Apart from shock, those who witnessed it had no other thoughts left.

His Highness had actually hidden his abilities so deeply before!

This was something no one had ever heard of. When everyone else cultivated, it was hard enough just to find a place rich in spiritual energy. People would often fight fiercely over a patch of land with abundant spiritual energy, yet James Carter had gone against the natural order and made the spiritual energy here so dense!

No one understood how James Carter had managed to do it, and even fewer could comprehend James Carter's actions.

There were spirit-gathering arrays in the cultivation world, but those arrays were extremely complex and not something just anyone could possess. The Great Chu Empire was only a third-rate empire on this vast planet, and there simply weren't any such powerful spirit-gathering arrays in the country.

James Carter's technique didn't seem to belong to any of the spirit-gathering methods people had heard of, and no one knew exactly what kind of secret art James Carter was using.

Samuel Cooper had now recovered somewhat. Although there was still a sense of weakness in his body, his eyes shone with delight. After a brief surge in ability, his understanding of the pinnacle level had advanced by leaps and bounds. He felt that, after this event, he had already grasped the key to a breakthrough.

No longer concerned with the outside world, spiritual energy was continuously pouring into his body through every pore after performing the spirit-gathering technique. The dense spiritual energy surged into his body like the Yangtze River or the vast sea, forcefully opening up one major acupoint after another.

The royal cultivation method, the Chu Sky Art, was a technique every prince practiced from childhood. It was a set of techniques fully suitable for cultivation up to the pre-official level.

As the Chu Sky Art operated, the powerful spiritual energy was guided, and the body became connected with nature. The spiritual energy circulated through the body along its unique channels, instantly putting him into a state where he seemed to merge with his surroundings, as if he could control everything.

The Chu Sky Art had never operated so quickly before!

Under normal circumstances, the Chu Sky Art could only allow one to sense the flow of true qi within the body, but what James Carter saw was the entire condition of his body—whether flesh or meridians—everything was clearly displayed before James Carter's eyes.

The spiritual eye was actually so useful!

Everything that happened today was something he had never seen before; such situations were simply impossible to achieve on Earth.

James Carter now had even more confidence in his own growth.

“A bit of yang energy!” The spiritual energy hidden in this feng shui blessed land was immense. Even after Samuel Cooper had used up a portion, it was still a huge amount for James Carter.

The spiritual energy absorption capacity of the second level of Azure Cloud had already reached its peak, yet spiritual energy continued to pour in endlessly.

The spiritual energy of this feng shui blessed land was still so dense!

The Chu Sky Art was only a basic royal technique, and his own physical condition was not enough to support the absorption of such a vast amount of spiritual energy. His capacity to store spiritual energy was not very strong. With so much spiritual energy flooding in, if he didn't adopt a new method, he would probably end up being burst apart by the spiritual energy!

Seeing that his body had reached its limit, continuing to use the Chu Sky Art was no longer feasible. If he didn't want to be blown apart by spiritual energy, the only way was to find a cultivation method that suited his own body.

In this regard, James Carter had a wealth of knowledge. So many cultivation novels on Earth had introduced all sorts of bizarre cultivation methods, and the one that had always fascinated James Carter the most was the method of opening up a field within one's own body.

Heaven and earth combine their energies, all things are born from them; one heaven, one earth, together give birth to all things, and the life of all things comes from a single energy...

Heavenly energy is yang, earthly energy is yin; yin and yang blend harmoniously, heaven and earth are shrouded in mist, and all things flourish...

But all of this was too theoretical!

James Carter didn't know how to actually do it. He was, after all, someone with a strong adventurous spirit, and countless ideas popped into his mind. He thought of the ancient theory of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth as the foundation of the world. He also thought of the principles of feng shui and the art of reading omens. All sorts of messy ideas came to mind.

Suddenly, inspiration struck. James Carter thought of the theory of storing spiritual energy. In Buddhist theory, it is said that every grain of sand is a world. Since every grain of sand can be a world, why couldn't he store vast amounts of spiritual energy within his own body?

If this theory held true, then no matter how much spiritual energy he absorbed, it wouldn't be a problem!

For others, changing cultivation methods at this moment would be impossible, but James Carter's spiritual eye technique was not just about inner vision—it allowed him to see even deeper. He could clearly observe every subtle change in any part of his body, and he had a very clear understanding of his internal condition. For him, knowing how to operate everything was simply not a problem.

Since even a grain of sand could become a world, how could his vast dantian not be able to contain all this spiritual energy?

The more advanced a cultivator was, the more true qi they had within their body. All they did was transform spiritual energy during cultivation.

He tried running his qi through each meridian again and again.

His divine sense sank into his dantian, observing the changes in the true qi within.

What James Carter needed to find was a way to store spiritual energy.

James Carter was a very clever person. Once he thought of storing spiritual energy, he realized he first needed to understand the principle of how to store it.

A wisp of true qi was infinitely magnified by James Carter, and the situation within the true qi was fully revealed through the spiritual eye.