Once Lingxu reached the outer circle of the shore, where the depth was around a hundred metres, he quickly dived down.
After just twenty metres, he felt that the water was pushing him away. The water in this world was naturally also stronger under the influence of spiritual power. He was also pretty bare, not having any swimming equipment. The shirt and pants he had were that of a poor person. He didn't even have enough weight to pull him down.
At this point, he just switched towards his spectral form and then towards the water ghost.
"It really feels like I'm just walking on earth, there is no obstruction at all." this state was very comfortable. Then, he tried out the talent he wanted to try out all this time.
He focused and the water around him suddenly moved the way he wanted. He gathered a lot of water together and it became a dense dark blue ring. In the water, these things had more of a structural effect, just like how the wind element can boost movement, water had this ability here too.
Of course both elements could do more, but his current water control wasn't strong.
There are five tiers of spells: entry, small success, major success, perfection and grand perfection. All beings besides humans have innate spells they are born with, humans don't have them because they have a higher intelligence and can learn spells easier, they have a body close to the dharma.
The water control of water ghosts is also an innate spell. All innate spells start at the small success, when the beings mature, they naturally advance towards major success, and if they train hard, then perfection isn't difficult. This is the difference between humans and other beings, even if humans can comprehend spells, perfection requires a lot more than just training in these spells.
As for grand perfection, this is the stage of going deeper and understanding the law and dharma behind the spell, for water control it would be the water dharma. Understanding spells to that level is very beneficial for cultivators.
Sine Lingxu was already "mature", he could break towards the major success as long as he became used to its usage. Innate spells are truly the gift of heaven and earth towards those that don't have a high comprehension, else it would be difficult for them to compete with humans.
Heaven isn't biased and earth treats everything equal, since humans have the gift of dharma body, then beasts and other beings naturally have their own gifts.
Lingxu continued to get used to the spell. When he felt that he was able to use it fluidly, he began swimming, or well… he was still flying pretty much in the water, without any motion whatsoever. With the water control spell, he was able to create a small swirl around him.
His speed was higher than on land, there were no obstacles in the middle of the ocean at this depth either, so he could move around as freely as a bird above the nine heavens. He took out a little tool he took from his mansion. It was a compass inside a small glass jar.
He had prepared this beforehand. With the map in mind, he flied for a long time, sometimes correcting his course after he thought he reached a certain mark, then he continued. Although he was incapable of making a fire, learning how a compass works is still a basic thing.
Why? Anyone who was ever interested in maps would do it anyways.
'Hehe, what a joke, those treasure hunts when I was a child… well, it was fun and now I can use this skill here.'
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A month passed very quickly. Lingxu looked at the reef in front of him. 'It should be here' he thought. After so long, he finally arrived.
The speed underwater was even faster during the night, and without obstacles or other influences, he was able to go fast. He did see a few sea beasts but all of them kept their distance, he once tried to eat a fish and realised that he could actually absorb the essence and soul of the fish.
This way, he was able to recover his spiritual power while also strengthening his spectral cultivation. Just based on that mortal fish, he knew that eating one was like a tenth of one cultivation circle, which lasts for an hour.
At that time, he also understood why evil cultivators love killing so much. If you kill enough, won't you advance in bounds with just a few steps? But he rejected this way, after all, he understood a bit more about the issues of karma.
There is no way, as an avid reader of online fiction, he was also a small pseudo-scholar. He understood the importance karma and how large it can affect someone. In his past life, he didn't care, but now he felt that such rules should be part of the law of this world. If it wasn't for this, why would there be a place such as Earth Devil Palace?
Although everyone hated them, in fact, the real big players don't actively attack them, nor are they attacked, because they know the issues regarding karma and know that if the Earth Devil Palace doesn't do what they do, they might be punished elsewhere.
Just look at the concentration of spiritual power – isn't it great? In fact, if there is too much karma, then Earth will take back the spiritual veins. Spiritual veins absorb the chaos power from outside the world and convert it into spiritual power.
Without the gate opened by heaven, they can't absorb chaos power, while the origin of spiritual veins itself is bound to the earth. All veins of the world are, earth veins, water veins, fire veins, wood veins and even wind veins who are above ground.
It's better to have earth devils rampant than reduce the spiritual power of the world. The higher the spiritual environment outside spiritual veins, the higher the concentration of spiritual power in those veins.
This is why even a first-grade spiritual vein is stronger than the spiritual environment outside which can support the cultivation of foundation building cultivators. A first-grade spiritual vein in this way can store a lot more spiritual power and has many key nodes where the power can reach the third level, even though the vein itself is of the first level.
The spiritual environment combined with the freedom in water and everything else made Lingxu's journey especially relaxed, easier than he thought. If he wasn't slower because he didn't know the way, he might have arrived a week earlier.
He came in front of the reef and looked around. There was only one passage hidden in this reef, which would bring him to the branch. He searched and searched and finally found one coral among this red coral reef that was slightly crimson at the root. He looked at the crimson and saw a small symbol – it was a whisk with a samsara wheel pendant hanging below it.
Just looking at the symbol, one would never think of the cruelty of the Earth Devil Palace. In fact, it is very fitting. The whisk is the symbol of Wisdom while the samsara wheel is a symbol of Reincarnation. This is to show that the Earth Devil Palace understand karma and eliminate it.
'Killing people and sending them into reincarnation, this is indeed the best way to eliminate karma. Well, it seems that the Earth Devil Palace is really a nice place. As long as you can eliminate karma and open the path of reincarnation, you have wisdom and ability.'