The Difference Between Immortals and Mortals, Fang Zheng Gets a Surprise Inspection

What was the greatest difference between mortals and immortals?

It was a question worth pondering deeply.

After years of exploration, Chen Yi finally obtained an accurate answer today.

The reason a mortal body remained a mortal body was because it was still within Heaven and Earth, within the Great Dao laws. It relied on replenishing the natural spiritual aura produced by the outside world to maintain itself. Yet for that very reason, the body developed resistance, causing the natural spiritual aura to gradually lose its effect, until one's qi and blood declined and one died.

As powerful as Chen Yi was, with a Two-star clone capable of suppressing pseudo-immortals and perhaps even a three-star clone capable of fighting a true immortal against the odds, he still needed to replenish the natural spiritual aura of Heaven and Earth. It was merely because he was still young, with his qi and blood at their peak, that his dependence was not so severe.

The reason true immortals were true immortals was that they achieved an inner-world cycle within their bodies. They relied on spiritual aura continuously generated from within to sustain themselves. Since they did not depend on the outside world, they naturally developed no resistance, and thus could live long and see far.

Therefore, the most fundamental difference between immortals and mortals lay in their interaction with Heaven and Earth.

And if one wished to break free of dependence on the spiritual aura of Heaven and Earth, the most important thing was to nurture an immortal body capable of internal circulation!

And to nurture an immortal body, one had to possess enough Immortal Dao Spiritual Essence!

Then the problem arose. The current Tribulation Transcendence was absurdly brutal. The Immortal Realm could not be entered no matter what, so where could Chen Yi find so much Immortal Dao Spiritual Essence to consume?

The Pseudo-Immortal Realm barely counted as one possible path, but unfortunately, its reserves of Immortal Dao Spiritual Essence were scarce. At most, they could sustain the consumption of a single immortal body. Continuing cultivation was simply impossible.

Moreover, the Pseudo-Immortal Realm was not something one encountered often. In Group 108, only the West Sea Realm where An Lan resided was a Pseudo-Immortal Realm. The worlds of the others had yet to reach that level.

If he truly treated that as his way out, it would only lead to a dead end!

Seen in that light, the Myriad Worlds Mall in the chat group became especially important!

Being able to reliably obtain Immortal Essence Stones meant he would not have to worry about where his next meal was coming from. However, the origins of the chat group were mysterious. The things it produced might carry some unknown power. If he used them too much, he might lose himself and eventually become a chess piece in some being's game!

Just as the old saying went, every gift bestowed by fate had already had its price secretly marked. If one loved freeloading, one would surely pay a painful price!

Thus, Chen Yi did not intend to use the Immortal Essence Stones produced by the Myriad Worlds Mall on his true body.

He planned to nurture all his clones into immortal bodies before butting heads with the Tribulation Transcendence again. Since he could not pass the Immortal Realm's official trial no matter what, then he would fight his way in!

"Eighty-one times—an entire eighty-one times—and in the end, it was still a scam! The Immortal Ascension Tribulation is Still Chasing Me, sooner or later, I'll beat you into submission!"

Chen Yi's True Body looked resolute, his eyes filled with a desire to retaliate against the Immortal Realm.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

During this time, Fang Zheng's life had been exceedingly comfortable.

During the day, he cultivated the Great Evolution Heaven Swallowing Art, refining the Heavenly Thunder Essence left inside him by Great Group Leader. His cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds!

One only had to look at the rapidly growing numbers on the chat group's combat power panel. Three days ago, he had been a rookie with three hundred thousand combat power. Now, he had already reached 1.3 million!

Of course, seven hundred thousand of that combat power came from the Heavenly Thunder Essence Great Group Leader had forcibly stuffed into him that day. But there was no denying that the later increase of three hundred thousand combat power was all thanks to Fang Zheng's perseverance and hard work!

