Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 369 Without cultivating magic, one remains untouched by karmic calamities.

Half an hour later, Chen Xu and Ding Chuan left the messy area in the forest where the trees had fallen.

Before leaving, Ding Chuan gritted his teeth and pulled out a Fiery Talisman from his pocket.

He used a blazing fire talisman to burn Zhang Ming's body to ashes, then searched his body and belongings to destroy all evidence.

Even as he did this, Ding Chuan still showed a hint of sadness on his face.

He said to Chen Xu in a dejected and bewildered tone, "Senior, I have no idea where to go from here..."

At that time, Chen Xu was still reading "Travels of the Immortal Path in Jizhou".

It mentioned many common knowledge about this world, which Ding Chuan never paid attention to when he read it, but Chen Xu found it all very enlightening.

For example, the date left in the mural is: 13,000th year of the Star Cycle Calendar.

However, this is not the true length of time recorded in the history of this world.

It turns out that before the Starry Sky Calendar, there were also the Primordial Calendar, the Primordial Chaos Calendar, and the Spirit Ruins Calendar...

The travelogue only vaguely mentions it: In the beginning, it lasted for millions of years.

The other two calendars, Hunyuan Calendar and Lingxu Calendar, were not mentioned in detail.

Chen Xu didn't even know which calendar was older.

Regardless of the old calendar, just looking at the names of these four great immortal calendars, one is immediately struck by their timeless grandeur.

It's unimaginable what a world would have become over such a long period of time.

Strangely, judging from some of Ding Chuan's actions, this world still seems to be "wild" and filled with a strange law of the jungle.

However, from the perspective of the Star Return Ancestor, the world he sees is completely different.

The travelogue says: "I traveled from Kunlun Mirror Sea to Jizhou by cloud boat. The ship was thirty-two stories high. Although I stayed on the top floor, I was still occasionally affected by the complexities."

The cloud-piercing boat traveled 100,000 li, stopping at various ports over a total of three days.

A journey of 100,000 li can be completed in just three days by taking the Cloud Sky Boat. This is the world of Ancestor Xinghui!
But what if one doesn't ride the Cloud Sky Boat, but instead uses magic to fly away on their own?

In response, the Star Return Ancestor left behind a remark: "If I were to traverse the void, I could cross 100,000 miles in a quarter of an hour. But that would be tedious..."

Alright, the old ancestor in the Tribulation Transcending stage finds it boring.

Traveling 100,000 li in a quarter of an hour—how is that any different from the speed of the Monkey King's somersault cloud?
However, even such a powerful Star Return Ancestor was not "immortal".

He claimed, "I am often ill and my life is destined to bring disaster. What can I do?"

Chen Xu couldn't imagine what level he had reached that would make someone like Star Return Ancestor call himself a minor cultivator.
He mentioned again that he was "sickly," which was also strange.

How could someone at their level easily fall ill?

Even if one is sick, shouldn't it be called a calamity or an erosion of the Dao?
However, Chen Xu was too far removed from that realm, and could only speculate about it in his mind. It would be rather ridiculous for someone as insignificant as an ant to presume to understand such a master.

Thus, the more Chen Xu read the travelogue, the more he felt a sense of "observing the vastness of heaven and earth and feeling his own insignificance."

According to the travelogue, in addition to the incredibly fast Cloud Sky Boats that can travel between the thirteen top-tier sects and facilitate communication, long-distance teleportation arrays have even been set up between some of the immortal cities of each sect!

Yes, it is the kind of teleportation array that can instantly transport people across tens of thousands or even millions of miles.

However, the teleportation array is extremely expensive to use, and the fees charged are also considerable, so only a small group of people have ever been able to afford to use it.

As for what exactly the Gate of Catastrophe is, Chen Xu finally found the answer in his travelogue.

It turns out that a single cycle of the Star Cycle can generate 100,000 Gates of Calamity.

The Gates of Catastrophe vary in size and usually appear in large cities where people gather.

Therefore, many immortal cities were established specifically to guard the gates of calamity.

It is said that on the other side of the Gate of Catastrophe lies an endless array of demons.

It is constantly being born and constantly being destroyed. These demons are clearly vastly different from the demons Chen Xu had encountered in the Great Li Kingdom; even the Star Return Ancestor briefly described them:

"Although it has intelligence, it has no spirituality, only demonic killing, destroying heaven and earth."

Even the Star Return Ancestor said it would destroy the heavens and the earth, so one can imagine what kind of terrifying disaster the entire Tianxuan Star Realm would suffer if these gates of calamity were fully opened.

But it doesn't matter, there are too many cultivators in this realm.

By slaying demons within the Gate of Cataclysm, one can obtain various demonic treasures, which can actually aid cultivators in their practice.

In this way, no matter how many Gates of Calamity there are, they might not be enough to cover the countless cultivators within this entire realm.

Various forms of trade flourished in this world.

The six arts of immortal cultivation, alchemy, artifact crafting, talismans, and arrays were also extremely advanced.

Chen Xu repeatedly flipped through this thin travelogue, and each time he read it, he could glean new information from the details.

Ding Chuan said that this travelogue is actually quite valuable, and what he said is indeed true.

In addition, there is a very special category of cultivation in this world, namely, the Spirit Chef!
Spirit chefs possess the ability to dispel evil toxins and cook spiritual food, and their status is so high that, in some ways, they even surpass that of alchemists.

It turns out that because this world has undergone several calamities and reconstructions, the Nine Netherworld Calamities are now ubiquitous.

All living beings are killed, and if the killer has magical power, he will involuntarily attract various calamities and evil spirits to invade.

The severity of calamity varies, so it's not to say that all prey killed by cultivators cannot be eaten directly.

It's just that the chances of not being able to eat it are high, and the chances of being able to eat it are low.

Aside from meat, many wild fruits, vegetables, and roots in the wild, once picked by cultivators, are also susceptible to being invaded by calamity spirits.

This is one of the reasons why Ding Chuan and his fellow apprentices almost starved to death in these mountains.

Similarly, this is why Chen Xu had seen various food entries in the mountains before, but none of the entries showed any problems.

The various entries he saw, such as wild fruits on trees and mushrooms on the ground, all referred to things that had not been picked.

There's naturally no problem.

But what if you try picking them? Ha, who knows, they might just sprout up a whole host of deadly poisons.

There are two other interesting points here.

Firstly, the killing of each other by ordinary wild animals, insects, and birds does not produce poison.

Secondly, ordinary people will not produce evil poison when they pick and slaughter wild animals.

In the end, this malevolent poison is specifically designed to attack cultivators.

It's like in the human world, if you possess some special ability, you will often be the first to face more problems.

This is the karmic calamity.

"If you do not practice magic, you will not be entangled in karmic calamities."

But those who practice magic will have their soul and spirit annihilated.

This sentence is the concluding remark written by the Star Return Ancestor at the end of his travelogue.

These eight simple words convey an indescribable sense of awe and suspense.

A day later, Chen Xu's accumulated likes reached more than 95,000.

He silently bid farewell to Ding Chuan, deciding to go to the outskirts of a nearby town to see for himself.

Let's see just how prosperous this world truly is.

(End of this chapter)