Spring gave way to autumn, and time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, a year had passed.
Twin Lakes Island.
About ten-odd li from the Industrial Zone, an immense estate of blue bricks and green tiles, spanning several hundred mu, stood atop the Main Spirit Eye of the Spirit Vein.
The estate's owner was none other than Chen Daoxuan, the Chen Family's Young Clan Leader.
Normally, aside from Chen Daoxuan, only a number of young Chen Family women lived in this Spirit Mansion as maids, cleaning it and tending to its flowers and plants.
Fortunately, it stood atop the Chen Family Spirit Vein. As the spiritual energy grew ever more abundant, the surroundings became increasingly blessed and beautiful.
Compared to the barren plains beyond the Spirit Gathering Array, it was as different as heaven and earth.
Within the Spirit Mansion.
Inside a fresh and elegant courtyard.
A figure sat cross-legged before the Spirit Pool.
Above the Spirit Pool, a Water Spirit Pearl floated silently. Wisps of mist gathered from the pool toward the pearl, where they were purified and refined before being expelled as an even purer stream of spiritual energy. The figure before the pool absorbed and refined it, converting it into true qi and storing it within the Dantian sea of Qi.
"Hah!"
Chen Daoxuan opened his eyes, a trace of joy flashing through them.
Compared to the Spirit Eye in his cave mansion in the Red Copper Mountain Range, the spiritual energy in this Spirit Pool was countless times more abundant.
Even within the Spirit Gathering Array spanning ten li around it, the spiritual energy drifting through the air was scarcely any thinner than that within the former Spirit Eye.
Compared to before, his current cultivation environment was like paradise.
"I never expected the gap