Immortality Starts With Investment

The four generations of the Heavenly Desire Sect were all excited to the extreme at this moment. Except for Fan Qinghe. Not only had their bodies been thoroughly soothed, their hearts had been as well.

After all, once this transformation ended, with the miraculous nature of the Heart-Seed Demon Nirvana Scripture, every one of them could reach the peak of Quasi-Immortal without any bottlenecks. When had the Heavenly Desire Sect ever been this wealthy since its founding?

”When the Heavenly Emperor’s heir comes, the sky of our Heavenly Desire Sect comes…We must maintain the Heavenly Emperor’s heir’s affection. If we complete the next transformation in the future, we might even have a chance to ascend to immortality together…”

”With the Heavenly Emperor’s heir’s cultivation speed, he will probably reach the peak of Quasi-Immortal in thirty to fifty years, right?”

”He might even have a chance to enter the Immortal Realm!”

”Ancestor, you can’t secretly wear props next time. There are so many little vixens outside, all coveting the Heavenly Emperor’s heir. If the four of us don’t work together, how can we compete?”

”That’s right. We must be united. Next time we’ll wear matching clothes and prepare matching artifacts so that even after the Heavenly Emperor’s heir becomes an immortal, he won’t forget us.”

”Even if the four of us can’t all occupy a spot, at least we can send Qinghe away. After all, if not for Qinghe sharing her protector with us, we wouldn’t have today…”

”Indeed…”

The master and grandmaster discussed animatedly, fantasizing about a beautiful future.

The ancestor, who was participating for the first time and had been empty for several thousand years, was still immersed in the afterglow of satisfaction and did not speak. Hearing her disciples and grand-disciples talk about Quasi-Immortal and immortality—things she had never dared to dream of before—her heart also surged with emotion.

The aftertaste from before still lingered. Now she could not help but let out a soft hum and tremble a few times. But once the pleasure faded and her mind cleared, she felt a little sad, thinking of her own master…

The good days of the Heavenly Desire Sect had arrived. It was an unprecedented golden age. The Heavenly Emperor’s heir was the savior of the Heavenly Desire Sect. He treated Fan Qinghe with wholehearted devotion. And Fan Qinghe was a filial child, even willing to share with them. But her own master had already passed away… The desire to support one’s parents while they are still alive, yet they are no longer there!

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On the way back.

Ye Chen entered the small world. He was not here to find Luo Bingling and Lu Jing. He intended to gather the immortal roots.

Senior An’s Seven Extremes Immortal Body required the spiritual liquid of the twelve immortal roots to advance. Although he had not yet collected the last immortal root of this world—the Chaos Green Lotus—he had obtained the supreme immortal root of the Immortal Realm: the Heavenly Will Immortal Tree. A supreme immortal root was still an immortal root. It should not be a problem. It might even produce better results precisely because it was a supreme immortal root.

Ye Chen gently raised his hand. The eleven immortal roots shook. Their essence and spiritual charm surged, quickly condensing into a drop of differently colored spiritual liquid each.

This was the essence spiritual liquid of the immortal roots.

Ye Chen could clearly see that after extracting this drop of essence spiritual liquid, the auras of the immortal roots had all weakened to varying degrees.

Ye Chen sensed that the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s yield for next year would probably drop by one-third. The others were roughly the same. The Fusang Divine Tree’s aura had even fallen from the peak of Quasi-Immortal to the late Quasi-Immortal stage. Clearly, extracting the essence spiritual liquid caused considerable damage to the immortal roots.

But Ye Chen did not care. For Senior An, he was willing to let the immortal roots half-die. Besides, the foundation of his cave heaven was astonishing. It would only take a few years for them to recover.

He placed the eleven drops of spiritual liquid into a jade bottle. The liquids instantly fused together, turning into a pale golden color. They emitted a very special spiritual charm.

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow and turned his gaze to the Heavenly Will Immortal Tree, which now occupied the central position. He gently raised his hand. The Heavenly Will Immortal Tree shook violently, looking somewhat aggrieved, as if pleading.

But Ye Chen’s expression did not change in the slightest. The next moment, the essence spiritual liquid belonging to the Heavenly Will Immortal Tree floated over to him. The spiritual charm within it was exceptionally astonishing. It even surpassed the combined total of the previous eleven immortal roots.

The name ”supreme immortal root” was well-deserved. Just this single drop had endless wondrous uses. If placed in the outside world, it would absolutely be a supreme treasure. Quasi-Immortals would fight over it. And in the Immortal Realm, even True Immortals would be moved and unable to remain calm.

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However, Ye Chen felt no reluctance at all. He tried to place it into the jade bottle to fuse with the previous spiritual liquid. But something strange happened. The drop formed from the fusion of the eleven previous immortal root essences showed no intention of merging with the Heavenly Will Immortal Tree’s essence liquid at all.

The two sides were completely incompatible. Even when Ye Chen used external force to press them together, the moment he withdrew the force, they instantly separated into two drops again. They were as distinct as black and white.

Ye Chen looked at this scene and could not help but raise an eyebrow. It seemed it would not work.

Ye Chen also realized that immortal roots were very special. Immortal roots from the same realm had a special connection with each other. If they were not from the same realm, there was no such feeling.

…

Ye Chen had only heard a rumor once: that so-called immortal roots were the spiritual roots of unimaginably powerful experts who had fallen, later transformed and adapted by heaven and earth.

