Chapter 861
An Astonishing Inheritance
The two Chen elders bent over, their eyes constantly scanning Song Changsheng, afraid of displeasing him.
Now, they not only want to live, but also want to take this opportunity to break free from this cage. Therefore, they not only cooperate very well, but also want to serve Song Changsheng well, so that they can negotiate terms later.
Although the small world is safe, it is still not as rich and colorful as the outside world. Moreover, the resources here are also very scarce, making cultivation more difficult than in the outside world.
If given the chance, they would leave this world without hesitation.
As long as Song Changsheng can help them realize this dream, he will give them anything they want, not to mention these spiritual plants and scriptures. He will even give them people without hesitation.
They were practically begging to be his servants, but Song Changsheng's mind was not on them at all. He stepped in front of Tu Ling and said, "The Chen clan has been destroyed. In this situation, it is not only meaningless for you to stay in this small world, but it is also a waste of your racial talent."
"I do have a good place for you that might help you advance further in the future. Are you interested?"
Upon hearing this, Tu Ling plopped down on the ground, shaking his enormous head like a rattle drum, and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "I am here on the orders of the sovereign. Unless this world is destroyed or there is a decree from the sovereign, I will never leave this place even a step."
Song Changsheng frowned slightly and said, "Do you know that the Chen clan has been destroyed and your ruler has long since perished? You are now making a meaningless persistence. Although the lifespan of the Earth Spirit Clan is long, it should not be wasted like this."
"The Lord's orders are the law, and I will not leave this place even a step. If you insist on this, then let's continue fighting." Tu Ling stood up from the ground and said in a deep voice.
The two Chen elders watched with trepidation, fearing that Tu Ling would anger Song Changsheng and implicate them.
"If I were to use force, you would probably want to drag me down with you, wouldn't you?"
Song Changsheng's strength is indeed above that of the Earth Spirit, but he is only a Golden Core cultivator after all. He has not comprehended the Dao and its essence, and cannot accurately locate in the void or construct spatial channels out of thin air.
If the other party were to fight him to the death and destroy the spatial passage, then he would truly be stuck here keeping them company.
"It's good that you know. I won't stop you from wanting anything, just don't touch them." Tu Ling pointed to the panicked faces in the town behind them.
Seeing this, Song Changsheng stopped insisting. After all, this small world now belonged to him, and there would be plenty of opportunities to change his mind in the future.
Seeing that he was not angry, the two Chen elders quickly stepped forward and said, "Master, would you like us to show you the way? This herb garden is quite large, and it contains a wide variety of spiritual plants. With us here, we can answer your questions, can't we?"
Song Changsheng looked them up and down, then nodded slightly and said, "Then you can lead the way."
As soon as he finished speaking, he opened his right hand, and the [Jinghong Sword] appeared in his hand, transforming into a sword light that shot out, its tip pointing downwards, hovering above Chenshi Town. Although its sharpness was concealed, the sword intent that it inadvertently emitted made everyone below feel as if their lives were hanging by a thread.
"Master, what... what does this mean..." Elder Chen asked cautiously.
"In your territory, we must always be on guard. Don't try to use the arrays here to make any small moves; you can't hide anything from my eyes."
"If I were to discover anything amiss, even if there were a million people here, I could wipe them all out with a single thought," Song Changsheng said calmly.
These words were mostly meant to scare him, but if the other party dared to do something underhanded, a mortal might escape unscathed, but a cultivator would show no mercy.
The two Chen elders were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly pledged their loyalty, even swearing oaths.
They may be a bit weak-willed, but they still care about their families. They don't know Song Changsheng's character, so they naturally don't dare to gamble on such a thing.
Don't spout any nonsense about the righteous path having a rule against slaughtering mortals. Even in the outside world, as long as you do things cleanly enough, no righteous messengers will bother you, let alone in a small world like this.
Besides, it's not even certain whether this person in front of us is a righteous individual.
The two men respectfully led Song Changsheng to the herb garden.
The herb garden is surrounded by the Chen family's town, covering a vast area that almost encompasses the entire fifth-order spiritual vein. In the center stands a wooden pavilion, the only building in the herb garden, whose building materials and craftsmanship are significantly different from those of the buildings in the town.
That should be the Scripture Repository, which stores scriptures and classics. It is also a grotto-heaven type magic artifact similar to Kongsang Xiruo's Water Mansion in the river. This saves him a lot of trouble, as he can move the entire pavilion along with it.
Centered on the Scripture Pavilion, several fourth-order arrays irregularly divided the vast medicinal garden into several areas, creating different growing environments for the spiritual plants.
Changing the environment through formations sounds simple, but it is actually very difficult. The strictness of the details is terrifying. Without sufficient experience and mastery of formations, it is almost impossible to create a growth environment that can rival or even surpass nature.
