Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1162: Chapter 779: Escape Technique (2)

At this moment, Yang Zhenshan’s body underwent a tremendous transformation. His “Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill” had been cultivated to the Great Success Realm; entering the earth as roots, transforming the body into wood, dead wood encountering spring, white bones regenerating flesh.

Every cell in his body was filled with vitality, and whenever he stood on the ground, he felt a concentrated wood attribute spiritual energy rising from his feet, nurturing every inch of his body.

He even had many strange sensations, feeling as if he could transform into a great tree at any time and grow in the world.

On the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, Yang Zhenshan stood among the spiritual fruit trees, arms outstretched, eyes slightly closed, feeling the earth’s gift, the purest wood attribute spiritual energy around, and the joyful and excited emotions emanating from the spiritual fruit trees.

Indeed, he could feel the emotions of the spiritual fruit trees, as if the vegetation had turned into playful children, cheering jubilantly around him.

He even felt he could integrate with these plants.

With a thought, his whole body turned into a wisp of blue smoke and burrowed underground, his spiritual sense circulating, sensing everything around.

He didn’t disappear, nor did he leave the Spirit Source Land, not even using the Origin Core’s power within Spirit Source Land; he just naturally fused his body into the plants.

A gentle breeze brushed by, the tall Three Yellow Plums’ leaves swayed slightly, and then his body astonishingly grew out of the sturdy trunk of a Three Yellow Plums.

That’s right, he grew out.

First the head, then the neck, followed by the torso and limbs.

He looked down at his legs, his calves were still within the tree, but he could feel that he could step out of the tree whenever he wished.

This feeling was mysterious, as if he could turn trees into a part of his own body.

“Is there such a profundity in the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill?”

Yang Zhenshan’s eyes showed a look of inquiry.

Entering the earth as roots, transforming the body into wood, dead wood encountering spring, white bones regenerating flesh.

According to the description within the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill, he should at most be able to transform himself into plants, not merge himself into them.

Yet now he accomplished it, and did so very naturally, as if it were his instinct.

“It shouldn’t be just because of the Body Nourishing Method, there must be a reason related to Qingmu Longevity Scripture!”

“If a Martial Artist were to cultivate this Body Nourishing Method, they could likely only transform their body into wood, but because I also cultivate the Qingmu Longevity Scripture, I have such mystical means!”

“This ability is very mysterious, but not as miraculous as one might imagine, it should be a type of escape technique!”

“It makes sense; this Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill might just be a body refining technique derived from the Immortal Cultivator’s escape techniques!”

While Yang Zhenshan was lost in thought, Yu Qingyi arrived nearby, and upon seeing his feet merged into the tree trunk, she couldn’t help but reveal an expression of astonishment.

“What is this!”

Yang Zhenshan returned to his senses, “Haha, this seems to be a spell that emerged after the Body Nourishing Method was cultivated to great success!”

Yu Qingyi approached, sometimes touching Yang Zhenshan’s leg, other times tapping the tree trunk of the Three Yellow Plums, “Strange, how is this done?”

“Probably because of the special nature of mana!” Yang Zhenshan was also in a clouded state.

Although he could exhibit such an ability, he didn’t understand the principle behind it.

“Your Body Nourishing Method has reached great success?” Yu Qingyi asked.

Yang Zhenshan stepped out from the tree trunk, extending his hand to wrap around her slender waist, “Yes, it has reached great success, but I believe there is more to the Body Nourishing Method.”

In fact, the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill they currently possess is complete, because what Yu Qingyi obtained in the Transmission Hall of the Ancient Relic Array is exactly the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill.

But this Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill is targeted toward Martial Artists, not Immortal Cultivators.

It should have been derived from a kind of Immortal Cultivation technique, so Yang Zhenshan believes there should be more to the Body Nourishing Method.

Yu Qingyi didn’t think much of it and said, “Then it’s my turn to cultivate this Body Nourishing Method!”

“It is husband’s fault, delaying your cultivation!” Yang Zhenshan looked at Yu Qingyi with apologetic eyes.

Cultivating the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill requires a large number of wood attribute Spirit Fruits, and they must be of the same origin.

Currently, the Spirit Source Land has only two kinds of Spirit Fruits suitable for cultivating this method, the Wood Spirit Fruit, and the Jade Green Spirit Peach.

