Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 209 Seven Fourth-Level Spiritual Objects: The Troubles of Happiness

It takes about a quarter of an hour to process a Bodhi fruit.

When the number increases, it even becomes a physical job.

However, Xiao Chen did not mind the trouble at all. He took several breaks to recuperate and ensure that he would not make any mistakes.

He picked the bodhi fruits for three consecutive days and sealed all the purple gold bodhi fruits in twelve jade boxes.

"Huh, done!"

After putting away the last Bodhi Fruit, he finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Now I don't have to worry about the difficulty of handling the Yun Dao Crystal."

"In the future, when you comprehend the transformation of the five elements, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort."

As one's cultivation level improves, many techniques and spells not only have restrictions on qualifications, but also have stricter requirements on comprehension.

Especially if you want to successfully conceive a baby in the future, you must master the theory of the mutual generation of the five elements and have a certain degree of understanding of the five elements.

Originally, these two aspects were not Xiao Chen's strengths.

Although the qualification problem can be temporarily solved by relying on Hextech hundredfold enhancement, comprehending the five elements is still a big hurdle.

Now with so many purple gold bodhisattvas as a backup, this difficult hurdle has become much easier.

Theoretically, there would still be a lot left, which could be used to help him practice magic.

The only drawback may be that it is easily coveted and therefore difficult to cash in.

Of course, Xiao Chen was reluctant to sell it. He believed that one could never have too many of these valuable things, and the best thing to do was to keep them for himself.

"It's a pity that in order to plant trees, a lot of the original spiritual medicines were destroyed."

Looking around, one can vaguely see gullies on the ground, all of which were left by the Yellow Springs Road back then.

In order to plant the Purple Gold Bodhi, almost all the other spiritual medicines were destroyed.

However, demon cultivators have always only cared about the present and never paid attention to sustainable development.

Being able to keep the Bodhi tree was already a pleasant surprise, and Xiao Chen couldn't ask for more.

He walked along the edge of the spiritual field, searching for the surviving fourth-level spiritual medicine.

The most eye-catching thing is the small tree in the lower left corner, which is about five feet tall, or half a person's height.

A milky white fruit, about the size of a fist, barely grew on it.

Almost all the roots below are exposed, and traces of being burned by the spiritual fire can still be seen today.

Only a root as thick as a little finger managed to escape the disaster and penetrate into the spiritual field.

"Wow, it's still alive. It has such a strong vitality."

Xiao Chen couldn't help but sigh: "It even produced a new righteousness fruit, it's simply a miracle."

He took out a new jade box to seal medicine, carefully picked the Zhengqi Fruit and preserved it.

Then he took out the flying sword and carefully cut off the roots that were as hard as charcoal.

"I can only help you this much. I hope your roots can grow again."

Originally, Xiao Chen planned to dig up the spiritual field, but after thinking about it, he decided not to move to avoid making things worse.

After all, he is not a spiritual plant husband and doesn't know much about many things related to planting.

Above the Zhengqi Fruit, there were several lifeless spiritual herbs. They looked like burnt wood and turned into ashes with a slight touch.

It was not until the edge of the spiritual field at the top that a surviving spiritual flower appeared.

From high to low, there are three weeping spirit flowers of different sizes in full bloom, and at the same time, a new bud has emerged at the top of the branch.

“Oh, so many tears!”

Xiao Chen saw at a glance that the petals of the two weeping spirit flowers at the bottom were covered with teardrop-shaped patterns.

The tallest flower has slightly fewer patterns, but it still has a full seven teardrop patterns.

The age of the Weeping Spirit Flower can be identified by its tear patterns, with each tear representing one hundred years.

Judging from the situation, the two flowers at the bottom must have been mature for more than a thousand years.

Overall, this weeping spirit flower should have survived for nearly two thousand years and is about to wither.

Most spiritual herbs are not like spiritual trees. As long as they are not disturbed, they can grow and thrive for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

Instead, they all have their own lifespan limits.

Except for a few rare treasures that have an extremely long lifespan, the rest of the spiritual herbs will wither on their own when the time comes.

Immortality is so difficult, not only for humans but also for magical herbs.