As we all know, most spiritual plants are quite delicate and fragile; they will die if their needs are not met.
Using spiritual soil for planting is a versatile option, but without perfect environmental support, the quality and growth rate will be severely affected.
The Song family has been trying to use array formations to create an environment suitable for the growth of spiritual plants with different needs, but they have not succeeded yet.
The Chen family's technology in this area is clearly very mature, and there are many aspects worth learning from.
"Master, the division of the herb garden may seem complicated, but it is actually quite easy to understand. The largest area in front of you is the public area, where all herbs that do not have special environmental requirements are planted."
The other divisions are based on the Five Elements and the three phenomena of wind, thunder, and ice.
The area on the far left is planted with fire-type spiritual plants, including the Danyang Fruit, the Blazing Flame Grass, and the Red Dan Seed, all of which are top-quality spiritual plants.
Except for a very few spiritual plants, the roots and stems are usually preserved when harvesting these plants. Many of them are truly ancient specimens, with some being two or three thousand years old.
When talking about these things, the Chen couple regained some confidence in front of Song Changsheng, which was rare for them. They were quite confident in their background.
Song Changsheng appeared calm, but he was genuinely surprised. The value of this herb garden exceeded his expectations. It was full of rare fourth- and even fifth-order spiritual plants. Although most of them were still in the growth stage, they were not exploited like the previous hiding place.
This was undoubtedly great news, and he immediately asked the question that concerned him most.
"Does the herb garden contain the three main ingredients for refining the [Golden Core Pill]?"
Elder Chen's heart tightened, and he quickly replied, "Does the True Person mean the [Six-Aperture Golden Lotus], the [Dragon Pattern Fruit], and the [Phoenix Blood Flower]?"
"Of course, there are. By intercropping, a batch can be gathered every four hundred years. However, the mature batches from before have already been harvested by people sent by the family. The batch closest to maturity is still at least a hundred years away."
Song Changsheng turned around and stared at him intently, his eyes holding a half-smile that sent chills down their spines.
"To be honest, I haven't asked your names yet."
Upon hearing this, the two members of the Chen family breathed a sigh of relief. The one at the head, who was at the Great Perfection of the Purple Mansion realm, spoke first: "I am Chen Tianxing, and I will temporarily assume the position of clan leader."
"I am Chen Luowei, and I will temporarily assume the position of Grand Elder of this lineage."
"Clan Chief Chen." Song Changsheng put his hand on Chen Tianxing's shoulder and said in a low voice, "I am not an ignorant young man. You may be able to fool others with these words, but to fool me, you must have a bad idea!"
Upon hearing this, the two men felt a chilling killing intent flash across their necks, and they immediately turned pale with fright, begging for mercy: "Master, please be wise! Everything I have said is true. If I have lied, you may punish me as you see fit."
"I believe what you said is true, but are you really not hiding anything?" Song Changsheng's eyes were like swords, seemingly able to pierce through their hearts.
Chen Tianxing immediately knelt down and presented a storage bag with both hands, saying, "There is one more thing I forgot to tell you, Master. I still have a batch of spiritual materials for refining the Golden Core. It has been stored for more than two hundred years. I just forgot to mention it. I will present it to you, Master."
Song Changsheng kept a straight face, but he couldn't help but want to laugh out loud. He had just said those words to try and trick them based on his experience, but he didn't expect that they actually had something to hide.
Upon taking the storage bag, he discovered that it contained a complete set of spiritual materials needed to refine the [Golden Core Pill], all perfectly preserved in a purple jade box with minimal loss of medicinal efficacy.
In addition, there are many other spiritual materials, including a fifth-tier [Qian Yuan Grass].
This is the main ingredient for refining the [Minor Qian Yuan Pill], which is extremely beneficial for Golden Core cultivators breaking through to the next realm.
Therefore, it seems that the entire wealth of the Chen family lineage is contained within this.
"Why wasn't it refined into a pill?"
"The only fourth-level alchemist in this lineage died of a stroke after the main lineage was destroyed. No one was able to refine it, so it had to be abandoned."
Mentioning this matter, Chen Tianxing's face was filled with bitterness. He had been at the Great Perfection of the Purple Mansion realm for many years, finally completing his Five Elements Daoist principles, and even possessing a complete set of spiritual herbs for refining the [Golden Core], yet no one could refine it, causing him to stagnate until now. What difference was there between this and having a treasure trove right in front of him but no key?
Song Changsheng suddenly realized, accepted the storage bag without hesitation, then took out the waist token of the Reincarnation True Monarch to open the restrictions of the medicine garden formation and entered the medicine garden to check the other spiritual plants.
He had deliberately waved the waist token in front of the two men, but they clearly didn't recognize it and showed no emotion whatsoever. Obviously, they were unaware of the inside story, which made him somewhat disappointed.
