"No wonder the Earth Veins of a sacred land contained such tremendous power. Even Celestials probably could not travel against the current within them."
After billions of years of stillness, Heaven and Earth Profound Qi had gestated beneath the ground into "Earth Spiritual Qi." The Earth Spiritual Qi gathered into rivers and flowed underground like the veins of the earth, making the land fertile and brimming with vitality.
Cultivators called them "Earth Veins"! Earth Veins possessed the weight of the land and were steeped in an ancient charm. Closing one's eyes and sensing the aura of an Earth Vein felt like conversing with a god of vast knowledge.
The thicker an Earth Vein was, the longer it had lain dormant, and the more powerful the fortune it had gathered.
Humanity built Civilized Nations atop Earth Veins, borrowing their fortune. So long as an Earth Vein did not perish, a Civilized Nation could flourish without decline. Thus, Earth Veins were also called a nation's Dragon Veins!
If a Dragon Vein were severed, the land of the entire Civilized Nation would become increasingly barren. Mysterious Medicine would no longer grow, Profound Stone would no longer form, vegetation would wither, riverbeds would dry up, and in the end, everything would become a wasteland.
It was like having one's main artery cut. Death would be certain.
When establishing sects and ancestral homes for clans, one also had to choose places through which Earth Veins flowed. If one could find an Earth Vein left behind from ancient times, one could even establish a sacred land! Beneath Heavenly Emperor Mountain lay more than ten major Earth Veins. Among them was even an Earth Vein surviving from ancient times, worthy of being called Heavenly Emperor Mountain's Dragon Vein.
When cultivators trained beside an Earth Vein and absorbed