Mysterious mirror hanging high

A month later, a huge ship docked at the port of Xiaoyao Immortal City. Countless Qi-cultivating monks and ordinary servants walked down from the ship one after another. Most of them looked up at the various buildings in the immortal city with excitement on their faces.

With his hands behind his back, Jing Yu looked leisurely at the towering walls of Xiaoyao Xiancheng in the distance, the fairy mountains rising from the ground in the city, the various tall corner towers in the style of Xiaoyao League, and the landmark building of Xiaoyao Xiancheng, the Tower in the Clouds, which was located in the center of Xiaoyao Xiancheng.

Zhao Yuanxi, dressed in an ice-blue robe, followed behind Jing Yu, looking around curiously from time to time.

Zhao Yuanchen, carrying a large bag of luggage, was hanging at the end with a listless look on his face. The one-month long-distance ship journey was much bumpier than he had imagined, and it took a lot of toll on his already weak body.

"Uncle, this Xiaoyao Immortal City is too big! Why do Foundation Establishment cultivators seem to be worthless? In just a short while, seven or eight have already flown over!"

Looking at the Foundation Establishment cultivators who were occasionally flying overhead in small flying boats, Zhao Yuanxi's expression was slightly tense, his finger joints turned white, and it was obvious that he was not at peace.

"After all, it's one of the largest immortal cities in our Yunchuan region. There are over 300,000 permanent cultivators. If you add the floating cultivators, I'm afraid there are around 350,000."

"After all, our Yunchuan Region is still a small place. It is said that in the several large regions in the central Penglai Immortal Continent, there are large immortal cities with a population of one million cultivators. That is the real grand scene."

Jing Yu sighed, "However, the number of foundation-building cultivators in Xiaoyao Immortal City is approaching 2,000. At least in Yunchuan Territory, it is the premier gathering place for high-level cultivators."

"Uncle, I don't quite understand this."

After all, now that they were on solid ground, Zhao Yuanchen, who had originally looked dispirited, looked a little better. He was a little puzzled, "Isn't it said that nowadays, only one out of every three hundred Qi-training cultivators can reach the Foundation Establishment stage? Proportionally speaking, it would be good for Xiaoyao Immortal City to have over a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators. How come there are now twice as many Foundation Establishment cultivators?"

"One in three hundred? That's the overall ratio in the world of immortal cultivation. People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places... Places like Wushan Market have thin spiritual energy, and there are very few precious lands suitable for Foundation Establishment cultivators to cultivate. How can they accommodate so many high-level Foundation Establishment cultivators? Anyone with even a little bit of ambition has flocked to a large immortal city like this."

"The spiritual energy between heaven and earth is not evenly distributed. It's scattered here and there. In some places, if you step to the left, you may find a treasure land that is enough for a Yuanying Zhenjun to practice with all his strength, but if you step to the right, even a Qi training cultivator would despise it."

"Take the [Tower in the Clouds] in the center of Xiaoyao Immortal City, for example. It's said to have a thousand floors. The distribution of spiritual energy within these thousand floors is very strange. It gradually becomes denser from the bottom up, reaching its highest point around the 600th floor. The floors around the 600th floor are where the Jindan True Immortals of the alliance retreat. The spiritual energy gradually becomes thinner as you go up, and by the top of the thousand-story tower, it's almost the same as the spiritual energy at the bottom."

Zhao Yuanchen looked at the towering thousand-layer pagoda and exclaimed in amazement, "I used to think that the richness of spiritual energy was determined by the presence of spiritual stone mines underground. I wonder if that's the case?"

"Of course not." Jing Yu shook his head. "Whether the spiritual energy is rich or not depends on the natural conditions of the land, which is unchangeable. But there is a general idea that the higher the altitude, the richer the spiritual energy. Therefore, in ancient and medieval times, immortal cultivation sects and families often established their mountain gates and clan bases on extremely high immortal mountains."

"Another way to change the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding area is the [Spiritual Vein]."

"This [Spiritual Vein] is often invisible and formless, leaving no trace. It's simply a spiritual force wandering through heaven and earth. It might transform into some precious spiritual material, a heavenly treasure, or simply give rise to spiritual intelligence and transform into a demonic entity...traveling back and forth between mountains, rivers, and streams."

"Wherever the spiritual vein passes, the concentration of spiritual energy will rise to a higher level."

"But this type of spirit vein generally has a characteristic, which is that it will attract the ground veins underground. If the spirit vein and the ground vein merge, they will turn into a spirit stone vein that will reside permanently underground."

"This is the origin of the [Spirit Stone Veins] between heaven and earth."

"So strictly speaking, it's not the spirit stone veins that make the surrounding area rich in spiritual energy, but rather the spirit veins that are integrated with the earth veins and fixed here, which makes the spiritual energy more concentrated. If you can subdue the treasures transformed by the spirit veins and carry them on your body, it can still help to increase the spiritual energy."

"The huge spiritual stone vein beneath the ground of Xiaoyao Immortal City today was created when the immortals of the Xiaoyao Alliance used their great supernatural powers to find a large spiritual vein and merged it with the ground vein under this city."

“This is how we have the prosperous Xiaoyao Immortal City today.”

After Jing Yu finished speaking, Zhao Yuanxi suddenly chuckled and said, "So, even if Wushan Market truly developed to a scale with over ten thousand cultivators, it wouldn't be possible to build a city... Yuwen Xiaojin's relentless efforts in promoting the Immortal Expo and clearing out mortal body cultivators were simply a way to improve his political achievements and accumulate foundation."

Jing Yu nodded and smiled, "Isn't it? Wushan Market's spiritual energy is so poor that it can't support many Foundation Establishment cultivators, let alone Golden Core True Immortals! Unless we find a spiritual vein there. But if such a good thing really happens, why doesn't True Immortal Baoding directly capture the spiritual vein and bring it to Xiaoyao Immortal City to enrich the foundation of this place?"

"Maybe the real person can really feed a Yuanying Zhenjun's Taoist temple."

Zhao Yuanxi shook his head: "Even if a Nascent Soul Dojo can be built, if Master Baoding doesn't become a Nascent Soul, he won't be able to protect it... There will be Nascent Soul Masters from other realms who will come to pick this peach."

"That's right." Jing Yu sighed, "Your grandmother ultimately suffered from a narrow vision. It's not that any Jindan Zhenren from the Yunchuan Region who becomes a Yuanying Zhenjun will be able to unify the Yunchuan Region..."

"But there is no place in Yunchuan Territory where a True Lord can practice stably!"

"Even if a great immortal truly formed an infant, his first choice would be to go to the several realms in the central region with rich spiritual energy to compete for the path. Why would he allow his realm to remain unimproved in this life and stay here to compete for food with a group of Jindan juniors?"

Zhao Yuanchen listened to the two of them talking at length, raving about the Golden Core True Master and the Nascent Soul True Lord. He rolled his eyes inwardly and muttered, "Damn it! Each one's cultivation is lower than the other, and each one's boasting is bigger than the other! Qigong cultivators are so great!"

But he asked earnestly, "Uncle, what do you think of us now?"

"Let's find a place to stay first, then go look for your uncle's old acquaintances at the Immortal Registration Office and see if we can get Yuan Xi and I registered there first." Jing Yu thought for a moment and said, "There are 300,000 cultivators living in Xiaoyao Immortal City, but only 50,000 of them have registered there. This shows how valuable the immortal registration is."

"If either Yuan Xi or I can register as an immortal, it will be much easier for us to buy supplies, rent caves, set up stalls and open shops in the city in the future!"