Before departing, Chen Nianzhi came to Celestial Demon Island. As he looked over the earth veins within the immortal island, a hint of delight appeared on his face.
Celestial Demon Island possessed a top-grade immortal-tier wood-attributed earth vein, one of the five-element earth veins needed to cultivate the Primordial Chaos Indestructible Body.
There was naturally no need to elaborate on the value of such an earth vein.
Chen Nianzhi coveted it greatly, but considering the situation in the Celestial Demon Sea Region, he still sought out Ancient Buddha Kongming and said,
"To be frank, this top-grade Yi-Wood Earth Vein is of great use to me. I intend to take it away to cultivate my immortal body."
"However, if I do so, the Yi-Wood energy in the Celestial Demon Sea Region will be reduced by thirty percent for the next several hundred thousand years. Thus, I must inform you of this beforehand."
Ancient Buddha Kongming sighed upon hearing this, then said, "The cultivation of us immortals and gods is a continual consumption of heaven and earth's spiritual qi and resources."
"To refine an earth vein so casually as you intend to do would inflict no small harm upon heaven and earth."
"The karmic debt from this act will not be small. If you achieve greatness in the future, you must repay this karma. Otherwise, a great tribulation will ultimately descend upon you."
Chen Nianzhi's expression turned grave at those words. He knew full well that refining an earth vein like this would inevitably mean shouldering immense karmic debt.
After the Suwei Ancestor had fallen in the past, the top-grade Geng-Metal Earth Vein in the Suwei Sea Region had gone unrefined for thousands of years precisely because ordinary Earth Immortals did not dare bear such karma.
Refining a top-grade earth vein would