Apart from the seal drawing spiritual energy to accelerate the consumption of spiritual energy within the sealed world, everyone’s cultivation also consumed a large amount of spiritual energy.
When it was just Yang Hong and the other eight people, there were many spiritual plants releasing spiritual energy, and a balance could barely be maintained. After Mu Xiuhui appeared and cultivated with Yang Hong, this balance could still be maintained.
However, with the transformation of 9 new spiritual plants, this balance was completely broken.
“Yu Yan, I have a solution. You don’t have to worry.”
Yang Hong patted Zhu Yu Yan’s hand to comfort her, and they returned to their courtyard together.
As soon as they returned, he summoned the 9 newly transformed flower demons.
“You also know that the spiritual energy in this seal is consumed very quickly, so I think you should return to your original forms and try not to cultivate anymore.”
“Yes, Master.”
The nine delicate, peerlessly beautiful, and captivating women looked at Yang Hong with tears in their eyes, but he did not soften his heart at all.
Having cultivated for over 200 years, Yang Hong’s heart was very hardened.
“You may go. You can form a spirit gathering array yourselves to absorb spiritual energy. Moreover, your original forms are already of the highest quality among ninth-grade spiritual plants. If you strengthen your original forms well, perhaps you can directly evolve into immortal blossoms.”
However, Yang Hong still dangled a carrot before these intelligent flower demons, though it wasn't a very tasty one.
The flower demons obediently transformed back into radiant spiritual plants, scattering themselves throughout the seal.
Yang Hong then turned to Zhu Yu Yan and the others.
“Yu Yan, this seal will draw spiritual energy from within, so from now on, you should not absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth to cultivate.
I will cultivate with you every day. Even if it cannot improve your cultivation, it will at least ensure it doesn’t decline.”
“My dear, you’ve worked hard.”
Zhu Yu Yan leaned gently against Yang Hong and said softly.
“My dear, this spiritual energy problem still needs to be resolved quickly.
If the seal keeps drawing spiritual energy, as soon as the spiritual energy drops to a certain level, our cultivation will continuously decline. Once the spiritual energy disappears, we may lose our cultivation directly,
and even die.”
Li Lizhi came forward and held Yang Hong’s hand, speaking with worry.
“This is the insidious nature of this seal.”
Yang Hong held Li Lizhi’s hand in return, comforting her, but not avoiding the problem.
“In fact, as soon as I arrived at the Great Snow Mountain, I discovered that the seal would draw spiritual energy from within. It’s just that the amount drawn was very small at first, and the speed was very slow, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.
I didn’t expect the speed at which this seal draws spiritual energy would gradually increase.”
“Then let’s hurry and find a way to leave here.”
“Don’t worry, the teleportation array I designed has already begun to be planted. Although the quality of the cold ice willow is still very poor, it can continue to improve with long-term cultivation.
My method is that during this period, I will transfer spiritual power to you through dual cultivation. You will then use spiritual plant techniques to infuse spiritual energy into the spiritual plants, and the spiritual plants will then emit spiritual energy to counteract the seal’s draw.”
Although the seal was drawing spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy from the outside world could not be replenished, Yang Hong was not very worried.
Don’t forget, his true trump card was his [Innate Cultivation Return System]. The returned cultivation from innate bestowal ignored most of the rules of heaven and earth and was directly infused into his body.
He could completely do without absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth.
“My dear~”
Li Lizhi and Zhu Yu Yan each hugged one of Yang Hong’s arms, tears already on their faces.
Although they knew Yang Hong had miraculous means to recover spiritual energy, it was bound to be extremely difficult, even dangerous, to recover spiritual energy in such a sealed space.
“Alright, don’t worry. Don’t you know my abilities yet?
You don’t need to worry at all.
Don’t believe me? I’ll prove it to you now.”
After a difficult session of dual cultivation, Yang Hong found that the seal was becoming more and more disgusting.
In his previous dual cultivation, the transfer of spiritual energy had almost no loss. However, this time, he found that the loss of spiritual energy was as high as forty percent.
This was something that had never happened since he began cultivating. For him, dual cultivation usually had a loss of no more than ten percent.
Such dual cultivation was truly arduous.
This made Yang Hong even more eager to leave the seal.
In order to leave the seal faster, he devoted more time to cultivating the cold ice willow.
Zhu Yu Yan, the eight people, and one demon helped daily by searching for the seeds that were blown out and the deep blue snowflakes that fell.
Although their divine senses could not be extended outward, they could use their eyes.
This indeed saved Yang Hong a lot of time and effort.
However, there were only two types of seeds blown by the wind: one was the willow tree, and the other was reed grass. The reed grass could only grow up to palm-sized, arm-long, and as thick as a strand of hair.
This reed grass was very light, weighing only about one qian in total.
However, the reed grass was unexpectedly very tough. It would not break under the pull of a level 10 gale, and it could still grow normally at a temperature of over minus 200 degrees Celsius. This was simply a natural textile material.
However, reed grass was a fourth-grade spiritual plant, and Yang Hong was powerless to bring it into the seal.
“Although I can’t bring it into the seal, the leaves of the reed grass can be used as lines for drawing formations.”
“It’s just that it’s a bit difficult to plant the reed grass into the desired shape.”
Yang Hong was always a person who acted on his thoughts and could overcome difficulties.
Unfortunately, the Dao rhyme of creation could not affect the growth shape of the reed grass very well, and could only adjust it into a certain line.
Planting reed grass in flowerbeds also posed a difficult problem: the root system of the reed grass was very strong. If it was not pulled out in time, it was very easy to penetrate and damage the fourth-grade flowerbeds that Yang Hong had refined.
This doubled the difficulty of Yang Hong setting up formations.
Fortunately, the cold ice willow was quite malleable. Under the influence of Yang Hong’s Dao rhyme of creation and divine sense, it could be fixed in a certain position, and its height could be adjusted to a certain extent.
Finally, Yang Hong came up with the method of using the branches of the cold ice willow to adjust the shape of the reed grass.
Busy days passed quickly. Yang Hong spent over 20 years building palaces and planting spiritual plants.
Yang Hong: Sixth Prince of the Great Sui Dynasty.
Daily bestowal count: 20/20
Lifespan: 242/6000
Cultivation: Ten Million Years of Mana (Sealed Golden Core realm): Strength 9 million jin, Divine Sense 900 li)
Cultivation Techniques: Qingfeng Breathing Technique Level 275, Qingfeng Body Forging Technique Level 152
Martial Skills: A Serious Punch, A Serious Saber, A Serious Sword
Spells: Sweet Rain Art (Mastered), Salvation Demonic Sound (Mastered)...
Domain: Time (9%)
Special Ability: Soul Enhancement
In over 20 years, Yang Hong’s cultivation did not increase. His breathing technique and body forging technique improved somewhat, and his [Time Domain] increased by 1%.
Such a growth rate was like a snail crawling for Yang Hong.
However, the most important thing was that Yang Hong’s goal was achieved. The eight large teleportation arrays had been connected together.
A faint gray light lit up on the ice-blue cold ice willow trees, looking somewhat strange.
Weak spatial fluctuations began to condense, gathering from heaven and earth, from the void.
Although the spatial fluctuations were very weak, even Yang Hong and the others within the seal could feel them.
The formation that Yang Hong had planted had already surpassed Yang Hong’s initial expectations.