Chapter 2: Heterogeneous
"If it's a living person, it might really be related to the violet light ...... but it might also be a trap."
Xu Qing's eyes were thoughtful and pondered.
He had been in the Ruined City for these days, and was profoundly aware of the existence of those who had been contaminated by the divine aura and transformed into foreign beasts, each of which was incomparably ferocious and powerful.
But perhaps it was because the forbidden zone hadn't been completely formed yet, most of these foreign beasts slept during the daytime.
Unless he had intruded into the outer area of their sleeping place, as he had done last time when he had obtained the bamboo slips.
Otherwise, if he was careful during the day, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Compared to them, Xu Qing was more wary of the living, as there were times when the human heart was more sinister than the beasts.
So after thinking about it, his eyes slowly cold and stern, no matter if it is a living person or not, if it is a trap or not, that area ...... he is ready to go once again.
Only when traveling, he needed to be fully prepared.
Thinking of this, Xu Qing grasped the cultivation bamboo slip in his hand.
The changes in his body from these days of cultivation had given him some stamina, and his mind couldn't help but conjure up the introduction to cultivation in the contents of the bamboo slip, in addition to the gongfu.
Cultivation, inherited from the ancient years before the arrival of the remnants of the gods.
Nowadays, although there were changes, the overall system was still continued.
It was divided into Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Node Dan, and Yuanying.
As for after YuanYing, perhaps the realm was too high to be recorded on the bamboo slip, but it clearly stated the helplessness of the cultivator's cultivation.
Due to the breath of the gods invading the spiritual energy, the spiritual energy was polluted, and this pollution was like a strong poison to all things.
I don't know when it started, but everyone referred to the divine spirit's breath, as heterogeneous.
Xu Qing knew very well that the icy cold he felt when he practiced before was actually due to the heterogeneous quality mixed within the spiritual energy he inhaled.
Once this heterogeneous quality accumulated within the body to a certain extent, it would cause the cultivator to alienate, either dying violently and becoming a blood mist, or transforming into a godless heterogeneous beast.
The area that the deity opened his eyes to look towards, where the concentration of heterogeneous matter instantly skyrocketed, was actually just accelerating this change instantly.
Cultivation, there were dangers.
But if you don't go to cultivate, in this end world filled with the contamination of the gods' breath, people's lifespans are generally reduced, and there are many maladies, just like living in the Nine Hells of Purgatory, and almost no one can have a good death.
Therefore, cultivation has become the only way after there is no choice.
So for countless years, people according to the inheritance, evolved a generation of cultivation method.
The one circulating today was to absorb spiritual energy while utilizing a gong method to separate the heterogeneous qualities that were mixed in with the spiritual energy, and compress them in a certain location of the body.
This location is known as the point of alienation.
Therefore, the proportion of separated heterogeneity became an important criterion for distinguishing the merits of a gong method.
And almost all of the high separation ratio gong methods were mastered by large powers or clans, it was an important resource for them, and this was practically the same regardless of whether or not a deity had arrived.
And depending on the merit method cultivated, the degree of separation of heterogeneity was not the same, and the area where the alienation point existed was therefore different as well.
But no matter what, as long as one cultivates, there will be heterogeneity, and alienation points will slowly form.
And the alienation point is theoretically irreversible, although it can be dissolved through some elixirs, but it also treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
As for the method to completely purify the alienation point, it was also mentioned in the bamboo slip.
In the Mordor World, in addition to the Southern Phoenix Continent, there also existed an even more majestic continent called Wanggu.
The origin of the human race there, although also in the divine breath pollution, but seems to have found a way to completely purify.
However, it is clear that this approach is not quantifiable, only the extremely noble people, can enjoy.
Ordinary cultivators could not hope for it.
As for the largest number of low-ranked loose cultivators, it was even more impossible to obtain.
And most of the gong methods of the scattered cultivators were extremely low in the degree of separation, so not only was it difficult to cultivate, the risk of alienation was also even greater.
Despite the fact that the risk of cultivation was so great, for most people, the figure of a cultivator, too, was still common.
Xu Qing, for example, knew that his current self could also be considered a casual cultivator.
Although according to the records on the bamboo slips, the cultivators of the Mordor world, everyone was walking on a difficult and perilous path of no return, just like mortals swimming to the deep sea, running to that unattainable shore.
Often, before they can see the other shore of the legend, they have already exhausted themselves and died.
But Xu Qing, who grew up in the slums, knew profoundly that a single conflict, a single disease, could cost a person his life.
"So instead of worrying about the future alienation, it's better to worry about whether or not you'll be alive tomorrow."
Xu Qing muttered, touching the wound on his chest and looking at the sky outside the gap.
At this moment, it seemed like it wasn't far from dawn outside, and the hissing and mournful sounds were all much less.
"If the blood rain keeps continuing and we haven't found the purple light yet, we have to consider leaving and going to another city to look for medicinal herbs." Xu Qing looked down at his wound.
Because of the pervasive divine aura and the continuation of the blood rain, almost all of the items within the city were heavily contaminated, and medicinal herbs were among them, with resources being scarce.
Xu Qing raised his hand and pressed on his chest wound, and some blood seeped out.
His face was a little pale, and after taking a deep breath, he took off the shirt inside his leather jacket and wrapped it around his back, tying up his wound, he picked himself up and silently waited for dawn.
Not long after, the hissing and bleakness of the outside world diminished more and more.
Until they disappeared completely, Xu Qing noticed through the gap that the sky outside was already cloudy.
Based on his past experience, it was possible to go out at this moment.
