After returning to Purple Cloud Mountain, Li Qingyuan immediately entered the spirit vein cave abode on the main peak and announced publicly that he was entering seclusion.
Before entering seclusion, Li Qingyuan waved a hand and set up a Second-grade Low-rank Binding Formation and a Second-grade Low-rank Illusion Formation. The formation disk rested in his hand, formation flags were planted throughout the area, and the formations began operating in secret.
Before every period of seclusion, Li Qingyuan would set up formations.
The moment he emerged from seclusion, he would immediately put the formations away.
The formations displayed outside remained the original First-grade High-rank formations, emphasizing nothing but caution.
"Next, I'll give it everything I have and charge toward Tenth Layer Perfection."
With a wave of Li Qingyuan's hand, two thousand Spirit Stones piled up around him. Spiritual light radiated from them, wisps of spiritual energy spilling out in every direction.
At the same time, at the core of the First-grade High-rank Spirit Vein, spiritual energy from the heavens gathered of its own accord while spiritual energy from underground surged continuously, maintaining an extremely high concentration of spiritual energy within the cave abode.
Even so, the concentration of spiritual energy from a First-grade High-rank Spirit Vein was far inferior to cultivating directly with Spirit Stones. It could only be considered supplementary cultivation.
It was said that only at the site of a Third-grade Spirit Vein was the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy as dense as being surrounded by a small mountain of Spirit Stones.
When cultivating within a Third-grade Spirit Vein, one did not need Spirit Stones, because every moment meant absorbing spiritual energy on the level of Spirit Stones.
But below a Third-grade Spirit Vein, even Foundation Establishment Immortal Clans that possessed Second-grade Spirit Veins still relied primarily on Spirit