Chapter 128: Entering the Spiritual Plant Husband [5K]
Seeing Ye Linyuan using the spirit-raising method to improve his spirit veins, Jiaoyue Bei suddenly showed a rare look of excitement.
In response, Ye Linyuan did not say much. He just looked at the spiritual eyes in front of him and smiled.
"It will take some time for the spiritual eye to be upgraded to a spiritual spring, and I have used up all the spiritual energy before, so I need to accumulate it again."
"Wait another year. By then, you will have enough spiritual energy accumulated, and you won't be in danger of running out of spiritual energy when you break through."
The Moonlit Shell fanned its shell, conveying a hint of intimacy, and then sank into the underground river.
Seeing this, Ye Linyuan put aside all the distracting thoughts in his mind and casually took out two rare treasures, one was a crystal clear chalcedony, and the other was a bottle of vital spiritual water.
"Nourish the soul jade marrow, Kunyuan water."
Looking at the two treasures in front of him, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy.
These two treasures were exactly the two first-level rare treasures that Ye Linyuan obtained through Minghuang Jianzi's channel in exchange for cooperation and joint fight against Qinghe Immortal Sect.
Of these two rare treasures, the Soul-Nourishing Jade Marrow contains the essence of the Soul-Nourishing Dao, and is the key material for the Soul-Nourishing Technique to enter the Dao. And the Kunyuan Water is full of vitality, and is the key to the Soul-Nourishing Technique to enter the Dao.
When it comes to entering the Tao, we have to talk about the detailed division of the magic techniques for practicing in this world.
The magic spells practiced in this world have the first three levels, namely, initial glimpse, Hinayana, and Mahayana. After these three levels, there is the super-level realm that transcends this realm.
For example, the first-level spells are divided into the initial glimpse, Hinayana, Mahayana, and the near way. The second-level entry-level spells are also divided into the initial glimpse, Hinayana, Mahayana, and pseudo-supernatural powers.
This fourth level is very special. It is a super-level spell that has been cultivated to beyond the limit and surpasses the Mahayana level.
Taking the first-order spells as an example, once they are cultivated to the near-path level, their power can be comparable to the initial-path level second-order spells.
There is essentially no big difference between the power and effect of the 'Shortcut' and the first glimpse of the 'Entrance', but their potential is very different.
Take Ye Linyuan's Nine-Sky Bright Moon as an example. After refining rare treasures and transforming into a second-level entry-level spell, this spell directly leapt across the initial stage and the Hinayana realm and stepped directly into the Mahayana realm.
In other words, the Nine-Sky Bright Moon and Autumn Water and Long Sky that Ye Linyuan now possesses are essentially second-order entry-level magic spells at the Mahayana level.
"Once a first-level spell at the near-path level is transformed into a second-level spell, it will directly become a Mahayana entry-path spell."
"Compared to practicing second-level spells from scratch, this saves dozens or even hundreds of years of time. Moreover, the potential of second-level spells may not be comparable to the entry-level spells that are transformed from the near-path spells."
Ye Linyuan's mind moved slightly, and then he looked at the Nourishing Spirit Jade Marrow and Kunyuan Water, and a ripple appeared in his eyes.
In his previous life, he was a third-rank low-grade spiritual plant husband, but he did not achieve this step by step. Instead, after breaking through the Jindan realm, he directly practiced the third-rank spiritual plant magical power and broke through.
Such a third-level spiritual plant husband is actually the most common among the spiritual plant husbands, and he has not cultivated the core spells of the spiritual plant husband lineage.
The real core magic of the Lingzhifu lineage is to cultivate the four core magics of Lingyu, Ripening, Nourishing Souls, and Gengjin Needle to the level of near-Taoism, and then transform them into Mahayana Taoism magic.
After that, it transformed into a second-order pseudo-divine power, and continued to do so step by step, eventually transforming it into a small divine power, a great divine power, a pure yang divine power, a mysterious divine power...
Legend has it that when the four spiritual plants' magical powers are cultivated to the highest level, they will have such mysterious powers that they can defy the heavens. Not to mention artificially creating rare spiritual roots, even cultivating mysterious spiritual roots is no problem.
"The Lingzhifu lineage only needs to practice these four core spells."
"The other various auxiliary spiritual plant spells are just minor details. You can practice one or two of them in your spare time. You don't need to spend too much energy on practicing them."
Ye Linyuan's mind was floating. He grabbed the Kunyuan water and then activated the spiritual rain technique at the near-Tao level to merge it with it, absorbing a ray of Tao essence from it.
As time went by, after the Lingyu Technique absorbed a large amount of Taoist essence, it finally underwent a transformation and eventually transformed into a Mahayana Taoist technique.
