Chapter 266 - 262: Approaching Greed Wolf Island

Jiang Xu found this extremely troublesome. Then, another thought occurred to him:

"You've only mentioned Greed Wolf Island. What about the other six islands?"

"They're probably all similar. There are seven main islands, and each has its own grand sacrificial ceremony and its own unique customs."

"Are they all held at the same time?"

"No, not at all. The seven islands stagger their grand sacrificial ceremonies. It's a seven-year cycle, with one island holding it each year in sequence. Let me see… This year should be the seventh island, Po Jun Island."

"Po Jun Island."

Jiang Xu repeated the name to himself.

Although that island was currently holding its grand sacrificial ceremony, it obviously had nothing to do with Jiang Xu and wouldn't affect him.

Jiang Xu wanted to ask more, but Master Fatty had probably grown tired of talking. Before Jiang Xu could get another question out, SLAM! The window was shut.

He was rather disappointed but didn't press the matter.

He moved away from the window and, with a casual wave of his hand, cast the Wood Spirit Acceleration Technique on Mumu, giving it a dose of "fertilizer."

Recently, aside from his Thousand-Faced Illusion Body, his Skill Level with the Wood Spirit Acceleration Technique had increased the most.

He estimated that with a little more time, it would reach the Mastery level.

Jiang Xu looked at Mumu, which was growing more and more robust at Tier One, and could feel that its growth rate wasn't slow.

'I don't trust Insect's loyalty one bit, but I feel pretty confident about Mumu.'

Compared to using the Insect Control Technique to control an insect that had lived for who knows how many years, Jiang Xu felt that binding an unhatched egg with a drop of his blood was far more reliable.

Besides, in addition to the blood-binding, Jiang Xu periodically used the Wood Spirit Acceleration Technique to give Mumu a boost.

This kind of help with its growth would make it even more dependent on him.

Furthermore, the benefit Mumu received from the Wood Spirit Acceleration Technique wasn't fixed; it would increase as his Skill Level improved.

'Maybe I shouldn't be counting on Insect to reach Tier Three. I should be counting on Mumu.'

But Jiang Xu quickly gave up on that thought. As a plant-type Demon Beast, although its Lifespan was long, its growth rate was just too slow.

If it continued to develop at this rate, he probably wouldn't even live to see Mumu reach Tier Three before his own Lifespan ran out.

Even reaching the level of a Tier Two Demon Beast would likely take a decade or two, maybe even several decades, before his Wood Spirit Acceleration Technique reached Mastery.

Jiang Xu scanned the distance with his Divine Sense. The world before him was dominated by a vast, boundless sea, its azure surface shimmering under the sunlight.

The bow of the ship cut through the waves, leaving a deep wake behind it, like a solitary line of poetry carved into the ocean's silken ribbon.

In this endless expanse of water, the only sounds were the waves lapping against the hull and the occasional cry of a seabird in the distance.

'Looks like we're still a long way from Greed Wolf Island. I should just get back to my bitter Cultivation.'

...

Greed Wolf Island, under the jurisdiction of the Seven Stars Club, generally refers to the main island itself and the various smaller islands surrounding it.

Greed Wolf Island was over 1,500 kilometers wide from north to south and over 1,900 kilometers long from east to west.

Just like the other six major islands.

Greed Wolf Island had an Island Master and a Vice Island Master, both of whom were in the Golden Core Realm.

The Seven Stars Association was actually an organization formed by the leaders of the seven major islands.

Therefore, on their islands, the Island Master and Vice Island Master were essentially equivalent to an Emperor.

Most of the residents living on Greed Wolf Island were mortals from the Cultivation Clans governed by the Seven Stars Association.

Dinghai State couldn't compare to the Youxian Sea in terms of resource abundance.

The mortals of Dinghai State were unable to acquire the resources cultivators needed.

But the Youxian Sea was different.

In the vast waters around Greed Wolf Island and its affiliated islands, even mortals could salvage precious Spiritual Materials that were beneficial to a cultivator's Cultivation.

The seabed here held a wealth of marine resources, including iridescent mother-of-pearl shells. The Spirit Pearls they produced were pure in texture and contained abundant Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, making them high-quality auxiliary materials for Alchemy and creating Talismans.

Additionally, the unique geographical environment of the seas around Greed Wolf Island fostered a large number of rare seaweeds, corals, and underwater Spirit Plants.

These Spirit Grasses, which grew near deep-sea hydrothermal vents or at the intersection of Spirit Veins, often absorbed vast amounts of pure Spiritual Qi from Heaven and Earth. To cultivators, they were key ingredients for refining medicinal potions and advancing their Cultivation. Examples included Thousand-Year-Old Seaweed, Seven-Colored Coral Branches, and Purple Crystal Sea Anemone.

And in the deep, dark seabed, there were also numerous ore veins containing precious minerals like Star Meteorite Iron, Deep Sea Spirit Jade, and Thousand-Year Ice Soul. These were all indispensable raw materials for forging top-tier Magical Artifacts.

Even if a mortal happened to find just a tiny bit, they could sell it on the market for a high price.

However, for mortals, the difficulty of obtaining these resources was unimaginable. The number of mortals who died each year because of them was truly countless.

It was just that in the eyes of the Seven Stars Association's cultivators, mortals were simply a renewable, sustainable resource.

Aside from mortals with some kind of cultivator background, they couldn't care less how many of the others died.

Thus, mortals had to farm and harvest resources from the ocean to support the cultivators in the Cultivation Clans.

The cultivators within the Cultivation Clans had to work hard for their families, gathering resources from the sea and handing them over to the clan.

And for a Cultivation Clan to exist, it had to pay tribute to the local island's Seven Stars Association.