Connecting the Earth Veins

Before even taking form, Shi Mo had obtained the supreme-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Wind-Fixing Pearl. This gave him even greater motivation to cultivate.

While cultivating, Shi Mo also refined the Wind-Fixing Pearl, diligently studying the profound innate restrictions contained within it.

So-called innate restrictions were restrictions naturally conceived and born by heaven and earth. They too had evolved from Chaos Divine Patterns.

Compared to the Great Dao's ultimate simplicity—the seemingly simple yet naturally profound Chaos Divine Patterns, which could only be grasped but not described—innate restrictions were much more complex. Yet they were also far easier to comprehend, as there were traces to follow during enlightenment.

"This Wind-Fixing Pearl can restrain wind and break the Wind-Roar Formation within the Ten Extinction Formation of Investiture. As expected, it's an innate spiritual treasure with a spatial attribute?"

After refining and comprehending it, Shi Mo gained a clearer understanding of the Wind-Fixing Pearl's properties and abilities.

The reason the Wind-Fixing Pearl could still the wind was due to its unique spatial attribute. Within the range of its power, it could create a state of stasis.

It was precisely because the Wind-Fixing Pearl's power could freeze all energy fluctuations and even spatial fluctuations within a certain area that no Five Elements spells or flight techniques could be used around Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain.

"This Wind-Fixing Pearl really is extraordinary. It's a rare sealing spiritual treasure in the Primordial World!"

With that thought in mind, Shi Mo attempted to comprehend the innate restrictions contained within the Wind-Fixing Pearl. Before long, he discovered that the restriction runes looked somewhat familiar.

"This... they actually resemble the Chaos Divine Patterns contained within my jade body!"

Thus, as Shi Mo used the Chaos Divine Patterns within his body to comprehend those innate restrictions, he immediately felt as though divine aid had descended upon him.

The Chaos Divine Patterns no longer seemed so profound and incomprehensible, and the innate restrictions became much easier to understand as well.

Buzz... Before he knew it, Shi Mo had comprehended the first layer of innate restriction on the Wind-Fixing Pearl. Driven by his soul power, the pearl suddenly trembled and hummed, releasing an invisible, surging aura that stilled the spiritual energy fluctuations within the cave, as if even space itself had frozen.

"What formidable power! And this is only the first layer of restriction."

Delighted, Shi Mo willed it, and the Wind-Fixing Pearl immediately passed through the stone pillar as if it were intangible, merging into Shi Mo's jade body within it.

For a moment, the earth-vein spiritual energy within the spiritual vein connected to the stone pillar began to boil and surge.

This was another ability of the Wind-Fixing Pearl: absorbing and mobilizing heaven and earth spiritual energy.

As the earth-vein spiritual energy gathered into Shi Mo's body, it was first purified and refined by the profound Chaos Divine Patterns on his surface. Then, after being absorbed and released by the Wind-Fixing Pearl, it became even purer, clearly having undergone another round of refinement by the pearl.

The tempering effect that energy refined twice could have on Shi Mo's body was easy to imagine.

At the same time, under Shi Mo's control, once the Wind-Fixing Pearl restrained its power, it devoured earth-vein spiritual energy like a black hole, greatly increasing the speed at which Shi Mo absorbed and refined it.

"As expected of an innate spiritual treasure. It really is a good thing—it can even assist in cultivation."

Delighted, Shi Mo continued comprehending the innate restrictions on the Wind-Fixing Pearl. He only needed to devote a portion of his attention to absorbing and refining the earth-vein spiritual energy, yet his cultivation speed still doubled.

Thus, as Shi Mo immersed himself in cultivation, in addition to his eye apertures, he gradually cultivated a mouth, nose, and ears.

A face and two ears grew from the stone pillar, making it look undeniably strange.

However, the eyes, nose, and ears cultivated in this manner could not only see, but also possessed keen senses of smell and hearing.

