Xianyang Tower, core level.
Cheng Buzheng sat cross-legged in the air before the boundary stele, his eyes closed as he continuously refined the stele before him.
As time passed...
The devouring force unleashed by that five-colored thread of light, which connected to an unknown place beyond the void, grew ever more vast and formidable!
Thus!
The concentration of Spirit Energy within this Secret Realm had been reduced to an extreme.
It was scarcely different from a land devoid of Spirit Energy.
Yet within that pale cyan pool suffused with Creation aura, the Spirit Energy inside had not diminished by even a fraction.
At the same time!
That large Spirit Vein had, without anyone noticing, degenerated into a medium Spirit Vein.
Boundless, surging Spirit Energy crazily converged toward the five-colored thread of light!
Without cease!
Then, at a certain moment...
The medium Spirit Vein degenerated once more, becoming a small Spirit Vein.
Clearly.
Faced with that five-colored thread of light that devoured limitless Spirit Energy, the small Spirit Vein would not endure for long before degenerating from a Spirit Vein into an ordinary earth vein.
Once that happened, it would no longer be able to emit even the slightest trace of Spirit Energy.
This stretch of heaven and earth would become a true land devoid of Spirit Energy.
In an instant!
Cheng Buzheng, seated cross-legged in the air, unknowingly furrowed his smooth brow.
Yet the movements of his hands did not stop.
Streams of profound Spirit Light shot from his fingertips and sank into the stone stele before him.
The hazy Spirit Light covering the stele was also gradually expanding.
"Ah...
I hope the boundary stele pulls through!"
As Cheng Buzheng refined the boundary stele, he secretly prayed within his heart.
That was right!
Cheng Buzheng feared that once the Spirit