100: One hundred and eight channels

On the day Ba Qing and the others returned to China, they split into multiple groups and began to investigate the situation of the major mountain range forbidden areas under the guise of visits.

As time passed, Qingyang, who was far away in the Ge Xing Islands, finally learned about the current situation in China after Ba Qing and the others' investigation.

In the nine major river basins, there are four Tenth-Order Fierce Beasts, one of which is a late Tenth-Order, and three are mid-Tenth-Order.

Regarding the major mountain ranges, not to mention those ranked lower, among the top ten forbidden mountain ranges, there are five Tenth-Order Fierce Beasts.

As for those grasslands and Gobi forbidden areas, there are also five or six Tenth-Order Fierce Beasts.

Overall, these cannot cause harm to Qingyang.

On the Kunlun side, Ba Qing has not sensed an aura of the same strength as Qingyang at the moment.

So, after learning all this, Qingyang departed immediately late on the second night.

It just so happened that he missed the Thousand-Legged Snow Centipede.

In the sky, among the clouds.

Qingyang, shrunk to a Black Little Dragon only one meter in size, was flying towards China at high speed.

Along the way, although Qingyang had concealed his aura, every time he flew over a forbidden area, the kings of the Fierce Beasts in the major mountain ranges and lakes would instinctively look up at the sky with their scalps tingling.

Observing the forces in various parts of China while advancing towards Kunlun, after two slow days, Qingyang finally saw China's first forbidden area from afar—Kunlun.

A place full of mystery.

With Qingyang's arrival, Ba Qing, Little Luan, and the others hidden around Kunlun simultaneously erupted with their auras and shot into Kunlun.

At the core of Kunlun, the Divine Pool.

"It's over, it's completely over, Big Brother, he's here, what should we do?"

The somewhat panicked voice of the Gray-robed Old Man also caused the Purple-robed Old Man to instantly open his eyes.

"What are you panicking about? Come with me to welcome our China's Black Gold Yang Dragon King."

"Big Brother, you're not wearing shoes."

"Shut up, I'm nervous, I forgot."

Outside Kunlun, just as Qingyang was examining Kunlun from within the clouds, suddenly, two peak Tenth-Order Human Clan members instantly flew out from within Kunlun.

"Greetings, Black Gold Yang Dragon King."

"Greetings..."

Looking at the situation of these two Human Clan members, Qingyang cautiously used his perception again to scan Kunlun.

Finally, Qingyang muttered to himself, "Was I overthinking it?"

As he spoke, Qingyang also suddenly appeared from the clouds.

Although he was only one meter in size, feeling the aura on Qingyang's body, the two Human Clan members dared not be careless in the slightest, and immediately respectfully invited Qingyang into Kunlun, one on his left and one on his right.

At the core of Kunlun, beside the Divine Pool.

Noticing that there was also a calm lake in the distance, Qingyang vaguely sensed something, but couldn't articulate it.

"Where are my zhen crystal?"

The first sentence he spoke completely stunned the two Human Clan members.

Out of the 400,000 zhen crystal, after peeling off layer by layer, each of them only got 50,000 zhen crystal.

After all, the larger the force, the greater the number, the smaller the share of the pie.

They had already absorbed the 100,000 zhen crystal long ago, so facing Qingyang's question, the two Old Men knew they were in the wrong and could only lower their heads in silence.

As time passed, the atmosphere became increasingly strange. Seeing Qingyang's look, which clearly indicated he wanted to kill them both and make them pay with their bodies,

the Purple-robed Old Man quickly spoke up to interrupt Qingyang's thoughts.

"Uh, Black Gold Yang Dragon King, since you've returned, there are some things I need to tell you about and let you know."

Looking at the Purple-robed Old Man with the shoehorn-shaped face, Qingyang's black and gold pupils stared straight at him, waiting for him to continue.

"Cough, cough, it's like this, do you know about the Inner Beasts?"

Not far away, Qingyang shook his head slightly in confusion.

Seeing this, the Purple-robed Old Man let out a heavy sigh of relief, adjusted his mindset, and continued.

"Alright, let's start with the 108 Passages. Our Blue Star has a total of 108 passages, which are passages leading downwards."

As he spoke, the Purple-robed Old Man did not forget to point downwards and continued.

"These 108 Passages? They existed in ancient times, even longer ago. At that time, how should I put it, the ancient beings at that time, in order to explore some profound truths,

they dug underground, wanting to see what was inside Blue Star. However, this action by the ancient beings caused a great disaster."

"Underground? What did they dig up?" Qingyang asked in a serious tone.

Not far away, the Purple-robed Old Man showed a bitter smile and quickly continued.

"A world, a world that exists only inside Blue Star. We call that world the Inner Realm. At first, the beings from the upper and lower sides exchanged goods, and it was quite harmonious,

but all the beings in the Inner Realm carried with them, carried with them, well, how should I put it, gravity, yes, it's gravity."

"Gravity?" Qingyang asked curiously.

"Yes, it's gravity, or you could say it's a kind of energy. This energy, when they were in the Inner Realm, was fine because there was a layer of Blue Star isolating it,

but when they came up, disaster struck. The first recorded instance was nine kings of the Inner Realm. After they came up, in just one day,

Blue Star was hit by meteorites 425 times. Although those meteorites were shattered by strong individuals from all sides and didn't cause any impact, the problem appeared."

At this point, the Purple-robed Old Man named Tong Xuan noticed Qingyang's contemplation. After organizing his words, he continued.

"It's like this, perhaps Black Gold Yang Dragon King, you don't understand yet. Actually, the sun you see, and the day and night rotation of our Blue Star, you might think Blue Star and the sun are just rotating in place in the starry sky,

but that's not the case. Instead, the sun, along with the major planets and Blue Star, is speeding through the starry sky, crashing around,

and precisely because of this, how could those Inner Realm beings live up there? Blue Star is speeding every day. If they came up, would they attract meteorites from all over the starry sky to hit Blue Star every day?"

At this point, Qingyang couldn't help but nod and say, "Indeed, then what?"

"Then what? Then the great war began. The beings up here wanted to go down,

after all, the resources down there are too abundant. Take zhen crystal for example, they first pass through those Inner Realm beings before appearing among the beings up here,

but the beings down there want to come up, but the problem is, as long as they come up, it will cause the beings up here to suffer endless danger,

so the ones up here don't allow them to come up, and the ones down there don't allow the ones up here to go down. Back and forth, the beings on our side have completely become enemies with the Inner Realm beings."

Tong Xuan, the Purple-robed Old Man's convoluted explanation, made Qingyang a bit dizzy.

"What's with this 'up here' and 'down there'? Talk about the 108 Passages."

Upon hearing this, Tong Xuan quickly pointed behind him and said, "This is one of the 108 Passages, leading directly to the Inner Realm. There are 108 Passages on this Blue Star, without distinction of order, and they have been passed down by various forces, who are guarding this passage."