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Chapter 167: [Essence Lotus]
Chapter 167: [Essence Lotus]
Although these spiritual plants grown with Ram's own Life energy and spiritual power wouldn't have any benefits for himself, they held considerable value for others.
Many of these plants had healing properties, and stat-boosting effects, or were main ingredients in potion-making, making them highly marketable.
[ Name:
Spirit Blossom Herb
]
[ Type:
seed
]
[ Description:
Bright white flowers with delicate purple streaks and a calming fragrance. Excessive consumption may dull the senses temporarily.
]
[ Growth Requirements:
Abundant Reiki, spiritually rich soil, fifteen years to mature to reach Tier 1, fifty years to reach Tier 2, two hundred years to reach Tier 3, one thousand years of growth to evolve into a Tier 4 Spirit Mist Grass.]
[ Effect 1:
First-time consumption permanently raises spirit attribute by 1 to 15 points, based on level and medicinal quality, and enhances mental clarity.
]
[ Effect 2:
Consuming this herb regularly can heighten spiritual power and spiritual power recovery by a fixed amount, usually around 20%.
]
[ Name:
Blood Vitality Moss
]
[ Type:
seed
]
[ Description:
A soft green moss with flecks of red, often found covering rocks near clean water sources. Overexposure can lead to minor fatigue if not balanced with rest.
]
[ Growth Requirements:
Abundant Reiki and Blood energy, four hundred and fifty years to promote to Tier 4 Purple Blood Moss
]
[ Effect:
Three-year-old and old Blood vitality Moss is used to refine Blood Recovery Pills and Bood Purification Pills. Daily exposure or a small daily dose slowly enhances physical resilience and improves muscle recovery.
]
[ Name:
Iron Root Vine
]
[ Type:
seed
]
[ Description:
A small, dense fruit with a metallic sheen, growing from a tough, Iron Root Vine. Consuming more than three within a year results in no additional effect.
]
[ Growth Requirements:
Abundant Spiritual Energy and Life energy, one thousand five hundred years to promote Golden Root Vine.
]
[ Effect:
Increases physique by 5 points and strengthens bones and muscles, enhancing endurance, with a maximum of three every year.
]
After sorting through several options, he selected three types of seeds that didn't require any special elemental attributes or complex growth conditions and had a high potential to evolve into stronger variants.
He chooses the Spirit Blossom Herb for its unique ability to increase the Spirit attribute and mental power.
Much like the Vitality mushrooms, it could be consumed up to three times as it progressed through Tiers 1, 2, and 3.
Each usage would incrementally enhance the Spirit attribute, depending on the herb's medicinal quality, as well as boost spiritual power and recovery.
Given its high demand, a fully mature Spirit Blossom Herb could be sold for two points of source power in the alliance store—Double the price of Spirit Mushrooms.
"While moss can grow without it, regularly adding 'blood energy' can yield a higher quality harvest." he pondered, as he looked over the Blood Vitality Moss seed.
This moss had distinct requirements, needing a touch of Blood energy for optimal growth. "I should be able to use my reserve Blood Qi for Blood Vitality Moss."
While it required slightly less spiritual energy to advance to Tier 4, the Blood Vitality Moss was mostly used for its ability to improve the Blood Qi in martial artists, warriors, and Knight-class professionals.
Its effects were particularly useful for physical combatants, enhancing their resilience and blood vitality.
The Iron Root Vine was perhaps the most promising of the batch. It had the potential to evolve into the Golden Root Vine, which, once mature, could bear twenty to thirty fruits at regular intervals.
These fruits were highly prized for their ability to enhance Physique by five points each and fortify bones and muscle structure.
Although each individual could only consume them three times in a year for optimal effect, they could be taken again the following year, making them an excellent resource for gradual physical strengthening.
Ram also considered seeds such as Spiritual Rice or Blood Rice, along with other spiritual plants that can gradually enhance attributes.
However, whether it's professionals or monsters, everyone prefers items that boost their strength quickly rather than those that provide slow, incremental improvements.
"Between these three—Spirit Blossom Herb, Blood Vitality Moss, and Iron Root Vine—I can cover the core needs of spirit, blood vitality, and physical strength." Ram felt a wave of satisfaction as he looked at their attributes.
"For now, these three and the previous Vitality and Spirit Mushrooms should be enough to earn some source power, I'll think about other seeds after I successfully upgrade to Tier 4."
For him, growing these plants not only gains Source power, but also gains experience with each plant, slowly getting him toward Tier 4.
