Hybrid Spiritual Plant Cultivation

Chapter 354: Hybrid Book Accidentally Upgraded

Chen Jing's mood did become a little bad. How much land could these mortals grow in his hands? But they were used by these guys to exchange for a bunch of garbage and strange things. It was really a waste.

But even a strong man like Cheng Xiaying is nothing on Purgatory Island. He is even more of a nobody and has to suppress his bad mood.

"You and Jiu Niang are quite similar in some ways. You always care about some insignificant things..." Cheng Xiaying sighed: "I don't really understand you humans."

"The gap between people is even greater than that between people and dogs. Maybe I am indeed the weird one." Chen Jing said.

Cheng Xiaying pondered for a moment and said, "Among all the races in the universe, there is a universally recognized explanation for why the human race is so powerful. Do you know what it is?"

"Is there a generally accepted theory?" Chen Jing had no idea.

"The powerful races that most people think of may be descendants of gods and demons with golden blood, born sacred; or they may be dragons, tigers, and unicorns that have achieved enlightenment, born with magical powers...

But that is only strength in terms of power, not strength in terms of ethnicity. The reason why the human race has become the strongest is because the human race is the most capable of exploiting its own ethnicity."

"this……?"

Chen Jing was somewhat speechless for a moment.

He originally thought that the human race was strong in wisdom, but when he thought about it carefully, in this world, the intelligent races disappeared into the sea. It was not like on Earth, where the human race won by evolving quickly.

The result is actually like this?

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Did the human race win in such a sad place?"

"Sad?"

Cheng Xiaying tilted her head and said, “I was born into the Rakshasa tribe, and was born to be a cultivator equivalent to the human race, and grew up in a cruel environment;
Most Rakshasas cannot live to adulthood, but every adult Rakshasas is an absolute master...

We, the Rakshasa tribe, admire the strong and will do anything to become stronger, because only the strong can occupy more resources for the tribe. "

She sighed and said, "The Rakshasas must be very sad too."

“Now that you mention it, it seems quite sad…” Chen Jing nodded. Facing a survival crisis since childhood was too hellish. Compared to this, the human race didn’t seem so sad.

"All races are like this. The strong are respected and the strong make all decisions."

"There is no hope for all the races in the world."

Chen Jing didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Cheng Xiaying smiled and said, "The difference between the human race and the other races is that the other races need to constantly plunder from the outside world to ensure development. Although the human race cannot avoid plundering from the outside world, the human race can meet most of its needs and ensure development and growth by plundering its own tribe."

Chen Jing understood what she meant. She used her own Rakshasa tribe as an example to say that other tribes were actually very cruel to their own people, but being cruel was useless and they still didn't earn much.

The human race is different. They are cruel to their own people, but they still earn a lot.

He couldn't help but look back at the market where he had just wholesaled the rare items. He didn't feel the slightest bit of pride in his ethnic group's superiority. Instead, his mood became even heavier.

Precisely because the human race produces more when plundered, it will be plundered more severely.

Any intelligent race can be thrown into Purgatory Island to extract rare items, so why are there only mortal humans everywhere?

Cost-effectiveness...

Chen Jing said: "You know a lot about the human race, yet you say you don't understand us humans."

"It is because I know the human race better that I feel strange about you and Jiu Niang."

Cheng Xiaying came closer and walked side by side with him.

"I think that the reason why the human race is strong is not because they exploit more resources from their own race, but because there are too many people in the human race who are unwilling to reconcile with the world, such as Jiu Niang, and now, you are feeling heavy because some mortals were thrown into Purgatory Island."

Chen Jing couldn't help but say something fair: "It's normal to feel heavy..."

"Really? But I've been here for a thousand years, and all the human cultivators I've come into contact with have never regarded these mortals as their own kind. That's not normal at all. You are the outlier."

"This... Anyway, I'm not an alien! My problem..."

Chen Jing's belief that he is an ordinary person cannot be changed. He found the key to the problem and suddenly said, "No, there is nothing wrong with me. It is the world that turns me into a minority that has problems!"

Cheng Xiaying's smile is as beautiful as a flower.

Perhaps throughout their entire lives, they will never be able to change the terrible world they see.

But they will never be changed by this bad world in their entire life.

"Chen Jing, you and Jiu Niang are really alike."

"I am much cleaner than she is, how can we be the same?"

……

Then the two decided to find a place where rare objects were found to test the Möbius strip.

This aspect will be left to Cheng Xiaying to inquire about.

