True Monarch Lianshan shook his head. "That, I do not know. I never met that patriarch. I only learned that he had returned after I became Sect Master."
"How many predecessors of our Five Elements Sect have broken through to the Three Flowers Realm in total?"
Ji An's eyes shone. Once he had the number, he could estimate the difficulty of breaking through that realm.
"Our sect has stood for two hundred thousand years. There are clear records of twelve patriarchs who broke through."
Ji An fell silent. On average, it took nearly twenty thousand years for a cultivator to break through to the Three Flowers Realm. The road ahead was still long.
Yet to hear the Dao in the morning and die that evening would be enough. He now knew how to walk the road ahead, and with the Stone Turtle and the Gourd World as support, he should have a strong chance of reaching the Three Flowers Realm in the future.
The puppet walked over lightly, lit a burner of Sandalwood Soul Nourishing Incense, brewed Jade Dew Golden Bud Tea, and then stood quietly at the side with its hands lowered.
At this point, True Monarch Lianshan pointed at the Gathering Origin Tree and said:
"You should pick some leaves from the Heaven and Earth Spirit Root at suitable intervals. Though you have no use for the Five Qi Pills refined from them, your fellow disciples need them greatly."
If they were not picked regularly, harvesting too many at once when they were needed would affect the spirit plant's growth.
Ji An immediately replied:
"Understood! From now on, I'll pick twenty or thirty leaves every half year."
He had once collected five-colored leaves and burned them into ash to nourish Spirit Fields. Looking back, it truly had been