110: Chapter 110 The Prophecy

The growth cycle of the gold element fruit tree is extremely long. It takes nearly six hundred years for a seedling to grow into a Rank 3 spirit tree. After reaching maturity, it must follow the iron rule of "three hundred years to blossom, three hundred years to bear fruit, and three hundred years to ripen," requiring a full nine hundred years from sowing to the fruit fully ripening.

During each flowering period, it blooms at most nine golden flowers, with the number only decreasing, never increasing. Once ripe, the gold element fruit is golden, round, and the size of a fist. When hanging from the branches, they resemble strings of golden pearls, emitting an alluring luster and fragrance.

The main uses of the gold element fruit are concentrated in two stages, with the most significant effect being on Foundation Establishment Cultivators at the Peak Stage:

For a Foundation Establishment Cultivator at the Peak Stage, consuming one ripe gold element fruit can greatly stabilize their Dao foundation and harmonize conflicts in the Qi within their body.

According to records, a gold element fruit with a medicinal age of over a thousand years can even help a Foundation Establishment Cultivator at the Peak Stage increase their probability of forming a Golden Core by about twenty percent, maximizing the elimination of risks when breaking through the Bottleneck.

The gold element fruit is also one of the main ingredients for refining the Rank 3 Medicinal Pill, the golden core formation pill, and its medicinal efficacy should not be underestimated. The golden core formation pill is one of the best spirit items to assist Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators in breaking through to the Golden Core Stage.

The Three-Turn Divine Soul fruit tree is also a Rank 3 spirit plant. It requires a thousand years from seedling to maturity, and then another thousand years to blossom, bear fruit, and ripen.

The fruit borne by the Divine Soul fruit tree is called the Divine Soul fruit, which primarily acts on the Divine Sense level of a Cultivator.

After consuming it, a Cultivator can rapidly replenish their over-consumed Divine Sense.

For example, consuming just a small bite of a ripe Three-Turn Divine Soul fruit can restore thirty percent of a Golden Core Late Stage Cultivator's Divine Sense. Consuming a whole one can completely restore, or even cause an overflow of, the Divine Sense of a Golden Core Peak Stage Cultivator who has been greatly exhausted, and it even has a certain effect on the Divine Sense recovery of Nascent Soul Early Stage Cultivators.

It has a significant restorative effect on damage to the Divine Sense or cracks in the Sea of Consciousness caused by battles, Qi Deviation, or external attacks, making it a Saint Grade item for treating hidden ailments of the Divine Soul.

Before reaching the tolerance limit for the Spirit Medicine, long-term or large-quantity consumption can fundamentally enhance the strength of the Divine Soul, making the Cultivator's Mental Energy more solid and significantly improving their ability to resist mental attacks.

The Rank 2 Xuantian Spirit Peach tree is a precious Rank 2 spirit plant. The effect of a ripe Rank 2 Xuantian Spirit Peach is several times better than that of a two-leaf purple lingzhi, as it can directly help a Foundation Establishment Cultivator break through a small Rank without any side effects.

Of course, the Heavenly Dao has checks and balances; a Cultivator can only consume a Spirit Medicine or Medicinal Pill with the same effect once within each major Realm.

The Rank 2 Xuantian Spirit Peach tree requires three hundred years from the seedling stage to maturity, and then another four hundred and fifty years to blossom, bear fruit, and ripen.

Li Changqing dripped a drop of Immortal Spirit Liquid onto each of these three rare spirit trees. Under the rapid stimulation of the Immortal Spirit Liquid, the gold element fruit tree has already begun to bear fruit. Originally, it would have required five hundred years of medicinal age to ripen, but with the nourishment of the three-colored spirit soil, the time has been greatly shortened to fifty years.

The Three-Turn Divine Soul fruit tree has already blossomed, and with the help of the three-colored spirit soil, it will still need a hundred years to ripen; meanwhile, the nine Xuantian Spirit Peaches borne by the Rank 2 Xuantian Spirit Peach tree have all ripened and have been preserved by him in a Spirit Medicine box within Changsheng Garden.

Li Changqing plans to wait until he breaks through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage before consuming a Xuantian Spirit Peach to break through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage in one go.

Besides these three precious spirit tree seedlings, Li Changqing also transplanted a portion of the purple lingzhi from beside the Spirit Eye Spring at the bottom of Xuanling Lake, as well as the seedlings of the Xuanyuan Spirit Peach and Zhenyuan fruit tree, into Changsheng Garden.

