"Moo moo!"
Big Black Ox understood at once. Chen Xun was preparing to nurture a large number of spirit veins himself. Their deduction from their younger days in the Five Elements Sect of the realm had never been wrong: Ten Thousand Year Crane Spirit Trees buried underground could indeed give birth to spirit veins.
But with their current Essence of All Things, one year was only enough to hasten the growth of four Ten Thousand Year Crane Spirit Trees; in a hundred years, four hundred trees.
To form a Ninth Grade Spirit Vein of neither too great nor too small a scale, at least a thousand Ten Thousand Year Crane Spirit Trees were needed, and the birth of a spirit vein would take at least several thousand years.
Using the Essence of All Things this way, once calculated out, was truly rather unprofitable.
Big Black Ox also knew this was a last resort, treating a dead horse as though it were alive, but it was better than doing nothing at all.
However, Chen Xun's true thoughts were not so simple. He still had two more plans...
First, Ji Yan had once told him that garbage recycling plants would be established in the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Chen Xun had personally experienced their terrifying ability to absorb spirit stones. At worst, he could go to the Three Thousand Great Worlds and buy spirit veins later.
Second was Heavenly Wheel Immortal's Earth Wheel Great World. Back then, on the Chaos Ancient Road, he had discussed the Dao with his master. Chen Xun knew this path inside and out!
The Spirit Wheel Great World absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven, earth, and all things to nurture itself. The Earth Wheel Great World was naturally related to earth veins, though it would inflict devastating