In the land of Giantwood Ridge, there were not originally so many spirit trees.

After the True Monarch of Primordial Yuan transplanted the three divine trees, it took over six thousand years to create such a flourishing scene.

The three divine trees are known as the Trees of Longevity, and because the spiritual veins of Giantwood Ridge contain both earth and fire energies, they have proliferated and formed the unique Three Yang Spirit Trees of Giantwood Ridge.

Chen Mobai is most familiar with the first-order Red Yang Spirit Trees.

When he first joined the Divine Wood Sect, he earned a large sum of spirit stones by chopping wood and splitting firewood at the Sprout Hall.

These spirit trees grow the fastest, and the general trees are used for firewood, while the bark and leaves can be used to refine talisman paper.

The second-order Green Yang Spirit Trees are much more precious. Generally speaking, only one in ten thousand Red Yang Spirit Trees may advance to become a Green Yang Spirit Tree.

The uses of this kind of spirit tree are much greater. In addition to firewood and talisman paper, the sap is also a second-order spiritual medicine.

Moreover, because the tree absorbed enough earth and fire energies during its transformation and neutralized them with its own wood spirit energy, the spiritual power is gentle and stable, making it top-notch material for refining tools.

The Divine Wood Sword that Chen Mobai had borrowed before was refined from Green Yang Spirit Wood, and the second-order puppets of the Divine Wood Sect were basically made from this material.

Mortals wearing a piece of Green Yang Wood can even resist cold and prevent all illnesses.

When the Green Yang Spirit Tree advances again, it becomes the third-order Golden Yang Spirit Tree.

The transformation of this kind of spirit tree is extremely demanding. It occurs when the circulation of earth, wood, and fire spiritual energies within the tree becomes unbalanced, with the fire spirit energy absorbing and devouring the other two types, ultimately forming a wisp of Green Yang Fire that, in turn, tempers the tree itself.

A Green Yang Spirit Tree that can withstand this tribulation can transform into the third order.

However, over the thousands of years in Giantwood Ridge, the Green Yang Spirit Trees that have been able to nurture a fire seed without turning to ash are one in ten thousand.

“Green Yang Fire? A spiritual fire produced within a tree! Could this be the ‘Fire Within Wood’?”

Upon reading this, Chen Mobai recalled a TV series he had watched as a child, where a little immortal who had stayed in his mother’s womb for three years became a disciple of a sage after causing trouble.

The little immortal collected the three great spiritual fires—Fire Within Wood, Fire Within Stone, and Fire Within Air—and cultivated an extremely terrifying immortal technique: “Samadhi True Fire.”

This true fire could burn mountains and boil stones, incinerating everything, and was very domineering.

However, because refining the “Fire Within Wood” required burning a vast amount of forest resources and was very environmentally unfriendly, it was explicitly forbidden by the Immortal Gate for cultivation over a thousand years ago.

But in Giantwood Ridge, due to the rapid growth and proliferation of the Red Yang Spirit Trees, the Divine Wood Sect even had to issue long-term tree-cutting tasks at the Spirit Treasure Pavilion.

Chen Mobai immediately took out his mobile phone.

Using the secondary account “Turtle Immortal,” he opened the “Immortal Gate Spell Library” he was representing, entered “Samadhi True Fire,” and actually retrieved results.

Unfortunately, immortal techniques are divine abilities comprehended from heavenly scriptures, and to prevent the disciples of the Immortal Gate from wasting time here, downloading and viewing required fourth-order permissions. The Turtle Immortal’s representation of the Immortal Gate’s software was only a third-order user, and Chen Mobai looked on with regret.

Even if he downloaded the “Samadhi True Fire” technique, with his current realm, he would definitely be unable to cultivate it.

Putting this matter aside for now, Chen Mobai turned his attention to the key to the Heavenly Wood Divine Light Formation—the tree seeds.

Condensing tree seeds was also a big business in the Divine Wood Sect, after all, disciples practicing the longevity techniques were the most numerous.

