Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 511 Second-Order Gathering Yuan Tree

The mimicry array disappeared, and Ji An stepped into the lava cave.

There are many holes as thick as water buckets in the rock wall; these are the tunnels of the fire crystal ants.

With the nourishment of second-grade and top-grade Crimson Cloud Pine, these insect-like monsters lived a very comfortable life.

The queen ant has already reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and with the accumulation of time, it is possible for her to advance to the Origin Stage.

That would be a transformative change for the entire group.

Ji An was somewhat worried about what to do with the fire crystal ants when he left the sect; leaving them here was not an option.

The best solution is to take away the queen ant and the strongest batch of fire crystal ants, and have the successor here sign a blood pact with the new queen ant.

He walked to the end of the passage, opened the sealing array, and his Taoist robe billowed and fell down.

The fire corals planted around the perimeter have already reached the second-tier superior quality. Their propagation method is the same as that of bamboo, and Ji An often removes plants with insufficient potential.

After grinding, mix it with the red sand from the fire crystal ants and sprinkle it near the roots of the Azure Flame Purple Spirit Gourd as fertilizer.

This is a superior fertilizer for fire-elemental plants, and the phoenix tree also enjoys this benefit.

Golden stripes appear on the lotus seedpods of the green-leaved red lotus, a sign that they are gradually maturing.

When the lotus seedpod completely turns golden, it means that the Azure Lotus Burning Heart Fire is fully mature.

Now that Ji An's cultivation has reached the Golden Core level, the time it takes for the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire to mature will be shortened considerably, and he will definitely take one of the condensed fire seeds.

The Azure Lotus Burning Heart Flame offers additional benefits to alchemists and should not be missed.

Ji An released three planting spells, and as the light of the Zhu Rong Divine Fire Spell illuminated the cave, the Azure Lotus Burning Heart Flame appeared as promised.

Strands of fire-elemental spiritual light were drawn together by an invisible force, gathering into clouds that surrounded the heavenly fire and were then swallowed up by it.

The flames of the Azure Lotus Burning Heart Fire were clear, lively, and enchanting; their light made everything else pale in comparison.

The phoenix tree sways gracefully, its bark displaying periodic flashes of feathery gold patterns.

The bright moon cast its clear light, and the silvery leaves of the copper-patterned mulberry swayed in the evening breeze, their silvery light shimmering like the surface of the sea at night.

A sense of stillness tinged with a chilling aura—this is the characteristic of metal-elemental spiritual plants.

Over the years, neither the Emerald Leaf Mulberry nor the Copper Pattern Mulberry has produced a second-tier top-quality plant.

In Ji'an's view, they had each reached the limit of their species.

Jade Leaf Mulberry is a high-quality feed for demonic beasts, and can be used to cultivate herbivorous demonic beasts at the Foundation Establishment level in large quantities.

Meat is supplied daily to the sect's lower-ranking disciples, which greatly reduces their growth time.

Copper-patterned mulberry is the food of golden-bearded silkworms, and the production of high-grade silkworm silk in the sect is increasing year by year.

The wealth earned from these two spiritual plants is relatively small, but they have become the cornerstone industry of the sect, and Ji An has no intention of cutting them down to plant other spiritual plants.

The sect is a whole; he cannot abandon the cause after helping Crimson Flame Peak improve the grade of its spiritual veins.

Ji An hovered above the Xuan Ye Sword Bamboo on a cloud, its soft golden light shimmering.

Crimson Flame Peak is not dark at all at night because there are just too many second-tier spiritual plants.

Currently, there are eleven second-tier top-grade Xuan Ye Sword Bamboo plants, which can basically meet the needs of the sect's disciples. There are not many cultivators with the financial resources to refine top-grade spiritual weapons.

The planting area of ​​Gentle Bamboo has now reached 200 acres. In a few years, a lot of the top-grade Golden Leaf variety will be stored up every year, which was unimaginable in the past.

