The Great Seminary

Chapter 336 Return to the End
Disciples of sects from ordinary backgrounds, even those with exceptional talent, have to rack their brains to earn cultivation resources; they have no time to meddle in other people's business.

However, for the direct descendants of the sect leaders, the so-called self-reliance is just a formality.

If you earn even one cent, your elders will encourage you and give you three, five, or even ten cents in return.

The resources for spiritual practice are inexhaustible.

This makes it easier to maintain a 'naive' heart.

Besides natural talent, the most important thing in spiritual practice is mindset.

Especially when breaking through a 'rank', it is easier to make progress by going with the flow rather than by working hard.

Therefore, some elders who are well aware of the intricacies of this matter and are willing to nurture their descendants will deliberately allow their favored children and grandchildren to do as they please, such as Wu Quezi.

Zhang Gui was unaware that his supposedly 'hidden talents' actually revealed a strength that made him stand out from the crowd.
The contrast with the habit cultivated in a civilized society of the previous life, where one deliberately maintains politeness towards strangers who should be wary, is striking.
It has already attracted the slight attention of a lucky individual with a strong sense of curiosity from the Northern Sect of the Three Holy Swords.

It flew back to its own estate.

They landed next to the rented airship.

Seeing this, Old Xu, who was in charge of the boat, immediately came over and said with a bitter face:

“Young Master, I felt something was wrong when you flew to the ‘tail’ of the formation just now.”

I shouted myself hoarse, but I couldn't stop you.

In short, all the demons killed by the 'Great Saint Sword Formation' belong to the 'Three Saint Sword Sect'.

Only disciples of the Sword Sect are allowed to go and pick up the scraps.

Zhang Gui nodded upon hearing this and casually asked:

"Old Xu, do you know how to get to that underground vein guarded by the 'Three Saints Sword Northern Sect'?"

"Then there are many ways."

If you want to do business, those with little capital can team up and hire bodyguards for protection, while those with more capital can hire their own bodyguards.

Of course, if you have connections, it's safest to go with the Sword Sect's official business team.

As for hunting the hundred races of earth demons, if you want convenience and to save money, just buy a map and you can go on foot.

Of course, such recklessness either indicates great ability and invincibility, or it means one will never return.

Ordinary people still have to adapt step by step.

First, find a 'hunting group'. That's a foreign name I learned from the West. When I was a kid, I called it a 'hunting team'.

In short, anyone who catches the eye of the 'hunting party' will sign a contract and be taken to the underground vein.

Some persevere step by step, eventually transforming themselves into powerful forces, forming large hunting parties and even venturing into the deepest caverns.
Young Master, someone of your stature, buying this estate is tantamount to putting down roots in Poyuan City.

He also possesses great abilities.

Although you're from out of town, if you don't provoke others, no one will easily provoke you, so it's best not to rush things.
First, get the estate up and running, and hire some guards. "Even a hero needs three helpers," right?

Then he bought a shop in the city and established a business.

They sought to connect with a certain 'battle group' to explore the depths of the situation.

Finally, he personally led people to the underground veins to buy and sell first-hand corpses of the demons.

Although Lao Xu's life has been less than ideal for most of his life, he was once an ambitious young man.

I've fantasized countless times about how I would achieve great things if I had a good family background.

At this point, he couldn't help but ramble on in response, saying a lot of things, both true and false.

However, if it were a noble person dressed in white dragon and fish robes, they would certainly not take these common old people's fantasies seriously.

But Zhang Gui, in his previous life, deeply believed in the profound saying left to the world by a great sage and philosopher.

"To accomplish great things, one should treat it as simply as cooking a small fish."

So I listened attentively to Lao Xu's ramblings, silently thinking to myself, "Everything is difficult at the beginning."

Especially to prevent gaining influence in the underground world in the future, which might attract the attention of the Great Qi King 'Xia Que' or the Queen Mother of the West 'Kunlun',

His true origins were revealed by divination.

In my underground operations, aside from what I carry with me, it's best to sever all 'human' resources from the very beginning.

Therefore, taking a steady and gradual approach to development is the right thing to do.

Otherwise, the 'illusion and reality' I've accumulated would be enough to move all 330,000 'Rebirth Army' from the True Dragon Kingdom to Poyuan City.

They directly took over the responsibility of guarding the underground veins here from the 'Three Holy Swords Northern Sect'.

Wouldn't that instantly save a lot of effort?

Hmm, thinking about it this way, King Qi and Queen Mother of the West really did do whatever they wanted.

He initially defied the will of his own father, who was also the supreme ruler of the human race, and killed Boyi, the new king elected by the chieftains of the various tribes in the Eastern Continent, thus achieving his great cause.

In his youth, he was fond of keeping young and vigorous kings as his male concubines, until he met King Mu of Zhou, who went down in history and was only a hair's breadth away from becoming a god-king, and only then did he finally settle down.

When it came to setting their own rules, they rigidly divided the underground world from the human world, and sects from the imperial court, making it clear that no one could cross that line.

He was simply the supreme ruler of the human race, who transformed his own understanding into the understanding of the entire human race.

This likely also involves some of the power of rules in the mystical realm.

By the way, what I was thinking at the beginning was just the concept that 'there has never been a savior, and everyone is their own savior.'

He was almost punished by Heaven and destroyed by Earth.

Everything in the world has its advantages and disadvantages.

Even if an ordinary cultivator possesses the most advanced cultivation techniques and abundant resources, they still need to consume elixirs to regulate mercury and meditate on qi to make progress.

But Zhang Gui only needs to use his 'thought' to unlock the mystery, and he can achieve great results by 'reacting with matter' through 'consciousness', as easily as pie in the ground.

However, "water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it."

Just as he can gain endless benefits through imagination, he can also suffer great calamities because of it!
For example, at this moment, although I had to think for a little longer than before, a series of thoughts arose in my mind, sparked by association, that were 'defying the world's opinion'.

Ultimately, Zhang Gui's mind went blank, and he collapsed to the ground.
At the same time, the divine structure within his body finally became completely distorted.

It begins to crack, shrink, and return to its original state at an extremely slow rate.
Even the most powerful beings in this extraordinary world who have "ascended to heaven" may not be able to understand the reasons behind the evolution of the "return to origin" phenomenon.

But as the saying goes, 'the limit of theology is science, and the limit of science is theology.'

Zhang Gui's previous life's scientific viewpoint, the "Explosive Universe Theory," which states that "the universe was formed by the explosive expansion of a dense and hot 'origin'," subtly aligns with this theory.

In addition, there is the Taoist view that "one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things."

The human body is a microcosm; it is only natural that it can be "rebuilt" from the original point after being "broken".
The cycle of the seasons is also strange. For example, on the Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), it is easy to rain after nightfall, no matter where you are. And this rain is mostly a light drizzle.

I don’t know how long it took.

Zhang Gui slowly woke up, his head feeling as if his brain was being stirred by a hot stick, but then a light drizzle hit his face, which felt quite refreshing.

He moved his head and found that his back was against the hull of the rented airship.

He stretched out his legs and sat on the muddy ground.

The driver, Old Xu, sat cross-legged beside him, craning his neck to look around, and asked with concern:
"Young Master, you've woken up."

It seems his old injury flared up again; he fell headfirst to the ground, which really scared me.

Let's rest a bit longer, then I'll take you to a clinic in the city.

It doesn't matter, you're not short of money and you're young with plenty of "three treasures" (sexual energy, health, and fertility).

As long as you avoid strenuous travel and overexertion, and settle down to recuperate gradually, you'll recover quickly.

(End of this chapter)