Chapter 269: 167, Ascend Again
The sun had not been captured, but it wasn't that it couldn't be captured.
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It was because Tan Shuchang felt that this way of remembering an old friend wasn't quite appropriate.
After all, a certain young girl was just occasionally hysterical.
Tan Shuchang wasn't walking on clouds nor shuttling through the void; he walked step by step in the wilderness, like someone who had never practiced cultivation.
He was contemplating the elemental rules of this place. If one didn't consider the deathly stillness that only appeared at dusk and the slight yin energy that emerged at night, then this place was absolutely fine.
Moreover, whether it was the cultivation resources freely available here or the basic environment for body refinement that everyone practiced, none were inferior to the Land of the Four Pillars, which Tan Shuchang knew of.
This made Tan Shuchang somewhat feel that the place where he stood was indeed the Land of the Four Pillars.
However, the absence of the four pillars always made Tan Shuchang unable to confirm. After all, all the images he had obtained of the Land of the Four Pillars invariably featured those four pillars.
The pillars that supported the heavens could be seen from anywhere within the Land of the Four Pillars!
As he walked like this, Tan Shuchang ran into trouble.
But this trouble was expected.
The cliché of beating the small ones and having the big ones come after him. If not for this, Tan Shuchang wouldn't have understood the Gong Shu family so well.
This was called knowing the enemy and knowing oneself, and thereby being invincible in every battle.
About thirty people surrounded Tan Shuchang, with each person's figure huge and almost twenty feet tall, standing there like walls.
And their muscles were even more exaggerated.
This was also a major trait of body cultivation.
Of course, not all body cultivators were like this. Those who practiced the superior body refinement techniques wouldn't enlarge continuously with increased strength like those who practiced the Giant Transformation Technique.
The superior methods allowed for one to shrink or expand as desired.
The tall figures were all servants raised by the Gong Shu family.
The man leading these servants was a robust middle-aged man, whose physique wasn't as exaggerated as that of the servants.
But he was still quite tall, nearly thirty feet!
At this time, there was also an eight-foot-tall young girl following this robust man. (One 'zhang' is 3.33 meters; a 'zhang' has ten 'chi'.)
This young girl, upon seeing Tan Shuchang, looked quite triumphant, her hands crossed over her chest and her head slightly bowed, looking down at Tan Shuchang, who was not as tall as her, and her smile was full of joy.
But the next second, her smile disappeared.
Because after the robust man sized up Tan Shuchang, the previously tense and serious expression on his face vanished, "Not bad, not bad, would the prospective son-in-law care to visit my Gong Shu family? We won't treat you unfairly!"
Tan Shuchang, who was originally prepared for a quick fight, couldn't help but be somewhat astonished by these words; after all, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
He had often been looked down upon and bullied, but he had never before encountered an immediate offer to become a son-in-law.
Thus, Tan Shuchang restrained his fighting intent and politely declined the marriage proposal.
"That's truly a pity!"
The tall middle-aged man laughed and said a few more words, then left with his people. The young girl naturally stood there, stunned and confused.
However, Tan Shuchang understood why it had happened.
Though he had not practiced body refinement techniques, the constitution of the 'Nine Orifices Martial Demon' was genuinely on him, so the other party had likely sensed his physical strength and decided to back off.
The saying that strength is the ultimate truth always holds!
Then, Tan Shuchang, seeing the Spiritual Medicine everywhere, couldn't help but feel a bit strange. He was still in the wilderness, and the types of Spiritual Medicine within his sight were the same ones he had once bought at a high price when he was severely injured.
Any single one would cost five or six Upper Profound Seals.
Yet at this moment, these precious Spiritual Medicines were considered no more valuable than wild grass.
Because this place mainly focused on body cultivation, and although these Spiritual Medicines could somewhat activate the blood vessels, there were many more with better effects and clearly defined medicinal properties!
Those were the true treasures!
Spiritual Medicine here held little value, only the true treasures attracted cultivators.
Then, Tan Shuchang walked towards the foot of the mountain.
Because everyone was a cultivator, unlike in the Jiawu Realm despite having produced many novelties, there was no intention of popularizing them.
In this remote and unpopulated wilderness, there was a supply station. It had resources for mounts and cultivation, but not everyone could exchange them; one needed to obtain a Token from the local powers, and with this Token, one could then obtain any resources needed at any supply station within this power's territory.
There was no one at the supply station; the safety of the resources inside was ensured by three simple prohibitions. Those who could break and were capable of breaking were numerous, but no one dared to do so.
Because the last one who did so was still being publicly displayed at the city gate, his soul exposed to the sun.
There are often people who are fearless, but there are virtually none who aren't afraid of such fates where they can neither live nor die. The deterrent effect of this warning was very effective.
Tan Shuchang was just looking around when he suddenly felt a start, because the mysterious game was summoning him!
Thus, Tan Shuchang, after briefly responding to this summons, disappeared from the spot in an instant.