Chapter 208: Innate Spiritual Plant Advances, Ancient Wood Yu Changqing Body Completed!

Qin Ming tossed all the blood beads before him to the Longevity Vine.

His innate spiritual plant, the Longevity Vine, like a shark scenting blood, crazily pounced forward.

The black vines coiled up all the blood beads and began absorbing the essence within them.

Nourished by such a vast quantity of blood beads, the entire Longevity Vine seemed to come back to life, its branches constantly growing and expanding.

Buzz! Countless silver runes drifted out from between the vines, spinning endlessly around the Longevity Vine.

Just as during its previous advancement, the black vines spread out once more, twisting and dancing like gigantic tentacles.

Several hours later.

The Longevity Vine grew to a height of one hundred zhang at a speed visible to the naked eye, its branches lush and leaves dense, blocking out the sun and sky.

An ancient and weathered aura emanated from the vines.

The leaves on the vines underwent a cycle of old and new, while clusters of black-and-white interlaced flower buds continuously formed.

Compared to the flowers the Longevity Vine had bloomed before, these black-and-white buds were larger and more numerous, and a strange, subtle fragrance began to drift through the air.

In an instant.

The entire Longevity Vine suddenly erupted with a profound colored treasure light, and a powerful aura spread out in all directions like a tidal wave.

It was so intense that the Third-Tier Middle-Grade Profound Turtle Overturning Sea Array Qin Ming had arranged trembled several times.

"This ancient and profound aura..."

"Could it be a Fourth-Tier spiritual plant?"

At this moment, standing beneath his innate spiritual plant, Qin Ming was no bigger than an ant.

Fortunately, innate spiritual plants possessed the ability to conceal their form; apart from himself, no one else could see it.

Otherwise, such a towering giant tree would be visible even outside Wangyue Lake.

In Qin Ming's line of sight, four golden entries refreshed: 【Name】: Yin-Yang Profound Vine 【Entry】: Abundant Lifespan x5 (Maturity 1%)

【Name】: Yin-Yang Profound Vine 【Entry】: Source of Magic Power (Maturity 1%)

【Name】: Yin-Yang Profound Vine 【Entry】: Leaf of Space-Time (Maturity 1%)

【Name】: Yin-Yang Profound Vine 【Entry】: Spiritual Plant Seed Treasure 【Maturity 1%】

【Abundant Lifespan】: After using this entry, lifespan increases directly by fifty years; effects are stackable.

【Source of Magic Power】: After use, it directly and significantly boosts a cultivator's liquid magic power.

"A single entry can increase lifespan by fifty years!"

"All five together make a full two hundred and fifty years of lifespan!"

"Hahaha!"

"Who else! Who can live longer than me?!"

Gazing up at the entries refreshed on the Profound Vine, Qin Ming's heart surged with excitement.

Then, his gaze fell upon the 【Spiritual Plant Seed Treasure】 entry.

【Spiritual Plant Seed Treasure】: After use, the prototype of a wood-attribute magical treasure can be grafted and implanted into a high-tier spiritual plant; after a long period of cultivation, the magical treasure will grow alongside the spiritual plant.

The higher the potential of the implanted magical treasure prototype, the greater the grade and power of the magical treasure once grown.

Furthermore.

It also relates to the grade of the high-tier spiritual plant; the higher the plant's grade and the longer the planting duration, the more it determines the final grade and power of the matured magical treasure.

Moreover, high-tier spiritual plants can nurture magical treasures in place of a cultivator, and the effect is even better than nurturing them within a cultivator's dantian!

"This is tailor-made for me! With the 【Abundant Lifespan】 entry, plus the lifespan extension brought by cultivating the 'Ancient Wood Longevity Art', I can live for a very long time... If I keep planting like this, to what extent will my innate magical treasure grow?"

Thinking of this, Qin Ming's heart swelled with joy once again.

After reaching the Jin Dan stage, one must refine an innate magical treasure.

The power of a magical treasure, compared to the spiritual tools used during the Foundation Establishment stage, is naturally not on the same level.

Magical treasures are also one of the important components of a Yunxi Laozu's strength.

The magical treasures wielded by a Yunxi Laozu possess true Third-Tier power, commanding the submission of ten thousand cultivators.

Furthermore, the earlier a magical treasure is refined and placed in the dantian for nurturing, the longer the time, the sharper the treasure becomes.

Like the Third-Tier Talisman Treasure 'Green Dragon Seal' Qin Ming had previously obtained from Zhao Wuji, it was specially refined through a secret method by a Jin Dan Laozu with little lifespan remaining, at the cost of their own cultivation and magical treasure.

Although talisman treasures possess considerable power, they still fall far short of true Third-Tier magical treasures.

"Now, I don't need to worry about my innate magical treasure anymore."

"My innate spiritual plant has advanced once again; a magical treasure grown from a Fourth-Tier spiritual plant shouldn't be too bad, right?"

Qin Ming gazed at the Yin-Yang Profound Vine, envisioning a bright future on his immortal path.

Splash! Suddenly, a stream of silver radiance flowed from the innate spiritual plant, the Yin-Yang Profound Vine, crossed the vast sky, and poured into Qin Ming's body.

In that instant.

A massive force of years and months continuously poured into Qin Ming's body.

A silver rune flew out from between his eyebrows, transforming into a silver spiritual plant—this was his 'Ancient Wood Yu Changqing Body'! Qin Ming quickly sat cross-legged, circulated the 'Ancient Wood Longevity Art', and struck while the iron was hot, beginning to cultivate his spiritual body.

Vibrant wooden essence and the vast power of the rotation of years and months swirled around Qin Ming.

The silver spiritual plant illusion behind him gradually began to grow taller, its branches becoming lush and leaves dense, its image becoming more solid.

Three days passed.

The silver spiritual plant illusion behind Qin Ming, having absorbed enough power of years and months and essence of wood and grass, grew to a height of over sixty zhang.

The entire spiritual plant illusion suddenly brightened, erupting in a brilliant and dazzling silver glow.

Subsequently, the spiritual plant illusion turned into a patch of starlight and vanished, replaced by a fully inscribed silver rune.

This rune emitted a profound implication of the Dao, spreading an abstruse and weathered aura.

Even the Profound Water Crocodile lying beside Qin Ming, absorbing the essence of wood and grass, was stunned into silence.

The silver talismanic runes transformed into a streak of light and instantly vanished into Qin Ming's brow.

Boom! In that instant.

Qin Ming's mind was flooded with numerous realizations concerning the Wood element and the cycle of years.

In a trance, he felt as though he had transformed into an ancient divine tree, taking root and sprouting in the vast Immortal Realm, enduring ten thousand years, witnessing the turning of the four seasons, the transformation of seas into mulberry fields, sitting calmly to watch flowers bloom and fall.

Ultimately growing into a divine tree unique between heaven and earth.

"Huff~ After decades of cultivation, at fifty-eight years old, I have finally perfected the Yu Changqing Ancient Body!"

Qin Ming used his divine sense to inspect his interior, only to see the silver runes entering his body, continuously nourishing and improving his flesh and bones over and over.

With every breath he took now, spiritual energy from the outside world would rush eagerly into his body, then rapidly transform through his spiritual roots into drops of liquid magic power, flowing into the Zhihu of magic power within his dantian sea of qi.

"Such a cultivation speed..."

"With this kind of aptitude, it is unknowably many times stronger than the previous Supreme Wood Dharma Body."

"Relying on my hard work in farming, I have finally elevated my four-element false spiritual root aptitude to a peerless posture comparable to a heaven-grade spiritual root!"

(End of Chapter)