Chapter 1640
Rank 5 High-Grade Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruit Tree
The family currently possesses three secret realms in the Ghost Realm.
The first place is the Dawn Secret Realm, where the Dawn Gourd is obtained, which originally contained some special Dawn Evil Spirits.
The second place is the "Secret Realm of the Ghost Foxes," where the Ghost Foxes are incredibly strange and even possess the ability to cultivate evil spirits.
While these two places may not be as rich in natural resources as the Shadow Realm, they are not much weaker.
All of them combined are roughly equivalent to the Shadowlands.
If you were to calculate carefully, the combined number of fifth-tier treasure lands in those three secret realms would be estimated to be forty or fifty, which is extremely terrifying.
Aside from lacking a fifth-tier top-grade ghost vein, if we only consider the lower, middle, and upper grades of the fifth tier ghost vein, it's estimated that it can be compared to the Rock Demon Clan of the Ancient Ghost Realm at its peak.
Most importantly, Ling Pengyun's Netherworld Blade also has the ability to shatter the special laws of heaven and earth in those secret realms.
As time goes by, and with Ling Pengyun's cultivation now at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, the power unleashed by the Netherworld Blade is even stronger.
It is estimated that in about a hundred years, he will be able to completely eliminate the special laws of heaven and earth of the Morning Glow Secret Realm and the Nether Fox Secret Realm.
As for the Shadow Realm, although it was only recently acquired, the laws of heaven and earth contained within it are quite powerful.
However, it is estimated that it will not take more than three hundred years before Ling Pengyun is able to remove the special laws of heaven and earth contained within it.
At that time, he will be able to use special means to relocate those two massive secret realms to another place, or even to the vicinity of the Cangxuan Realm, so that they can be completely separated from the ancient ghost domain.
Moreover, at that time, those ghostly places can be refined and transformed into spiritual places.
The family will also directly become wealthy.
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In addition, Ling Pengyun and his group also searched for a large number of ghost-path spiritual plants and other treasures in various ghostly places in the Shadow Secret Realm.
The most outstanding of them all is a fifth-grade high-quality spirit fruit tree that breaks through to the next realm, known as the "Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruit Tree".
It grew up in the strongest fifth-tier high-grade ghost vein of the Shadow Leopard clan, and thrived with the help of the rich spiritual energy of this place.
The vitality is particularly strong.
It was already three zhang tall, with lush branches and leaves.
However, it has a rather unique appearance; its entire body is jet black, and its leaves are shaped like crescent moons.
Many of its branches still had some unripe Shadow Spirit Fruits hanging on them.
Once this fruit ripens, its effects are extremely powerful, making it an excellent spiritual item for breaking through realms. It can increase the probability of breaking through to the next realm by at least 30% for those of the same level in the Ghost Path.
Moreover, because the spirit fruit tree is of a high grade, it can condense three fifth-grade low-rank Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruits every thousand years.
It takes two thousand years to condense three fifth-order mid-grade essences.
Three thousand years can condense three fifth-grade superior-quality items.
It may even take ten thousand years to condense a fifth-grade top-quality one.
The reason why the Shadow Leopard King was able to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul stage was not only because of his extraordinary talent, but also because he was able to break through the realm by chance by condensing a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual fruit from this tree recently.
Most importantly, the speed at which the spirit fruit tree condenses spirit fruit is not its limit.
Although the Cangxuan lineage does not currently have any fifth-order ghost path spirit plant masters.
However, Ling Pengyun's current mastery of spiritual plants is quite good, reaching the middle grade of the fifth rank.
Moreover, even if it follows the righteous path of spiritual plants, it will be difficult to perfectly care for that spiritual fruit tree with the various righteous spiritual plant cultivation methods at its disposal, and the effectiveness of those righteous methods will be halved.
But the Ghostly Spirit Fruit Tree can accelerate the growth rate by at least ten or twenty times.
Upon careful calculation, it may not take several hundred years, or even a hundred or two hundred years, to condense three low-grade fifth-order spiritual fruits.
Three hundred years and three mid-grade fifth-rank spiritual fruits.
Five hundred years, three fifth-grade superior spiritual fruits.
A fifth-grade top-quality spiritual fruit that only appears once every thousand years.
"Under such circumstances, if our clan could bring that spirit fruit tree under our control, it is estimated that our clan's foundation in the Ghost Path could be increased several times over."
"It's even possible that in less than a thousand years, the strength of our clan's Ghost Path will increase by several times."
"Brother Pengxing's path to the peak of the Ghost Dao, which is at the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage, will be smoother."
Ling Pengyun gazed at the invaluable Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruit Tree before him, his eyes gleaming with boundless brilliance.
Although that spirit fruit tree is already considered to belong to the Cangxuan lineage.
However, the Cangxuan lineage is ultimately composed of many forces from the Cangxuan Realm.
Therefore, the spirit fruit tree can only be considered as something that everyone shares, and cannot be considered as something that belongs exclusively to the Ling family.
