At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

Even with Li Lan's consistently steady temperament, unruffled by change,

he couldn't help but gasp.

He earnestly rubbed his eyes, even suspecting he was seeing things.

鈥淧urple Sandalwood Spirit Tree?!

How could such a spirit plant appear here?

This tree鈥?isn't it a bit too big?鈥?,"Li Lan frowned, muttering to himself.

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The towering behemoth that burst forth from the center of the main hall ruins,

was none other than the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree he was so familiar with.

Except,

compared to the one Li Lan cultivated himself,

the one before him was far too thick, exceeding his imagination.

Even the thinnest part of the trunk, by visual estimation, would require at least dozens of people to encircle.

Unlike Li Lan's seven- or eight-year-old tree,

the bark of this tree had already turned a profound purple,

the color so rich it was as if it were undissolvable spiritual ink.

Every inch of the bark seemed to have condensed the essence of countless years, as tough as armor.

Li Lan was stunned to discover,

that he couldn't even judge the age of this Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree from its surface.

He directed the spirit bean soldiers to approach.

It was evident that the enormous roots resembled flood dragons, deeply embedded in the ground.

They had pushed aside the broken bricks and tiles in the ruins.

Many parts of the roots were exposed outside,

their tangled network resembling a maze.

At the very bottom of the spirit tree,

ebony vines, like agile giant pythons, spread out in all directions.

They resembled a massive spiderweb, covering everything within the Guangji Temple ruins.

No, not just Guangji Temple.

But the entire central area of the Immortal Trace Valley.

They were like ebony streams with life, flowing upon this spiritual vein.

Only at this moment,

did Li Lan suddenly realize.

It turned out that those deadly purple vines all came from this Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree!

The one truly possessing the aura of the Foundation Establishment stage was this ancient tree of unknown age.

Those vines were merely its limbs,

this ancient tree was the true culprit behind the perilous situation in Immortal Trace Valley.

Li Lan felt a tingling in his scalp.

As he ventured deeper into Immortal Trace Valley,

the questions in his mind not only didn't decrease, but increased.

Who exactly planted this Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree?

What was the purpose of planting it?

The spiritual energy of this Immortal Trace Valley's spiritual vein hasn't dissipated completely,

Guangji Temple moved away from this place, is it also related to this tree?

No one could give him answers to these questions.

After calming down for a while,

Li Lan directed two more spirit bean soldiers to cautiously climb the tree.

One climbed towards the canopy, while the other burrowed into a tree hole.

Inside the tree hole,

Li Lan saw the dense growth rings of the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree.

These growth rings were either dark or light, one circle tightly next to another, layer upon layer contracting inwards.

Like ripples left by the passage of time, radiating outwards from the center.

After counting carefully,

he discovered that,

this Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree had actually lived for over four hundred years.

This was a spirit plant nearly five hundred years old.

Li Lan had cultivated in this Immortal Trace Valley for many years.

Of all the spirit plants he had seen, the longest-lived hadn't even exceeded twenty years.

Now, suddenly seeing this five-hundred-year-old spirit tree, he naturally felt quite shocked.

Amidst the surprise in his heart,

the other spirit bean soldier finally climbed to the canopy.

After seeing the scene here,

even Li Lan, whose composure was far beyond ordinary people, couldn't help but feel his heart beat faster.

Ordinary six- or seven-year-old Purple Sandalwood Spirit Beans were only about the size of a thumb.

But the fruits produced by this nearly five-hundred-year-old spirit tree were each the size of a baby's head.

Ordinary Purple Sandalwood Spirit Beans were small and exquisite, with a purplish color.

But these spirit beans of unknown age were dark in color, almost black and shiny.

As everyone knows,

the power of a spell, in addition to being influenced by the cultivator's cultivation realm,

is also closely related to the age of the spell's auxiliary materials.

Li Lan didn't dare to imagine,

what it would be like to use these Purple Sandalwood Spirit Beans as spell auxiliary materials to cast the Spreading Beans into Soldiers technique.

Perhaps,

these spirit bean soldiers could change their awkward situation of only being used for scouting and reconnaissance,

and could assist him in blocking enemies, covering his retreat, and encircling and killing in combat.

This wasn't just empty talk and conjecture.

After all,

according to the complete 銆奙ysteries of Qimen Spells銆?

in the ancient times,

the great power who created this spell,

summoned heavenly soldiers and generals with the spirit beans he casually scattered.

Li Lan didn't know if there was any exaggeration in it.

But no matter what,

the bean soldiers refined from Purple Sandalwood Spirit Beans of such a long age,

would definitely be more powerful than ordinary ones.

Looking around,

there were about a dozen fruits growing on the branches of the spirit tree.

Each Purple Sandalwood Spirit Bean was of a different size,

obviously propagated at different times.

Some Purple Sandalwood Spirit Beans were even squeezed off and fell from the treetops for unknown reasons.

They took root and sprouted on the ground, growing into new trees.

Seeing this situation,

Li Lan had already thrown all other matters out of his mind.

He recalled the remaining fifteen spirit bean soldiers,

and sent them all to the central area of Immortal Trace Valley.

Li Lan knew that this opportunity was hard-won,

so he decided to firmly grasp the opportunity, concentrate all his energy,

and deeply explore the value of this Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree.

After a certain age,

even spirit plants that were originally of ordinary quality would completely transform into rare treasures.

According to Li Lan's estimation,

with the current age of this spirit tree,

it would be more than enough to use it as the core main material for refining imitation treasures, or even magical treasures.

You must know.

In the past understanding of the cultivation world,

spirit plants like the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree could only be used as scraps for refining puppets at best.

But no one had ever used it as the main material.

It was the long years that helped it complete this transformation away from mediocrity.

All seventeen spirit bean soldiers arrived and began to work enthusiastically.

Picking spirit beans, plucking leaves, scraping tree resin, and so on.

Li Lan didn't even let go of the loose soil next to the tree roots,

as well as these descendants of only a few decades old around it.

The fruits produced by these Purple Sandalwood Spirit Trees, although far less precious than the five-hundred-year-old one,

were also very valuable to the current Li Lan.

Even so,

he was still somewhat dissatisfied.

If only he could uproot the entire tree and take it away.

It was a pity that at this time,

even if his main body was present, he temporarily didn't have the strength to do so.

While Li Lan was doing everything he could to explore all the value of this Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree,

the spirit tree itself, as the victim, still didn't have the slightest reaction.

It was as if it didn't care at all about the actions of these little spirit bean soldiers.

In fact,

Li Lan's spirit bean soldiers did indeed seem to be tickling it.

After a busy effort,

he only harvested some Purple Sandalwood Spirit Beans, hundred-year-old spirit tree resin, spirit tree leaves, and so on.

As for the rarest tree bark, tree trunk, and other things,

they were completely impossible for these spirit bean soldiers with meager mana to collect.

This ebony tree bark and trunk didn't look like ordinary products at first glance.

Li Lan guessed that,

even if his main body was present, he was afraid that it would be difficult to break even a little bit of its skin even if he tried his best.

Li Lan wasn't an ungrateful person.

He was already very satisfied to be able to obtain these centuries-old spiritual materials.

Seeing that he had taken almost everything that could be taken,

Li Lan urged the spirit bean soldiers to bring back all the gains of this trip.