Myriad Daos of the Heaven

The way everyone looked at Jiang Jichen varied, but they all had one thing in common: no one dared to get too close.

Now, the hundred-meter radius in front of Jiang Jichen was completely empty!

Of course, the members of the Seven Great Families and the Three Major Sects were not afraid of Jiang Jichen, but they were all seated at the very front of the plaza. They had no interest in competing with him for a spot in the middle.

Jiang Jichen was now seated in the very spot previously held by the Five Poison Sect. He occupied it all by himself, yet no one dared to utter a sound or voice any objection.

Having witnessed his methods, they knew better than to think Jiang Jichen was a reasonable man.

Yee Youmeng and the Red Beauty Adventurer Squad returned to their original spots.

Thus, after a shocking, bloody battle, peace returned to the plaza. No new disputes arose, and it almost resembled the wonderful, harmonious cultivation environment Jiang Jichen had mentioned.

The great doors to the first floor of the Exquisite Treasure Tower had not yet opened!

A brilliant, precious light enveloped the plaza, repelling the Sealing Power that surged in from all corners of the Ancient Ruined City, preventing even a trace of it from entering.

Wisps of mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power also drifted out from the Exquisite Treasure Tower, dispersing throughout the plaza.

The cultivators sat here precisely to absorb and refine this mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power scattered in the air.

The closer one was to the Exquisite Treasure Tower, the denser the mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power. This was why everyone fought so desperately for a spot at the front.

Refining even a single wisp of this Ancient Mysterious Spiritual Power offered boundless benefits. A cultivator would feel their own Spiritual Power become significantly purer and their body gain an ineffable Dao rhythm. This created a closer connection to the Heaven and Earth Dao, making it much easier to comprehend Magic Techniques and the Heaven and Earth Rules.

However, this Ancient Mysterious Spiritual Power was not easy to refine. Even the genius Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Noble Families and Sects, those who possessed Pseudo-Heaven-level Dao Platforms, could only refine a dozen or so wisps per double-hour.

What’s more, the Ancient Mysterious Spiritual Power seemed to possess a Spiritual Sense of its own. Even if it was right in front of you, you might not be able to refine it, as it would seemingly repel you of its own accord.

Of course, in places where the Ancient Mysterious Spiritual Power was denser, the opportunities to refine it were greater, and the refining process was faster.

Therefore, no matter how slow their progress, those at the very front would always refine more, and at a faster rate, than those at the back.

There was still nearly half a day left before the Ancient Ruined City would be completely sealed, and people were still trickling in.

Not even all the members of the Seven Great Families and the Three Major Sects had arrived yet.

For example, the Flowing Cloud Sect and Lingxu Temple were still missing.

As were the Su and Qing families.

Those seated before the Treasure Tower were all old acquaintances of Jiang Jichen.

This included the Guo and Wei families from the Quicksand Country, the Nangong Family and Blood Refining Alliance from the Piaoyun Country, and the Cang Family from the Beiyue Country.

Aside from the Kong Family of the Thousand Lakes Country, whom Jiang Jichen had never crossed paths with, all the others—with the exception of the Blood Refining Alliance—were his mortal enemies.

Anyone else facing such a formidable array of mortal enemies would surely be terrified and uneasy.

Yet Jiang Jichen acted as if nothing was wrong, calmly settling in to cultivate.

With his eyes half-closed, he saw that no one else was coming to bother him and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

’It seems that last battle had some effect,’ he thought. ’At least it’s intimidated them for now.’

Thus, Jiang Jichen could finally rest and recover. Otherwise, if he were to enter the Exquisite Treasure Tower in his current condition, he would probably collapse on his own before anyone even had a chance to kill him.

He sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began circulating his Cultivation Technique.

This time, Jiang Jichen only circulated the Source Character Qi Condensing Technique.

His Spiritual Power was almost completely depleted, so his first priority was to replenish it.

His position in the middle of the plaza wasn’t far from the Exquisite Treasure Tower. In fact, he was at the very front of the middle section, located just behind the Great Families and Major Sects.

Furthermore, with the hundred-meter area around him completely empty, he now occupied the entire space once held by the Five Poison Sect.

The instant Jiang Jichen closed his eyes, he could clearly sense the mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power drifting around him.

It was like wisps of invisible golden thread, floating in the void. They emitted an ancient, mysterious Dao rhythm and trembled faintly, as if resonating with the Great Dao of the void in a way that was too profound to describe.

If anyone present knew that Jiang Jichen could sense the fluctuations of the Ancient Mysterious Spiritual Power with such clarity, they would likely be shocked speechless.

For even a genius like Blood Hand could only sense the Ancient Mysterious Power within a ten-meter radius, and even then, not clearly. He could only perceive a vague outline and then use his Divine Sense to communicate with, capture, and refine it.

If this was the case for geniuses from the Sects and Noble Families like Blood Hand, Cang Lengshan, and Wei Xiaolang, then it went without saying for everyone else.

Jiang Jichen was unaware of the others’ limitations, so he wasn’t particularly surprised. He simply thought it was natural.

This mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power was indeed miraculous. It had existed since antiquity and was imbued with Dao rhythm. For Jiang Jichen in his current state, it was like a life-giving spring, something he desperately needed.

His Divine Soul Sensing was exceptionally profound. With a mere flicker of his Divine Thought, the free-floating, invisible golden spiritual power began to actively draw near him.

Then, as he circulated the Source Character Qi Condensing Technique, he absorbed and refined it with incredible ease, as naturally as drinking water.

Moreover, Jiang Jichen’s body was like a bottomless pit. The few wisps of mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power drifting through the void were nowhere near enough to satisfy his needs.

So, when he had devoured all the mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power within a hundred meters of himself, his extraordinary Spiritual Sense began to stretch forward. It shot high into the air, over everyone’s heads, extending farther and farther as it continued to absorb and refine the drifting mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power.

The Spiritual Power within his body began to replenish, and his entire being was suffused with an indescribably wonderful Dao rhythm.

The sensation was so incredible he couldn’t stop. His Divine Sense pushed onward, drawing ever closer to the Exquisite Treasure Tower.

No one knew what Jiang Jichen was doing. His Divine Thought was suspended high in the air, undetectable to all.

If they knew, Jiang Jichen’s actions would have scared them to death.

Others had previously tried to approach the Exquisite Treasure Tower with their Divine Thought, hoping to draw out the mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power. But... their Divine Souls were all shattered by the attempt. They became corpses, as dead as could be.

Since then, no one dared to recklessly extend their Divine Thought toward the Exquisite Treasure Tower.

Jiang Jichen, however, was completely unaware of this. He only knew that his body craved more—it wanted to devour more of the mysterious Ancient Spiritual Power. And so, his Divine Sense shot down from high in the sky, plunging toward the Exquisite Treasure Tower.

When his Divine Sense made contact with the body of the Exquisite Treasure Tower, his own body trembled. Within his Divine Sense, a shocking scene unfolded before him!

It was... a golden ocean of Ancient Mysterious Spiritual Power, flowing within a mysterious space. It crashed like waves, surging through the vast expanse.

When Jiang Jichen’s Divine Thought touched it, he felt as insignificant as a speck of dust in the universe, unable to draw any closer!