Within the massive mountain’s plateau, a massive city was constructed by the servants and forces. It should be known that the time it takes for the owner to further refine a single section of the mountain is nothing more, nothing less they several decades. At this stage it would take countless resources and decades of time to prepare all the spirit runes adding them to the mountain refining the next section from the inside and out building on the inside what needs to be built and refining the mountain to bend space and once everything is done it will finally refine into a tower.

The city atop the plateau isn’t a normal city either, each structure is a treasure item built and refined from mobile pagoda but refined in special manners to allow it to grow and shrink and be stored so when the time approaches for the mountain to be refined, the entire city shall vanish.

Within this plateau, the tower sat at the very center and within this most bottom floor was a large hall which was so huge that more than 100 riders could call out their Dao beasts at full size and still have a lot of room to play around in.

Inside were a number of children, these were all disciples recruited by Yi Chonglou into the Yi clan. More than half were either pill refiners, blacksmiths or Spirit rune enchanters. For those who were not they were undergoing 2 weeks of training in each subject to see if they possess talent in any one of these category. As for fighters, the Yi Clan didn’t even need to think about it. Of course the Yi clan members were powerful fighters but their focus was on spirit runes while other energies was secondary. Fighting power came from their forces built by the blood sweat and tears constructed upon millions of spirit stones of resources created by the master of the forces themselves not only for themselves but the forces.

Of course, if one Yi clan member were to fight themselves they would be far from weak. Spirit runes was one form of combat but they never shrunk back when it came to physical training since they also train in Qi cultivating.

At this time, surrounded by several admiring girls was a figure smiling gently.

“Wow brother Meng! This is really amazing, your talent in pill refining sure fits your reputation as an inherent disciple!” A girl said admiringly.

“Oh please, I have not do this along.” He laughed and looked far off at a girl sitting while meditating with a cold disdain for the world around her. He slightly sighed as he looked at the girl his age. She was Tian Xiaoleng. Like her name suggested, she has a cold personality around her were three Dao Beasts, one was a Profound Beast Polar Wyrm, Magic Beast Shadow Leopard, Earth Priestess Bird Profound Beast. She is this boy’s dao couple.

As for this boy, he is indeed Meng Bei who was Ning’s friend long ago but was left in the outer sect when he advanced. That said, no more than a week later he had advanced and after a few weeks he was married into the Tian clan through Tian Xiaoleng.

Around the girl was a strong Spiritual power and slowly spirit runes formed and broke down. Indeed she was talented in spirit runes. All the people had to try and learn the Void Drawing Rune skill to practice the spirit rune crafting beyond simple enchanting.

“Oh yeah, brother meng is married to sister Tian, she is really talented, if I am not wrong her talent was green when she tested innate talent but then she just focus on cultivating right?” One girl asked.

Meng Bei sighed, “She is just a cold beauty. I wonder if she will open up after the Yi clan beats her down a bit.” He said sighing but in his mind was another thought, “I hope this annoying woman will just open up already! My cultivation is suffering because of her and even all the pills I use are shit because of her! She does nothing useful and even cultivates extremely little with me!” He roared in his mind.

“Does brother Meng think it is a good idea?” one girl asked.

At that time Meng Bei felt something sneaking up on him on the right and he quickly side stepped but that presence suddenly shifted to face and a hand slammed down on his shoulder.

Puff! BANG!

A powerful strength nailed Meng Bei to the ground and a laugh originated from the owner of the hand. “Ahaha! Two faced snake, you're here as well!”

Slowly Meng Bei turned and looked at the smiling face of his old friend. “Ning… what are you doing here?” He asked.

“What? I thought it was obvious, I was recruited into the Yi clan.” He said his grin widening.

“Bullshit! You aren’t even that talented in pills!” Meng Bei shouted.

Ning looked at him as if he was an idiot? “Two faced snake, if you consider having several Qi flames, and being able to make pills have 2 months of training trash then everyone is no better than animal shit.” Ning said.