The Vajra Bodhi tree has been upgraded to the second-tier top-grade level, but it has not yet borne fruit.

Based on the experience of Bodhi trees, it will take another four or five years before they begin to bear fruit.

Ji An continuously released the Yellow Dragon Enhancing Yuan Technique, causing yellow spiritual light to ripple and nourishing magical intent to rise, making the silver and gold leaves shine even brighter.

Inside the underground cave, the golden retriever lay fast asleep under the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

On the four second-tier top-grade Earth Spirit Fruit trees, the leaves, as if carved from topaz, stretched out their graceful forms.

Ji An chuckled. This beast used to be active only at night, but its routine has changed now.

To be honest, the golden retriever is the biggest beneficiary of the Soul-Nourishing Wood's grade improvement, spending most of its time next to the spirit tree every day.

He activated the Yellow Dragon Enhancing Yuan Technique, and the fluctuations in his magical power caused the golden-haired man to open his eyes.

It looked up and squeaked.

Then, he lay down and fell fast asleep.

Ji An shook his head. He felt that raising spirit-seeking rats was a waste of his resources. He rarely went out to seek opportunities now, so the beasts that could search for spirits were useless.

He used earth-遁 (earth-遁术) to return to the ground, then flew on a cloud to the edge of the icy pool:
"Feng Xing, tomorrow you and Liu Ruhai will pilot the flying boat to deliver the felled Azure Dragon Wood to Zhu Xiangrong's cave on Red Copper Mountain."

The two disciples said in unison:
"As ordered."

Ji An returned to his cave dwelling on a cloud. He first cast spells on the spiritual plants such as the Tianyuan Ginseng in the medicine garden, and then entered the quiet room.

"Finally finished, now it's the most important moment!"

He removed the gourd-shaped stone pendant, focused his mind on his dantian, and connected with the stone tortoise. "Refining the Dao essence to enhance the small world will stop after the spiritual vein's grade is upgraded."

Over the past few years, he has been using spirit soil and magic arrays to upgrade the grade of spirit fields, and now all of his spirit fields have been upgraded to the middle grade of the second tier.

Based on this calculation, the resistance to upgrading the spiritual veins will be very small, and there should still be a considerable amount of Daoist essence remaining.

As the command was given, the stone tortoise disappeared from Ji An's dantian and appeared in Ji An's palm, as if it had released some kind of escape technique.

It swallowed the gourd-shaped stone whole, and the tortoise shell shimmered with light, the Bagua pattern shining brightly.

Mysterious fluctuations appeared in the quiet room, surging like waves.

About half an hour later, the stone tortoise spat out the gourd stone, a proud light flashing in its eyes, and its body became ethereal and disappeared.

It returned to its dantian, lay down beside the primordial fire, closed its eyes, giving people the feeling of having concealed its merits and fame.

"That boss really has style!"

Ji An offered a compliment and then issued the order:

Enter the world of gourds!

Nothing happened.

He was stunned. After confirming that his divine sense was connected to the stone tortoise, he gave the order again:
Enter the world of gourds!

Nothing happened again. Ji An scratched his head, unable to understand why the stone turtle would go on strike.

He stroked the gourd-shaped stone in his hand, frowning and deep in thought. After a moment, he subconsciously extended his divine sense and discovered a silver light spot in what was once a pitch-black world stone.

His divine sense touched the point of light, and his figure disappeared.

Ji An felt as if he had been teleported, his consciousness momentarily blurred, and when he regained consciousness, he found himself standing on the yellow earth.

The Wuji Apricot Yellow Flag flew out of the Dantian and transformed into an Earth Qilin. Yellow auspicious clouds rose from its feet, carrying it to the Gathering Yuan Tree.

Ji An's eyes widened suddenly. He noticed that the spirit tree had grown two feet taller than when he entered a few days ago, and its trunk was also thicker.

He rushed to the side of the Heavenly Spirit Tree and probed his divine sense to feel the flow of life force.

