Lu Changsheng followed Ye Wuxin of the Shadowless Hall to the deep back mountain of the Mount Taihua Sacred Land.
The Mount Taihua Sacred Land covers an expansive area, the back mountain especially harbors many secrets, and neither the Holy Son nor Holy Maiden have the authority to enter all the important locations there.
After Lin Xuantong decided to let his disciples and daughter take charge of the Sacred Land, Lu Changsheng got the opportunity to access places that other Elders and disciples couldn’t reach.
At the end of a deep cave in the back mountain, the path opened up suddenly, revealing an independent world within.
Gentle breeze, light clouds, and the vast lake surface rippling with waves.
In the middle of the lake, as smooth as a mirror, there was an islet, and on it, a divine tree forty-nine feet tall.
The leaves of this divine tree were as verdant as jade, brimming with vigorous vitality.
“Enlightenment Tea!”
Lu Changsheng recognized the shape of the leaves and was greatly surprised.
For the Enlightenment Tea tree, each leaf is a heavenly material and earthly treasure of the sixteenth rank.
And this divine tree had countless such leaves!
The Enlightenment Tea leaves come from this divine tree.
With so many Enlightenment Tea leaves, the value of this divine tree is immeasurable.
“This is our Mount Taihua’s treasured treasure – the Enlightenment Tea tree, unique under the heavens. It’s not an overstatement to say that it’s the most important treasure of our Mount Taihua. It is precisely by relying on the Enlightenment Tea that our Mount Taihua has nurtured a large number of geniuses, as well as winning the allegiance of other Sects to our cause.”
Lin Xuantong was meditating under the Enlightenment Tea tree, and when he saw Lu Changsheng’s arrival, he stood up.
Lu Changsheng came to the foot of the Enlightenment Tea tree, and just by smelling the fragrance of the tea leaves, every pore on his body relaxed, his hearing and vision sharpened, and his Comprehension was thus enhanced.
The Enlightenment Tea tree, indeed worthy of being the treasure of the mountain, is one of the most precious heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the Immortal Realm.
Ordinary heavenly materials and earthly treasures are used up and gone, but the Enlightenment Tea tree produces Enlightenment Tea leaves at regular intervals.
This is the most important treasure left by the Mount Taihua Goddess for future generations.
If Lu Changsheng was not about to take charge of the Sacred Land, he would still not have the authority to see the Enlightenment Tea tree.
However, Lu Changsheng, having previously consumed the Sword Dao Divine Fruit with similar effects, was not covetous of the Enlightenment Tea tree: “I wonder what matter Master had in mind for asking Ye Wuxin to bring his Disciple here?”
Lin Xuantong did not answer directly: “The Enlightenment Tea tree is one of the divine trees that formed at the beginning of the world, along with the Ginseng Fruit Tree and the Pan Peach Tree, all are regarded as Chaotic Treasures. The Ginseng Fruit Tree and the Pan Peach Tree have graftings, but the ancestral tree, has only one. The Enlightenment Tea tree, however, has never been grafted; there is only this one, with no descendants.”
“In ancient times, the Mount Taihua Goddess came upon the Enlightenment Tea tree and after establishing the Mount Taihua Sacred Land, she created a separate space and transplanted the Enlightenment Tea tree inside, which is this place.”
“Everyone knows that the Enlightenment Tea tree can produce Enlightenment Tea leaves, but what they don’t know is that even Enlightenment Tea has a hierarchy of grades.”
“The Mount Taihua Goddess divided the Enlightenment Tea into three grades.”
“The third-grade tea leaves, being of lower quality, can be found once every ten thousand years and are ranked as sixteenth-rank heavenly materials and earthly treasures. They are also the most commonly seen Enlightenment Tea.”
“The second-grade Enlightenment Tea, of medium quality, appears once every million years and is an eighteenth-rank heavenly material and earthly treasure, considered precious in our Mount Taihua. Usually, they are only offered to the Ancestors and some geniuses who urgently need to have a breakthrough.”
“The first-grade Enlightenment Tea, the highest quality, can be found only once every hundred million years, and there are very few of them. Even I may not be qualified to enjoy them. The first-grade leaves are twenty-first-rank heavenly materials and earthly treasures.”
With Lin Xuantong’s explanation, Lu Changsheng noticed the leaves of the Enlightenment Tea tree indeed varied slightly.
The supreme-grade Enlightenment Tea, evaluated as twenty-first-rank heavenly materials and earthly treasures, is on par with the Sword Dao Divine Fruit.
The difference is that the Sword Dao Divine Fruit is specifically used to enhance Sword Dao Comprehension.
Whereas the Enlightenment Tea leaves can enhance the Comprehension of the Three Thousand Great Dao, just that their average enhancement is not as high as that of the Sword Dao Divine Fruit.
Lin Xuantong continued, “Your talent is astonishing, and if you can advance to the ninth-grade Divine King Realm as soon as possible, your abilities will improve significantly. Therefore, after consultation, the Ancestors have decided to bestow upon you one first-grade Enlightenment Tea leaf to help you make an early breakthrough to the ninth-grade Divine King Realm. However, I think that to be safe, you should be given two first-grade Enlightenment Tea leaves. The Ancestors have also agreed to this.”
Lin Xuantong took out two wooden boxes, each containing one supreme-grade Enlightenment Tea leaf.
These two Enlightenment Tea leaves have absorbed a hundred million years of nature’s spiritual energy to grow.
Lin Xuantong really did his best for himself, securing an additional twenty-first-rank treasure from the Ancestors.
Lin Xuantong knew that Lu Changsheng had been in the ninth stage of the Immortal Emperor Realm for thirty thousand years, so in order to help him breakthrough, he requested two supreme-grade Enlightenment Tea leaves from the Ancestors.
Even with Lin Xuantong’s status, he didn’t have the authority to distribute first-grade tea leaves. Only after the Ancestors’ discussion could the ownership of the tea leaves be decided.
The Ancestors are the core strength of the Mount Taihua Sacred Land, and their united stance also reflects the attitude of the Sacred Land.
“Thank you, Master.”
Lu Changsheng knew these two supreme-grade Enlightenment Tea leaves were extremely important to him.
With the help of the supreme-grade Enlightenment Tea leaves, he could breakthrough to the ninth-grade Divine King Realm earlier.
If his Cultivation Level was the same as Emperor Ku’s at the Heavenly Court conference, both being ninth-grade Divine Kings, then Lu Changsheng would not have had such difficulty defeating Emperor Ku.
The Enlightenment Tea leaves could also aid in the cultivation of the Three Thousand Great Dao.
During these thirty thousand years, Lu Changsheng had hard work comprehending the Mnemonic Verse of the second part of the Fifth Sword Realm but had yet to grasp it.
The difficulty of the second Sword Mnemonic is ten times that of the first.