Longevity: Start by refreshing your entries through farming.

Chapter 835 Planting Trees in the Bustling City
As soon as Qin Ming stepped out, someone greeted him warmly.

"Manager Li, are you heading out?"

A young man with a square face, about the same age as Qin Ming.

At that moment, she greeted Qin Ming with a beaming smile.

"Good morning, Fellow Daoist Liu! That's exactly right."

This person was his next-door neighbor, named Liu Guangyuan, who was a relative of the Liu family steward of Hanshan Temple when he first came to rent the courtyard.

Liu Guangyuan only had a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivation level and was not particularly wealthy, but through his connection with Steward Liu, he managed to secure a decent shop in the area and run a small business selling spiritual materials.

While not extremely wealthy, they are certainly not the richest or poorest of the poor.

Since Qin Ming moved in, the low-grade spirit rice he sells has been quite popular among the cultivators of Duchenwu.

Even powerful figures from secular dynasties tried to obtain some spirit rice through special channels.

The medicinal effects of spirit rice are gentler than those of elixirs. After all, the human body absorbs the essence of grains, which is easier to absorb and digest, and is also gentler.

Even if it doesn't cause a qualitative change, it can still prolong life.

For mortals, it is a rare and precious celestial food.

Incense pills and incense coins are all firmly controlled by the Buddhist and Taoist sects and rarely flow out.

Ordinary people would have no chance of even coming into contact with it, let alone obtaining a single pill.

The two items Qin Ming had previously obtained were secretly acquired through a steward surnamed Liu, who offered him substantial rewards.

He followed the street, making several turns, and left Duchen Dock. Then his figure blurred and disappeared into the horizon.

Not long after.

When Qin Ming's figure reappeared, he had already arrived in front of a mountain range filled with spiritual energy.

At the summit of this great mountain stands a magnificent golden Buddha statue, its base adorned with a thousand-petaled lotus, revealing a gaze of profound compassion and compassion for all beings, as if watching over the masses below.

From the foot of the mountain, a long line of pilgrims stretches upwards, densely packed and seemingly endless.
At the foot of that majestic Golden Lotus Buddha, a huge incense burner was burning continuously, with the white smoke of incense reaching straight to the heavens.

Each time those devout believers perform their prayers, wisps of ashes gather together and enter the giant incense burner.

In a moment.

Rays of light appeared behind the head of the Golden Lotus Buddha, giving the impression of a bodhisattva manifesting.

Upon witnessing this scene, the believers all showed expressions of disbelief and excitement.

They shouted, "It's a miracle! The Golden Lotus Saintess has appeared!"

Their behavior then became frantic; they began slamming their heads against the ground, even breaking their foreheads and bleeding profusely without realizing it.
at the same time.

The power of their vows became even stronger, and it was continuously drawn out and poured into the cauldron.

Qin Ming's figure was hidden in the void, his brows furrowed as he stared down. With his profound cultivation, he naturally saw through the trick below at a glance.

"This is not the power of positive aspiration at all."

Instead, it gathers the seven emotions and six desires of all living beings and transforms them into fanatical obsessions and desires.

"No wonder it could make that sapling react. Besides, the incense-making techniques that these old bald monks have secretly researched are quite interesting."

Qin Ming gazed intently at the Golden Lotus Temple below, his powerful divine sense instantly spreading out and covering the entire mountain range.

No matter how slight the movement, it did not escape his keen eyes.

Images flashed by rapidly under the filtering of his divine sense.

……

Deep within the Golden Lotus Temple lies a secluded Zen monastery.

Two monks at the Golden Core stage, their faces beaming with joy, each carrying a wooden box, hurried toward the main house with great haste.

"Reporting to the abbot, this year's incense harvest is good, and I have already brought them all back."

The wooden door creaked open.
A fat, bald-headed monk with a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation level emerged from the main house, always wearing a smiling expression.

Qin Ming's first reaction upon seeing this person was that his physique was comparable to that of the Long-Browed Ancestor he had seen in the Bodhi Tree Realm.

Furthermore, it looks almost exactly like the Buddha statue on the summit of Golden Lotus Mountain.

However, when it comes to the foundation of their cultivation, one is in the heavens and the other is on the ground.

Followed by.

The bald monk, known as 'Golden Lotus Master', extended his large, fan-like hand and took the wooden box from the two men.

"Yes, Huiyuan, Huikong, you two have worked hard."

After saying that, he carefully set up a barrier before cautiously opening one of the wooden boxes.