If he can't find the location of the soul, then he'll use the spirit body of the Reincarnation True Lord to do something else.
"Starflower, Wisdom Orchid, Ice Vein Grass, Nine Yin Water Lotus... and even Heavenly Heart Fruit Tree?"
Strolling through the spirit plant garden, Song Changsheng was increasingly delighted with what he saw. The plants were all high-quality spiritual herbs, most of which were not currently available in the Song family. The range was very extensive, covering almost everything from healing to breaking through cultivation levels.
Take, for example, the Heavenly Heart Fruit Tree in front of him. Its fruit can be used to refine a kind of enhancement pill called Dao Spirit Pill, which can promote the fusion of the five elements Dao rhyme in the body of a Purple Mansion cultivator. It is suitable for cultivators who cultivate the Five Elements Golden Elixir Dao.
When cultivators use spiritual treasures of heaven and earth to replenish their own five elements of Dao, it will also cause their originally balanced Dao to become unbalanced, which requires cultivators to spend a lot of time and energy to adjust the balance.
Only after adjustments are made can the absorption and fusion of the second type of spiritual treasures be carried out. Many cultivators waste their time and energy on these matters.
If one takes the [Dao Ling Dan], these problems will be easily solved.
In addition, after taking the [Dao Spirit Pill], cultivators at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment can also temporarily enhance their sensitivity to the laws, which can help them complete the transition as quickly as possible and prepare for the formal breakthrough to the Purple Mansion stage. This process can not only save cultivators a lot of time, but also significantly increase the success rate of the breakthrough.
The reason why the number of Purple Mansion cultivators in the Heavenly Vein Sect ranks first among all forces in the Great Qi cultivation world is not only because they have planted a large number of Yin-Yang Purple Trees, but also because they possess a Heavenly Heart Fruit Tree that can continuously produce Dao Spirit Pills, giving hope to many cultivators who are unable to break through to the Purple Mansion stage.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of this medicinal herb garden.
There are four of each of the following: the Six-Aperture Golden Lotus, the Phoenix Blood Flower, and the Dragon Pattern Fruit. Because the planting time was carefully calculated, they have achieved a perfect cycle in their long growth cycle. Just as Chen Tianxing said, they can be harvested once every four hundred years.
This efficiency is astonishing, equivalent to refining one batch of [Golden Core] every four hundred years. Based on the success rate of five to seven cores per batch, this provides five to seven opportunities to break through to the Golden Core stage every four hundred years.
Even if the success rate is only half, two to three Golden Core cultivators can still be born every four hundred years.
And this is just this one medicinal herb garden. The Chen family's ancestral lands and other medicinal herb gardens must also have herb cultivation, so the number must be at least one or two times greater.
Besides the spiritual plants that Song Changsheng values most, this medicinal garden also contains the [Nine Luminaries Jade Flower], which can prolong life. It is ranked fourth and can be used to refine the [Jade Longevity Pill]. Although each person can only take one pill in their lifetime, this one pill can extend the life of a Golden Core cultivator by two Jiazi (60 years).
If a cultivator at the Purple Mansion level were to consume it, the effect would be an astonishing three Jiazi, or one hundred and eighty years!
With this addition, the Song family has now collected longevity-extending spiritual plants from the second to the fourth tier, which can cover all cultivators at the Golden Core stage and below.
Although there are only a dozen or so fifth-tier spiritual plants, each one is a rare treasure on the market.
Among them, the most precious is the Yin-Yang Twin Lotus, a special spiritual plant that can be classified as a spiritual object of heaven and earth.
Each time it blooms, it produces a pair of twin lotus flowers, one yin and one yang. These two lotus flowers represent two kinds of spiritual beings in the world, namely the yang and yin elements of wood, which can be used to complete the five elements of a cultivator's Daoist practice.
Although the growth cycle is as long as a thousand years, there are four of them in the herb garden, which are the most numerous fifth-order spiritual plants. The Chen family specially allocated an area for them to grow.
The availability of rare and precious items has always been a major headache for the various Golden Core cultivation forces. Their supply channels are controlled by powerful upper-level forces, and the supply has always been insufficient to meet the demand.
Many cultivators have delayed their path to enlightenment because they have not been able to find suitable spiritual treasures from heaven and earth.
Back then, the Song family really went to great lengths to find rare and precious items, searching through all sorts of channels before finally managing to gather what they could.
Now that we have this Yin-Yang Twin Lotus, the spiritual treasures of the wood element have a stable source, and its significance is no less than Song Changsheng's breakthrough to the Golden Core stage.
If the Nine Luminaries Jade Flower and the Yin-Yang Twin Lotus were unexpected surprises for Song Changsheng, then the Reincarnation Plum was a spiritual plant that Song Changsheng had high expectations for from the very beginning.
