Chapter 136
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Chapter 136: Cultivating Spiritual Herbs and Practicing Techniques
Before Yang Shu arrived, Yun Ye continuously searched for places rich in spirit energy.
After about half a day, Yun Ye found an extremely suitable cave with a spirit energy concentration approximately 150% higher than that of the Secret Realm, allowing for a 25-fold acceleration in growth.
This was an impressive figure.
Initially, Yun Ye’s room in the Hongshan military camp had only twice the spirit energy concentration of Baishi Town, roughly comparable to that of the Secret Realm. Only the core of Hongshan had a concentration of spirit energy ten times higher than the surrounding area, surpassing the energy in this cave.
Therefore, Yun Ye wasted no more time and immediately opened the Moon Disk here, letting the Secret Realm continuously absorb external spirit energy to enhance the growth of his crops.
Currently, the Secret Realm no longer cultivated rice but had switched to "Yang Lingzhi."
This was a very ordinary medicinal herb, but uniquely, it was classified as a semi-spiritual herb that would automatically advance to a true spiritual herb after reaching a certain age, granting it exceptionally strong medicinal power.
This so-called age referred to the total amount of spirit energy consumed, or perhaps one’s cultivation level?
What made spiritual herbs special was their ability to naturally absorb and release spirit energy, converting it into medicinal power without the side effects associated with human usage of spirit energy. Not only did they not consume vitality, but they thrived even more.
The richer the spirit energy, the faster the spiritual herbs grew.
As a semi-spiritual herb, Yang Lingzhi did not possess this ability, relying on natural growth. It needed to grow for a full hundred years to shed its common form and transform into a spiritual herb.
This advancement was not unique; if other plants could live for one or two hundred years, they too had a chance to advance into spiritual herbs.
By contrast, rice plants, which grew and died within a year, almost had no chance of becoming spiritual seeds.
In summary, it was quite realistic.
Even spiritual herbs had a growth limit; it was impossible for them to truly live for ten thousand years and become divine medicines.
Most spiritual herbs only lived for one or two hundred years, with very few living for a thousand years to become more mysterious medicinal herbs.
Setting this aside for now, after calculations, Yun Ye found that the area occupied by Yang Lingzhi was only slightly larger than that of rice.
The entire Secret Realm could likely accommodate around a thousand of them. To hasten maturity, Yun Ye only planted one for now, allowing its growth speed to accelerate by a thousand times.
Moreover, this was on top of the initial 25-fold acceleration…
So, in detail, it was an astounding 25,000 times faster; one day equated to 68 years under normal conditions.
This was indeed miraculous.
In just four hours, Yun Ye observed the Yang Lingzhi transform rapidly from spore form to maturity, its color deepening slightly, and the appearance of white spirals eventually connected to form a complete white ring.
“A white ring of ten years of medicinal power—what incredible speed is this?”
Yun Ye felt a hint of regret, wishing he had selected a Wood Spiritual Root; if he had, he could have further accelerated the growth.
Watching the spiritual herb mature so swiftly was a pure delight, giving him the sensation of accumulating wealth—there was no such thing as ‘too much’!
“No wonder no matter how much money one earns, there’s always a desire to earn more; this feeling of growth indeed brings immense joy…”
“Time to practice! Stop overthinking!”
Yun Ye quickly shifted his focus.
He began to relearn the Three Mystical True Fire Method, attempting to construct it with his own power.
However, he soon experienced the "difficulty" mentioned by Fang Jia; it was almost as challenging as reaching the sky!
It had only been a few hours.
Yun Ye opened his eyes again, his face pale. “Although I had expected it, the lack of spiritual herbs has caused my progress to slow down to this extent?”
In the Secret Realm, he rarely paid attention to ordinary spiritual herbs, only consuming high-level spiritual herbs. In a short time, he had pressed his life into mastering the techniques without truly experiencing their difficulty.
Without the spiritual herbs, he realized the severity of the situation.
The Three Mystical True Fire Method required building energy meridians in the body and inscribing complex spirit patterns comparable to major Spiritual Laws.
The biggest challenge was obtaining energy with a high enough purity!
Without sufficient high-purity energy, he would have to purify it himself to construct the energy meridians.
Not only was the speed excruciatingly slow, but if the energy meridians couldn’t form a continuous cycle, they would continually collapse, further increasing the difficulty.
It was outrageous!
No wonder Yun Wen, who possessed nearly all A-level talents, took over a decade to advance to the spiritual realm. Who could withstand this without resources?
“With this method of cultivation, I will need at least fifty or sixty years to form a complete cycle. This is absurd…”
The Three Mystical True Fire Method had a total of fifteen cycles, each cycle containing a dozen or so energy meridians.
Completing them all meant achieving a perfect technique, or perfecting the Spiritual Law, thus qualifying to ascend the Heavenly Path.
Yun Ye calculated that if he relied solely on his Spiritual Roots to refine spirit energy without consuming any spiritual herbs, it would take him about six months to complete one energy meridian, resulting in approximately five years for one full cycle.
To finish everything, even if the subsequent cycles formed, and the energy purification sped up, it would still take four to five decades!
The most frightening part was that Yun Ye currently had Dual Spiritual Roots, with a B-level talent.
If he had remained with his original C-level roots, he would need several hundred years without a doubt; he would have to rely on consuming spiritual herbs to force an acceleration.
“It seems I don’t need to cultivate anymore. How can self-cultivation compare to the consumption of spiritual herbs?”
After calculating the result, Yun Ye decisively gave up on the arduous practice.
He summoned his treasure and began to refine the Moon Ring.
The Moon Ring was merely bound to him; its original refining progress hadn’t changed at all.
If he didn’t fully refine this treasure, he wouldn’t be able to use this key to the Secret Realm.
Moreover, as a treasure, it naturally wouldn’t possess only this level of power; it was simply because the refining progress was too low—only about one or two thousandths.
Once it reached one hundred percent refinement, its innate power would likely force judges to retreat before it!
After all, it was the treasure of the Gate of Heaven of the Crescent Moon, so it held some prestige…
“Refinement begins!”
Yun Ye’s finger traced across the surface of the Moon Ring, and without causing a wound, his blood began to flow freely.
This was due to the effect of his Water Spiritual Root, which allowed his blood to flow freely, even seeping out through the skin’s surface.
However, this ability couldn’t directly affect the person itself; to control it, the water spirit energy first had to invade the body. For an ordinary person, it was manageable, but for a cultivator, there wouldn’t be any possibility of this until their power was exhausted…
Except in battles where one’s strength overwhelmed the opponent!
Yun Ye’s Combination Spiritual Law, All Things Silent, extracted the advantages of the Water Spiritual Root while eliminating its drawbacks.
The Fire Spiritual Root could transmit energy across distances, and when combined with the Water Spiritual Root’s ability to absorb energy (cooling), they merged to allow cooling to occur directly within a solid object, creating All Things Silent.
The five Spiritual Roots indeed offered limitless possibilities!
Time passed, and soon it was dusk.
Yang Shu sent a message to Yun Ye, stating that his people had arrived. If Yun Ye could prove his identity, the Tomorrow Society would engage with him further, and it was even possible that they would offer him the chief position. However, if Yun Ye was deceiving them…
Then there was no need for further discussion!
