Bamboo Mound

"Alright, Changdi, you can decide for yourself."

"But before that, I think you should familiarize yourself with the layout of the three sects."

Ning Tongyu stood up, walked to a trellis, reached out and picked a blue fruit that resembled a tomato but had four small thorns like those at the stem of an eggplant. He spread his hands and broke the fruit into several pieces. After examining it, he nodded, selected two large seeds, cast a spell that Ning Chang couldn't understand, and planted them in the ground again.

At the same time, he pulled out the vine that had borne fruit, crushed it into powder along with the fruit in his hand, and turned it into soil.

Ning Chang was completely confused throughout the process, only thinking that they were selecting and cultivating some special varieties.

"It's not that I blame Changdi for bothering me. After all, I'll be doing nothing for the next ten years. But since we're both geniuses, I hope you can figure something out on your own."

Hearing this, Ning Chang shook his head and chuckled dryly a few times. "I had this plan all along. It hasn't even started yet. I was thinking of going after replenishing the bamboo leaves, but now there's this unexpected situation with the Green Spirit Bamboo. I'll set off as soon as I figure it out, haha..."

"Hmm." Ning Tongyu nodded slightly, her eyes revealing no emotion.

"Since you have your own plans, then go ahead."

Ning Chang drank the mulberry juice in the cup in two gulps, nodded with his hands clasped, and then got up and disappeared.

Looking in the direction Ning Chang left, Ning Tongyu seemed to be deep in thought, but then she quickly looked away and got up to tend to the plants in the yard.

......

Before long, Ning Chang arrived at the edge of Medicine King Valley.

Standing in mid-air, looking straight ahead, one can see the rolling mountains stretching out before one's eyes, with clouds and mist swirling among the peaks, like a dream, or a natural ink painting!

This was something he hadn't seen on the circular ritual implement when he arrived. It was almost dark then, and with Wang Yi and the other person guiding him, he had no intention of sightseeing.

At this moment, Ning Chang had no doubt that there might be some unexpected dangers in the undulating mountains outside the valley. Even if there were, they would certainly be things that posed no threat to him.

After all, it is a major sect, and Medicine King Valley would certainly not tolerate anything too dangerous existing in the vicinity.

Ning Chang took a deep breath, feeling the coolness in the air, and slowly walked along the edge of the mountain range, pausing between each peak, his eyes sharp as he carefully searched for a suitable place to stand.

He had anticipated that the spiritual energy outside the sect was much less than inside, but upon closer inspection, it was still more than he had expected.

He didn't care about the spiritual energy content, since it wasn't for cultivation. It could also slow down the autonomous growth of the Green Spirit Bamboo, so that it wouldn't be too troublesome if it got out of control.

Before he knew it, he had walked more than half of the entire mountain area.

His main target was the flat land at the bottom of the valley, but most areas didn't suit his taste; they were either too sloping or too small.

He finally found a suitable flat area only after searching the entire mountain area outside Medicine King Valley and nearing the outer edge of the weapon refining workshop.

The valley entrance faces the sun, is winding and narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time, and the other end is slightly lower than the two sides, like a natural barrier!

Moreover, although it is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, they are not vertical stone walls, but rather covered with soil and some short trees growing crookedly.

Ning Chang's heart stirred, and he landed in the center of the valley. Standing in mid-air and looking vertically down, he discovered that this place only needed slight repairs to become a near-perfect circle!

"Logically speaking, such a treasure land, at this distance, should have been discovered by the disciples of the three sects long ago. But at first glance, there are no signs of development... This shouldn't be the case."

He was a little puzzled, but didn't think too much about it and started tidying up the clutter in the valley.

"Since no one else is developing it, it's mine."

Ning Chang first uprooted the six paper mulberry trees, shook off all the soil, then cut off most of the roots and branches before planting them on other mountains outside the valley.

Then he pulled up all the weeds, piled them up randomly in a spot outside the valley, and then ignored them. He then lifted all the ground inside the valley half a meter down, broke it up twice, and then put it back in place, manually flattening it.

"Now there won't be any more weeds."

Looking at the flat land of about ten acres beneath his feet, which was completely barren, Ning Chang nodded in satisfaction. This was the first time he had used his spiritual power on a relatively large scale. He had thought it would take some effort, but it turned out to be so easy!

Turning over such a large piece of land, and even breaking up the stones along the way, was still less difficult than using his rain-summoning spell once!

Finding a spot against the mountainside, I casually took out a bamboo seed and planted it in the ground, whereupon it began to grow rapidly.

He felt that using the Rain Summoning Technique to dilute the growth solution to make the Green Spirit Bamboo sprout was too troublesome. After all, what he was going to do next was just an experiment, and it wouldn't last long. It would be better to just force it to sprout directly.

Fortunately, this method of stimulating growth also works on seed-forming plants. The rapid growth process takes only a few breaths before the blue shoots emerge from the soil.

However, the slow speed made Ning Chang sigh as he looked up.

"I still forgot..."

He had originally intended to ask Ning Tongyu if there were any other cultivation methods that could accelerate childbirth, but after sitting for a while and asking about the tribulation and his residence, he completely forgot about the childbirth process.

But thinking of Ning Tongyu's words, he still felt that he had been looking for Ning Tongyu too frequently, to the point of being a disturbance.

"Let's experiment first and figure out the inheritance of the Azure Bamboo. After that... let's go ask Xie Jun. He's in charge of the library, so he should know about this kind of technique."

Returning our attention to the present, the Green Bamboo continues to rise slowly due to its rapid growth.

However, Ning Chang was prepared this time. When the bamboo shoots grew to about the right size, he took half a step back, thus avoiding being injured by the suddenly growing bamboo again.

"Still so cunning. I don't know if you intentionally stored up the spiritual power used to induce growth, just for this one thing, which is why it grew so slowly at first."

After sealing the short bamboo roots, Ning Chang dispersed the spiritual energy vortex that had just begun to appear in mid-air, sat cross-legged on the ground, and held the bottom of the Green Spirit Bamboo with one hand.

He then closed his eyes and began to circulate his spiritual energy, sending his consciousness into the Green Spirit Bamboo.

The feeling of resistance returned, but probably because the Green Spirit Bamboo was newly sprouted and had not yet begun to absorb spiritual energy to develop, its strength was negligible and could not hinder him in any way.

Under the probe of spiritual energy, the spiritual core at the root of the Green Spirit Bamboo has not yet formed and is still in a special form.

He thought calling it a spirit core would be better than planting a elixir.

During this process, he could not accurately perceive the time, but felt that it took about two hours before he successfully enveloped the spiritual core area with his divine sense and prepared to establish a connection.