Chapter 29: The Advantages and Limitations of Fortune Cultivators

Within the special space of the Scripture Pavilion!

Among the books Ye Qingxuan had just read, besides knowledge related to the advancement of spiritual plants and spiritual veins, there were also records of some secrets about Fortune Cultivators!

It turned out that to contract a spiritual land and become a Fortune Cultivator, transforming ordinary spiritual land into a blessed land, a cultivator needed to separate a portion of their own essence, energy, and spirit origin before Foundation Establishment, when their essence, energy, and spirit were not yet stable, and merge it into the spiritual land.

After a cultivator's portion of essence, energy, and spirit origin merged with the spiritual land's origin, contracted the spiritual land, and gained control over it.

From then on!

The cultivator and the spiritual land cultivated each other's lives; sitting motionless in one place, they became a Fortune Cultivator!

The spiritual land, fused with the cultivator's essence, energy, and spirit origin, underwent a transformation, gaining the opportunity to accelerate advancement and turn into a blessed land.

And this was the origin of Fortune Cultivators and blessed lands.

As for why Fortune Cultivators could use blessed lands to increase their spiritual roots.

It was because the cultivator's portion of essence, energy, and spirit origin merged with the blessed land's origin, and the blessed land was also a part of the Earth-Mystic Realm.

Therefore, the birth of Fortune Cultivators benefited the development of the Earth-Mystic Realm; under the feedback of the Earth-Mystic Realm's origin, the Fortune Cultivator's spiritual roots would naturally grow slowly.

The higher the grade of the blessed land, the greater the feedback from the Earth-Mystic Realm, and the faster the Fortune Cultivator's spiritual roots would grow.

The reason Ye Qingxuan chose to become a Fortune Cultivator was precisely because of this point.

But he never expected that becoming a Fortune Cultivator would require merging one's own essence, energy, and spirit origin!

Originally, he had thought of using his clone, the Eternal Turtle, to bear the restrictions of being a Fortune Cultivator on his behalf. Now, in this situation, he didn't know if the origin separated by the clone Eternal Turtle could replace his own essence, energy, and spirit origin.

Never mind, let nature take its course!

Even if the plan for the clone Eternal Turtle to bear the restrictions of being a Fortune Cultivator on his behalf failed, he still had other hopes...

With his own little calculations in mind, Ye Qingxuan continued reading further down.

After becoming a Fortune Cultivator, breaking through one's cultivation base did not require crossing a tribulation; one could break through naturally.

Because other cultivators broke through by plundering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the Earth-Mystic Realm would naturally descend an assessment to see if they were qualified to occupy a portion of heaven and earth's resources.

However, Fortune Cultivators also made contributions to the Earth-Mystic Realm indirectly during their cultivation process, so the Earth-Mystic Realm would naturally not descend a lightning tribulation to hinder their breakthroughs.

"I didn't expect such an unexpected surprise!"

Before reading these books, Ye Qingxuan did not know this point.

This discovery made Ye Qingxuan extremely delighted!

After all, the commotion caused by a tribulation was significant; undergoing a tribulation within the Xuantian Sect would undoubtedly expose oneself to everyone's eyes, which did not fit his planned development path.

Now that he knew Fortune Cultivators did not need to cross a tribulation to break through, that was naturally the best outcome; the fewer people paying attention to him, the better.

Although Ye Qingxuan currently felt very positive toward the Xuantian Sect and thought it was not bad, one could never be too cautious; it was best to keep one's own life as much as possible in one's own hands.

Reading further down, Ye Qingxuan learned why the cultivation technique he practiced, the Earth Origin Art, had become the exclusive technique for disciples of the Fortune Cultivator Academy.

Under normal circumstances, the success rate of a cultivator separating their essence, energy, and spirit origin to merge into a spiritual land was too low.

Through the constant attempts of predecessors, this led to the birth of the technique Ye Qingxuan practiced, the Earth Origin Art.

During the cultivation of the Earth Origin Art, one would continuously absorb a portion of the Great Earth Source Qi to merge into the cultivator's essence, energy, and spirit, and the Great Earth Source Qi was one of the origins of the spiritual land.

During the process of cultivating the Earth Origin Art, the cultivator's essence, energy, and spirit were also continuously fusing with the Great Earth Source Qi.

When a cultivator practicing the Earth Origin Art broke through to the peak of Qi Refining and was about to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, their essence, energy, and spirit would have already fused with enough Great Earth Source Qi. At this time, contracting a spiritual land and merging their own essence, energy, and spirit into the spiritual land's origin would be much easier.

Through observations over generations, it was discovered that cultivators with Earth spiritual roots practicing the Earth Origin Art could achieve twice the result with half the effort, and there was basically no risk of failure when contracting a spiritual land.

This was the real reason why the Xuantian Sect needed to screen for disciples with Earth spiritual roots to become Fortune Cultivators!

It was not that cultivators with other spiritual roots could not become Fortune Cultivators, but only cultivators with Earth spiritual roots, after practicing the Earth Origin Art, could achieve a one hundred percent success rate!

Moreover, after a Fortune Cultivator perished, the blessed land could be re-contracted and inherited by other cultivators.

This was also the only opportunity for a Fortune Cultivator to directly contract a blessed land of the second grade or above!

Other Fortune Cultivators could only contract a first-grade spiritual land at the start, transform the spiritual land into a blessed land, and develop it slowly.

However, a blessed land could only be inherited three times; after three times, it would slowly turn into ordinary spiritual land and merge into the Xuantian Mountain Range. Many high-grade spiritual lands in the Xuantian Mountain Range were born this way.

Therefore, the quota for inheriting a predecessor's blessed land was extremely precious, as it could save Fortune Cultivators a lot of time. Currently, the high-grade Fortune Cultivators within the Xuantian Sect were basically all accumulated and inherited through generations in this manner.