Over a long period of time, even if it is a fourth-level spiritual flower and is planted in such a top-level spiritual field, its growth period can only be extended for a while and it cannot continue to grow.

One of the criteria for judging whether the plant is withering is to see if there are new shoots sprouting nearby.

"Luckily I arrived in time. If I had waited until the next time, I would have missed it."

Xiao Chen glanced to the side and saw new sprouts growing on the ground.

This means that if he came back fifty years later, it is very likely that the weeping soul flower in front of him would have withered by then.

He hurriedly took out a new jade box and picked all three spiritual flowers.

"This shouldn't be particularly eye-catching. You can exchange it for spirit stones."

When passing by the square before, Xiao Chen happened to hear the news that Elder Qian was offering a high price for the Millennium Weeping Spirit Flower.

The other party offered an extremely high premium of 300,000 spirit stones, which was really tempting.

Logically speaking, such a large premium is basically a pure loss. It is probably because they are in urgent need of some kind of elixir.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Chen searched the entire spiritual medicine garden.

Unfortunately, most of the spiritual herbs on the edge of the area were completely burnt and turned into ashes that crumbled at the touch.

There are a total of seven surviving fourth-level spiritual herbs, and two of them have turned into tender shoots or are not yet mature.

Only three species are left that are just at maturity.

The first one is the surviving scattered-leaf golden grass in the upper right corner. Its most famous feature is that it can be used as the main medicine for refining Mingjin Huasheng Dan.

Secondly, it can also be used as an auxiliary medicine in many fourth-level spiritual medicines, and its applicability is very high.

Among the fourth-level spiritual herbs, it is almost one of the top ones.

Even more fortunately, there are still six plants of loose-leaf goldenrod preserved here, three of which are mature.

This means that in the future, whether Xiao Chen himself or asks other alchemists to refine the Mingjin Huasheng Pill, he will have two chances to try and fail.

For this kind of special elixir, even with a recipe as a reference, the risk of refining it for the first time is very high.

One more chance to try and fail may result in completely different results.

The second fourth-level spiritual herb is the purple jade auspicious cloud fungus in the lower right corner.

It is one of the very unpopular fourth-level spiritual herbs and is almost extinct in the outside world.

Coincidentally, Xiao Chen had seen the related reward when he was reading the notice in the square before.

It was a small sect located on the east side of Nanlaohai Lake, called the Three Immortals Sect.

They were willing to give a bottle of the heart blood of the fourth-level spirit beast, the Traceless Elk, in exchange.

The value of the two spiritual objects is basically the same, and each can take what they need.

In the Eastern Region, there are actually a lot of such small sects or families.

However, most of them are closely related to a large sect, and in the eyes of outsiders they are almost one and the same.

For example, in name only, there are more than ten families with other surnames under the name of Jingkong Hai.

But everyone knows very well that they are just vassals of the three major families.
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The situation of the Three Immortals Sect is much better because it is located in Nanlaohai.

Although it is not very well-known and nominally submits to Baicao City, it can be regarded as a separate sect.

In addition, there are bounty orders for forces such as the Zhang family of Heiyan Sea, the Jin family of Wanxian Island, the Cailian Sect of Yunchi Sea, etc.

However, the things they needed were relatively unpopular, and Xiao Chen had not encountered them.

The last fourth-level spiritual herb he encountered was the Fixing Shadow Treasure Leaf.

This magical herb looks almost exactly like weeds.

Fortunately, this is a spiritual medicine garden, so the things that can be grown here should be extraordinary.

At the same time, the author of the book "Encyclopedia of Advanced Spiritual Herbs" is also quite realistic, and it is accompanied by lifelike illustrations.

Otherwise, even if he met him in the outside world, Xiao Chen estimated that he would find it difficult to recognize him.

In fact, strictly speaking, Dingying Baoye cannot be considered a spiritual herb, but a raw material.

In the many years of records of Baicao Secret Realm, it has only appeared twice, which is a rare one among the rare ones.

It is said that fixing paper can be made through secret methods to draw visualization pictures.

Only a very small number of unorthodox monks who practice visualization can use this thing.

The so-called visualization method is rumored to be a practice method that was popular in ancient times.