"The Spirit Rain Technique has entered the Dao, and entering the Dao is the realm of Mahayana."
Ye Linyuan calmly ended his training, then tried the Spirit Rain Technique casually. He discovered that the power of the Spirit Rain Technique had increased by more than ten times.
The original Spirit Rain Technique could only work on spiritual plants below the second-grade lower level, and the effect would be greatly reduced as the level of the spiritual plant increased.
But now the Spirit Rain Technique has a miraculous effect on the second-level high-quality spiritual plants, and it is even filled with a very rich nourishing power.
This nourishing power is enough to greatly increase the yield of spiritual plants and accumulate more spirituality and heritage.
"It looks like we can indeed cultivate Xuanyuan Fruit."
Ye Linyuan's mind was in turmoil, but he suppressed it again.
He took the Soul-Nourishing Jade Marrow once again, and then used the Soul-Nourishing Technique to continuously refine it, until several days later when he slowly finished the practice.
At this point, among the four core spiritual plant spells that Ye Linyuan mastered, the most critical soul-nourishing spell and spiritual rain spell were successfully mastered.
As for the remaining ripening methods and Gengjinzhen, the former requires rare treasures that are too scarce, while the latter is sufficient to kill pests for the time being.
Ye Linyuan, who mastered two Mahayana second-level spiritual plant spells, became a second-level top-quality spiritual plant husband.
He came out of the spiritual eye of the cave and then came to the spiritual fields in the valley. He first used the spiritual rain technique and other materials to reclaim the Ye family's spiritual fields to a hundred acres, and then he redivided the Ye family's spiritual fields.
Of the hundred acres of spiritual fields, Ye Linyuan only left ten acres to plant gamboge, and ten acres to plant five elements wood, spiritual mulberry trees, spiritual willow trees, spiritual peach trees and other spiritual trees.
Of the remaining eighty acres, he took out twenty acres to plant second-level spiritual seeds, and the remaining sixty acres were used to plant Xuanyuan fruit.
The reason why so many spiritual fields were set aside to plant second-level spiritual plants was mainly because the level of the Ye family's spiritual fields was too low. The Ye family's spiritual fields were only low-grade spiritual fields, and the spiritual veins and spiritual energy of the Ye family island were still insufficient.
As a second-grade low-grade spiritual medicine, the most suitable place for Xuanyuan Fruit to grow is a medium-grade spiritual field.
However, mid-grade spiritual fields are too precious, and the cost of one acre is more than tens of thousands of spirit stones. Even the foundation-building immortal sects can only cultivate one or two acres, and generally they are only used to grow mid-to-high-grade second-level spiritual medicines.
Planting Xuanyuan Fruit in a low-quality spiritual field would lead to the problem of insufficient spiritual energy. Ye Linyuan could only try to reduce the planting density of Xuanyuan Fruit.
According to Ye Linyuan's plan, five Xuanyuan fruits will be planted in one acre of lower-grade spiritual field in the future. These sixty acres of lower-grade spiritual field can plant three hundred Xuanyuan fruits at a time.
"Three hundred Xuanyuan fruits. With my current spiritual plant magic, I can cultivate them to maturity approximately once every ten years, which means an average of thirty Xuanyuan fruits per year."
"If I refine pills, based on my success rate of about 60%, that would be 180 Xuanyuan Pills per year."
Ye Linyuan's mind was wandering, and he couldn't help but sigh that it was so easy to make money from the cultivators in the late foundation building stage.
The market price of one Xuanyuan Pill is thirty spirit stones, and these one hundred and eighty pills are five thousand four hundred spirit stones. Even after deducting the share given to Minghuang Jianzi, and adding the cost of purchasing spirit seeds and nurturing spirit fields, the net profit can be at least three thousand spirit stones a year.
In comparison, the Qinghe Immortal Sect once had four great foundation-building monks, and controlled hundreds of years of heritage and various minerals in the entire Qinghe Islands, but its annual net income was probably less than half of Ye Linyuan's.
This is just a first-level spiritual field. If Ye Linyuan is given a hundred acres of second-level spiritual field, Ye Linyuan can even ensure that the output of Xuanyuan Fruit will increase by more than five times.
Of course, this was also because Ye Linyuan was a second-grade, top-quality spiritual plant husband, and he was also a quasi-third-grade alchemist in his previous life.
If any of these two things is missing, Ye Linyuan’s income will probably be discounted.
"First accumulate your foundation and improve your cultivation. The matter of the second-level spiritual field can be done step by step."
Ye Linyuan's mind was floating, and he casually planted the Xuanyuan Fruit seeds he had borrowed from Minghuang Jianzi, and then came to the Ye family's spiritual tree.
