"Is this the first step?" Zhou Yu's expression changed, and he was a little surprised.
Regarding the first staircase, Zhou Yu only knew some general introductions and had never been here before.
The first staircase is the largest of the four staircases in the heavenly world, and is the cornerstone of the entire continent.
However, the knowledge she came into contact with only described that the conditions on the first step were relatively poor.
But now it seems that it is not that simple.
The air on the first step is turbid, as if the entire world's turbidity has settled on the first step.
"It seems that the splendor of the other stairs is because all the filth has been borne by the first step." Lin Chen snorted softly.
However, I don’t mean to complain about the first step, unless this phenomenon is not innate, but man-made. .??.
But it is probably unlikely that such a thing can be accomplished. Who can influence the rules of a vast world?
"Get what we want as soon as possible, and then go to the third staircase," Mo Lin said calmly.
Naturally, he didn't want to stay in a place like this for too long.
After finding the correct location, the treasure ship quickly sailed through the void.
This colorless villa is located in the relatively center of the first step. There is a magnificent mountain range there, which is a rare paradise on the first step.
When approaching the mountain range, the treasure ship shuttled out of the void, but instead of seeing beautiful scenery, what it saw was gray fog.
"This environment..." Lin Chen frowned.
Mo Lin also frowned. In order to obtain the Colorless Soul Light, he naturally conducted many investigations and checked the situation of the Colorless Villa and its surroundings.
According to records, this place is definitely not what you see in front of you. Although it is on the first step, it should still have magnificent mountains and rivers and abundant spiritual energy.
But right now, it's all barren and chaotic, and the turbidity in the air is a bit more turbid than what I felt when I first entered the first step.
And this is probably the norm at the first level.
Is the first step already so turbid? In this environment, the path of cultivation is naturally more difficult!
"In the past, I have never heard that the first step was like this. Is this really the paradise of cave heaven?" Zhou Yu said in a deep voice.
In fact, what surprised them was not the harsh environment of the first step, but that among the records of the upper steps, at least the most widely recognized version, the first step was by no means such a chaotic situation.
It’s just that the spiritual energy is insufficient, so cultivation is relatively difficult.
But looking at it now, this has become so bad that it is a bit difficult to practice!
This is obviously seriously inconsistent with the widely circulated statement.
But why do this?
Neither Zhou Yu nor Mo Lin are idiots. On the contrary, they have experienced hardship in their respective families and know that they must want to hide something.
Perhaps, it has something to do with the upper echelons.
"It's impossible to say that this first step is the sewage outlet and garbage pool of the upper step, but the resources on the first step are crazily squeezed by the upper step," Lin Chen said lightly.
This is just a guess.
Because I saw Gu Xin'er's letter before, I made this judgment. Of course, there is no conclusive basis.
In addition, Lin Chen has no unnecessary interest in this.
He didn't come here to be a savior, he just wanted to get the colorless soul light and then help Xiang Tiange restore his soul.
After all, he is just an "alien".
Mo Lin didn't say anything, and just drove the treasure ship towards the mountains. Outside the window, the deserted mountains were lifeless, without much life at all.
Is this really the birthplace of a generation of emperors?
Even if the situation on the first step is far from what they know, it should not be so poor in finance and taxation.
Such an environment is difficult even for cultivators to create!
"It's more like the spiritual energy has been artificially taken away, and the spiritual veins have been pulled out!" Lin Chen narrowed his eyes.
The environment here is indeed too harsh. The deeper you go, the thinner the spiritual energy becomes. Could it be that even the spiritual veins in the earth have disappeared?
Under natural circumstances, spiritual veins can continuously gather spiritual energy and disperse it into the world. It is impossible for anyone to completely peel off the spiritual veins.
But the current situation is as if this place was originally a barren land with no spiritual veins.
"Did something happen?" Zhou Yu also frowned.
Do you intend to leave nothing behind for future generations by using all your resources to catch fish?
Moving on, they finally saw something different. In front of them, there was a huge construction site with countless ant-like people working in it!
"What are they doing?" Zhou Yu asked in surprise.
This was the first time she had seen such a large-scale construction site. There were endless mountains and mountains, and people were working everywhere, nailing long black pillars into the rock formations!
The long pillars range from thick to thin, with the smallest being only the size of an arm, while the larger ones require dozens of people to hold them together. It seems that they have to insert such a giant pillar into the rock formation, which is very difficult even for cultivators.
In the construction site, there are many soldiers wearing armor patrolling. Once they find a lazy worker, they will whip the whip very harshly.
As soon as Lin Chen and others arrived, they had already seen several people killed by these soldiers, and many of them fell to the ground as their strength was exhausted.
Even Mo Lin looked a little ugly.
What on earth is going on? This is not what I knew about the first ladder in the past!
"Are these people sinners exiled here, or..." Zhou Yu whispered.
"How come there are so many sinners? They are more like ordinary people who were enslaved, or prisoners of war captured in the war." Lin Chen snorted.
Human life is like a piece of grass, and this is clearly shown here.
And in such a huge construction site, what is the purpose of those special pillars that are constantly inserted into the ground?
I am afraid that it is related to the depletion of spiritual energy in this place and the disappearance of even the spiritual veins.
"There are some runes carved on those pillars, but they have not been opened yet. Their functions cannot be clearly seen." Zhou Yu shook his head.
"Let's go look elsewhere," Lin Chen said.
Lin Chen didn't know much about the formations in the heavenly world, but he could generally tell that the positions where the pillars were inserted were particular, forming some kind of large formation.
Now the treasure ship flew to another construction site. The mountains here were still green and lush, which was very different from what they had just seen.
Moreover, the spiritual energy in the air is also richer.
However, the surface of the mountain is already covered with black pillars, which is obviously a construction site that has been built.
"Do you want to rebuild these barren mountains and rivers?" Zhou Yu asked in surprise. This was exactly the opposite of what she thought.
Lin Chen's eyes twitched slightly, and then he said, "It should be that the deeper spiritual veins have been locked, and their spiritual energy has been pulled to the surface!"
It is precisely because of this that these incongruous green hills appear.
It's not because this place has been restored, but because the deeper power is being squeezed. Isn't this draining the lake a little too thorough!
"It's about to be turned on," Mo Lin said indifferently.
In the construction site, the workers have already evacuated. In the far distance, there are temporary houses, and you can feel that these black columns have some power connection with them.
There's someone fucking
Control these black cylinders!
Soon, the lines on the black cylinder began to light up, and the runes rotated on the surface of the main body. The black main body also drilled into the rock formation, completely submerging into the surface.
Immediately afterwards, black thunder began to beat in the construction site, and soon it was continuous!
Spiritual energy, you can clearly feel the rich spiritual energy beginning to appear between heaven and earth!
The workers outside the construction site were thin and dark-skinned. They all looked sad at the scene in front of them.
This is their land. At this moment, the origin of the land is forcibly taken away by these superiors. The mountain wind whines, as if the earth is mourning!
Visible to the naked eye, the originally lush mountain forest began to quickly turn yellow, and after a while, it was already a barren mountain.
And in mid-air, amid the dark thunder blockade, a luminous spiritual vein condensed and took shape!
This spiritual vein is not a manifestation of some kind of power, but a real spiritual vein under this land!
It was forcibly stripped out!
To be continued...