Without the tree seeds, to unleash the full power of this technique, one could not leave the vicinity of the spirit trees, which was too restrictive.

The first-order Red Yang tree seeds were the cheapest, with lower-grade ones costing only twenty spirit stones.

After all, Red Yang Spirit Trees were everywhere, and even if the condensation of tree seeds failed, the loss was not a pity.

But the second-order Green Yang Spirit Trees were different.

Back on Green Light Island, the spirit tree that Chen Mobai, Qi Rui, and Wang Yuanwu guarded together was a Green Yang Spirit Tree.

This kind of spirit tree is the Divine Wood Sect’s greatest resource for opening markets and even for battle, with a complete transplantation of thirty-six trees capable of setting up a large-scale “Heavenly Wood Divine Light Formation.”

Under the large formation, it draws the essence of the earth’s veins and connects to the heaven and earth’s vital energy, capable of condensing the most powerful “Heavenly Wood Divine Light” of the longevity techniques.

Chen Mobai had witnessed the power of this “Heavenly Wood Divine Light” himself.

Second-order beasts hit directly by it were instantly vaporized.

For this reason, every Green Yang Spirit Tree has become a strategic resource of the Divine Wood Sect. Not to mention condensing tree seeds, the loss of any one tree could potentially lead to accountability from the sect.

But now, Chen Mobai was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the first-order Red Yang tree seeds were only good for practice for him.

However, the internal price of the second-order Green Yang tree seeds in the sect fluctuated from two thousand to ten thousand spirit stones depending on the quality.

After all, there is still a huge gap between second-order and second-order.

The top second-order Green Yang Spirit Trees could already attempt to condense Green Yang Fire.

In the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, there were always tasks to purchase Green Yang Fire seeds, starting at ten thousand spirit stones.

Even so expensive, every time Green Yang tree seeds and Green Yang Fire seeds were put on sale, they were instantly snapped up.

Chen Mobai remembered the time of the sect’s grand competition when his opponent Mu Yuan seemed to have a second-order Green Yang tree seed, but under the overwhelming power of his sword qi, he was utterly defeated.

Thinking back, Mu Yuan was indeed worthy of being the sect master’s disciple. If it weren’t for Chen Mobai’s meteoric rise, last year’s sect competition champion would probably have been this sect master’s disciple.

Still too poor.

Chen Mobai tapped on the spirit stones in his storage bag. After deducting those needed for cultivating the Three Yang Body, he was left with only 5 mid-grade spirit stones and 107 low-grade spirit stones.

Indeed, besides cultivation, the next step was still to earn spirit stones.

Or should he himself cultivate the method of condensing tree seeds?

After careful consideration, Chen Mobai still shook his head.

After Foundation Establishment, the primary goal was definitely to focus on improving his realm.

Next, he would have to focus his main efforts on farming, after all, the sixty acres of spiritual fields in Xiao Nanshan could not be wasted.Moreover, the Eternal Life Scripture also states that when cultivating this technique, if combined with farming or spiritual planting, there will be a mutual promotion effect under the principle of analogy, which doubles the efficiency.

If there is still energy left after farming, Chen Mobai decides to make an effort to improve his swordsmanship realm.

After all, his current persona is that of an unparalleled sword prodigy, and he must strive for it. What if it actually becomes a reality?

After swordsmanship, it’s puppetry.

Although Che Yucheng said it’s enough to pass down the legacy, since he has taken up discipleship, Chen Mobai feels that he, as a disciple, should not disappoint his master.

Besides these, there’s also talisman making and brewing wine to earn spirit stones.

After all, everything is inseparable from spirit stones.

Cultivation, farming, swordsmanship, puppetry, talismans…

Calculating like this, it’s fortunate that he has already achieved Foundation Establishment, with a lifespan of four jiazi from that, plus another jiazi added by the Eternal Life Scripture, at least three hundred years of life.

Otherwise, with so many distractions, it’s estimated that it would be impossible to cultivate both techniques to the peak of Foundation Establishment.

