Green Profound Blessed Land.
After Ye Qingxiao left, Ye Qingxuan took out his disciple token and reported to Manager Bai from the Blessing Cultivator Court:
“Manager Bai, this disciple has successfully contracted a Blessed Land and smoothly broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm. Reporting to you as required!”
After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, his monthly Contribution Points would increase from the original 30 points to 60 points per month.
It wasn’t much, but Contribution Points were hard to come by and could only be accumulated by completing tasks.
His Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was just starting out. In the early stages, he still needed to invest a large amount of capital to develop it, so Contribution Points were essential.
Soon after Ye Qingxuan sent the message, Bai Zichun’s reply came:
“You brat, contracting a Blessed Land took you over four months?”
If Bai Zichun hadn’t been in the Blessing Cultivator Court for many years and knew that cultivating the Earth Source Art meant contracting a Blessed Land couldn’t fail…
And if Ye Qingxuan’s name hadn’t still been on the sect’s registry, he might have been unable to resist going to the Green Profound Blessed Land to collect Ye Qingxuan’s body.
After this complaint, Bai Zichun sent another message:
“Alright, your information has been updated. From now on, your disciple token can directly connect to the sect’s Dharma Transmission Hall, Scripture Repository, Myriad Things Hall, and Mission Hall.
“If you need to exchange for inheritances, techniques, resources, or post tasks, you can do it through your disciple token. Specialized disciples will deliver them to you later.”
The Blessing Cultivator system had existed in the Profound Heaven Sect for many years, so naturally, there was a corresponding operational procedure.
“Also, for a first-rank Blessed Land, you need to complete one first-rank planting task for the sect each year. Remember to claim it through the Mission Hall on your disciple token when the time comes.”
After Bai Zichun finished explaining everything, Ye Qingxuan finally responded:
“Thank you for the guidance, Manager. This disciple understands!”
Upon receiving Ye Qingxuan’s response, Bai Zichun sent his final message:
“From this day forward, everything depends on yourself. I hope you can maintain your Dao Heart and not follow in the footsteps of others!”
Seeing the last message from Bai Zichun, Ye Qingxuan’s eyes filled with determination. He sent a final reply:
“Manager, rest assured. This disciple knows how to walk his own path!”
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After ending communication with Bai Zichun.
Ye Qingxuan channeled his spiritual sense into the disciple token and saw four miniature structures inscribed with the words: Dharma Transmission Hall, Scripture Repository, Myriad Things Hall, Mission Hall!
Gently touching the Mission Hall with his spiritual sense, Ye Qingxuan saw all currently available missions and understood how to accept and post tasks.
Entering the first-rank planting mission section, he saw various tasks for cultivating first-rank spirit herbs.
If you only completed one such task per year, you wouldn’t receive any Contribution Points for it. However, for each additional task completed, you could earn an extra 300 Contribution Points.
Ye Qingxuan wasn’t dissatisfied with this.
The Profound Heaven Sect invested significant resources in cultivating Blessing Cultivators in the early stages and later directly provided a spiritual site for contracting. Therefore, in Ye Qingxuan’s view, completing one first-rank planting task for free each year was reasonable.
Depending on the cultivation difficulty of the first-rank spirit herb, the quantity required for submission per task each year varied.
For example, for the easiest to cultivate ones like Azure Sky Flowers, Purple Spirit Grass, and Spirit Attracting Flowers, one task required submitting 1,500 plants annually.
Don’t let the number fool you. In the superior environment of the Profound Heaven Sect’s Profound Heaven Mountain Range, even if these herbs weren’t planted in the Blessed Land’s core area but only in peripheral areas like the outer peaks of the Green Profound Blessed Land, they would have a decent survival rate.
It just required considerable effort to manage them. This point alone made Ye Qingxuan dismiss them immediately.
Finally, after some comparison, Ye Qingxuan chose the most difficult to cultivate spirit herb, the Earth Spirit Flower, as his annual planting task.
