Chapter 168: The End of the Known World
"The boundless continent will eventually be boundless, and the predecessors who have the peak powerhouse of the god realm can't see the hope of advancement, and it is estimated that the longevity is limited after all, so he once spent more than five hundred years of low-key and low-key travel with the help of some special magic weapons at the peak level of the god transformation, and became one of the very few lucky people who did not disappear on the way, and finally explored some of the virtual realities of the known world. It is said that the boundless continent has a range of nearly 2 trillion li from north to south and more than 3 trillion li from east to west. Legend has it that a strong man at the peak of the god realm traveled far away to the sea and arrived at the edge of the sky thousands of miles away, but finally encountered a powerful mana enchantment. I think it's the convenience created by the Creator or some other more powerful god. ”
The information in the book, combined with some images that have not been recorded for a long time, finally gave Zhang Fan a general idea of the size of the Boundless Continent, which had never been spied into the whole picture before. Of course, with Zhang Fan's common sense, although the range of one trillion to 1.5 trillion kilometers within a radius of two or three trillion miles, one trillion to 1.5 trillion kilometers seems very large, if you calculate it carefully, it is only the size of one to zero tenths of a light year. It's not necessarily too unusual in the vast universe. However, after knowing this, Zhang Fan roughly guessed that the distant stars and galaxies in the night sky of this world that seemed to be similar to the earth's plane might just be some kind of man-made illusion...
The idea in the book goes on to explain: "In the vast continent, our predecessors did not have the opportunity to learn the real information during their five hundred years of travel, and perhaps the estimate of the population and the size of the monks may not be accurate. However, from the general impression of the places passed, it can be inferred that the population density in the entire boundless continent should not be too far away from that of the West Sea area. On average, there is only about one population in a radius of 100 miles. The total number of monks should be between five and eight trillions, that is, between five and eight trillion yuan, and the total number of monks is roughly estimated to be about ten trillion according to statistical checks, with an average of less than 100 million people per monk. In many other places, although the cultivation conditions are far from being comparable to those in the Xihai region, even the very low threshold from Qi refining to the foundation building period will have fierce competition and even all kinds of unexpected risks. Therefore, really, the proportion density of the Avatar Cultivators is still only about twenty or thirty times that of the Xihai Xuanfa Sect, probably less than one in 100 million. Therefore, it is estimated that the total number of monks in the realm of transforming into gods should be around 150,000 to 200,000. Most of them stay in the realm of the high level of the god or the powerhouse. The cultivators of the Void Refining Realm never seemed to be on the Boundless Continent. Legend has it that the elimination rate from the Transformation of God to the Refining Void Realm is not very high, but the monks who break through to the Refining Void Realm will specially enter another world space to receive retraining and shaping, as if they were reincarnated. Therefore, many powerhouses in the realm of transforming gods would rather open a sect in this nether realm, and would rather be the head of a chicken than a phoenix tail... ”
Zhang Fan continued to watch for a long time, and also learned a lot of things about the cultivation of the Boundless Continent and even the Refining Void Realm that he didn't know before, and some things seemed to have suddenly come to his senses.
Obviously: The power of the upper realm "raises Gu" on the plane, of course, is not to raise Gu Kings for themselves, and they don't want to cultivate strong people who are a group of selfish, especially fond of posing scores, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and have no sense of small soldiers and cannon fodder consciousness at all. The so-called refining of the gods is very likely to be for the sake of some kind of upper realm war needs of the heteroplane, so that these people who are used to being the masters of the senior sect masters of the masters have the consciousness of the younger soldiers who are forbidden by order. Judging from all indications, there is a good chance that the cultivated Void Refining Realm cultivators will be engaged in a cruel and tragic war on the Alternate Plane.
Of course, Zhang Fan was not too surprised by this result, this was obviously much stronger than the possibility that he had expected that the Ascended One would become a food supplement for the Upper Realm, and he would still have hope to get ahead.
As for things like the old age with his relatives after carving out a foundation in the western part of this boundless continent, Zhang Fan roughly gave up after a little thought: If the purpose of the Upper Realm is to cultivate cannon fodder, how can it be possible for those powerhouses of the God Transformation Realm to be wasted in peace? Maybe after the end of life, they will face an even more miserable hell.
