'Origin'

Let's leave that for now.

After that strange feeling entered Lin Xiao's Sea of Consciousness, it was as if thousands of voices were speaking to him at the same time.

The sounds overlapped, sometimes booming like a bell, sometimes as faint as a wisp of smoke.

Lin Xiao subconsciously tried to discern what each sound meant, but his Divine Sense was overloaded, causing him to feel dizzy and disoriented.

Startled, he immediately stopped what he was doing and blocked out the sounds.

After recovering, he realized that the voices seemed harmless. He thought for a moment, then completely let down his guard, allowing his Divine Sense to relax completely and drift with the current.

Don't rush to distinguish, don't rush to hear clearly, just let yourself immerse yourself in it.

Gradually, in a daze, he seemed to hear a faint voice enter his mind.

"The negative aspect of the universe is 'punishment,' while the positive aspect is 'origin.' Only when the primordial energy transforms into a shield, and the primordial energy merges with the primordial energy, and yin and yang intertwine, can its negative aspect be overcome..."

Just as he was about to continue listening, he suddenly regained consciousness, and the sound vanished without a trace, leaving not even an echo.

The chaotic sounds that had previously filled his Sea of Consciousness all transformed into the brilliance of a galaxy within his Sea of Consciousness, spreading out throughout Sea of Consciousness. Only the brighter Sea of Consciousness proved their existence.

Lin Xiao shook his head; the mysterious feeling he had been experiencing earlier was completely gone.

Only that one sentence remained clearly etched in his mind.

Staring at the national seal in his hand, Lin Xiao looked it over for a moment. Seeing nothing else strange, he put it into his private treasury.

Unexpectedly, after he put the Huanyou Nation's national seal into his private treasury, the system suddenly appeared:

[Ding--Detected that the host has temporarily acquired the Huanyou Nation, automatically starting the sect construction side quest: Establishing diplomatic relations with the country (1): An excellent sect naturally has connections all over the world and interacts with various forces. Please establish diplomatic relations with Huanyou Nation and successfully set up an officially recognized sect outpost in the capital of Huanyou Nation.]

Lin Xiao was somewhat surprised to receive this task.

Handling a national seal can actually trigger this kind of quest...

Does this mean that if he wants to take on any diplomatic missions in the future, he'll have to ask for their national seals first and then put them in his private treasury for a while?

Lin Xiao complained inwardly, but the system completely ignored him.

After broadcasting the mission content, there was no further sound.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Lin Xiao thought for a moment and then put the corpse into his private stash.

If he wasn't mistaken, this man was indeed the former king, then he was one of the culprits behind the Execution Stone incident. Even if he was dead, he couldn't be allowed to die so easily; his body had to be brought back to give everyone an explanation.

With this matter settled, and thinking of Yuan Jinsheng, who had already entered the Execution Stone Mine, and his son whom he had mentioned, Lin Xiao immediately returned to the location where Yuan Jinsheng had entered.

He had already sent a letter to the Alliance Army, and judging by the time, their men should have arrived by now.

So Lin Xiao modified the sealing formation here, creating a hidden entrance.

Then another voice transmission was sent out, informing the Alliance Army of the location of the entrance.

If the Alliance Army were to set out, they would surely send someone who could directly contact them to accompany them for ease of communication.

Lin Xiao did not rashly remove the sealing formation just because those remnants had successfully entered once.

Although those people entered without disturbing the sealing formation, they must have some special methods.

However, he guessed that such special methods certainly could not be used easily.

Entering or leaving the system's array silently will certainly come at a considerable cost.

Otherwise, if those people who were so eager to capture people and mine the Execution Stone had really the means to enter and exit at will, they wouldn't have remained inactive for so long after sealing the Execution Stone mine.

It was even more impossible for them to face the pursuit of the Alliance Army; in the end, only about twenty people escaped.

This is enough to show that the sealing formation still has significant limitations on them.

Therefore, the sealing formation cannot be withdrawn for the time being.

Thus, they were trapped in the Execution Stone Mine, like turtles in a jar, with nowhere to escape.

While waiting for the Alliance Army, Lin Xiao didn't sit idle either.

The more he pondered it, the more he wondered if the voice emanating from the Imperial Seal might be the key to suppressing the Execution Stone.

"If the Yuan-Transformation Shield merges with the source, and Yin and Yang intertwine..."

Thinking about it, he sat down on the ground and began to meditate.

"If the Yuanhua Shield..."

Lin Xiao channeled his Spiritual Power into a protective shield around himself.

"No, that's not how it works..."

This is just a regular Spiritual Qi shield; it can't defend against the Execution Stone.

"Ruoyuan..."

"Yuan... what is it?"

Could it be that the "Yuan" in his "Original Essence Heart Sutra" is the same?

The origin is the beginning, and also the foundation.

So what is meant by "initial" or "fundamental" here?

Lost in thought, he closed his eyes.

As his consciousness penetrated deep within himself, Lin Xiao, in a daze, saw the light emanating from the starry rivers within his Sea of Consciousness suddenly intensify, gradually extending into his body until it reached his Purple Mansion Golden Core, connecting with the Spiritual Power within the core.

His soul seemed to be guided in some way, its soul power reaching out and connecting with his Divine Sense and Spiritual Power in his Dantian, where they began to merge.

Could this be the meaning of the word "yuan" in that sentence?

Lin Xiao did not stop its generation.

The "Original Essence Heart Sutra" within the body is operating rapidly without the person realizing it, promoting the development of this process.

Unaware of how much time had passed outside, Lin Xiao felt as if a hundred years had gone by, yet also as if only a moment had elapsed.

Suddenly, a drop of colorless substance dripped from the mixture of consciousness, Spiritual Power, and soul power that had merged together in the Dantian.

Although it was colorless and formless, Lin Xiao could see and feel it very clearly.

He could sense that this thing contained boundless vitality.

The moment it merged into his Dantian and touched his Golden Core, Lin Xiao felt all the Spiritual Qi in the world pouring into him!

With a sudden crash, his Golden Core core was instantly covered with fine cracks, and soon shattered!

But he didn't feel any discomfort.

The original surface cracked and dissipated, revealing the tender white core inside.

Like a newborn, pure and lovely.

Yet it also seems so fragile, as if it would shatter into pieces with the slightest touch.

However, in the next instant, a series of dazzling lights suddenly burst forth from within the pill.

This light, like flames, spread and burned across the surface of the elixir.

Lin Xiao's body seemed to be being scorched and tempered by these bursts of light.

As the layers of flames dissipated, the pill, having lost its surface protection, was covered with a layer of celestial glaze.