Chapter 105: Chapter 86: Tian Yun Immortal City_l
Translator: 549690339
“Zhi Ling, are you planning to plant yourself in the ground and let me water you to grow?” Lin Yi said with a grin, Zhi Ling’s eagerness to enhance its power was evident.
Zhi Ling nodded, its small paws never stopping as they pointed to the top of its head, squealing persistently.
Lin Yi smiled. He had had such a suspicion before—when the Farming Technique: Corrosion Spell is trained to the Great Achievement Level, it can corrupt dead bodies; so, could the Warm Growth Technique, which promotes the growth of plants by helping them absorb nutrients from the soil, have an effect on humans?
However, he didn’t believe that this suspicion could come true because humans cannot photosynthesize. The Warm Sun Growth Technique principally relies on sunlight, allowing plants to photosynthesize and absorb nutrients more effectively.
Similarly, the same was true for animals. The energy required for humans and animals to survive was substantial – the nutrients absorbed from the soil were hardly enough to fill a tooth cavity.
Just like a Spirit Grass plant that needs a year to cultivate before it can be used for Alchemy. Even then, one plant probably only yields one or two pills, which was certainly less than the amount of spiritual energy he could absorb in a Spirit Gathering Array in a short period of time.
Although it was unlikely to work, Lin Yi still fulfilled Zhi Ling’s request by applying the Cloud Rain Technique along with the Warm Sun Growth Technique.
The rainwater showered on little Zhi Ling, slowly seeping into the soil, and then, under the effects of the Warm Sun Growth Technique, a beam of warm sunlight shone on Zhi Ling. A look of contentment spread across its face.
After a while, Lin Yi noticed that Zhi Ling had fallen asleep in the small dirt hole. He couldn’t help but chuckle. This little guy was always wanting to enhance its power to help him.
He used the Object Manipulation Spell to gently move Zhi Ling out of the small dirt hole and place it on a small wooden bed in the room. He had made a room full of toys for Zhi Ling to play with when it was bored over these past few days.
Lin Yi left the room, feeling the realm of the Qi Refining Eighth Stage. The difference between each level of high-rank Qi refiners was enormous. While they may not completely overwhelm a cultivator of a lower level, they could indeed be comfortable and experienced in their level.
He thought for a while and decided to go to the Merit Hall. After all, he needed to complete 400 points of tasks in a year.
He needed to check out which tasks were available, prepare in advance, and finish them, so he could concentrate on his cultivation afterwards.
Unlike the Affairs Hall and the Scripture Palace, the Merit Hall was located in the inner sect of the Liu Yun Sect in an immortal city called Tian Yun City, situated at the heart of the entire Liu Yun Sect.
This immortal city was designed to provide various services for Inner Sect Disciples. They could rent shop spaces and do business to earn Spirit Stone Resources, as long as they paid in Merit Points.
Some Alchemy or Artifact Refining masters from the Liu Yun Sect would occasionally come here to accept a few orders for business.
In comparison to Qing Yun City in the Outer Sect, the prices here may not be as affordable, but the quality was guaranteed. There was also no need to worry about being deceived when asking someone to perform Alchemy or Artifact Refining.
Those who wanted to undertake missions to earn Merit Points had to come to this Immortal City because there was only one Merit Hall in the whole Inner Sect.
This setup was designed to gather disciples from various peaks of the Inner Sect together and complete various training tasks together, thus promoting unity among the disciples of all peaks of the Sect.
Besides, they could pay in Merit Points to listen to the cultivation experiences of Foundation Building Cultivators here. Sometimes, even a Golden Core Real Person would suddenly come here to give a class on cultivation.
In the Outer Sect, there were only one or two opportunities per year to listen to the experiences of high-level cultivators and ask about doubts. However, most of the answers are from middle and high-level cultivators in the Qi Refinement stage, who seem somewhat impatient when answering questions.
Lin Yi had been there once, and then he didn’t go anymore for the second half of the year. It was more worthwhile to cultivate alone and gain insight through the effects of his title.
Upon arriving at the Inner Sect, there was an opportunity to attend a class once a month. All of these were led by Foundation Building cultivators and no fees were charged. If one felt that the listening experience was insufficient, one could visit Tian Yun City and pay merit points to attend classes.
Before heading to Tian Yun City, Lin Yi put on the never-worn-before attire of the disciples of the Golden Sword Lineage. The Inner Sect Handbook stated that to enter Tian Yun City, one must dress in the official attire of their respected Peak. Otherwise, entry would be denied.
Upon wearing this attire, one’s words and actions would represent the Peak they belong to. Unless they don’t mind embarrassing the Golden Core Real Person, they have to behave themselves when in Tian Yun City.
After preparing, he drove his flying boat towards Tian Yun City. If one didn’t have their own flying boat, they would have to pay at least two or three spirit stones to use the sect’s public flying boat.
He once asked a sect disciple who drove a flying boat why they charged such a high spirit stone fee. The disciple responded that it was to encourage the disciples from all Peaks to focus on their cultivation, instead of wandering about. This was such a ludicrous explanation.
Following the map, Lin Yi arrived near Tian Yun City. He couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise on his face. Tian Yun City was also built on a mountain peak, but not just one mountain peak, but on four surrounding smaller mountain peaks.
The four mountain peaks were like four pillars, supporting the Immortal City in the air. There was a layer of cloud mist filling the surrounding area. Occasionally, a flock of cranes or a ray of light would fly by, creating a sense of a fairyland city.
All four mountain peaks had city gates. Except for Golden Core Real Persons, even Foundation Building cultivators had to enter and exit through the city gates and weren’t allowed to fly on swords.
Just like the Inner Sect entrance, there were no guards outside the city gates, but there was a protective shield blocking the way. Lin Yi took out the Inner Sect Disciple Nameplate. After activating it, he was able to enter.
Inside the city, there were disciples dressed in the attire of the Hall of Laws patrolling, monitoring the disciples entering the city to see if they were dressed in the official attire of their Peaks.
Lin Yi followed the central road of the city and went straight ahead. Along the streets, there were all sorts of shops. There were magic artifact shops, pill shops, talisman template shops, and even shops that sell formations. Some shops hung up signs indicating they also perform alchemy or artifact refining services.
Unlike Qing Yun City, the majority of the shops here were for cultivation purposes. There were hardly any entertainment establishments.
He went straight to the central plaza of Tian Yun City. On one side of the plaza, there was a large hall building – the only Merit Hall in the Inner Sect.
At this point, around the Merit Hall, Lin Yi felt a lively atmosphere. Many Inner Sect disciples were gathering in groups of three to five, discussing something.
Some people were calling out task names, indicating that they were recruiting team members. Some were introducing their own information, seeing if any team needed them. It was just like arriving at a gaming guild.
Lin Yi walked into the Merit Hall, where many people gathered, standing in the lobby of the Merit Hall, looking around. Upon entering and looking, he saw more than ten windows lined up, just like a bank counter.
Above each window, spiritual artifacts projected various task names and requirements.
This gave him a familiar feeling, as if he had returned to the scene of forming a team to play games in the past. He glanced briefly, and found that most of them required leaving the Sect.
Such as killing disorderly monster beasts, Path of Demonic Cultivators, and even gathering rare medicinal herbs in certain places.
However, it seemed that there were also tasks to take care of spiritual grass. He looked at the information and couldn’t help but smile.
The task was to take care of medium to high-order spiritual herbs, which was much more difficult than taking care of Lingying Grass. With his current level of the two Intermediate farming techniques, he couldn’t handle it. Lin Yi didn’t give up. He continued to search through the pile of tasks and suddenly found a task that he seemed to be able to accept..
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