Rising from Small Cloud Rain Technique

Zhu Xiangrong weighed the Sword Bamboo Golden Leaves and immediately beamed with joy, saying:

"Five pounds of Top-grade Golden Leaves, Junior Brother, you’re generous!"

If Golden Leaves were exchanged from the Sect, each pound would require one thousand two hundred and fifty Small Merits, but taking them directly from the other party, only one thousand two hundred Small Merits are needed.

This time, the proportion of top-grade given by the other party far exceeded the last time, making him very happy.

In the Sect, Junior Brother Lin Qiubai is now a Fifth Transformation of the Chao Origin Stage Cultivator, and in the future, he will certainly aim to advance to the Golden Core Stage.

When a cultivator breaks through to the Golden Core Stage, they must not only prepare themselves adequately but also have their top-grade spiritual artifacts, which have undergone blood sacrifice, withstand the Golden Core Thunder Tribulation, to be refined into Lifebound Magical Treasures.

Junior Brother Lin’s flying sword needs to have top-grade materials added for reforging and refining to upgrade to a top-grade spiritual artifact; for this, he was invited to help out.

A significant amount of spiritual liquid, extracted from Sword Bamboo Golden Leaves, will be needed. With top-grade Spirit Leaves, far fewer middle-grade Sword Bamboo Leaves would be required.

Otherwise, if the spiritual liquid’s quality falls short, only quantity can make up for the deficit, causing unnecessary waste.

Zhu Xiangrong put away the Sword Bamboo Leaves and sighed:

"I wonder when Junior Brother will be able to cultivate top-grade Profound Leaf Sword Bamboo; the future Artifact Refiners are really lucky."

Decades ago, there were no Profound Leaf Sword Bamboo plantations within the Sect, and Artifact Refiners had to count leaves miserably as they refined Golden Leaves.

Back then, ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage Artifact Refiners didn’t even have the qualifications to exchange for Golden Leaves, but now it’s different—Golden Leaves range from Tier One Top Grade to Tier Two Upper Grade, readily available.

However, he is already four hundred years old and still lingers at the Fourth Transition of the Chao Origin Realm; in a few decades, his energy and blood will start to wane, making it hopeless to reach the Golden Core in this life.

His greatest wish is to refine more top-grade spiritual artifacts so that his fellow cultivators can use them as Lifebound Magical Treasures.

This way, his spirit is considered to have survived in another form.

If his fellow cultivators can go further on the Immortal Path, so much the better.

What constitutes true death is not the death of the body, but when no one in the world remembers this person’s past anymore, that is truly disappearing like smoke in the wind.

Ji An smiled and said:

"It won’t be too long; I estimate that as long as the spiritual vein of Red Flame Peak is elevated to Tier Two Upper Grade, there is a great possibility of cultivating top-grade Sword Bamboo."

If the Main Spiritual Vein Node is elevated to top-grade, it will be necessary to cultivate the current Tier Two Mid-grade Spirit Field into top-grade.

With the watering of Great Perfection Level Yellow Dragon Essence Enhancement Skill and Azure Dragon Shocking Skill, only enough time accumulation is needed to cultivate Sword Bamboo into Tier Two Top Grade.

The Luofeng Valley can cultivate Profound Leaf Sword Bamboo into Tier Two Top Grade, and there’s no reason he can’t.

Not only can he, but he also has the ambition to cultivate Tier Three Sword Bamboo.

The upper limit of this Spirit Wood is very high, although the Western Continent hasn’t cultivated Tier Three, the Divine Wood Sect of the Central Continent has cultivated a large quantity of Tier Three Profound Leaf Sword Bamboo.

Zhu Xiangrong’s eyes revealed a color of reminiscence, and he laughed heartily:

"Speaking of spiritual vein elevation, it reminds me of when the main spiritual vein of the Sect was elevated and caused an eruption of Red Flame Peak.

This time, when the spiritual vein grade of Red Flame Peak is elevated, it should erupt again. If the fog at the mountain’s mouth doesn’t disperse at night, then the eruption is not far off.

Junior Brother, be sure to give a heads-up in advance!"

Last time Red Flame Peak erupted, it spewed top-grade spiritual objects, and if it erupts again, the harvest should not be less than the previous time.

Although one needs Merits to exchange for them, often there isn’t even a chance to exchange.

"Okay," Ji An agreed with a smile, but compared to one-time spiritual objects, he is more concerned with the long-term benefits gained from Red Flame Peak.

The Spirit Field can support more Tier Two Spirit Plants, and he won’t need to chop down existing Spirit Wood anymore.

The Stone Turtle can absorb more Spiritual Mechanism, and the intense vibrations of the earth vein could also grant another batch of Dao Rhyme.

He always felt that besides cultivating Dao Seed, Dao Rhyme should have more unexplored uses.

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Ji An returned to his grotto mansion on Red Flame Peak, flipped his palm, and the Wuji Xinghuang Banner flew out of his Dantian, just the size of a book.

His Divine Sense sank into the Grotto Void Stone, retrieving a Yellow Jade Bottle from within the Void Realm Space.

The Jade Bottle was only palm-high and arm-thick, covered with dense runes and tiny talisman characters the size of rice grains.

Ji An opened the Dharma Prohibition of the Jade Bottle, and threads of yellow spirit light overflowed; what’s stored inside is Earth Element Essence.

In his Sea of Consciousness, he heard the spiritual artifact let out a joyful roar.

A mass of yellow clouds hovered around the Wuji Xinghuang Banner, blocking the mouth of the Jade Bottle. After a while, seeming not to be satisfied, it changed form to drill into the bottle.

Ji An hastily performed a spell to prevent the spiritual artifact’s reckless and foolish action.

The Jade Bottle is a specially customized storage space, only used to store Five Elements Essence or Spiritual Water and the like.

The Wuji Xinghuang Banner can’t possibly get inside; forcibly entering would only cause the Jade Bottle to explode, wasting the tens of thousands of strands of Earth Element Essence inside.

Ji An performed a spell, drawing out the Earth Element Essence, strands of yellow spirit light converged into a "stream," continuously gushing out.

The spiritual artifact hung vertically suspended in midair, the golden Qilin pattern on the flag surface brightened, devouring all the essence.

After approximately two sessions worth of time, the Wuji Xinghuang Banner refused further feeding, returning to Ji An’s Dantian.

"It swallowed about two thousand four hundred strands, much more than the Earth-Departing Flame Banner!"

Ji An quickly calculated in his mind, furrowing his eyebrows tightly.

Earth Element Essence is the rarest among the Five Elements Essences, and now he has stockpiled just over fifty thousand strands, unexpectedly insufficient for a year’s usage.

Pondering for a moment, he took out two Communication Talisman Swords, sending one to Wei Songnian, inviting him to a dinner party.

The other was sent to Zhang Cuihua, informing her of his decision to host the banquet.