Chapter 485: Law of Life

Hua Changxi had read about a rare heaven and earth treasure in the "Qianyuan Travel Notes" she had seized—the Spring Eye Bead.

The book says: "Spring Eye Bead, falls to the ground and becomes a spring."

At this moment, facing this fist-sized green gemstone, the reason she could recognize at a glance that this was the legendary Spring Eye Bead was entirely due to its unique "swallowing and spitting" power.

It was really too easy to identify.

"Falls to the ground and becomes a spring..."

Hua Changxi's eyes lit up. She had long felt that the scenery of Pill Origin Peak was a bit dull. Although after the hard work of the disciples, the former desolation was gone, looking around, it still lacked a bit of spiritual rhyme and vitality.

If the Spring Eye Bead were placed on the peak, the entire Pill Origin Peak would have a continuous supply of spiritual springs to nourish it in the future.

And the Pill Top Peak, which was still under development, needed the irrigation of spiritual springs even more.

Thinking of the infinite benefits of spiritual springs nourishing mountain peaks, Hua Changxi's eyes trembled slightly, unable to suppress the excitement in her heart, and she reached out, wanting to take the Spring Eye Bead into her pocket.

Unexpectedly, the moment her fingertips touched the faint green light emitted by the Spring Eye Bead, she felt the resistance like a mountain.

"Hmm?"

The green light was gentle and harmless, but it was like an invisible barrier. No matter how Hua Changxi operated her spiritual energy, she could not penetrate the green light and touch the bead body at all.

Hua Changxi withdrew her hand without surprise. Heaven and earth treasures as rare as the Spring Eye Bead have their own spiritual protection. If it were easy to get, that would be strange.

If it were really easy to get, she believed that it would have been taken away by the Pill Saint Hall descendants long ago.

The bottom of the Pill Spring was not a secret place, and the holy land descendants must have explored it long ago.

The fact that the Spring Eye Bead could still stay at the bottom of the spring meant it wasn't that no one discovered it, but that it was discovered, but could not be taken away.

Hua Changxi forcibly suppressed the impulse to grab it in her heart, moved her gaze away from the Spring Eye Bead in front of her, and looked around instead.

"One, two... nine!"

In the deep part of the spring bottom, there were a total of nine scenes where green light reflected each other, and the halo flowed like a galaxy swallowing and spitting.

Her figure swept, flew to each place to explore one by one, and soon confirmed that the entire Pill Spring had nurtured nine Spring Eye Beads.

"Nine?"

Hua Changxi looked thoughtful. Why were there exactly nine?

She intuitively felt that the number of Spring Eye Beads should not be nurtured casually, and there might be some unknown law or mystery behind it?

She had doubts about this, but she didn't think deeply, but quickly took out the divine tree firewood branch that had exhausted its vitality.

Collecting the vitality spiritual liquid on the divine tree leaves before was to nourish it. Now that she was in the Pill Spring, if she soaked the firewood branch in the green light river, it would definitely get more sufficient nourishment.

Hua Changxi specially chose a place close to the light river flowing with the Spring Eye Bead, and slowly put the divine tree firewood branch in.

In this way, it was convenient for her to look after the recovery status of the firewood branch at any time, and also convenient for her to explore the method of collecting the Spring Eye Bead.

Sure enough, as soon as the divine tree firewood branch entered the light river, the originally withered branches and leaves swallowed the light spots around them like a hungry person, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, they shed their withered state and became emerald and full again, full of vitality.

Seeing that the divine tree firewood branch was recovering rapidly, Hua Changxi shifted her attention to the Spring Eye Bead.

She had no other good way now, so she could only try to use spiritual energy to forcibly tear open that layer of faint green light and collect the Spring Eye Bead.

Immediately, spiritual light gathered at Hua Changxi's fingertips, condensed into a spiritual energy rope as tough as a cable, and quickly threw it at the green light, intending to bind the Spring Eye Bead.

However, the moment the spiritual rope touched the green light, that seemingly gentle barrier suddenly erupted with a terrifying rebounding force.

This was not a simple defensive counterattack, but more like a kind of rejection, as if... the Spring Eye Bead seemed to have life, hating all forces with a "predatory" nature.

"Hmm~"

Hua Changxi let out a muffled groan, and her figure was shaken back several feet.

After her figure stabilized, she didn't move rashly, just looked at the Spring Eye Bead solemnly.

She vaguely sensed an anomaly: the protective power of the Spring Eye Bead was not the pure offensive power she had encountered in the past, but more like a "rejection" will aimed at external objects.

To verify her guess, she cautiously swung a few more spiritual energy attacks to test, and the results were all the same, all bounced back.

After several times, she gradually discovered that the more intense her desire to obtain it, and the stronger her intention to take it by force, the more terrifying the rebounding force she suffered.

"This..."

Hua Changxi had a headache. Now, to take a treasure, she had to control her thoughts?

But having a breakthrough was always a good thing.

Hua Changxi sat cross-legged on the spot and began to recite the Heart-Clearing Mantra silently, trying to calm herself down, and then tried to verify it again.

At the same time, on the bank by the Pill Spring stone tablet, several holy land elders who discovered Hua Changxi sneaked over.

