In his mind, the pages of the Book of a Hundred Trades erupted with an unprecedented, dazzling blue light. They flipped wildly with a rustle, like an ancient scroll blown open in a gale.
The light was not blinding. It was a blue so deep it seemed capable of holding all the stars in the sky.
Lines of unfamiliar text, each edged in faint blue, surfaced like ripples deep within Li Xiang's consciousness.
[Inner Landscape (Intermediate): Your body is a universe, and your qi transforms into all things. Having absorbed a wisp of Xuanhuang Mother Qi from the dawn of heaven and earth, your Inner Landscape has begun to turn from illusion into reality, laying the foundations for a genuine Microcosm.] [Characteristic Effect · Domain Projection: You can briefly project the rules of your intermediate Inner Landscape into the real world. Its range depends on your cultivation realm. Within the projected area, you are the sovereign. You can greatly suppress an enemy's cultivation realm and perception, and gain absolute control over the space.] [Characteristic Effect · Mustard Seed, Mount Sumeru: All things shine. The space within your Inner Landscape has expanded dramatically and formed genuine spirit soil. Herbs planted there grow ten times faster, with a very small chance of acquiring a trace of Xuanhuang Divinity and undergoing a beneficial mutation.]
At the sight of those two heaven-defying effects, Li Xiang's heart skipped a beat. Even his usually steady breathing grew heavy and rapid.
"This isn't an upgrade..."
His hands clenched without his noticing. "It's practically the creation of a whole new world inside me."
Domain Projection was like gaining, ahead of time, the beginnings of an Inner World—something only mighty Sages of the Upper Four Realms could wield.
In this world, with its rigid hierarchy of Professions,