My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 343 - 329: The First Year of Xianling

Chapter 343: Chapter 329: The First Year of Xianling

Upon entering the Time Forbidden Zone, Wang Zijia was rendered speechless.

Not only had he not been treated like grand cultivators from the Upper Realm, who descended upon the Lower Realm with auspicious clouds, but he had also been thrown into the forbidden area by the Tianhong Heavenly Dao and pursued by the Thunder Tribulation. This marked an explosive first in the entire history of the Wanyu Sect.

"This stupid Heavenly Dao!"

Wang Zijia could not help but swear under his breath.

However, regardless of his cursing, he had to come up with a solution.

But after much contemplation, he couldn’t think of a good one.

Although the Qinglian world was garbage, it was still ruled by the Heavenly Dao. With Wang Zijia’s current abilities, he couldn’t even touch the fire door, let alone mess with it.

"Forget it, for now, let’s slowly clear this forbidden area. Once my cultivation level increases, I’ll simply maneuver around under the Thunder Tribulation. Let’s just take it as a special effect the Heavenly Dao gave me for making an entrance!"

Since he couldn’t come up with a good plan, Wang Zijia decided to proceed with this plan and take one step at a time.

As he thought about it, Wang Zijia did not immediately start clearing. In contrast, he tried to reach Minxin’s Chaotic Sea of Knowledge first.

The Blood-Red Book trembled for a moment but did not respond.

’Is it really not going to work? Is it because my cultivation level isn’t high enough or is it due to the unique temporal conditions of this world and the disparity in the speed of time?’

His thoughts flickered for a moment, but without any comparative experiments, he couldn’t come to any valid conclusions.

Besides that, there was also the issue of the spell’s effect, which had been amplified here more than twofold.

While he was going through the Thunder Tribulation, Wang Zijia had already noticed this. It would have been impossible for him to handle it this smoothly in Wanyu.

He stood at the entrance, checking and adjusting his various statuses.

As for the Five Ghosts, they were quickly clearing out the demons around the entrance.

After spending some time understanding his own situation, Wang Zijia began to assist the Five Ghosts in clearing the area around the entrance to the Forbidden Zone.

In less than four hours, there were fluctuations in the space at the entrance again.

Wang Zijia temporarily stopped cleaning and threw out a spear with a backward motion, helping them to open the entrance.

Fu Wenrui, Li Lexin, and Hui Feiyang entered swiftly with a group of disciples from the Holy Land like fish darting through water.

The entrance to the Time Forbidden Zone was sealed with energy that bore spatial qualities and had been continually strengthening with the rebirth of spiritual energy. Only those with the powers of a Perfected could break it open.

For monks in this world to enter, they had to concentrate the power of dozens of monks, and the inside was fraught with demons. The same power level was needed to exit.

Therefore, there were very few records and descriptions of the Second Forbidden Area. Most of them were from hundreds of years ago when the demon disaster had not yet engulfed the whole world.

So, when everyone went in, they all curious about their surroundings. This included the three Saint Masters, Fu Wenrui, Li Lexin, and Hui Feiyang.

"Bowing before the Patriarch, Immortal Venerate!"

"Greetings to the True Immortal!"

"Meeting the Exalted Immortal!"

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Everyone had not observed for long before they saw Wang Zijia walking in the air from the ruins of the Forbidden Zone.

They immediately paid their respects one after the other.

With an indifferent look on his face, Wang Zijia surveyed everyone.

Perhaps it was because Wang Zijia hadn’t specified how many people they should bring, Fu Wenrui, Li Lexin, and Hui Feiyang only had around thirty disciples of varying cultivation levels following them.

The disciples were all of different ages, but their bodies glowed with spiritual wisdom. At a glance, anyone could tell they were exceptionally gifted, virtually all of them having top-grade spiritual roots.

But if they brought all the geniuses in their sects...

"Why have you only brought so few people?" Wang Zijia asked, his expression unchanging as he looked over the hundred or so people before him.

The three were slightly taken aback. The oldest among them, the thin old Taoist Hui Feiyang, responded: "In response to Immortal Venerate Patriarch, as you did not specify how many disciples you wished to teach, we dared not decide rashly and thus brought only the top geniuses of our sects."

Top geniuses with top-grade spiritual roots?

And each family only has a few dozen?

The top power in the world, and they only had this few prospects in dozens of years? This was really stingy!

Even the Tianhong Dynasty, a second-rate kingdom, could not match this!

This damned world is indeed mediocre!

Wait a minute, something’s not right!

Wang Zijia’s thoughts flashed, and he suddenly came to a halt as an idea came to mind. He furrowed his brows and asked, "Did this world experience the spiritual energy tide that came with the resurrection of spiritual power?"

"Responding to the Immortal Venerate, yes it did. Fifty-seven years ago, not long after our Masters had collectively ascended back to Upper Realm, the spiritual energy tide emerged."

"Bathed in this tide, we achieved enlightenment under the onslaught of spiritual energy, which allowed us to advance to the level of the sacrificial wine. As a result, more than a thousand powerful figures emerged in the Qinglian Cultivation World, leading to its gradual prosperity." Hui Feiyang responded cautiously.

You think that pathetic cultivator population outside just now is considered prosperous?

Over a thousand sacrificial monastic magnates?

Good Lord!

Hah, truly prosperous indeed!

It’s almost catching up to the ’influential figures’ of my Fake Talisman Lineage, which was established just over three months ago!

With countless points of contention springing up in his mind, Wang Zijia swallowed them back and frowned as he asked, "When the spiritual power of a world revives, spiritual roots and lingtong should spring up like bamboo shoots after rain. The birth rate of spiritual roots should be as high as two to three out of ten in the years following the surge of spiritual energy tide. Why are there so few people?"

This time, it was Li Lexin who answered. He said respectfully, "In response to Patriarch Immortal Venerate, we do have quite a few disciples in the Holy Land. However, very few of them can achieve top-grade spiritual roots. After all, our Qinglian can’t be compared with the Immortal World."

"In addition, we’ve been experiencing the chaos of the demon disaster for hundreds of years. Even though Exalted Immortals from the Upper Realm have descended multiple times to eradicate them, the population of our world had been declining drastically."

"Now, the entire Qinglian World has less than ten thousand individuals. With the Heavenly Dao collapsing and demons erupting, countless cities and nations have fallen. Many regions have completely turned into barren wildernesses, teeming with demons!"