I Practice Farming While the Rest Cultivates - Chapter 434
Chapter 434: Chapter 432: Chenxiang Pill_1
Normally, it would take a year or two, or even longer, to cultivate a second-level spirit plant to maturity. Lu Xuan, however, didn’t have the patience to wait for the Yellow Cloud Plant to mature and came up with the idea of using Qingmu Origin Energy to accelerate its growth.
Although Qingmu Origin Energy was incredibly rare, it wasn’t much to worry about now because there were Nascent Soul Grass Orbs, which could supplement the energy once it was overly consumed.
Plus, since Yellow Cloud Plant was only a second-level spirit plant, it wouldn’t consume much Qingmu Origin Energy. Therefore, Lu Xuan boldly used this method.
Light green spiritual energy containing vibrant life force poured into the dark yellow spiritual seed. The seed greedily absorbed the energy and started to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Within half a moment, the inner wall of the egg silently cracked, and a light yellow seedling emerged from the spiritual soil, trembling slightly in the wind, looking frail and delicate.
After using the Qingmu Origin Energy frequently, the light green light cluster in Lu Xuan’s Dantian was only half left.
He took out a green Lingzhu from the storage bag and crushed it with his fingers. The green Lingzhu released dozens of subtle wood-based spiritual energies, all of which were drawn into Lu Xuan’s Dantian.
Inside the Dantian, the light green light cluster began to rotate slowly. As the absorbed Nascent Soul Grass Orb increased, the size of the light cluster also enlarged.
After the green Lingzhu was fully absorbed, the internal light green light cluster was restored to the original size.
After using Qingmu Origin Energy for a long time, Lu Xuan felt a little tired, so he returned to his room to rest.
In the blink of an eye, almost ten days had passed.
All twenty dark yellow seeds had grown into regular spirit plants. However, since Lu Xuan had divided them into four groups, their growth progress varied slightly.
The first batch of five Yellow Cloud Plants had matured.
Lu Xuan picked them one by one.
Due to the aggressive ripening process and lack of careful cultivation, the quality of the five Yellow Cloud Plants was reported to be only average.
Lu Xuan had anticipated this, so he wasn’t surprised. He put the mature plants into the storage bag as alchemy material.
His gaze then shifted to the quietly emerging five white light clusters.
He lightly touched one of them.
The white light cluster exploded into countless light spots, all merging into Lu Xuan’s body.
A thought flashed through his mind.
[Harvested one Second-Class Yellow Cloud Plant, obtained one Rank two Spirit Beast Pill.]
A gray-black elixir appeared in his hand. The elixir emitted a faint, soothing fragrance, which made Lu Xuan want to swallow it.
[Spirit Beast Pill, Second-Class Elixir, made from the Yellow Cloud Plant as well as many low-grade spirit herbs and medicines that spirit beasts love. It’s rich in spiritual power, which can be used to feed spirit beasts and promote their growth.]
“Just an ordinary pill.”
Lu Xuan casually put away the Spirit Beast Pill and touched the second white light cluster.
[Harvested one Second-Class Yellow Cloud Plant, obtained one Rank two Spirit Beast Pill.]✘2
The rewards from three consecutive light clusters were all Rank two Spirit Beast Pills.
Lu Xuan frowned, continuing to touch the fourth light cluster.
[Harvested one Second-Class Yellow Cloud Plant, obtained one Third-Rank Treasure, Chenxiang Pill.]
A thought flashed, and a dark yellow pill appeared in his palm. The pill, which was made of unknown materials, emitted a light fragrance. Upon further sniffing, the scent seemed to subtly change.
Lu Xuan focused his mind on the dark yellow pill.
[Chenxiang Pill, third-rank treasure, made from various spices, essence of spirit plant petals, and musk from spirit beasts. Particularly attractive to demon beasts, especially feline beasts. It can keep them happy and relaxed, reduce the risk of mutation, and speed up cultivation.]
[Although the pill is fragrant, don’t let material goods distract you.]
“Chenxiang Pill… there is such a third-rank treasure…”
Lu Xuan looked at the pill in his hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
“Well, I can let the spirit beasts in my cave, especially the Cloud Leopard, enjoy it in their leisure time.”
He thought to himself.
“Only one light cluster left.”
