Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 320 - 320 0251 Can be Considered Kind and Amiable

Chapter 320: Chapter 0251: Can be Considered Kind and Amiable Chapter 320: Chapter 0251: Can be Considered Kind and Amiable Chapter 0251 Can Be Considered as Affable and Approachable

After briefly explaining the situation to Pan Yulin and Wang Shuqing, Qi Tian left Tongmen West Pass, crossing the pass and going deep into Chi Di territory. He interrogated the captured Chi Di people harshly to get the information he needed, learning that the stones weighing three to four thousand pounds that had been hurled by trebuchets came from a place called Yi Lian Mountain. The Chi Di people had constructed a military workshop there, and all the trebuchets, stone balls, and barrels filled with oil that they used to attack Tongmen West Pass came from Yi Lian Mountain.

Chi Di is primarily a grassland country, but it also has forests and mountains. Yi Lian Mountain is not the closest range to Tongmen West Pass, and the captured Chi Di officers couldn’t explain why their military workshop was located on Yi Lian Mountain, rather than on any closer mountain ranges. All they could confirm was that the military workshop was definitely on Yi Lian Mountain, and at any other questions they were at a loss.

Qi Tian was uninterested in the Chi Di military workshop. What interested him were the stone balls. If he could get more of them, perhaps the Heavenly Dao Engine could be upgraded again, which would undoubtedly benefit Qi Tian greatly.

However, Yi Lian Mountain was a considerable distance from Tongmen West Pass, at least three thousand miles as the crow flies. If one took Chi Di’s official road instead of a straight line, it would add at least another two thousand miles.

Qi Tian didn’t want to waste time on unimportant matters. He had made significant contributions in this war between the two countries and was anticipating significant rewards. He didn’t even wait to receive his rewards before leaving.

Qi Tian wished he could leave today and arrive at Yi Lian Mountain tomorrow. If he used the crane statue as a transport, powered by middle-grade spirit stones, he could fly in the sky and cover thousands of miles. Still, after some thought, Qi Tian gave up the idea. While he didn’t know much about Chi Di cultivators, he knew that Chi Di was similar to Great Zhao, a country where cultivators and ordinary people coexisted. Spirit Mountains and Spirit Lands in Chi Di were occupied by Chi Di cultivators, who built sects and established clans. During his journey, he would likely pass over numerous cultivator sects and clans. Flying across their territories would be a blatant provocation to the Chi Di cultivators, and few could tolerate it unless they were exceptionally tolerant.

The threat of these sects alone was significant. Moreover, whether these sects contained late Foundation Establishment Stage practitioners or those at the Foundation Establishment Peak needed serious consideration from Qi Tian. If there were Half-step Golden Core or even Golden Core Stage cultivators among them, their threat was something Qi Tian simply couldn’t ignore. If they showed interest in Qi Tian flying across the sky, he would undoubtedly face extreme catastrophe.

While Qi Tian was keen to uncover the secrets of the stone balls, his own safety was paramount. If he could not guarantee his safety, the secrets of the stone balls wouldn’t matter, because he wouldn’t be the one to discover and explore them. In the end, Qi Tian chose a path that made the most sense for him. After leaving Tongmen West Pass, he took the official road of the Chi Di, riding on Hu Niu, and headed north toward Yi Lian Mountain.

When interrogating the captured Chi Di people, Qi Tian learned that cultivators in Chi Di held the same privileges as those in Great Zhao. Under normal circumstances, local government offices wouldn’t dare to investigate a cultivator’s identity. Moreover, even if they did, it wouldn’t matter. Qi Tian had killed many Chi Di cultivators, each one leaving behind identification candidates for him. Some of these identities belonged to removed cultivators, known by only very few people, and Qi Tian could easily impersonate them.

In the blink of an eye, Qi Tian had already been in Chi Di territory for a day. He traveled during the day and found a place to rest and cultivate at night. Each time, he held spirit stones in his hand, continuously extracting Spirit Qi, which, after circulating and refining in his meridians, was infused into his Qi Sea to expand its area.

The classification of the Foundation Establishment Stage is mainly based on the size of the Qi Sea. Generally speaking, the Qi Sea of the next stage in the Foundation Establishment Stage should be at least one-tenth larger than that of the previous one. If it’s not reached this standard, it’s impossible to advance to the next stage.

Qi Tian’s Qi Sea was naturally large, at least equivalent to a regular third-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator’s Qi Sea size, one of the significant reasons he could fight and defeat a third-stage cultivator.

Having a large Qi Sea was both a blessing and a curse. For instance, right now, Qi Tian’s breakthrough to the second stage of Foundation Establishment was much more challenging than that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator. Since entering the Foundation Establishment Stage, he had spent every available moment cultivating. So far, he had used up hundreds of low-grade spirit stones, yet there was still no sign of advancement. All Qi Tian could do was repeat his daily cultivation, patiently waiting for small differences to accumulate into significant changes.