Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 399 Funiu Fairy City
With Duanmu Fei's previous reminder and the old clan leader's guidance, Li Ji'an and Ning Sujin made no mistakes this time.

Two months later, we finally saw a majestic mountain range surrounded by a lush green grassland.

Looking down from the heavens, this mountain range on the boundless grassland truly forms a spectacular sight of a blue ox lying on the ground.

According to the information obtained previously, the mountain peak at the bull's head is the core area of ​​Funiu Immortal City, which is located on a quasi-fourth-order spiritual vein and is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy in the entire mountain range.

"Such rich wood-elemental spiritual energy." After carefully sensing it, Li Ji'an's face lit up with joy.

This place not only has a higher grade of spiritual vein than any of the spiritual veins he has lived in over the past few lifetimes, but most importantly, the wood-attribute spiritual energy here is exceptionally abundant, accounting for 40%.

The entire Funiu Mountain spiritual vein area covers an area of ​​tens of thousands of miles, which is three times larger than the Biyun Sect plus the Golden Glory Immortal City. In the Tiancang Domain, it can be regarded as an independent cultivation state.

Moreover, the entire Funiu Mountain Range contains spiritual veins, and the total amount of spiritual energy within it is comparable to that of the entire Cangyun Prefecture.

"Old man, this place is so beautiful!" Looking at the view below, Ning Sujin smiled gently and nestled in Li Ji'an's arms, feeling happy.

This trip with Li Ji'an has led them to see the desert city and then this pearl on the boundless grassland, fulfilling Li Ji'an's promise to take her to see all the mountains and rivers.

Li Ji'an gently stroked his arm and smiled slightly: "There are countless sights in this world, each with its own merits. When people see the same scenery, they will have different emotions."

I hope you can always maintain this state of mind.

"As long as I'm with the old man, this old woman can appreciate beauty." Ning Sujin nestled contentedly in Li Ji'an's arms.

"Haha, how come this old lady is getting more and more mushy as she gets older?" Li Ji'an laughed heartily.

The two joked and teased each other tenderly as they descended from the heavens.

Upon reaching the Funiu Mountains region, the number of cultivators moving about at great heights increased, with Foundation Establishment cultivators still being the majority. However, the number of Core Formation cultivators in this area should not be underestimated.

There were three Core Formation True Immortals who descended from the Ninth Heaven around the same time as Li Ji'an and Ning Sujin.

"Hmph!" Just as Ning Sujin was asking Li Ji'an where he was going, a cold snort came from not far away.

Then the person conjured a divine rainbow and instantly disappeared into the distance.

Li Ji'an and Ning Sujin exchanged a glance, then shook their heads with wry smiles.

She was a female cultivator at the True Core stage, with an ordinary appearance, a cold expression, and a resentful look on her face. She had been near Li Ji'an and Ning Sujin all the way.

Ignoring the female cultivator's rudeness, Li Ji'an led Ning Sujin to the tail of the Funiu Mountains.

This is the outermost edge of the entire Funiu Mountain Range, where the spiritual veins are only at the first level and are not yet within the Funiu Immortal City's boundaries.

"Old man, it seems that all the people at the bottom of society are the same. No matter what the circumstances, the hardships of the bottom remain unchanged." After her primordial spirit swept over the area, Ning Sujin shook her head secretly.

This is a first-tier spiritual vein environment, and those who live here are all minor cultivators in the Qi Refining stage. They are poor and hardworking, but they work hard without complaint in order to improve their cultivation and obtain spiritual resources for their practice.

However, most still have no hope. Their Qi and blood begin to decline, and their bodily functions begin to deteriorate, but they still fail to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. They are destined to struggle at the bottom for the rest of their lives, all in vain.

Li Ji'an felt this deeply.

In his first life in the cultivation world, he personally experienced this almost desperate torment and learned about their suffering and destiny.

Without the accumulation of knowledge from the previous generation, without inheriting a mantle, and without any outstanding talent to show for it, one's fate is almost predetermined from the moment of birth.

