Chapter 1961 - 1502: Earth Intent Investigates Lingyun Cave! Ancient Sages of the Past!
This also allowed him to remotely mobilize the divine fragment left inside the main brain, and control the main brain to mobilize the power of the Earth Crystal Core through the divine fragment, enabling him to leverage many special abilities of Earth Intent.
These abilities include "Shattering Void Enhancement," which easily opens space rifts in regions like Sky where Qi Mechanism is extremely chaotic.
Otherwise, even with his current mastery of spatial powers, although he could barely open a space rift within Sky, it would be difficult to use the method of Near and Far to leave Sky freely.
Moreover, Earth Intent also has the special effect of ’Enhanced Ground Perception.’
This means, using the capability of Earth Intent, when the Primordial Spirit explores the surface or underground, it can expand the detection range and enhance detection depth.
It should be known that, just like the difference in resistance when sound travels in air and in water, the speed and distance of Primordial Spirit Power when propagating in the air and the loss during transit are completely different, not to mention the exploration underground.
With the help of Jiang Dali’s Earth Intent, the capabilities of the Primordial Spirit in underground exploration are enhanced by dozens of times, while losses are reduced by hundreds of times.
This also led Jiang Dali to take this opportunity to control the Earth Crystal Core, to utilize Earth Intent for a comprehensive exploration of all branch passageways in Lingyun Cave.
The passage he was in was yet another exit of Sky, leading directly to a branch passageway in Lingyun Cave.
After being rescued by Zhu Wushi, he had taken this exit to find Fire Qilin, and then took another path to leave Sky, directly arriving at the Holy Dynasty.
Now revisiting the old place, he wanted to see what secrets were hidden within the many passageways of Lingyun Cave, why it was chosen as Emperor Huang’s Tomb, and who constructed such an intricate network of branch passageways.
From the already acquired records, it was noted that the Leshan Giant Buddha outside Lingyun Cave was initiated by Haitong Zen Master of Tang Country to tame the water force and save the masses, gathering significant manpower and resources for its construction.
However, Haitong Zen Master only built the Buddha to the shoulder level before dying of exhaustion. The subsequent completion of the entire Buddha was conducted by two Tang governors and Haitong’s disciple, gathering manpower for its construction.
Building a Buddha already consumed so much manpower and resources and was incredibly arduous, let alone excavating the vast Lingyun Cave extending throughout the vassal state and even the Holy Dynasty.
In Jiang Dali’s understanding, such excavation technology and ability, even if sects like the Earth Rat Sect, Lu Ban Sect, and Mo Sect, most skilled in digging and creating mechanisms in the Martial World joined forces, it would be challenging to accomplish, at least not without five to six hundred years of effort across several generations.
If the project had indeed been large-scale, how could there be no historical clues found in the records of the numerous countries in the vassal state or the Holy Dynasty? It is extremely unreasonable.
In the past, due to the numerous and lengthy branching paths within Lingyun Cave, Jiang Dali found detailed exploration very difficult.
But now with the help of Earth Intent, he could quickly scan many branching paths of Lingyun Cave using Earth Intent’s powers without worrying about getting lost, utilizing the method of Near and Far.
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At this moment, as Earth Intent augmented his exploring Primordial Spirit, Jiang Dali’s perception quickly extended like water flooding a mountain, spreading along each branching path inside Lingyun Cave, soon exploring over a thousand miles, several thousand miles... swiftly moving towards the range over ten thousand miles away...
Such terrifying Primordial Spirit Sensing Power has surpassed the method known as "Thousand-mile Soul Lock" understood by ordinary Returning to Truth Realm.
Even when Jiang Dali first arrived at the East Sea, his Primordial Spirit perception could only extend to three thousand miles, and that was a straight line extension in the air.
Now deep inside Lingyun Cave underground, assisted by Earth Intent’s magnificent and magical power, he quickly detected the state over ten thousand miles underground in Lingyun Cave, and it was a wide-coverage probing approach.
In the range over ten thousand miles within Lingyun Cave’s branching paths, occasionally there would be skeletal remains seemingly dead for many years, buried in the dust, or traces of people, only seeing some leftover swords, spears, weapons, or ancient stone cave murals...
Whenever he caught glimpses of these scattered skeletal remains or items, murals, Jiang Dali would focus a part of his mind and pay a little attention.
However, he basically gained nothing.
The skeletal remains found in Lingyun Cave’s branching passageways, based on the bone quality, were all below the Returning to Truth Realm as ordinary Heavenly Person; otherwise, the bone quality should have equaled that of the worst third rank Divine Weapon or a first-grade named weapon, which would be hard to decay over thousands of years.
𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
Aside from that, the discovered weapons were merely famed weapons to outsiders, treasures for ordinary people, but useless for him.
As for the murals, they were completely unintelligible strange graffiti, or some last words of the dead, or marks made by people lost in the caves, none containing any strong spiritual will injected with divine charm, not worth mentioning.
Jiang Dali did not feel discouraged or disappointed, realizing that when his Primordial Spirit perceived the scene thirteen thousand miles away, it had reached the limit.
He immediately took a step forward, employing the method of Near and Far, shattering the void and heading to the end of that branching path thirteen thousand miles away, and then continuing his investigation towards more distant and wider ranges of branching paths...
Even though the wind and water inside Lingyun Cave are distinct, and Qi Mechanism is profound, making it very difficult to shatter the void inside.
But for him, endowed with Earth Intent, utilizing the Near and Far method was not difficult, only consuming more spirit, essence, and energy, possibly being able to perform it only five or six times a day.