Chapter 54: Getting Started

Qingxuan Blessed Land.

After Ye Qingxiao left, Ye Qingxuan took out his disciple token and reported to Manager Bai of the Blessed Land Cultivation Institute:

"Manager Bai, this disciple has successfully contracted a Blessed Land and smoothly broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm. I am reporting this to you!"

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm, his contribution points would rise from the original 30 per month to 60 per month.

Although not much, contribution points are hard to come by and can only be accumulated by completing missions.

His Blessed Land had just started; in the early stages, massive funds were needed to develop it, making contribution points indispensable.

After Ye Qingxuan sent the message, Bai Zichun replied quickly: "You brat, it took you over four months just to contract a Blessed Land?"

Had Bai Zichun not spent years at the Blessed Land Cultivation Institute, knowing that contracting a Blessed Land after cultivating the Land Source Art never failed,

and had Ye Qingxuan's name not remained on the sect roster, he would have been unable to stop himself from going to the Qingxuan Blessed Land to collect Ye Qingxuan's corpse.

After muttering a complaint, Bai Zichun sent another message: "Alright, your information has been updated. From now on, your disciple token can directly contact the Sect's Dharma Transmission Hall, Library, Ten Thousand Things Hall, and Mission Hall."

"If you need to exchange lineages, spells, or resources, or publish missions, you can do so on the disciple token. A dedicated disciple will deliver them to you when the time comes."

The Blessed Land cultivation system had existed within the Xuantian Sect for many years, naturally possessing a corresponding operational procedure.

"Also, for a First-Rank Blessed Land, you must complete one First-Rank planting mission assigned by the sect each year. Remember to claim it through the disciple token at the Mission Hall."

After Bai Zichun finished explaining everything, Ye Qingxuan replied: "Thank you, Manager, for your guidance. This disciple understands now!"

After receiving Ye Qingxuan's response, Bai Zichun sent a final message: "From now on, everything depends on yourself. I hope you can maintain your Dao heart and not follow in others' footsteps!"

Seeing Bai Zichun's final message, Ye Qingxuan's eyes were filled with determination. He replied with his own final message: "Rest assured, Manager. I know how to walk my own path!"

After ending communication with Bai Zichun,

Ye Qingxuan poured his spiritual sense into the disciple token and saw four tiny structures inscribed with: Dharma Transmission Hall, Library, Ten Thousand Things Hall, and Mission Hall!

Gently touching the Mission Hall with his spiritual sense, Ye Qingxuan saw all current missions in the Mission Hall and clearly understood the methods for accepting and publishing missions.

Upon entering the First-Rank planting mission area, Ye Qingxuan saw various planting missions for First-Rank spiritual herbs.

For these missions, completing just one per year yields no contribution points, but each additional one completed grants an extra 300 contribution points.

Regarding this, Ye Qingxuan felt no dissatisfaction.

The Xuantian Sect invested heavily in training Blessed Land cultivators in the early stages and later directly provided a spiritual land for them to contract; therefore, completing one free First-Rank planting mission annually for the Xuantian Sect seemed only right to Ye Qingxuan.

Depending on the cultivation difficulty of different First-Rank spiritual herbs, the quantity required to be handed in annually for each planting mission varied.

For the easiest to cultivate, such as Sky Blue Flower, Purple Spirit Grass, and Spirit-Attracting Flower, one mission required handing in 1,500 stalks per year.

Although the quantity seems large, in the superior environment of the Xuantian Mountain Range within the Xuantian Sect, even if these spiritual herbs were not planted in the core area of a Blessed Land but only in areas like the outer peaks of the Qingxuan Blessed Land, the survival rate would still be considerable.

It merely required significant effort to manage, which was exactly why Ye Qingxuan abandoned them.

Finally, after comparing options, Ye Qingxuan chose the most difficult to plant, Earth Spirit Flower, as his annual planting mission.

