Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan Charges at the Golden Core Realm (2,000 Words, Please Subscribe)

Ling Pengyun rose to his feet and left the secluded cultivation chamber. Seeing that his wife, Yan Siyi, was still in seclusion, a few traces of anticipation appeared between his brows.

"By my reckoning, my wife has been in seclusion for ten years now. She has not emerged even once during that time. It seems she has encountered some bottleneck; otherwise, no matter what, she would come out several times each year."

"Perhaps the day she emerges from seclusion will be the day she reaps her gains."

Afterward, he returned to the secluded cultivation chamber and resumed his quiet cultivation.

At present, he had not long broken through in both cultivation and body refinement, so further progress would be difficult in the short term. He temporarily set those two paths aside and instead turned to comprehending the Spirit Plant path and the art of artifact refinement.

He placed greater importance on the Spirit Plant path, for the higher one's Spirit Plant attainments, the greater their utility.

There were three Spirit Plant Secret Methods he mainly cultivated. The first was the core inheritance of the Spirit Plant path, the Azure Sea Nurturing Art. Only by advancing this art could the grade of Spirit Plants be raised.

The second was the Azure Sea Wood Origin Longevity Extension, which could draw upon the power of deep subterranean wood veins to temper one's body and thereby extend one's lifespan.

When cultivating this method, it was best to be within a dense forest or somewhere with many Spirit Plants.

Ice Spirit Valley had planted quite a few Spirit Plants. Thus, whenever Ling Pengyun cultivated this method, he would leave Ice Spirit Valley and enter the vast, dense forest stretching hundreds of thousands of li beyond the valley.

The power of the wood veins deep beneath