The Wood Spirit Fruit is too ordinary and not very effective for cultivating the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill, whereas the Jade Green Spirit Peach is very suitable.

However, there are not many Jade Green Spirit Peaches in the Spirit Source Land at present, only just over a hundred trees.

These hundred or so Jade Green Spirit Peaches are not enough for both Yang Zhenshan and Yu Qingyi to cultivate the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill, so Yu Qingyi had to let Yang Zhenshan cultivate first while she halted hers.

“It cannot be helped.” Yu Qingyi shook her head slightly, saying.

Yang Zhenshan sighed softly, once possessing cultivation techniques, resources become the biggest restriction for everyone’s cultivation.

The Spirit Source Land is considered resource-rich, with countless Spirit Plants, but after all, it has only been established for sixty years, its foundation is still too shallow.

For some low-grade spirit medicines and spiritual fruits, it is alright, Spirit Source Land can grow as much as needed.

However, for many high-quality spirit medicines and spiritual fruits, the Spirit Source Land cannot cultivate them as it is.

Particularly, many spirit medicines require hundreds, even thousands of years to mature, and not even the Spirit Source Land can produce such spirit medicines.

Not to mention elixirs!

The Jade Marrow Pill is very useful to Yang Zhenshan, and equally useful to Yu Qingyi, but only Yang Zhenshan can refine the Jade Marrow Pill in Spirit Source Land.

Yang Zhenshan can give Yu Qingyi a few to use, but he can’t supply her endlessly, as he cannot stop cultivating and refining alchemy for others every day.

“It’s time to nurture other Immortal Cultivators!” Yang Zhenshan said softly.

“You mean?” Yu Qingyi looked at him.

Yang Zhenshan said, “Search for other talents with spiritual apertures, nurture them, and let them integrate into Spirit Source Land!”

“Won’t this take up your time?” Yu Qingyi asked.

Checking whether a person has a spiritual aperture is not difficult; Yang Zhenshan only needs to inspect three inches above the Bai Hui Acupoint with spiritual sense.

However, while inspecting one person is easy, checking hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands is not so simple.

And searching among tens of millions or even hundreds of millions for people with spiritual apertures is no less than finding a needle in a haystack.

“No, I have thought of a method to test if a person has a spiritual aperture, and this method doesn’t require me to personally be involved!”

Yang Zhenshan said.

“What method?” Yu Qingyi asked curiously.

“Let others cultivate the first volume of the Qingmu Longevity Scripture. If they can grasp the basics, it shows they have a spiritual aperture; if not, it means they don’t!” Yang Zhenshan smiled.

The Qingmu Longevity Scripture is an Immortal Cultivation Technique, only those with spiritual apertures can cultivate it, and the first volume is just the foundational entry-level technique. If a person can generate mana within three months, it means they have a spiritual aperture and can cultivate the Immortal Dao; otherwise, they don’t.

Although this method takes more time, it doesn’t require Yang Zhenshan to personally search, and it can be widely applied.

Yang Zhenshan had thought of this method long ago, but he had been holding back from using it. He originally planned to implement it after he could re-enter the Ancient Relic Array, as he wanted to obtain more cultivation techniques from it.

The Transmission Hall of the Ancient Relic Array is very magical; Yang Zhenshan estimated that he couldn’t move it into Spirit Source Land, so he could only scrape the cultivation techniques from it.

There should still be many Immortal Cultivation Techniques in the Transmission Hall, yet he feared that others, after cultivating the Qingmu Longevity Scripture, would only obtain related techniques within the hall.

So he had always hesitated about whether to use this method to find those with spiritual apertures.

But now he has decided to try using this method first. With so many people in Da’an and the Ten Thousand Miles Sea Domain, they should find some with spiritual apertures. Training the first batch in Qingmu Longevity Scripture doesn’t matter; there will be a second, third batch, no need to wait for the Ancient Relic Array to activate.

Furthermore, the earlier the Immortal Cultivators are nurtured, the greater the benefits for Spirit Source Land.

In Alchemy Dao, Artifact Dao, and Array Dao, Immortal Cultivators have an advantage over Martial Artists, especially in Alchemy Dao, where nurturing talents as early as possible is beneficial.