You Cultivate, I Farm

Chapter 673: Having Many Treasure Items is Also a Kind of Trouble

After the Jade Spirit Branch, there were no new high-rank spirit plants about to mature within the spirit field.

Although the “Sixth-rank Phoenix Tree” had entered its mature phase, it couldn’t mature in just ten days or half a month. Using three-grade Nascent Soul Grass Beads to hasten its maturity would require using up a large portion, but Lu Xuan was quite patient, quietly waiting while occasionally extracting a strand of Origin Yang True Fire from the bead to speed up the growth of the Phoenix Wood.

Additionally, the Five White Bone Killing Sword Grass, the Spectral Splitting Shadow Sword Grass, and the Sha Yuan Fruit from the Underworld Spirit Field had all entered the maturing stage, and the harvest of light clusters was imminent.

Therefore, Lu Xuan shifted his focus to improving the spiritual seeds.

He placed the condensed Earth Fire Heart Lotus Seeds together, slowly baking them with the Pure Yang True Fire he had cultivated.

The Earth Fire Heart Lotus Seed itself had a strong fire resistance, flourishing in the Pure Yang True Fire without sustaining any damage.

As for the Five Elements Fruit Spirit Seed, Lu Xuan placed them in the Illusion and Disappearance Five Elements Array. The array contained numerous phantom images of Five Elements Spirit Beasts and was rich in the power of the Five Elements, which greatly benefited the Five Elements Fruit Spirit Seed.

The Earth Fire Heart Lotus and Five Elements Fruit were both fourth-grade spirit plants, and transforming them into fifth-grade plants was not an overnight feat; it required fulfilling various conditions of fitting timing and location.

According to Lu Xuan’s understanding, fifth-grade spirit plants almost lacked any method of seed condensation, mostly formed naturally by the world, and were extremely hard to obtain.

For him to upgrade and improve the rank of these two spirit plants, he had to deploy unusual methods to have even a slim chance of success.

Luckily, he could promptly monitor the detailed status of the spiritual seeds, thus able to save a considerable amount of time and effort and even purposefully induce changes in the spiritual seeds.

In the spirit field, dozens of previously planted spirit plants had entered a rapid growth phase.

The twenty-six azure slender spirit plants showed an excellent growth trend, their cold aura pervasive, causing a thin layer of ice frost to form on the surface of the surrounding spirit soil.

Besides, there were ten young sprouts of Ice Glow Grass in the adjacent spirit field, a refinement of the Water Glow Grass spirit seeds by Lu Xuan.

After advancing to the “Early Core Formation stage,” as the cultivation rewards from the Water Glow Grass were negligible, he decided to use them solely for condensing spiritual seeds. He then used substances like the Ice Soul Pill to stimulate improvement, thus selecting the Ice Glow Grass spirit seeds and quickly obtaining lots of Ice Glow Grass.

“A total of thirty-six Ice Glow Grass plants; after another harvest and condensing a large number of spiritual seeds, I can rapidly enhance my cultivation level while condensing numerous spiritual seeds. By then, it will also be the period of rapid growth in my cultivation level.”

Lu Xuan thought to himself, invoking the Spirit Rain Technique, and meticulously cared for all the Ice Glow Grass spirit plants.

“Looking at the time, it’s about time to take a trip to the Green Wood Star Cave and attend that small convention hosted by Hermit Yu Lin.”

For such banquets, Lu Xuan always maintained an active participation stance.

Back in the Sky Sword Sect days, he had swapped for many high-grade spiritual seeds at such small conventions, and on more than one occasion, he snagged bargains, acquiring rare spirit seeds at an extremely low cost, making a fortune in the process.

“In the past, I was poor, so I had to bet small to win big. Now that I’m well-off, I can directly smash treasures around to get the desired spirit seeds or related treasure items.”

He fell into contemplation, considering which rare treasures to use for exchanging spirit seeds and spirit beasts with others at the convention.

“I have a limited number of sixth-grade treasures; I definitely need to keep them all.”

