“This is a small matter, brother Mo go out despite yourself, I will help you make exhaustive arrangements on your side. It’s Xiong Xiuzhu and Tao Ao’s residence, I will help you rebuild it.” Wu Kai directly said with a promise.
Mo Wuji had taken out six Qi Condensation Dan, just asking him to help with this small favour was really nothing, so he took the initiative to help build a room for Tao Ao’s couple to live in.
At this moment, Xiong Xiuzhu who was on the side also reacted, she learnt that Mo Wuji could provide a thing for her to do, at least letting her see the hope of living, otherwise she and Tao Ao wouldn’t be able to survive at all.
Not to mention if they went to live in ordinary towns, the workshops around the Traceless Sword Sect were basically for cultivators. There were also many mortals who couldn’t cultivate, they all had their own means and had long formed a circle. She, Xiong Xiuzhu, a mortal who couldn’t pick her shoulders or lift her hands, and had to take care of Tao Ao in this place, wanted to enter this circle and live, it was simply not feasible.
And to leave the Traceless Sword Sect to go to the nearest mortal city, there were also thousands of miles of land. The key was that these thousands of miles were all deserted and uninhabited, and she simply couldn’t walk as a mortal.
“Many thanks for the favour of saving me, Enkong.” Xiong Xiuzhu didn’t care what Mo Wuji asked her to do, as long as there was something to do.
Mo Wuji nodded, “Go back and pack up, then move to my place. I live next to the Bloodroot Lake. The main thing you have to do is to take care of my sister Smokey. Smokey is like a child at times because she has suffered some irritation, so she needs you to take more care of her.”
Hearing that she was only asked to take care of someone, Xiong Xiuzhu was even more grateful, at least it wouldn’t be any harder than what she was doing now.
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Xiong Xiuzhu came very quickly, Mo Wuji returned to his residence and only finished talking to Smokey about how he was going out for a period of time, Xiong Xiuzhu arrived with her disabled husband.
Xiong Xiuzhu’s husband, Tao Ao, was of medium build and looked somewhat handsome. Just two legs were broken, completely curled up in a wheelchair. It didn’t look like Tao Ao was someone who liked to pick fights, Mo Wuji guessed that he had his legs broken because someone had bullied him for no reason.
Mo Wuji was just barely able to save himself right now, so naturally, he would not ask Tao Ao what happened to his legs. It was not easy to stay alive amongst mortal cultivators. He also took a brief look at Tao Ao’s broken leg, and with his current means, it would never be possible to help heal it.
Tao Ao and his wife didn’t think about asking Mo Wuji to cure their leg, they had long been grateful to be taken in by Mo Wuji and to be doing such an easy job.
Three days later, Smokey had gradually accepted the very patient Xiong Xiuzhu. As for Tao Ao and Xiong Xiuzhu’s residence, it was also built with the help of Wu Kai.
Mo Wuji was finally able to leave his residence with peace of mind, being in this kind of environment, he didn’t dare to slack off for a day. Whether it was to take care of Smokey or to save his own little life, he had to work hard to strengthen himself.
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Traceless Sword Sect’s Sect Affairs Hall, when Mo Wuji came here, there were already a lot of people in the hall. Mo Wuji knew that he, a miscellaneous disciple, was not qualified to take on any sect tasks, his idea was to see if he could take a shot at following those disciples who had taken on tasks.
Mo Wuji had come to the sect affairs hall more than once, not long ago he had even come here to dispense medicine for Shi Dan Shi.
Today, Mo Wuji felt that there was something odd when he entered the Affairs Hall, in the past, when he came here, the numerous disciples would come and go in a hurry. Either forming teams, or taking up quests, or contributing points as well as buying pills and such. Now what Mo Wuji saw was not like that at all, instead many disciples were gathered together, discussing something in groups.
“Senior Brother Mo, congratulations.” Mo Wuji was still planning to listen to what these people were discussing when he heard someone call him.
