The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 232 - 217 Panshi Fragment Land_1

Chapter 232: Chapter 217 Panshi Fragment Land_1

The next day.

In the dead of night, an unnamed fragmented land suddenly emerged from beneath the thick clouds.

"Phew!"

After a long wait, the peak of Black Iron Mountain, illuminated by the stars and moon, gracefully settled upon the fragment.

Pang Jian, who had changed into new black clothes due to his severely damaged blue Sword Tower robes, looked at the world that was both familiar and strange and declared, "From this day forth, I name this land Panshi."

"I bear the single name Jian, which connotes the solidity of rock; thus, this shall be Panshi Fragment Land."

Upon the deserted land settling down, Pang Jian squinted and smiled, glanced once at the dense woodland around him, and added, "This place will continue to bear the name Cloud Wilderness, after the bygone era."

Taking a deep breath, he sensed that the Spiritual Energy in Panshi Fragment Land, where the Mysterious Turtle lay hidden, surpassed that of Ice Rock Island before.

Beneath the Cloud Wilderness, deep underground, there lay a shriveled and slender Spirit Vein, its luster not particularly striking.

However.

It was the presence of this Spirit Vein that significantly increased Panshi Fragment Land’s efficiency in absorbing the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy.

Standing on the Cloud Wilderness, Pang Jian, with the perspective of a "Demigod," sensed the minor creatures in the mountains and profoundly felt the concentration of the Spiritual Energy.

After a while, he frowned and said, "The land will draw attention as the nature’s spiritual energy thickens. I must find a safe place soon."

He knew that when the Fourth Realm was contaminated with Filth Alien Power, every fragmented land of the Third Realm would catch the attention of the four major powers.

The four major Sects would surely arrange for their disciples to select suspended fragments in the Third Realm for the relocation of the seven major families below.

Panshi Fragment Land, first having annexed Cloud Wilderness, then stealing a mineral vein, and now having drawn out the Yuan Mang Spirit Vein, was rapidly seeing an increase in Spiritual Energy concentration.

This fragment of land, as long as it continued to drift in the Third Realm, even if it stayed hidden beneath the clouds, would eventually be noticed by those with intentions.

"The land I’ve created must not be cheapened to benefit others."

Pang Jian snorted coldly and then communicated with the underground Mysterious Turtle.

The Mysterious Turtle, after having separated the Spirit Vein, seemed rather listless at the core of the fragment, as if it were about to sink back into hibernation.

Once Pang Jian explicitly expressed his concern, the Mysterious Turtle immediately responded, telling him that it would sink into the thick clouds of the Third Realm along with the land for now.

Afterward, it would travel with the land to the border regions of the Third Realm enveloped in "Mysterious Fog."

According to the Mysterious Turtle, Cultivators mostly dare not venture close to the edges near the "Mysterious Fog."

If a powerful existence were to fixate on this Panshi Fragment Land, it could still move the land deeper into the "Mysterious Fog."

Just as it is now with Northern Qi.

"Northern Qi, Solitude Mountain Range, Mysterious Fog..."

Pang Jian’s eyes took on an odd look.

He suddenly recalled that the Dark Giant Python, Corrosion Boundary Vine, and the Mysterious Turtle had all been born deep within the dense "Mysterious Fog" inside the bronze medallion.

Perhaps for this reason, the Mysterious Turtle was not only unafraid of the "Mysterious Fog" but also naturally gravitated towards it.

When in danger, it would instinctively seek to shrink into the "Mysterious Fog."

Focusing his mind, Pang Jian tried to sense the pendant shaped like a bronze door with the power of his Divine Sense.

But his willpower still couldn’t break through the door, nor could it escape into it.

The strands of Divine Sense present in his Sea of Consciousness had reached a quantitative limit, but he was still unable to control them freely.

The inability to move Divine Sense at will meant that he was still in the early stages of the Hollow Profound Realm, not having made a breakthrough to the middle stage.

"Perhaps, only when the Divine Sense can enter the bronze medallion will I be able to glimpse its mysteries."

Currently, inside the bronze plaque, there is a beehive floating that hasn’t been nurtured to the point of departure.

