Chapter 236: Enlightenment Tea Ripening [5K]
After the Han family was destroyed, the matter came to an end.
After that, Ye Linyuan signed a guest contract with Song Qingming and placed him in one of the seven islands of Xinghu to practice in seclusion.
There are three low-grade spirit pools among the seven islands of Star Lake, which is a medium-sized third-order low-grade spirit vein. It is more than enough to accommodate three Jindan monks for cultivation.
Today, the Ye family's focus is already on the Xuanyuan Islands. Although the Seven Islands of Xinghu are the place where the Ye family started out, it has significant limitations after all. Once they continue to upgrade their spiritual veins, they will inevitably have to compete with the Tianxing Sword Sect for spiritual energy.
Therefore, this place will eventually be gradually abandoned, but after all, it is a lower-grade third-order spiritual vein, which is more than enough to accommodate a few guest officials.
Moreover, taking this opportunity, Ye Linyuan allowed Ye Chongyun to withdraw and arranged for Taoist Zi Yu and Song Qingming to settle here, and the three golden elixirs of the Golden Winged Demon King would be in charge here in the future.
Ever since forming an alliance with the Tianxing Sword Sect, the three major sea areas of the Tianxing Sea, the Luoxia Sea, and the Xuanyuan Sea have long been supporting each other.
The Seven Star Lake Islands are located in the center of the three major seas and are not far from the three seas. No matter which sea area is attacked, the Seven Star Lake Islands can provide support as quickly as possible.
Arranging the Golden Winged Demon King, Song Qingming, and Taoist Purple Feather here would also make Ye Linyuan's rear much more secure.
After all, the Xuanyuan Sea is located on the periphery of the Seven Domain Alliance, and a large area of its territory borders the deep sea outside. It is also one of the sea areas most likely to encounter golden elixir sea beasts from the outside world.
Coming back to the topic, after Song Qingming successfully broke through the Jindan realm, Ye Xuanheng and Ye Xuanjin of the Ye family’s immortal clan also began to break through the Jindan realm.
About half a year later, Ye Xuanjin was the first to try to break through to the Golden Core stage, but ultimately he was unable to succeed due to lack of strength.
The reason why he failed to break through was that his foundation was insufficient, and the mana of his fire-attributed skills was also running out of steam, so he eventually gave up on condensing the golden elixir.
Otherwise, if you force the pill to condense, failure to break through is only secondary. The biggest worry is that it may end up condensing a fake pill.
There is only one letter difference between the fake elixir and the golden elixir, but the future achievements are more than just potential. Not only can the former's cultivation level not improve at all, but its lifespan is only six hundred years.
The latter can not only make further progress, but more importantly, can live another two hundred years.
Although the legendary third-level Tianbu Dan can also make up for the foundation, it has the mysterious power to transform the fake elixir into the golden elixir.
But the medicinal power of Bu Tian Dan is limited after all, and there are various restrictions. Even if it can replenish the foundation of Jin Dan, it will be difficult to break through to the middle stage of Jin Dan in one's lifetime.
“It will take some years to accumulate.”
Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart and did not express any opinion.
After Ye Xuanjin failed to break through, Ye Xuanheng also tried to break through the golden elixir realm, but he was ultimately not sure of forming a golden elixir. In order to avoid breaking through the false elixir realm, he gave up forming a golden elixir at the last step.
Ye Linyuan felt a little regretful as two people failed to condense golden elixir in succession, but he was not too sad.
Because he had anticipated this, breaking through the golden elixir stage has a high probability of failure. In order to train disciples, some golden elixir immortals spared no expense to break through several golden elixirs, but they still failed in the end.
It was also because of this that Ye Linyuan supported Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi to cultivate pseudo-divine powers before breaking through.
Although it is more difficult to cultivate pseudo-supernatural powers, once you are able to do so, there is almost no possibility of failure in breaking through the golden elixir. On the contrary, the cost of cultivation will be much lower.
If one wants to cultivate pseudo-supernatural powers in the foundation-building realm, resources are only one aspect. It still depends more on one's own understanding and the degree of compatibility with the practice method, and secondly on the help of some external objects.
Chu Lingxi and Zhou Yuwan were both talented and had decent comprehension, but neither of them was considered a genius.
But they were lucky enough to meet Ye Linyuan, a man with extraordinary vision and knowledge.
Ye Linyuan could see the talents of the two girls at a glance, and selected Peach Blossoms Chasing Water and Willow Catkins Following the Wind as the most suitable for the two girls.
In the Seven Domain Alliance, if Ye Linyuan's comprehension is at a unique level, then Shui Hanqing is the peerless genius second only to him. They are both top geniuses in the Haotian Ancient Realm.
