Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 942 Azure Jade Tree

Ji An patted the trunk of the spirit tree and sighed:

"Your merits are complete."

There are no fifth-tier spiritual plants in the entire cultivation world, at least not on the surface. This Youyue Cangyu Tree has reached the fourth-tier top grade, which means that it has reached the pinnacle.

Currently, five top-grade fourth-tier spiritual trees and three heaven and earth spiritual roots have been cultivated in the entire gourd world. Using Daoist principles, a Azure Dragon Tree has been 'accelerated' and transformed into resources for cultivating the Azure Lotus Treasure Banner.

He turned his head and said to the puppet:
"Once the spirit wood has been upgraded, we will harvest more tea during the first tea picking, process it, and store some of it."

After the spirit tree is upgraded, all the leaves will fall off in a very short time and new leaves will slowly grow. The spirit tea made from these tender buds has a better flavor than the tea made from other leaves.

A-Yun, with a smile on her face, echoed:

"Okay, so in the future, more and more tea trees will reach the fourth-grade top quality. Should we do it this way?"

Currently, there are seven Thunderstruck Moon Jade Trees in the Calabash World. Once they all reach the highest quality level, they can basically meet the owner's needs.

In addition, the owner is still continuously cultivating the lightning-struck wood, and the number of high-level tea trees will continue to increase in the future.

"Yes, do it the way you're doing it now."

Not only the Youyue Cangyu Tree, but all tea trees that reach the fourth-grade supreme quality are treated in this way.

Ji An was in a good mood. He took out the two corpses of Nascent Soul level cultivators and began to refine them with the Azure Lotus Burning Heart Flame.

The stronger a cultivator's life-force fire, the more nourishment the spiritual fire of heaven and earth can receive. The three-layered flames of the spiritual fire of heaven and earth burned vigorously, and soon the corpse was incinerated into ashes.

Ji An stood up and buried the ashes directly under two fourth-grade superior-quality Youyue Cangyu trees.

His magical power cultivation will hardly improve any further, but there is still room for improvement in the strength of his soul.

After doing all this, he left the small world and returned to the quiet room, holding the gourd stone in his hand and activating the secret technique.

The black and white light shifted in his hands, and the sun, moon and stars shone brightly on the surface of the stone. What he was doing now was imprinting his life essence into the gourd stone.

This is the first step, a long process, and there is no shortcut; it can only be achieved slowly over time.

Fortunately, he has a long lifespan and enough resources to take things slowly.

The second step was to refine the gourd stone into his body, and he chose to place it in his middle dantian.

Ji An has a question he can't figure out: if a cultivator can still freely enter and exit a small world after refining it, then how does the cultivator enter his own body?
Half a month later, more than a dozen large airships arrived at the Buddhist domain in the Land of Desolation.

Ji An met with the True Lords of Zhongzhou, exchanged pleasantries, and then asked:
"How has the situation been these past few days? Have any hidden Nascent Soul level monks been discovered?"

Azure Dragon True Monarch shook his head, "No, I think any enemy who had the means to escape would have already fled."

He handed over a jade slip and said:

“Fellow Daoist, this is a map. You command your disciples to spread out across this Buddhist domain, with each person responsible for approximately 20,000 acres.”

After the disciples dispersed, the other fellow cultivators began searching from east to west.

Ji An took the jade slip and asked:
"What is my mission?"

"Your task is to patrol. All the Nascent Soul Ninth Level cultivators do not need to participate in the search directly. A few of us will each be responsible for a section of the area. We can provide support at any time if we find anything, thus ensuring the safety of the disciples."

The area you are responsible for, fellow Daoist, has been marked; it's in the green area of ​​the eastern region.

"Okay, I'll give the order now."

Ji An felt very comfortable that the other party was willing to take care of his disciple's safety.

He flew to the spirit boat to assign tasks, and then the disciples began to act in an orderly manner.

Three days later, the entire Buddhist domain was thoroughly searched, and many Buddhist cultivators hiding underground were discovered, including one at the Nascent Soul level.

When the opponent was cornered, they attacked the lower-level disciples, resulting in the loss of three disciples for the Golden Spirit Sect: two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators and one Yuan stage cultivator.

The cultivators of Zhongzhou are willing to offer six Foundation Establishment Pills, two Qi Cultivation Pills, and one hundred high-grade spirit stones as compensation.

The spirit stones were settled on the spot, and the pills would be delivered to the Golden Spirit Sect's shop in Cloud Sea Immortal City within three months.

The True Lords of Zhongzhou departed on spiritual clouds or riding spiritual treasures, and Ji An bid farewell to several acquaintances.

Juque Zhenjun laughed loudly, "Excellent! We captured the Buddhist cultivators' secret stronghold without losing a single fellow Daoist. No matter how cunning they are, they cannot escape their fate of destruction."

He glanced at Ji An cautiously. Top sects all have the spell "Golden Light Across the Earth," but very few cultivators can cultivate it to a high level, and there is not a single cultivator who can release Golden Light Across the Earth to pass through the fourth-order mountain-protecting array.

