Based on the information left by Wei Siming and subsequent intelligence gathering, the rabbits have confirmed that the spiritual energy in the Damo Realm is indeed dissipating and disappearing.
The rate of this dissipation is eerily fast, comparable to the vanishing speed of a WeChat balance; it's there in the morning and gone by the afternoon.
Under these circumstances, cultivators in the Nascent Soul Realm have become the pinnacle of combat power in the Damo Realm, and their numbers are extraordinarily scarce.
However, scarce as they are, they do exist.
It's just that these Nascent Soul Great Cultivators remain relatively low-key, or rather, ordinary cultivators cannot easily track their whereabouts.
It's like those well-known business tycoons who are a rare sight for ordinary people to encounter on the street, yet it's commonplace for them to meet and dine within their circles.
Nicely put, it's a different social circle; bluntly, it's a barrier of class.
This situation exists not only in the business world but also in the online literature industry.
For example, ordinary authors look up to elite groups with admiration, getting exhilarated over meeting a prominent figure, but really, those big shots in elite circles often share racy pictures every day.
The rabbits currently fall into the category of wanting to join the circle yet not qualifying for it, but the information about Nascent Soul Realm cultivators is crucial for the entire command or core levels, concerning many important strategic decision discussions.
Therefore, Ma Ning can only understand through Yang Bolin, the strongest known source of information.
Since Nascent Soul Great Cultivators appeared in Ziqiong City's ancestry, coupled with the extensive trade influence of the Purple Treasure Pavilion, Yang Bolin's understanding of the Nascent Soul Realm won't be exaggerated nonsense.
Faced with Ma Ning's inquiry, Yang Bolin pondered silently for a moment, quickly calculating in his mind.
Compared to the semi-public information on the Tier Five ancient array at Demon Realm's breach, the quantity of Nascent Soul cultivators in the Damo Realm is an absolute core secret.
It's not that publicizing this information would pose danger to those in the Nascent Soul or the Damo Realm, but this message acts as a threshold accessible only by certain strata.
In other words, knowing this information means you can basically step into this circle.
It's not an exaggeration to say that many Core Formation Realm cultivators don't know just how many Nascent Soul cultivators exist.
In today's Damo Realm, Nascent Soul cultivators are essentially suppressive forces.
Although they aren't exaggeratedly impervious to nuclear bombs, they aren't easy targets for modern weapons either.
At this stage of the Nascent Soul, cultivators can effortlessly achieve supersonic cruising, and various stealth techniques allows easy concealment—it's exactly the capabilities of a fourth-generation fighter jet.
Moreover, in terms of offensive power, Nascent Soul cultivators possess battleship-level firepower output.
From a strategic perspective, a Nascent Soul cultivator is also a strategic bomber—since they can freely control vast expanses of spiritual energy; if a Nascent Soul practitioner wishes to carry out a regional map attack, they can fly tens of thousands of meters above a location, gradually accumulating energy to unleash a super blow.
Thus, a Nascent Soul cultivator is at the perfect balance of capabilities, with the firepower and defense of the strongest warship, speed and stealth of the strongest aircraft, advanced radar navigation, and the ultimate means of lengthy spell accumulation.
This means they are practically near the ultimate stage of modern weaponry, comparable to the most powerful integration of native weapons of our time—beyond that are space-based or futuristic weapons.
More crucially, they are individual powerhouses!
Therefore, wanting to resolve a Nascent Soul cultivator currently can basically only be achieved through overwhelming firepower coverage—sometimes requiring some special weapons of prohibited levels.
Or there's the development of a region capable of sealing off Nascent Soul spiritual power, turning Nascent Soul stage cultivators completely into mortals, preventing them from deploying spiritual power barriers and making them susceptible to weapons directly affecting their physical body.
The former method is costly, while the latter is theoretical, so resolving a Nascent Soul is incredibly difficult.
This is why the quantity and distribution of Nascent Souls in the Damo Realm are essential information to collect.
After a lengthy and complex deliberation comparable to a peak-level battle in the canyon, Yang Bolin eventually decided to disclose this information to Ma Ning, saying:
"Shopkeeper Ma, you should know that the Damo Realm is divided into four major domains: East, South, West, and North. Chixian City and Ziqiong City are located in the Southern Domain.
The location of the Demon Realm's breach is far in the Western Domain, and traveling to the other three domains can only be done through a teleportation array.
Of the remaining three domains, the Eastern Domain is the largest, the Southern Domain comes next, and the Northern Domain is the smallest. These three domains collectively form a central domain.
Each major domain has a perilous zone: Celestial Moon Mountain Range in the Southern Domain, Endless Sand Forest in the Northern Domain, and Star Sea in the Eastern Domain."
