115: Traveling to many islands, abyssal beasts

【At one hundred and eight years old, you spent nearly a year of leisure in Bright Moon City.】

【This bustling ancient city was like a charming beauty, intoxicating you and making you forget the dullness and hardship of cultivation.】

【Aside from occasionally visiting the Tingchao Pavilion to hear its melodious zither music, you spent almost the entire day wandering through the city.】

【Besides the Tingchao Pavilion, Bright Moon City also boasts various famous establishments, such as the Tianxing Merchant Guild, Tianxing Auction House, the Pill Cauldron Pavilion for medicine, the Talisman Hall for talismans, the Myriad Beasts Pavilion for Spirit Beasts, and so on. For low-level Cultivators, anything can be bought here.】

【The Tianxing Merchant Guild and Tianxing Auction House both belong to the Tianxing Holy Land, one of the Ten Great Holy Lands.】

【The Tianxing Holy Land is most adept at forming connections with various forces and excelling in business. Its Disciples are all proficient in commercial arts, skilled at observing expressions, weighing pros and cons, and its industries are spread throughout the world, practically omnipresent.】

【The Tianxing Merchant Guild of the Tianxing Holy Land has left its commercial footprint across almost the entire Profound Heaven Realm; it's possible that even in the most remote corners, there's a branch of the Tianxing Merchant Guild.】

【The Tianxing Holy Land has a unique business philosophy; they deeply understand the Dao of "harmony brings wealth" and maintain delicate relationships with all races.】

【In addition, the Tianxing Holy Land has established a comprehensive "Tianxing Order" System, where VIPs holding different Ranks of Tianyun Orders can enjoy corresponding privileged services.】

【The Tianxing Order also functions similarly to a modern bank card; holders can deposit Spirit Stones into the token at any Tianxing Holy Land branch, and the System will automatically convert them into corresponding points.】

【These points can not only circulate within the Holy Land but also, like your disciple token, be used for remote transactions via the Tianxing Order. However, a handling fee is required, and the further the transmission distance, the more expensive the fee.】

【Of course, even so, it greatly facilitates the daily consumption of Cultivators. The miniature Formation built into the token can record transaction information in real-time, ensuring fund security.】

【Tianxing Orders are divided into five Ranks from low to high: Fine Gold, Scarlet Gold, Heavenly Gold, Profound Crystal, and Purple Crystal. One of the most basic functions of the token is to provide discounts when buying things.】

【Among them, a Fine Gold token offers a 5% discount on items from the Tianxing Holy Land, Scarlet Gold a 10% discount, Heavenly Gold a 15% discount, Profound Crystal a 20% discount, and Purple Crystal a 30% discount.】

【Unfortunately, even the lowest-Rank Fine Gold token requires reaching the Golden Core True Lord Realm to apply, and also requires a certain level of expenditure.】

【The highest-Rank Purple Crystal Tianxing Order, however, has no spending threshold, but is only issued to Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerables.】

【After first hearing about the Tianxing Auction House, you were eager to participate in an auction to see if you could find a hidden gem.】

【Later, after inquiring, you were greatly disappointed, because the Bright Moon City Tianxing Auction House holds a small auction once every thousand years, with an admission standard of Dao Foundation, and a grand auction once every ten thousand years, with an admission standard of Purple Mansion.】

【You felt that you might be a fake Transmigrator, because there were still several hundred years until the small auction once every thousand years, and more than five thousand years until the once-in-ten-thousand-years grand auction.】

【By then, you would have at least reached Nascent Soul, if not Soul Transformation. Unless you could find a hidden gem, the auctioned items would be dispensable to you at that time.】

【At one hundred and seventeen years old, you had been traveling for ten years.】

【During these ten years, besides Bright Moon Island, you also visited other famous islands in Star Cluster Prefecture, such as Qinglan Island, Ninglu Island, and Wangyun Island.】

【Qinglan Island is perennially shrouded in a dreamlike, faint golden mist, as if covered in a mysterious halo.】

