Chapter 136: Ancient Immortal Body

Jiuye Mountain Market.

After returning from Yunshan Market, Su Ping looked at the large map hanging on the wall of the office hall on the third floor of the office building.

On it, the Nanhuang region occupied about one-fifth of the map's area.

The nearest city in Nanhuang was at least 100,000 kilometers away from Jinque City, where Su Ping was located, in a straight line.

Furthermore, it was separated by many perilous places in between.

These places were full of danger even for a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator to traverse alone!

Nowadays, the vast majority of those Nanhuang Cultivators who came to the Central Region relied on taking the Immortal Boat fleets of various regions to pass through.

Su Ping felt that if he were to go in the future, he would most likely choose to follow a merchant caravan.

However!

Now was clearly not the time for a long journey.

Su Ping left the office building and flew into the high sky.

He looked into the distance.

There, dark gray clouds shrouded most of the field of vision like a canopy.

A sense of vast, heavy weight pressed upon the hearts of those who saw this scene.

Accompanying this weather was the cold wind that was whistling in!

Autumn departed and winter arrived; the cold winter of the Cultivation World had come!

It was just that this cold winter, like the heavy rain before, was a once-in-a-millennium event.

Just the prelude alone made Su Ping feel vaguely uneasy.

"The lives of mortals are going to become increasingly difficult."

"I cannot manage others, but at least I can try my best to save those right before my eyes."

After observing the abnormal celestial phenomenon, Su Ping made a decision in his heart.

Consequently, rumors spread through Jiuye Mountain Market that very night.

It was said that the Inspector of Jinque City had noticed the change in celestial phenomena and had personally visited the Market Master of Jiuye Mountain, Baihe Zhenren.

Then, having obtained permission, he could gather all the refugees who had migrated to the vicinity of Jinque City during this period, as well as the poor in the countryside who lacked the ability to protect themselves from the cold, near Jiuye Mountain.

They would be able to rely on the Array of Jiuye Mountain to withstand the cold wave.

Once this action was confirmed, the already good reputation of the Jinque City Inspector became like that of a living Fo among the lower classes.

Some poor families even wanted to raise money to set up spirit shrines and tablets to worship him day and night.

Three days later.

When the cold wind came whistling.

The earth was covered in white snow overnight, and everything was silver-clad.

Yet beneath the seemingly normal beautiful scenery, bone-chilling cold was ravaging the land.

The children of wealthy families in Jinque City who had not moved away were now regretting not following others to other markets to spend the winter.

They had not expected it to be this cold.

The fire stoves were on without a moment's pause, yet they still shivered.

And this was still inside the city!

If they were in the countryside, they would likely be carried away by this cold even while burning a fire!

Around Jiuye Mountain, relying on the power of the Array, it could not be called warm as spring.

But wrapping oneself in a sweater was enough to keep out the cold.

The children of the aristocratic families who had moved early and lived in the manors at the foot of the mountain had originally had many complaints about moving the poor folk over to be their neighbors.

After seeing this cold wind, they also tactfully stopped mentioning this matter.

After all, they still knew that their own fields needed people to till them, and their mines needed people to dig them.

If those Commoners died in too great numbers, whom would they order to serve them in the coming year?

Compared to these younger generations, the older generation was much more sensible.

Upon learning that this was the Market Master's promise, they hurriedly opened their granaries to provide relief to the newly arrived refugees.

They also sent capable clansmen to join the resettlement team led by the Ji Family to contribute their efforts.

This ensured that after the refugees were gathered in one place, no major problems arose due to the large number of people.

Of course, this also had to do with the fact that this was the Cultivation World.

A single martial artist could suppress a riot of a hundred people.

Loose Cultivators had even more ways to ferret out the instigators among the refugees.

As long as there were no instigators and basic needs were met.

No matter how many refugees there were, nothing would go wrong.

Thus, there were no reports that needed to be submitted to that Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator for handling.

"Sigh, it's time to go Fishing again."

Su Ping was once again flying in the high sky above Jiuye Mountain.

Having calculated the time, he prepared to head to Linyue Lake.

He cast a faint glance at the market below him.

Aside from the original buildings, a large oval-shaped Outer City District had been added at the foot of the mountain.

Most of the houses in these districts were very simple, molded from mud, and were primarily three-story buildings.

Each floor had only one room, containing a large communal bed that could sleep twenty people.

As for hygiene, more than a dozen buildings shared a single public latrine.

Then, one meal would be distributed every day to ensure that everyone would not starve to death.

No one was dissatisfied with this.

Since they had already become refugees, there were few who could not endure hardship.

Those who had mixed in among them had long since been rooted out.

Furthermore, if it was not the busy farming season, most of them only ate one meal a day.

Living in a state of year-round hunger, calculating grain down to how much to eat each day to ensure they had just enough strength to work, was the daily life of the bottom layer of this world.

Su Ping stopped observing and turned back to Linyue Lake.

Under the cold winter, Linyue Lake... had completely turned into a giant block of ice.

Linyue Villa was also draped in snow.

Except for a few dozen martial artists left behind to keep watch, the rest of the people had already relocated to the Jiuye Mountain Market.

Of course, these people naturally would not live in the large communal dormitories, but instead moved into the estates on the mountainside.

Su Ping landed lightly on the shore, looked at the ice surface, and took out his fishing rod.

Bang!

The fishing rod, wrapped in Dharma Power, smashed directly through the ice and submerged into the lake water.

Seeing the information stream appear, Su Ping breathed a sigh of relief and began fishing.

