123: Trapped Innate Aura

Chapter 122: Trapped innate spiritual energy

After giving his orders, Zheng Yi began to carefully examine the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror.

"Controlling Spiritual Qi...?"

He began to carefully perceive the surrounding Spiritual Qi, but it was just like before, with no changes.

Perhaps the ten streams of innate spiritual energy were still too few; with his current strength, he was still completely unable to fully master them.

"Could it be... that it has to be done through the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror?"

Thinking of this, he immediately connected with the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror.

At the same time, he emitted strong fluctuations of wanting to control Spiritual Qi.

Sure enough.

Soon, the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror emitted a soft glow.

On the originally Chaos-colored mirror surface, the clouds and mist slowly dispersed, revealing a huge map.

That map was shaped like a giant beast, high in the north and low in the south, with towering mountains and high plateaus in the west, and an endless ocean in the east, with a large number of islands situated within it.

Zheng Yi hurriedly looked over.

However, on the mirror surface, massive clouds and mist shaped like giant Dragons appeared, running horizontally across the entire territory of Great Yu.

Counting carefully, these massive cloud and mist formations shaped like giant Dragons totaled ten!

This was the movement trajectory of those ten streams of innate spiritual energy.

With a thought in his mind, the picture on the mirror surface actually expanded and contracted continuously like a large-scale 3D map.

However, it was only a blurred map and could not view the entire land.

At least five huge clouds and mists of innate spiritual energy had already crossed horizontally over the southern territory.

Among them, one was laid out in the southwest direction, occupying more than half of Nanyue County.

This stream of innate spiritual energy cloud and mist should be the innate spiritual energy that came with Zheng Yi's first daughter, Zheng Yuyao, when she was born.

It appeared to the world the earliest, so its movement speed and distance were also the farthest.

Winding for tens of millions of li, it was like a stretched spring, drifting far away, and like a kite, it could break at any time.

"Nanyue County? This stream of innate spiritual energy has wandered in Nanyue County for nearly five years! I wonder if it will produce any kind of impact on Nanyue County?"

With a thought from Zheng Yi, he wanted to recall this stream of innate spiritual energy.

Sure enough, following his intention, the stream of innate spiritual energy in the mirror that had circulated to Nanyue County began to slowly move toward the northeast direction.

Although the speed was slow, it was flowing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It seemed that in a few days, this innate spiritual energy fluctuation could be recalled by Zheng Yi!

However, there was always some loss when moving along this way, and he didn't care much about the minor details.

Next were the other Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

The second, third, and fourth streams of innate spiritual energy had all flowed into the south of Great Yu!

Among them, the direction of Yunmeng Marsh had the largest number, with a full two!

The second one as a whole already overlapped with Yunmeng Marsh, and even a small part of the third innate spiritual energy fluctuation was also above Yunmeng Marsh!

The position of the third innate spiritual energy fluctuation was slightly biased toward the southeast, running horizontally across Jiangzhou.

"Yunmeng Marsh? What kind of blessed land is it that it actually qualifies to enjoy one and a half streams of innate spiritual energy fluctuations?"

"Yunmeng Marsh has had no movement for so long, as if it were dead. Could it be related to these two streams of innate spiritual energy?"

"Two successive Innate Realm Martial Artists have appeared in the south, along with Abbot Fayuan, and secretly, who knows how many Innate experts have been born."

"Could it be that they are all related to My innate spiritual energy?"

Zheng Yi frowned and said, "You've been freeloading off My innate spiritual energy for so long, yet you still ignore Me and think about rebelling? Where in this world is there such logic?"

"Get back here for Me!"

With a thought, the second, third, and fourth innate spiritual energy fluctuations immediately shook, slowly moving in the opposite direction.

But what was strange...

The recovery speed of the fourth innate spiritual energy fluctuation was about the same as the first, and it could be detected with the naked eye.

However, why was the speed of the second and third innate spiritual energy fluctuations located in the direction of Yunmeng Marsh so slow!

It was almost undetectable to the naked eye!

Zheng Yi stared for a long time before discovering that these two Spiritual Qi fluctuations had moved just a tiny bit.

