Soul Island, words and repairs.

A full 10 days have passed since the explosion.

For all the cultivators in the Ascension Realm, this was the longest and darkest 10 days in everyone's more than 1,000-year immortal cultivation career.

This is especially true for Whitsunth Island.

The armies of the nine major factions besieging the Spirit Detection Island dispersed as soon as the nuclear explosion began, and after sensing that the aura of the entire Ascension Realm was gone, no one had the heart to waste even a little bit of aura around this broken island and the countless soul devouring arrays on the island.

This reason is very simple, just like in the agricultural era, if there is a natural disaster, this year's grain harvest is doomed to be all out - then everyone's first thought must be to go home and see how much grain is still stored at home.

Now, the aura of the entire Ascension Realm has been lost.

No one knows when it will be restored.

Everyone was checking the reserves of spiritual energy, up to the nine major sects of the great family, and down to the Spirit Island, many of the lowest level cultivators who couldn't even afford to use flying swords, who had just been reborn.

There is no big impact on the reserves for the time being, but the reserves are small......

"Flying Sword for Spirit Stone!"

"Soul Devouring Array for Spirit Stones, 100 for 1!"

"Sell yourself for spirit stones."

The word selling oneself is a completely new word in the Ascension Realm, but on Earth, it is a common word. When they were with Mr. Wu and them on the space station to discuss the endgame after the nuclear bomb exploded, Yan Xiu had heard them mention the word "selling oneself", of course, this word did not exactly match the meaning on the signboard in front of him, but as soon as Yan Xiu saw this sign, he immediately thought of it.

Out of curiosity, Yan Xiu went over and asked the other party what the word meant, and he hoped that it was just a misunderstanding of his own.

The storefront of this shop looks small, but it is just a signboard, and the goods displayed at the door are basically nothing of value, most of them are just some Soul Eater Arrays - after the nuclear explosion, there is no threat of war on the Spirit Eater Island, and the Soul Eater Array itself also needs wireless power to use, and now that the entire wireless power supply system has collapsed, this thing is naturally a waste. In addition, the magic weapons and flying swords that are common in other shops are not available in this shop.

But after walking in, Yan Xiu found that there is actually only one most important product in this store, and that is people.

His hope was not realized, it was not a misunderstanding, the meaning of the sign was what he understood.

Although the storefront of this shop was small, after passing some distance along a narrow passage, Yan Xiu suddenly entered a large open area.

Yan Xiu suddenly recalled that he seemed to have been here before-that time it was him and Wu Xiaoqing who came to do the business of spirit stone chong energy, at that time, it was also such a place, and there were also many people, these people used their bodies as a reservoir for spiritual energy, and injected the spiritual energy they absorbed into the spiritual stone.

For this job, they are only paid a fraction of the input aura, and some are still a small part of it—simply because they can't afford to buy spirit stones.

After seeing Yan Xiu come in, everyone's eyes hit him, and a few of them had the worst faces, and walked directly in front of Yan Xiu from the crowd: "Immortal, give a little aura, we can't support it anymore." ”

Yan Xiu noticed that the faces of these people looked very bad—their faces were pale, their bodies were emaciated, and their skin was dry and dull—a kind of complexion that had never been seen in the previous Ascension Realm.

For cultivators, everyone's body shape and posture are roughly similar, and some cultivators will deliberately train to be stronger because of some cultivation or tactical needs, but that's it. The upper limit may be high, but the lower limit - cultivators don't need to eat and drink, and maybe their cultivation is not very nourishing, but their physical condition is definitely excellent.

But these people in front of them, obviously, their lives are already on the verge of danger.

"What's wrong with them?" Yan Xiu immediately took out a few spirit stones from the backpack on his back, which were all saved before.

When the people around saw the spirit stones, almost all of them had light in their eyes, and as soon as Yan Xiu handed over the spirit stones, these spirit stones were caught by countless hands. Then on each spirit stone, countless hands began to stretch out - because there were too many hands stretched out, many people could not use their palms to receive spiritual energy as they normally would, most of them used a few, or a finger, and some were just a finger, gently resting on the spirit stone.

At first glance, these people seem to be plants growing from spirit stones.

Counting carefully, around each spirit stone, there were more than twenty hands receiving it. Behind these twenty or so people, there are more hands trying to penetrate - but the space around the spirit stone has been completely crowded, and these people are in a vain hurry behind, but there is no way to do it.

