Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 170: The Trap of Teleportation

With everything put away, Fu Xian observed this natural cave.

He could see tiny streams moving along the bottom, and from the top of the cave, drops of water fell into the pools.

"This... maybe it’s a natural spiritual cave that forms items over time? This makes sense. Only in this way can t here be such a stable number of resources."

He inspected it deeper, using various spells to feel the spiritual power and the age of the items in the room.

"Hmm... since I’m not an alchemist nor a treasure inspector or spiritual vein guide, the exact time of the formation of these items can’t be determined properly. I can only guess based on the residual aura that the natural formation hasn’t formed for too long.

Comparing it to what I have seen in the past... this cave likely started producing materials a thousand years ago, and the time it took for the natural formation to form was probably in the tens or hundreds of thousands of years.

In that case... is it possible that there’s going to be such a harvest every thousand years?!"

He was shocked.

Wasn’t this the foundation of sects?

Only now did he realise why there was sixth-stage sects!

Everything else could be found everywhere – spiritual veins, inheritances of creation arts, etc.

But only this place was transformed by alchemy for countless years, probably forming various natural caves containing such spiritual objects!

Once you find them and understand their mechanism, you will basically have a stable inheritance.

"A thousand years, by the time I reach the fourth stage, I should be able to harvest it again.

But thinking about it, it’s rather disappointing.

If it’s truly a thousand years, then I’d be at least halfway through my lifespan if I were a Spiritual Core cultivator at that time, and if I wanted to give it to Ye Long, then I couldn’t, since his life would be over by then..."

He sighed... would it really be like that?

But suddenly – he realised something else.

The cave should only create fourth-stage materials, so why did the lower materials exist in this place?

Usually lower materials were created in natural places as a surplus.

In spiritual planting, there’s a technique to keep a tenth of the fruits of each harvest, allowing these ten fruits to grow further, while the tree will continue to grow other fruits of normal grade.

But there’s also a method where a flowers, herbs and vines supposed to only grow a single fruit are halted at their peak, allowing the fruit to mature but not be plucked.

The flower, herb or vine will then use its nutrients to grow another fruit, thinking it had failed to grow the fruit.

Such a case would require a lot of spiritual materials to allow the flower, herb or vine give birth and raise the fruit once more.

Finally, using this technique, you can make a single-fruit growing flower, herb or vine grow two or three fruits before its essence was fully depleted.

"If I combine the ideas of both techniques – making it think one material wasn’t actually refined, and that it has to continue growing even when a batch of fruit wasn’t plucked...

Then in this state of having the fruit plucked, I can try placing a younger fruit in the place of the mature fruit, confusing the tree and making it raise the young fruit to a mature fruit.

In case of trees, this wouldn’t matter much since a fruit’s rank is determined from the start, and no amount of additional natural nutrients can make it cross its grade.

But this is a spiritual cave – first of all, its intelligence is even lower than that of trees, and secondly, it can naturally generate a higher stage material, and separating the higher material, it can instead grow lower materials!"

Fu Xian waved his hands, looking at the array of potions and understood –

"One fourth stage material is equivalent to three? Econimically this is impossible, and even in the spiritual world, this would usually be impossible.

Yet here it’s possible, because the material, in the first place, are all of the fourth stage, just reduced in quality because of the lower concentration and refinement of the materials.

In that case, three third stage can result in a fourth stage!

But the second stage is a whole major cultivation rank lower, meaning nine second stage only combine to one third stage, and three first stage combine to one second stage..."

He calculated everything once more –

1, 3, 9, 27.

"So, the actual output of this cave was actually two and two thirds of a fourth stage potion?!

Then, this cave... it should have been hidden for nearly three thousand years!"

His shock was understandable.

The deeper he looked at it, the more he understood the wonders of the world of cultivation.

At the same time, he also understood his own mistake.

"This time I took a direct path to meet someone, which was still fine.

But if I have a chance in the future, I should consider properly journeying and travelling the world.

Teleportation formations... I wonder which kind of evil came up with it.

While previously there would’ve been many cultivators wandering all around, nowadays the cultivators would go from one place to another, ignoring the places between.

This truly signifies the saying, "A local snake is greater than a dragon."

In this case, while it seems like teleportation formations have connected everyone, in reality, they actually separated people from local opportunities of other places."

He truly felt shocked!

Such evil, how could he have missed it?

Then, even though he realised it, he shook his head.

It didn’t matter anymore.

The path of immortality was ruthless and if you can’t even escape the trap of teleportation formations, then you didn’t deserve the opportunities, even if they were meant for you.

He naturally didn’t speak of the reality that he, too, had nearly missed this opportunity, if it wasn’t for his extremely high fortune.