, and everyone had a Spirit Root.
After choosing a Qi Refining cultivation method and practicing it, they could easily become genuine cultivators of the Qi Refining Realm.
Under such a dense spiritual environment, all things in the world had also long since cast off their mortal nature.
The earth was spirit soil, while flowers, grasses, and trees all possessed spiritual nature, shedding their mortal qualities.
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