The Jade Dew Purification Lotus, a mutated spiritual plant derived from the Grade One Purification Lotus cultivated in the Great Sui Imperial Palace, is an evolutionary variant. Despite being only a seventh-tier spiritual plant, its ability to purify toxic substances in water is exceptionally potent.
A single Jade Dew Purification Lotus can purify water within a three-hundred-mile radius upstream and downstream, making it the most powerful water purification agent known to Yang Hong.
However, Yang Hong's intention in cultivating the Jade Dew Purification Lotus here is not for water purification but in the hope that it will mutate again.
With the continuous application of the Yin and Yang spiritual plant techniques, Yang Hong felt he could merge the Moon Radiance Flowing Sap and the Rising Sun Creation Art into a more potent spiritual plant technique.
However, due to insufficient cultivation and comprehension, he had been unable to achieve this.
While planting the Jade Dew Purification Lotus, Yang Hong also had disciples at the Spirit Severing and Body Integration realm, such as Ke Jimei, use large-scale spiritual plant techniques to enhance the spiritual energy absorbed by the Jade Dew Purification Lotus.
Seven days later, the pseudo-immortal-grade Jade Dew Purification Lotus was successfully cultivated.
It maintained its height of twenty-three feet and four inches, and the lotus platform was also twenty-three feet and four inches. However, beside the lotus platform, there were five lotus leaves, each forty-six feet and eight inches wide. Remarkably, these five lotus leaves were multi-colored, corresponding to the five elements.
When these lotus leaves completed their mutation, Yang Hong's first thought was of the mythological "Five Banners of the Five Directions."
Clanging sounds.
With eager anticipation, Yang Hong took out his flying sword and began to hack at them. The hardness of the five lotus leaves was surprisingly robust; even an eighth-grade magical artifact flying sword could not penetrate the nine-inch thick leaves.
However, after exerting all his strength, using his magic power, physical prowess, and intent, and sacrificing a seventh-grade flying sword, he managed to pierce a corner of a lotus leaf.
Although it was a pity, the sturdiness of these lotus leaves was comparable to an eighth-grade defensive magical artifact.
With the addition of some high-grade materials, it would not be an issue to refine them into a ninth-grade magical artifact.
But Yang Hong would not harvest them now.
Firstly, the Jade Dew Purification Lotus had just been cultivated and still had room to grow, so he was reluctant to damage it.
More importantly, the Jade Dew Purification Lotus itself was the greatest treasure.
As the Jade Dew Purification Lotus finished growing, the seven-colored light pillar in the sky instantly vanished, and the seven seven-zhang wide and seven-zhang deep crystal platforms stabilized.
These seven platforms began to regulate the spiritual energy within the vast million-mile radius.
A gentle rhythm emanated from the Jade Dew Purification Lotus on the orange platform, slowly altering the composition of the spiritual energy in heaven and earth.
The Lihuo Plains, transformed by Qingfeng Villa, was originally the Lihuo Desert, where fire and earth element spiritual energy predominated, accounting for seventy percent of the spiritual energy in heaven and earth.
Of the remaining thirty percent, over ten percent was metal element spiritual energy, while water and wood elements combined only accounted for about fifteen percent.
This not only caused the desert to be arid and rainy but also made survival difficult for plants and animals. Even cultivators with water and wood element spiritual roots found it challenging to cultivate in the desert.
Even with Yang Hong cultivating a large number of spiritual plants, the composition of the spiritual energy in heaven and earth had only changed slightly, with water and wood elements barely reaching a twenty percent share.
Without cultivators constantly using their magic power to induce rain, the spiritual plants in the desert might have withered from thirst within two to three years.
As the spiritual essence of the Jade Dew Purification Lotus spread, the composition of the spiritual energy in the surroundings began to slowly balance.
After careful observation by Yang Hong, he discovered that within a day, the Jade Dew Purification Lotus could bring the spiritual energy within a one-mile radius to a twenty percent share for each element, achieving a complete average.
Looking at the five lotus leaves emitting a faint five-colored glow, Yang Hong's eyes shone like lightbulbs.
"Hahaha... with this Jade Dew Purification Lotus, I can effortlessly transform this vast Lihuo Desert into an oasis plain!"
"Sect Master, let's move!
