After Ye Qingxuan’s main body successfully broke through to the late Golden Core stage,
his external incarnation, who was still aboard the Tianyuan Trading Company’s building-ship, had already entered a cultivation state and begun elevating his own cultivation.
As Ye Qingxuan’s external incarnation, as long as the main body successfully broke through,
the incarnation, Gui Xuanzi, could directly consume spirit stones to rapidly raise his cultivation level.
So within a month of Ye Qingxuan’s breakthrough to the late Golden Core stage,
his external incarnation, Gui Xuanzi, would basically be able to elevate his cultivation to the late Golden Core stage as well.
Ye Qingxuan wasn’t worried about his external incarnation; he didn’t have time to attend to it right now anyway.
Although he had already come out of seclusion, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise had just advanced, and there were still many things he needed to do.
Ye Qingxuan placed the fourth-tier Wood Puppets he had refined one by one according to their designated areas.
Then he distributed a new batch of spirit plant seeds, allowing these fourth-tier Wood Puppets to operate on their own, tending to the spirit plants within their respective assigned zones.
For the puppets’ energy cores, Ye Qingxuan used spirit stones.
All of these fourth-tier Wood Puppets he had refined used high-grade spirit stones as their energy cores.
One high-grade spirit stone could power a fourth-tier Wood Puppet for one month.
After all, these Wood Puppets were only auxiliary puppets and didn’t need to engage in combat. Plus, tending to spirit plants didn’t require daily attention, so their energy consumption was relatively low.
In addition to that, Ye Qingxuan also cultivated a fairly large area himself.
Now that his territory had expanded, Ye Qingxuan planned to expand the cultivation areas for the special spirit plants: Spirit Gathering Herbs, Spirit Purifying Trees, and Earth Spirit Flowers.
As special spirit plants, as long as they had enough time and energy, Spirit Gathering Herbs, Spirit Purifying Trees, and Earth Spirit Flowers could be continuously nurtured and grown.
Planting more of them might prove useful for other purposes in the future.
Moreover, the Spirit Purifying Trees were already bringing him considerable income, so among the three types of spirit plants he was expanding, the Spirit Purifying Trees accounted for the largest number.
After the expansion, the number of Spirit Gathering Herbs and Earth Spirit Flowers had each reached three thousand.
And the number of Spirit Purifying Trees had reached six thousand.
Among these six thousand Spirit Purifying Trees, Ye Qingxuan planned to sell three thousand of them in exchange for Alliance Contribution Points.
Aside from the first-tier Spirit Purifying Trees used as a cover, Ye Qingxuan intended to cultivate all the other Spirit Purifying Trees to the fifth tier before putting them up for sale.
A fourth-tier Spirit Purifying Tree was only worth 90,000 Alliance Contribution Points, but a fifth-tier Spirit Purifying Tree was worth 900,000 Alliance Contribution Points.
And now, within the third-tier Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise, the time required to cultivate a Spirit Purifying Tree to the fourth tier had shortened somewhat, taking only about ten years.
But cultivating it to the fifth tier would take roughly sixty years or so.
Calculating it this way, it was still more cost-effective to sell the Spirit Purifying Trees after cultivating them to the fifth tier.
Ye Qingxuan no longer planned to exchange for second- or third-tier Spirit Vein Origins; from now on, he only intended to exchange for Spirit Vein Origins above the third tier.
His Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise was currently not lacking in second- and third-tier spirit veins.
On the contrary, there wasn’t a single spirit vein above the third tier in his cave heaven paradise.
A fourth-tier Spirit Vein Origin was worth 100 million Alliance Contribution Points, and a fifth-tier Spirit Vein Origin was worth 3 billion Alliance Contribution Points.
So his demand for Alliance Contribution Points was now very high.
3 billion Alliance Contribution Points might seem like a lot, but converted into spirit stones, it was only 300,000 high-grade spirit stones.
This amount of spirit stones was merely a drop in the bucket for Ye Qingxuan.
