The Insect Race ultimately has a source, which is the insect hive.
As long as the insect hive is destroyed, the hidden danger of the Insect Race could be eliminated without a fight. Of course, for the insect hive to plunge Xianyuan City into such a state, its scale must be absolutely enormous, perhaps even more than one; otherwise, it could not possibly breed mbers comparably strong as cultivators from the Divine Sea Realm.
Lu Ye had experienced the Insect Plague at the Spirit Stream battlefield, but those insects were all from the Spirit Stream Realm, and the defense inside their hives was not substantial.
There are also insect hives in the secret realm of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, but those can be dealt with by the combined efforts of Cloud River Realm cultivators.
The power of Xianyuan City is definitely not weak. The current city lord is only from the spirit ground, showing no overt power, but he is definitely among the strongest in the Divine Sea Realm.
Given the power of Xianyuan City and the immortal nature of their spiritual bodies, it should not be difficult to deal with the insect hives if they truly intended to.
Ji Yuan smiled faintly, "You forgot what I just told you. Although we have immortal bodies thanks to the soul pool, we are completely bound to Xianyuan City. We spiritual bodies cannot easily leave this environnt. You might have noticed an opening in the sky earlier. That indeed is where the insect hive is located, but we... we can't go in!"
Lu Ye suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."
Therefore, the entire Xianyuan City was surrounded by a Great Sky Prohibition Array, because the spiritual bodies of Xianyuan City couldn't penetrate deep into the insect hive, so they directly set up the Great Sky Prohibition Array to prevent both the insect race and cultivators from flying too high, thereby making it easier for the cultivators to slay the insects.
Indeed, the existence of the Great Sky Prohibition Array is sowhat detrintal to the cultivators, but compared to the convenience it brings, those disadvantages are negligible.
"Thousands of years of endless cycles, the spiritual bodies of Xianyuan City remain immortal, but human nature is ultimately complex..."
This statent had been made by Ji Yuan once before, and now he repeated it.
"During this process, so people harbored many negative emotions: regret, annoyance, irritability, frustration, etc. Do not underestimate these negative emotions; for bodiless spiritual bodies, these emotions can often cause great harm, and so even attempted self-destruction, though it was bound to be unsuccessful."
Lu Ye listened quietly, his expression complex.
As an outsider, he indeed found it difficult to personally relate to the consequences of these negative emotions the city lord spoke of, and it was hard to imagine to what extent a spiritual body must be in despair and frustration to attempt self-destruction.
But he knew, the casual remark he made earlier had been validated by the spiritual bodies of Xianyuan City.
Thousands of years... indeed a difficult period to endure.
"How did you get through it?" Lu Ye asked. This ti inside, he had encountered only a few spiritual bodies, but it seed that those Xianyuan Guards, besides being unafraid of death, did not exhibit particularly abnormal emotions.
Last ti he was here, he encountered many Xianyuan Guards, but the spiritual intelligence of most of those guards seed not very high, even those who were team leaders acted in a very rigid manner.
"So Xianyuan City beca a secret realm!" Ji Yuan suddenly made a statent that Lu Ye completely couldn't understand.
Fortunately, he quickly explained, "The presence of living beings can greatly disperse the negative emotions of spiritual bodies, so a long ti ago, every once in a while when the insect race would not attack the city, an entrance to Xianyuan City would open sowhere, allowing cultivators from the Nine Provinces to enter."
The topic circled back.
Ji Yuan initially asked Lu Ye what a secret realm was, and after getting an answer, he then asked what kind of secret realm Xianyuan City was.
By now, the answer had surfaced.
The secret realm of Xianyuan City exists solely because the presence of living beings is needed to disperse the various anxious emotions within the city, hence the entrance opens periodically to allow cultivators from the Nine Provinces to enter.
Lu Ye didn't expect the truth to be like this.
Actually, when he entered last ti, he had already felt very strange because no matter the type of secret realm, cultivators entering it ultimately gain so opportunities or benefits.
But what about Xianyuan City? It seed not to offer many benefits; he himself had managed to carry so soul water out, but that was an exception.
The impression of Xianyuan City as a secret realm does not seem very good among the cultivators of the Nine Provinces; when those cultivators initially entered and realized they were in Xianyuan City, their faces changed dramatically, and there were even so who cursed loudly.
It can be said that the cultivators who entered Xianyuan City last ti, except for Lu Ye who garnered so benefits, left with very little else, while the cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge and the Haotian Alliance were nearly wiped out.
If the purpose of this secret realm were not for the cultivators to gain benefits, but instead to stabilize Xianyuan City itself, then that would explain it.
"So the Xianyuan Guards were capturing people everywhere and throwing them into the dungeon?" Lu Ye recalled another matter. Initially, when he held the token given by the lady in red, he had entered the dungeon, where there were many Nine Provinces cultivators captured, including those from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge and the Haotian Alliance, but the life force of those locked up seed to be rapidly draining away.
If it weren't for his tily arrival, Gu Canyang from the Surreptitious Palace would likely have been dead.
The so-called breath of the living is nothing more than a tangible vitality.