After hearing Yang Bolin's words, Ma Ning nodded in the video.
The rabbits were previously aware of Yang Bolin's information—as they needed to find a suitable origin for the Taoshu Commerce Association, after all.
Among the three perilous zones, Star Sea is an expansive uninhabited area, whereas the Celestial Moon Mountain Range and behind the Endless Sand Forest have many scattered human settlements.
However, the people beyond these two perilous zones have relatively distinctive characteristics in both cultivation techniques and social structures.
For instance, their social framework primarily takes the form of tribes without fixed large, medium, or small cities, yet there exist tens-of-thousands strong large tribes.
Apart from this, their cultivation involves obscure techniques and totems, which are quite different from the mainstream cultivation styles of the Damo Realm.
Some tribal groups do not rely on spiritual roots; all resources depend on personal effort.
Coupled with the isolation of the Celestial Moon Mountain Range and other perilous areas, they speak a different language from the other four regions, so one could say they are two civilizations of different ideologies.
Therefore, they are excluded from the main territory of the Damo Realm, belonging to the outer regions of Damo.
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Of course.
This territorial division is from the perspective of the indigenous people of the Damo Realm, whereas the information seen by the rabbits is another matter, which we won't discuss for now.
After introducing the territorial situation of Damo Realm, Yang Bolin paused and continued:
"Let's take the Southern Region where we are located as an example.
There are six core cities in the Southern Region, meaning those that have produced Nascent Soul Great Cultivators in the past, and have current cultivators of the Eighth-Layer Core Formation Realm or above stationed, with Ziqiong City of course included among them.
However, among these six cities, currently only Anhua City and another city, Heaven-Burning City, have Nascent Soul Great Cultivators.
However, these two Nascent Soul Great Cultivators are not stationed in their respective cities, but have gone to the Demon Gate for more than two hundred years to guard.
The same roughly applies to the eastern and northern regions.
Under these circumstances, there are approximately fifteen Nascent Soul Great Cultivators stationed at the Demon Gate today, with a few venturing alone into the Demon Realm to hunt demons.
Besides the Demon Gate, I know of only three cities in the Eastern Region, each with a population of over five million, that have Nascent Soul Realm cultivators present, and some few are exploring the Star Sea, seemingly looking for some ruins.
Moreover, in the rear outer regions behind the Celestial Moon Mountain Range and the Endless Sand Forest, there are approximately ten or so Nascent Soul Cultivators, but I am not aware of their specific circumstances."
After listening to Yang Bolin's introduction, Ma Ning quickly calculated:
"So... there are more than thirty Nascent Soul Realm cultivators in the Damo Realm right now?"
Yang Bolin nodded:
"That's roughly the number, and these Nascent Soul Realm Great Cultivators are generally at the early-stage Nascent Soul level, with the entire Damo Realm having only two or three at the late-stage Nascent Soul level."
Upon hearing these words, Ma Ning couldn't help but exchange a glance with Lin Li:
Jackpot!
It must be said that although Yang Bolin did not bring wealth today, he certainly provided a lot of useful information.
And the price the rabbits paid was merely exposing their communication methods.
Although Yang Bolin is only a cultivator at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment, a lower realm than Wei Siming back then, his status ensures he has access to much information that Wei Siming couldn't comprehend.
Just like Wei Qiangsheng's extraordinary experience in identification exceeds ordinary Qi Cultivation or Foundation Establishment cultivators, the advanced knowledge Yang Bolin holds about the Damo Realm might even surpass those in the seventh and eighth layers of Core Formation.
Thus, the number he provided is essentially the count of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators in the Damo Realm, at least there should not be a major discrepancy like three or four times the actual number.
The Damo Realm holds over thirty Nascent Soul Realm cultivators today... counting those hidden experts, let's estimate it at around fifty.
The Demon Realm has been confronting this for many years, with the Demon Realm taking the lead in offense, so they likely have at least half as many Tier Four Demon Beasts as the Damo Realm, perhaps even more.
This means Demon Realm might have nearly a hundred Tier Four Demon Beasts.
Thinking so, Ma Ning's expression became somewhat serious:
Setting aside those ultimate methods, currently, the rabbits surely do not have the capacity for completely annihilating these beasts without damage.
For these rabbits, who are renowned cautious experts, failing to achieve a flawless and complete annihilation equals definite failure.
Therefore, relaxation is not an option; rather, it's necessary to accelerate progress.
Then Ma Ning pondered for a while and continued asking:
"Shopkeeper Yang, do you know if there are any cultivators in the Damo Realm at the Divinity Transformation Realm?"
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