Chapter 32: Zhao Qingzhi Arrives with the Medicine family’s Spiritual Herbs

To be honest, if one were to use science to explain the principle of the Longevity Flower’s infinite cycle, the answer would undoubtedly be unscientific.

It’s like a machine that produces batteries, capable of producing ninety-nine batteries at once, with the energy to sustain the battery-making machine also coming from a battery.

Using one battery produced by the machine to generate another ninety-nine batteries is obviously impossible.

This is because the energy is generated by the machine itself, and the energy it produces is already imbued in the batteries it creates. The total energy of all the batteries combined might not even match the machine’s original energy, as the production process inevitably involves energy loss.

Let alone a single battery being unable to sustain the machine’s operations.

But cultivation was inherently unscientific, and the Longevity Flower was as unscientific as it got.

If it were scientific and observed the laws of physics, the Longevity Flower wouldn’t possess the power to produce Life-Extending Dew. The lifespan extension provided by the Life-Extending Dew far exceeded the flower’s own ability to extend life by countless times.

“Using Life-Extending Dew to convert into spiritual energy for cultivation—I must be the first to do this, right? In the cultivation world, probably no one knows this secret, do they? After all, a single drop of Life-Extending Dew can extend life by five hundred years in the cultivation world. With such a long lifespan, who would be willing to use it to convert into spiritual energy for cultivation? Wouldn’t it be better to use elixirs or spirit stones?”

Ye Yang looked at the Longevity Flower before him, growing more excited the more he looked. Originally, he thought the Longevity Flower’s ability to extend lifespan was already heaven-defying. Now, its ability to convert into spiritual energy meant he no longer had to worry about spiritual energy shortages, so how could he not be thrilled?

“As expected, spiritual herbs classified as top-grade treasures have endless wondrous uses. If more top-grade spiritual herbs appear tomorrow, even if the cultivation world has already studied their effects, I’ll have to test if they have other uses. After all, I have the conditions to use them extravagantly.”

After his excitement, Ye Yang began to look forward to the spiritual herbs that Zhao Qingzhi and Yao Lai would deliver tomorrow.

…

That night, because he had produced enough Life-Extending Dew, Ye Yang cultivated tirelessly, continuously converting the Life-Extending Dew into spiritual energy for practice.

Although he could rely on his special physique to cultivate the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record and cheat his way forward, the heavens reward diligence—using both methods together was the best approach.

Cheating and hard work combined. Wouldn’t that make his cultivation progress even faster?

After a night passed, Ye Yang’s cultivation advanced further, moving from the late stage of the fourth layer of Qi Refining to the peak.

Through a night of intense cultivation, Ye Yang discovered a limitation of the Life-Extending Dew. It wasn’t limitless in its consumption. Or rather, within a certain time frame, the amount of Life-Extending Dew one could consume was limited. Consuming too much would cause the body to develop resistance, rendering it unable to absorb the spiritual energy, only allowing conversion into lifespan.

Ye Yang also tested the short-term consumption limit of the Life-Extending Dew. Like the leaves of the Longevity Flower, he could consume a maximum of ninety-nine drops in a short period. Any more, and it would become ineffective.

Because he could only consume ninety-nine drops to boost his cultivation, Ye Yang’s realm only broke through by a small margin. If he could consume Spiritual Dew endlessly, Ye Yang estimated that with the help of the dew’s spiritual energy, he would have already advanced to the fifth or even sixth layer of Qi Refining by now.

“It’s still just a top-grade supreme spiritual herb, not an immortal herb, so it has its limits. If I could consume it infinitely, I might not even need to cultivate the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record and could break through to the Foundation Establishment stage in ten days or so, right? I wonder how long the buffer period for the Spiritual Dew is. If it’s too long, I won’t be able to consume it like this in the future. Consuming the Spiritual Dew too quickly wastes some of its spiritual energy, as it isn’t fully absorbed.”

After finishing his cultivation, Ye Yang silently pondered how to use the Spiritual Dew more efficiently.

“They’ve already met up? Looks like they’ll arrive at my place soon.”

After thinking about how to better utilize the Spiritual Dew, Ye Yang checked the mission jade token linked to Zhao Qingzhi. Through the token, he learned that Zhao Qingzhi had already met with Yao Lai. Yao Lai had provided the thirty-nine spiritual herbs promised to Zhao Qingzhi. However, these herbs were stored in opaque boxes, and since Ye Yang wasn’t there in person, he couldn’t use the mission jade token to see through the boxes and identify the herbs inside. Otherwise, he would already know if there were any top-grade spiritual herbs among them.

But that was fine—being unable to see the herbs’ types only added to Ye Yang’s sense of anticipation. He began to look forward to the grade of the spiritual herbs Zhao Qingzhi and the others would bring today.

…

Soon, Ye Yang calculated the timing and walked out of his room, waiting for Zhao Qingzhi and the others to arrive. Perhaps it was an intuition granted by his top-tier Soaring Immortal Physique, but just as Ye Yang stepped out of his room, Zhao Ling’er had just finished preparing breakfast.

“Mr. Ye, breakfast is ready,” Zhao Ling’er called out immediately upon seeing Ye Yang emerge from his room.

“Mm.”

Ye Yang nodded and went to the dining area to eat the breakfast Zhao Ling’er had prepared. Shortly after finishing, the sound of a car came from outside the villa. Hearing it, Ye Yang gave Zhao Ling’er a look and said, “Your grandfather has arrived with people qualified to join Kunlun. Go bring them in.”

“Yes.”

Zhao Ling’er nodded immediately and hurriedly ran to open the door.