Qin Renhuang just became an immortal, and you told me this is the prehistoric time

"Moreover, spiritual herbs themselves need space and a differentiated environment to grow. If they are all crowded together, it will not be conducive to the cultivation of certain special spiritual herbs in the long run."

Having thought of this, Ying Xuan no longer hesitated.

He communicated with the He Shi Bi jade through his thoughts, and once again mobilized the authority of the world's ruler.

"Disperse!"

With a soft shout, tens of thousands of spiritual herbs in the herb garden, which were of moderate age, highly adaptable, and whose individual spiritual energy throughput was not so terrifying, along with the small patch of spiritual soil in which they were rooted, were instantly enveloped by gentle spatial power and disappeared from their original spot.

The next moment, throughout the Great Qin world, small "herb gardens" suddenly appeared, shrouded in simple concealment formations, near important mountain nodes, the "spiritual eyes" where earth vein energy naturally surged, and the hubs of several major dragon veins. Tens of thousands of ancient spiritual herbs were scattered to dozens of key locations.

As soon as these spiritual herbs appeared, their powerful ability to transform and absorb spiritual energy immediately began to take effect!
"Rumble..."

It was as if a dam had been opened! The spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the energy of the earth veins, which were originally just slowly flowing or naturally dissipating at the exits of those ley lines and the locations of the spiritual eyes, suddenly surged outwards at an unprecedented speed and flow rate, pouring into these newly appeared medicinal gardens!
The energy within the ley lines was almost completely drained in just a few breaths! Deep within the channels, due to the sudden appearance of a tremendous "suction force," it began to spontaneously draw more energy from the vast depths of the earth and from the energy source transformed from the barrier between heaven and earth to replenish itself.

Ying Xuan could clearly sense that the efficiency of the entire Great Qin World's barrier in converting void chaotic energy had suddenly increased by at least tenfold at this moment! More and purer energy was instinctively absorbed by the world and flowed towards those newly established "spiritual medicine nodes" through the earth vein network.

"That's more like it."

Ying Xuan felt the acceleration of the world's energy cycle and nodded slightly. The spiritual herbs obtained during this trip to the Heavenly Shroud were of extremely high quality; even the lowest grade were several thousand years old, with ten-thousand-year-old herbs being the mainstream, and there were no longer any "ordinary goods" under a thousand years old. In the past, Ying Xuan would usually only carefully transplant precious spiritual herbs over a thousand years old to the core of certain important mountain ranges to nourish the land.

Now that tens of thousands of ancient medicinal herbs have been dispersed, it's as if dozens of highly efficient energy "converters" and "booster pumps" have been added to the energy circulation system of the Qin world. Although this will consume a large amount of the earth's vein reserves in the short term, in the long run, it will greatly stimulate the activity and growth potential of the entire world's energy levels.

The pressure within the palace's medicinal garden immediately eased. Although the remaining spiritual herbs were still incredibly precious and the throughput was astonishing, it was no longer enough to affect the normal spiritual energy concentration in the core area of ​​the palace.

Ying Xuan did not pause. His fingertips gently touched the smooth surface of the He Shi Bi jade. His thoughts, like invisible threads, precisely controlled most of the remaining spiritual herbs in the imperial palace's medicine garden.

Within the herb garden, light and shadow flickered continuously, and batches of spiritual herbs of various shapes and ages, along with the spiritual soil in which they were rooted, disappeared one after another from their original locations.

This time, his target was no longer a few ley lines, but all the places in the entire Qin world that could be called "mountains"! Whether it was the most famous Kunlun and Taishan, or remote, nameless mountains, as long as there was a certain amount of earth energy gathered, they were all included in his deployment range.

In an instant, countless mountains across the vast territory of the Qin world "awakened" almost simultaneously!
The spiritual herbs implanted in the core of the mountains or in places of spiritual beauty, as soon as they landed, were like giant beasts that had been thirsty for millions of years opening their mouths, and began to frantically and almost predatoryly seize the spiritual energy of the surrounding world! They absorbed not only the free spiritual energy, but also the earth vein essence and plant essence accumulated in the mountains themselves!
There are just too many! Even if each mountain range only gets a few or a few dozen plants, the sheer number of mountains makes up for it! The combined power of these tens of millions of top-grade spiritual herbs is terrifying!
"Huhuhu..."

An invisible gale swept through the mountains and fields. It was no ordinary wind, but a "spiritual wind" formed by the rapid extraction of spiritual energy!
Since the founding of the Great Qin World, the vast reserves of spiritual energy accumulated through the cultivation and support of the people, the repeated adjustments of the earth's veins by Ying Xuan, and the natural transformation of the world's barrier were completely wiped out by these tens of millions of spiritual herbs in just a few dozen breaths!