Although Earth Spirit Flower was the hardest to cultivate, one mission required handing in only 100 stalks per year.

Normally, the core area of a First-Rank Blessed Land for a Blessed Land cultivator could plant around 3,000 First-Rank spiritual herbs. But this was an ideal state; the cultivation difficulty of spiritual herbs varied, and so did their survival rates.

During the cultivation process, spiritual herbs would occasionally wither due to various reasons.

Just like the hardest to cultivate Earth Spirit Flower, the average survival rate in the past was one stalk surviving for every ten planted. A First-Rank Blessed Land could produce around 300 Earth Spirit Flowers annually. Therefore, the specific revenue a normal Blessed Land could generate depended most crucially on the Blessed Land cultivator's own cultivation ability.

Some Blessed Land cultivators could barely complete two planting missions for the Xuantian Sect annually, while others could complete five or six. This was the gap between Blessed Land cultivators.

But Ye Qingxuan was different; outwardly a Blessed Land cultivator, he was actually cultivating the path of the Earth Immortal.

Now, with the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land complementing each other, the survival rate of spiritual plants increased significantly. Moreover, the Earth Immortal lineage included spiritual plant cultivation, so Ye Qingxuan was not worried about the survival rate of the herbs.

Even for the hardest to cultivate Earth Spirit Flower, Ye Qingxuan was confident he could guarantee a survival rate of over ninety percent.

He possessed an extra Cave Heaven compared to others, greatly increasing the plantable area.

However, for the growth of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, he would definitely not choose to plant only one type of spiritual herb in the future.

The more types of spiritual herbs planted, the faster the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land would grow.

Furthermore, combining the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land reduced the limitations of a single Blessed Land; currently, a First-Rank Cave Heaven and Blessed Land could fully cultivate Third-Rank spiritual herbs.

Earth Spirit Flower was a special spiritual herb containing the essence of the twelve major elements of the Earth Profound Realm. It could be cultivated indefinitely and offered significant help to the growth of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land. This was one of the reasons Ye Qingxuan chose Earth Spirit Flower.

After selecting the planting mission, a dedicated disciple would deliver the seeds to Ye Qingxuan later.

Generally, seeds were provided based on the average survival rate. If Ye Qingxuan accepted a mission to plant Earth Spirit Flower, he would be sent 1,000 Earth Spirit Flower seeds.

Spiritual herb seeds were the least valuable items in a sect like the Xuantian Sect.

After choosing the mission, Ye Qingxuan entered the Ten Thousand Things Hall, preparing to buy a forging furnace and a talisman brush.

Ye Qingxuan currently had only 2,432 contribution points.

These contribution points, aside from the few dozen remaining from previously exchanging spells,

were mainly accumulated over the six years of seclusion to break through to the peak of Qi Refining, plus the subsequent seven months spent returning home and opening the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan checked the prices of the forging furnace and talisman brush. With his current points, he could only exchange for one high-grade magic treasure level forging furnace and one high-grade magic treasure level talisman brush.

After calculating briefly, Ye Qingxuan spent 1,200 contribution points to exchange for a high-grade magic treasure level forging furnace and another 1,200 contribution points to exchange for four sets of materials to forge high-grade magic treasure level talisman brushes.

Since he planned to minor in forging, it was better to forge the talisman brush himself. Ye Qingxuan was very confident in his own comprehension! Even the high-grade magic treasure level forging furnace was merely a temporary transition for him.

With his current Zifu realm cultivation base, he could fully use a True Treasure level forging furnace, but alas, he was currently short on funds!

His cultivation base had risen too quickly due to opening the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, leaving him no time to accumulate capital.

After exchanging for the forging furnace and talisman brush materials, aside from the remaining 32 contribution points, Ye Qingxuan possessed only over 40,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Ye Qingxuan planned to find Bai Wenyang to exchange these spirit stones for materials, first improving the four arts of cultivation: alchemy, forging, talismans, and arrays.

(End of Chapter)