Chapter 283: Genuine Water and Spirit Sea (1/2)
Chapter 283: Genuine Water and Spirit Sea
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”What's underneath?” Junior Leopard asked curiously. From Green Spirit's words earlier, he could clearly sense the great change in the spirit's mood. It was the first time he had sensed such a drastic change after spending so much time with this old monster. Evidently, what laid underneath was definitely unusual. Anything that could provoke such a reaction in Green Spirit couldn't be an ordinary item.
”If I'm not mistaken, there's a Spirit Sea underneath!” Green Spirit cried loudly. Junior Leopard's heart jolted. What a scream! Even if he couldn't hear it, it felt like Green Spirit was yelling.
”There's a Spirit Sea underneath! Definitely! I didn't think a person powerful enough to create a Spirit Sea would exist!”
”What's that? A Spiritual Qi or something else?” Junior Leopard asked, puzzled.
”Spirit Sea is just an idea, a concept drawn up by those crazy necromancers. It didn't exist before I was trapped and I've never heard of anyone succeeding in creating it either.” Green Spirit said, having gradually calmed down. He began to explain the story. ”You people dubbed my era the Antiquity Times and yearn for those times as if you can pick up a Treasure of Heaven and Earth everywhere you go.”
”And isn't that the truth?” Junior Leopard retorted.
”It's true only if you compare it with how things are now. We do find Treasures of Heaven and Earth everywhere back then but they were just ordinary objects to us. Even if you pick them up, they won't be of much use. It's just like the yew trees that grow wild in this world. There's no use for them now but who knows if thousands or millions of years later, they'll turn out to be as precious as the Heavenly Peach Wood? You must know, back then, the Heavenly Peach Wood can be found everywhere as well.”
”That sounds too exaggerated!” Junior Leopard laughed. He had considered this possibility and also understood it was likely to happen. But a stone from the Antiquity Times was still just a stone no matter how much time had passed. It could turn into a fossil at most, but what was the value of that?
”Not at all!” Green Spirit's tone became solemn when he saw how Junior Leopard didn't seem to take his words seriously. ”While you're yearning for our era, we also yearned for an even older era back then. It was recorded as the Primitive Times or the Primordial Origin. Have you heard of it? We knew that era the same way you knew ours, as a place full of Treasures of Heaven and Earth, celestial devices, and precious pneuma! The only difference was that we have a certain group of people who not only yearned for that era but also tried to restore it!”
”Restore that era?” Junior Leopard was taken aback, not understanding how it was possible. ”How?”
”Exactly!” Green Spirit chuckled. ”How would you feel if someone tells you they're going to restore the Antiquity Times? What would you think? Unbelievable, right? You may even think it's just a pipe dream and they're a bunch of lunatics!”
”That's for sure,” Junior Leopard replied without having to think. ”Of course it's a lunatic's idea. Even an Innate Deity couldn't achieve this.”
”Correct! Even if the Innate Deity exists now, he wouldn't be able to do it. Besides, such deities were no more than legends in our times. But we had necromancers, those crazy necromancers!”
Each time Green Spirit mentioned the necromancers, his tone was always complex. There would be feelings of envy, resentment, helplessness, and also admiration. There were so many complex emotions that he seemed undecided what he truly felt about the necromancers.
”Though the ideas of these necromancers were ludicrous, they were methodical in their ways and proposed many possibilities. But there was too little chance for any of those possibilities to be realized and they were vetoed. That was until the craziest of all necromancers appeared —Great Necromancer Konghai!”
”Great Necromancer Konghai?” Junior Leopard felt a flicker of interest. ”I remember it now. He's the one who invented the Golden Flame Mirror you mentioned!”
”That's him. Even among the necromancers, he was the best. Since it was impractical and impossible to restore the entire world to the Primordial Origin, he proposed that they restored only a certain area. That wasn't entirely impossible!”
”The micro world!” Junior Leopard instantly understood his meaning.
