Earth, White Jade City.

After Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang's team arrived at the White Jade City Mountains, they began to construct residences.

Five hundred martial artists who were tested and found to have no cultivation roots but decent martial arts talent started excavating spirit stones in the nearby mountains.

Additionally, there were one hundred seventy-three individuals who were detected as having cultivation roots. Their status was naturally higher. Besides supervising the mining team in batches and collecting spirit stones and spirit ore, the others built simple residences and focused on cultivation.

All living materials here were brought by everyone beforehand, and they also brought many crop seeds. They planned to establish spirit fields around to grow crops for sustenance.

At Yang Fei's request, several cultivators from Lingxia Sect helped teach cultivation techniques, methods of mining spirit stones, and various knowledge such as Rune Tao, formations, artifact refining, and alchemy.

They even patiently instructed on how to cultivate the land and construct small Gathering Spirit Arrays to increase the spiritual energy density of the fields.

The entire hill of White Jade City was bustling with activity as Earth's first cultivation team explored and progressed, striving to establish the prototype of sects and aristocratic families in the cultivation world.

In just three days, everyone adapted to this clear division of labor and relaxed lifestyle.

None of the five hundred martial artists complained about the hardships because, on the first day, they had already excavated thousands of spirit stones.

Though the quality and size of these spirit stones varied, even the least quality spirit stones were the size of quail eggs and were mid-grade spirit stones.

When the 78,945 spirit stones excavated on the first day were piled together, everyone could distinctly feel the spiritual power contained within them.

After Qin Yanyang collected all the spirit stones, they were distributed proportionally.

Each of the five hundred martial artists involved in the excavation received one mid-grade spirit stone on the first day.

Although it was just a small piece, they could distinctly feel after cultivating with it at night, using the methods taught by Lingxia Sect cultivators, that their cultivation speed had increased by more than tenfold compared to before.

This gave them hope for breaking through realms.

Critically, for these martial artists, one night's cultivation didn't even use up a whole mid-grade spirit stone. These spirit stones, even if only the size of quail eggs, were sufficient for martial artists below the Innate Realm to cultivate for over three days.

However, for real cultivators who have entered the Divine Travel Realm and possess cultivation roots, a mid-grade spirit stone the size of quail eggs would only be enough for a day and a night's cultivation.

According to the knowledge about the cultivation world taught by several Foundation Establishment cultivators from Lingxia Sect, they knew that a mid-grade spirit stone of this size was already considered a decent cultivation resource in the cultivation world.

In terms of Earth's previous money value, a mid-grade spirit stone of this size was equivalent to a value of a hundred thousand US Dollars.

Everyone involuntarily took a gasp when they thought about this.

Cultivation is really damn expensive.

Without money, you simply can't afford cultivation. Even with cultivation, without ample cultivation resources, the cultivation speed would be exceedingly slow. Even for cultivators with mid-grade spirit root talent, they might never reach the Foundation Establishment Stage in their lifetime.

Thus, after several days, everyone had a basic understanding.

Cultivation is really hard.

Compared to martial artists practicing martial arts, cultivation is even more demanding, slow, and difficult.

However, everyone soon accepted this fact.

Cultivation is about going against the heavens. If it were easy, wouldn't immortals be everywhere?

In short, those five hundred martial artists were very satisfied with the amount of spirit stone resources Qin Yanyang distributed to them.

As long as they continued working here, they would have excess spirit stones every day. According to Lingxia Sect disciples, they could exchange them for other spiritual artifacts, magic treasures, talismans, and things in the cultivation world in the future. These could enhance their attack and defense capabilities.

They could even exchange them for elixirs that extend life.

Even if they couldn't enter the cultivation world, they could still significantly extend their limited lifespan.

Moreover, Yang Fei stated that in the future, gene potion would also have to be exchanged with spirit stones. No other resources could be exchanged for gene potion.

And gene potion could alter the structure of human genes. With enough use, even those without cultivation roots might undergo genetic mutation and develop cultivation roots.

Thus, Chris and Wales also joined the team digging spirit stones. Their cultivation realms were higher, and their sensitivity to spirit stones was stronger than the other martial artists, allowing them to mine more spirit stones daily and gain more rewards.

They were reluctant to use spirit stones for cultivation and would come to Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang every few days to inquire about how many spirit stones were needed to exchange for a small bottle of gene potion.

Currently, they believed the gene potion was more beneficial to them.

After all, the stuff had already made the Blood Clan totally addicted.

People from Langya Wang Family came to Yang Fei as well to use the Innate Eye to test for cultivation roots. Except for those few in the Divine Travel Realm, none of the other thirteen people had cultivation roots, leaving the Langya Wang Family greatly discouraged.

Some even doubted the results, thinking Yang Fei had made a mistake in his tests.

After all, they had considerable talent in martial arts and had already entered the Innate Realm, only a step away from the Divine Travel Realm. How could they have no cultivation talent?

However, when they practiced cultivation using the techniques taught by Lingxia Sect disciples, they realized their cultivation speed was vastly different compared to those with spirit root talent.

Helian Zhan, Ouyang He, and Zhao Wannian were somewhat conflicted.

This place was too suitable for cultivation, and they were unwilling to leave after arriving, fearing that missing some days of cultivation would result in being outpaced by their previous peers.

After all, cultivation is different from martial arts. Once entering the cultivation domain, the speed of improvement indeed becomes much faster.

But if they do not leave here, they cannot communicate with their sect and family to come to this place.

They wanted to develop their sect and family forces.

It would strengthen their forces in the future if more people in their family and sect had cultivation roots.

Moreover, Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang had long expressed their hope to discover more people with cultivation talent to come and cultivate, as only then could Earth's cultivation strength be enhanced, providing a self-defense advantage against future Outer Domain cultivation force invasions.

Time flies during cultivation.

Often, in the blink of an eye, several days passed.

Thus, half a month had passed since the large team reached White Jade City.

On the mountainside of White Jade City, over two hundred simple wooden houses had been built, with over a hundred acres of farmland opened up around them, planted with crops.

Some farmland even grew precious varieties like spirit rice and spirit grass from the cultivation world carried by disciples from Lingxia Sect in their storage bags.

Lu Chen, Yang Fei, Zhuge Cang, and Tong Yunshu worked together on these spiritual fields and lands by setting up various Gathering Spirit and temperature control arrays, ensuring the temperature, air humidity, and other conditions reached the best environment for agricultural growth.

After several more days, everyone had grown accustomed to and started enjoying the leisurely life of cultivation and work here.

In the afternoon on this day, everyone suddenly sensed something and simultaneously looked up toward the sky.

The huge vortex that had appeared did not disappear but typically lacked any distinct features.

Today, however, at a certain moment, everyone sensed that something seemed to be descending from there.

Ye Wuya and other Lingxia Sect disciples' eyes flashed with brilliance, knowing it was someone from the Southern Region coming over.

They were just unsure if it was the second exploration team from Lingxia Sect or a joint team from other sects.

They had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this team for a long time.

Just hoping that among the arriving team there weren't only Foundation Establishment cultivators but a Golden Core strongman accompanying them.

Otherwise, Foundation Establishment cultivators pose no threat to Yang Fei, who possesses the Soul Binding Rope, and they might never regain their freedom.

Even though the cultivation resources here are abundant, deep down, they still yearned to return to the Central Great World, to their familiar sects.

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