The Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree Takes Shape, Yet Remains Flawed (Double-length chapter, please subscribe!)

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The instant the demonic monk Monkey Mind cast the first portion of Mount Sumeru essence into his Dao Lord domain.

The natural spirituality, which had grown ever weaker as its spiritual radiance dimmed, almost keening in anguish, suddenly surged into a frenzied crescendo!

The natural world of the vast Dao sanctuary trembled!

And immediately afterward.

As that Mount Sumeru essence transformed into immense quantities of yang-aspect qi and Mount Sumeru power, refined by the aura of the demonic monk Monkey Mind's surviving natal Nascent Soul spirit treasure, it poured toward every remaining boundary of the sanctuary.

The sanctuary's territory, long since scoured to less than a thousand li by the rolling earth qi, suddenly began expanding wildly once more!

This was the earthly Dao killing tribulation.

The Nascent Soul Dao Lords before him had passed through this tribulation far too easily.

They had either been veteran cultivators with accumulations untouched by dust through ages untold, or peerless prodigies whose talents dazzled and reigned supreme in at least one field!

But for truly ordinary cultivators.

This was often a tribulation among the three that demanded every last ounce of their effort and ingenuity.

It tested not only how complete their sanctuary had once been, but also their understanding and foundations in the yin-yang five elements Dao, or another comprehensive Dao, and even the resources they had amassed.

Throughout this process.

Earth qi repeatedly wore away the sanctuary's fragmented and insubstantial parts, while the cultivator repeatedly drew upon their foundations in the Dao and their accumulated resources, striving to replenish and support their sanctuary's territory.

Through this repeated tempering.

Everything became harmonious; everything underwent a thousand hammerings and ten thousand forgings until nothing remained to refine. Only then could it wash away all worldly ornament and ascend from a sanctuary into