Chapter 1002: A Massive Gain

It was on the same afternoon that the entourage from the General Commerce League left the Residence of Nine Supremes.

Before they parted, Yun Yang reminded them in a low voice, "Chief Xiao, our partnership must be confidential. Not a whiff about it must be disclosed."

"Don't you worry, brother. This league will definitely keep this secret," answered Xiao Wuyi with a glint in his eyes.

"What I mean to say is... it would be best that those who come from the commerce league are fixed from now on. You must know that the people who come and go from these trips have been rather numerous... I'm very worried about this. The General Commerce League is a notable force in this realm but the Residence of Nine Supremes is a new sect. Why, it doesn't even have the lower class Celestial Luck Banner yet..."

Xiao Wuyi nodded seriously. Yun Yang's concern mirrored his own worries as well. He took a deep breath and replied with equal gravity, "Don't worry, brother! Leave it all to me!"

Watching the General Commerce League's people leave, Yun Yang finally heaved a sigh of relief. Just as he returned to the inside of his mountain gate, he entered his divine sense space in a hurry.

"Emmie, how's our gain this time?"

"Ayayayayaya..."

Emmie was beyond itself in elation.

How was the bounty this time around? Should this even be a question?

The abundant heaven and earth treasures had colored Emmie's leaves deeper by twice its shade and under each leaf, there were stipules the size of a finger. This was an extremely healthy growth from intense nourishment!

Emmie gleefully introduced the new appendage to Yun Yang, the sight of which the latter was incredibly delighted with.

The state of having stipules!

This could be considered an embryonic form of Emmie's complete state. With the support of stipules, its vital energy was doubled, besides having its leaves strengthened. More importantly, while the stipules would not grow large, it would assist Emmie in unleashing its mystical magic.

When the stipules grew to the size of a palm and the leaves had reached a certain thickness, it meant that Emmie's leaves had arrived at the level close to completion. By that time, the force that Emmie could release was no longer limited to the Qi of vitality and the Qi of Dao, even though they were exceptionally precious; a strand of the Primordial Qi of Amethyst that could hardly be produced despite months could be acquired as well...

Perhaps when that time came, Emmie could produce hundreds of strands of the Primordial Qi of Amethyst in a day!

This was under the circumstance of having a few pieces of leaves. If it grew new leaves, the outcome would only be increasingly spectacular. Indeed, it was stupendous and petrifying just as it was!

Moreover, this was not yet the limit. Following the growth of Yun Yang's cultivation base and continuous absorption of karmic Qi, his deific consciousness space could experience a change in quality after a change in quantity, transforming into a primordial space when Emmie grew to have eight pieces of leaves with complete stipules!

It would become the primordial space before the world became the realm that it was today!

Yun Yang was almost stupefied by how happy he was regarding current and future events.

When he managed to contain himself and made another closer observation, he found out that there were more surprises beyond his gains. It no longer just exceeded his expectations but his very imagination as well.

Emmie had shown its magical prowess as it swiftly learned about the medicinal values and characteristics of the heaven and earth treasures that it received, sorting out a portion of seeds and sowing them within the divine sense space. There were stretches of spiritual herb farms currently languishing in the deific consciousness space...

From what Yun Yang could sense with his deific consciousness, there were already more than a dozen herb gardens nearby. Healthy, vivacious seedlings of green were flourishing at an almost visible speed. Farther away, flat planes of land stretched across the horizon. Every other instant, a seedling shot out from the ground, shaking and teeming with vitality.

There was no need to worry that the new sprouts would have to fight for nutrition as the distance between each seedling was the same. Even if one were to measure it with a ruler, there would probably be no error.

Up to hundreds of spiritual herbs were planted within the deific consciousness, each of them a rare species in the outside realm. Although they were only seedlings now and still could not be used, Yun Yang believed that these spiritual herbs would thrive speedily under Emmie's care. The term 'it would not be long' was very apt now.

As Yun Yang glanced around, he saw a vine-like spiritual herb at the side. It had climbed no less than several hundred feet, spotted leaves hanging from the vines.

It was the Celestial Cotton Rattan, the special spiritual plant that Emmie had salvaged with some effort. Seeing Yun Yang focusing his attention on the Celestial Cotton Rattan, Emmie called out in pride.

"Ayaya," it repeated several times as its tendrils waved and pointed around at the stretches of an herb garden, looking very accomplished. Its intention was obvious, to convey that as long as it was there, these herbs would be produced very speedily!

Filled with more joy, Yun Yang could not help laughing. He took another glance at the parent plants of the bountiful spiritual herbs that he had gained along his journey; many of them had entered the space for a long time and had already recovered their strength, liveliness oozing out of them. It was only the dozen plants that had just come that seemed rather shriveled.

The one that was the most damaged was none other than the one hundred and fifty years old Spiritual Jade Snow Ginseng. Perhaps a portion of its life force had been sucked away, for it looked droopy like it could wilt at any time.

In spite of this, Emmie tossed a ray of Qi of Dao over and the Spiritual Jade Snow Ginseng actually pulled itself out of the ground to swallow the Qi of Dao. Then, its leaves danced a little, as if it was incredibly pleased. After a while, it dropped itself onto the ground as its roots moved, this time planting itself back on the surface.

The corners of Yun Yang's lips twitched.

'Is this a herb? A plant?'

'Why is it so active? Why does it behave like a human?'

Gazing to another side, various siderites and mystical steels were clumped together, but many of them had already turned into powder. Emmie had another large piece of leaf covering it.

What was actually happening was that a piece of emerald leaf would wrap a piece of metal up and as the leaf curled itself up, poof! - other than dust and debris that fell upon the leaf opening up, only a small piece of steel, about one hundredth the original size, was left behind. Everything else vanished like evaporated ice.

Yun Yang realized that there were more than thousands of tiny metal pieces like that in this area, all of them gleaming with mystical radiance. These were the essence of the steel pieces.

Nevertheless, it was evident that Emmie was not too keen about dealing with the mystical steels and siderites; it was even slacking a little. At least, it was not as devoted as it was with the spiritual herbs. It had only placed a piece of the leaf there, moving once after a long time, with a marked lack of enthusiasm and effort.

Regardless, Yun Yang was still content with the ample amount of items he had with the metals.

"Emmie, do something with the mystical steels, quickly," urged Yun Yang, "When can we create a series of divine weapons belonging to the Residence of Nine Supremes with the current speed you're going at?"

"A... yaya..." Emmie was obviously uninterested in the task as its tone was pouring with laziness, reluctant to mention the case.