Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 753 Crazy Plan

Ji An tilted his head slightly and said softly:
"Do you know how that lightning-struck peach tree in the small world came to be?"

Lin Lan, understanding the implication, said in astonishment:

"Could it be that Master created it by hand?"

Ji An smiled faintly, "Indeed, let's see if a miracle will happen this time."

The two disciples exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with hope.

If a second lightning-struck tree can be obtained, it proves that this method is indeed feasible.

In that way, they might receive a reward from their master someday.

Ji An used his object manipulation technique to gather all the tree roots together and walked out of the cave, giving the order:
“Cut these tree roots into small pieces about a foot long.”

The two disciples immediately got to work, and with little workload, they quickly finished the task.

Ji An once again used his object manipulation technique to gather the tree roots together and gently toss them out, scattering them evenly on the rocks, with each piece of tree root about three feet apart from the others.

"Generally speaking, to obtain lightning-struck wood, one needs a chance encounter with a thunderbolt. I simulate the scene of a thunderbolt by releasing the Yi Wood Divine Thunder."

He paused, then continued earnestly:

"It must be the Divine Lightning of Wood, only this kind of lightning can dispel the death energy in the spirit wood and re-condense its vitality. As for whether the spirit wood can withstand this blessing, that depends on fate."

Now he is a Nascent Soul cultivator, analyzing problems from a higher-dimensional perspective of Yin and Yang. All living beings contain two kinds of energy: life and death.

Birth is yang, death is yin; everything is destined for destruction from the moment of its birth. This is the way of heaven, equivalent to the most fundamental law and order in the world, and no living being can escape the fate of death.

Newborn creatures generate far more yang energy than yin energy, which is why they exhibit vigorous growth.

As living beings continue to grow, the yang energy they generate gradually decreases, while the yin energy they accumulate gradually increases, eventually leading to a state of yin-yang balance.

At this time, the yang energy in the body reaches its peak, making it the most powerful period of one's life.

Later, yin energy gained the upper hand, and living beings began to age, their bodies deteriorating day by day.

Whether one cultivates immortality, demonic cultivation, or any other form of cultivation, the cultivation process is a continuous process of increasing the yang energy within the body.

Each major advancement in one's realm allows one to regain a large amount of Yang energy, thus elevating one's level of life.

When a living being dies, its yang energy completely disappears, and the accumulated yin energy reaches its peak. In this state of yin-yang imbalance, the yin energy slowly dissipates, and everything turns into nothingness.

All plants, regardless of what elemental power they exhibit, inherently contain a trace of the highest-level wood element principle.

The greatest strength of the Wood element law lies in its ability to sustain life through cycles of birth, death, decay, and prosperity—something no other living being can do.

Ji An took a deep breath, and the hand seals in his hands changed continuously, releasing the divine lightning of the Wood element.

Under his precise control, flashes of blue lightning appeared a foot above the tree roots, which acted like lightning rods, attracting the lightning to strike.

Smoke billowed up, and some tree roots were directly ignited, instantly turning to ashes.

After the last section of the tree root withstood the divine lightning of the Wood element, Ji An extended his divine sense to scan the area, his brows furrowing slightly:

"This time we were unlucky; no new lightning-struck wood was produced."

When the spirit tree regains its vitality, it must contain a wisp of yang energy, but he found no yang energy in any section of the tree roots.

Lin Lan, seeing that some of the spirit trees had survived the lightning strike relatively intact, said, unwilling to give up:

"Let me search again, Master. How do I identify wood struck by lightning?"

"Dead tree roots can come back to life, which means that the dried roots will contain moisture again, showing a semi-dry appearance."

Lin Lan and Han Shan investigated together, but afterwards they were both somewhat dejected.

At first, although I didn't have high expectations, I still held onto the hope that things might turn out alright.

Han Shan frowned and pondered for a moment:

"Master, is it possible to directly release divine lightning onto a living spirit tree to create lightning-struck wood?"

"The theory is feasible. Divine lightning contains both destructive and creative power. Only spiritual wood that is reborn from the brink of death is truly lightning-struck wood."

The spirit tree must complete this process; otherwise, even if it survives the lightning, it won't be a lightning-struck tree, but merely a lucky survivor of lightning.

Ji An explained that lightning-struck wood is extremely rare in various factions, and the mysteries of creation are not something that cultivators can easily achieve.

Lin Lan suddenly had a whimsical idea and said:

"So, to obtain more lightning-struck wood, a massive amount of tree roots must be subjected to the impact of lightning."

When the number of samples increases, you're bound to get lucky and step in dog poop.

Low-level spiritual plants are relatively easy for us to obtain. Could we use the Divine Lightning of the Wood element to continuously bombard them and create new Lightning-Struck Wood?

"Of course, but the destructive aura contained in lightning is not something that low-grade spiritual plants can withstand."

I estimate the spirit wood must be at least a second-tier top-grade tree; otherwise, it would burn to ashes instantly. Are you sure you want to gamble thousands upon thousands of second-tier top-grade spirit trees on a single success?

Ji An scratched his head, unsure whether spirit trees that had died unnaturally could be used to obtain lightning-struck wood in this way. Lin Lan smiled wryly and shook her head slightly; the value created by thousands of second-tier top-grade spirit trees far exceeded that of a single lightning-struck wood.

She sighed and said helplessly:
"I wonder when we'll see the second lightning-struck tree."

