After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

The next day, while it was still dark, Huo Yu, contrary to his usual behavior, left the cave early.

He has already successfully achieved one of his two short-term goals after his rebirth.

However, although he successfully found Long Yucheng, Huo Yu had not yet decided how to deal with him or what identity to use to approach him.

In addition, the unexpected emergence of the Heavenly Dao Value meant that most of his previous plans needed to be readjusted.

At this moment, he needs to deal with the second objective.

Soon, Huo Yu's figure appeared deep inside the belly of Qiongshan Mountain.

Because of the presence of the mountain spirit, a small stalactite cave has been formed here.

In stark contrast to the scarcity of spiritual energy in the outside world, the spiritual energy inside the stalactite cave is extremely rich, even condensing into liquid on the stalactites and pooling at the bottom to form a small pool of spiritual liquid, on which the spirit of Qiongshan Mountain floats leisurely.

Everything before his eyes was vastly different from Huo Yu's memories of his previous life.

In his memory, there was no hollow inside Qiongshan Mountain, nor was there such a dense concentration of spiritual energy. But the most significant difference was that the mountain spirit before him was not the mindless soul he remembered.

Amidst the fluorescent glow emanating from the dense spiritual energy, Huo Yu could clearly see that within the Mountain Soul, there existed a pair of slowly rotating Yin-Yang fish-shaped soul entities!

Huo Yu had already sensed the yin-yang fish spirits when he first entered the mountain's interior.

Strangely, once you leave the stalactite cave, you can no longer sense their presence; you can only use your divine sense to detect a faint aura of the mountain spirit.

At that time, Huo Yu even speculated that this might not be his original world at all, and that his so-called rebirth might just be another version of himself being possessed in one of the many worlds he saw through the Gate of Heaven.

However, after months of observation, Huo Yu finally solved the mystery, the key being the pair of yin-yang fish souls.

As these yin-yang fish spirits rotate, they slowly release spiritual energy at an extremely subtle speed.

For some reason, this spiritual energy could not spread too far, and it accumulated and condensed into spiritual liquid. Over time, this formed the stalactite cave and the spiritual liquid pool we see today.

On one occasion, when Huo Yu attempted to attack the Yin-Yang Fish's soul with his divine sense, he unexpectedly discovered that a specific method could reverse the Yin-Yang Fish's soul, and the stronger the divine sense, the faster the reversal would be.

So Huo Yu simply kept the Yin-Yang fish spinning rapidly backwards, and before long, he felt the spiritual energy in the stalactite cave decrease slightly.

At this point, Huo Yu fully understood the secret behind the birth of the Qiongshan Mountain Soul.

The Yin-Yang Fish Soul has the ability to absorb and release spiritual energy, and it will operate on its own when there is no external force.

It first absorbs spiritual energy until it becomes saturated, then begins to reverse, releasing spiritual energy until it is exhausted. This cycle is exceptionally long.

Each time the Yin-Yang fish releases its spiritual power to its limit, the immense spiritual power is bound within the mountain, and over the years, it gives birth to the mountain's soul.

As the Yin-Yang fish slowly absorbed the energy, the spiritual power within the mountain gradually decreased, and the mountain spirit gradually weakened and even disappeared.

The mountain spirit will only condense again when the yin-yang symbol releases its spiritual power once more, and this cycle repeats itself.

The reason Huo Yu was able to obtain a massive mountain soul without intelligence in his previous life was because someone took away the Yin-Yang Fish when it released most of its spiritual power, leaving behind a newly born mountain soul and an incredibly rich spiritual energy environment.

Years later, the mountain spirit absorbed all the spiritual power and transformed into the enormous soul body that Huo Yu saw.

The reason it lacks intelligence is that the mountain spirit greatly shortens the process of condensing soul power in a high spiritual environment, but the process of developing intelligence is not accelerated, resulting in a huge soul body but no intelligence.

The stalactite cave disappeared without a trace after a certain geological change, eventually becoming the kind of cave Huo Yu saw.

Having figured out the cause and effect, Huo Yu began to try to take away the Yin-Yang Fish's soul, but he temporarily gave up on the Mountain Soul.

Even with such a rich spiritual environment, it would take the mountain spirit at least ten years to grow to the level it needs; distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.

Compared to the mountain spirit whose whereabouts were still unknown, what truly interested him were the yin-yang fish.

However, he spent a year on this, but all his efforts were in vain. Spiritual attacks would be absorbed, and divine sense attacks could only cause it to spin faster or change direction.

Judging by the time, the person who took the Yin-Yang symbol in his previous life should be appearing soon. So Huo Yu decided to play the role of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

His purpose in coming here was to set up a protective barrier in the stalactite cave.

He had previously set up several non-lethal restrictions, but strangely, the Qiongshan Mountain not only shielded spiritual energy, but also gradually weakened the power of the restrictions.

The enchantment could only last for half a month at most; after that, it would become undetectable from the outside. Huo Yu had no choice but to set up a new enchantment every half month.

Upon returning to his cave, Huo Yu saw a communication talisman floating silently at the entrance. Activating it with his spiritual power, he heard the sect leader's voice, consisting of only four short words:

"Come to the main hall immediately."

This is a one-time use command token; it will automatically incinerate after activation.

Huo Yu glanced at the ashes on the ground and slowly flew towards the main hall at the summit.

When he arrived, the main hall was already packed with people.

Including Huo Yu, almost all sixteen Foundation Establishment stage cultivators from the Qiongshan Sect were present; he was the last to arrive.

As he arrived, a figure dressed in a green robe appeared out of thin air before everyone; it was the sect leader who had summoned them here.

The leader of the Qiongshan Sect was a middle-aged Taoist priest in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. He had a fair complexion, no beard, a solemn expression, and an imposing presence even without anger.

"I have gathered you all here today to announce two things."

"Firstly, three months from now, the Qiongshan Sect, Beast Taming Valley, and Divine Sword Sect will jointly open the Nine Star Secret Realm."

"With the opening of this secret realm, our Qiongshan Sect will send thirteen Foundation Establishment disciples and select fifty-seven Qi Refining disciples, for a total of seventy people, to enter the Nine-Star Secret Realm. Forty percent of the spiritual herbs and magical treasures obtained will be handed over to the sect, and the remaining sixty percent will belong to the person who brings them out of the secret realm."

"The month is approaching, and you must make full preparations to enter the secret realm."

"Secondly, among all those present, there is a person who is not of the righteous path."