Having finally pacified the chaos in the First City and extracted astonishing news from the captured cultivators—that the Thirtieth City on the Trial Road would yield Mythical Divine Crystals, a substance the system warehouse had in abundance, though strictly prohibited from use along the Trial Road—Shengxia successfully passed the first checkpoint. However, from the second and third cities all the way to the thirtieth, and with the Thirtieth City housing the imperial scion of the Shi clan, it seemed unlikely that Shengxia could easily acquire such resources.
The First City of Trials was dominated by plains and hills. Its indigenous residents mainly engaged in farming and hunting. Several thousand kilometers to the west lay a mountainous terrain where many areas had been designated as restricted zones by the cultivation world. They remained entirely primitive, and none dared enter; any cultivator who went in never came back. In the west stood the largest mountain, atop which rested a dilapidated temple where a few monks still lived to this day. Legend had it that one of the monks had gone to some place called Honghuang to spread the Buddhist teachings, and this monk even bore a grandiose name: the Future Buddha.
Shengxia pondered and concluded that competing directly with the imperial scion of the Shi clan for the Mythical Divine Crystals was far too risky, so he decided to scout out the situation in the western mountains first. Setting off alone toward the west, he proceed…
Chapter 176