Spirit Apricot Tree Advances
The auxiliary ingredients are not very valuable. As long as four Precious Pill are refined in each batch, the cost can be broken even. If five or more pills are refined, there will be a profit. If six or seven pills are refined, a big profit can be made.
Imagine if one batch of alchemy produces seven Precious Pill, then three batches would yield twenty-one Precious Pill. Each pill increases cultivation by thirty years, totaling six hundred and thirty years of cultivation, more than double the amount gained from directly consuming Spirit Peach.
After all, the number of Spirit Peach produced by the Spirit Peach Tree Spirit Peach Tree is limited until it is promoted to the Tier 5 Middle Grade. And it will probably take at least ten more Jiazi (a Chinese unit of time) before the Spirit Peach Tree is promoted to the Tier 5 Middle Grade.
During this period, after the Old Clan Leader and others broke through to the Nascent Soul, even three Spirit Peach every hundred years would probably not be enough to go around.
The Immortal Peach Pill was not difficult to refine. With Chen Nianzhi's Alchemy Art, he refined four pills in the first batch, and five pills in the next two batches.
Once the three batches of Immortal Peach Pill were refined, Chen Nianzhi had accumulated fourteen Immortal Peach Pill, enough for a Nascent Soul True Lord to use for several hundred years.
After refining the Immortal Peach Pill, the two emerged from their Seclusion Chamber and discovered a communication talisman that had been hovering near the Seclusion Chamber for some time.
He picked it up and looked at it, then smiled and said, "A letter has arrived from the Vast Sea, asking us to go there."
"Oh?" Jiang Linglong smiled and said, "Judging by the time, it's been almost thirty years since we conquered the Vast Sea. The Spirit Apricot Tree should have advanced by now."
That makes sense.
Chen Nianzhi smiled and said, "Let's go take a look first."
Without wasting any time, Chen Nianzhi set off immediately, bringing the Void Gemstone with her, and then rode her Spirit Treasure Immortal Sword towards the Vast Sea.
A few days later, Chen Nianzhi arrived at the Vast Sea and transformed into a sword light, flying to Han Chuan Island.
As soon as they landed on the Spirit Isle, they felt a rich Spiritual Qi emanating from it, and they couldn't help but smile.
"The concentration of Spiritual Qi is already comparable to that of Spirit Lake Isle. It seems the Immortal Apricot has already advanced."
Chen Nianzhi said with a smile, and then noticed several streaks of light flying over.
The Old Clan Leader led Nianchuan and the others to the front. Upon seeing Chen Nianzhi, he excitedly said, "Come with me quickly."
Following Chen Changxuan to the summit of Spirit Isle, Chen Nianzhi finally saw the ancient, vigorous Spirit Apricot Ancient Tree.
This Spirit Apricot Tree was only a little over ten feet tall, but every branch and leaf radiated astonishing Spirit Treasure treasure patterns, possessing an extraordinary and divine quality.
There are only three Spirit Apricot on the Spirit Apricot Ancient Tree, but each one radiates a hazy fairy light and possesses an extraordinary vitality of creation.
"He really got promoted."
After examining it carefully for a while and making some further deductions, Chen Nianzhi's expression became increasingly delighted.
Back when it was at the Tier 4, the Spirit Apricot Tree would bloom every thirty years, bear fruit every thirty years, and then ripen every thirty years, taking about a hundred years to mature.
The Spirit Apricot that grow there can extend one's lifespan by two cycles of sixty years, making them incredibly precious treasures, but they are still far inferior to what we have now.
This is because the Spirit Apricot Tree has now advanced to the Fifth-Tier Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Root, and its effects have undergone earth-shattering changes.
The Spirit Apricot Tree will flower every three hundred years, bear fruit every three hundred years, and mature every three hundred years. It will take about a thousand years for it to produce three Spirit Apricot.
The ripe Spirit Apricot contains the vitality of creation and is the most precious essence of heaven and earth. Consuming it can extend one's lifespan by a thousand years.
Thinking of the wondrous nature of this Spirit Apricot, Chen Nianzhi couldn't help but say with delight, "Although Tier 5 low-level Spirit Apricot Tree can only produce three apricots every thousand years, it is still enough to be called a treasure of heaven and earth."
