After arranging Luo Xiaowei in his post, Chu Yang could finally rest.
Although he wasn't tired, he had more important matters.
Returning to his room, Chu Yang opened the system.
The system immediately popped up a prompt: "The progress of the Immortal Cultivation Era's opening has reached 5%, and a stage-specific gift package has been obtained. Do you wish to open it?"
Today, tens of thousands of people had obtained cultivation techniques. According to the system's algorithm, the opening progress of the Immortal Cultivation Era had made significant strides.
It had now reached 5.4% and was still continuously rising.
The popularization of cultivation techniques had a more important bonus for the progress of the Immortal Cultivation Era's opening.
According to Chu Yang's estimation, in a few more days, it would reach 10%, and there should be another stage-specific gift package then.
"Open."
Chu Yang did not hesitate and directly opened the stage-specific gift package.
Instantly, a beam of light flashed.
"Congratulations on obtaining:
Time Secret Realm [Lihuo Palace Ruins] * 1.
Demonic Beast Secret Realm [Yao Ling Jie] * 1.
Spirit Stone Vein * 2."
Seeing these new items, Chu Yang was also excited.
The long-awaited Time Secret Realm had finally appeared. He clicked on its description.
[Item Type: Secret Realm]
[Item Name: Lihuo Palace Ruins]
[Function Description: Ruins of a discarded sect from another world, containing various treasures left behind by the sect. It also carries certain dangers. Due to the influence of the laws of time on its ruins, its time flow rate is 1% of the outside world. The exploration limit is 500 people. Recommended exploration level is Qi Refining early stage - Golden Core early stage.]
"It can only accommodate five hundred people?"
Chu Yang frowned. He pondered how to allocate these spots.
Good steel must be used on the blade. These limited spots must definitely be given to geniuses.
"Let's see what this Demonic Beast Secret Realm is."
[Item Type: Secret Realm]
[Item Name: Yao Ling Jie]
[Function Description: A forgotten minor world from another cultivation world, containing various dangerous demonic beasts and some precious resources. The exploration limit is 2000 people. Recommended exploration level is Qi Refining early stage - Nascent Soul late stage.]
Chu Yang immediately understood the function of the Demonic Beast Secret Realm.
Although this world had frictions between various countries, it was generally trending towards peace.
Relying solely on secluded cultivation, no matter how fast one cultivated, it would only be working in isolation.
Only by truly experiencing the baptism of blood and tears could one not be timid in future battles.
Without a doubt, this [Yao Ling Jie] was the perfect trial ground.
Of course, once they entered, they would no longer be protected by this world.
Most demonic beasts, upon seeing humans, had only one thought: to devour them. It was a world where the strong preyed on the weak. To survive, one had to fight.
And Chu Yang would not specifically protect them. Even if someone like Li Qingyun, a Son of the Great Dao, could not survive in the secret realm, it would mean he was just a vase with empty talent and no substance, not worth Chu Yang's strong cultivation.
As for the Spirit Stone Veins, Chu Yang actually had four of them now.
Where to use them was also a difficult problem...
"System, show me the panel."
Immediately, a data panel appeared before Chu Yang.
"Host: Chu Yang."
"Age: 18."
"Cultivation: Nascent Soul late stage (96302421/100000000)"
"Basic Abilities: Fixed-point Delivery, Eye of Insight."
"Immortal Cultivation Era Opening Progress: 5.433%"
"Remaining Lottery Chances: 1"
"Inventory Items: Azure Water Flying Sword, "Blood Burning", Time Secret Realm [Lihuo Palace Ruins], Demonic Beast Secret Realm [Yao Ling Jie], Spirit Stone Vein * 4, ..."
From the Nascent Soul late stage to the early stage of Soul Transformation, it required one hundred million cultivation to reach.
As one progressed, the span of cultivation required to level up increased significantly.
Chu Yang guessed that from the early stage of Void Returning to the late stage of Void Returning, the required cultivation would be as much as ten billion.
After Void Returning was Soul Transformation, after Soul Transformation was Mahayana, and after Mahayana was enlightenment to become immortal.
And where would all this cultivation be harvested from?
"It seems I need to expand to overseas cultivators."
There weren't enough people in Xia Country for Chu Yang to harvest cultivation from, so this wave of immortal cultivation fervor had to be extended to the entire world.
While Chu Yang was inventorying his backpack, the leadership of Xia Country had already started to feel overwhelmed.
The appearance of cultivators would definitely disrupt the existing social system.
Even though Chu Yang's [Talent Appraisal Stone] had only been released for a day, this item had a way of determining people's social status by their talent.
People's fervor for immortal cultivation had become somewhat uncontrollable.
The trending searches were now entirely occupied by news related to the [Talent Appraisal Stone].
Celebrities who wanted to capitalize on the trending searches were also frustrated, as for several consecutive days, the top twenty trending topics had nothing to do with them.
The only title related to the entertainment industry was #How could my brother only have lower-grade talent?#.
The number one trending topic was, without a doubt, Li Qingyun.
#Shocking, the Son of the Great Dao triggered an anomaly in the Enlightenment Tree. The one with heaven-defying potential is actually him!#
#Half a month ago he was a late-stage lung cancer patient, but now he has soared to become the person with the strongest immortal cultivation talent!#
#A mysterious woman made a humiliating gesture towards the young man in public, but unexpectedly, he was the Son of the Great Dao who resonated with the Great Dao!#
...
Out of ten trending topics, Li Qingyun occupied nine.
For Chu Yang, this was a good thing, because occupying these media headlines could help him promote better.
Now, the number of people in the entire Xia Country who recognized immortal cultivation was close to one hundred million.
And this number was still rising rapidly, waiting for the official confirmation from above. Once that happened, those who didn't believe would have no choice but to believe.
However, the officials were currently in a state of panic.
Wang Zhicheng hadn't slept properly for almost two days. There were more and more geniuses. Although the military also had some, most of them were from other backgrounds.
The emergence of geniuses was a good thing, but if they were all disobedient, it might not be a good thing.
With the increasing number of cultivators, firearms might not pose any threat to them in a short period.
Referring to Li Qingyun, he could catch bullets with his bare hands in the late stage of Qi Refining.
Many important figures had approached Li Qingyun and others, including all those with upper-grade talent. The military wanted to incorporate them into their system.
But unfortunately, they all refused.
However, they all promised that they would never use their strength to do bad things.
Even so, Wang Zhicheng was very anxious.
He was truly afraid that these arrogant geniuses would one day "blacken" and pull off something like "carrying a bag of rice up a hill"...