Chapter 974: Chapter 308: Chao Tian Sect Sure Has a Lot of Businesses

This palace is definitely the most “technologically advanced” palace he has ever seen.

Although talking about “technological advancement” in a cultivation world seems absurd, since it’s the remnants of transmigrators, it’s somewhat understandable. Although there’s no related information, it appears these transmigrators must have spent a lot of time researching other things.

It’s hard to say whether it was a detour, but it doesn’t seem to have had very positive results.

For instance, “the study of puppets” and “the use of spiritual energy.”

The entire huge palace, with the mountain gate alone being a thousand feet, and the highest buildings several thousand feet, looks extremely majestic, but the more magnificent parts are underground, stretching several thousand feet deep.

And beneath the palace, there are densely packed “spiritual energy pipelines,” ensuring ample and rich spiritual energy that can smoothly reach any place, serving as an energy supply source.

It’s equivalent to setting up a “permanent” and “freely activated” Spirit Gathering Array in every room.

Of course, that’s just one of its functions.

For example, the hot springs in the courtyard, nurturing plants, and removing dust, these spiritual energy pipelines cover every aspect of daily life in the palace. And the reason this palace is located in nihil, apart from safety, is that… except for nihility, no place can support such a thing.

This thing consumes about a hundred thousand spirit stones daily.

Not mid-grade spirit stones, but a hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones.

One top-grade spirit stone is approximately equal to eight hundred mid-grade spirit stones, so a hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones amount to about eighty million mid-grade spirit stones.

With his current possessions, it would only be enough to keep this thing running at full capacity for less than two days.

Only the boundless spiritual energy of nihility can sustain such a gold-devouring beast; the entire area beneath the palace is like an inverted pyramid, with eighteen large formations at the base, continuously purifying the spiritual energy from nihility.

Quite durable.

After so many years, it still works continuously.

But the spiritual energy drawn from nihil is unstable. After purification, it’s fine for cultivation but cannot be condensed into spirit stones, meaning it can only be used freely without concern for wastage, but it cannot be stored.

It’s similar to having a buffet.

Honestly, seeing these spiritual energy pipelines gives him a familiar feeling. He had only seen “spiritual energy pipelines” in Da Xia Country. After leaving Da Xia Country, he practically hasn’t seen any pipelines.

It appears now that they were inherited from Chao Tian Sect at that time.

And these spiritual energy pipelines also served as a mode of transportation, allowing rapid travel to any corner of the palace, though he found it somewhat redundant for short distances.

For instance, the Green Stone Square is right below the well, and the well is just outside in the courtyard of his house. It took him only two breaths to reach it underground.

As for the principle of how chairs can float in the air and move rapidly in the pipeline, it’s quite simple.

It’s somewhat similar to magnetic levitation but entirely different.

In the four-sided corridor-like spiritual energy pipeline, there are countless smaller spiritual energy pipelines, as thick as a fist or smaller. These soft material pipelines, like blood vessels, traverse the entire palace. The spiritual energy flowing inside these blood vessel-like pipelines is fully compressed and unsuitable for cultivation.

When the chair rapidly descends from a high altitude, nearing the exact spot,

a large amount of spiritual energy gushes out from below, suspending the chair in the air and sending it to the designated pipeline. Once in the specified pipeline, spiritual energy gushes all around, suspending the chair in the air, followed by a burst from the rear wall to give the chair a fast enough acceleration.

Therefore,

the pipelines can’t be built too long. If they’re too long, the spiritual energy from the back wall can’t provide enough acceleration, so the pipelines beneath the palace are segmental. This is why it takes several loops to travel a short distance from the study to the Green Stone Square below the well.

He’s never seen this design concept anywhere else.

And likely never will.

It’s simply… damn wasteful!!!

This contraption constantly consumes a large amount of spiritual energy, and it must be highly compressed intensive spiritual energy, which nature’s spiritual energy cannot provide. These energies are drawn from nihil through the “Spirit Absorption Array” and compressed to form.

This spiritual energy doesn’t require purification, just compression to ensure sufficient explosiveness.

Besides the Land of Nothingness,

it’s difficult to manage such compressed energy. The spiritual energy leaking from shattered spirit stones is just more abundant and vigorous, not fully compressed, and cannot provide such explosiveness.

Even with such compression methods, the whole process is somewhat extravagant.

A genuine waste…

But since it’s the Land of Nothingness, a massive “buffet” site, even if those spiritual energies aren’t wasted, they can’t be stored anyway.

…

“I must say, it really is a great place.”

Standing on the Green Stone Square, Chen Qiu looked at the one hundred thousand Sword Cultivation Puppets, sighed with a bit of emotion, this palace has almost no flaws. If he could freely return to the Continent, this place would be a perfect retreat spot.