Planetary Museum

Recognition Island, Yanxiu.

A full 10 days have passed since the explosion.

For all the cultivators in the Ascension Realm, this is the longest and darkest 1000 days in their 10-year cultivation career.

This is especially true for the Lingling Island.

The nine major factions that besieged Lingling Island dispersed immediately after the nuclear explosion. After sensing that the aura of the entire Ascension Realm was gone, no one had the intention to surround this broken island. , and the countless soul devouring arrays on the island waste even a little bit of spiritual energy.

The reason is very simple, just like in the agricultural era, if there is a natural disaster, this year's grain harvest is destined to be wiped out-then everyone's first thought must be to go home and see how much grain is left at home.

Now, the aura of the entire Ascension Realm has been completely harvested.

No one knows when it will recover.

Everyone was checking their aura reserves, from the Nine Great Sects with great achievements at home, to the lowest-level cultivators who had just been reborn who couldn't even use a flying sword in the Lingyan Island.

Those with more reserves have no major impact for the time being, but those with less reserves...

"Flying sword for Lingshi!"

"Soul Devouring Formation for Lingshi, 100 for 1!"

"Sell yourself for a spirit stone."

The word prostitution is a brand new word in Ascension Realm, but it is a common word on Earth.When he was with Mr. Wu at the space station, discussing the endgame after the nuclear bomb exploded, Yan Xiu once heard them mention the word "prostitution". When I saw this brand, I immediately thought of it.

Out of curiosity, Yan Xiu went over and asked the other party what the word meant. He hoped it was just a misunderstanding of his own.

The storefront of this shop looks small, but it is just a signboard, and the products displayed at the door are basically nothing valuable, most of them are just some soul-eating arrays—after the nuclear explosion, there is no threat of war on Lingling Island, and The Soul Devouring Formation itself also needs wireless power supply to use. Now that the entire wireless power supply system has collapsed, this thing will naturally become a waste.In addition, the magic weapon that is common in other shops, the flying sword, is not available in this shop.

But after walking in, Yanxiu discovered that there is actually only one most important product in this shop, and that is people.

His wish didn't come true, it wasn't a misunderstanding, the meaning on the sign was what he understood.

Although the storefront was small, Yan Xiu suddenly entered a huge open area after walking along a narrow passage for a certain distance.

Yan Xiu suddenly recalled that he seemed to have been here before - that time he and Wu Xiaoqing came to do the business of Lingshi Chongneng. At that time, it was also a place like this, and there were also many people. These people used their bodies as spiritual energy storage, and inject the aura they absorbed into the spirit stone.

To complete this work, they are paid only a part of the imported spiritual energy, and some are a small part-the reason for doing this is simply because they cannot afford spiritual stones.

After seeing Yan Xiu coming in, everyone's eyes were on him, and some of them with the worst complexions walked up to Yan Xiu from the crowd: "Shangxian, give a little spiritual energy, we all It’s almost unbearable.”

Yan Xiu noticed that the complexions of these people all looked very bad-pale, thin, dry and dull-skinned-this kind of complexion was never seen in the previous Ascension Realm.

For cultivators, everyone's body shape and posture are roughly similar. Some cultivators will deliberately exercise to be stronger because of certain cultivation or tactical needs, but that's all.The upper limit may be very high, but the lower limit - practitioners do not need to eat and drink, and they may not be very nourished in their cultivation, but their physical condition is definitely in an excellent state.

But for the few people in front of them, their lives are obviously on the verge of danger.

"What's the matter with them?" Yan Xiu immediately took out a few pieces of spirit stones from the backpack on his back, which were saved before.

When the people around saw the spirit stones, their eyes almost lit up. As soon as Yan Xiu handed the spirit stones over, these spirit stones were caught by countless hands.Then, countless hands began to stretch out from each piece of spirit stone—because there were too many hands stretched out, many people could not use their palms to receive spirit energy like normal use. Most of them used a few sticks, or one finger, Some are just a finger, resting lightly on the spirit stone.

At first glance, these people seem to be plants grown from spirit stones.

Counting carefully, there are more than 20 hands around each piece of Lingshi.Behind the 20 or so people, there were more hands trying to penetrate - but the space around the Lingshi was already full, and these people were anxious in vain, but there was nothing they could do.