Chen Jing rented a cave to rest for a while, and then opened the hybrid book immediately.

"What's going on? You guys are still connected."

I saw that an abnormal update was taking place in the hybrid book.

[System patch is being updated...]

[The Mobius patch has been updated and the latest features are available. 】

The 'law of time and space' of the Möbius strip was actually integrated into the hybrid book. This was the first time that Chen Jing saw an upgrade to a hybrid book other than his own breakthrough realm.

[Unlock and add tags——Vision·Mobius Field]

[Four-star and above hybrid spiritual plants can be given an 'Anomaly Tag' to gain field benefits. ]

[Mobius Field: The spiritual plant ecological group carrying this field can be infinitely born and destroyed within a certain range, and the cycle continues.]

Eh?
A large number of details emerged in Chen Jing's mind.

This time a new feature is unlocked - adding tags.

The field tags that can be added are not effective for a single person, but for a group of people.

A single spiritual plant cannot activate the field tag alone, and a complete ecological cycle framework needs to be formed.

Once the ecological cycle is formed, it can activate the field effect and maintain stability.

According to the information described, without external force to break it, this cycle can be maintained until the avenue is destroyed.

Chen Jing thought of many application scenarios at once.

First of all, in the production field, his God King Tower, 'Chen Jing's Brain' is a spiritual plant. When combined with the field, it is equivalent to having its own maintenance, which completely solves the big problem of maintenance costs.

This means that his spiritual network can theoretically be extended to every corner of the universe at a negligible cost.

Similarly, the advantage of zero maintenance can also be applied to other fields.

In terms of defense, the defense system built with field spiritual plants is equivalent to having its own repair function. As long as the field is not broken, there is no need to worry about being consumed.

The problem of spending money that had been bothering Chen Jing for a long time was solved immediately once the venue appeared.

"Why would I bet on rare items? You can only make a few bucks on rare items."

Chen Jing was eager to go home.

In any case, this trip here and getting this rare item, Mobius, is a sure win.

Cheng Xiaying was just about to find a high-end place to gamble on rare items.

After walking for a while, he frowned.

"The Twelve Paths of Purgatory are really going backwards. I can be spotted even when I walk down the street."

A sharp light vaguely appeared around her, like a sword being unsheathed.

There was a chuckle from the other side.

"If the streets are safe, why are there only ants on them? Cheng Xiaying, how much of your skills have been honed over thousands of years? If you have regressed, you will have to pay a price for walking around so blatantly."

"Alas, I really don't like fighting. Why do you force me to do it?"

Cheng Xiaying sighed to the sky. The blade light suddenly bloomed, shining like a gem in the sun, releasing terrifying killing power in the shattering of space.
……

the other side.

Chen Jing left the cave he had rented temporarily and just as he flew from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, he heard the old woman's call.

"Hey, little Taoist friend, don't be in a hurry to leave."

The precise sound transmission carrying the divine consciousness fell into his ears.

Chen Jing looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dilapidated house without a roof hidden in the overgrown weeds.

On the open-air second floor of the house, there was an old woman with a hunched back and a haggard face.

The old woman nodded at Chen Jing: "Yes, it's you, little Taoist friend."

"Is there anything I can do for you, fellow Daoist?" Chen Jing looked at him briefly.

Seems to be just a mortal.

The old woman grinned, revealing a mouth with only two teeth left: "It's not me who has problems, it's you who has problems. Once you leave this mountain, it's hard to predict whether you will live or die."

"Really? Can you solve this problem?" Chen Jing couldn't help but smile.

“Hahahaha.” The old woman laughed: “I dare not bear the karma of my young Taoist friend. I can’t bear it. I can’t bear it. However, if you are willing to help me a little, I can reveal some secrets.”

"Tianji... I like Tianji. I'll help you with this matter."

This time when Chen Jing went down the mountain, he just went shopping in the nearby shops. There was actually nothing else to do.

Jiu Niang was participating in a fight, and Cheng Xiaying had just left for a while, so he was bored.

The old woman suddenly became happy, "What I want is very simple. Look at this 'Ring of the Great Avenue'. There are too many."

The Avenue Ring that the old woman pointed to was a giant twelve-layer ring surrounding the Purgatory Island. Even the huge Dharma image of a cultivator looked miniature on this giant ring.

Behind each giant ring there is a top force and the camp that this force represents.

Chen Jing looked up.

The giant ring on the first layer was filled with evil spirits and was hung with the heads of living creatures. Wronged souls were entangled on it, neither alive nor dead, howling eternally.