As for defying fate, it's only one in ten thousand or a million. We can't use survivor bias to motivate people, and it has no universal applicability.

“Not necessarily.” Li Ji’an glanced at Ning Sujin: “If one is free from desires and can resist the temptations of the path to immortality, and can avoid following the crowd, and do what is within one’s ability and that makes one happy, then it will not be hard.”

"How many people can do that?" Ning Sujin shook her head with a smile.

“A mediocre person or a saint!” The two talked as they walked, while simultaneously gathering information about the place from their surroundings using their divine senses.

Li Ji'an compared it with the information he had previously obtained to verify it in reverse.

By the time the sun had set, a more accurate answer was basically available.

Whenever Li Ji'an arrives in a new place, he has a habit of collecting and summarizing information from the grassroots level. Although the information is disorganized and often exaggerated, it is closer to the truth.

The Ox Head District is the core spiritual vein, and only there can one obtain quasi-fourth-tier spiritual energy.

The so-called Funiu Immortal City refers to that area.

The Ox Eye is the sacred site of Master Fu Niu and his disciples, and is the master of this place. Only disciples and relatives of Master Fu Niu are allowed to reside here.

The area extending a thousand miles outwards belongs to the inner city of Funiu Immortal City, located in a third-tier spiritual vein area, gathering powerful cultivators from tens of thousands of miles around the Funiu Mountains and even the entire western part of the Yellow Heaven Domain.

There are many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the inner city, and Core Formation cultivators are also common.

The rest of the bull's head area is the outer city of Funiu Immortal City. Although the spiritual veins are not at the third level, they are still above the second level, making it a holy land for Foundation Establishment cultivators in the western part of the Yellow Heaven Domain.

Apart from this, the other areas of the Funiu Mountains no longer belong to Funiu Immortal City.

Master Funiu once said that things should not be done to extremes and benefits should not be enjoyed alone. Therefore, he deliberately opened up the rest of the Funiu Mountains, making them unclaimed lands for the cultivators there to share.

The mountain range where the ox's four hooves are located also has third-order spiritual veins.

Some of the spiritual veins in the cow's belly are even close to the middle grade of the third rank, and the range of the mountain spiritual veins in the cow's belly is several times larger than that in the cow's head.

For this reason, most of the monks here are deeply grateful to Master Funiu and have praised his kindness for generations.

However, Li Ji'an had already learned the actual situation from the low-level cultivators at the ox's tail.

After more than two hundred years of changes, the cultivation environment of the entire Funiu Mountains is still somewhat different from what Master Funiu originally described.

Today, even the first-tier spiritual vein region at the tail of the ox is no longer unclaimed land.

Although no one claims to be the Lord here, someone does collect taxes here, and all sorts of ingenious pretexts emerge one after another, each of which seems quite reasonable.

As a result, the lower-level cultivators here have to do everything they can to earn spiritual resources in order to stay here safely.

They could either venture into the grasslands to capture monsters, hone various skills, or be hired as merchants...

As for the tax collectors, tracing back to the source, it all comes down to the Venerable Funiu.

Disciples, students, and old friends often fought tooth and nail over the right to collect taxes on a piece of spiritual land.

Even the Taoist temple near the hind hoof of an ox, which the Duanmu family rented, was rented by the disciples and grand-disciples of Master Funiu.

"Old man, only disciples and relatives of the master can reside in the core area. Can the spiritual environment of the inner city meet your cultivation needs?" Ning Sujin asked with some concern after confirming the situation.

Li Ji'an shook his head, smiled at Ning Sujin, and said firmly, "Old woman, the reason I came here this time is not only to avoid possible threats, but also to do my best to improve my cultivation."

Having been in the early stages of the Golden Core realm for many years, I have fully adapted to the attributes of the Golden Core. Now it's time for me to make rapid progress.

As for you, you have mastered the Chaos Law over the years and will devote yourself to it fully after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.

Therefore, we must move into the core spiritual vein area.

(End of this chapter)