Chapter 1365: Chapter 631: Mixed Element Valley’s Development Twenty Years Later and the Transformation of Human Villages

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, twenty years have passed.

Meanwhile, the Ice Prison in the Spirit Ruins Realm has been developing steadily, especially the Mixed Element Valley controlled by Jiang Fan. Even though Jiang Fan hasn’t deliberately supported it, the development of Mixed Element Valley is still astonishingly fast.

After all, the lives of humans surviving in the Ice Prison are incredibly miserable, not only having to face extreme cold but also hunger. A slight carelessness could lead to a tragic death in the Ice Prison.

Because of this, many human villages yearn for protection from powerful forces.

Unfortunately, forces like Profound Abyss City don’t regard ordinary human villages and don’t care about their survival, which provides an opportunity for Mixed Element Valley.

This has led to scattered human villages joining the forces of Mixed Element Valley one after another.

After all, only by joining Mixed Element Valley can they easily obtain food and even ensure their safety.

So, after several decades, the influence of Mixed Element Valley began to cover many areas in the southern territory of the Ice Prison.

This also enabled Mixed Element Valley to harvest numerous treasures unique to the Ice Prison.

However, because of the rapid development of Mixed Element Valley, it has also started to affect the interests of forces like Profound Abyss City.

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At this moment, Kong Family Village.

A young cultivator dressed in a black robe returned to this ordinary village, his name was Kong Zheng.

Originally, he was a child growing up in this village.

However, due to possessing Celestial Spirit Root talent, he was favored by a certain Void Refining Cultivator in Profound Abyss City and thus became that person’s disciple, joining Profound Abyss City.

From that day on, he had stayed in Profound Abyss City for cultivation, and he hadn’t returned to Zhao Family Village.

And now, his cultivation has advanced to Foundation Establishment.

Normally, he wouldn’t be returning to Zhao Family Village at this time.

But during this period, silent changes occurred in the surrounding territories, causing the influential figures of Profound Abyss City to be very tense, yet unaware of the origin of these changes.

Therefore, the big figures sent many people back to their respective villages, hoping to figure out exactly what was going on.

At this time, Zhao Zheng recalled a previous meeting.

Several Void Refining Cultivators in Profound Abyss City gathered, looking very solemn.

"I believe you’ve also noticed the abnormalities during this period."

"That is, the cultivators from the various villages haven’t been coming to our Profound Abyss City."

"It’s as if they no longer need the food and various treasures from our Profound Abyss City."

"This has caused quite a loss to our Profound Abyss City."

"Does anyone know what’s causing this?"

A Void Refining Perfection cultivator asked.

They completely disregarded ordinary human villages, thinking these villages were impoverished and couldn’t extract much benefit, even if exploited.

But it’s undeniable, that although these human village cultivators are weak, scattered as they are, they occasionally find some precious treasures.

They only need to use some cheap food and ordinary elixirs to easily exchange for these precious treasures, which is simply an enormous profit. Clearly, this has brought continuous benefits to Profound Abyss City.

After all, they don’t need to do anything or risk their lives searching for treasures elsewhere, as long as they reside safely in the city, they can collect treasures from all over.

There’s nothing better than this.

But now, this benefit has completely disappeared.

Because during this period, those human village cultivators have seldom come to Profound Abyss City.

Had they not confirmed repeatedly, they would’ve thought those villages were wiped out by exotic beasts.

Therefore, they feel something is very wrong, undoubtedly, something terrible must have occurred secretly.

"Fellow Daoist Han, actually, we’ve also noticed this."

"We even sent many cultivators to investigate this matter."

"But always to no avail, unable to find anything."

A Void Refining Cultivator said helplessly.

"How could it be? Just a group of Low-Tier Cultivators, if they’re tight-lipped, just use Soul Search, how could we not find any clues?"

"Yes, initially, I thought the same. Even if these Low-Tier Cultivators are stubborn, as long as Soul Search is used, no one can hide from us.

Unfortunately, these Low-Tier Cultivators seem to have mysterious restrictions placed on them, blocking their soul memories. If forced to Soul Search, their souls will instantaneously collapse, making it impossible to get any useful information."

"Moreover, these Low-Tier Cultivators are very cautious. Once they know someone plans to deal with them, they immediately flee, even the entire village flees. Now, I can’t find any human villages nearby, don’t know where they’ve relocated. What’s even more terrifying, we’ve been retaliated against, our dispatched cultivators have been mysteriously killed, even Void Refining Cultivators were killed."

Numerous Void Refining Cultivators said solemnly.

Because they realized they seemingly couldn’t handle those human village Low-Tier Cultivators, as if these Low-Tier Cultivators joined a powerful force, getting backing from them, that’s why they dare to confront Profound Abyss City.

Now even Void Refining Cultivators are being killed.

This means, behind-the-scenes forces definitely have Void Refining Cultivators, possibly even Integration Great Power.