Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 208 The World of Cultivation

When Wu Tao opened his eyes again, he found himself in a dark cave.

He quickly absorbed the original owner's soul, and then there was a moment of silence.

It seems that the gold I've stockpiled this time is useless again. This is a cultivation world, and gold doesn't have much use here.

Fortunately, the body he transmigrated into was also a cultivator, otherwise he would have cried his eyes out.

Changchun Valley is one of the four major sects in the cultivation world of the Song Kingdom, and its main focus is on alchemy.

The various arts of cultivation include alchemy, weapon crafting, talisman crafting, beast taming, and formations, among others.

The Song Kingdom has a population of hundreds of millions, and hundreds of thousands of cultivators. Besides cultivation families and independent cultivators, there are the four major sects.

In the cultivation world, only those who break through to the Nascent Soul stage can establish their own sect.

At the same time, the cultivation realm of cultivators in the cultivation world is divided into three levels: large, medium, and small, totaling nine levels.

The three minor levels of a cultivator's cultivation realm are Qi Refining Stage, Foundation Establishment Stage, and Golden Core Stage.

This is also the largest group of cultivators in the cultivation world. Above them are the middle level: Nascent Soul stage, Deity Transformation stage, and Legendary stage.

Once a cultivator breaks through to the Legendary level, they can enter the Spirit Realm. Finally, there are the last three levels: Void Refinement Stage, Mahayana Stage, and Earth Immortal Stage.

The cultivation world is vast. Once, some powerful cultivators flew together to try and measure its size.

As a result, several legendary cultivators spent over a hundred years but still couldn't find the edge of the cultivation world. You should know that once a cultivator breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they can fly on a sword and travel a thousand miles a day.

Not to mention those at the legendary level, who could travel tens of thousands of miles a day. One can only imagine how far they had flown after a century of continuous flight.

The cultivation world is too vast; naturally, it cannot consist of only a few countries and forces.

At the same time, the cultivation world is not only inhabited by human cultivators. Four major forces, namely demonic beasts, ghost cultivators, demonic cultivators, and human cultivators, jointly occupy the cultivation world.

To resist other forces, or even because human cultivators themselves often engage in battles, various nations were formed.

The Song Kingdom was jointly established by four sects: Changchun Valley, Liedao Sect, Qitian Sect, and Beast King Valley.

Strictly speaking, the Song Kingdom used to have only one sect, the Qitian Sect. At that time, the Qitian Sect had a legendary cultivator, seven or eight Nascent Soul stage experts, hundreds of Nascent Soul stage ancestors, thousands of Golden Core stage cultivators, and hundreds of thousands of Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining stage cultivators.

Unfortunately, the Qitian Sect declined after reaching its peak. After the sect's legendary patriarch died in an accident during a mission, internal strife broke out within the sect.

At that time, none of the several Nascent Soul stage experts were willing to submit to each other, and they ended up fighting amongst themselves for a hundred years before eventually splitting into four sects.

Fortunately, although they were fierce infighting, they also knew that fighting alone in the cultivation world was tantamount to suicide.

Even though the Qitian Sect is divided into four sects, they will still fight together against external enemies if they encounter danger.

Changchun Valley was founded by a powerful cultivator who had reached the Nascent Soul stage, and ten thousand years have passed since then.

Especially in the last few thousand years, for some unknown reason, it has become increasingly difficult for high-level cultivators in the cultivation world to break through.

In the past, only legendary cultivators could reach the pinnacle of the cultivation world, but now legendary cultivators have long become myths. On the contrary, Nascent Soul cultivators are already the strongest in the cultivation world.

In many places, even cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage can be called patriarchs or ancestors.

There's nothing we can do; as the cultivation world has developed to this point, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has become increasingly scarce, and various rare and precious materials have also become even rarer.

The rare medicinal herbs that cultivators used to be able to obtain easily are now only found in the medicinal gardens of cultivation sects.

Of course, besides sects, the wildly popular online novel "Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting from the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard," a heartfelt work by author Lu Ziguang, is also available online. The secret realms and perilous places of the cultivation world also hold countless rare and precious treasures.

However, those dangerous places and secret realms are not so easy to enter. Let alone ordinary cultivators, even legendary experts in the cultivation world would face a near-death experience if they accidentally entered some dangerous places.

Although legendary cultivators are the strongest in the cultivation world and possess the most powerful magical abilities, they may not be able to sweep through everything when facing secret realms and dangerous places.

In the cultivation world, the dangers of secret realms and perilous places far exceed the imagination of cultivators.

Of course, not all of these secret realms and dangerous places are so perilous. Many of them can be easily entered if you find the right method.

However, in the millions of years of history of the cultivation world, those easily accessible secret realms and dangerous places have long been developed and occupied by various forces.

Only the most dangerous places become no-man's-land, and most of them are the private secret realms of various forces.

These spiritually rich secret realms were used as medicine gardens, beast gardens, or places for disciples to practice their spells by various powerful forces.

Changchun Valley also has a small secret realm, which was obtained when it split off from the Qitian Sect. Now, that secret realm is also used as a place for Changchun Valley to cultivate rare medicinal herbs.

Changchun Valley is primarily known for its alchemy, where cultivators obtain other cultivation resources by refining elixirs needed by them.

Of course, not all of the tens of thousands of cultivators in Changchun Valley are alchemists. Or rather, becoming an alchemist is not something any cultivator can do casually.

Changchun Valley also has skills such as weapon crafting, formation, and beast taming, but the sect's most important and powerful skill is alchemy.

This is largely due to the fact that the Nascent Soul cultivator who founded Changchun Valley was himself an alchemist.

Alchemists are also divided into several levels. Beginners are alchemy apprentices. Once they can refine some ordinary pills, they become alchemists.

If one can refine pills for Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators, it means that the alchemy apprentice has broken through to become an alchemist.

If one can refine pills suitable for cultivators at the Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation, and Legendary stages, it means that one's alchemy skills have reached the level of a master alchemist.

As for alchemy masters, that's something ordinary alchemists can't even attempt.

In the cultivation world, a legendary cultivator may appear from time to time, but a master alchemist may not appear for hundreds of thousands of years.

It is said that the pills made by master alchemists are all forbidden by heaven and earth. Each time a pill is successfully made, it must undergo nine heavenly tribulations. Only pills that have completely survived the nine heavenly tribulations can be considered truly successful.

Even cultivators only have to go through three tribulations of lightning to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, six tribulations of heaven to break through to the Deity Transformation stage, and nine tribulations of heaven to break through to the legendary stage, the last hurdle in the cultivation world.

It is evident how extraordinary the top-grade pills refined by master alchemists are; the intensity of the lightning tribulation they produce is exactly the same as that of a cultivator breaking through to legendary cultivation.

In the history of the cultivation world, there was once a master alchemist whose pills survived nine heavenly tribulations.

Even if the other party only refines three batches of top-grade pills in their entire life, they are still someone that all the major forces in the cultivation world have to curry favor with.

Once you break through to the Grandmaster level in alchemy, you will be protected by all kinds of cultivators in the cultivation world, including demons, ghost cultivators, evil cultivators, and human cultivators.

As for the claim that they imprisoned the other party and forced them to refine pills only for their own sect, that is simply impossible.

Nine Heavenly Tribulations are no ordinary lightning tribulations. Even three Heavenly Tribulations appear several days in advance, so nine Heavenly Tribulations appear half a month in advance.

Such a heavenly tribulation is witnessed by countless people in the cultivation world; you can't hide it even if you want to.

This is why cultivators choose to undergo the protection of their sect before attempting a tribulation.