Chapter 166: Limited Supply of Spiritual Energy?

After obtaining the source of the spiritual vein.

Ye Qingxuan returned to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven with the source of the spiritual vein.

Since there was only one fifth-tier source of a spiritual vein, Ye Qingxuan left only two fourth-tier sources of spiritual veins for his mysterious merchant city.

The remaining one fifth-tier source of a spiritual vein and thirteen fourth-tier sources of spiritual veins were all integrated by Ye Qingxuan into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land.

Under the catalysis of the power of the Cave Heaven and blessed land controlled by Ye Qingxuan, these integrated sources of spiritual veins were evolving into spiritual veins of corresponding tiers at an extremely fast speed.

It only required waiting a few days.

One fifth-tier spiritual vein and thirteen fourth-tier spiritual veins would appear within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land.

Adding the previous twenty third-tier spiritual veins, thirty-six second-tier spiritual veins, and sixty-two first-tier spiritual veins.

At that time, the speed at which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land absorbed external energy and transformed primordial essence would inevitably surge again.

The extra first and second-tier spiritual veins had slowly evolved after the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land advanced to the mid-stage of the third tier.

A total of two second-tier spiritual veins and four first-tier spiritual veins had evolved.

That is why there were currently thirty-six second-tier spiritual veins and sixty-two first-tier spiritual veins within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land.

Five days later.

After the newly added one fifth-tier spiritual vein and thirteen fourth-tier spiritual veins successfully evolved.

Under the instinctive operation of the Cave Heaven and blessed land.

These newly added spiritual veins began to assist the Cave Heaven and blessed land in opening energy channels and nodes, absorbing void energy and chaotic energy from the outside world, and transforming them into spiritual energy and primordial essence.

After sensing the current speed at which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land transformed primordial essence, Ye Qingxuan could not help but show joy in his eyes.

The impact of the fifth-tier spiritual vein on the third-tier Cave Heaven and blessed land was even greater than Ye Qingxuan had imagined.

According to the current speed at which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land transformed primordial essence, plus the continuous supply of Qing Demon Clan corpses transported through the mysterious merchant city.

Ye Qingxuan estimated that the speed at which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land advanced to the late stage of the third tier would be much faster than its advancement to the mid-stage of the third tier.

As for the profound meanings of the Cave Heaven and blessed land's rules? Ever since Ye Qingxuan used the seventh-tier World-Suppressing Stone to set up a sixth-tier World-Suppressing Great Formation.

The Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land became even more stable, capable of releasing more power to analyze the profound meanings of the rules and accelerate the transformation of primordial essence.

With the continuous supply of low-tier spiritual mines from Ye Qingxuan and the assistance of the large number of spiritual plants he cultivated.

The profound meanings of the rules currently evolved by the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land were already sufficient for the Cave Heaven and blessed land to grow to the peak of the third tier.

Therefore, in the short term, Ye Qingxuan only needed to increase the energy supply to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land and accelerate the transformation of its primordial essence.

There was no need to worry about the profound meanings of the rules of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land.

After the sources of spiritual veins integrated into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land evolved into spiritual veins.

Ye Qingxuan sent his Explorer clone back to the Qingxuan Blessed Land to take the remaining two fourth-tier sources of spiritual veins to the mysterious merchant city in the Xuanmu Realm.

In the mysterious merchant city, Ye Qingxuan's clone could not use the power of heaven and earth from the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land to catalyze the sources of spiritual veins.

Therefore, after receiving the two fourth-tier sources of spiritual veins brought by the Explorer clone.

Ye Qingxuan's Mysterious Merchant clone activated the sources of spiritual veins continuously by infusing spiritual energy from the city.

It took a full three months of continuous infusion of spiritual energy to activate them before the two fourth-tier sources of spiritual veins gradually formed two fourth-tier spiritual veins.

Within the earth beneath the mysterious merchant city, after the spiritual veins took shape, it took a few days to open two energy channels.

As soon as the two energy channels appeared, they began to draw in void and chaotic energy from outside the Xuanmu Realm, continuously transforming it into fourth-tier spiritual energy.

Under the guidance of the formation, this transformed fourth-tier spiritual energy was successively fed back into the cave dwellings and courtyards within the mysterious merchant city.

Moreover, around the two fourth-tier spiritual veins, the gathered spiritual energy had begun to slowly condense into low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones, piling up in the earth surrounding the spiritual veins.

Perhaps, after the long passage of time.

As long as the spirit stones beneath the mysterious merchant city were not mined, these two fourth-tier spiritual veins might continue to transform and advance; this was uncertain.

Most spiritual veins, like cultivators, did not start at the peak level of spiritual veins.

The vast majority of spiritual veins in the world, from the moment of their birth, evolved from first-tier spiritual veins, growing and transforming slowly over the long passage of time.

Only then did they grow into various high-tier spiritual veins.