“Like I said! Bullshit! My good friend, you are nothing more than a naive ninny who doesn’t know the world! I am even wondering if that dull headed she devil you married didn’t beat you into a retard that made fun of himself.” Meng Bei said grinning.

POW!

“OUCH!” Meng Bei roared and crouched down holding the back of his head.

“What did you call this princess!? Worthless trash, you better hold your tongue less I cut it out and make you swallow it.” Rinrin said coldly.

“Oh so it was only the dull headed she devil. Humph! Such big talk from a spoiled brat.” He said bored and ignoring her looking back to Ning.

The next moment Rinrin’s foot connected to the back of his head and she stomped his face into the ground and held it there grinding it into the ground. “Keep talking two faced trash!” She said.

“Damn she devil! Get your damned dirty feet of my handsome face!” Meng Bei roared.

“Oh?” Rinrin narrowed her eyes before hopping and letting her entire weight drop on top of the leg that was pinning his head. “Seems to little snake has learned to be a narcissist as well. Ning, we should cut this problem by the roots.” She said and began to crack her knuckles.

“What is all the noise? Oh Ning, Rinrin and… Oh I see so it’s this idiot.” Guo Tian said appearing and looking down narrowing his eyes before ignoring him and looking at the two and then spotting Su in the side. “What happened to your eyes? And your hair Rinrin? Its no longer contaminated by infernal energy?” He asked curiously.

“Mother gave us a new cultivating method for Riders. It is cleaning our body of separate energy and we are making spirit energy in our body now.” She smiled happily and brushed her hand over her silky black hair admiring the pitch black color.

Guo Tian’s eyes shined upon hearing this, “Oh! Details!?” He asked.

“GET OFF!” Roared Meng Bei before his mana and Qi exploded outward and three Rinrin away but she simply flipped in the air and landed as if nothing happened before glaring at Meng Bei.

“Stupid two faced snake! Stop looking from a high place, we aren’t in the Geo nation anymore.” She said coldly.

“Hmph, I was inherent disciple of one of the alchemists and pill refiner elders! What do I care about you idiots!?” He said in an arrogant manner.

“Well we are disciples of Ning’s mother.” Rinrin said with even more pride.

“What can a woman from a small clan do?! Humph!” He sneered.

Su giggled upon hearing his words and covered her lips while Rinrin looked at him with a strange joy as if waiting to see one's misfortune. Zhao Ru Lei, Guo Tian’s only wife, looked at Meng Bei like he was some idiot but giggled along side Su as the two whispered between each other. Guo Tian himself was looking at Meng Bei like he was a dead man and turned to Ning and asked about the details of the new cultivation art.

“Hey, what is with that reaction?” Meng Bei asked curiously.

“Two faced trash, you must meet mother first before saying anything, you should also feel her training for a day before you call someone like mother a woman from ‘a small clan’.” Rinrin said sneering at him.

“She devil, do not think of making a woman only at the early Xiantian from a small clan seem like a goddess! The world it huge and you know nothing about the true powers! Just look where we stand now! This is power.” Meng Bei said.

“Stupid trash, when you eat dirt I will be there to laugh!” She said getting in his face glaring and almost growling.

“Bring it she devil! I will be here when you want to fight!” He growled back.

“Would all you mangy dogs stop barking! It hurts the ears of this young master.” A bored and arrogant voice said.

Suddenly the huge crowd split and walking forward was a tall older man wearing long white robes and a bored expression which contained hints of irritation. He had a strong Qi aura with a strength of High Success Xiantian with a very thick Qi.

The children looked at him for a while, “Who are you?” Rinrin asked bluntly.

The man sneered at her, “I am Yin Cheng, young master of the Heavenly Sword Mountain.” He said coldly.

“Oh.” Rinrin said bored and looked at him ignoring Meng Bei, “So it's just one of those little toothpicks from that stupid mountain.” She said coldly.

