Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 420: Void Enlightenment
"With the help of the tree's spiritual energy, I can temporarily shed my ordinary spirit form and transform into a human form, but it can't last long..."

Qing Luo, who was only surrounded by simple grass leaves to cover her sensitive parts, giggled and turned around deliberately as if to show off to her creator Li Ye.

As the spirit derived from grass and leaf creatures, although Qing Luo has not yet cultivated to the level where he can refine his true body and transform into this form, this brief transformation also reveals the unique charm of a flower and grass spirit.

With only simple grass leaves to cover it, it has a unique natural style, and even though it is small, it is quite seductive.

However, in Li Ye's eyes, there was mostly only admiration, and the rest was surprise.

Of course, he knew that the aura emitted by the Sky Realm Tree was of great benefit to other spiritual plants. It could replenish their vitality and promote their own rank. It could be said to be an extremely diluted version of the spiritual essence of the Sky Realm.

But he could actually help the spirits of plants and trees transform into human form first, which really touched upon his blind spot in knowledge.

Even if it can only be done for a short period of time, it will have some benefits for the comprehension and cultivation of the spirit itself, and the enlightenment of spiritual wisdom... In the future, if you can cultivate to the peak of the third level, there will be fewer obstacles when you need to merge with the grass and wood bodies to transform, which will make the breakthrough much smoother.

"It seems that the Sky Realm Tree's essence has reached the fifth level. After breaking through the fourth level through cultivation, the spiritual energy it exudes has also increased, bringing about new changes..."

Li Ye was thinking, and the smile in his eyes deepened when he looked at Qing Luo.

He was originally wondering how long it would take for his subordinates to truly train a fourth-level spirit fighter. Now it seems that the time required might be much less than he had previously thought!

Perhaps before he can even cultivate to the late Nascent Soul stage, the plant and tree essences in the mountains will be promoted to the fourth level, increasing his combat power!
If this is the case, and if there are new monks with good qualifications who appear from time to time and make breakthroughs to higher realms, Li Ye will not have to worry about the future strength of Pingyang Mountain.

Putting Qing Luo on his shoulders and listening to her talk about some interesting things about the spirits of plants and trees, Li Ye strolled to the Kongjie tree at the center of the formation.

Feeling the deep connection between himself and the tree, as well as the joy transmitted by the Sky Realm Tree, Li Ye pinched a spell, and his own divine light and true fire shot out and fell into the tree's body that was as big as a hill, combing the wood energy and purifying the impurities for it.

In essence, it might be similar to scratching and smoothing the fur of your own cats and dogs, which immediately caused the Sky Tree to tremble slightly, and the breath became much smoother, giving off a sense of comfort.

Li Ye patted the green trunk of the Sky Realm Tree, his eyes were inexplicable.
"The effects of [Qingling] cover all spiritual plants, but it has yet to stimulate your spirituality and help you condense your spirit and further transform. What a pity..."

Li Ye saw the changes in the magical powers of other second- and third-level spiritual plants after they gave birth to and condensed their spiritual essences. They were all magical in their own way, and were not inferior to the bloodline magical powers of those monsters.

Even low-level spiritual plants can undergo such changes. If the Sky Realm Tree can transform into a spirit, with its innate magical powers in the void and wood elements, it will definitely become Li Ye's greatest help!

Perhaps for other cultivators, if they obtained such a sacred tree, they would definitely take good care of it and at the same time try their best to prevent it from producing spiritual plants and turning into monsters.

Otherwise, once the spiritual plant becomes autonomous, even if its cultivation is successful, it will certainly be a great force to suppress luck. However, it is possible that it will do something out of control and no longer have its way as before. This will be greatly detrimental to the sect's reliance on this tree to obtain various spiritual materials to support the cultivation of the entire sect!

But it was different for Li Ye.

The plant spirits stimulated by [Qingling] were already contractually linked to Li Ye through the interface, so there was almost no need to worry about betrayal. It was like taking only the benefits and discarding all the disadvantages. He had always been looking forward to this.

However, perhaps due to the difference in levels, even though Li Ye had taken care of it for many years, and since he obtained the [Wood Spirit], the [Green Spirit] was not far from level four, it had not yet been triggered and taken effect on the Sky Realm Tree, so Li Ye no longer had any expectations and just felt regretful.

The Sky Tree swayed gently, not conveying any real meaning, but the whole tree did have a very lively spirituality.

Seeing this scene, Li Ye smiled helplessly.
"Never mind... If you keep going like this, even if the [Qingling] attribute doesn't trigger, relying solely on your own accumulation, it might not take long for you to completely take that step. It all depends on your luck..."

He rose up and walked straight into the dense tree canopy. The surrounding branches moved to the sides, leaving a passage for him.

Li Ye went deeper and deeper, and came to the center of the tree canopy, a place protected by thousands of branches.

One of the branches was particularly thick, and the runes on it were also more complex. On the branch, a pure purple fruit as round as a ball was hanging quietly.

The green and light silver spiritual patterns on the whole fruit are winding to form strange runes that are different from those on the Void Tree. A quick look reveals that the mystery of the void is very profound. Even with the realm accumulated by Li Ye through multiple entries, he still finds it a bit obscure and difficult to understand.

However, by combining the different spiritual patterns of the Sky Realm Tree and this fruit and comparing them with each other, one can gain some understanding.

As this fruit gradually matured, Li Ye only recently discovered that it had displayed such magical powers. He would come to comprehend it from time to time. Now, his understanding of the Way of the Void can be said to be new every once in a while.

The feedback to the art of talismans, the art of formations and even his own cultivation has been of some help. He also has some ideas about how to draw the fourth-level forbidden-breaking talisman, which should have been at the upper fourth level before he had enough foundation.

However, the inheritance of the Tiangong Sutra did not involve much, only the void changes of the teleportation array. He also had some inspiration for drawing talismans and refining tools based on his understanding of the spiritual patterns of the tree and fruit.

The Wooden God Cauldron serves as the core of the formation and can be used to quickly deploy the formation with the help of divine light. It can also suppress the void and disrupt the Yuanying's teleportation. These are all methods to fight against the enemy.

But after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, Li Ye found that he lacked some means of escape.

Even a powerful puppet like the natal puppet can escape into the void for a short time but cannot fly far. It relies more on the magic of using the void to conceal itself.

If I can learn the talismans related to the Void Escape Technique, then I will have the confidence to evacuate at any time when I am outside in the future.

Now with this spiritual fruit as a reference, it won’t be long before I can master this skill!
In addition to the comprehension of the void spiritual pattern, Li Ye was even more interested in the only fruit produced by this void tree after the fourth level.

It has been dozens or even hundreds of years since this fruit was produced. Although it was spent in the small void of the Wood God Cauldron for a considerable period of time and lacked spiritual energy, it was nourished by the Void Tree itself, so its growth was not greatly affected.

With the abundant spiritual energy in Pingyang Mountain in recent years, this fruit has grown rapidly. Now it shows some strange signs. Perhaps it is not far from maturity?

(End of this chapter)