Therefore, Ling Pengyun communicated with Xinghai Ancestor and others, and expressed his willingness to offer some other benefits as compensation to buy their share of the spiritual fruit tree's profits, thereby turning the spiritual fruit tree into his private property.
However, the spirit fruit tree is of great value, and its effects are extraordinary.
Therefore, aside from the fact that the Star Sea Ancestor's Star Sea Pavilion has a close relationship with Ling Pengyun and is willing to give him face,
Organizations such as the Righteous Path Alliance, the Four Immortals Alliance, and the Supreme Buddhist Sect all hesitated on this matter.
Unlike the Ling family, they did not cultivate many spirits as their helpers.
However, with the help of the Shadowy Yin Spirit Fruit Tree, they could gradually cultivate powerful spirit ghosts.
The value of this matter is extraordinary.
"If, within a thousand years, the noble family is willing to give my Righteous Alliance one fifth-grade superior-quality Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruit, three fifth-grade mid-quality fruits, three fifth-grade inferior fruits, and two rare top-grade fifth-grade mid-quality spiritual treasures."
"Then we can hand over the share of the spirit fruit tree that our Righteous Alliance occupies."
After much deliberation, the elderly Sword Master of the Righteous Path Alliance, unwilling to offend Ling Pengyun, decided to settle for second best and stated his own request.
"My Supreme Buddhist Sect is willing to yield, but my Supreme Buddhist Sect also needs a fifth-grade superior-quality Nether Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruit..."
The Supreme Buddha Lord, a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Supreme Buddhist Sect, echoed this sentiment.
However, the Supreme Buddhist Sect, to which he belonged, was roughly equal in strength to the Righteous Path Alliance, and had several Nascent Soul experts.
Moreover, both the Supreme Buddha and his disciple, the Boundless Buddha, had reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm in their early years.
They were more confident, and the compensation they demanded was the same as that of the Righteous Alliance.
As for the Four Immortals Alliance, it is the weakest among the major Nascent Soul forces in the Cangxuan Realm, and only recently has a new Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivator emerged.
It was unwilling to provoke the Ling family, and the compensation it requested was also less, only half of what the Supreme Buddhist Sect and the Righteous Path Alliance had offered.
"These compensations are all fair, and the Ling family has agreed to your requests."
"Within a thousand years, our clan will definitely deliver all the spiritual fruits and treasures we promised to you as agreed."
Seeing that the other forces were agreeing, and that what they wanted wasn't particularly much, Ling Pengyun immediately agreed to their conditions.
In addition, he privately gave a large sum of money to Xinghai Pavilion, who was the first to agree.
It even includes three fifth-grade superior-quality Shadow Profound Yin Spirit Fruits.
However, there's no need to rush the Star Sea Pavilion to receive those things; they can be provided within three thousand years.
In this way, the pressure of repaying the family's debts is manageable, and they won't be so exhausted that they won't lack the resources to cultivate spiritual fruits for their own family using the spiritual fruit tree.
Afterwards, the group of powerful individuals divided up the remaining treasures from various places.
During this time, Ling Pengyun also used special methods to search for the primordial spirit memories of the Shadow Leopard King and the other Shadow Leopard Clan members who had been killed earlier, thus obtaining all the high-level inheritances of the Shadow Leopard Clan.
The Shadow Leopard clan possesses a profound foundation, resulting in a wealth of inherited knowledge. Among them is even a top-tier, fifth-order superior-grade array formation.
The inherited content is quite extensive, including a fifth-order top-grade ghost array perfected by the ancestors of the Shadow Leopard clan.
Indirectly, this can also be considered a treasure, which is enough to greatly benefit the high-level righteous array masters of the Cangxuan lineage.
With everything settled, the Star Sea Ancestor and other powerful figures considered that they had gained a great deal this time, and that the Shadow Realm had also been sold to Ling Pengyun.
The situation in the Ghost Realm has stabilized, making it difficult to find opportunities to gain benefits.
They then sought out Ling Pengyun to open a spatial passage, returning to the Blazing Sun Forest of the Heavenly River Realm to begin quiet cultivation using the various treasures they had previously acquired.
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at the same time.
Ancient Ghost Realm.
Within the Shadow Realm.
"Now that this secret realm belongs to our clan."
"There's no need for the spatial rift that was previously created to connect to the ancient ghost realm to remain."
Ling Pengyun silently appeared near the special spatial rift in the Shadow Realm, raised his hand to take out the Netherworld Blade, and mobilized an extremely special spatial power to directly repair the spatial rift.
He then left the place, but instead of returning to the Scorching Sun Forest, he went to the Ghost Immortal Continent of the Ancient Ghost Realm.
This place was created by Ling Pengxing, a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Ghost Dao realm, who spent considerable effort building this secret realm.
Furthermore, after the ancient ghost realm's rocky evil ghost clan and the five superior evil ghost clans ceased hostilities, subordinates such as Ling Pengxing, who had been summoned to assist them, were dismissed.
Ling Pengxing returned to the Ghost Immortal Continent early on.
