Chapter 1318: Cultivating Immortality in the Great Wilderness

In the middle of the night, Chen Guanlou sat in his small courtyard popping elixirs.

He ate the elixirs like candy, but didn't feel any effect. Whether there was elixir poison or not, it was all solved by the Longevity Dao Fruit.

Sure enough, eating elixirs was of no help to him.

But he still ate with gusto; it was just that the taste was barely satisfactory.

Bought for several thousand taels of silver, even if the taste wasn't good, he wouldn't dislike it. It was all money!

Just as he was eating, an uninvited guest visited.

Looking at the cult leader Zhang Daohe who suddenly appeared in front of him, Chen Guanlou wasn't surprised at all.

He even shared an elixir, "Taste it, a hundred taels each, produced by the Jade Spring Palace, quality guaranteed."

Zhang Daohe swallowed the elixir into his stomach without a second word.

Seeing this, Chen Guanlou immediately laughed, "Aren't you afraid I'll poison you? You dare to eat what I give you."

"My life was saved by you, why wouldn't I dare to eat it. Are there any more?" Zhang Daohe was very familiar, directly carrying a recliner from the room, and lay down face-to-face with Chen Guanlou, as comfortable as could be.

"A hundred taels each, and you want a second one? Keep dreaming."

"I brought you a piece of good news; is it worth ten elixirs?"

"Tell me what the good news is first." Chen Guanlou continued to pop elixirs and drink tea.

Zhang Daohe wanted to drink tea, but could only do it himself, relying on his own efforts.

"Remember the matter I told you last year?"

"Hmm, I remember. The channel to the Cultivation World, I summarized some information and sent it to your cult; did you receive it?" Chen Guanlou asked back.

Zhang Daohe nodded first; the information was all received.

Then he corrected the other party's wording, "My sect is for the benefit of the people, not a cult. Brother Chen, don't talk nonsense!"

Chen Guanlou sneered, "The Imperial Court defines you as a cult, and I am cutting off the Imperial Court's rice bowl. So, in my place, you are a cult. Regardless of how high-sounding the reasons are, they can't change the fact that your methods are indeed sinister, and your methods of killing people are comparable to the Brocade Uniform Guard."

"I have already cleaned up the black sheep in the sect once. Now, the White Lotus Sect has strict rules, and private lynching is not allowed without permission!"

"It's useless for you to tell me this. Let's talk about business; what is the good news."

"The matter of the channel to the Cultivation World vaguely has some clues."

"Where is it?"

"The Great Wilderness!"

Chen Guanlou raised his brows slightly; Pure Yang Zhenren's old lair was in the Great Wilderness.

He expressed strong suspicion about Zhang Daohe's statement.

"Are you sure? Are the immortals sick? Descending to the Great Wilderness, that's the Ten Thousand Mountains. Making a trip out is exhausting. I am more inclined to believe that the channel to the Cultivation World should be in major cities or near cities. I think the capital should have more than one channel to the Cultivation World.

Don't forget, this place used to be the capital of the Great Yu Dynasty, and the rumors of immortals descending also mostly came from within major cities. Even Pure Yang Zhenren himself said that all the records about immortals from his ancestors came from rumors in major cities. If the Great Wilderness had immortals descending, why are there no records in Pure Yang Zhenren's place? Pure Yang Zhenren's Danyang Sect has been holed up in the Great Wilderness for thousands of years without breaking its inheritance."

Zhang Daohe frowned and pondered deeply.

Chen Guanlou continued, "Don't you forget the murals we saw in the ancient tomb of the former dynasty's Imperial Family? On the murals, it is clearly shown that immortals descended in front of nobles. Where are the nobles? Of course, it's the Yu Capital, which is the city we are standing in now. Cult Leader Zhang, were you deceived? Or were you misled?"

Zhang Daohe waved his hand, "Let me think, don't disturb me for now."

Chen Guanlou closed his mouth decisively and chose to continue popping elixirs.

He estimated that by the end of the night, the several thousand taels of elixirs would be finished. Money really didn't last long!

After a good while, Zhang Daohe seemed to have figured it out, seemed to have found the loophole in the other party's words.

"You are certain that there is at least one channel to the Cultivation World in the capital, just because Pure Yang Zhenren's ancestors didn't record that immortals descended in the Great Wilderness?"

"Not just because they didn't record it. It's also because the Great Wilderness is too barren and has no important figures. As for resources, they are even more scarce. If it were you, would you choose to descend in the Great Wilderness? And then travel thousands of miles to the human capital? Are you crazy!"

Chen Guanlou's judgment was based on human nature.

Immortals are also people, and naturally possess human nature. As long as they are people, they are lazy and greedy.

Performing a show of immortals descending directly in front of nobles would immediately make them honored guests. Whatever they wanted, the human Emperor would offer. With such great benefits, why choose the Great Wilderness?

It's like a Ninth Rank warrior, serving as a guest or elder in a noble family or sect; why not go to the Great Wilderness?

Because in the Great Wilderness, deep in the Ten Thousand Mountains, resources are truly scarce, transportation is inconvenient, and information is not circulated. You can't even find a decent talent.

Want to take an apprentice? Look, they are all crooked melons and cracked dates.

People deep in the mountains have no opportunity or financial resources to intermarry with people outside, and generation after generation, they basically exist in a state of close-kin marriage. As a result, how can any outstanding talent be born? They are all crooked melons and cracked dates. Not giving birth to idiots or defective children is already the ancestors' protection.

The mountains of later generations are still like this! Men and women, short, ugly, and poor; basically, they have to occupy one, or even two. Individual people occupy all three; there's no saving them! Individual outstanding ones definitely have parents who are not locals.

Zhang Daohe frowned; could it be that he was really misled and his judgment was wrong?

"So, you won't go to the Great Wilderness with me?"

"Of course not!" Chen Guanlou refused sternly.

He would have to be crazy to travel thousands of miles to the Great Wilderness to eat dirt.

Pure Yang Zhenren is a proper Great Wilderness person; he hasn't been back once since he came out so many years ago. Now, even the ancestral tablets of the sect have been moved to the capital; it looks like he wants to take root in the capital.

If the Great Wilderness had a few advantages, could Pure Yang Zhenren have abandoned it so decisively?

The exile land of Xizhou is better than the Great Wilderness.

Xizhou's biggest disadvantage is that it is remote and sparsely populated. But the resources are rich! As long as you are willing to work, you don't have to worry about not being full.

The Great Wilderness, deep in the mountains, sigh, it's hard to say. It's not that people will starve to death. It's just that doing anything is several times harder than for people outside the mountains.

Eating is hard, dressing is hard, drinking water is hard, farming is hard, reading is hard, transportation is hard, marriage is hard...

The difficulty increases exponentially. For the same labor input, others can be full, but the Great Wilderness can only be three-tenths full. This is the gap!

Don't talk about hunting. Just saying that hunters are rare and cannot become universal shows that the difficulty coefficient of this profession is extremely high, and the danger is extremely high, so this profession cannot be popularized.

"I still have to go to the Great Wilderness to see for myself." Zhang Daohe was unwilling to give up. He was a person with a firm will, super execution, and super conviction.

Chen Guanlou particularly admired this point about him, because he couldn't do it.

He was addicted to pleasure, hated labor, his short-term execution was okay, but long-term execution, unless necessary, he was too lazy to move.

"I support you! After all, there are some clues, so you definitely won't be reconciled without verifying it yourself. If you need any help, just speak up!" ===== CHAPTER 1319 =====