Chapter 91: The Wondrous Utility of the Earth Vein Lotus Root and the Marvel of Transforming Life through Killing

The summit of Cangmang Mountain.

Clouds rose on all sides, white and pure as cotton, in clusters and clumps, drifting to and fro.

In swirling circles, layer upon layer.

A phantom image of a divine dragon hung its head, its incomparably vast body floating and sinking within the sea of clouds, appearing and disappearing, its scales distinct.

This was precisely the strange phenomenon of the Blue Sea Wandering Dragon Array in operation.

Clouds lingered halfway up the stream, the slanting light moving slowly.

Cinnabar cliffs and strange rocks, sheer walls and wondrous peaks.

A figure sat cross-legged on a mountain rock; it was Fang Longye, who had returned to his own dojo and Cave Abode.

He closed his eyes and focused his mind; within the surrounding area, rules generated spontaneously, and spiritual essence fell like rain, vast and scattered.

An inexplicable charm, secretly in harmony with heaven and earth, flowed continuously.

After a long while, he opened his eyes, a smile appearing on his lips.

"Although I had already experienced the wonders of a dojo for a cultivator before, experiencing it again still makes one yearn for it!"

Every time he merged with the dojo, he felt as if the mountain ranges and water veins of the entire Cangmang Mountain territory had come alive, transforming into clusters of earth dragons that wrapped tightly around him, guarding him firmly within.

The entire dojo seemed to have transformed into a placenta between heaven and earth, and the surrounding Creation Spiritual Essence was like amniotic fluid, nourishing him.

The infinite principles of heaven and earth were gently unveiled, allowing him to glimpse their true appearance.

"If I can have such gains, what kind of creation must it be for those 'Earth Immortal Dao' cultivators who merge their own selves completely with their dojos! The Ancestor of Earth Immortals is truly extraordinary!"

It is no wonder that the current Four Great Continents, combined with the vast oceans of the Four Seas, are called the Earth Immortal Realm.

If it were not for the fact that the subsequent cultivation is overly difficult, the path to the heavens among the Five Immortal Ways would be the 'Earth Immortal Dao'.

"It's just that there are still two Earth Veins that have not come under my control." After sensing for a while, Fang Longye looked toward Baoping Mountain and Yushu Mountain, which stood opposite each other not far outside Cangmang Mountain.

Although these two treasure mountains contained Creation Spiritual Essence and were filled with Earth Veins beneath them, they were vaguely incompatible with his dojo, instead forming a pattern of their own.

However, these are all minor problems.

For him, the hardest part was not how to utilize other treasure mountain Earth Veins to form an array to nourish the dojo, but the lack of means to move treasure mountains over long distances from thousands of miles away.

Fortunately, there is the specialized profession of 'Mountain Driver'.

Thinking of the 'Mountain Driver' of the True Immortal Realm he had just sent away, and the remaining balance he had paid him, Fang Longye felt a pang of heartache.

Having technical skills is truly great! He finally understood why the cultivation techniques and divine abilities in the Yaofang, which had almost no cost and could be copied and sold repeatedly, were so expensive.

Besides the saying "Dharma should not be taught lightly," it is also because every divine ability is equivalent to an exclusive craft~

They are all livelihoods that can earn money.

Why was that 'Mountain Driver' able to charge him 50,000 Qiyun Yinxian for following him on one trip? It was because he had mastered the Whip Mountain and Move Stone divine ability, which he himself did not know.

Teaching the apprentice and starving the master—it is nothing more than this.

"It is time to process these two treasure mountains."

He reached out and pointed downward; the earth energy churned, clinking and clanging. Amidst the swirling five colors, a shimmering Lingchi emerged from the depths of the earth.

The Lingchi was not large, appearing to be only about a zhang in size.

Inside was a shallow layer of liquid that seemed like water yet was not.

In the middle was a lotus flower, budding and ready to bloom, golden in color, held high.

The light of heaven poured down, falling upon the Lingchi, reflecting the flower bud and making it appear even more bright and beautiful.

Looking closely, within the small flower bud, clusters of light exploded from time to time, shining brilliantly, with colorful rays swirling, appearing and disappearing, difficult to discern clearly.

This was precisely the strange treasure gifted by the North Sea Dragon Palace for nourishing the dojo—the Earth Vein Lotus Root.

It is a strange treasure born from the essence of Earth Milk.

Once it takes root, it gathers Earth Veins, forms an array, combs the earth energy, and nourishes spiritual essence with ease.

Moreover, it is highly capable of growth; as time passes, it will gradually condense the essence of the earth and eventually produce a divine object—Earth Milk.

For people to enjoy.

Do not underestimate Earth Milk; this is not some spiritual object like ordinary stalactites.

It is a divine object sufficient for Golden Immortals to pursue.

The so-called Heavenly Essence Earth Milk: the ancient Xiantian Spiritual Essence living beings, taking heaven and earth as their parents, born of heaven and raised by earth, called this condensed essence of the earth "Earth Milk," which has a similar meaning to mother's milk. Theoretically speaking, as long as there is enough Heavenly Essence Earth Milk, plus Xiantian Spiritual Essence, Post-Heaven Living Beings can Reverse Innate and achieve the status of Xiantian living beings.

Even some Honghuang exotic species among Post-Heaven Living Beings were formed by the nourishment of Heavenly Essence Earth Milk.

And the individual function of Earth Milk is also not to be underestimated.

