Are You Really Not Going?
Upon hearing this, the sharp-eared people around were instantly delighted.
Wouldn't that mean that as long as you work, you don't have to worry about shortening your lifespan due to a lack of Spiritual Qi?
Yuan Jinsheng made it very clear: as long as they are confined in this Cage Compound, they will remain in a state devoid of Spiritual Qi.
These informant monks had already deeply felt the sturdiness of this Cage Compound.
This is a place that even a group of over ten thousand cultivators, led by a Nascent Soul Nascent Soul Cultivator, couldn't breach. Aside from the city barriers of the South Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain, they'd almost never seen anything of this strength, not to mention the ability to shut down the Spiritual Qi concentration at any time...
It should be understood that Spiritual Qi is naturally generated between heaven and earth. Even if a high-level cultivator were to use it to temporarily drain the Spiritual Qi of an area, it would only be temporary. As time goes by, Spiritual Qi will still be generated and spread from all directions.
Aside from places like the Spiritless Land, which are likely naturally formed in this world, it would be extremely difficult to maintain such a large space without Spiritual Qi for a long time through artificial means, as it would inevitably consume a huge amount of energy.
Therefore, many people no longer believed that any minor mishaps would occur before headquarters arrived to rescue them, allowing them to escape easily.
They are prepared to endure six years of hardship here.
Now that someone is telling them they don't have to endure such hardship, and that they can still access environments with Spiritual Qi, how could these cultivators not be tempted?
It's just clearing land, which is incredibly easy for cultivators.
Before they came to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, what dirty and tiring jobs hadn't they done for their work, like gathering information and searching for ruins?
Although I wasn't as careful and cautious as I was in the Immortal Cultivation Realm after coming to the Mortal Realm, and I didn't have to be as polite to the cultivators here, and I enjoyed a good period of time, things are different now.
Their ability to assess situations and make sound judgments is a valuable quality.
Therefore, it wasn't long before Yuan Jinsheng received many applications from cultivators who hoped to start work as soon as possible.
Even many Golden Core cultivators rushed over to sign up after hearing the news.
Yuan Jinsheng looked at the increasingly thick application form with great satisfaction.
In this way, their sect will soon be able to cultivate a large area of fertile land again, and with so many cultivators helping them, there will be no shortage of manpower for farming in the future.
While it might seem feasible to recruit a large number of disciples, this is not something that Lingxian Sect can do at the moment.
Because training disciples is ultimately different from recruiting employees.
The latter is simply an employment relationship; Lingxian Sect pays the wages, and the applicants pay for their labor.
However, training disciples is not that simple.
The disciples' clothing, food, shelter, transportation, learning, life, and even most of their future interpersonal relationships will be within the sect. They need to learn, cultivate, obtain resources, and also need guidance and to maintain order.
If too many disciples are recruited at once, a large amount of resources and energy will be needed in the early stages before these disciples are able to do anything. Lingxian Sect cannot afford that many at the moment, and at the same time, it is unwilling to lower the sect's training standards.
If we were to train disciples at a similar level to other sects in the Mortal Realm, there would already be far too many cultivators trained in this way in the entire Mortal Realm, and the Lingxian Sect wouldn't be any different.
Recruitment was in full swing in Cage Compound Square. In a nearby high-rise building, Venerable Guijia and an old man in the Late Golden Core were sitting indoors, looking at the situation in the square and talking.
"I didn't expect that Gui Shisan and the others would actually sign up... Venerable One, are you really not going?" the Golden Core elder asked.
Venerable Guijia sat upright on his throne, watching his subordinates scrambling to sign up in the plaza below. His hand rested on the armrest, his index finger tapping rhythmically, revealing his irritation. He said impatiently, "Going to what? To cultivate land for these ants of the Mortal Realm?"
"Ants? Don't you even know what kind of ability it takes to trap us in this place? Do you have that kind of ability?" This Golden Core elder had connections at headquarters and didn't care much about Venerable Guijia's attitude. Seeing that the other party was so aggressive despite his polite words, he immediately retorted.
Seeing the Golden Core elder speaking to him so rudely, Venerable Guijia's expression twisted for a moment, but he remembered that the other party had connections at headquarters and wasn't without background, so he toned down his tone and said, "I just can't stand these people. They captured us and didn't care about anything, and now they're suddenly asking us to clear land for them for no reason."
The old man with the Golden Core level snorted lightly, glanced at the bustling square below, and said coldly, "These people are probably Dayou powerful. With just this one method of eliminating spiritual energy, could it be... that someone from the Immortal Ascension Domain has intervened?"
"What? Immortal Ascension Domain? Impossible!" Venerable Guijia exclaimed in shock.
Although he also thought that the methods of the Cage Compound were very powerful, he never thought about the direction of ascending to the Immortal Ascension Domain.
The old man with the Golden Core level glanced at him. "Anyway, in our South Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain and all the surrounding Spirit Realms, forgive my ignorance, but I have never seen or even heard of such a method."
"Is it really that powerful?" Upon hearing this, Venerable Guijia was extremely surprised.
However, he knew that the old man in the Golden Core was being modest when he said he was ignorant. This old man in the Golden Core stage was a disciple of a Spirit Venerable at headquarters. It was said that the Spirit Venerable saw that the young Golden Core elder had excellent aptitude and took him in as a disciple, carefully nurturing him. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured in a mission, and his cultivation had been stuck at the Late Golden Core ever since. That's why he was arranged to retire in the Mortal Realm. With his status, he could be considered a check and balance on Venerable Guijia.
Despite being a member of the well-informed organization Myriad Connections, Venerable Guijia's knowledge is primarily limited to information from the South Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain, with perhaps a few additional details from surrounding realms. He is completely ignorant of the Immortal Ascension Domain.
Venerable Guijia knew was that the Immortal Ascension Domain was the most powerful existence in the entire Immortal Cultivation Realm.
The powerful beings in the Immortal Ascension Domain are not only the cultivators there, but also the unknown and terrifying environment and creatures.
But he didn't know anything more specific. Everything about the Immortal Ascension Domain was like an unattainable legend to many cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. They would occasionally hear some stories about it, but people basically just listened to them as myths.
The Immortal Ascension Domain is the mythical land of the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
The disciple of the Spirit Venerable before him was naturally far more knowledgeable than him, so when he heard the Golden Core elder say this, Venerable Guijia believed him to some extent.
"I am but a humble old man, and this is merely speculation. As for the true nature of the opponent, their strength is beyond our capabilities." The old man, Golden Core cultivator, had a rather unfathomable expression.