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“All cultivators, listen up! The Tongtian Jianmu is advancing. Be prepared and maintain order.”

“Mystic Master?”

The four major factions were ready the instant Qingyun Mountain trembled. Every expert present was on guard.

But upon hearing the words 'Mystic Master,' they suddenly grinned with relief.

It wasn't the battle between the Mystic Master and a Rank Three Aberrant that had affected Qingyun Mountain, as they had feared, but rather the advancement of the Tongtian Jianmu.

The thought of the Tongtian Jianmu advancing filled the cultivators with a completely different mindset.

Just moments ago, they were tense and uneasy, but now they were joyful and excited.

They understood all too well the effects of the Jianmu, which was both a treasure and a spiritual root, advancing.

Not only would it stabilize the heavenly secrets and regulate spiritual energy, but the Jianmu was also Qingyun Mountain's guardian tree. Its advancement would solve fundamental problems.

And with these fundamental problems resolved, a chain reaction of advancements would occur, with every aspect being affected and greatly improved.

“Quickly stabilize the situation, assist the Merit Hall with arrangements, and evacuate the buildings as soon as possible…”

The top echelons of the four major factions and the Eight Centers swiftly issued orders.

“Yes!”

Instantly, Qingyun Mountain sprang into action.

It was just a tremor, after all, and everyone present was an expert above the sixth level. While such a tremor might cause disaster among ordinary people, it would not result in any losses on Qingyun Mountain, which was filled with cultivators.

At most, there would be damage to buildings.

But the main buildings were fine. Cultivators knew spells, and even those who didn't had spiritual talismans.

But this time, it was not only advancing to Rank Three but also transitioning from acquired to innate. The Jianmu needed to focus more on itself, thereby reducing unnecessary control.

However, it didn't last long. In less than half an hour, the entire Qingyun Mountain was once again under the Jianmu's complete control.

Even though the mountain and the Jianmu itself were rapidly growing, it didn't affect the flowers, trees, or cultivators on the mountain.

It was merely that the distance between them was constantly increasing. The headquarters of the major factions, under the Jianmu's control, remained stable and unshaken.

“Phew!”

The cultivators finally breathed a sigh of relief.

And once they no longer needed to be busy, they could properly witness history.

“The Rank Two Tongtian Jianmu was already terrifying. This entry into Rank Three is an even more qualitative leap.”

“Indeed. The Mystic Master's designated levels have increasingly large gaps, with each rank having a deeper divide than the last. Let's put it this way: a Rank Three Tongtian Jianmu has at least ten times the power of a Rank Two Jianmu… and note that I said at least.”

“That's right. Ordinary cultivators improve tenfold, but as the source of Qi refining and the guardian of Qingyun Mountain, the Jianmu, which has condensed the Qi Luck of countless cultivators, will advance even more powerfully.”

“Look, we're getting higher.”

At this moment, one cultivator spoke to the crowd.

In truth, after the restoration of control, the cultivators hadn't noticed Qingyun Mountain growing larger, because it felt no different from standing on solid ground.

“Haha, as expected.”

“I've heard some seniors say that the Mystic Master once mentioned that the Rank Two Jianmu could raise Qingyun Mountain to a thousand meters, while the Rank Three Jianmu could raise it to ten thousand meters.”

“Doesn't that mean Qingyun Mountain will become a ten-thousand-meter-high mountain?”

“That's right, ten thousand meters. Not just the height, but also the increase in breadth, depth, and thickness. Think about it, how large would a ten-thousand-meter-high mountain be?”

After speaking, a young man asked suspiciously, “Fellow Daoist, if Qingyun Mountain is changing, does that mean the area controlled by the Jianmu will also increase?”

“Haha, this Fellow Daoist is right. The Jianmu previously controlled an area of ten li. After Rank Three, it will reach one hundred li.”

The young man was stunned. “One hundred li. Doesn't that mean Qingyun Mountain can accommodate even more cultivators?”

“No, I don't think so. Thirty thousand will be a common denominator for a long time. One more person means one more person sharing the Qi Luck. If you were in charge, what would you choose?”

The young man was taken aback by the question, but could only answer honestly, albeit a little awkwardly, “Naturally, I wouldn't want anyone to share the Qi Luck.”

“Haha, no need to be embarrassed or feel awkward. If you asked a hundred cultivators, you'd get the same answer. No one wants their Qi Luck diluted.”

The young man said, “That's true. I was being narrow-minded. After all, cultivators are all about competition. How can you succeed without striving?”

“So, I think thirty thousand is still the best. We don't want it, and neither do the four major factions or the Eight Centers. Don't let their numbers fool you. In the world of cultivators, the levels are clearly marked and distinct. They can't make concessions for ordinary talents, because that would be self-destructive.”

Hearing this, the young man felt empathy. He added, “Actually, it's useless for us to say all this. The key is what the Mystic Master decides.”

“That's right, it still depends on the Mystic Master's decision. But…” The man added, “But the Mystic Master rarely appears. To the Mystic Master, these are all trivial matters. The Mystic Master usually goes along with the ideas of us disciples.”

