Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Wandering around inside the massive city filled with curiosity, Chu Yang soon found himself standing in front of a branch of the Explorer Union larger than any branch he had seen before. Even after entering the core region of the continent, it seemed like the Explorer Union was difficult to avoid, as they seemed to be present everywhere.

Although, compared to other branches he had seen in the past, this branch was clearly different… And walking into the branch, he quickly discovered why, as the inside not only contained the standard areas for trading, missions and registering, but also had half of its interior changed into what looked like some kind of research facility that was open to the public. Allowing him to see that there were a large number of people busing themselves studying several large ancient stones covered in what he could only guess to be some kind of ancient language.

Asking around a bit inside of the Explorer Union branch to try and find out more about this rather strange new addition to the Explorer Union, it didn’t take long before he was told that they were studying the ancient language that had been inscribed on the ancient stones.

The stones themselves originated from a ruin that was located below the city itself and was also the main reason why such a large branch had been established by the Explorer Union.

Apparently, the ancient stones with ancient language inscribed into them were incredibly valuable in the eyes of the Explorer Union and were bought by them for a high price. Resulting in an influx of people coming to explore the ruins at the bottom of the hole in the past to get their hands on the ancient stones.

In the end, this was what had caused the city to grow to its current size, while also earning it the name of Deep Pit City, a simple name that highlighted the importance of the deep hole or pit that the city itself was built inside of.

However, when asking around about the ruins that were located below the city, Chu Yang didn’t manage to learn anything other than the fact that it was an extremely dangerous place that had even claimed the lives of several Soul Ascension Realm cultivators in the past, while at the same time preventing anyone above the Soul Ascension Realm from entering the ruins.

In a sense, it was also because of this that the ruins were still around and the Deep Pit City still at a level that few cities in the entire neutral region could reach.

I really want to take a look at those ruins now…

Thinking this to himself as he finished learning everything, he could about the origin story of the Deep Pit City and the ruins located beneath the city, Chu Yang didn’t waste much time standing around inside the Explorer Union before leaving and heading down towards the ruins to take a look himself.

Although the ruins were extremely dangerous and had even claimed the lives of several Soul Ascension Realm cultivators in the past, the danger was limited to those entering the ruins. Standing outside the ruins and observing them without entering was safe to do.

If not, there would have been no way for such a large city to have been established directly above the ruins without encountering any problems.

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”So, these are the ruins below the Deep Pit City? Less impressive than I expected…” Arriving at the bottom of the hole that the Deep Pit City was built inside of, Chu Yang could not help muttering this to himself in somewhat disappointed voice as he looked at the ruins that were supposedly behind the growth and continued success of the Deep Pit City.

The reason itself being rather simple, as the ruins were only a small gathering of around five or so ancient buildings barely standing at the bottom of the hole.

Even though he didn’t doubt the danger or treasures inside those ruins considering that there was no reason for the few people in the Explorer Union to lie about something like that, he could not help wondering how those few ruins were behind the prosperity of the city above. Especially considering the few descriptions of the ruins he had heard described something much grander than the few lone buildings in front of him.

”First time at the ruins? Hehe, this reaction is always the same.” Just at this moment, a feminine voice suddenly called out to him from behind, causing him to spin around with a surprised look on his face. Not having sensed the other party approaching him.

Turning around to see a middle-aged woman with a slight smile on her face, Chu Yang quickly calmed down as he also clearly sensed that the other part was only in the Fourth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm. Although her concealment methods were incredibly impressive, she wasn’t strong enough to pose a threat to him even if he was caught off guard.

Not to mention, it seemed that the woman hadn’t approached him with hostile intentions, or she would have likely already taken the opportunity to ambush him instead of calling out to him.

Then again, he couldn’t let his guard down just because of this, as there was still a chance that she didn’t make a move due to how close they were to the Deep Pit City.

After all, even though there weren’t anyone saying not to fight inside or around the city itself, it was still clear that doing so might cause one of the Soul Ascension Realm cultivators inside the city to make attack to prevent the city from being affected by a battle.

”Who might you be?” Shaking his head as he threw these thoughts to the back of his head for now, Chu Yang instead focused his attention back on the woman who had approached him. Curious about why she had decided to approach him.

”A seasoned explorer of this place if I do say so myself and don’t take this the wrong way, but my reason for approaching you is to give you a friendly reminder that the ruins in front of you are not the true ruins, but instead just an entrance to them. Inside all five of those buildings, there are functioning teleportation formations linked to the ancient ruins.” Saying this, the woman suddenly began point towards the different buildings. ”The teleportation formation in that one broke down a few hundred years ago, those two lead to the core part of the ancient ruins and are also the ones those now dead Soul Ascension Realm cultivators went through in the past, while the other two are considered safe for people like us to go through.”

Listening to the words of the woman who had suddenly approached him, Chu Yang could not help showing a look of understanding on his face, as he realized why there were so few ruins at the bottom of the hole.

But after this realization, he couldn’t help looking back towards the woman who had helped him out. Wondering why she had decided to lend him a hand for seemingly no reason.

After all, what she had told him was no short of being lifesaving advice considering that he might have accidentally ended up going through one of the more dangerous teleportation formations and found himself in a place that even someone in the Soul Ascension Realm would find hard to survive in.

”What is it you want…?” For this reason, Chu Yang decided to just be straight forward as he directly asked her. Not wanting to waste time with meaningless chatter.

”Hehe~ Well, now that you do mention it, I did have something I wanted to ask about… Using the ancient teleportation formations isn’t entirely free and requires twenty high grade spirit stones. Considering that more than one person can use the teleportation formations at the same time, I was wondering if we could take one together a split the cost. After all, twenty high grade spirit stones are a rather steep price to pay for using a single teleportation formation. Not to mention, it cost the same to go back through the teleportation formation…”

”That’s it? Sure, we can go together.”

Hearing that she just wanted to save a few spirit stones on entering the ancient ruins, Chu Yang could not help feeling a bit relived as he nodded his head in approval without a second thought. Agreeing to cover half the spirt stones required to activate the ancient teleportation formation.

The reason why he decided to enter the ancient ruins now instead of just looking at them like he had first decided to do was rather simple, as he could also use this trip to ensure the safety of the teleportation formation, as he doubted that woman would enter a dangerous teleportation formation willingly.

Not to mention, twenty high grade spirit stones were indeed a rather high price for normal Domain Lord Realm cultivators. Even if Domain Lord Realm cultivators in the core region might have more spirit stones, twenty high grade spirit stones should still be valuable.

”Great! Let’s get going then!”

Seeing that he agreed, the woman smiled happily as she wasted no time in rushing towards one of the two ancient teleportation formations leading to safer part of the ancient ruins. Taking out ten high grade spirt stones before placing them inside an ancient teleportation formation.

Whoosh~

Noticing nothing out of the ordinary and sensing nothing dangerous during the entire process, Chu Yang cautiously followed behind her before similarly taking out ten high grade spirit stones before placing them inside the teleportation formation, causing it to light up for a brief moment as a spatial power swept over both of them and teleported them away the next moment.