Chapter 355

Those medicinal herbs had less than half a year's potency; by the time they fully matured, it would take a thousand years or more—by then, the spinach would be cold.

"My humble abode is plain; forgive me for embarrassing my senior brothers and sisters."

After Fang Han arrived at Lunhui Peak, he too noticed this scene, and felt slightly embarrassed.

Though he had already cultivated to the 5th Stage of Divine Abilities, Heavenly Man Realm, his foundation was still insufficient; now that so many senior sisters and younger sisters had come to Lunhui Peak and seen this pitiful sight, it was truly embarrassing.

"No matter; all things have a beginning. With your talent, Fang Han, you won't take long to make this place enviable by all. Of course, I can lend a hand—let me bring you a rain."

Fang Yu saw this and laughed heartily, pointing a finger—a green Lei Yun shot out from his fingertip, flew to Lunhui Peak, and transformed into a mass of Lei Yun that completely shrouded the entire peak.

Boom—

Crack!

After a single thunderclap, Lunhui Peak was drenched in sheets of green rain.

Pitter-patter, splash-splash.

The many medicinal trees and herbs planted on Lunhui Peak instantly revived; especially the ginseng, lingzhi, and fu-ling—all newly planted, requiring at least hundreds or even thousands of years to mature—now, drenched in the green rain, the herbs and roots perked up with vitality.

To everyone's astonishment, the herbs began growing wildly; the ginseng in the fields thickened to the size of arms, and gradually, each ginseng emitted faint popping sounds, as if undergoing some transformation.

Sssss, sssss.

Wisps of white mist seeped from a single ginseng, slowly coalescing into the faint image of a white infant, joyfully running around its own body, radiating countless potent medicinal qi.

"Is this… becoming a spirit?"

Near Lunhui Peak stood another Shanfeng; a True Disciple atop it, startled by the Lei Yun over Lunhui Peak, stood up to observe—and saw the ginseng on Lunhui Peak becoming a spirit!

"Yu Senior Brother's cultivation is astonishing—he's turned a ginseng with less than half a year's potency into a spirit in one go. This is truly…"

Ye Ye Piaoling's face also showed an expression of disbelief.

For a ginseng to become a spirit—how easily could that happen? Without centuries of growth, how could it possibly achieve this? And to avoid being harvested during those centuries—this was exceedingly difficult.

Yet now, a ginseng planted less than a year ago—even less than a few months—was instantly matured and became a spirit.

If this ginseng continues to cultivate, stabilizes its medicinal qi, and survives the Lei Jie, it can shed its physical form and wander the world; at that point, the ginseng becomes a demon.

Of course, even as a spirit, the ginseng still depends on its original body and cannot roam freely.

In the mortal world, some ancient trees seven or eight hundred years old occasionally absorb spiritual energy from underground and may become spirits—like peach tree spirits, who at night transform into beautiful women to lure men, unite with them, and steal their Nine Yang Qi to nourish themselves; yet such spirits are often killed or captured by Daoist Priests and forged into hundred- or thousand-year peachwood swords.

Of course, spirit-infused plants and herbs are exceedingly rare, especially lingzhi and ginseng—they are usually harvested before they reach spirithood, to be used in pills that enhance lifespan and magic power.

Ordinary ginseng and lingzhi require a thousand years of potency to become spirits—but now, the lingzhi on Lunhui Peak, drenched in this green rain, became a spirit instantly.

This was simply terrifying.

That is, this single rainstorm added over a thousand years of potency to the plants!

"Now that Yu Senior Brother has come to the mortal realm, won't ordinary people call him the God of Plants—or the Rain God?"

A female True Disciple sighed.

As soon as she finished speaking—Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The other medicinal herbs were also activated; their medicinal qi condensed intensely, transforming into one after another tiny humanoid forms—even some mountain plants like bamboo and peach trees sprouted phantom human shapes.

A moment ago, Lunhui Peak was barren; now, it had undergone a complete transformation, becoming a true Immortal Paradise.

With a flick of his hand, he summoned clouds; with a flip, he summoned rain—in mere moments, Fang Yu turned Lunhui Peak into an Immortal Paradise.

This was the terrifying power of the Green Emperor Wood Sovereign Art under the Great Five Elements Technique—its greatest strength was not destruction, but reviving life, awakening plants, creating Immortal Paradises, refining pills and herbs.

A single movement adding a thousand years of potency—this was a supreme Divine Ability unmatched even in the Heavens and Worlds.