Lu Xuan rubbed his hands, praying to all the existences in the void, and lightly touched the surface of the last white light cluster.
Countless tiny light spots exploded, forming the phantom of a jade slip, and before Lu Xuan could react, it surged into his body.
[Harvested one Second-Class Yellow Cloud Mushroom, gained one Spirit Beast Pill Formula.]
A massive amount of information flooded into Lu Xuan’s sea of consciousness.
He felt as if he had gone through the process of refining a Spirit Beast Pill hundreds of times in an instant, how to handle the materials, how to control the Pill Fire, how to condense the Elixir, the timing of firing up the furnace…
The unclear aspects before have suddenly become transparent, and he has a more thorough understanding of making Beast Spirit Pills.
As he continued to digest the Pill Formula Experience Package in his sea of consciousness, a smirk involuntarily appeared on Lu Xuan’s face.
He transformed into a stream of light and arrived at the Pill Room.
“Fire up! Alchemy!”
A Spirit Beast Pill material floated in front of him.
Lu Xuan’s hands moved as swiftly as clouds and flowing water, processing the materials efficiently, and according to the sequence, adding them into the Pill Furnace in precise quantities.
The Heavenly Blue Pill Fire gradually spread out, covering the bottom of the Pill Furnace.
“Success!”
After a while, Lu Xuan seemed to have an epiphany, opened his eyes, lifted the lid of the Pill Furnace, and five grey-black Elixirs flew out from the Pill Furnace, suspended in the air by his spiritual power.
The semi-transparent circular Medicinal Pangolin moved sluggishly from the Pill Furnace, planning on swallowing the objects that flew out of the furnace, only to suddenly freeze in place, staring at the position of the Elixir without moving.
“After thirty years, the apprentice becomes the master; Don’t underestimate a novice Pill Master!”
“Didn’t expect my alchemy level to be so formidable in just a few days, right?!”
Lu Xuan, holding the Medicinal Pangolin that flew out and wanted to absorb the Pill Toxin, laughed heartily.
He struck while the iron was hot, continuing to refine Beast Spirit Pills, with both successes and failures. The probability of refining them into medicinal dregs was still significantly greater, once again satisfying the Medicinal Pangolin’s hunger.
However, compared to before, his progress was obvious. He could succeed once or twice out of ten attempts, and Lu Xuan estimated that the experience from the Pill Formula Experience Package allowed him to barely reach the proficient level in refining Beast Spirit Pills.
“Once the remaining fifteen Yellow Cloud Mushrooms mature, and another two or three Pill Formula Experience Packages appear from the light clusters, I should be almost at the adept or minor mastery level.”
Lu Xuan thought very optimistically, regaining his confidence in alchemy.
Walking out of the Pill Room with a rich medicinal fragrance, he arrived at the Spirit Field and continued to patrol the field to check on the Spirit Plants.
“The Wind-Thunder Sword Grass has finally succeeded in seed condensation.”
Upon arriving at the area where he grew Sword Grass, Lu Xuan noticed that the Wind-Thunder Sword Grass that first condensed its seed had undergone significant changes.
Within the deep black sword-shaped plant, there were three long protrusions. The surrounding Sword Qi was thick and violent, seeming to condense all the subtle Sword Qi of the Wind-Thunder Sword Grass nearby.
Lu Xuan stretched out his hand and plucked a Wind-Thunder Sword Grass Spirit Seed.
The Spirit Seed was about an inch long, deep black in color, long and slender like a sword. A faint black wind lingered around the Spirit Seed, and when he stretched his fingertip into the black wind, he could sense a sharp intent.
Occasionally, tiny arcs of electricity would jump over the surface of the Spirit Seed, a faint thunder sound would rise, and then it would disappear into thin air.
“Indeed, it’s a Wind-Thunder Sword Grass Spirit Seed. It’s no different from the previous Spirit Seeds.”
“It’s only that previously, all of them were placed in the Nurturing Xuan Sword Sheath, stimulated by Wind-Thunder Sword Qi, inducing them to become Mutated Spirit Seeds.”
“Right now, however, it relied on the solid Method of Seed Condensation to condense itself.”
“I can finally go to the Sword Hall to complete the task.”
Lu Xuan muttered to himself with a sigh.