The young man said, “The Mystic Master is indeed non-interfering.”

The man smiled. “Because he's invincible, he's non-interfering, haha…”

The advancement of the Tongtian Jianmu was still ongoing. It wouldn't end in a moment.

The entire Qingyun Mountain was constantly growing.

It was getting higher and higher, heavier and heavier, and wider and wider.

If Blue Star wasn't growing every day, this expansion of Qingyun Mountain would have reached Nanshi.

Fortunately, the area Blue Star was expanding each day was even more exaggerated than that of Qingyun Mountain, so the sudden appearance of a five-thousand-meter-high mountain didn't cause any commotion.

Actually, there was another thing happening, but everyone was used to it and didn't mention it.

That was that, while Blue Star was growing, all the living beings on Blue Star were also changing.

It was just that Blue Star's growth had Qi Luck condensing and the Heavenly Dao operating, so the volume wouldn't increase while the gravity also increased.

Gravity was indeed increasing, but not synchronously with Blue Star's volume. It was a stable, slow change.

Of course, Blue Star, with its spiritual Qi revival and the merging of myriad realms, was not a magic-less world with strict scientific laws. Some characteristics were different.

The physical qualities of ordinary people on Blue Star were constantly changing.

It was just that everyone was the same, which was equivalent to no change.

Not only was everyone the same, but the essence of all things was also changing, making it impossible to detect.

For example, if a person's physical quality improved, they might accidentally break some tools, but those tools—tables, chairs, chopsticks—were also changing, with quality synchronized with the human body, so it couldn't be felt.

It was that everything on Blue Star was changing, not just a part.

It was an essential improvement.

In the afternoon, the changes in Qingyun Mountain gradually stabilized.

It was exaggerated. From a thousand meters, it had become nearly six thousand meters in height in one afternoon.

It had risen five thousand meters out of nowhere. This was still a change under the control of the Tongtian Jianmu. Without control, it would have directly reached nearly eight thousand meters.

This meant that the Jianmu had directly reached the mid-stage strength of the late stage of Rank Three.

Nine thousand meters was the late stage of the late stage of Rank Three, so eight thousand meters was the mid-stage of the late stage of Rank Three.

Of course, this was the division of cultivators, in more detail and clarity.

For the Jianmu, it didn't have much impact. Just remember that it was in the late stage of Rank Three, Cave Profound.

In addition, with the blessing of Xuanhuang's Heavenly Will, it would be in an invincible state of Rank Three.

Apart from that, the Jianmu had also transformed from an acquired trait to an innate one.

That evening, as the cultivators who had witnessed the Jianmu tree's advancement to the third rank gradually dispersed, they were met with another shocking discovery the next day.

Their first impression was the pervasive, dense spiritual energy.

Spiritual energy is the fundamental prerequisite for the evolution of all living beings. Living in a place filled with spiritual energy is a world apart from living in an ordinary place.

Spiritual energy is different from vitality. Everyone knows what vitality is: vibrant life.

But a place of spiritual energy is like a place favored by the heavens. Whether cultivating or comprehending profound rules, it's as if you have divine assistance.

Mysteries that are inactive in ordinary regions become more active here, and places that are difficult to comprehend in ordinary places become easier to comprehend here.

This is still an internal manifestation.

The external changes are even more exaggerated. As long as you live here for a long time, it will slowly change a living being's aptitude and essence.

Changing the essence means that the spirit, energy, and vitality become stronger and more abundant, and changing the aptitude means that the comprehension and talent become higher.

This was the first feeling of the cultivators.

And the second feeling was the rich spiritual Qi. They discovered that the originally lively and rich spiritual Qi now had a kind of inertia.

This shouldn't have happened.

After all, the spiritual energy is already rich, so the spiritual Qi should be even richer.

But inertia did appear. The refinement of one cycle could absorb ten parts of spiritual Qi before, but now it doesn't even reach one part. The weak can't even absorb it at all.

This puzzled the cultivators.

Only the transcendent cultivators who knew about the innate spiritual Qi understood.

The inertia within is the innate spiritual Qi.

Because it is too high-end, cultivators find it difficult to refine, so everyone thinks it is inertia.

The Four Great Sect Leaders and others instantly considered the pros and cons.

They found that there were advantages and disadvantages. The advantages go without saying, just staying here without cultivating will nourish oneself, and it's a comprehensive nourishment, the physical and metaphysical body, the spirit, soul, and will.

But there are also disadvantages, which is that ordinary cultivators find it difficult to cultivate on Qingyun Mountain.

Originally, it was just a machine burning oil, but suddenly it became a nuclear-powered energy source, which is unbearable.

The Four Great Sect Leaders immediately thought of a scene.

That is: the cultivators of Qingyun Mountain need to go down the mountain to absorb ordinary spiritual Qi because it is difficult to refine the spiritual Qi. If not, it will lead to long-term lack of spiritual Qi, and it will be difficult to maintain mana.

So, is this good or bad?