Above the Eternal Life Scripture, besides the strongest Heavenly Wood Divine Light, there are defensive techniques like “Spirit Leaf Art” and “Vitality Art,” offensive techniques like “Yi Wood Divine Thunder,” “Heavenly Spiral Wood Arrows,” “Boundless Falling Wood,” “Divine Wood Sword Slash,” “Jia Wood Dao Soldiers,” and so on.

Without exception, these spells can be integrated into the Heavenly Wood Divine Light Formation, and when combined with the formation, their power is greatly enhanced.

Still, he needs to find a way to get a tree seed.

After reading the Eternal Life Scripture, Chen Mobai couldn’t help but shake his head.

If he can’t afford a second-order one, he’ll start with a first-order Red Sun tree seed.

He took out a transmission talisman, wrote a few lines, and sent it to Liu Wenbo.

He wouldn’t waste this bit of time; his disciple was out handling affairs, so it would be convenient to take care of it along the way.

At this moment, he felt that taking a disciple was indeed a good idea.

Next, he opened the “Crimson Flame Sword Technique.”

This fire-attribute technique is much simpler compared to the flashy Eternal Life Scripture.

Likewise, it is cultivated to fourteen layers for Foundation Establishment completion.

Besides the realm, there are talismans and sword techniques, both of which are interchangeable.

After the “Crimson Flame Sword Talisman,” there’s the second-order medium-quality “Purple Fire Sword Talisman,” and the second-order high-quality “Azure Flame Sword Talisman.”

Among them, if the “Azure Flame Sword Talisman” is cultivated to the extreme, it can also possess the power of a third-order low-quality spell.

And above that, there are the third-order medium-quality “Golden Flame Sword Talisman” and the third-order high-quality “Great Sun Sword Talisman.”

However, these two talismans are recorded in the Core Formation chapter, and Chen Mobai’s Foundation Establishment chapter only has their names.

The Crimson Flame Sword Technique’s Foundation Establishment chapter also records the two sword realms following the Sword Qi Rainbow, namely “Sword Rainbow Dividing Light” and “Sword Light Condensing Sha.”

Crimson Flame Sword Rainbow, Purple Fire Sword Light, Azure Flame Sword Sha!

The steps for upgrading and improvement are clear at a glance, and it must be said that the combat-related materials in the Tianhe Realm are so well-developed that even Chen Mobai can’t help but marvel.

The cultivators here focus almost all their energy on this aspect.

Chen Mobai’s cultivation of Pure Yang spiritual power possesses all the characteristics of fire attribute spiritual power, so he can easily use Pure Yang spiritual power to drive all the talismans and sword techniques of the Crimson Flame Sword Technique, and the power might even be stronger.

He decides to spend some time learning this technique next, at the very least to cultivate the Crimson Flame Sword Rainbow.

After all, he is now an unparalleled sword prodigy.

After reading these two techniques from the Divine Wood Sect, Chen Mobai closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then took out a box of thought incense.

This was a second-order thought incense he purchased from the Immortal Gate network, used for cultivating the second layer of the Divine Control Art.

He didn’t know what trials awaited in the Divine Tree Secret Realm, so it was better to first master “Dividing Spirit into Thoughts.” Once in combat, he could control the formless puppet while attacking with his true body.

Two against one, at the same realm, he couldn’t possibly lose, right?

Since it was inconvenient to leave Xiao Nanshan during this period, Chen Mobai took another month’s leave from Che Yucheng, using the cultivation of the Divine Control Art as an excuse. After asking about it, the latter signed and approved it right away.

There was only one requirement: don’t fail the end-of-year exams.

Chen Mobai had no worries about this because after Foundation Establishment, his spiritual sense had far surpassed that of Qi Refining cultivators.

After reading through the first-order knowledge and pondering it once, he could grasp it, and although the second-order was a bit more difficult, as long as he was serious, he wouldn’t have the previous difficulties in understanding. Reading it two or three times would suffice.

For this reason, after Foundation Establishment, the teachers at the Weaponry Dao Academy didn’t really insist on them attending classes anymore.

