Cultivation begins with harvest.

Chapter 254 The Dripping Stones and the Grove

Mount Shouling is usually shrouded in mist, but today the mist is even thicker. The swirling fog reflects golden light under the sun, making the land exceptionally bright.

The Nine-Headed Sunflower Water Golden Turtle Void Array has such a use. I wonder how many spirit stones are accumulated in the spiritual vein? It's quite amazing. No wonder the spiritual plants and soil on the First Spirit Mountain don't seem to be as plentiful as they appear, yet they can't withstand scrutiny.

With the activation of the flag, the spiritual energy sealed within the spiritual veins of Shouling Mountain was finally released at a normal scale, permeating the mountain and slowly seeping into every inch of its land, causing the concentration of spiritual energy to more than double again.

Spiritual veins also have different levels.

【End-stage spiritual veins】 refers specifically to tiny spiritual veins, such as the extremely small spiritual veins created by spiritual spring eggs. These types of spiritual veins are usually only enough for one cultivator to cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining. Further cultivation will damage the spiritual vein itself and accelerate its collapse. Some are a little better, but they are only enough for two or three late-stage Qi Refining cultivators at most.

The term "ordinary spiritual veins" encompasses a wide range of categories with significant differences. Among the several small spiritual veins of the Dongdu Zhao clan, one can support Foundation Establishment cultivators, while others, ranging from those capable of supporting hundreds of clan members to those only capable of supporting dozens, fall into this category. Within this category, some long-established spiritual veins that can support Golden Core cultivators are also considered ordinary spiritual veins.

[Superior Spiritual Vein] A spiritual vein has become so pure that it can nurture [Pure Spiritual Treasures]. As long as it can nurture such treasures, it can be considered a superior spiritual vein.

Further subdivisions are possible, but the common world doesn't differentiate them in this way. Instead, the quality of a spiritual vein is described by its scale and the rank of the cultivators it can support.

The current spiritual vein is probably stuck between the second and third tiers, unable to withstand the long-term cultivation of Golden Core cultivators. It is also unclear to classify it by tier, because it does not contain any pure spiritual treasures. According to the classification of spiritual veins as low-grade, ordinary, and high-grade, it can be summarized as an ordinary spiritual vein of medium size.

What cultivators really care about is the concentration of spiritual energy.

The drawback of a mismatch between the quality of a spiritual vein and one's own level is that cultivators cannot gain additional cultivation speed in that area. At the same time, absorbing too much spiritual energy during cultivation can also damage the spiritual vein. Apart from the benefits of spirit stones, low-level spiritual veins are no different from any random wilderness in the eyes of high-level cultivators.

But such a spiritual vein was more than enough for Chen Guang. However, when he carefully activated Ziqi, Chen Guang couldn't help but chuckle.

Although this spiritual vein is located within the First Spirit Mountain, and its spiritual energy can be channeled out, Chen Guang cannot even touch the spirit stones. Every spiritual vein will form spirit stones due to its extremely rich and pure spiritual energy. Over the years, the spiritual vein has been sealed off, and it is unknown how many spirit stones there are. Unfortunately, they cannot be seen. The Nine Xuan Sunflower Water Golden Turtle Void Array was obviously designed long ago. You can use spiritual energy, but you will not be given a single spirit stone.

I'll need to build a cultivation room another day. Although the spiritual energy is abundant, it's scattered and the concentration is too high. Absorbing it causes a rush of spiritual energy into my body, which can easily damage my meridians. I need a cultivation room or altar to act as a transitional and regulating space.

Chen Guangfei flew high into the sky and used his Qi Observation Technique to look at the area outside Shouling Mountain. He discovered that the influence was not limited to Shouling Mountain, but also extended to other areas within a hundred miles. The concentration of spiritual energy was beginning to recover and rise. The influence of the Nine Xuan Sunflower Water Golden Turtle Void Array was even greater than he had imagined. He could foresee that in the next few to ten years, wild spiritual plants and spirit beasts within his territory would experience an explosive growth.

Back in the valley, Chen Guang abandoned all distractions and focused on weeding. The wild and unruly spiritual plants grew haphazardly without any care, clashing with each other but tenacious and resilient, continuing to grow. However, this also affected their quality; few of them broke through the barrier of becoming century-old spiritual herbs. These spiritual plants had strong but disordered spiritual energy, causing the spiritual atmosphere to become chaotic and turbid in small areas.