The Golden Light of the Earth requires cultivators to have a very high level of understanding of the power of the five elements. Throughout the hundreds of thousands of years of the cultivation world, there are only a handful of cultivators who can master all the power of the five elements.

He understood that if Fellow Daoist Xuanqing could pass through the protective array of the Buddhist cultivators, then he could pass through the arrays of most other forces.

Azure Dragon True Monarch nodded with satisfaction, "With this battle over, we can declare the invasion of the Buddhist cultivators a complete failure. I truly hope that one day we can organize our forces to attack the Western Continent."

Xuanxiao Zhenjun shook his head, "This idea is difficult to realize. The land of the Buddhist cultivators has no appeal to us."

In the eyes of cultivators, the power of will is also a kind of pollution. When the spiritual veins are tainted by the aura of the power of will, the spiritual energy becomes impure.

Ji An's expression was somewhat solemn, and he said in a deep voice:
"I believe that the number of Buddhist cultivators in the Western Continent has swelled to a dangerous level. If their cultivation methods are not changed, their invasions will become commonplace in the future."

Overt aggression is easy to deal with, but if they infiltrate ordinary people, it's very difficult for us to detect them.

The methods of high-level Buddhist cultivators are simply beyond the resistance of low-level cultivators. If a Nascent Soul level Buddhist cultivator were to do such a thing, it would go undetected unless a True Monarch happened to be there.

Would a True Lord actively search in mortal towns? Impossible.

Ji An is now worried that some of the remaining members might have slipped through the net and caused trouble in the Western Continent, which would be a huge hidden danger, and the sect still cannot let its guard down.

Everyone shared their opinions, and after a short while, True Monarch Canglong, seeing that most of his fellow Daoists had left, cupped his hands and said:

"Fellow Daoist Xuanqing, until we meet again."

Ji An returned the greeting with a cupped hand, saying, "Goodbye."

After all the cultivators from Central Continent had left, he addressed his disciples:
"You should all return to your sect. I will stay here for a while longer."

The central area of ​​this desolate land has been purified by the power of will, and the peripheral areas can be easily transformed to obtain the primordial and yellow merit energy.

Time flies by too quickly, never stopping for anyone or anything. In the blink of an eye, two hundred years have passed.

Another sacred place has transformed from a desert into a green grassland, where cattle and sheep graze amidst the swaying grass.

Amidst a flurry of celestial music, Ji An floated in the air with his hands behind his back, welcoming the descending aura of profound merit.

Inside the Moon Palace, bright yellow auspicious clouds illuminated his entire upper dantian, transforming into countless shapes. A slight smile played on his lips, and a deep sense of joy welled up within him. The merit he had accumulated over so many years of tireless effort, even if not enough to propel him into the starry sky, was nearly enough.

Ji An looked down at the earth. Two wild rabbits were nibbling on the grass in the bushes, occasionally raising their heads to observe their surroundings. A large snake with yellow and black stripes was coiled around a tree branch, rapidly flicking its forked tongue.

The leopard laboriously dragged the half-eaten deer up a tree. Not long after it left, a fly hovered down and snatched its 'prey' away.

The grassland was teeming with life, and Ji An's smile deepened.

After a day, when no more merits fell for a long time, he summoned the Flaming Banner that rose from the ground.

Lingbao transformed into a fire phoenix and cried out a few times before transforming into a fire phoenix.

Ji An sat cross-legged on the broad back of the fire phoenix. "Fly southwest, we're going back to the sect."

As the sun sets, crimson-gold sunset clouds are inlaid in the sky, weaving a beautiful dream.

It was already midnight when he returned to the sect. He landed on the mountainside of Crimson Flame Peak, entered the quiet room of his cave, took out the gourd stone, and entered the small world. The place where he had just been was now empty.

He has now completely refined the small world. When he enters the small world, he and the small world will disappear at the same time, leaving only an anchor point in the void.

This anchor point is undetectable yet truly exists. Ji An believes that space must be folded, otherwise this phenomenon cannot be explained.

He appeared near the Gathering Yuan Tree, and A-Yun immediately stepped forward, beaming with joy, and initiated a mental communication:
"Master, the Azure Cloud Tree has broken through its grade today and has truly become a fourth-grade top-quality spiritual tree."

Furthermore, the soil from the crimson spirit field has been excavated and can be used for refining.

In recent years, the number of fourth-grade top-quality spirit woods in the gourd world has increased, and the foundation of the small world has become more and more solid.

Ji An smiled and said, "We've waited so long for this day. It's time to put our plan into action."

He flew to the crimson spiritual field on a cloud, activated a secret technique to refine the soil, and finally obtained a lump of fourth-grade top-quality Yellow Emperor Virtue Soil the size of a human head.

He stored the spiritual soil in the Cave Void Stone, then flew away on the clouds to the azure spiritual field. A gentle breeze swept across the rolling green waves, a sight that filled him with joy and tranquility.