But since credits could be exchanged for many precious items in the academy’s treasury, many senior students with Foundation Establishment still enroll in many major and minor courses each year. However, they don’t come to class and only appear during the final exams.

The academy tacitly allows this.

After all, many of the teachers themselves are only at the Foundation Establishment level.

In the evening.

Chen Mobai’s two newly accepted disciples returned.

“Master, here is the rabbit fur you requested. I spoke with Brother Zhou from the Spirit Beast Department, and since they had it in stock, they gave me a box for 10 spirit stones.”

Liu Wenbo handed over a box made of Red Sun wood, and Chen Mobai opened it to find it stuffed with fine, straight, white rabbit fur that faintly shimmered with spiritual light.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Chen Mobai felt the spirituality within and found it to be of very good quality, likely clipped from a second-order high-quality Mysterious Spirit Rabbit.

“This is what we should do. Oh, Master, about the first-order tree seed you wanted, I happen to have two. Take a look and see if they’re suitable. If not, I’ll go buy some more at the Divine Wood City’s Spirit Plant Department store.”

“Eh, are tree seeds sold by the Spirit Plant Department?”

Hearing Liu Wenbo’s words, Chen Mobai was surprised, but after thinking about it, it made sense that such items would fall under the category of spirit plants.

Had he known this, he would have directly asked Sun Gaochang or Lu Jun.”Refining tree species requires knowledge of spiritual plants, talisman crafting, pill concocting, and tool refining. Anyone within the sect can refine a first-order tree species, but the second-order Qingyang tree species requires permission from the Department of Spiritual Plants. Privately refined tree species certainly can’t match the quality of those sold by the department.”

After answering the question, Liu Wenbo presented a thumb-sized, dull red wooden block covered in dust.

This was a first-order Chiyang tree species.

Once Chen Mobai got it in his hands, he felt its vibrant life force. He sensed that with his own spiritual power, he could instantly make it grow into a towering tree.

“Teacher, when combined with a Heavenly Wood Talisman, the tree species can save on activation time and spiritual power.”

At this moment, Liu Wenbo handed over a “Heavenly Wood Talisman,” prompting Chen Mobai to mentally give him a thumbs-up.

This disciple was considerate, much more so than Zhuo Ming, who was just standing by idly.

“Not bad, not bad, Wenbo, you’ve worked hard. Take this medium-grade spirit stone for yourself.”

The quality of this first-order tree species was good, and together with the Heavenly Wood Talisman and rabbit fur, it was worth almost 100 spirit stones. Chen Mobai naturally wouldn’t let his disciple pay for it and reimbursed him on the spot.

Liu Wenbo initially declined, but eventually accepted it under Chen Mobai’s insistence.

“Teacher, I’ve discussed with Junior Sister about the Water Mansion. You shouldn’t be without attendants by your side. Since it’s been two years since I joined the sect and haven’t been home, I’ll go to Yun Country. Junior Sister will stay at Xiao Nanshan.”

Chen Mobai listened and felt that it made sense, nodding in agreement.

“Mm, after Wenbo leaves, Zhuo Ming, you’ll have to work hard. I’m going to enter seclusion to cultivate a spell, and you’ll be in charge of Xiao Nanshan.”

“Yes, Master!”

Zhuo Ming, finally able to show her presence, immediately stepped forward and answered loudly with all her might.

After the two left.

Chen Mobai set up a second-order formation at the peak of the mountain, which he had obtained from the Department of Spiritual Plants, and then began to cultivate the second layer of the Divine Control Technique.

In his sea of consciousness, the Biyu Wutong tree that had been visualized to perfection after the Mind Nurturing God Casting Technique had already bloomed and fruited.

He lit the incense of thought and felt a cool breeze enter through his mouth and nose into the Purple Mansion of his consciousness.

As he circulated the method for splitting his divine consciousness, preparing to split the Biyu Wutong tree in half, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him.

He cut off the roots of the blooming Wutong flower at the very top.