Laying the Groundwork for Tasks

Mingyuan Immortal City, residence.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the stone platform and took the spell Jade Slip for the Thunder-Splitting Art from his Portable Small Realm.

His divine sense entered it.

The pathways for gathering lightning spiritual power unfolded within his consciousness. Ten Thousand Arts Mastery ran at full force with its doubled analysis speed, and within several hours, he had completely absorbed the spell's core mechanisms.

He activated the Thunder-Splitting Art.

A thread of lightning spiritual power surged from his Nascent Infant, condensing and compressing along the required route through his meridians. At his fingertip, the spiritual power gathered into an extremely tiny ball of lightning, arcs dancing across its surface while its interior held an exceptionally dense concentration of spiritual power.

The lightning ball hovered over his palm for two breaths before Li Yuan deliberately dispersed it.

There was practically no obstacle to getting started with a Third-Order spell.

Thunder-Splitting Art, initiated.

He returned the Jade Slip to his Portable Small Realm.

Li Yuan continued cultivating with the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method. Spiritual energy from the upper realm flowed into his body, while his Nascent Infant spiritual power circulated at high speed under multiple enhancements.

During a break in cultivation, his consciousness entered the Portable Small Realm.

The changes within the small realm had become even more apparent than before.

Four spirit veins embedded in the space beneath the Spirit Field and water region continued operating. The exceedingly abundant spiritual energy of the upper realm constantly seeped in through the small realm's walls, and the spirit veins absorbed external spiritual energy several times faster than they had in the lower realm.

A tiny spiritual energy circulation loop had already formed between the two small spirit veins exchanged from the Loose Cultivator Alliance. Under the continuous infusion