That giant ring represents the evil king Inda, who rules over thousands of realms. The army of evil demons under his command is the main force that invades Shenzhou and brings endless bloody battles to Shenzhou.

The second giant ring is extremely majestic and magnificent, like a coiled dragon.

The one who created this giant dragon ring is the Red Blood Dragon God on the Ancestral God Mountain, who is known as the dragon clan with the bloodline closest to the Ancestral Dragon after the Divine Dynasty.

The third giant ring was shining with golden light and was extremely dazzling.

Behind them is the Fallen Star Clan, a terrifying race that can steal the power of the Thirty-Three Heavens and has been attacking the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The fourth giant ring represents the largest alliance organization in the Eighteen Layers of Hell - the 'Underworld Alliance'.

The fifth ring represents 'Jiuyou', where a demon god rules, and Jiuyou is also one of the main forces invading Shenzhou.

The eleventh giant ring where he was located was ruled by the human race, and was inhabited by Chen Jing’s old friend, the Fengtian Sect.

It was created by a transcendent and powerful being at the level of Grand Minister of Agriculture of the Fengtian Sect.

Although the forces behind these rings are not directly affiliated with the lower realm forces at the "holy land" level, they can be said to be closely related.

Chen Jing only took a quick look and felt that there was something wrong with the old woman's mental state.

You still dare to complain about them being redundant? Fortunately, they complain about you being redundant and are too lazy to care...

"I think they have a lot of reasons and we should learn to accept them," Chen Jing said.

"Young people nowadays have no fighting spirit." The old woman couldn't help laughing.

Chen Jing shrugged and said, "It seems that I am not worthy of your divine secret."

"Little Taoist friend, take this." The old woman took out a small cloth bag, picked through it for a while, and took out a red jade pendant: "If this thing is broken, it can still save your life."

"Thanks, how much is it?"

Chen Jing took it and asked casually.

no answer.

He looked up and exclaimed, "Huh?" The old woman had disappeared.

After thinking for a moment, I had a guess in my mind.

"Perhaps it is the incarnation of the divine consciousness sent down by some powerful being..."

So, will there be a life-and-death crisis once we leave this mountain?

Chen Jing immediately used the contact method left by Cheng Xiaying, but sure enough, he received no response... He then changed his target and contacted Mo Yige.

After a moment, Mo Yige appeared here.

"What's the matter?"

Chen Jing said: "I can't contact Cheng Xiaying. I have a bad feeling."

Mo Yige frowned: "You came so quickly, that's right, this is Purgatory Island... You should be careful, there will be trouble recently."

"Can't you explain it in detail?" Chen Jing asked.

"Hmm..." Mo Yige hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not that I don't want to say it, but I can't figure out what happened. After all, I just woke up not long ago, so it's easy for me to make mistakes in judging the situation."

"..."

I thought you were a riddle teller, but it turns out you’re also a puzzle solver.

Chen Jing said: "Tell me something that can be confirmed."

"Yes, you can refer to it yourself."

Mo Yige disappeared on the spot, leaving behind an encrypted spiritual message to Chen Jing.

After a brief browse.

He couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows.

Finally, this wave of enemies was not brought by Jiu Niang, but by Mo Yige.

From this information, Chen Jing learned about the path that Mo Yige practiced - "Skillful Craftsmanship".

To explain it in simple terms: This path allows practitioners to master all hidden principles, which is equivalent to a key to unlock the secrets of all things.

The road to the dark realm is full of obstacles, and many problems need to be solved by Mo Yige, who practices the art of craftsmanship.

Therefore, Mo Yige’s enemies might be forces that hope to prevent the Holy Land from opening up trade routes or retrieve the Heavenly Emperor’s treasure ship.

But this is only the first layer.

In his own time, Mo Yige had great power, but later on he encountered some things and lost almost everything.

So, her enemies may also be her old enemies.

Finally, there are the enemies of Taoism.

The closer they are to the lower realms, the less support they will receive from the Holy Land. Top forces in the lower realms, such as Jiuyou, will have masters who will try to hunt them down for simple hunting purposes.

As for Chen Jing and others, although they only have an employment relationship with Mo Yige on the surface, it is normal to target them if the opponent has the mentality of hitting them with both hands.

This is how you attack your opponent: if you have enough ammunition, you can provide indiscriminate saturation coverage.

After Chen Jing understood the situation, he felt relieved.

But I always feel a little depressed.

"I am dragged into struggles that don't belong to me day after day. Is this reasonable..."

(End of this chapter)