Destiny is ashes

Chapter 489: Tianyuan Overview, Huaixu Opportunity (3700)

"The chip from the Guiyi Army..."

An Jing could understand what Huo Qing meant. Like Huo Qing, he actually felt that Tie Shou's channel was useless - it was nothing more than a backdoor for Xuan Ye City to become the Gui Yi Army.

"Say thank you."

But he still had to respond to Tie Shou's attitude. An Jing also discovered that as his influence in the Tianyuan Realm expanded and the level of his contacts became higher, the identity of the wild people without chips had come to an end.

The magic weapon cannot be controlled and it is quite troublesome to communicate with people. Perhaps, it is time to try to enter Xuanye City through the channel of Principal He.

An Jing bought another batch of arms, mines and ammunition. Due to the recent cargo throughput, the originally empty warehouse shelves in Chonggang Town have gradually become full. One by one, the puppets purchased at a low price are placed according to the automatic program, and the buzzing sound continues.

The originally deserted streets of Chonggang Town were gradually filled with people, and many independent cultivators from safe zones in all directions of Xuanye City were gathering here.

"There are so many people."

Walking out of the warehouse door, An Jing was even a little surprised. A shadow floated over his head. A huge airship landed on the outskirts of Chonggang Town like a giant whale cruising in the air, releasing a large number of puppets and construction equipment to expand the city that was divided into two by a huge crack.

He couldn't help but go to the top of his warehouse and look around the city which had changed drastically.

Today, Chonggang Town is divided into two parts by the cracks of the ancient fairy ruins. The urban area on the east side has risen and become large commercial, industrial and residential areas, overlooking the hazy light of the cave below the cliff.

The collapsed urban area on the west side is the preparation area for the assembly of independent cultivators and company teams. There are a large number of armed fortifications deployed here, and the new Purple Mansion Array is also set up here. The urban areas on the east and west sides are connected by a series of floating sky bridges, and only the urban area on the west side has the teleportation array that can enter the cave heaven.

Of course, you can also skip the teleportation formation and jump down directly - that way you can also enter the ancient ruins, but it is not clear whether it will be corpses or ashes.

Their warehouse is located on the south side of the core area of ​​Dongcheng District, next to the residential area. Further out is the extremely high-density industrial zone that was transformed from the original smelting workshop. There are many heat dissipation columns there, and the translucent heat waves visible to the naked eye even dispersed a cloud of evil, forming a strange bowl-shaped bulge that looms over the city.

In the city center, An Jing just glanced at it and saw at least dozens of foundation-building auras. As for the Qi-refining cultivators, they were like mountains and seas. He couldn't help but sigh: "This is not a map upgrade, but a level increase - originally, there could be two or three foundation-building cultivators in Chonggang Town at most, right?"

"Two at most. One controls the formation, and the other rests. The two take turns."

Huo Qing is now more and more certain that An Jing has the means of teleportation, because Chonggang Town has been under construction in full swing recently. An Jing has clearly come to the warehouse many times, but has never seen what it looks like outside. He must have been teleported here directly.

But he was too lazy to care about these. He stood up and walked to An Jing's side. Together, they looked around this unusually prosperous city: "It's actually normal. Although there are many great foundation-building cultivators, most of them are actually company leaders and gang members. There are no independent cultivators building foundations."

"As for the large number of people... Hey, how many years does it take to have a large secret cave like the Immortal Ancient Ruins? Not to mention the safe zone around Xuanye City, many people from the other three giant spiritual vein cities have come here. In the future, there will be more people building foundations in this place."

"That's not surprising."

Speaking of this, An Jing also became interested - he has been in Tianyuan Realm for so long, but he has never looked at the map of this world seriously.

Picking up the water mirror and searching for a while, An Jing raised his eyebrows and said, "Huh, it's only this big?"

This is not to say that the Tianyuan Realm is not big. At least judging from its current size, the entire Tianyuan Realm is roughly the same size as the Beixuan Jizhou Continent, maybe a little smaller, but there is no essential difference.

What is truly small is the scope that humans now control.

