Chapter 23 Arrival at the Swamp
After leaving Lianyunfang City and traveling at full speed for two months, Fang Chen finally arrived at the Jueling Swamp.

During these days he travelled a thousand miles a day, and in two months he covered 30,000 kilometres, which was roughly equivalent to walking three quarters of the way around the earth's equator.

It sounds scary, but in fact his speed is only over 60 kilometers per hour. If he travels for eight hours a day, he can travel a thousand miles a day.

If you really calculate it, the speed is equivalent to that of cars driving in the city in the previous life.

This is also the maximum speed that a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training can maintain.

When one's Qi training is fully accomplished and one's spiritual thoughts and magical powers have reached perfection, one can fly at a speed that reaches the speed of cars on the highway.

"But this kind of high-intensity travel is really exhausting. It's not as worry-free as the cars in my previous life. The only advantage is that they are not picky about terrain."

Comparing his speed with that of the car in his mind, Fang Chen also made a comment.

Although the experience of driving a long distance in a car was extremely torturous, it was still much better than sleeping in the open air for the past two months.

"I heard that the bigger forces have large flying instruments like flying boats. I can research them later so that I don't have to rely on my legs every time I go out."

Speaking of cars, Fang Chen also thought of the means of transportation used by the monks in the world of cultivation.

But now is not the time to think about these things. He stood at the confluence of the two rivers, looking at the endless rushing water, and a great passion rose in his heart.

Also because these two rivers meet here, the locals Fang Chen asked called both rivers the Big River.

However, the two rivers did not merge after the confluence, but instead separated again after running parallel for hundreds of miles and flowed into the East China Sea separately.

Surrounded by the two great rivers and the East China Sea is the most famous place of absolute spiritual power in Lianyunfang City - the Absolute Spirit Swamp.

The banks of the river are covered with lush greenery. At first glance, they look like water plants, but upon closer inspection, they are all dense moss.

“Isn’t it Absolute Spirit Moss?”

Fang Chen tried to concentrate his spiritual thoughts to check it out, but failed.

Before the spiritual thought was released, the magic power in it was forcibly separated from the soul power, and the soul power was naturally dispersed.

I had to squat down and touch it with my hand.

Name: Absolute Moss

Features: Absolute Spirit
Absolute Spirit: Isolate the spread of spiritual energy. Multiple plants with the Absolute Spirit property growing together can form a Absolute Spirit formation, banning all spiritual energy within the range.

"That's true. No wonder there is no spiritual energy here. If I hadn't pulled out all the plants with absolute spirituality around the first generation immortal mansion, the spiritual energy in the immortal mansion would have continuously flowed out to nourish me. I'm afraid I would have fallen to the ground by now."

This is not an exaggeration. A cultivator's dependence on spiritual energy is like a fish's dependence on water. Their lifespan will be shortened in an environment with thin spiritual energy, not to mention a place with no spiritual energy at all.

If he had not refined the first generation of immortal palace, he would have to rely on magic power to constantly nourish his body to fight on. Once his magic power was exhausted, he would have to die here.

And here is still outside the Jueling Swamp.

The real Jueling Swamp is on the other side of the river.

In such a turbulent river, there is no way for mortals to use boats, and they can only use magic power to force their way across.

It also greatly increases the speed at which mana is consumed.

Of course, Fang Chen doesn’t have any worries in this regard.

He mobilized his magic power, jumped lightly, and landed on the water surface. Before falling, he stepped down again, and borrowed strength from somewhere, and leaped up again.

This jump is two or three meters away.

After repeating this dozens of times, we finally reached the other side.

As Fang Chen was practicing the five elements and was at the fourth level of Qi training, most of his magic power had been used up. An ordinary cultivator, without the help of external forces, would probably have to reach the eighth level of Qi training before he could cross the river.

This still ignores the fact that one needs to use magic power to nourish the body in the land of absolute spiritual power.

"Hmm? There are footprints here, and a patch of what is obviously a newly grown Absolute Spirit Moss..."

