Chapter 176: Spirit Vein Enhancement and Array Formation

Canghai Xiancheng.

For the past few days, the Feng family felt as though they were living in a cloud of mist, everything seeming incredibly unreal.

Feng Sihai could not even believe that all of this was real, for when he had led his entire household on a long journey of ten thousand miles to arrive outside Canghai Xiancheng,

following Fellow Daoist Long's instructions to hand over that jade slip to the city guards, merely a moment later, a white-robed executive at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment had personally come out to receive them.

Furthermore, with just a few words, arrangements for the Feng family to settle within the inner city had been made.

Feng Sihai began to doubt his life, never expecting that one day the Feng family could move into such a great cultivation city, and moreover, settle in the inner city district.

This was something many clans could never achieve in their entire lives.

Moreover, Lu Liang's personal reception frightened every member of the Feng family, leaving them overwhelmed by unexpected favor.

"Alas! I fear Fellow Daoist Long's true identity is not that of an ordinary cultivator; his cultivation base is clearly far higher than we guessed," Feng Sihai sighed endlessly after moving into his new residence.

Until one day.

At the gate of Canghai Xiancheng, he saw the three large characters 'Daoist Long' on a posted list of Foundation Establishment cultivators, accompanied by a portrait of the bearded burly man he recognized.

"Ranked third on the Wei State Immortal Realm Foundation Establishment List, Daoist Long!"

Hiss~ Feng Sihai gasped sharply, his entire demeanor turning pale, "I never expected Fellow Daoist Long to hide his depth so profoundly; he is actually a senior of the Foundation Establishment period."

"And furthermore, a top-tier Foundation Establishment cultivator."

Two months later, the beast tide had arrived at the spiritual energy Archipelago.

On Wangyue Island.

The low-grade spiritual herbs Qin Ming had planted previously had ripened, and after harvesting these crops,

seven 【Ripen】 entries instantly appeared in his mind.

Subsequently, he approached his innate spiritual plant, the Everlasting Vine, and consumed these seven entries to fully ripen the demon flowers upon it.

Three days later, three golden entries came into view:

【Name】: Everlasting Vine 【Entry】: Slight Lifespan x5 (Harvestable)

【Name】: Everlasting Vine 【Entry】: Space-Time Leaf x5 (Harvestable)

【Name】: Everlasting Vine 【Entry】: High-Efficiency Purification x5 (Harvestable)

After Qin Ming harvested and picked all the black spiritual fruits above, three blue entry leaves instantly appeared in his mind.

He first used up the 【Slight Lifespan】 x5.

In an instant, a power of years descended upon Qin Ming; his life span suddenly increased by fifty years, reaching a long life of over five hundred and fifty years.

Qin Ming was currently only forty-two years old, with over five hundred years left to live; barring accidents, this was enough to outlive a Jin Dan old ancestor.

Immediately after, he used up the five 【High-Efficiency Purification】 entries, refining the liquid magic power in his magic power lake several times over.

The magic power within his body became increasingly pure; in terms of quality and purity, it already far surpassed those genius Foundation Establishment cultivators.

This would be of great help when he eventually broke through to the Jin Dan stage, for the purer the magic power, the smoother the process of condensing the pill would be.

Next.

Qin Ming approached the two third-grade spiritual plants, the Hualing Demon Grass, and used one 【Space-Time Leaf】 entry on the newly grown demon grass.

In an instant.

This Hualing Demon Grass began to grow wildly; within just a few days, it successively bloomed and bore fruit. After Qin Ming summoned a swarm of bees for pollination, it produced three earth-yellow Hualing Demon Fruits.

Immediately, a golden entry appeared before Qin Ming's eyes: 【Name】: Hualing Demon Grass 【Entry】: Spirit Vein Enhancement (Harvestable)

Just as last time, Qin Ming used a small jasper knife to carefully pick the three spiritual fruits.

A purple entry leaf of 【Spirit Vein Enhancement】 quietly emerged in his sea of consciousness.

The corners of Qin Ming's mouth lifted in a smile, "As expected, it is a purple entry leaf."

Without further deliberation, he immediately used this entry on Wangyue Island.

Boom-rumble~ The moment Qin Ming used the entry, from somewhere in the void, a mysterious power descended upon his Wangyue Island.

After Qin Ming inspected it with his divine sense, he discovered that deep within the spirit vein of Wangyue Island, a fleshly fungus-like spiritual marrow Sumeru Taisui had suddenly appeared.

