Chapter 443: Leveling Addiction

[Creation Hand (Manifestation): 2/]

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[Creation Hand (Manifestation): 100/]

Hua Changxi was deeply immersed in this visible upgrade. As more spiritual roots were revealed, she clearly felt that her use of the 'Creation Hand' became more natural and proficient.

As spiritual root after spiritual root manifested, Tong Yao, Jia Lu, and the other two were mesmerized, watching with rapt attention.

Spiritual roots, the foundation by which cultivators communicate with heaven and earth and absorb spiritual energy, were now no longer formless and intangible void objects in their presence. Instead, they had concrete shapes, colors, and even breaths and pulses.

The more spiritual roots they saw, the more the four of them marveled at the wonder of the Creator.

At the same time, they gained deeper insights into the spiritual energy resurgence.

The spiritual energy resurgence brought not only a change in the overall trend of heaven and earth, but also a complete leap in the level of life.

Compared to the physical body, spiritual roots, dantian, and sea of consciousness were organs of an entirely different dimension and level. Their existence elevated life to new heights.

While Tong Yao and the other three were marveling at the leap in life, Hua Changxi encountered a problem—after manifesting the spiritual roots of one hundred disciples of Danyuan Peak, continuing to manifest more roots did not cause the number to increase further.

Hua Changxi, who had experienced stagnation in realm advancement, was no stranger to this situation.

She knew that the manifestation should enter the next stage—manifesting the dantian!

After over a hundred spiritual root manifestations, Hua Changxi's understanding and operational experience of the 'Creation Hand' divine ability had grown profound. Although she didn't think manifesting a dantian would encounter any accidents, for caution's sake, she wanted to find someone of a higher realm to experiment on.

Therefore, Hua Changxi set her sights on Tong Yao, who was at the Spirit Platform realm and also a body cultivator.

"Would you like to see what your own dantian looks like?"

Tong Yao, seeing Hua Changxi look at him, was stunned for a moment and did not respond immediately.

Seeing his reaction, Hua Changxi said, "If you're not willing..."

Tong Yao interrupted her: "I am willing, but..." He looked at Jia Lu and the other two, "I'll have to ask the three of them to leave first."

Upon hearing this, Hua Changxi explained: "They are here to prevent unexpected situations."

Tong Yao looked at her and said with a smile, "I trust you."

Hua Changxi looked at Tong Yao, was silent for a moment, then looked at Jia Lu and the other two, signaling them to leave.

Jia Lu and the other two said nothing and quickly left the room.

As soon as the three stepped out, they found the courtyard bustling. Disciples of Danyuan Peak were gathered around the stone wall, pointing and discussing excitedly.

"What's going on?"

The three approached and saw that many murals and texts had appeared on the stone wall, all related to spiritual roots—some introduced types of spiritual roots, others introduced how to heal damaged spiritual roots, and still others introduced how to cultivate and strengthen spiritual roots.

After seeing this, Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian's expressions showed both shock and sudden realization—so this was the true secret and heritage of the Qihuang Hall!!!

After only Hua Changxi and Tong Yao remained in the room, Hua Changxi gestured for Tong Yao to sit down and asked with a smile, "Aren't you afraid something might go wrong during the manifestation?"

Tong Yao smiled and said firmly, "Nothing will go wrong. I believe you wouldn't joke about something like this. Even if there is risk, it's manageable."

Hua Changxi lowered her eyes and smiled, feeling gratified by Tong Yao's trust.

After Tong Yao settled his breathing and entered a meditative state, she began to execute the 'Creation Hand', first manifesting his spiritual roots.

Tong Yao's spiritual roots were like a divine painting, the form of sacred fire.

Within the spiritual roots flowed the ultimate yang and ultimate firm fire spiritual power, interwoven from crimson flames and purple lightning.

The crimson flames were as splendid as sunset clouds, carrying a domineering aura that could burn mountains and boil seas; the purple lightning coiled like a swimming dragon, each flash seeming to announce the arrival of death and destruction.

Hua Changxi saw the purple lightning in his spiritual roots, and her eyes flickered—the ultimate extreme of fire can summon thunder, it seemed Tong Yao also had a fairly deep comprehension of the law of fire.

Hua Changxi exhaled and began carefully to manifest his dantian.

The manifestation went smoothly, with no accidents.

