Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

The next morning, Wang Chen quietly left Weifa City and returned to his own Defense Area. Stay updated via My Virtual Library Empire

Although Weifa City is the only city in the Yin Nether Realm and the main base of West Sea Sect in this world, it is not only very safe, but also has all kinds of facilities available.

There is even a Carefree Pavilion where wine, color, wealth, and qi exist.

Wang Chen understood the enjoyment his fellow sect members felt when they splurged their Spirit Stones in Carefree Pavilion. After all, pioneering alone in the wilderness, facing the constant threat of Monster Spirits and Evil Wraiths, even a Cultivator from the Purple Mansion realm would find it hard to ignore the pressure of survival.

Visiting Weifa City once a month to unwind for a couple of days was actually beneficial to one's cultivation.

However, Wang Chen's determination was not something those from the Immortal Cultivation world could compare with. Starting as a low-level cultivator from Cloud Sun Sect and struggling along the way with lots of ups and downs, he had long since tempered his Dao heart to be as firm as rock.

It would not be easily shaken!

After returning to the Defense Area, the number of Talisman Messages sent by Mou Guangji suddenly decreased.

It used to be one every three or four days, now it took ten days to half a month, and the content of the messages was very vague.

There was not a single mention of the affairs of the Mutual Alliance Society.

Wang Chen understood that he was being alienated!

He deduced that this might not have been Mou Guangji's own decision. Given his senior brother's shrewd nature, there was no need to offend him like this; it was probably someone else's idea.

But for Mou Guangji to go with the flow was quite normal.

As for Wang Chen, he didn't care.

He had never liked factionalism and had little in common with those fellow Sect members from the Mutual Alliance Society.

As the saying goes, when conversations don't mesh, not even half a word is needed; the loss of Mou Guangji as an information source did not affect Wang Chen at all.

He continued his big farming venture in the surrounding area of the Defense Area.

After obtaining new grain seeds, Wang Chen energetically cleared another two hundred mu of Spirit Fields.

This expansion brought his total to over five hundred mu!

There are no distinct seasons in the Yin Nether Realm, so the meticulously bred Three Heroes Valley from the Sect could be planted at any time, maturing once every three months.

This type of Spirit Valley, nourished by Yin Qi, not only tastes good but is also extremely abundant in Spiritual Energy, becoming the main staple food for West Sea Sect Cultivators in the Yin Nether Realm.

The only downside is its low yield; a mu of fields yields only a little over a hundred catties of rice.

Moreover, the number of seeds available is limited, and they must be cultivated by the Sect; it is impossible to keep seeds oneself.

As for the indigenous residents of Weifa City, they eat another kind of Yang Rice that is principally planted near the city.

Wang Chen's five hundred mu of Three Heroes Valley, once fully planted, could yield about fifty thousand catties of hulled Spirit Rice after a little over a month, which would be considered a considerable fortune within Weifa City.

That is if everything goes smoothly.

In the past few days, Wang Chen clearly felt that, as the Spirit Fields' Three Heroes Valley began to spike, the aura of life within them became increasingly vigorous, and the number of Monster Spirits coming to harass the Spirit Fields grew.

What used to be a battle every ten days to half a month, now required action every three days.

No wonder those fellow Sect members who pioneered Defense Areas were reluctant to farm, preferring to focus their main efforts on searching for resources.

Farming was both tiring and worrisome, and the slightest inattention could lead to all the hard work being wasted, with one or two months of efforts completely lost!

However, for Wang Chen, the increasing frequency of Monster Spirits and Evil Wraiths attacks was a good thing.

The Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net spread out silently in the air, and with the injection of Wang Chen's mana, it expanded in an instant to cover hundreds of times its original size, ensnaring all the Monster Spirits that had been stopped by the Black Iron Thorn defensive line.

After Wang Chen's Spirit Fields expanded to five hundred mu, the number of Black Iron Thorns used for protection also surged. This special plant could be rapidly matured using the Withered Glory Technique, allowing it to be utilized in the shortest possible time.

The Black Iron Thorn thickets surrounding the Spirit Fields now extended over a hundred steps in width.

And they were still spreading outward.

Since the monster spirits attacking the Spirit Fields all had corporeal forms, complete with actual flesh, scales, and claws, they were obstructed by the Black Iron Thorn.

Although this line of defense was not impenetrable, stronger monster spirits could easily break through it.

But their presence was enough to buy Wang Chen time to react.

That was sufficient.

For instance, the group of monster spirits that had just been caught in the net had run out from the great mountains and then made a beeline toward the location of the Spirit Fields. Had it not been for the barrier of the Black Iron Thorn bushes, they might have already rushed into the Spirit Fields by now.

And now they were desperately struggling inside the Demon-Slaying Net, emitting shrill screams, as their bodies continuously contracted and even burst, releasing wisps of black smoke.

The essence of the monster spirits from the Yin Nether Realm are fundamentally derived from ominous Yin energy.

Or to put it another way, the condensation of it.

Even the monster spirits with corporeal forms contained no actual flesh and blood within their shells, and so they were still restrained, consumed, absorbed, and digested by the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net.

The functions this artifact performed in the Yin Nether Realm were incomparable!

All the monster spirits caught in the net, no matter their size, nor how desperately they struggled, were unable to break free from the Demon-Slaying Net firmly controlled by Wang Chen.

Their original essence swiftly transformed into the purest Spiritual Power, stored within the Demon-Slaying Net.

After a moment, Wang Chen shook his hand.

A pearl glowing with a silvery white luster slipped out from the net and fell into his hand.

It was indeed a Yin Qi Pearl.

Excellent!

Wang Chen contentedly stored his spoils of war into the Sumeru Ring.

Up to this point, he had collected seventeen Yin Qi Pearls.

In terms of "drop rate", the odds of Yin Qi Pearls dropping from the monster spirits and evil wraiths of the Yin Nether Realm were higher than those from the Mountain and Sea Realm.

With these Yin Qi Pearls, returning to Weifa City at month's end would be enough to settle his dues with the Sect.

And exchange for another allotment of merit points.

Wang Chen didn't need to venture into the mountains to search for the Yin Nether Realm's unique resources. By merely defending his own Spirit Fields, attracting a continuous stream of monster spirits and evil wraiths, he could ensure he would acquire the merit needed for his cultivation veins.

Farming, it truly was delightful!

After patrolling the area to ensure no monster spirits had escaped, he returned to the Defense Area.

When the time came to report back at month's end, Wang Chen hastily reached Weifa City's Law Hall. After exchanging a batch of Yin Qi Pearls for the supplies and merits he needed, he quickly returned to the Defense Area.

In one more month, the Three Heroes Valley would be ready for harvest, and if his Spirit Fields were destroyed because of his return to the city, it would be a tremendous loss.

Thus, on the journey back and forth, Wang Chen pushed the speed of his Glowing Light Flying Sword to the extreme, creating rolling clouds of dust at a low altitude as if a dragon was flying across the wilds.

In such hurried travel, Wang Chen naturally had no time to attend the monthly meetings of the Mutual Alliance Society.

Even though Mou Guangji had sent him a Talisman Message a few days earlier.

Wang Chen declined politely, citing the busyness of pioneering work as the reason, and this made his relationship with Mou Guangji and other fellow Cultivators even more distant.

By the time the Three Heroes Valley was ready to mature, Wang Chen surprisingly did not receive any more Talisman Messages from Mou Guangji.

Wang Chen didn't pay any attention to that, as he was immersed in the euphoria of an ample harvest.

Because the more than five hundred mu of Spirit Fields had brought Wang Chen a total of more than eighty thousand catties of Spirit Rice!

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