100: Breakthrough God, Five-needle Pine

Divine Venerable, Divine Venerable, lies in the word 'Divine'.

Before the Divine Venerable, a Martial Artist's Primordial Spirit was an Yin Spirit, but upon reaching the Divine Venerable Realm, the Primordial Spirit transforms into a Yang Spirit. Only a Yang Spirit can carry powerful Law power.

To transform into a Divine Venerable, it's not enough to just Cultivate; a treasure is also needed: Yang Spirit Sand!

This is an Elementary Divine Venerable-grade treasure, extremely rare. Its grade is determined by the conditions of its birth, because Yang Spirit Sand only appears where a Divine Venerable expert has fallen. This Yang Spirit Sand is a special treasure formed from a Divine Venerable expert's Yang Spirit under various unique conditions.

If he wanted Imperial-grade treasures, Xu Qing didn't have any, but for Venerable-grade treasures, even those at the Divine Venerable level, the Xu Family had as many as they needed.

Xu Qing took out ten catties of Yang Spirit Sand. Generally speaking, an ordinary Martial Artist only needs one or two taels of Yang Spirit Sand to Breakthrough to Divine Venerable, but Xu Qing directly gave himself ten catties of Yang Spirit Sand.

Using Yang Spirit Sand is simple: one uses the power of the Primordial Spirit to draw the Yang Spirit Sand into the Primordial Spirit, using its ultimate strength and Yang power to cleanse the Yin Spirit power within the Primordial Spirit.

This process was very painful, so much so that even Xu Qing, strong as he was, found it hard to bear. This was because his Primordial Spirit was too powerful, and he required a great deal of Yang Spirit Sand.

Just one-tenth of the transformation consumed half a catty of Yang Spirit Sand, and the further he progressed, the more he needed.

And with each fraction of the Primordial Spirit's transformation, a Divine Light bloomed from it.

Several months passed in a flash, and Xu Qing finally completed the transformation of his Yang Spirit, consuming eight catties and one tael of Yang Spirit Sand to completely transform his Primordial Spirit into a Yang Spirit.

The moment the Yang Spirit transformed, streaks of Divine Light spread outwards from the Yang Spirit.

Outside, Cloud Mist Mountain, which had been in darkness, was illuminated by this Divine Light. All living beings felt a god-like Divine Might emanating from it.

"Young Lord has broken through!"

Xu Ming and others immediately sensed Xu Qing's aura, knowing that he had broken through.

As Xu Qing broke through, his Life level changed once again, and his Lifespan surged by one epoch. Here, 'epoch' does not refer to an era or age, but a unit of time, specifically 129,600 years.

Compared to a Heavenly Venerable's 60,000-year Lifespan, a Divine Venerable's Lifespan is exactly double.

Not only that, but the Life levels are also not the same. In the Martial Dao Realm, many Martial Artists refer to the Divine Venerable Realm as the Demigod Realm. The reason it can be called 'Divine' is because at this Realm, one still only uses the power of Laws.

Xu Qing unleashed his Divine Venerable Domain. At this moment, the Domain was countless times more stable than it was before the Heavenly Venerable Realm, and it contained a special Divine Might. This was the Yang Spirit pressure brought by the Yang Spirit.

Not only could it perform a dimensionality reduction attack on beings below Divine Venerable at the Soul level, but it could also affect the surrounding field, evolving into a special Dao field belonging to a Divine Venerable.

Therefore, at the Divine Venerable level, as long as the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi is acceptable, one can Cultivate anywhere. Moreover, a Divine Venerable's Cultivation ground can often evolve into a blessed land.

Although such blessed lands are not as good as naturally formed blessed lands.

After retracting his Domain, Xu Qing released his Divine Sense and quickly learned what had happened in the Southern Territory over the past few months.

The Prodigy Tournament had already concluded in Perfection, but after its conclusion, several Prodigies were assassinated.

In just two months, twenty-three incidents occurred, resulting in the deaths of thirteen Prodigies.

Several forces were involved behind this, some of which were local forces with grudges against the Prodigies' respective powers. After these incidents, these forces were forcefully annihilated by the Profound Yellow Pavilion.

However, one force remained at large. It was said that an Elder of the Profound Yellow Pavilion was severely injured by the opponent when he took action that day. If not for the support of other Elders, he might have already fallen.

It was obvious where these forces came from!

