The Battle for Rice Crystals

Chu Han's figure flashed. Spatial power wrapped around him as he passed straight through the thick rock and entered the mountain.

Once inside, the view opened up.

The mountain was not solid rock. Countless hollow caverns riddled its interior, layered and crisscrossed like a giant honeycomb.

Pure Origin Power lay dormant in every chamber, waiting to be mined.

At the same time, Chu Han sensed something strange.

The instant he entered, invisible rules seemed to seal and suppress the entire space. His senses were severely restricted, and his Spiritual Power came under intense pressure from the Secret Realm's rules.

Without the Spirit-Calming Pearl's support, his spiritual perception was locked to a narrow area just one light-year around him.

But once he activated the Spirit-Calming Pearl to steady his Divine Soul and pierce the illusions, his perception surged across the entire network of caverns.

Chu Han paid it no mind. His Divine Soul had invincible defenses, and a supreme treasure bolstered his perception. This little suppression meant nothing to him.

Ignoring the effects of his surroundings, he followed the dense aura of Origin Power deeper into the hollows.

Moments later, the richest and most concentrated source of energy came into view.

The rock forming the Primordial Divine Mountain was extraordinarily hard. Imbued with the Secret Realm's ancient laws, it offered formidable resistance. Even an ordinary Star Domain Realm expert would expend considerable time and Origin Power breaking through it to mine what lay within.

To Chu Han, that barrier might as well not have existed.

At a thought, his pure Spiritual Power carried his perfected Spatial Origin deep into the rock, precisely enveloping the dormant energy source.

Spatial power stirred, shifting the source through space.

The next instant, a small, translucent crystal appeared in Chu Han's palm.

It resembled an enlarged