Next are top talents such as Ye Xuqiu, Ye Yingxu, Li Changzhou, Chu Dongyu, and Ye Sangyu.
The comprehension of these people should be similar, but Ye Xuqiu and Ye Yingxu are blessed by the Xuantian magical power. When they comprehend the skills that are compatible with the Xuantian magical power, they can raise their compatibility with the skills to a higher level.
When it comes to cultivating the supernatural power of heaven and comprehending the fire and gold attribute techniques, their understanding should be comparable to Shui Hanqing's.
Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi's comprehension is probably one or two levels behind these geniuses.
However, the extremely compatible skills, coupled with the mutual understanding between the two of them, allowed them to elevate their comprehension of the two volumes of skills to a higher level, approaching that of a natural genius like Li Changzhou.
According to Ye Linyuan's estimation, even without the help of external items such as the Enlightenment Tea, the two women would be able to cultivate pseudo-supernatural powers before the age of three hundred.
It can be said that if they had not met Ye Linyuan, even if the two women were born in the Jindan forces, their basic limit would most likely have stopped at the foundation-building stage, and the possibility of breaking through the Jindan stage would actually be slim.
After all, those Jindan forces have countless geniuses, and the truly scarce resources will definitely be given to the geniuses with special spiritual roots and natural spiritual roots first, and will never get the two women's turn.
Moreover, even if the Jindan Immortal Clan cultivated them with all their strength, their final achievements might not be as good as today.
Because Ye Linyuan's knowledge and background are beyond the reach of the Jindan forces. In his previous life, he killed dozens of Jindan masters, including some ancestors at the false infant level, and accumulated dozens of superior skills.
Each of these techniques starts from the Golden Core level. Apart from the Tianxing Sword Sect, no other force in the Seven Domain Alliance is likely to be able to gather all of them.
The origins of Peach Blossoms Chasing Water and Willow Catkins Following the Wind are not simple. These two volumes of exercises have been passed down since ancient times. Even if they are only the upper half of the golden elixir level, they are rare and unparalleled in the Seven Domain Alliance.
"Next, we will just wait for the enlightenment tea tree to be promoted."
Ye Linyuan pondered for a moment, then resumed his life of seclusion.
In the following time, he began to take care of the spiritual field while collecting various second-level rare treasures, hoping to transform the pseudo-magical power he possessed into the realm of great magic power.
Unfortunately, second-level rare treasures are extremely scarce and more valuable than third-level inferior magic weapons. Even a Golden Core master often only has two or three treasures in his collection and will not easily take them out for trading.
Moreover, the Seven Domain Alliance is now on the verge of a war. The Jindan masters of other major forces are wary of the alliance between the Xuanyuan Ye family and the Tianxing Sword Sect, and may not be willing to aid the enemy.
Although the Tianxing Sword Sect has many treasures, a lot of them have been lost recently, and it is also difficult to find the rare treasures that Ye Linyuan needs.
Fortunately, the Tianxing Sword Sect promised Ye Linyuan that after the Gengjin mine produced rare black gold again, they would take out a portion of it to help Ye Linyuan cultivate the Gengjin needle.
The third-level Gengjin earth vein is full of vitality, and every sixty years it will produce a second-level rare spiritual ore, or a third-level low-grade Xuanjin ore.
According to Ye Linyuan's estimation, the next time a second-level rare black gold mine is produced will probably be within the next ten years.
Of course, these are all things that happened later. At this time, Ye Linyuan concentrated on taking care of the spiritual field, and before he knew it, another two years had passed.
After several years of waiting, the Enlightenment Tea Tree finally digested the essence and broke through to the level of a second-level rare spiritual plant.
In addition to the breakthrough of the Enlightenment Tea, there was another unexpected surprise. A second-grade upper-quality Five Elements Wood was promoted to a third-grade lower-quality one day.
Ye Linyuan cut down the five elements of wood and used it to cultivate ten acres of top-quality blood spirit fields again.
At this point, Ye Linyuan had eleven acres of top-grade spiritual fields. Although ten acres of them were blood spiritual fields and could only be used to grow bloodline spiritual medicines, it could still be said to have a strong foundation.
After all, cultivating top-grade spiritual fields requires extremely high spiritual plant skills. In the entire Seven Domain Alliance, except for the Ye family, the other major Jindan forces combined may not have ten acres of top-grade spiritual fields.
Of course, for Ye Linyuan, the most urgent and important thing is the enlightenment tea.
On the day when the Wudao tea tree was promoted, Ye Linyuan directly picked a batch of new buds that were just born after its promotion.
As a special and rare spiritual root, the value of the Enlightenment Tea Tree is beyond belief. The new buds that sprout out when the Enlightenment Tea Tree is promoted are also the spiritual tea with the richest Taoist essence.