The person’s who called him was an old acquaintance, Fei Bingzhu from the Spirit Pill Warehouse. Back then, he was also fortunate that Fei Bingzhu helped him out by selling him a Water Velvet Vine. Rarely, Fei Bingzhu did not take advantage of him, according to the normal price sold to him.
Now that Fei Bingzhu said congratulations to him, he obviously knew that Shi Dan Shi had succeeded in alchemy and he didn’t have to change places.
“I can only say that I’m still lucky, Shi Dan Shi’s Dan Dao is too powerful.” Mo Wuji laughed and walked over.
When he walked near Fei Bingzhu, he asked in a low voice again, “Senior Brother Fei, today I saw so many people are gathered together, what are they discussing?”
“Our Traceless Sword Sect’s Traceless Sword Mountain has opened, you know about the Traceless Sword Mountain, right? Even the Heavenly Extremity Temple’s Heavenly Extremity Pill Mountain doesn’t necessarily compare to our Traceless Sword Mountain. The Traceless Sword Mountain hasn’t been opened for nearly a thousand years, so how many good things do you think are inside this opening? It’s a pity that it has nothing to do with us.” Fei Bingzhu said and sighed.
Mo Wuji finally realised why those people had gathered together to discuss, dare he say that they were hotly discussing the Traceless Sword Mountain. This was true, if he was qualified to enter the Traceless Sword Mountain that hadn’t been opened for a thousand years, he would be just as likely to secretly discuss it with others.
“Senior Brother Fei, since that Traceless Sword Mountain hasn’t been opened for a thousand years, why has it suddenly opened?” Mo Wuji knew that he was not qualified to enter the Traceless Sword Mountain, but he still couldn’t help but inquire a few words.
Fei Bingzhu pointed to the sky and said in a low voice, “Ten years ago when the first layer of the Five Elements Wilderness Domain opened, the five empires all wanted to gain the greatest benefits from it, so they fought. As a result, they lost a lot of money to each other, and in the end, the five empires negotiated to obtain the resources of the first layer of the Five Elements Desolate Domain through a competition.”
“What is the Five Elements Desolate Domain?” Mo Wuji grew more and more confused.
Fei Bingzhu was patient as he explained, “You are a newbie journeyman disciple, it’s normal for you to be unclear. Do you know that our five empires rarely have strong people who have entered the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens? There aren’t even any true Heaven ranked sects?”
Mo Wuji nodded, “That I have heard of, does this have anything to do with the Five Elements Desolate Domain?”
Fei Bingzhu said, “Of course it’s related, I heard that the Five Elements Desolate Domain had cut off the source of spiritual qi from the five empire regions. With the heaven and earth resources of the five empire regions, it is difficult to advance to the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens. For countless years, those powerhouses who were allowed to advance to the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens were all top qualifiers. Even so, they could only hover in the first Heavenly Triple Sky. And after crossing through the Five Elements Desolate Domain, the cultivators over there, while not so much that the Heaven Realm Triple Heavens are everywhere, are still too many compared to the Five Great Empires region.”
“Since that’s the case, wouldn’t it be fine for everyone to cross the Five Elements Desolate Domain together?” Mo Wuji said doubtfully.
Fei Bingzhu hemmed and hawed, “You talk as good as you sing, crossing the Five Elements Desolate Domain together? Do you think the Five Elements Desolate Domain is so easy to cross? What’s more, right now, the Five Elements Desolate Domain has only opened the first layer, even if you cross the first layer, you won’t be able to find where to enter from the second layer. There are many strong people in the five empires who have tried to enter from the first layer to find the second layer, but none of them came out. I heard that there were also strong people who had reached the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens who had fallen in it, but of course no one knew if any strong people had gone through is.
Later on, everyone knew that the Five Elements Desolate Domain could not be opened by force, so they simply grabbed the cultivation resources at the first level. There were countless cultivators who died in there over the past few years, and that made many sects start recruiting disciples in large numbers.”
“Then wouldn’t it be fine to send strong people in to snatch them? What’s the point of recruiting disciples?” The more Mo Wuji listened, the less he understood.