The spiritual energy in the new Great Seven-Colored Plain is better than that of Qingfeng Mountain, and it's easier to absorb. The disciples don't want to go back."
Just as Yang Hong was rejoicing, Gu Boji, the head of internal affairs, came to complain.
"Hmm, don't want to go back?
Indeed, the effect of this new Seven-Star Gathering Spiritual Formation is far superior to the previous one, with higher spiritual energy purity and greater benefit for cultivation."
Yang Hong knew the disciples' thoughts without much effort.
No cultivator could resist the temptation of more spiritual energy.
Wealth, Dharma, Companions, and Place – the four essential elements of cultivation.
Wealth: The medicinal pills and spirit stones provided by Qingfeng Villa were sufficient for the disciples to use every month, and they could even exchange them for a considerable amount of spirit stones.
Therefore, Qingfeng Villa was not lacking in wealth.
Dharma: Qingfeng Villa's introductory cultivation technique was the Earth-grade lower-tier "Five Elements Spherical Technique," and the inner sect techniques consisted of 108 Earth-grade middle-tier techniques. Although true disciples did not have them yet, Yang Hong had already made arrangements.
Qingfeng Villa was also not lacking in Dharma.
Companions: This did not refer to romantic partners in a narrow sense, but to a group of like-minded individuals who could discuss, guide each other, and progress together – fellow disciples, elders, and friends.
Although the highest cultivation level among Qingfeng Villa disciples was only Body Integration realm, it was more than sufficient to guide the cultivation and progress of over 25,000 disciples in the entire sect.
The only thing Qingfeng Villa lacked was "Place."
Although Qingfeng Mountain had been continuously cultivated with spiritual plants and formations by Yang Hong and his disciples, it could only reach the level of a fifth-grade lower-tier spiritual land.
After all, the Lihuo Desert and the Zikun Mountain Range had been subjected to extreme weather conditions year-round. Even with spiritual veins, the spiritual energy in heaven and earth was too sparse, making it extremely difficult to increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the spiritual mountain and land.
"Alright, let the disciples below the Golden Core realm begin the initial construction in this new plain. Be careful not to move the seven-colored spiritual flowers.
Disciples above the Golden Core realm will return with me and directly move the five spiritual mountains from our home."
"Move—move them over?"
Upon hearing Yang Hong's words, Gu Boji's eyes widened—he could not comprehend it at all!
"Your cultivation is only at the Foundation Establishment stage; you cannot understand. You will see later."
Looking at Gu Boji's cultivation level, Yang Hong smiled smugly.
Wasn't moving mountains and filling seas a basic operation for cultivators?
"Sect, Sect Master, this is over twenty million miles! Are you sure you want to move the mountains? Will the senior brothers get tired on such a long journey?"
Gu Boji was aware of the mountain-moving divine abilities of cultivators, but this distance was simply too great.
"Hehe—have you forgotten what Qingfeng Villa is best at?"
"It's spiritual plant techniques!"
*Smack*
Yang Hong helplessly gave Gu Boji a smack on the back of his head and said impatiently,
"It's formations!"
Next, Yang Hong, in front of Gu Boji, all the Qingfeng Villa disciples, and the cultivators of the Zikun Mountain Range, demonstrated what formations were and what true mountain-moving meant.
At a distance of a million miles, using top-grade spirit stones and earth element materials of seventh-grade and above as the main components, he set up the "Wutu Mountain Moving Grand Formation." Qingfeng Villa cultivators only needed to inject magic power into spiritual mountains equipped with the same formation to move them a million miles in an instant.
In just an instant, spiritual mountains thousands of zhang high moved away.
After moving his five spiritual mountains, Yang Hong did not stop. For a mere price of one million spirit stones per mountain, he bought two spiritual mountains, each three thousand zhang high, from the medium-sized sects of the Zikun Mountain Range.
As soon as Yang Hong proposed the purchase, the two fourth-grade sects immediately agreed, not daring to utter a single word of refusal.
After all, anyone who wasn't blind or deaf had been awestruck by Yang Hong's million-mile mountain-moving feat!
With this, Qingfeng Villa's spiritual mountains were arranged into a Seven-Star Gathering Spiritual Sword Formation!
The safety level directly increased by one grade!