Even for those who can reach it, the process of absorbing spirit stones is not easy at all.Because there are too many competitors, the contact between these people's fingers and spirit stones is intermittent. In this state, the efficiency of replenishing spirit stones will be greatly reduced.It's like a very hungry person drinking porridge through a thin coffee straw. intermittently.

Yan Xiu waited for more than ten minutes, until the first group of people were almost exhausted and squeezed out by the newcomers, before listening to them start talking about them.

The reason is very simple, that is, the lack of aura.

After the nuclear explosion, the Nine Great Factions left, and the economic system based on the Soul Eater Formation that had just been heated up on the Lingling Island collapsed almost overnight.

Compared to fighting, another more pressing problem was almost suddenly placed in front of everyone - how could they survive without aura.

The search and rescue team once conducted a test on Yan Xiu's body, which was to calculate the daily power consumption of an ordinary flying man to maintain basic physiological functions in a non-combat state.

The result of the final test is almost half a kilowatt-hour.

From this level, the physiological cost of flying people is quite low.

This cost is very acceptable even on the earth. Ordinary air conditioners consume so much electricity for an hour or two when the temperature is low in summer.

In the original flying man civilization, this survival requirement is even more negligible.Even in areas with the poorest aura, such as the Nine Heavens Gate, a flying person can absorb more than a few kilowatt hours of energy a day.

That is to say, in the original Ascension Realm, the daily income of flyers can sustain themselves for a month and a half.

It is also because survival itself is not a big deal for flying people, almost everyone regards this kind of spiritual energy income as some kind of minimum living allowance—anyway, no matter how bad it is, there will be some.

In normal times, what every cultivator does the most is to accumulate the aura in the body to a certain extent—usually this amount is used on half to one-third of the total reserve, and then pass through various forms in one breath, Whether it's training or injecting spirit stones, in short, they will choose to consume all of them.

Cultivation is to increase the total reserves in the body and optimize the efficiency of spiritual energy usage. It can be regarded as increasing the gdp of spiritual stones, and injecting spiritual stones is a savings in a certain sense.

The results of these investments and savings, of course, were all consumed in battle.

If the battle fails, the resources are all clean, and if the battle is successful, the process will be accumulated.Just like in economics, big capitalists and the proletariat are inevitably formed in the end, in Ascension Realm, the Nine Great Schools are finally formed, and these people who can't even afford flying swords.

Needless to say, the former, after a nuclear explosion, is equivalent to an economic crisis, and they will immediately tighten all cash flow to ensure that their own interests will not be damaged in this disaster.And the latter...

Be it natural or civilized, whatever the catastrophe—of all the states of civilization the search and rescue team has seen, one thing is certain—the weak are always the first to fall.

The people in front of Yan Xiu's eyes were undoubtedly typical of the weak.

"Like you, how many people are there on the entire Lingering Island?"

"How many people? It's hard to count," said the few people closest to Yanxiu in the crowd, "at least tens of thousands. Several people died yesterday... They died of thirst."

"He died of starvation." Someone on the side corrected him.

"I think I died of thirst," said the man who spoke, "When he died, the skin on his mouth was all torn... Isn't it said that after becoming a fairy, people will not die?"

"You still believe this kind of nonsense until now... After a while, we will all end up starving to death."

These words caused everyone on the scene to groan, and everyone looked at Yan Xiu again, and at the backpack on his back.

At this time, Yan Xiu noticed that because of the rapid absorption of so many people, the light from the few spirit stones he took out had gradually dimmed. Behind this weakened light, there were still a large number of people who had not obtained the spirit stones. They all eagerly stretched out their hands one by one, as if this way they could get closer to the spirit stone.

Yan Xiu almost subconsciously wanted to take out the Void Transformation Stone—but he held back.

The phantom stone is his identity. In Ascension Realm, people don't care much about people's appearance - because everyone will be reborn and their appearance will change.

Everyone's memory of identity relies on magic tools, flying swords and exercises.This time, Yan Xiu came here with a different sword, and he didn't bring the black iron shield with him, and he even covered his face with a piece of cloth just in case.It's because of the fear of being recognized.

You know, for these people in front of you, you are the culprit that caused them to end up like this.