With the Mother Coin in his hand, Qian Kun felt an exceedingly hidden power stirring and flowing.
The Great Dao of heaven and earth seemed to answer its call, manifesting within it.
The Great Dao neither increased nor diminished, neither decayed nor perished. Only during the creation of heaven and earth had spirit resonance condensed, gathering upon certain tangible things like grains of sand.
This condensed spirit resonance was called dao connotation, while the spiritual energy, power of laws, and other substances extracted from it were its evaporated forms.
Like rising water vapor, spiritual energy was relatively active in nature and could be drawn in by a cultivator's mind for direct use.
Thus, most cultivators began their cultivation by drawing energy into their bodies. After returning to their innate state, they built their dao foundations, refining the spiritual energy of the five elements and other substances together with their own divine sense to form dharma power.
Dao connotation accumulated within their bodies, condensing from liquid into a core. As it continued to accumulate, it transformed their bodies and minds.
This was advancement and breakthrough.
But a cultivator's true core was, after all, an acquired creation. Combined with mental will and dharma power, it had existed for far less time than the various things born of the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
Long before the Money Daoist appeared in the world, the extraordinary copper ore used to forge this Mother Coin had already existed for billions upon billions of years. Only after later generations continually gathered substances containing money spirit resonance and forged them into treasures had it finally come into being.
A magic treasure that surpassed high grade and possessed accumulated dao connotation was called a Dao Artifact.
Every Dao Artifact was a work of nature's uncanny craftsmanship. After