Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 71: Lotus Seeds, Yellow Paper, Ten Thousand Skill Spiritual Beauty? (Requesting First Subscription!)

Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Lotus Seeds, Yellow Paper, Ten Thousand Skill Spiritual Beauty? (Requesting First Subscription!)

Zhao Xing arrived at Heavenly Altar Square precisely at Xu time, which was 7 PM. He comprehended Thunder Skill rapidly, using up the Thunder Skill Spirit. It was not yet 8:15 PM, still nearly an hour and a half until midnight.

"There’s still plenty of time." Zhao Xing glanced at the sundial, planning to look over the other two Spiritual Beauties, but suddenly saw several familiar figures through the crowd.

"It’s Zong Shichang; he still came up the mountain."

Zong Shichang and a few others were resting beside a pillar. Three people were with him, their blood and Qi vigorous, their primordial energy dense. Obviously, they were the three expert fighters hired by the Zong family for him.

As Zhao Xing’s gaze swept across, he spotted a woman in a veil hat standing in a corner of the square.

It was Lu Qian, who had previously attempted to beguile, only to be beaten instead.

"Wearing a veil hat to cover her face, scared people would see her panda eyes?"

Lu Qian seemed to sense something, her black-rimmed eyes under the veil hat looking in a certain direction.

Seeing the Grassman, her breathing immediately became heavy.

"It’s him! He also came!" Lu Qian gnashed her teeth in hatred. She could recognize that Grassman anywhere, even if it turned to ash!

"Qianqian, what’s wrong with you?" The woman holding a Liu Qin next to her asked curiously, "You’ve been acting strange all day. First, you put on a hat for no reason and refused to take it off, and now you’re so distracted while talking."

"I’m fine, Sister Mu. Just feeling a bit unwell, so don’t ask." Lu Qian did not want to reveal her ordeal, at least not until the bruises were gone. She was still swollen-eyed!

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"More and more experts have shown up. When I first arrived, there were only a few above the Seventh Rank of Gathering Essence."

"Now, they can be seen everywhere." Zhao Xing scanned the area with Observing the Five Elements, knowing that tonight’s fight for the first incense stick would likely be a fierce battle.

"I wonder how Shen Zhui is doing."

Zhao Xing and Shen Zhui had agreed to meet at Heavenly Altar Square the next day to enter the divine temple together, but he had yet to show up.

There was still some distance to cover from Heavenly Altar Square to the divine temple. The Minister of Agriculture contending in close quarters with so many people was indeed quite risky.

If he could join forces with Shen Zhui, the chances would be higher.

"Forget it; if he doesn’t come, I’ll handle it alone." Zhao Xing had already prepared himself for a solo battle.

In the end, it still depended on his own strength.

Retracting his gaze, Zhao Xing picked up the second Spiritual Beauty.

It was a blue lotus pod discovered in a spring inside a cave.

At the time, he found four blue lotuses, but only this one had matured and produced lotus seeds.

"So cold, why is this lotus pod so icy?" Zhao Xing had previously let the Grassman hold it and had not paid much attention. Now holding it himself, he felt a piercing chill.

"The coldness comes from these lotus seeds."

Examining it, Zhao Xing saw eight lotus seeds, each emitting a sparkling blue glow.

Viewing it through Observing the Five Elements, he immediately observed a rich Water Element Power, but its structure was peculiar. It was not a soft mass but individual ice crystals.

"Ice Frost Power?"

Gently plucking a seed, Zhao Xing instantly understood how to use this Spiritual Beauty.

"An edible Spiritual Beauty, similar to the Red Fruit?"

He placed the lotus seed into his mouth, chewing and swallowing it down.

So cold; it felt like biting into an ice block. Zhao Xing shivered involuntarily.

A freezing sensation spread throughout his body, making Zhao Xing feel as if he were about to be frozen stiff.

The bone-chilling cold seemed to freeze his thoughts.

"Hiss~"

Unable to endure the cold, Zhao Xing quickly activated his Gathering Essence Skill. The primordial energy in his dantian immediately mobilized, attacking and devouring the cold energy like soldiers.

Quickly, his thoughts returned to normal, and Zhao Xing felt warmer.

While the primordial energy inside him battled the Ice Frost Power, Zhao Xing’s primordial energy was constantly being consumed.

But once a portion of the unique Ice Frost Power was successfully devoured, it would turn into nourishment, replenishing his dantian.

Though there was a power disparity, it balanced out over time.

Inside Zhao Xing, his primordial energy soon gained the upper hand.

Simultaneously, each time he devoured a portion of the Ice Frost Power, his understanding of Water Element Magic deepened.

"So that’s how it is." Zhao Xing immediately understood the effect of this Spiritual Beauty and focused fully on comprehending and absorbing it.

After two quarters, the first lotus seed was fully digested.

[You have consumed the Water Magic Spirit ’Cold Ice Lotus Seed,’ increasing your primordial energy by 800 points.]

[Your Water Element Power affinity has increased, and your Ice Rain spell proficiency has increased by 1000 points!]

[Your Initial Stage spell, to bring rain, has broken through the Eighth Transition, and your Intermediate Ice Rain has broken through the Second Transition!]

"Cold Ice Lotus Seed enhances both ’Primordial Energy’ and ’Magic,’ increasing primordial energy while improving spell comprehension." Zhao Xing also grasped the effect of this Spiritual Beauty.

The Thunder Stone was purely a Thunder Skill Spiritual Beauty; the Cold Ice Lotus Seed was a Primordial Magic Spirit.

"However, consuming this Spiritual Beauty is somewhat harder than the Thunder Stone, and it takes longer." Zhao Xing mused.

The Thunder Stone was purely about comprehension.

Cold Ice Lotus Seed required first digesting the Ice Frost Power before gaining spell comprehension from it.

The former worked from the outside in, allowing Zhao Xing to enter a state akin to an epiphany through the Spiritual Beauty, deepening his understanding of spells and fundamentally enhancing his Thunder Skill.

Cold Ice Lotus Seed worked from the inside out, boosting Zhao Xing’s ’Water Element Power affinity,’ thus naturally deepening his spell comprehension.

"Though not as rapid in enhancing as the Thunder Stone, in the long run, the effect of the Cold Ice Lotus Seed is greater."