Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 53 First-Grade Spirit Flame (Seeking further reading, monthly tickets, and recommendation votes)

As evening fell, Zhou Ling returned to the camp.

Seeing Zhou Ling return with a medicine basket and pace back and forth outside the tent, Chu Xing, who had been looking somewhat nervous, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After giving Zhou Ling a few instructions, he returned to his own camp.

Although Zhou Ling acted quite composedly, he was still just a child of about ten years old and lacked sufficient survival experience in this desolate mountain.

Even though he brought his child out like this, he still felt a heavy sense of responsibility!

However, seeing that Zhou Ling's medicine basket was half full of spiritual herbs, it was enough to show that he could survive in this desolate mountain with ease, and Chu Xing also showed a gratified smile.

After entering the tent, Zhou Ling picked up a ceramic bowl and gulped down a large bowl of water.

In the wilderness, because he was focused on his goal, he didn't feel much fear.

But now that I'm back at camp, I feel a sense of lingering fear.

The heartbeat speeds up significantly.

Although there is a "crisis response", I am already close to entering Uchiyama.

Even someone like Chu Xing, who was at the late stage of Qi Refining, wouldn't dare to easily venture into Uchiyama.

You could encounter a late-stage Tier 1 monster there at any time.

One oversight can be fatal.

Moreover, the spiritual energy and mist of Black Cloud Mountain possess characteristics that make it even more suitable for the cultivation of demonic beasts and the growth of spiritual herbs.

However, this spiritual energy is not suitable for human cultivators.

Once a cultivator's magical power is exhausted, recovery is extremely slow and difficult.

Therefore, you must be extra careful in every battle!
Before entering Nine Leaf Valley tomorrow, let's see if we can find a few more Fire Cloud Grasses!

Thinking of this, Zhou Ling pondered to himself.

Normally, the medicinal power contained in a spiritual herb is difficult to refine and utilize if directly absorbed, with only about 20% or 30% being used.

However, the Fire Cloud Grass is an auxiliary spiritual object for Zhou Ling's main cultivation technique, the Spirit Flame Technique. It is very compatible with the technique, making it twice as effective to refine.

Its effects are naturally better than those of ordinary Qi-regulating pills.

Of course, the intense pain in the meridians during this process is something that ordinary cultivators cannot endure.

Then Zhou Ling treated herself to something delicious. She cooked a bowl of hot noodles, added some braised beef, and poured a bowl of her mother's homemade dark rice wine.

I ate it happily.

After we finished eating, the night became completely dark.

Outside the tent, a cold wind was blowing.

Zhou Ling then took out a fire-attribute spiritual herb from the medicine basket.

He activated the Spirit Flame Technique and began to absorb the energy.

[Your Spirit Flame absorbs the earth's fire energy, Spirit Flame Consumption +1, Spirit Flame Grade +1]

[Your Spirit Flame absorbs the earth's fire energy, Spirit Flame Consumption +1, Spirit Flame Grade +1]

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Half an hour later.

Zhou Ling exhaled. The eight fire-attribute spiritual herbs he had picked today had been completely absorbed by the spiritual flames and turned into ashes.

[Your Spirit Flame absorbs the Qi of Fire and Wood, Spirit Flame Consumption +1, Spirit Flame Grade +1]

[Effect: After absorbing the energy of heaven and earth 100 times, the spirit flame grows into a first-grade spirit flame 101/1000]

[Total number of absorptions: 101/1000]

Feeling the significant increase in the spiritual flame within his body, Zhou Ling gently exhaled.

He then looked at the panel, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Huh! The Spirit Flame has become a Grade One Spirit Flame!"

It should be noted that, according to the records of the Spirit Flame Technique, one must at least reach the second level and cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining before it is possible to condense a first-grade spirit flame.

With the help of his [Qi-Eating Spirit Flame] talent, he was able to condense a first-grade spirit flame at only the fourth level of Qi Refining.

