Chapter 711: Five Elements Spiritual Soil

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Before leaving Rainbow Country, Chen Mobai took another look at the transplanted Golden Sun Spirit Tree.

With Zhuo Ming present, the spirit tree experienced no discomfort during its journey from Giant Wood Ridge to Mount Liujia. In fact, it grew even more robustly due to the longevity soil.

"Master, once the longevity soil is upgraded to Tier 4, we can try using the 'pulling shoots to help them grow' technique to advance this Golden Sun Spirit Tree to a higher tier."

Zhuo Ming was very dedicated to this matter because her Earth Mother cultivation technique could only produce Tier 3 spiritual soil. If this attempt succeeded, she could then expand upon it to see if she could achieve a breakthrough from a single point to complete a comprehensive method for upgrading spiritual soil to Tier 4.

Chen Mobai was also very supportive of this, though he knew it would be extremely difficult. The difference between Tier 4 and Tier 3 was almost like heaven and earth.

When leaving Mount Liujia, Chen Mobai gave Yin Qingmei a ride, dropping her off with Luo Yixuan.

Immortal Gate.

Chen Mobai, now known as Lan Haitan, and one of the prominent figures of the Wuqi Dao Academy, easily obtained the contact information for Jin Shanshi, the head of the Spiritual Plant Department, and then consulted him on how to precisely control the proportion of Five Elements spiritual energy in the soil.

As a Tier 4 spiritual planter, Jin Shanshi's professional expertise far exceeded Chen Mobai's expectations. He easily proposed several solutions.

"Cultivating spiritual plants requires ensuring spiritual energy content. It's best done in a professional laboratory without spiritual energy interference. If you try this on Mount Zhuoming, its fire spiritual energy will be mixed in. When fire spiritual energy increases, it will correspondingly weaken metal spiritual energy and increase earth spiritual energy, triggering a series of changes according to the Five Elements' mutual generation and restriction."

Lan Haitan listened and immediately followed up on Jin Shanshi's words.

"Of course, your infusion also cannot be too excessive. The approximate proportion of the five-element spiritual energy supplied still cannot deviate too much."

"Furthermore, spiritual trees also have the ability to improve their existing soil and air environment, adapting it for their own survival and growth. You only need to infuse the required five-element spiritual energy into the soil every so often, and it will absorb and refine it according to its own needs."

After hanging up the phone, Jin Shanshi sent a series of paper links and the titles of over a dozen books on related professional knowledge.

Jin Shanshi had, in a way, watched Chen Mobai grow step by step. After all, when Chen Mobai was at the academy, the talent he displayed in agricultural studies marked him as a seedling for a top-tier spiritual planter. So, as soon as Chen Mobai asked him this question, he naturally thought of the void domain, referencing Chen Mobai's potential for Soul Transformation.

Indeed, worthy of being a teacher at the Immortal Gate's top spiritual tree academy, and a future principal of the Jumang Dao Academy. His level truly felt a cut above that of their Wuqi Dao Academy.

With Lan Haitan's current learning ability, he could easily learn all this knowledge even without enlightenment tea. He truly had some talent in spiritual trees.

In the Immortal Gate, the void domain was a capability that cultivators only began to train in after reaching the first layer of Golden Core. However, for geniuses, mastering it ahead of schedule was the standard.

Domains were divided into many types: some for combat, some for production, others for research, storage, and so on. For instance, when they jointly fought against the Blossom Court Master, the primordial magnetic domain Jin Shanshi displayed was specifically for combat, which greatly astonished Lan Haitan at the time.

A Golden Core domain, however, continuously moved with the cultivator. Therefore, if one wished to develop it beyond its basic storage function, they would need to subscribe to expensive void spiritual energy packs. The more developed it was, the more spiritual energy it required, and thus the more merit points needed annually.

This was the Immortal Gate's Sky Screen and Earth Network.

