Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 644 - 482: The Greatest Treasure in the Ancient Immortal Battlefield!
After Luo Shan Palace Master left.
Chen Jichuan stood in the central hall ’Ancient View Hall’, overlooking the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’.
There are Secret Realms inside and outside the world, and cosmic landscapes are like pieces of heaven and earth.
Whether they are Secret Realms or heavens, they are fragments formed from the original Immortal Ancient Heaven and Earth.
They form into a unified entity, where rules and principles intertwine to evolve the ’Origin’.
These ’Origins’ further give birth to ’source jade’, which is an essential cultivation resource for True Immortals.
In the Shenzhou world, the Four Great Daoist Sects have profound foundations, which is also prominently manifested in this regard.
The Daoists control numerous Secret Realms within and outside Shenzhou, and many small cosmoses in the stars. The ’Origin’ in these Secret Realms and small cosmoses continually gives rise to ’source jade’, providing the Daoists with a vast, stable source of source jade to support the cultivation of True Immortals within the sect and the functioning of ultimate treasures.
As for the little bit of source jade consumed by the Fourth-order chiefs, it’s practically a drop in the bucket.
After advancing to True Immortal, five thousand years of business.
Chen Jichuan now has some industries as well.
Among them, the ’Xuanyang Two Immortals’ captured ’Kuya Island’ from ’Kuya Demon Lord’. On this island, there are ’Ten Realms of Withered Cliff’, with ten Secret Realms, albeit not large in scale, yielding seventy to eighty catties of source jade every ten thousand years.
’Seven-star Sword Master’ Wang Shan occupies 48,000 islands in the North Sea, among which there are also two Secret Realms. But they’re not like the ’Ten Realms of Withered Cliff’, producing only twenty to thirty catties of source jade every ten thousand years.
While the true body ’Zhou Yan’ is here, the Daoists granted ’Earth Core Cliff’ to Chen Jichuan as a Daoist Field. In this Daoist Field, there is also a Secret Realm attached, and its scale is not small, producing about two hundred catties of source jade every ten thousand years.
As for ’Four Extremes Wanderer’ Xu Ning, this avatar is currently roaming in the South Sea. Engaged in alchemy, artifact refining, arranging formations, and talisman making, he strives to improve his skills. Not losing money is already good; hardly any source jade is earned.
So, in total, Chen Jichuan can get three hundred catties of source jade every ten thousand years.
This is a fixed income.
It doesn’t seem like much in the short term, but over tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years, the accumulation is not to be underestimated.
By the time Chen Jichuan is over seventy million years old, he will certainly be much wealthier than the Kuya Demon Lord who once occupied ’Kuya Island’.
But this requires long-term accumulation.
One hundred thousand years.
One million years.
Far too long.
"One doesn’t become wealthy without windfall gains!"
Controlling Secret Realms and orderly mining prevail in long-term stability, but the source jade obtained in a short period is quite limited.
Thus, many True Immortals venture into the outer cosmic stars, hoping to find hidden Secret Realms or even small heavens. If the location is concealed, they can hold it continuously and mine gradually. The source jade might come slowly, but it lasts long. Over long years, the total amount of source jade obtained is even more, never exhausted and endless.
If the location isn’t secure, or a large amount of source jade is urgently needed, they can also conduct destructive mining, cutting off the root of the source jade vein deriving from its origin.
They can obtain a colossal amount of source jade at once this way.
But afterward, the Secret Realm or small heaven inevitably declines and finally falls apart, with no chance to obtain source jade again.
This is a method of draining the pond to get all the fish.
Both methods have their pros and cons.
Just like the grant in ’Sky-reaching Mountain’, one for long-term, one for short-term.
Whether it’s continuous mining or a one-time deal, there is a prerequisite that new Secret Realms and new small heavens must be found.
But the cosmos is vast, the universe is boundless, and Secret Realms and small heavens are all encounters one cannot seek.
This requires both luck and means.
Even if Chen Jichuan possesses ’Avatar Technique’ and ’Dayan Divination Method’, he cannot be sure how long it will take to find a Secret Realm or a heaven in the vast universe.
"Secret Realms, heavens cannot be forced."
"But there’s one ready at hand."
Chen Jichuan’s gaze fell on the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’, a smile appeared on his face.
When Luo Shan Palace Master introduced the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ to him, he mentioned that this realm is filled with ’Heaven and Earth Origin’ containing ’source jade’ which are imbued everywhere with the aura of Ancient Immortals, fraught with peril. Ordinary True Immortals who enter face a nine in ten chance of dying. The likelihood of finding source jade is low, to begin with. Even if they are lucky enough to find source jade and linger to mine it, staying for a long time increases the danger level further.
Therefore, mining source jade in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ is extremely difficult, and even the One Origin Dao Sect doesn’t have a great solution.
Like Luo Shan Palace Master.
He doesn’t dare enter with his true body, nor risk his Dharma Domain Avatars lightly; he can only send one Magic Power Avatar after another inside.
But even for a True Immortal, refining a Magic Power Avatar with the combat capability comparable to a newly advanced True Immortal is not easy. Luo Shan Palace Master has been stationed at the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ for 140,000 years, and has only refined 446 Magic Power Avatars in total.
On average, it takes over 300 years to refine one.
Moreover, unlike a Dharma Domain Avatar, a Magic Power Avatar is hard to maintain for long because it loses mana over time, and it will dissipate within a dozen years at most.
It’s of little use.
The only merit is that it’s not expensive to refine, so the loss is not significant if one is lost.
However, these Magic Power Avatars are well-suited for exploring the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ and mining source jade.
140,000 years.
Magic Power Avatars.
Luo Shan Palace Master mostly returns empty-handed, but there have been successful occasions over the years. A total of 3,400 catties of source jade has been mined from the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’.
"On average, about 240 catties every ten thousand years."
"This is already close to my current fixed income."
Chen Jichuan’s eyes shone brightly.
Only after advancing to True Immortal does one truly understand the preciousness of source jade. Since advancing to True Immortal 5,000 years ago, when he had source jade, although the progress in Daoist cultivation was slow, at least it was barely visible by the naked eye. But as the source jade was exhausted, every bit of improvement became extraordinarily difficult, progress in Daoist cultivation was hard to make.
