Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 44 The Sky Islands (Please continue reading)

Thinking of the more than 400,000 spirit stones he had lost while exploring the Mirage Maze without making any progress, Su You felt a pang of heartache. This was already the price of almost half a spirit vein.

Fortunately, he obtained a large amount of cultivation inheritance in the Mirage Realm, which made up for his losses.

Su You's ideal location for building the wizard tower needs to be a place where it is not easily disturbed, where the surrounding area is stable and rich in resources.

After careful consideration, Su You concluded that the best place was within Yunting Lake.

Yunting Lake is dotted with islands; if you just occupy a relatively secluded island, you'll naturally be undisturbed.

However, being too remote is also not good, because whether you are a wizard or a cultivator, you can't fight alone.

Wizards build wizard towers for two reasons: firstly, to provide themselves with a better research environment, and secondly, to earn resources and have a group of assistants working for them.

For cultivators, whether they establish a power, a family, or a market, these are all essentially the same.

Even a behemoth like the Void Heaven Sect, the number one sect in Qingzhou, didn't establish the Void Heaven Immortal City and gather millions of cultivators here. Only with so many cultivators could such a large force be supported.

Even when the number of rogue cultivators in the Void Heaven Immortal City decreases to a certain extent, the Void Heaven Sect will send a large number of disciples to search for mortals with spiritual roots in the countries within its sphere of influence. Whether they have four or five spiritual roots, they will be transported to the Void Heaven Immortal City.

They then offer free basic cultivation techniques, a three-year free accommodation policy, and even instruction in spiritual plant cultivation.

These successive groups of cultivators who focused on farming were the foundation for the continuous growth of the Void Heaven Sect.

Su You made another trip to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and purchased a document containing information about the forces within Yunting Lake.

With just a quick glance, Su You found a place that suited his taste.

The Mingkong Islands are a place with relatively abundant cultivation resources and a relatively prosperous commerce. However, there is no unified power, only a loose alliance of Mingkong Alliance, which is composed of the island lords of various islands.

The alliance leader is a powerful rogue cultivator who has recently entered the Nascent Soul realm. Such a force is considered the strongest in the surrounding area and has no enemies.

Most importantly, this alliance leader basically doesn't interfere with affairs within the Mingkong Islands and focuses solely on cultivation. This is what Su You like most; he doesn't want various problems to arise right after joining this force.

Having a lifespan of five hundred years, cultivating and researching simultaneously—that's the true path to success.

However, there is no need to rush at this time. At least we should wait until Su You finds the Spirit Pearl before setting off for the Mingkong Islands in Yunting Lake.

Su You now needs a large amount of spirit stones. The basic materials for purchasing the Wizard Tower require hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, a good formation also requires hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, and artificial spirit veins are even more expensive, requiring millions of spirit stones.

There's also the search for spirit pearls. If you can find traces of the mirage demon, you'll need to spend spirit stones to buy a third-tier spirit talisman. If you can't find it, you'll need to go to the South China Sea and spend a huge amount of money to buy a fourth-tier spirit pearl, which is also a huge expense.

In the following period, Su You traveled back and forth between the Changqi Mountains and the Xutian Immortal City, hunting and selling a large number of demonic beasts.

The twin clones continued to refine the draft of the wizard tower, and there were still some wizard arrays that needed further study.

After hunting monsters in the Changqi Mountains for half a year, Su You decisively changed to a more distant location.

He had no choice but to switch. The number of demonic beasts within the Changqi Demonic Beast Realm had drastically decreased, arousing suspicion from many third-tier powerful demons. Although his transformation artifact was miraculous, those third-tier powerful demons could still spot its flaws if they examined it carefully with their divine sense. He had been killed in this way several times, and Su You hadn't resisted. If he retaliated, it would create a bigger commotion and easily expose his true strength.

However, after discovering that those third-tier demons had noticed his presence, Su You decisively changed to the Lianyun Mountains, which were tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Changqi Mountains.

There are plenty of monster resources in Qingzhou, especially since one of the largest forces of the demon race, the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, is located within Qingzhou, and monsters are constantly emerging from it.

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Two years later.

Su You rushed to Yunting Lake and Chiqing Islands.

He had received news from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion that numerous deaths of mortals had been discovered in places such as the Moli Islands, Jade Rock Islands, Golden Scale Islands, and Chiqing Islands.

The earliest known death of a mortal occurred three hundred years ago on the Moli Islands, while the most recent one took place on the Chiqing Islands.

Based on the intelligence information, Su You compared the nearby map and found that these islands were all located in an area ten thousand miles south of the Mirage Realm.

Moreover, these mortals did not die in large numbers, but in small batches. Each island might have hundreds or thousands of deaths. Compared to a population of hundreds of thousands, this number was indeed hard to attract attention.

Moreover, even if cultivators were to investigate, it would be difficult to find the reason, because the mirage demon always avoided the places where Golden Core cultivators were stationed.

It's no wonder that even with the power of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, it took them two years to investigate. After all, the deaths of ordinary people of this magnitude are unlikely to attract the attention of cultivators. It was only because these deaths occurred regularly that they were discovered.

Su You paid an extra 100,000 spirit stones to purchase this detailed intelligence.

"This mirage demon is truly intelligent; it even knows how to attack in multiple directions, otherwise it would have been discovered. Otherwise, it would have been dealt with by human experts long ago for slaughtering mortals." Su You sighed as he thought of the information in the intelligence report.

After obtaining the intelligence, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion also gave him a warning: if he could not resolve the matter in a short time, they would hand over the intelligence to a powerful force in the vicinity and have them send strong experts to resolve it.

After all, this was a heinous incident of a foreign race massacring humans, and the number of people killed was not small. Mortals are the foundation of the human race and should absolutely not be allowed to be slaughtered by foreign races.

If it weren't for the archipelago environment like Yunting Lake, the mirage demon's actions would have been discovered by the human race's powerful members long ago.

This opportunity was only given to Su You because he was a client of their Tianji Pavilion and had helped them discover the matter.

This is also why Su You rushed over in such a hurry.

Fortunately, Su You had made preparations for hunting the mirage demon a year ago, purchasing a batch of spirit talismans as his trump card.

His only worry was that if the mirage demons he was facing were at the peak of the third or fourth tier, it would be difficult to kill them.

Even a late-stage Tier 3 opponent might not be able to defeat them.

(End of this chapter)