Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest
Chapter 1104: 1104: Nine States (Part Two)

Chapter 1104: Chapter 1104: Nine States (Part Two)

Jiuzhou City is a heaven-grade Immortal City built by the Nine States Immortal Alliance, naturally falling under the management of the Immortal Alliance.

After thousands of years of development, the scale of Jiuzhou City is now one of the largest in the entire Haotian Realm, rivaled only by two other heaven-grade Immortal Cities.

To properly manage this immense Immortal City, the Immortal Alliance established one hundred and twenty-six departments, controlling all aspects of the city from top to bottom.

If Wang Chen wants to descend to the Lower Realm, he must submit an application to the Realm Affairs Department.

The Realm Affairs Department of the Immortal Alliance governs thirty-nine subordinate domains.

The so-called subordinate domains refer to the small worlds that are wholly owned by the Nine States Immortal Alliance, and the Mountain and Sea Realm is one of them.

For this reason, Wang Chen’s desire to go to the Mountain and Sea Realm is quite difficult to achieve.

Firstly, as a Loose Cultivator with no background or connections to any Immortal Alliance factions, a direct application to the Realm Affairs Department would almost certainly be rejected.

Wei Tongfang candidly said that he himself does not have the capability to assist, at most he could introduce Wang Chen to a few Cultivators who have ways in.

But he cannot guarantee success.

In other words, even if Wang Chen makes use of these connections, pays costs and prices, it’d be normal for his application to get rejected in the end.

After all, subordinate domains are taboo for the Immortal Alliance, not tolerable to any form of meddling; the Realm Affairs Department has always tightly controlled the quotas to the Lower Realm, in order to prevent the ill-intended from causing chaos and affecting the stability of the subordinate domains.

Secondly, even if Wang Chen can establish connections and passes the application to go to the Lower Realm, he must have enough Immortal Alliance merits to exchange for the qualification to use the Transmission Array.

According to Wei Tongfang’s knowledge, a single descent requires at least five thousand merits!

And Immortal Alliance merits are not easily obtained; as a native of Jiuzhou who is over a hundred years old, Wei Tongfang has only three digits’ worth of Immortal Alliance merits to this day.

For a Loose Cultivator like Wang Chen who wants to earn Immortal Alliance merits, the best way is to become a Heavenly Demon Hunter at the Realm Border, earning merits by hunting Outsider Heavenly Demons.

The so-called Realm Borders are fortress bastions established by human Cultivator forces at the edges of the domains, aimed to block the invasion of Outsider Heavenly Demons and protect the safety and stability of the entire Haotian Realm.

As Haotian Realm is a great world, it covers an extremely vast range of the domain, and at the areas bordering the Void, some loopholes or weak points inevitably appear.

Outsider Heavenly Demons, born in the Void, often invade the Haotian Realm through these areas!

To resist the Outsider Heavenly Demons, human Cultivators have built Realm Borders at these weak points of the domain, which are guarded by powerful Cultivators.

Heavenly Demon Hunters are responsible for hunting roaming Heavenly Demons around these Realm Borders. Due to the high level of danger, they are awarded substantial merits.

“Taoist Friend Wang, forgive my bluntness, but being a Heavenly Demon Hunter truly isn’t work we can handle,”

Wei Tongfang said with a wry smile, “I once went to the Seven-Star Boundary Pass some years ago, and not only did I not hunt any Outsider Heavenly Demons, I nearly lost my own life.”

He still shows a fearful expression when talking about it: “Outsider Heavenly Demons are too terrifying, even those that look weak may easily annihilate a Nascent Soul True Immortal!”

“Right…”

This Golden Core Cultivator said, “If I remember correctly, the Mountain and Sea Realm you want to go to is undergoing its tribulations; even if you have enough merits, I’m afraid you might not be able to descend!”

Both the great thousand worlds and smaller worlds alike will endure the test of heavenly tribulations, it’s just a matter of the length of time.

Some appear once every few thousand or tens of thousands of years, some may recur every few hundred years. For the creatures inhabiting these worlds, it’s a cruel process of natural selection.