The veins on the head of Yin Cheng began to budge. “You little bitch, you dare look down on I, your father, just because you are a little princess from a small clan’s high ranking member. Frog in a well, open your eyes! I have been on this mountain and have already learned most of the basics of their refining methods and even reached 4th level spirit master. I only need to train in smithing now and I can enter the outer sect obtaining my own treasure pagoda!” He said.

Rinrin looked at him as if seeing a jumping clown, “Hehe, so you are good at refining so what, you’re still a disciple in waiting and you’re what, 20, 25 years old already? I, my husband and his second wife can already smith treasure weapons, we are 3rd level spirit rune masters and mortal rank pill apprentice almost becoming Pill adepts.” She sneered. “Not only that but we already know the refining methods of the Yi clan.” She laughed in a pompous manner showing superiority.

“Oh so you do huh? Then how's about a bet!?” Yin Cheng sneered incredibly irritated. “If I win…” He said looking at the girls and boys in the group, “The girls will become my women and you brats will join my forces once I become an outer sect disciple.” He said.

“What if you lose?” Rinrin asked but her face was showing her rage.

“If I lose I teach you what I know.” He said.

“Bah! What the fuck are you talking about!?” Meng Bei roared.

Guo Tian sneered while Ning stepped up next to Rinrin, “If you lose you will join my forces when we officially join the outersect.” Ning said. Yin Cheng frowned, “If you want to bet then bet equal stacks.” Ning said.

“Fine, what will be refine and how do we grade if it is good or not?” He asked.

Ning thought a bit.

“You will refine medical gardens and whoever refines the largest will be the winner!” Said a voice from above.

Everyone looked up and saw that it was a large fat man dressed in exquisite robes. This was Yi Chonglou who had appeared but hid his presence.

“We greet elder Yi!” Everyone suddenly said in unison bowing.

“I saw something interesting and have come to see. I will say this now children, a bet to join the forces of another will result in you losing the qualifications to be a Yi clan member. A Yi clan disciple can only be his own master and not join the forces of another. They can be the lackey of another with higher power like a small tree under another but not join the forces. Will you continue this bet to join the forces?” He asked.

The children were all startled by this revelation and looked at each other.

“I have nothing to fear.” Yin Cheng said.

“Since it is like that.” Yi Chonglou said and waved his hand and two old looking medical garden appeared and descended stopping in front of Ning and Yin Cheng. “The contest will be between you two, you can refine it a single time, the one that has a better result will be the winner.” Yi Chonglou announced.

Very quickly the area around the two were cleared out and the two took the medical garden, which was only a dull flower pot without a tree, and examined it.

“This is a half acre medical garden, to us Yi clan, it is easier to start everything at a very shitty level, since we can refine them over time adding our essence and mark onto the item. Now, start the contest!” Yi Chonglou announced.

The two looked at the pot and sat down. Ning took a very deep breath and closed his eyes and suddenly his five Dao Beasts appeared, this drew a lot of attention but he did not Open his eyes because of Sulfur, his Sulfuric Emperor Spider.

He simply cupped his hand and around the medical garden pot his spiritual energy lifted it. The five Dao Beasts circled the pot and got into the proper position of the elements they represented.

“We are in place master.” Zero said shocking people since he talked.

Ning nodded and began to making lots of hand seals before circulating all their energies. He then quietly chanted and from the five Dao Beasts, waves of elemental energy began to come off them and surround the medical pot and entered.

Everyone was looking in shock as they saw the very weak spirit runes lit up and the pot began to vibrate making a buzz.

Yin Cheng was focused and didn’t notice anything as his own energy came from his body and refined the pot. Both of them were glowing and the spirit runes began to shift about and slowly split forming new ones but it was clear Ning had a huge advantage because besides white runes, Red, Blue, Purple, Green and Yellow runes began to appear and arrange it different all around the pot. The dull look of the pot began to change and it rapidly changed to look incredibly new brimming with vitality and the dried dirt turned into very dark fertile dirt.

