Chapter 355

Chapter 355: The Spirit Herb Garden Takes Shape

A day later, Li Hui led his team into a stone forest. He raised his hand, drawing in the air, and a faint glow appeared instantly on an ancient big tree in the shadows.

“Great! The talismans are still here!” Li Hui hurriedly approached and gently patted the ancient tree. At once, he felt the ground shake, and two large stones nearby sank into the earth, revealing a rough tunnel.

“Is this the place?” Everyone’s eyes sparkled with joy.

“Exactly! You all should use your full abilities to set up the entrance so that it’s impenetrable. If someone sudden comes to cause trouble, it could ruin everything.”

Huang Shiqin smiled, “Right! If anyone dares to come here, they’ll be looking for death. Cutting someone’s financial path is like killing their parents! I have ten bottles of rare kill insects. Anyone who dares to mess with our leader will be messing with me; if I’m not brutal, they won’t get away with it either.”

The others felt a chill down their spines and instinctively moved away from her; this girl was too money-driven, even ignoring her own brother for the sake of Miao Jade.

Jing Tian Tong spoke up, “I’ll set up the warning. Not even a slight breeze will escape the Magic Eye! You all won’t look down on me for using Demon Cultivator’s tools, will you?”

Yan Jinglun laughed heartily, “Hahaha, of course not! Brother Jing is noble and just, and all the Junior Brothers and Sisters know that. Ahem, I have thirty-eight pieces of Evil Buddha Black Bones; please don’t misunderstand, they are proof of my parents’ fight against the Evil Buddha.”

“I have several bags of Langpan Demonic Ants; I don’t raise them, definitely not mine! They are proof against Demon Cultivators; I am a righteous cultivator.”

“By the way! You must have heard of the Nail Head Seven Arrows Spell; it’s such a harmful item that I’ve wanted to throw it away for a long time! Perfectly placed among the stone forest with the lethal Tian Kui snake; I hope it helps our esteemed leader!”

“I have an anti-curse spell here, though I don’t know who was bored enough to engrave it on the evil statue. It has suppressed it in our family’s forbidden area for hundreds of years; it’s almost at its limit, and it would bring doom even if a ghost cultivator arrives.”

“Me too…”

Li Hui felt a bit dizzy. Were these people righteous cultivators? Were they sure they weren’t Demon Cultivators or Poison Cultivators? Why did they speak about their methods so intimately? Each item they mentioned was more wicked than the last.

Everyone knew enemies had chased from Dazhe Kingdom to Great Virtue Kingdom. They feared being disturbed while mining, just as Huang Shiqin said: cutting off someone’s financial path is like killing their parents! They had to act proactively!

Half an hour later, the formation was complete!

“Great! Let’s go down; this is a rich mine. Everyone, gather quickly.” Li Hui instructed, “Just because the Great Virtue Kingdom doesn’t value the veins doesn’t mean Daxia practitioners, living here, don’t value them. We have at most two days. Even if we don’t fully mine it, we must leave immediately after; otherwise, we’ll face countless cultivators attacking us, even All-Manifestation Realm cultivators.”

“We understand!” Everyone quickly bowed.

Once down in the mine, they realized this location was no ordinary rich mine; it was a super-large Miao Jade vein on all three elemental classes of water, wood, and earth, stretching deep underground for hundreds of miles.

Great wealth represented great risk; even a whisper leaking out could cost them their lives seventeen or eighteen times over.

“Quickly, divide and mine.”

Li Hui released Zhao the Fatty, Huo Qiniang, and others. He didn’t idle either, using the Heavenly and Earthly Arrays to wildly extract spiritual energy while releasing all the insect demons. Ao Chongguang and Ao Chonglin also had to work hard, and the increasingly enormous Xie Xuan certainly couldn’t escape; they fully activated to mine, and also used the Earth-Rending Talismans in small areas.

“Enamel Dragon Crystals, dive into the earth for me!”

Tens of thousands of Enamel Dragon Crystals sank into the mine and wildly struck the high-grade Miao Jade. Two days was indeed too short; they had to act swiftly to pack the mine up and take it away.

