Twelve years after contracting the Blessed Land!
Within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, under Ye Qingxuan’s perception, the entire cave heaven began to tremble violently.
The spatial node where the cave heaven was located started to be continuously forced open by it. More and more chaotic energy surged in, being unceasingly absorbed by the cave heaven.
After receiving a sufficient energy supply, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven began to expand rapidly.
Simultaneously with the expansion, the spatial node connecting to chaos also kept growing, allowing the cave heaven to absorb even more energy.
Seemingly triggered by a chain reaction from the cave heaven, after the fusion of their origins, the Blessed Land also began to tremble slightly, increasing its intake of void energy.
Seeing this scene, Ye Qingxuan, situated within the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, started to fully activate the fourth-rank Energy Conversion Grand Array within them, helping to enhance the conversion of chaotic and void energy.
With Ye Qingxuan’s activation and direction, the fourth-rank Energy Conversion Grand Array operated at its peak, ceaselessly converting various energies for the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.
This continued for an entire year. Finally, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land simultaneously broke through their shackles, successfully advancing from the peak of the first rank to the early stage of the second rank.
The moment they advanced, two vast and gentle streams of origin appeared within Ye Qingxuan, actively beginning to merge and assimilate with his spiritual power.
Prepared for this, Ye Qingxuan wasn’t flustered. He sat cross-legged, activated his Earth Immortal Art, and began to cultivate, raising his cultivation base.
The origin energy from the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land entering his body not only helped elevate his cultivation but also continuously refined the small universe within his body.
The elemental light points contained within the origin spread out, integrating deep into Ye Qingxuan’s physical body, subtly enhancing his affinity with all elements.
However, as the origin from a mere second-rank Cave Heaven and Blessed Land was still too low in level, the effect wasn’t immediately obvious.
But his second-type spirit root, which was in the process of condensing, after being nourished by the incoming origin, generated a subtle pulling force. It constantly absorbed the elemental light points emitted by the origin, perfecting itself.
Half an hour later, Ye Qingxuan opened his eyes. Sensing his cultivation level, he said with slight surprise:
“Only reached the late Zifu stage?”
When he first opened the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, the feedback origin had propelled his cultivation directly from perfected Qi Refining, across the Foundation Establishment stage, and into the Zifu stage.
Originally, with this advancement of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan had expected to reach at least the peak of the Zifu stage.
Unexpectedly, he could only barely reach the late Zifu stage.
Indeed, the further one progresses in cultivation realm, the more astonishing the energy required. The origin feedback from a low-grade Cave Heaven and Blessed Land was still too little.
However, Ye Qingxuan wasn’t disappointed. Improvement, no matter how small, was better than none.
He would walk the remaining path himself.
Standing up, Ye Qingxuan sensed the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land and found that their area had greatly expanded.
Now, the combined area of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land fully reached a size of two hundred li in circumference.
Moreover, during the advancement process, they had each generated one second-rank spiritual vein and ten first-rank spiritual veins.
Although these veins were still very weak, they were continuously assisting the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land in absorbing external energy, growing steadily.
The companion spirit orb that had always hovered above the Qingxuan Blessed Land had also transformed and advanced to the second rank along with everything else.
Moreover, it seems to have undergone an unknown change. Originally just a companion spirit pearl containing gentle spiritual energy, the spiritual energy within it is now constantly transforming, evolving into the original source after the fusion of the blessed land and the cave heaven.
After its transformation, the light emitted by the companion spirit orb contained all the elemental particles that had been analyzed and integrated within the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land. Shining upon the land, it held infinite vitality, seemingly perfecting the flaws of various spirit plants in a subtle way.
Even the origin light mass above the Cave Heaven had condensed an identical companion spirit orb at its core.
With the appearance of these two transformed companion spirit orbs, the entire Cave Heaven and Blessed Land felt more complete, giving Ye Qingxuan a subtle sense of perfection.
As for the spiritual land within them:
Because the speed of absorbing and converting chaotic and void energy had greatly increased, the concentration of the transformed origin within the spiritual land had significantly risen.