This Heavenly Spirit Tree has reached the second-tier low-grade, and the spiritual vein has been upgraded to the second-tier middle-grade, a double blessing!

Based on past experience, as the grade of the spiritual root of heaven and earth increases, the spiritual energy that the stone turtle can absorb will also increase.

Ji An laughed heartily, feeling a sense of exhilaration as if the heavens and earth were all conspiring against him.

After a while, his laughter stopped, and he surveyed the vibrant world around him.

All the spiritual plants have been upgraded to the second-tier low-grade level, including the iron wire grass.

Based on past experience, this is simply impossible. Treasure plants like the Soul-Nourishing Wood and spirit plants like the Nightshade Tree with roots of the third rank would grow very slowly.

Ji An didn't know what effects other spiritual roots of heaven and earth had, but the Gathering Yuan Tree must have the function of accelerating the improvement of the grade of spiritual plants, and the Soul Nourishing Wood was proof of that!

In some respects, the improvement of the Gathering Yuan Tree's grade is more effective than the improvement of the Small World's spiritual veins.

Now that both have improved simultaneously, Ji An's excitement is unimaginable.

Fire coral, spirit peach, and azure dragon wood—all three of these spiritual plants can produce mid-grade second-tier plants. Now that the quality of spiritual veins has improved, mid-grade second-tier plants will become the mainstream in small worlds.

Among the towering insect towers, two stand out. While the other insect towers are yellowish-brown, these two have a jade-like luster.

These two insect towers are new-generation individuals of the Spirit-Eating Insects. When they emerge from their pupae, their size has shrunk, but the fluids they secrete have become more spiritual.

After the pupae are ground into powder, they become a higher-level material than the insect tower. Ji An felt that this spiritual material had other uses, but because the quantity was too small, it had no purpose for identification.

The Soul-Eating Insects are also the cornerstone of the Fire Crystal Ant and Spirit Fish clans, forming a 'basic industry'. The growth of their clans can accelerate the development of high-end products.

In a few years, a rare and precious dragonfish of the Chaoyuan period will be born.

Ji An began casting spells on the spirit fields. As the spiritual veins improved, the area of ​​the spirit fields increased accordingly. Now, the area of ​​the spirit fields has reached about one hundred acres, with each spirit field being twenty acres.

All the land that was originally the Crimson Spirit Field has been put to use, and now there is vacant land.

Each type of spirit field increased by about eight acres, but the fire and water spirit fields are special because they have volcanic lava areas and pond areas, so the amount of spirit field that can be planted only increased by four acres.

Ji An immediately sprinkled the pearl blood rice on it. Now that his spell effects have improved, the growth cycle of the spirit rice will be shortened, and the yield will be higher than before, which will result in more profits.

It would be difficult to monetize the spiritual rice because Ji An wanted to conceal its origin. He originally wanted to ask Senior Sister Han Yan for help in researching a fasting pill made primarily of pearl blood rice, but for the sake of secrecy, he decided to research it himself.

When selling elixirs, few people investigate the raw materials.

Han Shan planted spirit rice in his cave, but found that the yield was only about 200 catties per mu, and the profit was not high. It was far less profitable than planting fire-element spirit herbs, so he has now given up planting it.

After casting spells on all the spirit fields, Ji An was in a dilemma again. In the past, he had entered and exited the small world with the help of the stone tortoise. Now that he could enter on his own, how could he leave?
He contacted the stone tortoise and gave it the order to leave, but the tortoise ignored him, which means he was able to leave on his own.

Ji An began his search and finally found a node in the mist at the edge of the small world. He stepped into it and returned to the quiet room the next moment.

He had no intention of studying cultivation techniques. After breaking through to the Golden Core stage, he felt a deep sense of fatigue and needed to rest.

　Some friends said the third update is a bit late. I've been busy at work these past few days and haven't been writing much during the day. Plus, I'm not a fast writer. Don't wait, read it during the day.

　　
　
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