Chapter 52: The Reverse Saint Spirit Method and Planting Tea and Peach Trees

Chapter 52: The Reverse Saint Spirit Method and Planting Tea and Peach Trees (Please Follow)

For a thousand years, Shaohua has stood at the apex of humanity, continuously refining her Dao and methods, growing even stronger.

In this world, she has no rivals left. The forbidden zones lie dormant, and the cosmos are at peace.

She rarely appears before the public anymore, except to help Lan Ling transcend the heavenly calamity.

For she has more important matters to attend to.

On the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, Shaohua has quietly replaced part of the array left by the Imperial Sovereign and set up her own imperial array around the Immortality Pool.

Over the years, she has been studying the mystery of the Saint Spirit Stone Cradle here.

The Divine Wasteland has been a great help, delivering two Saint Spirit corpses, which are undoubtedly a big favor.

If they ever face each other in the future, she will surely remember this kindness and repay it with all her might, showing them the utmost respect!

One of the corpses was previously refined to extract its essence, which she gifted to the Sage-Body Senior from the Ancient Forbidden Land to help restore his body.

The main body of the corpse remains intact, serving as Shaohua's best material for dissection.

After a thorough investigation, Shaohua returned the other Saint Spirit corpse to its origin, re-refining it into a stone cradle.

To be more precise, it is a special stone coffin.

Old Father's condition is extremely poor, even worse than the old senior in the Ancient Forbidden Land. One could say he has one foot in the grave, relying solely on Shaohua's frequent recitation of scriptures and blood transfusions to keep him alive.

The Eternal Seal Art, while capable of extending one's peak state, can maintain one's condition as long as the blood has not dried and the soul has not dissipated, allowing one to stand and fight again.

But this comes at a cost!

Power does not come from nowhere; it is taken from the source.

Moreover, at that time, Shaohua had not yet perfected the Eternal Seal Art. Old Father learned an incomplete version, which ultimately led to him burning out completely.

If she hadn't arrived in time, using her own essence blood and half a dose of the Undying Elixir to sustain his life, he would have been reduced to ashes without even needing to transcend the Dao.

The Eternal Seal Art does not have the universal applicability of the Nine Secrets, and it is extremely difficult to cultivate. Only in Shaohua's hands, the creator of the art, does it truly possess the divine power to transcend to immortality.

"Really, why did you have to push yourself so hard? I shouldn't have taught you the Eternal Seal Art in the first place", she sighed.

Back then, she had drained all her saintly blood to forcibly preserve Old Father's life, and now she is finally reaching her limit.

"The final solution: reverse the process, transform into a Saint Spirit, and live another life!"

Using her supreme divine power, Shaohua protected Old Father's undying consciousness and original saintly blood, transforming his physical body into a stone cradle. She then buried him in the Saint Spirit stone coffin, which was placed inside a coffin made from the Primordial Life Tree.

She delved deeply into the Saint Spirit's techniques and specifically retrieved the ancestral artifact of the Saint Spirit lineage from the ancient human path.

In the Mythical Era, the Dao Sovereign, in his later years, slew a Saint Spirit and intended to refine its essence to benefit future generations.

However, due to his limited lifespan, he didn't have the time to complete the refinement. In the end, he could only seal it in the Seven Demon Wells, like brewing wine, transforming the Saint Spirit into immortal nectar.

Unfortunately, he failed at the last moment, and only a few drops of immortal wine were produced, resulting in the birth of many Spirit Demons.

For others, opening the Seven Demon Wells might be troublesome and could invite disaster.

But for Shaohua, it was nothing. With a wave of her hand, she cleansed all impurities, transforming the demon wells into spirit wells.

She did not take the artifact and leave without a trace.

The Dao Sovereign had the intention to benefit future generations, and she also had the desire to nurture the young.

She had many branches left over from cutting the Primordial Life Tree and the Ginseng Fruit Tree, so she placed them in the spirit wells, waiting for the right people to come.

The Dao Sovereign could use the Saint Spirit to brew wine, and she could use the Undying Elixir to brew fruit juice, which is not only equally effective but also free from any aberrations.

