With Crow Crow’s full assistance and Qi Ping himself possessing a Yang Fire Body, it still took Qi Ping a full two months to create the advanced versions of the Great Sun Refinement Method and the matching Great Sun Body Tempering Art. Even so, these are only considered the rudiments of basic spells. They are already perfectly suitable for cultivation and have high potential and room for growth, but perfecting them to a very high level would still require much more time and effort.
However, this is already enough for Qi Ping. He’ll leave the rest to the Blazing Sun Tree, letting it grow and perfect itself in the direction most suitable for it.
Among these two techniques and spells created by Qi Ping, the advanced Great Sun Refinement Method has much stronger absorption and refinement capabilities than ordinary Star Refinement Methods, making it absolutely compatible with the power of the Great Sun.
As for the Great Sun Body Tempering Art, it can purify the power of the Great Sun and use that purified power to temper the body. This not only allows the Blazing Sun Tree to rapidly strengthen its trunk but also enables it to produce Great Sun Essence of even higher quality!
Next, Qi Ping tested everything a few more times. After confirming there were no issues, he first engraved the Great Sun Refinement Method into a Tree Spirit Mark and sent it into the tree spirit of the Blazing Sun Tree.
[The taste of sunshine!]
[This is a way to get more sunshine? That’s great!]
Feeling the will of the Blazing Sun Tree, Qi Ping knew this step had gone without a problem.
The most critical part now was the second step: successfully engraving the second spell, the Great Sun Body Tempering Art, into the Blazing Sun Tree.
Qi Ping didn’t rush this step. Instead, he waited for over a month until the Blazing Sun Tree had mostly integrated the Great Sun Refinement Method. Only then, feeling a bit nervous, did he engrave the second spell.
[This is a way to improve the purity of sunlight and use it to strengthen my body?]
[That’s wonderful!]
“It worked!”
After confirming that the Blazing Sun Tree was successfully learning the Great Sun Body Tempering Art, Qi Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief!
Although the Blazing Sun Tree was learning the second spell noticeably slower, it was indeed a success. Given some time to integrate and adjust, it would surely be able to perfectly combine the two!
With this, all four of Qi Ping’s contracted third-grade spirit trees had finally been successfully engraved!
Among them, the Star Tree and Moonlight Tree both use Refinement Methods, accelerating resource output while also slightly speeding up their own growth and transformation.
The Ironwood Tree uses the Darkstone Forging Art to continuously temper and improve itself, while also forging Qi Ping’s first spirit tool, the [Darkstone Scale Armor]!
And the last one is the Blazing Sun Tree, now standing before Qi Ping!
At this moment, sunlight blazes intensely on Qi Ping’s territory. The vast power of the Great Sun is drawn in by the Blazing Sun Tree and the crow perched on it, constantly converging toward this pair!
Under the effect of the Great Sun Body Tempering Art, an immense amount of Great Sun power—Great Sun Essence and Great Sun energy, countless times more violent than raging fire—surges continuously through the Blazing Sun Tree’s trunk. Fierce flames blaze wildly all around it.
The black crow at the top of the tree is even more unwilling to be outdone. The commotion it causes is even more astonishing than that of the Blazing Sun Tree!
After Qi Ping created the Great Sun Refinement Method and the Great Sun Body Tempering Art, the beneficiary wasn’t just the Blazing Sun Tree—Crow Crow actually benefited the most!
Because throughout the process of creating the spells, Qi Ping unreservedly taught Crow Crow all his insights, the principles of cultivation, and the final successful spells.
And after Crow Crow fully understood and integrated these things, combining the characteristics of its own bloodline talents, inherited memory knowledge, and the advantages of cultivation techniques, its cultivation efficiency improved dramatically once again!
Without a doubt, possessing all this, and with the assistance of the Blazing Sun Tree, Crow Crow is bound to enter a period of rapid strength enhancement!
During the time Qi Ping spent quietly nurturing his spirit trees and creating cultivation techniques, the mysterious organization whose几十 subordinates he had destroyed was frantically searching for him to get revenge. After so many years, aside from the tough nut that is the mysterious black market, few had dared to be so arrogant against them!
So, they set up ambushes in many places, even dispatching Golden Core-level experts, and nearly ten Foundation Building experts.
But obviously, running into someone as cautious as Qi Ping, who goes into hiding at the slightest sign of trouble, this mysterious organization has so far only managed to ambush empty air.
And they are doomed to continue being lonely!
Around this same time, the war between the Qingyuan Sect and several other sects was gradually drawing to a close.
At this moment, more than ten Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators are gathering in a vast, incredibly dense spiritual energy secret realm—a site that may hold an extraordinary legacy!
What puzzles these Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators is that they have searched the entire Qingtian Domain but still haven’t found the legendary Demon Insect King.
They haven’t even gotten any news about the last quarter of the key needed to unlock the extraordinary legacy.
“According to the heavenly secret divination performed ten years ago using that precious treasure, the Demon Insect King should have appeared normally long ago to begin the blood sacrifice, and the last quarter of the key should have appeared with it! Which link went wrong?”
“Who knows? We’ve almost turned the Qingtian Domain upside down. I even suspect one of you got it and hid it!”
“Let’s not fight among ourselves at this point. Finding a solution is what matters! Given the recent struggle situation, your Qingyuan Sect holds the largest share. If we can’t open it, you’ll lose the most!”
“Should we ask that person to perform another divination?”
“Don’t you know how terrifying the cost is to ask for his help? Are you going to pay that cost?”
“But we’ve already paid so much. Just the losses in taxes and population have been huge enough, not to mention what we paid earlier. Can you bear the cost of giving up halfway?”
“Then what do you suggest we do?”
After a moment of silence, a voice suddenly spoke up.
“At this point, we have no choice but to start the blood sacrifice ourselves. Forget about not finding the last quarter of the key. We’ll use the three-quarters of the key to disrupt some of the prohibition, and then all of us together use my Great Heavenly Cycle Star Formation to break it open!”
But as soon as these words were spoken, everyone’s expressions froze, and the air itself seemed to stall.
After a long while, someone finally spoke:
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“Forming an array to break the prohibition is fine, but starting the blood sacrifice ourselves—do you think the higher-ups are blind? If you want to die, don’t drag us along!”
Hearing this, the others couldn’t help but nod in agreement.
Then the person who made the suggestion, clearly expecting this response, replied calmly:
“Let that organization gather a group of people for us! With that organization involved, the higher-ups won’t act rashly. At worst, we’ll reduce some procurement, let another batch of disciples die, and maybe some with special constitutions—that should be enough.”
After this response, after a moment of silence, someone answered:
“Agreed!”
“Agreed!”
“Agreed!”
Some people hesitated for a long time before finally making up their minds and nodding:
“Agreed!”
“Agreed!”
For now, Qi Ping has no idea about the bloody storm brewing in the shadows of the Qingtian Domain.
All he knows is that his four contracted spirit trees are thriving under his care, and as a result, the spiritual vein is rapidly improving. It has now reached a mid-tier first-grade level, and it looks like it’s about to breakthrough to high-tier first-grade.
Moreover, as Qi Ping’s four spirit trees grow and become stronger, the speed at which the spiritual vein improves is also gradually accelerating. Using third-grade spirit trees to nurture a first-grade spiritual vein is proving to be surprisingly effective.
“Next, I’ll focus mainly on improving the Blazing Sun Tree, prioritizing the enhancement of Crow Crow’s strength and bloodline first!”
“Only when the spiritual vein breaks through to second-grade will my own cultivation realm begin to grow rapidly!”