However, considering their own weakness, the Rock Demon Clan still attached great importance to Ling Pengxing.
To prevent Ling Pengxing, such a valuable ally, from being bought off by the five superior evil spirits, they even recruited him as a guest retainer, giving Ling Pengxing a batch of benefits every year.
In addition, during the chaos of his early years, Ling Pengxing acquired considerable benefits thanks to his formidable strength.
Even though he had only recently entered the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, his cultivation level had already reached around the middle level of the same rank, which was incredibly fast.
"Upon closer examination, Brother Pengxing, your previous involvement in infiltrating the Rock Demon Clan and serving them can be considered a very profitable endeavor."
"Moreover, given your current cultivation progress, it won't be long before you, Brother Pengxing, are able to make another advancement."
"..."
After learning everything, Ling Pengyun smiled and offered his congratulations, then recounted the story of the Shadowy Profound Yin Spirit Fruit Tree.
He also promised Ling Pengxing that, given enough time, he could cultivate a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual fruit for him in the future.
"Pengyun, thank you so much for this."
"I never imagined that the Shadow Leopard clan would possess such a precious tree."
Ling Pengxing was greatly shocked upon hearing this.
Such precious trees are extremely rare.
Moreover, due to his recent frequent contact with various forces in the ancient ghost realm, he has gained a relatively good understanding of those forces.
As far as he knew, the ancient ghost realm was vast and rich in resources.
However, apart from the Rock Demon Clan and a few other forces among the five superior demon factions, who possess such a precious tree.
It's likely that no other force in the entire Ghost Realm possesses such a precious tree.
In terms of sheer numbers, they can be counted on one hand.
Under such circumstances, it is truly remarkable that the Shadow Leopard Clan, a demonic force that dwells in a small secret realm, could cultivate such a precious tree.
"Fortunately, it was destroyed. Otherwise, if given time, it might have been able to use the ghost energy to gradually expand the territory of the Shadow Realm, thus creating a new ancient ghost domain."
"At that time, it will be even more difficult for our clan to destroy it and seize this precious tree."
Ling Pengxing was extremely relieved.
"really."
Ling Pengyun strongly agreed.
They chatted for a few more minutes, and Ling Pengyun then revealed the true purpose of his visit.
"By the way, Brother Pengxing, could I borrow the Ghost Immortal Lamp you have on you?"
"The Shadow Realm is currently considered to belong to our clan, and the laws governing that land are rather unique. My Netherworld Blade cannot transform it into a righteous place in a short period of time."
"We righteous cultivators are therefore unable to explore the various treasure lands within that secret realm."
"Most of the spirits of my clan were previously absorbed into the body space of the Ghost Immortal. Moreover, the Ghost Immortal's methods are special, so I plan to entrust the management of the Shadow Realm to him."
"Of course, the family will not let him work for nothing."
"After the deed is done, he will receive 10% of the profits produced by that secret realm."
"I wonder if you, Brother Pengxing, are interested in this?"
Ling Pengyun said.
Ling Pengxing was, after all, the master of the Ghost Immortal Lamp, and he had previously been working for the Rock Demon Clan, making his position in the midst of the chaos in the Ghost Realm extremely dangerous.
Ghost Lantern was quite worried about him and stayed by his side to protect him.
"This is a good thing, how could I refuse?"
"However, this matter requires a lot of effort, so I cannot agree on behalf of Master Ghost Immortal. I can only ask him directly."
Upon learning this, Ling Pengxing did not hesitate at all, and summoned the Ghost Immortal Lamp to ask for its opinion.
He had previously learned from Ling Pengyun about the numerous ghostly places within the Shadow Realm.
The more ghost land there is, the more benefits it will bring.
Moreover, even if Ghost Immortal Lamp only gets 10% of the profits, it's still a considerable sum.
The Ghost Immortal Lamp can undoubtedly benefit greatly, perhaps even by cultivating more Nascent Soul Spirits or obtaining some Ghost Path Refining Materials to temper itself.
For this reason, Ghost Lantern had no objection and agreed to the matter.
"Very good, very good."
"In this way, with your help, Senior Ghost Immortal, the empty place in the Shadow Realm can finally be put into operation."
Ling Pengyun said with a smile.
Afterwards, he bid farewell to Ling Pengxing and headed to the Shadow Realm with the Ghost Immortal Lamp.
Upon seeing that there were indeed many treasure lands here, the Ghost Immortal Lantern was extremely excited and immediately summoned a large number of spirit ghosts who were skilled in taking care of spirit plants to manage the various ghost lands in the secret realm.
At the same time, he continuously absorbs the rich ghostly energy within the Shadow Realm to cultivate new spirits...
Suddenly, the entire Ghost Realm became more vibrant.
In addition, since Ghost Immortal Lantern was also responsible for managing the two secret realms of Dawn and Ghost Fox, Ling Pengyun also constructed a special passage connecting the two secret realms in the Shadow Secret Realm.
In this way, the Ghost Immortal Lamp can better manage those two secret realms. (End of Chapter)