Pang Jian also does not yet know what kind of power the beehive needs to be nourished with in order to undergo rapid transformation.

"In that case, after a while, you will move the Panshi Fragment Land to the edge of this Realm. As for me, I will take a trip to the Xuan You Continent," Pang Jian communicated with the Mysterious Turtle.

When he bade farewell to Luo Hongyan and Qi Qingsong, he made it clear that he would reach the Xuan You Continent alive to see the condition of a complete continent in the Third Realm.

Up until now, he had only frequented the various fragmented lands and never truly entered a complete continent.

He also wanted to witness the vast landscapes of the continent.

After the communication ended, the Mysterious Turtle lazily shrank back into the depths of the fragment to rest and recuperate.

And at this moment.

"Swoosh! Swoosh, swoosh!"

The treasures stored within various storage rings were one by one taken out by Pang Jian and scattered on the grass in front of him.

Numerous sparkling and translucent Spirit Jades, amassed like mountains, appeared in front of Pang Jian, emitting a faint luminous glow.

Jiuyuan, Liang Ying, Lou Yunming, and Cao Mang, these four Spirit Condensation Realm Great Cultivators, had mostly accumulated Spirit Jades in their rings.

After a cursory glance, Pang Jian knew that the total amount of Spirit Jades accumulated by these four Great Cultivators exceeded fifty thousand.

Fifty thousand Spirit Jades, that is, five million Spirit Stones, was an astronomical figure Pang Jian had never dared to imagine before.

If he added the more than ten thousand that he had...

At the thought of this, he grew vaguely excited.

He knew that in the realms above, Spirit Jade was the common currency used to purchase various Cultivation resources.

With more than sixty thousand Spirit Jades in hand, should he actually go to the Sword Tower, could he perhaps casually pick whatever he desired at the Heaven Treasure Sect’s branch in the Second Realm?

Pills, high-grade Spirit Spells, magic artifacts, wouldn’t they all be readily available?

But just as he was getting overexcited,

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Numerous radiant Spirit Jades, one after another, headed straight for the depths of the earth!

The Mysterious Turtle deep within the heart of the earth casually sent a greeting and began to move a huge number of Spirit Jades, drawing them towards the location of the slender Spirit Vein.

In the "Integration" of this world, Pang Jian, akin to a God Spirit, clearly saw the unusual activity at the core of the earth.

The withered and delicate Spirit Vein from the Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands, as if it were showered by a sky full of light rain!

The light rain was comprised of more than fifty thousand pieces of Spirit Jade from him!

The Spirit of the Earth, the Mysterious Turtle used its innate Divine Skills to transform the pure Spiritual Power contained within the numerous Spirit Jades into over fifty thousand droplets of light rain, casting them upon the frail Spirit Vein.

This thin and lengthy Spirit Vein, receiving the nourishment and irrigation from so many droplets of light rain, only became slightly thicker.

At this moment, the Mysterious Turtle also sent a somewhat unsatisfied mental message.

The gist of it was... it was far from enough.

The next moment, a piece of information relating to the Spirit Vein, through the Mysterious Turtle, entered the heart of Pang Jian, granting him an understanding of Spirit Veins.

He immediately learned that the existing Spirit Veins in the Third Realm were mostly located in the Universe Heaven and Black Nether continents, and were tightly held by the five major Sects.

Every sect’s headquarters was deliberately situated on lands with underlying Spirit Veins.

Only a few small Spirit Veins would end up in fragmented lands like Yuan Mang, to be acquired by powerful individual cultivators like Cao.

The existence of a Spirit Vein can naturally gather nature’s spiritual energy, making the surrounding regions rich in Spiritual Energy.

If a Spirit Vein could be nurtured over hundreds or thousands of years, once the Spiritual Energy gathered by the vein itself reached its limit, it would slowly permeate the surrounding rocks.

The rocks would then transform into Spirit Stones.

A Spirit Vein that had accumulated over thousands of years could undergo metamorphosis.

Not only would it become longer and stronger, but it would also cause the already transformed Spirit Stones at its core to become... Spirit Jade.

If a Spirit Vein could grow over ten thousand years without suffering damage, it could condense Spirit Crystals around it.

