The ancient giant bear hiding in the world of immortal cultivation

Chapter 363 The Master Thief
"Grandpa Tree's Information Database is broadcasting live for you."

"This is a very professional hunting and gathering operation. The participants include the second-rank Octopus Brother, the third-rank Fish Eyes, the third-rank Fish Tail, the third-rank Shrimp Roar, the third-rank Turtle Elder, the third-rank Big Macaque, the third-rank Old Zhou, the fourth-rank Armored Monkey, and our protagonist, the first-rank Great Demon King Zhige!"

"This place should be located in an unknown area within the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance's controlled territory. The spiritual energy concentration is 30% of the standard value. It's a mountainous and forested area with humid air, lush vegetation, and a wide variety of species. Let's see who gets the most! Wow! The second-grade octopus scored first. With agile movement and unique sensory abilities, it instantly killed a sixth-grade opossum elder with the attitude of a lion hunting a rabbit..."

"That fish, Big Eye, is indeed a seasoned player. With its rich experience, it collected thirteen kinds of low-quality herbs in one go. These herbs, which are not even rank nine, would be quite valuable if brought back to the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance. Because of the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance's spiritual network control, plants can only maintain normal growth but cannot advance, and therefore cannot change according to environmental changes. This has resulted in the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance's natural environment lacking a variety of spiritual plants."

"The giant macaque in the southeast corner has already caught sixteen kinds of low-grade insects, and Old Zhou in the southwest corner has already dug up five kinds of soil. These things, which are common in the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance and have little value, are exactly what the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance urgently needs."

"..."

Wang Wu was speechless. This was the side business that Big Monkey and Fish Eyes were doing.
It's not a thrilling monster-hunting, murder-and-treasure-stealing game, but a crazy junk-collecting frenzy? How much spiritual energy can you earn from that?
Meanwhile, even the second-rank great demon Octopus Brother has begun to get on track. He has found a ninth-rank spirit fruit tree and is carefully digging it out.

It felt like going mushroom picking in the forest with a bunch of kids.

Wang Wu simply took out a third-grade hair, transformed it into himself, and left a wisp of his divine sense here to pretend to be picking mushrooms, while his main body transformed into a demonic wind and soared into the sky, as he wanted to explore his surroundings.

At the same time, his danger perception is fully activated, so that he can basically see everything within a radius of a thousand miles with a single glance.

To his surprise, within a radius of a thousand miles, there were only dense forests and many monsters of all sizes, but the strongest among them was only fifth rank, while most of the others were sixth, seventh, or even eighth or ninth rank.

Judging from their distribution, they all seem quite natural.

It's like a virgin land that hasn't been noticed by a great demon and hasn't been developed.

After looking around for a few minutes, Wang Wu gave orders to the four clowns.

Write me a review of the film!

A few seconds later, lines of information appeared.

"Grandpa Tree's Information Database: Given that the current data only comes from a radius of one thousand miles, we can only rely on the current data for analysis. The conclusion is that this may be the normal state of the cultivation world, that is, the spiritual energy is quite scarce, and it is no longer possible to have a situation similar to the Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower, where a few hundred miles of land can easily generate millions of points of spiritual energy every day."

"Therefore, the fiefdom model and the manor model are no longer applicable in this cultivation world. If I were a first-grade great demon, I would probably need the output of mountains and forests within a radius of ten thousand miles to maintain my daily needs."

"In this situation, I will have to cut back on food and clothing and reduce my daily activities, including unnecessary activities such as showing off, fighting, picking up girls, and provoking others. Instead, I will adopt the methods of hibernation, seclusion, and cultivation to avoid the unnecessary consumption of a large amount of spiritual energy."

"That's why resource thieves like Yu Dayan and Da Mahou from the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance openly teleport here to mine those cheap cultivation resources."

"Of course, this does not mean that the cultivators of the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance are poor. In fact, they are not poor. They just lack the low-to-mid-level cultivation resources that would only be available in the normal cultivation world, such as the low-end spiritual plants that would never appear in the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance's gray fog zone."

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"Bear Clan Information Database: Based on the information we currently possess, a comprehensive analysis reveals a very interesting question that forces us to consider: Is the total amount of spiritual energy in both the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance and the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance insufficient or saturated? As a cultivator with the potential to advance to a higher level of cultivation, do I prefer the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance model or the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance model? Or perhaps, I would prefer both models to coexist."

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"Peacock Clan Information Database: Stop spouting those mystical theories, that's not something we need to think about. Don't go around in circles and get yourself confused. Just one sentence: If you discovered the lair of a first-grade great demon right now, would you dare to steal it? Or let me add, if the other party was a first-grade human cultivator, would you dare to steal it?"

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"Attribute Panel: If you intend to leap over the Dragon Gate and seize the True Dragon Ancient Blood, you need to accumulate at least ten million points of spiritual energy and ten million points of vitality blood. In twenty-nine days, the King of Xijiang will marry the daughter of the Lord of Muyang Mountain. Although there is a certain chance that they will have a bloody wedding, the greater chance is that, due to some change in the outside world, the Lord of Muyang Mountain and the King of Xijiang have reached some kind of agreement in secret. The Lord of Muyang Mountain will help the King of Xijiang succeed in leaping over the Dragon Gate, and you will lose this only opportunity."

