Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 421 The Turmoil
Li Zhen found himself in a vast, open area, on the edge of the Immortal Kingdom's landmass. Due to the scarcity of spiritual energy, there were no cities here.

He came here to try out the time-space scanner.

The time-space scanner needed to minimize its impact on the main world, which is why this location was chosen.

Li Zhen first had the Dragon Heart Space devour five fragments of the world in succession. He felt the small world suddenly tremble, and the world of the small world underwent tremendous changes.

The sky is higher and the earth is wider, and his control over the small world has also increased significantly, allowing him to manipulate it more precisely.

He released his domain and channeled the spiritual energy from the small world to his side.

He stretched out his right hand and gently pinched the spiritual energy in the void.

A large amount of spiritual energy was drawn into his right hand, and then compressed to the extreme by Li Zhen's clenched palm.

The spiritual energy transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state, and then from a liquid state into a solid state.

When he released his hand, a spirit stone was quietly placed in his palm.

Although it was only a low-grade spirit stone, this was the first time he had used the control of the small world's deity to create an item.

Of course, this creation was not something that came out of thin air; rather, it opened a door for him, allowing him to think of many possibilities.

Then he combined spiritual energy with ordinary rocks and compressed it into low-grade spiritual ore.

Although this low-grade spirit ore is probably not even enough to refine a first-grade low-level magic weapon, he has only just started practicing. He believes that with his learning ability, he will definitely be able to create higher-grade spirit ore after a period of time.

Li Zhen didn't waste any time and focused his mind on the spatial ring containing the time-space scanner.

The spacetime scanner requires a large amount of spiritual energy to power it. Li Zhen opened his domain and channeled some of the spiritual energy into his spatial ring. This amount of fifth-order spiritual energy was more than enough to supply the spacetime scanner.

The spacetime scanner was activated, and a spatial fluctuation was emitted, passing through the main space, then through the subspace, and entering another space.

Li Zhen's divine sense followed the spatial fluctuations emitted by the spacetime scanner and also saw the spacetime turbulence.

Having never entered the spacetime turbulence before, he had no experience whatsoever. Just as his consciousness was about to leave the spatial fluctuations emitted by the spacetime scanner, it was nearly destroyed by the impact of the spacetime turbulence.

He quickly withdrew his consciousness back into the spatial fluctuations of the time-space scanner, which protected his consciousness.

Only then did he notice the spacetime turbulence. It was a chaotic void, but the space here was broken like quicksand, and these broken spaces were still flowing.

Just now, his divine sense was accidentally cut apart by countless quicksand-like spatial fragments.

Li Zhen's spiritual sense was not weak; in fact, it was stronger than that of most Nascent Soul cultivators.

This time he was prepared; instead of spreading his divine sense, he tightened it. Although this reduced the range of his investigation, it increased the intensity of his divine sense.

He extended his divine sense back into the spacetime turbulence. The working principle of the spacetime scanner is to transform into a small barrier net in the spacetime turbulence. This barrier net cannot be moved and waits for useful things in the spacetime turbulence to be blocked in a passive way.

Li Zhen extended his divine sense, using the spatial fluctuations emitted by the space-time scanner as a base to expand his detection range outward.

However, after searching his surroundings with his divine sense for a long time, he found no unusual items; all around him was quicksand.

This task is inherently lengthy and requires extreme patience to complete.

In the Immortal Kingdom, there are many spacetime scanners at work, operating completely automatically without the need for cultivators.

Otherwise, where would the Immortal Kingdom get so many world fragments to use? Not only world fragments, but many high-level spiritual objects were captured from the spacetime turbulence.

While operating the spacetime scanner to explore the spacetime turbulence, Li Zhen also sensed the domain and devoted some of his mind to thinking about creating spiritual objects. In other words, he had six nascent souls, plus individual spiritual intelligence, which allowed him to perform seven independent tasks at the same time.

Even performing seven independent tasks simultaneously wouldn't be considered a distraction. Each Nascent Soul cultivator could have one task, and the fifth-tier Heavenly Demon's individual intelligence could have one task, making a total of seven tasks.

They stayed here for a year, but the time-space scanner obtained nothing.

