Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 101: 32.9 meters, the spiritual tree that has grown to its full potential,

Because she didn't think Zhong Cang would be a match for a cultivator in the Ninggang period, Qi Wei even felt that Zhong Cang could not defeat a cultivator in the Liansha period.

They have already made up their minds to do their utmost to dissuade Zhong Cang from challenging the senior monks.

——None of the three women wanted to see Zhong Cang lose, let alone get hurt.

Qi Wei was worried, but the children from the aristocratic families didn't show any worry at all.

"The disciples of the aristocratic families and the major sects, their cultivation speed and the quality of their spirit seeds are inherently stronger than those of the Taoist academy cultivators, much stronger. Even in the second year of cultivation, there are peerless geniuses from the major sects who use the highest-grade spirit seeds to cultivate a heavenly-level foundation for the Dao."

"It's fine if Zhong Cang doesn't challenge. Once he does, the geniuses from those major sects will definitely let him know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is."

"Hehe, I kind of hope that Zhong Cang will challenge the senior monks and then fight on behalf of the Taoist Academy."

……

On the day of the 100-day assessment, Zhong Cang had only been practicing Taoism for 100 days, while the senior brothers in the Taoist Academy had already been practicing for two or three years. The huge time gap made no one optimistic about Zhong Cang.

Even some senior cultivators felt that they could crush Zhong Cang to death with just their magic power.

With this idea in mind, many senior cultivators from aristocratic families hope that Zhong Cang will challenge them.

Zhong Cang was unaware of their thoughts and had no intention of caring about them.

However, he did have the idea of ​​challenging the senior monks.

Especially as time went by, his five magic weapons became more and more perfect, and Zhong Cang's desire to challenge opponents of higher levels became more and more irresistible.

"With these five magical weapons and the help of five tree people, my strength has increased more than tenfold. I don't have no chance against the second and third year brothers."

"But there's still some time before the 100-day assessment. I can practice more."

"Also, the first cycle of life, death, withering and flourishing of my spirit seed is about to begin."

Looking at the twenty-four-meter-tall spiritual tree in the sea of ​​consciousness, a feeling of fulfillment filled Zhong Cang's heart.

At the same time, what made Zhong Cang extremely grateful to Mo Shuyu was that the tree in his sea of ​​consciousness was getting bigger and bigger. Logically speaking, for a Zhong Cang like this, if he wanted to make the spirit seed and the tree continue to grow, he would need a lot of spiritual energy, and it would take a long time to refine this spiritual energy.

This phenomenon, where higher quality demands greater growth, explains why the children of aristocratic families with family support take about the same amount of time to cultivate their Dao foundation as those from less privileged backgrounds. Granted, the time required to cultivate their Dao foundation is similar, but the disparity in combat power and potential is greater than that between a human and a dog. With the same Dao foundation, some can fight a hundred at once, some can challenge opponents of higher levels, and still others are defeated by opponents of higher levels.

"The foundation of an ordinary building only needs half a meter, but to build a skyscraper, it takes years to lay a foundation a hundred meters deep... Practicing Taoism is like building a tall building. If you want to build high and far, the foundation naturally needs to be deeper."

What made Zhong Cang happy was that his spirit seeds were not only of high quality, but also grew at a fast speed.

"Now, my spirit tree, like bamboo, can grow about one meter a day!"

Such rapid growth is related to three reasons.

First, Zhong Cang has a deep understanding of the growth of spring - these days, Zhong Cang has set aside some time every day to resonate with various flowers, plants and trees, and understand their growth experiences. These insights have all become the nourishment for Zhong Cang's growth.

Secondly, it is related to Tess and Mo Shuyu. With the existence of Tess, Zhong Cang has never lacked spiritual energy. In the past, what troubled Zhong Cang was always the limited carrying capacity of his meridians, which made it impossible to absorb too much spiritual energy.

But the top-grade earth marrow spirit liquid that Mo Shuyu found for Zhong Cang changed all that.

This essence of the earth strengthened the strength of Zhong Cang's meridians, and increased his meridians' ability to carry spiritual energy by several times.

This is not the end.

The human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum has a great secret. Even though Zhong Cang only understood a little bit through resonance, he still gained a lot.

