A Not-So-Good Start

"Spell inheritances were far too complex. Though the tomes you gave me did provide enough material, creating a complete cultivation method from scratch was still far too difficult."

The earth spirit before him shook its head and reached out, producing a perfectly round jade stone.

"Drawing on the feeling of when I wielded the might of heaven and earth, I found a way to create three spells."

Seeing Ye Xiu watching him thoughtfully, the earth spirit jolted in fright.

"I really didn't slack off! Other than helping with the reconstruction, I spent the past half month thinking about this. I'm practically exhausted to death! And because the divine title and powers you assigned me have already been spread around, my control over other kinds of spells and objects has weakened greatly. Anything that conflicts with them can't be used at all..."

As it spoke, the earth spirit's face was clearly tinged with grievance.

It had originally been one of the first generation of tangible spiritual forces born from the primal spiritual power of chaos. Its divine abilities could be said to reach through all things. Though it had lost part of its authority after gaining consciousness by chance, and had been forced to seal itself away to avoid losing itself within the vast spiritual veins of heaven and earth, before that, the methods it could wield had absolutely surpassed the imagination of most people in this world.

Yet in order to restrain it, after capturing it half a month ago, Ye Xiu had spared no expense, using even his own life essence as a consumable to forcibly carve new spiritual laws into its body. It had no idea how this fellow before it, whose cultivation realm was so insignificant before heaven and earth that it was almost unworthy of notice,