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Chapter 802: Chapter 808: Accumulation
"Wait!"
Li Zhirui, seeing Da Qing appearing somewhat dazed, quickly called out to him, reminding him, "Stay calm! Stay clear-headed! Otherwise, even just advancing your bloodline could fail!"
Da Qing, like someone doused with a bucket of ice water, instantly came to his senses with a somewhat embarrassed expression, "I got too excited."
"I can understand how you feel but don’t be hasty. Advancing to the fifth order isn’t something that can be achieved overnight."
"I understand."
"By the way, if you plan to refine the Luminous Green Fruit, you could retreat to the Five Elements Spirit Realm. There, the Laws converge, and the Spiritual Energy is even purer."
Although Da Qing is currently only a Fourth Order, utterly unable to actively utilize the Laws and even unable to see them, during cultivation, if one is in a place where the Laws converge, the speed of cultivation will be faster.
When Li Zhirui inadvertently discovered this, he considered whether to develop five more Spirit Realms based on the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which could somewhat promote the cultivation of his people.
However, after discussing it with Li Mingzi and the other Elders, they unanimously agreed not to hastily develop Spirit Realms.
Their idea was to wait until the Spirit Vein advanced to the fifth order and then use fifth-order Spirit Plants as the foundation to create the Spirit Realms.
This way, the Spirit Realms would not only cover a larger area with denser Spiritual Energy but would also converge more Laws and accommodate more tribe members for cultivating.
As for the family members with unique Spiritual Roots like ice, thunder, or wind, there was no plan to create specialized Spirit Realms for them since their numbers were too few; they would simply use one of the Five Elements Spirit Realms, as all are derived from these elements.
Yet considering the unique environment of the Spirit Realms, which would be excellent for planting and nurturing specific Spiritual Objects, they decided to first develop the Five Elements Spirit Realms before collecting the relevant fifth-rank Spirit Plants to then develop more Spirit Realms.
But from Li Zhirui’s perspective, if they followed the Elders’ plan, the tribe members with unique Spiritual Roots would have little hope of seeing their unique Spirit Realms appear any time soon.
The reason was simple: fifth-order Spirit Plants were considered rare treasures, not to mention the even rarer variant attribute Spirit Plants.
"Wait..."
Li Zhirui’s thoughts suddenly paused. If he remembered correctly, the source of the Luminous Green Fruit wasn’t the Spiritual Medicine he had assumed, but a Spirit Plant!
In other words, if he was willing, he could take this Spirit Plant, present it to his family, and after the Spirit Vein advanced, develop a Wood-Attribute Spiritual Realm.
"Hmm, it’s worth considering."
After all, the purpose of transplanting this Spirit Plant — to assist in advancing Da Qing’s bloodline — had already been achieved. For him, its importance had significantly diminished.
A fifth-order Spirit Plant that bears fruit only once every hundred years, this timeframe could double due to the peculiarities of the space.
If it were just that, Li Zhirui might have accepted it, given that the higher the grade of a Spiritual Object, the harder it is to cultivate. Yet each time, it bore only a single fruit!
What was it good for? Alchemy? Without hundreds to thousands of experiments, Li Zhirui couldn’t develop a more complete Pill Recipe, and even though he had the space to hasten its growth with Spirit Stones, how vast an amount of Spirit Stones would that cost?
With that amount of Spirit Stones, what couldn’t Li Zhirui do instead?
"That’s decided then!"
The more he thought about it, the more Li Zhirui felt the Spirit Plant was too insignificant, better used to develop a Spirit Realm. Perhaps it could even ascend to become a Spiritual Root.
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After Da Qing left, he went straight to the Five Elements Spirit Realm, applied for an unoccupied quiet room, and began this lengthy retreat.
He didn’t rush to refine the Luminous Green Fruit, but instead started practicing the Visualization Skill, suppressing the various stray thoughts in his mind to calm his Mental State.
After doing all this, Da Qing took out the Luminous Green Fruit and swallowed it whole.
The moment the Spirit Fruit touched his mouth, it transformed into a dense and pure stream of Wood Spirit Energy. Da Qing hastily used his Divine Sense to control it, circulating it continuously through his meridians within his body, preventing the spiritual energy from entering his Dantian.
Meanwhile, Da Qing also located the bloodline hidden deep within his body, taking control of the massive and pure Wood Spirit Energy and merging it with that slender thread of bloodline.
Humph!
Upon contact, Da Qing’s entire body shook as if hammered, his body swaying unceasingly, and blood seeped from the countless pores on his skin, along with specks of black dirt.
The evolution of one’s bloodline was not something that could be accomplished in a short period of time; rather, it was a process that spanned many years.
Yet, with Da Qing’s years of accumulation and the exceptionally pure fifth-order Spirit Fruit, his bloodline was sufficiently pushed to the fifth rank.
While Da Qing strove to advance his bloodline, Xiaoqing was also making full efforts to hit the fifth order.
Because of the presence of the Wanling Sutra, the threshold to the fifth order did not exist for Xiaoqing; he merely needed to accumulate enough Mana and attempt the breakthrough.
Of course, if that were all there was to it, facing the Thunder Tribulation during a breakthrough would only lead to one outcome!
That would be death!
Li Zhirui worried that Xiaoqing was merely focused on accumulating Mana and did not care about its quality, so he did not provide Xiaoqing with any Precious Pills.
He even forbade Xiaoqing from exchanging Precious Pills from the family, intending to make Xiaoqing absorb spiritual energy from nature and refine his Mana.
Although Xiaoqing was dissatisfied, he understood that Li Zhirui was doing it for his benefit and earnestly enhanced his Mana in the Cave Mansion.
However, even so, his progress was astonishing.
According to Xiaoqing’s current rate of cultivation, he would be able to attract the Thunder Tribulation within fifty years!
Fifty years might mean stepping into old age or even death for a mortal.
But for Xiaoqing, fifty years was merely a trifling fraction of his lengthy life, barely worth mentioning.
Actually, according to Li Zhirui’s plan, he should have let Xiaoqing polish and settle for a hundred years before meeting his standards.
However, considering Xiaoqing was a Spirit Beast, his Mana and physical body were both more abundant and stronger than those of Cultivators.
Together with the Thunder Vine that Li Zhirui had cultivated, Xiaoqing’s Tribulation Transcendence should hold no surprises fifty years later.
If not for these factors, Li Zhirui wouldn’t agree to allow Xiaoqing to attempt Tribulation Transcendence after just fifty years of cultivation.
In fact, if not for the restrictions imposed by his bloodline, Da Qing, with his accumulations and terrifying defensive abilities, should have breached the fifth order faster than Xiaoqing.
After all, compared to Da Qing, Xiaoqing was often not very dedicated to his cultivation, and naturally his accumulations fell short.
Regrettably, during the journey through the Boundless Sea years ago, Da Qing had less fortune than Xiaoqing; the former found only one Spiritual Object.
However, the latter obtained two and, through a twist of fate, advanced directly to the fifth rank.
Compared to Da Qing and Xiaoqing, Cang didn’t face these issues.
His bloodline was already at the fifth rank, and he was from the extraordinary Dragon Tribe with talents far surpassing both Da Qing and Xiaoqing.
But his flaw was significant: his cultivation time was far too short!
He was shorter by one or two hundred years compared to Da Qing, and a hundred years less than Xiaoqing.