Of course, the most important thing now is obviously not to rush to the "mainstream world" hundreds of billions of miles away to participate in the training of the Void Refining Realm, and there is still a distance to go at that stage for example. Instead, it is important to strive to improve one's own strength, and at the same time let the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Xuanfa Sect's society and billions of cultivators have enough means to protect themselves as soon as possible.
And all of this is inseparable from two words: four words to fight monsters: fight monsters and upgrade...
When Zhang Fan finally came out of the Qiankun shield in the Scripture Pavilion, more than two months had passed outside, and in this not too long time, although the people around Zhang Fan were not very high in cultivation, because of their unique status, they were flattered and even given by many senior monks in the entire central Hengcheng.
Ye Ruyun, Ye Ruyue, Sun Mei'er and others who were in charge of these things didn't know what Zhang Fan's true attitude was towards these things, so they could only temporarily reserve the gifts they received and wait for Zhang Fan's disposal after he returned.
With Zhang Fan's spiritual power at this time, of course, he also discovered something after returning to the Central Holy City. couldn't help but sigh to the third girl: "What you did is not right, of course, you can be blamed for this." In the mundane world, many customs are like this. Although many of the things sent are what you need, the only way I can do it now is to punish the three of you severely, and punish those who flatter you as well. Because this invisibly reflects an ideology of seeking one's own interests by unscrupulous means, a refined ideology of egoism, which is contrary to the ideals of Wang Er's predecessors. I sentence you to be imprisoned in the Central Holy City for sixty years with those people, of course, because of the higher cultivation of those people, the punishment is more severe for you. But have you figured it out, but what do you think?"
"We know we are wrong! The third girl said without regret at this time. Of course, Zhang Fan can feel different degrees of grievances and even some dissatisfaction from the hearts of the three women, but in terms of its extent, it may be the degree that the three women themselves may not be able to perceive. This also made Zhang Fan secretly admire that he was worthy of being a character he carefully selected from the mortal world.
Of course, Zhang Fan's approach also has a lot of dissatisfaction in the Central Holy City, and it is not so slight, but Zhang Fan bluntly conveyed some of his ideas to the whole city: "The strong among our monks is not without the awe of others, and the entire power system will face a major crisis of the mortal emperor. Our position comes from our own strength. Don't be afraid, the monks and even the general public have become chivalrous. If the mundane world under your rule becomes a democratic society with strong people's morals, will you no longer be able to become the leader of the word? I am afraid that because you can learn more information more conveniently, it will be more beneficial for the whole society to solve some of the accumulated evils and strengthen your own influence... Hearing this, many of the Yuanying monks were finally relieved.
Zhang Fan didn't waste too much time in the area of the Central Holy City, after dealing with the affairs in the family, leaving behind some people who made mistakes and even punished, he still let the main body of the True Martial Sect and even his juniors who were not at fault return to the Qiankun Shield, but left a lot of rules and instructions, and then prepared to embark on the hunting journey alone.
The reason is actually very simple, the huge difference in the speed of time flow inside and outside the Qiankun shield still brings a lot of inconvenience after all, and some of the farther places you want to go to undoubtedly have to go through at least more than a year of flight time, so that many juniors will waste too much precious time in the Qiankun shield that is not rich in resources. . .
Of course, there is also a risk of one kind or another to a large extent, such as a counterattack by a remnant of a strong enemy that may not have been discovered. However, after Zhang Fan thought about it for a long time, in the future, it is still impossible for those people to always be under his own protection, and only by experiencing the most adequate sense of crisis and even risk may be able to make those younger generations really grow up.
In order to maximize his strength during the time he was about to leave, especially to make use of the technological upgrading potential of the mortal world, Zhang Fan finally left behind a "governance program" and a "guiding outline" as he did when he was in the West Sea Continent
The first step in the program of practical government is to adjust the population distribution, and it is expected that the population will eventually be replenished by the territories under the various sects within a radius of 10 miles from the core area of the central holy city. To create a center of "scientific and technological upgrading" with selected people with certain wisdom, morality and quality. The total size of the population of the mortal realm should be around two trillion.
