Hearing Shen Lianshi's loud words, Aoki Zhenren's mouth twitched.

But what else can I do? Someone has come to my door.

These are not the key points. The key point is that he cannot win. If Shen Lian had tried to kill him just now, he would probably be waiting in line in the reincarnation now.

The consequences are not something that Qingmu Zong can bear.

"Fellow Daoist, the heart of a spiritual tree is hard to come by. Now my sect only has one piece left, and it was passed down from our ancestors."

"Take it out and let me see it."

Shen Lian asked Master Qingmu to take out the heart of the spiritual tree. The purpose of his trip was to get this spiritual object.

Extortion is just a means.

He ran away like a minion back then, but now he comes to bully you with an ugly face.

To be honest, it's not just unkind of him to come to someone's house and bully them; it's extremely unkind.

Besides, people gave him a piece of spiritual tree heart, which was worth hundreds of thousands of low-grade spiritual stones. It was already a very precious compensation for him who was still at the foundation-building stage at that time.

They are also following the orders of the Yunshang Sect. If they really want to cause trouble, they should go to the Yunshang Sect.

It is not an exaggeration to describe him as a bully who bullies the weak and fears the strong, and as shameless as he is.

He can only blame Qingmu Sect for having the spirit tree heart, which is something hard to come by and is what he urgently needs right now.

"Daoyou, how can you carry such a valuable thing with you?"

Master Qingmu glanced at Shen Lian and said, "Please wait for a moment. I will go to the sect to get it."

"Well, Daoist Qingmu is light, Daoist Qingyi can stay here and drink tea with me."

Master Qingmu hesitated for a moment, glanced at his junior sister, and then flew away.

As Shen Lian waved his hand, a set of simple tea sets appeared on the table in front of him.

"Why is Brother Qingyi hiding so far away?"

After boiling the spring water and pouring it into the teapot, Shen Lian brought a cup of tea to Qingyi. Regardless of whether Qingyi drank it or not, he slowly enjoyed it.

"Can you play music, fellow Taoist?"

After a cup of tea, Shen Lian suddenly asked.

"Won't."

Qingyi responded sullenly.

"If you want to listen to music, go to the Holy Spirit Palace. The female cultivators there are proficient in everything from music, chess, calligraphy and painting. I only know how to cultivate spiritual plants."

"What is Daoist Fellow Qingyi's life-giving spiritual plant?"

The cultivators of Qingmu Sect would refine their own spiritual plants and implant them into their bodies. In Shen Lian's opinion, this sect was born at the wrong time. The reason why there were no powerful cultivators nowadays was mainly because there were no suitable spiritual plants to refine and implant into their bodies.

If it were in ancient times, when there were natural treasures everywhere, the Qingmu Sect would have been extremely powerful.

"Green cage seven-aperture spiritual heart grass."

Before Shen Lian could speak again, Master Qingmu had already returned from the sect and placed a jade box in front of Shen Lian.

"Fellow Daoist, this is the heart of a 3,600-year-old spiritual tree."

When Shen Lian opened the jade box, a rich spiritual light suddenly illuminated the entire room. The pure and emerald light made the three people in the room look green.

"Third level, top grade."

Shen Lian checked and found that the quality of this spiritual wood heart was much better than the previous one.

Normally, spiritual medicines and plants that are more than three thousand years old will either be promoted to the fourth level or wither.

There are too few spiritual plants that waste time and grow slowly like the heart of the spiritual tree.

With this piece of spiritual tree heart, his physical cultivation realm can at least be promoted to the middle stage of the third order, and by then his magic cultivation will also be able to break through easily.

“Click.”

After checking, Shen Lian covered the jade box, and the green light in the room disappeared instantly.

He grabbed the teapot and poured a glass of water for Aoki Masato.

Qingmu took the teacup, his eyes still on Shen Lian.

The heart of the spiritual tree has been obtained, and he needs to get Shen Lian's promise. Otherwise, if Shen Lian comes as he pleases, Qingmu Sect will no longer be Shen Lian's warehouse.

"This matter is over."

Shen Lian also knew what Qingmu was waiting for, so he raised the teacup and gestured.

