Bamboo Mound

He slowly awoke, his eyes revealing a composure and fortitude born of experience. He looked up at the sky, clasped his hands in gratitude, and thanked this blessing.

Then several streaks of light rose from the mountains behind Ning Chang and flew toward the disciple. They stopped in an instant, and at this moment, five figures appeared in front of the disciple.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, the six disappeared from the spot, it was unclear whether they returned to the Heavenly Gate or simply left this world together.

But Ning Chang didn't see these things. As the light rose behind him, he turned around and walked towards his small valley. His rotating gaze missed the light.

Along the way, he kept reviewing the details of the disciple's tribulation in his mind, from the violent fall of the tribulation lightning at the beginning to the earth-shattering appearance of the thunder bird, and then to the disciple's tenacious counterattack. All the changes flashed before his eyes.

"It seems that the most important thing right now is to prepare armor and magic weapons. Using only one set is definitely not enough. We need to prepare several sets. The possibility of tribulation lightning inflicting damage to the soul is still unknown, but we should still make some preparations."

"Speaking of tribulation lightning, it seems that it can be blocked by physical means. Could we then use a large amount of Azure Spirit Bamboo to grow on our heads to block it...?"

"I also need a lot of healing pills... Will that work?" He recalled that when that disciple was undergoing tribulation earlier, he didn't take any pills to heal himself. He wasn't sure if it was because he wasn't prepared or if the tribulation had some kind of limitation.

"But that's all there is to it. Maybe this cowardly behavior will even prevent me from getting any good fortune after I finish my tribulation. Whatever."

"As for the final lightning tribulation transformation stage, it can be avoided if the speed is sufficient. In that case, the consumption will be relatively easy for me... Of course, under normal circumstances, and it is possible that this stage will not even be present."

In a daze, the suddenly empty terrain in front of him made him stop thinking. Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly walked a long way, to the point that he had left the mountain gate area of ​​the four sects!

"Okay, that's settled then, time to get to work."

He turned to confirm the direction and quickly returned to his small valley to continue practicing controlling the Azure Bamboo.

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In the valley, a gentle breeze rustles the bamboo leaves intermittently, as the sun rises and sets, and the moon waxes and wanes...

Time flows by, and the valley is like a pure land outside the world, peaceful and serene.

During this period, a light snow fell, forcing him to make a small hole in the mountainside to shelter himself.

In the rest of the time, Ning was immersed in his consciousness, and his control over the Green Spirit Bamboo became easier and easier, and his use of the power of plants to communicate with each other became more and more skillful.

It even indirectly enhanced the strength of one's soul!

He can now project his soul without relying on spiritual power. Although it can't go too far, it's enough to use the ability to communicate with plants.

And after nearly two and a half months of exploration and practice, he has proven that his conjecture is correct... or at least mostly correct.

Within a certain range, the Green Spirit Bamboo will share a single spirit core, which is usually condensed in the first Green Spirit Bamboo to grow, just like the courtyard that Ning Tongyu arranged for him.

If multiple seeds are induced to grow at the same time, they will take the one in the center as the main seed. However, Ning Chang did not understand how they exhibited spatial concepts and communicated with each other without being connected.

But that wasn't important to him. The only thing that was more convenient was that he only needed to control one spirit core. With the spirit core present, a considerable range of bamboo species would no longer grow spirit cores and would be controlled by this one spirit core, even if their roots were not connected.

However, trouble also exists. Once the spirit core is removed from the Green Spirit Bamboo, all the existing Green Spirit Bamboo controlled by this spirit core will lose their vitality and wither rapidly as the spiritual energy dissipates.

However, he still discovered that as long as the spirit core is stored in the bamboo body, and then the section of bamboo containing the spirit core is taken out, it can be carried with him at the same time, while preserving the vitality of the Green Spirit Bamboo. This was a method he came up with after he realized that the spirit core could ignore the connection and control of the Green Spirit Bamboo.

Even so, storing them in a spatial bag will still cause the entire group to become inactive, but fortunately the spirit core itself is quite small, and the bamboo section is also convenient to carry.

In this situation, he can control these green bamboos from a great distance, and the spiritual power he provides can be smoothly used in various aspects, including growth, expansion, changing shape, and even flowering and seed production!

During this time, he discovered another serious inconsistency: the spiritual energy supplied to the bamboo section where the spirit core is located can also multiply other green spirit bamboos. During the process, this spiritual energy will be completely invisible, as if it has been directly teleported from the spirit core into the green spirit bamboo!

But at that time, he felt that this was not something he could answer at the moment, so he did not delve into it further.

In contrast, he also discovered that the spiritual energy absorbed by the Green Spirit Bamboo was also under his control, that is, absorbed into his body and refined.

The cultivation speed achieved through this method is terrifying!

The speed at which the Green Spirit Bamboo absorbs spiritual energy is less than half of his, but the sheer number of them makes up for it. Each Green Spirit Bamboo in a vast area can absorb and store spiritual energy, which is then transferred into his body. Little by little, it accumulates into a great deal, easily resulting in a cultivation speed several times faster!

A single impromptu experiment allowed someone who was already at the peak of the 7th level of the Spirit Platform to advance to the mid-stage of the 8th level!

The trade-off is that the spiritual energy content within the Qingling Bamboo Forest will be severely depleted for some time, since there is no spirit-gathering array to begin with.

"In the mountains, there is no sun or moon, and one cannot know the years of cold and heat..." Ning Chang exited the state, gazed at the direction of the valley entrance for a moment, shook his head, and got up to stretch his muscles that had not been used for a long time.

"Phew~ Next up is the fertilization method."

The manipulation of the spirit core requires a complete Green Spirit Bamboo to be effective. The bamboo nodes, roots, and leaves that are easy to carry cannot grow other bamboo parts. Moreover, even if the Green Spirit Bamboo is complete, it will lose connection with the spirit core when it is put into a space bag and then taken out.

Therefore, the most suitable and ideal attack strategy at present is to cultivate the bamboo seed into a shoot shape and then use the spirit core to further cultivate it.

Therefore, the only limitation of his new attack method is currently the speed of the catalytic method.

At least for now, this general-purpose "Rapid Growth" method won't work. It would take at least ten breaths to get the bamboo seed to a controllable level, even though Ning Chang is already very skilled at it.

It's not the fault of this technique; the slow speed only manifests on the Green Spirit Bamboo, which must be due to the special nature of the Green Spirit Bamboo.

After all, he had tried every plant he could find in the surrounding mountains. Under full-speed growth, ferns could grow to the size of a "clump" in a single breath, vines could grow two square meters in a single breath, and even the slowest ginkgo tree could grow to two meters tall in just over ten breaths, although it was just a thin trunk.

These are all obviously much faster than the Green Spirit Bamboo!