Many blessed lands and grottoes that were originally full of spiritual energy suddenly saw their spiritual energy concentration plummet to rock bottom, and even a slight "spiritual energy vacuum" appeared!
"Ok?"

Ying Xuan frowned, sensing a sudden drop in the spiritual energy level of the entire Qin world. The barrier between heaven and earth seemed to have also noticed the "thirst" within, instinctively beginning to operate at overload, accelerating the absorption and conversion of energy from the chaotic void.

The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation, which was suspended outside the boundary, and several other immortal artifacts that Ying had placed at the void nodes to assist in the absorption and release, also increased their efforts, pouring even more abundant semi-converted energy into the Great Qin World.

However, this was still a drop in the ocean! The millions of spiritual herbs, each at least ten thousand years old, had an insatiable appetite for converting and absorbing spiritual energy, like a bottomless abyss. The little energy that had just been introduced was immediately devoured. The entire Great Qin world was plunged into an unprecedented state of "spiritual energy famine"!
"This can't go on; the world itself will be drained."

Ying Xuan made a decisive decision.

With a thought, he retrieved the He Shi Bi jade into his dantian and nurtured it. At the same time, the scattered but extremely valuable "fragments of laws" that he had previously absorbed and refined from the Bitter Sea and Star Sea of ​​the Shrouding the Heavens world were guided by him to be separated from the depths of his primordial spirit and from the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array. Like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, they surged into the interior of the He Shi Bi jade—the core of the world of the Great Qin world!

These fragments of laws, though scattered, come from a higher level of world and contain unique Daoist principles.

Once they came into contact with the core of heaven and earth, they seemed to have found their home and began to spontaneously imprint themselves on the "membrane of heaven and earth" that envelops the entire world!

"Buzzing..."

On the membrane of heaven and earth, the basic runes and Dao patterns that originally existed began to rapidly evolve, improve, and become more complex and profound under the stimulation and supplementation of these external high-level law fragments! The entire membrane seemed to be undergoing a passive "upgrade"!
The perfection of the runes and Dao patterns brought the most direct and obvious benefits—the efficiency of the Heaven and Earth membrane in absorbing and transforming the violent energy in the chaotic void began to soar exponentially! The amount of spiritual energy that might have taken several hours to transform can now be done in just a quarter of an hour! The transformed spiritual energy is also purer and easier to absorb and utilize.

For the first time, the conversion efficiency has surpassed the terrifying consumption rate caused by the millions of spiritual herbs within the world!

The pressure has suddenly decreased!

The Qin Imperial Palace itself was continuously absorbing the semi-transformed energy that had been initially processed by the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array from the void. At the same time, the earth vein channels beneath the palace and the "giant tree" connected to the palace, which also possessed the ability to transform energy, were working hard to inject energy into the palace system.

Inside the palace, the largest source of energy consumption—the massive amount of spiritual herbs—has been largely removed by Ying Xuan.

This vast amount of energy, which had nowhere to go yet continued to pour in, suddenly lost its primary target. Ying Xuan's divine sense swept over the hundreds of thousands of unclaimed magical artifacts still floating in the square in front of the palace.

These magical artifacts are made of excellent materials, but their spirituality is dormant. They are in the most "hungry" stage and need energy to nurture them in order to restore or even enhance their spirituality.

"Just right!"

Ying Xuan's eyes lit up, and his mind stirred again, triggering the power over the He Shi Bi jade once more.

"go with!"

Those hundreds of thousands of magical treasures, like a swarm of bees receiving a command, buzzed and soared into the sky, transforming into streaks of light. They did not fly towards any particular person, but instead scattered directly into the void surrounding the Great Qin World, evenly distributed around the area covered by the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array.

Each magical artifact spontaneously formed a small energy vortex, greedily devouring the semi-converted energy that was attracted and transformed from the void by the great formation!
They are like hundreds of thousands of miniature, highly efficient "energy converters and storage devices," absorbing energy to stabilize themselves and nurture spirituality, while also indirectly helping the Great Qin world share and digest the sudden increase in energy input.

With the largest energy consumer removed and the newly added energy-consuming units more evenly distributed and more efficient, the energy pressure on the palace instantly disappeared, restoring its former tranquility and rich spiritual energy environment. The cultivators within the palace, including the imperial concubines and palace maids who had just acquired new magical treasures, all felt a sense of lightness, and their spiritual energy became abundant once more.

However, Ying Xuan's expression did not relax.

He sensed the state of the entire Qin Dynasty.

"The palace has been restored, but there is still not much energy left in the world of Qin."

What was consumed by the elixirs and magical treasures was "incremental" growth; the world's own "stock" had been drained by the recent burst of elixirs. And in the Great Qin world, now everyone cultivates!
Even the most ordinary people know some basic breathing techniques and have a fundamental need for the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If the spiritual energy of heaven and earth cannot return to normal levels in a short period of time, it will inevitably cause discomfort and panic among the people, and may even affect their cultivation and shake the foundations of the nation!
"We must replenish them immediately!"