Immediately, an old fisherman sitting cross-legged in the snowy world, braving the cold wind to fish in the icy lake, appeared on this Linyue Lake.

Several hours later.

That figure suddenly moved.

【Obtained Fishing Experience 0】

【Obtained Red Blood Rainbow Carp 1】

"Hmm?"

"Does doing good deeds bring good rewards? The fourth Red Blood Rainbow Carp has appeared just like that?"

Su Ping was slightly happy, and after using up the remaining fishing attempts.

He actually obtained another Green Spirit Fish!

He placed the Green Spirit Fish into the Spirit Light Fish Pond in the Pot Heaven.

Causing the Pot Heaven level to reach:

【Current Pot Heaven level: Level 2 (70/200)】

Feeling the Spirit Qi concentration in the Pot Heaven climb to a new high again.

Su Ping took the opportunity to take out the Red Blood Rainbow Carp and swallowed it.

This time, Su Ping discovered that the information stream had changed.

【Discovered a physique more compatible with the host's cultivation technique】

【Change it?】

【Note: After improving the physique, the improvement progress might be recalculated】

A more compatible physique?

Su Ping knew that what he was currently learning was the Big Dipper Death-Marking Scripture, a true Ancient Immortal divine art!

And from the Island Secret Realm, one could also see that even the remnants after the split could cause such a huge commotion.

Changing his physique was definitely not a loss!

Su Ping chose to change.

Suddenly, he felt that in his mind.

A brilliant star map of the Big Dipper suddenly appeared!

The three stars of Pojun, Seven Killings, and Greedy Wolf erupted with blinding white light.

The three Greedy Wolf Divine Senses appeared simultaneously, and while they let out silent roars.

The eyes of these three illusory Greedy Wolves became increasingly vivid, and light blue mysterious patterns appeared on their foreheads and limbs.

As the patterns emerged, their aura also climbed continuously.

When this process ended, the power of these three Greedy Wolf Divine Senses was at least thirty percent stronger than before!

Su Ping's Pojun Power surged by a full fold; it was simple and effective.

And the ultimate move, the Beidou Tanlang Fist, also manifested more Immortal scripts and formed a linkage with the Pojun Power and Greedy Wolf Divine Sense.

Su Ping had a feeling in the dark.

The benefit his Beidou Tanlang Fist received was the greatest.

Under the qualitative change of the linkage.

If he chose to exhaust his Greedy Wolf Divine Sense and Pojun Power in one punch, even if he encountered a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the same realm, even if it wasn't a sneak attack and he hadn't seized the initiative, perhaps...

He could also kill them with one punch!

And then quickly recover by relying on Spirit Herbs?

At the same time, as Pojun, Seven Killings, and Greedy Wolf were all enhanced, Su Ping also understood through the changes in the Immortal scripts what kind of Saint Body he was improving toward.

Ancient Immortal Body: Big Dipper Seven Stars Body!

Because of individual subtle differences, this physique was also called the Big Dipper Star Lord Body, or the Greedy Wolf or Qi Sha Star Lord Body, and so on.

This was also the Immortal Body possessed by the founding ancestor who created the Big Dipper Death-Marking Scripture!

That was why, after Su Ping obtained this Immortal Body, he immediately activated the various essences of the Big Dipper Death-Marking Scripture.

After feeling the miraculous changes in his body.

Su Ping looked at the new estimated progress of the physique improvement and was slightly stunned.

【Current physical constitution improvement progress: 4/100】

"Hiss... should I say it's worthy of being an Ancient Immortal Body? The difficulty of upgrading is directly ten times that of the Ten Directions Annihilation Body!"

"The Ten Directions Annihilation Body, which could have been at four-tenths, has dropped to only four percent after the conversion!"

"However, even if it is only four percent, the benefits it brings me far exceed the previous Ten Directions Annihilation Body."

"This wave is a huge profit!"

"It's just that wanting the complete version of the Ancient Immortal Body seems to be a long and arduous road."

Su Ping familiarized himself with this new constitution, then went to the Water Blue Star Reservoir Fishing Spot to use up his refresh count.

Afterwards, with the help of the snake girl and cat girl, he had a rare night of rest.

Once the cooldown for the Return to City Talisman was over, he brought the supplies offered by the Registered Disciples back to the Jiuye Mountain Market.

Upon arriving at the Jiuye Mountain Market, he summoned the efficient Steward Dongfang to give his instructions.

Su Ping learned that monks from the Small Golden Light Temple had come to visit.

The reputation of the Small Golden Light Temple is still quite solid in the current environment.

Even though everyone knows that their incense ties with the Great Golden Light Temple might not be as close as before...

Su Ping exchanged words with them and learned the purpose of their visit.

It was because this cold wave had caused disasters across most of the territory of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

And then.

There were actually not a few Cultivators who realized that the lethality of the cold winter would be great.

After the cold wave began, some Cultivators started to unite with local powerful families to actively provide disaster relief.

It was just that none of them were as decisive as Su Ping from the start, nor were they as indifferent to those few relief supplies.

In just a few short days, the human and material resources in all regions suffered heavy losses!

This made the Small Golden Light Temple anxious.

In the previous months, they had put in so much effort to hold Dharma Assemblies everywhere and build good karma everywhere for the sake of merit.

Yet they did not expect that the day of the actual harvest had not yet arrived.

Snap!

Once the cold winter came, it abruptly cut off their merit plan!

They had to mobilize the entire temple to go to various places for remediation; on one hand, to persuade Cultivators to increase their efforts in disaster relief.

On the other hand... it was to provide items to ward off evil for free to those refugee gathering places!