Worldwide Awakening: My Soul Kinds Are Lost-Chapter 668: The Immortal Clan Encounters Evolution Problems_1
"I thought Immortals were all that, but this is it?" Wang Linchi categorized the various components of Hao Rui, his expression displeased.
Indeed, these Immortals were an evolved version of Cultivators, but they had one extremely fatal flaw. That is, their energy is not constrained by their physical constitution. This trait stems from an irreversible bodily change during their immortalization. While it made them powerful, it also introduced a flaw.
First, they can only survive in environments with highly pure Spiritual Energy, and they require a considerable amount of it.
For instance, the Qiandao Realm, a lower realm, has an environment with weak and impure Spiritual Energy. If Immortals from the upper realm stay too long in such a lower realm, their bodies will suffer damage. In essence, these Immortals are like marine fish. They might briefly survive in rivers without issue, but if they stay too long, the difference in water composition will cause problems.
Ashore? Forget it.
Cultivators from the Qiandao Realm could adapt to the Zombie World. However, if an Immortal from the Green Nether Fairyland were to enter the Zombie World, they would instantly die due to environmental incompatibility.
Wang Linchi now understood why the Green Nether Fairyland didn't send its own people to claim these resources: it wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they simply couldn't. Ultimately, they could only resort to supporting proxies, by having Xu Ling first establish himself in the Qiandao Realm. Once he achieved Ascension, he would naturally belong to the Green Nether Fairyland. It was something that could only be achieved indirectly.
As for Quasi-Immortals from the Green Nether Fairyland attempting this? Not possible. They too inherited these physical traits, and even if not fully, they would still suffer from maladaptation and Mana Disorder upon entering the Zombie World.
The population of the Green Nether Fairyland has undergone countless generations of change. Nearly everyone has an ancestor who was an Immortal and, through intermarriage and procreation over generations, it could essentially be said that everyone is a descendant of Immortals. Otherwise, how could they become Immortals within a hundred years simply through Cultivation?
In the Qiandao Realm, only a few Cultivators could achieve Tribulation Ascension even after a lifetime of Cultivation. Conversely, people from the Green Nether Fairyland were certain to become Immortals if they practiced Cultivation, a feat impossible without a special physique formed through hereditary bloodlines. Generations of such refinement have produced outstanding people and a prosperous land, but the downside is quite explicit: they are likely confined to the Green Nether Fairyland for their entire lives.
As for the lower realms, their types have been fixed. They can only opt for those that radiate Spiritual Energy originating from the Green Nether Fairyland. If it's a different type of world, the Immortals of the Green Nether Fairyland would be unable to intervene because they have no way to enter; if they did, they would become extremely vulnerable.
They've developed this special ability primarily for infighting, this really is... Wang Linchi was unsure how to evaluate these Immortals. It's wrong to say they have no combat strength; their combat strength is quite formidable. But it's all limited to the Green Nether Fairyland.
If you look at it from another angle—that these Immortals aren't meant for pioneering new territories but for staunch defense—then it makes sense. Wang Linchi suddenly understood that this might be the choice of the Green Nether Fairyland. After all, the Green Nether Fairyland needed security guards to protect its possessions, not thugs. Therefore, being able to fight effectively within their own territory is sufficient. So, it's acceptable for Immortals to have flaws. This particular flaw allows them to unleash their full potential, or even exceed their usual capabilities, within the Green Nether Fairyland, making it an advantage since they never leave it anyway.
The lower realms are seldom visited by Immortals. They essentially extract benefits in a manner similar to fleecing sheep. The Green Nether Fairyland is the entity doing the fleecing, surely not the Immortals themselves. The Sects guard and maintain the lower realms. So, when the Green Nether Fairyland shears its sheep annually, it provides them with a certain amount of recompense, which serves as their payment. Hao Rui came to a lower realm to investigate because the Qiandao Realm hadn't yielded any benefits for hundreds of years. The reason was naturally the Virtue Career System Wang Linchi had implemented in the Qiandao Realm, which had led to large-scale overexploitation. The Green Nether Fairyland shears sheep; it doesn't slaughter them for meat. If the Qiandao Realm couldn't produce, the Green Nether Fairyland wouldn't resort to forcefully taking from it. However, the Grand Heaven Sect, as one of the 'shepherd dogs,' noticed the problem and decided to send someone to investigate. That person was Hao Rui.
