Chapter 377: A Great Harvest

Suddenly, a terror unlike any he had ever known surged into his heart.

Before he could even react,

his body instantly entered a state of decaying vitality and draining spiritual power.

His newly broken-through Nascent Soul cultivation base plummeted directly.

The connection he had established with the Longevity Immortal Bottle was instantly shattered back to its original state.

The next moment, Li Changsheng realized what was happening.

He pointed a finger at Ye Qingxuan, unwilling to accept his fate:

"You—"

Unfortunately, before he could finish his sentence,

Li Changsheng perished instantly as his lifespan withered away.

Ye Qingxuan shook his head slightly:

"Why bother? Isn't it better to be alive?"

After speaking, Ye Qingxuan waved his hand instinctively.

The seven-colored jade bottle, its aura restrained, was engraved with profound Dao patterns.

Ye Qingxuan felt a lingering fear.

"Huh?"

If he had accidentally triggered it, he would have had no one to blame but himself.

Had he really obtained an Immortal Treasure just like that?

Looking at the fallen Li Changsheng, Ye Qingxuan couldn't help but sigh:

He did not rush forward rashly.

He began to carefully probe Li Changsheng's body.

After all, Ye Qingxuan was unsure just how far the connection between the other party and the Immortal Treasure had progressed.

After checking for a moment, Ye Qingxuan withdrew his hand, feeling somewhat disappointed.

Ye Qingxuan did not get close.

He gently wrapped his spiritual sense around the restrained jade bottle.

"What a good person!"

Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense surged out.

This was an Immortal Treasure!

Ye Qingxuan's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he took a deep breath, suppressing his inner excitement.

Within the Dao patterns of the bottle's body,

Ye Qingxuan remained uncertain about how far the connection between the other party and the Immortal Treasure had progressed.

"Hahaha, is it really an Immortal Treasure?"

Li Changsheng's corpse instantly turned into ash and vanished.

Looking at the jade bottle hovering not far in front of him,

Ye Qingxuan remained cautious, fearing that Li Changsheng might have left behind a hidden contingency that could erupt even without anyone to trigger it.

However,

looking at the jade bottle hovering above Li Changsheng's corpse,

he was also extremely curious about Li Changsheng's reliance.

He wasn't sure if he could handle it.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud:

Looking at Li Changsheng's already withered corpse,

he carefully retrieved it from Li Changsheng's now-silent dantian.

Ye Qingxuan dared not be the slightest bit careless now.

Controlling his spiritual sense, he allowed it to seep into the jade bottle bit by bit.

A soft sound of surprise escaped Ye Qingxuan's lips.

After a long while, a look of pleasant surprise appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

For a moment, Ye Qingxuan couldn't even believe his own judgment.

As Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense slowly probed into Li Changsheng's dantian,

seeing the seven-colored jade bottle hovering there,

Ye Qingxuan vaguely sensed a power that transcended the Dao of profound meanings.

His heart stirred, as if he had realized something.

Li Changsheng's fate served as a warning.

With a wave of his hand, he took Li Changsheng's remaining storage ring into his grasp.

With the other party's Nascent Soul cultivation, how much of the Immortal Treasure's power could he have unleashed?

However, what Ye Qingxuan could be certain of was this:

Li Changsheng had not fully claimed this Immortal Treasure.

Otherwise, with the Immortal Treasure protecting its master automatically,

his Death Curse Art, which was only at the level of a nascent divine ability, would truly have been unable to do anything to the other party.

At this moment, Ye Qingxuan felt extremely fortunate that he had used the minor divine ability, Death Curse Art, to strike from the shadows.

Had he used any other divine ability to forcibly erase Li Changsheng,

and accidentally struck the Immortal Treasure in Li Changsheng's dantian, causing it to awaken automatically,

this external avatar of his might have been lost here today.

As his spiritual sense slowly probed into the core Dao patterns of the jade bottle,

Ye Qingxuan obtained some information about the seven-colored jade bottle from the patterns.

He finally learned the name of the seven-colored jade bottle—the Longevity Immortal Bottle.

