It was still entirely snow-white, except for one tiny golden-yellow dot.
Yun Sheng held the pearl and observed it for several days in his small room, but he did not manage to Breakthrough his Bottleneck.
He felt that the stimulation might not have been enough.
So he quietly returned to the rocky hollow.
After several years, a small puddle had formed in the hollow. After clearing it, Yun Sheng sat cross-legged inside.
Then, holding the pearl, he let it be exposed to the sunlight.
Although the pearl was no longer hot, this was the only way he could think of to stimulate it.
If sunlight didn't work during the day, Yun Sheng would still hold the pearl at night to receive the moonlight's baptism.
However, by the time dawn broke, the pearl still hadn't provided any stimulation.
Yun Sheng, feeling helpless, could only put away the pearl and rush back to his inn to sleep. He planned to continue this stimulation for a month.
If he still couldn't Breakthrough his Bottleneck with the pearl's help, he would then advance through arduous cultivation later.
After sleeping until evening, he returned to the usual spot, holding the pearl in both hands to receive the moonlight, and then the sunlight after dawn.
Just like that, Yun Sheng persisted for a month, but his Bottleneck didn't Breakthrough.
Lying on his bed, Yun Sheng thought about resuming his normal arduous cultivation tomorrow, and then fell into a deep sleep.
Early the next morning, Yun Sheng felt hungry and prepared to take out the jade bottle containing Pigu Pills from his chest pocket.
However, he immediately noticed that his eyesight seemed to have improved.
It was morning, and due to the window bars, not all the light penetrated the room.
So the bed against the wall was still a bit dim.
Normally, he would have taken out the jade bottle by feel, but this time, he could clearly see the fine hairs on his arm when he looked down, even their roots were perfectly visible.
Yun Sheng was stunned. He looked up at other places, and his vision was clearly better than before.
Could it be a Breakthrough?
So he sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to imagine his head turning ninety degrees to look behind him.
Without turning, the scene a foot behind him appeared in his mind.
It was as if a pair of eyes at the back of his head were observing.
These eyes began to slowly rotate with his body.
After a full rotation, the scene within a one-foot radius was completely displayed in his mind.
Then he began to imagine these eyes entering his body, starting to observe his internal organs.
It was successful! Like X-ray vision, he could see his internal organs vibrating continuously. He moved his focus to the Dantian in his lower abdomen.
A gray ball of Qi, the size of a pinky finger, floated in his Dantian.
This was Spiritual Qi. Yun Sheng rotated his perspective, observing it continuously, and getting closer and closer.
However, after about half a cup of tea's worth of observation, the X-ray vision disappeared, and he collapsed onto the bed.
Unintentionally, he had overused his Divine Sense and fallen into a deep sleep.
He slept for a full day and night, only waking up the next morning.
After waking, he felt dizzy for a long time before returning to normal.
However, he immediately became happy again, because he had successfully Broken Through his Bottleneck and Advanced.
He took out the snow-white pearl again to see what changes had occurred in it that led to his successful advancement.
Upon close inspection with his eyes, it was still the same.
Reluctantly, he used his Divine Sense to examine it.
As soon as his Divine Sense touched the pearl's surface, it was instantly sucked in.
Then Yun Sheng felt himself floating in a gray and white space.
The ground was gray, and the sky above was white.
Thinking of landing on the ground, his floating body indeed descended.
He stood in a space about ten feet in size.
This space was square, and the surroundings seemed to be blocked by a membrane.
It was a gray membrane. Yun Sheng pressed it with his small hand, but there wasn't even an indentation.
Above him was an arched white Void Realm.
And on the gray ground, there were five rows of one-foot-sized hollows, five in each row, spaced about two feet apart.
These hollows were shaped like wooden barrels, and their depth was also about one foot.
However, in the upper-left hollow, he found a ball of golden-yellow soil the size of an egg.
He bent down and touched these soils with his small hand, finding them very fine.
He rubbed a little with his finger and brought it closer to his eyes. It looked like golden-yellow sand particles.
Unable to understand, he simply took off his clothes and carefully placed the egg-sized fine sand on the folded layers of his clothing.
After that, he checked the other hollows, but there were no sand particles.
As he thought about how to get out, he instantly left this space and returned to the wooden house.
And his hands were still holding his clothes, and in the clothes was the ball of golden-yellow sand he had taken from the space.
He put down his clothes, and his Divine Sense reattached to the pearl. He instantly entered again.
However, upon checking the hollows on the ground, there were no sand particles inside.
He exited again, and the sand particles on his clothes were still there.
Then, instead of using his Divine Sense to examine the pearl, he used his eyes.
Soon after, he discovered that the small golden-yellow dot on the pearl had disappeared.
Could it be that this small dot represented those sand particles?
To test it, he held his clothes in his hand, and then his Divine Sense attached to the pearl.
He instantly entered again, landed on the ground, and carefully poured the sand particles from his clothes into the first hollow.
Then he exited again to check the pearl, and found that the small golden-yellow dot had reappeared.
Next, he went in again and transferred the sand particles from the first hollow to the other hollows.
The golden-yellow dot still appeared, but its position seemed to have shifted slightly.
To verify this, he directly chose the upper-left and lower-right hollows for his experiment.
He also smudged a little black ash on the pearl to indicate the position of the golden-yellow dot represented by the sand particles in the first hollow.
Afterward, when he moved the sand particles, the golden-yellow dot indeed moved quite noticeably.
He wiped away the black ash, and the original golden-yellow dot disappeared.
He retrieved the golden-yellow sand particles again, and Yun Sheng pondered whether this pearl could absorb sunlight and moonlight again.
So he went to the window to try. He placed the pearl in the sunlight, and a few breaths later, its surface became scorching hot.
Yun Sheng smiled and quickly put away the pearl.
He transferred the sand particles to old clothes and then put them away.
Dressed in his cultivation robes, he quietly came to the hollow. Yun Sheng planned to meticulously record the exact time the pearl was exposed to sunlight and moonlight, to see how long it would take for a small golden-yellow dot to form.
Although he didn't know the purpose of these golden-yellow sand particles, since they could be generated by the pearl, they were certainly not ordinary items.
Over the next half month, Yun Sheng accurately calculated the time.
After fifty hours of exposure to both sunlight and moonlight, another small golden-yellow dot would appear on the pearl's surface.
His Divine Sense attached to the pearl, and he instantly entered the space.
Indeed, he found golden-yellow sand particles of the same size in the upper-left hollow again.
He put the original clump in, then checked the pearl outside.
The golden-yellow dot seemed to have grown larger. When he moved it to another hollow, two tiny golden-yellow dots appeared on the pearl.
Only by taking all the golden-yellow sand particles from the hollows would this snow-white pearl absorb sunlight and moonlight again to form new sand particles.
Yun Sheng collected a total of five egg-sized sand particles before he stopped.
Because he had no place to store these sand particles.
If only he had a large jade bottle or a large jade box.
However, Yun Sheng was a Cultivator so poor he only had clothes to wear, so how could he have such Advanced items?
Moreover, when collecting Pigu Pills for free from the General Affairs Hall, one must first return the original jade bottle before receiving a new bottle of Pigu Pills.
If one couldn't produce the jade bottle, sorry, no Pigu Pills.
If the jade bottle was damaged, a corresponding number of Pigu Pills would be reduced based on the extent of the damage.
So Yun Sheng didn't even have a small jade bottle on him to hold these sand particles.