"Ah, absorbing the energy of the five elements?" Hearing this, Xiang Yun began to doubt himself. He had been cultivating the Art of Creation and the system had actually said that it had entered its second stage. Why hadn't he felt it?

This was only possible for martial artists like his big brother and second brother who had Thunder Spirit Roots and Fire Spirit Roots. Both of them were born with the ability to absorb thunder energy or fire energy, but if they absorbed energy from other attributes, it might cause their meridians to be damaged.

And now, the system had actually allowed him to absorb all five types of energy at the same time. Xiang Yun was truly worried that his body would explode.

Xiang Yun wanted to ask the system again, but the latter was already silent, no longer paying attention to him.

He felt somewhat helpless. However, due to his trust in the system, he was actually more curious about the items within the formation. Thus, Xiang Yun decided to give it a try.

He closed his eyes and extended his hands out in front of him in the shape of a crescent moon. The cloud energy quietly spread out from his body, enveloping the stone pillar but not touching the magical formation. Xiang Yun began to circulate the Art of Creation within his body, cultivating as usual.

However, Xiang Yun had only just activated his Manifestation Art when something bizarre happened. The cloud energy in the s.p.a.ce did not fluctuate at all.

On the contrary, the light of the five crystals that were embedded in the stone pillar and contained the essence of the five elements began to tremble violently. The energy essence seeped out of the crystals and turned into a gaseous state that spread to the surface of Xiang Yun's body!

This energy of the five elements flowed into Xiang Yun's acupoints like energy, circulating through his meridians. Following the circulation of the Heavenly Dragon zhen Qi, they gathered together, beginning with various types of energy that constantly clashed against each other, t.i.t for tat. However, as the energy of the five elements continued to seep into Xiang Yun, the essence of the interaction of the five elements began to manifest.

When the five types of energies interweaved, they actually formed a type of vigorous and stable energy. This vigorous energy entered his Dantian along with his Heavenly Dragon's true energy and entered his spirit root, before slowly heading towards his spirit root!

When the Five Elements essence entered the spirit root, it was not stored in it like the energy stored in the spirit root. Instead, it seeped into the spirit root, as if it was being absorbed by a plant, and as soon as the five elements energy entered the spirit root, it was immediately absorbed by the spirit root.

Immediately afterwards, Xiang Yun felt a warm feeling coming from above his dantian, and a strange sound similar to a seed sprouting or a b.u.t.terfly breaking out of its coc.o.o.n resounded from deep within his soul. At this moment, Xiang Yun only felt that his consciousness had suddenly become a little blurry.

Vaguely, one could see tender green branches growing out of a withered tree stump, filling the originally lifeless tree with life.

At the same time, Xiang Yun did not know that after he had absorbed the essence of the five elements, his spiritual roots had actually grown from the exterior of his solitary spiritual root like two new, slender spiritual roots that had just sprouted from a dead tree.

Although these two spiritual roots were clearly much thinner than the original ones within Xiang Yun's body, they had actually grown two new spiritual roots, causing the number of spiritual roots to become three.

Regardless of whether it was a man who walked alone down the mountain or a supreme expert looking down at the mortal world, even if he had the ability to overturn rivers and seas, he still had to bow down to the word 'talent'.

Talent was something that could be understood literally. It was a gift from the heavens. Since it was a gift from the heavens, it was not something that a human could change.

In this world, it was rumored that there was a strange spiritual liquid called 'Heavenly G.o.d Water' in the illusory Seven Stars Divine Palace that allowed the growth of spiritual roots and change fate. However, the Seven Stars Divine Palace was originally the residence of the G.o.d of Heaven, and was a legendary miracle.

There seemed to be no one in this world who had ever really consumed Heavenly G.o.d's Water. This caused the number of spiritual roots to change, turning into an illusory dream.

However, Xiang Yun had managed to accomplish it at this very moment. He had not relied on the divine power of the Heavenly G.o.d Water, but rather the channeling of the five elements into his body, allowing his spirit root to grow new branches.

"These five elements energy can actually allow a spirit root to grow?" Xiang Yun had naturally never heard of it before.

At this time, the system opened its mouth once again, "Host is cultivating the Art of Creation with the ability to create nature. The energy of the five elements is endless, and with it as the source, everything will naturally be born."

Although Xiang Yun could not understand much, he could roughly understand that all of this was probably due to the Merit Creation Art. Having an additional two spiritual roots would greatly benefit his own strength and cultivation speed, so Xiang Yun was naturally overjoyed.

At the same time, he thought to himself that he had to absorb more of the five elements' energy in the future. Perhaps his spiritual roots could grow again, and at that time, he would no longer have the shame of telling others how many spiritual roots he had.

This was because on the stone pillar, the originally five sparkling and translucent crystals had actually turned into a greyish-white color at this moment. There was no longer any spirituality contained within them. Clearly, all the energy within had already been absorbed by him.

After the Five Element Crystal energy was absorbed, the entire array formation lost its source of energy. The array formation broke apart and silently vanished. The light screen retreated, revealing a small rectangular wooden case.

Xiang Yun immediately stood up, looking at the wooden chest in front of him. The wooden box was simple and unadorned, neither carved nor locked, and it did not emit the spirit of any heavenly or earthly treasure, it did not seem to be hiding any treasure.

