Cockroach sister quickly shook her ponytail.
"I don’t dare, I don’t dare, but... but it seems that senior also spent a lot of effort to build this mountain, right?
And you prepared this array and resources, it seems specifically reserved for disciples to use, right?
Giving it directly to us... doesn’t it feel like a pity?"
Tie Dan snorted coldly and didn’t answer.
After all, cockroach sister wasn’t wrong. When he first arrived at Yinghuo Heaven, he did indeed spend quite some effort searching for earth veins, setting up mountain arrays, and even moving leftover bones over here, genuinely considering using this place as a sect’s Daoist field, arranging it into a subset of the Beichen Sword Sect at Yinghuo Branch.
But after living here for hundreds of years, Tie Dan realized he was being a bit foolish, too entrenched in human thinking, not realizing he’d already evolved into an interstellar lifeform.
Nesting, neither necessary nor suitable.
Hmm, not necessary. For a top predator like Yazi, there’s no species in Yinghuo Heaven that could threaten him. What’s the need to dig a special hole to live in? Even soaking in a lava bath is no problem. Of course, wandering around, casually gathering resources, eating ores as you find them, hunting whatever beasts catch your eye. One beast eats its fill and the whole family doesn’t starve, eat and sleep, sleep and eat, using escape light to traverse the void, the entirety of Yinghuo Heaven is its hunting ground. There’s no necessity to specifically settle anywhere. The whole of Yinghuo Heaven is his treasure, there’s no reason to specifically extract heavenly treasures and earthly treasures to re-hide them elsewhere.
As for not being suitable, it’s even more obvious that Yinghuo Heaven, after Tie Dan circled around, truly isn’t suitable as an initial dojo for the sect.
Sure, Yinghuo’s resources are indeed abundant, but that’s relevant for someone of Tie Dan’s caliber. A cultivator at the refining god and returning void stage, can cause mountains to collapse and seas to shatter just by pinching casually. Extreme cold, high temperatures, gang winds, and sandstorms on the surface don’t affect him at all. Those deeply buried mineral gold essences, he can dig them out just by glaring and pawing.
Yet such a barren, uninhabited environment is challenging even for those in the refining essence and building foundation stage or even those who haven’t yet entered. Even for cultivators at the Nascent Soul True Man stage without a foundation of three thunders, it’s probably hard to adapt. Would you really migrate a whole group over, expecting to support them entirely within the sect with resources he himself gathers?
So Tie Dan gradually realized over the years that making such a large fuss over building a nest was a bit redundant. Perhaps the Sword Sect’s legacy would be better placed on a more habitable planet like Earth. And now, seeing these people from Mo Mountain, well, this group of beings from Mo Mountain’s colonization nests and Daoist skill system, Tie Dan was somewhat enlightened.
Perhaps purely in terms of combat prowess, Mo Mountain’s Daoist skills don’t match the Sword Sect, but their path of survival and evolution truly opens up a new world. Maybe those maggot-headed human monsters are quite frail, with almost no self-preservation ability in the early stages without the protection of cockroach fairy clothes. Yet Mo Mountain has the miraculous ability to transform environments and create symbiotic ecosystems.
Now, this place in Yinghuo Heaven is barren and uninhabited, unsuitable for human residence, but these Insect Clan from Mo Mountain have evolved specifically to adapt to the temporal environment. The ecological system of the Taixu Shrimp can survive in the universe, not to mention that they came over with Mars colonization technology this time.
So Tie Dan’s intentions were quite clear: he wasn’t just giving away the hole he painstakingly excavated to others for nothing; it was about collaboration.
Exactly, he provides the Daoist field infrastructure, and Mo Mountain will further modify it for colonization. Rainforests and swamps are slightly more livable than icy fields, right? Once Mo Mountain transforms the Extreme Crown Ice Field into an environment also habitable for humans, wouldn’t that be a great place to migrate the disciples of the Sword Sect?
Indeed, the real environment has changed; there’s no need to compete like on Earth for petty gains.
Now that those monopolizing companies have been driven out to Outer Heaven, Yinghuo Heaven’s resources are naturally enough for both parties to collect together, achieving cooperation and mutual benefit. It may seem gross, but if moths, cockroaches, and maggots can coexist in Mo Mountain, naturally, there’s a place for Sword Sect disciples in the grotto heavens renovated by Mo Mountain.
Now that Tie Dan is willing to let Yinghuo Heaven be shared with Mo Mountain for habitation, do you think in the future Mo Mountain would refuse to let his Sword Sect disciples have a foothold? Would they dare?
Cockroach sister nodded and said,
"Although I’m happy you think this way, senior, could you not keep going with gross, gross moths, cockroaches, and maggots? It’s kinda hurtful..."
Tie Dan looked at her,
"Then what should I call you?"
Cockroach sister quickly seized the opportunity to clarify her name,
"This girl is Yuan Qingqing, a disciple of Mo Mountain Middle School, nice to meet you, senior."
Tie Dan was speechless, "Middle school disciple, is that something like a cultivator in the refining Qi and transforming god realm..."
Cockr—cough, cough, Yuan Qingqing explained,
"In our Mo Mountain School, we have a three-level education system: elementary, middle, and university, but it doesn’t strictly correspond to cultivation realms.
Only in elementary school do we mainly teach cultivation methods. Whatever Magic Gate it is, once you achieve Foundation Establishment Success, you’re considered graduated from elementary school, and from then on, you cultivate on your own.
In middle school, we mainly study scientific and cultural knowledge of various celestial planes; only when you’ve mastered at least eighteen skills can you proceed to university for advanced studies.
As for university, we teach the evolutionary book of Thirty-Six Heavenly Dao Ancestors, and graduating from university means achieving Dao."
"...What? Your university teaches heavenly books, and university graduates can achieve Dao?!"
Tie Dan was truly dumbfounded, was it an error in the primordial spirit translation, or did Mo Mountain have a problem with naming things??