"All right, kid, only a few meters left. You can open your eyes for now."
Zayn was still not sure where exactly Infinite Star was heading him to, but he knew that Infinite Star had a goal in mind.
Zayn opened up his eyes and removed the plugs out of his ears. He could see and hear again. The feeling for that was amazing. He wasn't quite sure how long he had his eyes closed and ears stuffed, but it was definitely more than a few hours.
Zayn saw that the path which he was going at right now was leading to a huge door. The door looked really magnificent. It was engraved with trees, flowers and water symbols. The engraving somehow left remnants of Qi. Zayn could sense faints of Qi on the door.
"What's behind that door?"
Infinite Star began to laugh at the question. "Hahahahahahaah! Our goal, of course! The Qi Garden!"
"... A garden... That's it? Are you for real? Please tell me that there's special stuff there!"
"Kid... Once again you underestimate the obvious... Listen up! The Qi Garden is an essential key part of a Martial Family or a Sect. The Qi Garden shows the resourcefulness of the Cultivation Institute. If one has a small Qi Garden, it shows their weakness. The more powerful and bigger the Qi Garden of the Cultivation Institue gets the more powerful the Cultivation Institute would seem.
A Cultivation Institute is nearly always employing thousands of thousands of cultivator and they would need to nurture the cultivator. This can only be done, long-term, through a Qi
Garden.
And in that sense, it would be obvious that the most valuable stuff would be inside the Qi Garden. Don't forget about the ancient part. This is an Ancient Cultivation Institute, meaning we could find herbs and plants, that no cultivator has seen before."
It made sense for Zayn. He didn't know what use these plants and herbs had, but he already felt inside the Python Beast Forest that many plants and herbs were able to absorb Qi, making them even more valuable.
Zayn began to open the door and enter the Qi Garden.
As he entered the Qi Garden, he was shocked by the scale of it. He at first thought, as the name Qi Garden, implied, that it would be just a big garden. But how wrong he was.
The Qi Garden right in front of Zayn seemed enormous. A magnificent and beautiful garden, if Zayn dared to call it a garden. It seemed far more like a forest than a garden. The Qi and the broadness were even superior to the Python Beast Forest.
Zayn noticed many astonishing things inside the garden. It had a waterfall, a lake, trees, and many more things.
It seemed like if they had just torn it out of nature's hand. One shouldn't forget that the Qi Garden was still situated in the Cultivation Palace.
"Here your Infinite Space comes into play! Normally, cultivators who would enter Mystic Realms would be careful as to not disturb the Mystic Realm in itself.
If they entered the Qi Garden, they would try to harvest the plants and herbs without hurting its root. It was an unspoken rule in the cultivation world. The only disadvantage this task would have was that it was time-consuming, nothing more.
The reason behind that was just to preserve it for the future generations. But there are still cultivators who would break the unspoken rule and destroy future generation's growth.
As the Mystic Realm is doomed, no matter what we do, no one would say anything if we would just harvest it fast.
And with your Infinite Space, we would be able to do that without any limit. In theory, we could harvest the whole garden! Hahahahahahahahahaha!" Infinite Star was laughing at that possibility.
Zayn having Infinite Space wasn't unusual for Infinite Star. He knew many possibilities as to how a cultivator could achieve that. In his years of spectating, he saw many different ways to reach having Infinite Space. The advantages were far too good to not have it. There were even cases in which a cultivator was born with an Infinite Space capability.
Naturally, Infinite Star sensed that Zayn wasn't such a case, but he didn't dwell further into it, it wasn't something grave to know how he reached it.
"So, we'll collect everything there is in the garden?"
"Yes! Well, not entirely. I don't know if you can store Space itself. If you could we would just store everything and continue to traverse through the Cultivation Palace."
"Daisy, can I store Space?" Zayn asked the Daily System, without Infinite Star noticing it.
"No, the host is right now unable to store Space itself. In the future, the host may unlock the ability to do that."
"I can't store Space itself..."
"Well, that's unfortunate, but in a way a blessing in disguise..." Infinite Star again began to mischievously laugh.
"What?"
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A few days passed. Zayn was currently inside the Qi Garden. He was once again cut off from his normal senses, only relying on his Spirit Sense to navigate himself around. This time, however, he had to also find and collect valuable herbs, plants and so on.
Zayn was just thankful that no beast was inside the Qi Garden. If that would be the case, Infinite Star would force him to fight the beast, only with his Spirit Sense.
Zayn's harvest was great. He collected many different things. The most incredible thing, Zayn found out, was that his Inventory also gave Zayn the ability to learn about the plants and herbs.
If he stored it up and focused on one single item in his Inventory, the Daily System would give Zayn a description of the item.
"Great kid! Your Spirit Sense is now on par with many high-level Qi Gathering Realm Cultivators. Not only that your Qi Control also rose greatly. I'm confident in saying that your combat prowess rose with that. We'll continue with this kind of training regime for a few days.
After that, we can go through the whole Cultivation Palace. With my Spirit Sense, we can directly find the treasures without any dead ends! Hahahahahahahahahahah!"
Infinite Star again began to laugh. He still seemed pretty happy about recovering his Spirit Sense, even though it was still gravely restricted.
Zayn did notice his improvement with his Spirit Sense, but he couldn't figure out how his combat prowess rose with that. He was able to sense his surroundings without relying on his other senses. He could also get a far clearer picture of his surroundings through the Spirit Sense.
His harvest counted upwards the hundreds but after the early excitement, Zayn began to be bored by that task. He also didn't know how the herbs and plants were so valuable. He hoped that he would be able to sell them at least.