Mythological origin

Chapter 88

"I suddenly remembered one thing. I was about seven or eight years old at that time. My grandfather told me a story. He said that when he was about my age, he saw some monsters on the Moon Fortress.

The appearance of the monsters he described seems to be quite similar to the ones we have encountered..."

"The era of the Moon Fortress, that happened more than 400 years ago..." Du Nai looked skeptical.

"My great-grandfather was a Tier [-] monk, and he passed away not long after his [-]th birthday!"

"..."

"I heard from him that those monsters are just like the monsters in the Demon Abyss now. They are all inexplicable things that have never been seen before."

"Is it such a coincidence that time spans hundreds of years and space travels hundreds of millions of miles, can you see the same monster?"

"I have no idea……"

"Let's not talk about this, anyway, we are going to leave this cursed land, regardless of whether it is a disaster or not."

……

"After going back, I realized my wish to find my father, and it's almost time to consider retirement."

On the way to search for the historical text, Sauron's team also discovered the ruined temple that Bai Mo once stayed in, which was built by his father and dedicated to Demon Yang Daoist.

After seeing the message left by his father, Sauron truly let go of his obsession.

"Retired?! Why!"

"I'm a little tired."

Hearing the team members happily discussing the topic of cultivation resources just now, Sauron thought of himself 80 years ago, and he was so high-spirited.

Every time, he spent all the money he earned from the mission on himself, hoping to improve his cultivation to a higher level.

Sauron did the math. If the income from this mission is converted into the imperial currency, it will be enough for him to live comfortably for a few lifetimes. But if he continues to sprint to the fourth level, with his own qualifications, the money is still not enough. .

How can the empire say it? As a normal citizen of the empire, with abundant benefits, it is easy to live as an ordinary mortal, but if you have the slightest ambition to climb up, everything will immediately become hellish.

In Terra, the only real path to the upper level is cultivation.

All money-making businesses are controlled by practitioners, big and small.

No money - no cultivation - no cultivation - no money-making business - no money.

an infinite loop.

This kind of endless loop is not limited to ordinary people, even middle and low-level monks cannot escape this carefully designed curse.

Because the monks of each level of strength, what types of properties they can own under their names, and how many properties they can own, are all strictly restricted by the law.

Taking Sauron as an example, his strength assessment in the empire is at the third level.

However, the income brought by the legally owned property under the name of a third-tier monk is normally not enough for a normal third-tier monk to enter the fourth-tier in his lifetime.

Unless you hide your property from the tax department of the empire.

It's just that the Imperial Taxation Department has a seventh-level true god personally sitting in the town, and the true god's supernatural power combined with the detection of big data technology is definitely not something that ordinary monks can escape.

And for a society where the concept of cash does not exist and everyone can only trade through the Internet, what money can be hidden at home?

Tibetan root millennium ginseng?

In front of the law, this is true for people below the fifth level.

Only by stepping into the fifth level, becoming a full-fledged nobleman of the empire, and having a noble leader representing his own territory, can he be eligible to get rid of the legal property restrictions.

Unrestricted possession of wealth, property, and an independent kingdom of their own are all privileges of the imperial nobility.

Therefore, the goal of countless monks' life is not some illusory immortality, but just a title of a real imperial noble.

Not included in this list, even possessing wealth beyond cultivation is also a crime.

……

Under this law, only by participating in the war of external expansion, or accepting related tasks, and risking death into the battlefield, can the imperial people have a chance to break out of the fate of the endless cycle, make a fortune, and become the lucky few.

It is almost impossible for people without background to develop steadily and advance to the noble level within the empire.

Fortunately, since the establishment of the empire, the pace of exploration and expansion has never stopped.

Countless adventurers waiting to get rich, with the desire to change their destiny and become a master, plundered one planet after another, and one space layer after another.

Some of them buried their bones in a foreign land, and some became famous.

Of course, more people have given up and chose to return to a certain Daqian leader ship in the mainland of the empire to spend the rest of their lives in peace.

……

"Retire? Captain, you are so young, why retire?!"

"That's right, you're only in your 170s, what do you want to retire from the game?"

The theoretical lifespan of a Tier 450 monk is about 170 years old. With some life-prolonging drugs, it is not too difficult to reach [-] years old. [-] years old is indeed not too old.

"..."

"We agreed that everyone would be promoted to noble together, why did you run away?"

"I……"

"I'm tired."

"When I was 90 years old, I was promoted to a third-level psionic cultivator. At that time, I felt that I was a little genius in cultivation. I was promoted to the third level at the age of 90, and becoming a nobleman was not just around the corner.

But I was wrong.

Tier [-] is completely different from Tier [-].

It took me 80 years to reach the middle stage of the third level. With the equipment on hand, I have a combat power of level 39, but my cultivation has been stagnant.

I understand that is probably the upper limit of my qualifications.

I can not be reconciled.

Received several expedition missions in a row.

All the rewards I got, I exchanged into pills to break through the bottleneck.

But all to no avail...

When I came here this time, I originally wanted to fight for the last time.

It's just that when I came out of the secret mansion containing the historical text, I suddenly figured it out.

At the end of the repair, it was nothing more than nothing.

It's better to go back to my hometown to get married and enjoy life. "

Sauron, who lost his heart, told his own story.

"..."

"After I get the bonus, the extra money in my hand will be given to the three of you. I hope you can help me realize that noble dream."

"team leader……"

After all, Sauron inspired the special imprint in the purple wind chime. After confirming the existence of the fragments of the historical text, the imprint rapidly enlarged and turned into a thing that looked like a world-transmitting gate.

With a calm face, before stepping into the door, he took one last look in the direction of the secret mansion, and then let the light of the purple mark wrap himself.

Seeing this, the rest of them entered the door one after another, letting the power of purple light completely cover themselves.

Their strength is too weak, without the protection of the power of Zifengling's own fairy personality, there is no way to cross the space gap.

(End of this chapter)