The moment Shucao’s Heart Seed touched the cluster of light, some marvelous changes suddenly began to appear.
In the originally empty and silent space that contained nothing except the cluster of light, a melody suddenly entered Shucao’s ears.
“This is…?”
After hearing this melody, Shucao first felt puzzled for a moment, then immediately closed her eyes and began carefully listening to the rhythm within it.
“These sounds… seem to be narrating something to me…”
In the next moment, Shucao opened her eyes and discovered that within the space she was in, that enormous cluster of light had already disappeared.
In its place was a tiny black point.
That tiny black point continuously contracted inward.
After shrinking to the extreme, it suddenly collapsed inward, then immediately exploded outward, transforming into the embryonic form of a miniature world.
“Is this supposed to be the beginning of this secret realm’s small world?”
The original embryonic form of the world was only a barren stretch of land, within which no signs of life could be seen.
But afterward, as a cluster of light was born within the world, the entire world immediately underwent changes.
That cluster of light was precisely the one Shucao had seen.
After the cluster of light appeared, it suddenly began remodeling the entire small world with itself as the center.
Embryonic forms of life, natural rules, and all manner of changes appeared within this world under the remodeling of the cluster of light.
More importantly, this cluster of light brought dense spiritual energy to this small world.
Shucao could see that while the cluster of light brought changes to the world, a marvelous power was also born within these changes and began adding bricks and tiles to these changes.
“Those powers… are they spiritual power? Then, this scene is the process by which the Innate Dao Rhyme brings ‘Dao’ to this small world. Under the development of each ‘Dao,’ spiritual energy also appears accordingly. Then after things obtain spiritual power, they in turn nourish the development of the ‘Dao’?”
Shucao pondered the meaning brought by these scenes, then realized.
“So the so-called comprehension of the Innate Dao Rhyme is to use this opportunity to see the development of the various Daos within the small world, to experience the changes that spiritual power brings to the various Daos within it, and thereby deepen one’s understanding of the path of the Dao one has chosen?”
Although Shucao felt that her guess was not necessarily accurate, it was absolutely close to the truth.
“No wonder they say it is something of great benefit to Qi Refining cultivators. But for me, what use exactly do these things have?”
Looking at the scene of the various Daos changing, Shucao thought about how she should obtain benefits from it.
“I cannot sense spiritual power, so I cannot directly experience it through spiritual power. Then…”
Suddenly, Shucao thought of the moment just now when she used her Heart Seed to touch the cluster of light, allowing her to see this scene.
“The Heart Seed can also sense the evolution of the Dao?”
Thus, she threw the Heart Seed toward the center of those scenes.
The pink seed landed within that miniature world, then dove into the world and began releasing magic power, absorbing the changes of the Dao within the miniature world.
Although Shucao could not see what was happening to the Heart Seed itself, she could clearly feel that within her Heart Realm, some things that originally did not exist had appeared.
A moment later, Shucao waved her hand again and used magic power to regenerate the Heart Seed in her hand.
Carefully observing it, some peculiar patterns had appeared on it.
“This is sensing with the heart, right?”
Shucao turned her attention toward the Heart Seed that served as the core within her Heart Realm and discovered that those peculiar patterns still existed on it.
“It seems these patterns are things related to the Dao obtained from that miniature world.”
Shucao continuously observed those patterns, wanting to sense what was contained within them, but after careful observation, she was still somewhat at a loss.
“Unlike the various Daos produced within that miniature world, this seems more like a blank kind of thing. No good, it’s still a bit hard to understand. I’ll let An Qianhua take a look later.”
Thus Shucao decided not to think about it any further.
After naming these patterns the Blank Dao Marks, she actively left the space where the Innate Dao Rhyme was located.
After returning once more to the space where Luo Tingsheng was, Shucao saw that Luo Tingsheng was curled up into a ball, lowering his head and trembling slightly.
Seeing Luo Tingsheng squatting in front as if he had lost his soul, Shucao lightly opened her mouth and said.
“Um… Senior Taiqing True Monarch, what happened to you?”
“Wah!”
“Wah?”
Luo Tingsheng, who heard Shucao’s voice, jumped as if startled and hurriedly stood up to look toward Shucao.
“Li-little girl, you’re back. Di-did you gain anything?”
“Uh… I suppose I gained something. But Senior, why are you speaking so strangely now?”
“N-nothing, it’s nothing, hahaha.”
Although looking at the other party, it did not seem like nothing at all no matter how one looked at it, since the other party had already said so, she decided not to pay attention to this aspect.
Seeing that Shucao did not say anything more, Luo Tingsheng coughed twice again and said to Shucao.
“Since little girl has already gained something, then there is no need to remain in this place for long. Leave as soon as possible. After all, after obtaining something from the Innate Dao Rhyme, one should enter seclusion as early as possible.”
After speaking, Luo Tingsheng waved his empty hand.
An array appeared beneath Shucao’s feet and in the next moment teleported her outside the secret realm.
After sending Shucao out, Luo Tingsheng’s entire person directly relaxed, muttering.
“Finally sent this little ancestor away. If she stayed here any longer, that great expert behind her might develop some more opinions about me.”
Luo Tingsheng wiped away a cold sweat, then quietly looked toward the other disciples of the three sects.
On the other side, Shucao was directly teleported out of the secret realm.
“Eh?”
Coming back to herself, Shucao discovered that she had already returned to the entrance where she had previously entered the secret realm.
Looking anew toward the original transmission gate, she discovered that the space there had already become empty.
“I’m out just like that? I thought I could stay inside the secret realm a bit longer. Looking at it this way, isn’t it a bit of a loss?”
Shucao muttered to herself while at the same time beginning to check the harvest she had obtained this time within her storage pouch.
Although she had not obtained many high-grade demonic beast materials, there were quite a few lower-grade materials.
And the most important thing, of course, was the many high-grade spiritual herbs she had obtained from that small courtyard in the cave.
“These should be enough. Earlier at the medicine shop in the market I saw the prices of some medicinal materials. With this many high-grade spiritual herbs, the spirit stones obtained from selling them should be enough for Yu Qing to gather the remaining materials needed to refine the spiritual treasure, and there will still be plenty left over. The century-old Dragon Blood Vine that Hong Wenqing needs has also been obtained. This harvest is truly abundant.”
After finishing the inventory, Shucao drove the magic power on her body and returned to Qingling Market.
After selling a portion of the demonic beast materials and medicinal herbs in the market, she quickly left the market and flew toward Ningzhou City.