It is said that such cultivators can use visualization diagrams to visualize a certain god or a certain mythical beast in their sea of ​​consciousness, thereby gaining strength.

Nowadays, it has become one of the unorthodox ways. It is not considered to be mainstream, but under normal circumstances, it should not be easily provoked.

After all, unconventional methods are best at winning by surprise, and many times when you lose, you don’t even know why you lost.

It is also worth mentioning that the Eastern Region is vast and has many islands.

Therefore, there are actually quite a few unorthodox sects in the world, especially in some remote or even almost isolated places.

Most of the left-wing cultivators live within the Taoist sect and do not interact with the outside world.

Only a few who have achieved success in cultivation are qualified to travel abroad and represent their sect.

This also leads to the fact that the cultivation levels of the evil cultivators occasionally encountered in the outside world are higher than each other, and they all start from the Golden Core stage.

It seems that every evil cultivator has a golden elixir, but this is actually just a misunderstanding.

"This thing seems to be useless after I took it?"

Xiao Chen thought about it, and based on the principle of being prepared, he picked all the Fixing Shadow Treasure Leaves from the Fixing Shadow Treasure Vine: "Forget it, I'd better keep it with me. Maybe I can use it someday."

Anyway, even if he doesn't take it, the vine will wither in the future, which is a waste.

Besides, there is enough space in the Hanhai Ring now, and a jade box does not take up much place, so it is not a problem to carry it with you.

"This ring is a great deal."

Xiao Chen once again felt that his decision to buy a storage ring as his first stop in the Eastern Region was perfect.

It took another half a day to process these five fourth-level spiritual herbs and carefully check the entire spiritual medicine garden to ensure that nothing was missed.

"It's a pity that I didn't encounter the Sanhe Guardian God Flower, and I didn't even see the Thousand Flowers and Ten Thousand Leaves Vine."

Xiao Chen felt a little regretful: "But with the Righteousness Fruit and the extra Millennium Weeping Spirit Flower, at least exchanging it for the Nine Lights Profound Pill won't be a problem."

Then he will be able to strengthen the quality of his own true energy.

You know, this is not only related to the power of the spell, but it will also be of great help in breaking through the bottleneck in the future.

It can be said that strengthening the quality of true essence is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

After getting the most precious fourth-level spiritual herbs, Xiao Chen turned his attention to the third-level spiritual herbs in the first two rows.

Since the first two rows were relatively well-preserved, there were a large number of surviving spiritual herbs. This was especially true in the area where various exotic trees were planted, as all the spiritual trees were growing extremely well.

It’s just that because the trees have not been cut down for a long time, they are all crowded together, almost forming an impenetrable wooden wall.

"Wow, the Spirit-Bearing Ebony Wood!"

Xiao Chen recalled the atlas and recognized that the wood grown here was a special hardwood used specifically for refining defensive spiritual weapons.

It is said to be as immortal as gold and three times stronger than iron.

He reached out and knocked lightly, and immediately heard a 'bang bang' sound, as if he was knocking on a piece of steel instead of wood.

He took out his flying sword and slashed it, but it didn't leave any marks on the tree at all.

You must infuse true energy to leave a shallow mark.

"Hiss~, I'm afraid this is not a physically demanding job."

This patch of Piling Wujin wood has been planted for so long that each tree is two feet thick that you can't even hug it with your arms outstretched.

In addition, Xiao Chen was holding a flying sword, not a saw, so cutting such a towering tree was not an easy task.

He tried to cut one, but it took him half an hour.

There are at least ninety of the Spirit-Bearing Ebony trees planted here, if not a hundred.

"No, this matter has to be put aside for now. Let's do something else first."

Xiao Chen decisively gave up cutting the tree and started to sort out the remaining third-level spiritual herbs.

The most important thing right now is to calculate how many spiritual herbs to pick, and then replenish a batch of sealed medicine jade boxes.

That’s right, a batch!
Compared with the scarcity of fourth-level spiritual herbs, the number of third-level spiritual herbs in the spiritual medicine garden is huge.

There are nearly one hundred spiritual herbs planted in each area.