A cold glint flashed in Ying Xuan's eyes as he instantly locked onto his target—the wasteland! It connected to the goblin world and contained an almost inexhaustible supply of "fuel"!
Without further delay, he stepped out of the palace and appeared in mid-air. The next moment, space slightly distorted, and he disappeared from the sky above Xianyang.

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The wasteland, the front line connecting the Qin world and the Goblin world.

The towering, continuous black city walls, engraved with countless defensive runes, lay like a giant dragon, firmly sealing off the desolate wasteland shrouded in blood-red mist, cracked earth, and distorted space on the other side. Beneath the walls, shouts of battle shook the heavens and the sparks from exploding spells mingled with the clash of weapons.

Countless goblins, tough-skinned pigmen, tusked mermen, and all sorts of more grotesque and twisted monsters surged out of the spatial rifts deep in the wasteland like a tide, frantically assaulting the Qin Dynasty's defenses.

Even the weakest of these monsters possess strength equivalent to the first level in the cultivation system, including many elite leaders at the second and third levels, and occasionally even powerful individuals comparable to those at the Nascent Soul stage.

The soldiers of the Great Qin, clad in heavy armor or light talismanic armor, formed tight battle formations, fearlessly resisting the monsters' onslaught. Amidst the flashing blades, cultivators occasionally cast hand seals and incantations, unleashing basic Daoist techniques such as fireballs, ice spikes, lightning, and wind blades, which exploded into sprays of blood among the monster horde.

The battle was exceptionally fierce, with soldiers falling and monsters being slain every moment, the stench of blood so thick it was almost unbearable.

However, Ying Xuan's gaze immediately turned to the sky above the wasteland battlefield.

There, thousands of cultivators, dressed in uniform and exuding an ethereal aura, stood suspended in mid-air. They were the disciples of the "Heavenly Star Sect" who had returned after accompanying him to the world of Shrouding the Heavens. In stark contrast to the Qin soldiers below, who were covered in blood and grime from their battle, these Heavenly Star Sect cultivators were all proud and their robes fluttered, immaculate and spotless.

They looked down at the brutal battle below, their eyes showing no interest in participating whatsoever, but rather an indifference as if they were examining merchandise, as if the two sides fighting below, whether Qin soldiers or otherworldly monsters, were merely "livestock" providing them with some kind of resource.

What chilled Ying Xuan to the bone was that each of these Tianxing Sect cultivators was holding one or more crystal-clear jade bottles, gourds, or other magical artifacts.

Whenever a large number of monsters are killed on the battlefield below, and their blood, remnant souls, and life essence disperse, these jade bottles and gourds will emit a faint light, collecting the dispersed blood and essence like a whale sucking in water!

Ying Xuan could see clearly that the blood essence that had been collected would, in the past, naturally integrate into the Great Qin's natural barrier, be purified and transformed, and then fall as "spiritual rain" containing a faint life essence, benefiting the entire army and people of Great Qin. This could be considered a kind of heavenly reward for those who participated in the bloody battle.

But now, this benefit, which rightfully belongs to the entire Qin Dynasty, especially the soldiers on the front lines, has been brazenly and completely intercepted by the Tianxing Sect cultivators!
Looking at the state of these Tianxing Sect cultivators, Ying Xuan felt even colder.

They were all radiant with health, their auras vigorous. The previously ethereal and ethereal star-like magical power now faintly contained a trace of solid and dense blood energy, clearly indicating a significant enhancement to their physiques. Even their nascent souls and golden cores were more solid and pure than before, showing faint signs of breakthroughs.

Ying Xuan's divine sense swept across the edge of the wasteland, over the vast new stronghold of the Heavenly Star Sect. Originally, although there were many cultivators here, most were at the Foundation Establishment stage, with Golden Core cultivators considered mid-level and Nascent Soul cultivators as experts. But now, the stronghold is teeming with powerful figures!
A cursory glance revealed that the number of Nascent Soul stage cultivators had surged by tens of thousands! Even the weakest among them were at the Golden Core stage! Nearly ten thousand Tianxing Sect cultivators, not a single one of them had a cultivation level below Golden Core!
Looking down at the Qin Imperial Guards below... Ying Xuan's heart sank.

He remembered that before he left, the Imperial Guards numbered over nine million. But now, on the battlefield, including those who were rotating and resting, the Imperial Guards he could sense numbered only about eight million! In a short period of time, they had lost nearly a million men! Moreover, their overall strength had not shown any significant improvement; they were still relying on strict battle formations, superior equipment, and a fearless spirit to hold on.

"Excellent! Well done, Tianxing Sect!" (End of Chapter)