In Qin Ming's eyes, the cultivation levels of these three people were like ants.

Therefore, the isolation barrier they set up was useless in front of Qin Ming.

The moment the wooden box was opened, what was revealed surprised Qin Ming.

They were three white, round beads, each the size of an egg, and Qin Ming could sense that they were filled with extremely powerful desire.

Even the Six Desires Chaos Demon within Qin Ming's Demon Emperor Banner revealed an extremely eager expression.

Qin Ming could easily tell that these three white beads were many times stronger than the power of wishes contained in the incense cauldron outside.

He could sense an extremely special power simply by using his divine sense.

The Golden Lotus Master showed a very satisfied expression, and then opened another wooden box.

"It seems that three high-quality merit coins were produced in the Hall of Merit today."

"With these two items, I will soon have enough money to refine the fifth-order Boundless Merit Incense. At that time, I will have a great chance of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage."

"The Wuxin Abbot of the Hanshan Temple next door is probably close to refining that fifth-tier 'Incense Pill'. I can't let him outdo me."

He paused for a moment, then continued, “You two go and make preparations. I will be holding a grand Dharma assembly in ten years. At that time, all mortals and laypeople near Duchen Dock are welcome to participate.”

Upon hearing this, Huiyuan and Huikong paused, then hesitated before saying:

"But... our temple recently held a Dharma assembly and has already received a tremendous amount of aspiration energy. If we were to excessively harvest this energy, it would cause irreversible harm to mortals."

Master Jinlian said expressionlessly, "Isn't this all for the betterment of this region? Just go ahead and do it."

"I will certainly not treat you two unfairly for your contributions."

"Yes! We will obey the abbot's orders!" The two withdrew and went to carry out the instructions.

After they left.

Only Master Jinlian remained in the room, still immersed in the bright path to immortality in the future.

It's almost time to meet.

Qin Ming then used a mind-controlling technique to hypnotize the Golden Lotus Master and began searching for her memories.

After two incense sticks had burned, a strange look appeared on his face.

According to this person's memory, the secret method of condensing incense into copper coins and elixirs was discovered by Master Jinlian and Abbot Wuxin before Duchenwu appeared.

After obtaining this opportunity, the two had different opinions and thus developed their own paths. With the blessing of incense and secret techniques, they even went so far as to establish their own sects.

And in the Futu Mountains of the Great Yan Kingdom, they built the 'Duchenwu', a unique place where immortals and mortals coexist.

Logically speaking, the cultivation world should not influence the secular world or intervene in cause and effect. Qin Ming learned what he wanted to know, including how to refine these incense coins.

Then he quietly left the Zen temple without disturbing Master Jinlian, and didn't even take the two wooden boxes.

After a while of trance.

The Golden Lotus Master in the room still wore a puzzled expression. "Why did I feel dizzy just now? Could it be that I've been working too hard these past few days?"

Qin Ming then summoned the Devouring Sky Rat.

The Devouring Sky Rat, having been cooped up in the Little Spirit Realm for so long, immediately showed excitement upon seeing that Qin Ming had assigned it another mission:

"Master, what do you need me for?"

"Naturally, I have something extremely important to entrust to you," Qin Ming said calmly.

Upon hearing this, the Devouring Rat immediately patted its chest, full of energy, and said:
"Don't worry, Master. I'm a sixth-tier demon now. Dealing with these old bald monks is a piece of cake!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming asked, "Who told you to do that?"

"I want you to secretly open a hole in the void outside the mountain gate, connecting the incense burner of the Buddha statue to my courtyard."

Upon hearing this, the Devouring Rat understood and immediately transformed into a gray-furred rat, disappearing into the void.

Not long after.

A gray mist, imbued with the complex emotions of all living beings, gradually spread out and entered the basement of Qin Ming's small courtyard through the path dug out by the Devouring Sky Rat.

As soon as the Tree of Seven Emotions and Six Desires absorbed this continuous stream of the willpower of all living beings, it immediately began to shimmer with a dazzling and captivating light.
Upon seeing this, Qin Ming immediately showed a look of great joy.

His move was incredibly skillful.

In this way, he doesn't even need to collect it himself; he has a continuous source of willpower to water the Tree of Emotions and Desires every day.

Since being absorbed by both Buddhism and Taoism is inevitable anyway, we might as well provide some fertilizer for Qin Ming's tree planting.

After doing all this.

Qin Ming followed the same method again, flying over to the neighboring Hanshan Temple.

