Chapter 82: Entering the Wilderness (Second Update)

  The old director took Yang Tong to a street and said, "This is the Tianxiangshanfang Market, twenty million miles away from Luoxing City. It's located in the depths of the wilderness, where the terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Three sides are surrounded by mountains, with large arrays laid out. This is one of the footholds for human cultivators in the wild, and there are many such footholds in the wilderness."

  Yang Tong listened while sizing up the surroundings, the ancient and desolate buildings gave not a hint of modern atmosphere. The streets were bustling with people coming and going, the majority being Earth-level existences. Here, the number of Earth-level cultivators was even more dense and common than in the city. Among the stalls on the street, there wasn't a single novice warrior below the eighth level. The streets were extremely lively, filled with hawkers' cries, selling things that were rarely seen in cities.

  Yang Tong saw a lot of thousand-year-old spiritual medicine, such spiritual medicine, even if directly swallowed, also has the effect of increasing cultivation and breaking through bottlenecks. Like other four-grade or higher materials for refining spiritual instruments, there are not a few here either.

  "Do you know why the school has set up outdoor training courses?" Director Huang said as he walked.

  "It's for us to get enough exercise." Yang Tong replied.

  "You're right to a certain extent, but originally, as a Spirit Tool Master like yourself, there's no need for you to come here and take risks. However, the school still insists on this course, not only to temper you, but also to make you develop a sense of reverence for nature from a young age. Without experiencing life and death, one will not have a reverent heart. Remember, no matter how powerful you become in the future, you must always maintain a reverent heart towards the universe." Director Huang lectured, "Even among strong Spirit Tool Masters, there isn't a single one who can succeed solely through diligent practice. You're currently talented and gifted, but if you only know to rely on this, then one day, you'll sink beneath those who rise later, and ultimately fall completely."

  "You need to come out and take a look at how vast the sky is, how wide the earth is, how mysterious the world is, and how magnificent the universe is. Only then can your heart be broader, and your potential can be fully developed.

  The master of this town is a Void Seven-level martial artist, who sits here and relies on daily taxes and dividends to have endless wealth and power. However, my old friend still chooses to give up such an easy life every now and then, and go out to travel.

  Director Huang spoke enthusiastically, "Similarly, I will also choose to go out and travel to cultivate after serving as the director for a few more decades, because we are not satisfied with the status quo. Even if we know that going out once may never come back, and may fall outside."

  Yang Tong felt a strong desire to become stronger from Director Huang's words, a struggle against being reduced to nothing, a fight against fate, and a purification of his own soul.

  Of course, Yang Tong only had this feeling and couldn't fully understand the struggle. Yang Tong couldn't help but feel a strong yearning for this persistence and struggle. Yang Tong thought to himself: "Perhaps I am lacking in this persistence, lacking these experiences, lacking the spirit of a strong person."

  "Cultivation is going against heaven! Without enough faith and persistence, this path of cultivation will inevitably be a tragedy." Lu Bao suddenly reminded.

  Yang Tong looked at the countless cultivators on the street, each and every one of them dissatisfied with their current state, constantly pursuing a higher realm, constantly growing stronger.

  As he walked out of the village, Yang Tong suddenly had a feeling that his path to immortality might have just begun here.

  "Go ahead, I'll follow behind you without being seen. But let me remind you, I will only appear when your life is in danger or when you can't resist on your own, such as if you're extremely unlucky and encounter a high-level beast. If you encounter a mid-to-low level beast and aren't a match for it, even if you get killed, I'll turn a blind eye. If you can't even overcome this kind of difficulty, then you might as well die here, living would just be a waste of resources." Director Huang's tone was extremely cold-blooded.

  Yang Tong also knew that Director Huang was not joking, he came for wilderness survival, not for tourism.

  Yang Tong entered the wilderness alone. Since it was a course, there was an exam question. Yang Tong needed to rush to the Iron Wing Mountains three thousand miles away within two months and hunt down a mid-level low-grade savage beast, the Flame Lion. This savage beast inhabited the outer periphery of the Iron Wing Mountains and was a group-living creature with a considerable number.

  The Iron Wing mountain range is a vast mountain range that stretches across the south and north, extending for hundreds of millions of miles. There are tens of millions of peaks alone. Inside, there are countless ferocious beasts and resources are incredibly rich. The deeper you go, the higher the level of the ferocious beasts. Humans have been developing the Iron Wing mountain range for tens of millions of years, but even so, the area where resources have been fully developed is limited to a 100,000-mile radius on the periphery of the Iron Wing mountain range.

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  "Clouds rise and mist disperses!" A sword beam shot out from 300 meters away, instantly piercing the brain of a massive ferocious beast, killing the giant creature.

  Yang Tong pointed his sword and recalled the flying sword, grasping it in his hand. He walked over and very neatly put it into a storage ring.

  This is the number of fierce beasts that Yang Tong has killed, and it's unknown how many. At this time, Yang Tong had already ventured deep into the Savage Wilderness for over 20,000 miles, taking one and a half months, and along the way, he indeed experienced numerous dangers.

  There have been encounters with ferocious beasts, both passive counterattacks and active attacks on ferocious beasts. For example, this mid-to-low-level ferocious beast was 300 meters away from Yang Tong, who killed it in one swift motion because the beast was guarding a rare medicinal herb called Biyun Zhicao that looked like it was over 3,000 years old. This is a precious healing medicine that can be used to create high-grade healing pills worth around 200 million spiritual coins, which is no small fortune.

  Yang Tong naturally wouldn't let it go, carefully collecting the spiritual medicine into a sealed spiritual tool box. These boxes were purchased, although Yang Tong himself could also refine them, but there wasn't enough time. So he simply bought many of them and used them directly. In this one and a half months, not counting the beasts that were killed, just calculating the medicinal materials and various spiritual tool materials alone was worth over 10 billion spirit coins. This still didn't include this single stalk of Biyun Ganoderma.

  No wonder many monks are willing to gather in the town, rather than staying in the big city all the time. The benefits contained in this wilderness are really too great.

  Lian Yangtong, a genuine spiritual tool master, didn't want to work hard to refine spiritual tools and instead became a beast hunter. This was really a great deal, as he could get rich, test his cultivation, and be in a dangerous environment at all times, allowing him to feel a strong sense of pressure that would make him progress faster.

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  The second update, seeking recommendations and collection support.

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