Fang Yu had once been in the Shrouding Heaven Realm's Lingxu Immortal Grotto, where disciples rejoiced at seeing herbs with a hundred years of potency—but now, if Fang Yu wished, he could turn any herb with just a few years of potency into a divine herb with a thousand years of potency—how terrifying would that be?

He walked through this world as a god.

"Thank you, Yu Senior Brother, for transforming Lunhui Peak. Please, Yu Senior Brother and all senior sisters and younger sisters, rest here a moment—I shall now share the Twenty-Eight Great Divine Abilities with all my fellow disciples."

Fang Han, seeing his Lunhui Peak now reborn as a true Immortal Paradise, wore a joyful expression; he pointed a finger, and the Green Emperor Wood Sovereign Gang Qi transformed into pages of paper, each inscribed with one of the Twenty-Eight Great Divine Abilities.

"I must also go deep into the Yuhua Sect's Celestial Palace and contribute these abilities."

Fang Han smiled again, apologized, and flew away from Lunhui Peak.

The Yuhua Sect has always had a rule: if a disciple discovers a Great Divine Ability during travels and contributes it to the sect, the sect rewards them lavishly—even precious artifacts are not beyond reach.

This time, Fang Han obtained the Twenty-Eight Great Divine Abilities from the Golden Core of the Fire Cloud Immortal; contributing them would surely yield an enormous reward.

So Fang Han happily went to contribute his abilities.

As soon as Fang Han left, everyone's gaze turned to the Twenty-Eight Great Divine Abilities he left behind.

The first appearing before Fang Yu was the Supreme Divine Ability of the Taiyi Sect: Black Sun Wind Calamity—this Supreme Divine Ability contained countless mysteries, almost radiating an aura of "calamity."

Yes, the aura of calamity.

Cultivators absorb the essence of sun and moon from heaven and earth, and calamities arise from heaven and earth—but these calamities often originate within the cultivator's own body, from within their Golden Core.

After a cultivator reaches the 7th Stage of Divine Abilities, Golden Core Realm, the Golden Core undergoes transformations: black winds rise, blowing the cultivator to dust—this is called Wind Calamity.

Once the Wind Calamity strikes, it instantly reduces the cultivator to ashes; only a Great Divine Ability can withstand its power.

The "wind" in the 8th Stage of Divine Abilities, Wind-Fire Great Calamity, refers to this Wind Calamity.

Now, the Taiyi Sect's Supreme Divine Ability, Black Sun Wind Calamity, requires gathering black sun storms from the cosmos, carefully and painstakingly cultivating them over a hundred years using Daoist Xuan Sect methods, until mastery is achieved—gaining control over this force of calamity.

Once fully cultivated, the Black Sun Wind Calamity gains terrifying power: beneath its veil, the opponent cannot summon their magic power or gather their spiritual awareness—they are instantly blown to dust.

The Black Sun Wind Calamity is utterly terrifying; only equal-level Divine Abilities, like the Five Emperors Demon Art or the Great Cutting Technique, can counter it.

This time, Fang Han obtained the Golden Core power of the Black Sun Wind Calamity, saving him a hundred years of arduous effort—a tremendous stroke of fortune. But now, Fang Yu and the others, possessing this Supreme Divine Ability, must spend vast time to cultivate it.

"Black Sun Wind Calamity—so this is its mystery."

Jialan spoke in admiration at this moment, as if having grasped some truth from the Xuan Sect methods of the Black Sun Wind Calamity, her face lit with thoughtful expression.

Black Sun Wind Calamity controls Wind Calamity, turning calamity into one's own tool—this resembles the 8th Stage of Divine Abilities, Wind-Fire Great Calamity; thus, Jialan gained much insight.

Merely from this brief contemplation, she gained greater confidence in breaking through to the 8th Stage of Divine Abilities.

Besides Black Sun Wind Calamity, there were also Great Sun Fire Calamity, Evergreen Great Method, Gou Xuan Dao, Earth Soul Drive Mountain Art, Blessing Art, and countless others—each extremely difficult to master, yet immensely beneficial.

Among these Divine Abilities, to cultivate one to perfect completion takes at least sixty years, and at most over a hundred.

The master of these Divine Abilities, the Fire Cloud Immortal Maiden, spent over a thousand years to attain just this Golden Core, revealing the immense effort, hardship, and bloodshed involved.

A thousand years, long and arduous, were seized by Fang Han.

Of course, Fang Yu and the others also gained tremendous benefits.

"Hm? Among the Three Calamities and Nine Trials, there is no End-Time Calamity."

