Chapter 743: Chapter 686 Charming Skills_1
Mortal Realm.
In the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm.
The Mother Qi of All Woods surged, making the Ancestral Demon Tree rustle and sway.
Upon the trunk of the tree, a young man clad in green robes was sleeping. His face was like fine jade, his eyebrows sharp as if carved by a knife, a visage markedly youthful.
At this moment, he stretched lazily and yawned, slowly opening his eyes.
Those eyes seemed to peer through the veil of worldly affairs, experienced and worldly-wise, yet filled with an indescribable youthfulness and vigor, brimming with a longing for life’s beauty.
Fang Xi sat up and looked around.
Within the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, underneath the Ancestral Demon Tree, there was a Dongfu as if sculpted from fine jade.
Outside the Dongfu was a bamboo fence filled with rustic charm, encircling a Spiritual Medicine Garden.
In the Spiritual Medicine Garden, there were numerous precious herbs that would make any Earth Immortal cultivator envious.
Even judging by their age, they were well-ripened, enough so to be used in pill concoction and as ingredients for medicines.
Beyond the Spiritual Medicine Garden were thousands of acres of Spirit Fields tilled by the Yellow Bean Strongman and Copper Bean Armor Warrior.
Most of the Spirit Fields were planted with various types of Spirit Rice, particularly the most essential hundred acres of high-tier fields, which were cultivating a type of ’Jade Void Rice’!
This Spirit Seed, which Fang Xi had painstakingly acquired from Moon Invitation Immortal City, was ranked at the sixth tier. Each grain of Spirit Rice was the size of a longan, exceptionally plump, and through the pearl-like surface, one could discern a blurry palace within...
Regular consumption of this type of Spirit Rice was said to not only significantly aid in the process of Returning to Emptiness but also gradually enhance a cultivator’s physique to match that of a Body Refiner at the Returning to Emptiness stage.
Originally, ’Jade Void Rice’ had extremely stringent requirements for its growing environment, such that even within Moon Invitation Immortal City, there weren’t many Spirit Fields suitable for its cultivation.
But within the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, everything was different.
This was the sacred ground for Wooden Element plants!
Fang Xi even utilized the Mother Qi of All Woods to ensure the ’Jade Void Rice’ matured ahead of schedule, keen to taste its flavor.
Besides the hundred acres of ’Jade Void Rice’ Spirit Fields, the remaining thousands of acres were methodically planned and planted with Spirit Rice and Spiritual Trees.
The Nascent Soul level General Gold Bean was made the head servant, responsible for managing the Spirit Fields on a daily basis.
Beyond the Spirit Field Area to the east was a pond, its water clear as jade, where Daqing made its home.
To the south, two Wood Monsters were snuggling closely and frolicking together.
Having been tamed by Fang Xi with Beast-controlling Skills, they now completely regarded the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm as home and were merely waiting for the day they’d produce a litter of little Wood Monsters.
To the west was Taisui’s domain.
At the moment, Taisui had transformed into a snowy-white mountain of flesh, emitting the fragrance of Spirit Ganoderma and producing clusters of white Spirit Ganoderma, harvested by the Yellow Bean Strongman to feed the Ancestral Demon Tree.
In the northern part of the Secret Realm was the territory of the ’Horned Wood Dragon’.
Rooted deeply into the earth, it spawned countless vines, vine serpents, Wood Wolves, vine tigers... a veritable paradise for bewildering wood element creatures...
These collectively formed the defenses of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, though currently they were but in their infancy and rather weak in terms of defense.
What was truly fearsome, however, were the Arrays that Fang Xi had set up around the edges of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm and the hidden Nine States Mechanism City hovering in the highest reaches of the sky!
"The Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm has begun to take shape."
"Even its current output is quite astonishing..."
Now the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm and Fang Xi were bound by fate, sharing both prosperity and decline.
Naturally, he intended to manage this realm well.
Moreover, it was related to his own promotion in cultivation, something he could not afford to neglect!
"Mother Qi of All Woods... a total of one hundred and twenty-seven acres."
With a thought from Fang Xi’s Divine Thought, he knew the amount of Mother Qi of All Woods within the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm.
Although it was continuously being consumed to stimulate the growth of Spirit Plants and to extend lifespan, it was also naturally regenerating throughout various parts of the Secret Realm...
As of now, it reached a whole one hundred and twenty-seven acres!
And Fang Xi, who was cultivating the Way of the Earth Immortal, was particularly attuned to it: "When the Mother Qi of All Woods breaks through to a thousand acres, my cultivation will naturally break through to the mid-stage of Returning to Emptiness..."
"When it reaches five thousand acres, I should be able to break through to the late-stage of Returning to Emptiness."
"As for reaching full completion of Returning to Emptiness, that can be achieved when the Mother Qi of All Woods within the Secret Realm soars to ten thousand acres!"
As long as the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm continues to upgrade, it will propel Fang Xi’s own cultivation forward!
No need for arduous self-improvement, nor for any breakthrough pills!
That is the terrifying aspect of the True Immortal Realm’s heritage!
"Changqingzi... truly had good fortune, pity that after obtaining the Immortal Mansion’s heritage, he was a bit too prodigal... I should take this as a cautionary tale."
Fang Xi felt quite emotional.
In the original memories of Changqingzi, he too had his guard up against his second Nascent Soul and did not replicate all his memories.
For example, the ’Earth Immortal Heritage’, the second Nascent Soul only knew a part of it.
Even within the Green Emperor Mountain’s heritage in the Mortal Realm, Changqingzi left many safeguards. The Kuyong Skills contained hidden tricks, and even the ’Supreme Northern Dipper Life-controlling Divine Light’ taught was a simplified version.
Although it was claimed that a Nascent Soul could battle a Transcendent God, in reality, using it once would consume all of a Nascent Soul cultivator’s lifespan, leading directly to Sitting and Transforming.
What’s worse, it was extremely difficult to master!
His Taoist system was primarily intended to cultivate a suitable incarnation for soul possession, not necessarily for posterity to carry on and flourish...
Fang Xi planned to firmly bear this lesson in mind, not giving any chance for a heterodox incarnation to take advantage.
"Now with the Ancestral Demon Tree, my lifespan will unquestionably far surpass that of Changqingzi... It would be better to outlast him than to contend..."
With that thought, his being was once again filled with the air of a laid-back salted fish.