Buffer Zone

He just hadn't expected that what would condense would be a white fox.

He had clearly followed the plan devised by the Howling Celestial Dog.

As the white fox's face became clearer, its body rapidly solidified.

In the blink of an eye, a white fox, seemingly asleep with its eyes closed, appeared completely on the stone tablet.

Once its body had completely solidified, in the blink of an eye, the white fox's previously tightly closed eyes suddenly opened!

His slender eyes were fixed on Lin Xiao, his expression calm and undisturbed.

Then the white fox slightly opened its mouth, and a strange, high-pitched voice emanated from it:

"The sun and moon go by, cause and effect follow, let us inspire our hearts and make our wishes, may our souls Eternal Darkness eternal darkness."

"I am the guardian of the tombs on Everbright Mountain."

"May I ask whether you have come for a funeral or a memorial service?"

Everbright, also known as Eternal Darkness, is a burial ground specially built by Lin Xiao for their Lingxian Sect.

Faced with the white fox's question, Lin Xiao stood upright with his hands behind his back and calmly replied:

"I'm here for a visit."

Perhaps not expecting to encounter an uncooperative visitor on her first day in office, the white fox, who had been staring at Lin Xiao, remained silent for a long while.

Just as Lin Xiao thought the white fox had crashed and was considering whether to go in and take a look using another method, and then come out to check if there was a problem, the white fox lying on the stone tablet finally stirred.

Its long eyes lazily swept over the person in front of it, and a strange sound entered Lin Xiao's ears:

"With the Sect Master here, I, the humble fox, have been impolite. Please make yourself at home, Sect Master."

With that, Lin Xiao flicked his large fox tail behind him, and vanished from the spot, appearing in another dimension.

Looking around, everything is shrouded in mist.

Apart from the dusty ground beneath my feet, I could only see the sparse shadows of the surrounding trees.

Only the stone tablet of Everbright Mountain still stands beside it, and the white fox, the guardian of the tomb, still lies on the stone tablet.

The white fox stopped looking at Lin Xiao and simply closed its eyes, pretending to sleep.

Looking at its plump tail swaying contentedly, Lin Xiao really wanted to tug it.

However, this tomb keeper seems rather difficult to talk to, so I'll pass.

One should show some respect to the caretakers of one's own family's graves.

Without glancing at the white fox again, Lin Xiao walked deeper into the mist ahead.

There are many trees here.

They were all still in the form of saplings.

These saplings all look almost identical.

It was entirely black, even the tender young leaves were black.

If Liao Pantu were here, he would be shocked.

Because all these saplings are Soul-Nourishing Tree!

These Soul-Nourishing Tree saplings were system rewards for previously developing the Lock Ring.

The soil used to plant these Soul-Nourishing Tree was the Spirit River Fertile Soil that he had previously instructed Qin Jianghe to prioritize purchasing.

In the past few months, Qin Jianghe has purchased two batches of Spirit River Fertile Soil, which have already been delivered to Lin Xiao.

The Spirit River Fertile Soil is ideal for planting the Soul-Nourishing Tree.

Spirit River Fertile Soil is easy to find, but Soul-Nourishing Tree are hard to come by.

Moreover, even if both are present, the Soul-Nourishing Tree Soul-Nourishing Wood very difficult to cultivate, making it a rare item in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

Fortunately, he already has a solution to this problem.

The System Store sells planting manuals for the Soul-Nourishing Tree. With these specialized manuals and the many skilled planters in their sect, they have no worries about successfully Soul-Nourishing Tree.

Not to mention that Everbright Mountain, after gathering Yin Qi from all directions, has become an extremely Yin place, the most suitable environment for the growth of the Soul-Nourishing Tree.

The reason Lin Xiao planted the Soul-Nourishing Tree in Everbright Mountain was not only because the environment of this extremely yin place was suitable for the growth of the Soul-Nourishing Tree.

The Soul-Nourishing Tree itself is an extremely yin substance, and planting it here, along with Everbright Mountain, can be said to complement and enhance each other.

As Lin Xiao ventured deeper into the area, the scenery around him suddenly began to change.

The surroundings suddenly became illusory and distorted, like a water mirror or a bubble.

In the blink of an eye, he came to his senses again and found himself back next to the stone tablet where he had first entered.

He knew that he had reached the boundary of this space and was being sent back to the entrance by the power of space.

Since the purpose of building Everbright Mountain is for burial and memorial services, it is natural that there needs to be a private space for family members to spend time together.

Therefore, the interior of Everbright Mountain appears to be a huge space, but it is actually composed of many smaller spaces overlapping and accumulating together.

Each space appears to be interconnected, but in reality, they are all independent.

Everyone who enters here can only enter a designated space for burying their loved ones; they cannot freely enter other places.

Within this place, only the tomb keeper, the white fox, can traverse between different spaces.

In addition, the Soul-Nourishing Tree inside is not restricted by spatial division.

The white fox can travel freely between different spaces because it is part of Everbright Mountain itself.

The fact that the Soul-Nourishing Tree can be planted without restriction is thanks to the buffer zone within this entire spatial structure.

The foundation of the entire Everbright Mountain is a complex spatial array formed by connecting the individual small spatial arrays that Lin Xiao had previously created.

During this process, due to Lin Xiao's insufficient cultivation, it was difficult to fit them together completely without any gaps, and some spatial gaps would inevitably occur.

At first, Lin Xiao was a little troubled about how to deal with the gaps in these spatial intervals.

But then he changed his approach.

If we don't bother trying to eliminate these gaps and gaps, shouldn't we consider whether there are any uses for them?

So he began to study these intervals.

After various ideas and practical research, he finally found a solution.

He used a method of overlapping to wrap these gaps, so that they were, to some extent, incorporated into the overall space.

However, these gaps and crevices are actually different from typical stable spaces; these zones are not completely enclosed like other spaces.

They essentially add a buffer zone between these enclosed spaces and the outside world, allowing the outside world to have a certain degree of connection with the completely enclosed space created by the spatial array.

Therefore, Lin Xiao referred to this place as a buffer zone.

Buffer zones can connect to the real world, allowing previously completely closed lower-level spaces to incorporate some of the world's Principle, thus enabling creatures to enter and even thrive within them.

This design can be considered killing two birds with one stone for Lin Xiao.

Because actually, at the very beginning of this idea, the biggest problem he needed to solve wasn't things like spatial gaps or anything like that.

Rather, with his abilities as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, or even just Late Golden Core cultivator before, he was not yet capable of creating a high-level space that allowed living beings to enter and move freely within it...

So from the beginning, he didn't dare tell Senior Liao about this idea.

Because he himself knew it wasn't very realistic, he was more or less itching to try it out at the time.

Surprisingly, he actually managed to make a name for himself.

As expected of him.