Chapter 626: Five Great Harvests (Part 2)

There were also seven volumes of Cultivation Techniques for special Spirit Bodies, five volumes of insights on reaching Nascent Soul, and other Auxiliary Cultivation Techniques and Divine Power Secret Techniques, totaling 1,035 in all.

There were also inheritances related to the Hundred Skills of Cultivation; the list of titles alone filled hundreds of volumes.

Bai Zichen glanced through it. The most valuable were the inheritances for Alchemy and Arrays, both of which reached Tier Four.

This was especially true for Alchemy. There was a volume called *New Annotation on Pill Fire*, another called *Pill Furnace and Notes*, and a third titled *Pill Stone Court Decree*. They were noted as being authored by the greatest Alchemist in the history of the Holy Lotus Sect, one who had reached the Tier Four Peak in skill.

Beyond just Alchemy, the author also offered groundbreaking insights on Pill Fire and Pill Cauldrons.

This Alchemist was known for his skill in borrowing external forces, and he had once used this method to refine a Quasi-Fifth Tier Spirit Pill.

Unfortunately, a Tier Five Spirit Pill was no Mortal Grade item. A pill tribulation would descend the moment it left the furnace. If it passed, it would become a Tier Five Spirit Pill; if it failed, it would be reduced to nothing.

That Quasi-Fifth Tier Spirit Pill failed to survive the pill tribulation, and it took the entire Alchemy Room with it.

Bai Zichen had always given the Pill Hall his greatest support, even though he himself came from the Law Enforcement Hall.

He granted virtually every request the Pill Hall made.

After obtaining the legacy of the Danxia Sect and unsparingly purchasing Spirit Grass, the skills of the Pill Hall disciples had improved by leaps and bounds.

Now, with the addition of the Holy Lotus Sect’s Alchemy inheritance, the birth of the Qingfeng Sect’s first Tier Four Alchemist was surely just around the corner.

At the end of this section, Hong Xuan also mentioned that the Holy Lotus Sect had six Tier Three Spirit Beasts and was raising five Spirit Beast clans that could reproduce stably.

However, with the loss of their territory, they no longer had a Beast Taming Arena. The Spirit Beast packs had been released into the mountains, and it was uncertain how many could be recovered now.

The fifth and final part of the Jade Scroll described the three Secret Realms controlled by the Holy Lotus Sect, including the Lotus Secret Realm, as well as their Battle Arrays.

The Lotus Secret Realm needed no introduction. It was a place coveted by every Core Formation True Man in the Liang Country Cultivation Realm, and it was from there that Bai Zichen had obtained his Splendid Youth Sword.

The other two Secret Realms were quite ordinary. The Holy Lotus Sect had quickly plundered them clean after discovery, and they were each only about the size of a village.

In one Secret Realm grew a jujube tree. It had no new buds or tender shoots, yet it had somehow survived in the Secret Realm for countless ages.

The Holy Lotus Sect Cultivators determined that the jujube tree had become the core of the remaining Secret Realm. If it were cut down and moved, it would accelerate the realm’s collapse.

Since it wasn’t a particularly valuable Spirit Plant anyway, they just let it be.

In the other realm was a deep spring, at the bottom of which swam a type of Bicolor Bodhi Fish.

If a Qi Refining Cultivator consumed this Spirit Fish, it could slightly improve their Water Element Spiritual Root aptitude by about one percent.

The effect was strongest with the first Spirit Fish consumed, then diminished with each subsequent one, becoming negligible after the third.

At most, only a handful of Bicolor Bodhi Fish could be caught each year. Because the group of people who could benefit was so narrow and the yield was so low, they basically all ended up in the stomachs of Qi Refining Disciples with powerful backgrounds.

Descendants of Nascent Soul True Monarchs, direct offspring of Core Formation True Men, and so on.

As for the Battle Arrays, those of the Holy Lotus Sect far surpassed the Qingfeng Sect’s in both scale and tier.

Take the Four Symbols Battle Array, for example. They had even compiled four corresponding Cultivation Techniques specifically for it.

To form the Array Formation, one hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had practiced the Four Symbols Technique would be positioned in each of the four cardinal directions, with four Core Formation True Men each taking charge of one group.

The power unleashed by this Battle Array was nearly equivalent to that of a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Then there was the Separation Fire Battle Array, which required an army of ten thousand Cultivators and a Fire Element Spiritual Treasure to suppress the chaotic Magical Power and unleash terrifying destructive force.

It only had the power for three strikes, but each one was equivalent to a full-power blow from a Nascent Soul.

Battle Arrays capable of unleashing the might of a Nascent Soul were something the old Qingfeng Sect could never have even imagined.

They lacked not only the Array Maps, Array Plates, and Array Banners, but even if someone had passed down the method for Array Formation, they still couldn’t have met the requirements for these High Tier Battle Arrays.

Fortunately, the number of Qingfeng Sect Disciples had exploded in recent years. It wouldn’t be long before the great Battle Arrays of the former Holy Lotus Sect could see the light of day again.

The only difference would be that the banners of the Battle Arrays would all be replaced with the insignia of the Qingfeng Sect.

“In your opinion, how many Thousand-Year-Old Spirit Medicines are in the Medicine Garden Secret Realm?”

Bai Zichen put away the Jade Scroll with satisfaction. Combined with the Medicine Garden Secret Realm, which could shorten the growth time of Spirit Medicine, this was a perfect haul.

