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Chapter 453: Mother of All Seeds
Chapter 453: Mother of All Seeds
In the town of Jianmen, Lu Chen looked up at the Wanbao Tower signboard and stepped into the grand hall.
His face was covered by a thin, translucent gray mask, altering his appearance to that of an ordinary middle-aged cultivator. This mask, called the Thousand Soul Guise, was a fourth-grade spiritual artifact he had obtained from the Ghost Face Stone Mushroom's light orb, capable of changing one's features and aura.
"Please come this way, fellow cultivator," a short and stout elderly man, the branch master of the Wanbao Tower in Jianmen Town, greeted Lu Chen warmly as he sensed the surging spiritual power within him.
Lu Chen followed the elderly man upstairs to the third floor of the Wanbao Tower.
"May I ask how I can be of assistance, fellow cultivator?" The elderly man asked with a smile as a beautiful attendant served them spirit fruits and tea.
"I have quite a few pills that I wish to sell. I'm wondering if the Wanbao Tower is interested," Lu Chen replied in a hoarse voice.
Since his skill in pill concoction had reached the Master level for both the Peiyuan Pill and the Yunling Pill, Lu Chen wanted to avoid drawing too much attention. Previously, at the Pill Hall, he had only sold less than a third of his stock, intending to sell the rest discreetly.
"Oh? May I take a look?" The elderly man asked, intrigued.
Lu Chen nodded and, with a slight wave of his hand, produced over ten bottles of pills that floated before the elderly man.
The number of pills slightly surprised the elderly man, and he quickly took two bottles to examine their contents carefully.
"First-grade Peiyuan Pills and second-grade Yunling Pills, both of excellent quality," he remarked.
When concocting the pills, Lu Chen had intentionally set aside those with the best appearance, so the ones presented to the elderly man were of the highest quality.
After appraising all the pills, the elderly man offered a price slightly higher than the Pill Hall's, which Lu Chen readily accepted.
In the end, the transaction was finalized, totaling more than eight thousand spirit stones.
After the deal was concluded, the elderly man personally saw Lu Chen out of the Wanbao Tower.
"If you have more pills of similar quality, please consider selling or exchanging them at the Wanbao Tower," he said, reluctant to part ways.
With such a talented pill concoctor before him, he naturally wanted to foster a good relationship.
"Sure, I'll give Wanbao Tower first priority if I have more pills to sell," Lu Chen replied nonchalantly.
He had not expected that his Master-level pill concoction skills would be so lucrative. The two types of pills, minus the cost of spiritual herbs, had earned him several thousand spirit stones.
Enough to purchase several fourth-grade spirit seeds.
"It's a pity that the grade of these pills is still a bit low. Concocting low-grade pills takes up quite a bit of time, which is a bit of a hindrance to farming," Lu Chen thought.
"If I can obtain high-grade pill formulas with sufficient experience packages, I can truly achieve financial freedom with spirit stones and even elevate pill concoction to the same level as cultivation," he mused.
The profit margin on pills was enormous, but he only possessed Master-level skill in two low-grade pill formulas, and his pill concoction abilities were entirely derived from the light orb's rewards. Hence, farming remained his top priority.
Lu Chen found a secluded corner and, with a subtle manipulation of his spiritual power, altered the appearance of the Thousand Soul Guise, transforming himself into a honest-looking young man.
He arrived at his new courtyard in the Underworld.
Lu Chen walked around the fourth-grade Thousand Illusions Misty Smoke Formation, collecting the formation plates and flags. He then took out the flags and plates of the Extinction Five Elements Formation and set it up around the courtyard.
Vague traces of the five elements' spiritual power circulated, and countless shadows of five-elemental spirit beasts flashed by, disappearing into the formation.
"With the upgrade from a fourth-grade formation to a fifth-grade one, the defensive and offensive capabilities of the formation have improved significantly," Lu Chen remarked. "Coupled with the ever-present Void Nightmare, the safety of the numerous Underworld spirit plants in the small courtyard has been greatly enhanced."
Passing through the grand formation, Lu Chen entered the courtyard.
A gust of yin wind brushed past him, and the aura around him instantly turned icy cold.
"Poor little one, you're skin and bones," Lu Chen sympathized.
He quickly took out three bottles of Flood Dragon Essence Blood from his storage bag and poured them all over the increasingly large blood-red palm.
The blood palm, like finger-like branches, instantly came to life, twisting and contorting as it greedily absorbed the essence blood.
Lu Chen then moved on to another bloodsucker, the Blood Fiend Flower.
Sensing the sanguine scent in the courtyard, the Blood Fiend Flower's hollow blood sphere, adorned with countless entwined slender blood vessels, began to writhe slowly. Their movement quickened as if they might burst forth at any moment, enveloping the entire courtyard in their sanguine embrace.
Lu Chen retrieved five bottles of Flood Dragon Essence Blood and sprinkled their contents onto the slender blood vessels.
His spiritual sense penetrated layer after layer of blood vessels, revealing an infinite sea of blood within the blood sphere.
Amidst this sanguine sea stood a blood-red flower, proud and erect. It blossomed and withered in an instant, drawing strength from the blood sea as if poised to break free from the confines of the countless blood vessels and display its demonic allure to the world.
"The fifth-grade Blood Fiend Flower has entered its maturity," Lu Chen mused. "I ought to pay a visit to the Thousand Dragon Lake and give those dragon offspring a check-up."
"I wonder if I'll have the chance to examine that old dragon turtle as well."
Lu Chen felt his ambitions expanding a little too far and took a deep breath to calm himself, dispelling the unrealistic thought from his mind.
He then retrieved the demon beast meat he had collected from various stalls and shops and buried it around the roots of the Strange Longevity Peach.
The peach tree had already borne small, fragrant peach spirit fruits that exuded a milky scent, akin to newly conceived life, filling the air with enticing fragrance.
The Filth Insect Grass had lost its distinct form, transforming into a conglomerate of filth that thrived in the Underworld courtyard.
The eighteen mutated Thousand Coiling Hands had also taken root and sprouted, their slender arms intertwining like eighteen slender arms, devoid of the terrifying appearance they had in the secret realm.
When feeding on flesh and blood, the eighteen arms seemed to share a collective consciousness, evenly dividing the meat and relishing the feast.
After tending to the Thousand Coiling Hands, Lu Chen approached the sacred Infant Fruit mother plant, buried within the Dark Mud flesh.
Due to his failure to timely nourish the mother plant with the mature offspring, driven by instinctual demands, the mother plant's withered and blackened body sported two grayish-black tumors that contracted and expanded. Within them were two minuscule grayish-black embryonic fetuses.
"Excellent! It has birthed two new sacred Infant Fruit seedling spirit seeds," Lu Chen praised his earlier decision.
As long as the mother plant remained unsatisfied, it would continue to produce new offspring spirit seeds, ensuring a constant supply for him to harvest once they matured.
Little did he expect that he would be the one ruthlessly reaping them instead.
The mature sacred Infant Fruit seedlings had remained in the Gluttonous Worm Pouch, leaving the mother plant unfulfilled. Consequently, it birthed two new offspring spirit seeds.
With caution, Lu Chen sliced off the two tumors. In that instant, he glimpsed two black and gray shadows, shrieking as they flashed by.
The embryonic-like spirit seeds slowly emerged from the tumors.
Surveying the limited space in his small courtyard, Lu Chen decided to plant them near the mother plant.
"This is a bit cruel, isn't it?"
"The mother plant waits patiently for its offspring to grow, only to be helpless when they mature and are taken away by others."
"Hmm, this scenario feels somewhat familiar..."
(End of Chapter)
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