Cultivating Immortals in Two Realms, I Possessed the Primordial Thunder Vine

Chapter 92 Human Pasture! Yinshan Temple

The entire material world is actually shaped like a giant gourd.

Small mouth, narrow waist, big butt!

If the cultivation world is the upper spiritual realm, high above, then below are countless smaller material realms, like satellites. These smaller material realms lack spiritual energy and veins, making them more suitable for mortals to multiply; they are what is known as the human realm or the mortal world.

The human realm is like a beehive, with each world being different and separated by world barriers. However, there are always weak points in the world's boundaries, which allow one to travel from the upper realm to the lower realm, or to sneak from the lower realm to the upper realm.

This is also the origin of many myths and legends in the human world.

It is said that some of the top sects in the cultivation world control the passage to the mortal realm. Many cultivation dynasties even have their own lineages in the mortal world, controlling the wars of the dynasties and continuously collecting the resources they need.

Like a mastermind behind the scenes, controlling the fate of mortals in the lower realm.

After all, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken boat still has three pounds of nails. Even though the spiritual energy in the lower realm is scarce, one can still plunder many good things.

The greatest resource in the lower realm is the mortals who multiply like insects. Among them, those with excellent talent and top-quality spiritual roots will be transferred to the upper realm and join immortal cultivation sects.

The fate of mortals in the lower realm is like being contained in a giant bottle; their lives, from birth to death, are already predetermined.

In the library, there is a miscellaneous record of various strange and wonderful things in the cultivation world. It was written by the ancestor of the Xu family. He once had the good fortune to enter a small mortal world controlled by a major cultivation sect through a channel controlled by a certain sect. He was filled with emotion and recorded it down.

Therefore, in the human world, it is also known as a pasture.

It is a place for cultivators of the spirit realm and a land for animal husbandry.

Therefore, when Xu Changjun overheard the low murmurs of the group of black-robed men below, this information came to mind.

"Could it be that they struck gold and came from a hidden entrance to the mortal realm that went unnoticed by some major cultivation sect, or perhaps they found some kind of passage with a weak spatial barrier?!"

Some smaller human realms have already been taken over by various major powers.

All the passages leading to the lower realm are controlled by them, and outsiders have no way of touching them.

The group of black-robed figures before them had clearly smuggled themselves in through a spatial passage belonging to no faction, which led them to an unfamiliar mortal world.

"The souls these people are collecting clearly indicate they have some knowledge of the Upper Realm. What is their purpose?!"

Xu Changjun was quite curious about the black-robed men in this group. If he could find the passage through which these people came up, the Xu family would have an additional lower realm space.

"It's a rare find; perhaps we should take a look!"

Looking at the group of men in black robes below, Xu Changjun suddenly showed a strange expression.

……

"Alright! Everyone, please be quiet. This is the spirit world after all, so we must be careful in everything we do."

As soon as the leader in black robes spoke, everyone around him obediently shut their mouths, a hint of fear in their eyes.

"This is not a place to stay for long. We should head to the next settlement, complete our mission as soon as possible, and return to the Netherworld. That is true safety."

As the leader of the black-robed men, he was well aware of the power of the Spirit Realm. If even a Foundation Establishment cultivator were to appear and see through their identities, they would inevitably face annihilation.

We have no ability to resist, and it will be too late to regret it later.

"No need to leave! Stay, all of you!"

Just as the man in black robes was instructing everyone to leave, a calm voice suddenly came from above.

Everyone was shocked and looked up at the sky, only to see a young man standing in the void, his eyes looking down at them like divine light.

The blinding light caused them to feel a powerful sense of oppression, and their hearts trembled violently.

"Senior?! I..."

boom!

Before the leader in black robes could finish speaking, Xu Changjun stepped on the air with his right foot, and an invisible pressure descended from the sky, directly suppressing the ground.

In an instant, a terrifying force formed a shockwave. The immense magnetic force emanating from Xu Changjun's body, merging with the magnetic field of heaven and earth, spread outwards, completely sealing off the entire valley.

"I now know your identities. I will now ask you questions, and you will answer them!"

Xu Changjun's body floated down, and the group of black-robed men were suppressed around him like statues. The terrifying pressure squeezed their bodies, making it impossible for them to even move a finger.

After a few attempts, the men in black robes did not respond smoothly, and Xu Changjun's face darkened.

"Since you're courting death, don't blame me!"

This time, Xu Changjun held back. With a flick of his right hand, a terrifying force pressed down, and the black-robed men couldn't withstand it, making a cracking sound as their bones were squeezed.

Immediately, Xu Changjun reached out, his right palm already pressing on the head of one of the black-robed men, his eyes like lightning, shooting directly into the man's mind.

The opponent's strength was still too weak, only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining. Xu Changjun obtained the prototype of the thirty-six-faced crystal godhead of the Three-Eyed Clan, and the spiritual power he could use at this time was terrifyingly strong.