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"Got it, we have to grab one!"

The suggestions from the Peacock Emperor and the attribute panel finally came true, while the information databases of Tree Grandpa and the Bear Clan were clearly biased, as they wanted Wang Wu to stay in the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance.

The problem is that Wang Wu wants to jump over the dragon gate and seize the dragon's blood before the King of Xijiang.

And now he needs start-up capital.

Well then, I'm sorry.

With this in mind, Wang Wu did not hesitate any longer and immediately began searching in the outermost direction.

Come to think of it, he had felt very awkward for a while, but now it seems that he had been quietly misled by the Tree Grandpa's information database and the Bear Family information database.

I always explain to him the differences between the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance and the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance.

It's like trying to explain America's liberal democracy to a bricklayer, comparing it to Lao Zhong's system—it's like asking him to meddle in the affairs of a thug who steals wherever he goes. What right does he have to worry about such profound matters? What their systems or secrets are has absolutely nothing to do with him!
He couldn't assume that the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance was his own faction or one of his own just because most of the escapees went there. He couldn't assume that the escapees were all incorporated into the Sin Prison Legion and made into suicide squads.

He couldn't harbor such deep hatred for the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance just because a small number of escapees were slaughtered as evil demons.

What does it have to do with him?

Are there no conflicts among the escapees?
Can all past grievances be wiped clean?
There's nothing left to worry about. No matter how much the cultivation world changes or how bizarre it becomes, it's still a huge, unknown hunting ground for him. All he needs is to hunt, develop, and grow.

This is what he needs to persist in and uphold.

Round and round, while Big Monkey, Big Eye Fish, and Octopus Brother were still scavenging for low-level cultivation resources in the forest within a hundred miles, Wang Wu had already ridden the demonic wind and run three laps in one go, finally discovering something unusual three thousand miles away.

In fact, he saw a mountain range four thousand miles away that, from the outside, was not particularly special, regardless of its distance.

Under normal circumstances, it would be easy for Wang Wu to overlook it at a glance.

But he saw a flash of cool sword energy.

It rose arrogantly into the sky from the mountain range, though it dissipated in the next instant.

Wang Wu immediately approached, and as the distance closed, his level 15 spiritual essence immediately took effect. He saw extremely dense spiritual energy fluctuations, as complex as the stars in the sky.

This is—a mountain-protecting formation?
No, it's an even more complex and massive array derived from the Five Elements Spirit Array!

It is so vast, yet so small; so dazzling, yet so understated.

Without that flashy and arrogant sword aura just now, he would have had less than a 20% chance of discovering this protective mountain formation using his normal, roundabout, quick-scanning search method.

Because his level 15 spiritual essence only has a very good effect within a hundred miles.

"This is the headquarters of a human clan? It's quite large!"

As Wang Wu approached, his level 15 spiritual energy remained high throughout, scanning the surroundings. At this moment, a large number of hidden mines, interruption runes, and unknown restrictions began to appear ahead, densely packed, comparable to a meteorite belt.

Moreover, it covers the entire area from 30,000 meters underground to 90,000 meters above the ground, like a spiky tortoise shell, or an invincible bastion from the cultivation world!

However, in such a well-defended place, what was that sword energy just now?

It couldn't possibly be some second-generation immortal making a stupid mistake!

As Wang Wu was pondering this, he saw the mountain-protecting formation sweep past again like a gentle breeze, with countless spiritual waves rippling endlessly. From the perspective of a level 15 spiritual cultivator, it was truly a breathtaking sight.

Of course, this kind of beauty can only be created by a massive impact of spiritual energy.

Is this human sect experiencing internal strife?

Fighting inside the mountain-protecting formation, there's nowhere to use all the spiritual energy!

Wang Wu was heartbroken. Just that wave of spiritual energy had consumed at least five million points of spiritual energy.

Prodigal son, prodigal son!
At this moment, the mountain-protecting formation trembled again, like a surging tide, dissipating the impact force inside. However, in the final stage, a small section still failed to connect, and immediately a small, unruly sword energy tail shot out.

It was exactly the same as what Wang Wu had seen before.

Great, that's exactly what I've been waiting for.

Wang Wu rushed forward instantly, and the moment the small tail of the sword energy dissipated, he jumped into it. The Five Elements Spirit Array within his body was activated at full power, completing the connection at an unimaginable speed, and silently infiltrating the mountain-protecting array in an instant.

Almost simultaneously, he also learned why this human sect was subjecting its protective mountain array to extreme overclocking.

Because, within this sect, there were actually two first-rank cultivators engaged in a life-or-death duel.

No, that's not right. This isn't a sect; it's a damn arena, like the Colosseum in ancient Rome.

Meanwhile, the one who was fighting fiercely on the field was none other than the long-absent Lu Wuchen! He was wielding the Heavenly Fourth Grade Natal Flying Sword, but he was being beaten back step by step and was in a sorry state.

(End of this chapter)