Chapter 113

He took out a complete map of the Di Xuan Realm and spread it before him.

Ye Qingxuan began to carefully examine the various regions of the Di Xuan Realm, analyzing the pros and cons of developing in each.

Although the Di Xuan Realm is vast, the number of regions available for Ye Qingxuan to choose for development is actually quite small.

Within the territories of the major hegemonic forces, although it is safe, development is bound to be extremely slow.

Without sufficient strength, even if one develops by attaching oneself to the territories of major hegemonic forces, the allocated resources and scope of development will inevitably be restricted.

As for the vast lands between the major hegemonic forces, although one does not need to abide by their many rules and can expand and develop freely.

But with Ye Qingxuan's Jin Dan realm cultivation base, even with numerous trump cards prepared for his external avatar, it would be easy to crash and burn in these chaotic lands.

After all, he sent his external avatar out to establish a commercial empire, open new markets, and collect various resources for the development of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

In this process, displaying wealth is inevitable.

But with the Jin Dan realm cultivation base of Ye Qingxuan's external avatar, in the eyes of the powerful in such chaotic lands, he is nothing but an obvious fat sheep.

Therefore, among the five regions within the Di Xuan Realm, although resources are abundant, they are not the best place for Ye Qingxuan's early development.

Finally, Ye Qingxuan turned his gaze to the remote four outer regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

Compared to the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm, Ye Qingxuan is more inclined to develop in the remote four outer regions.

According to the records Ye Qingxuan read in the Xuantian Sect.

The four outer regions of the Di Xuan Realm were formed during a certain advancement of the Di Xuan Realm.

Since the four outer regions of the Di Xuan Realm were born relatively late, whether in terms of resources or population, they are far inferior to the five inner regions.

But the most critical point is that within the four outer regions, the cultivators with the highest cultivation bases are basically at the Soul Transformation realm.

With the Jin Dan realm cultivation base of Ye Qingxuan's external avatar, he would definitely be considered a mid-to-high level powerhouse in the four outer regions.

Coupled with the various trump cards Ye Qingxuan prepared, while his external avatar might not be able to walk freely in the four outer regions, at the very least, self-preservation is no problem.

Without worrying about dangers from cultivators outside, he could focus on rapid development, collecting large amounts of spirit mines unique to the four outer regions to accelerate the perfection of elemental rules in the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

As for why the highest cultivation base in the four outer regions is basically only at the Soul Transformation realm, it is not that the resources of the four outer regions cannot produce existences above the Soul Transformation realm.

It is that after cultivators in the four outer regions break through to the Void Exploration realm, allowing them to roam the void and traverse space.

They basically choose to leave the four outer regions and come to the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm to develop.

The density of spiritual power in the four outer regions can support breakthroughs beyond the Void Exploration realm, but cultivating in the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm can increase their cultivation speed by about fifty percent.

Because beyond the Void Exploration realm, besides accumulating energy, one also needs to comprehend the elemental mysteries and rules.

In the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm, whether in the density of spiritual energy or the activity of elemental mysteries and rules, they are superior to the four outer regions.

Do not underestimate this fifty percent increase in cultivation speed; a fifty percent boost in cultivation rate could mean the difference between heaven and earth in the ultimate height one can break through to.

Therefore, once cultivators in the four outer regions break through to the Void Exploration realm, they generally do not stay long in the four outer regions but come to the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm to develop.

Furthermore, the four outer regions are located at the four extremities of the Di Xuan Realm, separated by the endless seas of the Di Xuan Realm, making their geographical location very remote.

Except for some merchant alliances near the endless seas that travel to the four outer regions to conduct cross-regional trade, other forces and even scattered cultivators within the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm are simply unwilling to develop in the four outer regions.

Therefore, if his external avatar goes to the four outer regions to develop, he will not be constrained and does not need to worry too much about other forces hindering his development.

Even the major hegemonic forces only established outposts in the four outer regions, set rules prohibiting destructive mining and damage to spirit veins, and then left the development of the various human forces in the four outer regions to their own devices.

Of course, if a beast clan in the four outer regions of the Di Xuan Realm breaks through to the Void Exploration realm, the powerful forces on rotation at the outposts of the major hegemonic forces in the four outer regions will intervene to capture and bring them back to their sects for captivity.

As fellow humans, they can allow the beast clan and humans to be evenly matched in the four outer regions, thereby tempering the humans.

But they will absolutely not allow the beast clan's power to surpass that of the humans.

Even the endless seas, known for having the most beast clans, have only one Tribulation Crossing realm Sea Dragon King as the highest cultivation beast.

Leaving the beast clans in the endless seas is to provide a place for the younger generations of the sects to undergo trials.

The human high-ranking officials of the Di Xuan Realm have set the rule for the endless seas: no Mahayana realm beast clans can exist, and only one Tribulation Crossing realm beast clan is allowed.

Once that Tribulation Crossing realm beast clan breaks through to the Mahayana realm, they will face direct extermination by the humans.

Allowing only one Tribulation Crossing realm beast is to prevent multiple beast clans from breaking through to the Mahayana realm simultaneously, giving these beast clans no chance to turn the tables.

Those not of our kind have hearts that are different; in ancient times, the beast clans and humans fought for control of this world, causing significant casualties to the humans.

Although these are now history, the human high-ranking officials have kept video records to warn future generations not to be careless when dealing with alien races.

A heart of mercy can only be reserved for one's own kin, not for these alien races.

Therefore, except for the emergence of Void Exploration realm powerful figures from the beast clan and anyone damaging spirit veins.