Even those at the peak of the Purple Mansion realm couldn't contend with its spiritual power, let alone these Qi Refining cultivators from the lower realms. Therefore, Xu Changjun wasn't afraid of not gaining anything by using the Soul Searching Technique.

Although the memories obtained from soul searching are incomplete, there are so many black-robed people here. By searching their souls one by one, little by little, it will be enough for him to know everything he wants to know.

Moreover, there are bound to be those who can't withstand the pressure. Many things can be reconciled, so there's no need to fear any deception involved.

A moment later, Xu Changjun slowly opened his eyes. The ground was littered with black-robed figures, scattered like corpses. He had searched their souls, shattering their three souls and damaging their seven spirits. Even if they didn't die, they would have become idiots.

In such a wilderness, death is certain.

"It's not too different from what we guessed, but just to be on the safe side, we should still go to that lower realm to confirm it with our own eyes."

……

Half a day later, Xu Changjun arrived at a remote valley.

The valley is lush with vegetation, and there is a plain, ordinary-looking green pool.

Xu Changjun stood by the pool and looked down. The water was clear, without a ripple on the surface, calm and bright.

"No one would have imagined that beneath this pool lies a passage leading to an undeveloped human realm."

If Xu Changjun hadn't directly searched the souls of those black-robed men, he would have had virtually no chance of finding this hidden pool.

Those men in black robes were clearly not without background; they all came from a sect called Yinshan Sect in the lower realm, but they were all under a soul restriction, preventing them from revealing much important information.

If Xu Changjun hadn't used his Three-Eyed Divine Technique to forcibly pry open the gaps in their souls, they probably wouldn't have found this place.

……

Having arrived here, Xu Changjun naturally prepared to descend to the mortal realm to investigate.

As he took a step, the pool seemed to be split in two by an invisible force, revealing a clear path before him.

Following the exposed path, Xu Changjun walked step by step to the bottom of the pool.

Finally, he stopped in front of a huge rock. The men in black robes had covered the entrance to the cave with the rock.

If an outsider were to enter this pool, they would only think it was a pile of rocks at the bottom of the water, and it would be hard to imagine that the passage leading directly to the human world was hidden behind these giant rocks.

Xu Changjun reached out and gently pushed the rock outwards, revealing a dark opening behind it. Without any hesitation, Xu Changjun stepped out and went inside.

He then cast a spell, and the boulder sealed the cave entrance again, and the surging pool of water merged back together, restoring it to its original state.

A moment later, the pool returned to its original state, as if everything that had happened before was just an illusion.

……

After a dizzying sensation, Xu Changjun felt the world sway, and an invisible wave of vertigo washed over him.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and a new world appeared before him.

"Such thin spiritual energy?!"

Stepping outside, a scene of birdsong and fragrant flowers immediately appeared before my eyes.

The same white clouds, the same forests, and rivers flowing in the distance.

However, with that one step, Xu Changjun had already arrived in another space.

It must be said that the human realm is the human realm, and it is not suitable for cultivators to stay for long.

The spiritual energy in this place was so thin that when Xu Changjun took a deep breath, he felt that the surrounding spiritual energy of ten thousand meters was completely consumed in an instant.

"Is this the Southern Kingdom?!"

During the soul search, Xu Changjun discovered that the group of black-robed people came from a place called Nanli Kingdom, and that they were cultivators from the lower realm of Yinshan Temple.

The abbot of Yinshan Temple is at the Foundation Establishment stage, but unfortunately he is over two hundred years old and his lifespan is about to end.

So many years of wasted time, and still unable to make any further progress.

This sect has a well-established lineage. It is said to be a small sect in the upper realm that accidentally discovered a passage to the human world. In order to escape a great enemy, the entire sect moved here, and more than four hundred years have passed since then.

After several upheavals, the Yinshan Sect lost part of its heritage and could no longer find its way back. It was Yinshanzi, the current abbot of Yinshan Temple, who discovered the secret from the sect's records and finally found the place again.

Yinshan Temple served the Prince Li's Mansion, and Yinshanzi was the Prince Li's first honored guest.

This Prince Li was a prince of the Southern Li Kingdom. He held a high position and great power. He failed in his struggle for the throne, but he controlled the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun and had a strong army. Even the emperor dared not touch him.

Yin Shanzi was a retainer of the Prince of Li's mansion. He used the Prince of Li's power to obtain cultivation resources and gradually rose to his current position.

In return, he harbored even greater ambitions, hoping that Prince Li would overthrow the emperor and ascend to the throne himself. He envisioned the entire Yinshan Temple becoming a guardian religion of the nation, and through incense offerings and the conversion to the path of the gods, he hoped to prolong his life and even have the possibility of advancing further.

(End of this chapter)