This is of no concern to wild spiritual plants, as they are inherently resilient. However, it is not conducive to cultivation by spiritual plant practitioners. Mass cultivation often has far-reaching consequences, as these plants are indeed more delicate than wild ones. Therefore, these interfering factors must be eliminated before cultivation.

As he cast the Hundred Trees Dew Condensation Spell, the spiritual plants in his path quickly withered and dried up. Strands of condensed emerald light floated out from them, entered Chen Guang's palm, and then disappeared. These wild spiritual plants covering the mountains and plains were a vast amount of plant essence!

Except for a few special spiritual plants and century-old medicinal herbs that were spared, wherever it went, all spiritual plants and trees were absorbed cleanly and then burned to ashes, leaving no trace.

Never before have we been so wealthy. The Xuanwen Bamboo was a gift from the Earth Hall to replenish the essence of plants. This year, we had just reached the harvest quantity, but in the blink of an eye, it arrived at Tianheng Plain. The surprises kept coming.

In Chen Guang's hands, these numerous spiritual plants transformed into one after another round [Plant Beads], purely formed from the essence of plants. In just one hour, he condensed twelve Plant Beads and four hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. The essence of plants contained in one Plant Bead was enough for Chen Guang to condense ten superior-grade Void Spirit Seed Azure Seals. It should be noted that Chen Guang's own maximum number of Azure Seals he could contain was only nine.

For spirit wood, Chen Guang still chose to condense some wood essence for future use.

The area cleared by Chen Guang was merely a small hillside on the side of the valley.

It's unclear how long it will take to completely clear the entire valley. After getting to know each other better, Thousand Needles and Fire Jay stopped arguing and joined the hunt for wild Gu insects. Purple Grasshoppers were also released to participate.

It will probably take more than half a month to completely clear the valley, and the spirit fields will probably not be ready until spring. Chen Guang has not experienced this kind of busy and fulfilling life for a long time.

As night fell, in the cave he had carved out, Chen Guang consumed the last of the Thunder Jade Emerald while pondering the terrain of the First Spirit Mountain. The conflicts and collisions between various spiritual plants, terrain, and spiritual atmosphere kept colliding as he considered how to arrange things. He stayed up all night, but only managed to get a slight idea.

The next day at dawn, he first planted the cypress and Yuxin tea.

The land of pure Yang can satisfy many of Xuanbai's living habits, so he is not in a hurry for other high-level auxiliary spiritual objects: Yu Xin Tea is a good thing, which can open the mind and better comprehend the world. It is most suitable for spiritual soil like Xi Tu. At the same time, it has a strong attraction to other insects and beasts, so it needs to be protected. With the Nine Xuan Sunflower Water Golden Turtle Void Array, Chen Guang only needs to guard against the array.

Whether by design or not, there are no monsters on Mount Shouling.

After casually scattering some swallowtail grass in the area that had been cleaned yesterday, Chen Guang prepared to begin today's cleaning work.

"Chirp—"

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Today's task is to clear the spiritual herbs at the top edge of the valley, but Thousand Needle Second Brother keeps circling above a small grove of trees in the middle of the valley. There are a lot of decent-looking century-old spiritual trees here. The only ones of value are a few spiritual fruit trees, but the fruits are terrible. The other dozen or so spiritual trees are nothing special. They have simply accumulated a hundred years of spiritual power and will inevitably end up as plant essence.

"Are you showing me these spirit fruit trees?"

"Inside, inside!"

The second brother led Chen Guang deeper into the small grove of trees. From bottom to top, a sloping gradient formed, creating a jagged rock face on the side. A small mountain spring flowed down from the exposed rocks on the face. The water flow was small, cascading down the jagged rocks. Where the water droplets fell, no pits were formed, but a small row of protruding, sky-blue, translucent stones emerged, possessing an extremely restrained spirituality.

"Is this [Pounding Stone], a Tier 2 material?"

These six translucent, protruding stones, each the size of a baby's fist, are clearly second-tier water-elemental spiritual objects. The quantity here is enough to forge two high-grade spiritual artifacts. Although only one-third of them have been nurtured, it is unexpected that they would appear in this form.

Water? It's just ordinary mountain spring water.

Stone? Just an ordinary rock.

Despite its ordinariness, it was able to gradually nurture a second-tier spiritual object, even when most of its spiritual energy was locked within its spiritual veins.

The inspiration did not materialize at this cross-section. Chen Guang's eyes gleamed, and he suddenly turned around, staring at the grove of trees. He had already begun to see the formation of the dripping stone.