“A considerable number. The number of Sect Disciples now isn’t even ten percent of what it used to be, so the frequency of Opening the Furnace and Refining Pills has decreased dramatically… Plus, our Sect always had a habit of stockpiling Thousand-Year-Old Spirit Medicine. With every harvest from the Medicine Gardens, we would always hide a few stalks and seal them away. But as for the exact number, I’m afraid only Junior Brother Wu, who is in charge of the Medicine Garden Secret Realm, would know.”

Hong Xuan spoke with a hint of gritted-teeth resentment. In the past, his master had been in charge of the Medicine Garden Secret Realm, but once Qu Yang took the position of Sect Leader, he transferred this most crucial duty to one of his own trusted confidants.

“And what about the Enlightenment Lotus Seeds? I don’t see them mentioned in the Jade Scroll. Have they all been used?”

Bai Zichen thought of the Enlightenment Lotus Seed, one of the most famous and effective Core Formation Spiritual Objects in the entire Northern Domain.

Only three Enlightenment Lotus Seeds were produced every hundred years. They could expand one’s Divine Sense and increase the probability of successful Core Formation by a full twenty percent.

He thought of his cousin, Bai Ziyu. Under normal circumstances, his hopes for Core Formation were slim, but an Enlightenment Lotus Seed might allow him to create a miracle.

“To answer the True Monarch, the Enlightenment Lotus Seeds are only produced in the Lotus Secret Realm. That place has been lost to the Sect for many years, so we haven’t seen any of those Core Formation Spiritual Objects for a long time. As for whether there are any stockpiled in the Medicine Garden Secret Realm, that is not for a disciple like me to know.”

As the Elder responsible for the Secret Realm, Hong Xuan had no authority over the output of the Lotus Secret Realm; he wasn’t even allowed a glimpse.

His heart was already filled with resentment, and now, before True Monarch Bai, he was doing his utmost to bad-mouth Elder Ke.

“Actually, the most precious thing in the Lotus Secret Realm is the True Intent Lotus Seed. There are records of it being discovered five times in the history of the Holy Lotus Sect, but only three public records of its use. My master never mentioned it before he passed away, but I suspect it’s highly likely one is hidden in the Medicine Garden Secret Realm.”

Upon further questioning, Bai Zichen learned that the so-called True Intent Lotus Seed was the Relic left behind after a Ten Thousand Years Spirit Plant withered, and it contained a trace of the Power of the Great Dao.

If a Late-Stage Core Formation Cultivator consumed and performed Refinement on it, it could help them perfect their path on the Great Dao, solidify their Pill Discussion in a way that was almost like cheating, and smoothly advance to Core Formation Perfection.

Compared to any Spirit Pill, the True Intent Lotus Seed was far more powerful and natural. For an elixir to possess the Power of the Great Dao, it would have to be a legendary Tier Five Spiritual Pill.

‘Could the gray seed formed from the Snow Lotus be one of these so-called True Intent Lotus Seeds? No, the Holy Lotus Sect has harvested five True Intent Lotus Seeds before. How could a mere Lotus Secret Realm produce so many Quasi-Innate Spiritual Roots? It must be that an ordinary Ten Thousand Years Lotus, upon reaching the end of its life, condenses its remaining power into a True Intent Lotus Seed. But the seed formed from the Snow Lotus should be of a higher essence and greater value.’

Hearing the description of the True Intent Lotus Seed, Bai Zichen’s imagination ran wild, and he was once again amazed by the Holy Lotus Sect’s profound heritage.

With such resources, the fact that Qu Yang failed to reach the Nascent Soul realm was truly a reckless waste.

It was proof that Spiritual Roots weren’t everything. There were many other talents hidden beneath the surface, ones that couldn’t be measured by a Spirit-Guiding Technique, which determined the furthest a Cultivator could go.

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“True Monarch Bai, your divine might has truly opened my eyes.”

A long while later, three Floating Battleships descended and hovered in the air above Qii Mountain. Shi Chengdong and Le Zheng landed together.

The disciples of the Celestial Principle Sect did not rush to ascend Qii Mountain, clearly intimidated by the battle and unwilling to rashly offend Bai Zichen.

Shi Chengdong had been a witness to the Nascent Soul Reversal Cut back then and knew full well that Bai Zichen’s strongest technique was surely the Sword of Time.

He refused to believe that after more than a hundred years, that unforgettable sword strike would have remained stagnant with no improvement.

Watching Bai Zichen’s great battle with Qu Yang, he had seen him wield multiple types of Sword Intent, his techniques shifting one after another, fully displaying the air of a Sword Dao Grandmaster.

“You are too kind, friend. If not for the preparatory work your esteemed sect did, I could not have taken down Qu Yang so easily.”

Having finished reading the Jade Scroll presented by Hong Xuan, Bai Zichen was in a fine mood and affirmed the Celestial Principle Sect’s contribution.

Indeed, if the Nine Palace Ruins Array had been fully intact, it would have been very difficult for him to breach Qii Mountain alone, and he would have had to prepare for a protracted battle.

“Now that the overall situation is settled, how about we arrange for our disciples to take inventory of the Holy Lotus Sect’s treasury and begin the distribution? My sect has just established a new Spirit Mountain, and there are many matters waiting for me and Junior Brother Le to return and handle.”

Shi Chengdong paused for a moment before speaking, a touch of apprehension in his heart.