Chapter 220 A Map of Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains

There are rushing rivers, endless streams, mountains one after another, lakes one after another, and plains one after another.

This is the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness, a place that is very suitable for living creatures to reproduce and thrive.

Different from the Central Plains where the land is full of ancestral dragon energy, different from the multiple source mines underground in the Eastern Wilderness and the Northern Region, and different from the vast snowfields in the Northern Plains, the world in the Southern Region is more gentle and beautiful, and the mountains and rivers in the Southern Region are more nourishing.

The crisscrossing rivers, lakes and ponds are suitable for mortals to reproduce and thrive here.

The Southern Region has almost the largest number of mortal kingdoms on the entire Beidou Ancient Star.

To experience the true meaning of Jiangshan, there is no place better than the Southern Region.

Riding a small boat, Li Zhi traveled from the bustling human city all the way to the vast wilderness where few people have ever been, feeling the harmonious coexistence between all things in the world and nature.

On the plains, the capital of mankind is peaceful and prosperous.

The boundless wilderness with mountains and forests is a paradise for animals, a paradise for spiritual beasts, a habitat for all kinds of monsters, and the embodiment of the vibrant spirits of nature.

What closely connects all the spirits of heaven and earth are undoubtedly the rivers flowing through the southern region.

Rivers seem to be the bond between all living things, integrating the entire heaven, earth and nature into one.

Moreover, the area of ​​the Southern Region is large enough to provide a vast living space for all living things.

Those winding rivers are often tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles long with no end in sight.

After leaving Wei State where Taixuanmen was located, Li Zhi came to Yunfeng City, one of the ten ancient cities in the Southern Region.

Starting from there, Li Zhi continued to cross one river after another, passing through one human settlement after another and one primitive wilderness after another.

Finally, they stopped by the Ji River, the most famous river in the southern region.

Emperor Void chose the bank of Ji River to establish the ancient Ji family. Li Zhi did not believe that Emperor Void chose the place randomly. Among the many rivers in the southern region, Ji River was definitely the most unusual one.

Li Zhi felt the water dragon aura emanating from the Ji River. Looking down from the sky, the entire Ji River seemed like a silver dragon lying on the earth, winding and twisting, giving birth to one vibrant land after another.

The Ji clan built one fairy city after another of varying sizes there to raise the descendants of the Ji family.

More than 100,000 years have passed, and the descendants of Emperor Void have multiplied into a huge ethnic group, the specific number of which is beyond everyone's imagination.

Although the Void bloodline is not obvious in most of the descendants of the Void Emperor, some of them have even become mortals who are unable to practice.

However, they provided a constant supply of fresh blood for the Huanggu Ji family to remain standing.

Observing the lives of ordinary mortals of the Ji clan made Li Zhi realize what true happiness and well-being belong to mortals.

Under the protection of the Ji clan monks, those mortals lived a much more comfortable life than in other secular countries.

It seems like an ideal country for mortals.

Compared with those mortals on earth who are constantly struggling for a living all their lives, Li Zhi deeply felt a kind of malice towards people belonging to society.

The gap between people is simply indescribable.

Turning his gaze away from the mortals in the secular world, Li Zhi once again focused on observing Ji Shui.

Sure enough, in the places nourished by the Ji River, endless vitality was nurtured on both sides of the river, and then this vitality was gathered to the ancient Ji family by the natural terrain, nourishing the cultivators living in the ancient Ji family.

"The arrangements made by the great emperor are indeed subtle and silent. They have transformed the acquired potential into the innate potential."

After finishing the observation of Ji Shui, before Li Zhi left.

Several powerful people from the Ji family discovered him.

It seems that the world is not at peace, and the Ji family has begun to send powerful people to patrol the family’s territory.

Li Zhi had no intention of communicating with those powerful people of the Ji family and left Ji Shui directly.

"Who is he and why is he spying on Ji Shui?"

"I can't see his true appearance clearly. There is a mysterious and chaotic mist covering him. My intuition tells me that neither you nor I are his match."

"Such a strong man appeared in Jishui. Is he going to harm my Ji family?"

"Could this mysterious powerful person be the one who appeared in the fairy lake outside Taixuan Gate?"

"It's possible. The world is in chaos now, and all kinds of evil spirits have emerged. We'd better be careful."

