Chapter 164: Eye-Opening (Added 17)

Wei Yuan immediately communicated with the Azure Void, his spiritual sense swept across the domain, and confirmed the source of the spiritual energy: the five hundred mu of beam rice fields just opened.

Wei Yuan leaped up and landed by the field a moment later.

At this time, in Wei Yuan's eyes, dots of spiritual light appeared between the fields, slowly rising into the sky, and then disappearing into the night sky. The spiritual light was weak but numerous, and at a glance, it was like the starry sky falling into the mortal world.

Wei Yuan slowly squatted down, and at this time, he could already see green buds in the soil, just revealing a little tip.

The planted beam rice had sprouted, and in more than a month, the first batch of spiritual rice would be harvested. Although beam rice is only the most basic spiritual plant, it is not a mortal tree or mortal grass.

Wei Yuan was instantly refreshed; it turned out that the growth of spiritual plants could also improve the nourishment of the boundary stone and accelerate cultivation.

Wei Yuan originally had a lot of heavenly merit in his hands and didn't know how to use it, but now he knew what to exchange for: spiritual plants.

Wei Yuan opened the Merit Book and looked at it. At this time, his Heavenly Merit was 1,880, ranking 101st.

The total Heavenly Merit for beheading Blood Eye was 800, Wei Yuan got more than 700, and the remaining 90 were scraped away by the young masters and misses. Of course, the young masters and misses didn't scrape for nothing, they still contributed eight strands of cyan Qi, but they didn't know it themselves.

With so much Heavenly Merit, Wei Yuan had the confidence, and went straight

Arriving before the Merit Hall, Wei Yuan pushed the door open and entered, immediately discovering that the world around him had shifted; he was now in a void, with a portal standing before him.

Wei Yuan was caught between laughter and tears; in his haste, he had actually forgotten about the defensive formation.

This formation had successfully trapped the Fourth Elder of the Xu family, so its power was evident. However, Wei Yuan had long known the topic for opening the door and the direction of the entrance, so he didn't need to worry about deviating and simply flew straight over. Thus, he didn't intend to disturb the Senior Martial Sister and reached out to push the door directly.

The formation activated, isolating the world, and at the same time, a passage of text appeared on the door.

Wei Yuan swept it with his spiritual sense and was instantly stunned on the spot.

"There is an iron ball of a certain weight. Someone throws it upward with all their might, and the iron ball rises a hundred zhang before falling. If this person throws it forward with the same full strength, how many zhang can the iron ball reach at its furthest?"

A pile of words surged from the bottom of Wei Yuan's heart, quite unpleasant to hear.

Fortunately, he hadn't wasted his time in the Heaven-Earth Theory classes; he still remembered what he had learned back then, and after a moment, he finally arrived at the answer, opened the portal, and entered the void.

The void had already indicated a direction for Wei Yuan. Flying along the trajectory of the iron ball's forward throw in this direction would lead to the Azure Void, but this time he had to fly strictly according to the trajectory, with a deviation of no more than one degree.

Wei Yuan cursed in his heart while flying cautiously, and only after flying until he was drenched in sweat did he manage to enter the stone chamber where the Azure Void was located. Going up one more level, he entered the Merit Hall.

Wei Yuan couldn't help but complain to himself; the Senior Martial Sister was too cautious, the formation questions could actually be changed!

At this moment, Wei Yuan recalled the details of entering the formation just now, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

There were several parts in this formation that hadn't been there before; they must have been added by the Senior Martial Sister recently. One part should be the question bank, and the second part is a timer that activates the third part at regular intervals. Once the third part is activated, it randomly draws a question from the bank and then resets the formation.

Wei Yuan was completely speechless. Only now did he remember that Ji Liuli was also a teacher who conducted centralized instruction back then. He hadn't expected that after so many years, he would fall into her hands again. Could it be that in the future, if he wants to redeem merit, he has to review his old schoolwork first?

But at least there is one benefit now: there is no need to worry about the safety of the domain core anymore. If another old-school formation expert like the Fourth Elder of the Xu family who only knows the "ancestral methods" arrives, they wouldn't be able to break the formation even if they spent decades; if you don't know these questions, you don't know them, and pondering them yourself is useless.

At this moment, inside the Merit Hall, a new fruit had grown on the laurel tree.

Wei Yuan picked up the jade tablet and connected to the Merit Hall; a moment later, a catalog appeared on the tablet. Wei Yuan turned to the spiritual plant section, directly ignoring all Dao Foundation spiritual plants, and focused on browsing the Dharma Form-level spiritual plants. In the merit catalog, there were dozens of Dharma Form-stage spiritual plants, and as Wei Yuan looked through them one by one, he felt his horizons broaden.

For example, there was a Dragon-Weeping Tree that gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into itself; once grown, its core wood could be taken out to become a ready-made magic treasure-level immortal sword, which sword cultivators like Zhang Sheng and Xiaoyu could use when they reached the Dharma Form stage.

