10: It drains your energy and destroys your foundation.

Inside the Tianji Pavilion, within the Deduction Hall, Old Man Tianji, who was in deep meditation, suddenly opened his eyes.

"Pfft—"

The next moment, he spat out a mouthful of blood without warning.

"What is happening? Why does this seat have such a strong feeling of unease in my heart?"

Old Man Tianji was restless and immediately began to calculate with his fingers.

Upon calculating, he was instantly drenched in a cold sweat: "Hmm, the Luck of the son of heavenly mandate is declining. How is this possible!"

Just then, a crack appeared in the Void Realm, from which came the voice of a Tianji Pavilion Disciple: "Elder, something big has happened. The luster of the son of heavenly mandate's life tablet has dimmed quite a bit."

Upon hearing this, Old Man Tianji immediately turned into a streak of spiritual light and pierced through the crack in the Void Realm.

When he saw that the life tablet symbolizing Ye Fan's Luck in the life tablet room had begun to dim and lose its luster, he collapsed to the ground.

"Impossible, this is impossible! Ye Fan is a Son of Destiny protected by the Heavenly Dao, and his Luck is enough to influence the entire Primordial Continent. He is one of the destined Dominators of this world; how could his Luck fade, and to such a severe extent? Something must have gone wrong somewhere."

The Disciple beside him replied: "Elder, should we send someone to the Heavenly Feather Sect to investigate and see what exactly happened there?"

Upon hearing this, Old Man Tianji immediately calmed his mood, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to calculate again.

"Hmm?"

With a sound of surprise, he opened his eyes again.

"Elder, what is it? Why is your expression so grave?"

"Pass down my order: immediately command Tan Beihuan and Ai Buli to rush to the Heavenly Feather Sect to investigate the cause. If you find any heretic who is damaging the Luck of the son of heavenly mandate, no matter who they are, you must eliminate them!"

"Yes, Disciple takes their leave."

After the Disciple left, Old Man Tianji began to calculate with his fingers again.

"Strange, this seat had already penetrated the Heavenly Dao three thousand years ago, but why can I not deduce the cause of Ye Fan's Luck decline? Could it be that some unknown force is at work here?"

Thinking of this, he stood up, looked at the life tablet belonging to Ye Fan, and gradually fell into deep thought.

...

At this moment, Shen Lian, who had left the Heavenly Feather Sect, was gently waving his Folding Fan while boating on the Quiet Heart Lake.

"Coming to this world on the first day, I've already caused such a huge commotion. The Heavenly Feather Sect and those seven white-eyed wolves will definitely not stand by idly. If I want to survive, I must work hard to improve my cultivation before they make their move. My current Soul Transformation ninth-level cultivation is still too weak. If I were to Cultivate step-by-step, even if my physical cultivation were fully restored, it would take three years to return to the Hunyuan eighth level. It's too slow; I must find a way to quickly improve my Foundation to deal with the upcoming situation."

Actually, although Shen Lian acted arrogantly, it did not mean he was brainless.

The reason he went crazy and started killing at the Heavenly Feather Sect today was also a decision made after careful consideration.

Old Ancestor Tianyu was in a critical moment of seclusion; Shen Lian deduced that it was impossible for her to appear at this time to resolve the crisis for Ye Fan.

Of the five Peaks of the Heavenly Feather Sect, three Peak Masters had gone to the Monster Beast Mountain Range with Shen Chuyun to deal with the beast tide Seal, so the Sect lacked the concentrated power to deal with him.

The only real combat power left was Heavenly Sword Peak and Red Flame Peak, as well as four nominal Sect Elders.

After dealing with them, there would be no external force to stop him from leaving the Heavenly Feather Sect smoothly.

Everything was the result of Shen Lian's careful calculations.

The so-called arrogance must have the capital to be arrogant; arrogance without brains can only be considered a clown.

This principle was naturally very familiar to Shen Lian, who had been mixed up in the Law of the jungle for nearly a hundred lifetimes.

While he was deep in thought, the old man rowing the boat suddenly spoke: "Where is the guest going? Ahead is the Spiritual Vein mining area of the Heavenly Feather Sect. Would you like to get off the boat there?"

"Spiritual Vein mining area?"

Hearing this news, relevant memories immediately surfaced in Shen Lian's mind.

"The Spiritual Vein mining area is the main source of Spiritual Qi cultivation for the Outer Sect Disciples of the Heavenly Feather Sect, and it is adjacent to the local earth qi. This was also what the original body, this trash, dug up over two hundred years ago and gifted to the Heavenly Feather Sect. And the Heavenly Feather Sect also relied on this Spiritual Vein to rapidly grow and successfully become one of the four major Sects in the Eastern Region, hmm..."

Thinking of this, a sinister smile appeared on Shen Lian's lips.

