Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 235 [Spiritual Vein: lv3]; Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Milk

The first thing Ji Yuan did upon returning to Misty Island was naturally to check on the giant toad's injuries.

He checked repeatedly with his divine sense, but found no fatal wound.

Fortunately... Ji Yuan took out three or four bottles of antidote pills from his storage bag and poured them out, a total of more than a dozen pills, plus five Qi and Blood Pills with Tempering Beads added.

They stuffed everything into the giant toad's mouth at once.

After that, you don't need to worry about it; just wait for it to heal and recover on its own.

Ji Yuan then released the Frost Dragon. Along the way, aside from releasing it to fight in the ancient battlefield... well, actually it just took a hit of 'Stardust Kill' and got injured.

It spent the rest of its time inside the spirit beast pouch, which must have been really suffocating it.

So as soon as it was released, it was incredibly excited and was thinking of playing with the big toad. But when it saw the injuries on the big toad's body... it looked up at the sky and let out a dragon's roar.

Ji Yuan is its master, and the two are of one mind, so he can naturally understand the meaning of the Frost Dragon.

"That means it's okay if the big toad gets injured by it, but it won't do if it gets injured by someone else!"

Ji Yuan ignored the wailing of the Frost Dragon.

Even if the giant toad really does wake up, the two of them are still destined to fight.

"come over."

Ji Yuan waved to Tu Yue, who was feeding pigs in the distance. Tu Yue then poured out all the remaining husks of the spirit grain in her hand and came to Ji Yuan with a smile.

If you don't see her for a year, Tu Yue's skin will become very dry, and even her hair will turn yellow.

But since the mass grave was built, this scene has never been seen again.

At this moment, Tu Yue was radiant and glowing, with dark hair, tender skin, and a pair of bright, sparkling eyes.

Every time Ji Yuan saw her, he couldn't help but reach out and pinch her cheek.

"Let me see what you've gained this year."

Ji Yuan gave the order, and Tu Yue obediently followed it.

She first gave Ji Yuan six storage bags, then pointed to the cave dwelling, indicating that she wanted to go there.

Ji Yuan first scanned the six storage bags with his divine sense... Good heavens, they were completely full, leaving no gaps, and most of them contained easily perishable spirit pigs, spirit chickens, and spirit fish.

Other products that won't spoil aren't included here.

So without Tu Yue saying more, Ji Yuan already knew what was going on.

Having been away for a year, Tu Yue had produced so much that her storage bags couldn't hold it all, so she used her cave dwelling as a warehouse and stored the remaining produce there.

"Let's go take a look."

Ji Yuan stepped forward, put his arm around Tu Yue's slender waist, and then took a few steps to reach the entrance of the cave.

Unlike when Ji Yuan was at home before.

At that time, Ji Yuan was basically always in the cave, and Tu Yue would not come here without orders. But now that Ji Yuan is not here, things are different.

Tu Yue is in charge of the entire Misty Island.

So she frequently visited the cave, clearing away all the weeds and planting flowers instead. She even paved the ground with pebbles, turning it into a bluestone path.

Seeing this scene, Ji Yuan couldn't help but glance at Tu Yue again before even entering the house.

This is no ordinary corpse puppet; even a Daoist couple couldn't do this.

Ji Yuan looked at her, and a feeling inexplicably arose in his heart.

"If only you were conscious."

But then I thought, if Tu Yue were conscious, she probably wouldn't be able to do this much. Putting aside everything else, just the fact that she had to feed the chickens and pigs with me every day and farm the land... Which female cultivator could do that?

Dong Qian might be okay with it, but it's probably just something new for her.

It's fine for a day or two, but they'll definitely get unhappy if it goes on for too long.

"You're still the best in the end."

Ji Yuan sighed inwardly, pinched Tu Yue's little face, and then took the lead into the cave.

As soon as Ji Yuan entered, he noticed that the cave was slightly different.

Clean and tidy.

Other structures and layouts remained unchanged, since Ji Yuan's orders to Tu Yue were simply to tidy up the house and keep it clean and tidy.

Ji Yuan scanned the room with his divine sense and knew what was inside.

The stone caves in the array room, the enlightenment room, and the talisman room were filled with huge bags. What were inside the bags?

This is the "spirit wheat" harvested this year, and a small portion of the "spirit grain" harvested from the paddy fields.

