Chapter 444 - 208: 7 Types of Tier Four Spiritual Objects - A Blessed Problem
Chapter 444: Chapter 208: 7 Types of Tier Four Spiritual Objects - A Blessed Problem
He took out his Flying Sword and slashed at the tree, but it didn’t leave a single mark.
He had to infuse his True Essence into the blade just to make a shallow scratch.
"Hiss... ’This is going to be a real chore.’"
This grove of Spirit-Repelling Black Gold Wood had been growing for ages. Each tree was a good two feet thick—too wide for him to wrap his arms around.
Besides, Xiao Chen was wielding a Flying Sword, not a saw. Cutting through such towering trees would be no simple task.
He tried cutting one down and it took him a full half-hour.
And by his estimation, there were at least ninety, if not a hundred, of these Spirit-Repelling Black Gold Wood trees here.
’This won’t do,’ he thought. ’I’ll have to put this off for later and take care of other things first.’
Xiao Chen decisively gave up on cutting down the trees and went to sort out the rest of the Tier Three Spirit Grass first.
The most important task at hand was to calculate exactly how much Spirit Grass he needed to harvest, and then go restock on Sealed Medicine Jade Boxes.
That’s right, a whole batch!
Compared to the rarity of Tier Four Spirit Grass, the quantity of Tier Three Spirit Grass in the Spirit Medicine Garden was immense.
Each section contained nearly a hundred stalks of Spirit Grass.
The reason it was "nearly" a hundred was because the garden had been untended for so long that some of the Spirit Grass had clearly overgrown its designated area.
For example, at the border between the fruit tree area and the Hundred Herbs Area, Spirit Grass had encroached by over ten feet.
In another example, the Ginseng Area looked lush and thriving at first glance, but a closer look revealed that the ground was almost completely overrun with various vines.
After taking inventory of the entire Spirit Medicine Garden and setting aside the immature Spirit Medicines...
There were twenty-two different varieties of Tier Three Spirit Grass and Spirit Flowers, for a total of two hundred and sixty stalks.
Additionally, there were three different types of Spirit Fruits, totaling one hundred and thirty-three.
One hundred stalks each of White Jade Cloud Ganoderma and Jici Ancient Ginseng.
One hundred sixty stalks of Jade Sea Vine, and one hundred three blossoms of Glazed Silk.
Since different Spirit Medicines couldn’t be stored together, he calculated that he would need a total of seventy-eight Sealed Medicine Jade Boxes.
He had thirteen Sealed Medicine Jade Boxes remaining, which meant he was short sixty-five.
’Well, damn,’ Xiao Chen sighed to himself. ’I thought I was being bold, but it turns out I was still underestimating.’
He ran the numbers in his head and couldn’t help but sigh. ’If I go out to buy so many Jade Boxes right now, won’t I immediately attract unwanted attention?’
Other people’s herb-gathering kits only came with two Jade Boxes, which they considered more than enough.
After all, there weren’t that many Spirit Medicines to be found in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm. Even Tier Three Spirit Grass was quite rare, and only a few lucky souls ever managed to find any.
Yet he had prepared a full thirty Jade Boxes, and even that wasn’t enough. Who was he supposed to complain to about that?
It was, he supposed, a good problem to have.
In any case, he couldn’t just give up because of a potential risk.
Xiao Chen quickly left the Spirit Medicine Garden and prepared to head to East City to purchase the Sealed Medicine Jade Boxes.
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It was only a few days after the Secret Realm had opened, so most Cultivators were still inside searching for treasures, and very few people were around.
Fortunately, with over a hundred thousand Cultivators participating this year, there was a constant flow of people doing all sorts of things.
Thus, a fair number of Cultivators returned to the outside world each day, either to rest temporarily or to replenish their supplies.
All in all, Xiao Chen leaving the Secret Realm early wasn’t particularly conspicuous.
Even so, to prevent anyone with ill intentions from noticing anything strange and to reduce his risk of being discovered, he deliberately avoided using Sword Flight, pretending to be just an ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
He only bought two Jade Boxes from any single shop, and after leaving one, he would take a roundabout path through the city before heading to the next.
In theory, this should have been enough to avoid attracting the attention of anyone with malicious intent.
If he still couldn’t avoid trouble, then Xiao Chen would have no choice but to personally test the Magical Combat skills of the Eastern Domain Cultivators.
Fortunately, throughout the entire day, perhaps because his Cultivation seemed too low or because the amount he bought at any one time wasn’t that large...he didn’t detect anyone following him or probing him with Divine Sense.
Xiao Chen breathed a small sigh of relief. ’This is for the best. You don’t bother me, and I won’t bother you.’
’Wouldn’t it be great if we could all just live our lives in peace?’
He had never actually enjoyed fighting and killing. In fact, other than Tribulation Cultivators and Demon Cultivators, no normal Cultivator enjoyed life-or-death struggles.
However, on his way back to the Spirit Medicine Garden, as Xiao Chen passed through the Five Peach Plains, he was surprised to find bloodstains on the ground.
The faint scent of blood hung in the air, and there were numerous traces of Magic nearby.
It was clear that a fierce battle had broken out here not long ago.
This just went to show that conflict was the true theme of the cultivation world.
There were only so many cultivation resources, only so many Treasures of Heaven and Earth. Someone was always bound to get greedy.
Judging by the trajectory of the magical traces left at the scene, quite a number of people had been involved in the fight.
It appeared that one Cultivator was killed on the spot, while their companions had fled south.
’Sigh... sometimes you just don’t have a choice in these matters.’
Xiao Chen sighed but didn’t linger, quickly making his way back to the Spirit Medicine Garden.
Fortunately, his journey back was uneventful.
Twenty days passed in the blink of an eye.
DONG!
With a loud crash, the final, thirty-foot-long log of Spirit-Repelling Black Gold Wood finally toppled to the ground.
"Whew," Xiao Chen breathed out. ’Good thing I had enough time. Another two days and I wouldn’t have made it.’
Xiao Chen raised his arms and stretched, having finally managed to place all one hundred logs of Spirit Wood safely into his Storage Bag.
Only halfway through chopping them down did he truly understand the meaning behind the "Spirit-Repelling" part of the wood’s name.
As one of the primary materials for Defensive Spiritual Artifacts, it naturally possessed an ability to resist True Essence.
Because of this, Xiao Chen had to repeatedly stop to meditate and recover his True Essence, causing the entire process to take twice as long as he had initially planned.