Cultivation begins with planting techniques

The top of Pingyang Mountain.

The spiritual energy surged and converged towards the cave that had been sealed off for some time.

However, under the control of the grand formation, apart from a slight disturbance at the mountaintop, all movement outside this area was concealed as much as possible.

However, very few people in the entire Pingyang Mountain could detect this subtle fluctuation of spiritual energy.

This continued for several hours, until the spiritual energy above the cave began to vaguely form certain strange phenomena, with the plants and trees seemingly undergoing transformation.

Suddenly, an extremely strong suction force erupted within the cave, and the faintly formed spiritual energy phenomenon was abruptly sucked into it, all changes vanished, and it was completely transformed into resources for Li Ye within the cave.

This change lasted only a few breaths before the cave's restrictions began to sway, and a vibrant, upward-striving energy, like the sprouting of plants, broke through the seal and leaked out of the cave.

The few spirit plant maids who remained on the mountaintop to serve were startled, their faces showing both awe and surprise.

Such a qualitative change in aura... Young Master must have successfully broken through!
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Inside the cave.

Li Ye's magical power surged, and it was somewhat uncontrollably floating on his body. The pressure of the late-stage Nascent Soul stage forced the cave's restrictions to flicker and enter a defensive state.

He slowly opened his eyes, and in them, the plants and trees evolved, from sprouting and growing to withering and merging into the world, becoming nutrients for new plant growth—a rapid and surging transformation.

But no matter how it evolves.

The towering tree at the center remains evergreen and stable, reaching from the sky to the earth.

With a blink, the strange phenomenon in his eyes dissipated, and his magical power receded. The oppressive aura emanating from Li Ye, whose face remained youthful like that of a jade-like youth, vanished, leaving only the fresh scent of nature.

"It went even more smoothly than I expected..."

Having broken through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, Li Ye felt his magical power had greatly increased compared to before, and couldn't help but mutter a phrase.

Although he had already cultivated to the peak of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm and reached a bottleneck, even with his current talent, which can be considered the best in the human world, it would still take some painstaking effort to break through without the help of any special pills.

However, the growth of his clone in the ancient tree realm, which continuously spurred the advancement of the sacred tree runes, brought him insights that were quite effective in drawing parallels between different things.

The bottlenecks that were originally in the way have naturally loosened up.

"If my clone can truly find that ancient tree in the void realm and make it my own, perhaps my true self can then cross over to it..."

"Given the situation in the Ancient Tree Realm, unless there are other secrets I haven't yet uncovered, it's almost impossible to give birth to a Nascent Soul cultivator. A late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator is undoubtedly the pinnacle of this realm..."

"I can take whatever treasures I want from that realm. Since there are no opportunities for Nascent Soul in this realm, I can go to other realms to find them!"

Li Ye silently made his plans.

This plan has now become his first choice.

He no longer had much hope for the human world.

Over the years, spanning southern Xinjiang and the East China Sea, and controlling Pingyang Mountain and Lingbie Island, the resources he has managed have increased exponentially compared to before.

The ability to gather intelligence from various domains naturally increased as well.

However, regarding the opportunity to become a Nascent Soul cultivator, not only was he completely clueless, but even other sects in various regions with late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators seemed to have no further clues.

Many of them are nearing the end of their lifespan, yet there is no sign that they will take that step.

Those who have transformed into immortals are almost nowhere to be seen.

Now that Wu Youzhu is gone, the entire Southern Frontier has almost completely fallen into the control of the Six Desires Sect and the Heavenly Profound Sect. It's quite possible that they've inherited Wu Youzhu's legacy. Yet, those two leaders of the righteous and demonic factions haven't made any moves, have they?

He had no way of knowing how Wu Youzhu broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, but if there were more opportunities of that level, they should also be effective for Nascent Soul cultivation.

However, all the Nascent Soul cultivators maintained a balance, and no one made any further progress, which almost certainly means that the opportunities for Nascent Soul cultivation in the human world have been almost exhausted.

Perhaps one day the heavens and earth will nurture it again, since this realm can still support the emergence of fifth-order spiritual veins, and naturally it can also nurture spiritual objects of this level.

As for lifespan, Li Ye is perfectly capable of waiting.

But if one can gain something from the world of ancient trees, why not?

Although clones lack panel attributes, it is not easy to cultivate extraordinary spiritual plants from scratch.

However, the clone's ability to transform into the Purifying Willow and intercept auras at any time is sufficient, and in the past few years, it has almost yielded results in a tree species with stable characteristics!

At that time, he could obtain a sufficiently high status from the Heavenly Sword Sect, investigate the situation of the Ancient Tree Realm, and make great progress.

Compared to competing with a group of people in the human realm, the accumulation in the ancient tree realm is much more worth looking forward to!

Having consolidated his cultivation, Li Ye emerged from the cave and saw several plant and tree spirit maidens who always accompanied him waiting there, offering their sweet congratulations:
"This servant wishes you great progress in your cultivation, young master!"

As plants and trees naturally cultivated by nature, these fairies possess a unique and contradictory charm that is both refreshing and alluring.

The sight of them lined up in front of him was quite pleasing to the eye, and Li Ye's lips curled up even more as he walked forward.

"Hahaha! Such a joyous occasion should be shared by all of you!"

With a flick of his finger, a divine light seemed to emanate from him, and instantly, delicate voices filled the air.

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Splash, splash, splash.

The Void Tree swayed incessantly, and many branches hidden in the clouds sometimes dissolved into the void and sometimes returned to solidity, intermittently drawing power from the void.

Li Ye stood under the tree, his expression slightly solemn.

This change in the Void Tree is very similar to the two previous instances of its descent.

The only difference is that the previous two anomalies of the Void Tree were initiated directly when the void was unstable, with almost half of the tree probing into the void and absorbing energy at will.

This time, however, the Void Tree worked intermittently, as if it were sometimes effective and sometimes not.

This situation began shortly after he broke through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm and has remained so for some time.

Li Ye had never encountered such an unusual situation before.

However, based on his current understanding of the mysteries of the void and his communication with the Void Tree, it can be deduced that perhaps the human world has already begun to make contact with another world!
Thus, the void of the human realm was disturbed once again. However, the descent into the realm was not yet complete, and the Void Tree could not take advantage of the situation to absorb the power of the void as it had done the previous two times.

"If my deduction is correct, given the increasingly frequent merging of the Void Tree into the void, I fear that a true descent into the realm will occur within seven days..."

Li Ye murmured, "I just don't know if this 'descendance' extends throughout the five regions, or only involves the Southern Frontier..."

Even before he sent a clone to the Ancient Tree Realm, there were already unstable descent channels appearing from time to time in the human realm, which could be seen as a sign that a descent might occur.

He wasn't particularly surprised.

He had just been placing his hopes for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage and advancing to the Spirit Realm on the Ancient Tree Realm, and now, in the blink of an eye, he was about to encounter a new world again. This was truly a coincidence. (End of Chapter)