The earth is the mother of all living things, and the Earth Milk condensed from the essence of the earth contains immeasurable vitality, which can even have an effect on those in the Taiyi Realm.

Such a sacred medicine for healing and a rare treasure for extending life is naturally extremely precious.

Although the function of the Earth Vein Lotus Root in condensing Earth Milk will inevitably require the work of accumulating over time before it can be manifested.

By the time it actually condenses Earth Milk, this kind of divine object might not even count for much to Fang Longye.

But its efficacy in nourishing the dojo and combing the earth energy is beyond doubt.

Therefore, as soon as he obtained this strange treasure, Fang Longye refined it with his heart and merged it into the Earth Veins of Cangmang Mountain.

Now that he has summoned it out, it is naturally to use it to comb the Earth Veins of the two treasure mountains below and completely integrate the two treasure mountains into his own dojo.

Fang Longye formed seals with his hands, his heart stirring.

The next moment, the flower bud slowly bloomed, thousands of rays of light shooting out, intertwining with each other, radiating in all directions with the Lingchi as the center, like a spider web, fine and dense, thick and numerous.

The golden light acted as threads, as if they were substantial.

Then, the golden threads sank into the ground, connecting with the surrounding earth energy.

Gurgle, gurgle~ I do not know when, but the Lingchi, which originally had only a shallow layer of water, began to ripple. The sound of water echoed, and spiritual essence emerged from the pool, condensing like strings of pearls, clinking and ringing.

The entire dojo was permeated with a warm and moist vitality, filling the surroundings and turning into mist and clouds.

Looking around again, for hundreds of thousands of miles, whether it was the vast ocean, mountain ranges, in the water, under the rocks, or in the soil, golden light flashed from time to time, presenting the strange phenomenon of a lotus flower.

Together with those two precious mountains, the various Earth Veins within the entire Daoist practice ground were linked layer by layer, operating as one wished; the Earth Qi flowed ceaselessly, interlocking ring by ring to form an array, no longer distinguishable from one another.

Terrain is easy to alter, and Earth Qi is easy to change, but Earth Veins are not so easily modified, even for Fang Longye as he is now.

Do not be fooled by how he can make mountains rise and rivers part with a wave of his hand; none of these involve the modification of Earth Veins, but are merely changes to the terrain.

Yet, with the assistance of the Earth Vein Lotus Root, the Earth Veins, which originally would have affected the whole by moving a single hair, were like black and white chess pieces on Fang Longye's board, allowed to be manipulated at will until they formed a pattern.

"Yushu Mountain is, after all, only Hu Qiuyue's Cave Abode; it cannot compare to the density of the Spiritual Essence of Baoping Mountain."

Fang Longye thought, and with a casual flick, a portion of the Earth Veins at the base of Baoping Mountain immediately separated and were shifted by him to the base of Yushu Mountain.

The originally airy mountain terrain immediately became heavy, as if it had been infused with a soul.

"This is what I call symmetrical! From now on, these Baoping Peak and Yushu Peak shall be the places where visitors first stop."

"And there is more—" Fang Longye's mind stirred, and the corpses of the hundreds of thousands of demon followers under Chiyang Wang, which he had previously eliminated, poured down like heavy rain, merging into the bottoms of the oceans and the mountain continents outside Cangmang Mountain where Spiritual Essence was scarce.

Seal scripts flew about, Restrictions danced, and Fang Longye immediately set up array after array, melting these demon corpses one by one, transforming them into spiritual energy and Dao Rhyme to strengthen the scarce Creation Spiritual Essence within the ocean.

For a time, the entire ocean was suffused with blood-red light, and baleful energy grew in abundance.

Fang Longye condensed Taiyin Divine Water and Xuanming True Water, transforming them into a fine drizzle to wash away the pervasive blood-red light. He then threw out the Panlong Spear, absorbing all the burgeoning baleful energy.

A long while passed.

The blood-red light receded, the baleful energy vanished, and the mountains and waters became lush and beautiful, filled with Divine Light and auspicious colors.

The "Yin Yang Spirit Transformation Creation Array," a formation Fang Longye obtained from the memories of Chiyang Wang.

Its function is obvious: it can refine the corpses of cultivators into spiritual energy and Dao Rhyme, transforming them into Spiritual Essence to nourish a region.

In truth, there is nothing to it.

Cultivators absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and breathe in Dao Rhyme and Spiritual Essence during their lives; after death, their accumulated essence returns to heaven and earth to nourish all living things—this is truly the Dao of Yin and Yang circulation.

After these demon followers died, their Dharma power was already gradually dissipating into heaven and earth. The Yin Yang Spirit Transformation Creation Array merely accelerated this process.

Although the form of its manifestation is indeed somewhat sinister, in Fang Longye's view, rather than calling it the "Yin Yang Spirit Transformation Creation Array," it would be better to call it the "Life-Killing Spirit Transformation Creation Array"!

But it is indeed effective. Looking at the Creation Spiritual Essence rising in mists across the entire ocean, Fang Longye wore a smile.

Without him needing to worry, under the effect of the Earth Vein Lotus Root, these Creation Spiritual Essences settled and gathered one by one.

Small spiritual veins formed one after another, linking into an array to guard the core of Fang Longye's Daoist practice ground—Cangmang Mountain.

After all this tossing about, the entire Daoist practice ground took on a brand-new look, becoming even more magnificent and divine.

First chapter today~ (End of this chapter)