As it absorbed spiritual energy, every so often it would excrete some spiritual ore marrow, which continuously joined the core of the spirit vein, nourishing and strengthening it.

Qin Ming could clearly feel that as more and more spiritual ore marrow was produced, Wangyue Island's original second-grade middle-quality spirit vein had improved slightly and was advancing toward becoming an upper-quality spirit vein.

"According to the entry's description, feeding this Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui spiritual materials can accelerate its growth and speed up the enhancement of the spirit vein."

Thinking of this, Qin Ming took out the Qingluan Sword and carved out a passage leading directly to the dwelling place of the Spiritual Marrow Taisui.

Half an hour later.

Gazing at the pink, watermelon-sized mass of flesh fungus before him, Qin Ming mused, "So this is the Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui?"

Subsequently, he took out numerous spiritual materials from his storage bag, most of which he had not yet processed after killing people and seizing their treasures.

Without worrying about the details, Qin Ming threw them all at once to the Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui before him.

Upon seeing the Taisui devour these spiritual materials, its size immediately increased several times over.

Beneath its body, it began to rapidly produce a vast quantity of spiritual ore marrow, which fused into the spirit vein.

Soon after.

The concentration of spiritual energy in the air suddenly increased, and the rank of the spirit vein beneath the main peak of Wangyue Island instantly rose to the second-grade upper-quality level.

"Still not enough!"

Qin Ming gazed intently at the Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui, then opened his storage bag and this time directly threw over a large bag of spiritual stones, totaling ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones.

After devouring these spiritual stones, the Taisui's body writhed madly and began to expand once more, growing before Qin Ming's eyes into a small hill of flesh, a full thirty feet in size.

Gulp-gulp!

Five-colored spiritual ore marrow, radiating astonishing spiritual essence, was continuously excreted from the Taisui's body at an extremely fast speed, fusing into the spirit vein.

The quality of Wangyue Island's spirit vein began to skyrocket.

Boom! Finally, a vast surge of spiritual energy radiated outward from the main peak in all directions. Qin Ming immediately felt that with just a single breath, the spiritual energy on the island had suddenly leapfrogged an entire tier.

Thick spiritual energy continuously gushed upward from the spiritual vein, dispersing into the surrounding air.

Such an astonishing change caused the spiritual plants on the island to unfurl one after another, radiating immense joy as they greedily absorbed the spiritual energy.

"A third-tier lower-grade spiritual vein has been successfully formed!"

Strong excitement flowed across Qin Ming's face as he observed that the spiritual vein within the island had grown significantly larger.

"The Profound Turtle Overturning the Sea Great Formation is a third-tier middle-grade great formation."

"Let's see if it can be upgraded to a third-tier middle-grade spiritual vein."

Qin Ming immediately gritted his teeth, fed a large quantity of spiritual materials to the Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui, and smashed another thousand middle-grade spiritual stones into it.

Suddenly.

After absorbing so many spiritual materials, the body of the Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui transformed into a flesh mountain six zhang in size; a massive amount of spiritual ore marrow was excreted, merging into the spiritual vein of Wangyue Island.

Half a month later.

As expected, the spiritual vein environment of Wangyue Island's main peak had been elevated to the third-tier middle-grade level.

Qin Ming originally wanted to try upgrading the spiritual vein to the third-tier upper-grade.

But no matter how Qin Ming continued to feed it afterward, that Spiritual Marrow Sumeru Taisui ceased growing.

It must have reached some kind of limit; if it were to advance again, he estimated he would need to feed it legendary upper-grade spiritual stones.

After all, that corresponded to a third-tier upper-grade spiritual vein.

Nevertheless, having upgraded Wangyue Island's spiritual vein to the third-tier middle-grade, Qin Ming was already extremely satisfied.

Nowadays, at the core of the main peak where Qin Ming cultivated, the environment was that of a third-tier middle-grade spiritual vein; the spiritual fields on the outer perimeter of the main peak were a third-tier lower-grade spiritual vein environment; and finally, the areas beneath the main peak had all become a second-tier upper-grade spiritual vein.

Below Wangyue Island.

The members of the Wu family were farming, but they were surprised to discover that the spiritual energy environment on the spiritual island was constantly changing over time, just like a revival of spiritual energy.

