Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1030: Chapter 716: Sea of Spirit

The most anxious person at the moment is naturally Xuanzhen Taoist. He is already over 160 years old. Although he has not yet reached the verge of death, it’s not far off.

At most, he has twenty years!

Twenty years may be a long time for ordinary people, but it’s really not long for Xuanzhen.

Because even if he obtained a method to break through to the Innate Realm, it would still take time to cultivate. Whether he could successfully cultivate it or not is one thing, but just the time required for cultivation is definitely not something that can be accomplished in three to five years.

Yang Zhenshan looked at Xuanzhen, "Senior, it is best not to be impatient at this time. I estimate that obtaining a Martial God Realm cultivation technique is not that easy, this matter might be even more troublesome than we imagined!"

He was not speaking nonsense but was making a well-founded speculation.

To the west of the Stormy Sea Area, not to mention Martial God Realm techniques, even techniques at the level of Enlightenment are unavailable. Innate Martial Artists wanting to achieve Enlightenment can only explore on their own.

This might be due to the ineffable difficulty of Dao Intent, but there should at least be some cultivation techniques, right?

Besides Martial God Realm techniques, there is also the way of rune.

The way of rune is so miraculous, yet there is no inheritance in the Ten Thousand Miles Sea Domain, not to mention an inheritance, there isn’t even an item with rune present.

Due to the Stormy Sea Area, it’s inconvenient for the Ten Thousand Miles Sea Domain to connect with this side of the Dazhao Dynasty, which might affect the flow of cultivation techniques and items. But even with these inconveniences, there would inevitably have been some exchanges over the centuries, just like how Zhou Tianci once came to Dazhao and safely returned to Da Rong.

Yet he too didn’t obtain anything regarding the way of rune.

He had heard about the way of rune but had never come into contact with it.

All of this proves one thing: the inheritance of Martial God Realm techniques and the way of rune is extremely precious here, and they are very difficult to acquire.

"Let’s do this, let’s first head to the county city to take a look, the information we gather from a large city is definitely more than what we’d get in a county town!"

"If the Shaking Mountain Sect has the Martial God Realm inheritance, we’ll figure something out. If not, then we can only move elsewhere!"

Yang Zhenshan said.

Xuanzhen nodded, "Alright then, it’s good to gather more information too!"

The Dazhao Dynasty has thirty-six counties, its territory is about twice the size of Da’an now, spanning over ten thousand miles from east to west, and eight thousand miles from north to south.

And within the Dazhao Dynasty, the Martial Arts forces overall present a situation of being strong in the east and weak in the west; that is, the Martial Arts forces in the twelve western counties are weaker, whereas those in the eight eastern counties are much stronger.

The reason for this is that the eastern part of the Dazhao Dynasty is near the Sea of Spirit.

It is said that around the Sea of Spirit, there are many powerful forces, including ones with Martial God Realm masters.

Surrounding the Sea of Spirit are the Three Sects and Twelve Families, all of which are incredibly strong forces.

Although the Dazhao Dynasty is a vast dynasty, in reality, the royal Wei family of the Dazhao Dynasty is merely one of the Three Sects and Twelve Families around the Sea of Spirit.

Within the Dazhao Dynasty, the imperial family may refer to themselves as royalty, but outside of Dazhao, they have to refer to themselves as the Wei family of the Sea of Spirit.

The world to the east of the Stormy Sea Area operates by different rules compared to the world west of it.

In the world west of the Stormy Sea Area, be they ordinary people or Martial Artists, apart from strength, there are many things they revere such as the throne, power, etc.

But in the world east of the Stormy Sea Area, all power and thrones are trivial, everything holds strength as supreme.

Strength is truth; fairness can be swayed by the whim of the strong.

Yang Zhenshan and his party embarked on the journey to find Martial God Realm inheritance, and as Yang Zhenshan predicted, obtaining inheritance at the Martial God Realm level is even more difficult than they had previously imagined.

They first stayed in Crown County for a few days, then bought some carriages and horses with Silver Coin, disguised themselves as a caravan, and traveled east towards Lushan County.

Along the way, they saw many sights that they had never seen before.

The roadsides were overgrown with weeds, and they often traveled a whole day without seeing any sign of life. Yet there were many scattered and bleached bones among the weeds, and whenever they encountered a village, it was just an abandoned place long devoid of inhabitants.

Only some market towns still had some signs of life, but even these towns were seemingly the territories of Martial Arts forces.

Chaotic, desolate, barren—scene after scene unfolded before Yang Zhenshan and his party, weighing heavily on them.

They had experienced chaotic times before. In the late years of Da Rong, the world was in turmoil, and the people were destitute. Especially the three provinces of Longyuan, which were devastated.

But that was caused by natural disasters and man-made calamities, whereas this land before them was a fertile land. Those abandoned fields, with a bit of cultivation, could become fertile farmland.

There were no natural disasters here, only man-made calamities.

The sky vast, the wilderness appears endless, the main road winds like a white serpent across the barren wilderness, while the wheels ground over the rutted road, making creaking sounds, startling flocks of unknown birds among the grass.

Yang Zhenshan rode a chestnut-colored horse at the front of the group.

At the time, he was dressed in a black outfit with a long blade at his waist, with the appearance and demeanor resembling an ordinary worldly martial artist.

Following him were a dozen mule carts and several guards dressed similarly to him.

Everyone had changed into regular clothes. While they all carried weapons, they were merely ordinary kinds; their real weapons were concealed among the goods on the mule carts.