As the words fell, Aoki picked up the teacup.

"Where did you get the spirit tree heart from?"

Shen Lian looked at Qingmu and asked.

Things like the heartwood of a spiritual tree can only be produced by some ancient trees in places with abundant spiritual energy.

There are old trees with intertwined roots in the mountains and fields. Some of them have grown for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. They wither and sprout again and again, but they are still ordinary trees.

"I've said it before, it was handed down from our ancestors. By the time of my junior sister and I, only two pieces were left, and both have fallen into the hands of fellow Taoists."

"There must be a place for production." Shen Lian continued to ask.

"It's deep in Tianzhu Mountain. Go find it."

Seeing Shen Lian threatening his senior brother, Qing Yi, who had been silent, spoke up.

Shen Lian didn't care. He boiled spring water again and poured it into the teapot. The only sounds in the room were the clinking of teacups and the gurgling of spring water.

This feeling made Qingmu and Qingyi feel more stressed.

Suddenly, Shen Lian spoke.

"Cui Long Qi Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass, your junior sister's spiritual plant has not yet opened up."

When these words were spoken, Qingmu and Qingyi were stunned.

"How...how do you know the secret of the spiritual plant?"

Qingyi spoke in surprise.

"Who told you that?"

Her natal spiritual plant, Lingxin Grass, was not a secret among some Jindan cultivators in the South China Sea, so it was not difficult for Shen Lian to find out about it.

"Hand over all the spirit wood hearts, and I may be able to help you open your mind."

Just now, while Shen Lian was boiling water and making tea, he made up for the relevant inheritance of spiritual plants.

The inheritance of the first and second level spiritual plant masters consumed not many points of enlightenment in total.

At this moment, in the sea of ​​divine consciousness.

The little divine being sat cross-legged, with densely packed knowledge about the inherited spiritual plant master in front of him, from the lower grade of the first stage to the middle grade of the second stage.

The little divine being smiled slightly as he flipped through the relevant knowledge.

The spirit and the body were synchronized, and turned into the words that Shen Lian spoke.

He was looking through the information and pretending to be an expert at the same time without wasting any time.

The inheritance of first- and second-level spiritual plant masters is naturally not that profound, but it has the advantage of having a general outline and providing preliminary annotations to the countless spiritual plants in the world of immortal cultivation.

"Are you also a spiritual plant master?"

Qingyi tucked in his green cloud-patterned cloak, especially his dantian area, and protected it with his hands crossed.

The Qingmu Sect is rich in spiritual plant masters, and their two junior sisters are also spiritual plant masters. In the past, the Yunshang Sect often asked them to cultivate spiritual plants and spiritual medicines.

However, the spiritual plant skills passed down by the Qingmu Sect are actually not comprehensive, and are more for assisting in the practice of martial arts.

"Green cage seven-aperture spiritual heart grass, it looks like you haven't opened any of the apertures."

Spiritual plants, like cultivators, need to be improved bit by bit, and the transformation of some spiritual plants needs to be triggered by some external conditions.

For example, this Lingxin grass, not to mention opening the seven orifices to activate the spiritual heart, as long as it opens four orifices, Qingyi can also be promoted to the Nascent Soul stage.

Her advancement to the Golden Core stage has actually little to do with Lingxin Grass. It is purely the result of her own practice.

"Fellow Daoist, do you really know how to open the Seven-Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass?"

Qingmu's expression changed. He was able to point out that the Cuilong Seven-Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass needed someone to awaken its acupoints, and Shen Lian was the first one in all these years.

Aoki Muneshi was born at the wrong time!

If it were in ancient times, no, even in the Middle Ages, his Qingmu Sect would have become a prestigious Nascent Soul or even Divine Transformation sect.

But now it is just an ordinary Jindan force.

The founder of Qingmu Sect was just a casual cultivator in Tianzhu Mountain. Once when he was being hunted, he accidentally ran into the depths of Tianzhu Mountain and received the inheritance. He practiced all the way to the great perfection of Golden Elixir and founded Qingmu Sect.

Over the years, the Qingmu Sect has been able to pass down some of its spiritual plant skills, but no cultivator has since broken through to the great perfection of the golden elixir.