“The Five Elements Wilderness Domain is not an ordinary place, I heard that there are rules of heaven and earth that are suppressed there. The first level can only allow Pulse Expansion Realm and Spirit Building Realm cultivators to enter, and those with high cultivation levels who go in and don’t come out for a long time will be crushed by the rules of the heaven and earth and fall. There have been several Heavenly Plane Triple Heavenly Lightweights who went in and disappeared, rumoured to have fallen by being squeezed by the rules of heaven and earth.” Fei Bingzhu had a look like you don’t understand.
Mo Wuji still listened in confusion, what heaven and earth rules squeezing, he asked Fei Bingzhu, and Fei Bingzhu had only heard about it, and the specifics were equally incomprehensible.
“Isn’t that empire controlled by the top clans? Why is it an empire war and not a sect war.” Mo Wuji no longer bothered to enquire about those profound things, it was also clear to him that Fei Bingzhu’s words were completely from hearsay, and that Fei Bingzhu himself was just as incomprehensible as he was.
Fei Bingzhu laughed, “Isn’t an imperial war a sect war? Between the clans are just using the name of the empire to divide the territory. When it really comes to fighting, it’s still a cultivator war between clans. Our Traceless Sword Sect was also involved. Later on, the great clans felt that the great war was too depleting, so they changed it to a civil competition.
This is because the spirit herbs and resources in the Five Elements Desolate Domain are all top-notch, and the value of each one of them is hard to predict. Many of the herbs could allow cultivators who had perfected the Earth Realm Triple Sky to directly cross over into the Earth Realm to enter the Heaven Realm. That’s why the competition was changed to a Dan Competition, which is held once every three years, and then quotas to enter the Five Elements Desolate Domain are allocated based on the results of the competition.”
“Is it because our Traceless Sword Sect’s results in the competition were too poor, so they opened the Traceless Sword Mountain and wanted to cultivate more alchemists?” Mo Wuji vaguely guessed the reason why the Traceless Sword Mountain was opened.
Fei Bingzhu nodded his head, “Exactly, but it’s not because he wants to cultivate more alchemists, it’s to allow the existing alchemists to upgrade their level. The aim is to get a better ranking in the next competition and get more places to enter the Five Elements Desolate Domain. Don’t look at the fact that a lot of people would have to die in the Five Elements Desolate Domain, in fact, even if more people died, because of the heaven-defying spirit medicine and precious herbs inside, all the major clans would still want to send more people in. In case they get a spirit fruit that can allow the Earth Realm Triple Heavens to advance to the Heaven Realm, wouldn’t you say that the sects would become quasi-heavenly sects in a single leap?”
“The Traceless Sword Sect should be representing the Star River Empire, right? As long as the Star River Empire has a place, won’t the Traceless Sword Sect get a share of the place just the same? Could it be that after the Star River Empire obtains the rankings, it will have to compete internally once more before distributing them to the various Immortal Sects?”
“That’s not the case, after the new rules for the Five Elemental Wilderness Domain Wen Ratio came out, it’s the individual sects that represent themselves in the Dan Ratio, it has nothing to do with the Empire anymore. The Star River Empire’s Protectorate Immortal Sect is the Celestial Extremity Hall, if our Traceless Sword Sect’s results in the Dan Ratio are even better than the Celestial Extremity Hall’s, our sect’s quota to enter the Five Elemental Wilderness Region will be the same as the Celestial Extremity Hall’s.”
Between the question and answer, Mo Wuji completely understood. No wonder the Traceless Sword Sect was even opening the Traceless Sword Mountain which hadn’t been opened for a thousand years. This was clearly the best time for the great immortal sects to raise their ranks, once the Traceless Sword Sect gained more places amongst the five empires’ Dan Race, then they would be able to obtain more top-tier resources in the Five Elemental Wilderness Domain. If the Traceless Sword Sect could obtain the treasures to advance to the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens, the chain reaction would be that the Traceless Sword Sect would instantly leap from a middle to lower ranked earth level sect to a quasi-heavenly sect.
