Chapter 106: Innate Spiritual Veins

Hearing Shui Miao’s words, Chen Xiao nodded.
At this moment, the ground beneath Chen Xiao’s feet had been torn apart by the spiritual spells he had just cast, creating massive fissures. With a leap, he entered one of these fissures.
Below lay a medium-sized energy crystal vein, its raw energy glowing with a purple light. As soon as Chen Xiao entered above the vein, his entire body trembled.
“How comfortable!”
Since these energy crystals hadn’t been processed, they constantly emitted raw elemental energy—what could be called the primordial energy of heaven and earth.
Typically, when an extraordinary ability faction discovered an energy crystal vein, they would gather countless individuals with such abilities to use sealing spells to seal the vein and prevent further energy leakage before proceeding with extraction.
But Chen Xiao didn’t understand any of this. As for Shui Miao, although she knew, she utterly dismissed these low-grade energy crystal veins—the energy they emitted meant nothing to her.
Now, as Chen Xiao jumped into the crystal vein, his body was instantly bathed in this vast amount of energy. The energy, which should have slowly diffused into the air, seemed to find an outlet and rushed wildly toward his body.
Chen Xiao’s mental energy was constantly operating the Zhou Tian Ming Gu Method, absorbing the scattered star energy around him.
In fact, the raw energy emitted by this crystal vein was also part of star energy. The Zhou Tian Ming Gu Method merely guided it slightly, causing it to flow instantly toward Chen Xiao.
Although this energy was immense, it wasn’t fierce. Under the guidance of the Zhou Tian Ming Gu Method and his main divine entity, it became extremely gentle, like a gentle stream, surrounding Chen Xiao’s body and slowly seeping in to strengthen his mental energy and physical strength.
In just a moment, Chen Xiao’s physical strength was forged to the peak of the second level by this terrifying energy. Yet his mental energy was already at the peak of the fourth level, stuck in a bottleneck. To break through to the fifth level, mere energy supplementation wasn’t enough.
In just over ten minutes, Chen Xiao’s strength had improved by a significant margin. It had to be said that this place was truly a natural training ground for him.
But aside from Chen Xiao, no other individual with extraordinary abilities dared to use cultivation techniques or absorb energy in such a crystal vein—otherwise, they would surely be shattered by the terrifying energy.
Chen Xiao was different. Protected by his main divine entity, he could control the amount of energy absorbed within his body’s capacity, allowing him to cultivate boldly.
“It seems now isn’t the time to cultivate.”
The next moment, Chen Xiao opened his eyes. Both his physical strength and mental energy had reached a bottleneck, with no significant improvement expected in the short term.
“Retreat!”
Chen Xiao’s mental energy instantly connected to his main divine space. The space suddenly released a massive amount of spatial energy, instantly enveloping this nearly hundred-meter-long medium-sized crystal vein.
Swish!

In the next moment, this medium-sized crystal vein was directly taken into the Main God’s Space, leaving behind a huge pit thirty meters deep and nearly a hundred meters long at its original location. Chen Xiao immediately sent out his mental energy to explore this massive pit. “Over there!” Suddenly, Chen Xiao’s eyes lit up. At the core of this pit, which was once the heart of the crystal vein, there was a one-meter-diameter hole, from which a faint golden light was emanating. Without hesitation, Chen Xiao transformed into a blur and rushed to the hole. Before him was a brilliant golden expanse, but no energy was leaking out, and he couldn’t tell what lay beneath. “That spiritual entity is down there. Let’s go in and take a look. This should be an advanced spiritual vein that runs through the entire land, but for some reason, no energy is leaking out,” Shui Miao said, her voice tinged with confusion. Chen Xiao first used his mental energy to investigate, finding no unusual dangers below, so he leaped in. The hole led down hundreds of meters underground. “What is this?!” As soon as he reached below, Chen Xiao was stunned. It was a golden world—everything, up, down, left, and right, was golden, emitting a dazzling glow. In front of him was a golden river that seemed to be flowing. It resembled both a solid and a liquid, as well as light. Strangely, it hovered motionless in midair. Chen Xiao looked around but couldn’t see the source or the downstream of the river; he could only see a short section of about a hundred meters. At that moment, as if sensing someone’s arrival, the whistling sound disappeared. “An innate spiritual vein—the source of all crystal veins. So that’s how it is. With such a spiritual vein to nourish it, no wonder an innate spiritual entity can be born here,” Shui Miao couldn’t help but marvel in the Main God’s Space. “An innate spiritual vein? I didn’t sense any energy fluctuations at all,” Chen Xiao frowned slightly. This place was no different from the outside world; there was no energy leaking out, making it far inferior to that medium-sized crystal vein earlier. “If I’m not mistaken, this spiritual vein is the source of the sunny areas in the Thousand Souls Domain. This vein must lead straight to your island, with all its power channeled into it, which is why no energy is leaking out,” Shui Miao replied after thinking for a while. “Also, some of the energy from this vein must have been absorbed by that innate spiritual entity born here. Otherwise, the Sunny Areas in the Thousand Souls Domain would have formed long ago.” Hearing Shui Miao’s words, Chen Xiao also understood. The skies of the supernatural world seemed to be covered in thick gray mist, so creating sunny areas could only be done from underground. Earlier, Chen Xiao had planned to bring this spiritual vein into the Main God’s Space, but now he abandoned that idea completely. He had already gained the recognition of the two Ye Dragons and obtained the space crystal here, becoming the master of the Thousand Souls Domain. If the Thousand Souls Domain became a sunny area, the benefits to him would be self-evident.

Moreover, according to Shui Miao, if it were possible to capture that innate spiritual entity and unleash all the power of its spiritual veins, the evolution of the Thousand Souls Realm would likely proceed even more rapidly. That innate spiritual entity had at this point only formed a pure soul; all its actions were driven by instinct, with no sense of self-awareness. Chen Xiao also sensed that the innate spiritual entity must be nearby, merely hiding out out of instinct. …