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Chapter 593 - 591: Jia Dan’s Revision (Additional Updates, Seeking Monthly Tickets)_1

Chapter 593: Chapter 591: Jia Dan’s Revision (Additional Updates, Seeking Monthly Tickets)_1

Mysterious Dark Abyss.

As Fang Xi looked out, what he saw was a pitch-black lake, no... it was an ocean!

Boundless and vast, it was like a dark sea, carrying with it strands of strange aura.

This was the ’Mysterious Dark Heavy Water’ unique to the Mysterious Dark Abyss, also known as ’Mysterious Dark Black Water.’ It was said that even if a cultivator’s magic weapons or spiritual instruments were submerged in it for a short moment, they would greatly lose their spirituality and turn into scrap metal.

If a low-level cultivator’s body came into contact with it, the trouble was even greater; unless rescued promptly, once the water’s poison penetrated the bone marrow, apart from consuming specially made spiritual pills, one could only watch helplessly as the poison of the Mysterious Dark Heavy Water corroded one’s core, gradually reducing them to a mortal...

For immortal cultivators, the loss of magic power and becoming a mortal was a fate worse than death!

Even so, near the Mysterious Dark Abyss, a large number of low-level cultivators still gathered, founding families and clans, multiplying their offspring, and taking on disciples in abundance.

Fang Xi could but inwardly sigh that where there’s harm, there’s benefit.

Although Mysterious Dark Heavy Water was so troublesome, it could also be refined into several kinds of special poisonous magic treasures.

At the same time, the Mysterious Dark Abyss also produced many unique spiritual objects and monster beasts.

Though the large sects were somewhat covetous of the benefits this place offered, they were not willing to let numerous disciples risk their cultivation to guard this place and scour for spiritual objects.

As a result, it instead became a gathering place for individual cultivators, with countless cultivators buried under the black waters, while major sects and powers lurked behind the scenes, extracting the majority of the Mysterious Dark Abyss’s output through means such as supporting proxies, setting up markets, and so forth.

Ironically, the more this happened, the livelier the Mysterious Dark Abyss became, with an unstoppable stream of individual cultivators marching toward their death...

Thinking of all these, Fang Xi could only sigh inwardly.

Naturally, individual cultivators didn’t wish to come into contact with Mysterious Dark Heavy Water, but without doing so, they wouldn’t even have the chance to catch their breath elsewhere.

At the Mysterious Dark Abyss, at least some opportunities remained, so nearly every moment saw individual cultivators relocating their families here in hopes that one day, someone from their family or sect would become a high-level cultivator and lead the family or clan out of this predicament.

Although this hope was still slim, in the Cultivation World, anything could happen!

Fang Xi was still clad in his dark clothes and wearing his conical hat, with magic power fluctuations around the level of Nascent Soul.

Last time outside Flying Sun City, he saved Mayor Zhang, although it was done casually, it was also considered a way of thanking the Li Family.

Apart from that, he had secretly planted the seed of ’Fang Yuan’s cultivation.’

After all, being valued by a Nascent Soul master like this, advancing to Core Formation Nascent Soul in the future was quite possible.

Perhaps one day, this disguise could even be picked up and used again!

...

Air Mulberry Mountain.

This mountain was towering and majestic, stretching an unknown number of miles, and the mountain range was filled with a peculiar kind of mulberry tree.

These mulberry trees were entirely purple and produced leaves much loved by ’Black Nirvana Silkworms,’ and the silk spat by this kind of spiritual silkworms was one of the rare things that wouldn’t corrode in Mysterious Dark Heavy Water. When forged into fishing nets, ropes, and other such magical instruments, they were like fish in water in the environment of the Mysterious Dark Abyss.

At the peak of a mountain in the Air Mulberry Mountain, there was a market known as ’Kong Sang Market.’

Every year, the artifacts and magical treasures produced by the ’Black Nirvana Silkworms’ accounted for a considerable share of the market’s profits.

