110: Bonds

The main reason for stopping Qingyang was that if he continued to cause such destruction, the city would definitely notice.

By then, it wouldn't be just a few Order Keepers coming, but rather powerhouses above the Fourteenth-Order directly.

After all, the Flowing Land is like a warming pool, where all the foot soldiers need to be selected through competition; its importance is self-evident.

Hong Zong and Qingyang are standard reverse-travelers. Such beings are those whose strength on the Blue Star reached above the Tenth-Order, and after descending, they subconsciously resist going with the flow.

Now, there is only one path before Hong Zong, which is to head to the city ahead. With the combat power of a reverse-traveler, he can find a suitable Human Clan member, and both can work together to ultimately achieve the goal of reconstructing a physical body.

Qingyang's situation, however, was a bit strange.

Because Qingyang's own physical body was still perfectly preserved, frozen in the Ge Xing Islands.

So, Qingyang's only option currently was to go back, or find a way to transmit information upwards.

He couldn't stay in the Flowing Land anymore. After all, in such a place, although Bone Beasts are numerous, their quality is poor.

Quantity can indeed lead to qualitative change, but the result of that change is that too much quantity is needed, which will definitely alert the city.

The brothers Jin Sheng and Jin Hua were Humans from the Hongwu era. After several hundred years, these two had finally acquired physical bodies and even become Order Keepers.

But the brothers also knew that without any accidents, they might have to go through another few hundred years before they could continue to advance.

But now, these two reverse-travelers, Qingyang and Hong Zong, had given the brothers hope.

As long as they could form a partnership with these two reverse-travelers, their combat power would definitely cause the brothers' strength to rapidly increase.

At this point, they could already sense what the brothers meant, so Qingyang and Hong Zong also released them.

Afterwards, Hong Zong said to Qingyang, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Hong Zong. My home was on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. In my era, a female emperor ascended the throne among Humans. I don't know when that was."

Later, because there was no spiritual energy, I spent my time in slumber, slowly absorbing the faint spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

The last time I woke up, when I was preparing to fall asleep again, I heard that something called the Jingkang Incident happened among Humans. By then, I was almost dead from old age, so I didn't pay much attention before I died."

As soon as he said this, before Qingyang could react, Jin Sheng's eyes widened, and he spoke first, "So it was the Tang..."

It wasn't until the two of them said this that Qingyang finally realized, "So you two are from the Ming Dynasty?"

The root of the problem had been found, so now it was time to solve it.

As for how to solve it, Jin Hua ultimately proposed a suggestion.

Let Qingyang and Hong Zong become their battle pets. They could also help Qingyang and Hong Zong regain blood energy and regrow flesh and blood.

When this suggestion was put forward, Hong Zong was immediately tempted.

But Qingyang did not accept.

Firstly, Qingyang's original body was up above, so compared to re-condensing, he preferred his original body.

After all, upon reaching this place, beings like "Initial" could be said to be god-like existences.

In order to have Qingyang help him improve his strength, Jin Hua, after some thought, chose to cooperate with Qingyang rather than form a partnership.

In fact, this was also a bit of Jin Hua's selfish intention.

Just think, whether they developed a friendship with Qingyang during their subsequent cooperation, or if Qingyang's original body was actually gone,

then in the future, wouldn't Qingyang only be able to become his battle pet?

To take a step back, if Qingyang really found a way back and his original body was still there, then when Qingyang came down as an "Initial," wouldn't he soar even higher?

And so, Jin Hua, Jin Sheng, Qingyang, and Hong Zong, each with their own hidden agendas but with great mutual understanding, reached a cooperation agreement.

Donglin City can be understood as a section, rather than a single city.

A force that manages a section of the region.

On this day, as Jin Hua and Jin Sheng each rode Hong Zong and Qingyang respectively, after seeing Donglin City from afar, Qingyang couldn't help but feel a moment of daze.

Below Donglin City, as far as his eyes could see, it was like daytime, with densely packed Bone Beasts slaughtering each other in order to gain advancement and successfully enter the city.

As "official personnel," Jin Hua and Jin Sheng, without a doubt, directly entered the city with Qingyang and Hong Zong in a grand manner.

The city was not a city, but merely a symbol.

Because when Qingyang and Hong Zong eagerly entered the city, they discovered that it was still a desolate area before them.

Compared to the Flowing Land, this "in-city" wilderness actually seemed to have a bit more vitality.

In many empty areas, Qingyang even saw some Bone Beasts peddling goods.

Among them, flesh and blood were the most popular. Qingyang saw with his own eyes that as soon as a piece of flesh and blood, only the size of an adult's arm and emitting a Ninth-Order aura, appeared, it would be immediately snatched up by countless Bone Beasts.

In addition, Qingyang discovered here that zhen crystal were truly abundant.

zhen crystal were also a commodity, but there were very few "people" buying them.

They were like Chinese cabbage, too many, and no one wanted them.

After entering the city, Hong Zong and Jin Sheng left and continued straight towards the east.

According to Jin Hua, the two of them had gone to earn resources.

As for Qingyang and Jin Hua's purpose, it was to inquire about how to go up, or find a way to transmit messages to the living beings on the Blue Star Surface.

In the following few days, Qingyang discovered that in this Donglin City, or rather the entire Inner Realm, almost all living beings were equipped with one beast and one person as standard.

Even on the backs of some Bone Beasts, there was just a Human skeleton.

After asking Jin Hua, Qingyang learned that in the Inner Realm, Humans are small in size and can collect enough resources to restore their physical bodies at the fastest speed.

Afterwards, whether Humans devour or refine those energies, flesh and blood, etc., they can generate blood energy, which in turn can nourish their battle pets, allowing them to quickly acquire physical bodies as well.

Including, if one day, both Humans and battle pets successfully reach a state of having flesh and blood, who can guarantee that neither side will be injured?

As long as they can be injured, this relationship will never be broken, because only the blood energy of Humans can heal the injuries of Fierce Beasts. As for the Fierce Beasts themselves, in the Inner Realm, they absolutely cannot recover from injuries related to flesh and blood.

This is caused by the environment of the Inner Realm, or rather, it is the powerful living beings in the Inner Realm who deliberately caused it.

Their main purpose is to limit the destruction caused by the combat power from the Blue Star Surface after they descend.

As for how it is limited, no one knows.

Just as Qingyang and Jin Hua had been wandering for many days and asking countless times, they finally got a clue.

A Spirit Fox Bone Beast said that it had a way to transmit information upwards.

But the price was a five-jin piece of Ninth-Order flesh and blood.