In addition, there are items produced by those buildings, such as "Water Dew", "Ice Soul Dew", "Blood Essence", etc.

They were all placed into the [Spirit Vein] by Tu Yue, where they were nourished by the abundant spiritual energy.

So what about the [spiritual vein] that Ji Yuan cherishes most?

Ji Yuan's current [Spirit Vein] is level 2, which can produce 10 mid-grade spirit stones and 100 low-grade spirit stones per day.

During his trip, which lasted about a year, he produced over 3600 mid-grade spirit stones.

In addition, there are more than 36000 low-grade spirit stones.

It can be said that it filled his already not-so-spacious spiritual vein to the brim.

Some spirit stones were even pushed out of the cave walls and fell to the ground because new spirit stones grew there afterward.

So the ground of this [spiritual vein] was covered with a whole layer of spirit stones!

When Ji Yuan arrived in front of the [Spirit Vein] and saw this magnificent sight, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in astonishment.

This scene... is a rare sight indeed!

Moreover, the layer of spirit stones paved on the ground is not only low-grade spirit stones, but also contains some mid-grade spirit stones.

In addition, there are jade bottles placed here by Tu Yue to hold Ice Soul Dew and Water Dew, jade boxes to hold Blood Essence, and the Free and Easy Wine and Peerless Wine produced by the Wine Cellar... all piled up with these spirit stones scattered on the ground.

This isn't some kind of "spiritual vein," it's clearly a treasure trove!

Perhaps it was just a coincidence that Ji Yuan came, but as soon as he arrived in front of the [spiritual vein], before he had even stood there for long, he saw a new batch of spirit stones growing out of the spiritual vein... which was today's harvest.

10 mid-grade spirit stones, plus 100 low-grade spirit stones.

So Ji Yuan watched as a "rain of spirit stones" fell into the spiritual vein!

Ji Yuan admitted that his eyes turned red when he saw this scene.

Their eyes were practically shining!

He even let out a howl and lunged forward, plunging into the [spiritual vein].

He lay down and rolled around on the ground covered with spirit stones.

Does it hurt your skin?

No, this isn't just uncomfortable, it's the smell of spirit stones!

Overjoyed, Ji Yuan rolled around on the spirit stone a few times to release his inner joy. Then he picked up a small bottle of Ice Soul Dew next to him, which contained five drops.

He gulped it down and immediately began to circulate his cultivation technique, absorbing the spiritual energy from the spirit stones beneath him.

"Damn, this is what cultivation is all about!"

"What a miserable life I've been living before!"

With a sigh in his heart, Ji Yuan took out the wine from the storage bag and asked Tu Yue to take it to the wine cellar.

After cultivating for four or five days, and having digested the five drops of Ice Soul Dew, Ji Yuan finally emerged from the [Spiritual Vein] with satisfaction.

He also collected all the spirit stones and treasures inside.

In addition to what Tu Yue had given him earlier, Ji Yuan now possessed countless resources.

If it weren't for this trip, Master Tiancan would have risked his life to give his storage bag to Ji Yuan... With so many gains today, Ji Yuan's storage bag is overflowing.

But it doesn't matter now. Even if there were twice as many, we could still fit them all!

After tidying up these things, Ji Yuan was in no hurry to leave this [spiritual vein].

One of his main purposes in returning this time was to upgrade his [Spirit Vein]. For this, he spared no expense and spent a lot of money to bid for those 10 drops of millennium spirit milk in Lanshan City.

With this thought in mind, Ji Yuan summoned the control panel and took a look.

[Spirit Vein: lv3 (upgradeable)]

[Effect 1: Within a five-mile radius, the concentration of spiritual energy increases by 200%.]

[Effect 2: Produces 100 mid-grade spirit stones and 1000 low-grade spirit stones daily.]

[Effect 3: Produces 1 drop of "Millennium Spirit Milk" per month.]

[Upgrade Requirements: 80 high-grade spirit stones, 1000 mid-grade spirit stones, 10000 low-grade spirit stones, and 10 drops of millennium spirit milk. (Completed)]

Originally, giving away 80 high-grade spirit stones would have been difficult, but unexpectedly, Master Tiancan was still willing to risk his life to give them to Ji Yuan.

In that case, there won't be any difficulties.

Ji Yuan took out the spirit stones from his storage bag and arranged them one by one in the [spiritual vein].