But there's still an issue. The World Energy Level of the Green Nether Fairyland seems off. Wang Linchi estimated that the so-called Ancestor Immortal Realm possessed only about one-tenth of the World Energy Level he had previously observed in the Zombie World. Though its Transcendent combat power was far superior to that of the Zombie World, Wang Linchi was focused on the World Energy Level, not the Transcendent level.
Could it be like the Zombie World, where the level is deliberately suppressed? But that doesn't make sense. Why suppress the strength of the security guards protecting the treasury? Suppressing the masses, he could understand, as that was for harvesting. But suppressing the security? That made no sense. He couldn't figure it out for the moment.
Forget it. I'll find out when I eventually go to the Green Nether Fairyland.
Wang Linchi indeed had access to the coordinates for the Green Nether Fairyland, but he didn't plan on going there right now. He couldn't leave just yet, not until he'd completely squeezed all value from the Qiandao Realm. Especially with the trial-run Virtue Career System. Despite its unprecedented success, he still believed there was more value to be extracted from the Qiandao Realm. Perhaps by making the civilization of these Cultivators a little more brilliant? Even a little more brilliance would provide a richer 'texture' when he eventually devoured this civilization.
Speaking of which, I can't shake the feeling that there are many similarities between the Qiandao Realm and the Green Nether Fairyland. Comparing Hao Rui's memories, he found that the two were like identical worlds, differing only in their World Energy Level, Transcendent Level, Sects, and characters. Everything else was completely identical, similar to a set of nesting dolls. The Qiandao Realm was essentially a smaller version of the Green Nether Fairyland. Even the Transcendent Levels gave Wang Linchi the same sense of déjà vu. For instance, the status and certain information of the Immortal Realm seemed like an enlarged version of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Like enlarging a pistol bullet ten thousand times and then calling it a missile? This analogy inexplicably came to Wang Linchi's mind. Although both are disposable ammunition meant for killing, their structures and development are fundamentally different and cannot be equated. If this is really the case, does it mean some hidden entity is intentionally guiding things? Or is it that the Qiandao Realm, due to the influence of the Green Nether Fairyland, eventually underwent convergent changes?
Wang Linchi was uncertain about the cause. If it was the former, it would be troublesome; he might have to eliminate this hidden manipulator. If it was the latter, then it wasn't a major issue; it would simply mean it was assimilated by the Green Nether Fairyland.
Looking at this Sect's structure and system, the cruelty of the Grand Heaven Sect reminds me of the Huangquan Sect. Except for not using Disciples as cultivation fodder, in other aspects, it's even more extreme, Wang Linchi couldn't help but click his tongue with a strange sense of awe. But the Grand Heaven Sect can't compare to the Huangquan Sect in terms of status. Back in the day, the Huangquan Sect was the leader of the Demon Path Sects in the Qiandao Realm. The Grand Heaven Sect, however, only ranks in the mid to lower tiers among the Righteous Sects in the Green Nether Fairyland.
The reason such oppressive systems can persist is that the native Immortals aren't the ones at the very bottom being exploited. Instead, there are vast numbers of Quasi-Immortals who have ascended from the lower realms. Upon Ascension, they are instantly enslaved. Very few ascended Immortals manage to survive their time in the Sects of the Green Nether Fairyland; most die in servitude. Take the Grand Heaven Sect, for example. Its conditions for release are either serving for ten thousand years or accumulating enough Immortal Spirit Stones. Neither condition is achievable for those who ascended.
Furthermore, when a Sect guards a lower realm on behalf of the Green Nether Fairyland, it receives rewards. These rewards might be mere scraps to the Green Nether Fairyland, but they constitute a major source of resources for the Sects. The Sects call these rewards 'Tributes,' believing them to be offerings from the lower realms. After all, the Sects are ignorant of the true situation. When resources seemingly appear out of nowhere at the Ascension sites in the lower realms, they naturally assume these are Tributes offered respectfully by those lower realms. Therefore, the more powerful a Sect, the more lower realms it controls, and consequently, the more Tributes it receives. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
The sound interrupted Wang Linchi's interpretation of Hao Rui's memories. The visitor was someone from the Tao Tian League.
"You guys again? Don't you have anything better to do all day?" Wang Linchi muttered under his breath. He felt that he couldn't let the Tao Tian League continue like this; they needed to be given a sense of crisis. Then, his gaze fell upon the disassembled parts of the Immortal, and he thought he could put them to good use.