"Third brother is right. Our Ji family is an ancient family. A tall tree attracts the wind. Whenever there is trouble, there are always blind people who challenge the dignity of our Ji family."

"Report this matter to the head of the family. This will allow the family to be prepared."

Li Zhi didn't know that his appearance at Ji Shui had aroused the Ji family's vigilance.

I'm afraid even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

After leaving Ji Shui, Li Zhi followed a river and came to another famous city in the southern region, Qingxia City.

This city is not only a gathering place for mortals, but also a holy land for cultivation. There are many cultivators wandering around the city, and even the city lord is a powerful man famous in the southern region.

Although there are no sects stationed in Qingxia City, there are some small families in the city, and their combined strength is not weaker than that of ordinary sects.

Qingxia City has magnificent and picturesque scenery. It is a place with many outstanding people and beautiful women. Many immortal poems originated from here.

At the same time, it is also one of the cities that monks from various religions in the Southern Region like to visit the most.

There is a Li Lake in the city. Every night it is brightly lit, with many pleasure boats, fireworks, talented men and beautiful women, which makes people linger and even leave behind many beautiful stories of the interaction between immortals and mortals.

Li Zhi took a small boat down the river, along a tributary, and sailed into the famous Li Lake in Qingxia City.

The painted boats, with carved beams and painted buildings, are filled with gold and jade. They are extremely luxurious and magnificent, like exquisite works of art or mysterious castles emitting alluring colors.

As night falls, the painted boats are brightly lit with colorful lights, the sounds of stringed instruments are endless, and the atmosphere is filled with singing, drinking, and laughter, full of joy.

The pleasure boats here are different from the brothels in the Holy City of the Northern Territory. They are more inclined to provide sensual services, demonstrating the ultimate pursuit of pleasure by mortals.

There are some floating islands above Li Lake, with many elegant and unique ancient buildings, gurgling springs, pavilions, piles of strange stones, and lush trees, which look full of fairy charm. It seems to be a place to provide services for monks.

Here, immortals and mortals coexist, and the melodious music floats above the beautiful lake.

There is a different kind of beauty and a sense of curiosity.

This is a land of gentleness and also a tomb of heroes. It makes people intoxicated. Whether they are mortals or monks, they all seem to be able to enjoy the ultimate joy in the world here.

It was also the first time that Li Zhi came into close contact with the extravagant life of the mortals in Beidou.

It's inevitable to go in and experience it.

Inside the painted boat, it was indeed a decadent place where "beautiful girls in their twenties with bodies as soft as butter carry swords at their waists to kill foolish men; although you don't see their heads fall off, their bones dry up in secret."

Perhaps it was because of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the women in the pleasure boats were all beautiful, like lotus flowers emerging from the water, with hundreds of flowers competing for beauty. They were more beautiful than most female cultivators, which made Li Zhi exclaim that the heaven and earth of Beidou were indeed nourishing.

Unfortunately, Li Zhi is no longer the mortal who was only interested in enjoying the wealth and glory of the world.

Otherwise, he would say anything to experience the paradise of Beidou’s wealthy people.

Li Zhi, who had feasted his eyes, walked out of the pleasure boat in Li Lake and directly landed on a suspended divine island which seemed to be a restaurant.

The style of painting on the island is indeed completely different from that in the pleasure boat below.

Guests are made to feel like immortals everywhere, making people want to experience the life of immortals involuntarily.

Led by a beautiful maid, Li Zhi entered a palace specially used for banquets for powerful people and ordered the most expensive banquet in the restaurant.

Li Zhi, who is not short of money, naturally will not treat his mouth badly.

After spending tens of thousands of kilograms of pure energy, Li Zhi enjoyed the top-level service that only the powerful people in the Southern Region could enjoy. A group of stunning women danced in the palace, dancing gracefully, and a group of music masters accompanied them. The music was lingering, and the fairy banquet made Li Zhi feel that the trip was worthwhile.

"Which senior is hosting the banquet in the Tianzi Palace?"

Some young monks who were entering and leaving the restaurant showed curiosity when they heard the sounds of dance and music coming from the palace where Li Zhi was.

Although Qingxia City is a big city in the Southern Region, the powerful people who hold fairy banquets do not hold them as frequently as those in the Holy City.