The reason why it is "near" is that no one has taken care of it for too long, so that some of the spiritual herbs have obviously exceeded the originally planned area.

For example, at the junction of the fruit tree area and the grass area, there are more than ten feet of spiritual herbs spreading out.

For example, the ginseng area looks thriving at first glance, but a closer look reveals that the ground is almost completely covered by various vines.

The entire spiritual medicine garden was counted and some unripe spiritual medicines were eliminated.

There are twenty-two different varieties of third-level spiritual herbs and flowers in existence, totaling two hundred and sixty plants.

There are also three different kinds of spiritual fruits, totaling one hundred and thirty-three.

One hundred plants each of Baiyuxiang Yunzhi and Jicui Ancient Ginseng.

There are one hundred and sixty pieces of blue sea vine and one hundred and three pieces of glass velvet silk.

Since different elixirs cannot be mixed, a total of seventy-eight sealed medicine jade boxes are needed.

There were still thirteen sealed medicine jade boxes left, which means there were a total of sixty-five jade boxes missing.

"Well, I thought I was very bold, but I didn't expect to be so conservative."

Xiao Chen did some mental calculations and couldn't help but sigh, "Going out to buy so many jade boxes at this time, I hope I won't be targeted directly."

Other people think that their herb-collecting sets only come with two jade boxes.

After all, there are not so many spiritual medicines in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm. Even the third-level spiritual herbs are very rare, and only a few lucky people can get them each time.

But he prepared thirty jade boxes and they were not enough. Who could he complain to?
This is probably a kind of happy trouble.

But no matter what, we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Xiao Chen left the spiritual medicine garden quickly and prepared to go to East City to purchase a jade box to seal the medicine.
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It was only a few days before the secret realm was opened, and most of the cultivators were still searching in the secret realm, with very few people showing up.

Fortunately, more than 100,000 monks came this year, and with so many people, there are all kinds of things to do.

Therefore, many monks return to the outside world every day, either to take a break or to replenish their tools.

In short, Xiao Chen's early appearance was not particularly conspicuous.

Even so, in order to prevent someone from noticing the abnormality and reduce the risk of being discovered.

He also deliberately did not fly on his sword, pretending to be an ordinary foundation-building cultivator.

He only bought two jade boxes in each store, and after leaving a store, he would go around the city and then go to another store.

In theory, it should be enough to prevent people with bad intentions from coveting it.

If he still can't avoid it, then Xiao Chen can only test it himself through actual combat to see what the fighting skills of the Eastern Region cultivators are like.

Fortunately, after a whole day, maybe it was because my cultivation was too low, or maybe the quantity purchased was not much.

In short, he did not notice that anyone was following him or spying on him with spiritual sense.

Xiao Chen also breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. Don't mess with me, and I won't mess with you."

"It would be wonderful if everyone could live in harmony and peace."

In fact, he has never liked fighting and killing, or in other words, except for the robbery cultivators and the demon cultivators, no normal cultivator would like a life-and-death fight.

However, on the way back to the Spiritual Medicine Garden, when Xiao Chen passed by Wutaoyuan, he unexpectedly found bloodstains on the ground.

There was a faint smell of blood in the air, and there were also a lot of traces of magic nearby.

It can be seen that a fierce fight broke out here not long ago.

Facts have proven that fighting is the main theme of the cultivation world.

There are only so many resources for cultivation, and there are only so many natural treasures, so there will always be people who can't help but have evil thoughts.

Judging from the direction of the magic traces left at the scene, there should have been quite a few people fighting.

It was estimated that one of the monks was killed on the spot, but his companions escaped to the south.

“Alas, sometimes I just can’t help myself.”

Xiao Chen sighed, but did not stay for long. Instead, he quickly returned to the spiritual medicine garden.

Fortunately, he was safe along the way.

Time flies, and twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the last three-meter-long piece of Spirit-Breaking Ebony Wood finally fell to the ground.

"Phew, luckily there's plenty of time. If it were just two days later it would have been too late."

Xiao Chen raised his hands and stretched his arms, and finally successfully put all the one hundred spiritual trees into the storage bag.