Even the area where they were located had stepped up from its original first-tier upper-grade spiritual vein environment to the level of a second-tier upper-grade! "What is going on?"

"How did the spiritual energy on the island increase so much all at once?"

"Could it be that Fellow Daoist Qin..."

Wu Jiang carried a belly full of questions, but when he arrived beneath the main peak, he was stunned and shocked! "A third-tier spiritual vein environment!"

Feeling the thick spiritual energy, he was completely dumbfounded.

"What exactly happened on Fellow Daoist Qin's spiritual island?"

"Why has the spiritual energy environment changed so drastically?"

Qin Ming looked at Wu Jiang with a smile and said, "Fellow Daoist Wu, I have some good news to tell you!"

"Not long ago, I accidentally discovered that a hidden third-tier spiritual vein was lurking deep within our Wangyue Island!"

"Due to some special reasons, this spiritual vein failed to reveal itself."

"A few days ago, I used special methods to completely guide this third-tier spiritual vein out."

"From now on, whether we are cultivating or planting spiritual plants, it will be like fish in water."

"Hahaha!"

After speaking, Qin Ming happily patted Wu Jiang on the shoulder.

"Really?!" Upon hearing this, Wu Jiang felt as if he were dreaming, and the excitement in his heart was beyond words.

He was immersed in ecstasy; no matter what, he could never have imagined that one day the Wu family would be able to cultivate under a high-grade spiritual vein.

"Cough! By the way, regarding the discovery of the third-tier spiritual vein on the spiritual island, do not spread the word for now, and tell your clansmen to guard their tongues to avoid attracting unwanted attention," Qin Ming instructed meaningfully.

Wu Jiang hurriedly nodded like a chick pecking at rice, "Fellow Daoist Qin, rest assured, I understand this much."

"Mm, that's good then."

"Your Beast Tooth Rice is nearly finished planting, and we cannot waste the spiritual vein environment on the spiritual island."

"How about this: I will sell you the seeds of the second-tier spiritual plant, Five-Colored Spiritual Rice, for you to try cultivating."

"After it matures, I will collect the usual thirty percent as spiritual field rent; what do you think?" Qin Ming suddenly thought of something and immediately asked Wu Jiang.

Upon hearing this, Wu Jiang was overjoyed; he hurriedly nodded in agreement, took a small bag of Five-Colored Spiritual Rice seeds from Qin Ming's hand, and then took out the corresponding spiritual stones to pay Qin Ming.

"Five-Colored Spiritual Rice is not comparable to first-tier spiritual plants; the difficulty is considerable, so you must be mentally prepared for long-term failures."

"This jade slip contains some of my insights from planting Five-Colored Spiritual Rice back in the day; take it and study it yourself." Since Qin Ming intended to collect rent, he naturally hoped Wu Jiang could successfully plant the spiritual rice.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Qin!"

Wu Jiang accepted the jade slip with immense gratitude; it made him feel as though a supreme path of bright light was slowly unfolding before him.

Planting spiritual rice brings glory to the ancestors!...

In Wangyue Lake.

The Profound Water Crocodile, which was dozing, seemed to also sense the tremendous changes on the spiritual island; its massive body transformed into a stream of dark golden light, plunged into the spiritual island, crawled beneath the Longevity Vine, and began cultivating by leveraging the third-tier spiritual vein.

As for Qin Ming's life-bound spiritual plant, the Longevity Vine, supplied by the third-tier middle-grade spiritual vein environment, its vines unfurled as if breathing on their own, growing even more lush and vigorous.

"The change is truly enormous!"

Subsequently.

Qin Ming took out the set of third-tier middle-grade formations, the 'Profound Turtle Overturning the Sea Great Formation'; following the formation arrangement method in the jade slip, he spent three days surrounding the entire Wangyue Island, with the main peak's third-tier middle-grade spiritual vein as the core, to set up the third-tier great formation.

In an instant, the formation merged with the mountains, rivers, and lakes, becoming a domain of its own! Hum~ Just as Qin Ming placed the final formation flag.

From atop the main peak, a surge of spiritual energy shot straight into the sky, pouring into that turtle-shell-shaped formation hub.

Above Wangyue Island, a huge golden curtain of light suddenly rained down, resembling a giant turtle shell covering the entire island; countless runes swam across the surface of the shell, radiating astonishing power.

"The third-tier great formation is complete!"

(End of Chapter)