With a flash of Escape Light, Fang Xi landed in front of the market at the mountain’s peak.

As he entered the array shrouded in mist, he immediately felt much more relaxed.

’This Air Mulberry Mountain, it also has a fifth-order Spiritual Vein...’

Though called a mountain, Air Mulberry Mountain was actually a continuous mountain range with fairly abundant spiritual energy.

Standing at the peak, Fang Xi could overlook a portion of the Mysterious Dark Abyss’s scenery.

In a location at the base of a certain mountain, there was also a huge dockyard, where numerous Spirit Boats were moored.

These Spirit Boats were completely black, seemingly built from a special type of wood, which allowed them to resist the corrosion of Mysterious Dark Heavy Water.

On the deck and the body of the ship, runes moved unpredictably, converging into a thick light shield; evidently, their defensive power was quite remarkable.

Currently, there weren’t many Spirit Boats moored in the dock, probably because most of them were out in the Mysterious Dark Abyss.

"Esteemed senior, may I inquire if you need a guide?"

After entering the market, several cultivators approached, their faces donned with eager expressions.

No, to call them cultivators was not entirely accurate.

Fang Xi looked at one of them—a middle-aged man with large knuckles, dark skin, and a face etched with the trials of life, his eyes carrying a touch of sorrow.

Most importantly, around the man’s neck, there were a few black lines.

These black lines seemed to be etched into his skin, causing him to occasionally show a pained expression.

And his aura was continuously weakening, becoming almost indistinguishable from a mortal.

"I’ll choose you."

He pointed at the middle-aged man.

"Thank you, esteemed senior."

The middle-aged man hurriedly gave thanks, "My name is ’Duanmu Wu,’ may I ask what items the senior wishes to purchase? I have roamed Kong Sang Market for several decades, and I’m quite familiar with some of the shop owners..."

"Hold on, how did you end up like this?"

Fang Xi frowned and asked.

"Are you from out of town, senior? Perhaps you’ve never seen a cultivator poisoned by water..."

Duanmu Wu looked at several unique decorations on Fang Xi’s body, let out a bitter smile, and replied, "Making a living in the Mysterious Dark Abyss and being tainted by Mysterious Dark Heavy Water is quite common. I didn’t pay much attention before, and later, when I couldn’t afford the ’Water Purifying Pill’ to remove the water poison, what choice did I have but to endure it?"

"I consider myself rather fortunate. At least I am young enough. Although I have lost all my magic power, I managed to cling to this life... The worst I heard was about a Core Formation cultivator who was unfortunately attacked by a peculiar monster fish in the depths of the Mysterious Dark Abyss. With the Mysterious Dark Heavy Water seeping into his entrails and dantian, he didn’t make it back to the market before his cultivation dissipated, plummeting to the Foundation Establishment phase, and since he was no longer young, he ended up sitting and transforming..."

"This Mysterious Dark Heavy Water is truly vicious and toxic..."

Fang Xi lamented.

In fact, he had already played with the water by the lake, where the Mysterious Dark Heavy Water was incredibly lethal to low-level cultivators, but just so-so against Nascent Souls, as it could be quickly refined by infant fire.

As for the Transcendent God cultivators, even if they jumped in for a bath, it would hardly be an obstacle.

But how many Nascent Souls and Transcendent Gods could a sect have? How could all of them switch professions and become fishermen?

’To dispel their Golden Core?’

Fang Xi stroked his chin, suddenly struck by a thought!

’Those Jia Dan cultivators who can never advance in their cultivation... but if they were first fed ’Mysterious Dark Heavy Water’ to dissolve the Jia Dan and then took ’Water Purifying Pill’ to remove the water poison... wouldn’t they be able to revert back to the Foundation Establishment phase and then cultivate anew, with hope for forming a Golden Core?’

’However, lower realm Jia Dan cultivators also depend on their age; if they are over two hundred years old, without pairing with life-extending spiritual pills, once the Jia Dan is dissolved, they too would sit and transform...’

