That was a lychee tree, one of the specialties of Gu Li Kingdom. Almost every household in Gu Li Kingdom planted lychee trees, and Yang Hong had eaten dozens of pounds of lychees in Gu Li Kingdom for several days.
However, this lychee tree was a bit unusual, it was a lychee tree with golden fortune.
With a flash, Yang Hong instantly appeared beside the lychee tree, and at the same time, his "Eye of Insight" was activated!
[Race: Tree
Attributes:
Wood elemental spiritual energy +17, Fire elemental spiritual energy +9
The lychee grown from the remaining roots of a Gu Li lychee tree that has been growing for 129,600 years has extremely high cultivation potential.]
Yang Hong couldn't help but his eyes lit up, 129,600 years? The number of a Yuan cycle.
Not a year more, not a year less!
It was truly a miracle for an ordinary plant to grow for nearly 130,000 years.
At the same time, Yang Hong truly understood the power and benefits of fortune.
He had felt a pang of reluctance because he was taking away too many citizens from Gu Li Kingdom at once, and he wanted to leave some benefits for Gu Li Kingdom, but he didn't expect such a surprise.
This was truly a case of picking up treasure while out and about.
Thinking this, he looked at the entire imperial garden again, but this time it was a pity, it was all gray fortune.
Of course, gray fortune was the true fortune of ordinary plants, and even ordinary spiritual plants.
It only took a few seconds from when Yang Hong saw the golden fortune lychee tree to when he finished identifying it. As Gu Boji and the others looked over, he plucked a lychee, peeled it, and put it in his mouth, saying:
"This lychee tree is so sweet. I want it."
"If the Immortal Master wants it, this disciple will arrange for someone to dig it out immediately."
Hearing that Yang Hong wanted a lychee tree, Gu Boji quickly ran over and said obsequiously. He turned around to order the guards to dig up the tree.
"They are too slow. I'll do it myself."
Yang Hong pointed a finger, casting a "Earth Dragon Turns Over" spell. The ground churned, and the ground where the golden lychee was located continuously bulged.
He scanned with his divine sense and found that the tree root that was 129,600 years old was not buried deep, less than ten feet. Perhaps it was because the tree root was buried shallow that it had the chance to regrow.
Because of this, this golden fortune lychee tree was only as tall as a person and was not flourishing, looking quite unremarkable.
Based on Yang Hong's understanding of the imperial garden as a prince who came from the cold palace, if Yang Hong hadn't dug up this lychee tree today, it would have been dug up and burned the next time the gardener trimmed the imperial garden.
Even though the lychees it produced were really very sweet, as long as its appearance did not match the style of the imperial garden, it would only end up as firewood.
Therefore, encountering Yang Hong was the greatest fortune for this lychee tree.
"Is everything predetermined by fate?"
After putting the golden fortune lychee tree into his scale space, Yang Hong clapped his hands and sighed.
"Gu Boji, I'll take a lychee tree from your Gu Li Kingdom, and in return, I'll bestow a spiritual rain upon Gu Li Kingdom."
"Spiritual rain! Thank you, Immortal Master! Thank you, Master."
Hearing that Yang Hong was going to bestow spiritual rain, Gu Boji trembled with excitement.
Gu Li Kingdom was located in the center of the Yu Rou Plains, where the spiritual energy was so scarce that it was only at the level of a first-grade spiritual land, barely enough for cultivation.
It was extremely difficult and strenuous to perform large spells here.
General cultivators rarely engaged in combat in this area.
"Gān Lín Shù!"
Yang Hong shouted softly, his magic power surging rapidly, and injected into a white cloud passing overhead.
The white cloud, as white as cotton, quickly turned black within a few breaths, as if ink had been poured into it, becoming dark clouds.
The dark clouds rapidly expanded, and centered on the imperial city of Gu Li Kingdom, a light rain slowly fell.
"Huh~ I feel like my breathing has become lighter?"
"My joint pain seems to have eased a lot too."
In a farm field, two old farmers were working in the rain. They only felt that their bodies had become lighter.