Shi Mo could even hear the wind and water outside the cave, as well as the faint chirping of insects and birds.

Being able to hear and see yet unable to leave only made Shi Mo yearn all the more to take form as soon as possible.

Therefore, Shi Mo cultivated even harder afterward. After comprehending several layers of innate restrictions on the Wind-Fixing Pearl and discovering more of its marvelous uses, he was even able to control it to travel through the spiritual veins, reach deep underground, explore the earth veins around Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain, and sense some of the mountain's conditions.

This supreme-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Wind-Fixing Pearl, had actually been used by Shi Mo as a scouting drone with a camera.

As Shi Mo gradually gained a clear understanding of the entire earth-vein network of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain, he discovered that it resembled a tattered fishing net. In some places, the earth-vein power could not connect at all, as though a river had run dry.

"This earth-vein network resembles the Chaos Divine Patterns within my body. It's like an enlarged version of them. The creations of heaven and earth truly are marvelous, all containing manifestations of the Great Dao's profundities."

Having discovered the uniqueness of the earth-vein network, Shi Mo could not help but have an idea.

"If I can connect and repair the blocked points in the earth-vein network, then the effect of the entire network in absorbing earth-vein power..."

Thinking of this, Shi Mo directly controlled the Wind-Fixing Pearl to pass through the earth-vein network and arrive at a dead corner where earth-vein power could not flow.

Then, Shi Mo controlled the Wind-Fixing Pearl to pierce through the obstruction of rock and soil, connecting it to another dead corner of the earth-vein network. Through the Wind-Fixing Pearl's self-pumping ability to draw in heaven and earth spiritual energy, he attracted the surrounding earth-vein spiritual energy to gather and flow along with it, allowing the earth-vein power to circulate.

Along the newly opened passage where earth-vein power flowed, the surrounding soil and rocks were nourished and became more spiritually potent. Given enough time, they could even give birth to jade ore veins.

Thus, under Shi Mo's clearing efforts with the Wind-Fixing Pearl, all the clogged portions of the earth-vein network were connected, and the circulation of earth-vein spiritual energy within the vast network became smoother and faster.

Soon, it was as though an enormous earth-vein network formation had been activated. The earth-vein energy beneath all of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain seemed to boil.

Meanwhile, the stone pillar containing Shi Mo's body became the outlet for that vast, surging earth-vein energy.

"So much earth-vein energy! I never expected this naturally formed earth-vein network to have the effect of a Spirit-Gathering Formation. If I use it to mobilize earth-vein spiritual energy for an attack..."

Astonished and shaken, Shi Mo also thought of more uses for the earth-vein network formation.

A formation was, after all, the borrowing of heaven and earth's power. Earth-vein power originated from the land and could be said to be inexhaustible—a never-ending source of energy for a great formation.

"With the earth-vein power gathered through this network, I'm afraid it won't be long before I can take form."

Feeling the surging earth-vein spiritual energy pouring from underground into the stone pillar of his body, Shi Mo found that even with the Wind-Fixing Pearl's help refining it, he could not fully absorb it all at once. A great amount of earth-vein power overflowed, and misty spiritual vapors soon filled the cave.

The surging, pure earth-vein spiritual energy even began spreading beyond the cave and throughout all of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain. Before long, immortal mist enveloped the mountain, all kinds of flowers, grass, and trees began growing faster, and the mountain brimmed with vitality, increasingly resembling a blessed immortal mountain.

"This is only the earth-vein network of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain. If I can connect earth-vein power across an even wider area, then..."

At that thought, Shi Mo hurriedly extended his senses through the earth-vein network.

"With the earth-vein network unobstructed, it's become easier for my senses to reach farther through it. Hm? The earth-vein energy around Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain is dense in some places and thin in others. Why does it feel as though the earth-vein network has been damaged in the directions where the earth-vein energy is thin? The farther away it is, the more severe the damage seems to be..."

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