Finally, the 10 drops of the Millennium Spirit Milk in the jade bottle were taken out.

Looking at all these spirit stones in front of him, it would be a lie to say he wasn't heartbroken.

Especially the high-grade spirit stones, which would have cost 8000 mid-grade spirit stones. Adding the rest, the total cost of spirit stones alone was nearly 10000, and that's without even including the 10 drops of millennium spirit milk.

But there was no other way; for the sake of greater benefits in the future, they had to invest now.

"Panel, upgrade it for me!"

With a ruthless heart, Ji Yuan turned over 1 mid-grade spirit stones into ashes right before his eyes.

It is still fly ash in the physical sense.

His heart skipped a beat when he saw it.

However, the changes that followed were also very obvious. At first, the spiritual energy in this [spiritual vein] surged for a moment, and the spiritual energy emitted afterward was noticeably more concentrated.

If it were quantified, it would be doubled.

Next up are the spirit stones within this [spiritual vein].

One hundred mid-grade spirit stones and one thousand low-grade spirit stones sprouted directly from the cave wall, just like bamboo shoots breaking through the soil.

Ji Yuan turned his head and saw a drop of milky white millennium-old spiritual milk appear out of thin air in the middle of the [spiritual vein].

He casually beckoned and put the one drop of millennium spirit milk into the jade bottle, placing it together with the three remaining drops of millennium spirit milk on his body.

Become!

[Spiritual Vein] Upgraded to level 3, Ji Yuan then looked at the upgrade effect of level 4 spiritual vein.

[Spirit Vein: lv4 (cannot be upgraded)]

[Effect 1: Within a radius of twenty miles, the concentration of spiritual energy increases by 500%.]

[Effect 2: Produces 1 high-grade spirit stone, 1000 mid-grade spirit stones, and 10000 low-grade spirit stones daily.]

[Effect 3: Produces 1 drop of "Eternal Elixir" annually.]

【升级条件：1块极品灵石；800块上品灵石；10000块中品灵石；100000块下品灵石；5滴万年灵乳；100滴千年灵乳。（未达成）】

Ji Yuan glanced at the panel and saw the long string of "0".

Well, the last time he saw so many zeros was... He subconsciously frowned and shrank back.

Ten-thousand-year spiritual milk... It doesn't mean that this spiritual milk really takes ten thousand years to produce, just like thousand-year spiritual milk and the thousand-year-old herbs needed to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

It's just that the spiritual energy contained in this spiritual milk is extremely strong.

A single drop of the Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Milk is said to instantly replenish most of the spiritual energy of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Not to mention Golden Core cultivators, even a single drop would overflow.

The upgrade requirements remain as difficult as ever.

Actually, upon closer examination, that long string of zeros is not so bad. In comparison, the one top-grade spirit stone and the thousand-year spirit milk core and ten-thousand-year spirit milk are much more difficult to obtain.

Top-grade spirit stones are something that even superior spirit veins might not be able to produce.

To put it bluntly, even some Nascent Soul cultivators might not have a single top-grade spirit stone.

Therefore, if it were Ji Yuan, there would be no need to think about upgrading the [Spiritual Vein] during the Foundation Establishment stage.

We should wait until at least the Golden Core stage before discussing it.

However, at present, a level 3 [spiritual vein] is sufficient to sustain cultivation.

Ji Yuan closed the control panel. In a great mood, he took out a pot of wine, sipped it slowly, and then went to inspect the other buildings.

The room was completely filled with spirit wheat and spirit grains by Tu Yue, and this was all from last year's harvest.

This year's harvest... will probably be out soon.

When Ji Yuan entered the cave earlier, his divine sense swept over the [spiritual fields] on the mountain.

Nurtured by the "spiritual soil" produced by the [Chicken Coop], it grows lush and green, with many corpse puppets working among them.

It could be weeding, pest control, or fertilizing.

Oh right, I remembered the Corpse Puppet.

Ji Yuancai then realized that his storage bag still contained several corpses.

Among them were the injured Yin Child who needed to return to the [Mass Burial Mound] to recuperate, and the Heavenly Silkworm True Man whose body was only half intact... I wonder if this counts as the corpse of a Golden Core True Man?

If we're talking about luck, let's hope that the corpse of the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal transforms into a corpse puppet.

Wouldn't that mean I'd have an extra mid-stage Golden Core fighter by my side?