As well as its origin, current state, and functions.

The Longevity Immortal Bottle was a mid-grade Immortal Treasure left behind by the Longevity Immortal Sect of the Di Xuan Realm a million years ago.

Because it had been deprived of high-level energy for a long time,

it had already fallen into a state of dormancy.

In the short term, it could no longer awaken on its own.

Currently, the Longevity Immortal Bottle only retained two basic auxiliary functions.

First, the Longevity Immortal Bottle could absorb spiritual energy to produce Longevity Immortal Dew.

Longevity Immortal Dew could accelerate the growth rate of spiritual plants.

By supplying lower-grade spirit stones, or allowing the Longevity Immortal Bottle to absorb spiritual energy on its own,

it could produce lower-grade Longevity Immortal Dew, doubling the growth rate of spiritual plants.

By supplying mid-grade spirit stones,

it could produce mid-grade Longevity Immortal Dew, tripling the growth rate of spiritual plants.

By supplying upper-grade spirit stones,

it could produce upper-grade Longevity Immortal Dew, increasing the growth rate of spiritual plants by six times.

By supplying supreme-grade spirit stones,

it could produce supreme-grade Longevity Immortal Dew, increasing the growth rate of spiritual plants by ten times.

A full bottle of Longevity Immortal Dew could supply a spiritual plant for ten years.

As for exactly how many spirit stones it would take to produce a full bottle of Longevity Immortal Dew,

Ye Qingxuan would have to figure that out slowly on his own.

This second basic function:

By supplying spirit crystals, the Longevity Immortal Bottle could produce Longevity Source Dew.

Consuming Longevity Source Dew allowed a cultivator to grow new spiritual roots.

Upon learning of the two basic functions carried by the Longevity Immortal Bottle,

Ye Qingxuan was overjoyed.

With the assistance of the Longevity Immortal Bottle, his speed in cultivating spiritual plants would inevitably increase significantly.

Moreover, his own spiritual root growth would also surely accelerate.

However,

the specific effects of the Longevity Source Dew in growing spiritual roots,

Ye Qingxuan did not know for the time being.

Because the second basic function of the Longevity Immortal Bottle

could only be used after the cultivator had claimed the Longevity Immortal Bottle.

But refining and claiming an Immortal Treasure was no easy task.

Li Changsheng had possessed the Longevity Immortal Bottle for so long,

and after hundreds of years of daily refinement, he had only managed to deepen his connection with the Immortal Bottle slightly.

He had remained far from the threshold of claiming the Immortal Treasure.

That was why he had fallen so easily into Ye Qingxuan's hands.

Under normal circumstances, to claim an Immortal Treasure,

one would either need the cultivation of a Mahayana Realm expert and a thousand years of refinement to barely claim it,

or receive the approval of the Immortal Treasure, completing the claim with the treasure's active cooperation.

But the latter was impossible with the Longevity Immortal Bottle.

Because the Longevity Immortal Bottle had fallen into dormancy

after being deprived of high-level energy for a long time.

In the short term, it was impossible for it to awaken on its own.

And without awakening, it could not actively accept a master.

However,

Ye Qingxuan stroked his chin, lost in thought.

He was different from ordinary cultivators.

In his sea of consciousness, he possessed an innate Immortal Soul.

Using an Immortal Soul to refine an Immortal Treasure should allow him, even with his Void Penetration Realm cultivation, to claim an Immortal Treasure, right?

Thinking of this, a look of eagerness appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

At this moment, Ye Qingxuan sensed that below the Mount Wanling Mountain,

Jiang Wen was leading a large group of people, heading toward the mountain in a grand procession.

The next moment,

Ye Qingxuan's heart stirred.

A boundary gate suddenly appeared not far from the Longevity Immortal Bottle.

Ye Qingxuan waved his sleeve, gently pushing it through the air.

The Longevity Immortal Bottle drifted into the boundary gate and vanished.

Having finished all this,

Ye Qingxuan turned around, stood with his hands behind his back, and waited quietly for Jiang Wen's arrival.

(End of Chapter)