Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

The suddenly heard whispering voice was extremely low and filled with exhaustion, as if it had expended all its strength with a single sentence.

Chu Zheng looked around, trying to find the source of the voice, but found nothing.

His brow slightly furrowed, thoughts rapidly turning in his mind, considering all possibilities.

The matter of Xumi Sheng was unknown even to Moonlight Immortal Ancestor, and cultivators below the Ancestral Realm could not possibly know it, so how could that person who spoke know?

Moreover, the transmitted voice left no trace, indicating cultivation clearly far above his own.

Thinking of this, a terrifying suspicion surged in Chu Zheng's heart.

Anyone related to Xumi Sheng were none other than the Ancestor of Ancient Immortals and Sun-Eroding Cry.

As far as he knew, Xumi Sheng was killed by Sun-Eroding Cry back then, and his head was severed.

Then the Ancestor of Ancient Immortals slew Sun-Eroding Cry and brought his bones back to the Immortal Domain, suppressing them beneath the Great Immortal Realm...

The Ancestor of Ancient Immortals has been dead for many years, and given that person directly naming 'Xumi Sheng', they can clearly be ruled out.

Sun-Eroding Cry is still alive?!

Thinking of this possibility, Chu Zheng was slightly astonished.

Such a possibility is not impossible.

Martial cultivators have shorter lifespans, a condition based on a normal living environment; warring and killing, even daily activities, would put a load on the body.

In circumstances of suppression, the body's consumption of Yuan Qi is naturally very low.

If the cultivation has reached the realm of the Martial Ancestor, and the Divine Soul and Flesh Body are bound by an array, with a constant supply of spiritual energy, perhaps a different kind of immortality can be achieved.

If Sun-Eroding Cry is really still alive, then why didn't the Ancestor of Ancient Immortals kill him?

In an instant, the moon hung westward, the world enshrouded in darkness, dawn approaching.

Chu Zheng waited for a long time, but that voice never sounded again.

"Chu Xianzun, what is unusual about this place?"

Seeing Chu Zheng stand motionless, a hint of doubt flashed in Fang Lingchuan's eyes.

"Nothing."

Chu Zheng slightly shook his head, stepped forward, and left the mountain range, arriving in front of a city.

The Heaven and Earth Essence Qi of the lower realm is dozens of times thinner compared to the upper realm, yet still a hundred times more abundant than that of a typical Great Realm.

Chu Zheng glanced at the repair panel, roughly estimating the refresh count, accumulating only two to three times a day.

Originally, he thought that in the lower realm, the number of living creatures should be thousands of times more than the upper realm.

But after releasing his divine sense, he found it was not so, the number of cultivators in the lower realm was not many.

The city he was currently in spanned a hundred miles, and cultivators numbered less than ten thousand; within a billion miles radius, it was already considered a leading major city.

The long street was somewhat desolate, shops open for business were deserted, with only occasional glimpses of a few figures.

Logically, just through the reproduction of descendants, there could not only be such a population.

Chu Zheng swept his gaze around, voicing the doubt in his heart.

After Fang Lingchuan's explanation, he finally understood the reason.

Children born in the Great Immortal Realm with mid-grade Immortal Bone or below are immediately sent to other Great Realms; top-grade Immortal Bone can remain in the Great Immortal Realm, but before entering the Immortal Tribulation Realm, they do not have the right to marry and reproduce.

If unauthorized offspring are discovered, three clans will be involved and directly exiled.

The stronger the cultivation, the more perfect the body becomes, unwilling to easily let its Essence Yuan leak out, nor willing to use its Essence Yuan to nourish a fetus.

No matter the path of cultivation, it essentially involves stealing creation from the heavens; the living creatures' Flesh Body inherently possesses spirituality, and after achieving strong cultivation, it instinctively resists anything that might damage the body.

The cost of reproduction grows greater and greater, and reproducing offspring at the Immortal Tribulation Secret Realm is undoubtedly a bit late.

Especially for women, upon successfully pregnant with great effort, they also need to halt their cultivation progress, even suppress their cultivation, while nourishing their bodies with many spiritual objects to barely allow their flesh body to accept the growth of the fetus within.

If there's any minor negligence, the fetus will be killed by the body or even directly consumed and absorbed.

Moreover, after coming of age, top-grade Immortal Bone needs to regularly pay a portion of resources as the cost of cultivation in the Great Immortal Realm; if unable to pay, they will still be sent down.

Only superior Immortal Bone can normally live and cultivate in the Great Immortal Realm, with the Immortal Alliance periodically providing resources for cultivation.

Superior Immortal Bone might be rare talents in other Great Realms, but in the Great Immortal Realm, they're merely somewhat stronger than ordinary people.

The true prodigies of the Great Immortal Realm, most possesses unique spiritual bodies, complementing immortal bones, cultivating rapidly, achieving Immortal Tribulation at a hundred years, and reaching True Immortal by three hundred years; it's not mere legend.

And the matters of regulating these affairs and controlling the population of the Great Immortal Realm issue are managed by the Thirteen Clans.

The entire lower realm is also divided into thirteen Immortal Domains.

Upon reaching this point, Fang Lingchuan revealed some previously hidden rumors:

"I heard that when the Great Immortal Realm was first established, it was divided into sixteen Immortal Domains; but after the construction of the Great Realm, only thirteen were left, seemingly related to Cangyun."

"Related to Cangyun?"

Chu Zheng's expression shifted slightly, recalling some messages previously learned from the Heavenly Dao Core of the Cangyun Realm.

Cangyun Realm originally also had Immortal Descendant Families, and during ancient times, it was even a leading Great Realm of the Immortal Alliance, sufficient to nurture Immortal Emperors; but later, for reasons unknown, the Ancestor of Ancient Immortals severed Cang Yun Immortal Fate, implicating several families.

Many Immortal Descendant Families exhausted their Ancestor Blood, thereafter declining irreversibly, and even a Great Realm subsequently dwindled, its heavenly origin greatly harmed.