Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 117 - 56: Earth Immortal Clone, Incomplete Innate Water Spirit

Chapter 117: Chapter 56: Earth Immortal Clone, Incomplete Innate Water Spirit

"This should be the convergence node of the earth veins spanning over ten thousand kilometers, also the core of this underground spiritual cave cluster."

Su Yu, pinching his chin, pondered over what he could do.

But after careful consideration, he realized there was nothing he could do.

With the Earth Immortal overseeing from outside, he simply lacked the capability to do anything under his nose.

"But...."

Once again, he cast his gaze longingly at the spiritual pool underneath the Eight Desolates Prison Lock, possibly housing thousands of Earth Vein Spirit Fish, practically drooling at the sight.

Having so many spiritual objects to himself would be utterly delightful.

An annual steady increase of 2000 in physique and strength limits, 20000 in ten years, what concept is that?

Saying that it would make one’s body sanctified is definitely an exaggeration.

Although this thing has no apparent limit, appearing as though it could infinitely stack attributes, there are no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the world that can infinitely stack attributes; it can only be said that this spiritual object’s limit is very high.

This can be seen from Celestial Cangtian not refining all these spirit fish; if they could stack infinitely, they would have long been consumed, it’s impossible they’d still be left.

But regardless of whether it’s infinite stacking, just the displayed effect right now is already quite strong.

Even if it can only stack for ten years, that’s already very powerful.

But....

With the Earth Immortal overlooking, Su Yu racked his brains and truly couldn’t come up with any plan, at best sneaking in every year to grab a few leftovers.

"Sigh!"

Su Yu sighed, reluctantly preparing to leave after a final glance around.

However, when his gaze once again fell upon the vague figure chained beneath the Jade Pillar under the Eight Desolates Prison Lock, his heart suddenly stirred.

Since he was already here, might as well check what exactly was being locked inside.

Glancing around, he turned and entered the jade-like stone and soil, extending the Celestial Ghost’s claw to start digging.

After a burst of sparks, he dug out a space large enough to fit himself, then reverted to his true form to rest.

The mana of the Celestial Ghost form was quickly depleting, and he needed to recover a bit.

Half an hour later, he transformed back into a Celestial Ghost, diving along the edge of the spiritual cave.

As he descended to the bottom edge of the spiritual cave, feeling that the depth was about right, the Celestial Ghost emerged from the spiritual wall but did not expose its head, instead sticking its eyes to the jade wall where it met the Jade Pillar, allowing a clear view of the perfect figure locked by chains of runes upon it.

It was a Divine Maiden of flawless appearance, truly possessing ice skin and jade bones.

It wasn’t a metaphor; her skin was as transparent as ice, allowing one to see through to the jade-like bones inside and the flowing azure luminescent veins.

Her face was the most perfect he had ever seen, surpassing even Chu Xinyue and Xiao Qingli.

With just the first glance, Su Yu knew this was no human.

At the second glance at her name, his pupils instantly dilated:

Imperfect Innate Water Spirit (Mythical): An innate divine spirit, Level 1, formed from a wisp of innate purity combined with the water essence accumulated over eons from the earth veins, born into an innate divine spirit, but unable to truly manifest due to insufficient innate origin.

"Hiss!"

This was even more astonishing than when he saw the Earth Immortal’s Celestial Cangtian’s avatar earlier.

"No, an innate divine spirit?"

Apart from being shocked, Su Yu felt more incredulous, unable to believe it.

What is an innate divine spirit? They are beings born innately, also known as innate divine spirits, naturally mastering a Dao Law, comparable to an Immortal upon coming of age, growing as time passes with extremely high limits.

But such entities generally only emerged in the primordial era when heaven and earth first opened; back then, with many innate origins present, only then could innate divine spirits be born.

As time went on, the world’s laws gradually perfected, transforming the innate origin into postnatal Spiritual Qi, eliminating the conditions for the birth of innate divine spirits.

This Innate Water Spirit was like that; though fortunate to achieve awareness, it couldn’t truly form due to inadequate innate origin.

Su Yu gazed at the array, speculating whether Celestial Cangtian laid down this grand array to extract earth vein power to replenish her origin.

"It should be."

Even at first glance, Su Yu knew the current state of this Innate Water Spirit was not sustainable in the world.

When forming, innate divine spirits either succeed or fail; they can’t remain in such a state. Without an array to sustain it, it would’ve probably failed by now.

"Tch, what a pity."

