Caught You!

Aboveground, the storm raged; underground, all was unusually calm.

Ye Xiu looked at the pitch-black darkness before him and snapped his fingers. Flames sprang to life, illuminating every direction.

"You deliberately lured me out!"

A roar tinged with anger came from the gloomy depths underground.

"Don't put it like that. If you hadn't coveted the benefits brought by that spirit formation, why would you have trapped even your true body within it?"

Ye Xiu spread his hands at the empty surroundings, a trace of mockery on his face.

The earth spirit fell silent. Just as Ye Xiu had said, the key reason it had left traces behind in this matter was that it wanted to devour the spiritual energy leaking out all around it.

It had been mentioned before that spiritual energy naturally dissipated.

Pure primordial chaotic spiritual energy was awakened from the depths of the earth veins. Through transformation, it became all things between Heaven and Earth, then, due to the traits of the beings it inhabited, was further differentiated into various forms of spiritual energy.

This was also why the various spirit roots and techniques in the cultivation world could not interconnect.

Looking back at the essence of this earth spirit—

It was a sentient entity formed when second-generation spiritual energy, split off from primordial chaotic spiritual energy, became tainted by the spiritual energy dissipated during the cultivation of Starfire cultivators. If ranked by generations, it probably belonged to the third generation?

But that was not important. Once the original all-purpose primordial spiritual energy was cast aside, there was no true distinction of superiority or inferiority among spiritual energies.

Their natures had changed, giving each of them edges and corners. And where there were edges and corners, there were flaws—thus, there would be ways to defeat them.

Honestly,