Cultivation Begins with Skill Points -
Chapter 382 - 380: Medicine Garden
Chapter 382: Chapter 380: Medicine Garden
"The spiritual medicine in an ordinary medicine garden can only be used to refine Sixth Grade elixirs at most. Higher quality spiritual medicine needs to be planted on a primordial vein. There is indeed a primordial vein in Heavenly Sword City, but it is used to supply Outer Disciples for their cultivation. The others are located on various mountain peaks and belong to True Disciples. As for the medicine garden opened above..."
Wang Yuan shook his head and didn’t continue, while Zhong Lin understood in his heart.
The medicine garden opened by True Disciples, the spiritual medicine planted there, is naturally for their own cultivation and can’t possibly be sold.
"If Senior Brother wants to seek higher quality spiritual medicine, you can release a task for our Holy Land disciples to complete. Then reward them accordingly," Wang Yuan explained.
Zhong Lin furrowed his brow slightly. He had tried this method, but the channels were unstable, sometimes available, sometimes not, severely affecting his alchemy progress.
Shaking his head without saying more, the two continued to stroll in the medicine garden for a while before Zhong Lin finally said with satisfaction, "I’ll trouble you more in the future, Junior Brother."
Wang Yuan was also all smiles, cupped his hands and said, "Rest assured, Senior Brother, I will do my utmost and won’t delay your alchemy."
The two exchanged a smile and then went directly to sign the contract under the witness of a Sect Elder.
In the following days, Zhong Lin immersed himself in tranquility, rarely leaving his abode.
The Holy Land’s environment indeed greatly aided cultivation. Zhong Lin focused each day on cultivation and alchemy; life was monotonous but filled with joy.
After all, with the system’s help, he didn’t lack comprehension, and with the Holy Land’s platform, resources were abundant.
All he needed was to accumulate slowly, little by little, to gradually enhance his cultivation.
The last Heavenly Dao Body Shaping directly advanced Zhong Lin’s cultivation to the Middle Xuan Dan realm, saving decades of hard work. The following cultivation would not have such shortcuts; he could only grind the Xuandan bit by bit, increasing his Dan Yuan.
Zhong Lin sat cross-legged in the quiet chamber, eyes slightly closed, with five hearts toward the sky. The dense primordial Qi surged from all directions. Yet, as it approached Zhong Lin, with one breath, it surged into his body like a dragon, immediately refined and absorbed into the Xuandan after a slight operation.
The primordial Qi of the entire quiet chamber was consumed in an instant, but soon it surged back like a tide.
After repeating this cycle several hundred times, Zhong Lin slowly opened his eyes. His face was calm like a still pond, but if you looked closely, you would notice a faint hint of disappointment in his eyes.
"Too slow."
"With such cultivation, breaking through to the Late Xuan Dan realm, or even reaching the Perfection Realm, would take at least a hundred years, even with sufficient resources."
A hundred years to perfect the Xuandan realm was already considered very fast, but for Zhong Lin, who was a cheat, it felt agonizingly slow, like watching a turtle crawl, utterly unsatisfactory.
"Now, to quickly improve cultivation, either higher grade elixirs for assistance or higher grade cultivation techniques are needed. Not to mention elixirs, the ’Five Elements Mixed Essence Skill’ can barely be considered a Top Grade Earth Level cultivation technique, already lagging behind my cultivation needs. I must quickly collect more cultivation techniques to integrate and promote it to the Heavenly Level. Otherwise, increasing cultivation will rely on slow, time-intensive methods."
"So, must I join a faction?"
Divine light flickered in Zhong Lin’s eyes as he contemplated the path ahead.
True Disciples have the right to open a peak of their own and recruit some disciples.
Outer Disciples, even Inner Sect Disciples, mostly wish to gain favor with True Disciples, to reap benefits, or to get some guidance on their cultivation, which is extremely beneficial to them. Naturally, they are willing to climb the mountain.
One wishes to curry favor with True Disciples, and the other needs people to handle affairs. When these two combine, it forms organizations like the Juying Association. Of course, some genuinely just want to recruit some assistant-like people.
Otherwise, when one emerges from a few months of seclusion only to find that all the planted spiritual medicines have died, and not a single elixir can be refined, it would be a waste of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
Zhong Lin considered joining primarily to obtain Heavenly Grade cultivation techniques sooner.
True Disciples have the qualification to impart Heavenly Level cultivation techniques, as long as the imparted individuals don’t spread them indiscriminately; the Holy Land generally doesn’t intervene.
Besides alchemy and cultivation, Zhong Lin had also gained some basic understanding of the Holy Land.
The Heavenly Sword Sacred Land had tens of thousands of Outer Disciples, five to six thousand Inner Sect Disciples, and even fewer True Disciples, less than a hundred.
Apart from some diligent cultivators and lone wolves, about thirty factions established by True Disciples existed; the Juying Association, mentioned by Chu Yu, was of medium strength. Since Ying Ju, the sister who founded the Juying Association, was a woman, female disciples dominated this faction.
Having many female disciples had its pros and cons.
The advantage was that nobody knew whether a female disciple was the partner or lover of a master. If you provoke these women, who knows where a master might jump out from, possibly even another True Disciple, and then you wouldn’t know how you died.
Moreover, women were particularly vengeful, their revenge spanning from dawn to dusk, employing all kinds of hindrances.
There were also downsides, like women being problematic—like a women’s dorm where four individuals could engage in eight disputes, especially when involving these female martial artists.
Zhong Lin, newly arrived and unfamiliar with the influences, could only rely on Chu Yu to make introductions to the Juying Association, combined with his Seventh Grade Alchemist identity. He was confident he could acquire a Heavenly Grade cultivation technique in a short time.
But just thinking about the troubles related to women gave Zhong Lin a headache, making him uncertain if he should join.
"Knock! Knock! Knock!"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.
"Come in!"
It turned out to be Chu Yu, who had not been seen for several months.
After months apart, Chu Yu had acquired a martial aura alongside her heroic spirit, making people instinctively take notice.
"I didn’t expect you to really be here. Zhong Lin, you’ve fooled me terribly!" Chu Yu complained as soon as she arrived.
Zhong Lin was also dumbfounded: "What do you mean by that?"
"Spirit Miao Pavilion is yours, isn’t it?"
"Yes."
"Then it makes sense. A sister told me some days ago that a new Dan Pavilion opened on Purple Garden Street, where the variety of elixirs was limited but the quality was extremely high. I even spent some spirit stones to buy them, not knowing it was your business. Zhong Lin, why didn’t you ever tell me you were an alchemist, and such a high-grade one at that?"
Chu Yu looked at Zhong Lin with resentment.
When she found out the alchemist behind Spirit Miao Pavilion was Zhong Lin, she was stunned for a long time, even wondering if it was someone with the same name. After all, she had always thought Zhong Lin was just a loose cultivator martial artist who had managed to condense a Xuandan and join the Heavenly Sword Sacred Land by sheer fortune, let alone inheriting the capabilities to become an alchemist, let alone a Seventh Grade Alchemist.
It’s known that a Seventh Grade Alchemist would generally be revered as an ancestor by dynasties or sects, so even if Zhong Lin were a genius, it’s hard to believe he was a Seventh Grade Alchemist.
But unexpectedly, reality gave her a slap in the face, and it turned out one could indeed be a genius to such an extent.
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