Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 785 Fourth-Order High-Grade Gathering Yuan Tree

Hu Lingshan's eyes flickered with worry. Humans are close to the Dao, while it takes decades or even centuries for demon beasts to develop intelligence, whereas ten years is enough for humans.

Humans do not have bloodline inheritance, but every generation produces cultivators at the Nascent Soul level.

In the past, the demon beast race was originally the overlord of the cultivation world, but was gradually driven out of the most prosperous areas of each continent by the once weak human race.

Now, a Nascent Soul force has emerged in the Western Continent. What will it be like a thousand years from now?
From a rational perspective, it is now necessary to suppress the development of the human race, otherwise, as they continue to grow, they will block the sunlight from surviving the demon beast race.

Hu Yujie, unaware of her great-grandmother's thoughts, lowered her head slightly and said:

"I have received a great favor from True Lord Xuanqing, and I should repay it, but I don't know what would be a good way to give it?"

The debt of gratitude for saving my life is too great, so I must repay it.

What are you going to give them?

"Give me some spiritual herbs or other resources. These resources can be used to refine pills to improve cultivation. It would be an excellent gift for any cultivator."

"For a race, cultivating spiritual herbs is much more difficult than for human cultivators."

This True Demon Calamity caused enormous losses to the entire Qingqiu, and Shouyin Mountain almost fell.

Moreover, many spiritual vein nodes have been contaminated by malevolent true demons, and we need to spend a great deal of effort to purify the contamination.

Every resource is precious now, so I don't object to you using your own savings to repay others, but I don't allow you to take from the community's resources.

Hu Lingshan said in a deep voice, "This war is extremely dangerous. Although the True Demon Army has withdrawn, it has left behind a mess that only they can clean up."

In addition, in a few years we will need to find the Demon Cave to seal it, which will require resources.

Hu Yujie gave a bitter smile. She had stored many of her resources in the Void Stone she carried with her, but they were taken by the enemy after she was captured.

Some resources are stored in her cave, but these resources cannot be touched lightly, as they are related to her next stage of cultivation.

Considering all this, there aren't many resources that can be given away, and giving them away would seem too meager.

"I can only repay the life-saving kindness in a few years."

Hu Lingshan nodded gently, "The right choice. The most important thing now is to heal your injuries as soon as possible, and then work with everyone to purify the pollution of the Qingqiu Mountains."

The true demons' method of polluting the spiritual vein nodes is extremely insidious. If it is dealt with too slowly, the spiritual veins will gradually wither, which would be the beginning of the decline of the Heavenly Fox Clan.

The spiritual vein's grade has already dropped by one grade during the war and cannot be damaged further.

Ji An felled a top-grade third-tier Azure Dragon Wood, took out the Azure Lotus Treasure Banner, and used a magic technique to refine the spirit wood.

The physical form of this magical artifact has been damaged. It needs to be refined with wood-elemental spiritual energy to speed up its recovery. Otherwise, relying solely on the nourishment of its primordial fire, it's uncertain when the artifact will be restored.

He has no shortage of high-grade spirit wood here, and can use it in large quantities.

It took him about two hours to refine a five-foot-long piece of spirit wood, and the hole on the Azure Lotus Banner shrank slightly.

It would take a lot of time and spirit wood resources to fully restore it.

Ten years have passed since Hu Yujie left, and there has been no news of her since.

Ji An was somewhat angry about this, and sometimes he couldn't help but feel regretful, thinking that he should have chosen to imprison the other party and then turn him into Daoist essence.

His main goal was to make contact with Qingqiu, but it seems that his good intentions were a waste of time and effort.

In the Wuji Hall, many cultivators at the Golden Core level and above from the sect gathered together.

Ji An sat down in the head seat. He had just returned from his escape from Yuanhe Mountain, bringing back some exciting news:
"Based on my observation, the rate at which demonic energy is surging out of the Yuanhe Mountain Demon Cave is only about 30% of what it used to be."

It is estimated that in another three to five years, the rate at which demonic energy is escaping from the Demon Cave will reach a point where it needs to be sealed off again.

Once the Demon Cave is sealed off, the remaining demonic energy will soon be purified by the cultivation world, meaning that the True Demon Tribulation will be completely over in a few years.

Lin Jiuxiao's face lit up with joy as he said:
"The thickness of the demonic energy has now been greatly reduced, so thin that it can be penetrated by sunlight."

We have dispatched a large number of disciples to search for survivors in various spiritual veins and have begun selecting sites for the construction of markets.

He has many issues to consider, including the expansion of the sect.

Qin Yan smiled and said:

"We have refined a large number of Thunder Pearls but have not used them. In the future, we can use Thunder Pearls as a regular trading item in the sect."

During the entire outbreak of the True Demon Tribulation, apart from the nearly one thousand Thunder Pearls used ten years ago, all the Thunder Pearls that were refined were put into the Treasure Pavilion.

Once the Tribulation of the True Demon ends, trade between the sect and other continents will resume.

Zhang Zeye reported the good news, saying:
"The spiritual veins are recovering faster than I expected, and I anticipate that they will be able to advance in rank in another two or three months."

"it is good!"

Everyone cheered and a smile appeared on their faces.

Ji An nodded slightly and said:

"This is the best news in recent years. I originally thought that the upgrade of the spiritual vein grade would not be achieved until the True Demon Tribulation was completely over."