However, he didn't move immediately, but instead stood up and moved his somewhat stiff body.
Until he was flooded with warmth, he moved away the stone debris blocking the gap, and with the help of the faint light coming from outside, he opened his leather pouch and organized it.
A dagger, covered in rust, was strapped to the side of his calf.
The ebony black iron stick, was placed in the most accessible position he could get his hands on.
There was also a snake's head, which he wrapped in burlap, carefully opened and inspected, then cautiously put it away again.
After doing so, Xu Qing closed his eyes, and after a few breaths, he jerked them open, his eyes having been replaced by calmness.
He darted out of the crevice and paused at the exit.
After vigilantly looking around to make sure that there were no obstacles, Xu Qing made a violent dash to the outside world as the sky gradually brightened.
Sprinting toward the front.
Due to the constant blood rain and dense clouds, the sun could not be seen at dawn here, much less a strong sunlight.
The dim morning sun was like a sickly old man with longevity spots, and the cloudy gaze seemed to still retain the frost of the night.
And the breath that was exhaled turned into the early morning wind, blowing the smell of death, very cold, very cold.
If he hadn't warmed up, his entire body would involuntarily shiver when blown by the wind.
But for Xu Qing, his body still retained the warmth from before, so he wasn't affected too much.
At this moment, his speed did not decrease, and he headed straight for the area where he saw the presence of suspected living people yesterday.
From afar, within the empty city, Xu Qing's silhouette was like a panther, jumping on top of a broken wall, traveling without the slightest pause.
And accompanying him was a flock of flying birds flying through the sky, only that they were so high up that they were difficult to capture.
As he sped along, Xu Qing looked up at the flying birds in the sky and licked his lips.
He didn't know what the reason was, but after the gods opened their eyes, all living things were contaminated and almost all of them died, including the beasts as well, but only the birds survived the most.
And these birds were the focus of his hunting to relieve his hunger during this time.
At the same time, although birds were also trapped in the blood rain, they seemed to instinctively be able to find some safe spots of refuge, such as Xu Qing's hole in the ground, which he had previously discovered by following the birds' tracks.
This kind of shelter point was actually not absolutely safe, it was just that relatively speaking, it seemed to be easier to be ignored by those foreign beasts and weirdness.
Xu Qing had discovered two places over these times, one being its stone cave and the other being outside the City Lord's Mansion.
But at the moment, he merely swept across the sky before withdrawing his gaze and locking onto one of the city's directions, getting closer and closer.
Soon, Xu Qing neared the area he had been looking at yesterday, and instead of going directly over, he circled around to find a high point.
After carefully climbing up, he plopped down, motionless, eyes narrowed to reveal as little light as possible, slowly looking down.
At a glance, the pupils of Xu Qing's eyes closed, and he once again saw the person from yesterday!
The other party was sitting against the wreckage, neatly dressed and with normal skin.
The most important thing is ...... that his demeanor, his body, his everything was actually exactly the same as what Xu Qing looked at yesterday.
It was as if the other party had not moved a bit for the entire night.
This is extremely unreasonable.
If the other party was a living person, the dangers that existed within the darkness of the city could not possibly be ignored.
If the other party was a dead person, this uncontaminated corpse was the best food for those beasts, so it was just as impossible to exist until now.
Xu Qing was silent, after internal contemplation he lay there motionless, the slums grew up, he did not lack patience.
So just like this, under his careful gaze, time slowly passed, until noon passed, that person remained motionless.
Xu Qing, who had already waited for three hours, pondered and then gently raised his right hand, a stone was grasped in his hand and shot out towards the other party's location.
This stone was very fast, the impact was not small, and when it landed on the body of the figure at the wreckage, it made a thud.
That figure then shook, even like a corpse fell to the side.
And at the moment he fell, a ray of purple aura was revealed on the ground where he once sat.
The moment he saw the purple aura, Xu Qing's eyes revealed a brilliant light and his breath caught.
He had searched all these days for the purple light that he had once seen descending within the city.
At this moment, he forcibly restrained the urge to immediately go over, and after waiting with difficulty for a few more moments to make sure there was no obstruction, he violently rushed out.
The speed was so fast that he almost exploded all of his strength, the whole person was like a falcon, heading straight to where the purple light was.
After arriving in a hurry, he grabbed the purple light, his figure shot backwards without hesitation to get away.
The entire process was extremely fast, until he retreated more than ten feet away, Xu Qing only panted and stopped his body, looking towards the purple light emitted by the thing grasped in his hand.
It was a purple crystal, crystal clear, with a dazzling beauty.
Xu Qing's heart thumped and accelerated, and when he looked up, he saw the fallen corpse, and it seemed that due to the loss of the shelter of the purple light, his clothes were corroding with the naked eye at the moment, and his skin had instantly become greenish-black.
This scene made Xu Qing instinctively grasp the purple crystal in his hand even tighter, turning towards his hole in the ground, running at a rapid pace.
And shortly after running, Xu Qing's footsteps suddenly lurched, his complexion somewhat confused.
Lowering his head, he unwrapped his leather jacket and looked towards his bound chest.
There was no longer any blood seeping out there, and instead, a gust of itchiness surfaced.
Xu Qing's eyes stared as he tore open the remnants of his own tautly wounded coat, his mind shaking intensely as he looked at the wound.
He clearly remembered that when he checked early in the morning, the wound had not healed, and even blackened more, but now ......
His chest wound, has actually healed most of it, the edge position is only a shallow scar!
"This ......" Xu Qing breathed in sharply, then fiercely looked at the purple crystal in his hand.
