The Value of the Green Willow Secret Realm

Artificial secret realms required control over and the free use of Spatial Laws. Even Nascent Soul Cultivators could not achieve that.

Refining Storage Bags and Universe Rings also counted as a use of Spatial Laws.

But that was merely the use of Space Artifact Patterns. Artifact patterns, runes, and the like were a form of Laws made manifest.

Anyone who truly created an entirely new artifact pattern from scratch had to possess an extremely deep understanding of that Law and be able to manifest it.

Those learning such artifact patterns only needed to paint a gourd after the model of another gourd. Artifact Refiners did not need to grasp Spatial Laws.

Runes, formation patterns, and pill patterns, which Wang Daoyuan had yet to study, all followed the same principle.

Artificial secret realms had both advantages and disadvantages compared with natural secret realms.

Their advantage was that they were easier to alter and were less affected by the greater world.

Their shortcoming was that they had little room for growth. Whatever they were like once created was also the limit of their future development.

They would only gradually decline and would not expand on their own, nor would their spirit veins grow.

To make an artificial secret realm grow, one had to invest a great quantity of high-order spiritual items related to space.

Ordinary natural secret realms, on the other hand, had a chance to gradually grow larger.

Natural secret realms that had undergone artificial modification, like the Five Elements Secret Realm, were more stable than natural secret realms, but they also had far less room for growth.

Zhao Yuqi, Shi Zhenbang, and Wang Daoyuan entered the light curtain together. Inside was a cylindrical space more than two hundred li in diameter and a thousand zhang high.

The entire space was