Chapter 29: Advantages and Limitations of Blessed Cultivators

Within the special space of the Library!

Among the books Ye Qingxuan had just read, in addition to knowledge regarding the advancement of spiritual plants and spiritual veins, there were also records concerning the secrets of being a Blessed Cultivator!

It turned out that to contract a spiritual land and become a Blessed Cultivator—transforming an ordinary spiritual land into a Blessed Land—a cultivator needed to separate a portion of their own essence, qi, and spirit before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, while their essence, qi, and spirit were not yet stable, and merge it into the spiritual land.

Once a portion of the cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit merged with the essence of the spiritual land, the land was contracted and controlled...

From then on!

The cultivator’s life and fate became intertwined with the spiritual land; by sitting in meditation in one place, they became a Blessed Cultivator!

The spiritual land, having merged with the cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit, would undergo a metamorphosis, gaining the opportunity to advance more rapidly and transforming into a Blessed Land.

This was the origin of Blessed Cultivators and Blessed Lands.

As for why a Blessed Cultivator could use a Blessed Land to grow their spiritual roots

It was because the cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit were fused with the essence of the Blessed Land, and the Blessed Land was itself a part of the Earth-Mystic Realm.

Therefore, the birth of a Blessed Cultivator was beneficial to the development of the Earth-Mystic Realm. Under the feedback of the realm's essence, the Blessed Cultivator's spiritual roots would naturally grow slowly.

The higher the grade of the Blessed Land, the greater the feedback from the Earth-Mystic Realm, and the faster the Blessed Cultivator's spiritual roots would grow.

This was precisely why Ye Qingxuan chose to become a Blessed Cultivator.

However, he had not expected that becoming one would require merging his own essence, qi, and spirit!

Originally, he had intended to use his clone, the Eternal Turtle, to bear the restrictions of being a Blessed Cultivator on his behalf. Now, he wondered if the essence separated from his clone could substitute for his own essence, qi, and spirit.

Forget it, let nature take its course!

Even if his plan to have the Eternal Turtle bear the restrictions failed, it wasn't as if he had no other hopes...

With his own little calculations running through his mind, Ye Qingxuan continued reading.

After becoming a Blessed Cultivator, breaking through cultivation levels did not require undergoing tribulations; one could break through naturally.

This was because other cultivators broke through by plundering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which naturally caused the Earth-Mystic Realm to descend tribulations to test whether they were qualified to occupy a portion of the world's resources.

In contrast, during the cultivation process, a Blessed Cultivator contributed to the Earth-Mystic Realm from a different angle; thus, the realm would naturally not descend lightning tribulations to obstruct their breakthroughs.

"I didn't expect such a pleasant surprise!"

Before reading these books, Ye Qingxuan was unaware of this.

This discovery brought him great joy!

After all, the commotion of a tribulation was not small. Undergoing a tribulation within the Profound Heaven Sect would undoubtedly expose him to everyone's eyes, which did not fit his planned development route.

Now that he knew a Blessed Cultivator's breakthrough required no tribulation, it was perfect; the fewer people paying attention to him, the better.

Although Ye Qingxuan currently held a high opinion of the Profound Heaven Sect and felt it was quite good, one could never be too cautious. It was better to keep his own life in his own hands as much as possible.

Reading further, Ye Qingxuan understood why the Earth Source Manual, the technique he practiced, had become the exclusive manual for the disciples of the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard.

Under normal circumstances, the success rate for a cultivator to separate their essence, qi, and spirit to merge with a spiritual land was far too low.

Only through the continuous attempts of their predecessors was the Earth Source Manual, which Ye Qingxuan practiced, brought into existence.

During the cultivation of the Earth Source Manual, one would continuously absorb a portion of the Earth's Source Qi into their essence, qi, and spirit, and Earth Source Qi was one of the essences of a spiritual land.

As one practiced the Earth Source Manual, their essence, qi, and spirit would constantly fuse with the Earth Source Qi.

By the time a practitioner of the Earth Source Manual reached the perfection of the Qi Refining stage and was about to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, their essence, qi, and spirit would have fused with sufficient Earth Source Qi. At this point, contracting the spiritual land and merging their essence, qi, and spirit into the land's essence would be much easier.

Through observations across generations, it was discovered that cultivators with Earth Spiritual Roots could achieve twice the result with half the effort when practicing the Earth Source Manual, facing virtually no risk of failure when contracting a spiritual land.

This was the true reason why the Profound Heaven Sect screened for disciples with Earth Spiritual Roots to become Blessed Cultivators!

It wasn't that cultivators with other spiritual roots could not become Blessed Cultivators, but rather that only those with Earth Spiritual Roots could achieve a one hundred percent success rate after practicing the Earth Source Manual!

Furthermore, after a Blessed Cultivator perished, the Blessed Land could be re-inherited and contracted by another cultivator.

This was the only opportunity for a Blessed Cultivator to directly contract a Blessed Land of the second grade or higher!

Other Blessed Cultivators could only start by contracting a first-grade spiritual land, transforming it into a Blessed Land, and developing it slowly.

However, a Blessed Land could only be passed down three times. After three generations, it would slowly revert into an ordinary spiritual land and merge into the Profound Heaven Mountain Range. Many high-grade spiritual lands in the Profound Heaven Mountain Range were born this way.

