Dragon's Origin

Chapter 432: The Maps Align (Part 2)

It’s certain that demon beasts can’t set up formations; anyone who can must be human. Old Daoist Ling Xu’s words barely qualify as an explanation, but there are still many questions.

For example, were there such super demon beasts five hundred years ago? And who could seal such super demon beasts?

If there really were super experts more powerful than super demon beasts, then why hasn’t any family passed down methods to surpass the limit?

No one has any concept of how powerful the number one expert in the world was back then. But the danger of the Thousand Absolutes Land core is already beyond everyone’s expectations.

This is just the periphery of the Thousand Absolutes Land core. Wang Sheng is even more aware that there is an inner circle. Once he crosses that line, Wang Sheng can easily control any demon beast inside. The demon beasts there can casually slap a peak Legend realm expert to death. How terrifying is that? Did the person who set up the Thousand Absolutes Land have such a high level of cultivation?

If he wants to unlock these secrets, the only thing Wang Sheng can do is improve his cultivation, increase it to the point where he won’t be troubled by these demon beasts and can freely deal with all the dangers inside. Of course, he’ll need the experts from the various families to act as cannon fodder and explore first.

Life continued as usual. With ice houses to rest in and Old Daoist Ling Xu protecting him, Wang Sheng’s cultivation improved rapidly. The one hundred and twenty-eight acupoints frantically absorbed spiritual energy, allowing Wang Sheng to feel an almost explosive increase in the spiritual energy he had previously lacked.

In the past, Wang Sheng’s attacks leaned more towards physical attacks, relying on strength, sharpness, and speed. When he gets out this time, it’s time to find one or two powerful spiritual energy attack methods.

Inside the Yuan Soul space, the black mist in the pool increased every day. Similarly, the colors on the Centipede Ghoul were also filling in bit by bit, never stopping. After another twenty days, the Centipede Ghoul’s buttocks were basically completely colored, and the coloring began to spread towards its hind legs.

During these second twenty days, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu had gone thirty miles deeper, and the formations marked during the day were densely packed. A quick count showed that there were more than two hundred, which was simply unbelievable.

They didn’t encounter a single person in the last twenty days, and Old Daoist Ling Xu killed at least thirty powerful demon beasts. Of course, most of these demon beasts ended up in Wang Sheng and the old daoist’s bellies.

“Your method of going in circles is really useful.” After eating the demon beast meat and resting for several cycles of cultivation, Old Daoist Ling Xu suddenly said to Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng was puzzled and waited for Old Daoist Ling Xu to slowly explain.

“Suddenly entering the Thousand Absolutes Land core causes the surrounding spiritual pressure to increase greatly, and the spiritual energy becomes several times denser. You don’t notice anything wrong when you’re on the edge, but going straight in and rashly going deep will eventually cause you to be unsuited.” Old Daoist Ling Xu then explained, “Suddenly going in and then suddenly coming out, experiencing a sharp rise and fall in spiritual energy concentration in a short period of time, is why you suffer a great loss of vitality after going out.”

Wang Sheng hadn’t thought of this reason before, because his cultivation was low at that time, and he didn’t rely on spiritual energy to improve his realm, so it didn’t have much of an impact on him. However, whether it was the experts from the various families, the red-label assassins, or the three royal family retainers who went in and out with Wang Sheng, they all showed severe symptoms of vitality loss. The only exception might have been Old Daoist Ling Xu! His cultivation was too high, and he didn’t care about this bit of spiritual energy concentration.

“This time, you’re going ten miles deep and then making a big circle for more than ten days, allowing your body to adapt to the spiritual energy concentration of this stage for a long time, and then going deeper and continuing to circle for more than ten days. Basically, your body is gradually adapting to the increase in spiritual energy concentration.” Old Daoist Ling Xu said with admiration, “This avoids the sharp rise and fall in spiritual energy concentration and won’t damage your body’s foundation.”

Wang Sheng seemed to have heard of a similar principle on Earth. When doing underwater training in the military, you have to slowly descend and ascend to give your body time to adapt to the water pressure and release the nitrogen in your blood, right? This is exactly the same.

Wang Sheng didn’t intentionally walk this way, but to draw a map. But unintentionally, he stumbled upon a correct path. After all, he will rely on spiritual energy cultivation to travel the world in the future, so he must pay attention to this aspect.

“Actually, the main thing is when we go back.” Wang Sheng helped Old Daoist Ling Xu summarize, “When going out, everyone can’t wait to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible, so the speed is relatively fast, and the spiritual energy concentration drops rapidly, which is more harmful than a rapid rise.”

Ling Xu nodded. He hadn’t thought about the issue of going out, but what Wang Sheng said was obviously reasonable. It seems that the two of them have to pay attention when they go out.

Now that they were prepared, Wang Sheng made preparations. After another twenty days, for a total of two months going in, he would spend the remaining month slowly walking out on the periphery, striving not to cause any damage to his body.

After circling for another ten days, the two of them once again had great luck and encountered an expert exploring the way. That expert was very unlucky and had already been discovered by a ferocious demon beast and was fighting. From afar, Wang Sheng gave that expert an arrow and then ignored him, leaving him to be dealt with by the demon beast. Wang Sheng was too lazy to even care which family he was from.

The next day, after Wang Sheng marked another formation on his animal skin map, he suddenly discovered that, including this formation, the distribution of several formations could match a corner of the formation distribution map that Mei’er had given him.

After finding a place to spend the night in advance and building an ice house, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu spread out the large map and then added the map Mei’er had given him, starting to compare them one by one.

The result was very pleasing. The distribution of more than six formations was consistent on the two maps. In other words, Mei’er’s map could finally be incorporated into the large map.

Old Daoist Ling Xu wasn’t interested in the other map that Wang Sheng didn’t know where he had gotten it from. The only thing he cared about now was the secrets of the core area. Unfortunately, Wang Sheng wouldn’t let him go inside to investigate, which gave Old Daoist Ling Xu the feeling of entering a treasure mountain and returning empty-handed.

The next few days were basically spent verifying whether the formations on Mei’er’s map really existed. Fortunately, in ten days, the two of them discovered more than thirty large and small formations, which completely matched the markings on Mei’er’s map.

This map is real. It is indeed a distribution map of the formations in the Thousand Absolutes Land core.

However, when Mei’er got this map, she was just the young master of Baoqing Surplus Hall. Where did she get this map from? It seems that it’s necessary to ask Mei’er about the origin of this map when I get back.