At that very moment, the five wisps of [primordial origin first spirit] Jiang Che had obtained from his last run through the Little Hidden Temple instance remained perfectly intact within him. They had neither escaped nor dissipated.
This was different from what Hu Shijie had said: "Without reaching full aperture, one cannot retain spirit essence."
Stranger still, spirit essence was supposed to have an unmistakable aura.
Yet no one could detect the [primordial origin first spirit] inside him. Never mind anyone else-even when he stood before four Foundation Establishment cultivators today, none had noticed anything unusual.
Was he special, or was the [primordial origin first spirit] special?
After careful consideration, Jiang Che leaned toward the latter.
Whenever he had unleashed or used spiritual energy before, he truly could not retain the various elemental energies converted from [primordial origin first spirit]. He either expended them on the spot, using them up completely, or absorbed them into his body, activating his cultivation method to turn them into inner force. Not a single wisp had ever remained quietly within him the way [primordial origin first spirit] itself did.
They were both energy, yet before and after conversion, the difference was heaven and earth.
[Primordial origin first spirit] really was extraordinary.
This was worth remembering and studying further in the future.
Besides that, Jiang Che took advantage of the quiet night to thoroughly review his gains and losses from this journey.
During this trip to Ailin, he had fought for his life several times and narrowly escaped death, but the outcome was truly excellent.
He had acquired the Little Hidden Temple instance and earned over five hundred points of transmigration energy. All the basic gains he had hoped for before coming here were now his.
Beyond those, his two greatest gains were things he