Chapter 541

After seeing off Shi Qingxuan and her daughter, Zhang Taixuan returned to his residence and began studying the spiritual herb seeds collected by Han Paopao and others.

【You accelerated the growth of Huangjing Zhi; after careful study, you gained a comprehensive understanding of this herb's properties.】

【You accelerated the growth of Huo Lingzhi; after careful study, you gained a comprehensive understanding of Huo Lingzhi's properties.】

【You accelerated the growth of Tianling Guo; after careful study, you gained a comprehensive understanding of this Foundation Establishment Pill herb's properties.】

【You accelerated the growth of …】

【You studied 18,000 varieties of spiritual herb seeds, reaching a new height in your understanding of their properties.】

【By analyzing and deducing their properties, you created 110,000 new categories of spiritual herbs.】

【By combining the Dao of Woxuan Zaohua (the art of mediating creation), you have devised condensation techniques for 128,000 different varieties of spiritual herb seeds.】

【Combining the spiritual herb seed condensation method, you created a magic treasure crafting technique: Wan Ling Hu.】

Wan Ling Hu: Automatically swallows spiritual energy and condenses spiritual herb seeds.

With this spiritual artifact, you could condense some herb seeds every so often and scatter them across all corners of Tai Xuan Realm, so no matter how much cultivators harvested, the herbs would never go extinct.

"Let's make it a hundred-year cycle," Zhang Taixuan mused. "Every hundred years, Wan Ling Hu will autonomously replenish Tai Xuan Realm's herb varieties, ensuring cultivators always have access to herbs."

Taking out ten strands of world origin, he followed the deduced Wan Ling Hu crafting method and, in mere moments, forged a bottle-like spiritual artifact resembling Guanyin's Jade Purifying Vase.

"Gather the primordial energy of all realms!"

With a thought, spiritual energy from forty-nine worlds flooded into the bottle.

The next instant, 128,000 varieties of spiritual herb seeds were condensed.

Each variety bore one billion seeds, then Wan Ling Hu, through Zhang Taixuan's authority over heaven and earth, scattered them across all corners of Tai Xuan Realm. Billions of spiritual seeds rained down, instantly stirring the heavens and earth's spiritual energy.

Tai Xuan Realm was newly formed, its spiritual energy abundant.

The moment these herb seeds touched the ground, they spontaneously took root and sprouted, growing vigorously.

In an instant, the variety of herbs in Tai Xuan Realm reached an astonishing level.

Zhang Taixuan closed his eyes and quietly sensed the changes in heaven and earth.

Suddenly, he felt the heavens and earth tremble.

"Heaven and earth have become slightly more perfect—herb Dao has been completed. Even if I stop deducing, the world will now autonomously evolve new herb varieties. Excellent!"

He gazed at Wan Ling Hu and saw its work was done.

Yet spiritual energy still churned within its body.

It would wait until Zhang Taixuan's hundred-year cycle arrived, then resume condensing herb seeds and scattering them across Tai Xuan Realm to replenish the world's herb stock.

"These seeds all originate from other worlds—I can't hoard them all! If you want the horse to run, you must feed it grass; even fishing requires bait!"

With a thought, Wan Ling Hu activated again, and the next instant, countless herb seeds were condensed and gathered into Zhang Taixuan's hands.

He opened the chat group and sent the seeds as a red packet.

Zhang Taixuan: 【Red Packet】

Zhang Taixuan: "Based on the herb seeds you all sent, I've condensed some new ones—try planting them."

【Ding, Ying Zheng claimed your red packet.】

【Ding, Ying Zheng #2 claimed your red packet.】

【Ding, Su Xiao…】

Su Xiao: "Pfft, so many herb seeds—they've completely buried me. Big Brother Tai Xuan, you're not going to lose big, are you?"

Ying Zheng: "I'm buried too. Dao Jun, you're truly generous."

Han Paopao: "Same here! 【Image】 Swimming in herb seeds—beautiful, right?"

Ye Hei: "Too beautiful—it's blinding! Han Tianzun, stop your magic!"

Zhang Taixuan: 【Embarrassed】 I almost forgot—I sent way too many, but it doesn't matter; herb seeds won't drown anyone!

Zhang Taixuan: "As for worrying about losses—that won't happen. See Wan Ling Hu? It only consumed some spiritual energy—no real cost."

Su Xiao: "No cost—meaning all forty-nine worlds pitched in?"

Ye Hei: "Only Dao Jun could afford this."

Han Paopao: "Supplies herbs once every hundred years—I'm crying with envy. In my world, so many herbs are already extinct."

Zhang Sanfeng: "This is the strength of a newborn realm. Higher realms have greater energy levels but impose strict limits on cultivators. Tai Xuan Realm, newly opened, has few cultivators and can supply vast amounts of energy and herbs."

Bai Suzhen: "So in the beginning of creation, great cultivators always emerge most easily. Even without talent, heaven and earth can feed cultivators until they're full."

Su Xiao: "But if someone has no talent, what good does being fed do? 【Curious】"

Ye Hei: "They can become the ashes of heaven's trials."

Han Paopao: "Exactly—you need plenty of villains to test the fate-chosen ones. These people make perfect minor villains."

Xiao Mai: "Looking at it this way, many stupid villains in novels suddenly make sense. 【Squinting smile】"

Zhang Taixuan: "There's some truth to that. By the way, haven't you all been reorganizing your worlds? Have you started fighting yet?"

Li Shimin: "We're ready. Departing now. Fifty thousand Land Immortal troops—Tang World, tremble!"

Wan Wan: 【Sweating】 Tang World will definitely tremble—this is what everyone meant by using a cannon to swat a fly. Please be careful and don't break the world.

Ying Zheng: "Don't worry, Wan Wan. They've got experience. In the Liaozhai World, they didn't break heaven or earth either."

Zhu Youjian: "With Emperor Qin's assurance, I'm at ease. We're ready too—both our ancestral elders have arrived. Let's go—this is our chance to make the scholar-gentry pay."

Xiao Mai: "By the way, what will you do about the Zhu family's princely vassals?"

Zhu Youjian: "This 513… I'll ask the ancestral elders first."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Ask? If the scholar-gentry undermines rule, crush them. If the princely vassals undermine rule, crush them! I never imagined my descendants' princely vassals would grow so grotesque—now's the time to fix it. I've already begun preparing to reduce their power."

Zhu Youjian: "Grandfather, you're personally reducing the princely vassals?! 【Shocked】"

Zhong Suqiu: "Won't they rebel?"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Rebel? With what? I'm still alive, I hold the army, and the other princely vassals have zero chance to resist. Besides, reducing their power isn't done all at once—it can be done gradually over years."

Zhu Youjian: "I understand."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "You understand nothing. I can take my time here, but your side is already beyond repair—you need to act with bold, sweeping measures. You've got so many Land Immortal soldiers; just let the Boss and the Fourth Brother go all out."

Zhu Youjian: "…"

Xiao Mai: "【Laughter】 Emperor Chongzhen felt his brain wasn't big enough."

Li Shimin: "【Sigh】 There's nothing to be done—he's never learned anything. Take it slow. To be scolded, to be taught—that's a truly blessed thing. Far better than being played to death!"

【Ding, Zhu Youjian has started a live stream—come and watch!】

【Ding, Su Xiao has entered the live stream.】

【Ding, A Zhu has entered the live stream.】

【Ding, …】