The Tianyuan human race mainly settled around the four giant spiritual vein cities on the southeast sides of the Tianyuan Realm. The northwest region was all endless wilderness, and the spiritual vein cities were roughly divided into 'Luofu' and 'Xuandu' on the east, and 'Shouyang' and 'Lianshan' on the south.

In addition to the safe zone around the spiritual vein city, there are also many towns and villages in the wilderness, and even wilderness cities, which are guarded by wilderness foundation builders or Purple Mansion Immortals.

These towns and fortresses are all considered the territory of the human race, but even if the territories of these "countryside wild people" are included, the territories of the four major spiritual vein cities are still not connected together, but are fragmented by various wilderness demonic lands and demon nests.

The four major spiritual cities, plus the safe zone and the wilderness area under control, only account for one or two large territories of Huaixu. With such a small area, four top-notch Yuanshen forces were crammed in. No wonder the relationship between the groups was so tense.

Of course, the four major groups are not just exploiting their own people, they also want to expand outward... But just on the publicly available spiritual network map, there are hundreds of densely packed "death threat" level warnings, all of which are "demon nests" built by the demons after the catastrophe. There may be no demons in these demon nests, but there are still a large number of demons and human demons infected by the demons, as well as demon saints comparable to the Daotai Yuanying realm, or even the Yuanshi Yuanshen realm.

If the demons did not attack each other, it would be difficult for the human race to maintain even a safe zone.

"No, the Tianyuan Realm is already like this, how can we still win?"

An Jing used the authority borrowed from Nianquan to open the encrypted webpage and carefully read the information that ordinary people could not see. He was immediately shocked: "During the world catastrophe, the thirty-three Yuanshen of the Tianyuan Realm attacked Taixu... Since then, all the demons in the world have dissipated, but those thirty-three Yuanshen have also gone and never returned..."

This part of history is written very vaguely, and it only says that such an incident occurred. But even with that, An Jing can still analyze a lot from it.

Firstly, according to the seven Yuanshen inheritances in Tianyuan Realm, if the number of thirty-three Yuanshen Tianzuns is not an imaginary number, then each Yuanshen inheritance has four or five Yuanshen resident in the world, which is comparable to the Tianzong of Huaixu Realm!
However, since the lifespan of the primordial spirit is infinite, these thirty-three primordial spirits must have been accumulated over a very long period of time.

They rushed towards Taixu and killed the core of the Heavenly Demon's army. They should have beheaded the Demon Lord of the Heavenly Demon, or destroyed some of the Heavenly Demon's key relocation formations, so that the Tianyuan Realm was completely freed from the Heavenly Demon's hands. However, the destruction of the world catastrophe itself was still continuing, and basically 99% of the entire Tianyuan Realm had become a wasteland.

The four major Yuanshen inheritances today all survived the catastrophe, but because the top Yuanshen Tianzun all left, even the later ones became Yuanshen, and lost some of the top inheritances and secret technologies of Tianyuan Realm, so that for a long time afterwards, Tianyuan Realm did not recover from the world catastrophe, and even those demons and great saints could not be driven out. They could only open up the wasteland bit by bit and excavate the ruins. "The situation in Tianyuan Realm is worse than I thought."

After closing the water mirror, An Jing was really surprised, because in addition to the monsters in the dangerous places, there are also many monsters, evil spirits, human demons, ferocious beasts, and various out-of-control war puppets and alien tribes in the wilderness.

But even so, the human race is still constantly fighting among themselves, and the forces of all sizes in the wilderness are fighting each other day and night. Most of the resources they harvest from the wilderness are used to purchase arms from the four major groups, and the four major groups also use this method to continuously harvest those already developed and very mature areas and incorporate them into safe zones.

The human race in the entire Tianyuan Realm is like a giant beast that has been severely injured and is constantly gasping for breath to recover, intending to take back its inherent territory. Now its limbs cannot move, and it can only rely on licking with its tongue to lick back its former territory bit by bit.

"The north is an endless frozen wasteland. There are a huge number of ancient beasts and demons lurking in the mountains of the wasteland. Behind the demons are countless demonized giant spirits. These are what Xuandu Group is mainly fighting against."

