Conditional Trigger
In Qinmeng, Zhang Xuezhou encouraged Hu Yu to contact the Nine-Headed Cultivators, but Hu Yu has not sent a message yet.
This situation is quite normal, after all, few people are efficient in getting things done. If Hu Yu could get things done in one go, the other party wouldn't have been able to operate in the Qinmeng capital for so many years without any results.
Tiger Cultivation has only been working on this matter for a little over a month, which may not even have been completed by the Seven Spiders of the Alliance.
A faint golden shimmered in the sky as Zhang Xuezhou crossed the ocean stretching for tens of thousands of miles.
"This is even more serious than the last time we saw it!"
The Qinmeng coastline that Zhang Xuezhou saw was frozen for more than ten miles, and this freezing continued to spread. The howling cold wind, mixed with ice and snow, kept pounding, as if it wanted to turn the whole world into ice and snow.
The trees drooped their branches, and the ground was littered with the carcasses of animals that had frozen to death.
If organisms cannot change their habits to migrate to warmer areas, or store food in advance to enter a dormant period, such environmental changes mean disaster for many organisms.
What race of cultivators prefers icy and snowy environments?
Zhang Xuezhou had seen quite a lot, but in all these years he had only seen one case: Parvati living in an icy and snowy environment.
Parvati did not prefer the icy climate, but was constrained by the rules and traditions of the Kunlun Sacred Land, thus he had to remain in the icy region.
Civilizations are unlikely to arise in icy, snowy environments. Without civilization, there can be no cultivators, let alone cultivators powerful enough to obtain the world's origin.
The transformation of the world must conform to the needs of others, but the current transformation is not suitable for the inheritance and development of civilization. The human race is not adapted, and neither are other races.
This is why Zhang Xuezhou finds it difficult to understand the situation of Qinmeng, that half-step ascendant.
If you don't know your opponent's location, even if you know their race and strength, you can't really target them, since they're not fighting against the strong with the strong, but against the strong with the weak.
"Tiger Yu should have left that temporary nest. I wonder if the Seven Spiders have recovered after being terrified?"
Zhang Xuezhou can be found in several locations in Qinmeng, such as the cave of the Seven Spiders and the oil well dwelling of Hu Yu.
However, without obtaining Hu Yu's contact information, it would be difficult for him to find him by searching rashly, and he might not even be able to find Hu Yu at all.
He put away the crimson-gold cloud wings whose Gene Power had plummeted to rock bottom, and began using Cloud Soaring Technique to drift around and survey the area, seeking to restore his body's Gene Power as soon as possible.
"I wonder if the Void Heaven Palace can use this against Qinmeng?"
Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but think about the Void Heaven Palace's trump card against those who had ascended to higher dimensions. He was unsure whether it could be used in the real world, since he didn't know how to use it, and Hongjun's actions were also involved.
"Um?"
After continuously flying around to survey the surroundings of Qinmeng, and gradually approaching the capital of Qinmeng, Zhang Xuezhou finally stopped in a familiar area.
This area is far from the depths of Qinmeng; it's even a training ground for Qinmeng novices.
If there's anything special about this area, it's that it once housed the Void Furnace and the Wild Serpent.
Many Ferocious Beast have vanished without a trace, the Void Furnace awaits the creation of human embryos, and the Wild Serpent has become a pile of White Bone. Everything here has changed beyond recognition.
Without the clamor of living creatures, and swept away by the cold wind and rain, this area, once inhabited by snakes, is devoid of any sign of life.
However, when Zhang Xuezhou passed through, he found that the aura of the snake cave was completely different from the surroundings. It was fine that his body was in full condition, but it was also in the recovery period, with a strong need for external replenishment. He could also feel his body becoming more comfortable and his strength constantly recovering.
"Could the Void Furnace be hiding something else?"
Zhang Xuezhou and his accomplices dug up all the secrets of the Void Furnace back then, directly loading several tons of Spirit Jade raw stones onto trucks, and even built a cultivation room at the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleum as a result.