Half way through Ning’s refining Yin Cheng opened his eyes grinning as he looked at the Medical garden pot. “Haha! 100 acres from half an acre. It’s High Grade Common Rank now.” He laughed and looked at Ning before his face froze.

What he saw made him look at Ning as if he was a ghost. With five Dao Beasts as the channel he was feeding three different energies, all of which had begun to refine into spirit energy and of the five basic elements making a very strong balance in the natural elements. It wasn’t that Ning was slower then him but it was that Ning had much more energy to refine into the medical garden.

After several minutes the energy was gone and the spider quickly vanished before Ning opened his eyes and sighed before whipping his sweat and taking the medical garden explaining it. “190 acres.” he said.

The eyes of all the people were wide like saucers and Yin Cheng quickly ran over and took the garden and he examined it himself only to pale. “190 acre… and perfect elemental balance.” He said.

“The winner is Bo Ning. Yin Cheng and all of you, let this be a lesson to not be so hostile towards others on first sight. This boy and his wives are disciples of my own blood niece. These children are already outer disciples of the Yi Clan and already have Treasure Pagoda.” Yi Chonglou said.

Yin Cheng turned pale as soon as he heard this. This was in deed smashing his own foot with a stone, he asked to lose from the get go and Yi Chonglou knew of this. He was shaking in rage but he made such a big bet in front of the such a huge public but after a long time he sighed, “Seems I really slapped myself hard this time.” He sighed.

“Ahaha! Good boy, at least you're not sour about this. That said, as long as Ning reaches inner sect disciple you might have a chance of him making a pagoda for you and allowing you to become a clan disciple. Once someone reaches the inner clan they are allowed to directly recruit someone they know is worthy of the joining and can make a Treasure Pagoda for them as long as they join the outer clan’s ranks.” he laughed.

“So there is still a chance.” Yin Cheng sighed.

“Yes, since you are a good talent I will still let you learn with the rest, considering your strength… alright everyone get into place, your lessons will be starting!” He yelled.

On his call the quiet crowd turned shocked. The subject of the bet was dropped at, you are his forces and he can or can not let you join later on but since you're a good talent you can still learn from me. This kind of thing made everyone feel strange. He had previously said that joining someone's forces was akin to dropping the idea of becoming a Yi Clan member but after that they are told that they can join as long as the ‘master’ allows and he still lets the person who lost learn from him.

Many people frowned on this but Ning didn’t say anything and just walked back storing the medical garden since Yi Chonglou didn’t take it back.

“Alright, today you will learn to alter the elemental nature of spirit treasures, to us Yi clan, this means altering the form of a spirit or medical mountain. That said most of the Yi clan focuses on Spirit mountain because medical mountains have a limit to their growth which doesn’t surpass Peak Earth Rank. They are unable to become flying mountains like what you stand on.” Yi Chonglou said and opened his hand. Suddenly countless small root hairs flew out and stopped in front of each and every person.

Everyone’s jaws dropped as they saw that this small root hair was actually a spirit vein branch but only the size of a root hair. Clearly this was a vein grading no more than Ungraded Common Rank.

“Now, let me explain something. The world is incredibly diverse when it comes to the energies it possesses. The three main energies are Mana, Qi and Infernal Energy without our massive region. In other areas it could even be pure origin energy which is pure unaltered elemental energies that one can refine into what is called True Essence. In other places it can be only Infernal Energy mixed with naturally accumulated blood essence. There are countless forms. Within the Yi clan we have traveled even beyond our region and brought back many samples of these other energies and learned a great deal by mixing this knowledge with the Treasure Pagoda’s refining capability. Now the lesson…” he said coughing, “... the most used energy within our region is Qi. Even if Mana is most abundant and destructive Qi is easier to cultivate. Mana requires magic runes and to us Yi clan it isn’t useful because the Pagoda functions with Spirit runes and not Magic Runes. Of course there may be treasure pagoda in the Spirit realm which functions with magic runes but we do not know of it. Now what is Qi? Qi is an energy that refines the body but can also be refined into many different forms.” he said and lifted his finger.