The Reincarnation Plum is the highest-grade spiritual plant in this medicinal garden, ranking as a fifth-grade superior plant.
Its fruit, when consumed, allows one to experience the cycle of reincarnation and is considered the best treasure for elevating one's state of mind.
With just one fruit, you can experience a completely different life.
These experiences are all real for you. You will experience life and death, anger, sorrow and joy. These emotions and experiences will constantly refine and shape your mindset.
The importance of mental state goes without saying. When a cultivator breaks through, mental state comes first, followed by cultivation level. If the two are reversed, it will lead to an unstable foundation.
Furthermore, experiencing reincarnation is experiencing life and death, which is the great Dao and involves taboos.
The [Reincarnation Plum] played an indispensable role in enabling True Monarch of Reincarnation to cultivate the [Great Dao of Life and Death], which is why Song Changsheng knew of its existence.
The Reincarnation True Lord also mastered the forbidden power of being reborn a second time within the Great Dao, but unfortunately his descendants were not very capable, and he was destroyed before his grand plan could be completed.
Any one of these spiritual plants would cause a huge uproar if placed in the outside world. They were the foundation of the former [Dongtian Chen Clan], but now they have all benefited Song Changsheng.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of the Chen family's past heritage; their ancestral homeland was where the essence of their power truly converged.
The legacy left by the Chen family played a crucial role in the rapid development of the Eastern Heaven Alliance.
At its peak, the Chen family was an even more powerful overlord than the Myriad Manifestations Palace.
Who would have thought that such a behemoth would one day be uprooted?
Clearly, nothing in this world is permanent, and even the deepest foundation can be squandered one day.
As the saying goes, "When a whale falls, all things come to life."
A portion of the Chen family's legacy laid the foundation for the Dongtian Alliance, and this same portion will also lay the foundation for the Song family's powerful lineage.
Having inherited this legacy, Song Changsheng can proudly declare that the [Wangyue Song Clan] will definitely grow into a powerful Golden Core clan in the future, and will definitely not be a flash in the pan as many people think!
It took Song Changsheng a full hour to finish taking inventory of this enormous inheritance. Song Changsheng wanted to transplant all these spiritual plants to Cangmang Peak, but reality simply did not allow him to do so.
First of all, he was not a specialist in plant cultivation. If he rashly transplanted such high-level spiritual herbs, the survival rate would definitely not be high. Moreover, these spiritual plants were so precious that he would feel heartbroken if he lost even one of them.
In addition, there is a more practical problem: Cangmang Peak only has one fourth-order spiritual vein, which is newly established. The spiritual energy is needed to supply the cultivation of thousands of cultivators in the entire clan, and it is simply impossible to supply so many fourth-order or even fifth-order spiritual plants at the same time.
According to his estimate, at least one fifth-order spiritual vein would be needed to meet the consumption requirements.
There is only one fifth-order spiritual vein in the entire Great Qi cultivation world, which is controlled by the Golden Crow Sect. The Song family's vein is far inferior, unless it is moved away.
However, the two places are so far apart that it is impossible to achieve this unless a geomancer of the True Lord level personally intervenes.
Putting aside the question of whether the Song family can get them to come, this small world is definitely not going to stay hidden. Causing trouble on someone else's territory will surely alarm the Eastern Heaven Alliance. This is a behemoth that the Song family cannot afford to offend at the moment.
If they find out that Song Changsheng stole their peaches, the consequences will definitely not be pleasant.
After thinking it over, he decided to temporarily use this small world as the Song family's secret medicine garden.
Although the two places are far apart and travel is inconvenient, fortunately, they are planted with rare spiritual plants of the fourth rank or above, whose growth cycle is often hundreds or even thousands of years. Harvesting once every few decades does not affect them.
Even if we can't free up our hands for a while, aren't there still a group of free laborers?
Song Changsheng personally harvested the most exquisite spiritual plants, including a [Nine Luminaries Jade Flower], a pair of [Twin Lotus], three [Reincarnation Plum] plants, and several fifth-tier spiritual plants.
He decided to leave the rest to Chen Tianxing and the others.
"I wonder if you are satisfied, Master? Why don't we go to the Scripture Pavilion again? All three of the Chen family's greatest skills are stored there. We will definitely not disappoint you!" Chen Tianxing took the initiative to step forward, afraid that Song Changsheng would not know the value of the Scripture Pavilion.
"The three great martial arts techniques?" Song Changsheng's heart stirred slightly, and he nodded, saying, "Then let's go and take a look."
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P.S.: Fellow Daoists, thank you for your patience. Today's chapter is a long one of 6,000 words, and I still owe 6,000 words... (End of Chapter)