Cultivation Starting from Choosing Augments

Chapter 442: Chapter 208: Seven Tier Four Spiritual Objects: Happy Troubles

Processing one Bodhi Fruit took about a Quarter Hour.

With so many of them, it even became a physically demanding task.

However, Xiao Chen didn’t mind the trouble at all. He even took several breaks to rest and recuperate, ensuring he wouldn’t make any mistakes.

He picked for three straight days, carefully sealing all the Purple Gold Bodhi in twelve Jade Boxes.

"Phew, done!"

After stowing away the last Bodhi Fruit, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Now I won’t have to worry about the Dao Crystal being difficult to handle."

"And when I comprehend the transformations of the Five Elements in the future, this will make it much more efficient."

As one’s Cultivation improved, many Cultivation Techniques and Magic didn’t just have aptitude requirements, but also stricter demands on one’s comprehension.

In particular, to successfully achieve Nascent Soul Formation in the future, one had to grasp the principles of Five Elements Mutual Generation and have a certain level of insight into the Path of the Five Elements.

Originally, neither of these aspects was Xiao Chen’s strong suit.

Although the issue of aptitude could be temporarily solved by the hundredfold enhancement from his Augment, comprehending the Five Elements was still a major hurdle.

Now, with so many Purple Gold Bodhi as a safety net, this major hurdle had become much simpler.

In theory, there should be quite a few left over, which could be used to help him practice Magic.

The only downside was perhaps that they would easily attract covetous eyes, making them difficult to turn into cash.

Of course, Xiao Chen was reluctant to sell them anyway. One could never have too much of a priceless treasure like this, so keeping it for his own use was the wisest choice.

’It’s a pity that so much of the original Spirit Medicine was destroyed to plant the tree.’

He scanned his surroundings. Faint gullies were visible on the ground, all of them left behind by the Yellow Springs Dao back then.

In order to plant the Purple Gold Bodhi, they had destroyed almost all the other Spirit Medicine.

But Demon Cultivators only ever cared about immediate gains and never concerned themselves with sustainable development.

The fact that the Bodhi Tree was left behind was already an unexpected blessing, so Xiao Chen couldn’t ask for more.

He walked along the edge of the Spirit Field, searching for any surviving Tier Four Spirit Medicine.

The most conspicuous was a small tree in the bottom-left corner, about five feet tall—roughly half the height of a person.

It had managed to bear a single, milky-white fruit about the size of a fist.

Below, nearly all its roots were exposed, and the marks from being scorched by Spiritual Fire back then were still visible.

Only a single root, as thick as a little finger, had luckily escaped the disaster and burrowed into the Spirit Field.

"Well, I’ll be. It’s still alive. Its Life Force is truly tenacious."

Xiao Chen couldn’t help but exclaim, "It even produced a new Righteous Fruit. That’s a miracle."

He took out a new Sealed Medicine Jade Box, carefully picked the Righteous Fruit, and stored it away properly.

Then, he took out his Flying Sword and carefully cut away the roots that had turned to charcoal.

"This is all I can do to help. I hope your roots can grow back."

Xiao Chen had originally planned to dig up the Spirit Field, but after some thought, he decided against it, worried he might do more harm than good.

After all, he wasn’t a Spirit Plant Cultivator and didn’t know much about horticulture.

Above the Righteous Fruit, there were several stalks of Spirit Grass that had already lost all their vitality. They were charred black and turned to ash with a light touch.

It wasn’t until the very top edge of the Spirit Field that another surviving Spirit Flower appeared.

From top to bottom, three Crying Spirit Flowers of varying sizes were in bloom, and a new bud was sprouting at the very tip of the branch.

"Whoa, so many teardrops!"

Xiao Chen saw at a glance that the petals of the bottom two Crying Spirit Flowers were covered in teardrop-shaped patterns.

The topmost flower had slightly fewer patterns, but it still had a full seven teardrop markings.

The age of a Crying Spirit Flower could be identified by these teardrop markings; each one represented a hundred years.

Judging by the looks of it, the bottom two flowers must have been mature for over a thousand years.

Overall, this Crying Spirit Flower plant had likely survived for nearly two thousand years and was approaching the end of its life.

Most Spirit Grass, unlike Spirit Trees, couldn’t just thrive for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years as long as they weren’t disturbed.

Instead, they each had their own lifespan limits.

With the exception of a few extremely long-lived Treasures of Heaven and Earth, all other Spirit Grass would naturally wither once their time was up.

Achieving longevity is so difficult—this is true for humans, and it is true for Spirit Grass as well.

Over the long years, even a Tier Four Spirit Flower planted in a top-tier Spirit Field could only have its growth period extended, not grow indefinitely.

One of the ways to tell if it was about to wither was to see if new shoots were sprouting nearby on their own.

’Good thing I got here in time. If I’d waited until next time, I probably would have missed it.’

Xiao Chen glanced to the side and, sure enough, saw new shoots emerging from the ground.

This meant that if he had come fifty years later, the Crying Spirit Flower before him would likely have already withered by then.

He hurriedly took out a New Jade Box and plucked all three Spirit Flowers.

’This one probably won’t attract too much attention. I can trade it for Spirit Stones.’

When he had passed through the plaza earlier, Xiao Chen had happened to overhear that Elder Qian was offering a high-priced bounty for a Thousand-year-old Crying Spirit Flower.

The man had offered an extremely high premium of a full three hundred thousand Spirit Stones, a truly tempting price.

Logically, such a high premium was basically a pure loss; he probably urgently needed a certain kind of Elixir.

Following that, Xiao Chen searched the entire Spirit Medicine Garden from top to bottom.

Unfortunately, most of the Spirit Grass along the edges had been completely scorched, turning into ash that crumbled at a touch.

In total, seven types of Tier Four Spirit Grass had survived, but two of them had reverted to tender shoots or were not yet mature.

Only the remaining three were currently in their mature phase.

The first was the Scattered Leaf Golden Light Grass that survived in the upper-right corner, most famous for being the main ingredient in refining the Bright Gold Transformation Pill.