The spiritual energy concentration provided by both the spirit spring source and the Spirit-Gathering Array had already reached their limits.
There was no longer any use in redeeming more Spirit-Gathering Arrays or materials to improve the spirit spring source's quality.
Lin Feng looked at the remaining items available for redemption:
High-tier spirit field cultivation soil: 50 points. Prototype sect spirit-purifying restriction: 200 points. Array foundation stabilizing spirit inscriptions: reinforce all sect arrays and reduce spiritual energy dissipation: 150 points. Earth vein anchoring copper fragment: anchor earth veins and raise their spiritual energy carrying capacity: 100 points. Heaven and earth spiritual essence fragment: slightly and permanently increase the sect's spiritual energy affinity: 1,000 points. Pure Land Cleansing Talisman: remove all hidden turbid energy and baleful energy residue from the sect: 300 points. 10 random spirit herb seeds: 100 points.
Lin Feng first spent 1,500 points to purchase ten sets of array foundation stabilizing spirit inscription materials, reinforcing the Spirit-Gathering Array, which had already advanced to low-grade Profound tier, and the mid-grade Yellow-tier Mountain-Protecting Array.
Each type of array required only five sets of array foundation stabilizing spirit inscription materials to reinforce.
Next, Lin Feng spent another 10,000 points to redeem 100 earth vein anchoring copper fragments, anchoring the Evergreen Sect's earth veins and raising their spiritual energy carrying capacity.
He also spent 10,000 points to redeem ten heaven and earth spiritual essence fragments, slightly and permanently increasing the sect's spiritual energy affinity.
Then he redeemed another 300 Pure Land Cleansing Talismans, spending 90,000 points.
These talismans could purify the hidden turbid energy and baleful energy lingering in the sect's spiritual energy. Just one talisman a year would suffice.
Three hundred would be enough for the Evergreen Sect to use for three hundred years, which, for the Evergreen Sect, was actually only 300 days.
With that, the sect's various spiritual energy-related conditions had essentially reached saturation, while a little over a hundred thousand sect points remained. Adding the five hundred thousand points that could be generated over the remaining three days, the sect still had six hundred thousand points to spend.
The remaining items that needed redeeming were mainly high-tier spirit field cultivation soil and random spirit herb seeds.
High-tier spirit field cultivation soil was suitable for planting all kinds of spirit seeds within the sect, as well as establishing the sect's spirit herb garden in the future.
The random spirit herb seeds could yield seeds of all different grades, which could later be planted in the spirit herb garden.
Moreover, there was no redemption limit on either item. With its vast supply of points, the Evergreen Sect could redeem enough spirit herbs and spirit soil for the sect's use.
And after Lin Feng spent a large number of points redeeming various materials to improve the Evergreen Sect's spiritual energy concentration and quality, the entire Evergreen Sect quietly underwent an earth-shattering transformation.
The spiritual energy in the mountains, originally only at an ordinary level, suddenly surged, its concentration rising straight to 435%.
The thin, pale mist across the mountains and wilderness was gone. A layer of lustrous, milky-white spiritual light enveloped all the sect's peaks. As the mountain breeze brushed past, visible strands of spiritual energy flowed slowly like water among the rocks, grasses, and trees.
After repeated purification, the spiritual energy shed the muddled turbid energy of the world. No longer containing the chaotic, impure traces of earth vein energy, it became pure and gentle.
Even the gaps between the stone bricks of the halls and houses were wreathed in a faint glow.
Nourished by the pure spiritual energy, the mountain vegetation grew ever greener overnight, mountain flowers vied to bloom, and even the rocks faintly revealed a pale, jade-like sheen.
Within the mountain streams, spiritual energy dissolved into the water, and the flowing water shimmered with flecks of silver light. A single breath left one feeling as though every internal organ had been washed by gentle spiritual energy, calming the mind and making the circulation of spiritual power within the body several degrees smoother.
The packs of blue wolves living on the front mountain lay down in the woods where spiritual energy was most abundant, closing their eyes as they breathed spiritual light in and out, a faint radiance spreading over their fur.
The disciples throughout the sect, whether personal disciples, outer disciples, or menial disciples, could all clearly sense the tremendous change in their surroundings. Without deliberately circulating their cultivation techniques, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would gather around them of its own accord.
Previously, cultivation had required effort to draw energy into their bodies.
Now, they only needed to sit quietly, and pure spiritual energy would pour into their meridians on its own, greatly reducing the resistance to cultivation.
Around the sect's main hall and the spirit spring source in particular, the spiritual energy had condensed to the point of being almost tangible. A thin layer of spiritual mist swirled without dispersing, and cultivating there was far better than in the sect's other areas.
Every sect disciple wore an excited expression.
Cultivating in an environment with such dense spiritual energy could increase their cultivation speed severalfold.
And all of this was the fruit of their desperate battles in the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm]. A trace of pride appeared on everyone's faces.
Some rejoiced while others grieved.
Although they had already anticipated that the Evergreen Sect might still take first place in this cultivation environment contest, that did not make it any easier.
When the Evergreen Sect's name appeared at the top of the rankings, each of them was once again left with a bitter taste.
The 999 Sect World Chat Channel.
Contrary to the usual pattern, some of the top ten sects began taking the lead in congratulating the Evergreen Sect for topping the second week's contest rankings.
[Sect Master of the Falling Cloud Sect: Congratulations to the Evergreen Sect on returning to the pinnacle. Our Falling Cloud Sect has come expressly to offer our congratulations!]
With someone taking the lead, several more of the top ten sects began offering their congratulations.
[Sect Master of the Shadow Demon Sect: Congratulations to the Evergreen Sect...]
[Sect Master of the Limitless Sect: Congratulations to the Evergreen Sect...]
Seeing the top ten sects express their positions one after another and acknowledge the Evergreen Sect's standing, Perfected Daoxuan watched on.
As the sect master of the Daoxuan Sect, nominally the second-greatest sect, he could only let out a helpless sigh at that moment.
After casually copying a congratulatory message into the Sect World Channel, he vented his seething fury on the seventh-level Qi Refining guardian spirit demon before him.
Heaven's Dao was unjust! Heaven's Dao was unjust!
As the top ten sects declared their positions one after another, the small and medium-sized sects also began following suit with congratulations.
Tiancan Tudou might not know who had congratulated the Evergreen Sect, but they feared he would remember who had not.
And when the congratulatory messages in the World Chat Channel died down, Lin Feng also received several private messages.
[Private message from the Sect Master of the Supreme Purity Sect: Brother Tudou, are you still buying supreme-grade spirit jade blanks? I have four here. I heard you previously paid 100 mid-grade spirit stones each. How about 80 mid-grade spirit stones each for mine?]
[Private message from the Sect Master of the Dao Inquiry Sect: Brother Tudou, are you still buying...]
[Private message from the Sect Master of the Limitless Sect: ...]