The Four Great Sect Leaders naturally agreed with the good first, because the benefits are too great.

But it's hard to say for ordinary cultivators. They will also say it's good, after all, being in this environment for a long time will comprehensively evolve them.

But the disadvantage is 'frequent lack of oxygen', and they need to go down the mountain to get fresh air.

This is the second change in Jianmu's advancement, and the solution will be discussed later.

And the third is the most direct change: the mountain is higher, the mountain is heavier, and the mountain has become larger and thicker.

The Jianmu tree, which was a thousand meters high, is now eight thousand meters high.

The six-thousand-meter-high mountain, plus the eight-thousand-meter-high Jianmu tree, means that standing on the top of the tree is a height of fourteen thousand meters.

This kind of shock is difficult to describe.

And after a night of sorting out, the entire Qingyun Mountain has distinct layers, and it has also divided into the first main peak, the four secondary peaks, and eight smaller peaks.

And these four large and eight small peaks are exactly the headquarters of the Four Great and Eight Small forces, clearly separating them.

The headquarters of the Four Great forces are the first barrier outside the main peak, followed by the headquarters of the Eight Medium and Large forces.

Each has a clearly planned headquarters.

This was completed silently, even without anyone noticing, which shows the power of Jianmu's control after this advancement.

Overnight, it created a six-thousand-meter peak, as well as four four-thousand-meter peaks, and eight two-thousand-meter peaks.

This is not the complete state.

The complete state is ten thousand meters for the main peak, eight thousand for the four large peaks, and six thousand for the eight small peaks.

This needs to be done slowly, without rushing.

It won't cause small fluctuations like this advancement.

It is difficult to describe all kinds of changes one by one.

The most direct are these three, and the others need to be explored slowly by the cultivators themselves.

For example, the Star Devouring Vine has changed a lot, becoming a giant vine surrounding a hundred miles.

Not to mention anything else, just creating such a landscape overnight, shows how strong the third-rank Jianmu is, right?

The Jianmu tree, when fully deployed, can destroy satellites, and even ordinary asteroids.

It wasn't until noon that the cultivators barely managed to roughly investigate the changes in Qingyun Mountain.

"Not good, my mana..."

Suddenly, among a group of cultivators, a cultivator's urgent voice came out.

They are not as strong as the Four Great Sect Leaders. They did not discover this disadvantage in the morning. Only now, after sprinting at full speed, browsing the Qingyun Mountain after the advancement, their mana has lost a lot, and they plan to recover it, only to find that it is difficult to absorb spiritual Qi.

So, there was a burst of panic.

"Me too, not good, it's difficult for me to absorb spiritual Qi and refine it into mana."

"Me too, what's going on?"

Suddenly, the identity plate made a crisp sound, and the cultivators understood something when they saw it.

They didn't dare to be careless and rushed towards the outer periphery of Qingyun Mountain's main peak.

The entire Qingyun Mountain is controlled within a hundred miles. When they reached ninety miles, they found that they could normally refine spiritual Qi.

Although it is still a little more difficult to refine than before, it is not as heavy as a mountain in the middle just now, and it is impossible to move it at all.

"This?"

After recovering for a while, the cultivators suddenly understood something.

They are not fools, so naturally they know what this means.

It means that your strength is too low to live in the central area of Qingyun Mountain.

And here, it can't even be considered the outer periphery, it is the outer periphery of the outer periphery.

The center is a thirty-mile radius, the middle is thirty to sixty miles, and the outer periphery is sixty to ninety miles, then the last ten-mile radius is the outer periphery of the outer periphery.

"Are we directly unable to keep up with the progress of Qingyun Mountain?"

Suddenly a cultivator said.

"Yes, we are a bit unable to keep up."

Someone replied.

Who can blame this on? The Tongtian Jianmu advanced, driving Qingyun Mountain towards becoming a holy land.

Holy land, holy land!

If ordinary people can be in it, what is it called a holy land?

Can't you let Xuan Shi slow down his progress and wait for his disciples?

Saying that, do you still have any face?

"Boom... Boom..."

Suddenly, a sound came.

These people suddenly laughed.

Because they saw more cultivators running over quickly.

That's right, I don't feel uncomfortable in an instant.

Because these people are the same, and there are so many people from the Four Great Forces and the Eight Medium-Sized Forces.

So, you guys are the same too.

I thought I was the only weak one.

To be honest, they are not the most embarrassed, the most embarrassing thing is the Four Great and Eight Medium.

The headquarters of the Four Great forces is in the middle of thirty to sixty miles, which is the headquarters that Jianmu organized for them, that is, where their headquarters peaks are located.

But here, it is difficult for ordinary cultivators to live for a long time, only masters in the late stage can barely survive here for a long time.

Only transcendent cultivators can be like fish in water here.

This leads to emm...

Lord Jianmu designated a headquarters for them, but drove out 90% of the people?

Lord Jianmu, why bother?

... PS: I received a lot of messages saying it was short. This is a fact, there is no way I have been a little busy recently, wait for me a few days. Sorry!