Tong Yao's dantian... breathtakingly beautiful!

It was a vast, boundless crimson ocean. The entire dantian was like a living universe, where seven-colored strange fires circulated and flowed, layered and inter-reflecting, emitting an aura both sacred and majestic.

At the same time, fire spiritual power cycled within it, ceaselessly regenerating, with each cycle becoming purer and more condensed.

In the center of that sea of fire, a Nascent Soul could be faintly seen, along with several magical artifacts of various shapes.

Both the Nascent Soul and the artifacts were rather blurry, clearly because the manifestation was not strong enough.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi carefully extended the "Creation Hand" into the dantian, which subsequently "expanded."

This expansion was not expansion in the physical sense—the dantian still remained an elliptical orb wrapped among the spiritual root tendrils; this expansion was a sensory expansion.

With the light touch of the "Creation Hand," the artifacts and the Nascent Soul gradually became clear.

"Hmm?"

Hua Changxi did not probe into the magical artifacts in Tong Yao's dantian; her focus was on the Nascent Soul—Tong Yao's Nascent Soul had its eyes open!

Hua Changxi thought of her own Nascent Soul. When she had broken through the golden core and birthed her Nascent Soul, its eyes were closed.

Although later the Nascent Soul's eyes opened a little, they were not fully open.

She had always felt there was something wrong with her Nascent Soul not opening its eyes, and now seeing Tong Yao's open-eyed Nascent Soul, she was even more certain of her judgment.

But what exactly caused her Nascent Soul to be unable to open its eyes?

Suppressing her urge to investigate, Hua Changxi carefully observed the walls of Tong Yao's dantian, the condensation of the qi sea, and the condition of the Nascent Soul, then withdrew the "Creation Hand" divine ability.

At that moment, Tong Yao also opened his eyes.

"What do you think of your dantian?"

Tong Yao shook his head: "I don't know." Without a comparison, he didn't know how to describe it, but he really liked his dantian.

When cultivating before, although he could inwardly view his dantian, it was from a first-person perspective, seeing only local details. This time, viewing from a "third-person perspective," the experience and feeling were completely different.

Hesitating for a moment, Hua Changxi thought that since Tong Yao was willing to bare his dantian before her, she asked, "My Nascent Soul has always been unable to open its eyes. Do you know why?"

Tong Yao let out an "Ah," quite surprised: "After the golden core transforms into an infant, the Nascent Soul is supposed to have its eyes open."

Hua Changxi: "Mine has its eyes half-closed."

Tong Yao was silent for a good while: "You're the physician." After a pause, "How about I help you consult with the elders of our Holy Land?"

Hua Changxi: "You can, but don't say it's my problem."

Hearing this, Tong Yao found it somewhat amusing, but he still nodded in agreement.

Afterward, Hua Changxi called Jia Lu and the other two in.

Jia Lu was a body cultivator, so Hua Changxi passed over him and looked at Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian: "Do you want to see your dantians?"

Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian exchanged a glance, then nodded simultaneously.

Tong Yao looked at the two: "Should I step out?"

Both Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian knew that keeping Tong Yao there was so he could better observe the dantian's condition and facilitate the refining of the life artifact, so they both shook their heads.

They had already taken out the magical artifacts stored in their dantians; as for other conditions of the dantian, they trusted that the Peak Master would not casually disclose them to outsiders.

After that, Hua Changxi successively manifested the dantians of Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian.

Both were wood spiritual bodies. Compared to Tong Yao's sea of fire filled with burning force, their dantians were a green universe teeming with vitality and endless life force.

[Creation Hand (Manifestation): 101/]

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[Creation Hand (Manifestation): 1000/]

After manifesting the dantians of Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian, Hua Changxi devoted herself almost forgetful of food and sleep to manifesting the dantians of other disciples.

As she manifested more and more dantians, the manifestation ability of her "Creation Hand" grew stronger—from initially being able to manifest only the overall outline of the dantian, to later revealing every situation inside the dantian with a single gesture, reaching a level of near microscopic detail.

When the number of manifested dantians reached one thousand, the data stalled again, meaning the manifestation had entered its next stage—manifesting the sea of consciousness.

At this step, Hua Changxi had truly hit a bottleneck.

Cultivators at the Spiritual Platform realm who had opened their sea of consciousness were definitely few and far between now. Where could she find so many Spiritual Platform cultivators?