They had also not heard of any powerful senior coming to Qingxia City, so everyone was very curious.

Li Zhi also heard the discussions in other parts of the inn, and he actually enjoyed it.

"Have you heard about it? A mysterious powerful person appeared in our Southern Region. He defeated dozens of immortal masters in a single battle outside the Taixuan Gate. He even captured seven or eight powerful people."

"I have also heard about this matter. There is a rumor going around that the mysterious man is actually a successor secretly cultivated by the Taixuan Sect, and his talent is even better than that of the hunted Hua Yunfei."

"My cousin told me that the man has mastered the mysterious Chaos Seed Azure Lotus Vision. He is extremely terrifying and his strength is comparable to that of a supreme being."

"I also heard that Elder Li Yuansong and others from Xiaoyao Sect knelt down and begged for mercy from the mysterious powerful man in order to survive. They paid a huge price to survive. Now they are hiding in the mountain gate and dare not see anyone."

"It would be great if I had that kind of strength, I could hold a fairy banquet every day."

"You have been practicing for almost thirty years, and you haven't even completed the Dao Palace Secret Realm, and you still want to learn how to kidnap and extort. You are crazy about getting rich."

"..."

Li Zhi couldn't help but smile when he heard gossip about himself.

However, all the major sects seem to be accumulating strength now and are very low-key, and there are not many masters walking around.

Therefore, Li Zhi's travels seemed a bit dull.

After living a carefree life in Qingxia City for half a month, Li Zhi finally felt the terrifying power of the world and left.

Not only did he leave Qingxia City, but he also planned to leave the Southern Region and go directly to the Central Region of the Eastern Wilderness.

Now with his flying speed, he no longer needs the help of domain gates and can reach the Central Domain from the Southern Domain in a short time.

Along the way, except for some extremely dangerous areas, he could almost cross the wilderness without fear of the big monsters living in the wilderness.

A few days later, Li Zhi arrived at a towering sacred mountain at the junction of the South Region and the Central Region.

Looking back at the Southern Region, Li Zhi sat on the top of the sacred mountain and began to practice the third wheel sea vision, the Map of Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains.

The cultivation method was evolved from the cultivation method of the Splendid Mountains and Rivers Vision that Li Zhi obtained from Li Yunsong of the Xiaoyao Sect.

As the mysterious power was activated, a scroll slowly unfolded behind him, and a sacred mountain first appeared in the center of the scroll.

On the top of that sacred mountain, there grows a mysterious fairy tree.

They look very similar to the sacred mountains and fairy trees in Li Zhi's other world, except that their size seems to have been magnified countless times.

The strange phenomenon of the Wheel Sea did not come out of thin air, but was an external world evolved based on the characteristics of the Wheel Sea secret realm itself.

The two Wheel Sea Vision Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagrams and the Chaos Seed Green Lotus that Li Zhi had cultivated before were both evolved based on the scriptures and secret methods of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm that he practiced.

Now, the third wheel sea vision he was practicing was similar. It took the sacred mountains and fairy trees in the other world as its foundation, evolving into a grand picture of vast rivers and mountains.

Before this, he had measured the mountains, rivers, customs and practices of the Southern Region alone, not for relaxation or fun, but to capture the charm of the mountains and rivers.

Now, things have come to fruition and the painting of vast rivers and mountains came into being.

In the scroll, a towering sacred mountain and a mysterious fairy tree together emit infinite green light. Each ray of green light is like a paintbrush, depicting a magnificent picture of mountains and rivers on the blank scroll.

Tens of thousands of sacred peaks of varying heights are covered with lush vegetation, exotic flowers and plants are everywhere on the mountains, and magical birds and auspicious beasts are roaring in the mountains and forests.

There is also a winding river that crosses the entire world.

Waterfalls, springs, and streams converge and eventually flow into the vast river. Along both sides of the river, there are large plains, lakes, and swamps.

There are also many mysterious fairy towns built on the nodes of the big rivers. In the fairy towns, there are monks who are either flying, fighting, or seeking enlightenment, practicing and living in the cities.

It adds a lot of immortal artistic conception to the Wanli Fairy Mountain.

Outside the fairy mountain, on the plain, stands a huge city covering an extremely vast area. The city is densely populated and has various buildings, pavilions, towers, palaces and gardens.

