Chapter 499: Qingzhou City

mon lizard's. 。With a flash, Su Qing acted quickly. She drew her golden whip and at the same time, she brandished a razor-sharp three-foot golden sword towards the blood-red phantom that was charging...This city was built by countless cultivators using their own blood and lives. Even from afar, as soon as Lu XiaTian reached the skies above Qingzhou City, he could feel a wave of murderous and bloody aura. A large number of giant ships and flying warships transported monster pelts, bones, demon cores and other important resources from this place. 。A large number of cultivators arrived by warships, bringing a large amount of medicinal pills, magical artifacts and other supplies, continuously pouring into Qingzhou City. 。These celestial warships include several major immortal sects like Lanming City, Zhuimo Valley, and Tianshing Pavilion, as well as dozens of smaller sects aboard flying swallow warships. 。Lu XiaTian was also seeing for the first time hundreds of Jindan cultivators and tens of thousands of Qi Refining cultivators moving together, his heart was greatly shaken. Even during the Moon Watching Immortal World War, he had never seen such a formation. 。

And there are many like Lu Xiaitian, either lone cultivators or groups of traveling cultivators.

Lu Xiaitian paid ten thousand lower grade spirit stones and received a waist card for entering the city. Although it was his first time in Qingzhou City, he had already learned about its scale before coming here. 。In the Azure Demon Sea, there are many islands like Dongzhou Island. Although the Azure Demon Sea is filled with factions, they are constantly vying for power and resources, all because of their selfish interests. 。Besides some already discovered spiritual lands, human cultivators are constantly expanding their influence into unknown waters. While continuously waging war against demonic beasts, once a sufficient amount of spiritual land and spirit stone veins are acquired, the strength of a sect will also be unprecedentedly strengthened. 。Some small spirit grounds can be taken with sheer force alone. 。Places like Dongzhou Island, abundant in spiritual creatures but with equally formidable demonic beasts, are beyond the capabilities of a single sect or school. Therefore, several major sects unite with smaller ones to jointly occupy such locations. 。The Qingzhou City before us was established by the three major sects, Lanming City, Tianxin Pavilion, and Zhuimo Valley, who rallied dozens of large and small sects to join forces. Since these sects arrived on the island, they have fought for hundreds of years, with countless cultivators killed or injured. However, they have also obtained a large number of spiritual objects from the island. 。

The war between humans and demons has never stopped. These sects built cities here, and constantly expanded them.

Even from the damage to the city walls, and the constant signs of repair, one can see the brutal intensity of the battles between cultivators and demonic beasts that took place here. 。Although Dongzhou Island is abundant in spiritual creatures, this abundance also sustains countless demon beasts on the island and in the sea. Even Golden Core cultivators are not the most powerful beings here. There are three to five Nascent Soul cultivators stationed in Qingzhou City at any given time, with a minimum of three. These Nascent Soul cultivators are the stabilizing force of Qingzhou City, for they alone can contend against Shape-shifting demon cultivators of rank ten or higher. Whenever Qingzhou City is on the verge of collapse, it is the Nascent Soul cultivators who step in to alleviate the crisis. 。These sects, in pursuit of spiritual artifacts on Dongzhou Island, suffered heavy losses of Jindan cultivators and Qi Refining disciples. 。Therefore, it will also allow casual cultivators to enter this place for exploration. Any acquired spiritual objects belong to the casual cultivator themselves. However, if a casual cultivator wants to seek refuge in Qingzhou City, they need to pay 10,000 lower-grade spirit stones per year. 。Ten thousand low-grade spirit stones, not too many, not too few. 。However, most cultivators would choose to join, after all, no one can guarantee that they won't be injured or encounter powerful demonic beasts. 。If they don't pay this spirit stone, the city of Qingzhou won't let them in. 。

It's somewhat similar to protection money.

And when the demonic beast tide struck Qingzhou City, the scattered cultivators within the city were also obligated to help the various immortal sects within the city defend it. 。Lu Xiaoxiao came to Qingzhou City naturally because there was a place here where Jinxi demon beasts were relatively concentrated, and he didn't need to search all over the place. 。After paying the spirit stones, Lu Xiaitian entered Qingzhou City and planned to first get a feel for the situation in Qingzhou City before deciding when to leave. 。After entering the city, Lu Xia Tian saw signs of large-scale construction and expansion everywhere. The weapon forging workshops and alchemy workshops of various major merchant alliances within the city were all bustling with activity. 。In the area heavily guarded to the north of the city, which was also the closest to Yuan Ying cultivators, they were actually building a teleportation array. Lu Xiaoteng's face hardened. It seemed that the strength of these major sects was indeed considerable, as they could even construct a high-level formation like a teleportation array. Once the teleportation array was completed, even if it could only transport a few people at a time, Qingzhou City would have an unprecedented advantage against the monsters from Dongzhou Island. Because cultivators sent over long distances could be Jindan cultivators or even Yuan Ying cultivators. 。Once several Nascent Soul cultivators are sent over, the battle can even be directly changed. 。The mobility of the human race will be greatly enhanced. 。Although Qingzhou City wasn't large, it was bustling with activity everywhere. Many cultivators were selling the spiritual herbs and monster materials they had obtained from dangerous places. Some only exchanged them for pills or magic artifacts, while others directly traded for the spiritual items they desired. Exchanging them for spirit stones was rare. 。Among them were some high-ranking ones, such as those comparable to the middle stage of Jindan and the eighth-order monster skeletons. There were even skeletons of ninth-order monsters. If they were refined into magic weapons, their power would be even greater than Lu Xiaoteng's fire dragon bow and arrow. However, Lu Xiaoteng's fire dragon bow and arrow had been nurtured for so many years. It wouldn't be cost-effective to spend more time nurturing these magic weapons again. 。Of course, the weapon forged by combining the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree and the Flame of the Brahma-Shiva is different. It only takes a very short time for its power to surpass that of the Fire Dragon Bow and Arrow, and it still has room for advancement in the future. 。

During this time, Lu Xia Tian encountered several golden attribute demon beast cores. He was interested in collecting them, but he decided to give up for now. He needed a large number of demon cores; eight Sealed Demon Array death gates and many powerful techniques required golden attribute killing energy.

It's not something that a few demon pills can satisfy. First, you should go to the dangerous place and have a look. If you are still lacking after that, then buy from other cultivators in the city. After all, his cultivation level among the many Jindan cultivators in Qingzhou City at this time is not high, and there are many people stronger than him. Coming to Qingzhou City now, showing off a lot of wealth would be extremely unwise if it were noticed by someone with ill intentions when entering the dangerous place. 。On the contrary, if he was only a few demon pills away from completing his cultivation and was discovered by someone, it wouldn't be too much of a problem. His formation remained unchanged, and he wasn't afraid of some malicious cultivators. 。Back and forth, although both were for refining the Bagua Demon Sealing Array, the results were vastly different. 。More importantly, he wasn't just collecting seventh-order monster spirits to enhance his own combat power. The Nascent Soul of a Golden Core-level monster was too fast to escape; ordinary cultivators either couldn't catch them in time or used the wrong methods, resulting in losses to the monster spirit's power and greatly reducing its potency. This wasn't what Lu Xia Tian wanted. 。“Hey, Lu Dao-friend, you successfully formed your golden core too!” As Lu Xiaoteng looked around, a slightly surprised voice rang out. 。

A cultivator reeking of alcohol strode forward, it was none other than Mo Wentian who had gone through the tribulation with him in Lanming City.nly consumes star source energy. 。It requires absorbing starlight with arcane methods and refining it into star essence. 。Activate this formation, it requires eight Star Sources at a time. 。In the S...