Unfortunately, while Alliance Contribution Points could be exchanged for spirit stones, spirit stones couldn’t be used to obtain Alliance Contribution Points, so Ye Qingxuan could only stick to farming for now.
After replanting the spirit plants,
Ye Qingxuan once again arrived at the convergence point of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise’s origin.
After enduring another month of inhuman torment, Ye Qingxuan used the third-tier cave heaven paradise’s origin power to restructure his body, advancing his Earth Immortal Body to the third tier.
A third-tier Earth Immortal Body could ignore the Dao techniques of Purple Mansion stage cultivators and reduce half of the Dao technique damage from early Golden Core stage cultivators.
After the Earth Immortal Body advanced, Ye Qingxuan’s physique evolved once more, and the progression of his internal spiritual root evolution accelerated by about another hundred years.
Now, the fourth-system spiritual root within Ye Qingxuan’s body would take roughly three hundred more years to fully condense.
After sizing up his Earth Immortal Body for a moment, Ye Qingxuan remarked with some emotion:
“I wonder when I’ll be able to match my Earth Immortal Body with my actual cultivation level?”
He shook his head, putting those thoughts aside, and sent a message to Steward Bai Zichun of the Blessed Land Cultivation Institute:
“Steward Bai, this disciple’s Qingxuan Blessed Land has advanced to the second tier, and my cultivation has also broken through to the early Purple Mansion stage. I would trouble you to register this information.”
When he had first contracted the blessed land, it was already at the late first tier.
Plus, given the large number of Spirit Vein Origins he had purchased afterward, it was perfectly reasonable to declare that the Qingxuan Blessed Land had now advanced to the second tier.
Regarding the blessed lands controlled by blessed land cultivators, the Xuantian Sect granted a great deal of autonomy and would not easily send disciples to investigate the blessed lands of their cultivators.
Typically, after a blessed land cultivator reported an advancement, the Xuantian Sect would simply approve it directly.
This was because, after becoming a second-tier blessed land cultivator, the planting tasks would also be upgraded to second-tier, so basically no blessed land cultivator would lie about such matters.
Falsifying reports like that would only harm their own interests.
So after a blessed land cultivator reported an advancement, the Xuantian Sect would directly register the new tier, increasing the cultivator’s benefits while also raising the level of their planting tasks.
Either way, the Xuantian Sect would never be at a loss.
There were only three situations in which the Xuantian Sect would issue an order and send personnel into a blessed land cultivator’s domain for inspection.
The first situation was when a blessed land cultivator passed away and their name disappeared from the sect’s roster.
The second situation was when a blessed land cultivator’s blessed land failed to advance for a long time, exceeding the average advancement interval for blessed land cultivators.
In this case, the Xuantian Sect would also send people into the blessed land to conduct a verification.
First, to prevent the blessed land cultivator from hiding the fact that their blessed land had advanced, seeking personal gain and refusing to accept the planting tasks that came with the advancement.
Second, to inspect the specific condition of the blessed land and, drawing on the Xuantian Sect’s previous experience, provide guidance and suggestions.
The third situation was when a blessed land cultivator was unable to complete the sect’s planting tasks.
In this case, the Xuantian Sect would also send people to examine the blessed land’s condition, identify the source of the problem, and offer solutions.
After all, the planting tasks assigned by the Xuantian Sect were not particularly burdensome for a blessed land cultivator who had full control over their entire blessed land.
If, under such circumstances, a cultivator still couldn’t complete the tasks, then there was definitely some issue, and the Xuantian Sect would naturally send people to investigate.
So as long as Ye Qingxuan avoided these three situations, he didn’t have to worry about the Xuantian Sect’s people intruding into his blessed land.
As long as the Xuantian Sect didn’t investigate his Qingxuan Blessed Land, his main body could remain hidden behind the scenes within the Xuantian Sect, quietly cultivating in seclusion for a long time to come.
