The Way of The Dao

Outside the Mu house, Ling Tian's group and the others suddenly appeared. Ling Tian lowered Lan Yin and Qing Sha from his arms and both girls began to play together with the little white fox as if they had no repercussions from the teleportation. Both little girls had candies in their hands and ate them with big laughs and smiles, and they always shared it to Ling Tian and even wanted to give it directly into his mouth.

"Master, what technique is this? You have to teach us how to do this!" Shin Wei marveled and commented at once when his slight dizziness disappeared. The other brothers nodded as well.

This teleportation was amazing! Plus it left no traces and seemed to not consume Cultivation Essence or Spiritual Energy! There was no technique that managed to do this this cool!

Ling Tian shook his head with a small smile and rubbed Shin Wei's head and said, "This is not a technique, it is an understanding of the Space Principle. Once you can understand and feel this, you can move by the Space Law from anywhere with ease and do things other than teleporting." This ability was not a technique like others that could be taught and used. One had to have a sensitivity and above all understanding to be able to do this.

The men were even more surprised by this and again began to feel helplessness and lack of ability when they saw that Ling Tian could do such a thing while they could not either because they were weak or could not comprehend it.

Xuanyuan Ling quickly calmed down, causing her dizziness to slowly disappear. She also couldn't help but be stunned when she heard Ling Tian's explanation that this wasn't a technique as such.

"But even if we can't, I think Brother Wuhu would be the most apt to be able to understand a thing or two, Master." Hao Zhentian said to Ling Tian, telling him about one of the martial brothers - Lu Wuhu.

"Little Wuhu?" Ling Tian raised his eyebrows and soon remembered that Lu Wuhu also excelled at that time in the Formations.

"Our brother got some special techniques related to space and environment. He can somehow hide in one plane of space to investigate or escape from somewhere." Ying Chen commented on Lu Wuhu.

Ling Tian nodded and did not find it strange. There were diverse and thousands of martial techniques and skills, the techniques that Lu Wuhu would use could be based on the principle of space in a superficial way from what Ying Chen was saying. That Lu Wuhu could hide in such a way indicated that it was not a basic invisibility spell and so on.

"If so, then little Wuhu would have more sensitivity to understand a little about the Space Principle." Ling Tian said.

A few small groans were soon heard, drawing everyone's attention.

"That's..." Xuanyuan Ling was dumbfounded when she discovered the source of these helpful groans. The others soon found it too.

Near a huge tree, under its shade, Sun Xiang was hanging upside down from one of the branches. But when one looked closer one could notice that there was no rope or anything binding Sun Xiang's feet!

It's as if he was suspended upside down in mid-air, he could barely twist slightly as he tried to make some loud sound and with his look of pleading and embarrassment once they saw him!

"Leave him there." Ling Tian's calm voice was soon heard, holding a mocking smiling expression at the sight of him.

They all nodded and swallowed hard, averting their gazes from Sun Xiang and apologizing to him in their hearts.

"Master, teach me how to do this!" However, Qing Sha's small but excited voice was heard, frightening the men. Lan Yin also looked expectantly at Ling Tian.

"Haha. I'll teach you two later. For now keep playing." Ling Tian patted their heads, causing both girls to smile sweetly full of happiness and continue playing with the little white fox as well.

Ling Tian explained a few words to Xuanyuan Ling about the Potential. If she could understand with that, then her Potential and Power would be more powerful.

Then, Ling Tian took out a black sphere that completely occupied his hand.

"What is that, Master?" Shin Wei asked when everyone saw what was in his hand.

"I don't know. This was below the Celestial Spring Yin Lake. This most likely produced both the Lake and the drops of the Essence of Dawn and Life." Ling Tian also took out an exquisite sky-green gourd.

When Xuanyuan Ling, Jiu Ming and the little white fox absorbed all the energy from the Lake, Ling Tian was finally able to enter and obtain what was inside.

There was that strange black sphere and floating on top of it were more than 10 drops of the Essence of Dawn and Life, which he stored in the small gourd. Ling Tian used one drop to heal most of his large internal wounds and try to use it on his Dantian and Meridians, but was not very successful in the end.