"Could it be that my Spiritual Qi has been sealed by this wooden chest?"

Xiang Yun's heart was filled with doubt. After hesitating for a moment, he took out the Wandering Dragon Sword from his storage ring and gently lifted the lid. There was no dense spiritual energy rus.h.i.+ng towards him, nor was there a dazzling brilliance.

Xiang Yun's expression froze as he subconsciously thought that this should be some kind of rare martial skill or cultivation technique.

With just a single glance, Xiang Yun's expression instantly changed!

"The defensive map of the Cold Mountain Pa.s.s!"

"This …"

Xiang Yun could not believe it. How could this Gesun Merchant Shop of the barbarians have the defensive map of the Cold Mountain Pa.s.s? Moreover, looking at the level of detail of this map, it was definitely a secret map of the military.

The scrolls in front of him were indeed the military maps of the Wind Cloud Country. Aside from the map of the defensive areas of the Cold Wind City and the layout of the army, there were also the defensive maps and topographic maps of several large counties heading south from the Wind Cloud Country.

With such a detailed strategic deployment map in the hands of the barbarians, there were no secrets whatsoever in the entire northern border of the Wind Cloud Country. It was bare naked to the barbarians' eyes.

With so many secret military maps placed openly in the Goliath's treasury, how could Xiang Yun not be shocked and not feel a chill!

Looking back at the books, it was clear that they had purchased a large amount of herbs, grains, and fine iron from the State of Feng Yun. It was clearly recorded that the Gesun Trading Company had secretly purchased and plundered a large amount of resources from the State of Feng Yun.

The Cloud Crystal, Beast Crystal, Herbs, Martial Skills, and Cultivation Methods in this treasury had all been stored by the Gesun Trading Company over the past two years. There were three such locations in the entire Tiger City, and this was the largest place in the city.

When he thought about the current situation in Tiger City, Xiang Yun immediately understood. The role that the Gesun Trading Company played in this, was definitely not as simple as that of an ordinary trading company. It was very likely to be the first command point set up by the barbarians!

The barbarians wanted to run the entire Tiger City as their first base camp after the war!

Having thought through all of this, Xiang Yun felt a chill that instantly rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

At this moment, Xiang Yun suddenly felt very fortunate. It was fortunate that he had discovered all of this beforehand. Otherwise, the consequences would have been dire!

Without any hesitation, Xiang Yun willed it. The Black Ember Ring in his hand glowed brilliantly, and all the items in the wooden chest in front of him were absorbed into it.

He didn't show any intention of stopping. He quickly circled around the entire treasury and stuffed all of these treasures into the ring. Since he wanted to take them away, he might as well plunder all of them for the barbarians to harm Feng Yun.

After having done all this, Xiang Yun no longer had any thoughts of continuing to capture Hu Rui. Compared to the life and death of an evil person, this matter concerned the life and death of the entire Windcloud Nation. He naturally knew who was more important.

He wanted to hand all of these maps to Xiang Lei so that he could save the situation. Of course, he also wanted to ask a few questions, as to how exactly the commander in chief of this cold city entrance, Xiang Jinglei, worked, and all these secrets ended up in the enemy's hands, but he had no idea!

Xiang Yun finished packing up and prepared to leave. At the same time, in another secret room on the seventh floor, the president of the Gesun Trading Company, Ou Chengwen, was currently sitting facing a black-robed man. There was a look of dissatisfaction on his face.

"You should know about what happened in Tiger City last night, right?"

"A little." The man in black replied lightly.

"Hmph, arranging for such a person to come to the Tiger City at such a crucial moment. If something unexpected happens, can you bear the consequences?" Ou Chengwen's tone clearly carried a bit of blame.

However, the black cloaked man opposite of him did not seem to care at all. Instead, he revealed a smile.

Ouyang Chengwen frowned, and the discontent on his face deepened.

"President Ou, it's good that he is willing to take care of those little trash, let him fend for himself. Our thousand year plan will not be affected by such a n.o.body, furthermore, everything is ready now, the east wind is here!"

"You, you took that thing!" Ouyang Chengwen's voice was trembling. It was the complete opposite of his usual calmness and composure.

"Luckily, I didn't fail my mission. I've already gotten the item!"

As the black-clothed man spoke, he slowly took out an object from his sleeve. This was a black tiger sculpture, brilliant and l.u.s.trous. On its surface was carved a dense gold seal inscription, its tiger tail rising up and its head high.

"Tiger Tally of the Cold Mountain Pa.s.s' General!"

"Madam, I didn't expect that you would really succeed. That's great!" Ouyang Chengwen was so excited that he began to wildly laugh. He had thought that this matter would be very difficult to accomplish, but he hadn't thought that it would be so easy in just a few days!

"President Ou, I've done what I promised you. What the king promised me …"

"Thank you, Your Highness! Thank you, Lord Odema!"

The voice under the black cloak also revealed an uncontrollable excitement. Everything had gone even more smoothly than he had imagined. He did not expect that he had actually stolen the Tiger Tally. It could be said that the heavens were helping him!

Just as the two people in the secret room were each thinking about something and feeling extremely excited, the expression of Ouyang Chengwen, who was holding the Tiger Tally, suddenly changed!

"Not good, someone broke into the treasury and stole the map!"