Chapter 631 - 630: Time Changes, A Hundred Years in a Hurry

People often say.

There are no decades in the mountains.

There are no years in cultivation.

Li Jing didn’t used to feel much about this before.

But now, he seemed to have adapted to it.

Unconsciously.

A century’s time passed in the blink of an eye.

At noon.

Li Jing, dressed in a black robe, was standing at the top of Zhenyuan Tower overlooking Chen Tang City, lost in thought.

This.

A hundred years have passed.

Everything seemed to happen in a split second.

Yet the traces left by time are everywhere.

After a hundred years of development, Chen Tang City, which he had built on a whim, had grown to an awe-inspiring scale.

City of the Sky.

Still the City of the Sky.

LIttle has changed.

But the ground below is a different story.

Star God Temple, Qingyuan Palace, Immortal Music Palace stand firm.

The overall situation hasn’t changed.

But the scale of the three major sects is a hundred times larger than it was a hundred years ago.

Of course.

This refers to the area they cover.

A large area surrounding that was originally not occupied by Li Jing has now been fully occupied by the three major sects.

Aside from the central area directly beneath the City of the Sky, which maintains a relatively traditional style, areas radiated out by the three major sects are all dominated by modern-style skyscrapers of Blue Star style.

In these hundred years.

The Immortal Music Palace, which was already one of the nine major sects in the Cangming Realm, now permanently house over thirty thousand disciples.

The average cultivation level of the disciples is at the eleventh realm.

Thirty thousand disciples working towards the eleventh realm.

What’s that like?

A hundred years ago, the nine major sects in the Cangming Realm, including the Immortal Music Palace itself, didn’t even have that many.

All of this.

Is due to the favorable cultivation environment and resources of Chen Tang City.

Outside, there’s the Zhenyuan Tower.

Inside the Universe Realm.

There’s Enlightenment Stele and even four life trees full of vitality.

With these three combined.

Unless one really lacks talent, not being able to progress is impossible.

A more important point is.

The salary level of Chen Tang City is alarmingly high.

With money in hand.

Plus a superior cultivation environment.

Then enough resources in place, how could one not progress?

What are the four elements of cultivation?

Wealth, associate, method, land.

Method.

The ancient Immortal Music Palace doesn’t lack it.

Land.

Chen Tang City has it.

Wealth.

As long as one is willing to work, one can easily earn a large salary.

As for the associate.

The literal interpretation of "associate" cannot be fulfilled in the Immortal Music Palace.

After all, it is a sect of pure female cultivators.

In order to satisfy all these thirty thousand female cultivators, we need thirty thousand male cultivators.

But merely being male isn’t enough.

They need to be someone the ladies of the Immortal Music Palace approve of.

However, the associate among the four elements of cultivation has never meant male partner.

It means fellow practitioners and fellow disciples who can genuinely help you in your cultivation.

This.

The Immortal Music Palace certainly does not lack it.

Not to mention that the Immortal Music Palace has never lacked good mentors and friends.

There are many experts in Chen Tang City.

If one has doubts or doesn’t understand something.

One can easily seek advice.

Especially those soft girls in the Immortal Music Palace who know how to dress up and act coy, they can easily make even "experts," including Li Jing, unable to resist them by just calling "senior" in a sweet voice.

And this applies to both genders...

As for the newly started Star God Temple and Qingyuan Palace.

Regarding the strength of disciples.

These two sects can temporarily be ignored.

It’s not only the Qingyuan Palace, which has been instructed by Li Jing beforehand.

The Star God Temple, led by Sikong Lu, also followed the general direction of recruiting widely and mainly focused on those who have not yet embarked on cultivation or are willing to change their cultivation method, with the hard requirement that they shouldn’t be older than thirty.

No older than thirty years old.

This requirement would be enough to weed out ninety-nine percent of people in the Immortal Realm.

It’s not that there aren’t many young people in the Immortal Realm.

But with this requirement, basically only local people in Immortal Realm are left.

If the ascendants have offspring.

Either they stay in their own sect, or they teach them by themselves, who would let them join other sects?

From this point of view alone.

The threshold of the Star God Temple is higher than that of Qingyuan Palace.

