Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

The Sage of Taiqing pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand.

He gathered those hundred strands of acquired spiritual energy again, intending to condense them back into that strand of innate spiritual energy.

The next moment, his brows furrowed.

Even with his saintly abilities and the aid of the Taiji Diagram, it was surprisingly difficult for him to return these acquired spiritual energies to their original state as innate spiritual energy.

Those stripped-off law imprints have long since dispersed into the origin of heaven and earth.

Even though he reconstituted the law imprint and wanted to imprint it on these acquired spiritual energies, he was stopped by an invisible force.

"I see!"

The Supreme Sage sighed softly.

"It is easy for innate spiritual energy to transform into acquired spiritual energy. It is difficult for acquired spiritual energy to reverse into innate spiritual energy."

Oh my god!

The heavens and earth suddenly trembled, and the shockwaves were even more intense than those emitted when Mount Buzhou collapsed.

The disciples' expressions changed drastically, the scene of Buzhou Mountain collapsing still vivid in their minds.

Don't worry!

The voice of the Sage of Taiqing was like a drop of clear spring water, falling into the hearts of all the disciples and soothing their minds.

At the same time, the Supreme Sage raised his head, and a beam of light flew from his fingertip and landed on the Taiji diagram.

Amidst the flowing, interwoven lines of the Tai Chi diagram, a clear picture is painted in the void.

That was the scene of the primordial land.

As everyone gazed intently, they saw that on the boundless land, mountains rose and fell, and rivers crisscrossed.

Tiny spiritual veins, like the meridians of the earth, are scattered among the mountains and in the wilderness.

Those spiritual veins were of extremely low grade, not even qualifying as innate spiritual veins. They exhaled thin innate spiritual energy, nourishing the surrounding vegetation and living beings.

Although the effect was minimal, it barely maintained the spiritual essence of that area.

But at this moment, those spiritual veins are undergoing astonishing changes.

In the scene, a thin spiritual vein suddenly trembled slightly, and then an invisible wave separated from the spiritual vein and disappeared into the void.

That is the imprint of the laws of the Great Dao.

The imprints of laws contained within these spiritual veins are being drawn away by an unparalleled power.

The moment the brand was removed, the tiny spiritual vein suddenly swelled up.

It was like a long-dormant dragon that was awakened at this moment and began to grow and expand wildly.

In everyone's eyes, the spiritual vein, which was originally only as thick as a thumb, was now growing thicker at a visible speed, quickly becoming as thick as an arm... and finally as thick as the trunk of an ancient tree.

One end of it extends deep into the mountain, penetrating underground and connecting the mountain ranges together.

At the same time, a torrent of spiritual energy surged forth from the spiritual veins, like a flood bursting its banks, instantly engulfing the mountains.

That's acquired spiritual energy.

Rich, abundant, and violent... yet without any trace of laws.

The same changes occurred throughout the vast and desolate land.

After the imprint of the laws was extracted, each tiny innate spiritual vein transformed into an acquired spiritual vein.

As if reborn, they grew and expanded wildly, spewing out massive amounts of acquired spiritual energy towards the mountain peaks.

Those mountains and fields that were originally barren and lacked spiritual energy were instantly filled with acquired spiritual energy.

Those originally barren and arid lands began to come back to life under the nourishment of spiritual energy.

The image above the Tai Chi diagram shifts to reveal a valley.

In the valley, several plants were about to wither and die.

Those plants and trees were barely maintaining their vitality under the nourishment of the sparse innate spiritual energy!

At this moment, the innate spiritual energy dissipates, and is replaced by a rich innate spiritual energy.

These plants began to absorb and release acquired spiritual energy.

In an instant, their leaves became greener and their roots thicker, bursting with vigorous vitality. It seemed that they preferred the rich acquired spiritual energy to the sparse innate spiritual energy.

However, Huang Long and the others could see that the seeds and seedlings they produced were weaker than the original plants.

A spiritual herb that could originally grow to several feet tall can only produce offspring that grow to a maximum of half a foot after absorbing acquired spiritual energy.

A spiritual tree that could normally develop intelligence after a thousand years, after absorbing acquired spiritual energy, requires ten thousand years for its new seedling to develop intelligence!

This is the price of acquired spiritual energy: it greatly increases the number of living beings, but it also significantly reduces their aptitude.

The Sage of Taiqing raised his hand and waved it again, and the image on the Taiji diagram changed again, reflecting a mountain forest.

Many kinds of wild animals live in the mountains and forests.

The sparse innate spiritual energy can only sustain the survival of a few living beings.

At this moment, the innate spiritual energy dissipates, and is replaced by a rich acquired spiritual energy.

After absorbing acquired spiritual energy, these creatures can reproduce at a much faster rate.

A beast that could only reproduce once every hundred years can now have offspring that mature in just ten years.

Originally, the beast could only give birth to one offspring at a time, but now it can give birth to three to five offspring at a time.

However, at the same time, these offspring, nurtured by absorbing acquired energy, are weaker than before.

The newborn cubs emitted a dimmer light, their flesh and bones were more fragile, and their intelligence was duller.

Although they can absorb and exhale acquired spiritual energy, and although they can grow and thrive, their potential is greatly reduced.

This is acquired spiritual energy, which causes an explosive increase in the number of living beings, but causes a precipitous drop in the upper limit of an individual.

The disciples stared at the scene on the screen, speechless for a long time.

The spiritual veins of the primordial land are undergoing transformation, one by one.

Those spiritual veins that were originally of very low grade and emitted a small amount of innate spiritual energy have all transformed into acquired spiritual veins after losing the imprint of the laws, gushing out a massive amount of acquired spiritual energy.

Meanwhile, those spiritual veins that reached the lower grade of the innate level or above remained completely unaffected.

They still breathe in and out innate spiritual energy, still nourish the surrounding sacred mountains and immortal peaks, and remain a holy land for innate beings to cultivate.

Acquired spiritual energy and innate spiritual energy coexisted in the primordial world from then on.

However, their distributions are vastly different.

The most dramatic changes in the scene occurred in the southern and northern parts of the prehistoric world.

Both regions had countless innate spiritual veins destroyed in the great war.

These two regions have the most tiny innate spiritual veins.

At this moment, all those tiny innate spiritual veins have transformed into acquired spiritual veins.

One after another, acquired spiritual veins, like giant dragons, traverse the mountains and rivers.

A massive amount of acquired spiritual energy gushed forth from the spiritual veins, filling every inch of the land.

Those once barren mountains and fields are now filled with spiritual energy, and those weak creatures, nourished by the acquired spiritual energy, have begun to multiply in large numbers.

In stark contrast are the eastern and western parts of the prehistoric world.

The western region was once a battlefield, but unfortunately, it was destroyed too thoroughly by the Demon Ancestor, and even the tiny spiritual veins are extremely rare.

The eastern part of the primordial wilderness has never suffered devastating damage over the long years.

Only a very small number of areas generate acquired spiritual energy.

Inside the Eight Views Palace, everyone stared at the scene on the screen, speechless for a long time.

At that moment, the heavens and earth... shook violently!