Chapter 166: Chapter 164: Burning Yuan Wood_l
Translator: 549690339
“This is the place.”
It wasn’t long before the gentle female cultivator led Lu Xuan to a spirit field.
A dense fence encircled the spirit field. As the female cultivator approached, the fence automatically parted, leaving a narrow passage.
Within the spirit field, dozens of spirit plants were cultivated.
Each spirit plant was as thick as a wrist, about half a human’s height, and pale red in color. Many dark red patterns adorned the body of the plant, as if the entire spirit wood was split into numerous scars.
“This is the spirit tree that I want you to cultivate on my behalf. It is known as the Burning Yuan Wood, a second-level spirit plant. It has natural patterns, and both its bark and leaves are excellent materials for making Fire Talismans.”
The gentle female cultivator introduced to Lu Xuan.
“Are all these the spirit plants bred from stimulated spiritual seeds?”
Lu Xuan asked curiously.
“Yes, there are thirty-six in total. Some of the spiritual seeds directly became waste, and no spirit plants could be bred after planting.”
“A batch of spiritual seeds is eliminated during the stimulus stage, and another batch of birthed spirit plants is eliminated again. The failure rate is too high.”
“No wonder I never heard any information about spirit plant quality improvement in Linyang Market. Only a sect with a profound foundation can afford such an ambitious plan.”
Lu Xuan sighed inwardly.
The words of the gentle female cultivator were like a bucket of cold water pouring over his head, cooling down his recently emerging enthusiasm considerably.
“At present, the most suitable plant for improving the quality of the spirit plants is the Spirit Firefly Grass, after all, it’s a non-grade spirit plant. I mastered the method to condense spiritual seeds, so I don’t need to worry about their source.”
“Besides, Spirit Firefly Grass is related to my own cultivation level. If I get the chance, I must try it.”
While he was observing the growth of the Burning Yuan Wood with the gentle female cultivator, he silently made a decision in his mind.
“In the next period, I will have to trouble you to look after and cultivate these Burning Yuan Woods for me.”
After walking through the spirit field, the gentle female cultivator softly said to Lu Xuan.
“As for the reward, it should not disappoint you.”
“You’re too kind, Uncle Master, I will treat these Burning Yuan Woods as if they were my own spirit plants.”
Lu Xuan hurriedly expressed his position.
“Then I can rest assured.” The gentle female cultivator gave a faint smile, and the faint scent of flowers on her body became stronger.
“By the way, Uncle Master, I have an unasked favour. I wonder if you have any regular Burning Yuan Wood in your spirit field that was planted around the same time as these variant types?”
“If so, I would like to bring some over for comparison, to see how each will grow under the same cultivation conditions.”
“Planted around the same time… There are a few. How many do you need?”
The gentle female cultivator’s eyes lit up, seemingly swayed by Lu Xuan’s suggestion, and she asked him.
“Ten would be enough.”
“All right, I will immediately order someone to transplant ten ordinary Burning Yuan Woods over.”
The gentle female cultivator left with Yao Qing, while Lu Xuan stayed in the spirit field. Near the spirit field, there was a simply constructed wooden house for cultivators to cultivate and rest.
Lu Xuan practiced for a while, and in less than two hours, a cultivator came with ten ordinary Burning Yuan Woods. The two of them worked together to plant them in the spirit field.
After the cultivator left, Lu Xuan carefully checked his surroundings and found that there were barriers and formations between each spirit field that prevented anyone from viewing too deeply into the field. This reassured him.
He put on a show of checking each Burning Yuan Wood by walking around them and widely performing the Spirit Rain Technique and Tree Life Spell.
The Spirit Rain Technique promotes the absorption of spiritual power by spiritual plants while the Tree Life Spell accelerates the growth and development of spiritual plants. Both techniques are beneficial for the majority of spiritual plants, so using them wouldn’t cause any mistakes.
The next day, Lu Xuan arrived at the spirit field early in the morning.
As instructed by his Foundation Establishment Uncle Master, he needed to be more attentive.
He found that in the nearly half-year since he joined the sect, his abilities in cultivating spiritual plants and breeding spirit beasts were becoming more and more valued.
Previously, the Sishen Hall Master left him with two pieces of Sword Grass and promised to make him an Inner Sect Disciple once he successfully cultivates them.
Then, under the recommendation of Huang Yuan, he successfully helped a middle-aged scholar in the middle phase of the Foundation Establishment stage solve the issue of the Ink-Scaled Jiao (Dragon Serpent) under his command refusing to eat. Now he had been introduced by Yao Qing to help cultivate mutated spiritual plants.
Naturally, he was happy with this change. The stronger the cultivators he interacted with, the easier it was for him to access high-rank spiritual seeds or cubs of spirit beasts, and the more substantial the light cluster rewards he would receive.
Yesterday, when he planted the ten Burning Yuan Woods with the cultivator, he had already learned about the information related to Burning Yuan Woods.
Its cultivation method was similar to the Red Cloud Pine he had planted before. They both required fire attribute spiritual power to nourish, but Burning Yuan Wood needed a larger amount compared to Red Cloud Pine.
Lu Xuan approached a Mutant Burning Yuan Wood, let his Spiritual Sense extend into the spirit soil, and used the Earth Pulling Technique to change the spirit soil and gathered the tiny roots that were hidden deep within the soil. After wrapping all the roots with a large lump of spirit soil, he extracted and replanted it.
He repeated these steps to learn the actual condition of each mutated spiritual plant.
Under the guidance of the Earth Attraction Technique at the Great Achievement Realm, the roots were undamaged, giving the spiritual plant a sense of confusion as if it was removed but not really.
As the Burning Yuan Wood was replanted, a piece of information flashed through his mind.
[Burning Yuan Wood (Damaged), Second-Level Spirit Plant. When mature, can be used to draw Second-Level Fire Talismans. As the spiritual seed has been damaged, the cycle of maturation is longer and it’s hard to obtain high-quality materials after maturation.]
“It’s different from the info on the ordinary Burning Yuan Wood I saw yesterday. Seems like the stimulation had a reverse effect on the seed.” Lu Xuan concluded and recorded this information about this damaged Burning Yuan Wood.
Next, he repeated the process, extracting and replanting the second Burning Yuan Wood.
The information obtained was no different from the ordinary Burning Yuan Wood.
The third one was still the same as the ordinary Burning Yuan Wood.
With the fourth one, new information appeared in his mind.
[Burning Yuan Wood (Different Species), Second-Level Spirit Plant, naturally possesses patterns. The mature bark and leaves are excellent materials for drawing second-grade Fire Talismans. The mutation of the spiritual seed slightly improves the quality of the mature plant.]
“So it mutated but not completely? But being able to enhance the quality of the spiritual plant is not bad, high-quality materials can slightly improve the success rate of drawing talismans.”
Lu Xuan continued on, sensing the detailed information of each Burning Yuan Wood.
These Burning Yuan Woods were divided into three kinds: damaged, ordinary, and different species. It wasn’t until the fourteenth one that a Burning Yuan Wood of different information appeared.
[Burning Yuan Wood, third-grade spiritual plant, contains rich fire attribute spiritual power, has mysterious natural patterns and is top-class material for drawing third-grade Fire Talismans.]
“It was not easy to finally see a successfully improved third-rank Burning Yuan Wood.” Lu Xuan couldn’t help but reveal a smile of relief.
The success rate of improving spiritual plant varieties surprised him a bit. Out of twelve, only one appeared to be a third-grade Burning Yuan Wood. If you include those spirit seeds that were eliminated because they didn’t cultivate into a spirit plant, the probability is terrifyingly low..