"And Luofu is dealing with the insect demons and demonized bird spirits that emerged from the Great Rift Valley in the west. I was wondering why not many people cared about the appearance of the Three-legged Golden Crow, but it turns out there are quite a few on the battlefield."

This was the first time that An Jing had an in-depth understanding of the information about the Tianyuan Realm. The more he understood, the more incredible it felt: "Even the Guiyi Army is guarding more than a dozen demon nests. The conflicts between them are internal conflicts among the human race, but they are still united in external affairs... I originally thought that the Tianyuan Realm was peaceful, but I didn't expect that I was just in the rear!"

No wonder even with the unkindness of the four major groups and the scarcity of resources in the Tianyuan Realm, they still have to force the entire population to practice cultivation - if this is not promoted, there will really be no soldiers available on the front lines!

An Jing closed the water mirror and his eyes. He thought carefully: "The thirty-three souls are gone and never come back... and Huai Xu's former immortal god also disappeared after the decisive battle with the demon."

"This shouldn't be a coincidence, but they both found a way to destroy the demons. Both sides succeeded and failed... Huaixu is now full of demonic energy, and 90% of Tianyuan is a land of demons and evil."

However, the fact that there are many wildernesses and evil lands in the Tianyuan Realm also means that this place is relatively free and has opportunities for development.

Although the Huaixu Realm is large, it is either the territory of the Tianzong or the territory of a sect. Every piece of land has an owner. If An Jing had not worshipped Ming Guangchen as his master and Ming Guangchen had not broken through to the level of a saint, it would have been difficult for him to find a place to develop.

But here in the Tianyuan Realm... it's much freer.

Understanding the world situation means understanding many policies. An Jing understands why weapons control is almost non-existent in the Tianyuan Realm. In this situation, the four major groups only regret that the people do not have enough martial arts ethics. As long as you don't fight indiscriminately in the Lingmai City, you can use them however you like outside. Anyway, most of the time it is not your turn to use these weapons to rebel. Dealing with monsters will exhaust the energy of most of the wilderness forces.

"I'm too cautious. No one will check the movement of civilian-level weapons, let alone a small-scale operation like mine. Even if I buy a hundred times more weapons, it will still be within the normal weapons trading throughput of the safe zone!"

In this case, An Jing completely let go and no longer hesitated.

"Huo Qing."

"Ok?"

"Purchase of rockets and mines, increase tenfold!"

"Okay. But the prices of these two are increasing..."

"I have plenty of money, don't worry about it."

Although Huo Qing was a little surprised, he didn't say much and continued to place orders: "Landmines are easy to deal with. Some rockets are sold because they are about to be retired. If you want to stockpile weapons, Anjing, you have to maintain them well, otherwise they may misfire."

"I will."

As expected, the weapons company didn't say anything about it. They just reminded him that if he wanted to explore the ruins, all the consequences of using mines, including the loss of other monks by mistake, would be borne by the user. In addition, they even gave An Jing a discount, which was considered a wholesale purchase discount.

The next day, several containers of mines and rockets were delivered.

An Jing worked tirelessly, blocking the cooling channel of the Taixu channel to transport a huge amount of weapons and ammunition to Huaixu. At the same time, he also sold a large number of spiritual objects from the seized cavalry supplies to the Tianyuan Realm.

On the other hand, in Huaixu Realm, as the main force of the Iron Cavalry was defeated, the team that harassed the caravan's supplies also completely disappeared. Linjiang City welcomed the first batch of post-war supplies. Xing Mofeng also led the military army and surrounded Yujiang City.

Although Yujiang City is still as strong as a rock due to the existence of the Ice Dragon, at this point, if nothing unexpected happens, its fate will be to be besieged to death.

Meanwhile, over in Suling Cave, the condition of the Immaculate Wood was getting better and better. The feeling it conveyed to An Jing was that it just needed to wait for an opportunity.

As long as the opportunity comes, it can open the passage deep in the earth and allow An Jing to find what he wants.

An Jing was waiting for this opportunity.

Very quickly, and not for long.

Half a month later, the opportunity came.

(End of this chapter)