Chapter 403: Too Small

Half a day later, the flying boat arrived in a lush green valley.

Elder Futu waved his hand, and the large boat landed.

Everyone walked off the boat one by one.

Although it was a valley, the surroundings had been built to be magnificent, and there were tens of thousands of imperial guards protecting the place.

There was also a huge golden light membrane that wrapped the back half of the valley inside.

Elder Futu smiled and said: "This is it... you peerless geniuses, please follow me!"

The twelve people followed Elder Futu to the front of the array.

He Pingsheng's divine sense swept over it; this array was fourth-tier.

Moreover, it was at the level of a mountain-protecting array.

Even if a peak Nascent Soul stage cultivator came, they wouldn't be able to shake this array in the slightest.

Since the imperial family protected this place so well, one could see the preciousness of the Seven Star Spirit Spring.

Rumble...

Just at this moment, an opening appeared on the golden array light membrane.

Elder Futu led everyone into the array.

Inside the array, it was still a valley.

The difference was that the spiritual energy here was extremely dense, even much denser than the spiritual energy near the spiritual veins of some large sects.

"Hiss... what dense spiritual energy!"

"If one were to cultivate in such a place, I guess it would be twice the result with half the effort?"

Several geniuses discussed as they walked.

He Pingsheng, however, had already unleashed his divine sense, shrouding the entire valley.

Now his divine sense had reached a range of thirty thousand feet; with one thought, he could shroud two hundred miles.

He saw it!

Behind the bamboo forest, there was a huge pool.

It could also be called an immortal pool.

The immortal pool was covered in mist, obscuring most of the spirit spring from view.

His divine sense could not enter it.

But he could see that above the immortal pool, there was an extremely tiny spirit spring, constantly dripping, dropping spirit liquid into it one by one.

This volume of water was extremely small.

But over the years, it had actually dripped out a large pool dozens of feet in diameter.

"Follow me!"

Elder Futu led everyone, and before long, they arrived beside the immortal pool.

This time, they could see it with their own eyes.

The shape of the immortal pool was irregular, roughly a fan shape about twenty feet long and wide.

Around the immortal pool, many purple bamboos were planted.

The bamboo forest was dense, with only one winding exit leading outside, so if one didn't use divine sense to observe, this place was almost isolated from the outside.

"Alright!" Elder Futu said, "The spirit liquid inside has been gathering for thousands of years. The imperial family only opens this place once every hundred years, and each time it is for the internal disciples of the imperial family!"

"This time, you can be considered to have obtained a great fortuitous encounter!"

"Everyone, just jump in and bathe in the spirit liquid!"

"Don't worry about privacy; this spirit liquid contains Five Elements Dao laws, so it can block divine sense!"

"You are all heaven's proud sons; the imperial family believes you shouldn't commit the theft of taking away the spirit liquid!"

"I advise everyone to have self-respect!"

"Go!"

Elder Futu waved his hand: "There are only three months. After three months, we will depart directly from here to the Xuan Sect holy land, 【Mount Tianqiang】."

After speaking, Elder Futu left directly.

The twelve people looked at each other, then jumped into the spirit liquid one by one.

This spirit liquid was not deep.

Only three feet!

Therefore, cultivators could completely sit in this spirit liquid and cultivate.

"Aren't you going to grab a spot?" Liang Huaqiu pouted.

He Pingsheng looked and said: "Alright!"

He found a corner with fewer people and stepped into the pool.

The surrounding spirit liquid pressed against him.

He Pingsheng smiled bitterly.

This...

This is the same principle as absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth; spiritual energy enters the flesh through the skin, then gathers at the spirit root through the flesh, and then leads to the meridians to be refined.

But...

I am a Five Elements Void Linggen.

What use is this spirit liquid to me?

Plop...

The next moment, Princess Qinghe Liang Huaqiu also jumped into the pool.

She was right behind He Pingsheng, only about three feet away from him.

"Hey..." Just after entering the pool, the woman's face turned dark: "This doesn't seem very friendly to our Five Elements Spirit Roots!"

"Yes!"

He Pingsheng frowned slightly.

With a boom, his divine sense flew out.

In his sea of consciousness, countless Dao root whiskers merged into this spirit liquid.

Liang Huaqiu had said before that this spirit liquid not only contained abundant spiritual energy but also Five Elements Dao laws.

Since he couldn't absorb the spiritual energy, he would absorb the Dao laws.

Rumble...

The others in the spirit pool also began to absorb the surrounding spirit liquid one by one.

Around each person, a vortex formed.

Some of these vortexes were large, some small.

The largest was naturally Tian Jiashen, who was ranked first; the vortex around his body was a full five feet in size.

"Fellow Daoist Tian is truly gifted with extraordinary talent!"

"Yes... I guess the cultivation technique Fellow Daoist Tian practices is also extraordinary; otherwise, it would be impossible to stir up such a huge vortex!"

"Hey... Fellow Daoist Ascetic, you aren't bad either; you're only a sliver behind Fellow Daoist Tian!"

"Hehehe... you flatter me, you flatter me!"

Over there, everyone looked at their own vortexes; some flattered, some were smug, but some people's gazes turned toward He Pingsheng and Liang Huaqiu.

Upon looking, they were immediately dumbfounded.

The Five Elements Mixed One Scripture in He Pingsheng's body operated on its own, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy every moment.

Although he wasn't actively cultivating now, spiritual energy still entered his body.

But this speed was too slow.

It wasn't that the technique was bad, but that the spirit root was stuck.

So the vortex around his body was less than half a foot.

Liang Huaqiu was even worse; she was not as good as He Pingsheng. In a fit of anger, this woman simply gave up cultivating and absorbing, and looked at those people with anger: "What are you looking at?"

"What's so good to look at?"

"Haven't you seen a Five Elements Void Linggen before?"

Everyone hurriedly withdrew their gazes, but their expressions became playful.

But no one looked down on He Pingsheng or Liang Huaqiu; everyone knew that there was no absolute good or bad in spirit roots in this world, because after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, all karma had to be repaid.

Above the Nascent Soul stage, all beings are equal!

Everyone is not bad at cultivation; what they lack is Dao laws.

And at the level of Dao laws, these single-spirit-root cultivators couldn't compare to cultivators like He Pingsheng with Five Elements Spirit Roots.

"Hmph..." Liang Huaqiu snorted with dissatisfaction, then reached out her jade hand to pick up a top-tier 【Enlightenment Pill】 and swallowed it in one gulp: "Can't I enlighten the Dao?"

He Pingsheng could only swallow an Enlightenment Pill and begin to comprehend the Dao laws.

Under the blessing of the Enlightenment Pill's three-fold comprehension speed, He Pingsheng's Dao root whiskers stretched across the entire pool.

In the pool, in that countless spirit liquid, there really were Five Elements Dao laws contained within.

These endless Five Elements Dao laws were absorbed through the Dao root whiskers and merged into his sea of consciousness.

Then they were refined in the sea of consciousness.