WangWeiNan was obviously worried that Lao Xiazi and I would snatch JIETOU halfway, so he took the opportunity to drive away.
I have to admit that his choice was right. I don't know what the old man is planning, but my plan is to wait until I regain some strength and can move JIETOU, then immediately start trying to take it from him.
"This bastard actually drove away and left us behind." I stood trembling at the broken temple door, watching the distant car lights with a sense of helplessness in my heart.
"It's okay. There's a small village not far from here where I have an old acquaintance. Let me help you over there for a rest." The old man always had a way, so he helped me down the mountain slowly and we soon found a small mountain village.
We went into someone's house where they were very hospitable towards us. They helped me lie down in their bedroom to rest while they made hot soup rice for me. After eating enough, I closed my eyes and fell asleep feeling much more comfortable.
My injuries were too severe so I slept deeply for quite some time. In my dream state, Ling Tai Secret Art naturally began repairing my injuries.
After an unknown amount of time passed by, my consciousness entered into Purple Mansion Space.
A round moon shone coldly as her long hair fluttered like silk ribbons in the wind.
"Cough cough," I walked up behind YunQingYue and coughed lightly.
She turned around with slightly furrowed brows and looked at me up and down before asking: "What happened to you?"
This was still her first time showing concern towards me; it warmed my heart as I quickly smiled back saying: "It's much better now; don't worry."
"Well then, let me not disturb you anymore; focus on your cultivation." YunQingYue finished speaking and turned to walk away.
"Ah, it's still so cold." Watching her light figure disappear into the distance, I sighed helplessly before sitting cross-legged on the ground to focus on my cultivation.
Ling Tai Secret Art continued circulating as all 38,000 pores on my body opened up and continuously absorbed essence spiritual energy from the surrounding world. Unknowingly, I had already recovered most of my elemental energy and my injuries were almost healed; this made me very happy.
Stopping cultivation, I looked down at the green stone floor beneath me. This time around, I wasn't going to wait anymore; I was going to let that wisdom root break through!
I lightly stomped my foot causing cracks in the green stone floor before jumping inside them.
The wind whistled past my ears as with a turn of thought; I had arrived next to JIETOU's towering jade pillar.
I hugged onto the jade pillar tightly then inputted elemental energy into it immediately after.
Underneath my urging force, the jade pillar trembled slightly indicating that it was rising upwards. However due to its massive size and how much elemental energy it required for growth meant that soon enough I began feeling overwhelmed.
Fortunately, just as I was nearing exhaustion, a deafening roar suddenly came from above my head. This indicated that the jade pillar had touched the blue stone ground above and was trying to break through! At this point, I began to understand a little bit. It turned out that the Purple Mansion space was divided into two levels: the upper level belonged to the shallow consciousness space, while the lower level belonged to the deep consciousness space. Both levels stored huge amounts of innate chaotic energy. The chaotic energy in the upper level needed to be transformed gradually for use, while it seemed likely that one could directly absorb and use the chaotic energy in the lower level with their spiritual root seedling.
This meant that once my spiritual root seedling broke through, my power would instantly increase by a large degree. Then I could release extremely powerful force instantly. You see, chaos energy in this second-level space accumulated automatically all time; these breaths were similar to those outside of chaos energy which meant when I possessed a spiritual root seedling after breaking through soil successfully then maybe I could directly absorb heaven and earth's chaos energy for myself - an inexhaustible source of power!
"Being able to communicate with heaven and earth's qi is officially stepping onto cultivation path!" Old Blind's words echoed in my mind and strengthened my confidence even more.
"Ahhhhh!"
At this moment, gritting my teeth and pouring all of my vitality into jade pillar with full strength caused it tremble violently under me before hearing "crack-bang-boom" sounds repeatedly coming from it until finally it stopped moving altogether indicating successful breakthrough.
"I have a spiritual root seedling now!" Excitedly shouting at seeing this situation unfold before me led me flying up towards first-level space whereupon arriving there only did I realize YunQingYue had arrived here earlier than me already surrounded by various monsters observing something strange happening on central square made of blue stones.
"How's the situation? Is my spiritual root seedling shining brightly and dazzlingly?" I was excited, shouting loudly as I rushed over.
Seeing me like this, YunQingYue turned around to look at me for a moment before waving her hand and leading the monsters away. Then when I looked down at the ground, only then did I see that there was just one small green sprout less than three inches long. Its tiny appearance seemed like it would break off if touched by hand.
"This spiritual root seedling is too shabby," full of disappointment and embarrassment in my heart couldn't help but sit next to it while looking at it gloomily saying: "With such a small size, how much effect can you have? You might as well be called bean sprouts instead of spiritual root seedlings."
Unexpectedly though after hearing my words, that spiritual root seedling suddenly shook violently before condensing a dazzling light on its tip which shot straight towards me.
"What the f*ck!" My heart jumped with surprise as I quickly flew out of its way. Then came a loud "boom" sound from behind me; turning back around saw that a nearby hill had already exploded and collapsed.
"F*cking awesome!" Seeing this situation unfold before my eyes made me realize that this really was an authentic spiritual root seedling rather than some bean sprout! So immediately returning focus to using Ling Tai Secret Art while silently calling upon power from within Spiritual Root Seedling caused an immense forceful energy surge forth from Purple Mansion space making my entire body swell up like an almost bursting balloon - seemingly ready to explode any second now!
Uh, with anger raging like a rainbow, kill!" In a moment of desperation, I shouted loudly and suddenly sat up from the bed. Then I swung my fist and a bright white energy blade whistled out and hit the wall behind the bed, instantly blasting a big hole in it.
"Oh dear, what happened?" The loud noise alarmed people outside and then the blind old man led some people from that household into the room.
"What's going on here?" The homeowner was stunned to see the big hole in his wall.
"Old Zhang, did this brat break something? Don't worry, I'll pay for it. You won't suffer any loss. Relax." Upon hearing these words from the homeowner, the old man spoke up.
"No no no! It's not like that...sir...my wall has been broken by a huge hole," Old Zhang said to him with an anxious look on his face.
"What? A burst of energy shattered stones through walls?" Hearing Old Zhang's words made the old man shocked. He ran over quickly and grabbed my wrist before laughing heartily after pinching me for half a day.
"Hahaha! Great! Hahaha! Fantastic! My life is finally worth living now that you've finally had your breakthrough!