Mortal: Starting with the Falling Cloud Sect, I proved my Dao through gacha pulls.

Su Mu first set up several layers of concealment formations around the giant peak, completely covering the entire mountain and preventing outsiders from detecting it.

He then raised his hand and activated the Nine Heavens Mystic Jade Bottle. A blazing crimson beam of light shot out, forcefully forging a deep and long passage through the mountain.

Before long, he had penetrated deep into the heart of Jufeng.

At this moment, a Netherworld Dust Insect quietly emerged from a crack in the stone wall, circled once in his palm, and then settled back onto the stone wall, trembling slightly.

"Oh?"

A glint flashed in Su Mu's eyes as he strode to the stone wall. The rocks there were a bluish-green color, quite different from the surrounding pitch-black rocks.

He pinched a piece of bluestone with his finger and crushed it. Only by fully activating his divine sense could he vaguely perceive that it contained countless tiny silver particles.

This object is difficult to discern with the naked eye; even with his current level of spiritual awareness, he would need to concentrate and examine it closely to detect it.

"Is it these things that completely imprison the spiritual energy, making this spiritual vein invisible?"

He examined it for a long time, but found no relevant information in his mind. He had no choice but to suppress his doubts and continue to break through the wall.

After traveling several hundred feet further through the turquoise stone, a pure and powerful aura of spiritual energy suddenly rushed towards him, instantly invigorating Su Mu.

He raised his hand and cleaved open a layer of stone wall, revealing behind it a dense array of mid-grade spirit stones, with intense spiritual energy almost bursting forth.

Su Mu quickly used the bluestones that had fallen along the way to block the passage, thus completely locking down the spiritual energy fluctuations.

He stood in front of the spirit stone mine and looked around. He saw that the outer area was full of mid-grade spirit stones, and more than 70% of them contained pure wood-type spiritual energy. No wonder this place would be called Biling Island in the future.

He collected all the exposed spirit stones into his world ring, and then dug down along the vein, sweeping in all the spirit stones he saw. Before long, a small mountain had been piled up inside the ring.

After venturing nearly a thousand feet deeper, Su Mu finally reached a high-grade spirit stone vein.

The spiritual energy here was so dense that it had become a tangible spiritual mist. He only needed to absorb a wisp of it, and the circulation of his internal energy suddenly accelerated.

"The spiritual energy here is even richer than that of the cave in Tianxing City, making it an excellent place for cultivation. However, our most urgent task is to find that top-grade spirit stone."

Su Mu shook his head, waved his hand, and collected all the surrounding spirit stones into his pocket. Then he continued to head deeper into the mine.

Along the way, in addition to a large number of high-level wood-type spirit stones, other spirit stones of various attributes were also occasionally encountered, and even a few rare spirit stones of different attributes were found.

Several months later, deep underground on Biling Island.

"This is a top-grade spirit stone?"

Su Mu held a spirit stone the size of a thumb in his palm, his eyes filled with undisguised excitement and surprise.

This spirit stone is emerald green, with a constantly shifting spiritual light on its surface. The green light flickers and ripples, rising and falling like the breath of a living being.

Milky white light spots occasionally spilled from the edge of the spirit stone, and upon leaving the body, they burst into extremely pure wood-type spiritual energy, which slowly spread out.

It seems that the island's ability to nurture so many wood-type spirit stones is inextricably linked to this top-grade spirit stone.

"It's a pity it's wood-attribute; fire-attribute would have suited me better. I wonder if there are any other top-grade spirit stones on the island?"

He searched for months in the mineral veins, almost emptying most of the area beneath the giant peak, before finally finding this piece. There are still many mineral veins in this area that he has not yet explored.

"Very well, now that I have occupied this place, there will be plenty of time to explore it later. Let's take care of business first."

Su Mu stopped thinking about it and put the top-grade spirit stone into his world ring, merging it with the majestic spirit stone mountain inside the ring.

Now that he is wealthy, he no longer cares about counting the number of spirit stones he has, since from now on he will never have to worry about a lack of cultivation resources.

With a swift movement, he vanished from the underground mine and landed atop the peak. He then sat cross-legged, palms facing upwards, and began to circulate the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram, intending to achieve another breakthrough.

Several years have passed since he achieved the sixth level of the Innate Perfection realm, and now he is only a hair's breadth away from the Purple Mansion realm.

three days later.

Su Mu's aura was completely concealed, with only a barely perceptible rise and fall of his chest. He sat quietly on the peak, like a silent sculpture.

But inside his dantian, there was a completely different and earth-shattering scene.

Within the dantian, the golden core continued to rotate slowly, while the surrounding area was already covered with dense sun and moon divine patterns, like a galaxy encircling it, layer upon layer, enveloping the golden core.

"bring it on!"

Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze calm yet filled with unwavering determination.

With a thought, the sun and moon divine patterns in his dantian slowly intertwined, transforming into the more profound purple mansion divine patterns, spreading like a spider web to every corner of his dantian.

The body's Qi and blood surged and flowed, transforming into trickles that flowed into the Dantian, merging with the Purple Mansion Divine Pattern.

The golden core, drawn by this, trembled slightly and emitted a clear, low hum.

In an instant, a vortex formed in the dantian with the golden core as its core, swallowing and absorbing all the divine patterns and boundless blood and qi.

As the vortex continued to expand, a hint of purple quietly emerged at its center.

"This is..."

Su Mu's mind trembled slightly, but he quickly calmed himself down and focused all his energy on activating his blood and qi to help him break through.

After an unknown amount of time, a sound like the shattering of the heavens and earth resounded.

He focused his mind and looked inward, only to find that his dantian had been completely transformed.

The golden core still floated there, but unlike before, it no longer occupied a single spot; instead, it floated quietly in a purple void.

Within the void, purple mist swirled and flowed endlessly.

"I see..."

Su Mu muttered to himself, a flash of understanding appearing in his eyes.

The so-called Purple Mansion Realm does not mean creating another space within the dantian, but rather transforming the entire dantian into a small world of one's own.

From then on, the physical body became the foundation of this world, and qi and blood became its source.

As long as the physical body exists and the vital energy and blood continue, the Purple Palace will endure forever.

Su Mu slowly stood up, feeling his body's magical power surge several times over. His meridians became increasingly resilient and stable, and the circulation of his qi and blood even emitted a faint thunderous sound.

In the darkness, he sensed more clearly that his lifespan had been extended by several hundred years out of thin air.

He casually stretched out his palm, gently clenched it, and a violent wave of energy exploded out, instantly covering the rocks beneath his feet with a fine, spiderweb-like crack.

Immediately afterward, he stomped his foot, and the entire mountain collapsed. His figure leaped and darted through the void, moving as fast as a startled swan with only the strength of his physical body, without using any magical power.

Su Mu hovered in mid-air, looking at his fists, a slight smile appearing on his lips.

The sheer power of the physical body alone is truly remarkable; the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram lives up to its name and is indeed worthy of being hailed as the supreme body-refining method, the number one among gods and demons.

After getting used to the surge of power, he took out the Qiankun Disc and looked at the coordinates of Tianxing City on it, his eyes flashing slightly.

"Perfect timing, it's time for my plan to begin."

He chuckled softly, and his figure slowly vanished into the void, leaving no trace.