Inside his cave dwelling at Three Stacks Waterfall, Zhou Fuyou cultivated in quiet concentration.
Unlike the times he had quickly stabilized his realm after a breakthrough, this time he did not rush to leave, though his realm already felt stable. Instead, he patiently tempered his Mana bit by bit.
This unusual behavior sprang from uncertainty and fear.
He did not know where the spring eye within him had come from, and he feared the terrifying power it contained.
Only by tempering his Mana and mastering as much of his own power as possible could he find the confidence to face that spring eye.
Yet as he spent year after year refining his realm, he discovered that his Mana was rising with the tide, growing at a speed he could practically see.
It had already surpassed the total spiritual energy he had absorbed from the outside world!
Energy could not appear from nothing. It had to have a source.
And for Zhou Fuyou, that source was all too easy to find.
It was the spring eye!
Threads of Origin Power flowed from the spring eye, gathering into rushing rivers that surged through his meridians and Purple Mansion.
His realm advanced a thousand miles a day!
The first level of the Nascent Soul Stage, then the second, the third...
Amid this near-mad climb through the realms, Zhou Fuyou suddenly understood why his Mana had been so abundant since childhood.
He practiced the Dew Cicada Technique, which sought shortcuts at the cost of thin Mana, yet his Mana had always overwhelmed others at his level. The source of it all was that spring eye.
It could seize the very power of creation from heaven and earth, enough to nurture an entire sea on its own.
Thus, even the occasional trickle that leaked out