According to the Mysterious Turtle, since the concentration of nature’s spiritual energy in the Third Realm was not enough, the Spirit Veins scattered across the Universe Heaven and Black Nether continents could only form Spirit Stones.

That is also why Spirit Stones are the common currency of the Third Realm.

However, in the Second Realm, the lands where the Sword Tower, Demon Sect, Black Valley, Sky Water Swamp, and Dragon Cave stand, the Spirit Veins within could give birth to Spirit Jade.

Therefore, the common currency of the Second Realm is Spirit Jade.

Further up, the monumental Sects of the First Realm, with their Sects rooted in Underground Spirit Veins, could nurture Spirit Crystals.

As for the Spirit Vein beneath Pang Jian’s feet, it could currently only help this Panshi Fragment Land to gather nature’s spiritual energy more quickly.

That was it.

Because this was a very small and feeble Spirit Vein which had already expended much of its power due to the extravagance of the "Heavenly Killing Spirit Array."

Without external assistance, this weak Spirit Vein could only recover through the gradual accumulation over time, slowly nurturing and restoring using the Spiritual Energy that the fragmented land drew in day by day over hundreds of years.

The Spirit Vein itself, including the previous Cao Mang of Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands, both lacked the ability to rapidly strengthen the Spirit Vein.

Yet as the Spirit of the Earth, when the Mysterious Turtle was hidden in the fractured land, it had the capacity to assist the Spirit Vein to recover faster.

——But it needed the use of Spirit Jade available only in the Second Realm.

It could convert the abundant Spiritual Power contained in Spirit Jade directly into dazzling light rain, drop by drop, injecting it deep into the Spirit Vein.

Only then could the Spirit Vein in the heart of the earth first recover its power and then slowly grow stronger.

And only when it grew stronger would this fragmented land welcome a great breakthrough, and in the future, under the enhancement of the Mysterious Turtle’s miraculous power, give rise to even more mysteries.

"I still have some Spirit Jade."

Pang Jian, with a bitter laugh, took out more than ten thousand pieces of Spirit Jade that he had originally planned to use to compete for Luo Hongyan from his storage ring.

The Mysterious Turtle was not the slightest bit polite.

More than ten thousand pieces of Spirit Jade were simply transformed into over ten thousand droplets of radiant light rain, once again cast into the Spirit Vein at the heart of the earth.

The slender Spirit Vein looked... slightly more robust.

In the blink of an eye, more than sixty thousand Spirit Jades were squandered by the Mysterious Turtle, yet the Spirit Vein at the heart of the earth still had not recovered its power.

Pang Jian suddenly realized that raising such a Mysterious Turtle and creating a magical Fragmented Land was truly... extremely taxing.

However, when he thought about how this Panshi Fragment Land could have Spiritual Energy as dense as white mist in the future, with strange treasures emerging continuously, and how he could use it as a site for founding a sect...

He then abruptly felt that the initial massive investment of Spirit Jade to nourish it was, after all, not unacceptable.

Furthermore.

On this Panshi Fragment Land, which belonged to him, he had supreme Divine Skills and authority; all nature’s spiritual energy could be utilized by him.

Any person or Ferocious Beast and Spirit Beast that descended into this fragmented land and battled against him would be comprehensively suppressed by him.

In this fragment land, he possessed the power to challenge beyond his realm; he could slaughter those in the Spirit Condensation Realm.

And there’s more!

The denser the Spirit Energy of the Fragment Land and the more marvelous its features, the more power he could use on the Fragment Land in the future.

As long as the Mysterious Turtle remained in the Panshi Fragment Land, no matter where he was in the future, once he exhausted a great amount of Spiritual Power in battle, the Mysterious Turtle could draw on the Spiritual Energy within Panshi Fragment Land to replenish him.

This Fragment Land was tantamount to his backup Spiritual Sea, or in other words, his second Spiritual Sea!

The richer the Spiritual Energy of the Fragment Land, the faster his recovery of Spiritual Power would be during battles in the future.

With this perspective, no matter how much he invested into this Fragment Land, he would reap bountiful rewards some day in the future.

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