She also left behind a few scrolls of scriptures, making her even more reliable than the Dao Sovereign.

Shaohua placed her hand on her hip, a sense of pride welling up within her.

The ancestral artifacts of the Saint Spirit lineage were a stone edict and a stone codex. Though they appeared to be made of stone, they contained flesh and blood, making them an extremely unique type of Saint Spirit that was born alongside their owner, naturally becoming their weapon.

These artifacts contained the Heavenly Mending Art, a divine technique that could bring a prematurely born Saint Spirit to its full potential. They were also formidable magical weapons, ranking as the top tier below the Imperial Arsenals.

Two Saint Spirit corpses, two unique Saint Spirit weapons, the Nine-Aperture Wondrous Stone brought back from the primordial chaos, and the Spirit-Communing Immortal Metal forcibly taken from the Undying Peaks—Shaohua's research materials were incredibly rich. The only thing missing was the Stone Emperor himself, whom she hadn't managed to kidnap from the Undying Peaks.

To aid her, she also had the Feather Ascension Sutra, the Heavenly Calamity Transcendence Art, the Heavenly Annihilation Art, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art, and her own scriptures. Considering her father's condition, she tailored a method to reverse the Saint Spirit transformation.

It couldn't be helped; everyone was in a half-dead state, and it all fell to her to take care of.

"According to the calculations, there shouldn't be any mistakes. As long as the reverse transformation of the Saint Spirit Stone Cradle succeeds, there's an 80% chance of success."

Shaohua's expression brightened, the weariness in her eyes dissipating.

It was the Eternal Seal Art that had played a crucial role, otherwise, it would have been difficult to protect that tiny, undying spiritual consciousness.

The remaining possibility of failure lay in the inherent difficulty of prematurely born Saint Spirits.

"Placing him in the Kunlun Immortality Pool to incubate, there's no better place in the world for this. I've done everything I can; the rest is up to time."

Shaohua carefully arranged her father's stone coffin, then fell silent for a moment.

A thousand years of effort, and finally, one of her major concerns was resolved.

"I can't do much for Mother; she'll have to rely on herself."

Though she said this, Shaohua couldn't just stand by and watch. She did everything she could to intervene, hoping her mother's aberration would take a positive turn.

The Western Sovereign was sealed within the Immortal Origin and the Primordial Life Stone, then placed in a spirit coffin made from the Ginseng Fruit Tree.

Her aberration was unique; her soul was scattered but not extinguished within her Immortal Platform, and her body contained myriad methods, yet she had not transformed into an Innate Sage-Body Dao Embryo.

After a thousand years, there was still no sign of her awakening, but her vital signs were stable, and she even looked younger.

With her parents' affairs settled and her Imperial Dao Sutra nearly complete, Shaohua found herself with some free time.

She began to observe the stumps left by the Primordial Life Tree and the Ginseng Fruit Tree, trying to decipher the secrets of the Undying Elixir.

She went through her previous harvests, the Spirit Spring she had brought back from the Cycle Sea, which had been revitalized by the Kunlun Mountain dragon vein.

The branches of the Awakening Dao Tea Tree she had brought back from the Undying Peaks were grafted onto old tea trees in Kunlun Mountain, and three of them had successfully grown.

These tea trees took three years to produce leaves, and one tree could yield 360 leaves.

As expected, the efficacy of these leaves in aiding enlightenment was greatly reduced, and the combined effect of an entire tree was still less than that of a single genuine Awakening Dao Tea leaf.

Still, they had a unique flavor and surpassed many other tea varieties. She called them Spirit Awakening Tea.

The Undying Peach Tree she had taken from the Divine Wasteland had fully matured, and she had successfully planted a young peach tree using the Spirit Spring and Immortal Nectar.

Shaohua had an idea: to plant a garden of peach trees in the Jade Pond Sanctuary, fitting for her former identity as the first Western Queen Mother.

The White Tiger Spirit Herb would soon be ready to harvest, and she planned to give one to each of her two disciples.

Good things should naturally be shared with those close to her.

Wishing all my dear readers health and longevity, I love you all!

(End of Chapter)

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