When he was halfway through cutting down the trees, he finally understood what the first two words of "Bi Ling Wu Jin Mu" meant.

As one of the main materials for defensive spiritual weapons, it naturally possesses a certain ability to resist true energy.

Therefore, Xiao Chen had to regulate his breathing and restore his true energy in the middle of the process, resulting in the time spent being twice as long as the initial plan.

Fortunately, the Baicao Secret Realm has been open for a long time, otherwise he would have to give up some of the spiritual wood.

“Fortunately, the result was satisfactory.”

He finally checked the spiritual medicine garden to make sure he hadn't missed anything.

Xiao Chen did not stay any longer, but took the token and left the spiritual medicine garden, flying straight to the exit of the secret realm.

Different from twenty days ago.

At this time, the exit of the secret realm was already crowded with people, and countless monks were gathered there, discussing loudly and excitedly.

For most cultivators, picking up a second-level spiritual herb is actually a good thing.

Even for the largest number of Qi-refining cultivators, first-level spiritual herbs are not unacceptable.

Remember, this is free!

Except for a few gamblers who spend a lot of money to buy high-end equipment and want to try their luck.

Although most monks envied the lucky ones mentioned in the legends, they felt much more comfortable when they saw their companions around them who also had nothing to gain.

Among the tens of thousands of people, there are probably only a few hundred to less than a thousand cultivators who are lucky enough to pick third-level spiritual herbs.

He is one in a hundred.

To be honest, the number is almost not much more than the number of Jindan cultivators who have entered.

In other words, such an opportunity is very slim for most people, and if it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist.

The main topic of discussion among the crowd was the dozen or so lucky people who had been extremely lucky and successfully collected fourth-level spiritual medicines.

Up to now, a total of eighteen fourth-level spiritual medicines have been discovered.

According to past practices, there should be several times more secret transactions that have not been leaked to outsiders.

This simply broke the record of Baicao Secret Realm.

You know, in previous years, there were no more than ten lucky people like this.

Among them was a casual cultivator in the early stage of foundation building, who became the object of everyone's envy.

"I heard that Fellow Daoist Han actually gave up the reward and chose to join Baicao City. He has now been accepted as a personal disciple by the Sixth Elder."

"What a clever man! I heard he's a wandering cultivator from the Myriad Immortal Islands. If this were converted into spirit stones, he would definitely not be able to leave the Nanlao Sea."

"Now that he has a Jindan Zhenren as his master, he will probably become very rich in the future."

"I heard that the Sixth Elder of Baicao City is in charge of the Alchemy Palace. In my opinion, it is only a matter of time before he breaks through to the Core Formation stage."

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There were also people who lamented about another Jindan cultivator who was extremely lucky.

"Who would have thought that the owner of Fengyufang would be willing to pay 290,000 spirit stones just to get the Thousand Flowers and Ten Thousand Leaves Vine?"

"That's just too exaggerated!"

"Speaking of which, this should be the most expensive elixir sold this year, right? Have you heard of anything more expensive?"

"Wow, how could it be more expensive? This is almost 300,000 spirit stones, how could it be worth more?"

"I do know that Elder Qian of Baicao City has put up a reward of 300,000 spirit stones."

"That news of yours is outdated. I heard that the price has now risen to 350,000 spirit stones!"

"Holy crap! As expected of Elder Qian, the price is almost doubled! He simply doesn't treat spirit stones as money!"

"Besides, what's the point? No matter how high the reward is, it's all in vain if you can't get it."

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Oh?
On the other side, Xiao Chen's eyes flashed. The price was raised again?

This is not very common.

The main problem is that the Millennium Weeping Spirit Flower is not a remedy for healing, so why is it so urgent?
I can't quite figure out what Elder Qian wants to do.

There won’t be any hidden risks in this transaction, right?
Although 350,000 spirit stones was a sky-high price, Xiao Chen was not tempted and instead began to think about it.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation!
The transaction has been temporarily cancelled until the truth is revealed.

"Well, let's go find the Three Immortals Sect first."

The Traceless Elk is a fourth-level spiritual beast. For all third-level physical cultivators, its heart blood is naturally a holy medicine for tempering the body.

(End of this chapter)