The powerful forces on rotation at the outposts left by the hegemonic forces of the Di Xuan Realm will not easily intervene in other conflicts in the four outer regions. Do not think that because it is far away, secretly damaging spirit veins will go unnoticed.

Although the Di Xuan Realm is only a mid-thousand peak-level world and has not yet produced an existence like the Heavenly Dao.

It already possesses perfect rules.

If someone damages a spirit vein, the rules of the Di Xuan Realm will naturally issue a warning, and the major hegemonic forces will naturally sense it.

If it were a great thousand world, a world where the Heavenly Dao has already been born, such small matters would not even require a warning; violating the Heavenly Dao's rules would result in direct punishment from the Heavenly Dao.

However, every world has its own unique rules; not all worlds where the Heavenly Dao has been born will punish cultivators for damaging spirit veins.

But based on Ye Qingxuan's analysis after living in the Di Xuan Realm for many years and reading numerous records in the Xuantian Sect.

Both the world rules and the high-level cultivators within the Di Xuan Realm attach great importance to spirit veins.

Because every spirit vein is the hope for the Di Xuan Realm to advance further.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan estimates that if one day the Di Xuan Realm can ascend to a great thousand world.

The Heavenly Dao born at that time, within the condensed Heavenly Dao rules, will inevitably include rules protecting the spirit veins of the Di Xuan Realm.

As for regions in the Di Xuan Realm without spirit veins, as long as they do not cause too much trauma or disrupt the earth's energy balance.

Other minor skirmishes are, for the Di Xuan Realm, merely energy within the world transforming into another form, causing no real harm.

Given the current structure of the Di Xuan Realm, as long as the spirit veins are not destroyed and the source of the Di Xuan Realm can maintain a stable upward trend, the hegemonic forces will not concern themselves with other matters.

The major hegemonic forces are not nannies; they only need to control the basic foundation and the general direction of the Di Xuan Realm's development, ensuring the development is not affected, and will not intervene excessively in other matters.

Therefore, synthesizing all the above factors, Ye Qingxuan finally decided that the destination for his external avatar's early development would be the Dongji Region, one of the four outer regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

Because the Dongji Region is closest to the Eastern Region, it can save considerable travel time.

After making the decision, Ye Qingxuan's true body remained hidden behind the scenes of the Xuantian Sect, cultivating in secret.

Meanwhile, his main consciousness descended into the body of his external avatar, preparing to use the opportunity of departing with this avatar to see the scenery of the outside world.

The descent of the main consciousness into the external avatar merely shifted the focus of consciousness control; it did not affect the true body's daily cultivation or actions.

Deep within an uninhabited mountain range not far from the Ye Immortal City, Ye Qingxuan's external avatar stepped out of the temporary cave dwelling he had opened.

Using spiritual power to shape a mirror, he examined the ordinary appearance of this body, then nodded in satisfaction and said:

"Not bad. From now on, this body shall be known externally as Guixuanzi!"

Guixuanzi was the alias Ye Qingxuan established for this external avatar, with the identity of a lone cultivator.

After settling on the external name for his new alias, Ye Qingxuan changed into a set of gray cloth robes, retrieved a fifth-grade flying boat, and headed toward Qingmu Prefecture.

Now that Ye Qingxuan's new alias held only the identity of a lone cultivator, he could not avoid fees when using the teleportation array.

Fortunately, this amount of spirit stones was nothing to Ye Qingxuan.

Passing through the prefectural city teleportation array and the commandery city teleportation array, he arrived at the provincial capital of Qingzhou.

From there, Ye Qingxuan used a series of provincial-level teleportation arrays to leave the Xuantian Sect's sphere of influence at great speed, arriving in Dongbin Province.

Dongbin Province was one of the large provinces in the Eastern Region bordering the Endless Sea, and also within the sphere of influence of the hegemonic power, the Tianyuan Sect.

The provincial capital of Dongbin Province, Dongbin City, was the city closest to the Endless Sea in Dongbin Province; therefore, after arriving in Dongbin City via the provincial-level teleportation array, Ye Qingxuan no longer needed to take another teleportation array.

After leaving the teleportation plaza of Dongbin City, Ye Qingxuan did not immediately depart.

To reach the Dongji Region, separated by the Endless Sea, relying solely on Ye Qingxuan himself would naturally make safe arrival impossible.

Near the sea, it was better; countless islands provided places for cultivators to rest, and the sea beasts in the waters were not strong, so there was no great danger.

However, in the deep sea regions, the high-grade sea demons living there were countless; relying solely on Ye Qingxuan, there was absolutely no way to reach the Dongji Region safely.

Moreover, even if Ye Qingxuan was confident he could avoid these beasts, relying solely on a fifth-grade flying boat to fly to the Dongji Region would take an indefinite amount of time.

The Endless Sea was no empty boast; its sea area was no smaller than the land area of the Di Xuan Realm.

Furthermore, it expanded every year along with the expansion of the Di Xuan Realm, growing alongside the land area of the Di Xuan Realm.

Before the ancient ages, when the human race of the Di Xuan Realm fought for ultimate control of the Di Xuan Realm and suppressed the sea demon race of the Endless Sea, it was also the time when the most powerful figures fell.

If not for several Mahayana realm cultivators breaking through to the Immortal Realm at a critical moment, the human race might not have been able to defeat the sea demon race and gain ultimate control.

Even now, the human leadership held no contempt whatsoever for the Endless Sea, and their supervision of the beasts within never slackened.

(End of this chapter)