The Ninja World Alliance pressured the Hyuga to surrender the Youth-Preserving Pill Recipe, and public opinion in Konoha took a troubling turn

The Small World continued to develop and evolve.

The Demon Refining Pot basked in the cleansing brought by the world's evolution and slowly began repairing its scars.

By now, the Small World had reached twenty kilometers in diameter, and its sky had risen higher as well.

After awakening, Qingwu gazed at the changes in the world. "Great Fortune... Great Fortune..."

In the earliest stages of the world's birth, rich Origin Energy had permeated heaven and earth. It gradually nurtured all manner of living beings and drove the evolution of all things...

As time passed, the world kept expanding, new life continued to emerge, and vegetation grew ever more lush.

However, this development brought a problem—the world's foundational essence was being consumed at an increasing rate.

The once-abundant Origin Energy grew scarcer and scarcer, eventually breaking down and degrading into a lesser form of energy: natural energy.

Qingwu witnessed all the changes in the Small World.

Qing Wu silently muttered to himself, Wasn't this precisely what people meant by Pre-Heaven Qi turning into Post-Heaven Spiritual Energy?

After that transformation into natural energy, the fundamental reason senjutsu chakra was so powerful lay in the dimensional superiority of higher-dimensional energy over lower-grade energy, like a clash between diamond and carbon.

This fundamental difference represented a qualitative superiority.

At that thought, a glimmer of understanding flashed in Qingwu's eyes. "So the so-called Three Great Sage Regions were actually three Grotto-Heaven Paradises with some Spiritual Veins."

He was not worried about running short of spiritual energy. First, there was very little life in his world. Second, the membrane of his prematurely born Small World had been engraved with the Demon Refining Pot's Refining Runes, allowing it to refine void energy to sustain the Small World.

Moreover, runes engraved at the very beginning of a world's