"Since this was given by me, then I have the right to take it back. All the trash in the Heavenly Feather Sect only deserves to struggle in the mud and wait for death."

After speaking, Shen Lian directly tossed a Spirit Stone to the boatman behind him.

Before the boatman could react, Shen Lian had already disappeared.

"An immortal, it's an immortal! I, Zhang Laosan, have finally seen an immortal!"

Seeing this scene, the boatman knelt directly on the small boat and kowtowed repeatedly.

...

Above the Spiritual Vein mining area, Shen Lian walked in the Void Realm, coldly watching the Mortal laborers working like ants below.

They did not dare to stop for a moment, even as they were beaten and scolded by the Heavenly Feather Sect's supervising Disciples.

"Hmph, a bunch of trash, learning a bit of fur, yet only using it to oppress Mortals. Does such behavior deserve the word 'Cultivator'? Truly ridiculous!"

While speaking, he formed Seals with his palms and quickly set up a Spirit Gathering Formation in the surroundings.

"Next, it is time to let everything return to the starting point!"

Without any hesitation, he directly activated the "Zhou Tian Xuan Huang Technique".

Immediately, the Spirit Gathering Formation started, frantically pulling the aura of the Spiritual Vein toward the Spirit Gathering Formation.

After just ten breaths, assisted by the suction force thousands of times stronger, the majestic Spiritual Qi contained within the Spiritual Vein rushed into the Spirit Gathering Formation like a breached dam.

The moment the Spiritual Qi, a hundred times more majestic than in the morning, entered his body, Shen Lian's cultivation began to climb again.

Soul Transformation ninth level...

Soul Transformation Peak!

...

Breakthrough!

Void Refining first level.

Unsurprisingly, Shen Lian successfully broke through to the Void Refining Realm, and the spiritual power in the depths of his dantian sea was several times greater than when he started killing in the Law Enforcement Hall an hour ago.

And the laborers working in the mining area instinctively sensed something wrong.

Clearly, they had seen bright High-Grade Spirit Stones before, so why did they suddenly become dull?

At first, only a few people noticed this, but they didn't pay much attention to it. After all, this kind of situation was not the first time they had seen it; for example, Spirit Stones might have cracks leading to Spiritual Qi leakage, reducing their grade, which happened from time to time.

But gradually, more and more people working noticed something was wrong.

The speed of this Spiritual Qi loss was truly too terrifying. The original High-Grade Spirit Stones turned into Low Grade in the blink of an eye, and finally even became ordinary stones.

What was even more exaggerated was that those Spirit Stones that had already been collected, which were clearly confirmed to be intact before, also began to rapidly decline in quality in the blink of an eye, and eventually became ordinary broken stones.

"What is going on? Why did it become like this?"

Several Heavenly Feather Sect Disciples watched as the Spirit Stones in their hands quickly turned into pieces of waste stone, and they were suddenly terrified.

Just as they were still puzzled about the deterioration of the Spirit Stones, the ground suddenly shook violently.

"It's bad, earthquake!"

All the miners immediately dropped the tools they were working with and ran frantically out of the mining area.

It was also at this time that the entire Spiritual Vein mining area had gravel falling, and signs of a landslide appeared faintly.

The Heavenly Feather Sect Disciples who were still studying the Spirit Stone problem could no longer care about so much and ran out of the mining area together.

And Shen Lian, who was operating all of this in the Void Realm, was concentrating on absorbing this Spiritual Qi that was as vast as an abyss, frantically improving his cultivation Foundation.

At this time, the Spiritual Qi of the entire Spiritual Vein had already been quickly absorbed under the blessing of the thousands-fold Spirit Gathering Formation.

But his goal was not limited to this; he did not let go of the earth qi that nourished the Spiritual Vein either.

Void Refining fourth level...

Void Refining fifth level...

Void Refining sixth level!

Until his cultivation improved to Void Refining sixth level, the Spiritual Vein that stretched for eight hundred miles immediately withered and collapsed.

At the same time, after losing the protection of the mountain range, the earth qi stored here had no obstacles and rushed out of the ground, all of which were attracted to the Spirit Gathering Formation created by Shen Lian.

"Hoo..."

Finally, after his cultivation reached the Void Refining Peak, he slowly exhaled.

The earth qi that had been nurtured here for hundreds of thousands of years had been completely absorbed.

"The price of offending me, who among you can bear it? Don't worry, this is just a beginning. I will trample you one by one into the deep abyss of the mud, looking up at me as I ascend to the Peak of the Dao with the most fearful eyes, and then regret in despair. Hahahaha—"

After leaving a burst of arrogant and unbridled laughter in the Void Realm, Shen Lian transformed into a streak of light and sped away into the distance, leaving behind a scene of devastated ruins.