The Ye family now has more than twenty first-level exotic spiritual trees. Among these spiritual trees, Ye Linyuan only values four the most, namely the spiritual peach tree, the spiritual willow tree, the spiritual mulberry tree, and the five elements wood.
Among these four spiritual trees, the Five Elements Wood is the easiest to cultivate. Combined with Ye Linyuan's current cultivation level, it has great hope of being promoted to a second-level spiritual tree in the future.
Once it is promoted to the second-level spiritual wood, Ye Linyuan can obtain a batch of second-level spiritual wood, and then set up a set of second-level spiritual gathering array and spiritual locking array, so that the spiritual energy of Yejia Island can meet the needs of Ye Linyuan's future practice. There will even be excess, which can be used to strengthen the formation of Yejia Island.
Once the spiritual peach tree and the spiritual willow tree are promoted to rare spiritual roots, they can produce the rare willow wood heart and peach wood heart needed by Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi, so they are also what Ye Linyuan values most.
The spiritual mulberry tree can cultivate spiritual silkworms. The spiritual silk produced by the tree has solved the problem of the materials needed by the Ye family to refine formation flags over the years, and will become a major source of income for the Ye family in the future.
This time, Ye Linyuan specially asked Minghuang Jianzi to buy some rare treasures, including a large amount of first-grade top-grade exotic spiritual liquid.
This water is called "Qian Yang Water". It is full of extremely strong nourishing power and also contains a trace of extremely special spiritual substances, which can increase the probability of exotic spiritual wood transforming into rare spiritual wood.
At this time, Ye Linyuan took out a portion of Qianyang water, and his followers activated the Canghai Mingyue skill to dissolve it, and then sprinkled it at the feet of the four spiritual trees. Then, with the help of the Soul Nourishing Technique and the Spirit Rain Technique to warm them, the four spiritual trees immediately underwent a transformation.
"Is there really a change?"
Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi, who were standing by, couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise when they saw this.
In response to this, Ye Linyuan nodded slightly, and was confident about the promotion of these spiritual trees. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "With the help of Qianyang Water and my Taoism spiritual plant spell, this spiritual tree should be able to successfully promote within a dozen years."
"It just costs a little more, but everything else is fine."
Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi couldn't help but glance at each other when they saw this.
Chu Lingxi smiled with her hands covering her mouth, and couldn't help but said with shining eyes: "I'm afraid we will never be able to repay the favor we owe you in this lifetime, so we can only pledge our love to you."
"You girl."
Ye Linyuan knocked on her head, and then said in a serious manner: "If you want to build a superior foundation, just getting close to Taoist spells and rare treasures may not give you a 100% chance of success."
"You still need to hone your magic power and nourish your soul, so that you can have a higher degree of confidence."
Upon hearing this, the two of them nodded immediately, revealing a trace of solemnity.
Ye Linyuan didn't say anything more about this. He returned to the spiritual spring on the top of the mountain and began his daily practice. However, this practice was unexpectedly short. It only lasted for half a month.
"Not enough spiritual energy."
Ye Linyuan slowly stood up from the spiritual vein of the Red Star Island. Looking at the empty top-grade spiritual eye in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless.
The realm of foundation building is very different from the realm of Qi training. Since breaking through the foundation building, Ye Linyuan's true Qi has condensed into true essence. After multiple transformations such as his soul and Tao foundation, the speed at which he absorbs and exhales spiritual energy has increased dozens of times.
Ye Linyuan, who had originally reached the great perfection of Qi training, could only absorb and exhale ten strands of spiritual energy every day, but after the breakthrough, he was able to refine nearly one strand of spiritual energy every day.
At this rate, Ye Linyuan could cultivate a complete true essence approximately every year.
The spiritual energy produced by the top-grade spiritual eye was not much to begin with, and most of it had been consumed in the war. Now, how could it withstand Ye Linyuan's full practice?
In just half a month, Ye Linyuan absorbed all the spiritual energy accumulated in the eight spirit eyes except the one that was being promoted.
"After building the foundation, you still need a second-level spiritual spring to maintain the needs of cultivation."
Ye Linyuan's mind was floating, and then he calculated the time for his future practice.
In the early stages of ordinary foundation building, the upper limit of the true essence that can be stored is about thirty-six. At the rate of one spiritual energy per year, it only takes thirty-six years to break through to perfection in the initial stage of foundation building.
After that, if it is of superior quality, it will be possible to break through to the middle stage of foundation building. Ordinary foundations need to continuously consume true essence to nourish and carve the foundation, until their foundation is gradually perfected and then they can break through the middle stage of foundation building.
However, it is not easy to nurture and polish the foundation of Taoism. Most of the cultivators who break through the foundation with the foundation-building pill have poor talents and often need to stay in this realm for hundreds of years. Moreover, whether they can break through depends on their own luck.
