Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1044: Chapter 722: Worlds Apart (2)

When seeing a new sky, why worry about the road ahead?

“That’s right, it’s a good thing. But from now on, we need to change the way we do things, and we can’t be as relaxed and carefree as before!”

“Don’t rush, take it slow!” Yu Qingyi fed a Wind Spirit Fruit to the Flying Slave Eagle, then patted its head. The eagle immediately spread its wings, flapped a few times, and flew away.

Yang Zhenshan flipped his hand and took out the Green Wood Longevity Skill, “You should start cultivating this technique first!”

Yu Qingyi took the cultivation technique and began to study it carefully.

The “Green Wood Longevity Skill” is a Wood Attribute Energy Introduction Skill, and its cultivation involves attracting pure Wood Spiritual Energy into the body, emphasizing the nourishment of vitality. Cultivating this technique can make True Qi rich and long-lasting, with significant effects on healing and extending life.

So what is pure Wood Spiritual Energy?

It’s simple, just the spiritual energy of grass and wood.

Wherever the grass and wood are lush, there’s Wood Spiritual Energy.

This is a relatively easy cultivation technique that almost anyone can practice.

But this does not mean everyone can master it. While Wood Spiritual Energy is common, it is extremely scattered, so ordinary plants contain very little.

To efficiently absorb Wood Spiritual Energy, relying only on the energy from ordinary plants is far from enough; you also need the Wood Spiritual Energy nourished by Spirit Plants.

After Yang Zhenshan and Yu Qingyi thoroughly researched the Green Wood Longevity Skill, they had to admit that this cultivation technique was the most suitable for the Yang family.

In the Spirit Source Land, the thing most plentiful is perhaps Wood Spiritual Energy.

“We can both cultivate this technique!” Yu Qingyi said.

“But I still want the Thunder Spirit Energy-Introducing Skill!” Yang Zhenshan said, troubled.

Yu Qingyi advised, “Right now, the most important thing is to improve our cultivation, not to worry over these matters!”

“Besides, this Energy Introduction Skill isn’t limited to just one kind of cultivation. Doesn’t it say right here? As long as the spiritual energy attributes don’t conflict with each other, you can cultivate multiple kinds of spiritual energy!”

The essence of the Energy Introduction Skill is to guide external spiritual energy into the body, transforming one’s own True Qi into True Qi with attributes, or further enhancing the attributes of one’s True Qi.

Before introducing energy into the body, the True Qi that Martial Artists cultivate comes from themselves, not the outside world, and as such, it lacks attributes.

For instance, the Innate True Qi that Yang Zhenshan and others possess is said to have no attributes.

But this isn’t absolute; the Xuanzhen characteristics they previously comprehended were already moving towards True Qi with spirituality, though not very noticeably.

On the other hand, the cultivation techniques here already have attributes starting from the Body Refining Stage, and these attributes don’t come from themselves but from Elixirs.

For example, the techniques that Tian Hu gave to Yang Zhenshan require a variety of fire attribute elixirs to assist in cultivation.

Before the Innate Realm, it was the elixirs that bestowed attributes on the Martial Artist, not the Martial Artist developing spirituality on their own.

For Yang Zhenshan, Yu Qingyi, An Yuxing, and Xuanzhen, their ability to comprehend spirituality themselves actually follows this principle.

Yang Zhenshan and Yu Qingyi could introduce spiritual energy with attributes into their bodies due to consuming the lotus seeds of the Daoist Intent Sacred Lotus.

An Yuxing unintentionally introduced Water Attribute spirituality into his body as well.

For Xuanzhen, it was even more evident; he comprehended Wind Attribute Dao Intent during a sea storm, essentially introducing Wind Attribute spiritual energy into his body.

However, the spiritual energy they introduced before had no clear distinction; they simply absorbed it at random, resulting in very mixed True Qi now.

In such circumstances, their cultivation progress would become increasingly difficult, and they would struggle to find direction.

Among spiritual energies, there is a relationship of mutual reinforcement and restraint, as well as distinctions between yin and yang.

The so-called Earth Evil Qi and Heavenly Gang Qi are actually the yin and yang forms of the same attribute.

As long as the attributes do not conflict, it’s actually possible to cultivate multiple spiritual attributes.

Of course, cultivating multiple attributes means dispersing time and energy, and doing so might not necessarily benefit the consolidation of the Golden Body, so few people cultivate multiple kinds of spirituality.

