Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 259: Using Humans to Refine Puppets
Li Ye sighed sincerely, and his desire for the mother tree of the sky world suddenly became even stronger.

With most of the essence and blood lake retained as excellent fertilizer for continuous replenishment, if the mother plant can be obtained, perhaps this Sky Realm Tree will be able to reach the breakthrough conditions in a shorter time and become a true fourth-level spiritual plant.

By blessing his [Tongtian] entry, it will also be upgraded to the fourth level.

By then, his qualifications will have reached the top of this world of immortal cultivation, the true level of a natural spiritual root!

At least when it comes to breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, the shackles of his qualifications will be greatly reduced.

It wasn't as severe as this time when he broke through to the Golden Core, where he was still held back by this superior spiritual root. It was all thanks to his other thorough preparations that there were only minor disturbances and no failure in the breakthrough. It was a close call.

After all, breaking through the Nascent Soul stage is different from the Golden Core stage. The risk is too great, and Li Ye doesn't even want to have a close call.

Otherwise, it will affect the ability to deal with the inner demon tribulation and heavenly tribulation after the achievement of Nascent Soul.

"The difficulty of achieving the Nascent Soul stage is too great. Even if one fails to condense the Golden Core, there is no way out in the current world of immortal cultivation except for my Golden Core Transformation, let alone the breakthrough of breaking the Core and becoming a Nascent Soul..."

"If you can't even complete this step, you won't even need the so-called inner demon tribulation or heavenly tribulation to hinder you. You will die on the spot!"

"Until I reach the fourth level of Tongtian, even if my Golden Core is perfected and all other preparations are complete, I will never attempt a breakthrough..."

Li Ye's expression was determined. "As long as the Mother Tree of the Sky Realm is still in this world, I will definitely seize it!"

After all, this matter concerns his own path. Even if dealing with the demons requires some effort and risks, he has to do it.

"Now that Bai Gu and Fei Yu are dead, the demons have no more golden elixirs to use... Once they have prepared and digested everything, I will immediately mobilize my army and launch a counterattack against the demons!"

As he thought so, he saw that the Sky Realm Tree and many spiritual plants had stabilized, so he immediately set out to return to the cave.

He sat cross-legged, refining the spiritual essence of the void he had just obtained to increase his lifespan and physical vitality.

The Sky Realm Tree broke through to the third level, and the amount of spiritual essence it gave reached three.

As the spiritual root of heaven and earth, the feedback this tree provides has become more and more astonishing as it continues to improve.

Feeling the changes in the several secret techniques cultivated in his body, Li Ye's expression changed slightly.

"Even the power of the Jiamu and Yimu divine thunders has increased..."

"Although the increase in secret arts has, to some extent, divided the effectiveness of the Void Realm's spiritual essence, but now the Void Realm's spiritual essence is also more... This is not a problem!"

"Furthermore, even the golden elixir's true essence can be refined... The golden elixir is even purer, and it seems that even the quality has been slightly improved..."

"This Void Realm Tree is truly worthy of being the Wood God Sect's sacred tree... and it's so closely connected to the cultivation method! I wonder if it can even assist with Infant Condensation..."

His eyes showed thought, and he couldn't help but think more.

In the past, when he was building his foundation, his comprehension of the Wood God Art only reached the point of touching the Golden Elixir. Now, as he cultivates more and more spiritual plants, the feedback from the solidified spiritual essence has enabled him to comprehend the Wood Element to a level far beyond his own cultivation.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be so easy to cultivate the Jiamu and Yimu divine thunders.

With such accumulation, I can take a look at the content of the Nascent Soul part of the exercises in advance... If there are any breakthrough tricks, I can prepare in advance!

But there is no rush for this matter.

After calming down from refining the spiritual essence of the void world, Li Ye took the storage instruments of Bai Gu and Fei Yu and began to select various spiritual materials from them.

Li Ye had already carefully checked the inheritance of the two of them.

Bai Gu was just a newly promoted Jindan. Even though he had captured the Zixuan Sect and amassed a lot of wealth in the Kingdom of Yue, his assets were not that substantial.

The most common items in the storage bag were the skeletons of various creatures and spiritual materials related to the spirits. Besides a few quasi-third-tier talismans achieved through blood sacrifice, the only items that really caught Li Ye's eye were his magical weapon-level white bone soul banner and the prototype of his magical weapon, the white bone battle armor.

The nature of these two magic weapons is self-evident. Li Ye has limited use for them and plans to use them as materials later.

Although Taoist Feiyu has a more substantial background, perhaps because he switched to practicing the blood magic, his truly valuable collections are all related to it.

The amount of other spiritual materials is very small.

Considering that this old fellow is the ancestor of Feiyu Sect, it is estimated that a considerable number of spiritual materials that have nothing to do with magic are collected in his sect's treasury.

In addition to the Blood-Transforming Flying Knife, he also had a magical feather fan hidden in his storage bag.

That seemed to be his previous life-saving magic weapon. If we only look at the strength of the restriction, the Blood-Transforming Flying Knife is indeed much inferior. No wonder he had not used it before.

Compared with these, the secret techniques of magic such as the White Bone Yin Demon Art and the Blood Transformation Demon Art in the hands of these two people actually enriched Li Ye's knowledge.

Not only did it give him more methods, but more importantly, it increased his understanding of the demons and made him know himself and the enemy better!

This will be of some help to the counterattack that is about to be launched.

"Most of the storage bag is of limited use to me. These magic materials are still too redundant for non-magic practitioners..."

Li Ye shook his head.

Although if we cross the Myriad Beasts Mountains and go to the truly prosperous countries in the southern border of the mountains, there will definitely be suitable sales channels to sell these things at a suitable price.

But that would be too much trouble and would be meaningless to Li Ye.

But there was no sign of discouragement on his face.

"Tsk... But luckily I'm not without other means to use."

"I can only use local materials and recycle these waste materials as consumables for making and strengthening puppets..."

Li Ye smiled and waved his hand again, taking out the two Jindan corpses that were covered with talismans and in good condition.

It was Feiyu and Baigu!
"Although I don't understand the magic way of refining corpses, the Tiangong Sutra also contains unconventional puppet refining methods such as flesh and blood puppets and bone puppets, which are suitable for the two of them..."

Since it can't be used as fertilizer, then using it as a puppet and continuing to play its role is the maximum utilization!

Thinking of this, Li Ye glanced at the panel.

[Name: Li Ye]

[Spiritual Roots: Top-grade Earth and Wood Spiritual Roots]

[Age: 72 years old]

【Lifespan: 533 years】

【技能：种植三阶中等（13.2w/30w）、丹药三阶中等（21.6w/55w）、炼器三阶下等（11.1w/25w）、符箓三阶中等（4.9w/20w）、蛊术三阶下等（10.6w/22w）、阵法三阶中等（9.8w/60w）、傀儡三阶中等（10.1w/50w）】

【草木灵蕴：青玄灵蕴（三阶）*60、玉竹灵蕴*58、血珀灵蕴*100、溶血灵蕴*100、枯骨灵蕴*100、黄韧灵蕴*88、寒阳灵蕴*1、元华灵蕴*1】

[Spiritual Essence Entries: Vitality Level 3, Absorption Level 2, Wood Spirit Level 2, Heavenly Compass Level 2, Poison Level 2, Adaptability Level 3, Tenacity Level 2]

【Experience: 5000】

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