385: Chapter 385 Lingxiu Town

Five days later, Tang Ping arrived at Lingxiu Mountain.

Just as he had imagined, the current Lingxiu Mountain was a massive peak thousands of meters high, no longer the hundred-meter hill it had been a century ago.

The small earthen mound where he had left his legacy was on the western side of Lingxiu Mountain; originally it was just a small mound about twenty meters high, and he didn't know what it looked like now.

Tang Ping was in no hurry, so he simply decided to stay in the small town at the foot of Lingxiu Mountain for a while; he had plenty of time to find that small mound.

Due to the vast land and sparse population, even in a good place like Lingxiu Mountain, the population of the town below was only twenty to thirty thousand, which couldn't even compare to Luangang Town.

Of course, the environment here was incomparable to that of Luangang Town.

Tang Ping also discovered that almost everyone here was a cultivator; although many couldn't even reach the level one standard, they were indeed practicing cultivation.

Over the next month, as he integrated into the society here, he learned a great deal.

For example, regarding the cultivation of the people here, every child could enter a Junior Transcendent Academy at age six. The Junior Transcendent Academies here didn't teach language or mathematics, but rather cultivation, Illusory Beasts, immortal grass, basic potions, and so on. Of course, there were some humanities like history and geography, but they weren't the focus.

As for cultivation, enrollment began with testing which transcendent factor one was compatible with. Holy Heaven Mansion had too many Heavenly Kings; every Heavenly King would subtly change a part of the world, giving birth to transcendent factors. Besides these Heavenly Kings, level seven plants and animals did the same, so one needed to test which transcendent factor they were compatible with before finally choosing a corresponding cultivation method.

As for why many people here never reached level one in their entire lives, it was because the Holy Heaven Mansion was too large, and the range of influence of the Heavenly Kings was limited. Except for the hundreds or thousands of miles surrounding their residences where it was relatively dense, it was extremely thin elsewhere.

Therefore, wanting to make a breakthrough was naturally quite difficult.

However, if one was compatible with major attributes like Barrier, Celestial, Light, or Witch attributes, their achievements would generally be higher.

Students here basically graduated after Intermediate Transcendent Academy because twelve years was enough to learn everything they needed. Junior academies focused on cultivation while learning a bit of everything, while intermediate academies involved choosing a specific profession for in-depth study alongside cultivation.

If they had talent, they could continue to a Senior Transcendent Academy for further studies after graduation; those without talent would naturally go off to do whatever they needed to do.

Those Senior Transcendent Academies were generally built near the residences of Heavenly Kings, and those who came were basically cultivators following the same transcendent path. The only difference was their profession, such as Beast Taming, Potions, Transcendent Technology, immortal grass, and so on.

The town had the only Junior Transcendent Academy within a hundred miles. Today happened to be the day for new student enrollment and talent testing. The children's parents accompanied them, and many town residents came to watch, wanting to see what good attributes the local children would awaken.

“Zhang Ziyao, Spirit Taming attribute!”

Envious voices immediately rose from the surrounding crowd.

“Spirit Taming attribute! This child actually awakened such an attribute; what great luck.”

“Isn't it? This is a natural Beast Taming attribute. In the future, there's an eighty percent chance they can get into a senior academy and become an Phantom Beast Master!”

“Exactly, and the Spirit Taming Heavenly King is also a top-tier Heavenly King.”

“I'm so envious. Why did my son only awaken a Blazing Flame attribute?”

Tang Ping knew that this so-called Spirit Taming attribute likely originated from Meng Ziyi, who was among the first batch to awaken talents in the Heavenly Mansion back then—that little boy who initially awakened an A-Rank Talent and later tamed a black bear.

He hadn't paid much attention to the other party after that, and he hadn't expected him to be a top-tier Heavenly King now.

Combined with the Illusory Beasts of the Holy Heaven Mansion, this could be said to be a very promising future.

If one could enter a Senior Transcendent Academy, they would be at least a Level Three Phantom Beast Master after six years of graduation.

Oh, right, the Illusory Beasts here included not only strange beasts infected with Celestial Qi but also those bizarre plants from his old plants vs. zombies mini-games. Combined with all the various miscellaneous transcendent creatures of the Holy Heaven Mansion, they were collectively known as Illusory Beasts.

So this fellow might even tame a sunflower in the future, haha.

However, people today no longer knew what plants vs. zombies was.

“Zhao Jiahao, Dark Marsh attribute!”

A sound of pity rose from the surroundings. This attribute came from an ordinary Heavenly King. If one didn't have the money to go directly to Dark Marsh City for further study, in this remote place, they likely wouldn't even become level one in this lifetime.

“Han Feifei, Morning Moon attribute!”

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Clearly, the talents of most children were not that good. What they awakened were just ordinary attributes, and their future achievements would just be that of an ordinary person with a slight bit of transcendent means.

Within the Holy Heaven Mansion, all land, minerals, and even the Illusory Beasts and immortal grass in the wilderness belonged to the property of the Holy Heaven Mansion. In a word, they were protected animals and plants and did not belong to individuals. Thus, there were no landlords here, and the resources individuals could control were very few. Most children's parents were Level Three or level four transcendents, but the children might be very ordinary, and eventually, the family would return to being commoners.

Unless one was proficient in Beast Taming and opened a beast shop, proficient in potions and opened a potion shop, or proficient in forging and opened a forge, then it might last for two or three generations.

As for becoming big and strong, one could forget about it, because anything higher up belonged to Heavenly Mansion assets. For example, the Illusory Beast Guild, Forging Guild, Potion Guild, and so on were all under the jurisdiction of various departments of the Holy Heaven Mansion. These things were off-limits even for Heavenly Kings.

Of course, it was a different story outside. There were many Heavenly King families who seemed to have no industries within the Holy Heaven Mansion, but in the outside world, certain industries in several Safe Zones might be under their control.

This sort of thing was very common.

The Holy Heaven Mansion was also happy with this. After all, the Safe Zones developed by these families would certainly establish spatial gates, and many geniuses with extraordinary talent would eventually flow toward the Holy Heaven Mansion.

Over this past month, Tang Ping had also found his target. After watching for two hours until it ended, he left the town and headed toward that mountain peak.