"Spiritual energy~ My heavens, it's spiritual rain! Which senior is cultivating spiritual plants and has overdone it with the rain?"
"Why bother whether they overdid it or not? If you don't collect some now, it'll be gone."
Two Qi Refining stage cultivators, bathed in the spiritual rain, marveled and used spells to collect the spiritual rain, while also diligently cultivating and absorbing spiritual energy.
"Hoo~ *pant*~ Hoo~ *pant*~ Which idiot is casting such a large-area rain spell in Gu Li Kingdom? Are they bored because they have too much magic power?"
"Haha~ Brother, you said it was an idiot casting the spell, so why bother with him? Take the opportunity to absorb some spiritual energy."
"Right~ Right~ We Nascent Soul stage cultivators have been ordered not to cultivate after entering Gu Li Kingdom, and we've been holding back. Now that an idiot is releasing spiritual rain, why aren't we quickly cultivating?"
Several Golden Core stage cultivators spread out, vying for the spiritual energy that Yang Hong had brought to this land.
Yang Hong's "Gān Lín Shù" covered a radius of 4,000 li and rained spiritual rain for an hour.
He could sense that at least half of the spiritual rain he had bestowed had not reached the ground before being absorbed.
He just shook his head at this and said nothing, nor did he think about teaching them a lesson.
This was also a part of their fortune, and also the destiny of Gu Li Kingdom.
After a spiritual rain, Yang Hong looked up at the sky again. The golden dragon of Gu Li Kingdom's fortune was still green, but it was now a deep green, and with a little more luck, it could break through to become blue.
Moreover, Yang Hong also discovered that the golden dragon, which was only the size of a chopstick, had become as large as an adult's arm.
This made him even more interested.
"Perhaps, I can try a little harder and see what this blue fortune golden dragon will bring to Gu Li Kingdom?"
With this idea in mind, Yang Hong stayed in Gu Li Kingdom for two more days. First, he bestowed 20 ordinary ninth-grade lychees, and then he bestowed three types of staple food grains, before finally upgrading Gu Li Kingdom's fortune golden dragon to blue.
But when the fortune golden dragon broke through, Yang Hong could clearly sense that the imperial city of Gu Li Kingdom had gained a bit more vitality, there were more pedestrians on the streets, the hawkers' calls were louder, and the officials in the court seemed more spirited.
This was not an illusion, but a tangible change.
"Although the saying about fortune is ethereal, it truly exists."
"Alright~ Let's set off, back to Qingfeng Mountain!"
After resolving the matters in Gu Li Kingdom, Yang Hong immediately decided to return to Qingfeng Mountain.
In the imperial city square, the cultivators from the three sects of Deyuan Sect had already assembled.
Although Yang Hong did not explicitly express his disdain, they could still understand his obvious contempt.
As a result, the three sects each selected ten thousand disciples, and after Yang Hong reviewed their fortune, only less than ten thousand were kept.
Those with fortune below green were all dismissed, even if they had family members with blue fortune.
Yang Hong specifically identified several cultivators with gray fortune and found that almost all of them had a "premature death" trait.
Since they were destined to die young, they naturally could not go far, and thus were not qualified to become disciples of Qingfeng Mountain Villa.
"Sect Master, we still have so many flying boats, do we really need to squeeze into the Air Chariot with mortals?" Zhang Zhengyan asked Yang Hong cautiously, still hesitant to lose face.
"Even if my Air Chariot is fully loaded, it can travel five thousand li in an hour. Can your flying boat keep up?"
"It can~ it can keep up. We still have six fifth-grade flying boats. Although they can only carry about a hundred people, they can still travel five thousand li in an hour."
Upon hearing Yang Hong's speed, Zhang Zhengyan immediately became excited.
As for the fact that these six fifth-grade flying boats had almost no combat power, they automatically ignored it.
Following Yang Hong's family, they certainly wouldn't need to fight.
Of course, this was assuming that Yang Hong would be in the mood to save them if they encountered danger.