When Lu Ye did not deliberately investigate it, he felt nothing. But if he intentionally searched, he could clearly sense the Talent Tree's existence.
This miraculous great tree was rooted within his own Source Spirit Aperture.
The power of the Spirit Nurturing Pill dissolved in his abdomen and transformed into Spiritual Power. Lu Ye divided his focus, guiding the pill's power into his Spiritual Apertures while keeping watch over the Talent Tree.
The Spiritual Power gained from refining pill power was not directly injected into a particular Spiritual Aperture. It first had to pass through the Source Spirit Aperture. For instance, Lu Ye's Twenty-First Aperture had yet to be filled. The Spiritual Power he converted from taking a Spiritual Pill had to first pass through the Source Spirit Aperture before it could surge into the Twenty-First Aperture. If a Spiritual Aperture lay too far from the Source Spirit Aperture, it might even need to pass through several Spiritual Apertures as relays.
Without exception, however, the Source Spirit Aperture was the starting point that received Spiritual Power. That was why this first-opened Spiritual Aperture was called the Source Spirit Aperture, and why it was also the most important Spiritual Aperture for cultivators.
In Lu Ye's understanding, the Source Spirit Aperture was much like the dantian of those martial arts masters.
That said, the Source Spirit Aperture was indeed located at the dantian. The Spiritual Apertures opened by low-level cultivation methods were all near the Source Spirit Aperture, so there was not much need for relaying. Passing through the Source Spirit Aperture alone was enough.
Lu Ye had never examined it closely before. Now that he deliberately paid attention, he was shocked to discover that the Spiritual Power transformed from the Spirit Nurturing Pill's power... seemed less pure than his own Spiritual