He was happier than others because he could obtain the Daoist essence, which was equivalent to doubling his gains.

He turned to look at Zhang Zeye and asked:

"Does the sect have the ability to further improve the grade of the spiritual veins?" "I think they do, but I don't recommend doing so."

According to the records of the Five Elements Sect, the number of spiritual items required to upgrade a spiritual vein of level four or above by one minor grade is several times that of the past.

"Although we have the depleted spiritual veins at the foot of Crimson Flame Peak that we can utilize, further upgrading them would likely require pouring all our accumulated resources over the years into it, which would disrupt the sect's normal operations."

For most cultivators, a low-grade fourth-order spiritual vein is sufficient. Even if the spiritual vein is upgraded to a top-grade fourth-order spiritual vein, the benefits gained by the cultivators will not necessarily increase much.

Taking cultivation as an example, if the speed of refining spiritual energy cannot be increased, then even a high concentration of spiritual energy cannot be utilized.

Among the several factors that affect the speed of refining spiritual energy, cultivation level is one of the most important. Other factors include the characteristics of the cultivation technique and the understanding of the technique.

Ji An nodded slightly. In the last few hundred years, he had witnessed the sect's spiritual vein grade rise from the second-tier top grade to the third-tier top grade, and in a while, he would witness it rise to the fourth-tier low grade.

Such a leap in progress might take other sects thousands of years.

A fourth-grade low-level spiritual vein is sufficient to support a cultivator to advance to the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak and flew to the summit.

With the sect's spiritual vein upgrade imminent, he needed to prepare and plan ahead to prevent the gushing lava from covering the entrance to his cave.

He enlisted the help of Golden Retriever and Big Yellow, two earth-elemental beasts who were adept at digging holes in rocks.

"You two dig three rows of trenches at this location, each one zhang wide, three zhang deep, and fifty zhang long, with a spacing of one zhang between them."

Ji An pointed out the location to the beast tamers, and then took out two spirit fruits and tossed them to the beast tamers.

The two beasts bit the spirit fruit, chewed it a few times, swallowed it, and then began to dig diligently.

The hard lava rocks were torn apart by Da Huang's sharp claws. Over the years, it had devoured all the fragments of the fire elemental beast's golden core and reached the third level of the golden core realm.

The golden retriever ran back and forth, moving the broken soil and rocks away.

Seeing that both beasts were working very hard, Ji An gave the following instructions:

"There's still plenty of time. Digging three trenches within a month shouldn't be difficult, and there will be a reward after completion!"

Big Yellow grinned and said:
"Thank you, Master."

The golden retriever couldn't speak, so it could only bark loudly, "Squeak!"

The sound has lost its former crispness.

Five-colored auspicious clouds rose from beneath Ji An's feet, swooping down to a cave halfway up the mountain, and then entering the gourd world.

The Wuji Apricot Yellow Flag was the first to fly out of the dantian, letting out a deafening roar, which was very flamboyant.

What came into Ji An's view was the towering trunk of the Gathering Yuan Tree, which was four or five feet taller than yesterday and even more lush.

He was overjoyed and flew to the side of the big tree, extending his divine sense to feel the strength of the life force within it.

"It's reached the fourth-tier superior grade!"

Ji An roared, his heart filled with excitement.

Over the past decade, he has buried all the ashes of Nascent Soul level cultivators under the Gathering Yuan Tree, and today he is reaping a rich reward.

He slapped his thigh suddenly and said in frustration:

"Pity."

The five-colored flowers are not yet mature, and now that the spirit wood's grade has been upgraded, their maturity time will be delayed again.

Based on past experience, if the five-colored flower has already matured and fallen, it will bloom again as the quality of the spirit wood increases.

In this way, it's equivalent to him missing out on a round of five-colored flowers, which is a real loss.

His frustration was quickly replaced by joy; the improvement in the grade of the Heavenly Spirit Wood would soon lead to the improvement of other spirit woods.

In addition, with the Gathering Yuan Tree drawing energy from the void, the speed at which the spiritual vein's grade improves will also accelerate, allowing him to cultivate within a mid-grade fourth-order spiritual vein.

Three months later.

A magnificent radiance, like the aurora borealis, appeared above the Golden Spirit Sect.

At Crimson Flame Peak, Ji An, Liu Yu, Qin Yan, Gu Hongming, and others sat around a stone table in a pavilion by the cold pool.

Gu Hongming looked up at the sky and shouted:
"I wonder if any top-grade fourth-tier spiritual objects will appear during this volcanic eruption."

Qin Yan shook his head slightly, "I think the possibility is relatively low. I have searched the underground magma of Crimson Flame Peak many times, but unfortunately I have never found any fourth-grade top-quality spiritual objects."

Because of his high level of cultivation, the important task of retrieving spiritual objects now falls on his shoulders.

Liu Yu laughed and said, "Fortunately, we have this depleted spiritual vein to support us, otherwise the sect's spiritual vein grade could not have improved so quickly."

If resources are insufficient, one will be hesitant and timid in doing anything.

As they were talking, the earth rumbled and trembled, and Ji An could clearly feel the ground begin to shake.

The water in the cold pool seemed to be boiling, with strings of fist-sized bubbles bubbling out.

At the summit of Crimson Flame Peak, crimson lava flows straight into the sky, staining half the sky blood-red.

(End of this chapter)