Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather Chapter 1815 - 1098: Yu Qingyi’s Treant (2)

Compared to this, Heavenly Sword True Monarch’s soul possession seems much more crude.

"Disciple follows orders!"

True Monarch Huagai accepted the task of investigating the murderer, but he didn’t have much confidence in completing it, as every hidden cultivator is an extremely difficult existence to deal with.

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Yang Zhenshan didn’t know that True Monarch Huagai was going to investigate the murderer, and even if he knew, he wouldn’t care because when they safely returned to the Yang Family Blessed Land, he knew that the other party couldn’t determine his identity and origin.

If the other party knew his identity and origin, they would definitely catch up. Since they didn’t catch up, it means the other party can’t confirm it now.

Therefore, when Yang Zhenshan returned to the Spirit Source Land, he felt quite relaxed.

However, just to be safe, he did take a lot of precautions.

He brought everyone and everything back to the Spirit Source Land and told them not to leave, including the Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat and everything on it.

After all, the Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat had contact with Yuan Chen and others before, and there might be some connection between them.

He wasn’t very clear about the methods of the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion, but he could guess some.

To deduce something, one must rely on connected things; it’s impossible to deduce everything out of thin air.

So in the future, when going to Hengshan Sect, he couldn’t use this group of people and had to change to a new Flying Boat.

Also, Yun Xiao shouldn’t go anymore; instead, let Lin Qihe and Xuanzhen take turns going.

After arranging everything, Yang Zhenshan entered the quiet room again to cultivate.

In the blink of an eye, another year passed.

The Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion still hadn’t come, so Yang Zhenshan was completely relieved.

On this day, Yu Qingyi took Yang Zhenshan to the forest east of Jade City.

This forest is the largest, tallest, and oldest forest in the Spirit Source Land because the trees here were transplanted from ancient relic arrays, consisting of ten-thousand-year-old trees.

"What do you want me to see?" Yang Zhenshan asked, somewhat perplexed.

Today, he had just emerged from seclusion, and Yu Qingyi insisted on bringing him here. When he asked her what they were doing, she was mysterious and piqued Yang Zhenshan’s curiosity.

Yu Qingyi smiled brightly, "You’ll know soon enough."

With that, the two came to a large tree, towering a hundred meters high with a straight trunk and leaves larger than basins. This was the Green Leaf Phoenix Tree, a type of first-rank spiritual wood with leaves most suitable for making talisman paper.

Yu Qingyi stood under the tree, placing her hand on the thick Phoenix Tree’s trunk, and soon strands of spiritual light emanated from her body, infusing not-so-concentrated mana into the Phoenix Tree.

Seeing this, Yang Zhenshan was puzzled.

What is she doing?

But soon he understood what Yu Qingyi was doing.

As he was confused, the Phoenix Tree before him began to shake violently.

The emanated spiritual light grew more intense, and the surrounding spiritual energy began to converge. In a moment, the originally tall Phoenix Tree surprisingly started to shrink.

The more than thirty-zhang-high Phoenix Tree shrank to twenty zhang, ten zhang, eight zhang, three zhang, eventually reducing to just over one zhang.

The trunk became much thinner, yet the crown grew incredibly dense.

Then, a human face appeared on its trunk, with two eyes, a nose, and skin of a blue-green color, looking somewhat odd.

But Yang Zhenshan already knew what Yu Qingyi was doing.

This is the Spiritual Implantation Technique!

Yu Qingyi turned the Phoenix Tree into a tree-man with a soul!

The roots pulled out from the earth, transforming into two long legs, the crown split, and two not-so-thick branches became two arms, though in relation to its body size, these arms seemed short and small.

"Roar Roar~~"

The gaping mouth exposed a pair of green teeth and made a sound similar to a beast’s roar.

Yang Zhenshan’s expression became serious, his eyes narrowing slightly, fixating on the tree-man before him.

"How’s that?" Yu Qingyi looked at Yang Zhenshan with a proud expression, as if saying, I’m amazing, aren’t you going to praise me?

"Is this the Spiritual Implantation Technique?" Yang Zhenshan asked.

Seeing his serious expression, Yu Qingyi’s proud demeanor softened as she asked, "That’s right, is there a problem?"

Yang Zhenshan frowned, deep in thought, "Of course there’s a problem, haven’t you heard of the Wanhua Demon Court’s tree-man army?"