Although the Earth Spirit Flower was the hardest to cultivate, one task only required submitting 100 plants per year.
Normally, the core area of a first-rank Blessed Land could plant around 3,000 first-rank spirit herbs.
But this was an ideal state. The cultivation difficulty and survival rates of spirit herbs varied.
During the cultivation process, herbs would occasionally wither due to various reasons.
For the notoriously difficult Earth Spirit Flower, the average survival rate was typically 1 in 10. So, a standard first-rank Blessed Land could only cultivate about 300 Earth Spirit Flowers per year.
Therefore, the actual profit a normal Blessed Land could generate depended most crucially on the Blessing Cultivator’s own cultivation ability.
Some Blessing Cultivators could barely complete two planting tasks for the sect per year, while others could complete five or six. This was the difference between cultivators.
But Ye Qingxuan was different. Superficially, he was a Blessing Cultivator, but in reality, he practiced the Earth Immortal Dao.
Now, the Green Profound Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land complemented each other, greatly increasing the survival rate of spirit plants. Moreover, the Earth Immortal inheritance included spirit plant cultivation techniques, so Ye Qingxuan wasn’t worried about survival rates.
Even for the most difficult Earth Spirit Flower, Ye Qingxuan was confident he could ensure a survival rate of over 90%.
He also had an extra Grotto-Heaven compared to others, significantly increasing his plantable area.
However, for the growth of his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he wouldn’t choose to plant only one type of spirit plant in the future.
The more varieties of spirit plants he cultivated, the faster his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land would grow.
Furthermore, the combination of Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land reduced the limitations of a single Blessed Land. Currently, his first-rank Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land could fully support the cultivation of third-rank spirit plants.
The Earth Spirit Flower was a special spirit plant containing the essence of the twelve major elements of the Di Xuan Realm. It could be cultivated continuously and significantly aided the growth of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, which was another reason Ye Qingxuan chose it.
After selecting the planting task, specialized disciples would later deliver the seeds to Ye Qingxuan.
Generally, seeds were provided based on the average survival rate. Since Ye Qingxuan accepted a task for Earth Spirit Flowers, he would be given 1,000 seeds.
Spirit herb seeds were the least valuable items in a sect like the Profound Heaven Sect.
After choosing his task, Ye Qingxuan entered the Myriad Things Hall. He planned to buy a pill furnace and a talisman brush.
Ye Qingxuan temporarily only had 2,432 Contribution Points.
Aside from the few dozen points left over from his previous technique exchange, most of these points were accumulated during his 6-year seclusion to reach Qi Refinement perfection, plus the over 7 months spent returning home and opening his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
Checking the prices of pill furnaces and talisman brushes, Ye Qingxuan realized his points were only enough to exchange for one top-grade artifact-level pill furnace and one top-grade artifact-level talisman brush.
After some mental calculation, Ye Qingxuan spent 1,200 Contribution Points to exchange for a top-grade artifact-level pill furnace and another 1,200 points for materials to craft four top-grade artifact-level talisman brushes.
Since he was going to study artifact crafting as a secondary path anyway, he might as well craft the talisman brushes himself. Ye Qingxuan was quite confident in his own comprehension ability!
Even the top-grade artifact-level pill furnace was just a temporary measure for him.
With his current Purple Mansion realm cultivation, he could fully use a True Artifact-level pill furnace, but alas, his pockets were temporarily light!
His cultivation had advanced too rapidly after opening the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, leaving him little time to accumulate capital.
After exchanging for the pill furnace and talisman brush materials, aside from his remaining 32 Contribution Points, Ye Qingxuan only had just over forty thousand low-grade spirit stones left.
He planned to use these spirit stones to exchange for materials from Bai Wenyang to first elevate his proficiency in the Four Supporting Arts of Immortal Cultivation: Alchemy, Artifact Crafting, Talismanic Arts, and Formations.
