Chapter 81: Something from Nothing

Inside the dantian, everything returned to calm.

The True Essence and spiritual power were no longer leaking, but more than half had been drained away, leaving only a small amount to maintain his basic functions.

Jie Ming had no time to worry about his weakness; he immediately directed his spiritual sense inward to inspect his lower dantian in detail.

Inside the previously empty lower dantian, a tiny space had now appeared!

This space was pitch black, appearing deep and vast, but in reality, it was not very large—perhaps two or three hundred cubic meters, roughly the interior volume of a small cabin.

Purely from a "visual" sense, it was like a void, as if it could swallow even light, yet his spiritual power could explore it perfectly intact without encountering any obstacles.

It floated there silently, without boundaries, without fulcrums, completely independent of his physical body and meridians.

But the peculiar thing was that when the True Essence in Jie Ming's body circulated, it would deliberately pass through the location of this space, as if it were the junction point of his True Essence circulation technique.

Understanding dawned on Jie Ming instantly.

This was the true effect of the "Internal Circulation" technique he had been silently cultivating all this time, now that he had reached the Foundation Establishment stage!

He had cultivated this technique long ago because the Great Expansion Library's introduction stated it possessed the ability to "isolate the internal from the external and deceive the heavens."

At the time, he thought of using it to hide his identity as a cultivator and prevent the wizards from seeing that he possessed another supernatural system, all for the sake of self-preservation.

For so many years, Jie Ming had habitually operated this Internal Circulation technique, allowing the True Essence to form a closed loop within his body, isolating it from direct contact with external spiritual energy.

Because he had always used this technique to hide his cultivation base, he had instead forgotten its true effect.

Sealing the internal from the external was merely a side effect of this technique.

The true purpose of Internal Circulation was to construct a cave-heaven within the body!

It was only when he advanced to Foundation Establishment and the power within his body exceeded a certain limit that this technique truly exerted its effect.

Relying on the moment Jie Ming broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage—a leap in the essence of life—this habitual technique actually took the initiative to invoke power, opening up an independent little world within his body that was isolated from the outside.

Although this space was currently too narrow to be considered a true cave-heaven.

But as long as Jie Ming's cultivation base improved, this space would sooner or later form a self-sufficient little world!

"Wonderful!"

Understanding the ins and outs of the matter, Jie Ming couldn't help but laugh.

With a movement of his spiritual power, the Foundation Establishment magic potion in his hand vanished.

And in his perception, a drop of medicinal liquid emitting a warm, moist glow appeared within that space inside his body.

"It really is a pillow appearing just as I was getting sleepy; I had been worrying about the matter of a spatial ring."

Jie Ming had already noticed the issue with storage items during the trial arranged by the academy, but considering the instability of storage-type items, he had originally planned to find Mentor Lei Ke after coming out to see if he could obtain a spatial ring.

But reality dealt him a heavy blow; the difficulty of obtaining a spatial ring was even higher than he had imagined.

After all, to manufacture such an item, one had to find a Tier 6 Wizard who was proficient in both alchemy and spatial wizardry.

Both of these technologies belonged to high-difficulty types; even being proficient in one would make one highly sought after, and the number of people proficient in both was extremely small.

Mentor Lei Ke did have the qualifications, but he was proficient in knowledge regarding fate and causality; he was truly not very familiar with the spatial system.

And in the entire Plane Nuolun Academy, there was only one wizard who was simultaneously proficient in alchemy and spatial knowledge, and that person was only a Tier 5 Wizard, unable to craft spatial rings.

Lei Ke had suggested that Jie Ming try to use his Tier 2 cultivation agreement authority to apply on the official website of the Plane Nuolun workshop, but the demand for spatial equipment among other wizards was also quite high; even the most idle wizard's appointment was queued until ten years later.

Since these two paths were dead ends, the only remaining plan was to exchange for one with military merits.

However, as a creation of a Tier 6 Wizard, even with official subsidies, the cheapest spatial ring still cost one thousand low-tier military merits or one hundred high-tier military merits.

Now that he had this space, it solved the trouble that had plagued Jie Ming all along.

Even with this space, he might be able to further develop his rune wizarding tool system.

Jie Ming experimented with great interest; items in the laboratory kept disappearing and reappearing.

However, just as Jie Ming was having fun, the interior of this pitch-black space underwent another change.

"Eh?!"

Jie Ming, who had just put a whole set of magic potion-making equipment inside, shook his hand and wrapped his perception around the space within his body in disbelief.

Just a moment ago, he discovered that a wisp of spiritual energy had appeared inside this space out of nowhere.

This spiritual energy was condensed and did not dissipate, pure and incomparable, just wandering slowly within the space.

With a puzzled expression, he extracted this wisp of spiritual energy.

Jie Ming felt it slightly and discovered that it was indeed authentic spiritual energy, which could be used to strengthen his cultivation base or replenish consumption.

But...

"Did I refine spiritual energy just now? Or is it that..."

Jie Ming decisively put out everything he had just stored into the space, sat cross-legged on the ground, and calmly observed the space within his body.

One hour, two hours...

After waiting for a full 4 hours, which was four hours, under Jie Ming's gaze, another wisp of spiritual energy appeared abruptly in that space.

"This..." Jie Ming was even more astonished now.

He had an idea in his heart, but he still needed to prove it.

Glancing at the laboratory, which had opened its highest sealing state because he was preparing for a breakthrough, Jie Ming decisively stood up and hugged a huge metal disc from the side.

Skillfully carving runes onto the disc, soon, a magic array that completely blocked the exchange of internal and external energy appeared.

Jie Ming also found a highly sensitive energy detector from the instruments nearby, aimed it at the entire metal disc, and then walked to the center of the disc's magic array to sit cross-legged again.

Taking a deep breath, Jie Ming slowly let go of the internal circulation he had been maintaining continuously for so many years.

It wasn't just the internal circulation; he even stopped the operation of the cultivation technique within his body and the operation of the nine truth runes in his spiritual sea.

Waiting quietly for 4 hours like this, until another wisp of spiritual power appeared in his internal space, Jie Ming pulled it into his body and then went to the side of the detector to check the recorded data.

Although the data fluctuated continuously because the instrument was too sensitive, judging from the overall statistical data, after he pulled the spiritual energy into his body, the total energy within the entire disc had risen by an extremely faint trace.

"Interesting, something from nothing..." ===== CHAPTER 82 =====