Why do Cultivators from smaller worlds try every means to come to the Upper Realms?

Because in great worlds like the Haotian Realm, the cycle of the great heavenly tribulations is calculated in tens of thousands of years, offering much more safety and stability!

Wang Chen listens with a heart that keeps sinking, filled with a faint bitterness.

Wei Tongfang had no need to deceive him; if the situation was truly as such, then it meant that for the short term, he should not expect to be able to go down and escort anyone up, thus being unable to fulfill his promise.

Before Wang Chen had smuggled himself into the Haotian Realm, he had made a promise to Xu Xinlan to escort her to the Upper Realm within thirty years.

Now, as the thirty-year deadline was approaching and the Mountain and Sea Realm was facing tribulations, Wang Chen found himself unable to escort her up.

Recalling how confident he had once been, Wang Chen only felt ashamed at this moment.

Wei Tongfang observed Wang Chen’s expression and asked, “Taoist Friend Wang, are you intending to go to the Lower Realm to escort someone up?”

Wang Chen did not deny it: “Yes.”

“I presume the person must be someone you hold in high regard.”

Wei Tongfang thought for a while and then said, “Taoist Friend Wang, with the current situation, it is temporarily not possible to go to the Lower Realm, but you still have ways to care for friends and relatives below.”

Wang Chen’s spirits lifted immediately: “What ways?”

If he temporarily could not bring Xu Xinlan up, finding a way to look after her was also an excellent idea.

The method Wei Tongfang mentioned was actually very simple: to entrust a cultivator from the Immortal Alliance, who had the right to travel to the Mountain and Sea Realm, to help deliver pills, magical treasures, cultivation techniques, and spiritual resources to individuals in the Lower Realm.

This kind of Immortal Alliance cultivator was reverently known as an Immortal Envoy in the Lower Realm.

As the Mountain and Sea Realm was under the Jiuzhou Immortal Alliance’s jurisdiction, outsiders were barred from interfering with it, but the Immortal Alliance would surely send Immortal Envoys to the Lower Realm regularly, to collect various resources offered by the powers there, as well as to resolve issues that might affect the stability of the Lower Realm.

Even if the Mountain and Sea Realm was undergoing tribulations, such dispatches would not be easily interrupted!

Of course, asking an Immortal Envoy to take items to the Lower Realm would be a private job, and without offering something enticing in return, it would all be in vain.

“Taoist Friend Wang.”

In conclusion, Wei Tongfang said, “For one thousand Middle Spirits, I can help inquire and serve as an intermediary, ensuring that you meet this Immortal Envoy, but I cannot guarantee that he will agree to your request. What do you think?”

Wang Chen’s mind raced, and he nodded immediately: “That’s fine. As long as I can meet the person, one thousand Middle Spirits is not a problem.”

For want of the wherewithal, one cannot trap a wolf—although Wei Tongfang’s asking price was certainly inflated, Wang Chen didn’t want to haggle and risk complications.

But it’s necessary to guard against others: “However, I will only give you these Spirit Stones after the meeting, otherwise…”

What should he do if Wei Tongfang took the Spirit Stones and ran?

A few dozen, or even a hundred Middle Spirits, Wang Chen could afford to lose, but giving away a thousand Middle Spirits for nothing would make him a top-tier fool!

“This isn’t according to the rules, is it?”

Wei Tongfang put on a distressed face and said, “You should at least pay a thirty percent deposit, right? I need Spirit Stones to get others to do the job too!”

That was logical, but Wang Chen remained resolute: “If that won’t work, then let’s forget it.”

In the vast Jiuzhou Immortal City, it was impossible that Wei Tongfang was the only local fixer. As long as he had Spirit Stones, Wang Chen believed finding another path would not be hard.

After several unsuccessful attempts, Wei Tongfang gritted his teeth and said, “Then I’ll trust you this once, handle the affairs first and receive Spirit Stones afterward!”

“Good.”

Wang Chen slightly smiled and exchanged Message Talismans with him for easy contact.

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