Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect
Chapter 348 - 224 Wen Wan

Chapter 348: Chapter 224 Wen Wan

Although the young girl pleaded desperately, she was still forcefully taken away by her family members, and the young man had it even worse, getting thoroughly beaten up before limping away from the Daoist Temple with a swollen face.

The Daoist Temple soon quieted down.

Li Qian watched the scene, resembling a play where lovers are beaten and parted, but paid little heed to it.

Such matters were far too common.

He had just arrived in this world and did not want to stir up trouble.

The absence of very powerful beings in this town didn’t mean that this world lacked them, right?

If this were the Longevity Realm, there must certainly be existences of the Longevity Secret Realm.

Perhaps there were Longevity Secret Realm experts who had taken dozens of steps in Returning to Void.

Whereas he was merely at the stage of Returning to Void Ten Steps.

His plan was to quietly understand this world, while preparing to break through to the Longevity Secret Realm.

As for the path of Returning to Void, it could be traversed slowly.

In the following years, other than practicing the Return to Void, Li Qian stayed in this world to cultivate, gradually understanding this place from the town.

It really was the Longevity Realm.

However, the Longevity Realm was vast, and this town named Yiling Town was located in a remote part of Heavenly Spring Gobi, situated at the border region of three top powers—the Eternal Dynasty, Great Moon Empire, and Golden Demon Court—a typical lawless zone.

This vast land of Heavenly Spring Gobi was a complex mix of various forces, and it housed diverse groups such as the Human Clan, Demon Race, Barbarian Clan, the Giant Clan, Witch Clan, etc.

Moreover, these powers often emerged from the territories of the three top powers for various reasons, banding together for survival and forming various city-states, tribes, sects...

This town itself was a typical small city-state formed by the union of a few family powers, along with various outsiders, gradually shaping into its current scale.

In this land of Heavenly Spring Gobi, strength ruled supreme, and only those with considerable power had the right to occupy areas rich in resources.

Aside from threats from other city-states and tribes, wild demonic beasts were also a source of danger.

This small city-state had no Supreme Saint; its strength could only be considered quite average.

Over these years, he often sensed incidents of demonic beast attacks and even strong bandits looting the town...

Occasionally, some people would even appear in the run-down Daoist temple where he stayed.

Moreover, he discovered that the rules of heaven and earth in the Longevity Realm were greatly different from those in his original world. In his original world, Celestial Level cultivation was sufficient for flight... but here in the Longevity Realm, only reaching the Martial Saint Level enabled flight.

The same attacks yielded much reduced destructive power.

Furthermore, invoking the essence of Heaven and Earth became much more difficult.

This resulted in a huge disparity in the destructive power one could achieve with the same cultivation between his original world and the Longevity Realm.

Moreover, while in his original world, Martial Saints could achieve Primordial Spirit Emergence and Great Saints could manifest the Primordial Spirit Dharma Form... it seemed unachievable in this world.

He tried it himself; as a Supreme Saint, Primordial Spirit Emergence was no issue, but he couldn’t manifest the Primordial Spirit Dharma Form, and his attempts to invoke Heaven and Earth Essence Qi through his Primordial Spirit faced significant suppression, leading to the failure of forming the Primordial Spirit Dharma Form.

He guessed it must be related to the specific heaven and earth in this realm.

Perhaps only by stepping into the Longevity Secret Realm would it be possible to display the Primordial Spirit Dharma Form.

Moreover, when using Primordial Spirit Emergence outside the Chen Bell Domain, he always felt an invisible, inexplicable threat, as if something in the shadows was watching him.

Since then, he had never performed Primordial Spirit Emergence again in this realm.

Yiling Town.

Bihai Building.

This was a very famous restaurant in the town.

Filled with guests every day.

At a table by the window on the second floor, a figure in grey clothes sat drinking.

Since Li Qian had first come here to drink several years ago, he made it a point to visit periodically.

Mainly because the signature wine here had a truly unique flavor, one sip was enough to linger in the memory.

Bihai Building had a rule: the wine could only be drunk within the premises and could not be taken away.

Moreover, it was served in limited quantities.

Each person was allowed a maximum of half a jin (approximately 250 grams) of wine per day.

Though this dissatisfied many patrons, the owner of Bihai Building, the famous drink enthusiast Mei Bisheng, who was not only a skilled brewer but also possessed exceedingly profound cultivation, having reached the tier of a top Great Saint.

He could be called one of the most powerful people in Yiling Town.

Thus, even the heads of several other family powers in Yiling Town had to abide by this rule when they came to drink.

Although Li Qian enjoyed this wine, he also adhered to this rule and only drank half a jin each visit.

After finishing the last sip, Li Qian felt a slight regret; a bit more would have been better—slightly unsatisfying.

Li Qian shook his head and cast aside this thought. If he couldn’t control even this level of craving, how could he withstand the Heart Demon Tribulation?

The so-called Heart Demon Tribulation was actually about various desires from within, which, triggered by the Refining God Technique, gradually aggregated into the Heart Demon.

He felt he was almost ready and planned to overcome the Heart Demon Tribulation in some time, aiming to break through to the Longevity Secret Realm.

He stood up and left the restaurant, walking down the streets.

The town seemed much more desolate.

Over these years, this town had continuously clashed with a certain power over a small Primordial Stone Mine, leading multiple encounters and casualties on both sides.

Returning to the dilapidated Daoist temple, Li Qian suddenly paused because on the temple steps outside, there was a swaddling cloth.

Surely it was from some household that favored boys over girls, discarding a newborn baby.

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