Ji An landed beside the Azure Cloud Tree, took a deep breath, and used hand seals to activate the Golden Light Technique to cut down the spirit tree.

When he first ate the Bixiao Fruit, he received an inspiration: he could use the heartwood to condense a spiritual seed.

He had unwavering faith in his intuition, so he decided to give it a try.

There are currently two top-grade fourth-tier Azure Cloud Trees in the Calabash World, which is why he is not worried about failure.

Ji An activated the Withering and Flourishing Technique, drawing the life force of the spirit wood towards its core.

The bark of the trumpet lily quickly lost its luster, the green leaves turned yellow and withered, the branches began to rot, and the sound of breaking was incessant.

Half an hour later, the fourth-grade top-quality Azure Cloud Tree had transformed into a 'spiritual seed' the size of a quail egg.

The 'Spirit Seed' has a bright green sheen on its surface, with dark green root-like patterns, and exudes a lustrous spiritual light.

Ji An extended his divine sense and was pleasantly surprised to find that the spiritual seed really did contain tissues such as the embryonic root, hypocotyl, and embryonic bud.

Overjoyed, he immediately cleared a space, planted the spirit seeds, and activated his magic power, unleashing a dragon-like aura that brought forth all things.

White clouds gathered above the spirit seed, crackling with lightning. The Azure Dragon and the Black Dragon roared in unison, and blue raindrops poured down.

The nourishing spirit of water and the vigorous growth spirit of wood blend together, becoming inseparable.

The spirit seed took root and sprouted, and by the time the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, it had grown to two feet tall. Its dark green leaves were like jade carvings, and its trunk was white jade-colored, making it completely different from another fourth-tier top-grade Azure Cloud Tree.

Ji An clapped his hands and laughed, "Azure Jade Tree, you've struck it rich!"

The Azure Jade Tree is a spiritual root of heaven and earth, and the value of its spiritual fruit far exceeds that of the Azure Jade Tree. Now he only needs one more water-element spiritual root to collect all five elements of spiritual roots of heaven and earth.

After circling the Azure Jade Tree a few times, he rode a cloud back to the Gathering Yuan Tree and took out the Five Elements Divine Mountain in his fist from the Void Stone. This was the second Five Elements Divine Mountain he had crafted.

He activated a secret technique to refine the Yellow Emperor's virtuous soil and integrate it into the Five Elements Divine Mountain.

At Chaoyang Peak, in the Wuji Hall, the master and disciple exchanged a few pleasantries before taking their seats.

Lin Lan smiled and asked:
"Master, when did you return to the sect?"

Over the years, Master has stayed in the Desolate Land area and has almost never returned on his own initiative.

"last night."

Ji An answered succinctly, taking out the Five Elements Divine Mountain and a jade slip from the Void Stone and handing them over:
"This is the embryo of a spiritual treasure, with the foundation of a fourth-grade top-quality item. It needs to be nurtured with spiritual soils such as Azure Emperor Hua Soil, Crimson Emperor Yan Soil, White Emperor Jing Soil, Black Emperor Ze Soil, and Yellow Emperor De Soil."

The jade slip records the steps for refining spiritual treasures; let's give them all to the sect as a foundation.

Although the sect does not have the superior conditions of the Calabash World, it is still not a problem to mobilize all the cultivators in the sect to support a fourth-grade top-quality spiritual treasure.

After his disciple put away the spiritual treasure and jade slip, he continued:

"I don't have much time left in the sect. I plan to set off in a month and travel to every corner of this world."

I'm not sure if I'll return to the sect in the future.

He had already planned his travel route. His first stop was the far north, where he would explore all the hidden places. After that, he would travel west along the coastline and enter the heart of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

After exploring the Ten Thousand Mountains, the Southern Continent was his third stop, followed by the Central Continent, and finally the Eastern Sea.

After exploring the Eastern Continent, Ji An will cross the sea to enter the Western Continent to see what kind of environment it is.

Lin Lan was suddenly stunned. Although her master had said that he would go on a journey, she did not expect it to happen so soon.

She sighed and said with a bitter smile:
"I originally thought you would wait for Junior Brother to break through to the Nascent Soul stage before leaving, this is really too sudden."

Junior Brother Chen Moxuan is now a seventh-level Golden Core cultivator, and his cultivation speed is unprecedented in the history of the sect.

"Mo Xuan is able to walk his own path well, without me having to guide him."

Ji An's second disciple, Han Shan, broke through to the Nascent Soul stage more than sixty years ago, so Ji An has a successor.

He wasn't worried about Chen Moxuan's future development; the other party had a solid foundation, and he only needed to leave him some pills.

The future of the four disciples is basically clear: the eldest and third disciples will stop at the Golden Core stage.

He looked at the few strands of white hair at his eldest disciple's temples and sighed softly in his heart. The other's lifespan had begun to run out, and he wouldn't be able to last many more years.

Practicing Buddhism is like rowing against the current, if you don’t move forward, you will move backward.

(End of this chapter)