Even today, it continues to serve its purpose, with many committee members who are unable to go to the Sinkhole No. 2 going there for quiet meditation.
Zhang Xuezhou was certain that he had emptied everything he saw in the snake cave, and Xu Lu had also confidently mentioned that his possessions were limited to what he had. At this moment, Zhang Xuezhou sensed something was amiss, and he couldn't help but begin to suspect that Xu Lu might have been hiding something and leaving something behind.
A single piece of Spirit Jade would be of little use to Zhang Xuezhou's cultivation, even if he were to dig up a giant Spirit Jade weighing three to five tons. However, it would be of great importance as a coordinate point for Qinmeng to recover his body.
Whether Zhang Xuezhou was exhausted when he flew into Qinmeng, or he had to use his top speed to escape when he risked exploring the Qinmeng capital, or he was injured, Zhang Xuezhou needed to recuperate nearby, rather than relying on the Sinkhole No. 2 tens of thousands of miles away.
He only thought for a moment before he slid back the old path into the snake pit, and continued to delve deeper into the area that offered the most comfort to his body.
"My investigation couldn't have been wrong!"
There were very few venomous snakes in the snake den. It wasn't until they entered the hidden place of the Void Furnace Secret Realm that Zhang Xuezhou saw several pythons, each ten feet long, lying motionless on the ground.
His gaze swept over the mutated pythons only briefly before settling on the nest, which resembled a rock crystal.
As the snake droppings scattered everywhere dried and fell, the crystal-clear walls of the cave were revealed.
It is a pale white stone, exuding a cool and Spirit Jade aura.
With just a gentle breath, Zhang Xuezhou could feel the Spiritual Qi vibrating throughout his chest.
During his previous explorations, Zhang Xuezhou not only failed to detect the aura of this Spirit Jade in the nest, but he also failed to discover that the cave walls had turned into Spirit Jade when he was digging.
He reached out and quickly dug up the area that had been filled in. The pit was still there, but as he dug deeper, Zhang Xuezhou saw pale white stone emerge, and a heavier aura of Spirit Jade wafted towards him.
The quality of this Spirit Jade is not as good as the Qinmeng Secret Stone they had previously moved, but the quantity is much greater.
Zhang Xuezhou quickly dug through several sections, only to find that all the stone walls he saw had turned into Spirit Jade.
"Has he been here before? What was his purpose in turning the snake cave into Spirit Jade mine?"
If it weren't for his experience of the giant rock in the Sinkhole No. 2 turning into Spirit Jade, Zhang Xuezhou might have been driven to question the meaning of life.
In the present moment, he is more speculating about the transformation that would occur after the world's origin is controlled.
This near-dimensional ascendant may have targeted the Void Furnace as a threat, thus coming here and leaving behind related influences.
Or perhaps the snake cave possessed some triggering condition that led to the attraction of the world's origin, transforming ordinary rocks into Spirit Jade.
The former situation is one thing, but if it's the latter, Zhang Xuezhou thinks that this half-step ascendant might not be able to perfectly utilize the power of the world's origin, thus resulting in the same out-of-control behavior as he had back then.
He bent down and began to carefully search everything in the snake pit, constantly comparing it with what he had seen before.
Nearly half an hour later, Zhang Xuezhou reached out and picked up a fragment of Spirit Jade the size of a fingernail.
If I remember correctly, this is a scrap fragment from the Qinmeng Secret Stone, a piece scraped off by Zhang Xuezhou using Qinmeng Secret Stone Transformation Technique.
He examined the scrap piece carefully and realized that the Spirit Jade that was emanating Spiritual Qi from the snake cave was exactly the same as the scrap piece in terms of texture.
It was as if this fragment of Spirit Jade had been used as a sample, and all the stones in the entire snake cave had been transformed into identical scraps of Spirit Jade, with even the patterns on the jade material being identical.