Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 862 Fourth-Order High-Grade Natal Spiritual Treasure
The next day, Ji An walked into the small world feeling refreshed, ready to greet the sunrise.

At that moment, a layer of golden-purple clouds appeared on the horizon, resembling several brightly colored koi fish playing.

Five-colored auspicious clouds rose from beneath his feet, and he flew upwards to a certain height before sitting down cross-legged.

A moment later, as the morning light shone, he activated a secret technique to absorb the purple aura of the rising sun hidden within the morning light.

Strands of purple light condensed into threads, which Ji An swallowed and gathered in his middle dantian, surrounding the Qi and Blood Golden Core like a nebula.

After absorbing the morning dew, Ji An flew to the place he had cultivated the day before and found that much of the magic and divine power had "evaporated," and there was not much moisture left in the nourished soil.

"Tsk tsk, this is tricky."

He sighed softly, a glimpse into the troubles of transforming the Land of No Spirits.

He reached up and scratched his head, questioning his decision. Judging from the facts, even if he could gain merit by restoring life to the Land of Desolation, the efficiency would certainly be low.

Because he can only cast spells on tens of thousands of acres of land at most at the same time, the divine power of the spell dissipates too quickly, so the frequency of casting spells is estimated to be once every two days.

"Give it a try and see how long it takes to gain merit, and how much merit you gain."

Comforting himself with a thought, Ji An completed another spell on 10,000 mu of spiritual fields, right next to the land where he had performed the spell yesterday.

After doing all that, he randomly found a few flying puppets to check their movements from last night, and saw nothing unusual in the footage.

Ji An rode the clouds back to his cave and entered the small world to continue cultivating his skills.

The days passed peacefully, and two months went by.

Ji An was filled with relief after casting the spell on the land. Originally, the magic and divine intent could barely last for two days, and there was almost no moisture left in the land.

Now that the divine intent of the spell can be retained for three days, and the soil becomes more moist, he immediately added another 10,000 mu of land to cast the spell.

This is similar to desertification control; when the soil can retain moisture, it means that it has been effective.

A year later, Ji An had cultivated 300,000 mu of land. In fact, he could have transformed even more land, but he didn't want to, since there was no guarantee of any profit.

The magical intent lingered in the land where the spell was first cast for nearly a month, and what was once barren is now overgrown with weeds.

Managing 300,000 mu of land was a piece of cake for him. He only had a little over half an hour to work each day, leaving him plenty of time to cultivate and contemplate the details of the Moon Palace.

The place where he built his cave was just a tiny spiritual vein node. The role of a first-grade low-level spiritual vein was only to reduce the consumption of high-grade spirit stones by the magic array. The spiritual energy that the stone turtle could draw from here was negligible.

Fortunately, all his spells that could activate spiritual energy to enhance their power had already reached the Great Perfection level, so he didn't have an urgent need for spiritual energy and didn't care much about it.

Two more years passed. When Ji An left the small world, dozens of strands of Xuanhuang merit energy passed through the barrier of the magic array and landed on him, entering his upper dantian with ease.

"OK!"

The reward for your efforts is the most wonderful thing in the world, bar none.

He flew into the air, absorbed the morning sun's purple dew as the sun rose, and then released a golden light that swept across the land to the edge of the Spirit-Severing Land.

The first piece of land to receive the spell is now covered with lush grass and dotted with wildflowers.

He landed and used his divine sense to sense the soil, discovering that it had undergone a fundamental change. It was no longer the lifeless, despair-filled sand of the Desolate Land, but had become normal soil.

Although these lands do not yet meet the standards of spiritual veins, the spiritual energy they contain is already comparable to the spiritual fields by the Azure Lake when he entered the sect.

The land, which was originally devoid of normal life, now has grasshoppers and various small insects, earthworms in the soil, and occasionally birds rest here.

Ji An flew to the border between normal land and the land of spiritlessness, where he could feel the land of spiritlessness constantly eroding the normal land.

If left unchecked, the transformed land could be reverted to the Spirit Realm within a few years.

He suddenly had a brilliant idea, thinking to himself:

'How about we try letting a piece of land be eroded again, and then using magic to restore it, to see if we can gain merit again?'

This method is a bit underhanded, but if you can endlessly exploit the Heavenly Dao, it's worth a try.

If all their firepower is unleashed, Ji An is confident that he can restore this vast, desolate land to normal.

Having made up his mind, Ji An marked a thousand acres of land, preparing to let them be swallowed up again by the Land of Extinction, and then verify his guess.

Having gained merit, Ji An had no more worries and decided to spend three or four hours each day casting spells to expand the scope of his spells.

Over the next two weeks, celestial music played continuously in the heavens, and the 300,000 mu of land that was originally under their control contributed a great deal of Xuanhuang merit energy.

After comparing the area of ​​land to be modified, Ji An found that the merit gained per acre was slightly lower than that of purifying a demonic vein, and the modification process took longer, up to three years, while purifying a demonic vein only took a little over two years. From a numerical perspective, the efficiency of gaining merit here was much worse than purifying a demonic vein, so it was better to go to Zhongzhou.

However, the demonic veins in the Central Continent are relatively scattered, with varying sizes for each vein, and there aren't enough to purify. All things considered, staying in this desolate land isn't so bad.