At least Qingyuan Palace doesn’t require age, only those who have not yet embarked on cultivation or are willing to change their cultivation method.

What’s the common saying?

It’s good to take a rest under a big tree.

Due to the rapid rise of Chen Tang City in this past century, the "recruitment plans" of Star God Temple and Qingyuan Palace have been executed very smoothly.

But these hundred years have not been enough to truly bring about the growth of these disciples.

The path of cultivation has never been an easy one.

Even with the favorable conditions in Chen Tang City, it is impossible to encounter leaps and bounds in progression.

Currently, the average level of disciples at Star God Temple and Qingyuan Palace stands at the Sixth Realm.

When compared to the Immortal Realm,

these cultivation levels can be wholly ignored.

However, the potential of these sects has emerged.

The reconstruction of the two major sects is also on the right track.

It’s worth mentioning that

all the disciples of Star God Temple, Qingyuan Palace, and Immortal Music Palace are now employees of Chen Tang City.

Some of them are full-time.

Others are part-time.

Essentially, their workplace is Chen Tang City.

In Li Jing’s words.

The world outside is full of trials and tribulations.

It is unsuitable for them to venture into due to their relatively low cultivation levels.

In terms of work, Chen Tang City mainly has the elders from the Immortal Music Palace with venerable status undertake critical duties within the business scope on a regular "business trip".

The rest

are left to local self-management.

This

is a part of Yulian’s Hundred-Year Plan.

In terms of external development, Chen Tang City can go all out.

But the people of Chen Tang City will only stay in Chen Tang City.

Excluding the three major sects under the command of Chen Tang City,

in this rush of a hundred years, Yulian’s Hundred-Year Plan may not have gone smoothly, but overall, it has been successful.

Today, a hundred years later,

the Eastern Immortal Domain can not yet be described as fully modernized, but as long as there is a town, it has been transformed into a modern city, with full network coverage.

The Immortal Realm is vast and sparsely populated, after all.

Many designs did not turn out as well as expected.

The key lies in there being too many unpredictable factors in the wild.

The Eastern Immortal Domain is the case.

The Southern Monster Realm, which Li Jing had promised to help develop in advance, is the same.

If we talk about the complexity of the "wilderness conditions", the former is much more complicated than the Eastern Immortal Domain.

Overall,

the rate of modernization in the Eastern Immortal Domain and the Southern Monster Realm is very fast, even surpassing the development speed of the former Blue Star.

After all, almost everything is ready-made.

With all the technology, production, and research data from the time when Blue Star was reached before Li Jing’s ascension, these two major immortal domains have avoided many detours.

It needs to be made clear that

Chen Tang City, Eastern Immortal Domain, and the Southern Monster Realm can develop so smoothly, thanks in large part to the prestige of Fox Demon Empress, Jiuli.

Due to the existence of insiders,

the various regions of the Immortal Realm have been in chaos to the extreme over the past hundred years.

Especially in Zhong Shen Zhou.

Even the Four Great Emperors, who once set the Imperial Palace in Zhong Shen Zhou, have chosen to withdraw from that territory.

They had no choice.

In Zhong Shen Zhou, not only are they all of Emperor Rank but their cultivation is uniformly at the Half-step Return to Origin.

One or two.

With the cultivation and resources of the Four Great Emperors, they can take it easy, even manipulate.

A group...

This is too much to handle.

Let them play on their own.

The situation in Zhong Shen Zhou is such.

The Four Realms of Immortals are not faring much better either.

The Northern Immortal Domain, which lost its strongest emperor, finally elected a new Emperor Beiming, only to be met with the revolt of the dead corpse cultivators selling a pup.

Their goal is not to settle in Beiming Divine Palace.

But to abolish the imperial system.

The reason for this rebellion was said to

benefit everyone by allowing individuals to develop on their own.

The actual situation is.

None of the dead corpse cultivators inside the scheme submitted to anyone else, and they were not happy to see anyone occupying the position of Emperor Beiming, but were wary of each other’s powers and dare not compete for the position.

The West Earth Saint Territory, basically shares the same nature.

Moreover, the situation is even worst.

The Northern Immortal Domain is all composed of the dead after all.

They were dead to begin with. Stirring things up wouldn’t change much.

