Chapter 474: Sowing

Besides these spiritual beasts,

the spiritual beasts that Ye Qingxuan had invested the most effort in cultivating and valued the most

were none other than Xiao Kong, Xiao Ling, and the Azure Dragon.

In Ye Qingxuan's perception, two celestial cranes and a jiao dragon were playing in the high sky to the east of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

Given the vastness of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven today, it already rivaled some weak large planes within the Chaos.

Allowing Xiao Kong, Xiao Ling, and the Azure Dragon to roam freely within the Grotto-Heaven was more than sufficient everywhere.

Moreover, Xiao Kong, Xiao Ling, and the Azure Dragon had all mastered the bloodline divine ability of the Great and Small Ruyi.

When not in combat, they would not cause too much destruction to the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

Over these years, under Ye Qingxuan's deliberate cultivation, the cultivation bases of the three beasts—Xiao Kong, Xiao Ling, and the Azure Dragon—had advanced by leaps and bounds.

Among them, as creatures with a life essence at the ninth tier, the Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling were already naturally fast-growing.

Combined with Ye Qingxuan's deliberate cultivation, Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling had now both grown to the early stage of the seventh tier, entering the ranks of the Cave Void.

As for the Azure Dragon?

Initially, the Azure Dragon was merely a Green Spirit Jiao with a life essence at the sixth tier.

Later, for the sake of the Azure Dragon's growth,

Ye Qingxuan planted a vast number of Blood Trees within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven, cultivating Bloodline Fruits to aid the Azure Dragon's evolution and allow it to break through the constraints of its bloodline ahead of schedule.

Over these years, the Bloodline Fruits nurtured by thousands of Blood Trees were all devoured by the Azure Dragon.

With the continuous assistance of the Bloodline Fruits,

the Azure Dragon's life essence finally reached the ninth tier.

As the Azure Dragon's bloodline evolved step by step, it had long shed the form of a Green Spirit Jiao and was constantly approaching the form of a True Dragon.

When the Azure Dragon's bloodline reached the ninth tier, its life form had already reached the peak state of a jiao dragon.

It was only one step away from transforming into a true member of the Dragon Clan.

However, once the Azure Dragon's bloodline reached the ninth tier, advancing further was no longer easy.

Moreover, over these years, Ye Qingxuan had collected only a small amount of demon beast flesh, and the tiers of the flesh were not high.

The Blood Trees he planted in the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven had not undergone large-scale evolution or growth for a long time.

Under these circumstances, the Bloodline Fruits nurtured by the mid- and low-tier Blood Trees could no longer provide much help to the Azure Dragon.

The reason the Azure Dragon was able to evolve its bloodline to the ninth tier was relying on the sheer quantity of the continuous stream of Bloodline Fruits.

But after its bloodline reached the ninth tier, to evolve into a true member of the Dragon Clan,

relying solely on the quantity of Bloodline Fruits was far from enough.

In the short term, Ye Qingxuan had no way to help the Azure Dragon continue its transformation.

Fortunately, after the bloodline reached the ninth tier, combined with Ye Qingxuan's special cultivation, the Azure Dragon's cultivation base had also advanced by leaps and bounds over these years.

Although it was still temporarily inferior to Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling, it had already reached the late stage of the sixth tier.

Watching the three beasts playing freely in the distance, Ye Qingxuan did not disturb them.

His cultivation base had just broken through, and there were many matters requiring his attention; this was not a time for leisure.

He merged his spiritual sense into the Grotto-Heaven of Blessed Land, sensing the vastness of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven of Blessed Land as it was now.

Ye Qingxuan stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

Given the current vastness of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven of Blessed Land, planting spiritual herbs in all the spiritual lands was no small undertaking.

This time, Ye Qingxuan had no intention of doing it himself.

As the saying goes, train soldiers for a thousand days to use them for one hour.

Although he could not currently recruit disciples from the Xuantian Sect through the Xuantian Sect to help him plant spiritual herbs,

the thousands of Blessed Cultivators who had opened up Blessed Lands within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven were experts at planting spiritual herbs.

As his trusted subordinates, if he issued a planting task to them,

these thousands of Blessed Cultivators under his command would naturally plant the spiritual herbs in the newly added territories of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven for him.

At that time, the worst that could happen would be granting them temporary permission to leave their respective Blessed Lands.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan immediately felt it was feasible.

In the next moment, Ye Qingxuan moved his mind and directly issued the task of planting spiritual herbs on the sub-steles of the thousands of Blessed Cultivators through the World-Subduing Stele.

At the same time, Ye Qingxuan also opened his treasure vault.

Any Blessed Cultivator who claimed a different planting task would receive the corresponding spiritual herb seeds.

Not long after the planting task was issued,

Blessed Cultivators began to leave their Blessed Lands one after another, walking through various parts of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven to plant the corresponding spiritual herbs for Ye Qingxuan.

Among the Blessed Cultivators who claimed the planting tasks,

many took the opportunity during their free time from planting spiritual herbs to invite two or three good friends to tour the various parts of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven, chatting occasionally.

In an instant, the entire Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven became much livelier.

Seeing this scene from the high sky, Ye Qingxuan did not speak to stop them; instead, he smiled and nodded.

Afterwards, Ye Qingxuan took a step and returned to the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

The newly added territories of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven were being planted by thousands of Blessed Cultivators on his behalf.

However, there were no Blessed Cultivators opening up Blessed Lands within the Qingxuan Blessed Land itself.

Moreover, Ye Qingxuan did not currently plan to open up internal Blessed Lands within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

He also did not intend to have the Blessed Cultivators from the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven come to the Qingxuan Blessed Land to plant spiritual herbs for him.

Although his benefactor Master Cen Zhe was still confronting a Mahayana cultivator of the Green Demon Clan in the void,

Ye Qingxuan was uncertain when his Master Cen Zhe would return, or whether he would come to inspect his Qingxuan Blessed Land upon his return.

To avoid being unable to explain himself if such a situation arose and exposing his other trump cards.

Ye Qingxuan decided not to take this risk for now.

Moreover, after advancing to the seventh tier, the single Qingxuan Cave Heaven was already vast enough.

The numerous spiritual herbs planted within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven could temporarily satisfy the consumption of those under his command.

However, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to waste the newly added territory within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Spreading his spiritual sense across heaven and earth to sense the vast expanse of the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan's gaze flickered slightly.

He decided to personally tend and plant some high-tier spiritual herbs on the spiritual lands surrounding the sixth and seventh-tier spiritual veins within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

As for the spiritual lands surrounding spiritual veins below the sixth tier, he decided to scatter mid and low-tier spiritual herb seeds across heaven and earth, allowing these herbs to grow on their own.

This way, although the survival rate of the spiritual herbs would be lower, Ye Qingxuan could rest much easier.

When the spiritual herbs within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven could no longer meet demand, the free-range spiritual herbs in the Qingxuan Blessed Land could serve as reserves.

Having made his decision.

Ye Qingxuan directly retrieved a large quantity of mid and low-tier spiritual herb seeds from a treasure vault he had built within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Under the control of his spiritual sense, he scattered these spiritual herb seeds randomly across heaven and earth within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

He then retrieved some seventh-tier spiritual herb seeds and went to the spiritual lands surrounding the sixth and seventh-tier spiritual veins within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

He carefully planted these high-tier spiritual herb seeds.

After Ye Qingxuan finished all this, he immediately felt a sense of satisfaction.

Looking at the results of his sowing, a satisfied smile spread across Ye Qingxuan's face.

(End of this chapter)