Ye Linyuan picked them all, but only got more than 800 pieces, which added up to less than two taels.
This kind of spiritual tea can be of great help even to Jindan cultivators in comprehending supernatural powers, but Ye Linyuan did not keep it for himself.
But he carefully processed the batch of spiritual tea, and then distributed it to Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi, saying: "The second-level rare enlightenment tea tree has wonderful uses and is precious, but it takes thirty years to produce a batch of enlightenment tea."
"This first batch of medicine is the most powerful. I hope you won't let us down."
Upon hearing this, the two women immediately looked solemn.
But Chu Lingxi nodded, and then said seriously: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely not let you down."
Zhou Yuwan also bowed, but didn't say much.
Upon seeing this, Ye Linyuan waved his hand and asked the two women to go into seclusion to comprehend their magical powers.
After the two girls left, Shui Hanqing came to Ye Linyuan's side and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my husband. The two sisters have good comprehension and the skills they practice are highly compatible."
"I guess it's only natural that I can comprehend pseudo-divine power."
Ye Linyuan nodded, calculated with his fingers for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Good luck, it seems that they will succeed."
"..." After Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi got the spiritual tea, they did not return to the retreat room to ponder, but came to the spiritual field, under the second-level rare spiritual peach tree and spiritual willow tree.
They looked at each other, and then stroked the two ancient trees, and suddenly they felt a blessing coming to their hearts.
At this moment, they realized that they were only one step away from cultivating pseudo-supernatural powers.
So they didn't hesitate, they brewed some tea and took a sip. In an instant, the whole world looked different in their eyes.
Originally, the great road between heaven and earth was obscure, as if it was hidden in the void and could not be seen at all.
But after taking the enlightenment tea, they only felt that their minds seemed to be much clearer, and the world in front of them seemed to have been wiped clean of dust with a rag.
All distracting thoughts and dust disappeared, leaving only the ancient peach and willow trees swaying in the wind between heaven and earth.
"Peach blossoms follow water."
"The catkins follow the wind."
Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi seemed to see the Tao floating between heaven and earth.
Peach blossoms follow the flow of water, because this is the natural way of heaven and earth; willow catkins rise with the wind, also because of the way of heaven and earth.
Without the knowledge of floating and sinking, peach blossoms would not flow with the water; without the knowledge of flying and fluttering, willow catkins would not rise with the wind.
Everything in the mortal world, everything in the world, every sip and every bite, are manifestations of Tao.
"I see."
Zhou Yuwan opened his mouth slowly, a spark of spiritual light ignited in his heart, and infinite Taoist auras intertwined in his sea of consciousness, revealing two extremely mysterious magical powers.
The first pseudo-magical power is the killing magic power [Peach Blossom Chasing Water Sword].
The second pseudo-magical power is the group attack magical power [Ten Miles of Peach Blossom Rain].
Not long after, Chu Lingxi also cultivated two pseudo-magical powers, namely the killing magic power [Willow Catkins Sword in the Wind], and the escape magic power [Willow Catkins Dance in the Wind].
Zhou Yuwan's Ten Miles of Peach Blossom Rain is an extremely powerful group attack magical power. It can manifest ten miles of peach blossoms covering the sky and the sun. Countless petals can gather and disperse at will, which has the effect of trapping and suppressing strong enemies.
Chu Lingxi's willow catkins dancing in the wind is a combat-type escape technique.
This method not only enables one to instantly take off with the wind and fly long distances at an extremely fast speed, but it is also extremely flexible in combat and can change with the wind, making it very difficult to hit.
"Once you break through, they are both two false magical powers."
After noticing the two women's breakthrough, Ye Linyuan seemed to be thinking about something.
He roughly understood that the two women had already practiced the two core spells to the limit of entry-level spells.
The reason why they have not made a breakthrough for many years is because their comprehension is still lacking that finishing touch, so they have never been able to cultivate pseudo-supernatural powers.
Maybe one can barely break through by just relying on time and effort, but it will take ordinary people hundreds of years to do so.
In comparison, true geniuses such as Li Changzhou, Chu Dongyu, and Ye Sangyu all cultivated pseudo-supernatural powers when they were over a hundred years old. It can be said that they all became famous at a young age.
This is a hurdle. If one’s comprehension is insufficient, even if one can cultivate pseudo-supernatural powers at around 300 years old, because the lifespan is too limited, there is a high probability that one will not be able to enter the Nascent Soul realm after breaking through the Golden Core stage.
Without the Enlightenment Tea, Chu Lingxi and Zhou Yuwan would most likely only be able to cultivate pseudo-supernatural powers at around three hundred years old.
"Fortunately, everything went well."
"At around 240 years old, I can't say I can reach the Nascent Soul stage in the future, but there is still hope for the eighth level of Golden Core."