After the spiritual tree's roots transformed into human form and took root deeply within Zhong Cang's body like meridians and blood vessels, they not only gave Zhong Cang complete control, allowing him to unleash his physical strength to the fullest. Those roots also acted like meridians, assisting Zhong Cang in absorbing spiritual energy.

In the mental space, the symbol of the earth's marrow spiritual liquid is the earth, and the roots of the spiritual tree are buried deep underground. As we all know, tree roots can absorb nutrients from the earth.

These connections make Zhong Cang's "roots" constantly strengthened by the earth marrow spirit fluid.

"The humanoid roots throughout my body have doubled my spiritual energy absorption efficiency. Combined with the meridians strengthened by the Earth Marrow Spiritual Fluid, my spiritual energy absorption efficiency has increased tenfold compared to before..."

Ten times, this is an extremely exaggerated speed. More importantly, spiritual practice is like the theory of the wooden barrel. The efficiency of spiritual practice is not determined by the longest thing, but by the shortest plank.

The earth marrow spirit liquid and the root system of Polygonum multiflorum filled in Zhong Cang's last shortcoming, so that he now has nothing missing.

—Tess's presence ensured a sufficient supply of spiritual energy for firewood. The strengthened meridians and roots throughout the body allowed Zhong Cang to smoothly and rapidly channel external spiritual energy into the Spirit Seed Tree. Furthermore, Zhong Cang's understanding of growth was profound enough. The combination of these three factors resulted in Zhong Cang's Spirit Seed Tree, which continued to grow rapidly and vigorously every day.

Zhong Cang, who was delighted with the rapid growth of his spiritual tree, did not forget that the Earth Marrow Spirit Liquid was brought to him by Teacher Mo Shuyu.

"Although the human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum was sent by Shopkeeper Yayun, if it weren't for Teacher Mo Shuyu playing the good guy and setting an example by being the first to give me something, and a very good one at that, the head shopkeeper of Yayun might not have given me such a good resource... Teacher Mo Shuyu also contributed a lot to this."

"She helps me a lot indeed."

Zhong Cang was grateful to Mo Shuyu from the bottom of his heart, and he could vaguely sense that Mo Shuyu was dissatisfied with the current situation of the Taoist academy, and seemed to feel a little... guilty, which made Zhong Cang want to help his teacher.

"Although I don't know what the dispute is between the academy and Teacher Mo Shuyu, helping the academy change its current situation should make Teacher Mo Shuyu feel better. The sooner her mental barriers are overcome, the faster... If I can challenge senior students this time, I'll try my best to challenge them."

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Shuang Lingxue's return injected a large amount of funds into Zhong Cang. Although Feng Yingying didn't know what she was thinking, under Shuang Lingxue's planning, she also brought a lot of resources to Zhong Cang.

The presence of the two women made Zhong Cang's economic crisis slightly better.

At the same time, with the help of City Lord Qi, Zhong Cang's status rose rapidly and caught the attention of the king.

This also made other aristocratic families dare not take action against Zhong Cang easily.

At least, they didn't dare to provoke Zhong Cang for no reason.

Even those children of the aristocratic families who were hostile to Zhong Cang thought that Zhong Cang was "brain-dead" and would challenge them and then defeat him, instead of actively looking for trouble with Zhong Cang during the 100-day probation period.

Because they did not dare to take the initiative to cause trouble, Zhong Cang had a period of stable cultivation.

In the following days, in the secret garden of Huangni Village, Zhong Cang accepted the instruction of Mo Shuyu, Gu Yan, Luo Bende, Du Kui and others, while practicing together with Shuang Lingxue, Qi Wei and Yaxin.

After practicing like this for several days, Zhong Cang's spirit seed, the tree, finally grew to 32.9 meters high.

But at this time, Zhong Cang also discovered that his spirit seed, the big tree, had grown to its limit.

From then on, no matter how much spiritual energy he absorbed, the spiritual seed tree did not grow at all.

"32.9 meters, is this my limit?..."

Closing his eyes and feeling it, Zhong Cang discovered that after growing to the limit, he could already make the spirit seed tree enter the midsummer season.

As for Mo Shuyu, after she learned about Zhong Cang's situation, she sighed.

"32.9 meters, the limit... Sigh, as expected, without a special physique, you can't cross this limit on your first try."

(End of this chapter)