The main reason is that the dual cultivation method of the natal spiritual plant relies too much on the spiritual plant at the time of entry.

Take Qingmu Zhenren himself for example. When he was practicing, he refined a third-level cloud-patterned azure wood. It is said that this wood has the potential to be promoted to the fourth level.

But when he was actually promoted to the Golden Core Stage, he realized that let alone promoting the Cloud Patterned Azure Wood to the Fourth Stage, he didn't even have the ability to promote it to the third-grade premium grade.

After years of hard training, he had only improved to the third-level mid-grade, and his strength was just at the middle stage of the golden elixir.

Also, because the quality of the Cloud Pattern Azure Wood is just so-so, his combat power is not outstanding among the middle-stage Jindan cultivators. He would even be beaten and flee if he encountered an early-stage Jindan cultivator with fire attributes.

The Cuilong Seven-Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass is quite famous in the world of immortal cultivation, and there are related records in many sects’ classics, but there are no records of its cultivation.

The Lingxin grass that has not yet blossomed can grow on its own into a third-level spiritual plant. It can be used as medicine or to make talisman paper.

But if you want to advance to the fourth level, you must open your mind. However, this kind of spiritual herb is naturally suitable for plant cultivation. Without the help of plant cultivation, the Lingxin Grass will gradually wither after becoming a third-level spiritual herb.

Each kind of spiritual plant has a corresponding method of cultivation, but Qingmu Sect does not have the method of cultivating Lingxin Grass.

Master Qingmu stood up and poured tea for Shen Lian, his expression was very uneasy.

The Seven-Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass refined by Junior Sister Qingyi was brought back by his master from the depths of Tianzhu Mountain.

Since the founding father, every generation of Qingmu Sect's leader would go into the depths of Tianzhu Mountain to explore when he was about to pass away.

Throughout the ages, there have been only four people who have been able to return from the depths of Tianzhu Mountain, including their master, the previous generation Qingmu Zhenren.

After the previous generation of Master Qingmu returned, he accepted Qingyi as his disciple, but passed away after only five years. It can be said that Qingmu was both his senior brother and his master.

The previous generation of Master Qingmu brought back the Cuilong Seven-Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass from the depths of Tianzhu Mountain. Naturally, this matter could not be hidden from the Yunshang Sect.

As a Nascent Soul Sect, the Yunshang Sect has countless classics, so naturally they found records about Lingxin Grass.

Therefore, when Qingyi was refining the Lingxin Grass, Yunshang Sect sent a message to Qingyi, asking him to choose a Taoist partner in Yunshang Sect.

However, over the years, seeing that the Lingxin Grass on Qingyi's body had not blossomed, and confirming that the Qingmu Sect did not have the corresponding method to blossom, this matter was slowly suppressed.

"If you can tell me the method to open my mind, I will give you the map of the place where the heart of the spirit tree was found."

"Let me see Fellow Daoist Qingyi's Lingxin Grass."

Shen Lian looked at Master Qingyi.

Plant cultivation can be said to be a declining path of cultivation after physical cultivation, and it is closely related to the decline of the two, as the two sides are sworn enemies.

Rumor has it that when the physical cultivators could not find any high-level spiritual objects, they turned their attention to plant cultivators.

Kill the plant cultivators and snatch the spiritual plants.

Under Shen Lian's gaze, Qing Yi opened the cloak that wrapped herself, and a small hole slowly appeared on the hem of her green skirt at her lower abdomen, just revealing her belly button.

A green spiritual plant about three inches in size just covers the belly button.

This spiritual plant has seven crabapple-shaped leaves, and between the seven leaves is a hazy green light ball.

It is rumored that when the spiritual herbs open up, they will all be immersed in the blue light ball. When all seven orifices are opened, the blue light ball will sink into the practitioner's heart. In the process of opening up, it will gradually enlighten the practitioner's spiritual wisdom and improve his understanding.

After observing the spiritual herbs, Shen Lianye stated his conditions.

"Give me a set of rubbings of the cultivation method inherited by the Qingmu Sect, as well as the location where the heart of the spirit tree was found."

