Leaving a Share of the Spoils
These people were all those who had passed through that Spiritless Land, and now they felt that the place they were in was extremely similar to that Spiritless Land.
This inevitably made them feel apprehensive and uneasy.
What could be more terrifying for cultivators than the loss of their Spiritual Qi?
If it were known that a place like the Spiritless Land would be devoid of Spiritual Qi, that would be one thing, but this is where all the Spiritual Qi Spiritual Qi suddenly disappeared when it was already abundant.
This change caused great panic among cultivators who were absolutely dependent on Spiritual Qi.
Is this lack of Spiritual Qi just a temporary situation, or will it continue indefinitely? They don't know, but if it's the latter, then this group of cultivators is in serious trouble.
Because their Myriad Connections's information network in the Mortal Realm, barring unforeseen circumstances, has a regular communication and reporting cycle with headquarters that is once every five years.
The latest reporting team set off just three months ago.
A typical reporting team consists of only about ten Golden Core cultivators. It takes them about a year to return to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, after which they will report to headquarters and then rest and recuperate in the Immortal Cultivation Realm for three years.
For the next three years, headquarters will provide these cultivators with various cultivation benefits as a work subsidy for crossing the Spiritless Land. These cultivators will seize the time to cultivate during these three years, and after three years, they will return to the Mortal Realm with the supplies and new instructions allocated by headquarters to their colleagues in the Mortal Realm.
Of course, if any cultivators whose terms in the Mortal Realm have expired will return to the Immortal Cultivation Realm with the reporting team, they will not go back to the Mortal Realm, but will instead be replaced by new personnel.
Now, all of Myriad Connections's informants in the Mortal Realm have been wiped out in one fell swoop.
The reporting team had already left the Mortal Realm three months prior.
In other words, this group of informants will have to wait for the current reporting team to arrive at headquarters in seven or eight months, then wait for them to rest for three years, and then spend another year returning to the Mortal Realm to discover that they have been captured. After that, they will have to spend another year returning to the Immortal Cultivation Realm to report the situation to headquarters. Finally, it is unknown how long it will take for headquarters to send someone to arrange a rescue.
This makes one have to say that the timing chosen by the Heavenly Heart Sect was extremely ingenious.
They knew exactly where these informants were moving, and they also knew exactly when they sent people Immortal Cultivation Realm. Venerable Zhiyu deliberately chose this time to prepare for his breakthrough, so that even if something unexpected happened, their Heavenly Heart Sect would have enough time to deal with it.
Unexpectedly, they ran into the fact that the Pusi Kingdom had taken direct action to arrest these spies.
It must be said that Lingxian Sect was quite lucky.
In short, unless there is another channel to get the news of the capture of these informant cultivators back to headquarters, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, headquarters will send a super powerful cultivator to rescue them as soon as they receive the news. In the best-case scenario, they will have to stay in this godforsaken place for at least six years.
Six years!
Not one, two, or three years, but six years.
If there really is no Spiritual Qi here for six years, then most of them would probably die because their cultivation levels would regress due to the lack of Spiritual Qi to consolidate their cultivation over a long period, leading to a reduction in their lifespan.
Even though they had passed through the Spiritless Land before, they carried various pills to replenish their Spiritual Qi. While they might not have a full supply, they could at least ensure that their cultivation level wouldn't regress.
But things are different now.
Now, almost none of them have much of a good thing left.
Because when they were arrested by various sects and royal families, they were subjected to several rounds of body searches!
Those who arrested them, guarded them, and escorted them—every time they passed through a hand, they were plundered by those despicable Mortal Realm cultivators.
These cultivators from the Mortal Realm were quite in sync; they always managed their looting with great care, leaving quite a lot for the mortals at the beginning.
This made the group of informants quite happy, thinking that these Mortal Realm cultivators were afraid of their background from the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
Later they realized they were just being overly excited; these naive kids had nothing to be afraid of!
This group of people is paving the way for others to make money!
They're quite loyal!
Thus, this group of informant monks had already been ransacked several times on their way to Xiushui City.
Although he still had some left over, he knew that these leftovers must have been what those Mortal Realm cultivators had left behind to plunder Xiushui City.
They just don't know why no one from Xiushui City has come to plunder them yet.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the remaining items on the spies were few. The cultivators in the Mortal Realm were very sensible and knew that guarding and dealing with these cultivators was the most important thing. Also, if the Immortal Cultivation Realm found out later, Xiushui City would be the one to stand in front of them and face the Immortal Cultivation Realm directly. Therefore, everyone tacitly left quite a few behind.
But it's wishful thinking for these 10,000 people to survive for six years with the remaining resources.
On the first day after the Spiritual Qi disappeared, more than ten thousand cultivators sat in meditation in their rooms, filled with anxiety. Although they couldn't sense any Spiritual Qi at all, they didn't know what else to do but meditate, only hoping that the Spiritual Qi might suddenly return.
The day after the Spiritual Qi disappeared, some people started to get restless and went downstairs to wander around, pacing back and forth in the large open space in front of Building 50.
On the third day after the Spiritual Qi disappeared, some people were anxious and wandered around, while others simply took out the remaining resources in their pockets and began to concentrate on meditation and cultivation. At this time, only cultivation could put their minds at ease.
On the tenth day after the Spiritual Qi disappeared, Venerable Guijia, along with a thousand Golden Core cultivators, issued an order to the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators below, instructing them to hand over all their Cultivation Resources, such as Spirit Replenishing Pill and Spirit Gathering Pill. He claimed that this was a difficult time, and that this would make it easier for his superiors to centrally manage and allocate resources, thus maximizing their benefits.
This order left the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators dumbfounded.
What does centralized resource management and unified allocation mean? What does maximizing benefits mean?
Although their cultivation levels weren't that high, they were still people who had done many shady things at Myriad Connections for years. Did they think they were so naive as to not understand what they meant?
Isn't it just about getting lower-level cultivators to hand over resources to higher-level cultivators so they can use them for cultivation?
Why should I?
In this time of Spiritual Qi depletion, it's clear that lower-level cultivators can only last a shorter time, while those at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stages can last much longer. Yet, they openly and brazenly try to seize their Cultivation Resources.
Why should I?
Most of the lower-level cultivators dared not speak out against their anger.
But there are always a few who dare to speak out.
The man didn't directly confront the high-level cultivators; instead, he quietly expressed his dissatisfaction among the lower-level cultivators, saying, "It would be one thing outside, but why do they have the right to order us around like this here? We can't use any offensive methods here."