Before refining pills, there was still one major task to be completed.
Long Xuan suddenly smiled and placed one of the World Tree seeds, like a precious treasure, on the table. With a thought, his consciousness entered the space within the World Tree seed.
Looking at the surrounding green fields, Long Xuan took a deep breath of fresh air and felt completely relaxed. He smiled slightly, ready to plant the divine tree immediately.
There’s a particular trait of heaven-defying spiritual herbs, that is: no other herbs can survive around them.
Low-grade herbs planted next to heaven-defying spiritual herbs would have all their nutrients absorbed and wither. If two heaven-defying spiritual herbs are planted close to each other, they will fight, and in the end, neither will survive.
Therefore, when planting heaven-defying spiritual herbs, the distance between them must be incredibly large, large enough to span multiple mountains, ensuring they are never clustered together.
This was something Long Xuan had learned while planting the Divine Dragon Wood.
So, in the northernmost part of the World Tree seed space, he planted the Heaven-Mending Tree, and in the southernmost part, he planted the World Tree.
It didn't take too much time, after all, planting the Heaven-Mending Tree only required sticking in a branch, and planting the World Tree only required burying a seed. It wasn’t much labor at all.
In the end, his luck was quite good. Neither of these divine trees had yet randomly spawned in this world.
After he finished laying down the high-grade spiritual soil, he soon saw growth progress on both divine trees, which filled him with great joy.
Now, he was the owner of two divine trees, with another equally powerful divine tree, the Soul-Nourishing Tree.
He was looking forward to seeing how big the Heaven Devouring World Toad's body would grow if he placed these three heaven-defying treasures into its stomach.
These are truly one-of-a-kind treasures in the world, surpassing even the twelfth-grade heaven-tier spiritual herbs. There is nothing in this world with a higher grade than them.
Even if that Third Young Master's second-grade treasures were numerous, could their combined value be higher than that of these three heaven-defying spiritual herbs?
He only needed these three heaven-defying spiritual herbs to make the Heaven Devouring World Toad's size surpass that of the Third Young Master's three-legged Golden Toad. Moreover, he had many earth-tier and heaven-tier spiritual herbs.
When it comes to treasures, quality is more important than quantity. No matter how many low-tier treasures the Golden Toad stores in its belly, its power will always be limited.
Long Xuan took a deep breath in excitement and finally turned his attention away from the two trees, preparing to begin refining the Heaven-Mending Pill.
He only had one chance to refine the pill. The materials required to create the Heaven-Mending Pill were far too rare. Even the wildly wealthy Third Young Master could only provide him with a single set of ingredients. As soon as the transaction was completed, the Third Young Master's treasure trove had 400 fewer items.
What limits the number of heaven-defying pill recipes is not the number of pill-refining geniuses, but the scarcity of the materials.
However, for someone like Long Xuan, who has an almost supernatural advantage, even one chance is more than enough. He immediately began the refining process without a trace of nervousness.
At this moment, the rabbit excitedly ran out from the insect bag, circling the enormous pill furnace, which was large enough to hold ten thousand ingredients, and frolicked wildly.
This pill-refining rabbit's favorite thing in the world was refining pills, especially heaven-defying spiritual pills. Seeing the rare materials made it nearly lose its mind.
“Hmph! Do you really need to ask? This is a barren and remote area with extremely scarce spiritual energy. Any treasure naturally formed by heaven and earth would be born in a place rich in spiritual energy, not in such a desolate location,” the young man explained.
“So, this treasure that triggered the heavenly phenomenon must have been refined by someone. They are probably refining pills or crafting artifacts so powerful that they attracted this phenomenon.”
“Most of the people who stay in such godforsaken places are weak rogue cultivators. They hide here because they fear being killed for their treasures. Now that this phenomenon has lasted so long without a Heavenly Tribulation descending, it’s likely that the person refining the treasure has a low cultivation level. If we go, we should be able to seize this heaven-defying treasure.”
“Snatching the treasure is one thing, but the real prize is the pill recipe or artifact blueprint that caused this phenomenon. If we get that and hand it over to the Gu Spirit Sect, we could exchange it for a huge contribution to the sect.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s eyes lit up with excitement. A treasure that could trigger a heavenly phenomenon was bound to be heaven-defying. Who wouldn't be tempted by such a treasure?
However, a female Gu cultivator wearing a white veil frowned slightly and hesitated. “Are you planning to lead us to kill someone and steal their treasure?”
The young man turned to look at her with disdain. “Are you trying to play the saint? In the Gu world, saints don't live long. If you feel too kind-hearted, you can get off the boat. You won’t get any share of the treasure.”
The veiled woman remained calm and continued, “Someone capable of refining a treasure that causes a heavenly phenomenon isn’t an ordinary person. Facing such an individual carries great risk. Are you so confident you can defeat them?”
“We have an important mission to complete. Our distinguished guest is nearby. I advise you not to cause unnecessary complications. Your life is insignificant, but ruining the sect's mission is a serious matter.”
The young man laughed, “The Gu Spirit Sect is the number one sect in the Xuan Yue Empire. I am one of the top ten geniuses in the sect, and with the assistance of my junior brothers, who could we possibly lose to?”
“Besides, this is just a brief detour. How much time could it possibly take? It won’t delay our mission at all. I think you’re just being overly cautious.”
He suddenly turned to his junior brothers and said, “We have a major disagreement here. You can either choose to listen to me and join me in killing that person, or you can listen to her and prioritize the mission.”
“If you choose to follow me, stay on the boat. If you choose her, get off the boat with her.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the group of juniors averted their eyes from the veiled woman and did not move a step.
The veiled woman sighed softly and jumped off the boat, landing gently on a giant butterfly.
“Hmph! What a sanctimonious hypocrite. Let’s not bother with her. I’ll lead you to great fortune...”
Moments later, the green boat stopped in front of the swirling black cloud vortex. Everyone on board was shocked by what they saw.
Treasures capable of causing heavenly phenomena were extremely rare. Even the well-informed disciples of the Gu Spirit Sect were witnessing such a phenomenon for the first time. Their faces were filled with awe.
“My master is currently in seclusion here. Please leave to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings!” a voice called out.
The voice belonged to Fire clone, who stood atop the tip of a tree, hands clasped behind his back, shouting at the figures in the sky.
Hearing the voice, the group of geniuses on the boat looked down. They saw a person standing on the highest leaf of a tree, motionless, as if lighter than a feather, without bending the leaf at all.
Everyone was stunned. How was this even possible?