Mostly the dead corpse cultivators don’t casually declare to eliminate the same kind.

Winning is enough.

Everyone is dead. There is no need to be so ruthless.

However, when it comes to the Western Saint Territory, things are different.

The world of the living is far scarier than that of the dead.

Just speaking about the first ten years,

who knows how many people died in the Western Saint Territory.

The usual residents outside the West Earth Saint Hall were nearly completely decimated in the first decade.

A revolt, right?

Don’t the first ones to be killed often include "officials of the former dynasty"?

In that period,

only a few individuals who were quick to react and strongly desired to live managed to escape back to the West Earth Saint Hall to avoid disaster.

Up until now,

The West Earth Saint Hall is still there, but it’s essentially an empty shell.

Simply based on the state,

It’s on par with Beiming Divine Palace.

But actually, the reality is even more dire.

The Eastern Immortal Domain and the Southern Monster Realm are different, however.

The two emperors, being cunning and quick to respond,

stepped forward to publicly declare "Master Jiu is my elder sister" as soon as they noticed that something was wrong.

Just these words.

Even if the number of insiders from the Eastern Immortal Domain and the Southern Monster Realm far exceeds the other two Immortal Realms, no one dares to confront them.

Fox Demon Jiuli.

Just mentioning this name among the insiders, isn’t it deeply rooted in everyone’s hearts?

Even though no one has seen her since.

But who dares to defy her?

Most importantly,

The Eastern Emperor Donghua and Southern Demon Emperor are not making baseless claims.

Both of them have indeed traveled with Fox Demon Jiuli, and eyewitnesses can be found easily in Zhong Shen Zhou.

Because of these eyewitnesses,

The route of clinging to Master Jiu’s coattails is blocked for the Emperor of the Western Earth, Kalan.

After all, Master Jiu appeared in the Western Earth Saint Hall to slap him in the face...

Master Jiu’s declaration is out in the open.

It ensures stability in the Eastern Immortal Domain and the Southern Fairy Realm, and the positions of Emperor Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian are stable as well.

Of course, this is just the surface.

If we talk about turmoil,

There is still plenty going on behind the scenes.

Except that no one dares to go too far, and no one dares to provoke Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian directly, some minor squabbles are allowed when insiders seize territory.

In response to this, Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian tacitly chose to turn a blind eye.

After all, these insiders would pledge allegiance to the Imperial Palace the moment they declared themselves as the king of a mountain, the tributes to the Imperial Palace would not be shortchanged, and even exceed expectations.

Who cares what they do?

Let them make some noise!

Returning to Chen Tang City itself.

In these quick hundred years, the overall strength of the Ancient God’s Descendants has risen to the Twelfth Realm.

As descendants of the Innate God,

Their bloodlines are truly beneficial.

As long as they are alive, they will naturally become stronger with the passage of time.

With the Zhenyuan Tower acting as a "time accelerator", all they had to do was to rest assured.

Setting aside the Ancient God’s Descendants,

Under Li Jing’s "hard work", Liu Sisi, Chen Yuran, and Yulian reached the Half-step Return to Origin within the first ten years.

Had they not needed time to stabilize after crossing the calamity, they might have progressed even faster.

There was no choice.

The dual cultivation effect produced by Chaos Qi is simply explosive.

Setting aside Liu Sisi and Yulian who can benefit greatly from dual cultivation, even Chen Yuran who doesn’t have much advantage in this aspect, can easily achieve rocketing advancement speed.

However, when they reached the corresponding realm, none of the three slacked off.

They retreated into the Zhenyuan Tower for a full fifty years before coming out.

Consolidating their cultivation levels.

Nurturing their tools.

Practicing Immortal Methods.

They didn’t drop any of them.

Currently, each of them has the ability to pulverize most of the insiders.

Simultaneously,

They are all waiting for the rules to be restored, so that they can make further progress.

Setting aside these three,

Jiang Yini is also progressing at a good pace, she has now also stepping into the Thirteen Realms.

Her fast progress is partially due to her high talent, and partially it was because Li Jing arranged a Tool Dragon for her.

Jiang Yini’s physique of dark night.

Her cultivation efficiency is twice as much at night as during the day.

