Time slipped by, minute after minute.
Ji Zhixing kept refining the power of the underground blood zhi.
Whenever he felt his mental power nearing exhaustion, he drank a Mental Power Potion.
Then he continued refining.
The blood zhi's power seemed inexhaustible.
And its effects were extraordinary.
After only a few hours, Ji Zhixing felt his willow tree gene tremble slightly, then bloom with a faint glow.
That glow poured out of his gene aperture, spread through every limb and bone, then sank into the earth beneath his feet.
He could feel a wondrous connection forming between himself and the earth below.
It was not mere contact, but a deep resonance.
As though the earth was not cold, unfeeling rock and soil, but a living whole-and he was part of it.
"This is-"
An irrepressible joy welled up in Ji Zhixing's heart.
The next moment, a new piece of information entered his consciousness.
Root of the Earth, passive gene ability, three-star quality. As long as the body is in contact with the earth, it can continuously draw power from the earth to replenish its gene source force.
"It worked!"
He had finally developed the root of the earth ability!
Ji Zhixing took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement.
Before, he had needed to form illusory roots and send them deep into the earth to draw power from it, and the process was slow.
So he had only experimented with the willow tree's Rooting ability when he first acquired it.
He had never used it since.
But Root of the Earth was different.
Now, without actively using it or forming illusory roots to delve into the earth, he could draw power from the ground and replenish himself.
*As long as I stand on the earth, my source force will practically