Jiang Li didn't find it strange that there were other worlds. Ancient books had long recorded that the world ruled by the immortals had countless worlds, and in each world, they had established the ladder to immortality. As long as the people in that world met the standards of immortality, they could ascend. Among these worlds, the Nine Provinces had the most immortals.
If there was an unknown world on the other side of the spatial crack, it was very likely to be one of the many worlds ruled by the immortal realm. Maybe the ladder to immortality in that world was still there!
"How can I obtain source points?"
【The host can obtain source points through tasks or by selling goods. The system will buy source points at one-third of the price in the mall.】
"…Shrewd merchant."
Buying at one-third of the price and selling to me at the original price, if you had a bit of conscience, you wouldn't say such things!
"I've done several tasks, but where are the source points?"
【Does the host want to choose a side task - source point task?】
"Yes."
【Release source point task: Host, please dig out 200 pounds of Shouyang Stone at Shouyang Mountain.】
This time, Jiang Li didn't need to ask where Shouyang Mountain was at the Tianji Building. He had also heard of Shouyang Mountain's name. It used to be a very famous mine, but due to the uncontrolled mining by the owner, Shouyang Mountain became a wasteland two hundred years ago.
It used to produce a ton of Shouyang Stone in a day, but now, it was good if one could dig out fifty pounds of Shouyang Stone in a day. Since Shouyang Stone was not a necessity for cultivation, the mining expenses did not correspond to the income, so naturally, no one went mining there.
With Jiang Li's methods, if he wanted to diligently dig for a day, he could certainly dig out fifty pounds.
Jiang Li pondered for a moment and thought that this task was quite simple.
He flew to the sky above Shouyang Mountain and directly dug out the entire Shouyang Mountain range.
Jiang Li didn't believe there wouldn't be 200 pounds of Shouyang Stone in the whole mountain range!
The system seemed to not expect someone to mine like this. After hesitating for a while, it judged whether this behavior counted as digging out 200 pounds of Shouyang Stone.
【Congratulations to the host for completing the source point task, rewarded with fifty source points】
"Teleport to the world I just found!"
【Still need 56,800 source points, insufficient source points, unable to teleport】
Damn.
Jiang Li's fist hardened.
Jiang Li swore that if this damn system could take shape, he would be the first to cripple it!
You should have said you needed so many source points earlier! Do I have to wait forever to complete tasks like this?
"Looks like I can only sell things for source points."
Jiang Li browsed the mall. The most abundant items were various techniques, with the cheapest one allowing cultivation up to the Golden Core stage, requiring only one hundred source points, while the most expensive one allowing cultivation to become an immortal required one million source points.
Jiang Li looked up at the setting sun and quickly wrote a book called "Sunset Sorrow Technique," which could be cultivated up to the early stage of body fusion. Practicing this technique could utilize the afterglow of the setting sun. People attacked by this technique would involuntarily recall their sad past, making them uninterested in fighting.
Selling this technique alone yielded over ten thousand source points.
Jiang Li slapped his thigh, "Should have done this earlier, instead of making me go move mountains!"
"The techniques for the Tribulation Crossing stage are not easy to write. They are not as common as those that can be practiced up to the Fusion stage!"
Often, a Tribulation Crossing stage cultivator would spend his entire life to write only three to five techniques that could be practiced up to Tribulation Crossing and become an immortal. Even Jiang Li would take more than ten days to write them.
But the Fusion stage techniques were different. Jiang Li could easily write ten techniques that could be cultivated up to the Fusion stage.
He looked at a field of grass, wrote a technique called "Withering Rebirth Law," and another called "Eternal Vitality Technique." Then he looked at a hill and wrote a technique called "Mighty Mountain-moving Technique"...
Jiang Li sold these casually-written techniques to the system, gaining over a hundred thousand source points.
"Teleport to the unknown world!"
【Teleportation in progress】
This time, the system was really able to teleport.
The space around Jiang Li began to distort, gradually forming a passage to another world. With a single step forward, Jiang Li crossed the barriers of the Nine Provinces, the turbulent airflow, and arrived at the unknown world.
With Jiang Li's insight, he could see that the system's spatial manipulation was extremely advanced.
To what extent was it advanced? It was so advanced that Jiang Li couldn't understand the system's methods.
"I can't understand a thing. I'm clueless about the way of space."
Jiang Li originally intended to learn space jumping from the system, but then he suddenly remembered that he knew nothing about the Space Dao.
"When I have the chance, I should go to Mount Sumeru to demonstrate. The Old Buddha of Sumeru understands the Space Dao the best. Maybe I can learn something from him."
"This is the unknown world?"
Arriving in the unknown world, Jiang Li frowned slightly, the thin spiritual energy here was appalling.
In the boundless desert, only Jiang Li stood in the yellow sand, letting the storm batter his protective barrier. The prevalent tone of this world was a gloomy gray, with not a trace of green to be seen. People who stayed here for too long would likely become depressed.
Jiang Li measured the land step by step and found that the gravity of this world was the same as that of the Nine Provinces. He grabbed a handful of coarse sand and found that the material composition was also largely similar.
"But why is the spiritual energy so thin?"
The spiritual energy distribution in the Nine Provinces is also uneven, with a very few places known as spiritual energy forbidden areas. The poor spiritual energy in those areas prevents even a single spiritually-rooted cultivator from advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage.
And the spiritual energy in this unknown world was even scarcer than the spiritual energy forbidden areas in the Nine Provinces!
It was impossible for cultivators to emerge in such a place!
Jiang Li scanned the area with his divine sense but couldn't find a single human figure; he could only see a group of gray wild beasts that looked like a cross between wolves and leopards, hungrily eating sand.
The pack of gray beasts noticed Jiang Li and instinctively found him very appetizing, moving in to feast on this strange, unprecedented prey.
Jiang Li immediately immobilized the entire pack of gray beasts with a single thought.
Jiang Li had never seen such creatures in the Nine Provinces.
As he scanned the beasts with his divine sense, he realized that they were not eating sand out of desperation but because their physical structure dictated that they could only eat sand.
Their digestive and respiratory organs, among others, were completely unfamiliar to Jiang Li. Without relying on his powerful divine sense, he would have been unable to discern the functions of these organs.
The physical strength of these beasts was formidable; the leader possessed a Golden Core stage body, while the others had bodies at the Foundation Establishment stage.
For some unknown reason, Jiang Li instinctively wanted to distance himself from these beasts as they gave him an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
Next, Jiang Li scanned this world with his divine sense, his brow furrowed all the while.
He finally realized why the pack of gray beasts ate sand.
It was because there were only two things in this world: the gray beasts and the sand.
There weren't even any other species, let alone humans.
If the system told him that this was hell, and these beasts were creatures of the Animal Path, he would be 80% inclined to believe it.
Compared to this place, the Nine Provinces were simply a fairyland.