"With my Life energy, that can accelerate these spiritual plant's growth, I should be able to help Korrin and the other Half-Drows break through their attribute bottlenecks without much effort," Ram considered, glancing at the different seeds before him.
"After that, I'll just need to focus on their skill training and combat proficiency. They'll be far more powerful in no time."
Ram shifted his attention to a new acquisition: the Essence Lotus. Each seed had cost him ten points of source power, and he currently had only five of them.
The Essence Lotus seed in his hands looked like a small gem shrouded in a faint, mist-like aura.
[ Name:
Essence Lotus
]
[ Type:
seed
]
[ Description:
A rare, luminous blue lotus with a faint, misty aura surrounding it. Consuming more than once can lead to spiritual overload, causing energy loss.
]
[ Growth Requirements:
Abundant Spiritual Energy, three thousand years to promote to Azure Lotus.
]
[ Effect:
one-hundred-year, five-hundred-year, and a thousand-year-old Essence Lotus can be used to refine different levels of Breakthrough Pills.]
Each of these Essence Lotus has the ability to store a large amount of Spiritual power stored in them, causing a strict limit on its consumption. If used more than once within a short period, it risks causing spiritual overload and even energy depletion. But its potential made it well worth the risk.
Its true value, however, lies in its potential to make Breakthrough Pills, that can help creatures to break through bottlenecks.
In game terms, they were like experience pills, a one-hundred-year-old Essence Lotus could be refined into a pill that offered support in pushing a Tier 1 creature to Tier 2.
Similarly, a five-hundred-year-old Essence Lotus can aid creatures in advancing from Tier 2 to Tier 3.
Meanwhile, an Essence Lotus that is over a thousand years old can assist creatures at Tier 3 in breaking through to Tier 4. Due to its long growth cycle, a thousand-year-old Essence Lotus can be sold for more than a hundred points of source power depending upon its age.
Although these breakthrough pills are very powerful, they are of no use to him, who can use Life energy to improve creatures to a higher level.
Breakthrough Pills were always in high demand, especially among professionals who were unable to advance further due to low potential.
But these pills were even more highly sought after by Lord professionals than ordinary professionals, just because of the need for improving their own forces.
"Currently, I'm running low on Life energy and spiritual power due to reviving Korrin and others," Ram pondered looking at his attribute panel.
[ Name:
Ram
]
[ Age:
22/272
]
[ Race:
Human/Life Spirit
]
[ Profession:
- Spiritual Plant Lord Tier 3 (24.3%)
- Martial Artist Tier 3: Body Quenching realm (12.3% '+')
]
[ Health:
1000/1000
(+3,871)]
[ Spiritual Power:
1000/1000
(+7,159)]
[ Soul power:
70/70
(+5,421)]
[ Blood Qi:
100/100
(+3,671)]
[ Physique:
51
]
[ Spirit:
99.9
]
[ Talent:
[Recovery (Unique)]:
Passively recovers 1% of max Health and Spiritual Power every minute and stack excess recovered Health, Spiritual Power, and Soul Power for various uses, such as replenishing depleted reserves at any time or triggering special effects.
Life Energy Recovery Rate:
10 points/minute.
Spiritual Power Recovery Rate:
10 points/minute.
Blood Qi Recovery Rate:
1 point/minute.
Soul Power Recovery Rate:
0.7 points/minute.
]
[Life Spirit Body (Shared Talent)]:
Expands the host's capacity for Life Energy and Spiritual Power by tenfold, recovery speed by 300%.
]
"I should focus on the Spirit Blossom Herb, Blood Vitality Moss, and Iron Root Vine for now and grow Essence Lotus later, this way I could maximize their effects," Just by looking at the description, he knew each of these Essense Lotus seeds needs a large amount of spiritual power and Life energy.
"In the meanwhile, I also need to revive more cavemen," he thought, still thinking about the Battle of Gods that was less than five months away.
From the information he gathered from Su Xing, there were two such events that happened after the Reiki revival.
The most recent Battle of Gods ended seventy years ago, leaving only thirty percent of the Lords standing by its end. The scale of destruction was unimaginable, and the harsh reality of those who couldn't survive to the end was sobering.
"Less than a third survived…" Ram murmured, "And that was for Lords who had likely prepared for years."
For him, the challenge was even more daunting. Being in the Red River Domain— filled with high-level Lords. For them, his current strength was just like a small fry without much challenge.
With the experience of facing, well more like looking at Shane and Esha, he clearly understood the difference between each realm.