Chapter 803 - 330: It’s Him, Elder Chu! (Part 2)

It was just from quantitative change to qualitative change, directly leading to the downgrade in the grade of the Hidden Spirit Vein due to insufficient Spiritual Qi.

At this moment, Chu Ning simply arrived at the location of the Hidden Spirit Vein below, and after carefully sensing it once more, he finally sighed and said:

"If we follow the current speed of Spiritual Qi release, this Hidden Spirit Vein can support our cultivation for one or two more years.

It seems that we will need to find another place for cultivation later, or perhaps just return to Ice Island Immortal City."

After speaking, Chu Ning looked at the Earth Spirit Vein and took out a Dharma Banner from his Storage Bag.

With a casual toss, he inserted the Dharma Banner into the Array Disc.

Immediately after, Chu Ning cast several spells upon the banner.

Suddenly, the Spiritual Qi within the Hidden Spirit Vein began to rapidly overflow.

The speed was more than twice as fast as before.

Bai Ling saw this scene and blinked his eyes slightly.

Chu Ning then spoke indifferently:

"Instead of releasing the Spiritual Qi slowly like this, it’s better to ensure the current phase’s Spiritual Qi first.

Anyway, we’ll have to move again at some point, so whether earlier or later doesn’t matter."

After finishing, Chu Ning led Bai Ling back to the Cave Mansion on the surface.

Soon indeed, they felt the Spiritual Qi became dense again.

Chu Ning went into the Spirit Medicine Garden once more, and after casting the Profound Spring Youth Technique on the Snow Crystal Ganoderma, he turned to another nearby medicinal garden.

Here, Purple Origin Fruits were being cultivated.

Unlike the blue outer shell from more than ten years ago when it was just transplanted here, now the outer shell of the Purple Origin Fruits had become blue-purple.

If it were just this, Chu Ning wouldn’t be too surprised, but his attention was particularly caught by this.

On these Purple Origin Fruits, he sensed two distinctly different forces.

One was the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi that Chu Ning was extremely familiar with, and the other was precisely the Power of Origin, as referred to by Nine Derivation Ascendant!

"Regarding this Power of Origin, I really know very little. Originally, I thought the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and this Power of Origin couldn’t coexist, hence the existence of places like No-Spirit Island.

But this fruit is simultaneously containing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Power of Origin, which is truly wondrous."

Chu Ning speculated that the Power of Origin must be a force carried by the seed of this fruit, while the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was absorbed later.

As for why it was not possible before, but became feasible after using the Spirit Locking Technique, Chu Ning himself couldn’t explain clearly.

However, the ability to fuse two distinctly different forces together still astounded Chu Ning greatly.

Ever since discovering this ten years ago, Chu Ning would almost always come to check on the growth of this fruit every now and then.

Only, the growth of this fruit was really too slow, even ten years have passed without any significant progress, and how long till maturity remains unknown.

However, Chu Ning was not discouraged by this.

On the contrary, he vaguely felt the growth of this fruit might be linked to some secret.

After all, the Golden Thunder Eagle previously also produced a Beast Crystal when consuming numerous Origin Demon Beasts on No-Spirit Island.

Yet, after reaching Ice Island Immortal City and promoting, the Beast Crystal in his body disappeared without a trace.

Having observed for a while, Chu Ning then left the medicinal garden, and continued refining his Magical Treasure alongside the cultivation with the Five Elements Sword Array.

In the times following, Chu Ning continued to cultivate peacefully on the island.

Since the Young Sect Leader of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect left, he really didn’t appear again, occasionally some cultivators and Demon Beasts would mistakenly intrude, but were blocked by the array.

A year passed in the blink of an eye.

That day, Chu Ning stood atop the island, looking around at the place he had stayed for over seventeen years, he shook his head.

Then, he began retrieving the array formation tools piece by piece from every corner of the island.

After a year’s time, the Spiritual Qi in the Hidden Spirit Vein beneath the island had been completely exhausted.

Cultivating here no longer held any significance.

The many items in the Spirit Medicine Garden had long been collected by Chu Ning.

This set of array formation tools was also something Chu Ning spent considerable time refining, so naturally, they couldn’t be left here in vain.

Once Chu Ning had retrieved all the array formation tools, the island finally appeared.

Chu Ning soared into the sky, scanned his surroundings, and rode on the Golden Thunder Eagle towards the eastern direction.

After all, having not left the island for over a year, Chu Ning was unaware of the current situation at sea.

About a thousand miles to the east is White Sand Island, inhabited by many human cultivators with a teleportation array directly connected to Ice Island Immortal City.

Bai Ling also sat upon the Golden Thunder Eagle, but after flying five hundred miles, he joined another Golden Thunder Eagle and entered the Spirit Beast Bag.

And at this moment Chu Ning couldn’t help but glance at the other Spirit Beast Bag.

The giant turtle of unknown origin remained in the Spirit Beast Bag.

In over a year, the giant turtle hadn’t shown any sign of activity, initially, Chu Ning was a bit worried.

But as time went by, this concern gradually faded, and he essentially paid it no mind.

Since the Golden Thunder Eagle promoted to a Fifth Level Demon Beast, its speed had increased significantly compared to before.

The distance to the island was only a hundred miles.

At this moment, Chu Ning hadn’t released his Divine Sense too much all along, but he still sensed a group of cultivators approaching from not far ahead.

A sweep of his Divine Sense revealed there were about twenty or thirty people, primarily Qi Refining cultivators, with only a few Foundation Establishment cultivators.

And these people all showed panicked expressions, occasionally turning around to look back.

Continuing to extend his Divine Sense backward, Chu Ning quickly discovered five Demon Beasts chasing behind.