Ji Yuan found it more and more wonderful the more he thought about it.

So after leaving the cave, he headed west and went straight to the mass grave in the west.

He also passed by the [Fish Pond]. He scanned it with his divine sense and found that it was full of spirit fish. Although some of them had mutated into ice-attribute spirit fish, no new Frost Dragons were born.

It seems we can only pin our hopes on the two bottles of dragon essence blood in the storage bag.

Let's give it a try and see if a new Frost Dragon can be born.

When Ji Yuan arrived at the western side of Misty Island, things were different. There were only two main buildings there: the [Mass Burial Ground] and the [Beehive].

The mass grave is filled with yin energy, which permeates the surrounding area, so much so that a faint mist drifts through this dense forest.

The temperature was much lower than in other parts of the island, and even the sky seemed somewhat gloomy.

Walking here, Ji Yuan always had a feeling that ghosts might jump out at any moment.

He released his divine sense and scanned the area. The number of corpse puppets on the hillside had reached "twelve," but apart from Yin Tongzi, there was still no second Foundation Establishment stage corpse puppet.

Some cultivators at the Qi Refining stage are not of great use and can only stay on this island to farm.

Ji Yuan took the injured Yin Tongzi out of his storage bag and then ordered, "Dig a hole and bury yourself."

Yin Tongzi obediently did as he was told, and was even being manipulated by Ji Yuan, making sounds from his throat.

"Thanks."

He then used his magic to start digging in the dense forest.

"Oh, and dig another hole to bury this body too."

Ji Yuan then took out the body of the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal. Although only half of it remained, it wouldn't hurt to try burying it again.

"Remember to dig deeper, bury this body deep, so it can be your neighbor and keep you company."

After giving Yin Tongzi his instructions, Ji Yuan stopped caring about it.

Corpse puppets should act like corpse puppets; they can't rely on themselves for everything.

Ji Yuan then went to the nearby [Bee House]. As soon as he entered, he saw a swarm of Soul-Devouring Bees flying over.

With a buzzing sound, Ji Yuan felt as if his chest was about to be shattered.

He quickly activated the queen bee in the area, which stopped the Soul-Devouring Bees from chirping. He felt a little better then, and immediately scanned the area with his divine sense...

Ji Yuan had taken away 16,000 of them, leaving 6,000.

But now?

Nearly 20,000 more bees have hatched inside the beehive...

I now have 5 second-tier Soul-Devouring Bees.

Ji Yuan released all the Spirit-Devouring Bees from his spirit beast pouch in one go, and instantly, the entire sky turned completely dark.

Thirty-six thousand first-tier spirit-devouring bees, plus twelve second-tier spirit-devouring bees.

The queen bee, after consuming countless mid-grade spirit stones, had already reached the late stage of the second tier, just like the giant toad.

If it hadn't stayed inside the beehive and not gone out... even the giant toad would have had to avoid it.

"Putting everything else aside, just releasing these Soul-Devouring Bees alone should be enough to dominate any Foundation Establishment cultivator."

"Like those two petty thieves who came knocking on our door a few days ago, haha..."

Ji Yuan deliberately stayed on the island to cultivate these past few days, instead of rushing to find Dong Qian, partly for this reason.

He was waiting to see if "Senior Brother Huang" would go to Hunter Owl Master and cause trouble.

However, there has been no news for the past few days, so it's unlikely they will come again.

Ji Yuan first manipulated these Soul-Devouring Bees to circle around the dense forest a few times, getting a feel for them and letting them get used to the feeling of being manipulated.

Only then did I feed them 100 mid-grade spirit stones.

"Hmm... the older Soul-Devouring Bees are easy to control, but these newly born ones are still a bit unfamiliar. I need to find some time to train them individually, so they won't be unable to perform at their full potential when used in battle."

After inspecting the beehives, Ji Yuan then strolled around the spiritual fields on the hillside.

The crops were growing well, and Ji Yuan patted the corpse puppets on the shoulder in a very professional manner, urging them to do a good job.

Then he reached the highest point of the mountain and jumped off.

With a loud "bang," Ji Yuan's legs sank deep into the mud.

Doing something he hadn't done in a long time, Ji Yuan only had one word to say—Awesome!

After jumping off the mountaintop, he returned to the edge of the fishpond.

If that's the case, then we should try to see if this dragon's essence blood can nurture a new Frost Dragon.

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