Cultivation begins with planting techniques

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Li Ye sent Bai Minghua out of Pingyang Mountain.

"Brother Li, there's no need to see me off any further. I will take care of that matter carefully!"

Bai Minghua's usually expressionless face now showed a hint of a smile.
Li Ye nodded with a smile:

"In that case, I, Li, will await your good news..."

Bai Minghua nodded, summoned a carriage, and immediately upon entering it, several demons restrained by reins appeared. With a howl, they dragged the carriage away in an instant.

Without lingering on the departing figure trailing dark clouds, Li Ye leisurely returned to the mountains, a smile appearing on his face.

"This time, by exchanging the Spirit-Seizing Technique for the Descending Realm Teleportation Technique, and even getting Bai Ming to act as the implementer, to go and collect spiritual veins in order to cultivate fifth-order spiritual veins, this deal is really well done!"

He knew that Bai Minghua suspected that he was behind both of the two descents to the mortal realm.

However, Bai Minghua could not produce any evidence, so he could only remain suspicious and dared not easily consider the option of teleportation to another realm.

But Li Ye is different. He controls the Void Tree. If he needs to perform the descent teleportation, he can naturally suppress the tree's instincts and even use it as an aid to locate the world and complete the teleportation.

Even if the ancient tree of the Void Realm did not meet his expectations and could not allow a cultivator's physical body to pass through, he still had a backup plan.

This is sufficient to allow the Void Realm Fruit to work in conjunction with the method of teleportation to different realms, so that even without cultivating the Tree of All Realms, one can continuously locate and travel to various realms to plan for one's own cultivation.

"From now on, let's prepare for both possibilities. Using the clone as an anchor, let's try to locate the Ancient Tree Realm and set up a teleportation descent..."

Li Ye thought for a moment and then summoned Qing Luo to give him instructions.

With his current power, he is actually not much worse than Wu Youzhu, the former Nascent Soul Venerable of the Southern Frontier, in terms of resource mobilization.

The setup for the descent teleportation alone, though costly, is sufficient.

Even considering that he has now reached the fifth level of array formation, even if the method of teleportation to another realm is difficult to set up, it should not take as long as it did for Wu Youzhu, which took at least a hundred years to complete.

No matter how fast it is, it can't actually keep up with the improvement of the Holy Tree Walker, so it's more of a backup option.

As for the matter of cultivating a fifth-order spiritual vein using the Spirit-Seizing Technique.

The Southern Frontier is currently dominated by Bai Minghua, who reigns supreme through demonic means.

Although he gave Li Ye some face after Li Ye's breakthrough, reduced some of his power, and gave the righteous sects some room to survive, Li Ye himself was not very interested in these things.

They only offered some protection to the sects and families that had initially come to them, and secured the agreed-upon conditions for the Tianxuan Sect.

In this situation, it would be most appropriate for Bai Minghua to handle the matter of seizing the spiritual vein.

They agreed that the righteous and demonic factions would each contribute half of the spiritual veins, while he simply used the two fourth-tier spiritual veins he had previously destroyed—the Evergreen Sect and the Demon Feeding Valley—as his contribution, thus becoming a hands-off manager.

If things go well, he and Bai Minghua will share the fifth-order spiritual vein cultivation ground.

After all, they were only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. If they were to gather their spiritual vein branches and use them only to support the two of them, it would be more than enough!
Those sects and forces that hoped he could still become the leader of the righteous path, fight against Bai Minghua, and fight for their interests, can only apologize!

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Bai Minghua made no attempt to conceal the fact that he had come to visit Li Ye, who had successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. Although no one dared to spy on him, the news spread quickly.

Many righteous forces believed that with Li Ye's arrival, the demonic path would soon restrain itself and return to the state of balance and interaction between the righteous and demonic paths when Meng Jingde was still alive.

They were finally able to recover some of their many losses.

However, they ultimately underestimated the detached mindset that cultivators possess after achieving the Nascent Soul stage, a mind uninterested in worldly affairs. The demonic path did indeed restrain itself somewhat, but only to those forces that had once pledged allegiance to Pingyang Mountain and considered themselves vassals, and who had not succumbed to or switched sides during the expansion of the demonic path.

And the Tianxuan Sect.

As a result, they received serious treatment from the demonic forces, who withdrew some of their resources, allowing them to largely return to their former state and thus regain their strength under the demonic power.

As for the other forces, they remained unchanged as always.

Such differential treatment has made many people realize the truth of the matter.

While the vassal forces of Pingyang Mountain came to express their gratitude, other righteous forces also flocked to the area, intending to pay their respects and show their loyalty.

However, Li Ye had no time to pay attention to these things at the moment, and had already devoted himself to deducing the method of teleportation to the lower realm, so he simply disappeared.

Even if these people wanted to serve, they would find it difficult to gain entry and have no way to exert their efforts.

This situation caused the cultivators to sigh in despair, daring not to speak out against their anger.

But soon after, they ran out of energy to waste any more time in Pingyang Mountain.

Without any warning, Bai Minghua suddenly took action, going to both Changqing Sect and Demon Feeding Valley, breaking down their gates, seizing their spiritual veins, and destroying their foundations.

Then, amidst the attention of everyone, a location was selected that was not much different from Pingyang Mountain and the Six Desires Sect, and a mountain with two peaks was forcibly elevated to a fourth-order spiritual land!

Although the art of soul-stealing has no lineage in the human realm, there are no shortage of related records.

Such a grand and ostentatious act made it immediately clear to the world that this was a method of stealing spirits!

The spiritual veins that were taken from Changqing Sect and Demon Feeding Valley were transferred here for further cultivation!

However, if one is cultivating a fifth-order spiritual vein with a fourth-order spiritual vein, two veins are far from enough.

The major sects of the Southern Frontier felt a chill run down their spines.

There are no fifth-order spiritual veins in the Southern Frontier, but there are quite a few fourth-order spiritual veins and sects, enough to make up nine.

There are now two, and seven more are needed... Who will fill the gaps?

Both of these spiritual veins originated from the sects that Li Ye destroyed back then, and he was likely involved in the process of seizing spiritual energy and establishing these veins.

Even the will of Bai Minghua alone is unyielding, let alone the fact that Li Ye also has a share.

Even the Demonic Sect couldn't be sure that Bai Minghua would only target the righteous sects and not attack them!

For a time, all the Nascent Soul sects in the Southern Frontier were in a state of panic, and they sought ways to resolve the situation, either visiting Pingyang Mountain or contacting the Six Desires Sect.

However, no one was able to see Li Ye and Bai Minghua's faces.

At the same time, Bai Minghua gave them no room to struggle, acting swiftly and decisively.

They quickly located a demonic sect, ordered its entire entourage to leave, and seized its spiritual veins.

Not long after the relocation, he reappeared at a righteous sect and issued the same order.

Throughout the entire process, no one dared to resist.

Given Bai Minghua's style of doing things, it's probably already considered that Li Ye had made a request for them to be transferred; otherwise, he would have directly attacked their mountain, and they would have died if they didn't leave!

This alternation of good and evil, while causing constant turmoil in the Southern Frontier, also led to the convergence of the Nine Meridians in a very short time. This transformed the originally unremarkable mountains into a treasure land where spiritual essence gathered, resembling a celestial mountain! (End of Chapter)