After cultivating the Great Evolution Heaven Swallowing Art during the day, he followed it up at night with the Spirit Control Art to temper his Primordial Spirit!

With both methods working together, he was steady and fast!

After ending his Primordial Spirit cultivation on the second morning, he would feel refreshed as he checked in to the group, collected two thousand two hundred points, then immediately exchanged them for twenty thousand spirit stones to deposit into the clan treasury!

Then, after waiting patiently for a while, the beloved Great Group Leader would send out a twenty-two-hundred-thousand-spirit-stone maximum-luck red packet.

If his luck was good, he could snatch over a hundred thousand. If it was bad, he would still be guaranteed thirty or forty thousand.

He could not spend it all. Simply could not spend it all!

In the past, the Fang Family worked bitterly for an entire month, yet each family member could only receive a salary of twenty source stones. Sometimes, they could not even be paid in full, and life was rather meager.

If you can't find a book by its title, try searching for the author instead. Maybe it was simply renamed!

But now...

Twenty a day, twenty per person. The higher one's cultivation, the more one received—and these were spirit stones, whose energy quality was even higher than source stones!

Although they were still only a small family tucked away in a corner of Yunzhou, their benefits had already matched, or even slightly surpassed, those of the foremost great clans of the age. They were only a little behind the very top Immortal Emperor Clans.

But how many people did an Immortal Emperor Clan have? Only a few hundred!

The Fang Family had over a thousand!

They could not compare per capita, but the total amount distributed was already nearly equal!

From this, it seemed the Fang Family also had the makings of an Immortal Emperor Clan!

Having never lived such a comfortable life, the Fang Family members all prostrated themselves before their clan leader and shouted long live.

Even Fang Fan, the Fang Family's young master with the makings of a Great Emperor, began to see his own scheming father in a new light.

Not only could he obtain so many cultivation resources, he had somehow gotten acquainted with a mysterious Great Emperor and even acquired two high-quality Great Emperor-level cultivation arts... Was this really still his unreliable scheming father?

"Old man, the Great Evolution Heaven Swallowing Art is great, and the Spirit Control Art feels pretty good too. But I've used up those thousand spirit stones. Give me some more resources!"

Fang Fan had no desire to pry into his scheming father's secrets. The winds outside had been rough lately, and going out was unsafe, so he simply held out his little hand to ask.

Fang Zheng: ...

A thousand spirit stones gone in one night? Even ordinary Purple Mansion Realm cultivators could not manage that, could they?

Yet this little gold-swallowing beast could?!

If it had been before, the Fang Family absolutely could not have afforded to raise a son who consumed resources like this. He could only have gone outside to make his own way.

But now...

Worthy of being his protagonist son—he truly had the makings of a Great Emperor!

"Here. There are a hundred thousand in this storage ring. Go wild. Your father has plenty of spirit stones!"

Great Patriarch Fang casually gave away what had once been an entire month's income for the Fang Family, without even blinking!

Who told him he was the Luckiest King in today's lucky red packet?

He could not spend it all, could not spend it all. Being invited into the group by Great Group Leader was truly the luckiest thing that had ever happened to him.

Not only had it resolved the Fang Family's crisis, it had also given the Fang Family an infinitely bright future.

A thousand words converged into a single line:

To repay your favor on the Golden Terrace, I would lift the jade dragon and die for you!

Great Group Leader's kindness could never be repaid, never be repaid...

After offering his daily devout gratitude to the Group Leader, Fang Zheng finally began preparing for today's cultivation.

The group had already become intensely competitive. Everyone was cultivating hard, especially that runner-up, who relied on his exceptional talent to shout in the group all day about reclaiming the runner-up throne.

There was no denying that his pursuit from behind was indeed swift, but surpassing Fang himself? Absolutely impossible!

But unfortunately, he was destined not to become the grind king today.

Because...

After three days of silence, the Heavenly Dao finally drove a group of Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings to his door for a surprise inspection!