Chapter 302: High-Grade Spirit Vein
Earth Xiang Yu had just finished creating the new first grade formations and was ready to set them up around the sect.
For the qi gathering formation, he made a modified version like he had planned, he also made another modified formation to replace the existing second grade one.
When he arrived at the edge of the barrier, he first took down the second grade qi gathering formation and replaced it with the modified version.
He then guided the output of the qi gathering formation toward the specific spiritual pool areas that he had asked his martial aunt to create earlier.
After installing the formation, he did a few tests to ensure everything was working correctly. After confirming the second grade formation was functioning properly, he proceeded to install the first grade qi gathering formation and direct its qi output to another set of prepared spiritual pools.
After that, he installed the remaining defensive, attacking, concealment, and healing formations.
Wood clone Xiang Yu smiled as he felt the increase in spiritual energy throughout the cave. Although the qi concentration didn’t increase all over the sect due to the modified qi gathering formation, it still increased as usual in the cave as it was also selected as one of the output locations.
As he was basking in the increased qi, he suddenly felt the ground begin to shake. His smile widened even more, the spirit vein was being upgraded once again. After receiving all sorts of valuable materials from the demon god’s treasury (god rest his soul), he had been able to create even more treasures to feed the spirit vein.
Looking up, he watched as the massive tree at the center of the spirit vein turned completely golden.
Its branches then expanded outward, growing larger and more robust before becoming filled with countless golden leaves. He could also sense the root system beneath extending even further into the earth, providing qi to the crystal formations below. This development would help accelerate their growth significantly, perhaps he might actually be able to mine them in his lifetime.
The qi concentration inside the cave began rising.
In just five minutes, it had already caught up to the newly installed first grade qi gathering formation and surpassed it slightly.
Xiang Yu thought to himself that since the spirit vein had upgraded to high grade, he had expected it to be roughly equivalent to a first grade qi gathering formation in terms of qi output. But surpassing it…
After thinking about it for some time, he finally figured out what was happening.
“So this is the limit of the eastern continent,” the light clone thought aloud.
It wasn’t that the first grade qi gathering formation was weaker, it was simply that the way formations worked relied on external qi, absorbing and concentrating spiritual energy from the surrounding environment.
But the eastern continent wasn’t particularly rich in qi, so they had reached the practical limit of how much spiritual energy they could possibly absorb from the atmosphere. Although a heavenly grade formation would perform better theoretically, it would still fall far short of its true potential and would probably only achieve results slightly above first grade level.
The spirit vein, on the other hand, didn’t rely on atmospheric qi at all. Instead, it produced its own spiritual energy from within. This meant it could always operate at its full designed capacity regardless of external conditions.
He let out a resigned sigh. Well, there was nothing they could do about it now. Unless they somehow managed to overthrow the central continent, things would remain like this for a long time.
Still, he didn’t think the limitation made much difference for their current situation. Not many people in the sect could even fully utilize a third grade formation yet, so why did it matter if they couldn’t access true first grade and above?
In their entire sect, the only person who could take full advantage of higher grade formations was Li Yao. Since the spirit vein wasn’t limited by external conditions, she could always come here to practice if she wanted, though it would probably be better to just use spirit food instead.
The wind clone walked over to examine his plants.
Although he hadn’t yet received the Growth Booster 5.0 patch, just the spirit vein upgrade alone had improved the situation considerably.
For the fourth grade herbs, he could now expect to harvest them every three to five days instead of the previous two-week. As for the fifth grade herbs, they could now be harvested daily.
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Chapter 302: {Day 62: (Day 2)}
[Body Refining: 24th Layer (10,000/24,000) (+10,000/24,000)]
[Foundation Establishment: 10th Layer (17,000/100,000) (+15,000/100,000)]
[Soul: Infant (700/1,000,000) (+100/1,000,000)]
[Spiritual Root: Sacred-Grade Omni-Element (500/5000) (+500/5000)]
[Transcendent Dao Body: Level 2 (1280/2,000,000) (+1000/2,000,000)]
[Chaos Body: Level 3 (8500/30,000) (+1500/30,000)]
[Bloodline: Dragon, Phoenix: Noble Blood (2000/10,000) (+2000/10,000)]
[Enlightenment: Divine (1700/10,000) (+200/10,000)]
[Soul Flame: Abyssal Void Flame: 3rd Grade (1000/70,000) (+200/70,000)]
[Palm Intent: Level 1 (130/1000) (+30/1000)]
[Sword Intent: Level 1 (20/1000) (+20/1000)]
[Divine-grade Yin-Yang Harmony: Level 1 (150/1000) (+70/1000)]
[Divine-grade Elemental Clone: Level 1 (350/1000) (+50/1000)]
[Sacred-grade All Weapons Techniques: Completion (250/500) (+250/500)]
[Cook: Heavenly Grade (600/10,000) (+200/10,000)]
[Appraiser: Heavenly Grade (200/10,000) (+200/10,000)]
[Runesmith, Formation Master: 1st Grade (500/900) (+500/900)]
[Alchemist, Blacksmith: 1st Grade (500/900) (+500/900)]
[Medicine, Spirit Farmer: 4th Grade (200/600) (+200/600)]
[Researcher: 5th Grade (200/500) (+200/500)]
[Experience Points Doubled]
[Researcher: 5th Grade (200/500) → 5th Grade (400/500)]
[Medicine, Spirit Farmer: 4th Grade (200/600) → 4th Grade (400/600)]
[Alchemist, Blacksmith: 1st Grade (500/900) → Heavenly Grade (0/10,000)]
[Runesmith, Formation Master: 1st Grade (500/900) → Heavenly Grade (0/10,000)]
[Appraiser: Heavenly Grade (200/10,000) → Heavenly Grade (400/10,000)]
[Cook: Heavenly Grade (600/10,000) → Heavenly Grade (1200/10,000)]
[Sacred-grade All Weapons Techniques: Completion (250/500) → Great Completion (0/1000)]
[Divine-grade Elemental Clone: Level 1 (350/1000) → Level 1 (700/1000)]
[Divine-grade Yin-Yang Harmony: Level 1 (150/1000) → Level 1 (300/1000)]
[Sword Intent: Level 1 (20/1000) → Level 1 (40/1000)]
[Palm Intent: Level 1 (130/1000) → Level 1 (260/1000)]
[Soul Flame: Abyssal Void Flame: 3rd Grade (1000/70,000) → 3rd Grade (2000/70,000)]
[Enlightenment: Divine (1700/10,000) → Divine (3400/10,000)]
[Bloodline: Dragon, Phoenix: Noble Blood (2000/10,000) → Noble Blood (4000/10,000)]
[Chaos Body: Level 3 (8500/30,000) → Level 3 (17,000/30,000)]
[Transcendent Dao Body: Level 2 (1280/2,000,000) → Level 2 (2560/2,000,000)]
[Spiritual Root: Sacred-Grade Omni-Element (500/5000) → Sacred (1000/5000)]
[Soul: Infant (700/1,000,000) → Infant (1400/1,000,000)]
[Foundation Establishment: 10th Layer (17,000/100,000) → Foundation Establishment: 10th Layer (34,000/100,000)]
[Body Refining: 24th Layer (10,000/24,000) → 24th Layer (20,000/24,000)]
Daily (2/2)