CHAPTER 717: SPACE UPGRADE

After paying a huge price, Wang Hong's armor, which could de

After paying a huge price, Wang Hong's armor, which could defend against spatial rifts, shattered, and he finally switched to another safe passageway.

Changing direction not only allowed him to break free from the pursuit of the Demon Race but also effortlessly gained seven pieces of immortal stone, which significantly lifted his spirits. As he walked, he couldn't help but hum a few tunes.

As for losing a set of armor, while it might be a significant loss for other Immortal Cultivators, it didn't seem particularly rare to him. After all, he wasn't lacking in raw materials. He could simply refine another set when he returned, and with his current strength, the quality of the refined armor should be even better.

Wang Hong was feeling a bit impatient now. He had just obtained seven pieces of immortal stone and hadn't had the chance to examine them closely yet.

After scanning the surroundings several times with his Divine Sense and not detecting any presence, he relaxed and mentally summoned a piece of stone emitting multicolored radiance from the Space.

The stone was in the form of a polyhedral crystal, with five colors constantly shifting within it.

Wang Hong cautiously probed with his Divine Sense and immediately sensed the immense energy contained inside, like an endless ocean engulfing his Divine Sense.

"How... how am I supposed to absorb this?"

He was inexplicably shocked at this moment. Even just extracting a bit of energy from the immortal stone seemed stronger than a High-grade Spirit Stone.

With such a tremendous energy impact, who could withstand it? It truly deserved to be called an immortal stone!

He could sense that this piece of immortal stone contained energies of wood, fire, earth, gold, and water.

These five energies circulated and transformed, giving off a sense of endless vitality.

He didn't know if all immortal stones were like this, but at the thought, he decided to take out the other pieces of immortal stone to compare.

However, when he tried to retrieve all the immortal stones, he found that only two remained in the Space.

"What's going on?"

Wang Hong was puzzled. He distinctly remembered storing all seven pieces of immortal stone in the Space.

Now, out of the seven, only three remained.

Suddenly, a question occurred to him: Could Space absorb immortal stones just like it could absorb Spirit Stones?

With this thought in mind, he was eager to enter the Space immediately for a thorough investigation.

However, this place was clearly not suitable. It was a safe passageway, and treasure hunters often passed through here.

He submerged underground again, but without the protection of his armor, diving became much more difficult, especially since there were spatial rifts underground as well.

It wasn't until he reached a depth of one hundred meters underground that he stopped and opened up a Space, setting up a concealed formation.

Only then did Wang Hong enter the Space. Previously, when he took out the immortal stone from the Space, he had only extended a strand of Divine Sense, so his observation of the Space was not comprehensive.

Now that his entire Nascent Soul had entered, with a single thought, everything in the Space came into view.

There was indeed no trace of the missing immortal stones in the Space. They must have been absorbed by the Space.

Despite absorbing such a huge amount of energy, the size of the Space seemed unchanged at the moment.

The Spirit Qi seemed slightly denser than before, but not significantly so. However, one thing that made him feel different was that the Spirit Qi in the Space seemed to have gained some spirituality, appearing much more lively.

However, despite consuming four pieces of immortal stone, there was no trace of immortal aura in the air.

Wang Hong only briefly sensed these changes, then after pondering for a moment, he headed towards the center of the Space.

At the very center of the Space, there appeared a small hill. Though calling it a hill was a stretch; it was merely a foot tall with a top area roughly the size of a palm.

Yet, this small hill was vastly different from the rest of the Space.

Firstly, there seemed to be a barrier between the hill and the rest of the land in the Space, separating them.

Wang Hong summoned a Spirit Bee, intending to let it fly in, but found it blocked by an invisible wall, unable to move forward.

However, as the master of the Space, Wang Hong encountered no such obstruction. His Divine Sense easily penetrated the barrier.

Within the barrier, in this small section of the Space, it seemed to form its own world, with circulating immortal aura.

Due to the barrier, the immortal aura inside circulated endlessly without leaking out.

Wang Hong reached in with his hand, finding nothing unusual, and scooped out a handful of soil. The soil here had undergone a qualitative change compared to the rest of the Space, containing rich immortal aura. It could be considered immortal soil.

"This place should be more suitable for planting celestial grass!"

Since immortal aura circulated within this barrier, it likely resembled the environment of the immortal realm.

However, with such a small area, it could barely be called an immortal mountain. The summit was only the size of a palm, barely enough to cultivate a single Spiritual Herb.

With this in mind, he decided to try its effectiveness.

So, he walked to where he had previously planted an immortal fruit branch and a celestial grass.

While these two celestial seedlings could survive and grow normally in the Space, their growth was extremely slow.

The branch had been in the Space for at least several years and hadn't grown roots yet, still just the two leaves, showing no signs of sprouting new shoots.

As for the celestial grass, it had been planted for a short time and showed no significant progress.

Wang Hong pulled out the immortal fruit branch since it wasn't growing much here anyway and decided to try grafting it onto the immortal mountain.

He successfully inserted the branch and, seeing some space at the foot of the immortal mountain, transplanted the celestial grass there as well.

After planting these, he paid no further attention to the suddenly emerged immortal mountain.

He carefully sensed the changes in the Space, feeling that after absorbing the immortal stone, the Space seemed to have undergone tremendous changes.

He tried throwing some Spirit Stones into the soil of the Space and let the Space absorb them slowly.

While the Space absorbed Spirit Qi, he sensed the circulation of Spirit Qi within the Space.

He could feel that the Spirit Qi, which was almost stagnant before, was now completely different, circulating actively.

For example, a broken Magic weapon casually thrown on the ground; at this moment, the Spiritual Energy on the Magic weapon was slowly dissipating.

It probably wouldn't be long before the Spiritual Energy of this Magic weapon was completely depleted, ultimately turning into dust.

The released Spiritual Energy would seep into the soil, dissipate into the air, and increase the density of Spirit Qi in the Space.

In some places where the Spirit Qi was dense, Spirit Vein formations had even begun to appear below the soil's surface.

It wouldn't be long before Spirit Veins truly formed in the Space.

In this way, the Spirit Qi in the Space had completely begun to circulate, like a small world of its own.

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