Inside the cave dwelling, Xiao Fei, who had been sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes.
At this moment, the aura emanating from his body was that of a Nascent Soul realm expert.
With his wood-attribute spiritual root boosted to an unprecedented 116 points, the process of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage was remarkably smooth.
Following the breakthrough experiences shared by the other ancestors, he cultivated step by step, then consumed a Nascent Soul Pill and refined its medicinal properties.
The surface of his Golden Core cracked like an eggshell, and then shattered completely.
As the Golden Core broke, a vast amount of primordial magical power circulated within his dantian in a specific manner, gradually condensing and beginning to form the outlines of hands, feet, and a head.
It took him nearly a year to fully condense the Nascent Soul.
The moment his Nascent Soul took shape, the Jade Tablet within his body, true to form, did not remain idle and began to madly absorb spiritual energy to repair its cracks.
Of the one hundred million spirit stones Xiao Fei had prepared in advance, over eighty million were absorbed by the Jade Tablet.
After consuming so many spirit stones, it had only managed to mend one slightly larger crack. The Jade Tablet had at least several thousand such cracks.
At the rate the Jade Tablet consumed them, just these few thousand slightly larger cracks could bankrupt the entire Eastern Continent.
Furthermore, there were many exceptionally large cracks, and it was unknown how many spirit stones they would devour.
Xiao Fei opened his eyes. Besides the joy of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, he was now more curious about the changes within his spatial artifact.
With a thought, his divine sense entered the space.
The most noticeable change in the space was its area, which had expanded from the previous 360 mu to 3600 mu.
The space now felt incredibly vast, and Fei Yu, the flying fish, excitedly darted back and forth within it.
He no longer had to worry about bumping into a wall when he rolled over in his sleep.
Upon entering the space, Xiao Fei felt an even closer connection to the space and the Jade Tablet.
He could now control everything within the space.
At that moment, his divine sense detected something hidden in the void, faint and ethereal, floating unstably in the air.
If not for his current close connection to the space, he would have truly been unable to detect its presence.
Immediately, he extended a hand into the void. Spiritual energy surged wildly, trapping the faint, ethereal object within the void.
Then, as Xiao Fei manipulated the spiritual energy of the space, a profound character materialized in the void.
This character was extremely complex and abstruse. Even though Xiao Fei had read extensively and possessed vast knowledge, he still could not recognize this character.
Xiao Fei's primordial spirit floated into the air and approached the character to examine it closely.
The moment he extended a finger to touch the character, it transformed into a stream of light and flew into Xiao Fei's body.
As the character entered his body, Xiao Fei felt as if he had experienced thousands upon tens of thousands of years. He seemed to comprehend something, yet also understood nothing.
However, there was one thing he could not control.
"Hahaha…"
"Hahaha… Hahaha…"
Xiao Fei, like a complete fool, clutched his stomach and laughed uncontrollably in the air, doubling over, rolling around in the air…
If there were any joyous occasions that would make him laugh so uncontrollably, it would only be breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm or the expansion of his space. He had absolutely no intention of laughing so heartily for these reasons.
Yet, he simply couldn't stop laughing foolishly! Laughing maniacally, to the point where Xiao Fei himself was bewildered! Why was he laughing?
"Shut up! I don't want to laugh anymore!"
Xiao Fei roared inwardly, but it was to no avail. He continued to laugh like an idiot, utterly unable to stop.
"Hahaha… Hahaha…"
His mouth emitted the most arrogant and unrestrained laughter, while his heart was filled with worry!
The moment the character entered his body, he understood something. That profound character seemed to contain the power of a law.
And this law was "Laughter"!
As his cultivation advanced and he continued to repair the Jade Tablet within him, besides the expansion of his space, he always gained some unexpected benefits.
For instance, when he advanced to the Golden Core realm, the spiritual vine that had miraculously grown in his space, though it had not yet borne any fruit, Xiao Fei believed it was no ordinary item.
This time, he had actually obtained a law.
The Great Dao laws were spoken of as miraculous, and typically, only those in the Nascent Soul realm could grasp a tiny fraction of their essence.
The Nascent Soul realm couldn't even brush against the edge of laws.
Xiao Fei, having just advanced to the Nascent Soul realm, had obtained a law of "Laughter" from his space, which was enough to make even a Soul Transformation expert envious to death.
"Hahaha… Hahaha…"
Yet, he couldn't feel happy at all at this moment.
"Hahaha…"
Suddenly obtaining a Great Dao law, and being completely unable to control it.
"Hahaha…"
Moreover, what use would such a foolish laughter law be, even if he successfully controlled it? To bring joy to others, to act as a jester?
Such matters were not suited for a Nascent Soul expert like him.
While laughing heartily, Xiao Fei tried his best to maintain his mental focus, his divine sense repeatedly searching within his body.
The profound rune seemed to have completely merged with his body; no trace of it could be found.
He continuously recalled his comprehension of this rune, his hand movements changing with incantations, and fragments of runes appearing at his fingertips, only to collapse and dissipate into starlight.
He kept trying to recreate this rune, but failed repeatedly. In this process, he was also continuously deepening his understanding of the Law of Laughter.
With each deepening of comprehension, his maniacal laughter would lessen slightly.
It was unclear how much time had passed in the space, but he finally managed to draw a small portion of this profound rune and maintain it without it collapsing.
A rune rotated continuously at Xiao Fei's fingertips, and his laughter could finally be somewhat contained, but after a period of time, he would inevitably have to stop and have a good laugh.
Fei Yu had been observing Xiao Fei's strange behavior the entire time. It was certain that his master had gone mad!
Unfortunately, it was only an ordinary fish and could not treat mental illnesses of cultivators.
In the past two days, his master seemed to have become slightly more normal. Now, seeing a peculiar rune floating at the tip of Xiao Fei's finger, Fei Yu couldn't help but approach and observe with some curiosity.
The moment Fei Yu got close, Xiao Fei flipped his palm and struck the rune into Fei Yu's forehead.
"Hahaha… Hahaha…"
Fei Yu burst into laughter, laughing heartily, his fish body rolling uncontrollably in the air, unable to stop even if he wanted to.
"Why do you always use me for experiments?"
While laughing, Fei Yu wailed inwardly. Last time, they had experimented with some kind of calming rune, which was also struck into his forehead, using him as a test subject.
Thinking of the many Iron Fire Ants that had become test subjects, while laughing, his heart trembled.
It seemed to foreshadow his own future. No, if he had the chance in the future, he must properly demonstrate his worth.
Only when Xiao Fei reached out and retrieved the rune that had been embedded in Fei Yu's forehead did Fei Yu's laughter finally cease.
Having familiarized himself with the preliminary usage of the "Laughter" Law, Xiao Fei finally left the space and exited the cultivation chamber.
At the entrance of the chamber, hundreds of communication talismans were waiting, most of them sent by Huang Feifei. Were they blocked by the chamber's protective formation?
After successively reviewing the communication talismans, Xiao Fei frowned and immediately strode out of the cave dwelling.