"Hua Changxi entered Pill Spring."

"She will definitely discover the Spring Eye Bead at the bottom of the spring."

"If she discovers it, she discovers it, she can't take it away anyway."

"That's not necessarily true. Don't forget, she holds the two main peaks of Pill Origin Peak and Pill Top Peak."

The nine Spring Eye Beads nurtured by the divine tree, one for each of the nine main peaks.

Of course, if the peak master of other sub-peaks has the opportunity and gets the Spring Eye Bead first, they can also place the Spring Eye Bead on the sub-peak.

But looking at the history of the Pill Saint Hall, there has not been such an exception yet.

"If Hua Changxi really gets the Spring Eye Bead but doesn't place it on Pill Origin Peak or Pill Top Peak, what should we do? Don't forget, she is suspected to be the Hall Master of Lingguang Hall."

"If she really uses the holy land's things elsewhere, then we will definitely have to come forward and ask for them back."

"Alright, stop talking about these useless things. The Spring Eye Bead is not so easy to get. In the ancient times, the main peak masters who could get the Spring Eye Bead were also a minority, and most of them relied on the Hall Master to use the power of the divine furnace to obtain the Spring Eye Bead."

Just as the holy land elders were discussing the Spring Eye Bead on the bank, at the bottom of the spring, Hua Changxi's mind was also stirred up by the Spring Eye Bead.

Because she was reciting the Heart-Clearing Mantra silently, her mind was much calmer, but she didn't pay attention, and actually let the Spring Eye Bead, while swallowing and spitting the light river, suck the divine tree firewood branch soaked in the light river along with it.

Seeing the divine tree firewood branch penetrate the green light and touch the Spring Eye Bead, Hua Changxi's heart was about to jump out of her throat, fearing that the Spring Eye Bead would swallow the divine tree firewood branch.

Fortunately, her worry did not happen.

The divine tree firewood branch floated above the Spring Eye Bead, moving up and down with the swallowing and spitting light flow.

Hua Changxi's heart fell back into her stomach, her brain started running again, and soon, she noticed the anomaly—the divine tree firewood branch could actually penetrate the green light!

Seeing this, Hua Changxi's mind moved, and she began to summon the divine tree firewood branch to return.

Watching the divine tree firewood branch pass through the green light freely and return to her hand, Hua Changxi was thoughtful.

"Why can the divine tree firewood branch penetrate the green light?"

The desire to obtain was really hard to eliminate. Hua Changxi looked at the divine tree firewood branch, thinking, if she could refine the divine tree firewood branch, could she collect the Spring Eye Bead through the firewood branch?

Thinking this way, she did it.

She bit her finger, dripped a drop of essence blood onto the divine tree firewood branch, and began to refine it.

Although the divine tree firewood branch had recovered a lot of vitality because it had been soaked in the light river for a while, it was still withered inside. After the refining started, Hua Changxi felt this point, so she threw the divine tree firewood branch into the light river again.

As the refining progressed, Hua Changxi gradually felt that her connection with the divine tree firewood branch was becoming tighter and tighter.

When she saw the divine tree firewood branch penetrate the green light again along with the swallowing and spitting of the Spring Eye Bead and float above the Spring Eye Bead, she took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed all the restlessness and possessiveness in her heart, slowly closed her eyes, no longer thinking about how to get the Spring Eye Bead, but poured all her mind, along with that divine tree firewood branch, into the flowing light river.

At this moment, she was no longer the cultivator eager to seize the treasure, but like the divine tree firewood branch, longing for the fullness of vitality.

She felt the beating of every wisp of vitality in the light river.

That was the struggle of breaking through the soil, the joy of sprouting, and the stretching of bathing in rain and dew.

No predation, only giving; no confrontation, only fusion.

I don't know how long it took, when Hua Changxi felt that she seemed to have become a drop of water in the light river, she suddenly felt the aura of the power of law.

After mastering the laws of "Crack" and "Karma," she was no stranger to the power of law.

Hua Changxi's heart jumped, and she tried hard to fuse herself with the perceived power of law. Soon, the aura around her changed, and the originally sharp and keen spiritual energy became as moist as jade, and emitted a surging upward vitality.

In the depths of her sea of consciousness and dantian, an ancient and mysterious Dao rhyme quietly condensed, finally turning into a verdant and dripping large character—Life!

After the "Life" character was completely formed, Hua Changxi slowly opened her eyes, raised her right hand, and a green light circle flashing with "Life" character runes suddenly appeared.

The next moment, she widened her eyes.

That Spring Eye Bead emitting rich green light seemed to feel some kind of call, as if it had spirituality, automatically detached from the bottom of the spring, drew a beautiful arc, and fell gently into her palm.

The bead body was warm, perfectly fused with the "Life" law in her palm, without any rejection.

"So that's how it is..."

Hua Changxi had some realization. The Spring Eye Bead was not a dead object, but the embodiment of the Dao rhyme of life. It falls to the ground and becomes a spring, nourishing all things, and is the source of "Life" itself.

To get it, you cannot be a greedy "predator," but must be a "provider" of vitality.