As soon as he reached the shore, Fang Chen noticed something strange and thought that someone had also come to the Jueling Swamp.

But the shape of this newly grown Absolute Moss looked somewhat familiar to him.

I always feel like I’ve seen it somewhere.

"The Absolute Spirit Moss sold by the old man in the market seems to be in this shape. He actually came here. I'm afraid he has consumed a lot of medicinal pills." Soon, Fang Chen also realized what was familiar. This shape matches the Absolute Spirit Moss sold by the old man who let him know about the Absolute Spirit Swamp.

Originally Fang Chen thought he had reached a very far place, but now it seems he just walked around the edge and went back.

You can understand it if you think about it.

Not everyone has a combination of Moon Goddess Flower and Moon Spirit Grass like Fang Chen, which provides him with an endless supply of spiritual energy, allowing him to wander around in the land of absolute spirituality like nothing happened.

And crossing the river is just the beginning.

This place is called the Jueling Swamp, and the word "swamp" is enough to describe how dangerous it is inside.

The footprints Fang Chen saw led to a mud pit with a piece of weeds missing. It can be inferred that the guy was probably trapped in it, and after trying every possible way to escape, he ran away with a piece of Jueling Moss.

The powerful vitality of the Absolute Moss allows it to grow a new leaf in just a few months.

"He's really lucky. The Absolute Spirit Moss he picked up is the only one with special features among all the plants here."

I squatted down and checked all the plants. Except for the Absolute Spirit Moss which had the Absolute Spirit characteristic, the other plants had no characteristics.

Should we say that the brother is lucky or Fang Chen is lucky.

Judging from the results alone, it should be the latter.

That old man can be said to be at a loss.

"It's really a pitfall at every step. Did they take a similar route to cross the grassland back then?"

As he jumped between meadows, Fang Chen's thoughts also spread out.

He thought of that group of respectable people, who, as mortals, were moving forward in a similar or even worse environment in a similar way.

I also thought of the sky dyed red by blood and Zhou Xingyun who was drunk.

At that time, his blood boiled and he wanted to seek justice for those who were sacrificed.

Now that he has calmed down, he has not changed his mind. He just needs to think carefully about what kind of obstacles he will encounter, how to solve them, and whether they will affect his future development plans.

The water in the world of cultivation is much deeper than the Jueling Swamp.

Fang Chen knew very well that nothing can be accomplished with passion alone, so he reviewed in his mind his plans for the future before he said goodbye to Zhou Xingyun.

It all started from the dream he had when he first arrived in the world of cultivation.

At that time, he thought that if he could own a few hundred acres of spiritual fields, and then use the spiritual fruits to create dozens of Qi training level one cultivators to help him manage them, it would be a huge profit if the harvest was split 50-50.

The abilities that were subsequently discovered made this possible.

After the unexpected fusion of the Moon Goddess Flower and the understanding of the Absolute Spirit Swamp, this great dream turned into a detailed plan.

That is, the large-scale development of the Jueling Swamp.

This was not a word created by Fang Chen, but a past event recorded in the books he bought in Lianyunfang City.

The Jueling Swamp is such a fertile land, and Fang Chen is definitely not the only one who has set his eyes on it.

Decades ago, a Jindan monk set his eyes on this place and decided to develop it.

His idea was similar to Fang Chen's, but he was richer and more powerful. He looked down upon the Moonlight Grass, a small matter, and planned to use spirit stones and formations to forcibly create a spirit vein.

However, as soon as the spirit stone was taken out, it instantly lost its spiritual energy.

As a Jindan cultivator, he could not use magic in the Jueling Swamp. Once his true energy left his body, it would disappear without a trace.

The spiritual consciousness cannot be released.

If it weren't for the Jindan cultivator's vast inner energy and physique far superior to that of an ordinary person, he himself would have fallen into the swamp and been swallowed by the unknown depth.

Then he learned his lesson and decided to proceed step by step using Moonlight Grass.

But it still doesn't work.

　The first update today is the transition of the map switching to the Absolute Swamp. Please support it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)