Chapter 399: 397: Emperor Date_1
Chapter 399: 397: Emperor Date_1
Chapter 399: Chapter 397: Emperor Date_1
Fire Scale Child visited mainly to give Lu Xuan a thousand Sword Marks and to inform him that he would soon be in control of the Incomplete Secret Realm. He didn’t linger around for too long.
After a while, he bid his goodbye and left.
Lu Xuan saw him off out of the cave, watched him turn into a line of red light, and vanish into the horizon before returning to the cave.
Fire Scale Child was extraordinarily gifted and powerful. Naturally, Lu Xuan was more than eager to receive his overtures.
He roughly estimated his current strength, and with the help of various treasures, he was now easily able to handle two or three average Foundation Establishment Late-term Cultivators. If he pushed himself, the number would be much higher.
Clearly though, this didn’t apply to long-established names in the Sky Sword Sect.
Compared to the authentic teachings, there was still quite a distance, at most, he was only nearing it.
“However, once a few more Fourth Grade Spirit Plants mature in my cave, or perhaps a Fifth Rank Spirit Plant, I should be nearly there.”
Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense swept over the entire cave, and he felt optimistic about his future.
After resting for two days, the various Spiritual Plants in the cave were all filled with Spiritual light, and bursting with vitality.
Lu Xuan had the thought of going to the Agricultural Department Hall.
After the three Sword Nurturing Gourd Spiritual Plants matured, he had more than ten Sword Nurturing Gourds in hand, and he needed to find a chance to handle them properly.
The previous Spiritual Plants which were grown, such as the Flaming Fruit, Ice Luo Fruit, Enchanted Immortal Peach and others were all converted into Spirit Beasts, Guardian Beasts like White Ape, and Luan Bird, or were used to entertain guests.
The rest of the mature Spiritual Plants were either exchanged for treasures like Spiritual Plants or handed over to the Sword Hall or Dan Palace, or they were Underworld Spiritual Plants and were not easy to dispose of.
The Lotus Seeds of the Earth Fire Heart Lotus and the Evil Eye Pupil formed by the Hundred Pupils’ Bizarre Tree were both extravagantly saved for personal use.
The Spirit Gathering Pine, which was of the same rank, was too precious, so it was temporarily stored in the Gluttonous Insect Pouch.
He called out to Wind Falcon, and with a light jump, he arrived on the wide and sturdy back of Wind Falcon.
The blustery wind howled through the high altitude. Along the way, Spirit Cranes occasionally recognized Lu Xuan, and they would group together, politely chirping at him.
Seeing this, Fat Bird, with its pair of massive blue wings flapping briskly, its chubby belly taking the form of a smooth droplet, left the Spirit Cranes far behind in a few breaths.
Lu Xuan instructed Fat Bird to land in front of the wide plaza of the Agricultural Department Hall, and he entered the hall directly.
“Greetings, Brother.”
A square-faced Foundation Establishment Cultivator greeted Lu Xuan respectfully upon seeing him.
“Greetings, Junior Brother. I recently reached the mid-term Foundation Establishment, so I thought I’d come and collect the corresponding Sect benefits.”
“In addition, when I first broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, I was allowed to choose a Method of Seed Condensation for a third-grade Spiritual Plant. At the time, I had not decided on one, so I wonder if I can still select one now.”
Lu Xuan asked; at that time, he only managed to get the Condensation Methods for the second-grade Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit. For the third-grade, he left it out due to indecisiveness, until now.
“Brother, please give me your identification token, I need to verify it.”
“Sure.”
Lu Xuan took off his identity token from his waist and handed it over to the young cultivator.
“It turns out to be Brother Lu!”
The youth imbued his Spiritual Sense into the black token, raised his head, and looked at Lu Xuan with a surprised expression.
“I’ve been hearing a lot about you, Brother. Given an opportunity, I’d love to learn from you about your experience in cultivating Spiritual Plants.”
“No problem, you’re always welcome,” Lu Xuan nodded.
“Brother Lu, you indeed still have the option to choose a method for condensing seeds for a third-grade Spiritual Plant.”
“In addition, the benefits for reaching the Foundation Establishment Mid-term have not been claimed yet.”
