Published: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER 178: Insights on Spiritual Herbs
“If it weren’t for my relentless assault, preventing him from using blood offering escape, he could have sabotaged my plans,” Liu Yu reflected after counting all his gains.
He grabbed two empty storage bags in his hand, and with a thought, his Primordial Spirit entered the Immortal Abode, causing the two storage bags to vanish into thin air.
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This was an endless world, devoid of mountains, rivers, or other natural landscapes, without the cycles of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and lacking the symbols of time such as the sun, moon, and stars. Only an ancient, eternal darkness filled the void, with silence and emptiness as its perpetual themes.
This was an incomplete, or rather, a shattered world.
Deep in the dark void, there was a tiny, inconspicuous point emitting a blue light.
The blue light took the shape of an apple, seemingly the only source of light in this world, the center of the universe, the sole essence of life.
It was indeed the Azure Fruit Barrier!
Suddenly, a red orb the size of a human head appeared above the Azure Fruit Barrier, inconspicuous compared to the blue barrier, and even more minuscule against the dark void.
This was Liu Yu’s yuan spirit embryo. In the Immortal Abode world, he could directly see the changes in his Primordial Spirit, which had now grown from the size of a fist in the qi refinement stage to the size of a human head.
A feeling akin to returning home washed over him, as if back in his mother’s embrace, bringing not the slightest discomfort. In fact, it felt even more comfortable than residing in his flesh body, and there was no loss of Primordial Spirit power.
If it weren’t for the fact that his Primordial Spirit couldn’t stay away from his flesh body for too long, resulting in the loss of vitality in the body, he could continue living in the Immortal Abode in his Primordial Spirit form.
Liu Yu lingered for a moment, savoring this feeling.
In his perception, about half a moment had passed when the red orb moved, heading straight towards the Azure Fruit Barrier.
No sound was made, nor was there any sensation of collision; the red orb simply entered the Azure Fruit Barrier.
It had been over twenty years since his first entry into the Immortal Abode world. Besides the marks left by Liu Yu, there were no apparent changes in this world.
Liu Yu stopped reflecting and focused on the purpose of his journey, drifting directly toward the three small wooden houses.
After his yuan spirit embryo matured, its speed increased, flying faster than a late-stage foundation establishment cultivator, nearly double his own escape speed. It was also unaffected by inertia, able to stop immediately with a thought.
In less than a breath’s time, the red orb had arrived in front of the wooden house, flying straight into the left wooden house, which stored the seeds.
The layout of the wooden house had undergone significant changes. Unlike the empty space with just a few shelves and cabinets during his first entry, it now housed thirty small shelves.
These shelves were structured similarly to bookcases but lacked back panels. Each shelf had four layers of partitions for placing items, with seven or eight small wooden boxes on each layer, perfectly filling the space while leaving slight gaps to avoid crowding.
At this time, nearly half of the wooden boxes had labels affixed, indicating the names of various spiritual herbs and elixirs. All the spiritual herbs Liu Yu could collect were represented here with their seeds available for use.
Most of these seeds were common spiritual herbs used in the qi refinement stage, with only a small portion being applicable in the foundation establishment stage. Even fewer were suitable for golden core or primordial infant stages, with only a handful available, including the Azure Spirit Mushroom, which could be used at all four levels.
The thirty small shelves were divided into six rows, three rows on each side of the door, with an aisle in the middle.