Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 48 Green Blood Treasure Tree and Spirit Vein Traces

Half a month later,

Deep inside the thick fog, a recessed wallow in the mountain wall once again welcomed a visitor.

Zhao Sheng, dusty and disheveled, tumbled into the slope. He sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

Ignoring everything else, he immediately swallowed a Spirit Origin Pill and tore a Water Healing Talisman to treat the wound on his arm.

A deep gash had been torn open on his arm, from which blood ceaselessly flowed out.

As the spiritual water adhered to the wound, the bleeding at the gash quickly stopped.

He was really unlucky.

Two hundred miles in fifteen days, during which he got lost dozens of times and faced dangers seventeen or eighteen times but had never been injured once.

He had nearly completed 99% of the journey to Ling Mountain, just one step away.

At the doorstep, he suffered an unwarranted disaster.

Less than ten miles from the Sloping Spiritual Medicine Garden, on a cliff Zhao Sheng was walking well when two giant beasts suddenly fought above him on the cliff, collapsing the rocks and clay, which fell in sheets.

Zhao Sheng couldn't completely dodge and was struck by the falling rocks and dirt.

Dusty and disheveled with a large gash on his arm.

One word: Unfortunate!

However, within moments, the gash on Zhao Sheng's arm stopped bleeding and contracted rapidly, forming a layer of red crystal-like membrane, inside which new flesh began to grow.

Zhao Sheng, seeing this, knew it was because of his self-healing constitution!

His body recovered seven times faster than ordinary people.

His heart was at ease!

In an instant, dozens of strong medicinal scents entered Zhao Sheng's nostrils.

He couldn't help but sneeze, yet suddenly burst into a wide smile.

Zhao Sheng got up and took steps towards the Medicine Garden.

…

As he shifted his gaze, under the dead trees, in the bushes, and in the crevices of stones, precious spirit medicines occasionally peeked out.

But these were not enough to make Zhao Sheng stop.

He headed straight for a side near the mountain wall.

Walking a distance, he faced a flat piece of land cleared under the mountain wall, about half an acre in size.

The land was neatly covered with various spirit medicines rare in the outside world.

Dragon Transformation Fruit, Seven-Combined Jade Leaf, Jade Divine Flower, Nine Curves Ginseng, and Refining God Grass…

Zhao Sheng had planted these rare spirit medicine seeds in his previous life, and they had already grown to maturity.

The growth of these demanding spirit medicines could only be attributed to the miraculous effects of the medicinal mud.

For this half-acre medicine field, Zhao Sheng had dug through the slope in those years, investing all the gathered medicinal mud into this land.

Now, it seems, the effect was outstanding!

Beyond these spirit medicines, the other half of the garden was planted with Purple Qi Mushroom, Blood Sword Grass, Dragonbane Fruit, and other original spirit medicines from the slope.

He had transplanted them one by one.

When transplanted, each had at least a few hundred years of medicinal age.

Three hundred years had passed!

Except for a few spirit medicines that withered after maturation, most of them were still growing well.

Zhao Sheng counted and instantly grinned ear to ear.

Glancing over, there were actually as many as three Red Fire Ganoderma aged over five hundred years in the medicine field.

However, the Red Fire Ganoderma was not the most eye-catching,

Zhao Sheng's gaze involuntarily landed on the center of the medicine field.

There, a seven-foot-tall spirit plant with the thickness of a wrist, whose branches and leaves were as clear as white jade and which was filled with a network of fibers throughout,

Inside the fibers of the spirit plant, strands of green spirit liquid unceasingly flowed, looking incredibly mystical.

It stood proudly in the center of the medicine field, overlooking the numerous surrounding spirit medicines like a crane among chickens.

Upon seeing this spirit plant, Zhao Sheng immediately exclaimed, "White Jade Green Blood? A mutated Strange Spirit Branch!"

Zhao Sheng had never expected that such a mere medicine field could nurture such a rare spirit plant in the world.

The mutated Strange Spirit Branch, also known as the Green Blood Treasure Tree, was one of a million, truly rare in the world.

It was one of the few strange treasures in the Cultivation World that disregarded rank and could even have a slight effect on a Divinity Transformation True Monarch.

The Green Blood Spirit Liquid produced by the Green Blood Treasure Tree could purify the divine soul of a cultivator, whether you were a Divinity Transformation True Monarch or a Qi Refinement novice.

