Jiang Chen, the four great true spirits, and the six ancient cultivators from the Six Inherited Palaces had spent a full three or four hours before they finally managed to disrupt the operating trajectories of those four spiritual energy formations.
Of course, in the process of dismantling them, Jiang Chen had not destroyed the foundations of the formations. He decided to keep them around. Who knew whether he might need them in the future — to restart this very seal, perhaps?
Jiang Chen was not the sort to burn all his bridges. It never hurt to keep a card up one's sleeve.
Despite only unsealing a single formation, the expenditure was enormous. Everyone, Jiang Chen included, was drenched in sweat.
Jiang Chen smiled. "I must thank you all for your hard work today. There are still six auxiliary seals remaining, but their difficulty shouldn't exceed twenty or thirty percent of this central nexus. When the time comes, I'll need everyone to lend their strength again."
No one was reluctant to pitch in on this matter. Everyone understood that restoring the spiritual veins was a feat that would benefit generations to come — and it would benefit them personally as well. Without it, none of them could go anywhere other than the Glazed Palace. Across the entire human domain, the spiritual energy environment outside the Glazed Palace was entirely insufficient to support the cultivation of Divine Dao cultivators like themselves.
So the urgency to restore the spiritual veins was something they all shared.
Now that the central nexus of the seal had been broken, the spiritual veins would recover to forty or fifty percent of their capacity in a short period of time. That alone was cause for celebration.
And so, across the human domain, within a mere month, all manner of strange and wondrous things began to occur.
Sensitive cultivators — as soon as two or three days after the central nexus was unsealed — noticed that their recent cultivation felt noticeably easier. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth they absorbed seemed to have suddenly become far more abundant.
Even more remarkable, many sects were astonished to discover that the Spiritual Medicine in their herb gardens had begun growing as though driven mad — surging with ferocious vitality, their grades climbing unconditionally higher and higher.
If this had been limited to isolated cases, it might have been dismissed. But this was clearly no isolated phenomenon. It was comprehensive, all-encompassing — virtually every single Spiritual Medicine was growing at a frenzied pace, as though these plants were determined to vent two hundred thousand years of repression in the span of a single month.
Many sects further discovered that numerous sacred sites within their territories had suddenly become far richer in spiritual energy. Hidden realms began appearing out of nowhere, all manner of ancient treasures and curiosities materializing as if falling from the heavens.
Some cultivators even found several treasures on their own mountain's backyard in a single day. It was like living in a dream.
Most astonishing of all, during this month, martial cultivation bottlenecks that cultivators across the great powers had struggled to break through — many of them managed to do so after just a few sessions of meditation, as if the breakthroughs had come from nowhere.
Every cultivator, as though they had consumed some divine elixir, saw their power surge ferociously upward. Within a single month, anyone who hadn't advanced two or three full realms would have been too embarrassed to greet their peers.
Before long, the entire human domain was swept up in a dreamlike ecstasy.
Eventually, the sudden deluge of fortune left many people so overwhelmed they grew almost anxious. They feared it was all a dream — feared that at any moment the dream would shatter, and they would be cast back into the cruel reality of the past.
Rumors ran rampant across the human domain.
Some said the gods had taken pity on humanity and bestowed celestial auspices upon them.
Others insisted that the fortune of the human domain had turned at last, and it was now on the rise.
Still others credited Young Master Jiang Chen's leadership, saying it was his guidance that had shifted humanity's fate.
In any case, every conceivable theory was being floated.
But Jiang Chen paid no heed to these rumors. Instead, he led a group of companions through mountains and across rivers, searching for the remaining six seal nexus points.
It had to be said — the jade slip that Great Deity Glazed had given him had proved an enormous help.