Yang Rai began the fusion ritual anyways. It was time for him to Make this resource tree. Even if it is only 1 of them for now. That would be fine. It would help a great deal in advancing further. Even if it was 1 tree that made a set every month. He would eventually get enough for the next tree. Time was really the only limiting Factor at this point. He had just fused together and synthesized Little World Trees. His skill wasn't a factor that even needed to be considered. The Artifact began strengthening once again. Everyone of the people including non cultivators were able to sense how insane of a change this was. It took 3 days to finish the fusion of the Rank 8 materials. So he continued.
Yang Rai spent years condensing these resources to rank 8. He had just finished condensing the 729th Set. While he had been doing that his Origin Spirits took care of upgrading his great many glyphs to T8 R1, Using a lot of rank 6 materials and below. He began the ritual to fuse these resources together and produce his first Rank 8 resource tree. This took him far less time than he thought it would. But only a month passed and the tree had been synthesized. He planted it right away.
"You are a treasure. An. Don't you forget it."
"Achem… I'm Yue, Papa is super cool and nice. And our mommies are super pretty."
"I hope you grow to be big and strong. You are the first of your house and I will be sure to give you more family."
"Pa… fami…"
Yang Rai was taken aback by what the tree, An had just said. It was far too soon for it to be talking like this already. Not scared or anything like that but rather impressed. He put his hand on the tree and gave it a gentle rub. Since the tree hadn't formed its physician manifestation of its spirit in humanoid form yet this was the best he could for now. It oddly made him feel inadequate as a father.
"Don't rush, I would want you to hurt yourself. When you grow strong enough I'll let you see your mommies."
"Ye… pa… pa."
Yang Rai was impressed by An's growth; he was actually quite concerned at first but it seems like his worries were unfounded. He went ahead and began condensing more Rank 5 and below trees. The resource fruits could be used for other purposes so it was beneficial to have more. He now had enough of the little World spirits to actually do the work. It didn't take him long to raise his tree count. After fusing a rank 8 tree it was nothing more than a simple matter to synthesize rank 6 and below. He could snap his fingers and create nine of the trees at once. Obviously provided he had the resources to manage it of course.
Yang Rai's Origin Spirits are quite efficient now. They were rapidly creating more and more Glyphs to replace the ones lost. They took the less expensive route to do this. Since each one splits into 9 after all, spending 2 sets is better than 9. His glyph count remained the same but his tree count boosted up to 81 of each rank aside from rank 8 of course.