Master Wuxin was a middle-aged cultivator with a feathered crown. He used a huge alchemy furnace to collect the wishes of all living beings.

The Devouring Rat reappeared, digging a hole beneath the alchemy furnace, connecting it to the underground of Qin Ming's courtyard.

And it was done so flawlessly that they didn't even notice.

Qin Ming praised it a few times, noting that since advancing to the sixth rank, this guy possessed a bloodline supernatural power in the void, which was extremely rare even in the Spirit Realm.

The void passages it created were even more powerful and concealed than those created by the Eclipse Dragon King.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for two mere Nascent Soul cultivators to detect this even if they rack their brains.

Subsequently.

Qin Ming then returned to the courtyard of his shop in Duchenwu.

He originally thought it would be a lot of trouble, but the process went very smoothly, mainly because the cultivators he faced were all only at the Nascent Soul stage.

In this way, the saplings of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tree absorbed the fertilizer and began to grow vigorously.

"It's truly unbelievable! These mundane things are actually crucial nutrients for high-level immortal trees," Old Demon Qingyang commented casually.

This would save Qin Ming a lot of effort in planting trees.

……

Time flies by.

Qin Ming planted trees in Duchenwu for ten years. With the blessing of a massive amount of vows, the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tree grew from a sapling of less than an inch to more than two feet tall.

Jinlian Temple and Hanshan Temple also had a large portion of their vow power taken away, leaving the two old men extremely frustrated and bewildered as to why this had happened.

Within Xiaoling territory.

The pill formula in Qin Ming's hand fluttered and reversed, with the Golden Crow Fire Spirit helping him control the heat.

Suddenly, a unique fragrance of heaven and earth burst forth from the alchemy room.

As the elixir dissipated, three crystal-clear fifth-grade spirit pills appeared in Qin Ming's hand.

Before they could even collect it, the immortal tree was already displaying even greater emotions.

"This is what those two old guys have always dreamed of."

He had no interest in cultivating the path of incense offerings; he only wanted to try out this elixir and incidentally satisfy his seven emotions and six desires.

This day.

Qin Ming acted as usual.

Liu Guangyuan, who lived next door, suddenly walked into his shop in a hurry.

"Fellow Daoist Li, quickly, weigh out sixty catties of the finest spiritual rice for me."

Seeing this, Qin Ming immediately weighed out the spirit rice while calmly asking, "Fellow Daoist Liu seems so happy, has something happened?"

"Huh? Doesn't Fellow Daoist Li know? The Golden Lotus Saint Venerable is preparing to preach and spread the Dharma again. It's a rare opportunity!" Liu Guangyuan said in surprise.

Qin Ming then remembered that Master Jinlian had indeed said those words. He hadn't expected that this guy would keep his word.

However, Liu Guangyuan was unaware that the Buddhist and Taoist sects were actually holding grand Dharma assemblies and rituals simply to facilitate the acquisition of vow power.

Qin Ming looked at him, who was so excited, that he was no more clear-headed than ordinary people.

"Fellow Daoist Li, why don't we go together?" Liu Guangyuan asked.

Qin Ming shook his head and said, "No, I still have to watch the shop. I wish Fellow Daoist Liu a fruitful trip."

With the start of the Golden Lotus Dharma Assembly, Qin Ming's spiritual rice business also achieved its best performance ever.

After Qin Ming finished buying the items, he closed the door and went to the basement, gazing at the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tree that was bursting with vitality.

It was discovered that, influenced by the Dharma assembly, it was absorbing the desires of sentient beings at an increasingly faster pace.

It has reached an unbelievable point.

All of a sudden.

The entire Seven-Colored Treasure Tree grew to over ten feet tall and produced a seven-colored flower bud.

Inside the Golden Lotus Temple.

The bald, shiny-headed Master Jinlian is preaching and teaching to thousands of believers below.

Originally, the power of wishes flowed into the ocean like lakes and rivers.

But the more he talked, the more he felt something was wrong.

Seeing that the power of the wishes of all beings that he had painstakingly collected was stolen.

Master Jinlian showed anger and almost lost his temper, but no matter how he sensed it, he couldn't find anything wrong.

"Hahaha! Golden Lotus old bald monk, you've finally met your match?"

"Has it all come to nothing?"

A mocking voice suddenly appeared in the mind of the Golden Lotus Master.

Seeing that the visitors were ill-intentioned, Guru Jinlian immediately ended the grand Dharma assembly ahead of schedule.

(End of this chapter)