If you observe carefully the architectural style and city layout of the giant city, you will find that the shadows of several ancient cities in the southern region where immortals and mortals live together can be found in it.

Moreover, there are vivid little people in the city, who look lifelike and full of the breath of life, adding a bit of worldly atmosphere to the huge city.

It forms a sharp contrast with the fairy city in the mountains, as if the otherworldly world and the mundane world coexist in the same room.

At the top of the towering sacred mountain in the centre of the scroll, above the crown of the fairy tree, there floats a mysterious fairy palace, ethereal and shrouded in clouds and mist, making it impossible to see its true appearance.

It can be vaguely seen that within the Immortal Palace, there is a mysterious being wearing the ancient emperor's holy clothes, emitting an unparalleled Taoist charm that can suppress the heaven, earth and nature.

He sat in the Immortal Palace like a stone statue, overlooking the vast mountains and rivers without any desire. He was like the way of heaven, high above, and not affected by any immortal or mortal aura.

As the green light on the map of vast rivers and mountains gradually dissipated, Li Zhi's third wheel sea vision was completely formed.

Although it is not as magical as the map of the country and the people in the hands of Nuwa in the legend, if a cultivator is involved in it, he will also get lost in the Sumeru world along the way.

Previously, when Li Zhi traveled to the southern region, countless worldly energy accumulated on his body, which was completely absorbed when the map of vast rivers and mountains took shape.

The picture of vast rivers and mountains slowly shrank into the size of a painting. After being taken back to the secret realm of Lunhai, it was hung on the sacred mountain in the other world.

Then, the fairy tree on the top of the sacred mountain scattered thousands of rays of light that sank into the picture, making the mountains, rivers and people in the picture move, as if it were a real little world, and began to interpret the joys and sorrows and the mundane world of the people in the painting.

Li Zhi's Taoism also reached a higher level because of this.

The horrifying heavenly tribulation descended once again, cleansing his soul and body. At the same time, the instruments of truth within the five secret realms also experienced the baptism of thunder tribulation with him and became even more powerful.

After successfully overcoming the tribulation, Li Zhi's cultivation level reached the fifth small level of the second level of immortality.

After cultivating the Chaos Seed Green Lotus Vision, his cultivation had already reached the middle stage of the fourth small level of the second level of Immortal.

Now that he has completed the Map of Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, his cultivation has finally reached a higher level and he has officially stepped onto the fifth small step. It seems that Li Zhi has found a way to quickly improve his cultivation.

But if you count the time, more than a year has passed since he started practicing Chaos Green Lotus.

Four years have passed since I entered the second level of Immortal.

Advancing one small realm every year doesn't seem slow, but Li Zhi still feels a little dissatisfied.

Li Zhi could feel that as more and more wheel sea visions were cultivated, it would become increasingly difficult to continue to open up wheel sea visions.

Just like the cultivation in the cave heaven realm in the ancient times of immortals, it is not difficult for ordinary geniuses to open up four or five cave heavens, but after opening up six cave heavens, it will become more and more difficult.

In fact, if there is no corresponding opportunity, it is impossible to open up the Ten Caves in the Heaven.

Li Zhi felt that the ten wheel sea phenomena that he was about to evolve were probably similar. The first few wheel sea phenomena would be evolved by him very quickly, but the last few wheel sea phenomena would probably not be able to be opened at all without special luck.

The Map of Vast Rivers and Mountains was the third wheel sea vision he opened, and for the fourth wheel sea vision, Li Zhi planned to cultivate the "Eternal Immortality Palace".

A strange wheel sea phenomenon that evolved from a Taoist temple in the other world and has the power to suppress eternity and longevity.

Li Zhi plans to go to the Immortal Mountain again. Only by comprehending the true meaning of eternity and longevity nurtured in the Immortal Mountain can his immortal palace of immortality be quickly opened.

The Immortal Mountain, as one of the original immortal mountains in the universe, can slow down the aging of supreme-level strongmen. The powerful meaning of eternity and longevity contained in it is definitely enough for Li Zhi's practice at this moment.

Looking at the entire universe, there are few places more suitable than the Immortal Mountain for him to practice the wheel sea vision of the "Immortal Palace of Immortality".

(End of this chapter)