Chapter 943: Dao Generates Spiritual Energy

Li Fan sped through the spatial tunnel. Just before reaching the Imperial Minor World, the Terminal Disintegration Disc had already absorbed, transformed, and deciphered all one hundred thousand formations on the Sky-Patrol Arrow.

Li Fan paused slightly, his eyes emitting a silver glow, instantly erasing all the formations attached to the surface of the Sky-Patrol Arrow.

These one hundred thousand formations not only provided acceleration, positioning, and amplification, but also formed a layer of armor when stacked, making the Sky-Patrol Arrow incredibly hard.

However, with the disappearance of these formations, the Sky-Patrol Arrow revealed its internal core, made of raw material.

Only then did Li Fan discover that the Sky-Patrol Arrow seemed to be a living creature!

Beneath a layer of hard keratin, faint spiritual fluctuations emanated. The fluctuations were extremely weak; had Li Fan's spiritual strength not surpassed that of typical Dao Integration cultivators, and his senses not been exceptionally keen, he would have almost overlooked them.

“What is this thing…”

Li Fan couldn't help but become intrigued.

He extended a similarly faint wisp of his spiritual sense, attempting to communicate with the Sky-Patrol Arrow. However, the Sky-Patrol Arrow seemed startled, almost instantaneously retracting its spiritual fluctuations, leaving no further signs of life.

This scene was much like a frightened turtle quickly retreating into its shell.

After this, no matter how Li Fan tried to probe, the Sky-Patrol Arrow adamantly refused to show any further signs of life.

With no other option, Li Fan temporarily stored it in his own grotto-heaven, leaving a wisp of his spiritual sense to observe it constantly. He decided to wait until it lowered its guard.

“No wonder the Myriad Immortals Alliance could achieve coverage with thousands of Sky-Patrol Arrows in such a short time. It turns out they are merely unknown living creatures combined with complex formations…”

“And there must be a central control hub to coordinate all the Sky-Patrol Arrows.”

Recalling the immense net formed by the Sky-Patrol Arrows during the previous battle between the Myriad Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association, Li Fan mused inwardly.

“Now that I’ve completely deciphered the composite formations, if I can further analyze the nature of this living creature…”

“I could mass-produce Sky-Patrol Arrows myself!”

“Whether for my own use or to sell the secret to the Five Elders Association, it would be highly beneficial.”

Li Fan, in good spirits, did not let his success go to his head.

Looking at the Imperial Minor World not far away, he did not reveal himself directly.

Instead, he first meticulously scanned the area with his spiritual sense to ensure the Empire hadn't laid any traps before unleashing his power.

Under the empowerment of the Soul-Burning Art, five eerie blood moons instantly appeared above the Imperial Minor World's sky.

Darkness descended, and the original sun was obscured.

Terrifying gods and demons flew out from the blood moons, quickly occupying various locations across the Empire.

The intensely dark and yin aura emanating from them caused the minds of the Empire's mortals to freeze.

They didn't even have thoughts of fear, simply standing stiffly in place.

As the demonic realm descended upon the Empire, Li Fan's utterly cold voice continuously echoed.

“The three-year period is over. How are the matters I entrusted to you progressing?”

His voice, like thunder, reverberated throughout the entire Empire.

At this moment, everyone in the Empire was plunged into extreme terror, as if they had personally witnessed countless gods and demons effortlessly tearing the Empire apart.

A moment later, three streaks of light—Green, Red, and the Imperial Daughter—flew before Li Fan.

“Greetings, Senior.”

Compared to his last visit, Li Fan's aura was significantly stronger.

The three of them could barely maintain their freedom of movement.

“Fortunately, we have not failed your mission. In the past three years, we have devoted all our national resources and finally completed the upgrade of the spiritual energy synthesis technology,” Green bravely replied.

Li Fan's gaze locked onto her, causing Green's heart to skip a beat.

“Hahahahaha…”

“Excellent! Take me to see it.” A moment later, Li Fan's hearty laugh caused her to breathe a sigh of relief.

They proceeded to the Imperial Palace treasury. In the location where the Myriad Manifestation Furnace once stood, a massive machine was now placed.

It resembled an hourglass, and one could even hear something seemingly dripping from its upper part to the lower.

“Please observe, Senior,” Green said, pressing a button on the hourglass device.

The dripping sound grew more rapid.

Once it reached a certain pace, a small opening suddenly appeared at the bottom of the hourglass.

Then, a stream of pure spiritual energy jetted out from this opening.

Due to the extremely high concentration of spiritual energy, it even formed "spiritual rain" at first, before slowly turning into a white mist and dissipating into the air.

Li Fan reached out and captured a wisp of the spiritual energy.

Aside from a faint lingering hint of blood, it was virtually indistinguishable from natural spiritual energy.

Nevertheless, its quality was far superior to the spiritual energy previously catalyzed from the flesh and blood of exotic beasts.

After a burst of spiritual energy was emitted, the dripping sound from the metal hourglass almost completely ceased.

It was a long time before a faint dripping sound could be heard again.

However, Li Fan noticed that the frequency of the dripping sounds increased over time.

He figured that once it reached its previous speed, new spiritual energy would be expelled again.

After his spiritual sense penetrated the metal hourglass and entered its interior, Li Fan discovered that the upper half of the hourglass was filled with countless tiny flesh and blood tissues.

No, rather than resembling flesh and blood, it was more like a collection of some kind of fungus.

Their vital energy was very weak, and they lacked even self-awareness. Their sole purpose was to absorb nutrients and reproduce themselves.

“Interesting,”

Green, observing Li Fan's expression, seized the opportune moment to explain: “Previously, spiritual energy could only be produced from the beast cores within specific exotic beasts. From birth to the formation of a core, an exotic beast typically took at least half a year.”

“And that was after we had already compressed their reproduction cycle to its absolute limit.”

“Even so, the efficiency of spiritual energy production was still too low. So, we shifted our approach and cultivated those exotic beasts through targeted evolution.”

“We allowed all other functions to degenerate, retaining only the part responsible for producing beast cores.”

“Then, we integrated the characteristics of a fungal exotic beast known for its incredibly fast reproduction rate…”

“After hundreds of generations of iterative cultivation, we finally obtained this almost perfect creation.”

Green's tone was calm, but uncontrollable excitement still gleamed in her eyes when discussing their research findings.

“As Senior can see, this exotic beast begins self-reproduction immediately after birth.”

“It bypasses the reproductive process, capable of infinite proliferation solely through self-replication. Furthermore, the required nutrients are just like those for common fungi: water and sunlight suffice.”

“Once a core is formed within its body, this exotic beast self-terminates, its physical body separating from the core.”

“The cores are collected into the funnel below, while the exotic beast's body is decomposed and transformed back into nutrients, which are then absorbed by its kind.”

“This cycle continues. This device only requires a small amount of nutrients to be added at fixed intervals to continuously produce spiritual energy.”