Qi wrapped around it and seemed just like common pure Qi. The next second all of the children began to sweat as the Qi suddenly gained an Aura like that of a sword and it felt like Yi Chonglou was holding a holy sword at their necks. All the children drew in a cold breath as cold sweat dripped down their back.

“This is Sword Qi. You can feel it right? Sword Qi is developed over countless years by swordsmen. Walking, sleeping, bathing and living with your sword slowly forming a Sword Heart and sword intent. This is Dao of the Sword.” He said and suddenly the aura changed rapidly. Fluctuation to spear, fan, blade, halberd, and countless other weapons before returning to the pure Qi. Then it changed once more becoming yellow and the aura was similar to a mountain. “This is Element Qi. This is the most common as you should know. Mountains of different elements will take up characteristics of that element mixing it and altering its form and its surroundings with similar elemental energies. Of course element Qi can exist as elemental mana and Infernal Energy there is no distinguishing difference. These element changes are used to create unique conditions in a medical garden to birth heavenly treasures that appear in a one in a million situation. Medical gardens also have a different name for us, we call them Mystic Realms. If you believe it is different from a real mystic realm then you should give up. Mystic realms are separate dimensional worlds and medical gardens are just that. They are a separate world attached to a small flower pot which allow us to improve it slowly making it grow as more energy is put into it.” Yi Chonglou explained. “Your job is to change those spirit veins without ruining them.” He said.

Everyone looked startled but he just laughed and said to calm down. The next half hour he explained the principles of how to alter the spirit veins. Someone who doesn’t have skill with spirit runes will have a hard time to do this but Ning closed his eyes while the spirit vein was above his hand. Slowly it began to shine and slowly a blue film like energy surrounded it and suddenly spirit runes began to come in and out at a very fast rate.

Ning opened his eyes only to find everyone around him looking dumbly at him and he looked down. Runes were spinning very quickly and soon he inserted more spiritual energy from his mind and began to impede the speed causing the runes to slowly slow down until he could read the fluctuations of each rune.

There was a massive complex structure to this single hair alone but after a long time he lifted his finger and began to draw in the air. One rune, two, three he kept drawing until it formed a several dozen runes that Su instantly recognized as the runes they used to make the sword.

He looked at it and used Qi to flow it throught the runes trying to understanding something. After a moment his eyes shine as he waves his hands and the runes began to rearrange themselves and form sort of connected circle which had a sort of pulse that gave a feeling that you would be cut of you touched it.

Ning stretched his hand and balled his hand causing the runes to compress into a small ball and flow over and flow over his right hand while his left on held the spirit vein.

He looked down and with his Spiritual energy the runes flowed very fast then slowed down to a stop after a while and he pushed this bundle of runes inside and carefully undid the bundle and began to connect the runes to the overall matrix of the spirit vein’s runes.

After a long time the Vein suddenly changed and the previously twisty rune stretched out and looked like a sword with a very sharp point. The aura of the vein itself turned to one of a sword which gave a scare to a few nearby people.

“How did you do that?”! Yin Cheng asked with wide eyes.

This concept was no stranger to him but he has yet to succeed.

“I used the complete spirit rune formation used of making swords and flowing the energy through it I located the flow that works to release a sword Qi and after changing the positioning I found a way to make that stronger, then I isolated that flow inside the others and used them to fix the spirit veins spirit rune formation to my own leading the energy directly into and out of the flow that makes sword Qi. Now it is adapting and transforming my inept formation into what it should be like probably.” Ning said as he watched the outer runes break apart and the sword Qi flow and runes pulled out and added to the flow of the entire vein.

Yi Chonglou walked over and looked at it nodding, “It’s a creative method for those that don’t know. If you use these…” he said and quickly drew several runes linking them in a flow before quickly breaking them, “... the flow will be better but after refining this vein once it will probably fix it improve more.” he said.