【In the center of the island stands a huge and magnificent glazed pagoda, its body pieced together from countless crystal-clear, shimmering glazed tiles.】

【Every time the morning sun first appears, the glazed pagoda reflects brilliant colorful light. At noon, the pagoda body transforms into a dazzling golden hue. As the sun sets in the west, the entire pagoda gradually takes on a magnificent purplish-red color.】

【Ninglu Island, on the other hand, resembles an emerald embedded in the blue sea, looking from afar like an exquisite bonsai floating on the sea surface.】

【The island is densely covered with towering ancient trees, and countless crystalline vines hang from the lush canopies. These vines drip sweet dew year-round, sparkling with a pearl-like luster under the sunlight.】

【Cultivators on the island collect this dew with specially made jade bottles, which can be brewed into a mellow and delicious "Ninglu Qiongjiang" that aids cultivation.】

【Ninglu Qiongjiang can be considered a specialty drink of Star Cluster Prefecture.】

【Wangyun Island, meanwhile, is renowned for its uncanny natural wonders. Dozens of massive black basalt pillars stand on the island, each piercing straight into the clouds.】

【The surfaces of these stone pillars are covered with peculiar patterns, said to have been formed during ancient volcanic eruptions. Looking up from among the stone pillars, one sees clouds and mist swirling around them, as if in a fairyland.】

【The Tingchao Pavilions on these islands also each had their unique characteristics, which gave you many different insights into the Dao of Yin and Yang.】

【Of course, in these ten years, you never slackened in your cultivation. Thanks to a lifestyle that balanced work and rest, coupled with the carefree state of mind while traveling amidst nature, even though most of your time was spent wandering through natural beauty, your cultivation still advanced significantly.】

【After exploring these famous islands, you returned to the Azure Nether Sect to earn a large sum of Contribution Points again. Afterward, you exchanged these Contribution Points for a large amount of rare cultivation resources, geared up, and once again embarked on a journey full of unknowns.】

【This time, you set your sights on those barren and remote islands. After all, people in those remote places have limited knowledge, so you might be able to find some hidden treasures. Moreover, you had never truly seen the lowest strata of this world.】

【Because the islands where the Azure Nether Sect could establish branch sects were not bad, and their resources were quite abundant.】

【After arriving at the branch sect via a teleportation Formation, you boarded a Sky-Vessel and flew across the Boundless Sea towards those remote islands.】

【The Boundless Sea is boundless, with vast blue waves stretching as far as the eye can see, where the sky meets the water, seemingly without end.】

【Such a vast Boundless Sea naturally has creatures that depend on it for existence. These creatures are called Abyssal Beasts by all races.】

【Abyssal Beasts, regardless of their strength, possess little intelligence, but they are incredibly massive and have extremely strong Physical Bodies. Under the same Realm, most Cultivators are no match for Abyssal Beasts.】

【The sea area where Star Cluster Prefecture is located, being close to Xuanji Continent, is suppressed by human race luck, so the strength of Abyssal Beasts mostly stays in the Purple Mansion Realm.】

【Occasionally, Golden Core Realm Abyssal Beasts appear, already serving as overlords of this sea area. As for Nascent Soul Realm Abyssal Beasts, they are as rare as Phoenix feathers and Qilin horns, almost never seen, and they almost never actively attack human islands.】

【However, Sky-Vessels flying above the Boundless Sea and ships sailing on its surface are another matter. Therefore, the greatest danger when crossing the Boundless Sea is Abyssal Beasts.】

【Deep-sea Abyssal Beasts lurk in the dark depths, waiting for an opportunity. Once they spot prey, they will unleash monstrous waves, swallowing everything.】

【Bird-type Abyssal Beasts, on the other hand, circle high in the sky, their sharp gaze penetrating the clouds, always ready to dive down and deliver a fatal blow.】

【However, during your flight, you enveloped the Sky-Vessel with Standing Shadowless, so even Abyssal Beasts with Golden Core or even Nascent Soul strength could not discover your tracks.】