The Immortal Cultivation World Is Too Dangerous: I Return to Earth as a Divine Sage
Chapter 9 - The Longevity Flower Equivalent to a Longevity Physique Surpassing Top-Grade Physiques?

Chapter 9: The Longevity Flower Equivalent to a Longevity Physique Surpassing Top-Grade Physiques?

The young man was none other than Ye Yang, who intended to make Zhao Qingzhi serve his purposes.

After deciding to take control of Zhao Qingzhi, Ye Yang came to the Zhao Family’s ancient mansion to assess the situation.

Currently at the fourth layer of Qi Refining realm, Ye Yang’s divine sense had a detection range of about two to three thousand meters.

Thus, upon arriving outside the Zhao Family’s mansion and confirming the distance was suitable, he cast a low-tier invisibility spell, leaned against a wall, and began probing the mansion with his divine sense.

Originally, Ye Yang planned to wait for the right moment to use his divine sense to transmit a message to Zhao Wuji, the current head of the Zhao Family, revealing the existence of supernatural forces beyond human comprehension.

After intimidating Zhao Wuji, he would employ some tactics to save Zhao Qingzhi, thereby gaining control over the entire Zhao Family for his own use.

But Ye Yang never could have imagined that during his divine sense probing, he would witness Zhao Wuji produce a leaf from the supreme spiritual herb of the cultivation world—the Longevity Flower.

In the cultivation world, spiritual herbs were divided into four major grades: low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, and supreme. Each grade was further subdivided into lower, middle, upper, and extreme levels.

High-tier spiritual herbs could drive Golden Core cultivators to fight desperately, as the right high-tier herb could potentially elevate a Golden Core cultivator to the Nascent Soul realm.

Supreme spiritual herbs, however, were coveted even by Soul Transformation cultivators, who would engage in fierce battles to obtain them.

According to the Tianhuang Sect’s comprehensive herb catalog, the Longevity Flower was a supreme extreme-grade spiritual herb, one that even Soul Transformation cultivators would fight over.

The Longevity Flower had only one function: extending lifespan.

Cultivators in the cultivation world had extraordinarily long lifespans, so it might seem they had no need for additional years. But in reality, lifespan was what cultivators lacked most.

The path to the Great Dao was vast and uncertain, and no one could guarantee they would break through to the next realm before their lifespan ran out. Thus, in the cultivation world, any elixir or herb that could extend lifespan was priced at least a hundred times higher than other herbs of the same grade.

Lifespan-extending herbs also varied in quality. The Longevity Flower was the undisputed king among them.

A single Longevity Flower had one hundred leaves, each capable of extending lifespan by a thousand years. Consuming all one hundred leaves could grant an additional hundred thousand years of life.

However, if its only function was to extend lifespan, the Longevity Flower wouldn’t qualify as a supreme extreme-grade herb.

Supreme extreme-grade herbs were supreme treasures of the cultivation world, offering those who obtained them a chance to glimpse realms beyond Soul Transformation. A herb that merely extended lifespan clearly didn’t meet this standard.

After all, while lifespan-extending herbs were rare, there were always forces cultivating such herbs. Though resistance to these herbs could develop, with the vast variety and quantity of lifespan-extending herbs available, their combined effect could surpass or at least match that of the Longevity Flower.

The reason the Longevity Flower was ranked as a supreme extreme-grade herb was not because of consuming it to extend lifespan. Consuming the Longevity Flower directly was the most foolish method.

Its true value lay in its leaves. By infusing each leaf with dew containing spiritual energy, after a period of time, the dew would absorb the Longevity Flower’s divine properties, gaining the ability to extend lifespan.

This Longevity Flower dew could be consumed indefinitely without developing resistance.

In other words, as long as the Longevity Flower existed, it was akin to possessing an infinite lifespan, equivalent to artificially creating a Longevity Physique that surpassed even top-grade physiques, a legendary existence.

Of course, such a heaven-defying item came with heavenly tribulations. The Longevity Flower constantly faced celestial calamities, which could come in the form of natural disasters or man-made troubles.

Natural disasters included lightning tribulations sent by the heavens. Man-made troubles arose when word of the Longevity Flower leaked, leading to its seizure by others.

Early tribulations could be easily withstood by powerful cultivators. But as time passed, even Soul Transformation cultivators couldn’t resist these tribulations and would ultimately have to consume the Longevity Flower, unleashing its final effect to gain a hundred thousand years of lifespan.

“Could it just be a similar-looking flower? The Longevity Flower, a heaven-defying treasure even in the cultivation world, exists on Earth?” Ye Yang extended his divine sense, staring at the Longevity Flower leaf in Zhao Wuji’s hand, lost in thought.

If it were before, Ye Yang would have dismissed it as a lookalike flower. How could a mundane world like Earth possess something as heaven-defying as the Longevity Flower from the cultivation world? But after discovering special physiques like those of Luo Wan’er, Zhao Ling’er, and Sheng Minglan, Ye Yang began to rethink his view of Earth.

If the cultivation world’s special physiques existed on Earth, it wasn’t unreasonable for the cultivation world’s supreme spiritual herbs to exist here too.

Spiritual herbs in the cultivation world required long growth periods. But Earth was billions of years old, so it wasn’t surprising for it to produce spiritual herbs with long growth spans.

At most, these spiritual herbs, like the special physiques, lacked spiritual energy to nurture them, possessing only the name without their full heaven-defying effects.

“What a pity. Once a Longevity Flower’s leaf is plucked, it loses its ability to produce lifespan-extending dew. Otherwise, I could take this leaf, crush some pills, and use their spiritual energy to nurture it, seeing if the leaf would manifest divine properties after absorbing the energy. If it did, my hypothesis would be confirmed: Earth not only has special physiques but also the cultivation world’s spiritual herbs.

“If my hypothesis is true, my cultivation path, already simplified from nightmare difficulty to easy mode thanks to special physiques, would drop to the lowest novice difficulty. Let alone Soul Transformation—ascending to immortality might not be impossible.” Ye Yang thought to himself.

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“This leaf does look extraordinary. Normally, a plant’s leaf would wither and yellow once plucked, but this one is full of vibrant sheen. It seems there truly are mysteries in this world we don’t understand.

“Big Brother, instead of debating here, why don’t we first give this leaf to Father and see its effects? If it can truly make Father awaken and restore his vitality, what’s thirty percent of our assets? With Father’s body functioning well, we can let him take charge of the family again. With his wisdom, are we afraid we can’t recover the lost assets?”

Inside the Zhao Family’s ancient mansion, Zhao Xuankun looked at the Longevity Flower leaf in Zhao Wuji’s hand and spoke gravely.

“Alright, let’s do it.” Hearing Zhao Xuankun’s words, Zhao Wuji nodded. “This is also a way to test the Longevity Flower. If this leaf can truly restore vitality to someone on the brink of death, it proves the Longevity Flower is real.”

“Without spiritual energy to nurture it, the Longevity Flower’s efficacy is reduced to a fraction. A single leaf restoring vitality is likely its limit, and consuming an entire plant to extend life by a few years is probably the maximum.” Ye Yang, observing the scene with his divine sense, thought to himself.