Ling Tian observed the black crystal sphere that he somehow felt that he could draw a strange energy inside when he mobilized the force of the Sacred Heavenly Scriptures in his body, but he felt that he could somehow only draw a thin and almost imperceptible line of energy, as if there was a thin barrier that prevented him from doing so.

"Although I don't know what this is, I have encountered others also previously of a different color." Unfortunately, these were in his Little World, which he could not access now due to his broken Dantian. But he had two more spheres exactly the same, just different colored, one red and one green. Ling Tian found one in the Cultivation World and one in the demon-filled World where he had been trapped for a long time. Curiously, both spheres were near or within places where there was abundant spiritual energy, areas where one could cultivate faster.

The boys were surprised by this. If even Ling Tian was unaware of this, much less they could know about it.

"If you see some spheres similar to this, try to get them." Ling Tian passed the sphere to them so that their shape and weight could be recorded. His intuition told him that these strange objects were very important, even feeling strangely that they were indispensable for him to get.

The men nodded and looked at these objects in detail in case they found others similar to these.

Ling Tian kept the black sphere in his storage ring and soon positioned himself cross-legged, as if to cultivate. The others also did their things or studied some jade plates.

Ling Tian entered his Sea of Consciousness, gazing at the mysterious sprout in the middle of the place and being bewildered as he noticed all the space.

"Isn't this the seed that was together with the previous two spheres?" Ling Tian's soul form got closer to the sprout that had sprouted and had tiny leaves on it that were growing.

Roots coming from this sprout extended throughout the entire reaches of the space of his Consciousness Sea. But what stunned Ling Tian was that all of his Spiritual Energy had completely drained away, and the beautiful endless sea of energy became a lake several meters in size that mysteriously surrounded the sprout that was in the middle of his Sea of Consciousness, as if it gave the illusion of looking like a tiny little island, a mound of earth embracing the sprout.

Ling Tian was aware that previously he could only feel those roots underneath his entire Sea of spiritual energy because it was restricted with barriers by the Heavenly Seal. Now he could see that the slender roots spread like vines all over the place, clearly coming from the sprout in the middle. The endless roots searched the lake all around and covered all the water in the lake, all the time absorbing the Spiritual Energy.

A grimace formed on his face as he realized that this little sprout was feeding itself from his own Spiritual Energy all the time!

The power he could use to attack or defend using his Consciousness Sea was barely at the level of Separation and Reunion. Ling Tian would have to take special pills to replenish his Spiritual Energy or find places with this kind of abundant Energy so that it could recover and grow.

However, no matter how much Spiritual Energy it absorbed, Ling Tian realized two things: the first was that no matter how fast the sprout absorbed all his Spiritual Energy, it grew at an inexplicably slow rate which indicated that it would take hundreds and thousands of years to grow to the size of an ordinary plant apparently. This while still continuously absorbing his Spiritual Energy.

The other thing was that no matter how much his Spiritual Energy was being absorbed, Ling Tian did not feel dizzy or tired, as if that Spiritual Energy did not really run out. He could even notice that despite the draining of his Spiritual Energy, the lake was slowly growing as well.

"At least it's somewhat balanced, haah." Ling Tian let out a sigh at this. From the time of the wedding when the restriction on him was lifted and he felt the change in his body, he had noticed that the Sacred Heavenly Scriptures operated automatically all the time without the need for him to control it, therefore, the energies fed his body day and night even if he did not absorb the Spirit Chi of the world by himself. This made his Consciousness Sea recover very slowly without him having to cultivate; his recovery speed would be faster if it were not for the absorption of energy from the sprout.

The Sacred Heavenly Scriptures were now like his other Dantian, gathering energy all the time into it and storing it, being able to use it freely at any time without any problem. Once he repaired his Dantian and Meridians, Ling Tian could extract all the energy accumulated in it for his own cultivation and advance quickly.

Ling Tian did not know what that sprout itself was, only being aware that it came from the three objects from the Great Dao. A Consciousness Sea would only contain the essence of Spiritual Energy and perhaps some rare natural treasures that could be used to attack or defend, special for a Consciousness Sea, but he had never heard of a sprout, vine or seedling that existed and even grew with the same Spiritual Energy, like what he had now.

After some time of contemplating and not finding any answer that could give him an idea related to this, Ling Tian came out of his Consciousness Sea and all day and night he immersed himself in his mind, meditating and thinking about something he would do the next day.