Longevity Clan Starts with the Patriarch's Marriage

Chapter 317: Chapter 184: Dragon Knight! Guardian Beast of the Clan! The Nine Tribulations Holy Lotus and Time-Sky Tower, Long Yue’s Homeward Heart_3

Han Li took out the Time-Sky Tower, partly because with the Void Bell, the Time-Sky Tower was not of much use to him anymore, and on the other hand, he wanted to quickly develop the Han Mansion, allowing his beloved wife and concubines, as well as his descendants, to make rapid progress in their cultivation. The Li Manor would soon be merged into the Han Mansion.

With the supreme grade Divine Weapon, the Time-Sky Tower, the development speed of Han Mansion would surge by many folds.

However, the Time-Sky Tower, as good as it was, also had other restrictions. The level permissions were set by Han Li, and the Time-Sky Tower itself came with limitations.

Time spent inside the Time-Sky Tower was time consumed from one’s lifespan; those with a lack of longevity entering the Time-Sky Tower were courting death.

Moreover, the five floors of the Time-Sky Tower required corresponding cultivation levels to enter. Those not meeting the cultivation requirements would not be able to withstand the effects of the accelerated time on their physical bodies. Of course, if the physical body was strong enough, even those with insufficient cultivation could enter a higher level.

The first floor required the True Qi Realm, the second required the Gangyuan Realm, the third the Hollow Void Stage, the fourth the True Martial Realm, and the fifth the Divine Yuan Realm.

In Han Mansion, aside from Han Li himself, no one could step into the fifth floor of the Time-Sky Tower, their cultivations being insufficient. Long Yue was temporarily not in Han Li’s considerations, to be reconsidered when her heart returned to him.

All these thoughts flashed by, and Han Li then heard Kui Yi’s muffled, stifled voice, booming like thunder.

“Master, I’m quite content here, very serene. No one comes to disturb me,” said Kui Yi.

“If you’re happy, that’s good,” replied Han Li.

Han Li nodded slightly and looked towards the pond, his gaze mostly focused on the lotus flower at the center of the water.

This was a greenish-blue sacred lotus with twenty-seven blossoms and nine leaves, three sections of white lotus root emitting radiant light, vaguely circulating with various laws of the Tao, captivating to behold.

This was a supreme grade Divine Medicine, known as the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus—all parts valuable: the lotus flower, leaves, and root were all rare divine medicines—but the most important were the seeds of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus.

When the seed pod of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus appeared, it would bear nine seeds in black, white, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—each one a top-grade divine medicine.

Top-grade divine medicine is something even the saints of the Saint Abyss Realm would fight fiercely over. Whether consumed directly or refined into elixirs, it constituted a significant fortuity.

A single seed could increase a saint’s cultivation by three thousand years within the Saint Abyss Realm. While those with lesser talent might not ascend a realm, for the extraordinary geniuses, one seed of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus was enough to raise their cultivation by a minor realm.

If one could obtain the entire Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus and cultivate its seeds, their cultivation would skyrocket dramatically.

Most importantly, the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus was a sustainable supreme grade Divine Medicine. Every five thousand years, it would bear nine seeds, an invaluable treasure.

When Han Li opened the treasure box, the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus was already in this state, with lotus root, leaves, and flower all present, and the seed pod just beginning to manifest.

According to the system, this Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus would mature in another thousand years, and its nine seeds would be ready for harvest.

If Han Li did not wish to wait so long, he could use various heavenly materials, supreme grade spirit stones, or spirit crystals and spirit sources, etc., to expedite the maturation, accelerating the growth of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus.

Glancing at those heavenly materials, Han Li was struck speechless; he simply had no way to find all kinds of divine waters, which were unsuitable for him.

Spirit crystals were the main currency of exchange between Divine Yuan Realm Martial Emperors and Tongxuan Realm powerhouses, more advanced than top-grade spirit stones, while spirit sources were the main currency among Saint Abyss Realm saints and Heaven Imperial Realm emperors, with the spiritual energy concentration and quality in the spirit sources being even higher than that of spirit crystals.

Yet, Han Li had neither spirit crystals nor spirit sources. He only had a little over two thousand top-grade spirit stones in his possession. Originally, he had three thousand, but he had given some to his beloved wife and concubines to aid in advancing their cultivation.

In the Qianyuan Divine Province during the Ancient Era, there were many spirit source mines, but they were all controlled by several Sacred Lands. There were many spirit crystal mines, held by various Tongxuan Realm powers and Saint Abyss Realm powers.

But the spiritual energy of today’s Qianyuan Divine Province was far less than before, much lesser compared to the Ancient Era. Not a single new saint from the Saint Abyss Realm had been born since, and the spirit source mines had long since vanished. Though spirit crystal mines still existed, they remained in the hands of the various Sacred Lands.

Without heavenly materials or spirit crystals and sources, Han Li had no choice but to reluctantly use two thousand top-grade spirit stones to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus.

This pond, measuring about thirty feet in both length and width, was transformed from top-grade spirit stones. The water inside contained an abundance of spiritual energy. Han Li even set up a Fifth Grade Spirit Gathering Formation for the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus to provide it with pure spiritual energy.

“This won’t do,” he muttered.

Looking at the pond and then at the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus, Han Li’s eyebrows furrowed deeply.

The Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus he had obtained a year ago was already halfway through the energy of the two thousand spirit stones converted into pond water, and it was still about nine hundred eighty years from maturation.

In other words, a thousand top-grade spirit stones and the large amount of pure spiritual energy from the Fifth Grade Spirit Gathering Formation had only accelerated the growth of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus by twenty years.

Once the pond water was exhausted, it would accelerate growth by only forty years, still leaving nine hundred sixty years until maturity—a very long time.

Initially, he had thought of cultivating it within the fifth floor of the Time-Sky Tower, but that had not been successful. The Time-Sky Tower couldn’t speed up the growth of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus, and he wondered if it was due to the tower’s insufficient grade.

“If only I had a time acceleration formation,” sighed Han Li.

With a Time Formation set up around the Nine Revolutions Sacred Lotus, it could greatly hasten the growth of the sacred lotus, leading to its swift maturation.