Chapter 482 - 455: New Harvest, Green Fall Yellow Springs Leaf

Song Ciwan left Thunder Strike Ridge, but she didn’t head back to the city that day.

Instead, she traveled another thousand miles west, found a quiet and deserted spot, and once again set up her Han Guang Glaze Residence.

Her gains this time were too bountiful, and Song Ciwan needed a safe and quiet place to sort through and process them.

Most importantly, now that she had both the Thousand-Year Thunderstruck Li Wood and the Peach Wood, Song Ciwan would not delay. She had to refine a new pair of Peach and Plum Puppets as quickly as possible!

Song Ciwan still had two old pairs of Peach and Plum Puppets. Although these Puppets were refined when she was weaker, they hadn’t become completely useless.

Only the teleportation function of the Peach Wood Puppets had failed; the Death Substitution Function of the Li Wood Puppets was still usable.

However, these two pairs of Puppets were taking up slots for the Substitution Strange Technique. According to the rules, no more than three pairs of Peach and Plum Puppets could exist at the same time.

Therefore, Song Ciwan could only refine one more new pair of Peach and Plum Puppets for now.

That was enough.

Song Ciwan took thirty-three taels of Peach Wood and thirty-three taels of Li Wood. After marking them with her blood, she began the ritual carving and refinement.

Now that her Cultivation had increased, the total time to refine these Puppets was still seven times seven, forty-nine days. This period had to be real-world time and could not be substituted with cultivation time.

The daily ritual refinement required her to infuse one hundred years of Lifespan into both the Peach Wood and the Li Wood Puppets respectively!

In other words, refining a single Puppet would consume four thousand nine hundred years of Lifespan. Refining both together would consume nine thousand eight hundred years of Lifespan.

If it weren’t Song Ciwan, any other Cultivator—even a True Immortal—would be unable to afford such a cost to their Lifespan.

Speaking of which, the Peach and Plum Puppets Song Ciwan had refined back when she was in the Qi Transformation Stage had been far more cost-effective.

Back then, refining a pair only required ninety-eight years of Lifespan.

Such a Marvel had to be used sparingly and cherished. Even though Song Ciwan had no shortage of Lifespan, she still needed to be cautious when using them.

Every time she used up a pair, the price to refine a new one would be even greater once her Cultivation rose again!

Of course, the materials required at that time would also be harder to find.

And so, Song Ciwan refined her Puppets and cultivated her Strange Techniques within her Han Guang Glaze Residence, working without fail each day and gradually finding her rhythm.

At the same time, she let out the Big White Goose, allowing it to run around gleefully in the courtyard of the Han Guang Glaze Residence. Human and goose kept each other company, cultivating together, so they weren’t lonely.

Although the refinement of the Peach and Plum Puppets had to continue for forty-nine days, this didn’t mean she could do nothing else but the ritual refinement during that period.

The ritual refinement of the Peach and Plum Puppets only required a full two hours each day.

In her remaining time, Song Ciwan would continue her Demon Cooking Project while also trading for various amounts of cultivation time. She cultivated the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting, as well as various Daoist Techniques, Martial Arts, and Miscellaneous Techniques.

Sometimes she would also fire up a furnace for Alchemy, or practice Artifact Refining or Drawing Talismans.

In short, when it came to the six arts of cultivation, even if she couldn’t achieve complete Mastery in all of them, she was more than willing to allocate time to practice each one.

The main reason was that she could trade human desires for cultivation time. At the Qi Cultivation Stage, one pound traded for a year; at the Divinity Transformation Stage, one pound traded for ten years. She had so much cultivation time that if she didn’t spread it out to do other things, she would easily grow dazed, no matter how resolute her will.

After all, Song Ciwan was not a cultivation machine. She needed to self-regulate; that was the path to true endurance.

It is worth mentioning that during these forty-nine days, Song Ciwan cooked all the Great Demon corpses she had previously accumulated. Except for the Demon Venerable Void Mantis, she cooked every other Demon Corpse she had!

When she had previously borrowed the power of the Tribulation Thunder to break through to Opening the Universe, she had used up almost all the Golden Cocoon Pills, Spiritual Essence Pills, and Blood God Pills she had obtained from cooking Demon Corpses. Only thirty Golden Cocoon Pills were left.

