Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1141: Chapter 768: Immortal Skill (2)

Although Snow Valley Town is a workshop for Martial Cultivators, its main trading goods are not cultivation resources like Elixirs. Without the Three Sects of the Sea of Spirit, the Cold Cloud Sect and several Martial Cultivator families simply cannot support Snow Valley Town’s Elixir industry.

Therefore, when a new cultivation resource appears in Snow Valley Town, it immediately erupts into an extremely intense enthusiasm, even forming a buying frenzy.

If this Spiritual Wine were placed in the workshops near the Sea of Spirit, its popularity would surely not be as high as it is here.

Yang Zhenshan observed for a while, then greeted Liang Shengze and Qu Changkong before returning to the Spirit Source Land.

Currently, his cultivation has entered a gradual phase. The cultivation of the Qingmu Longevity Scripture is extremely slow, but every time he practices, he can feel significant progress, which motivates him to cultivate.

In order to improve his cultivation speed, he has done many things.

Firstly, cultivating in the Spirit Source Land, not in the outside world, because the Spiritual Energy concentration there far exceeds the outside world.

In the outside world, the place where Yang Zhenshan has been with the highest Spiritual Energy concentration is the Ancient Relic Array, but the concentration inside the Ancient Relic Array is still much lower than that of the Spirit Source Land.

Therefore, to Yang Zhenshan, the Spirit Source Land is his Holy Land for cultivation, and unless there is something very important outside, he usually stays in the Spirit Source Land.

Secondly, refining the Nourishing God Pill. The Nourishing God Pill is a mid-grade Spirit Pill, which has the effect of nurturing the Divine Soul. It cannot directly increase the cultivation speed, but it can nurture the Divine Soul and increase the time Yang Zhenshan can cultivate daily.

Without taking the Nourishing God Pill, Yang Zhenshan can only cultivate for four hours a day. However, if he can take the Nourishing God Pill, the daily cultivation time can increase by two hours.

Though two hours a day is not much, over time, it is quite a significant improvement.

Currently, Yang Zhenshan can already refine the Nourishing God Pill himself and is teaching Wang Mingzhe to refine it. Once Wang Mingzhe can refine the Nourishing God Pill, Yang Zhenshan will be able to allocate time to research other Elixir Recipes.

Thirdly, the Spirit Fruits. Now Yang Zhenshan uses Spirit Fruits as his main meal, the Jade Spirit Peach has become his staple food, the Wood Spirit Fruit his side dish, plus there are Concentrating Fruits, Three Yellow Plums, Star Origin Fruits, Light Spirit Fruits, etc. He eats over thirty Spirit Fruits a day.

This is not eating Spirit Fruits, but eating Spirit Stones.

If these Spirit Fruits were exchanged for Spirit Stones, it would equate to more than thirty Spirit Stones.

Over thirty a day, that’s one thousand a month, twelve thousand a year.

Additionally, there is one Nourishing God Pill a day and Spiritual Wine supplied in varying amounts.

If all converted into Spirit Stones, Yang Zhenshan estimated he would consume about one hundred Spirit Stones daily.

Meaning he would consume thirty-six thousand Spirit Stones a year.

Such consumption merely provides slow progress for Yang Zhenshan, illustrating how difficult it is to cultivate the Qingmu Longevity Scripture.

Besides cultivating the Qingmu Longevity Scripture, Yang Zhenshan is currently also practicing three Cultivation Techniques: the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill, Qinghua Thunder Skill, and Green Wood Skill.

Yang Zhenshan has never stopped the cultivation of the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill, always treating it as the most important Cultivation Technique, and now his Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill has reached the Third Stage, with recovery and self-healing abilities far beyond those of an average Heavenly Gang Stage Martial Artist.

The cultivation of the Qinghua Thunder Skill is much slower; he has not yet entered the threshold and it is currently his most troublesome period.

As for Green Wood Skill, it is actually a few basic spells attached to the Qingmu Longevity Scripture, including the Healing Skill, Thorn Skill, Vine Skill, and Flying Blade Skill.

The Healing Skill is a healing spell with good effects on both internal and external injuries.

The Thorn Skill is a range attack spell; once performed, it can rapidly grow numerous thorns within tens of feet around, restricting enemy activities and attacking them.