During this period, as the spiritual flame condenses, it greatly helps in both cultivation and the creation of inscriptions.

This will raise the Spirit Flame to the first rank, and its effects will naturally be greater.

This would also greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient spiritual energy when he was drawing inscriptions. After all, the higher the level of the inscription, the more spiritual energy the structure and inscription nodes consume.

The effect of the spiritual flame is to lock in spiritual energy in the shortest time, reduce the loss of spiritual energy, and thus increase the success rate of the drawing.

In addition, when using the Spirit Flame to draw inscriptions on various tools, it consumes almost no spiritual power and has a high success rate.

Furthermore, the secret technique of condensing fire and lightning in the palm also requires the aid of spiritual flames.

The greater the power of the spiritual flame, the stronger the fire and lightning in his palm.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ling moved his mind and activated the Spirit Flame Technique, condensing fire and lightning in his palm.

As the magic power circulated, fluctuations of magic power appeared in his hands.

"Stab it!"

Wisps of flame and electric arcs gathered in his palm.

In a short while, a fireball the size of a palm condensed, its surface sparkling with lightning.

It's extremely bright!

Zhou Ling sensed that it contained extremely violent power, which he could unleash with a mere thought.

However, now that he was inside the camp, Zhou Ling naturally dared not act recklessly.

With a thought, the fire and lightning in his hand instantly dissipated.

The spiritual flames flowed back up his arm and merged into his meridians.

"If it continues to absorb the energy of heaven and earth nine hundred more times at this speed, wouldn't the Spirit Flame be able to advance to the second rank?"

Zhou Ling was making plans in his mind.

It has been less than three months since the condensation of the spiritual flame, and finding a dozen or twenty fire-attribute spiritual herbs every day in the desolate mountains is not a problem.

"At a rate of twenty plants per day, it would take about a year and a half to raise the Spirit Flame to the second rank."

Zhou Ling calculated that, with the addition of absorbing other spiritual energies, this progress would definitely not take more than a year.

But I think I'll pass; going into the mountains is too risky.

If you walk by the river all year round, you're bound to get your shoes wet.

Moreover, with so many talents for growth, there's no need to take risks. Just develop steadily step by step and take it slow.

Once we find the Condensing Essence Grass, we'll return to Lingxia City.

"Let's try it out first and see how effective the Grade One Spirit Flame is at drawing inscriptions."

Zhou Ling picked up the earthenware bowl, took a sip of water, and had no idea what time it was.

A cold wind was blowing outside.

The camp was equipped with a magic array, and there were personnel patrolling outside, so it was relatively safe.

Zhou Ling was not sleepy at all and took out spirit paper, spirit brush, and spirit ink.

After arranging them, we began to practice drawing the seventeen inscription patterns.

Normally, without reaching the fifth level of Qi Refining, one's internal spiritual power is insufficient to draw the seventeen-character inscription.

However, with the assistance of spiritual flames in constructing the inscription structure and nodes, the consumption of spiritual energy has been greatly reduced.

For him, drawing the seventeen-character inscription was much easier.

With the aid of the Spirit Flame, the results this time were surprisingly smooth.

He picked up the spirit brush, dipped it in spirit ink, and with light strokes, instantly constructed the inscription structure and nodes without any hesitation.

Before long, the printing was finished.

Seeing the bright and shining inscription on the spirit paper, Zhou Ling was overjoyed.

The effects of the Spirit Flame were much better than he had expected.

Not only is drawing the structure and nodes easy, but creating composite inscriptions is also a breeze.

Even drawing a seventeen-character inscription would consume about a quarter of the spiritual power in one's body.

I originally planned to draw two more, but then I remembered that I was going to Nine Leaf Valley tomorrow and needed to keep my spiritual energy plentiful.

Zhou Lingxuan immediately put the spirit brush, spirit ink, and spirit paper back into her storage bag.

After stretching and yawning, I lay down on the blanket and went to sleep!
(End of this chapter)