The Immortal Gate aimed to completely control the world's spiritual energy of the entire Earth Origin Star. Spiritual energy is the foundation for billions of cultivators in the Immortal Gate, so buying the available void spiritual energy packs guarantees not a single wisp less than what's paid for. After all, this concerned the lives of billions of people—even a tiny difference, multiplied by billions, would result in numbers like surging waves.

Although the Immortal Gate had scarce resources, it could generally provide spiritual energy for cultivation to its lower-tier cultivators. Because all spiritual energy in the Immortal Gate was nationalized, only the most basic world spiritual energy, sufficient for living beings to survive, was available in the wilderness and suburbs; it was certainly insufficient for Golden Core cultivators. Therefore, when Golden Core cultivators traveled, if they suddenly wanted to practice cultivation techniques, they would inevitably need to communicate with the Sky Screen to open their void spiritual energy packs and draw in spiritual energy to do so. Most cultivators cultivated near spiritual veins, but often needed to leave to handle affairs. At such times, they would need to use these void spiritual energy packs.

However, for higher-tiered items, in addition to merit points, corresponding identity permissions were also required to unlock them. But to make this knowledge a reality was extremely difficult. However, the Seven Great Dao Academies each possessed such foundations.

For example, if one possessed rare treasures that inherently contained massive spiritual energy, equivalent to an entire spiritual vein, and placed them within their domain, they would not need void spiritual energy packs, being self-sufficient internally. Furthermore, in their Wuqi Dao Academy, deep within the Myriad Treasures Cave, there was a red lotus formed from solidified fire source essence. If placed within a domain, it could dissipate and form a Tier 7 low-grade fire spiritual plant. However, this was only permitted for Dao Academy principals, and only those at the Nascent Soul stage could obtain approval from the Immortal Gate to refine and place such items into their domain. For instance, Lan Haitan's good friend Wenren Danxia could take a small portion of the vast spiritual energy absorbed by the Great Catalpa Tree and transfer it to her domain's tea garden. As for that spiritual energy, it was merely a drop in the ocean for the Great Catalpa Tree, which was why it remained unaffected when successive masters of the Evergreen Cultivation Technique performed this action.

Lan Haitan's status as a Kaiyuan Hall council member granted him privileges, allowing him to purchase all five-element spiritual energy from Tier 1 to Tier 8, as well as the authority to access Tier 7 fire spiritual energy. For instance, Lan Haitan had once consulted Jin Shanshi about his primordial magnetic domain. Because Jin Shanshi was now the strongest combat force of the Heaven-Mending Group, his void spiritual energy pack was top-tier. Besides five-element spiritual energy, it could also draw in bipolar primordial magnetic force, costing two hundred million merit points annually. However, since Jin Shanshi served the Immortal Gate, he could claim reimbursement for this enormous expense from the Zhengfa Hall annually. That price left Lan Haitan dumbfounded. However, the Immortal Gate's spiritual energy fees were precisely like that: the lower the tier, the cheaper it was, primarily aiming to make it affordable for most people.

Because Lan Haitan didn't have many spiritual stones, he only subscribed to the most basic spiritual energy package annually. However, after charging his supreme-grade spirit stones, he placed both of the two in his possession within his domain. One of them was being cultivated to become a Tier 7 spiritual plant within the domain, a process that was currently underway. He hoped that after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, he could directly integrate the Tier 7 low-grade Azure Jade Parasol Tree from Zhuoming City.

If Lan Haitan were not present to oversee Zhuoming City's Tier 7 fire vein, then after Shi Qing and Yu Tianguang's departure, apart from maintaining the basic respiration of the Azure Jade Parasol Tree, the rest would be downgraded to Tier 3, because the Scarlet Cloud and Danzhu academies only required spiritual plants of that level. With him, a Golden Core True Person, present, the teachers and some key students from the two academies could often benefit from the Tier 7 high-grade spiritual energy cave dwelling on the mountainside when making breakthroughs.

