Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 247 Ancient Qingzhou

Qinghai became a barren land a long time ago.

However, Qinghai is not an ordinary barren land.

It’s a desolate place like the Tiandu spiritual world, and the power of the earth veins is very weak.

But Qinghai is different. The islands above Qinghai seem to have condensed the power of the surrounding earth veins. Most of the islands seem to have abundant earth vein power.

Under such circumstances, the Immortal Kingdom should have developed Qinghai long ago.

However, the islands in Qinghai are floating islands that drift around on the sea, making it very difficult to regulate the land veins.

The power of the earth veins is unstable. Even if a spiritual vein is established, it will not be stable. The cost of fixing the floating island and building a fairy city is too high.

This is why Qinghai has not been developed by the fairyland so far.

The reason why Yi Chaoyun firmly believed that the Immortal Kingdom would develop Qinghai was that one time, when he went to see Mu Mu, he accidentally heard a piece of news that Mu Mu mentioned in a conversation with Dongfang Hong, which was that the war between the Immortal Kingdom and the Beiyue Spirit Realm was about to end, and it was speculated that the Immortal Kingdom would conquer the Kunxu Spirit Realm.

The Immortal Kingdom does not know the location of the Kunxu Spiritual Realm, so the key to conquering the Kunxu Spiritual Realm lies in the Xuankong Realm.

The provincial capitals that have established ascension channels with the Xuankong Realm are all very critical bridgeheads.

Qingzhou, a large province that was directly invaded by Kunxu cultivators, may be more important than other provinces because many cultivators and monsters from the Kunxu spiritual world left traces in Qingzhou. These traces may help Qingzhou find the location of the Kunxu spiritual world.

In fact, Yi Chaoyun only listened to a little bit.

If he had listened to the entire conversation between Mu Mu and Dongfang Hong, he might not have been so confident.

Flying boats broke through the clouds and mist and continued to move forward over the ocean.

"Master, traces of living creatures have been detected in the east."

A cultivator from the Zhao family walked up to Zhao Tian and said.

Zhao Tian nodded.
"Then go and have a look."

Zhao Tian walked to the edge of the flying boat and looked at the sea below.

This team of cultivators from the Zhao family has been flying over Qinghai for a month.

During this month, they did not encounter any large islands.

Only when we find a large island can we establish a spiritual vein.

Because only the power of the earth veins contained in large islands can upgrade the spiritual veins to the fourth level or above.

Although Yi Chaoyun does not have enough spiritual resources now, nor does he have the technology to build a fourth-level spiritual vein, family development generally requires long-term considerations.

After a while, Zhao Tian stood on the flying boat and saw the endless coastline. Obviously, the island in front was a big island.

A young man flew to Zhao Tian from another flying boat.

"Father, we may have encountered one of the ten great fairy islands in Qinghai."

"Dun'er, why do you say that?"

"Father, look at those large crane-like birds on the coast. If I'm not mistaken, they are eagles.

Among the ten great fairy islands in Qinghai, Yaochi Fairy Island is said to be inhabited by countless vultures. "

Zhao Tian looked at his third son in front of him with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

Zhao Tian wanted to develop the Zhao family, but he himself did not have many children.

Because he and Fang Li had been staying in Shenmu Forest before, and influenced by the Yi family's customs, Zhao Tian did not have a Taoist partner other than Fang Li.

Over the years, he and Fang Li only had three sons and two daughters.

Among them, the eldest son Zhao Xianzong has natural spiritual roots, the third son Zhao Dun has dual spiritual roots, and the remaining one son and two daughters are all mortals.

Compared to the eldest son who doesn't care much about the family, Zhao Tian likes the third son who is devoted to the family more.

And the third son did not disappoint him. Relying on the relationship between Fang Li and Dongfang Hong, Zhao Dun practiced the Yi family's cultivation method and achieved the Nascent Soul stage at the same time as him.

Zhao Xianzong, who has no interest in the development of his family, and Fang Li, who is only interested in sucking blood from the Yi family, don't care about the Zhao family at all. Now among the Zhao family members who have come to Qinghai, only he and Zhao Dun are Nascent Soul.

It can be said that whether the Zhao family can gain a foothold in Qinghai in the future depends largely on them, father and son.

Zhao Tian saw Zhao Dun hesitated to speak and immediately knew what he was thinking.
"Dun'er, do you think the Ten Fairy Islands are hard to find? Can we leave the Yi family behind and occupy them alone?"

Zhao Dun could tell there was no anger in his father's words, so he said:

"That's right. If it were an ordinary island, it wouldn't be a big deal to give it to the Yi family, but this is one of the Ten Fairy Islands. Rumor has it that even the Fairy Kingdom can't detect it. If our Zhao family develops on it for hundreds of years or even longer, it may not be worse than the Yi family."

“The term ‘fairy island’ is just an exaggeration. The fairy country cannot detect it because there are no spiritual veins on these ten islands.

If the ten immortal islands had spiritual veins, the immortal kingdom would have circled them long ago.

Without spiritual veins, how can our Zhao family develop?

The remnants of the sects in Qingzhou were able to hide in the Ten Immortal Islands because they all had spirit stones from the sect's treasures to maintain their cultivation. Moreover, you have also read the information collected by Tiannan County. Most of the sects in the Ten Immortal Islands are passed down from master to disciple, and the entire sect has only one successor.

Without spiritual veins, our Zhao family would not be able to develop at all."