Ji Yuan nodded, "In the dungeon, there is an array that extracts vitality, connected to where the soul pool is located, which can to a certain extent dispel the negative emotions of the spiritual bodies. Therefore, when the secret realm is opened, the Xianyuan Guards, unless absolutely necessary, generally do not kill but capture instead."
Lu Ye thought about it carefully and realized that it was indeed the case.
Of course, heavens do not seal all exits; based on the true caliber of cultivators from Xianyuan City, cultivators from the Spirit Stream Realm entering here can hardly stir up any troubles.
Thus, during the opening of the secret realm in Xianyuan City, the strength of Xianyuan Guards entirely depends on the overall level of the cultivators entering here. Strong cultivators coming in make the guards strong, and vice versa, which also gives the Nine Provinces cultivators so room to fight back.
Another point is that the entrance to the secret realm of Xianyuan City opens in the Spirit Stream battlefield mainly because the group of cultivators in the Spirit Stream Realm is large enough that even so losses are easily replenished.
Over countless years, many cultivators from the two major factions have died within Xianyuan City, from both Ten Thousand Demons Ridge and Haotian Alliance. It's futile to judge Xianyuan City rely by notions of good and evil; the entire cultivation world of the Nine Provinces does not adhere to simple notions of good and evil.
Moreover, in the Spirit Stream battlefield, cultivators from both factions are always in a state of confrontation, and the secret realm of Xianyuan City at most provides a stage for their battles.
"Lord, you ntioned earlier that the opening of the secret realm sowhat alleviates the negative emotions of the spiritual bodies. Could there be other thods besides the vitality brought about by the opening of the secret realm?" Lu Ye inquired.
Ji Yuan was surprised, "Did I say so?"
Lu Ye nodded.
Ji Yuan, secretly amazed by Lu Ye's insight, paused slightly and asked, "Do you still rember why I appeared before you the first ti you ca here?"
Lu Ye thought hard for a mont—back then he was about to do sothing, and then the City Lord suddenly appeared in front of him, startling him because he had no awareness of him before that mont.
But what was he about to do at that ti?
It seed that he had been stopped...
"Breath Fruit Core?" Lu Ye suddenly rembered.
He had been staying bored in the small courtyard where he was settled, preparing to stimulate the power of the Breath Fruit Core to enter the Mirage Scene for training, but just as he took out the Breath Fruit Core, the City Lord appeared.
He vaguely rembered the City Lord telling him, "This object must not be used within Xianyuan City."
When Lu Ye asked why, the City Lord only ntioned that it would lead to so adverse consequences, though he did not specify what they were at the ti.
Last ti he entered, Lu Ye felt that there might be so connection between the Mirage Realm he entered using the Breath Fruit Core and Xianyuan City, but he couldn't find any concrete evidence at the ti.
Now it appeared that there was indeed a connection, at the very least, he had entered Xianyuan City again through two rged Breath Fruit Cores in a very special state.
"Let's just call it Breath Fruit Core," Ji Yuan said with a slight smile, revealing a charming expression befitting the city lord; alive, he must have certainly attracted the affections of many won, "The creatures you killed in the Mirage Realm through the power of the Breath Fruit Core are actually manifestations of the negative emotions of the spiritual bodies from Xianyuan City."
Lu Ye was astonished, having never expected the Mirage Realm connected by the Breath Fruit Core to have such a link with Xianyuan City.
But soon he felt sothing was amiss, "Those clawing and snapping insects, are they also crystallizations of the spiritual bodies' negative emotions?" It seed unlikely that any Xianyuan Guard's negative emotions would manifest as creatures of the Insect Race.
"You encountered the Insect Race?" Ji Yuan seed surprised, "The Insect Race is not, they must be... a thod to enrich your training process."
Lu Ye raised an eyebrow, sensing sothing significant, and pointed upwards.
Ji Yuan nodded almost imperceptibly, showing an expression that said, 'A pupil worth teaching.'
"That's why I did not allow you to utilize the Breath Fruit Core within Xianyuan City. Using it outside has no impact since the spiritual bodies are all in deep sleep, but using it within the city could very likely awaken them, thereby increasing the consumption of the soul pool."
"I see," Lu Ye nodded, then another thought ca to him, "So the connection of the two Breath Fruit Cores to Xianyuan City is also a... thod?" He pointed upwards again.
"It's good that you understand, no need to dig too deeply," Ji Yuan said, "The number of Breath Fruit Cores in the world must not be too small, and those that can connect to the Mirage Realm are certainly not limited to just the two you obtained. Their training in the Mirage Scene can also help relieve so of Xianyuan City's burdens."
"As the City Lord said, it's also likely that others have obtained more than two Breath Fruit Cores and rged them. Before this, no one has entered Xianyuan City in the sa manner as I did?"
Ji Yuan shook his head, "Unless during the opening of the secret realm, as an outsider, you are the first one."
Unless chosen, even if soone acquired many more Breath Fruit Cores, they could not possibly enter here inexplicably. However, Ji Yuan naturally wouldn't discuss such matters with Lu Ye—there were things he might speculate about, but he could only keep to himself and feign ignorance.
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