Therefore, the opportunity to inherit an ancestor's Blessed Land was extremely precious, as it could save a Blessed Cultivator a significant amount of time. Currently, most high-grade Blessed Cultivators within the Profound Heaven Sect were essentially the result of such generational accumulation and inheritance.

Ye Qingxuan possessed self-awareness and harbored no greed for such opportunities, nor did he care about the restriction of a Blessed Land only being inheritable three times.

His Blessed Land would naturally remain eternal in this world alongside him; outsiders could not dream of inheriting it.

Flipping the pages continuously, Ye Qingxuan continued reading.

Suddenly, he paused. He finally discovered the true reason why Blessed Cultivators did not have clones walking outside.

It turned out that the Blessed Land was both their greatest blessing and their greatest curse!

Because a portion of the cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit merged with the essence of the Blessed Land, the Blessed Land essentially became a unique kind of external incarnation for the cultivator.

This was the primary reason why Blessed Cultivators in the Profound Heaven Sect did not practice external incarnation methods to walk abroad.

It was not merely because the methods for cultivating external incarnations were extremely expensive, but more importantly, because the restrictions of the Blessed Land rendered ordinary incarnation and puppet methods useless.

Ordinary incarnations and puppets simply could not leave the range of the Blessed Land.

Only an external incarnation condensed from one's own essence, qi, and spirit could break free from this restriction.

However, practicing an external incarnation came with realm requirements and quantity limits. Only a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage could condense one external incarnation, and only a powerhouse in the Void Piercing stage could condense a second!

When a Blessed Cultivator used special methods to contract a Blessed Land, they had already occupied their first "external incarnation" slot. Therefore, under normal circumstances, a Blessed Cultivator would have to wait until the Void Piercing stage to attempt to condense another.

That was the Void Piercing stage—a realm of great masters!

Given the snail-like cultivation speed of a Blessed Cultivator, it was enough to drive them to despair, causing them to abandon the idea of condensing an external incarnation altogether.

The reason their cultivation speed was a hundred times slower was that after becoming a Blessed Cultivator, ninety-nine percent of the spiritual energy absorbed into their body would be consumed by the Blessed Land's essence; the cultivator could only retain one percent.

However, there was a solution to the slow cultivation speed!

The Blessed Land absorbed the spiritual energy within the cultivator only because it lacked the energy required for evolution, thus instinctively absorbing the energy to accumulate for its next advancement.

Therefore, as long as a massive amount of energy was provided to the Blessed Land, it would naturally stop absorbing the cultivator's meager energy!

Furthermore, after a Blessed Land advances, it would provide feedback to the Blessed Cultivator, increasing their cultivation level directly while ignoring the restrictions of their spiritual roots. This was one of the primary means for a Blessed Cultivator to raise their cultivation.

Not only that, but under normal circumstances, when a cultivator consumes medicinal pills, they accumulate pill toxins, which leads to resistance.

Every so often, a cultivator must expend energy practicing special techniques or consuming special pure pills to purify the toxins in their body before they can continue using pills for cultivation!

As an alchemist, Ye Qingxuan was well aware of this.

The reason he had not yet developed resistance to the Spirit Increasing Pill was simply because it was a special pill whose effects acted directly on the spiritual roots rather than directly increasing his cultivation, making the side effects much smaller.

However, smaller side effects did not mean there were none. Given enough time, Ye Qingxuan's body would inevitably develop resistance to the Spirit Increasing Pill!

A Blessed Land, however, could help a Blessed Cultivator purify their body and solve the problem of pill resistance, allowing them to use pills at a high frequency to compensate for the defect of slow cultivation!

But all of this—every method to solve the slow cultivation speed—required a massive amount of resources.

To put it bluntly, those who actively chose to become Blessed Cultivators, as well as those disciples who were passively thrown into the Profound Heaven Sect by various subordinate factions, were essentially viewed as "discarded pieces" responsible for producing resources in the eyes of those factions. How could they be expected to spend vast amounts of resources to nurture these "discarded" Blessed Cultivators?

After all, the ultimate ownership of the Blessed Land did not belong to them.

In comparison, although the Ye family was not a major power, their support for Ye Qingxuan was already quite significant!

As for the Profound Heaven Sect, they cultivated Blessed Cultivators for resources. Spending a small amount of resources to nurture Blessed Cultivator candidates was already going above and beyond; how could they possibly expend massive resources to raise their cultivation levels?

After all, the Profound Heaven Sect was not a nanny for its disciples; it could not consider every detail for them.

It was not just the Profound Heaven Sect; most hegemon-level powers were the same.

This was the main reason why major powers were willing to nurture Blessed Cultivator candidates in the early stages but were unwilling to spend resources on low-level Blessed Cultivators.

There was no other reason than the fact that being a Blessed Cultivator was a massive pitfall; the resources required to cultivate one into a high-level cultivator were simply too immense.

While low-level resources were manageable, even for hegemon-level powers like the Profound Heaven Sect, high-level resources were in very short supply.

If they could not cultivate a Blessed Cultivator into a high-level one, then the initial investment in low-level cultivation—producing only one or two second or third-grade Blessed Cultivators—was completely meaningless to powers like the Profound Heaven Sect.

In any case, through the accumulation of time and the three permitted inheritances of a Blessed Land, high-level Blessed Cultivators would naturally emerge slowly.

After all, the auxiliary effect of a high-grade Blessed Land on a low-level Blessed Cultivator was far greater.