Ji An narrowed his eyes slightly. His disciple's words reminded him that it was very difficult for others to obtain a large amount of second-grade top-quality spirit wood, requiring a significant investment of time. But he didn't need to.

In just six months, he will be able to obtain a large amount of second-tier top-grade spirit wood.

Thinking of this, he felt a surge of excitement. This plan was somewhat crazy; he would treat it as a grand lottery held every six months.

Even if he loses everything, it doesn't matter, because he can afford to gamble!
The group returned to their cave and chatted for a while before the two disciples took their leave.

Ji An entered the gourd world and immediately gave the following instructions:

"Ayun, take out all the spirit seeds below the third-tier high-grade level stored in the warehouse and move them to the central warehouse. I need them."

If you want to do something, you should do it swiftly and decisively, otherwise it will be delayed for a long time.

Ayun nodded obediently, took out the spirit shuttle, and went to do her errand.

Ji An took out a jade bottle and let out a long howl, the unique tone of his voice resounding throughout every corner of the small world.

The cry of a golden eagle came from afar, and the tamed beast quickly flew to the center of the small world.

Ji An reached into the jade bottle and poured out a sesame-sized golden fragment. The beast carefully pecked at the fragment and swallowed it in one gulp. A surge of medicinal power emanated from its body, and a round bulge appeared under its feathers.

These protrusions keep moving and eventually shrink.

This golden fragment is a fragment of the Golden Core of the Golden Feathered Eagle Demon King, which he used to enhance his beast taming abilities.

The power of the same bloodline is more easily absorbed by the beasts. In a few years, he will have a few more beasts at the Golden Core level under his command.

He observed for a while, making sure the beast wouldn't explode from the surging demonic energy within its body, and then strolled to a spot not far away.

He took out the inner core of the Black Bear Demon King and activated the Azure Lotus Burning Heart Flame to begin refining and purifying the blood and demonic energy within the inner core.

This is a golden core of an earth-elemental demon beast. After refining it, it can be used to cultivate rock-armored bears and spirit-seeking rats.

Judging from the Rock Armor Bear's bloodline level, with this help, there's little doubt that it can break through to the Golden Core stage. However, the Spirit-Seeking Rat's bloodline level is not high, so whether it can break through the bloodline limit is unknown.

About an hour later, Ji An paused the purification of the demon beast's inner core. At this moment, A Yun walked over, nodded in greeting, and communicated with him telepathically:
"Master, the spirit seed is ready."

Ji An stood up and praised:
"Very good, hard work."

He arrived at the warehouse located on the yellow earth near the red spiritual field and saw jars and storage bags neatly arranged in categories.

After inspecting the spirit seeds, he nodded in satisfaction. He took out some seeds of various kinds, including Crimson Cloud Pine, Blazing Fire Immortal Apricot, Earth Spirit Fruit Tree, Nether Moon Jade Tree, Cloud Top Jade Tree, Heavenly Origin Pear, Dragon Blood Tree, and Jade Ivy Tree, and flew to the open space in the spirit field to plant them.

Every six months thereafter, use Yi Wood Divine Thunder to "harvest" once, and persist for decades to see if it has any effect.

The spiritual seeds he chose were mostly low-level spiritual plants, which consumed relatively little fertilizer from the spiritual fields when cultivating them.

Hope has been sown; the rest is up to fate.

Under the moonlight, Ji An led the Rock Armor Bear out of the cave and rode the colorful auspicious clouds through the Crimson Flame Peak.

He searched for targets, digging up any second-tier top-grade spiritual plants he encountered. After digging up four spiritual plants, he gave the order:
"I must enter the small world and prevent any creature from approaching the gourd stone."

Big Yellow growled, indicating that it understood.

Ji An took out the gourd stone and brought the spiritual plant into the small world to plant it.

He did this repeatedly, and in total he transplanted one hundred spirit trees.

All of this was done to verify whether high-grade spirit wood transplanted from the outside world could survive in the gourd world.

If transplanting a second-tier top-grade spiritual plant fails, transplanting a third-tier spiritual plant is even less likely to succeed.

The bright moon shone on the mountains many times. Half a month later, Han Yan and Lin Lan arrived at Crimson Flame Peak together.

Inside the cave, Han Yan took out a jade slip and a storage bag, handed them over, and said:

"True Lord, these are the spiritual herbs we have compiled that need to be planted in the small world. They are all medicinal materials for refining pills at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm or above. The storage bag contains spiritual seeds."

The sect has accumulated enough materials for Fire Essence Pills for the time being.

Sufficient materials have been planted in the spirit field, so there will be no shortage in the future.

Ji An took the item, extended his divine sense to read the information in the jade slip, and after pondering for a moment, said:
"Today I will plant a batch of spirit seeds, which contain the ingredients for two kinds of pills. The materials for the Divine Fire Spirit Nourishing Pill will be enough for about twenty batches, and the materials for the Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill will be enough for sixty batches."

The small world has reserved spiritual fields. The medicinal materials for the Purple Cloud Jade Mushroom Pill are estimated to mature in just eighty or ninety years, while the materials for the Divine Fire Spirit-Nourishing Pill are estimated to mature in about one hundred and twenty years.

In addition, he was able to supply the sect with Five Qi Pills, so the shortage of pills for Golden Core cultivators was no longer a problem.

Han Yan felt a spring breeze on her face and said:

"If we can refine this many pills, our sect will have nothing to worry about."

(End of this chapter)