Mid-Grade Wu Ji Earth Dao Seed

Ji An rubbed his hands together, assuming the stance for a prolonged battle.

Only Nascent Soul cultivators could explore this stone's mysteries. It had to be something quite valuable.

He continued extending his divine sense, wanting to uncover its secrets as quickly as possible.

Ayun bowed slightly, lit Sandalwood Soul Nourishing Incense, and placed it into a bronze incense burner the size of a sand pot on the table. She gently set on the lid, then slowly departed.

A moment later, she fetched spring water from the pond and lit a wind stove nearby.

The spiritual energy in spring water constantly dissipated; only tea brewed from freshly drawn water had the finest taste.

Ji An condensed his divine sense into a sharp spike and drove it into the stone, probing inward.

Some mysterious power within the stone constantly "devoured" his divine sense. He had to increase his output to delve deeper inside.

This was no easy task. He encountered obstructions during the exploration and had to detour around them to continue. All he was doing now was finding a suitable route into the stone's depths.

The stone possessed extraordinarily peculiar properties. It was not anything he knew, nor did he know of any similar spiritual material.

Cup after cup of spiritual tea was drunk, while the Soul Incense burned into ash.

After more than two hours of effort, Ji An finally mapped out a winding path with eighteen bends that could reach a distance of two fingers deep.

There, he encountered a layer of shell—a hard outer casing that he could not breach no matter what he did.

The stone's surface was yellow, gradually changing to red within. His divine sense could distinguish this shift in color.

The color change resembled yellow earth being fired into red bricks. Ji An