The first ten hours went smoothly until the second day when problems arose. They faintly heard rumbling from above; someone was cracking the formation, and they didn’t know how long their measures could hold.

“Forget it; the louder it gets, the more cultivators will arrive when they can no longer hide their aura. Now, the more Miao Jade we dig, the more foundation we secure for the future. We cannot disappoint the leader.”

If Li Hui could swallow the benefits alone, he definitely wouldn’t have brought others. The key was that he couldn’t; the mine’s area was far greater than anticipated, and it wouldn’t be long before spreading to the royal court. After all, the Great Virtue Kingdom was closely linked to the Daxia court.

The Enamel Dragon Crystals kept splitting, reaching over three hundred sixty thousand pieces. Under frantic transportation, the spiritual energy in the Mysterious Pearl surged like a tidal wave…

Yao’er shouted, “Father, it’s not enough; we still need more.”

“Oh my! Not enough?” Li Hui slapped his forehead. The Mysterious Pearl was like a bottomless pit; when Yao’er meant not enough, she was referring to the spiritual energy supply needing to lift the Celestial Tree Blossoming Branch from the ground.

Only when the Celestial Tree appeared could all the spiritual plants in the garden grow wildly, achieving hundreds of years of medicinal age, turning into golden egg-laying chickens from that point on.

Three hours passed swiftly, and the muffled rumblings above gradually quieted. Jing Tian Tong sent a message: “The enemy has suffered significant losses and is preparing powerful means to break the formation. We may not last two days; everyone, quickly mine with all your might.”

“Goodness! When I get out, I’ll definitely wipe out these bastards,” Huang Tongliang cursed loudly.

Everyone buried themselves in hard work. Li Hui suddenly felt a tremor in his arm, hearing Yao’er joyfully exclaim, “It worked! The Celestial Tree Blossoming Branch is devouring spiritual energy and growing. Heaven and earth do not recognize it, and I have established a spiritual contract with it, allowing all spiritual plants and demon plants to share the pressure. Hehehe, I’m so clever!”

“Boom, boom, boom…” The Mysterious Pearl vibrated continuously, flowers blooming and withering, rapidly growing…

Five hundred acres were allocated to plant spiritual rice. While in those large sects it didn’t mean much, using five hundred acres solely to cultivate spiritual plants and demon plants was impressive!

The greater the investment, the higher the returns!!!

“Father, use the Earth-Rending Talismans to excavate the mine, sending the earth and stones into the Mysterious Pearl. The space can be expanded another hundred acres.” Upon hearing this from Yao’er, Li Hui felt urgency, racing to gather the soil.

The aura from the Celestial Tree gradually expanded, and within the Mysterious Pearl, tribulations began to emerge. The immortal peach tree core shattered into fragments with a “bang bang,” rapidly dissipating the tribulations.

“This is the legacy left by my Master. If there were no vast heavenly tribulations above Mirror Lake, how could such a rare item appear? Without such a wondrous item to resist the tribulations, how could the Celestial Tree Blossoming Branch stimulate the growth of all the spiritual plants?”

“Three hundred years, four hundred years, five hundred years…” Yao’er was manipulating the risks: “Stop, that’s enough; some spiritual plants and demon plants have accumulated thousands of years; further stimulating them may trigger uncontrollable tribulations.”

“Boom, boom, boom…” The spiritual energy was completely consumed, and the six hundred acres of spirit herb garden took shape. Li Hui was exhausted and panting heavily, and within the Mysterious Pearl appeared a towering tree over a hundred zhang tall, like a pine or a cypress, robust and ancient.

The Golden Jade Peach Tree stood beneath it. Although it had grown to nearly ten zhang, with lush branches and leaves radiating colorful glows, when compared to the towering tree, it paled significantly, like a giant beside a baby.

Li Hui had no time to explore the changes within the Mysterious Pearl. He unleashed all Earth-Rending Talismans and Earth Escape Talismans, frantically scooping up Miao Jade, as enemies were nearing.