Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence

Thousands of feet high in the sky, the wind howled.

Zhang Yao controlled the flying sword and turned into a yellow streamer, whistling across the sky.

"The scenery from this high place is really magnificent..."

Zhang Yao stood with his hands behind his back on the flying sword, overlooking the vast mountains and rivers below, feeling relaxed and happy.

In the mid-stage of Qi refining, the speed of controlling a low-level magic weapon, the flying sword, is only a dozen feet in an instant, which is not much different from performing divine movements on the ground.

But this feeling of flying into the sky and being free and easy is incomparable to running on the ground, which is quite intoxicating.

"boom!"

After Zhang Yao flew hundreds of miles in one breath, he lowered the flying sword and landed in a deep mountain.

His magic power is not very strong, he can only fly so far in one breath, and he is reluctant to refine the spirit stone, so he can only meditate to refine his energy and slowly replenish his magic power.

On average, in one day, you can fly more than a thousand miles.

However, this is a straight-line distance, and there is no need to consider the obstacles of mountains and rivers. He flew all the way north and arrived at the border of Lu State in three days.

"The barren zone is coming soon..."

After approaching the border, Zhang Yao's expression became more solemn.

At a distance of hundreds of miles in the sky, he could see the end of the skyline, the yellowish-brown tinge of death.

After galloping hundreds of miles:

As far as the eye can see, there are no green mountains, green waters, wilderness and hills, but only an endless, extremely flat, bare earth and stone ground, without a single grass or tree on it.

The vast and incomparably yellow-brown land smelled of desolation and death, as if breaking into a strange world all at once.

This is the barren belt that separates the borders of the country.

"This thing is by no means naturally generated, I really don't know how it came here..."

Zhang Yaofei fled high in the sky, with a hint of thought in his eyes.

As early as more than a hundred years ago, when he traveled all over the nineteen states to find traces of the immortal family, he had come to the border, but he didn't dare to cross it, so he kept going around in the territory of Lu.

In the classics handed down from the nineteen prefectures, there are actually records about foreign countries, but there are almost no records of commerce and intermarriage. Only occasionally a master tried to cross over. There is little difference between states.

Later, he learned in his account of Lunan that the national border separating the "Hundred Kingdoms of the Central Plains" was called the "Desolate Belt".

These barren belts can be hundreds of miles narrow and thousands of miles wide, in which life is extinct and aura is exhausted, making it difficult for mortals to get through, and immortal cultivators must be more careful.

"The territory of the nineteen prefectures of the Lu State has existed since ancient times. No matter how many times the dynasty changes, it has never increased or decreased."

"It can be seen that the pattern of the hundred kingdoms in the Central Plains has been formed for at least tens of thousands of years, and it is likely to be related to the rumored Great Destruction of the Ancient One..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao felt his own state, and couldn't help frowning.

The spiritual energy in the barren zone was exhausted, much thinner than that of the Lu country. He could hardly absorb external spiritual energy and could only rely on his own mana.

In this way, the mana on the way to escape will be consumed very quickly, and it will not be replenished, which means that it can only refine the treasured spirit stones.

"Hey, I'm still poor."

Zhang Yao showed a look of flesh pain, but he had to take out the spirit stone, hold it in his palm, refine and absorb it while flying away.

You can't stay in the barren zone for a long time, otherwise there will be a risk of the spiritual energy escaping and the mana being reversed. He would rather spend two more spiritual stones than delay time.

"It's no wonder that foreign cultivators move into the country of Lu, which is rare in a hundred years."

"It turns out that crossing the barren belt is so difficult, who would go to the backcountry with nothing to do?"

He thought of Zhao He and Jiang Rou back then.

The two of them didn't have spirit stones on them, so they had stored a large amount of Yulu and Bigu Dan in advance, relying on this supply of spirit energy, they set foot on the road north to Weiguo.

If he was completely poor and white, he would not even be eligible to leave the country of Lu, and could only be trapped to death in the shallows.

Several hours later, Zhang Yao finally fled away from the barren zone after spending most of the spiritual energy of a spirit stone, and saw the green water and green mountains again.

"Buzz!"

The moment he crossed the barren zone, the mana in his body was circulating, greedily devouring the aura around him.

Zhang Yao couldn't help but stop the escape light, let out a long breath, his expression eased a lot, and put away the spirit stone.

"It really feels like returning to the world..."

He turned his head and glanced at the barren belt behind him, then at the dense forest in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

"When I get to Weiguo, I'm afraid I'll have to consume at least three or four spirit stones."

The Hundred Kingdoms of the Central Plains is just a fictitious finger. In fact, there are far more than one hundred countries, which can be called boundless and vast.

Wei State is more than 10,000 li away from Lu State, and it takes three barren belts to get there.

This is the nearest well-known immortal cultivation country among the nineteen prefectures of Lu State.

"boom!"

Zhang Yao lowered the flying sword to escape the light, landed on the top of the mountain, and began to meditate cross-legged, absorbing spiritual energy to replenish mana.

During the refining process this time, he was keenly aware that the abundance of aura in this strange country was obviously better than that of the Lu country.

"It seems that the rumors in the world of cultivating immortals are true."

"The closer it is to the central area of ​​the Hundred Kingdoms of the Central Plains, the more abundant the aura will be, just like the convergence of hundreds of rivers."

As soon as Zhang Yao thought of this, his mood also cheered up.

…………

Half a month later.

Wei's southern border.

"boom!"

The yellow streamer pierced the sky, passed through the barren zone, and slowly landed in a valley.

Zhang Yao retracted the flying sword, took a deep breath, and tried to swallow the spiritual energy to refine it, and suddenly felt a little pleasantly surprised.

The aura around him was two or three times that of Lu's!

"Although it's not as good as Tiandu Mountain's spiritual veins, it's in an ordinary realm."

"It's no wonder that the immortal cultivators of Lu Kingdom will come to defend the country one after another as long as they break through the middle stage of Qi refining and have the power to protect themselves. The difference in spiritual energy environment is really too great!"

"Even if you are enjoying the glory and wealth, the environment with abundant aura is obviously much more comfortable..."

Zhang Yao immediately sat down cross-legged, meditated and practiced Qi, trying to restore mana as soon as possible.

After several hours.

Zhang Yao was full of energy and his mana was back to normal, so he took out the jade slip left by Lu Nan and entered the mana.

After so many years, he had already been familiar with the contents of the jade slips, but in order to prevent memory errors, he still had to compare them.

"Hmm... this should be one of the border states in the south of Weiguo."

"It is at least five thousand miles away from Qingyunfang City in the Three Rivers Valley..."

Zhang Yao compared the topographic map and put the jade slips away.

The territory of the Kingdom of Wei is much larger than that of the Kingdom of Lu. The name of the country has been passed down for thousands of years, and the royal family has changed many times, but the spiritual veins underground will not change.

Thanks to the fact that Lu State has casual cultivators entering Wei State all the year round, and occasionally returning, so the Lu State's immortal cultivation world does not lack understanding of various basic information about Wei State.

Qingyunfang City is the largest city in Weiguo. It is built on a small spiritual vein, and it is the center where many immortal cultivators trade and communicate with each other.

"Go to Fangshi first, if there is not much difference from the information, try to join it."

In Zhang Yao's mind, he soon had a plan for the next step.

With his current cultivation base, no matter which side he joins, he can only be a peripheral member. Once a war breaks out, he will be cannon fodder.

Relatively speaking, the management of Fangshi is looser and the information is more well-informed. If something happens, you can get the news in advance and run away early.

Therefore, joining Qingyunfang City is his first choice.