”Very smart. You're right. We have many micro worlds in our era and that's where we draw and deserve your admiration. Nearly every famous school had its own micro world, as did every famous martial arts master. Konghai's plan was to use all these micro worlds, drawing all the pneuma from them using inhibitions. When the density of the pneuma reached a certain degree, it would turn into a water known as Genuine Water. All the lakes, rivers, and seas were made of Genuine Water and we dubbed them as Spirit Seas. They were all different in nature but similar in the way they nurture everything. Legends had it that all living things emerged from Genuine Water, including even the Congenital God. Without enough time and Genuine Water, it was possible for Konghai to nurture the extinct Treasure of Heaven and Earth. He might even be able to restore a micro world into the times of the Primordial Origin!”
”That's just a theory.” Junior Leopard was intrigued but knew it was no more than a theory. And theories were always different from reality. For example, just because he understood the Theory of Relativity, it didn't mean that he was capable of building a time machine. Even if he knew the theory of nuclear weapon, he couldn't produce atomic bombs either.
A theory was just that, while the reality was still the reality. They were two separate matters. If he couldn't differentiate them, it would spell trouble.
”Correct. It was just a theory and Great Necromancer Konghai only proposed a hypothesis. It would be easy to condense pneuma into Genuine Water if all you need is one or two drops. But you will need a large amount of pneuma to get enough Genuine Water. That amount, in addition to the time necessary to nurture living creatures, is far beyond the ability of an ordinary human. Thus Konghai used his great Divine Sense to prove his hypothesis. He spent 120 years condensing all the pneuma in his micro world but only ended up with one measly bowl of Genuine Water. He calculated that he would need to condense the pneuma of at least 120 micro worlds and spend tens of thousands of years to get enough Genuine Water to start nurturing living creatures. Even after that, more time would be needed. It wasn”t cost-effective no matter how one calculated it so he gave up in the end!”
”That's true. It's not a pity to give up on something so impractical!” said Junior Leopard.
”Who said it's impractical? Ordinary micro worlds may not be able to meet the requirement, but there are others that can!”
”You mean, the Thirty-three Heavens?”
”Yes. They're micro worlds separated during the Primordial Origin. It's true they're not as pure as they were in the beginning after so long but with certain efforts, one can clear the pneuma inside any of them into a Spirit Sea that was at least on par with the Primitive Times, if not on the Primordial Origin level. But unfortunately, they were under the control of powerful magnates like Emperor of the Azure Heaven or powerful, mysterious schools. No one would be able to force these forces and they naturally wouldn't be willing to risk draining the pneuma of their micro words just to test this crazy theory.” Green Spirit sighed softly. ”It's precisely because of this that I've never heard of anyone who would attempt this until I was trapped in the underground palace. I didn't think I'd meet it so soon after I'm outside.”
”Since it's so difficult, how can you be so sure it's a Spirit Sea under the cave?”
”Pretty much,” said Green Spirit. ”Look around you. The space here has been inhibited by the Fire Land Prohibition. It's a large-scale inhibition of the Essence of the World, rather than of humans. In other words, it condenses the Earth Spiritual Qi in this place and constraints the pneuma. Though the inhibition is brilliant, the Earth Spiritual Qi is among the heaviest and thickest, resulting in a very limited use. There aren't many who would use it. After Konghai proposed his hypothesis, he used this inhibition to constrain the Essence of the World and preserve Genuine Water. Look, the inhibition here is too strong. If I'm not mistaken, this Fire Land Prohibition has covered the entire Azure Heaven to preserve Genuine Water or possibly the Spirit Sea that was formed. Thus, we can only feel the Earth Spiritual Qi in this Azure Heaven!”
Just then, the dune in front of Ji Yeyue and the two men had disappeared entirely. The mouth of a tunnel the size of a mine entrance emerged, covered by a layer of visibly thickening film made out of Earth Spiritual Qi.