Chapter 54: Starting Out

Qingxuan Blessed Land.

After Ye Qingxiao left, Ye Qingxuan took out his disciple token and reported to Manager Bai of the Blessed Cultivation Academy

"Manager Bai, this disciple has successfully contracted the Blessed Land and smoothly broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm. Reporting to you!"

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, his monthly contribution points would increase from the original 30 to 60.

Though it wasn't much, contribution points were hard to come by and could only be accumulated by completing tasks.

His Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was just getting started, and he would need to invest a large amount of capital in the early stages to develop it; thus, contribution points were indispensable.

After Ye Qingxuan sent the message, Bai Zichun's reply came back quickly

"You brat, it took you over four months just to contract a Blessed Land?"

If it weren't for the fact that Bai Zichun had stayed at the Blessed Cultivation Academy for many years and knew that contracting a Blessed Land would not fail after practicing the *Source of Cultivation Scripture*, and that Ye Qingxuan's name had not disappeared from the sect's registry, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist going to the Qingxuan Blessed Land to collect Ye Qingxuan's corpse.

After a quick complaint, Bai Zichun sent another transmission

"Alright, your information has been updated. From now on, your disciple token can directly contact the sect's Dharma Transmission Hall, Library, Hall of All Things, and Task Hall."

"If you need to exchange for inheritances, spells, or resources, or if you wish to post tasks, you can do so through your disciple token. Specialized disciples will be sent to deliver them to you when the time comes."

The Blessed Cultivation system had existed within the Xuantian Sect for many years and naturally had a corresponding set of operational procedures.

"Also, for a First-Tier Blessed Land, you are required to complete one First-Tier planting task for the sect every year. Remember to claim it through the Task Hall via your disciple token when the time comes."

Only after Bai Zichun had finished his instructions did Ye Qingxuan respond

"Thank you for your guidance, Manager. This disciple understands!"

Upon receiving Ye Qingxuan's response, Bai Zichun sent one final transmission

"From now on, everything depends on yourself. I hope you can maintain your Dao heart and not walk the path trodden by others!"

Seeing Bai Zichun's final message, Ye Qingxuan's eyes were filled with determination as he replied with his last message

"Rest assured, Manager. This disciple already knows how to walk his own path!"

After ending the communication with Bai Zichun.

Ye Qingxuan sent his divine sense into the disciple token, where he saw four tiny buildings labeled: Dharma Transmission Hall, Library, Hall of All Things, and Task Hall!

By lightly touching the Task Hall with his divine sense, Ye Qingxuan could see all the current tasks in the hall and clearly understood the methods for accepting and posting tasks.

Upon entering the First-Tier Planting Task area, Ye Qingxuan saw various planting tasks for First-Tier spiritual herbs.

If only one task was completed each year, no contribution points would be awarded upon completion; however, for every additional task completed, one could earn an extra 300 contribution points.

Ye Qingxuan felt no dissatisfaction with this.

The Xuantian Sect had spent great costs to nurture Blessed Cultivators in the early stages and provided a piece of spiritual land for them to contract later; therefore, in Ye Qingxuan's view, completing one First-Tier planting task for the sect for free every year was only fair.

Depending on the difficulty of cultivating different First-Tier spiritual herbs, the required quantity to be handed in each year varied for each task.

For example, the easiest to cultivate—such as Sky Blue Flowers, Purple Spirit Grass, and Spirit Attracting Flowers—required 1,500 plants per task annually.

Despite the large quantity, given the superior environment of the Xuantian Mountains within the Xuantian Sect, these herbs would have a decent survival rate even if they weren't planted in the core area of the Blessed Land, but only in peripheral areas like the outer peaks of the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

It would simply require a significant amount of effort to tend to them, a point that Ye Qingxuan immediately dismissed.

Finally, after a comparison, Ye Qingxuan chose the most difficult to plant, the Earth Spirit Flower, as his annual planting task.

