In the Taklamakan Desert, an oasis rose miraculously.

It slowly expanded in all directions.

Upon close observation, one could see that most of the oasis consisted of pine trees, rapidly growing taller, with emerald green leaves exuding vibrant life.

In just a few hours, the trees grew to the thickness of a thigh, reaching over a dozen meters high.

The lush pine branches shielded the scorching sunlight, making the oasis pleasantly cool.

"Top-grade spirit stones indeed nurture plants well. Turning the desert into an oasis may be as difficult as ascending to heaven for others, but not so much for me."

Zhang Bin stood under a large pine tree, a bright smile on his face.

It’s true, other cultivators and sects can also use spirit stones to nurture plants and transform the desert.

However, they can only use mid-grade spirit stones, which don’t have as good an effect.

Even with top-grade spirit stones, it’s challenging to cultivate plants in the desert.

After all, it’s all sandy, with very little soil.

Only top-grade spirit stones, containing abundant Hongmeng Purple Qi, blend into the water, flowing into the desert.

Not only do they allow plants to develop rapidly, but they also bring about miraculous changes in the sand.

Indeed, Zhang Bin sensed with his divine sense that the yellow sand could actually absorb Hongmeng Purple Qi and spiritual energy.

Then the yellow sand gradually softened, transforming into fertile soil.

As the water seeped into the sand, even the yellow sand deep below turned into soil.

Moreover, Zhang Bin discovered even more.

The yellow sand could also devour spiritual energy, undergoing strange changes and converting into soil.

However, without the devouring effect of Hongmeng Purple Qi, it wasn’t as pronounced.

"Hahaha..."

Zhang Bin burst into uncontrollable laughter, for now, he was even more certain of transforming these 330,000 square kilometers of desert into a fertile oasis, making it the most suitable place for human habitation. In the future, it would not be a place of flying sand, but the most beautiful scenery.

How much virtue would he gain from this?

"Whistling..."

Perhaps because of the oasis, a strange change occurred.

The wind intensified, causing the trees to sway rapidly.

The weather also became cooler.

But abruptly, Zhang Bin felt as if struck by thunder, unable to move.

For he discovered an extremely peculiar phenomenon.

Out of nowhere, faint golden light flew from the void, integrating into his body.

Rapidly absorbed by his body.

But it did not enter his dantian; instead, it all converged on his forehead.

His forehead lit up with a faint golden glow, resembling a mystical seal.

This seal was rectangular, about 7 millimeters wide and 14 millimeters long.

The seal was covered in strange patterns, as if engraved with some words.

Perhaps because the seal was still too vague, the text was also too blurred to be read.

Zhang Bin couldn’t recognize them.

"What the hell... what’s going on?"

Zhang Bin was utterly shocked, wear disbelief on his face.

He couldn’t dream of such a miraculous change.

"Accumulating virtue, opening the forehead, sheltered by heaven and earth, divine skills perfected..."

And a phrase from the Tao Te Ching that he could never comprehend suddenly appeared in Zhang Bin’s mind.

"Oh my, it seems I understand something. The human forehead is also mysterious. Once opened, it holds some terrifying divine skills, but opening it is challenging and requires virtue." Zhang Bin shouted excitedly in his heart, his face also showing ecstasy.

He focused more closely on his forehead, finding it like a bottomless black hole devouring those golden lights representing virtue.

And the speed increased, any golden light landing on Zhang Bin moved within his body like a fish, swiftly entering his forehead.

Zhang Bin concentrated all his attention, trying to discern the situation inside.

But he was entirely unable to do so.

Where there had once been only flesh, now seemed different.

It had turned into a mysterious seal, with enigmatic changes occurring within, making it impossible for him to view internally.

"Perhaps it still doesn’t count as opening, so no divine skills have appeared." Zhang Bin murmured, "Maybe it requires devouring much more of the golden light representing virtue."

He continued to closely observe the golden light emerging from the void, discovering it was very small, and its source unknown, yet continuously emerged, gathering on him.

"Hehe... transforming the desert indeed brings vast amounts of virtue, fantastic. I wonder what kind of divine skills might appear in the future?" Zhang Bin laughed excitedly. In the past, he had done many good deeds, which also brought significant virtue, but it could not compare to desert transformation. So, at that time, there must have been virtue upon him, but it was too weak to be felt.

His motivation increased, and he began planting vegetation himself.

Yet strangely, Zhang Bin found that his planting efforts didn’t accelerate the accumulation of virtue.

It remained like before.

"It seems the virtue from my subordinates’ plantings, transforming the desert, largely counts towards me because it was my idea, my Shengshui Formation, and my provided top-grade spirit stones..." Zhang Bin realized, pausing to set up a teleportation array, phoning Xiao Qian and Hong Ya, and other pets to quickly gather plant seeds and teleport them over.

The many pets had great experience in gathering seeds.

Because they had collected seeds in the past, which Zhang Bin teleported to Gao Si.

Soon, numerous bags filled with seeds were transported over.

The disciples of the Taiqing Sect planted the vegetation even faster.

The oasis expanded rapidly.

The yellow sand quickly turned into fertile soil.

More virtue golden light emerged from the void, all converging into Zhang Bin’s forehead.

"Perhaps this is a Merit Gold Seal, and once the seal fully forms, it can fly out to slay enemies." Zhang Bin realized, approaching Ma Rufei, who was still busy, and asked, "Ma Rufei, have you seen a lot of golden light, gathering on my body?"

Ma Rufei raised his head, looking left and right, and after a while, he said, "No, I don’t see any golden light. Eldest Brother, are you hallucinating?"

"Eldest Brother wants to get rich."

Chen Chaoyue teased with a strange smile.

"Eldest Brother, last time you found the City of Gold in the Sahara Desert. Maybe this time we can find treasures in the Taklamakan Desert too? Let’s go treasure hunting?"

Zhang Haijun said with a face full of expectation and excitement.

At this moment, Zhang Bin realized that only he could see this golden light, and others could not. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

He was immediately reminded by Zhang Haijun, his eyes lighting up, indeed, maybe there are treasures in the Taklamakan Desert too, need to search thoroughly!