Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 205 News Exposed
Quickly adapting to the changes after his improved aptitude, Li Ye first refined the two spiritual essences of the void world, feeling the taste of his body and magic power being fully sublimated once a year.

He casually called up the panel and invested the 1,000 experience points into puppetry, making some minor adjustments.

[Name: Li Ye]

[Spiritual Roots: Top-grade Earth and Wood Spiritual Roots]

[Age: 41 years old]

【Lifespan: 196 years】

【技能：种植三阶下等（2.8w/15w）、丹药三阶下等（2432/25w）、炼器三阶下等（1411/25w）、符箓三阶下等（2366/20w）、蛊术三阶下等（1356/22w）、阵法三阶下等（2.5w/30w）、傀儡三阶下等（1.7w/22w）】

【草木灵蕴：青玄灵蕴*540、玉竹灵蕴*522、血珀灵蕴*500、溶血灵蕴*400、枯骨灵蕴*400】

[Spiritual Essence Entries: Vitality Level 2, Absorption Level 2, Wood Spirit Level 2, Heavenly Compass Level 2, Poison Level 2]

【Experience: 0】

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A year has passed, and the harvest has just come not long ago, and the spiritual energy has accumulated to the fullest.

And with five or six years of accumulation, Li Ye has almost upgraded all the skills he currently possesses to the third level.

Planting and Gu Dao have greatly facilitated his cultivation of spiritual plants.

Originally, Li Ye was looking forward to finally being able to display some unique and magical Gu Dao after reaching the third level, but he was troubled by the fact that he did not have the third level Gu recipe on hand.

He can only try to deduce it on his own in his spare time, and has not yet come up with any practical third-level results. However, in terms of assisting farming, he has come up with a lot of things, and basically there are corresponding poisonous insects to assist in each stage of the growth of spiritual plants.

As for combat power, he made a great leap after these many skills reached the third level.

There is no need to explain much about the third-order talismans. For example, the Golden Light Talisman used by Bihu Sanren was a third-order product.

If it weren't for the numerous obstacles, he would have been seriously injured. The ability of this talisman to travel a thousand miles in an instant was enough to buy him a chance to escape.

After his self-refining skill reached the third level, Li Ye actually had the ability to refine magic weapons on his own, but this thing was of little significance to his current level of cultivation.

If he really tried to refine it, it would be a waste of the third-level spiritual materials he had collected through years of hard work picking up trash in the lava palace.

His purpose of improving this skill was entirely to strengthen the puppet, and he found a way to make use of the life-saving magic weapon left by Bihu Sanren.

In the end, the two goals were perfectly aligned... and finally, Li Ye's natal puppet crossed the threshold of "accurate" with the help of this magic weapon, and completely reached the third level!
Although his combat power is certainly not comparable to that of a real Jindan cultivator.

But he can also possess some of the power and style of a Golden Core… If combined with his current Azure Sky Tree Sea formation, he can definitely fight against a Golden Core cultivator.

But if it was a fake pill cultivator who had achieved the accomplishment of refining demon pills... as long as he dared to come, Li Ye was confident that he could repel him!

The ability to protect oneself has reached a completely new level compared to before.

Li Ye skipped over these and mainly read the introduction of [Tongtian (Level 2)] carefully.

The qualification improvement was changed to two levels, and the success rate of improving the essential level of spiritual plants also changed from "extremely weak" to "relatively weak".

The former brought about extremely significant changes, and Li Ye was already enjoying the greatly improved effect of absorbing spiritual energy.

As for the latter...

"I just hope that the effect of the second level can really be improved... I have been farming for several years, and so far only one Qingluo grass has been stimulated. The probability is really too low. Even if the spiritual rice is promoted, it would be good..." Li Ye couldn't help complaining, and even had a fantasy.

"If it works, it can help me cultivate some spiritual plants. If I can really do it, I'll just turn over the two acres of poisonous weeds and flowers on Dengjin Mountain and try to make an acre of third-level spiritual field to grow spiritual rice. Wouldn't that be wonderful!"

Ever since the Qingluo grass triggered its promotion to the third level and gave birth to the Qingluo wood spirit, there has been no movement from other spiritual plants.

He no longer believed that the large base number was inevitable, and began to suspect that it was just pure luck and there was no further hope at all.

After sorting them out one by one, his gaze lingered on the "Superior Earth and Wood Spiritual Roots" in the qualifications column on the panel for a long time, and a smile gradually spread across Li Ye's face.

The improvement of his spiritual root qualifications is not only a matter of current cultivation efficiency, but will also help to weaken the bottleneck when he breaks through to the Golden Core stage in the future.

Although the top-grade spiritual roots did not provide any bonus for breaking through the Golden Core stage, at most it would not hinder one's progress too much, but for Li Ye, being able to reach this level was already a great satisfaction.

Anyway, it is more comfortable than when I had low-grade spiritual roots and the supply of elixirs was slow.

"Now that the situation is somewhat stable and no one is interested in my little place anymore, it's a good time for me to concentrate on my cultivation and break through to the late stage of foundation building..."

Li Ye thought silently as he sat cross-legged under the Kongjie tree.

As the Wood God Technique was activated, the surrounding spiritual energy suddenly gathered towards him at an efficiency far exceeding before.

His mind sank, and in his dantian, there was a bright spiritual light and flickering true fire.

The seventy-one purple and green blended liquid mana are condensed and pure, and the quality of the mana is no worse than any cultivator in the late stage of foundation building!
It is not much different even compared to some cultivators who have achieved perfection in the foundation building stage but whose skills are slightly inferior!
Of the one hundred liquid mana accumulated to its peak in the middle stage of foundation building, there are now less than thirty left. If Li Ye wants to improve his spiritual roots before he can accumulate these thirty, he will need to practice hard for at least seven or eight years.

Nowadays... this process has been greatly shortened!
Surrounded by the unprecedentedly active spiritual energy, Li Ye gathered his thoughts and immersed himself completely in cultivation.

………………

Three more years passed.

"Alliance leader, there's news that the Bihu Wanderer from Qiandao Water City hasn't been seen in years. It seems he's died of old age..."

Listening to Luo Feibai's slightly hurried report beside him, Li Ye seemed to have no reaction to the news that shocked the four countries.

He just carefully took care of the green rice ears in front of him, which were heavy and round and tiny.

Being able to keep it a secret for so many years is quite impressive...

Li Ye thought to himself that there was no big ripple.

With the black dragon that was cultivated by Bihu Sanren from a dragon carp to the third level, the foundation of Qiandao Water City is still solid.

Unless a Jindan cultivator comes in person, no one can do anything to Qiandao Water City.

"But with one less Jindan, the situation in these four countries is still going to be turbulent..."

Li Ye sighed softly and said without turning his head,
"Pay close attention to Qiandao Water City. Report any unusual activity immediately!"

"At this time, if a large number of unfamiliar monks suddenly appear in the Red Land Mountains, we should also be careful... We can ignore the other mountains, but we should be careful not to be targeted."

"Yes, Mountain Master!"

　I have some things to do at home this weekend, so I probably won't have many opportunities to write. I'll probably update twice a day to ensure I'm fully prepared. I'll update as usual after I'm done.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)