The mid-term benefits of Foundation Establishment are the same as the earlier stage, breakthrough will get one fourth-rank spiritual plant seed, three third-grade spiritual seeds, and ten second-grade spiritual seeds.
In addition, you can also get a method method for condensing second-rank spiritual plants, and two methods for condensing second-rank spiritual plants.
“For the two methods of condensation for grade three spiritual plants, I choose the Sword Nurturing Gourd and the Primordial Essence Herb.”
Lu Xuan said in a deep voice.
The light cluster in the Sword Nurturing Gourd can consistently produce fourth-grade Sword Symbols, and the Primordial Essence Herb can produce third-grade Foundation Building Pills. The recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill, as well as the nascent soul grass orb which restores Qingmu Origin Energy and feeds Grass Puppets, are both main ingredients to refine the Foundation Pill.
Lu Xuan was extremely satisfied with these two spirit plants and did not hesitate to choose them.
For the remaining two second-grade condensing methods, Lu Xuan picked two at random, looking for opportunities to improve them later.
“As for the spirit plants…”
Lu Xuan leafed through the jade book in his hand. The jade book contained lifelike patterns of spirit plants of different ranks, and brief introductions to the spirit plants were also listed underneath.
If a pattern was lit up, it meant there were ready-made sprouts or spirit seeds. If it was dimly lit, it meant that they would have to wait for a while before they could get it.
“For grade three spirit plants, Brother, please fetch me three Sword Nurturing Gourd seeds. For second grade, please fetch me five seeds each of Flame Fruit and Ice Luo Fruit.”
“As for fourth grade…”
Lu Xuan flipped through the jade book. There were more than a dozen kinds of fourth-grade spirit plants, including the Earth Fire Heart Lotus, Xuan Chong Vine and Five-Element Fruit he had planted before.
Perhaps because fourth-grade spirit seeds were rarer and harder to condense, only a small portion of the patterns were lit up.
There were only three other fourth-grade spirit seeds available for Lu Xuan to choose from, and each one required extremely high cultivation conditions.
After flipping repeatedly, Lu Xuan eventually pointed to one pattern and told the young cultivator:
“Let’s go with this fourth-grade Earth Emperor Olive.”
“Alright, please wait a moment, Brother Lu.”
The youth entered the inner depths of the hall. After a while, he hurried out, with spirit seeds and jade slips floating in front of him.
“These are the spirit seeds Brother Lu needs, as well as the four seed condensation methods. Please feel free to check.”
Lu Xuan swept his spiritual sense over them and nodded.
“Correct.”
He accepted these items, bought another ten Sword Nurturing Gourd spirit seeds from the Agricultural Department Hall, and then returned to his cave dwelling.
As soon as he passed through the formation, Lu Xuan came to the Spirit Field and took out the fourth-grade Earth Emperor Olive Spirit Seed.
The spirit seed was a dark yellow olive core. The surface was engraved with many deep and shallow spirit lines. Within it, a very dense earthy spiritual power was contained, as if it was going to seep out from within the spirit seed.
He applied the Earth Pulling Technique and placed the dark yellow spirit seed into the spirit soil.
His mind concentrated on the olive core embedded in the shallow layer of the spirit soil, a thought immediately surfaced within.
[Earth Emperor Olive, fourth-grade Spirit Plant, requires nourishment from pure earthy spiritual power during growth. It is extremely demanding of its growing environment and requires a high standard of spirit soil.]
[Once mature, the fruit it bears has a wide range of uses. It can assist cultivators in practicing earth-based formula methods and divine skills, accelerating the speed of practice. It can also be used to concoct corresponding unique high-rank elixirs and to raise certain types of demon beasts.]
[When earth reaches its extreme, it becomes Emperor!]
“Fourth-Grade Spirit Plant, Earth Emperor Olive!”
“There’s another new variety of spirit fruit in my cave dwelling.”
“Although it is widely used, it is actually quite limited. It can only be utilized for earth-based demon beasts and in elixir recipes.”
“Now that it requires high growth conditions, it’s not an issue given that I’m about to own a fragment of a Secret Land. Am I afraid that I can’t satisfy the growth conditions required by a mere fourth-grade spirit plant?”