’So this is the path of Jia Dan re-cultivation... Indeed, as one’s cultivation realm ascends, many things that seemed impossible before become possible.’

Fang Xi was just musing to himself. Although he had many Jia Dan cultivators under him, getting him to go to such lengths was not his style.

In fact, by the time he reached the Nascent Soul stage, he was already fairly certain he could resolve the bottleneck that prevented Jia Dan cultivators from cultivating further.

The inspiration came from the ’Demon Fire Infant Refining Method.’

If even a Heterodox Nascent Soul who couldn’t advance their cultivation could continue to progress, what was a mere Jia Dan in comparison?

But the process consumed materials that were far too precious and required a great deal of Demon Fire, so only a fool would do such a thing.

Now that the supply of Mysterious Dark Heavy Water seemed inexhaustible, if he encountered a lower realm Jia Dan cultivator with exceptional talent and younger than two hundred years in the future, he could simply bestow them a bottle to assist their re-cultivation...

’But this is a paradox, isn’t it... If one truly has exceptional talent, why would they choose the path of Jia Dan over the orthodox route of Core Formation, thereby cutting off their own Taoist path?’

Fang Xi couldn’t help but chuckle at the thought, feeling he was overthinking it.

He then said to Duanmu Wu, "I’d like to rent a cave house to settle down first..."

"If you want to rent a cave house, naturally you’ll have to find the manager from Black Water Sect here."

Duanmu Wu answered without hesitation.

"Black Water Sect?!"

Fang Xi looked contemplative.

"Yes... Black Water Sect is a Transcendent God Sect. They hold major sway here at Kong Sang Market too. Every individual cultivator in Mysterious Dark Abyss dreams of joining Black Water Sect and becoming a disciple of such a sect, hoping to further their cultivation one day..."

Duanmu Wu said with a sigh.

He had also participated in the Black Water Sect’s disciple selection in his youth but failed...

Fang Xi was naturally aware of the great fame of the Black Water Sect.

It was said that the sect had more than one Transcendent God cultivator!

For Fang Xi, of course, it made no difference.

If he was really pushed, he could just call upon his true self to sweep through with the Kuyong Mysterious Light, and even a Perfect Transcendent God cultivator would perish!

Of course, Transcendent God cultivators generally had lifespans of four to five thousand years. If his true self was attacked by several very young Transcendent God cultivators at once, it could still be quite dangerous.

Besides, to start with such a heavy-handed approach and then monopolize the Black Water Sect’s foundation was not in line with Fang Xi’s usual approach of steadiness and caution.

With Duanmu Wu leading the way, Fang Xi soon met the Black Water Sect’s manager in Kong Sang Market, a Yuan-named Nascent Soul.

His cultivation was at the early stage of Nascent Soul, but he exuded an air of twilight, obviously aged, with no hope for further advancement, hence why he had been sent out to manage affairs.

"May I ask from whence this sir comes?"

Manager Liu looked at Fang Xi, somewhat surprised.

"I am ’Qing Hezi,’ from Setting Sun Plain..."

Fang Xi replied with a slight smile.

Manager Liu then amiably chatted with him, clearly probing and inspecting.

But Fang Xi was confident and his replies flowed easily, reassuring Manager Liu, who then smiled and said, "Sir wishes to rent a cave house?"

"Indeed, even though I am an individual cultivator, I still aspire to tread the path of the Transcendent God one day."

Fang Xi said, "Therefore, I want the best cave house, and it does not matter if the spirit stones are expensive..."

"Good, sir’s resolve is admirable, and I respect that,"

Manager Liu sighed, "If only I had been like you back in my day... Well, never mind, let’s not speak of that... No use talking about it..."

He looked at Fang Xi, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Would sir consider joining our Black Water Sect?"

"As for that... I’m used to being a carefree individual and would like to cultivate for some time before making a decision."

Fang Xi waved his hand and declined the ’kind offer.’