In addition, staying in Xizhou would allow him to guard the sect's entrance, and he would surely catch any Buddhist cultivators entering or leaving through this road.

After much deliberation, Ji An decided to stay here.

The vast land of spiritlessness between the Western Continent and the Central Continent was not formed all at once, nor is it a single entity. Rather, it was formed by the continuous encroachment of many spiritlessness lands on normal land, and these spiritlessness lands were all left behind after each True Demon Tribulation.

Thinking of this, Ji An was horrified. If you put the things together and look at the true demons' behavior with conspiracy theories, you'll find that this is a vicious scheme.

Zhongzhou is the most beautiful and spiritually rich land in the Eastern Continent, and also the region where cultivators are the most powerful. Originally, it was directly adjacent to Xizhou, but in tens of thousands of years, this border passage may be severed.

During this True Demonic Calamity, many areas in the Central Continent were polluted, the quality of spiritual veins was reduced, and demonic veins were formed.

If this happens repeatedly, hundreds of thousands of years later, the Central Continent will likely be filled with desolate lands devoid of spirits.

If the Central Continent declines, the Eastern Continent will be at a complete disadvantage in the face of the True Demon Calamity.

Assuming this conjecture is true, then the first thing to do after each True Demon Tribulation is to purify the demon veins and transform the Land of Severed Spirits.

Ji An shook his head a few times and laughed self-deprecatingly:
"I must be crazy to be worrying about things hundreds of thousands of years in the future. The most important thing right now is to raise my cultivation to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage!"

The Nascent Soul activated the incantation, integrating the obtained Xuanhuang merit energy into the Wuji Apricot Yellow Flag.

Ji An flew along the edge of the Spirit-Severing Land that was being transformed and spent seven days drawing a map of this Spirit-Severing Land.

This desolate forbidden zone of life is estimated to be over 60 million acres. It is almost adjacent to another desolate land, with the narrowest passage between the two being only a little over five miles long.

He drew the map into the jade slip and created a simple sand table. He began to formulate a plan on how to transform this desolate land into normal land as quickly as possible.

The next day, using the transformed land as a base, he marked more than thirty nodes in the area bordering the Land of Extinction.

He unleashed the earth's fury in these key areas, creating a series of massive craters, each hundreds of acres in size.

He began to continuously release the Dragon Soaring to All Things, intending to fill the giant pit with spiritual water.

Because half of the giant pit is located in the Land of No Spirits, the spiritual water seeps down very quickly.

The Dragon Soars and All Things Grow For a period of fifteen minutes, and it took him most of the day to finally get what he wanted.

Although the spiritual energy in the rainwater will slowly evaporate, as long as he persists in casting spells, he can keep these giant pits forming real lakes.

These lakes can greatly reduce the erosion of the transformed land by the Land of Extinction, and Ji An expects that they can also accelerate the transformation of the Land of Extinction to some extent.

After filling all these giant pits with spiritual water, Ji Anlu gradually added 1.2 million mu of spiritual fields to the transformation plan. He could complete the project by casting spells for three hours a day and working for two and a half hours.

The extra time will be used to clear out the savage beasts living in the Land of Desolation, monsters whose hatred of spiritual energy is ingrained in their very bones.

Even a sand worm at the Nascent Soul level came to attack Ji An, but it was blasted into dust by the Chaos Five Elements Thunder.

This organism is completely unusable, and its bodily fluids are highly toxic to normal organisms.

After he used the Azure Lotus Heart-Burning Flame to refine the insect corpse, the resulting ashes contained very little spiritual energy.

Two more years passed, and once again there was the aura of profound merit.

Ji An poured all his merits into his natal spirit treasure, and the earth qilin let out a deep roar, causing the earth to tremble.

It radiated a precious light that shot straight into the sky, but after the light dissipated, the texture of its scales became even more delicate, and the spiritual light it emitted became even more gentle.

Many patterns grow on the scales, and as a whole, these patterns form a continuous mountain range. Each mountain peak has a different shape, some are steep, some are majestic, and some are rugged.

Ji An felt an immense joy. His natal spirit treasure was most closely connected to him, and its upgrade to the fourth-tier superior grade meant that the power of the Thick Virtue Evolution Spirit Mantra had increased even further.

The four Reincarnation Realm cultivators flew at low altitude, traversing the Land of Desolation, as they were ordered to come to the Western Continent.

The Buddhist cultivators cannot allow their influence in the Central Continent to continue to expand, otherwise they will have to directly clash with the Nascent Soul forces in the Central Continent. It's not that they are afraid of cultivators; they are absolutely confident that they can directly eliminate a certain Nascent Soul force.

Over the years, they have annexed many small forces without provoking the united hatred of the forces in the Central Continent. However, if they eliminate the Nascent Soul forces, those Nascent Soul sects will definitely be restless.

Although the cultivators suffered heavy losses in the True Demon Tribulation, they still have a deep foundation. If all the forces put aside their ulterior motives and unite, the great situation achieved by the Buddhist cultivators will be ruined.

Therefore, under the advocacy of Dharma King Jingyue, Lotus Temple dispatched more than a dozen Samsara Realm monk kings to the far north, the southern continent, and the western continent, hoping to open up the situation in other continents and delay the time for a direct confrontation with the cultivators as much as possible.

(End of this chapter)