Collecting Interest

A figure flickered dozens of miles away in an instant, overtaking a huge and vast wasteland in a few seconds. 

The figure suddenly appeared above the sky, a silent spirit sense scanning the entire place rapidly. 

"I think there should be no more spiritual resources in this area..." 

Ling Tian whispered lightly as his spirit sense swept the entire place. 

However, a somewhat satisfied smile appeared on his face. After all this time, Ling Tian had found several heavenly treasures and abundant spiritual resources! 

"I have traversed almost the entire wasteland and deserted zone of the western and northern area of the south state, but I haven't found any more natural treasures..." 

Ling Tian's spirit sense had covered much of the place as he teleported back and forth every moment. 

"Mhm?"

Ling Tian raised his eyebrow slightly as he sensed a trace of spiritual force through his spirit sense. 

Ling Tian teleported and appeared in front of the entrance of a cave hidden among what looked like a mountain range. He waved his arm and a barrier appeared in front of him. 

"Whoever has the courage to want to reach the heavens in one step must first face their fears and pass my tests..." 

An old voice but full of arrogance and haughtiness came out of this cave. 

"Reach the heavens in one step? Even I wouldn't dare to say that with such presumption." Ling Tian sneered and waved his hand once more. 

"Who dares to-" 

The voice suddenly stopped as a powerful force destroyed the barrier and all spiritual traces within it were reduced to nothing. Ling Tian's powerful spiritual force completely eliminated all weak force inside, leaving only objects and some spiritual weapons. 

Ling Tian took some things inside that were the inheritance of this unknown expert and threw them into his storage ring. 

After what happened with Luo Hongmeng, Ling Tian no longer felt like listening to the last wishes or wills of these weak existences, much less when their strength barely reached the Nascent Soul state and their would disappear in a short time even if he did nothing. 

"The south state is known to be one of the states with the least spiritual chi, but with the destruction of [The Great Seal of Divine Ancestral Protection] the density of spiritual chi increased to the point where it could somewhat reach the amount of spiritual chi in the east state and slightly of the north state, so then, the other states should contain much more spiritual aura." 

In some places where Ling Tian passed, he discovered large auras filled with spiritual chi. Of course, he absorbed all this aura into the Sacred Heavenly Scriptures, which were a bottomless pit and seemed to have no limit whatsoever. 

"I think it's time to leave this valley and return to the city..." 

Ling Tian concentrated and his spirit sense went in a certain direction, covering hundreds of miles in an instant. The power of the Sacred Heavenly Scriptures and his Soul Spiritual Force flowed out and tore through the space in front of him. 

Ling Tian entered the void calmly, before teleporting several more miles and again concentrating deeply to tear space again. 

Once Ling Tian stepped out of the void, the landscape had changed and the spiritual aura was much stronger than the previous valley. His spirit sense quickly expanded and he found several presences in the distance, as well as a city eventually. 

"Moushen City..." Ling Tian smiled slightly. In this place, he had begun his journey in cultivation and, especially, he had met Ning Xiaoyi and Xi Fei. His gaze drifted to a forest several kilometers away, smiling a little more as this was the place where he had first appeared upon being teleported from his original world of the lower plane. 

When Ling Tian arrived at the front of this city, some cultivators could be seen flying on their flying swords, while cultivators below double digits were flying by themselves, demonstrating the astonishing power of the Golden Core state. 

Ling Tian cast the spell himself as well that he was perfecting to go unnoticed so that his face wouldn't attract attention so easily 

Before wandering around the small town, Ling Tian quickly headed to the mainland communication station in search of some news from his disciples. In the past, Ling Tian and his disciples had created a secret code to communicate across the world when sharing valuable information by covering it with ordinary information that no one would pay much attention to. 

"No news of Little Zhentian and the others... could something have happened to them?" 

After leaving the establishment, Ling Tian frowned when he found no news related to them. Although the odds of them suffering a mishap were not low, Hao Zhentian, Ying Chen and Sun Xiang are powerful experts of the Great Ascension state, so any movement on their part would not go unnoticed easily. Not even any news from Shin Wei in search of them appeared. 

But Ling Tian did find news from his female disciples, reporting that they had finally taken full control of the sect again and all was well on the north state side. Even information with his wives was also secretly shared, knowing that they were all well. 

Ling Tian left hidden information in the same way, reporting that he was fine and that Deng Tianjin and several sect disciples were on their way back there. 

"Have you heard? In several clans and families in the capital, their ancestors who have reached the level above the nascent soul, the body condensation realm have appeared!" 

"Really? body condensation realm cultivators?! If nascent soul realm cultivators can easily change the sky by waving their hands, then I can't imagine how powerful the body condensation realm is!" 

"Yes! A friend of mine says that he saw the sky above the capital suddenly change when two expert cultivators started fighting!" 

"Wow... I'd like to achieve that strength someday..." 

"Me too! And to achieve it I'm aiming to enter one of the pavilions or sects around the capital to become stronger!" 

Ling Tian stopped as he heard the astonished voices of a small group of people walking a few meters away near him. Ling Tian looked up slightly and silently paid attention to them. 

"So the capital, huh? Maybe little Zhentian and the others are there, or at least could there are traces that maybe they were there, since the teleportation zone is in that place..." Ling Tian quickly thought of the capital of the south state. 

There are many different cities, zones, borders and areas in the south state, but there are also huge and very important cities and places that everyone recognizes, such as the capital of the south state, as well as some cities of great importance as well. Sects, pavilions and academies are more famous and with a higher level of cultivation as they get closer to the capital of the south state. 

"But how will they do to teleport with everyone else..." 

However, Ling Tian remembered that the ability to use the teleportation zone was a limit of 5 people, and that there would already be risks due to the instability of space when moving quite a few people. And even more so that one has to pay an exorbitant amount of money and spiritual crystals to use it for each user. That is why many cultivators cannot afford to use the teleportation zone in their lifetime and opt for other longer, more tedious and dangerous means to travel to another state of the world, taking up to several dozen years to go from one state to another. 

"Will they have enough spiritual crystals and money?" Ling Tian raised his eyebrow and shook his head, unable to think if Hao Zhentian and the others would use the teleportation zone to travel to the east state and from there head to the north state where the residence and sect was located. 

"I'll have to go to the capital anyway, as I need to continue searching for information about medicinal grasses... with my current speed I think I'll be able to get there in a few hours." 

Ling Tian disappeared from the place quickly, teleporting out of Moushen City and heading in a specific direction. His past memories flowed again, recalling the direction to the capital from where he was. 

His gaze turned to see Moushen City already looking small in the distance, smiling softly before disappearing again. 

"If I remember correctly, the capital of the south state is Rongrou City... and the Wen clan and the Gongsun family are in that city~" 

The corner of Ling Tian's mouth turned up slightly; although Ling Tian doesn't care what others think or say about him, the matter changes when they directly involve him and are picking on him again and again. He had not forgotten these guys from both families who bothered him again and again in the nearby valley of Moushen City. 

"It's time to go collect interest~..." 

Ling Tian laughed lightly, remembering those annoying and nasty guys, especially those young bratty idiots who think they can rule the world with the background of their families and despise everyone they see.