Now, the growth limit for spirit plants had been raised to the fourth rank.
Not only that, but with the increased concentration of origin in the land, the conversion speed also accelerated. The growth rate of spirit plants within the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land sped up considerably once more.
Now, within the second-rank Cave Heaven and Blessed Land:
First-rank spirit plants take about five months to mature; second-rank spirit plants take about eighteen months; third-rank spirit plants take about five years; and fourth-rank spirit plants take about twelve years.
This way, Ye Qingxuan could not only plant more spirit plants, but the harvest cycle was also shortened.
Besides the changes in the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, the growth rate of Ye Qingxuan’s own spirit root also increased significantly.
Furthermore, his second-type spirit root had been substantially perfected during the advancement of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land. It was now only about six years away from being fully condensed.
After taking stock of all the gains from this advancement, Ye Qingxuan didn’t immediately start cultivating the second-rank Earth Immortal Body.
With a single step, his figure vanished from the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.
In the stone pavilion at the entrance of the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan’s figure reappeared. He leisurely brewed a pot of tea and began to enjoy the scenery beyond the mountain peak.
This time, he didn’t immerse himself in the observation of the brilliant elemental pattern changes between heaven and earth; he simply relaxed his body and mind.
After the Blessed Land advanced, Ye Qingxuan did not report it to the Xuantian Sect.
The expansion of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land happens partly into the chaotic space within the spatial node and partly deep into the void of the Earthly Mysteries Realm. As long as one doesn’t forcefully probe, no changes are detectable from the outside.
If he reported it to the Xuantian Sect, he would merely get a slight increase in his stipend, with no substantial benefits. Instead, it would appear quite unusual and risk exposing his secrets.
After all, the advancement speed of his Blessed Land was simply too fast.
For others, even if they started with a peak first-rank Blessed Land, forget ten or so years, even after several hundred or a thousand years, they might not necessarily be able to advance it.
The reason Ye Qingxuan’s Cave Heaven and Blessed Land advanced so quickly was:
Apart from using various inherited arrays to assist their growth and investing a large number of resources, the most important factor was that the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land complemented each other, mutually perfecting each other’s elemental rules.
This was the most crucial reason for the rapid advancement of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.
For a peak first-rank Blessed Land, besides needing sufficient energy, it also needs to perfect its own elemental rules to advance to the second rank.
Most Blessed Land cultivators are merely dilettantes. They only know to follow the experiences recorded in the Xuantian Sect, blindly planting spirit plants, utterly unaware of which elemental rules their Blessed Land is lacking.
Depending on the types of spirit plants cultivated and the kinds of spirit ores refined, the elemental aspects analyzed and prioritized by the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land differ.
Furthermore, cultivators across the entire Earthly Mysteries Realm don’t even know they could use arrays to refine the origin from spirit ores for their Blessed Land to integrate and analyze.
This way, relying solely on the Blessed Land’s natural growth, the subtle assistance of spirit plants, and without the complementary support of a Cave Heaven, wanting the Blessed Land to advance would take an impossibly long time.
For the next three days, Ye Qingxuan returned to his previous cultivation rhythm.
Three days later, he once again subjected himself to that brutally intense training method, elevating his Earth Immortal Body to the second rank.
Seizing this opportunity, Ye Qingxuan once again merged with the second-rank Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, comprehending and perfecting his Earth Immortal Method.
A second-rank Earth Immortal Body could now ignore attacks at the Foundation Establishment stage and halve the power of attacks within the Zifu stage, greatly enhancing its auxiliary effect for Ye Qingxuan.
Moreover, after cultivating the second-rank Earth Immortal Body, the small universe within Ye Qingxuan’s physical body underwent another minor transformation, becoming further perfected.
This further perfection of his inner universe, in turn, accelerated the condensation speed of his spirit root. Now, it would only take about three years for Ye Qingxuan to condense his second-type spirit root.
Ye Qingxuan even suspected that as long as he continued cultivating the Earth Immortal Body and continuously perfected the inner universe, his spirit roots would naturally emerge one by one.