In particular, with the help of the three-colored spirit soil, there is a great possibility that three of the three-leaf purple lingzhi will transform into four-leaf purple lingzhi.

… In the blink of an eye, another five months passed. Li Changqing sat cross-legged on a warm jade mat in Changsheng Garden, his knees upright, his posture straight and calm, and the Foundation Establishment Stage Qi around him was steady, restrained, and tranquil.

Yet no one knew that within his silent and stable Sea of Consciousness, raging waves of Divine Soul were surging, and strands of Heavenly Dao laws of heavenly secrets were flowing ceaselessly, shaking the heart.

After over four years of day and night nourishment, Divine Soul immersion, and mental effort tempering, he exhausted endless Mental Energy, and finally, today, he completely refined and fully claimed ownership of this Innate Low Grade Spirit Treasure from the Wizard World—the mirror of prophecy.

Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, the small jade mirror floated up and down, wrapped in the flowing, grayish-white light of heavenly secrets, with thousands of Heavenly Dao patterns slowly wriggling. A vast and ancient Dao charm enveloped the entire Sea of Consciousness, quiet and majestic.

"Since it has entered my hands, it is fate and Karma."

Li Changqing exhaled a long breath of turbid air from his chest, suppressing the surging palpitations in his heart, his expression serious and solemn.

A faint light gathered at his fingertip, forcing out a drop of extremely pure Divine Soul essence blood, wrapped with his complete Dao foundation and life-bound mark, mixed with a wisp of his most original life-bound Divine Soul, and steadily pointed it toward the clear surface of the mirror.

The mirror of prophecy trembled slightly, without the slightest resistance, as if it had completely accepted this only master.

The Heavenly Dao rules of this treasure are strict; it can only be actively used once every ten years. One must not wantonly pry into heavenly secrets, otherwise, one will surely suffer the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.

This time, he is about to travel far to explore secrets; the fortune of the path ahead is unknown, and variables are numerous. It is just the right time to use this once-in-a-decade Opportunity to glimpse the trajectory of destiny, foresee core major events within a hundred years concerning his own life and death and the rise and fall of his Dao path, so as to avoid deadly tribulations and plan for the future in advance.

Hum— A clear and ethereal jade chime resonated through the Sea of Consciousness, and the surface of the mirror rippled like water, with ripples spreading out.

In the next instant, a vast, cold, and boundless stream of Heavenly Dao information poured into Li Changqing's Divine Soul Sea of Consciousness with a roar, without any obstruction.

This was not a Legacy of Cultivation Techniques or secret arts, nor was it a tempering of Qi and Dao laws; it was the predetermined trajectory of fate originating from the Grandmist Heavenly Dao, unchanging through the ages. Every word was clear, every sentence was definitive, with not a shred of ambiguity or falsehood:

Thirty years from now, the Jiuyou Domain and the Juxing Domain will engage in an all-out war.

This war is a monumental catastrophe pushed by the Divine Venerables of the two domains who signed a Divine Soul contract. The iron-clad rules are strict: except for Cultivators and Spirit Beasts above the Nascent Soul Stage, no one is allowed to personally enter the battlefield.

All remaining Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core Cultivators, as well as thousands of Spirit Beasts, Loose Cultivators, and Family forces in both domains, will be drawn into the flames of war, initiating a fifty-year-long, unrestricted slaughter across the domains.

Demonic Path Cultivators from the Jiuyou Domain can cross borders to invade the territory of the Juxing Domain, and Righteous Path Cultivators from the Juxing Domain can also slaughter their way into the demonic lands of Jiuyou. Mountains and rivers will be shattered, living beings will suffer, war will rage incessantly, and no one can remain unscathed.

These few lines of text regarding heavenly secrets carried a vast catastrophe and endless slaughter spanning across Star Domains, pressing heavily upon Li Changqing's Divine Soul.

After a long time, Li Changqing slowly opened his eyes. The confusion in his eyes had completely faded, leaving only thorough clarity and profound calmness.

"So, prophecies in the world are never ethereal deductions; they are merely the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao's operation, the predetermined fate that falls into the eyes of a Mortal in advance."

The war between the two domains, the chaos between the Righteous and Demonic Paths, will sweep across the entire Juxing Domain. The Li Family cannot possibly remain aloof.

Even if Nascent Soul powerhouses do not emerge, in fifty years of domain-wide slaughter, Golden Core and Foundation Establishment Cultivators will fight endlessly. The destruction of small Families, the division of territory by large sects, and the slaughter between the Righteous and Demonic Paths will inevitably emerge one after another.