Because of this, Wang Changfeng was furious. That day, several Divine Venerables from the Profound Yellow Pavilion emerged, and their Divine Thoughts swept from the eastern end of the Southern Four Hundred Domain Worlds to the west, finally apprehending this group of people.

Three Heavenly Venerables and dozens of Profound Venerables, they came from the secondary forces in the Hundred Domains Land that had previously been annihilated by the Xu Family. The purpose of these people was to disrupt the Xu Family's True Dragon Tournament.

But who knew that Wang Changfeng would directly dispatch Divine Venerable experts? This was something they had not anticipated. No one had expected the Xu Family to possess Divine Venerable power.

Because of this, after this incident, many secondary forces in the Hundred Domains Land became fearful, and many of their ideas of resisting the Xu Family were extinguished.

"Disrupting my Xu Family's great plan, you truly deserve to die!" Xu Qing's face showed a cold glint.

Then he looked at the System messages, and sure enough, there were unread messages.

【Ding! The Prodigy Tournament has concluded in Perfection. The Xu Family's prestige has risen again, and the Clan Luck Spirit has increased by five hundred zhang. Rewarded with a Five-Needle Pine!】

"Five-Needle Pine? It wouldn't be that thing, would it?"

Although the Five-Needle Pine's reputation is not prominent among the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, its precious efficacy is no less than that of the Ginseng Fruit. It was born in accordance with the Five Elements Dao and matured at the peak of Mount Buzhou.

The Five-Needle Pine tree produces five kinds of fruits. Eating one of each can gather the Five Elements Qi, allowing for an immediate Breakthrough, saving millions of years of arduous Cultivation.

Thinking of this, Xu Qing quickly looked through the introduction.

【Five-Needle Pine: One of the Ten Innate Spiritual Roots conceived in the Primordial Era. It is said that the Five-Needle Pine changes every five thousand years, maturing for one season in three changes, totaling fifteen thousand years. The fruits are divided into Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, with ten of each, totaling fifty fruits.】

【Each fruit is no less than an Imperial Dao treasure, containing rich Law power corresponding to its Element, which Martial Artists can absorb for Cultivation. If all fruits are consumed once, an Innate Five Elements Imperial Body will be born!】

【And because it was born in accordance with the Five Elements Dao, Cultivating beneath it can greatly enhance the absorption of Five Elements Origin Qi, and also provides a certain boost to comprehending the Five Elements Dao.】

【Its pine needles are incredibly tough, unbreakable by Imperial weapons, and contain the power of the Five Elements. Ordinary Emperors pierced by the pine needles will suffer a great loss of Divine Power, unable to recover for a hundred years. It can be refined into an Imperial Dao Divine Weapon using special Five Elements techniques.】

【Note: This Five-Needle Pine is not the Five-Needle Pine from the Primordial Era. It was conceived from a segment of the Five-Needle Pine's Spiritual Root. One day, it can evolve into an Innate Five-Needle Pine!】

"As I thought, it's the legendary Five-Needle Pine. Although it's not the first Innate Spiritual Root, its entire body is a treasure."

"Each of its fruits contains a Law power, so doesn't that mean my Xu Family has hope of giving birth to fifty Imperial Dao experts who have comprehended the Five Elements Law?"

Thinking of the Innate Firmiana Simplex, it probably wasn't the first Innate Spiritual Root either, but it didn't matter, they were all good treasures.

Xu Qing quickly disappeared from the main hall, reappearing above the Heavenly Pool. This place had already been transformed into an imperial garden by Xu Duoduo, planted with many famous grasses and trees.

Xu Qing found a suitable spot, pulled out a spiritual tree that even a Divine Venerable would be moved by, and then planted the Five-Needle Pine.

This Five-Needle Pine resembled a pine tree, nine zhang tall, with a crown like a canopy and a trunk like a coiling Dragon. It looked incredibly ancient and vigorous, enveloped in endless mysterious Dao charm. It's worth mentioning that it was already adorned with fifty fruits of various colors.

"This is the Five-Needle Pine. As expected, it's extraordinary. With this treasure, my Xu Family will give birth to many experts of the Ten Great Supreme Dao in the future."

"I must make good use of this Five-Needle Pine!"

With that, Xu Qing raised his hand, and a suction force emerged. The fifty fruits on the tree were picked by him and then sorted and packed.

"Duo Duo!"

"Young Lord!"

Qian Duoduo quickly came to Xu Qing's side.