Mineral and energy shortcomings Zhang Fan also figured out a lot of methods when he was in the Zangjing Pavilion: with the assistance of hundreds of millions of monks of the Xuanfa Sect, at least in terms of energy and power output, in addition to hunting and mining, you can also cultivate some demon beasts of the first and second order or so of the Qi Refining and Foundation Realm through hybridization and breeding to meet the demand for special materials and energy. After the two biggest hurdles of materials and energy have been overcome, all that remains is the study of sigils and spells.
There is no doubt that in this fantasy plane with aura and mana, in a sense, even if there is a lack of many minerals and petrochemical energy on the earth, there should be means to complete the upgrade to a scientific and technological society of the nature of the Douluo Continent, and this upgrade is almost inevitable because it does not need to waste a lot of time on the accumulation of material science and even process experience under special arrangements, coupled with a larger population and science and education system, it is almost inevitable that the process is obviously faster than the history of the earth's industry.
Of course, after a rough calculation, Zhang Fan thought that this might not be much of a threat to him. At the end of the day: cultivation and speed will still limit the source of energy and materials, and eventually become a new peace. Zhang Fan estimates: Even if the "technological society" created by himself can threaten the current self in a few decades, it may not be able to threaten the self after a series of upgrades in a few decades...
After making the necessary arrangements, Zhang Fan finally rushed to a mysterious place three hundred billion miles away, which was not too far away from the central holy city of the Xuanfa Sect. According to the overview map within a radius of 100 billion miles given to him by Wang Er, it was the closest dangerous place for a ninth-level demon beast to him. Because of the age difference in the source of information, it is actually not impossible that it is a gathering place of tenth-order stealth magic demon beasts. It belongs to a place where even Wang Er himself does not dare to take risks easily.
If Zhang Fan at this time was suddenly teleported to that vicinity, Zhang Fan also felt that he who had consumed a lot of money in the previous war might be more than lucky. However, in the middle of the route from that place, there was a spirit stone vein under the control of the evil sect, and there were a few hard-sect eighth-order dragon robbers, which could largely make up for a lot of Zhang Fan's previous consumption.
Through the teleportation array within the Xuanfa faction, Zhang Fan soon came to the vicinity of the spirit stone vein, which was not far from the core control area of the Xuanfa faction. In the previous battle, the god-level powerhouses of the evil Dao faction were swept away, and the peak of Jindan and even many Yuanying powerhouses also suffered heavy losses. In order to avoid being endangered, many powerhouses from various worlds gathered in the most important spiritual stone veins of this "Ten Thousand Law Divine Sect", ready to meet the possible counterattack at any time.
In fact, this is also the result of Zhang Fan's previous invitation to many Yuanying powerhouses who are good at divination in the Xuanfa Sect to do divination at a great price. If he did not deal a decisive blow to the already powerful Wanfa sect heretical forces, Zhang Fan could not be sure whether the harassment of external forces after his departure would interfere with his plans to upgrade and reform his social system.
When Zhang Fan approached the important spirit stone vein in the northeast of the Ten Thousand Law Sect, which was not too far away from the territory of the Xuanfa Sect, he roughly felt that there were not a few monks gathered there at this moment from more than 100,000 miles away. There were about 2,000 Yuanying powerhouses, more than 100,000 Jindan monks, and it took a lot of time to arrange a large array that was quite serious.
If this true potential is endorsed by a god-level powerhouse, for example, the top-level god-level formation with very high perception ability, it can still consume the previous god thunder cannon, and Zhang Fan, who is not too abundant in artificial inner pill energy, will bring some trouble, so Zhang Fan has to be cautious.
However, for Zhang Fan, who had practiced a lot of advanced exercises in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion at this time and had refined and innovated in the exercises, this did not seem to be much of a problem.
Zhang Fan did not rely on the Qiankun Shield, but used several transformational spiritual power interfaces containing a lot of spiritual power to wrap his body in flight, so that the energy radiation in his body was concentrated and scattered in several unrelated directions, and his stealth ability improved a lot, and to a certain extent, he was not afraid of possible exposure in high-speed flight.
(End of chapter)