The Gate Of Good Fortune

an even more pristine source, that is, the spirit essence, his strength started to break through its previous limits.
It resulted in his cultivation level dropping, but his power continued to increase.

After understanding this point, Ning Cheng began to compress his spirit essence consciously.

It was where the advantages and disadvantages of not having a master or a clan came into play.
If one came from a sect or had a teacher to learn from, Ning Cheng would have never attempted such a crazy and ridiculous thing.
Could one even compress spirit essence? Even trying to do it would cause instability, which would lead to the collapse of one’s body and the Sea of Consciousness to implode on itself.

But for Ning Cheng, it had virtually no impact on him at all.
The Mysterious Yellow Formless Cultivation Method had no form or shape.
At the same time, the powerful spiritual consciousness cultivation method resided in both one’s meridians and dantian.
It followed the cultivator’s dao rhythm and the powers contained within heaven and earth.
The combination even formed a unique resonance with the various laws between heaven and earth.
It allowed a cultivator who cultivated using the Mysterious Yellow Formless to mobilise his strength in tandem with the power contained in heaven and earth at any time.
As for it causing the Sea of Consciousness to implode, Ning Cheng cared about it even less.

His Sea of Consciousness had long since transformed into the Starry Sky Sea of Consciousness.
It had already started to resemble the starry skies before Ning Cheng improved it by taking the Empyrean Consciousness Transmutation Pill.
Now that he used an Empyrean Consciousness Transmutation Pill, his Starry Sky Sea of Consciousness had grown even vaster and turned nearly infinite.

……

It was already the fifth year since the opening of the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring.
By this time, all the disciples who had entered the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring had come out, except Ji He and the dead Guo Haoge.
As a result, the various experts waiting on the location of the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring’s teleportation array started to grow a little impatient.

According to the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring’s recorded history, no one could stay inside for a full five years.
Besides, it wouldn’t take anyone five years to finish the spirit essence transformation process in the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring.
Moreover, once a person completed the spirit essence transformation, or once the spirit spring behind a stone door depleted fully, the spring would automatically teleport the cultivator out.

But Ji He, on the other hand, had stayed inside for over five years.
Yet, the spirit spring showed no signs of teleporting him out.

……

“Crack.” The lotus-shaped platform beneath Ning Cheng gave out a slight cracking-like sound.
It immediately shocked Ning Cheng, and he opened his eyes.
But when he opened his eyes, he found that the spirit pool around him had disappeared without a trace.

No, not disappeared; rather, the spring pond had utterly dried up, with not a single trace of spirit aura emerging from it.

Ning Cheng couldn’t help but stand up in amazement.
He had somehow managed to suck dry the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring’s premier spring, a feat that should have been impossible.
Moreover, it wasn’t just the spring that no longer gave out even a single strand of spirit aura.
Even the lotus-shaped platform where he cultivated had cracked apart.

But when he sensed his cultivation level, Ning Cheng felt quite satisfied.
His cultivation level had initially decreased during the spirit essence transformation process.
But as he continued to compress his spirit essence, with the seemingly endless spirit aura in this place, it allowed him to cultivate the full circle of the Eternal Realm once again.
He then transformed all of his cultivation into spirit essence, repeating the cycle repeatedly till he no longer could.

The majestic and powerful feeling made Ning Cheng want to find someone for a test.

Wait.
I’ve been here for six years.
According to what Ning Cheng had learned about the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring, no one could stay in this place for its five-year usage.
Did something unexpected happen?

Ning Cheng had just thought of this when a powerful force wrapped around him.

Not good.
This place wanted to send me out.
This thought had barely emerged in Ning Cheng’s mind when he erupted with a furious surge of spirit essence, instantly shattering the force wrapping around him.
Ning Cheng used the opportunity to escape into the Mysterious Yellow Bead.

The laws governing the workings of the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring were of an extremely high level.
It meant that even if he entered the True Spirit World, it wouldn’t help him escape the teleporting power of this place.

Fortunately, the laws of the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring couldn’t suppress the Mysterious Yellow Bead.
Therefore, as soon as Ning Cheng entered the Mysterious Yellow Bead, the teleportation suppression he was subjected to disappeared without a trace.

Standing within the Mysterious Yellow Bead, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but feel slightly relieved.
Luckily, he had grasped the opportunity at the right moment.
Otherwise, the teleporting power here would have sent him out.
If that had happened, it would be a miracle if even a part of him could survive.

He didn’t think that Man Huishan would forget about him.
Plus, there was also the River Luo Sacred Sect.
Even if there was no other force, Ning Cheng felt confident that these two would come after him.

When he finished off Guo Haoge, Ning Cheng had already decided that he wouldn’t go out through the original exit.

He believed in an old saying from Earth that all roads lead to Rome.
So no matter the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring’s location or how it came to be, it would have another place to enter and another place to exit.

Pondering over various things inside the Mysterious Yellow Bead, Ning Cheng decided to explore the outside with his spiritual consciousness.

To Ning Cheng’s amazement, the dried-up spirit spring outside had also started to crack.
At the same time, the lotus-shaped platform he had been sitting on for the past six years for cultivation also quietly crumbled into dust.
The Mysterious Yellow Bead then fell to the bottom of the cracked spring along with the crumbling dust of the former lotus-shaped platform.

Another moment later, the bottom of the spirit pool also cracked open, and the void’s vast and boundless aura emerged from it.
Sensing this aura, Ning Cheng understood that he was now somewhere in the middle of the vast emptiness.

A rumbling sound surrounded Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness, but Ning Cheng decided to sit down.

He vaguely guessed why such a thing happened.
He had unconsciously refined the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring into oblivion.
His six years of cultivation at the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring most likely had surpassed anyone else’s six thousand years of cultivation.

Ning Cheng had indeed made the correct conjecture.
He had undoubtedly refined the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring into oblivion.
The Extraterritorial Spirit Spring was a location that had managed to survive for countless years.
It was even reinforced by a great powerhouse sometime in the past.
All to let people absorb the spirit aura from the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring for the spirit transformation process.
Moreover, after every opening, the spring would take roughly 3000 years to absorb and refine enough spirit aura from the vast void for the next opening.

But that wasn’t the only point.
The rest of the nine springs within the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring depended on the first spirit spring for survival.
Therefore, when the first spring disappeared, the nine other springs would also disappear simultaneously.
Ning Cheng had absorbed every scrap of spirit aura within the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring, even the reserve aura required for its maintenance and upkeep.
It was like drying out a lake just to find a few fish.
It would be strange if the Extraterritorial Spirit Spring would even open again after what happened today or if it would even continue to exist after today.

One could say that Ning Cheng had done something that the entire Grand Essence Domain abhorred.

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