Fang Yu observed the twenty-eight Divine Abilities of the Fire Cloud Immortal Maiden and noticed that this Golden Core expert's abilities included Great Sun Fire Calamity and Black Sun Wind Calamity, yet lacked the End-Time Calamity.

The Three Calamities and Nine Trials are incomplete without one trial. Yet the End-Time Calamity of the Taiyi Sect is even harder to cultivate than the Black Sun Wind Calamity or the Great Sun Fire Calamity; once perfected, its deployment brings heaven and earth to mourning, the sun and moon to weeping—as if a celestial calamity has descended, utterly terrifying.

It is perfectly normal that the Fire Cloud Immortal Maiden failed to cultivate it.

"Black Sun Wind Calamity, Great Sun Fire Calamity, Evergreen Great Law, Blessing Technique, Great Marsh Sword Qi, Taiyi Divine Thunder Break, Ice and Snow Boundary, Phoenix Dance, Zhu Que's Cry, Long Sky Seven True Fists, Social Harmony Qianyuan Force, True Form Illusion Technique, True Fiend Dragon Wave, Eight Extremes Primordial Spirit Path, Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven!"

A true-disciple female disciple gazed at these various Divine Ability methods, her face filled with boundless joy.

These are all refined Daoist arts of the Taiyi Sect or the Exalted Linglong Blessed Land—even if one cannot yet cultivate them, merely observing is extremely beneficial.

Take the Taiyi Divine Thunder Break: during cultivation, one must use Daoist Gang Qi to draw thunderfire from the sky, combine it with vast quantities of magnetic true qi, gather them into clusters of Taiyi Divine Thunder, then condense them into a grand array and refine them into the body—it is an extremely potent Daoist Divine Ability.

When such a Divine Ability is unleashed against an enemy, it unleashes rolling thunder and fire, with spherical lightning flying wildly—its might is terrifying, one of the most violent among all Daoist arts, even more piercing than Yuhua Sect's Purple Lightning Yin Thunder Blade.

Of course, to perfect this Divine Ability requires sixty years; once unleashed, even if the opponent possesses treasure-grade flying swords or armor, they cannot resist—the swords melt into molten iron, and the entire body vanishes into ash.

Another example is the Earth True Soul: one must condense the essence of the earth to form an Earth Soul; when one opens the mouth and exhales, a hundred-zhang cloud of yellow sand rolls forth, heavy as a mountain crushing down.

This great Divine Ability, like the Mountain-Cultivating Gang Qi among Yuhua Sect's Eight Great Divine Abilities, holds its own unique subtleties—neither surpasses nor falls short of the other.

Among these Divine Abilities, aside from the Black Sun Wind Calamity and Great Sun Fire Calamity, the most profound is another Divine Ability.

Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven.

This is the supreme Divine Ability created by the peerless genius, the Exalted Linglong Xianzun!

Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven is said to dissolve all attacks, eternally placing one in invincibility.

From the words "Great Luo," one can discern the Exalted Linglong Xianzun's ambition.

"Great Luo" means: existing beyond all time and space, eternally free.

The Exalted Linglong Xianzun created Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven, meaning she aspired to become an immortal existing beyond all time and space, eternally unchanging—the Great Luo Immortal.

Though her current strength has not yet reached Great Luo Immortal status, she possesses this ambition and this talent, and in future ages, she has great hope of achieving Great Luo Immortal status—even surpassing it.

Fang Yu's gaze immediately fixed on Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven, sensing the unimaginable wisdom and Daoic attainment of this Xianzun—it seemed as if she used the cosmic web of cause and effect as a chessboard, and boundless calamity-qi as chess pieces, guiding calamities and trials along the threads of cause and effect until they were entirely erased.

Fang Yu pondered briefly and sensed the immense depth and power of this supreme Divine Ability; when his spiritual sense turned to Fang Qingxue beside him, he noticed her frowning—clearly, even she found it exceedingly difficult to comprehend.

"Exalted Linglong Xianzun's Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven looks so profound—I cannot fathom how she created it. Even now, as I try to comprehend what she forged, I cannot even enter its threshold."

Jialan, a thousand-year-old minor giant of the 7th Stage of Divine Abilities and Golden Core Realm, struggled to comprehend it, a bitter smile forming on her face.

She had gained much insight while studying the Black Sun Wind Calamity and Great Sun Fire Calamity, but after seeing Exalted Linglong Great Luo Heaven created by the Exalted Linglong Xianzun, her head ached.

The cultivation method of this supreme Divine Ability lay right before her, yet she could not even begin to enter it.