The Ethereal Domains

Chapter 1059: Standardized Cultivating Tea

Standardized Cultivating Tea . . .

Xuan Bing elevated her voice and proclaimed, "Enough! You\'re not addressing the main point here. Since you can clearly speak, just tell us everything. What we\'re most concerned about is your experiences during that month in there. What was the situation? How did you manage to escape? Why did you plummet from the sky just like Han Bingxue? Is that space fond of tossing people into the sky or throwing them to their doom?"

Her barrage of questions immediately captured Cha Eun-Xiao\'s attention.

Yet Xuan Bing herself was deeply perturbed by the dire situation she had alluded to in her final question. Cha Eun-Xiao had suddenly appeared in the sky and fallen from a great height. Fortunately, her proximity had enabled her to rescue him by harnessing her full power. However, considering the sheer impact of that fall, even if Han Bingxue had had the time to react and leaped to Cha Eun-Xiao\'s aid, they might have spared Cha Eun-Xiao\'s life but both would have sustained injuries. Cha Eun-Xiao was just at the seventh level of Dream Origin Stage, and even the residual force from the impact could harm his internal organs, Jing, and Mai, setting back his progress significantly. Moreover, Han Bingxue would also bear the brunt of the reverse energy shock.

Xuan Bing\'s words served as a stark reminder to Cha Eun-Xiao. They triggered recollections of the entire ordeal he had undergone. He hastily conducted an introspective assessment, during which he identified a white stele in his spiritual mind.

The moment he laid eyes on the stele, it disintegrated into purple energy that filled the sky.

Soon after, the purple energy condensed to reform into a jade stele. However, no matter how it expanded and reassembled repeatedly, the purple energy remained pervasive throughout the Boundless Space\'s Wood Realm.

Cha Eun-Xiao was uncertain just how vast the Wood Realm had become, but its boundaries eluded his sight when he stood within it.

He observed the flourishing growth of the medicinal plants throughout the Wood Realm. As his gaze swept over the vast expanse, he couldn\'t help but notice that the lotuses he had planted there covered an area of approximately one hundred acres. They were all enveloped in a dense purple aura.

Thousands of lotuses that had already evolved into Regeneration Jade Lotus exhibited a crystalline appearance. It was evident they were on the cusp of becoming Renascence Jade Lotus. Tens of thousands more remained Regeneration Ink Lotus. Nearly ninety percent of them had transitioned to a whitish hue, signaling their imminent transformation into Regeneration Jade Lotus.

How could this transformation occur in such a brief period?

Regeneration Lotus held immense significance for Misty Cloud Palace, yet the extent of that significance was shrouded in secrecy. In truth, Regeneration Lotus plants possessed limited medicinal value, unless they were Regeneration Jade Lotus or of a higher tier. They were in high demand, but the time and luck required to secure them were both limiting factors. Consequently, they were rarely cultivated. Moreover, there were only a few Regeneration Ink Lotus in the fourth layer of the Mountain of All Medicines.

Cha Eun-Xiao had gone to great lengths to acquire them, amassing roughly one hundred acres of average-quality lotuses. Yet even though the quality of these lotuses was not exceptional, they were all on the brink of transforming into Regeneration Jade Lotus. The rapidity of this metamorphosis left him perplexed.

Cha Eun-Xiao continued to survey the Boundless Space and noticed that the Heaven\'s Cyan tree, which had transformed into the Tree of Cultivating Tea, had grown significantly in size. In just one night, it had increased its girth by half. The entire tree had become even more lush, now extending over thirty meters in width, with a trunk that could comfortably accommodate a man\'s embrace.

Each leaf exuded an ethereal radiance.

When Cha Eun-Xiao first acquired Heaven\'s Cyan, it was still in its infancy despite its age of over nine thousand years. Benefitting from the spiritual energy within the Boundless Space, it had swiftly outgrown its early stages and developed into the Tree of Cultivating Tea. It had transitioned from infancy to the production of Heart Cultivating Tea. However, this was not the typical Cultivating Tea, but rather the preliminary stage known as Heart Cultivating Tea. To evolve it into the genuine Cultivating Tea would necessitate further cultivation for a thousand years.

Before Cha Eun-Xiao stood the Tree of Cultivating Tea, which appeared far older than a thousand years. Judging by the resplendent leaves adorning its branches, it was likely not too distant from reaching the venerable age of ten thousand years.

The transformation of these leaves into a brilliant golden hue heralded the arrival of the most extraordinary variant of Cultivating Tea, the Heaven Cultivating Tea.

In its youth, the Tree of Cultivating Tea yielded Heart Cultivating Tea, a precursor to the standard Cultivating Tea. Once it matured to an age surpassing ten thousand years, it could produce the illustrious Heaven Cultivating Tea. This process was encapsulated by the saying, "A thousand years to cultivate one\'s heart, ten thousand years to cultivate one\'s nature, and a cultivated nature leads to the heavens."

Cultivating Tea was indeed a rare commodity, and nurturing the Tea Tree was an arduous endeavor. Even if an individual had the good fortune to acquire one, their patience rarely extended to a ten-thousand-year wait. Although some might be willing to bypass the Heart Cultivating Tea stage and anticipate a thousand years to pass, the temptation to harvest it upon reaching the one-thousand-year threshold was overwhelming. After all, achieving the coveted Heaven Cultivating Tea status necessitated an entire decade of patience, with the preceding nine thousand years yielding only standardized Cultivating Tea with no enhancement in quality.

Cha Eun-Xiao found great delight in the fact that his Heart Cultivating Tea had advanced to the level of standardized Cultivating Tea, approaching the echelons of Heaven Cultivating Tea. Yet a gnawing suspicion pervaded his thoughts.

"This doesn\'t seem right," he muttered. "When I witnessed the Heaven\'s Cyan evolving into the Tree of Cultivating Tea, it was evident that the extraordinary power of the Boundless Space played a pivotal role in its rapid growth. But how much time has passed since then? Only roughly two years… How could it have matured into such an expansive tree in such a brief period? Could it be… Could it truly be the notoriously slow-growing Tree of Cultivating Tea? Does my Boundless Space genuinely possess such formidable potential, or is there another factor at play? I\'ve never witnessed such rapid growth before…"

In the midst of his confusion, Cha Eun-Xiao experienced a sudden epiphany. He exclaimed, "What did you just say? I spent one and a half months in that place?"

Han Bingxue covered his face, offering a muffled response. "Boss, really… You weren\'t aware of the duration? Remarkable!"

Cha Eun-Xiao appeared bewildered as he admitted, "I genuinely had no idea. I remember being fully conscious for the initial three days… After that, I was ensnared in unconsciousness until just now."

Abruptly, he fell silent, recalling the memory of a celestial sword cleaving through the firmament and a saber that severed the earth and sky. There was also the majestic golden dragon traversing the cosmos and the phoenix gracefully soaring in the heavens. These images were accompanied by visions of resplendent, ethereal flowers that filled the boundless space.