The longer this sword is nurtured, the more compatible it becomes with the wielder, and the greater its power; it can be used all the way until the Yu Jing stage without needing replacement. It's just that this tree is thirty zhang tall and takes eight hundred years to grow; it can't be transported, and Wei Yuan can't afford to wait.

In a short while, Wei Yuan flipped through all the Dharma Form spiritual plants, eliminated those that were too large or had growth cycles that were too long, and finally settled on three types.

The first is the Lei Lei Jingmu. After this tree is planted, it will attract heavenly thunder; the longer it grows, the stronger the thunder it attracts. If the ground around the tree is paved with special minerals, they will slowly turn into rare spiritual ores under the thunder. It is said that this tree can grow for ten thousand years and has a glimmer of hope to break its limits and advance again.

However, after transplanting this tree, thunder may strike within a ten-mile radius at any time; people cannot live there, and grass and trees cannot grow.

There is one Lei Lei Jingmu seedling in the Merit Hall, and it costs twelve hundred heavenly merits to redeem.

The second type is the Spirit Immortal Grass. This grass usually matures in fifty years and is an auxiliary material for many Dharma Form-level elixirs, so its value is quite stable. At the same time, this grass can slowly improve the surrounding environment of heaven and earth; one grass seed costs fifty heavenly merits.

The third type is the Jade-Paste Immortal Apricot. This is a rare immortal tree that generally begins to bear fruit after fifty years; the immortal apricots produced can increase the cultivation base of Dharma Form cultivators and are a common main ingredient for Dharma Form-stage cultivation elixirs. The function of this tree is steady and practical, but without surprises.

The Merit Hall has one ten-year-old sapling, and it costs five hundred heavenly merits to redeem.

Wei Yuan wavered repeatedly between the three spiritual plants, but in the end, he chose the Lei Lei Jingmu. After Wei Yuan made his selection, the fruit on the laurel tree slowly expanded, then split open, and a small sapling fell out, landing in Wei Yuan's hand; at the same time, Wei Yuan's available heavenly merits were reduced to only six hundred and seventy.

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This sapling was about the size of a palm, and its trunk was crystalline and transparent, like deep blue crystal; no matter how one looked at it, it didn't look like a tree.

Along with the sapling, a piece of jade paper was sent over, detailing the method for planting the Thunder Wood, the accompanying formation, and several types of minerals that can undergo transformation in thunder.

Wei Yuan swept his spiritual sense over it and discovered that those minerals were quite rare; he hadn't even heard of most of them. To fully utilize the Lei Lei Jingmu, these minerals were indispensable, but they could only be redeemed from the palace. After being refined by thunder, they would all turn into quite rare immortal materials.

Small sects and factions generally cannot handle immortal materials of this level, let alone lone artifact refiners. Only a behemoth like the Heavenly Craft Hall can make use of them, collecting as many as they can get.

Precisely because there are not many people who can use them, the purchase price of these minerals is not high; Wei Yuan estimated that the average annual return is only about ten percent.

In fact, if one thinks about it carefully, one would know that those raw stones were already two or three times more expensive when redeemed, and the purchase price was suppressed by at least half; with this coming and going, the Primordial Palace earned at least six or seven times more. Moreover, as long as one redeems the Lei Lei Jingmu, one must constantly buy raw stones and sell minerals, contributing immortal silver to the palace in a steady stream.

But what Wei Yuan valued when redeeming the Lei Lei Jingmu was precisely this point.

The northeastern region of the domain is mostly rolling hills, and Wei Yuan prepared to plant the Lei Lei Jingmu there. At that time, there would be a stable supply of raw materials, and the minerals would be purchased by the palace; Wei Yuan basically wouldn't need to worry, just picking up stones and exchanging them for silver every year.

With this Lei Lei Jingmu, which can be considered mid-grade among Dharma Form spiritual plants, Wei Yuan's cultivation speed could also be significantly improved, so it's not a loss when calculated.

After the laurel fruit fell, a new bud sprouted on the branch, beginning to nurture a new fruit. If he wants to redeem more, he can also use the Wood-Origin Life-Mystery to accelerate its growth, and the fruit's growth speed will be significantly increased, with one being available in half a day.

In fact, what really tempted Wei Yuan was another type of immortal plant: the Frost-Gold Laurel Tree. This kind of laurel tree is considered a mortal variety of the Laurel Immortal Tree, claiming to have a trace of the Laurel Immortal Tree's bloodline, and the redemption price is ten thousand heavenly merits.

After redeeming the Lei Lei Jingmu, Wei Yuan took the sapling to find the Senior Martial Sister. The Lei Lei Jingmu cannot be planted simply; it must be planted in a specific formation. When it comes to setting up formations, naturally no one can compare to the Senior Martial Sister.

(End of chapter)