In Ning’s eyes the image of those several runes were ingrained and he looked at the moving runes and brought back his own after looking at them he drew a few more and pushed them into some spots entering the flow.

BANG!

A sudden burst of energy came from the vein and all the spiritual energy surrounding the vein vanished but it remained there like a curved blade ready to stab down.

Yi Chonglou laughed, “Good, a Sword Spirit Vein is a good item. Put this down in that garden you refined earlier and refine the garden. Soon special herbs will begin appearing that can help you in your swordsmanship.” He said.

“What kind of herbs?” Ning asked.

“In this world, any kind of intent or Law can alter a herbs spiritual essence. In the case of a sword intent or sword Qi it would cause herbs to match that Qi. If that vein is planted, Sword bamboo and sword spirit herbs will sooner or later appear. These herbs release a trace amount of sword Qi and sword intent which is disregardable alone but when a forest or a flatland forms of these herbs it will cause the entire environment to undergo a massive change. The wind itself could cut you when it blows the sword Qi towards you or the grass itself make stab you if you are not careful. The sword Qi will also suppress someone that has yet to learn to control sword Qi to block it or comprehended sword intent. If one were to say, it would birth a swordsman paradise and hell.” He said.

Everyone began to exclaim in shock as they heard about the miraculous effects that a spirit vein could do to it’s surroundings.

“Elder Yi, can a spirit vein like this be used to refine weapons?” Yin Cheng asked.

“Of course, if you want a Sky or heaven rank sword then you will either need to be able to carve onto the weapon spirit veins during the production process or insert one through the treasure pagoda after it is made. The weapons which have a spirit vein carved on usually have better results than those that don’t, just keep that in mind.” He said.

Everyone nodded understanding. By adding a Spirit vein to a sword that does not have it, it would be like adding an extra wheel on a carriage and expect it to go faster. On the other hand by adding a spirit mountain's spirit vein to a sword with carved spirit veins made by a spirit smith it would be like remodeling the carriage into a treasure vehicle of higher grade, possibly even adding new effects and abilities.

“Alright, this is it for now, Ning, Rinrin, Su, stay here, I need to teach you how to extract Spirit vein hair’s from main branches, this is a vital skill needed for you to improve your forces and make the required training grounds for your forces and yourself.” He said.

The children bowed understanding.

The other children began to leave but Meng Bei was frowning, “What makes this idiot and she devil better the me?!” Meng Bei complained.

“Bei.” A cold voice said.

He turned to look at the source and finds Tian Xiaoleng glaring at him, “Come we are leaving.” She said.

Bei’s eyes twitched like he wanted to say something but he didn’t have the courage before letting his head droop and look at the others.

“Hehe seems the pants of the pair belong to Xiaoleng.” Guo Tian laughed.

This caused Bei to feel even worst as he dragged himself away.

Ning put the spirit vein in the middle of the empty garden and watched as the small hill formed. Instantly spirit energy with a sword aura began to emanate from the hill. “Oh I forgot to make it Qi.” He muttered.

“Heh, there is no problem, it will give a better variety if you don’t make it only have one energy and it will not run dry when you enter those other regions without Qi.” Yi Chonglou explained.

Understanding Ning nodded.

They waited until everyone was cleared out, leaving only the four people, Yin Cheng sighed and went off with the rest of the others with his head down. He was now one of Ning’s men so he could only hope for the best in the future.

“Alright, let us see the spirit mountain you just put in.” He said.

Ning nodded and teleported them into the garden.

A small 20 meter high hill had formed in the middle of the garden but all around were a few springs, ponds and streams there was some natural elevations forming rocky outcrops in a few spots.

“Good, now Ning, put you hand on the ground and spread your spiritual energy when you find a single spirit rune grab it and follow the flow. Fill the flow with your spiritual energy completely, as you do so you must search for the vein. This process is actually helpful in another situation. If you find a medical or spirit mountain you can use it to locate someone or something on the mountain, namely natural treasures. This is also useful for checking underground for mineral deposits if there are any nearby. Spirit Veins like to gather them and will spread their roots out quite wide drawing them closer so it is easier to use a spirit vein to scan the area.” He said.