Yang Zhenshan does want to train the Thunder Spirit, but he can’t find the Thunder Spirit Energy-Introducing Skill now.

Moreover, the method for condensing the Golden Body with the Thunder Spirit is even more scarce; without subsequent Golden Body Skills, cultivating the Thunder Spirit Energy-Introducing Skill now would merely waste time and energy.

In contrast, Wood Spirit cultivation techniques are relatively common; in the Sea of Spirit, the Three Sects all have Wood Spirit Golden Body Skills, and two of the Twelve Families also cultivate Wood Spirit Golden Body Skills.

In the Sea of Spirit, obtaining a Wood Spirit Golden Body Skill is undoubtedly much easier.

After pondering for a while, Yang Zhenshan ultimately decided to cultivate the Green Wood Longevity Skill.

This is effectively a choice without a choice. For them, cultivating commonly seen spirituality is more beneficial than cultivating rare ones.

Moreover, Yang Zhenshan has the Spirit Source Land, plenty of Spirit Plants, and more to come in the future, making the Green Wood Longevity Skill the most suitable cultivation technique for both Yang Zhenshan and the Yang family.

After making the decision, Yang Zhenshan no longer hesitated and began cultivating with Yu Qingyi.

The two lacked guidance from an experienced teacher and could only discuss with each other.

Fortunately, they were both experienced Martial Artists. Although they hadn’t practiced Energy Introduction Skills before, they could comprehend it after reviewing the cultivation technique.

The two discussed and experimented simultaneously and quickly entered a state of meditation.

Yang Zhenshan sat cross-legged in the courtyard, his eyes slightly closed. His inner vision expanded, and he soon felt the spiritual energy swirling around his body.

Soon, his entire body seemed to be enveloped by a layer of faint light. He closed his eyes and focused, breathing slowly. As he operated the Energy Introduction Skill, the surrounding flowers and leaves trembled lightly, and the pure Wood Spiritual Energy, as if summoned, rushed from all directions, transforming into streaks of green energy that flowed madly into his body through his mouth, nose, and pores.

In his Dantian, the Innate True Qi formed a vortex, and strands of Green Wood True Qi spread throughout his body along the meridians, only to return to the Dantian, repeating in cycles.

After about two hours, Yang Zhenshan and Yu Qingyi almost simultaneously opened their eyes.

They exchanged glances, both showing looks of amazement.

“Why does it feel so easy?” Yu Qingyi said, somewhat puzzled.

Yang Zhenshan carefully sensed the changes within his body, realizing that all his original Wood True Qi had been converted into Green Wood True Qi.

“It must be because the Yimu Chang Chun Skill is quite compatible with the Green Wood Longevity Skill!”

Indeed, they were surprised; they assumed it would take months to convert their original True Qi into Green Wood True Qi.

But the result was that it took only two hours for the conversion.

This wasn’t strange; firstly, the Yimu Chang Chun Skill and the Green Wood Longevity Skill were highly compatible, and secondly, because they had an excellent cultivation environment.

With hundreds of Spirit Fruits around, providing plenty of pure Wood Spiritual Energy from so many Spiritual Fruit Trees, their cultivation was naturally twice as effective with half the effort.

The third reason was their sufficiently deep cultivation. Although their previously cultivated True Qi was a bit mixed, their cultivation had already reached the limit of the Qi Sea Stage.

In terms of the richness of True Qi at the Innate Realm Qi Sea Stage, it’s unlikely that anyone in the Sea of Spirit could surpass Yang Zhenshan or even compare to Yu Qingyi.

Yang Zhenshan took a look at the cultivation technique again and said, “Under such circumstances, it seems we’ll soon reach the peak of the Earth Evil Stage!”

The cultivation method for Earth Evil Qi is divided into three steps: the first step is introducing energy into the body and converting True Qi, which they have already completed.

The second step is Qi Condensation, turning True Qi into True Yuan, which takes the most time and requires long-term accumulation to complete.

The third step is dividing yin and yang in the Dantian, completing which allows for the introduction of Heavenly Gang Qi into the body.

The so-called peak of the Earth Evil Stage is essentially completing the second step, accumulating True Yuan to an immensely abundant level.

Dividing yin and yang in the Dantian is the breakthrough process.

The cultivation process of the Earth Evil Stage isn’t complicated, just requires accumulation.