After the mysterious merchant city gained two additional fourth-tier spiritual veins, the first to notice, besides Ye Qingxuan, were the Nascent Soul realm cultivators resting in the various cave dwellings and courtyards of the mysterious merchant city. Previously, although the mysterious merchant city did not lack spiritual energy, most of it was first-tier spiritual energy born from the transformation of first-tier demonic energy.

Although first-tier spiritual energy, if abundant enough, could still allow Nascent Soul realm cultivators to recover their spiritual power.

But the speed of recovering spiritual power would be much slower, let alone the speed of cultivation.

For a cultivator to increase their cultivation base was equivalent to constantly expanding a bottle, allowing the bottle to hold more spiritual power.

During this process, the bottle itself would also undergo transformation.

To expand the bottle, one had to slowly absorb spiritual energy through the bottle's mouth, transforming it into refined spiritual power to polish the bottle and expand its body.

However, once the spiritual power within the bottle was completely consumed, one could directly purify and filter through the bottle's body, absorbing spiritual energy from the outside to fill the consumed spiritual power within the bottle.

This bottle was equivalent to a cultivator's dantian; the bottle's mouth was equivalent to a cultivator's spiritual root.

To polish the dantian, expand the dantian's capacity, compress the concentration of spiritual power within the dantian, and improve one's own cultivation base.

One needed to use the spiritual power transformed by the spiritual root to directly infuse into the dantian, forcibly polishing the dantian, subconsciously expanding its capacity, and compressing the concentration of spiritual power within.

Once the spiritual power within the polished dantian was completely consumed.

The cultivator could directly absorb spiritual energy from the outside world through the meridians connecting the entire body to the outer wall of the dantian.

Filter the external spiritual energy through the outer wall of the dantian, directly transforming it into spiritual power to replenish their own consumption.

The outer wall of the dantian would also transform along with the cultivator's realm as they improved their cultivation base.

Therefore, the purity of the spiritual power filtered by the outer wall of the dantian differed for cultivators of different realms.

For example, when a Nascent Soul realm cultivator absorbed external spiritual energy to recover spiritual power, the spiritual power transformed through the outer wall of the dantian was fifth-tier spiritual power.

The higher the quality of the external spiritual energy absorbed, the faster the filtering speed of the dantian's outer wall.

Therefore, the emergence of fourth-tier spiritual veins in the mysterious merchant city could now supply fourth-tier spiritual energy.

Nascent Soul realm cultivators who had previously hesitated whether to temporarily settle in the mysterious merchant city and use it as a foothold in the Xuanmu Realm.

After sensing that the mysterious marketplace could supply fourth-tier spiritual energy, he decisively made the decision to establish the mysterious marketplace as his base in the Xuanmu Realm.

After all, aside from Xuanmu City,

most other cities where city-founding succeeded lack a supply of fourth-tier or higher spiritual energy.

In fact, in a small number of cities, even first-tier spiritual energy is supplied in limited quantities.

This forces the already poor independent cultivators to use their spirit stones to restore their spiritual power.

Do not think that maintaining a spiritual energy supply in the Xuanmu Realm is easy.

The spiritual veins of the Di-xuan Realm are forbidden from being destroyed, while currently only the source of the demon veins exists within the Xuanmu Realm.

Only the high-ranking officials of the Di-xuan Realm Alliance have the ability to purify the source of the demon veins back into the source of spiritual veins.

That is to say, the Di-xuan Realm Alliance is currently the only channel to obtain the source of spiritual veins.

To exchange for the source of the alliance within the Di-xuan Realm Alliance, one must only accept missions issued by the Di-xuan Realm Alliance and earn alliance contribution points.

Ordinary cultivators, even if willing to spend spirit stones to purchase, have no such channel and can only accept missions from the Di-xuan Realm Alliance to accumulate alliance contribution points.

However, many cultivators in the Di-xuan Realm are eyeing the missions of the Di-xuan Realm Alliance.

For easy missions, mid- and low-realm cultivators in the Di-xuan Realm without background cannot snatch them.

For difficult missions, mid- and low-realm cultivators in the Di-xuan Realm without background lack the ability to complete them.

Therefore, wanting to exchange for a source of spiritual veins within the Di-xuan Realm is not a simple matter.

There are some cities in the Xuanmu Realm established by independent cultivators.

Currently, they still use first-tier spirit-purifying trees to purify a small amount of first-tier spiritual energy, supplied in limited quantities to the cultivators within the city.

Precisely because of this, after noticing that the mysterious marketplace began supplying fourth-tier spiritual energy,

the cultivators still resting at the mysterious marketplace decisively made the decision to settle there temporarily.

After all, the mysterious marketplace is located in one of the regions where the human race and the Green Demon Clan are engaged in a fierce battle.

Settling here provides a significant advantage when hunting the Green Demon Clan.

(End of this chapter)