This was a good lesson, it meant that by using spirit veins they could do very thorough scans of the area drawing upon the hidden minerals.

Ning felt into the ground and his spiritual energy passed through the ground from his hand, his eyes closed. Slowly the energy passed through the hard rock and after ten minutes he finally touched upon a spirit rune that ran away. He frowned when this happened but this showed that he was getting close so he kept searching and found another one and locked it in place. From it he finally focused his energy through the ground straight to it and began to spread his own spiritual energy through the flow and very quickly more and more flows and spirit runes began to appear filling the fast space in his closed eyes vision.

The flow didn’t only exist on the 20 meter high 30 meter wide hill but even beyond that and it spread very wide filling the garden. As more and more spread he eventually found the spirit vein, “Found it.” Ning said.

“Good, now pull all the spirit runes and compress it back inside the spirit vein and pull the vein out with your spiritual energy.” Yi Chonglou explained.

After hearing the explanation he began to pull the runes. Starting from the outer most edge he slowly pulled them and pile them on top of each other compressing it more and more until they circled the vein. Putting pressure they slowly pressed into the spirit vein and he pulled it out after that.

Only after the vein was in his hand that he let out his breath and presented it to Yi Chonglou.

“Good as expected of my grand nephew. Girls your turn.” He said and with a wave the spirit vein returned to the ground and the runes spread out once more.

After an hour both of them completed the task before they moved to another medical garden and now there was a very large mountain instead of a small hill. They did the same and pulled out an arm sized spirit vein but this was after several hours, Ning was successful.

“Now then to extract a spirit vein hair you look here.” Yi Chonglou said pointing to the extending hairs. His Qi formed around his index and middle finger and with a smile he grabbed the vein hair. He extended his fingers while holding the hair taut and with a motion like a scissor the two Qi blades cut the hair which released a strong shockwave of energy but it quickly sealed up and stabilized. “Now children I will say this, you should only harvest spirit vein hairs once every 3 months. Once you refine a garden with spirit veins let the vein rest because cutting the hairs will slowly drain its life force eventually killing it even if you refine it every day after cutting a hair eventually it will pile up and die so if you extract hairs, extract them all at once and let the vein rest for a period.” He explained. The children nodded understanding. “Good now to make this…” he said showing the sword Qqi blade, “You three should focus on making that sword garden. By cultivating and understanding sword energy you will slowly approach the gates of sword Dao. That said you can choose any Dao that fits you since you will still fight. The Dao will affect the plants that will appear but each garden will be unique as your own refining. Even the beasts that may or may not appear will be different and will evolve differently, this is the meaning of mystic realms.” He said.

“Uncle, how many mystic realms have you made?” Ning asked.

Yi Chonglou paused and thought before laughing, “More then I can count that is for sure.”

“Elder Yi, how would we make mineral resources in a medical garden?” Rinrin asked.

“You make six spirit veins, earth element and refine. If you get five spirit veins and put it in a star formation and put one in the center and refine it it will have the best effect. What appears is different and varied, I personally have more than 100 different mineral based mystic realms all of which are heavily developed to extract the metals and crystals. A garden this size would already fit 6 ungraded spirit mountains.” He said.

“Um… is it safe for my flame python to refine a wind dragon scale as I am?” Su asked.

Yi Chonglou looked at the child and laughed, “Yes it is, you have already refined some of its energy into spirit energy and this made your body very strong. You can refine it and with their help you can survive and kindle the dragon fire safely.” He said.

Su looked happy upon here that and hugged Ning’s arm happily.

“Now children, let us go and rest up, you should practice what you learned and become more proficient, the more you stress your spiritual energy the more it will grow. Train well and become something good.” He said smiling.

“Thank you for the guidance!” The three bowed and they left the garden after putting the vein back into its place.