"Tree-man army!" Yu Qingyi was stunned, then looked at the Phoenix Tree-man behind her, which gave her a simple-minded smile.

"Previously, the Wanhua Demon Court repelled the Unpredictable Ghost Sect’s ghost soldier army relying on a vast army of tree-men!" Yang Zhenshan explained.

Yu Qingyi seldom went out and didn’t deliberately pay attention to external matters, so she really didn’t know the Wanhua Demon Court had a tree-man army.

"Are you saying the Wanhua Demon Court’s tree-men were also cultivated using the Spiritual Implantation Technique?" Yu Qingyi quickly understood Yang Zhenshan’s implication.

Yang Zhenshan nodded slightly, "Where is that jade slip?"

"In my quiet room!" Yu Qingyi said.

Yang Zhenshan’s mind moved, and then he reached out, retrieving the jade slip from the quiet room as if out of thin air.

After carefully examining the contents of the jade slip, he shook his head slightly, "This cultivation technique should have no issues."

The Spiritual Implantation Technique suddenly spread widely; previously it wasn’t seen in the Immortal Cultivation World. Yang Zhenshan suspected it was a scheme by the Wanhua Demon Court, but he didn’t find any flaws in the technique.

This is a very complete cultivation method, from the most basic cultivation methods to the enlightenment of divine Dao intents, all with detailed records and annotations.

Since the cultivation method has no issues, why did the Wanhua Demon Court spread this technique?

Yang Zhenshan didn’t know that spreading cultivation to the world is also a form of power struggle, so he couldn’t understand the purpose of the Wanhua Demon Emperor.

"Tell me in detail about this tree-man!" Yang Zhenshan still lacked confidence and addressed Yu Qingyi.

Yu Qingyi nodded, "The Spiritual Implantation Technique can imbue all things with spirituality — mountains, rocks, plants, wind, rain, lightning, clouds, fog, and more. Everything in the world can be endowed with spirituality, gaining a soul."

"However, the Spiritual Implantation Technique has many limitations. The longer an item exists, once imbued with spirituality, the higher its wisdom; the more spiritual energy an item contains, once endowed with spirituality, the stronger its power."

As she spoke, Yu Qingyi demonstrated to Yang Zhenshan.

She performed the Spiritual Implantation Technique on a piece of rock, and soon the rock turned into a stone-man; however, since it was just an ordinary rock, it had almost no power — it could probably only bully ordinary people.

But the stone-man’s wisdom wasn’t low, as it flashed a flattering smile at Yu Qingyi, although it possibly had a slow nature, taking half a quarter of an hour for that smile.

Subsequently, Yu Qingyi summoned a sphere of water, transforming it into a water-man. As water is unpredictable, the form of the water-man wasn’t fixed, and it also had a pair of ignorant and bewildered eyes, looking dazed and silly.

"Water is unpredictable, wind has no form, clouds and mist are also unpredictable and formless, so they’re unsuitable for spiritual implantation!"

"Lightning, fire, radiance, shadows, etc., don’t exist permanently, so they’re also not suitable for spiritual implantation!"

"In comparison, the items most suitable for spiritual implantation in this world are rocks and plants. Mountains are too tall, making spiritual implantation difficult, while flowers and plants are too weak and useless after spiritual implantation!"

"Only rocks and trees are most useful after spiritual implantation!"

"Though rocks exist for a long time, they are dead objects and inherently lack spirituality, which makes their actions seem slow after spiritual implantation!"

"Trees are living beings, just with weak spirituality and no wisdom, but after spiritual implantation, tree-men possess high wisdom — look at it!"

Yu Qingyi pointed to the tree-man behind her, and Yang Zhenshan nodded slightly; he had already observed this tree-man — although it couldn’t speak, its wisdom wasn’t low, likely comparable to that of a seven- or eight-year-old child.

"Its power is related to the spiritual energy it contains; the higher the rank, the stronger its power! It’s just first-rank spiritual wood, so its power is roughly equivalent to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining!"

Yu Qingyi looked at Yang Zhenshan, her eyes bright, saying, "If the Wanhua Demon Court has tens of thousands of tree-men and can repel the ghost soldier army, that means they have tens of thousands of second-order or higher spiritual trees!"