"Furthermore, with the additional two hundred thousand-plus spirit veins, the clan's finances had improved considerably. Every year, a vast amount of resources remained, but most of them were low-grade items, making it difficult to purchase Golden Core Spirit Objects or third- and fourth-rank items such as Nascent Soul Spirit Objects."
"The clan's upper echelon and I therefore planned to use half of these gains to develop the clan's low-level members, while using the other half to nurture the quasi Fifth Rank spirit mountain sapling, Five Elements Mountain."
Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan continued.
Although Five Elements Mountain had reached the quasi Fifth Rank, with the power of the grand array, even ordinary low-level items could provide it with considerable aid so long as there were enough of them.
"That is a good idea. Proceed accordingly."
"But remember to select more clan members with good aptitude for focused cultivation. Only when the clan has more high-level experts can its overall strength rise once more within a short time."
Ling Pengyun nodded in agreement.
"Understood, Peng Yun Earl."
Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan nodded and recounted the clan's other circumstances before taking his leave.
Ling Pengyun then headed to the spirit field area within the valley.
There were more than a hundred spirit fields here, none below the second rank, planted with all manner of high-grade spirit plants.
At the very center stood two quasi Fifth Rank spirit trees.
One was a lush green tea tree, only half the height of a man. Yet every leaf on it was a spirit object, and more than a dozen fourth-rank superior-grade tea leaves even showed signs of transforming into quasi Fifth Rank leaves.
This tree was the life-bound longevity-enhancing treasure tree that Li Xuanyou had nurtured over the past several centuries—the Azure Immortal Old Man Tea