Even for those who reach it, the process of absorbing spirit stones is not easy at all. Because there are too many competitors, the contact between these people's fingers and spirit stones is intermittent, and replenishing spirit stones in this state will greatly reduce the efficiency. It's like a very hungry person drinking porridge through a thin coffee straw, the tube is already thin enough, and it takes a lot of strength to drink a little, and the straw is not very stable, and the drink is intermittent.

Yan Xiu waited for more than ten minutes, and only after the first batch of people who came had almost sucked it and was squeezed down by the latecomers did he hear them start talking about their affairs.

The reason is simple, it is the lack of aura.

After the nuclear explosion, the Nine Great Factions left, and the economic system based on the Soul Eater Array, which had just heated up, collapsed almost overnight.

Rather than fighting, another more pressing question was almost suddenly put in front of everyone - how would they survive without aura.

The search and rescue team once tested Yan Xiu's body in this regard, which is to calculate the amount of electricity that an ordinary flyer needs to consume every day to maintain basic physiological functions in a non-combat state.

The final test result was almost half a kilowatt-hour.

In this sense, the physiological cost of flying is quite low.

This cost is very acceptable even on earth, and ordinary air conditioners consume so much electricity when the temperature is low in summer, for an hour or two.

In the original flying civilization, this survival need is even more negligible. Even in the area where the aura is most scarce, such as the Nine Heavens Gate, the normal amount of aura absorbed by a flying person in a day is more than a few kilowatt-hours of electricity, and if it is in the original Qianyang Gate, it can save dozens of kilowatt-hours of electricity in a day.

In other words, in the original Ascension Realm, the income of the flying people for one day can sustain themselves for a month and a half.

It is precisely because survival itself is not a big deal for the flying people, and almost everyone regards this kind of aura income as some kind of subsistence - no matter how bad it is, it will be there anyway.

In normal times, the most that each cultivator does is to accumulate the spiritual energy in the body to a certain extent—usually this amount is half to one-third of the total storage, and then pass through various forms in one go, whether it is cultivation or injecting spirit stones, in short, they will choose to consume it all.

Cultivation is to increase the total reserves in the body and optimize the efficiency of the use of spiritual energy, which can be regarded as increasing the GDP of spiritual stones, and injecting spiritual stones is a kind of savings.

The result of these investments and savings, of course, is all consumed in the end in battle.

When the battle is lost, all the resources are cleaned, and the process is saved up after the battle is successful. Just like in economics, the formation of big capitalists and the proletariat is inevitable in the end, and in the Ascension Realm, nine factions are finally formed, and these people who can't even afford flying swords.

Needless to say, after a nuclear explosion, it is equivalent to an economic crisis, and they will tighten all their cash flow as soon as possible to ensure that their interests are not damaged in this disaster. And the latter......

Whether in nature or in the civilized world, or in any disaster – one thing is certain of all the civilizations that search and rescue teams have ever seen – the weak will always be the first to fall.

These people in front of Yan Xiu are undoubtedly typical of the weak.

"How many people are there on the entire Soul Island like you?"

"How many? That's not clear," the few people in the crowd who relied on Yan Xiu said one after another, "At least tens of thousands." How many died yesterday...... He died of thirst. ”

"It's starving." Someone on the side corrected.

"I felt that I died of thirst," said the man, "and when I died, the skin on my mouth was torn...... Doesn't it mean that after becoming an immortal, people will not die? ”

"You still believe this nonsense...... After a while, we will all starve to death. ”

These words caused a wail from everyone at the scene, and everyone's eyes looked at Yan Xiu again, looking at the backpack on his back.

Yan Xiu noticed at this time that because of the high-speed absorption of so many people, the light emitted by the few spirit stones he took out had gradually dimmed, and behind this weakened light, there were still a large number of people who had not obtained the spirit stones, and they all eagerly stretched out their hands one by one, as if this could give examples of spirit stones to be closer.

Yan Xiu almost subconsciously wanted to take out the Void Transformation Stone—but he still held back.

The Void Stone is his identity, and in the Ascension Realm, people don't care much about people's appearances - because everyone will be reborn, and their appearance will change.

Everyone's memory of identity relies on magic weapons, flying swords, and exercises. This time, Yan Xiu came with a different sword, and he didn't bring the Xuantie shield with him, and even covered his face with a piece of cloth just in case. It's because I'm afraid I'll be recognized.

You must know that for these people in front of you, you are the culprit who caused them to end up like this.