“After all, I’m only at the early Core Formation stage and just an ordinary Spirit Plant Master; rashly revealing a sixth-grade treasure might attract unnecessary trouble.”

“As for fifth-grade, although I haven’t used a few, to avoid any unexpected situations, it’s better to keep them for life-saving situations.”

“The ‘Soul-Stealing Blood Palm’ is merely a low-rank divine ability and also carries risks of mutation if cultivated simultaneously given the number of high-rank spirit plants in my cave abode, so I don’t need to worry about subsequent techniques and divine abilities.”

Currently owning sixth-grade techniques and divine abilities like “Blood God Nerve,” “Mysterious Sky Clear Subtle Method,” and “Hell True Water Prohibition Law,” this low-rank divine ability Soul-Stealing Blood Palm seemed somewhat superfluous to him but could be used to exchange for spirit seeds if conditions were right.

“The Red Dust Stele, which played no small part in my advancement to Core Formation, has become largely useless afterward. However, to those small sects and clans, this type of treasure is invaluable; exchanging it for a sixth-grade spirit seed or a sixth-grade beast doesn’t seem excessive, does it?”

“I also recently acquired several fifth-grade spirit plants and spirit medicines such as Underworld Spring Flower, Yin Cry Wood, Vajra Bodhi, and so on, which are all extremely rare and precious.”

Lu Xuan thought to himself.

“Unconsciously, I already possess so many fifth and sixth-grade treasures.”

“Sometimes, having too many treasures can also be a nuisance,”

“like now, it’s really hard to make a choice.”

He shook his head and murmured softly.

“I’m not really interested in treasures. My happiest times were when I was in Linyang Market, planting two or three Spirit Firefly Grasses.”

He thought somewhat pretentiously.

A few days later, as Lu Xuan was preparing to leave, a familiar voice came from outside the cave abode.

“Friend Lu, I’ve come to join you on a trip to Green Wood Star Cave.”

“Fellow Xuann Yuan.”

In Lu Xuan’s mind, the image of a young cultivator appeared. Initially, to avoid malicious intent, he had followed several Jindan cultivators from Thunder Fire Asterism Cave back to his abode, thereby getting to know these people.

Among them, this cultivator named Xuann Yuanzhe had even visited the cave abode, and they had occasionally met afterwards to exchange ideas.

“How did Fellow Xuann Yuan know that Lu Mou was planning a trip to Green Wood Star Cave?”

Lu Xuan came outside the formation and led the young man into the cave abode.

“This small gathering is jointly organized by Hermit Yu Lin. Since you and she are both Spirit Plant Masters with a good friendship, she would naturally invite you, Friend Lu.”

“Moreover, Green Wood Star Cave is home to many unique plants and woods; being a Spirit Plant Master, you must be quite interested in them. How could you miss such an opportunity?”

The young man said with a smile.

“That’s true, I indeed planned to visit Green Wood Star Cave. Since Fellow Xuann Yuan has the same idea, let’s go together,”

Lu Xuan served a cup of freshly brewed Jade Wash Spirit Dew and said gently.

“Excellent, I had that intention too.”

“However, I do have a question, why did you initially choose to settle in Thunder Fire Asterism Cave? Perhaps Green Wood Star Cave would have been more suitable for a Spirit Plant Master.”

“It was a serendipitous decision. I happened to fancy Thunder Fire Asterism Cave, otherwise, I wouldn’t have had the chance to meet Fellow Xuann Yuan and others,”

Lu Xuan Laughed said.

Originally, when he chose Thunder Fire Asterism Cave, it was because of the two sixth-grade spiritual plants: Phoenix Wood and Zewei Oblivion Thunderfruit. The spiritual energy environment here was more suitable for their growth.

Looking back now, his choice was not wrong. After entering Thunder Fire Asterism Cave, he obtained a large number of high-grade spirit seeds, even a seventh-grade E-Mu Green Thunder Vine, yielding a bountiful harvest.

“With the rate at which the grocery store earns spirit stones, once I have a high-grade protective array, it would be completely feasible to rent or buy a cave abode in Green Wood Star Cave, if suitable,”

he secretly thought to himself.