Open the Spirit Wheel

"Kid, I've had my eye on you for a long time. On the first floor, you chose a copy of the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art, and now you've chosen a copy of the Ten-Zhang Golden Body. With so many cultivation methods in the Library Pavilion, why are you fixated on these two?"

"Is there a problem? Am I not allowed to choose them?"

The woman shook her head and clicked her tongue.

"Suit yourself. Once a cultivation method in the Library Pavilion has been selected, it can't be returned."

"I advise you to think it over a little more. These two cultivation methods are very difficult to cultivate..."

"Hey! Hello!"

After throwing down those words, the woman turned and left. Lin Heng felt somewhat baffled.

The system had said these two cultivation methods were good things, so it was only natural that they would be difficult to cultivate. A few words were not enough to convince him.

After putting away the two cultivation methods, Lin Heng planned to leave.

He had no intention of going to the fourth floor.

Everyone only had three chances to select cultivation methods, and he planned to save one chance as a fallback.

In any case, on ordinary days, he could borrow and read as he pleased. Sooner or later, he would find the best of the best.

"Yo! You chose pretty quickly. I thought you'd still need several more hours."

"What did you pick? Take them out and I'll register them for you."

Du Yan took out the register and placed it on the desk.

One copy of the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art.

One copy of the Ten-Zhang Golden Body.

After seeing the names, Du Yan froze outright, a question mark practically floating over his head. "No... why did you pick two cultivation methods that are both incomplete and hard to practice?"

"The Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art is a little better, but the Ten-Zhang Golden Body isn't just abnormal, it's also a gold-devouring beast."

"You all don't have to react like this, do you? Just now, a kid about ten years old said the same thing."

"A kid?"

"Mm... not tall, about this high." Lin Heng stretched out a hand to gesture a height, then continued, "Short hair, and she was wearing a floral dress."

"..."

"The person you're talking about should be the Library Pavilion's steward. The two of our ages added together wouldn't even be enough to make up a fraction of hers."

"She's the steward? Then what are you?"

"I'm an administrator. A steward is equivalent to an Elder-level figure. I'm just responsible for odd jobs."

Du Yan glanced back at their surroundings and lowered his voice. "It's best not to discuss her here. Her ears are very sharp. For all you know, she might be somewhere nearby watching your every move."

"All right, all right. Senior Du, I'll head back first."

After leaving Main Peak, Lin Heng returned directly to his residence.

He shut the courtyard gate.

Then he shook out everything in his System Space.

A bottle of Fourth Grade Foundation Stabilizing Pills, two cultivation methods, and an ancient mirror.

Lin Heng picked up the mirror and fiddled with it for a long time, but there was no reaction at all.

Afterward, he threw it back into the System Space, planning to study it once he had strength.

Next came the preparation to draw qi into his body!!

He went to the Heart Cave Lake Pavilion at the westernmost side of Fairy Cloud Peak. That place was the spring mouth of spiritual energy.

Overhead, resplendent ripples crisscrossed one another, like a giant net that used this point as its base to cover the entire mountain peak.

At that moment, Lin Heng sat quietly cross-legged in the center of the pavilion, his hair flying as he sensed the spiritual energy beginning to surge in from every direction.

But he was not in a hurry to act. He closed his eyes as though waiting for an opportunity.

Every character in the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art leapt within his heart. It needed no guidance, no explanation, as if he himself were the creator of the cultivation method.

Boom!

After a long time, accompanied by a collapsing, trembling sound, those boundless white spiritual energies in the air began to change quietly.

They began to condense. No longer in their original gaseous state, they gradually became threads of crystal, finally dripping onto his body.

These were all the purest spiritual energy essence. Lin Heng had not expected that the simplest spirit-gathering power of the Spirit Devouring Art would be this overwhelmingly powerful.

At that moment, more and more densely packed crystals had gathered around him, but even so, Lin Heng was still waiting.

Boom, boom!

A long time passed, until the crystals had completely soaked the space around him, seeped through his pores, entered his skin, and been absorbed by his body. Only then did his eyes snap open.

Now!

"Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art, gather!"

As the Incantation was unleashed, wisps of hazy mist suddenly drilled out from his body. That was right—it was precisely that bit of spiritual energy that had just seeped into his body through his pores.

The instant it came out, Lin Heng was dumbfounded.

What the hell?

