Chapter 474

Chapter 474: The Mutated Barley

But Ji Yang had no intention of feeding this Mine Spirit to the two beasts.

This Mine Spirit had an even more important role, which was to add a touch of brilliance to his iron pick.

There are generally two ways for a treasure to upgrade from a magical treasure to a spiritual treasure. One way is for the treasure to nurture itself over time, gradually developing a spark of spirit, allowing it to slowly transform into a spiritual treasure.

Of course, this method has certain prerequisites; the treasure must first reach the level of a top-quality treasure, and it must be nurtured by a cultivator for a long time before it can potentially develop that spark of spirit.

The second method involves finding spiritual items from the world and integrating them into the treasure during its refinement, allowing it to become a tool spirit and speeding up the process of transformation into a spiritual treasure.

Although the second method is much simpler, there are very few spiritual items in the world, let alone a suitable mine spirit for crafting tools.

Although Elder Chai obtained a mine spirit easily before, it was still the sect’s property, and Elder Chai had to spend quite a bit to compensate the sect for acquiring it.

This is knowledge Ji Yang learned from books after leaving the mine.

Now, Ji Yang planned to refine this Mine Spirit into his iron pick, giving it the possibility of upgrading to a spiritual treasure!

After all, with the iron pick’s level raised, mining would definitely become much easier.

Before long, Ji Yang had piled up a small mountain of secret silver ore using the ores from the storage bag, and the Mine Spirit was placed right in the center.

This way, he wouldn’t have to take out a few pieces of secret silver ore every time for it to consume.

After completing all this, Ji Yang turned and noticed the two beasts eyeing the mountain with fierce intent.

Seeing this, Ji Yang decisively added a layer of sword energy as defense for the mountain.

Upon sensing the sword energy, the two beasts looked at Ji Yang with puzzled expressions, clearly indicating:

“Don’t you trust us?”

Ji Yang did not answer. Instead, he added several more layers of sword energy because he noticed that Little Black and Xuanqing seemed stronger, which needed caution.

The two beasts snorted and turned to leave, but they didn’t forget to glance around at the spiritual plants as they walked away.

To soothe their feelings, Ji Yang took out the low-level spiritual plants from the storage bag.

However, to his surprise, the two beasts simply glanced at them and then disdainfully walked away.

Clearly, these low-level spiritual plants were no longer on their menu.

This left Ji Yang feeling quite frustrated.

After handling all the spiritual plants, Ji Yang turned his attention to the surrounding spiritual grains.

After a moment of thought, Ji Yang performed the Large Cloud Rain Technique on Jingtan Peak. Although it wasn’t spiritual grains he had personally planted, watering them at least counted as taking care of them, and they should yield some Light points by tomorrow.

Satisfied with his work, Ji Yang clapped his hands; everything seemed to be in order.

Just as Ji Yang was walking towards the wooden house to rest, Little Black suddenly called out:

“Woof, woof, woof…”

Hearing this, Ji Yang smiled and waved, signaling Little Black to come closer.

Little Black bared its big teeth and wagged its tail, trotting over to Ji Yang.

Expecting Ji Yang to reward it with some pills, two huge barks sounded as Ji Yang spoke:

“You can talk now, what else do you need!”

Little Black felt wronged upon hearing this; after all, it was just a dog, and barking a few times was quite normal, wasn’t it?

However, under Ji Yang’s threat, Little Black could only reply in its tender voice:

“The spiritual plants in the spiritual field below the peak are somewhat different.”

Upon hearing this, Ji Yang showed a look of contemplation and then spoke:

“Take me to see.”

Soon, Ji Yang arrived at the special spiritual grains that Little Black mentioned.

These were several Blue barley spiritual grains, but they were taller than the usual mature ones and showed no signs of forming ears.

As Ji Yang recognized the familiar place, he recalled that this was where he had previously experimented with his divine powers.

Moreover, these Blue barley spiritual grains were clearly from the seeds he had planted using his divine powers.

It seemed that these grains had indeed undergone some transformation.

Ji Yang immediately extended his primordial spirit energy to inspect them closely and quickly discovered their differences.

They appeared to absorb the spiritual energy from the heavens and earth like spiritual plants, and they also produced special effects.

After some experimentation, Ji Yang clarified the specific effect of these spiritual grains; they induced hallucinations.

They could influence nearby beings, causing them to unknowingly fall into illusions.

Although each grain’s hallucination effect was not strong, astonishingly, the effects of several grains could combine, significantly increasing their power to induce illusions.

Currently, they could only ensnare Golden Core stage cultivators in hallucinations, and the range of influence was only about ten meters. However, as they grew, their hallucination effects seemed to become stronger.

This surprised Ji Yang; he never expected his divine powers would have such a useful application.

Unfortunately, these spiritual grains showed no sign of producing Light points, which greatly reduced their value.

Nevertheless, considering their special effects, Ji Yang decided to keep them.

As long as he planted some of these grains at the edge of Jingtan Peak, they would create a natural barrier for the peak.

Very good, Ji Yang slightly nodded, quite pleased with his idea.

As for the research on the divine powers, Ji Yang planned to continue experimenting later to see if the hallucination effect was a unique trait of the Blue barley or if it was random.

“Here, a reward for you.”

Watching Ji Yang toss out a few Yun Ling Dan, Little Black agilely snatched them like lightning, even before Xuanqing realized what the pills looked like.

This made Xuanqing feel envious, wondering why it hadn’t discovered them first.

After settling the matters with the spiritual grains, Ji Yang turned his attention to the Clear Pond at the foot of the peak.

In the Clear Pond, an aura flickered into visibility, both weak and strong.

Ji Yang felt a bit surprised; he had been wondering why he hadn’t seen Little White after returning to the peak, only to find it in a deep sleep.

And the sleep of True Spirits often signified evolution.

Ji Yang sensed a bit; it seemed that complete evolution would require some more time.

Xuanqing next to him felt increasingly envious.

Common True Spirits usually took decades or even centuries to evolve to the next stage. Looking at this True Dragon, which was quite young, it had already reached the second stage simply by staying at Jingtan Peak.

This further solidified Xuanqing’s desire to stay at Jingtan Peak.

If he stayed for several decades or hundreds of years, not only would he gain a True Spirits position in the Xuanwu clan, but he could also ride on its father’s back and become the leader!

After tending to the matters concerning the spiritual grains, Ji Yang unfastened several storage bags from his body.

These storage bags were all items Ji Yang had obtained from other cultivators and belonged to Void Refinement stage cultivators.