What Jiang Yang needed to do now was gather heaven and earth spiritual energy every day. This was also the most tedious part.
The heaven and earth spiritual energy needed to enter the Dao through Broadwood's "Conjoined Branch" was extremely unusual. Two kinds were required in all, and the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter contained the relevant records and gathering methods.
The first was called [Double-Tier Pure Essence], and the second was called [Mysterious Min Lingxi].
"[Double-Tier Pure Essence] requires a spiritual lotus of heaven and earth, with twin flowers upon its stem and tier upon tier of petals. At the turning of the four-season rotation, when the seasonal signs shift, use the True-Nascent Absorption Method to gather one wisp of pure essence. Refine four wisps of pure essence into a single strand, then bring them together through a secret method. After three hundred and sixty-five days, one portion will be complete."
"[Mysterious Min Lingxi] requires two conjoined trees. On days of brilliant daylight, adorn them with the colorful feathers of birds, and set the five-element spirit treasures of 'Kan Water,' 'True Fire,' 'Wu Earth,' and 'Origin Metal' into Transformation. When their manifold energies blaze with color and their radiance shines upon one another, refine a speck of lingxi. Sixty days yield one wisp, and seven wisps make one portion."
Of course, these were only the broad requirements. The finer details that followed consisted of hand seals and their corresponding incantations. They were far more elaborate than any Qi-Gathering Formula Jiang Yang had ever seen—complex beyond anything he had encountered before.
Even though Jiang Yang had read through them several times beforehand, reviewing them now still left him feeling that they were astonishingly troublesome.
Fortunately, the most crucial spirit treasures had already been secured. All Jiang Yang had to do was