If it could successfully form, it wouldn’t be long before becoming an Immortal.

For innate divine spirits, with ample resources, their growth speed is incredibly quick; becoming a Loose Immortal in a year, an Earth Immortal in three years, and achieving Celestial Immortal in ten years is easily manageable, and Celestial Immortal isn’t even their limit; for innate divine spirits, that’s just the beginning.

"So is what Ao Run mentioned about benefits referring to this?"

"How does she know about this? Has she been here before?"

He really wanted to extract some information from her, but there was nowhere to let her out.

"Truly a pity!"

Su Yu clicked his tongue, preparing to leave.

Yet he felt reluctant.

Having seen the innate divine spirit, walking away just like that felt like a waste.

"As someone with the title of the Fourth Heavenly Disaster, seeing so many treasures without taking a piece doesn’t live up to the name."

"Gotta find a way to take a piece."

His gaze shifted around, eventually resting on the Jade Pillar in the center of the spiritual cave, then moving down to the base of the Jade Pillar and the boiling Spiritual Qi at the bottom of the spiritual pool.

"Logically, this Innate Water Spirit needs to draw enormous amounts of earth vein Spiritual Qi every moment to sustain its existence, which means the array cannot be completely sealed."

Although earth vein Qi can seep through the array, drawing it in, the efficiency would be too low, definitely insufficient to sustain an innate divine spirit.

Don’t be deceived by her being just level one; an innate divine spirit needs innate origin, incomparable to the current postnatal Spiritual Qi. It may take absorbing billions of Spiritual Qi to match a trace of innate Spiritual Qi.

Hence, Su Yu deduced that this grand array should have a different setup from the other Eight Desolates Prison Locks he had seen before; there must be an opportunity at the earth vein Spiritual Qi gathering point at the bottom.

"First dive to the bottom, then assess the situation; if there’s an opening, see if there’s a chance to sneak in some, if no opening, then look for other options."

Having made his decision, Su Yu decisively dove down.

Diving along the edge of the spiritual cave to the bottom, he instantly sensed the surging Spiritual Qi in the earth flowing like a tide towards a direction.

"There’s definitely an opening."

Su Yu’s heart was set, following the flow of Spiritual Qi, he soon arrived at the place where Spiritual Qi gathered, where it was already compressed into liquid, with countless spiritual tides converging from all directions forming a sea.

Su Yu glanced at the panel, which showed being in this spot gained him over five thousand Spiritual Qi experience every five seconds, which was extremely exaggerated.

"Damn, even just staying here without doing anything suffices for cultivation."

"Let’s see if there’s a chance later. If not, come back here to cultivate for a while to gather some experience."

With a thought, the Celestial Ghost moved against the tide of Spiritual Qi upwards.

After a few seconds, he clashed against something hard to the touch, seemingly the lower half of the Jade Pillar; reaching out to touch it found it clearly very hard yet absorbing the madly surging liquid Spiritual Qi like a sponge.

The Celestial Ghost flew left and right along the Jade Pillar, quickly being stopped by a barrier.

Circling around the stone, he realized the above array only had this one gap blocked by the Jade Pillar.

Immediately reaching to place his hand on the Jade Pillar, the Celestial Ghost in the form of light smoke floated towards the Jade Pillar.

"Bang!"

A barely audible light sound, the Jade Pillar suddenly shone, its surface covered densely with array patterns, the light smoke form of the Celestial Ghost was repelled.

Above at the spiritual cave, beyond the Eight Desolates Prison Lock, the avatar of Celestial Cangtian suddenly opened its eyes, gazing sharply towards the Jade Pillar below at the awakened perfect figure, its substantive divine sense scanning the whole spiritual cave instantly, yet found nothing.

After a moment of silence, Celestial Cangtian’s avatar closed its eyes again.

Beneath the stone pillar, Su Yu looked speechless.

Good news: The array indeed has a gap.

Bad news: But it’s blocked.

"No chance, just return to cultivate then."

Su Yu could only resign, returning under the Jade Pillar, reverting to his true form, sitting cross-legged amidst the rolling spiritual tide.

Casually releasing Ao Run from the spiritual cage, he clamped her mouth with one hand, transmitting sound:

"Don’t make a sound, an avatar of Celestial Cangtian is just above."

About to struggle, Ao Run immediately softened, her long flood dragon body coiled around his waist, resting her head on his crossed thighs, opening her mouth to inhale the rolling liquefied spiritual tide.