Divine spring

Divine spring (神源 shen yuan), or divine pond, represented a sect's karmic luck. The larger the spring, the more fortunate the sect will be. All sects that want to survive for many generations need a divine spring as it was a signal of approval from the heavens. Those without a divine spring would be plagued by bad luck and eventually disappear. And they would never appear again.
== Examples ==
* Heaven Earth Divine Spring
* Heaven Suppressing Source
== Karmic luck ==
This heaven and earth divine spring (天地灵源) that they had called the Heaven Suppressing Source was an existence that symbolized their karmic luck.
Each sect had a similar spring. As it represented their karmic luck, observing it allowed others to determine whether a sect would flourish or decline. The more there was, the more the sect would flourish.
But when it grew sparse, it signified the sect was starting to decline. At that time, the sect would have to raise its alarm.
The divine spring was a way to measure a sect's rise and fall. This kind of thing sounded mysterious, but it truly existed.
When a sect was established, it would have to establish this divine spring. The first generation founder would send in a trace of their own soul into a formation. That was the primer which condensed heaven and earth's qi flow.
Following that, the divine spring would be formed. That meant that the sect had received the recognition of heaven and earth, and could flourish on the Martial Heaven Continent.
But there were many experts who had wanted to establish their own sects but hadn't received the same recognition. Unable to create a divine spring, there was no way for them to establish their sects.
Of course, without the divine spring, they could force it and still create the sect. But all those sects had miserable endings, and they vanished like smoke, their people penniless and dead.
Without condensing the divine spring, there was no way to create a connection with the qi flow of the world. It was like establishing a sect without a foundation. It could be destroyed at any moment. There was no way it would last past three generations.
They were not recognized by heaven and earth. So all sects whose inheritances had lasted had their own divine springs. However, the difference in power between sects was different, so their divine springs were all different.
But in any case, there was an iron law in this world. If a sect's divine spring was fully sucked dry, that sect would quickly vanish like smoke in the wind. This world would no longer have that sect's name again.
Even if hundreds of thousands of years passed, it was impossible to create a sect with that name again. The laws of heaven and earth would not permit it. It would be impossible to create a divine spring for that sect.
In other words, having lost their divine spring, the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect had lost their foundation. They would quickly vanish from this world forever.
Destroying the divine spring was destroying the foundation of a sect. On the Martial Heaven Continent, unless the enmity between two sides had reached a peak, no one would dare to do such a thing, as it was just too vicious.
Furthermore, no one would really want to do such a thing. One reason was because a sect's divine spring would definitely be guarded with their greatest power, while another reason was that it didn't bring them any benefits. Even now, no one had found any uses for it other than a symbol for a sect's rise or fall.
No matter what you tried to hold the divine spring in, it would slowly fade away once removed from the source. It would merge back with heaven and earth. In other words, it didn't have the slightest use.
But when Long Chen took it into the primal chaos space, it actually ran over to his mind-sea on its own and began to be absorbed by the Divine Gate Star.
== Heavenly River Valley ==
Long Chen's saber slashed down. He wasn't aiming at the valley master but a statue.
That was their ancestral statue. Despite the protective formation, it immediately exploded, revealing the divine spring below. That was Heavenly River Valley's spring of karmic luck.
The heaven and earth divine spring was almost always placed below the ancestral statue, or if the sect worshipped a god, it was beneath the statue of their god. Through thousands or even tens of thousands of years, the devout actions of the disciples would condense faith energy that strengthened the divine spring.
This heaven and earth divine spring was an extremely mysterious existence. Everyone knew that it was the foundation of any sect, and once it was destroyed, a sect would quickly decline. The sect would definitely vanish within a hundred years.
Long Chen waved his hand, sucking away the divine spring and putting it into his mind-sea for the Divine Gate Star to absorb.
== XDS and HSBS ==
At the same time, the old man told him that the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s divine spring had been revived. Bao Buping and Chang Hao had already entered, and it wouldn’t be long before they could advance to become Empyreans.
Based on the density of their divine spring, other than Bao Buping and Chang Hao, there was enough to give rise to two more Empyreans, and the old man asked Long Chen if he wanted two of his people to go through it.
During normal times, the divine spring was nothing more than decoration, or perhaps a kind of symbol. However, the world had changed. Karmic luck was subtly shifting. Divine springs could now be activated to produce stronger experts. 
However, Long Chen didn’t accept. Li Tianxuan had also asked Long Chen about this, saying that the Xuantian Dao Sect’s divine spring had gathered so much karmic luck that it could allow ten disciples to undergo its baptism.
Long Chen had directly said that the Dragonblood Legion wouldn’t take a single one of those spots, and Li Tianxuan could use them as he pleased.
Li Tianxuan had simply nodded. Both of them could understand what the other was thinking with just a look.
Long Chen had found that Li Tianxuan understood him very well. There was no need for him to say too much.
Long Chen didn’t want to rely on the Xuantian Dao Sect. He understood his bad luck far too well. If he leaned on a mountain, it would collapse; if he relied on a sea, the sea would dry up.
If he was too dependent on the Xuantian Dao Sect, he would bring a calamity to the sect. That was why he did his best to rely on his own power to advance.
Previously, Long Chen hadn’t put much confidence in the existence known as karma. However, after dealing with his bad luck for years, he ended up believing more and more that he was an unlucky star.
That was why no matter what he did, he had to be careful not to implicate anyone. Perhaps others wouldn’t understand such a thing, but Long Chen found that Li Tianxuan seemed to be able to read his mind, and both understood and supported his decisions. And it made Long Chen feel very grateful.
Having refused the Xuantian Dao Sect’s spots, he naturally wouldn’t take the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s.
== Trivia ==
The greater the sect, the more divine spring they would have. And the opposite was true as well. The more a sect declined, the sparser their divine spring. 
Although the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect had been one of the three great heavenly sects, its divine spring had been less abundant than the eastern branch of the Bloodkill Hall.
The Pill Tower's divine spring was dozens of times larger than the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect's. It had also condensed into a pure gold color.
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