Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

Qingyuan Zhenjun continued speaking slowly and deliberately.

"Within the sect, there are one million second-tier azure-patterned jade trees and three thousand third-tier trees. They are an important part of the sect's grand formation, scattered across every spiritual peak."

However, there are fourth-tier Azure Jade Tree sects—they aren't on the Spirit Peak, but in the various secret realms.

"Thirty-six Heavenly Gang Secret Realms and seventy-two Earthly Fiend Secret Realms, the spiritual energy of those secret realms forms its own cycle."

"This is why the sect's low-level resources are almost inexhaustible."

"This is the foundation of the sect, a resource production system that transcends the imagination of ordinary cultivators and forms its own world."

"The fourth-order Azure Jade Tree is one of the most important components of this system. It is located at the spiritual energy nodes of various secret realms, drawing in the violent spiritual energy from outside the void and transforming it into spiritual energy that the secret realms can absorb."

"Many of the sect's secret realms are now complete small worlds, with their own cycles of sun and moon, seasons, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning."

"This is the real reason why sects have thrived for so long and do not rely on external resources."

After Qingyuan Zhenjun finished speaking, he gently touched the Qingwen Jade Wood, and a light blue seal appeared, sealing the power of the fourth-order spirit wood.

Then he raised his hand and tossed it, and the blue-patterned jade wood drew an arc, landing steadily in Lin Zhao's hand.

"Here you go, it will also be of some benefit to your understanding of the Dharma realm."

Lin Zhao received it with both hands and bowed respectfully.

When he stood up, there was no one in front of him, not even a trace of spiritual energy remained.

The four jade slips recording the inheritance of the Nascent Soul stage are still there, but True Monarch Qingyuan clearly doesn't value these things.

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Lin Zhao carefully put away the jade slip, then turned and entered the cave with the blue-patterned jade.

He sat cross-legged in the quiet room, affixing the four Nascent Soul inheritance jade slips to his forehead one by one, and immersing his consciousness into them.

The complete inheritance of the four Nascent Soul cultivators—including cultivation methods, secret techniques, supernatural powers, and insights—is all-encompassing.

It has a pharmacological bias, and its analysis of the medicinal properties of spiritual herbs and trees is so profound that it is outrageous. It records the characteristics of tens of thousands of spiritual plants.

Some specialize in alchemy, and their core method involves using their own spiritual energy to extract the medicinal properties for alchemy. When mastered to the extreme, they can transform a single strand of spiritual energy into a pill at will.

They specialize in crafting magical artifacts, particularly those with wood-attribute properties. They possess the ability to refine a spirit tree into a puppet-like magical artifact without harming its life force.

There are also more theoretical versions, where the entire manual explores the connection between the withering and flourishing of plants and reincarnation, and even records a secret technique called "The Rejuvenation of Withered Trees."

It specifically discusses how to forcefully preserve the last vestige of life in a dying plant, giving it a chance for rebirth.

It can also be used by cultivators to preserve their lives and forcibly prolong their lives when they are on the verge of death.

Although she had seen this content before, reading it again still amazed Lin Zhao; the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.

These contents were disassembled, categorized, and reorganized one by one by Tianxin Falun, and corroborated by his existing understanding of the Wood element rules.

When the Azure Sun Rejuvenation Technique was created, the stumbling blocks and insurmountable bottlenecks were gradually filled in with the help of the four inheritances.

He sat in the cave for three years.

With the Azure Jade Wood as a reference and four complete Nascent Soul inheritances as support,

His understanding of the rules of wood improved at a visible rate over the past three years.

The four major characteristics of the Qingyang Rejuvenation Technique—healing injuries, restoring the spirit and soul, cleansing the marrow and meridians, and prolonging life—are no longer isolated features.

Lin Zhao comprehended a complete spiritual energy circulation system from the characteristics of the Azure Jade Wood and integrated it into the Azure Sun Rejuvenation Technique.

Lin Zhao began to use the Qingyang Rejuvenation Technique. He formed hand seals, interlaced his fingers, and spiritual light flowed from his fingertips.

Countless streams of spiritual energy converged, and a pale blue magic seal appeared in the air, the size of a fist, its surface as smooth and warm as jade.

It is shaped like a seed, with extremely complex runes flowing on its surface.

Qingyang Returning Heaven Seal.

The moment the jade seal took shape, the spiritual energy inside and outside the cave surged violently.

Countless blue light spots surged into the cave like rivers flowing into the sea, gathering around the Dharma Seal.

The light spots gathered more and more, eventually forming a solid seed, the size of a pea, entirely green, with extremely fine lines on its surface, like the texture of tree rings.

Lin Zhao tapped her finger lightly.

The Azure Sun Returning Heaven Seal slowly rotated, and a pale blue spiritual light surged from the seal, infusing the seed.

Seeds break through the shell, germinate, take root, and sprout branches—

Seven days later, a jade tree about ten feet tall stood in the center of the quiet room.

The tree trunk is as green as jade, the crown spreads out in an umbrella shape, and there are faint halos of five colors flowing among the branches and leaves.

This tree is seven parts similar to the jade tree with green patterns at the entrance of the cave, but it is softer and more gentle, and the vitality emanating from its branches and leaves is pure to the extreme.

The Azure Sun Returns to Heaven Seal and Turns Again.

The vitality of the Jade Tree began to wane—its leaves turned from green to yellow, its branches from moist to withered, its five-colored halos collapsed inward, and the edges of its branches and leaves gradually lost their luster; the green veins on the tree faded one by one.

The jade tree began to wither, crack, and collapse, and all the spiritual energy flowed back.

The collapse lasted for half an hour, and in the end, only a single emerald green seed remained, lying quietly in Lin Zhao's palm.

Life, death, decay, prosperity, and decline are all interconnected.

Lin Zhao looked at the seed and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

It became.

The Qingyang Rejuvenation Technique has now truly succeeded.

Lin Zhao has also truly grasped the principles of wood.

This seed of the Azure Sun Jade Tree was a product of his entry into the Wood Rule—just like the Heavenly Dawn Gold he created when he entered the Metal Rule.

This is not a spiritual object obtained from the outside world, but a completely new creation he made from nothing based on his own understanding of the rules.

The core of Qingyang Yushu is the cycle of withering and flourishing, alternating repeatedly; each complete cycle of withering and flourishing is one rotation.

One transformation, a first-tier spiritual item, providing the most basic healing effect.

A third-tier, second-order spiritual item now possesses the added benefits of cleansing the marrow and meridians, and increasing cultivation speed.

A fifth-tier, third-order spiritual object, capable of healing injuries to the soul, which are among the most difficult injuries to heal in the cultivation world. Such an object is far more valuable than other spiritual objects of the same tier.

A seventh-tier, fourth-order spiritual object, capable of prolonging life. At this level, the value of this tree cannot be measured by ordinary resources.

The eighth level is equivalent to a fourth-grade superior longevity spiritual item, which can increase the lifespan of a Nascent Soul True Monarch by a maximum of three thousand years.

He had only just begun to grasp the principles of wood cultivation, and his cultivation level was only at the mid-stage of Core Formation. The Azure Jade Tree had only just taken shape.

The cycle of flourishing and decay has a certain probability of failure, and the probability of achieving the ninth cycle is too low.

He probed the seed with his divine sense and roughly estimated the spiritual energy required for the cycle of growth and decay.

Each revolution requires more than ten times the spiritual energy of the previous revolution.