Ye Linyuan pondered, the eighth level of golden elixir is also a key realm.
If you can take one more step forward and break through the ninth level of the Golden Core, you will have a chance to get a glimpse of the realm of the Nascent Soul True Lord.
Even if he cannot break through to the Great Perfection of the Golden Elixir, if he can use a trick to break through to the False Infant realm in the future, he will still be a False Infant ancestor.
Even though the False Infant Ancestor cannot compare to the Yuanying True Lord, he is still almost unrivaled to the Golden Core.
Even a top-level powerful being who has reached the great perfection of the Golden Core can only escape when facing the False Infant Ancestor. The strength of both sides is not on the same level.
It is also because of this that Ye Linyuan values Chu Lingxi and Zhou Yuwan very much.
A being with the potential to become a false infant or even a true Nascent Soul may be able to become a very good helper in the future, which is enough for him to pay a certain price to cultivate carefully.
"Son."
Just as Ye Linyuan was lost in thought, the two women came forward and knelt down on the ground with great respect.
Ye Linyuan nodded, personally helped the two women up and said, "Why do you two have to perform such a grand ceremony?"
"If it weren't for the young master's cultivation, I'm afraid we would have no hope of reaching the foundation-building stage in this lifetime."
Chu Lingxi's eyes were slightly red, and she stared at him with watery eyes and said: "Now that the two of us have been able to cultivate pseudo-divine powers, we can get a glimpse of the golden elixir realm. This is a favor that I can never repay."
"We two don't know how to repay you, sir." Zhou Yuwan nodded, bit her lip, and said firmly, "Why don't you take us as your concubines?"
Ye Linyuan was slightly stunned, and then he understood what the two women were thinking.
To be fair, he had no objection to taking two women as concubines.
In his previous life, he had many concubines and even a fairy Taoist partner who was at the Golden Elixir level.
Both of these women have superior Taoist foundations. Once they reach the Golden Elixir realm, they will be more than qualified to be his concubines.
However, Ye Linyuan did not agree to them immediately. He just smiled and said, "Let's consolidate it first and break through the Jindan realm first."
Upon hearing this, the two women looked at each other.
Although they wanted to say something, they understood that Ye Linyuan's will was unshakable, so they could only stand up, salute, and then bow and leave the spiritual medicine garden.
After they left, Shui Hanqing slowly walked over, took Ye Linyuan's hand and said, "Husband, just agree to them."
Ye Linyuan was silent for a long time, then he said, "The immortal road is difficult, I'm afraid they won't be able to accompany me to the end."
Shui Hanqing held his hand and said gently: "The path to immortality is long and arduous. How difficult is it to reach the end?"
"Let alone the two of them, even I, your husband, am not sure how far I can go. No one knows what the future holds. Your husband should just enjoy the present moment."
Ye Linyuan was silent for a long time, then he calmly held her in his arms, and everything finally turned into silence.
"..."
Half a month later, Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi restored their conditions to their peak and began to work on breaking through the Jindan realm.
Ye Linyuan took a piece of rare wood heart from each of the spiritual peach tree and the spiritual willow tree as the key medicine for the two of them to break through the golden elixir realm.
With their supernatural powers and the help of medicine, the two women's breakthroughs suddenly became exceptionally smooth.
About a month later, Zhou Yuwan finally broke through to the Jindan realm first. A month later, Chu Lingxi also broke through to the Jindan realm as expected.
The two women successfully broke through the golden elixir stage, and the golden elixirs they cultivated were all extraordinary. They were all superior golden elixirs containing seven elixir patterns.
Although the golden elixir with seven danwen is only of the most ordinary level among the superior golden elixirs, it can also be regarded as a great way to reach the sky.
Chu Lingxi and Zhou Yuwan have this foundation. As long as they have enough resources for cultivation in the future, they will be able to reach the late stage of Golden Core naturally.
From now on, even if it is just relying on time, there is a high probability that the eighth dan pattern can be cultivated.
Moreover, if one could find a top-grade third-level Bu Tian Dan, or some special third-level rare treasures, or kill a fellow practitioner in the middle stage of Jin Dan, one would be able to cultivate the eighth Dan pattern earlier.
Therefore, Ye Linyuan believed that although these two women could not guarantee a breakthrough to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core in the future, it should be almost certain that they could cultivate to the Eighth Level of the Golden Core.
Of course, these are all things for the future. Now that the two women have broken through the Jindan realm, their current strength is the most real.
According to Ye Linyuan's estimation, although the two women have just broken through the Jindan realm, with the blessing of their superior Taoist foundation, their strength should be at the third level of Jindan, and they are both among the best in the early stage of Jindan.
(End of this chapter)