Although the Earth Spirit Flower was the hardest to grow, a single task only required handing in 100 plants per year.

In the core area of a normal Blessed Cultivator's First-Tier Blessed Land, one could typically plant about 3,000 First-Tier spiritual herbs.

However, this was an ideal state; the difficulty of cultivation and the survival rates varied for different herbs.

During the cultivation process, spiritual herbs would occasionally wither due to various reasons.

Take the hardest to cultivate, the Earth Spirit Flower, for example: the usual average survival rate was one out of every ten plants. A single First-Tier Blessed Land could only produce about 300 Earth Spirit Flowers per year.

Therefore, the specific profit a Blessed Land could generate depended most crucially on the cultivation ability of the Blessed Cultivator themselves.

Some Blessed Cultivators could barely complete two planting tasks for the Xuantian Sect each year, while others could complete five or six; this was the gap between Blessed Cultivators.

But Ye Qingxuan was different. On the surface, he was a Blessed Cultivator, but in reality, he was practicing the Way of the Earth Immortal.

Now that the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land and his cultivation complemented each other, the survival rate of spiritual plants had greatly increased. Furthermore, since the Earth Immortal inheritance included spiritual plant knowledge, Ye Qingxuan was not worried about the survival rate of the herbs.

Even for the most difficult Earth Spirit Flower, Ye Qingxuan was confident he could guarantee a survival rate of over ninety percent.

He had an extra Grotto-Heaven compared to others, which greatly increased his plantable area.

However, for the growth of his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he certainly would not choose to plant only one type of spiritual plant in the future.

The more varieties of spiritual plants he planted, the faster the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land would grow.

Additionally, the integration of Grotto-Heavens reduced the limitations of a single Blessed Land; currently, a First-Tier Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was fully capable of planting Third-Tier spiritual plants.

Since the Earth Spirit Flower was a special spiritual plant containing the essence of the twelve great elements of the Earth Profound Realm, it could be cultivated continuously, providing significant help to the growth of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land. This was one of the reasons Ye Qingxuan chose it.

Once the planting task was selected, specialized disciples would deliver the seeds to him.

Seeds were generally provided based on the average survival rate; if Ye Qingxuan accepted a task to plant Earth Spirit Flowers, he would be sent 1,000 seeds.

In a sect like the Xuantian Sect, spiritual herb seeds were the least valuable items.

After selecting his task, Ye Qingxuan entered the Hall of All Things, intending to buy a refining furnace and a talisman brush.

Ye Qingxuan currently only had 2,432 contribution points.

Aside from the dozen or so points left over from previous spell exchanges, these points were mainly accumulated during his six years of secluded cultivation to reach the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, combined with the seven-plus months spent returning home and opening his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan checked the prices of the refining furnace and the talisman brush. His current points were only enough to exchange for one High-Grade Dharma Tool level refining furnace and one High-Grade Dharma Tool level talisman brush.

After calculating for a moment, Ye Qingxuan spent 1,200 contribution points to exchange for a High-Grade Dharma Tool level refining furnace, and another 1,200 points to exchange for four sets of materials for refining High-Grade Dharma Tool level talisman brushes.

Since he intended to cultivate refining as a secondary path, he might as well refine the brushes himself; Ye Qingxuan was very confident in his own comprehension!

Even the High-Grade Dharma Tool level refining furnace was merely a temporary measure for him.

With his current Purple Mansion Realm cultivation, he could fully use a True Tool level refining furnace, but unfortunately, he was temporarily short on funds!

His cultivation had risen too quickly while opening the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, leaving him without enough time to accumulate capital.

After exchanging for the refining furnace and the talisman brush materials, Ye Qingxuan had only about forty thousand low-grade spirit stones left, besides his remaining 32 contribution points.

He planned to find Bai Wenyang to exchange these spirit stones for materials, aiming to first raise his proficiency in the four arts of cultivation: alchemy, smithing, talisman making, and array formation.