Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather Chapter 1917 - 1144: Cycle of Life and Death (Part 3)
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"White Jade City?"
"That’s right, White Jade City. After the dissolution of the Sky Cloud Sword Sect, I established White Jade City using the Sect Seal of the Sky Cloud Sword Sect!"
Su Mei nodded slightly, "A Sect like White Jade City, it seems your ambitions are not small!"
"Ambitions!" Yang Zhenshan put down the teacup, "You could say so; my ambitions have always been great!"
Su Mei listened to him refer to himself as ’I’, fully understanding the meaning behind it.
A self-reference that signifies both a distance and the gap between the two.
Previously, she could refer to herself as ’I’ in front of Yang Zhenshan because she was the Demon Venerable of the Wanhua Demon Court.
But now Yang Zhenshan refers to himself as ’I’ in front of her, as his cultivation has reached the stage of Half-step Enlightenment, qualifying him to be called a Patriarch in the Immortal Cultivation World.
"Could you introduce me to White Jade City?" Su Mei asked.
Yang Zhenshan smiled and said, "Why don’t I invite Su to tour White Jade City?"
"That would be excellent!"
Yang Zhenshan then took Su Mei and Su Qingfu into the Spirit Source Land.
Looking at the bustling Jade City, the vast Spirit Source Land, Su Mei and Su Qingfu both showed expressions of shock.
If it were just a normal grotto heaven, they would not be so stunned, since the Fox Clan also has Qingyuan Cave Heaven.
But Qingyuan Cave Heaven is like a younger brother compared to the Spirit Source Land.
Qingyuan Cave Heaven is only a thousand miles in size, while the Spirit Source Land measures ten thousand miles wide.
This is not merely a tenfold difference, but a hundredfold gap.
The ’thousand miles’ and ’ten thousand miles’ refer to the radius of the area.
In fact, the Spirit Source Land exceeds ten thousand miles and continues to expand, although not as rapidly as before, and the newly expanded areas are just common earth without spiritual energy or high mountains and rivers, only expanse of yellow soil.
In other words, when Yang Zhenshan’s cultivation reached the Golden Core Realm, the Life Realm Immortal Palace had already restored its original appearance. Subsequent expansions are a natural growth of the Life Realm Immortal Palace.
Such expansion is not greatly beneficial to the Life Realm Immortal Palace, as the continuous expansion would dilute the concentration of spiritual energy throughout the palace.
Yang Zhenshan considered limiting the expansion of the Life Realm Immortal Palace but decided against it after careful thought.
Because the issue of spiritual energy concentration can be resolved, similar to nurturing barren lands into fertile lands. As long as spiritual energy is continuously infused into the Life Realm Immortal Palace, those barren lands will eventually become blessed lands.
The disparity between Qingyuan Cave Heaven and the Spirit Source Land is reflected not only in size but also in the concentration of spiritual energy; the lowest spiritual energy concentration in Spirit Source Land is equivalent to Second-Order Top-Grade Spiritual Vein, while the highest can compare to Third-rank top-grade Spiritual Vein.
And the highest spiritual energy concentration in Qingyuan Cave Heaven is only equivalent to Third-rank mid-grade.
It may seem like just a difference of one grade, but the gap is substantial.
Because the Spirit Source Land has numerous areas comparable to Third-rank top-grade Spiritual Vein, and some places even exceed that level.
Like the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, where the spiritual energy is almost dense enough to form mist.
Third-rank top-grade is the limit for evaluating spiritual energy concentration, but it is not the limit of Spirit Source Land.
Whereas Third-rank mid-grade is the limit for Qingyuan Cave Heaven.
Su Mei is reluctant to allow other members of the Demon Clan to enter Qingyuan Cave Heaven for fear that their numbers would affect the spiritual energy concentration of the cave.
The spiritual energy within a grotto heaven is finite, and when cultivating, both the Demon Clan and Immortal Cultivators absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
The more people cultivate within the heaven, the more spiritual energy it loses.
This is the primary reason for the continual fragmentation of spirit stones within the Spirit Source Land.