Zhao Dun was speechless, he also knew that even if the Zhao family had a spiritual source to build a spiritual vein, they probably wouldn't dare to build it without the Yi family, because as long as the spiritual vein was built, it would most likely be detected by the Immortal Kingdom.

On the surface of Tiandu Spirit Realm, almost all spiritual veins can be detected by the Immortal Kingdom. Zhao Tian saw that Zhao Dun's face was calm, as if he had figured it out, and nodded secretly, and continued:
“Dun’er, don’t think that Qingzhou has become a lower-class state now. The strongest people on the surface are Yuanying cultivators.

In fact, the families that have the final say in Qingzhou are those who possess the Great Dao Golden Elixir or the immortal cultivators who have attained the Divine Transformation stage.

Even though many powerful people from many families are not in Qingzhou, their influence is still there.

Dun'er, you are not very close to your mother, so you may not know the background of the Yi family. Do you know why the Yi family is so arrogant to establish branches in various places in Qingzhou, and the government has not openly suppressed them?"

Zhao Dun frowned. He had never been liked by his mother Fang Li since he was a child. Or rather, his mother didn't care about her other children except his eldest brother Zhao Xianzong.

So Fang Li really didn't tell him much about the Yi family.

Zhao Dun thought for a moment and said:

"Could it be because of the Yi family's several immortal officials who are away?"

“This is one aspect, but the more crucial thing is that the Yi family has an existence above the level of incarnation.

You must know that in Qingzhou, except for the official family, other families do not openly have cultivators above the level of God Transformation.

It is precisely because of this that many sixth-rank noble families that dominate a county can only suppress the Yi family in secret. "

“Return to the Void?
Doesn’t Qingzhou have a sixth-level spiritual vein?
Why don’t those who have returned to the void to cultivate immortality go to the superior provincial capitals?

Besides, isn't the strongest person in the Yi family their ancestor?"

No matter how little Zhao Dun knew about the Yi family, he knew that Yi Dong had the final say in the Yi family.

If the Yi family has a cultivator who has reached the level of returning to the void, can Yi Dong still control the Yi family?

Zhao Tian shook his head.
"I don't know much about the specific situation. You just need to know that if you want to establish a spiritual vein in the Ten Immortal Islands, only the name of the Yi family will not attract the covetousness of other families in Qingzhou."

Zhao Dun was about to ask why, when suddenly, he thought of the answer.

Qinghai is outside the eight hundred states of the fairyland and is a true lawless place.

The development history of the Yi family is a history of killing. In the underground of Pingyuan County, the sword cultivators of the Yi family are well-known fighting maniacs.

In the counties of Qingzhou, the Yi family will abide by the law. If they were in Qinghai, the Yi family might have to use traditional means to develop the family.

"Okay, Yaochi Fairy Island is very big. Let's go up and explore it first, and then go back and inform your Grandpa Yun."

The Fairy Island of Yaochi is named after a huge lake that is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round.

This big lake called Yaochi occupies more than half of the area of Yaochi Fairy Island. There are many small islands in Yaochi.

In the center of Yaochi, there is an island covered with plum blossoms.

Under a strange plum tree, two old men with white hair and beards were playing chess, and a boy stood beside each of them.

When Zhao Tian and others stepped into Yaochi.

An old man in a green robe, holding a chess piece and about to place it, paused and frowned slightly.
"Another rat has come in."

As he spoke, a huge amount of magical power was concentrated on the chess piece, and the sky above the Yao Chi Fairy Island was suddenly filled with wind and dark clouds.

The purple-robed old man sitting opposite gently stroked his white beard with his left hand.
"Friend Guantian, please be patient. The people this time are different from the previous ones."

Old Man Guantian did not stop, and he smashed the chess piece between his two fingers heavily onto the chessboard.

The old man with the beard showed a helpless look on his face, and released a tight silk thread with his right hand, which held the chess piece falling towards the chessboard like a net bag.

The roar caused by the collision between the chess pieces and the silk threads directly disrupted the other chess pieces on the board.

The old man in green robe showed a trace of surprise.
"Old Tianji, if you want to stop me, then stop me. Why did you mess up the chessboard? We have been playing for ten years and it seemed that the winner was about to be decided, but now you do this."

Tianjizi shook his head and said helplessly:

"Forget it, let's just call it a draw."

"Alas, I am about to reverse the situation, but since you are still young, I will do as you wish."

Old Man Guantian waved his hand to take the chessboard and glanced at the two boys beside him.

The two boys bowed and retreated.

Tianjizi put away the casual look on his face and turned his eyes slightly.
"It seems that those people in Tianzhu Mountain want to repair the nine ancestral veins of Tiandu."

“They invaded the Beiyue Spirit Realm and took great pains to collect the origin of the world. Wasn’t it just to repair the nine ancestral veins?
Those people in Tianzhu Mountain probably don't want to break off relations with us directly, so this time they plan to use the Buddhist puppet creature in Qingzhou to test our reaction.

What do you think? "

"No matter what we think, the Immortal Kingdom is bound to take back Ancient Qingzhou. Even if we can stop them for a while, it will be useless."

“However, if we really don’t respond, countless people from meritorious and ancient families may soon flood into Qinghai.

By then, the entire Qinghai will be divided up by the aristocratic families of the Immortal Kingdom. Are you really willing to give up your own ancestral land?"

"The Immortal Kingdom is showing goodwill to us now because they suffered heavy losses in the Beiyue Spiritual Realm. If we still resist stubbornly, what's the point except dragging some people down with us?

However, even if we have to give up our territory, we can choose a method that we can accept."

(End of this chapter)