"Dammit! This Yunmeng Marsh really has something strange about it, actually being able to affect innate spiritual energy!"

"But it's fine. Although the speed is slow, it is still on the way back."

"I don't believe I can't recall it!"

Zheng Yi's gaze then fell on the fifth stream of innate spiritual energy.

The distance this stream of innate spiritual energy spread was also very far, almost reaching the edge of the sea, horizontally spanning places like Xu Province, Jiangzhou, and others.

After reaching the seaside, it actually became sparse, as if it was about to merge with the sea.

From Zheng Yi's perspective, the concentration of this fifth stream of innate spiritual energy was the sparsest.

It seemed... it had dissipated a lot.

"Even a mosquito's leg is meat, get back here for Me!"

With a thought, the fifth innate spiritual energy fluctuation quickly returned.

After handling these five innate spiritual energy fluctuations, Zheng Yi's gaze fell once again on other directions.

The tenth Spiritual Qi fluctuation was still in the imperial palace, which came with the Princess Zheng Yuxiao just given birth to by Consort Cui.

The other four innate spiritual energy fluctuations appeared in different directions.

Among them, the sixth innate spiritual energy appeared in the northwest of Great Yu.

Crossing Bing Province and Yong Province horizontally, it directly pierced into the mountains further west.

According to the Jinyi Guard's investigation, everything west of Yong Province was deserts and plateaus, the land was very barren, but a large number of alien tribes and countries also survived within it.

For example, the Wusi Country which believed in ancient Buddhism, the Dayue Country which was skilled in horseback archery, the Ghost Country which was rumored to be the descendants of ghosts and monsters, and so on, with at least dozens of small countries with different cultures and kingdoms situated within it.

The innate spiritual energy fluctuations that flowed to this place were even stranger. Within the mountains at the boundary between these countries and Yong Province, they actually turned into dense smaller streams of Spiritual Qi breaths, pouring into these small countries.

It was just like... a multi-head charging cable.

Moreover, compared to other innate spiritual energy fluctuations, the concentration of this innate spiritual energy fluctuation was even lower, almost half of the other Innate spiritual energies!

"This Spiritual Qi fluctuation seems to have been carved up by those dozen or so countries in the Western Regions?"

"Isn't this too bizarre."

"Could these people have a way to sense or control innate spiritual energy fluctuations?"

Zheng Yi touched his chin, but still without the slightest hesitation, he directly ordered this Spiritual Qi fluctuation to return.

"Mine, they are all Mine!"

"These innate spiritual energy are all Mine, what right do you have to intercept them?"

"Get back here for Me!"

With a thought, this sixth Spiritual Qi fluctuation traversing the Western Regions immediately began to move in the direction of Great Yu.

However, the speed was even slower!

It was just like someone was forcefully pulling and dragging the roots of a willow tree deeply rooted beneath the earth.

Even so, Zheng Yi did not give up in the slightest, still letting the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror recall this stream of innate spiritual energy!

"Hoo..."

Exhaling a long breath, he then turned his gaze to the seventh and eighth innate spiritual energy fluctuations.

These two innate spiritual energy fluctuations actually appeared within the territory of Wu Country!

Among them, two-thirds of the seventh innate spiritual energy fluctuation were within the territory of Wu Country, and the remaining one-third was within the territory of the neighboring Wei Country.

Wei Country was located in the crack between the southeast of Great Yu and Wu Country, being a peninsula country.

There were a large number of high mountains blocking the boundary lines with the two, and the high mountains had snow that never melted for ten thousand years, giving Wei Country a natural defensive barrier.

That was why it had survived for so many years.

However, Wei Country was also very smart, constantly paying tribute to Great Yu and acting as a vassal state of Great Yu.

Therefore, as long as Wei Country didn't cause trouble, Great Yu let it be.

Unexpectedly, such a small country also had one-third of a stream of innate spiritual energy fluctuation penetrating deep into it.

As for the eighth innate spiritual energy fluctuation, the entirety of it penetrated deep into the territory of Wu Country, passing through Bin Province, piercing through Black Mountain Pass, and going straight deep into the imperial court of Wu Country.

Who knows how the turmoil in Wu Country was going now, and which prince had achieved victory?