Now that the five elements and seven meridians had merged, the overall situation in the Eastern Wilderness was settled. With Zhou Shengqing and his group at Snow Blowing Palace and Heaven Returning Valley, it was unlikely they could cause any more trouble. Therefore, he decided to properly seclude himself for cultivation at the Immortal Gate. Moreover, he rarely went out, spending most of his time cultivating on Mount Zhuoming. The Tier 7 fire vein there was provided to him annually for free by the Immortal Gate, as he was a member of the Kaiyuan Hall.

Developing his domain was secondary, as it not only consumed time and effort but also required a vast amount of merit points to purchase void spiritual energy packs. Lan Haitan had always used his domain primarily as a giant storage bag. However, Lan Haitan had been too busy with too many things previously. After inquiring, he found it very troublesome and time-consuming, and the Pure Yang Scroll and Pure Yang Dharma Body occupied most of his time, so he never had the leisure to specialize in this.

Therefore, Lan Haitan wanted to bypass the void domain directly and first refine formations into his body, which meant mastering the Underworld Small Array version of Void Walking. It was reasonable that Lan Haitan could master the void domain in the mid-Golden Core stage, and at the Golden Core realm, he could comprehend and 'improve' Void Walking, a skill typically exclusive to Nascent Soul cultivators, and realize it.

He decided internally that he would only ask each professional once at most. This time, he asked his good friend, Wenren Danxia.

After listening to Wenren Danxia's explanation, Lan Haitan suddenly understood completely, feeling that he had grasped everything. "Old Chen, are you preparing to develop and build your own domain now?" To construct a spiritual land from scratch was even more difficult.

The key to cultivating five-element spiritual land was to follow the Immortal Gate's artificial spiritual land approach. The technical key lay in how to ensure that the spiritual energy content infused was exactly the same, without even the slightest deviation. Although Lan Haitan felt that the Five-Element Snow Jasmine shouldn't be that sensitive and a slight difference wouldn't matter much, he had a very simple method to achieve this.

He purchased seven Tier 1 void elemental energy packs. This was the Tier 1 five-element spiritual energy that the Sky Screen Grand Array drew from the distant geo-network of spiritual plants after successful verification.

Very quickly, Lan Haitan, seated atop Mount Zhuoming City, sent out his divine sense. After undergoing an established verification frequency, he achieved a certain synchronization with the Sky Screen Grand Array, which was imperceptible high above.

Subsequently, seven openings suddenly appeared in the void above his head, and pure but meager five-element spiritual energy flowed out from these seven openings. Lan Haitan could feel that the fire spiritual energy was precisely drawn from the spiritual plants on his Mount Zhuoming, and the other five-element spiritual energies were likely drawn from the nearest locations to him.

This organic soil was the most common type of soil in the Immortal Gate, containing no spiritual energy, and was the easiest to modify and cultivate. He used the Immortal Gate's Sky Screen and Earth Network to precisely control the balanced usage of the five-element spiritual energy.

As long as the five-element spiritual energy was evenly infused, and then sealed using ordinary nurturing techniques, after a period of waiting, it would become the five-element spiritual land that Lan Haitan required. But for Lan Haitan, that was sufficient. After all, that branch of the Five-Element Snow Jasmine only required Tier 1 five-element soil to be planted; Tier 7 was already beyond the standard. Lan Haitan expressed full confidence in the spiritual soil.

He unsealed the organic soil he had stored and used a 'soil tester,' which had similar properties to a spiritual energy meter, to check the spiritual energy content within the soil. There were also many spiritual trees within the Immortal Gate that were exceptionally sensitive to spiritual energy requirements, so the precision of that soil tester was also excellent.

He inserted it into the soil for a moment, then pulled it out to check. The numbers 18, 19, 20, 21 appeared on the screen, which made him frown slightly. The five-element spiritual energy infused was clearly balanced, so why wasn't the result successful?