Mount Tai, Mount Putuo, Changbai Mountain, and several other famous peaks suddenly began spewing spiritual energy. Ordinary people naturally had no idea that it was spiritual energy. Though they found it astonishing and the spectacle was dazzling and magnificent,
they didn't feel anything particularly unusual. They simply assumed some geological phenomenon had caused it.
They didn't read too much into it.
But the Cultivation World was already in an uproar.
Any cultivator near those places could sense that the mists giving off strange light were unmistakably spiritual energy, so dense it had condensed into mist!
Just as Bai Jingchuan had said, once the news spread, countless cultivators sprang into action and rushed to those famous mountains.
And with plenty of ordinary people seeing the related short videos and coming purely to watch the commotion and take in the sights, those famous mountains—already popular tourist destinations—were suddenly packed with people...
Ning Wangshu, naturally, had no idea what was happening outside. He was still in that Immortal Mansion, quietly keeping watch over the Xianyuan Fruit.
The spiritual spring kept gushing out dense spiritual energy, which greatly slowed the Spirit Gathering Formation's extraction of energy from the Spirit Stones he had laid out.
That finally eased Ning Wangshu's heartache somewhat.
After all, he didn't have many Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, and every one he used was one less!
He could have used High-grade Spirit Stones, Medium-grade Spirit Stones, or even Low-grade Spirit Stones instead. He had plenty of every grade except Supreme-grade Spirit Stones.
However, the spiritual energy contained in the other grades wasn't as pure or abundant.
He worried that using Spirit Stones of a lower grade might slow the Xianyuan Fruit's maturation.
Ning Wangshu didn't want to waste too much time here. He hoped the Xianyuan Fruit would mature before the next