He had to let the Jinyi Guard investigate this emphatically.

As for the ninth innate spiritual energy fluctuation... it was even stranger.

It headed all the way north, winding for millions of kilometers, appearing increasingly sparse as it passed through the prefectures of Great Yu.

And most of the innate spiritual energy actually poured into one snow-white mountain range after another.

That was... Snow Cloud Country!

A major country located at the northernmost part of Great Yu and Wu Country.

Almost all high mountains were within the territory of this country, numbering at least over a thousand, with only a very small portion of plains available for the citizens to live in.

What was strangest was that it snowed for at least two hundred days every year in this country, resulting in a huge number of snow-capped mountains and severely cold weather.

Rumor had it that a group of mysterious people also lived atop the highest snow mountain; they could control wind and snow and fly through the air!

Zheng Yi used to think this was merely a rumor of Snow Cloud Country.

Now it seemed that there should also be Cultivators within Snow Cloud Country.

They were Cultivators who chose to live in seclusion among the snow mountain ranges in order to escape the Spiritual Qi tide!

With a thought, he immediately wanted to recall this innate spiritual energy fluctuation.

Just as he expected.

The recovery speed of this innate spiritual energy fluctuation was no less inferior to that of the Western Regions, with the speeds of the two being about the same.

It was just like this innate spiritual energy had been frozen!

Recalling it like this, who knew how much time it would waste.

However, Zheng Yi didn't care at all; as long as he was willing, sooner or later he would be able to recall every single stream of this innate spiritual energy!

"What needs to be done now is to wait..."

Inside White Jade Capital, Zheng Yi sat cross-legged, quietly waiting for the recovery progress of the remaining nine innate spiritual energy fluctuations.

On the first day, there was no movement at all.

On the second day, the third day...

Until the seventh day, the fifth innate spiritual energy fluctuation stretching to the edge of the East China Sea was recalled by him to the capital!

The capital now had two innate spiritual energy fluctuations!

On the ninth day, the fourth innate spiritual energy fluctuation located in Jiangzhou was recalled!

On the twelfth day, the third Spiritual Qi fluctuation entangled by Yunmeng Marsh was recalled!

On the eighteenth day, the first Spiritual Qi fluctuation that had long circulated to Nanyue County was recalled!

On the twenty-fifth day, the seventh innate spiritual energy fluctuation carved up by Wu Country and Wei Country was recalled!

On the thirty-fourth day, the eighth innate spiritual energy fluctuation within the territory of Wu Country was also successfully recalled!

Until this time, within the capital where Zheng Yi was located, there were already seven innate spiritual energy fluctuations!

However, the remaining three innate spiritual energy fluctuations located in Yunmeng Marsh, the Western Regions, and Snow Cloud Country were actually still entangled and could not be recalled immediately.

It was just like... a carriage trapped in a quagmire.

Although it was still squirming and recalling continuously, the speed was extremely slow.

It was as if someone was having a tug-of-war with him.

Through the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, it could be seen that these three Spiritual Qi fluctuations had only moved a very small part, and most of them still remained in place.

"At this rate, it will take at least several more years."

"However, I am not in a rush. If there are no accidents in the future, I don't plan on having girls anymore; let's have boys instead."

"Opening up three thousand worlds will, I think, be more beneficial to Me than the birth of innate spiritual energy."

Probing his spiritual sense out of the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, Zheng Yi said indifferently.

"Moreover, through the matter of recalling innate spiritual energy fluctuations via the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, it can be seen that in the directions of Yunmeng Marsh, the Western Regions, and Snow Cloud Country, there is a one hundred percent existence of Cultivators!"

"Even the innate spiritual energy fluctuations that previously lingered in places like Jiangzhou, Xu Province, Wu Country, and Wei Country also had the presence of Cultivators."

"Those places that could not trap the innate spiritual energy fluctuations are, with high probability, Loose Cultivators like Consort Cui."

"And those regions that can affect the flow of innate spiritual energy, such as Yunmeng Marsh, must have the existence of cultivation Families or even cultivation Sects!"

Zheng Yi muttered, "I wonder if they can perceive the existence of innate spiritual energy?"