Within the dantian, everything returned to calm.

True Essence and spiritual power no longer leaked, but more than half was consumed, leaving only a small amount to maintain his basic operation.

Jeming, too weak to care, immediately delved his divine sense into introspection and carefully examined his lower dantian.

In the previously empty lower dantian, there now appeared a very small space!

This space was pitch-black, appearing deep and vast, yet in reality not very large, approximately two or three hundred cubic meters, similar in volume to a small house.

Purely from a “visual” perception, it seemed like a void, as if even light could be swallowed, yet spiritual power could explore it intact, without any obstruction.

It quietly floated there, without boundaries, without any support points, completely independent of his flesh and meridians.

But the peculiar thing was that as Jeming’s true essence circulated, it deliberately passed through the location of this space, as if this was the boundary point of his true essence’s operation dharma gate.

Jeming instantly understood in his heart.

This was the true effect of the “Inner Cycle” dharma gate he had silently cultivated during the Foundation Establishment stage!

He had been practicing this dharma gate for a long time because, as introduced in the Great Dao Book Pavilion, it had the effect of “isolating inside and outside, deceiving heaven and sea.”

At that time, he thought of using it to hide his identity as a cultivator, so that wizards couldn’t see he had mastered another extraordinary system, for self-preservation.

All these years, Jeming habitually ran this Inner Cycle dharma gate, allowing true essence to form a closed cycle within him, isolating from direct contact with external energy.

Since he had always used this dharma gate to hide his cultivation, he had forgotten its true effect.

Sealing inside and outside was merely a side effect of this dharma gate.

The true function of the Inner Cycle was to construct an inner grotto heaven!

Until he advanced to Foundation Establishment, when the power within him exceeded a certain threshold, this dharma gate truly exerted its function.

This miraculous dharma gate, relying on Jeming’s breakthrough at the moment of life essence leap in the Foundation Establishment stage, habitually guided power to open an independent miniature world isolated from the outside within him.

Although the space now was too small, hardly qualifying as a grotto heaven.

But as Jeming’s cultivation increased, this space could eventually form a self-sustaining small world!

“Marvelous!”

Understanding the cause, Jeming couldn’t help but laugh.

With a mental flick, the Foundation Establishment potion in his hand disappeared.

In his perception, a drop of warm, glowing liquid appeared within the space inside him.

“It’s just like a pillow arriving when sleepy, and here I was always troubled about the spatial ring.”

Previously, during a trial arranged by the academy, Jeming had already noticed the problem with storage items, but considering the instability of storage items, he originally planned to see if Professor Clark could help get a spatial ring after coming out.

But reality hit him hard, obtaining a spatial ring was more difficult than he imagined.

After all, to create such an item, one must find a wizard skilled in both alchemy and spatial magic.

Both technologies are highly difficult, even being proficient in one would be valuable, and those proficient in both are quite rare.

Professor Clark had the qualifications, but he specialized in knowledge related to fate and causality, not very familiar with the space element.

Throughout Nolun Academy, there was only one wizard proficient in both alchemy and spatial knowledge, and even he was merely a Fifth Level wizard, unable to make a spatial ring.

Clark did suggest Jeming try using the permissions of the Second Level Cultivation Agreement to apply on the Nolun Workshop’s official site, but the demand for space equipment from other wizards was also quite high, with even the most available wizards having appointments ten years out.

Since neither of these options worked, the only remaining solution was to exchange it with military merits.

However, as a creation of a Sixth Level wizard, even with official subsidies, the cheapest spatial ring required a thousand low tier military merits or a hundred high tier military merits.

Now with this space, it solved the trouble Jeming had all along.

Relying on this space, it might even allow his talisman seal witchcraft system to further develop.

Jeming enthusiastically began experimenting, items in the lab continuously disappearing and reappearing.

However, just as Jeming was enjoying himself, changes occurred again inside the pitch-black space.

“Huh?!”

Having just put away an entire set of magic potion making equipment, Jeming’s hand trembled, somewhat disbelieving as he enveloped the inner space with his perception.

Just then, he found a wisp of spiritual Qi inexplicably appearing inside the space.

This spiritual Qi condensed without dissipating, pure and unmixed, wandering slowly within the space.

Slightly puzzled, Jeming extracted this wisp of spiritual Qi.

He felt it for a moment, realizing it was indeed genuine spiritual Qi, fully capable of strengthening his cultivation or replenishing his consumption.

But…

“Did I just refine spiritual Qi? Or does it mean…”

Jeming decisively released all items he had just stored into the space, then sat cross-legged on the ground, calmly observing the space within him.

One hour, two hours…

After waiting quietly for four hours, or two shichen, Jeming noticed another wisp of spiritual Qi suddenly appeared inside that space.

“This…” Jeming was even more amazed.

He had an idea in his mind, but he needed to prove it.

Glancing at the lab, sealed in the highest state for his breakthrough, Jeming decisively stood up, grabbed a huge metal disc from the side.

Skillfully inscribing runes on the disc, soon, an array completely isolating energy exchange appeared.

Jeming then found an extremely sensitive energy detector from the nearby equipment, aimed it at the entire metal disc, then sat cross-legged again in the center of the disc’s array.

Taking a deep breath, Jeming slowly let go of the inner cycle he had been maintaining for so many years.

Not just the inner cycle, he even stopped the operation of the cultivation technique within him and the nine truth runes within his sea of spirit.

After waiting quietly for another four hours, as another wisp of spiritual power appeared in his inner space, Jeming pulled it into himself, then checked the recorded data next to the detector.

Although due to the instrument’s extreme sensitivity, the data continuously fluctuated, the overall statistical data showed a very tiny increase in total energy inside the disc when he pulled the spiritual Qi into himself.

“Interesting, creation from nothing…”

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