Isn’t that convenient?

The Candle Dragon closes its eyes, turning day into night.

Poor Candle Dragon...

During this full hundred years, it hasn’t got to open its eyes during daytime, it has to report on time daily to Jiang Yini’s retreat location, and suppress its innate talent so that the influence of day and night changes only affects the small quiet room.

But you know what?

By assisting Jiang Yini in cultivation, the Candle Dragon itself has also benefited significantly.

At its level, it would definitely not hone its innate abilities further.

Especially when the Immortal Domain’s rules haven’t been restored yet, it won’t improve no matter what it does.

With its eyes closed while accompanying Jiang Yini to practice every day, it could only refine its innate abilities when it had nothing else to do.

After refining,

It truly improved its control over its innate abilities a lot.

After all, there is the effect of time acceleration inside the Zhenyuan Tower.

Jiang Yini doesn’t leave the Zhenyuan Tower for basically a hundred years, so obviously Candle Dragon can’t be absent from work...

The layer of the Zhenyuan Tower suitable for cultivation.

One day equals three months.

In a span of a hundred years.

If we calculate only the daytime, during this period, it’s equivalent to accompanying Jiang Yini in cultivation for more than 4,600 years.

Which is even longer than the time he has spent honing his innate abilities in his lifetime...

Certainly, the Candle Dragon has lived for a long time.

Just the time he spent dormant in the ruptured space, accumulating strength to join the competition, the years are also incalculable.

But he is a bit of a sluggard.

But this can also be understood.

The Candle Dragon is the offspring of Divine Beasts.

Strictly speaking, it can be classified as Spiritual Beasts instead of monster creatures.

What’s the common problem with Spiritual Beasts?

Living off others...

After Jiang Yini, there are significant advancements for Longxu, Starpluck Old Man, and Shadow Demon Zhong Jian, three legitimate elders of Chen Tang City.

Longxu, because he manages the gateway and doesn’t have much time to refine himself, is now just starting in the Thirteen Realms.

Starpluck Old Man is in the late stages of the Thirteen Realms and has successfully created an independent world, which he continuously perfects with time accelerated in the Zhenyuan Tower, achieving the Emperor Level.

Shadow Demon Zhong Jian is impressive.

Not only has he become an Emperor, he has also taken the step that ordinary people in the Immortal Domain currently cannot do.

He.

Has achieved Half-step Return of Origin.

Of course.

There are people in Chen Tang City who have advanced faster than him.

Shi Zixuan took this step within the first decade after she recruited Greedy Wolf due to her extraordinary talent, even Li Jing was astonished at that time.

This one.

Isn’t she a bit against the heavens?

Theoretically speaking.

No one in the Immortal Realm could have taken this step before the rules were restored.

Liu Sisi and the others, were able to do so because of the sufficient change in the Chaos Qi, their state and their diligence.

After Shi Zixuan.

Blue Phoenix also took this step in the fifth decade.

During this period, her progress was mainly hindered by her heavy focus on Little Fire Phoenix’s education.

If not for this.

With her talent and the divine beast’s bloodline, the completion of her wish and the blessing of the Zhenyuan Tower, she might not have been so slow.

Under Blue Phoenix’s "talented education".

The progress of Little Fire Phoenix was not slow either, by now she had already achieved the cultivation level of the Twelfth Realm.

She, who has three Origins and possesses Chaos Qi, can easily beat those in the Thirteen Realms as if she’s just having a meal, she can even compete with those at the Half-step Return to Origin.

And now, Little Fire Phoenix is no longer the little bean she once was, she has grown into a towering beauty.

Not only Little Fire Phoenix.

Li Jing’s other step-daughter, Ya’er, has also grown into a tower of beauty.

Under the pressure of her sister Little Fire Phoenix’s "rapid growth", Ya’er drastically changed her languid attitude in this century, not to mention how hardworking she was.

At this point.

She has also achieved the cultivation level of the Thirteenth Realm.

It’s worth mentioning that.

Stinky Tofu and the squirrel Xiaopang have both grown to the Tenth Realm.

However, the two of them did not feel pressured because their little friend Ya’er kept getting stronger, but because Chen Yuran felt that these two who were idling all day long were not doing anything, she tied them up in the Zhenyuan Tower.

