Chapter 244 - 188: Immortal City’s True Inheritance, a Great Harvest
Chapter 244: Chapter 188: Immortal City’s True Inheritance, a Great Harvest
In fact, after successfully refining a Masterpiece Pill, one could begin to explore Tier Two Middle Grade Alchemy.
With enough insight, it was even possible to advance to become a Tier Two Middle Grade Alchemist.
However, this would come with a drawback: there would be gaps in one’s knowledge, philosophy, and techniques of the Alchemy Dao, which would affect the success rate of future alchemy.
It was like building a nine-story tower on an unstable foundation of sand; you could keep building higher, but hidden dangers were inevitable.
It would affect future progress, and even one’s ultimate potential.
The higher one climbed, the more difficult and obstructed the path would become, like being trapped in a mire.
As for Lin Changheng, blessed with ample insight and confident in his future with the Alchemy Dao, he also had the security of a long Lifespan. Naturally, he would advance one steady step at a time.
Therefore, he was very satisfied with his current progress.
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After finishing his work, he went to his treasured Spirit Medicine Garden for his routine inspection and to complete the day’s growth acceleration process.
His Spirit Medicine Garden had since been expanded and tilled anew, enriched with Tier Two Spirit Soil.
It now spanned a full six rows.
All sorts of Spirit Medicine and Treasure Plants were thriving, each with its unique form, their combined medicinal fragrances filling the air.
A quick count revealed that he now had twenty-five Spirit Medicine plants.
This was a full eight more plants than he had four years ago.
The Nine-leaf Purple Ginseng had grown its fourth harvest—the third one under Lin Changheng’s care!
Its third leaf was fully formed, and the fourth was already more than halfway grown.
Its growth was astonishingly good!
Who else would dare to even imagine this? Such an important Treasure Plant in the Cultivation Realm, a restricted primary ingredient—how could it be anything but exceedingly rare?
Yet in Lin Changheng’s Spirit Medicine Garden, it grew like common chives—harvested again and again, only to regrow each time.
It was a seemingly inexhaustible supply.
Once it matured, it meant he had secured a Foundation Establishment Pill. And it would most likely not be a Genuine Foundation Establishment Pill, but a Masterpiece!
Its value was far higher, and countless people would clamor for it.
Furthermore, refining a Foundation Establishment Pill was different from refining an ordinary Tier Two Lower Grade Elixir. Lin Changheng estimated he could produce two Masterpiece Pills, but even then, he wasn’t completely confident—only about eighty to ninety percent certain.
However, if he sacrificed the third Foundation Establishment Pill, his chances of the first two being Masterpieces would skyrocket.
But doing so would risk ruining his reputation, something Lin Changheng was naturally unwilling to do.
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The Vermilion Fruit Grass, the main ingredient for the Youthful Appearance Pill which he had been cultivating for ten years, was also showing delightful changes. Its main stem had finally reached two feet in length, and amidst its lush leaves, one could faintly discern hidden flower buds.
This meant the Vermilion Fruit Grass had entered its second stage of growth.
The third stage was the transition from flowering to fruiting, after which its fruit could be used in alchemy.
Next to this Treasure Plant was a new addition.
It stood about half a foot tall and looked utterly unremarkable, but Lin Changheng knew it to be a supplementary ingredient for the Youthful Appearance Pill called Fire Poria.
He had obtained it three years ago, and its medicinal age was now nine years.
These three Treasure Plants received Lin Changheng’s growth acceleration every day without fail.
The other Spirit Plants were divided into three groups, receiving the treatment in rotation.
Their growth was noticeably slower, but still impressive.
The medicinal root of the Earth Vein Yellow Ginseng, the first plant he had acquired, had now reached a medicinal age of thirty-eight years!
The eleven Tier Two Spirit Plants from his second and third batches had, one by one, reached a medicinal age of around twenty years.
The four plants in the fourth batch were now at thirteen years.
The six plants of the fifth batch had reached an age of about eight years.
Lin Changheng decided he would stop planting ordinary Tier Two Spiritual Medicine himself. If he kept adding more, his growth-accelerating Magical Power would be spread too thin, drastically slowing down the progress of all his Spirit Medicine.
It was better to focus all his efforts on pushing these existing Spirit Plants to the hundred-year mark. Once they underwent a transformation, they would not only be more valuable, but he could even use them after his own Cultivation reached the Core Formation realm.
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「Several months passed in a flash.」
The Immortal City’s grand Auction was once again upon them. It was a major event for the entire region, and many Cultivators traveled from far and wide to attend.
Lin Changheng received an invitation and a reserved seat from the Immortal City’s auction house, which came as no surprise.
With his current reputation in the Immortal City, it would have been stranger if he hadn’t.
Moreover, it was for a prime location in the Celestial Pavilion.
"Thank you."
Lin Changheng didn’t refuse, accepting it with a smile.
"Don’t mention it. This seat was personally arranged by Bai Zhenchuan."
Steward Xie, who had delivered the invitation, waved his hands dismissively and smiled.
"Bai Zhenchuan?"
Lin Changheng paused for a moment, then nodded. "I see."
After Steward Xie took his leave, Lin Changheng was lost in thought.
After hearing the news at the Spirit Wine Tower last time, he had made a point to gather some information about the Immortal City’s key figures.
This information wasn’t exactly a secret.
Anyone who made an effort could easily learn it.
’Bai Zhenchuan’s real name was Bai Hengwan, and she was one of Qing Lan Wanderer’s most valued disciples.’
’She had an Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivation, was just over thirty years old, and possessed a Wind Anomalous Spirit Root.’
’Rumor had it that her Spiritual Charm had also surpassed seventy points.’
’That was the level of an Earth Spirit Root.’
It was common knowledge that everyone in the Cultivation Realm possessed a Five Elements Spirit Root, complete with all five elements. The grade was determined by the amount of Spiritual Charm contained within the strongest of those elemental roots.
Even mortals possessed a Five Elements Spirit Root, but with a Spiritual Charm of only one, they were unable to sense Spiritual Qi and therefore could not practice Cultivation.
Furthermore, the Five Elements Spirit Roots—Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—were not set in stone.
Sometimes, mutations occurred.
This referred to instances where two or more spirit roots became entangled.
They would transcend the norm and form a new type of spirit root.
In the Cultivation Realm, these were known as Anomalous Spirit Roots.
The primary types included Wind, Lightning, Ice, and Darkness.
Based on all the possible permutations, there should be far more than just four types of entangled spirit roots, so why were the others not categorized?