228 The Correct Way to Practice Hegemon of Primal Chaos (1/2)

Leon glanced Elder Evergreen with a pleasant surprise at the news but realized the elder did not have the same expression. Instead, a blank one hung on his face.

He smiled wryly, remembering that Elder Evergreen had yet to learn the Gaian language and didn't understand what the palace guard had just said.

”My palace guards have just informed me that they have reached the surface. It seems that you will be able to see the sunlight today, elder.”

Elder Evergreen's eyes glowed brilliantly at his words.

Logically speaking, sunlight would not be able to reach the elder tree's subterranean space due to the inclination of the long tunnel. However, reflective mirrors could be used to bend light and beam into the subterranean space.

After Leon gave the palace guard the instruction, he followed Elder Evergreen to a spare dwelling that used to belong to an older generation treant, but it was not used as accommodation for guests after the older generation treant had succumbed to a perpetual stone-like death.

Leon felt like it was disrespectful to the dead, but it seems that the treants did not think the same way. Perhaps, they were already numb to the deaths of their kin as their numbers dwindled over the long passage of time.

If this were the case, it might be the reason why he was able to establish an alliance with the treant's village so smoothly.

After all, a few treants had been killed by them. Although it was under the spy's instigation, it was irrefutable that the treants died by their hands. He was expecting a few treants to still be harboring hatred.

After they arrived at the outside entrance of the spare dwelling, Elder Evergreen left him to his own devices and followed the palace guards towards the location just beneath the tunnel above.

”Unless it's something urgent, do not disturb me,” Leon instructed another palace guard that followed him.

”Yes, Your Highness.”

The palace guard complied as Leon entered the spare dwelling.

When Leon entered the dwelling, he made sure the surrounding was clear before proceeding to enter his Worldspace.

Once inside the Worldspace, he immediately sat down in meditation and begun drawing in energy to refine new pseudo-Grandmist energy.

Although his cultivation was sealed, it did not stop him from refining more pseudo-Grandmist energy. As long as the new energy he refines does not enter the glabella region and fuse with the Revolving Core, he would still have control of it.

This was the only loophole he had discovered when he was trying to regain control of his cultivation base. It was only through this little bit of energy he still has control over that he was able to transmit knowledge to Lilith.

After circulating the [Hegemon of Primal Chaos] technique and refining a few strands of energy, Leon ended his short cultivation session.

But what he found surprising was when the energy wreaks havoc on his meridians, it provides some tempering benefits, strengthening it.

He started to wonder if he had been practicing the [Hegemon of Primal Chaos] technique wrong this whole time…

As soon as he opened his eyes, Maya appeared in front of him. She started circulated around him a few times with a studying gaze while her eyes sparkled with intelligence.

”What is it?”

Leon asked inquisitively. Did the artifact spirit discover something?

”Seeing it for a second time, it still amazes me to end. To think that there was such a heaven-defying technique in the world that is capable of creating Grandmist energy… but it seems incomplete. It is pseudo-Grandmist at best.” As Maya spoke to this point, her cute brows creased together and slowly said, ”It's just that…”

Leon, who was listening with rapt attention, noticed this peculiarity and said, ”Just… what? What's wrong?”

”You.”

”Pardon?”

Leon thought he heard wrong.

”Are you stupid?”

”What?”

”Are you a pig?” Maya continued.

”I don't think I follow what you are saying?”

Leon was completely nonplussed by the sudden verbal abuse.

”Why are you cultivating pseudo-Grandmist energy like you are cultivating spirit energy?” Maya questioned him with an expression that said she was asking the most obvious thing in the world.

Leon was speechless.