"Also, add thirty more pieces of third-grade top-quality talisman paper."

At this point, Shen Lian looked at Master Qing Yi, "Your Qingmu Sect has been passed down for so many years, do you have any fourth-level talisman paper?"

When Shen Lian looked at her, Qingyi felt panicked.

“Yes, it is.”

"Add three more fourth-level talisman papers."

The room was silent.

"I have a secret method to open the four front orifices."

The opening of four orifices of the Cuilong Seven-Aperture Spirit Heart Grass corresponds to the fourth stage, which can allow the cultivator to advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

"You are asking for too much, fellow Daoist."

Qingmu smiled bitterly. They really couldn't give what Shen Lian wanted.

The Qingmu Sect was founded on plant cultivation, so naturally they have cultivated a lot of spiritual herbs over the years. In addition, the Yunshang Sect also stipulates that for every generation of Jindan Zhenren in the Qingmu Sect, a fourth-level talisman paper must be made for them.

The reason why Qingmu Sect can make fourth-level talisman paper is not because of their exquisite craftsmanship, but because Qingmu Sect has a clumsy way.

Taking the essence of third-level spiritual plants, it takes hundreds of years to gather them together bit by bit, using quantity to bring about qualitative change.

The quality of the fourth-level talisman paper produced by this method is not that good, but it is still a strategic material in the various regions of the southern continent.

"Fellow Daoist, you want to learn the skills of my sect because you want to see if you can take the path of plant cultivation. My sect does have a secret method of plant cultivation that can draw on the power of spiritual plants."

As for the sect's cultivation techniques, Master Qingmu didn't want to give them away, but he knew Shen Lian's purpose.

The Yunshang Sect also came to ask for it back then.

"It's not that I'm reluctant to give it up, but fellow Daoist has a main cultivation method. Unless you start over, you can no longer practice the cultivation method. You can only use the secret method to perform it."

Qingmu explained, "Also, our sect doesn't have that much talisman paper. I can give you a maximum of five pieces of third-grade top-quality talisman paper, and one piece of fourth-grade talisman paper."

"Ten pieces of third-grade, top-quality talisman paper."

"Two fourth-level cards."

Qingmu shook his head, "Daoyou, my Qingmu Sect really can't afford so much."

Shen Lian didn't look at Qingmu's bitter face, his eyes fell on Qingyi again.

"Daoyou, really not?"

Qingyi looked at Qingmu, then reacted and closed her eyes again.

"Fellow Daoist Qingmu is not honest."

Shen Lian looked at Qingmu again, "Compared to your sect producing a Yuanying Zhenjun, this little thing is nothing."

Qingmu smiled bitterly again, feeling somewhat helpless, as his junior sister had confessed.

"Fellow Daoist, this matter must not be disclosed to anyone. You and I need to sign a Hou Tu Contract."

"And I have to promise that you won't cause me trouble again in the future." Qingyi said.

"I guarantee that the method of opening the mind with the Seven-Aperture Spiritual Heart Grass is true."

"Can."

Shen Lian nodded. He was not afraid of cultivating a Nascent Soul enemy. The method of awakening the mind could not be performed in a short period of time, and he also needed to find the corresponding spiritual object.

It would probably take decades just to collect the corresponding spiritual objects, and even then it might not be successful.

By that time, he might have already reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Besides, from what he observed, Qing Yi was already afraid of him, and even if they met in the future, he would probably not dare to fight with him.

With this batch of talisman paper, we will have a greater chance of killing Zi Yang.

After more than 20 years of seclusion, Shen Lian thought clearly that the old man Ziyang had hidden a lot of things, but even if the value of these things added up to ten or a hundred times, could it be compared to the secrets on him? Apart from other things, just the fact that he had mastered several skills would attract a lot of attention once it was spread out.

Coupled with a five spiritual roots cultivator who can cultivate to the Golden Core stage, the quality of the spiritual roots will not be bad. I believe there will be more people interested in it.

As for winning the heart of old man Ziyang, Shen Lian was not sure at all. Ziyang was not Dahei, Sanqian or Erwan, the ones he raised since childhood, but an old fellow who had lived for more than three thousand years.

(End of this chapter)