This was incredible!

Considering that a Divinity Transformation True Monarch represented the pinnacle of power in this realm.

There were indeed few treasures in this world that could touch the hearts of these venerable beings.

What more could be said about such a rare treasure capable of purifying the Primordial Spirit?

In the Cultivation World, a similar treasure would have a starting price of at least 200,000 Spirit Stones.

Previously, Zhao Sheng had won the hundred-year lease of Dragon Carp Lake for less than 60,000 Spirit Stones, adding an annual rent of 2,000 Spirit Stones.

A hundred years summed up to only 260,000 Spirit Stones.

That amount of Spirit Stones could only purchase a drop of Green Blood.

Impatiently, Zhao Sheng walked over and carefully measured its height with his hands.

Seven feet, three inches!

"Pity it's not nine feet!" Zhao Sheng sighed with a face full of regret.

Eight feet counts as spiritual, nine feet transforms it into a treasure!

Only when the Green Blood Treasure Tree exceeds nine feet does it qualify as a Treasure Tree.

Because only Green Blood Treasure Trees over nine feet could significantly impact Divinity Transformation True Monarchs.

Of course, this is not to say that Green Blood Trees under nine feet are useless, but their effects are minimal.

Although Zhao Sheng felt profound regret, he still couldn't contain his wild joy.

A seven-feet tall Green Blood Tree was already precious enough.

For the Zhao family, a Green Blood Treasure Tree over eight feet was not a treasure but a disaster that could lead to their downfall.

Because such high-level Spirit Plants could attract countless Nascent Soul Ancestors.

A seven-feet Treasure Tree corresponds to the Golden Core Level, just about the limit the Zhao family could handle.

Hmm?

At that moment, Zhao Sheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked down at the soil beneath the tree.

He saw a thin layer of black sand-sized granules covering the area within three feet of the tree roots.

This patch of "black sand" was clearly different from the surrounding Medicine Soil.

"What is this...?"

Zhao Sheng suddenly squatted down, pinched a handful of black sand, and smelled it under his nose.

The smell was fishy, musky, yet had a slightly astringent taste.

Could it be...

Zhao Sheng's eyes brightened suddenly, and he quickly put his finger in his mouth, stirring it a few times.

The taste, the texture, all correct!

There was no doubt, it was Spirit Soil.

Zhao Sheng quickly stood up and looked around swiftly.

Where there is Spirit Soil, there must be spirit worm nests.

Because Spirit Soil is the excrement of spirit worms.

Zhao Sheng quickly noticed the clues.

Looking closely, one could see a thin black sand trail starting from the roots of the Green Blood Treasure Tree, extending all the way into the mountain, and finally disappearing into a pile of debris.

Zhao Sheng walked over in a few steps and bent down to carefully observe the pile of debris.

Suddenly, he sensed something was not right.

It seemed... it seemed that the Spiritual Energy here was a bit richer than in the Medicine Field.

Considering that spirit worms do not dwell in places without spirit and transform energy into soil.

Zhao Sheng's heart suddenly started pounding uncontrollably, and he couldn't help but conceive a bold idea.

Behind this pile of rubble... there might be a Spirit Vein hidden.

His guess was not far-fetched.

Heavenly Pillar Mountain had many Spirit Veins of all grades.

There was even a rumor that claimed that inside Heavenly Pillar Mountain lay the only Level 5 Spirit Vein in this realm, which was restrained by a great power tens of thousands of years ago.

Some even assert that the other Spirit Veins in Heavenly Pillar Mountain are just extensions of this Level 5 Spirit Vein.

Zhao Sheng knew this rumor was not groundless.

To say nothing else,

If there was not enough Spiritual Power support, how could the Ancient Prohibition above the Third Level Cloud Sea of Heavenly Pillar Mountain have persisted from ancient times to today without collapsing?

This evident logic is clear to any intelligent person after a moment's thought.

Zhao Sheng was now caught in a sweet dilemma.

At the moment, he did not know which to choose?

Should he excavate the Spirit Vein first, or should he harvest the Spiritual Medicine first?

After thinking it over, he turned and returned to the Medicine Field.

Since the Spirit Vein wasn't going anywhere, it seemed wiser to first harvest the Spiritual Medicine and secure it safely.