Chapter 205 - 101: Four Seasons Reincarnation Scripture, Formal Cultivation

Chapter 205: Chapter 101: Four Seasons Reincarnation Scripture, Formal Cultivation

"Is there something on me?"

Jiang Xuan was so immersed in the Dao Rhyme he had comprehended from his studies over the past two days that he hadn’t heard what Yan Shouzhuo said.

So, when he arrived before the three Valley Masters and bowed in greeting, he found two of them sizing him up with a strange gaze. This left Jiang Xuan feeling a little bewildered.

Just when he was starting to wonder if something was wrong with him, Luo Yong of the Valley of Spring spoke up first, "Ahem, it’s nothing. Let’s talk about the Cultivation Technique. Are you familiar with our Valley of Spring’s *Forest Spirit Scripture*?"

"I have some knowledge of it." Knowing he would be cultivating the *Forest Spirit Scripture* today, Jiang Xuan had spent the past two days reading nothing but cultivation insights related to this very technique.

Furthermore, thanks to his surging Spirituality, he had managed to read through over eight hundred related works in these two days. The reason for such a large number was that many of the insights he’d collected from the Four Seasons Valley were repetitive. By the end, he was practically reading ten lines at a glance, understanding the content with a single sweep of his eyes.

Still, despite the repetition, after reading over eight hundred volumes, Jiang Xuan’s understanding of the Cultivation Technique far surpassed that of an ordinary Inner Sect Disciple.

"In my humble opinion, this scripture is a Cultivation Technique where one plants a life-bound Spirit Tree as their Dao Root, using their own body as Heaven and Earth Spiritual Soil, their Dao Heart as Celestial Light, and their Divine Soul as rain and dew. The goal is to nurture a single tree to encompass a whole forest, giving birth to all spirits and uniting with the Great Dao."

"Well said." Luo Yong nodded and couldn’t help but boast about his own Valley’s technique. "A single sprout opens the Dao Foundation. The trunk rises to support Heaven and Earth. The branches spread to encompass the Ten Thousand Laws. The leaves flourish to create a vast forest. When cultivated to its peak, our technique allows one to forge a supreme Dao path through the life of a single tree."

Yan Shouzhuo, standing beside him, couldn’t help but roll his eyes at the self-aggrandizing praise.

Jiang Xuan, too, was speechless.

Having read over eight hundred books, he naturally understood the limitations of the Valley of Spring’s Cultivation Technique.

’Planting a Spirit Tree in the Dantian and nurturing creation within oneself... The concept behind this Cultivation Technique is excellent, but the human body is ultimately finite. It’s incredibly difficult for a Cultivator to make a Spirit Tree flourish and fully blossom on their own.’

’That’s why the Valley of Spring’s technique focuses solely on nurturing a Spirit Seed with all one’s might. The subsequent growth of the Spirit Tree is then handled by the Valley of Summer’s *Flame Splendor Supreme Profound Chapter*.’

But that was just an ordinary limitation. The bigger problem was this: Spirit Woods are long-lived and Divine Trees are immortal. This is a gift from Heaven and Earth, but it also comes with tribulations.

Ordinary Spirit Trees were one thing; even for a Purple Treasure Level Spirit Tree, there was still a sliver of a chance for survival.

But Golden Legend Level Spirit Trees face two great tribulations. The first is that they are incredibly difficult to keep alive. Often, a Divine Tree or an immortal medicine from Heaven and Earth is the only one of its kind in existence.

As long as it lives, a second Divine Tree of the same species cannot take root in the world.

Even for those a tier below, successfully cultivating one was still as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

The Valley of Spring’s *Forest Spirit Scripture*, which uses a life-bound Spirit Tree as its Dao Root, essentially treats the cultivator as a Divine Wood. Naturally, it is subject to the same rules of the Celestial Dao.

Trying to cultivate a Spirit Tree of the Golden Legend Level or higher from the outset is practically impossible.

Even Purple Treasures are incredibly difficult to successfully cultivate.

But if one uses only an ordinary Spirit Tree as their Dao Root, their cultivation potential is sealed from the very start.

This is the root reason why the Valley of Spring’s Cultivation Technique has such a sublime concept, yet its inheritance Grade can never be raised.

The second tribulation is even more widely known: Spirit Trees grow at an extremely slow pace.

The higher the Grade, the slower the Growth. Taking three thousand years to bear fruit and another three thousand to blossom is not some strange legend or special case for Spirit Trees of the Golden Legend Level and above—it’s the norm.

Without some special stroke of fortune, even if a Cultivator manages to form a high-Grade Spirit Seed, they simply won’t have a long enough lifespan to see it fully mature.

The solution devised by the ancient sages of the Four Seasons Valley was Reincarnation.

Using the human cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death to substitute for the Four Seasons Reincarnation of Celestial Time... for a Spirit Tree, one such cycle isn’t just a single year—

it’s a mortal’s entire lifetime!

While a human life isn’t a perfect substitute for a Spirit Tree’s cycle, it can still spare the tree decades, or even centuries, of growth.

More importantly, Divine Trees have tribulations, and the cycle of Life and Death Reincarnation is humanity’s greatest tribulation. By overcoming a single Death Tribulation, the Spirit Wood’s chances of transforming into an Innate Divine Wood increase dramatically.

’The ancient sages of Four Seasons Valley were truly geniuses of their time. But a Death Tribulation is called a tribulation for a reason—it’s a one-in-ten chance of survival. It’s not something one can simply pass through!’

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As Jiang Xuan mentally reviewed the outline of the Cultivation Technique’s pros and cons he’d pieced together over the past two days, Luo Yong heard Yan Shouzhuo cough and noticed the slightly unusual expression on Jiang Xuan’s face.

At that, he was certain: Jiang Xuan truly did have some understanding of the *Forest Spirit Scripture*.

That being the case, he couldn’t very well keep boasting about his Valley’s technique. Instead, he changed the subject and began explaining the specific method for cultivating it.

"The first step of this Cultivation Technique is to gather your own Vitality and condense it into a Spirit Seed within your body."

"There are two ways to form the Spirit Seed. The first is to find a Spirit Wood, establish a spiritual connection and Resonance with it, and absorb its Vitality. This will make forming the Spirit Seed a little easier. Moreover, by having a physical anchor, you establish a baseline for your Spirit Seed’s quality. However, this method..."

"A Spirit Seed formed this way can never achieve one hundred percent compatibility with one’s body. I’ll choose the second method," Jiang Xuan cut in without hesitation.

Hearing this, Luo Yong didn’t object, merely nodding as he said, "For a prodigy of your caliber, the second technique is indeed more suitable. This method requires no external aids. You need only gather your own Vitality to form the Spirit Seed, then nurture it day and night with your own blood essence, Dao Heart, Magical Power, and Divine Soul, continuously reinforcing its foundation."