"With this treasure in the Lineage, you will no longer need to worry about not having enough lifespan."
Everyone was delighted to hear this. A cultivator can only use three life-extending treasures in their lifetime. Only after breaking through to the Nascent Soul True Lord stage and receiving a gift from heaven and earth can they consume an additional one.
Given the limited number of life extension attempts, it's naturally more cost-effective to use high-level life extension treasures, which is why the value of high-level life extension treasures remains consistently high.
Even a Nascent Spirit Apricot Nascent Soul True Lord be tempted by the spiritual apricots before him; if they were to be sold, each one would be enough to exchange for a mid-grade Middle-Tier Spirit Treasure.
Chen Changxuan was extremely excited and stroked the Spirit Apricot Tree with great affection, saying, "True Lord's lifespan is three thousand years. If one could consume three Tier 5 Spirit Apricot, wouldn't one be able to live for over six thousand years?"
"If one were to cultivate the Nirvana Tribulation-Transference Art transcend tribulations, wouldn't that mean living for a combined total of nine thousand years across two lifetimes?"
His tone was one of utter shock; Nascent Soul True Lord could theoretically live for nine thousand years—this was truly astonishing.
Even Primordial Spirit Dao Lord, without using life-extending treasures, has a lifespan of only ten thousand years. It is unexpected that the lifespan of Nascent Soul True Lord can also approach this level.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Linglong shook her head and said, "While that's theoretically true, the number of people who can live that long is extremely small, one in a hundred."
"Tier 5 life-extending treasures are too precious. Most True Lord can only afford one or two. Moreover, more than 80% of True Lord have used life-extending treasures before breaking through to the Nascent Soul, and they don't have that many more chances to extend their lives."
Chen Nianzhi nodded and said with a smile, "Those who can afford to buy multiple life-extending treasures are mostly top-tier True Lord at the Nascent Soul Late Stage or even the Nascent Soul Great Perfection."
"It is said that in the Eastern Wilderness, some beings who are Half-Step Primordial Spirit realm are not confident in passing the Primordial Spirit Tribulation, so they remain trapped in the Half-Step Primordial Spirit realm realm, seeking fortuitous opportunity, and only dare to risk breaking through when their lifespan is about to end after eight thousand years."
Hearing this, the Old Clan Leader stroked his beard and said, "When I was young, I heard that there was a Nirvana Immortal Apricot Tree in the Lin Immortal Clan the Eastern Wasteland Mountain."
"That Nirvana Immortal Apricot Tree blossoms once every thousand years, bears fruit once every thousand years, and matures once every thousand years."
"The immortal Immortal Apricot that grow after ripening can add two hundred years to the lifespan of mortals simply by smelling them, and even Primordial Spirit Dao Lord stage can be Nirvana Rebirth and live another life after consuming them. I wonder if it is really that amazing?"
"It must be true."
Chen Nianzhi smiled, recalling what was described in the Void-Refining Immortal Scripture, and said, "It is said that more than 80,000 years ago, an Immortal ascended to heaven."
"He had already thoroughly comprehended the Principle before his ascension, yet he remained at the Great Perfection of the Primordial Spirit for 20,000 years. If we include the time he spent cultivating to the Great Perfection of the Primordial Spirit, his lifespan has probably exceeded 30,000 years."
"Such a long lifespan exceeds several times that of Primordial Spirit Dao Lord; it's likely that he has lived for at least three lifetimes."
The crowd was somewhat surprised upon hearing this, but they couldn't help but nod in agreement.
Even for a cultivator to achieve the Great Perfection of the Primordial Spirit, it would likely require a very long time, let alone for a Void-Refining Immortal who has comprehended the Principle.
Taking the Ji clan leader as an example, when he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, his lifespan was already over four thousand years. He had consumed at least two opportunities to extend his lifespan, and it would probably take him nearly ten thousand years to cultivate to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul realm.
This is not even considered encountering a bottleneck. Many Primordial Spirit Dao Lord are stuck at the bottleneck between the Mid-stage Primordial Spirit, unable to advance any further until their lifespan is exhausted.