He had used the Incantation in order to gather spiritual energy and absorb it, so why had it expelled that bit of spiritual energy he had just stored inside his body?

Had it gotten reversed?

Strangely, the spiritual energy expelled from his body did not drift away with the air. Instead, it gathered into a clump and hovered around Lin Heng's body.

Crap! Could there really be something wrong with this cultivation method!?

Bang!

Just as Lin Heng was wavering in shock and doubt, in almost the blink of an eye, the spiritual energy hovering around him suddenly formed a pale azure vortex, using the momentum to drag in the crystals already condensed in the air.

The tremendous vortex force practically crushed the crystals outright and made them part of itself. Then, like leeches that had smelled blood, they burrowed desperately into Lin Heng's body.

"Ah! Fuck!"

Damn it, such a huge lump of qi vortex drilling into his body was just like giving someone an infusion with an empty syringe.

Even if Ye Tian came today, he would have to cry out, "Fuck."

As these qi vortices mixed with crystals forcefully entered his body, Lin Heng's entire body could not help trembling. The meridians all over him bulged, giving the vivid impression that his blood vessels were about to burst and he would die.

Clearly, he was still an ordinary person and simply could not withstand such vast spiritual energy.

The intense pain nearly made him faint, but his gaze remained firm from beginning to end. He gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Acupoint Break!"

Buzz!

As his voice fell, the spiritual energy devoured into his body began to riot, rampaging recklessly through every part of his meridians.

He spread his arms wide, palms turning upward from below, and urged the method with his mouth.

If one observed carefully, one could see that the meridian along the exact center of his wrist was gradually turning crimson, as though it were constantly burning his blood.

As the crimson mark extended to his heart, a faint glow abruptly appeared.

It was precisely an acupoint that had been broken open.

At first, the place where the light appeared was rather faint, but as endless spiritual energy battered it, it became increasingly solid and bright.

Until it reached an unsurpassable point, the deep-blue spring eye flickered like a brilliant river of stars.

"Spirit Wheel, open!"

Just as the deep blue reached its peak, another cold shout came from Lin Heng's mouth.

There was only a clack!

A muffled, obscure sound rang out from within his body, and the originally brilliant light seemed as if it might be extinguished at any moment.

But as his hands formed seals, that spring eye was like a turntable being pushed, suddenly producing a sucking sensation.

As it began to rotate, it slowly absorbed the majestic spiritual power accumulated in the meridians of his body.

And it was not even over yet. After the spiritual power in his meridians was completely absorbed, it actually began to take the initiative to demand spiritual energy from the air.

At first, the absorption speed was very slow. One grain of spiritual energy crystal took an hour to absorb.

By the third watch of the night, absorbing one grain of crystal only required five minutes. Only when it finally recovered to an extreme deep blue did it stop asking outward.

The great sun gradually rose high.

Specks of white light scattered over the mountain peak.

Lin Heng's eyes were full of sharp radiance, without the slightest fatigue.

"Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art, minor accomplishment!"

No wonder this cultivation method had been abandoned on the second floor of the Library Pavilion. Although Lin Heng was an ordinary person, his comprehension far surpassed others, and even then he could barely understand its contents.

Combined with the pain beyond that of an ordinary person, presumably even fewer people would be able to persist.

For an ordinary person, the cost of mistakes was too high. The slightest carelessness would damage their foundation.

That deep-blue spring eye inside his body was called a Spirit Wheel!

Each Spirit Wheel was like a storehouse of energy, possessing the functions of absorption, refinement, and storage all at once.

Its general operating process was: convert spiritual energy into spiritual power within the body, then gather the spiritual power into the spring eye, ultimately forming True Yuan.

The concepts of spiritual power and True Yuan could be swapped with one another; in essence, they were the same thing.

Lin Heng clenched his fists tightly. His cultivation had already reached Qi Refining First Layer.

But this was only the starting point. Lin Heng discovered that the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art seemed to lack the function to continuously transform spiritual energy.

Since it opened up one hundred and eight acupoints of the human body to absorb spiritual energy, logically speaking, it should be able to make the Spirit Wheel continuously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Not stop working once the Spirit Wheel's storage was saturated.

"That's right. Logically, it should be as I imagined. This cultivation method is missing its most important part. But how can I make the Spirit Wheel operate continuously without stopping?"

Lin Heng stood up, lost in thought.

If he solved this problem, it would be extraordinarily subversive.