However, he is already able to manually create second-tier spirit objects.

As Li Zhen crafted the second-tier spiritual artifact, his understanding of the rules also deepened, which was an unexpected bonus. He didn't know if the path he was on was correct, because his path was unprecedented in the Immortal Kingdom and the medieval world, with no previous texts to refer to and no powerful figures to guide him.

But deep down, he had a feeling that creating spirits was the right thing to do.

However, after a whole year of searching for the spacetime turbulence without any results, his mind was in turmoil.

He also checked the work records of other spacetime scanners through the cultivator network of the Immortal Kingdom and found that when spacetime scanners were first developed, the probability of capturing spiritual objects was still acceptable.

On average, it takes about two hundred days to capture a spiritual object in a spacetime turbulence. However, as time goes on, the spacetime scanner becomes increasingly difficult to capture spiritual objects.

Not all spiritual objects captured from the spacetime turbulence are useful, but Li Zhen has been busy for a year and hasn't found any even the most useless ones.

"Why don't we go to the Demon Kingdom or the Medieval World?" he muttered to himself.

He felt that using the time-space scanner to capture spirits from the temporal turbulence was like fishing, but he was never a good fisherman.

He had no choice but to go to the Demon Kingdom, believing that the Immortal Kingdom must have also deployed a spacetime scanner there.

In contrast, the medieval world has been at war since its discovery, so it's likely that even if they wanted to use a time-space scanner, they wouldn't have the time or space to do so.

With this in mind, Li Zhen used his spatial abilities and some other means to arrive in the medieval world.

Upon arriving in the medieval world, he left the North Sea Divine Sect and did not go too far, instead finding a small island in the North Sea.

He released his domain and activated the spacetime scanner, a special spatial fluctuation extending into the spacetime turbulence.

"There's something here!" he exclaimed with delight after only five hours of using the time-space scanner.

Then something fell from the void and was caught by his divine sense.

This is a fragment. Upon closer inspection, it is unclear what it is. It is extremely solid, about the size of a fingertip, without any sharp edges or corners; all of its edges are perfectly smooth.

"What a pity!" Li Zhen tossed the small fragment aside and shook his head.

The tiny fragments are extremely hard, almost as hard as fourth-order spirit iron, but their spirituality is only second-order.

Its second-tier spirituality limits it to crafting only spiritual artifacts, but this item is too small to craft larger ones.

Most importantly, this item has the hardness of fourth-grade spirit iron, requiring the weapon refiner to have at least the Nascent Soul cultivation level to craft it.

Using a Nascent Soul cultivation level to refine a second-tier spiritual weapon, and also requiring the same effort as refining a spiritual treasure, although the refined second-tier spiritual weapon will definitely be extremely sturdy and cannot be broken by anything other than a fourth-tier spiritual treasure, the effort expended is far less than the spiritual weapon obtained, making it a huge loss.

Therefore, this tiny fragment is worthless. It's better for a Nascent Soul weapon refiner to spend that time cultivating or refining a fourth-tier spiritual treasure than to have them refine such a piece of trash.

Li Zhen smiled as she put away the small fragment; after all, this was her first gain.

This also shows that his idea is correct. The spacetime turbulence in the Immortal Kingdom has probably been completely exploited by the Immortal Kingdom, so even if there are good things, it will take a longer time to capture them.

In the days that followed, he operated the spacetime scanner on the island to explore spacetime turbulence, which did not affect his cultivation.

Anyway, once the domain is opened, there will be both spiritual energy and a suitable environment.

Every now and then, some odds and ends would appear around Li Zhen; these were all captured from the turbulent flow of time and space.

But none of them were actually useful; however, capturing these odds and ends broadened his horizons considerably.

The debris in the spacetime turbulence comes from a wide variety of sources.

The most widely circulated theory is that the spacetime quicksand in the spacetime turbulence was actually produced by the collapse of the main world, while the debris in the spacetime turbulence was high-level spiritual objects from the main world that withstood the destruction of the spacetime turbulence.

However, these spiritual beings have spent too much time in the turbulent flow of time and space, and many have been worn down by the sands of time and space, while their spirituality has been continuously lost.

(End of this chapter)