The Vine Skill and Thorn Skill are companion spells, and they can be performed separately or together. The vines can be used to bind the enemy, and when performed with the Thorn Skill, thorns can grow on the vines.

The last one is the Flying Blade Skill, formally known as the Grass and Wood Flying Blade Skill, which transforms the branches and leaves of plants into flying blades for attacking the enemy.

Although these four spells are basic spells, they involve the use of Mana.

The Qingmu Longevity Scripture includes these four spells probably to make cultivators proficient in the usage of Mana.

Previously, Yang Zhenshan and Yu Qingyi could also perform spells similar to the Vine Skill, especially Yu Qingyi, who could very early on spawn an Azure Dragon Vine, forming a huge net or cage with it.

However, that was Yu Qingyi’s spell performed with Wood Attribute Dao Intent, its essence being a plant spawned by True Yuan, fundamentally different from Immortal Skills.

Yu Qingyi’s Vine Skill had many defects; firstly, its casting speed was too slow, the growth of the vines was very slow, difficult to catch up with the speed of Innate Martial Artists, let alone Heavenly Gang Stage Martial Artists, and even Qi Sea Stage Martial Artists could not be caught up, not to mention entangled.

Secondly, it’s very difficult to control; Yu Qingyi could only make slight adjustments to the growing vines, unable to control quickly.

Finally, the vines spawned by Yu Qingyi are just ordinary plants. Although she chose the thick and tough Azure Dragon Vine, it was still just an ordinary plant, and Innate Martial Artists could still cut it down.

Compared to this, the Vine Skill learned by Yang Zhenshan from the Qingmu Longevity Scripture is different. Mana itself has a variation beyond True Yuan, and the Vine Skill performed with Mana is versatile; if Yang Zhenshan wishes, it can turn into any shape and changes very quickly.

This is the advantage possessed by Cultivators, an advantage that Martial Artists cannot achieve.

On the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, Yang Zhenshan controlled a vine as thick as his arm, continuously dancing in the air, at times turning into a long whip, at times turning into a long spear, and at times turning into a rope, curling towards Yu Qingyi flying in mid-air.

Under this vine, Yu Qingyi was forced to keep dodging, and she tried several times to get close to Yang Zhenshan, but was forced back by this small vine.

Finally, Yu Qingyi retreated dozens of feet away, out of the attack range of the vine, and then slightly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, she felt slightly unwilling, "I refuse to believe it, I can’t beat a vine!"

Saying this, she dashed towards Yang Zhenshan again, and the sword in her hand burst out with turquoise sword glows.

Upon seeing this, Yang Zhenshan’s lips slightly curled upwards, casually watching Yu Qingyi’s approaching figure.

As Yu Qingyi approached within ten feet, the vine measuring only one yard in front of Yang Zhenshan suddenly grew rapidly, its speed as fast as an arrow leaving the bowstring, straight towards Yu Qingyi.

This time Yu Qingyi exerted all her strength, the turquoise sword glow as large as a sail slashed down, and surprisingly shattered Yang Zhenshan’s vine.

Yu Qingyi’s eyes brightened upon seeing this; her figure accelerated again, the sword glow spurring forward, stabbing towards Yang Zhenshan without the slightest intention of holding back.

Yet Yang Zhenshan casually waved his hand, and four vines grew more is on the ground in front of him.

These four vines were much thicker than the previous one, each had a thickness of over a foot.

In just the blink of an eye, a wooden vine wall formed in front of Yang Zhenshan, blocking Yu Qingyi’s sword glow.

Before Yu Qingyi could react, over a dozen arm-thick vines sprouted from the wooden wall, pouncing on Yu Qingyi in mid-air like snakes.

Yu Qingyi reacted quickly, immediately performing the Leaf Fall Root Seeking Skill, her figure nimbly retreating.

Her speed wasn’t slow, but the vines were faster.

Yu Qingyi suddenly felt a tightness around her ankle, and she could no longer retreat.

Then several vines coiled around her arms, legs, abdomen, and in the blink of an eye, she was wrapped up like a dumpling, struggling to no avail.

"No more, no more, this thing’s too cheeky!" Yu Qingyi completely gave up.

This Vine Skill was indeed somewhat cheeky, growing so fast, so flexible, crucially it could be thick or thin, soft or hard, truly leaving one feeling powerless.