"Fine. What the eye did not see, the heart stayed clean from. It would save me from always craving it!"
Zhang Xiaohua consoled himself thus.
Then, disregarding the matter of Earth's Core, he sat down cross-legged again and continued cultivating the Carefree Heart Sutra.
Yet when he once more circulated the Carefree Heart Sutra, drawing the Primordial Qi he already sensed had become rather thin into his body, he discovered in astonishment that the Qi entered his body and his true Qi was tempered, but his cultivation in the sutra showed no change whatsoever. Even the true Qi within his meridians was now saturated. No matter how he tempered it, he could only add the tiniest wisp of true Qi, unable to bring about any substantial change.
"Could I have encountered some kind of bottleneck?" Zhang Xiaohua wondered.
He tried again, with the same result. Then he understood: even becoming rich overnight had its limits. He had likely reached his limit now. Rising to his feet, he looked regretfully at the place where Earth's Core had vanished, then rode the wind away, heading straight for the spot where he had cut open the restriction when entering yesterday.
The restriction had already recovered. Zhang Xiaohua did not delay. Extending a hand, he again sent out Dreamchaser. The mysterious flow poured into Dreamchaser and gradually cut open the restriction. But just as the restriction was half-opened, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly sensed the flow diminishing. "Oh no. When I cut open the Divine Restriction that day, this flow had once run dry. If not for the mysterious purple Qi inside the Hundred Endurances Divine Restriction entering Dreamchaser again and returning to my left arm, that Innate Divine Restriction could never have been broken. Now that this mysterious flow is running dry, where am I