It had never been confirmed. It was just a rumor. But now that the Seven Extremes Immortal Body required the spiritual liquid of the twelve immortal roots to advance, this claim suddenly seemed somewhat plausible.

After all, even though the Seven Extremes Heavenly Maiden had been brutally beaten by the Heavenly Emperor, she had definitely been a top-tier existence in her era. She would surely know more.

If the immortal root spiritual liquid of this world could allow Senior An to obtain the Seven Extremes Immortal Body, then what about the supreme immortal roots of the Immortal Realm? If he could gather them all, would there be a special advancement? Could it allow Senior An to go even further and make her physique even more exalted?

Although it was only a guess, Ye Chen decided to try. Immortal roots were precious. Supreme immortal roots were even more so. Ye Chen suspected that even Immortal Kings might not necessarily possess one. Let alone gather them all.

But he had the system, which could turn the impossible into possible. Others might not be able to gather them, but he was not necessarily the same.

After thinking for a while, Ye Chen separately preserved the spiritual liquids. This way he would not have to extract them again next time. Then he floated downward. He picked dozens of human ginseng fruits and took half a jin of the enlightenment tea tree leaves he had previously stored. He planned to give them to the elders who had accompanied him on this trip.

Although the elders had basically just come along to make up the numbers, these things were worthless to him anyway. Moreover, he would probably become an immortal before too long. At that time, he would start collecting supreme immortal roots. Their effects would naturally be better. So he cared even less about these items…

After packing everything, Ye Chen prepared to leave the cave heaven.

But unexpectedly, Luo Bingling had just awakened from her cultivation at that moment. The moment she saw Ye Chen, her eyes lit up. ”Husband…I’ve recently gained some insights into dual cultivation. This time I might not lose… When the time comes, I hope husband will call me ’Sister’!”

Luo Bingling was always the worst at it, but she refused to accept defeat. So Ye Chen had given her all the dual cultivation methods he had gifted her back then for reference.

Ye Chen had originally planned to leave. After all, he had just come from the Heavenly Desire Sect and was not that interested right now. But hearing these words, he smiled… He had learned quite a lot at the Heavenly Desire Sect. And Luo Bingling actually dared to say something like that?

Then he would let Luo Bingling experience the overwhelming pressure force of high-end productivity from the Heavenly Desire Sect. He would make her understand what dimensional reduction striking felt like.

Thus, Ye Chen floated down. He picked up the confident Luo Bingling. He had originally wanted to use the water mirror technique. That was a method the newly joined ancestor had brought.

But when Ye Chen saw the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade, his eyes lit up. Inside his cave heaven, the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade had been nourished. Although the crack had not healed, it was clearly becoming more lustrous. It had obviously received many benefits.

At this moment it looked just like a mirror, reflecting everything with perfect clarity. So Ye Chen directly carried Luo Bingling and stood in front of the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade.

Luo Bingling was first stunned, then saw her own reflection in the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade. Her face instantly turned red… Being watched so closely under these circumstances was truly a first for her… An unprecedentedly strange feeling surged within her.

Before long, the Holy Spirit inside the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade began to grit her teeth in anger.

”Kill them, kill them, kill them all…”

Originally, the Holy Spirit had already learned to calm herself. To treat it as if she saw nothing. But the shameless people outside were getting more and more excessive.

Before, she had only been splashed. Now they were pouring it directly onto her! It was simply too much…

But besides anger, when she looked at the figure leaning against her shell, the Holy Spirit felt a throb of longing. Not longing for Ye Chen. But longing for a certain object that had appeared inside the cave heaven.

The Holy Spirit did not know what it was. But she could feel that the thing was very important to her. If she obtained it, it would bring her unimaginable benefits. That treasure was sealed inside a box and thrown into the Origin Sea above the firmament. It made her extremely tempted.

But the Holy Spirit did not dare to touch it. Although she had not been born yet, as she continued to gestate, her realm had grown higher and higher. She had already reached the Great Saint realm.

This was Ye Chen’s cave heaven. It was still fine when she stayed inside the shell of the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade—she could isolate Ye Chen’s probing and not fear being discovered.

Normally, absorbing spiritual qi and origin power, although she also used her consciousness to accelerate it, could still be considered instinct. But if she dared to touch Ye Chen’s belongings, she would be discovered immediately. After that, her life and death would be uncertain.

The Holy Spirit was becoming more and more fearful of Ye Chen. Because as she grew stronger through gestation, she discovered that the dangerous feeling Ye Chen gave her had not decreased. Instead, it was growing stronger and stronger. It made her instinctively fearful.

She noticed that another immortal root had appeared in the cave heaven, with an even more powerful aura and better effects for her. She did not even dare to secretly move a little closer to it. So at this moment, the angry Holy Spirit was filled with hesitation…

She wanted the treasure inside that jade box. The earlier she obtained it, the greater the benefits. But how could she get it? Tell Ye Chen that she had developed sentience?

With humans’ wariness and rejection toward Holy Spirits, Ye Chen would probably throw her out of the cave heaven the very first moment. Moreover, Ye Chen’s cave heaven was so astonishing. He definitely could not allow the news to leak out… He would probably directly smash the Nirvana Jade, force her to be born early, and then kill her to silence her.

Thinking of this, the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade could not help but tremble. But if this wouldn’t work and that wouldn’t work either, what exactly should she do? The distressed Holy Spirit looked at the figure leaning against her shell outside and could no longer even be bothered to feel angry…