The Golden Cocoon Pills were special. Because they weren’t a conventional elixir, they could only be obtained in exchange for dishes made from the flesh and blood of a Pangolin.

No matter how many different ways Song Ciwan later cooked the other Demon Corpses, she was never able to trade them for more Golden Cocoon Pills.

The Spiritual Essence Pills and Blood God Pills were more conventional. After this period of cooking and trading, Song Ciwan had once again accumulated 2,100 Spiritual Essence Pills and 3,200 Blood God Pills.

In addition, there were some new elixirs.

For example, eight hundred Spirit Returning Pills.

Spirit Returning Pill: A Five-star Elixir. Its main effect is healing, capable of treating various conventional injuries for Divine Refining Stage Cultivators or other types of cultivators at the same realm.

There were also three hundred Qianyuan Pills.

Qianyuan Pill: A Five-star Elixir. Its medicinal power is fierce and potent. It can help Divine Refining Stage Cultivators or other types of cultivators at the same realm break through bottlenecks and charge into a new realm.

Though also a Five-star Elixir, the Qianyuan Pill’s value was clearly far greater than the likes of the Spiritual Essence Pill and the Blood God Pill.

It was used for breaking through bottlenecks!

Its value was not much less than that of the Soul Cleansing Pill, which could purify one’s Divine Soul.

Additionally, there were one hundred fifty Illusionary Divine Pills.

Illusionary Divine Pill: A Five-star Elixir. When dissolved with True Qi or Qi Blood, this pill creates an Illusionary Divine Mist. The mist can severely confuse the minds of any living beings within it, causing endless illusions to arise and making it difficult to distinguish reality from illusion.

The Illusionary Divine Pill was also a special type of elixir, once again enriching Song Ciwan’s inventory.

As for the last remaining corpse, that of the Void Mantis, it wasn’t that Song Ciwan was unwilling to cook it. The main issue was that the Demon Venerable’s corpse had been eroded by the Power of Time until it was withered and decayed, leaving it with little to no cooking value.

Since it couldn’t be cooked, she might as well sell it directly to the Heaven and Earth Scale.

[You have sold one withered corpse of a Demon Venerable Level Void Mantis and obtained one Six-star Level Marvel: a Green Fall Yellow Springs Leaf.]

Green Fall Yellow Springs Leaf: A Six-star Level Marvel, usable three times.

Holding this Marvel, one can traverse heaven and earth in an instant, reaching from the highest heavens to the Yellow Springs of the underworld. No place in the void of the Three Realms is beyond reach.

Upon seeing the description of this Marvel, Song Ciwan fell silent in thought for a long time.

’What did it mean, to reach from the highest heavens to the Yellow Springs of the underworld?’

’Does this mean that if I’m willing, I could even use this single Green Fall Yellow Springs Leaf to go to the Heaven Beyond Heaven?’

At that moment, her heart was churning. An indescribable wave of excitement surged through her.

Although she cultivated the Void Rune Technique and had grasped a limited form of the Space Shifting Technique, she was clearly still a long way from being able to "reach from the highest heavens to the Yellow Springs of the underworld"!

But in the end, Song Ciwan took a long, deep breath. Reason won out over impulse.

’I can’t be impulsive, or a thousand moments of caution will all be for naught.’

The mysteries of the Heaven Beyond Heaven were not something the current Song Ciwan could pry into. At the very least, she absolutely could not rashly send her true body to investigate.

The Green Fall Yellow Springs Leaf could be a Marvel for exploration, or it could be a Marvel for escaping with her life.

Song Ciwan carefully put away the Green Fall Yellow Springs Leaf. Then, on a day when the new Peach and Plum Puppets were nearing completion, she sold off the human desires of Celestial Immortal Wang Cheng.

By this time, her Cultivation had completely stabilized at the Mid-Stage Divinity Transformation, and she was steadily advancing toward the Late-stage Divinity Transformation.

Her Alchemy had been honed through countless thousands of attempts, as she could use the Spirit Mimicry Technique to simulate the process in her Cultivation Space. It was now advanced enough for her to refine Top Grade Three-star Elixirs!

As for higher-grade elixirs, it wasn’t that she couldn’t refine them, but that she lacked the materials.