The [Blazing Vermilion Fruit] appeared small, no bigger than a thumb. Yet, it contained terrifying energy, and furthermore, immortal energy from the upper realms.
Yang Hong had a feeling that if he dared to consume it, he would absolutely explode on the spot.
The energy being potent was one thing; the high intensity of the energy was the most fatal.
It was only due to Yang Hong's good fortune and immense merit protecting him that he felt a strange premonition of death just as he was about to eat it.
He firmly believed his premonition would not be wrong, never expecting that such a small, seemingly peaceful fruit could contain such terrifying energy.
At the same time, he also understood that Venerable Galamin did not have good intentions when giving him the [Blazing Vermilion Fruit].
Was he trying to make him explode and die?
Sensing the danger of the [Blazing Vermilion Fruit], Yang Hong never considered eating it.
Since it could not be eaten, he would plant it. However, planting immortal fruits would result in spiritual plants of immortal bloom caliber, which were not easy to cultivate in the lower realm.
For this reason, Yang Hong had to reduce the effort he put into the Azure Sky Willow and instead began cultivating seven types of spiritual flowers: the [Fierce Sparrow Flame Flower], [Blue Moon Orchid], [Violet Orchid], [Yellow Cherry Blossom], [Azure Jade Rhododendron], [Orange Nan Flower], and [Eastern Marigold].
This time, Yang Hong directly mobilized the entire strength of Qingfeng Villa. After seven full years, he cultivated a vast plain spanning millions of miles in diameter.
Furthermore, Yang Hong transplanted all the high-level spiritual plants he had nurtured over the decades onto this great plain.
Following the positions of the seven array eyes of the [Seven Star Gathering Spirit Array], Yang Hong planted seven Azure Sky Willow trees.
As night fell, Yang Hong rapidly formed seals with his hands, beginning to activate the [Seven Star Gathering Spirit Array]. Seven stars, each the size of a bowl, appeared in the sky, emitting brilliant light, and immeasurable stellar energy was drawn in.
Seven giant beams of light, each seventy feet wide, shot down into the plain. The disciples of Qingfeng Villa, already experienced from a previous encounter, uniformly began to perform spiritual plant techniques to stabilize the [Seven Star Gathering Spirit Array].
"Now!"
Yang Hong, who had been waiting at the Heavenly Pivot position, took out the prepared [Blazing Vermilion Fruit] and threw it into the purple pillar of light before him.
As he threw it, he also used his magic power to pierce the Blazing Vermilion Fruit. Instantly, a stream of pure and immense immortal energy emanated from the small fruit.
The immortal energy began to combine with the stellar energy, and a faint spiritual energy, imbued with stellar and immortal essence, began to emanate from this pillar of stellar energy.
This change made Yang Hong's expectant eyes brighten. With both hands forming seals simultaneously, he channeled his divine sense madly!
"Moonlight Jade Flowing Nectar! Solar Creation Technique!"
Both an eighth-rank cultivation technique of Yin and Yang were used simultaneously. Silver jade flowing nectar and purple creation qi slowly appeared. However, before they could fall to the ground, they merged under the full control of his divine sense.
A stream of silver-purple raindrops, emitting strong vitality, slowly appeared and gently drifted down.
And this was not all. Yang Hong also released the Creation Law he had comprehended, enveloping the [Blazing Vermilion Fruit] that was still radiating immortal energy.
Under the multitude of spells and preparations, the Blazing Vermilion Fruit landed on the ground and began to take root and sprout.
One inch... two inches... three inches...
One foot... two feet... three feet...
One zhang... two zhang...
After seven cycles of sunrise and moonset, a tree three zhang three chi and four cun tall, resembling a camellia tree from the mortal world, stopped growing.
The spiritual energy it emitted was so pure that a single breath made one feel refreshed. The purity of the spiritual energy was several times greater than that of the high-grade spirit stones Yang Hong had absorbed.
If Yang Hong had used top-grade spirit stones, he would have surely discovered that this was the spiritual energy of top-grade spirit stones.
In other words, he had cultivated a living pseudo-immortal bloom that emitted top-grade spiritual energy!