Ye Qingxuan had self-awareness and did not harbor any desire to covet such a quota; he also did not care about the restriction that a blessed land could only be inherited three times.

His, Ye Qingxuan's, blessed land would naturally exist eternally with him; outsiders should not even think about having the chance to inherit his blessed land.

With his hand constantly turning the pages, Ye Qingxuan continued reading further down.

Suddenly, Ye Qingxuan paused; he finally discovered the real reason why Fortune Cultivators did not have clones walking outside.

It turned out that the blessed land was both their success and their downfall!

A cultivator's portion of essence, energy, and spirit origin merged with the blessed land's origin; precisely because of this point, the blessed land became an alternative external clone of the cultivator.

This was the main reason why Fortune Cultivators within the Xuantian Sect did not cultivate clones to walk outside.

It was not only because the method of cultivating clones was extremely expensive, but also because the restrictions of the blessed land rendered ordinary clone and puppet techniques useless.

Ordinary clones and puppets could not even walk out of the range of the blessed land.

Only an external clone condensed from one's own essence, energy, and spirit origin could break free from this restriction.

However, cultivating an external clone had realm requirements and quantity limits; only a Nascent Soul realm cultivator could condense one external clone, and only a great power of the Void Penetration realm could condense a second external clone!

When a Fortune Cultivator used a special method to contract a blessed land, they had already occupied the quota for the first external clone. Therefore, under normal circumstances, a Fortune Cultivator would have to wait until the Void Penetration realm to condense another external clone.

That was a great power of the Void Penetration realm!

Given the tortoise-paced cultivation speed of Fortune Cultivators, it was enough to make Fortune Cultivators despair and directly give up the thought of condensing an external clone.

The reason why the cultivation speed of Fortune Cultivators was a hundred times slower was because after becoming a Fortune Cultivator, ninety-nine percent of the spiritual energy they absorbed into their bodies would be absorbed by the blessed land's origin, leaving only one percent for the Fortune Cultivator themselves.

However, the slow cultivation speed of Fortune Cultivators was not without a solution!

The blessed land absorbing the spiritual energy within the Fortune Cultivator's body was simply because the blessed land lacked energy for evolution, so it instinctively absorbed the spiritual energy within the Fortune Cultivator's body as accumulation for advancement.

Therefore, as long as a huge amount of energy was provided to the blessed land, the blessed land would naturally no longer absorb the pitifully small amount of energy belonging to the Fortune Cultivator!

Moreover, after the blessed land advanced, it would feedback to the Fortune Cultivator, ignoring the limitations of spiritual roots, and directly increase the Fortune Cultivator's cultivation base. This was also one of the main methods for Fortune Cultivators to improve their cultivation base.

Not only that, under normal circumstances, when cultivators consume elixirs, they accumulate elixir poison and develop resistance.

From time to time, cultivators must expend effort to practice special techniques or consume special pure elixirs to purify the elixir poison within their bodies before they can continue consuming elixirs to cultivate!

Regarding this point, Ye Qingxuan, as an alchemist, naturally understood it very well.

The reason he had not yet developed resistance to the Spirit-Enhancing Elixir was simply because it was a special elixir whose effects acted directly on the spiritual roots, rather than directly increasing his cultivation base, so its side effects were far less severe.

However, far less severe side effects did not mean there were no side effects at all; given enough time, Ye Qingxuan's body would eventually develop resistance to the Spirit-Enhancing Elixir!

Yet the Blessed Land could help the Blessed Cultivator purify their body, solve the problem of elixir resistance, allow the Blessed Cultivator to rely on elixirs for cultivation at a high frequency, and compensate for the Blessed Cultivator's inherent flaw of slow progress!

But all of this, all methods to solve the Blessed Cultivator's slow progress, required consuming vast amounts of resources.

To put it bluntly, those who voluntarily became Blessed Cultivators, and the disciples who were passively forced into becoming Blessed Cultivators by being thrown into the Xuantian Sect by its various affiliated powers.

In the eyes of the Xuantian Sect's various affiliated powers, they were basically expendable pawns responsible for producing resources; how could they possibly spend vast resources to cultivate these Blessed Cultivator expendables?

After all, the ultimate ownership of the Blessed Land did not belong to them.

Compared to these people, the Ye Family where Ye Qingxuan resided, though not a major power, had already provided significant support to Ye Qingxuan!

As for the Xuantian Sect, cultivating Blessed Cultivators was for the sake of resources; spending a small amount of resources in the early stages to cultivate Blessed Cultivator reserve disciples was already doing its utmost; how could it possibly spend massive resources to increase the cultivation base of Blessed Cultivators?

After all, the Xuantian Sect was not a nanny for its disciples and could not consider every detail for them.

It was not just the Xuantian Sect; other hegemonic powers were mostly the same.

This was the main reason why various hegemonic powers were willing to cultivate Blessed Cultivator reserve disciples in the early stages but unwilling to spend resources to cultivate low-level Blessed Cultivators.

There was no other reason; simply because a Blessed Cultivator was a bottomless pit, and the resources required to cultivate a Blessed Cultivator into a high-level cultivator were truly too great.

Low-level resources were manageable, but high-level resources, even for hegemonic powers like the Xuantian Sect, were extremely scarce in inventory.

If a Blessed Cultivator could not be cultivated into a high-level Blessed Cultivator, then the investment made during the low-level stage to produce one or two second or third-level Blessed Cultivators held absolutely no meaning for hegemonic powers like the Xuantian Sect.

In any case, relying on the accumulation of time, after the Blessed Land was inherited three times, high-level Blessed Cultivators would naturally be born gradually.

After all, the auxiliary effect of a high-level Blessed Land on a low-level Blessed Cultivator was far greater.