One day later, inside an extinct volcano, a crimson-robed Daoist sat cross-legged with his eyes closed and his breathing steady. Dense ambient spirit energy drifted around him and flowed continuously into his body. As it gathered around him, it formed visible spirals that stirred the air and set his sleeves fluttering.

When his cultivation cycle came to an end, Luo Chen slowly opened his eyes. This place is incredible.

After spending a full day cultivating here, he had gained a much deeper appreciation for just how extraordinary this place truly was. Although this small volcano could only be considered a low-grade third-tier spirit land in terms of overall spirit energy density, the actual cultivation results it provided rivaled even his formation-enhanced Starry Palace at Surging Lake.

The reason for this remarkable phenomenon was the difference in composition of spirit energy. In the outside world, natural spirit energy was generally balanced, with the five elemental attributes forming the foundation and wind, lightning, and countless other attributes intermixed throughout. Cultivators had to rely on their cultivation techniques and spirit roots to sift through this complex blend, drawing in the energies best suited to them before refining them into mana.

Yet within this pocket world, that balanced distribution was nowhere to be seen. In Blazing Purgatory in particular, the vast majority of spirit energy was fire attribute. For fire-path cultivators, this translated into an astonishing increase in cultivation efficiency. There was scarcely any need to actively draw in the ambient spirit energy; simply breathing was enough to obtain the fire spirit energy required for cultivation and refinement, while the tiny...