From now on, the disciples of Qingfeng Villa would be using top-grade spirit stones simply by absorbing this spiritual energy. It would not only accelerate their cultivation speed but also reduce the impact of bottlenecks.
Looking at the [Blazing Vermilion Fruit] that had stopped growing and was now stably emitting top-grade spiritual energy, Yang Hong felt a hint of disappointment.
"The spiritual energy in the cultivation world is still insufficient. Even with all these preparations, I still couldn't cultivate an immortal bloom!
Perhaps this is the suppression of the world's rules."
"Huh! The seven-colored pillar of light hasn't disappeared yet!
Does that mean I can pull off some more trickery?"
Seeing the seven-colored pillar of stellar energy, which remained very bright even during the day, Yang Hong was quite surprised.
He then looked at the [Blazing Vermilion Fruit] tree that had taken root on the purple crystal platform, and his eyes lit up.
Feeling his cultivation break through from the first layer of the Integration stage to the second layer of the Integration stage just by planting one fruit tree, he became even more confident in his idea.
Without delay, Yang Hong used several wood escape techniques, leveraging the abundant wood-attribute spiritual energy on the plain, and flew to the nearest blue pillar of light.
"Hahaha~ Just as I expected, there's no crystal platform under this pillar of light!
Go, Golden Lightning Bamboo!"
The excited Yang Hong found a seed the size of a fist from his scale space and threw it into the blue pillar of light. Moonlight Jade Flowing Nectar and Solar Creation Technique were once again used simultaneously.
Golden Lightning Bamboo typically propagates through its rhizomes and rarely through seeds.
The seed the size of a fist was a Golden Lightning Bamboo seed. It was extremely rare, with perhaps one seed in tens of thousands of Golden Lightning Bamboo plants blooming and bearing fruit. It was a most precious spiritual medicine.
It was a super top-grade spiritual medicine that could directly bestow a high-grade lightning spirit root upon a cultivator who had no spirit root.
Although there were no elixirs or miraculous pills in the cultivation world that could bestow spirit roots upon those without them, this was generally true for the common cultivation world.
Truly wealthy and powerful great cultivators could still find extremely rare heavenly treasures, but they were so scarce that most great cultivators would directly give up on offspring without spirit roots rather than search for these heavenly treasures.
And someone like Yang Hong, who used heavenly treasures as seeds for cultivation, was truly unprecedented!
Similarly, after seven days of casting and cultivation, the Golden Lightning Bamboo also grew to a height of two zhang three chi and four cun and stopped growing, as if the Seven Star Gathering Spirit Array had some limit.
"Hiss~ This is the spiritual energy! Spiritual energy purer than that of high-grade spirit stones!
I'm a genius! With this Seven Star Gathering Spirit Array set up, I'll have the purest spiritual energy on the entire continent."
After a burst of laughter, Yang Hong again used wood escape to reach the location of the next pillar of light.
On the green pillar of light, he planted Jade Green Grapes. This was one of the first spiritual plants he had cultivated. On one hand, it was out of nostalgia; on the other, it was an experiment.
Jade Green Grapes could only grow to about two zhang in height, but by having trellises built, the grapevines could spread to a length of twenty-three zhang and four chi.
Due to the larger and more extended plant structure, the Jade Green Grapes emitted more top-grade spiritual energy, roughly more than double that of the [Blazing Vermilion Fruit].
With this experiment, Yang Hong chose to plant vine-like plants for all subsequent cultivations.
On the red pillar of light, he planted the Star-Pulling Butterfly Flower, a supplementary spiritual medicine for cultivators in the Separation Divinity stage to break through to the seventh-rank Integration stage.
On the yellow pillar of light, he planted the Bright Treasure Five-Leaf Vine, the primary ingredient for refining various elixirs for limb regeneration.
On the green pillar of light, he planted the Light-Guiding Gourd. This was an old friend. The Light-Guiding Gourd, after simple refinement, could become a Thunder Pearl Gourd. The abundant Thunder Pearl Gourds of Qingfeng Villa were basically condensed and refined from Light-Guiding Gourds.
On the final orange pillar of light, Yang Hong decided to get creative again.