Although these two Tenth Realm Spiritual Beasts are not essential to the ever-growing strength of Chen Tang City, they have at least developed to the point where they can speak human language.

Besides these Chen Tang City veterans.

Xiang Yunxian and Vila, who joined later, have also achieved the Emperor level.

Tong Rou, Tong Xiaoxiao, Li Lingyin, and Sikong Lu have also achieved the Emperor level.

With the Zhenyuan Tower.

And a branch of the Heaven and Earth Tree.

It was only natural for these people related to Chen Tang City to achieve the Emperor level.

As for Jin Ling and Jin Yue, who were already at the Emperor level.

Because they are responsible for the supply and development of raw materials in various industries of Chen Tang City, they have to stay in the Southern Monster Realm for a long time and don’t have much time to stay in the Zhenyuan Tower in Chen Tang City, their progress is very limited.

It wasn’t until recently that they freed up their hands to apply for work at Chen Tang City’s headquarters.

Yulian has already approved their applications, and they will return soon.

After this whole hundred years, Jin Ling and Jin Yue have already truly made Chen Tang City their home.

In comparison.

The Emperor’s Palace of their old father doesn’t smell good at all.

Even though the modern facilities in Chen Tang City are now also available in the Sky Demon Hall.

But there, there are no people who are truly familiar with them and don’t treat them as little princesses, who can be called friends and can talk.

Finally, it comes to Li Jing himself.

He hasn’t made much progress in this century.

It’s just that the Chaos Qi has been purified a lot during the diligent Dual Cultivation with Liu Sisi and others.

There’s no other way.

Li Jing has nowhere to kill monsters, does he?

He has tried to find one.

But the Immortal Realm just doesn’t have a suitable place.

He can’t just go to a place with a lot of beasts or alien species and have a blood bath.

The only thing that makes him feel balanced is.

He is not the only one who has made no progress.

Ye Piaoran and Nalan Que, and all the other people in the situation, have basically spent this hundred years in vain, with no significant improvement to show for it.

Li Jing has never been serious about cultivation.

They simply have no space to step forward before the rules of the Immortal Realm are restored.

Looking down at Chen Tang City, and reminiscing about the bits and pieces of the past hundred years, Li Jing has endless emotions in his heart.

At this moment.

Shi Zixuan arrives.

Li Jing senses something and turns his head.

As he looks at her, he frowns in confusion.

Just as he was about to ask, Shi Zixuan spoke first.

"There have been some situations in the Dark Hall."

?

Li Jing was confused.

The Dark Hall.

Which refers to Greedy Wolf in the past.

After being forcibly recruited by Shi Zixuan in the early days, he served as an X slave in Chen Tang City for a period of time. Due to his unsuitability for important positions, he was basically at the lower level.

The people of Greedy Wolf also know.

Chen Tang City was guarding against those of them who were disloyal.

But looking at the people of Chen Tang City, each of them eating well, drinking well, having a good time, and progressing in cultivation faster than the next, how can the people of Greedy Wolf not be green with envy?

So.

All members of Greedy Wolf penned a petition with their blood, begging to be truly included in Chen Tang City.

They even used their precious essence blood.

At first.

Li Jing was reluctant to agree.

But Shi Zixuan felt that this could work.

The key was that even though the people of Greedy Wolf might not be very good at working, each of them had their own insights into infiltration and gathering intelligence, and there were many elusive alien species like Shadow Demon within Greedy Wolf.

She thought.

They could truly recruit Greedy Wolf and then let them scatter out to keep an eye on any unusual movements that might occur among the people in the game, as well as any anomalies.

Li Jing is a person who is willing to accept suggestions.

He agreed on the spot, and conveniently let Shi Zixuan, the honorary elder, take on the role of governing Greedy Wolf and established the Dark Hall in Chen Tang City to collect intelligence.

Over the past hundred years.

The Dark Hall has not disappointed, yielding a lot of results.

But there has never been a "situation".

In the face of Li Jing’s questioning gaze, Shi Zixuan spoke softly.

"In the depths of Zhong Shen Zhou, there are rumors that people from the Upper Three Realms have come down."