For example, Ancestor Yu and Ancestor Qian, both of them spent hundreds of years carving and polishing in the early stage of foundation building, consuming a huge amount of true energy for this, but they were still unable to break through to the middle stage of foundation building.
Ye Linyuan has mastered the Cang Hai Ming Yue Gong, which is a top-notch skill among the superior Taoist foundations. Therefore, there is no bottleneck before the late stage of foundation building. As long as he practices step by step, he can cultivate to the great perfection of foundation building.
However, the foundation of Cang Hai Ming Yue Gong is too solid, and the amount of mana that needs to be accumulated is several times that of ordinary cultivators, which will also greatly affect one's own cultivation speed.
Taking the initial stage of foundation building as an example, an ordinary cultivator in the initial stage of foundation building only needs to accumulate thirty-six true essences to reach perfection. A slightly stronger technique only needs to be increased by 30% to 50%. For a cultivator in the initial stage of foundation building, it is enough to practice for a few more decades.
However, Ye Linyuan needs to accumulate three times the magic power and one hundred and eight true essences to be able to cultivate to perfection in the initial stage of foundation building. This is already comparable to the magic power of perfection in the middle stage of foundation building.
With four times the true essence in the middle stage of foundation building and five times the true essence in the late stage of foundation building, it can be foreseen that Ye Linyuan's future path of cultivation will probably be quite slow.
"Foundation building is complete, 1,825 true essences."
"According to my current cultivation speed, without the use of elixirs, it will take at least 1,800 years to reach the great perfection of foundation building."
“Even if we break through to the middle and late stages of foundation building, and each breakthrough increases the cultivation speed by 50%, it will probably take 700 years.”
"Ancient techniques are indeed huge consumers of resources."
Ye Linyuan was thinking in his mind, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
The consumption of resources is huge, which is one of the characteristics of ancient exercises. In ancient times, there were treasures everywhere, and the foundation-building monks all used natural treasures of the same level to practice.
Although 1,800 true essences are a lot, a cultivator in ancient times could immediately improve his cultivation by sixty years by taking a second-grade top-quality treasure.
If one wants to practice the Cang Hai Ming Yue technique to the great perfection of Qi training, one only needs to consume twenty or thirty more second-grade top-grade rare treasures. Anyway, these treasures could be found in the mountains and wilds in ancient times.
It's nothing like this era today, where the spiritual energy in the mountains and fields is almost exhausted, and even if spiritual medicine can be found, most of them are underdeveloped and of low quality.
Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan retracted his thoughts.
He estimated his own cultivation speed, and his brows slightly furrowed. "Seven hundred years is too long for me. I need to increase my cultivation speed."
“We still need a miraculous elixir, or refine a second-grade high-quality water spirit bead, to greatly shorten the cultivation speed.”
Ye Linyuan's mind was floating, and then he made another estimate, and then he said carefully: "If I can refine a second-level upper-grade water spirit bead, even if it only shortens the cultivation time by half, it can reduce the cultivation time to about 360 years."
"If you can take the second-level lower-grade Xuanyuan Pill, you can also reduce the training time by a part, and then reduce it to about two hundred and fifty years."
“If you really want to advance your cultivation by leaps and bounds, you will have to cultivate a second-level spiritual field in the future and practice with Lingzhen Xuanyuan Pills or even Yibao Lingdan.”
Ye Linyuan kept calculating in his mind, and finally looked towards the direction of Qinghe Islands, with a hint of depth in his eyes: "These things can't be rushed, the most urgent task is to improve the overall strength of the Ye family."
"Everything should be done in a steady manner. After the family's strength is improved to the extreme and the Qinghe Islands are conquered, we can then plan for the second-level spiritual fields and the second-level upper-grade and higher rare treasure water spirit beads."
"Now, since the spiritual energy is insufficient, I should comprehend various wonderful arts."
With this thought in mind, Ye Linyuan put aside all distracting thoughts and began to comprehend the martial arts he was practicing.
After breaking through the foundation building stage, Ye Linyuan's cultivation has changed beyond recognition. Whether it is obtaining some resources that were rare in the past or comprehending first-level spells, it has become much easier.
He first purchased several rare treasures, and comprehended the art of stargazing and the art of fortune-telling to a near-level level. Then he focused most of his energy on comprehending the division of the pure moon's radiance and the sharing of the bright river's shadow.
In his spare time, he started to refine first-grade top-grade exotic treasure-level elixirs to meet his daily practice needs. Time passed like this, and before he knew it, a year had passed.
"Finally, I have reached Hinayana."
On this day, Ye Linyuan woke up from seclusion, looked at the bright moon in his hand, and couldn't help but smile.
(End of this chapter)
