Time passed in Liu Changxu's tense cultivation life, and in the blink of an eye, two months went by. The spirit peaches of the Liu Family of Peach Blossom Mountain were ripe.
The fragrance of spirit peaches ripening filled the air. Traces of various Demonic Beast Hunt Activities began to appear near Peach Blossom Mountain.
After two months of frantic cultivation, Liu Changxu's cultivation had improved, and his physical strength had also increased considerably. Fireball Technique, Water Arrow Technique, Wood Shield Technique, Entangle Technique, Imperial Sword Art, Wind and Rain Sword Style, and Primordial Void Splitting Palm had all reached a level where they could be used in combat.
Liu Changxu was full of anticipation for the upcoming battle.
Since the founding of the Liu Clan of Peach Blossom Mountain, they had been continuously cultivating Spirit Fruit Trees like the spirit peach tree on Peach Blossom Mountain. After more than 100 years of effort by the clan members, 818 spirit peach trees and 180 other spirit fruit trees had been planted on Peach Blossom Mountain.
Basically, all the suitable places on Peach Blossom Mountain for planting spirit fruit trees had been planted. This had also reached the upper limit that a first-grade high-grade spirit vein could support.To expand the planting area further, the spirit meridians would need to be upgraded.
Among these 818 spirit peach trees, 9 first-grade high-grade spirit peach trees were on the verge of breaking through to become second-grade spirit peach trees. They were also the mother trees for all the Jade Peach Trees in the family and were the most important.
These spirit peach trees all over the mountain were the most important property of the Liu Clan and the root of trouble. This was also the important reason why the family urgently needed Foundation Establishment cultivators. Without powerful martial strength, it would be difficult to protect such a treasure land.
Every year, the spirit peaches harvested by the family were, apart from being kept for personal consumption and cultivation, partly sold externally and partly used to brew spirit peach wine. This could bring in over 10,000 low-grade spirit stones in income for the family each year.
Because of this considerable income, to ensure the smooth harvesting of spirit peaches, the Liu Clan would mobilize the entire clan to harvest them at this time.
On the morning of this day, the clan leader Liu Baishan summoned all the clan cultivators to arrange and deploy the spirit peach harvesting activities.
In the Elder Council meeting yesterday, the clan leader and the elders had already discussed this harvesting event thoroughly. They had carefully considered and determined the specific arrangements for the personnel involved in the harvesting activities and how to respond to various potential problems.
According to the personnel arrangements from the Elder Council, the clan cultivators were divided into five teams. Teams 1-4 were responsible for harvesting activities in four directions. Each team was comprised of 2 late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, 5 mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, and 8 early-stage Qi Refining cultivators. The last team, led by the clan leader Liu Baishan, would remain at Peach Blossom Villa to control the Yimu Evergreen Formation. This team also served as the final reserve.
During the harvesting activities, the personnel in teams 1-4 were divided as follows: early-stage Qi Refining cultivators were responsible for picking the spirit peaches, while late-stage Qi Refining cultivators led the mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators in defending against attacks from demonic beasts and rogue cultivators.
After the personnel arrangements were made, Clan Leader Liu Baishan gave the clan members some additional points to note, repeatedly cautioning them to prioritize personal safety and not to sacrifice their lives for spirit peaches, as every clan cultivator was invaluable in this dangerous world.
After the meeting ended, the cultivators of team 4 left Peach Blossom Villa to harvest spirit peaches from the spirit orchards outside the villa.
Due to the limited range of the Liu Family's Yimu Evergreen Formation, it could only cover a radius of ten li around the family's stronghold, Peach Blossom Villa. Therefore, most of the family's spirit peach trees were planted outside the coverage of the Yimu Evergreen Formation.
Of course, formations that could cover the entire Peach Blossom Mountain existed, but the mountainous area of Peach Blossom Mountain spanned over sixty li. Such a large formation would require at least two to three hundred thousand spirit stones to establish, which was beyond the means of a small Qi Refining family.
The spirit peach trees planted outside the villa were mainly distributed in eight spirit orchards. Each spirit orchard was equipped with a first-grade mid-grade Peach Blossom Array, set up by the family's Formation Master, the Fifth Elder Liu Baiqiang.
The Fifth Elder Liu Baiqiang was a first-grade mid-grade Formation Master and the best in the family. The most crucial elements for becoming a Formation Master were a cultivator's talent and the inheritance of formation knowledge.
Therefore, cultivating a family Formation Master was extremely difficult. It was already a remarkable achievement for Fifth Elder Liu Baiqiang to reach the level of a first-grade mid-grade Formation Master.
At this moment, the clan cultivators who had walked out of the Yimu Evergreen Formation saw that quite a number of demonic beasts had already gathered outside the Peach Blossom Arrays of several spirit orchards, and they were attacking the arrays.
The Spirit Peach Defense War had begun!