189: Chapter 179 189: Chapter 179 Eryao had just entered the sun and was surprised to find that the scorching heat he expected was absent; instead, he was so comfortable that he wanted to lie down and take a blissful nap.
From a distance, the sun looked like a huge ball, but inside, it was incredibly vast and, to Eryao’s astonishment, even had its own land filled with glittering golden sand.
The warmth and light emitted by the golden sands illuminated the entire land.
Curiously, Eryao dug his claws beneath the sand, discovering that what lay hidden were all golden stones, massive chucks of them.
After grabbing a few golden stones, Eryao flew back up from the depths.
“Daddy, look what I brought for you!”
Eryao, we are going to be rich!”
“Daddy, you shouldn’t sell these stones.
If you use them for cultivation, you’ll advance by leaps and bounds each day!”
“Gold can be used for cultivation?”
These are stones of gold, and they are especially useful for people with Metal Spirit Roots.
Moreover, they are much more useful than the Spirit Stones mined in the Cultivation World.”
“Thank you for the guidance, Eryao.
What a thoughtful son, always looking out for daddy.” Jiang Tang’s initial Abandoned Spiritual Root actually consisted of the five elemental Spirit Roots: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, making cultivation especially difficult for someone with this combination.
However, with ample resources to cultivate all five elemental roots, one could progress faster than others in the Cultivation World.
This is why there are several colors within the Golden Cores in his Dantian, allowing them to coexist there.
Jiang Tang kept a piece of the golden stones in his hand while storing the rest in his Storage Bag, knowing that these stones from the sun were actually Crystal Stones, extraordinarily precious.
This was a treasure produced by his own Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, and of course, he intended to cherish it.
While Jiang Tang was cultivating with the gold stone, Eryao too began his cultivation practice using one of the golden stones from his hand.
Eryao’s cultivation also relied on external resources, but unlike humans, he wasn’t restricted by Spirit Roots and could cultivate with any item that contained Spiritual Energy.
During their cultivation, Green Ox would merely rub against them to absorb a bit of the Spiritual Energy.
As Jiang Tang cultivated with the golden air, his previously four-colored Golden Core gained an additional gold hue.
The Golden Core spun continuously and slowly turned translucent to the naked eye, forming a space within which gradually appeared a grey land and a Spiritual Spring bubbling with Spirit Water.
Plants began to grow wild on the land, and Jiang Tang was thrilled to discover the space was as large as five acres.
He was just not sure whether he could store items in it.
Before Jiang Tang had time to place anything inside, he made a new discovery: his cultivation had progressed from the Golden Core Stage and had now advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage.
In his sea of consciousness, there was already one small person, and now, there appeared another, a Nascent Soul, because he had acquired a new space.
The Nascent Soul migrated to the sea of consciousness, and together, they looked like twins, bearing an identical resemblance to Jiang Tang.
Jiang Tang didn’t know how much time had passed outside, but he felt it was just a few days, and he had already ascended two major levels.
While reveling in the surprise, he worked on consolidating his cultivation level, expanding all the meridians in his body, and refining the Spiritual Energy within.
Then, Jiang Tang used the abundant Spiritual Energy in his body to strike his meridians and make them even stronger, propelling from the early stages of Nascent Soul to the mid Nascent Soul Stage.
This time, when he was free, he put the storage bag into his body’s space to feel if there was any discomfort.
There wasn’t any sensation at all, he felt a bit thirsty, so he used his Divine Sense to enter the space, scooped a cup of Spiritual Spring water to drink, and found the spiritually enriched water to be sweet and fragrant, with a higher concentration of Spiritual Energy than the water in the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space.
Jiang Tang felt the Spiritual Spring in the space within his body continuously bubbling up, but not flowing anywhere else.
He felt it would be wasteful not to use that land, his body’s secret medicine garden.
If the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space were to disappear or be taken by someone, he would have this space within him for self-protection in times of danger.
He wanted to try if he could enter this space himself.
With a silent thought, he did not just enter the space within his body in spirit, but also in person.
From within the space, he could see outside; it was transparent like glass.
He could see out, but others could not see him.
Previously, only he could see inside his body, but now, the absence of Jiang Tang was confirmed when Eryao suddenly couldn’t find him.
“Daddy daddy, where are you?” Eryao had just finished cultivating a piece of metal stone when it opened its eyes to find Jiang Tang had disappeared from the space.
It searched the entire space but couldn’t detect Jiang Tang’s aura.
Originally a contracted Demonic Beast, it could not feel the presence of its master from the space at the moment either.
“Moo…” Green Ox called out in panic.
With a silent command, Jiang Tang brought Eryao and Green Ox into the space.
“Daddy, where is this place?” asked Eryao, curiously looking around at the barren land littered with only a few weeds.
“Eryao, Green Ox, this is the space inside my body, newly formed.
Start planting medicine on this land along with the unplanted lands outside, especially the Vitality Grass and Nourishing Soul Grass formulas.
Also, plant more of the various other herbs we need for the alchemy prescriptions, as I need a large number of pills.”
Jiang Tang tasked Eryao and Green Ox with work, but he was worried about not having the Alchemy Prescription for the Nascent Soul Pill even though he had already entered the Nascent Soul stage.
He could only rely on metal stones and absorb the lunar qi from the Hell Palace outside to cultivate, and at night, he absorbed even more power.
As he cultivated day and night, his Star Absorption Hand placed on a seam, he wreaked havoc on the Ghost Cultivators and Demonic Beasts outside.
They were being drained of their Spiritual Power so severely that they were unable to recover, causing their cultivation levels to plummet.
They turned in chaos within the space, but couldn’t escape the Hell Palace.
What was once a calm Hell Palace now echoed continuously with the screams of Ghost Cultivators and Demonic Beasts.
Huang Chen huddled inside his Magical Treasure, unable to absorb the Spiritual Power from outside, so he just closed off that hole.
In conversation with his master, he learned that his master had escaped from the enemy’s Magical Treasure but was now being tracked by some foes.
The Golden Core Elder was previously flying high with his Magical Treasure, which later attracted many adversaries.
Having no other choice but to burrow underground, the Hell Palace was seen as an underground product, deeply hidden beneath the earth, flying swiftly.
Initially, some with higher cultivation than the Nascent Soul from the Ten Great Clans, Ocean Wheel, Spirit Mansion, and later followed by Golden Core and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.
The Golden Core Elder felt useless with his Golden Core, relying on a Magical Treasure to escape.
He commanded the Magical Treasure to spew out flames relentlessly and even called for the Ghost Cultivators inside it to fight, but alas, he could not summon the Ghost Cultivators inside the Magical Treasure.
That’s when he learned that someone had used a powerful method to drain the Spiritual Power from the Ghost Cultivators in the treasure.
The Golden Core Elder didn’t realize how deadly the Spiritual Energy absorption technique was until he personally experienced it.
Even in his dreams, if he possessed such a spell, wouldn’t he dominate the Cultivation World?