When Lin Xiao had walked deep enough that there was no trace of human presence around him, and he was certain he was far enough from where people lived, he finally stopped.
The area was filled with wild mountains ranging from tens to hundreds of meters in height. Each had its own unique shape.
He picked one that looked the most lush, striking, and imposing, and walked over to it.
Then he pulled out his peach wood sword.
He aimed at the base of this nameless wild mountain, gathered his strength, and raised his hand.
Fourth Form of the Cloud Middle Sword Art!
Dim Moonlight Severing the Mist!
A thunderous roar erupted as a massive, vicious gash was cut diagonally across the base of the wild mountain.
As the strike landed, it kicked up a sky full of dust and shattered rock.
A host of animals, startled by the commotion, scrambled frantically in every direction.
However, the gash left by this single sword strike was clearly not enough to shake the mountain's foundation. After the dust, debris, and soil settled back down, the mountain still stood firm, unmoved.
Lin Xiao had expected this, of course.
After all, he was only at the Golden Core stage.
Cleaving a whole mountain in two with a single sword stroke? Not realistic.
But if his strength wasn't enough, he could make up for it with sheer effort.
Facing the wild mountain he had chosen, he took a deep breath and raised his peach wood sword once more.
Fourth Form!
Fourth Form!
Fourth Form!
...
Finally, before his spiritual energy was completely depleted, he managed, through his astonishing perseverance, to completely sever the mountain from its roots and dig the whole thing out.
At this point, the wild mountain still sat steadily before him, but its base was completely disconnected from the ground.
Lin Xiao felt greatly relieved. He sat down cross-legged on the spot and began recovering his spiritual energy.
Only after his spiritual energy had recovered by more than half did he finally stand up, walk over to the mountain, and wrap it entirely in his spiritual energy.
At the same time, he opened the Item Synthesis device.
The next moment, the mountain that had just been lifted whole out of the ground was tossed into the open slot of the synthesizer.
Then, gritting his teeth, he made his first extravagant move: he invested a massive sum of fifty thousand spirit stones into the back slot.
That was every last spirit stone he had on him.
He then added a small white house made of Condensed Frost Jade, which he had taken from the storage room earlier.
This was the first time Lin Xiao had invested so heavily in the synthesis function.
He felt his heart bleeding.
With every item he put in, he kept silently repeating what he wanted in his mind, gritting his teeth and muttering, "It has to work, it has to work!"
When everything had been placed, the system spoke up:
[Item synthesis in progress. Please wait.]
Lin Xiao sat cross-legged and waited, and while he waited, he made a show of sharpening his sword with spiritual energy, and even gave his peach wood sword a polish.
This synthesis seemed to take especially long.
After a long while, the system's voice slowly echoed in Lin Xiao's mind once more:
[Synthesis successful. Item has been delivered to your private storage. Please check.]
Lin Xiao held his breath and opened his private storage.
There, in the storage, sat a shrunken miniature mountain that had completely transformed in appearance.
Beside it was displayed the mountain's name: Spirit Essence Mountain.
He decisively used his Appraisal skill on it.
[Spirit Essence Mountain: A great mountain capable of generating vast amounts of spiritual energy and nurturing spirit veins. As long as the spiritual energy it produces is not over-consumed, it can nurture spirit veins within itself over time, and as time passes, the grade of the spirit veins it nurtures will also increase.]
It worked!
Seeing this appraisal result, Lin Xiao was overjoyed.
Originally, he had just wanted a mountain that could automatically produce lots of spiritual energy so that the floating island wouldn't have thin spiritual energy.
This way, after some time, the Yaoguang Floating Island could have its very own spirit vein!
He just didn't know how long "some time" would be.
But even if no spirit vein formed for a while, the spiritual energy produced by this Spirit Essence Mountain would be plenty to sustain their daily cultivation and life on the floating island.
Having obtained what he wanted, he returned to the sect, fully satisfied.
Without disturbing anyone, Lin Xiao went alone to the stone platform beside the secret garden.
By now it was evening, and the sunset had painted the sky a warm orange-red.
The air was filled with the long-missed, mouthwatering aroma of food from the Lingxian Sect.
Clearly, Fuzi's cooking was almost done.
Lin Xiao's stomach let out a growl.
It wasn't that he was hungry as a Golden Core cultivator; it was just a subconscious physiological reaction triggered by the smell of Fuzi's cooking.
Thinking of the Spirit Essence Mountain in his private storage, he quickened his pace and stepped onto the stone platform that teleported to the floating island.
Get the job done quickly, then go eat!
Arriving on the floating island, he looked around and finally chose a location in the northern part, not right at the edge, but not in the center either.
Then he took the Spirit Essence Mountain out of his private storage and placed it there.
The Spirit Essence Mountain was about a hundred meters in diameter and just over a hundred meters tall, very regular in shape.
But its appearance had changed compared to before synthesis.
Actually, it looked even better than before.
Now, the mountain's body was a deep cyan color all over, but in some places it shimmered with a blue-green luster. It was covered in exotic flowers and herbs that, while not particularly useful, were extremely beautiful to look at. The rocks were arranged in pleasing formations, and a few green pines dotted the slopes.
And on the peak, there was actually a small waterfall cascading down in layers!
As the waterfall rushed down, the spray of mist swirled around it, adding an ethereal quality to the Spirit Essence Mountain.
The source of the waterfall's water was unknown, but it flowed endlessly.
The water that flowed down washed over the ground of the floating island, forming a winding little stream that ran all the way to the island's edge.
Lin Xiao originally thought the water would flow over the edge and fall down to the stone platform below, but instead it did not plunge downward.
Rather, it spread along the island's edge and formed a shallow natural water channel that ringed the entire island.
At first, because it was mixed with the dirt of the ground, the water was quite murky. But before long, the water gradually became clear and pure.
As the water from the waterfall flowed around the entire floating island, it was obvious that the spiritual energy in the air was gradually getting denser.
Lin Xiao opened the interface for the Yaoguang Floating Island and saw that the average spiritual energy density value, which had been 30 before, had already risen to 56, and was still steadily climbing.
Finally, it came to a stop at 78.
It hadn't jumped into the hundreds or thousands all at once, but that was only natural.
After all, the Spirit Essence Mountain didn't immediately spew out massive amounts of spiritual energy the moment it landed. The fact that it had already doubled the island's spiritual energy was enough to satisfy him.
As the Spirit Essence Mountain continued to operate day after day, the island's spiritual energy would only become richer over time.
And if it could nurture a spirit vein in the future, things would get truly comfortable.
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
