Since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, Lu Qingyang had been exploring the ancient trees in the majestic Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
By refining their bodies and bestowing them with spiritual wisdom, he had transformed them.
If traced back to before the beast tide ravaged the land, Lu Qingyang would have never easily spent his cultivation to stimulate the ancient trees.
However, in the present time, faced with a world where no existence could threaten him, Lu Qingyang did not hesitate to use some of his cultivation to bring forth a batch of ancient trees into the world.
The reason being, ancient trees were inherently devout believers, capable of adding substantial incense to his reserves every day.
In other words,
A second-tier ancient tree could provide 3,650 incense points annually.
In comparison, this was equivalent to the offering of over three thousand ordinary believers.
Moreover, the ancient trees could naturally absorb the essence of heaven and earth and cultivate on their own.
If their cultivation could break through, they would bring even more abundant incense power.
In the long run, given the thin spiritual energy of the current world and the special talents of the ancient tree's spiritual roots, Lu Qingyang could naturally increase his cultivation by about ten points each day.
During this period, Lu Qingyang tried using incense points to evolve the legendary spiritual veins of heaven and earth.
Unfortunately, the spiritual veins born within the second-tier Heavenly Court were too weak.
With just a little absorption, the evolved spiritual veins would instantly wither.
This demonstrated that the true spiritual veins of heaven and earth were of an exceedingly high grade, and the ones the second-tier Heavenly Court could produce were merely insignificant branches, extremely weak.
Therefore, Lu Qingyang did not waste incense points to deliberately evolve the spiritual veins of heaven and earth but instead traversed the Ten Thousand Great Mountains to find four ancient trees with profound foundations and used his cultivation to stimulate them.
[Heavenly Astral Ancient Tree: Second-Tier Mid]
[Heavenly Fiend Ancient Tree: Second-Tier Mid]
[Heavenly Pivot Ancient Tree: Second-Tier Early]
[Heavenly Light Ancient Tree: Second-Tier Early]
These were the grades of the four ancient trees, slightly inferior to the Wanqing Ancient Tree cultivated earlier.
At the same time, Lu Qingyang noticed a fundamental difference between these ancient trees and himself.
They could not, like him, devour demonic beasts to improve their cultivation.
However, Lu Qingyang had an inspiration and directly evolved what was known as breakthrough pills.
He intended for the ancient trees to consume them to aid their breakthroughs.
Although the breakthrough pills were successfully evolved, the incense points required were ten times that of items of the same tier.
From this, Lu Qingyang realized that while the Heavenly Court could create certain special items, the cost was equally significant.
Yet, even with the price increased tenfold, it was not a heavy burden for Lu Qingyang at this time.
Thus, he unhesitatingly exchanged for two mid-second-tier breakthrough pills, four late-second-tier breakthrough pills, and five peak-second-tier breakthrough pills.
Eleven pills consumed a total of 4.1 million incense points.
Afterward, including the Wanqing Ancient Tree, all the ancient trees reached the second-tier peak stage, only needing a chance to step into the third tier.
Lu Qingyang originally intended to impart third-tier cultivation methods to the ancient trees to accelerate their breakthrough to the third tier. Unfortunately, the second-tier Heavenly Court could not evolve third-tier methods, so this plan had to be postponed.
Even so,
Even without the inheritance of methods, the ancient trees could refine the essence of heaven and earth through instinct and seek breakthroughs.
However,
Lacking corresponding guidance from cultivation methods, relying solely on instinct to break through would undoubtedly take much longer.
Regardless,
After the ancient trees all broke through to the second-tier peak, coupled with Lu Qingyang's Heavenly Court domain, they were enough to govern the entire Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
Next,
Lu Qingyang commanded the five ancient trees to exterminate the remaining demonic beasts in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
And to offer the demonic beast corpses to him.
Yes,
Offer them.
Lu Qingyang even included the five ancient trees in the Heavenly Court chat group. Once they developed spiritual wisdom, they were no different from ordinary people.
[Wanqing Ancient Tree offered a late first-tier demonic beast, gaining 75 cultivation points]
[Wanqing Ancient Tree offered a mid first-tier demonic beast, gaining 50 cultivation points]
[Heavenly Pivot Ancient Tree offered an early second-tier demonic beast, gaining 250 cultivation points]
[Heavenly Astral Ancient Tree offered a mid second-tier demonic beast, gaining 300 cultivation points]
[Heavenly Fiend Ancient Tree offered...]
Dense information flooded in like a tide, but Lu Qingyang chose to filter it out, focusing only on the continuously rising cultivation values on his data panel, feeling satisfied.
[Name: Lu Qingyang]
[True Form: Immortal Wood]
[Lifespan: 15/]
[Realm: Third-Tier Peak (/)]
[Divine Kingdom: Second-Tier (/)]
[Divine Abilities: Ancient Wood Roots (Third-Tier), Immortal Wood Spiritual Root (Third-Tier), Immortal Divine Fruit (Third-Tier), Immortal Divine Whisper (Third-Tier), True Sight (Third-Tier), Heavenly Court Domain (Third-Tier)]
"The demonic beasts of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains have been partially cleared. This round of cleaning has netted me over 20,000 cultivation points, making up for the loss from cultivating the ancient trees."
"Alas, the Ten Thousand Great Mountains are vast and boundless. Even cultivating several ancient trees cannot cover the entire range. If I could spread them throughout the mountains and clear all roaming demonic beasts, I would surely gain a significant amount of cultivation."
Lu Qingyang reviewed his data panel and stopped worrying.
According to human alliance records, celestial blood would descend once every fifteen years.
If he were to undergo celestial blood baptism again fifteen years later, Lu Qingyang might directly advance to the fourth tier.
Of course, this was the most conservative estimate.
Now that the Heavenly Court chat group was established, with over twenty million believers offering demonic beasts, breaking through to the fourth tier was within reach.
Outside the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, as a floating artifact attempted to enter, roots rose from the ground, and a thousand-meter-tall ancient tree swayed its branches and leaves.
"This is the Ten Thousand Heavenly Court; do not bring mortal distractions within!"
The ancient tree's voice was powerful and resonant, shaking the surrounding air. The people inside the artifact were visibly shocked upon hearing it.
An ancient tree speaking!
This was their first time witnessing it.
Until now, the only non-human entity capable of conversing with humans was the being in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, known as Qingyang Immortal Wood.
Unexpectedly, besides Qingyang Immortal Wood, another ancient tree could speak, which was astonishing.
Everyone understood that the ability of the ancient tree to speak signified its possession of wisdom, making it no different from humans except in appearance.
Moments later,
The artifact opened, and Gu Fang, dressed in a green robe, emerged, facing the ancient tree before him.
"I am Gu Fang, former Grand Commander of the Ninth Alliance of the Human Alliance. Today, I come to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains to visit Qingyang Immortal Wood. Could you kindly allow me passage?"
"Wait here!"
The ancient tree's voice fell, and silence returned to the surroundings, leaving Gu Fang to wait patiently in place.
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