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Chapter 648: The Primordial Yang True Fire Pearl
Chapter 648: The Primordial Yang True Fire Pearl
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
During this time, Lu Chen had been holed up in his cave abode, relying on the Void Nightmare Eyes to keep himself informed of the situation outside.
With two Great Fifth-Rank Arrays guarding the place, he felt only a slight sense of alertness and wasn't overly worried, focusing all his attention on the numerous spiritual herbs in his spirit fields.
There hadn't been any high-grade spirit herbs maturing in the cave recently, only some experimental low-grade spirit herbs that he had brought out from the Celestial Sword Sect, and even their light orbs weren't quite up to his expectations. Lu Chen decided to put them all up for sale in a miscellaneous goods store.
His attention was mainly on improving several types of spirit herbs.
Primarily, he focused on the second-grade Water Glowgrass spirit herb. Currently, there was a significant shortage of Ice Glowgrass spirit herbs, and the only way to increase their numbers was through the slow process of essence-gathering.
Lu Chen's patience was limited, so he decided to induce and improve all the Water Glowgrass spirit herbs he had obtained previously, hoping to quickly obtain a sufficient number of Ice Glowgrass spirit herbs through this method.
Improving spirit herbs was typically a lengthy and inefficient process, and ordinary spirit herb cultivators would have to go through numerous hurdles to create a new variety.
They would need to repeatedly induce mutations in the spirit herbs, constantly observe and experiment during the cultivation phase, and finally research the effects of the mutated spirit herb once it matured.
However, for Lu Chen, the difficulty had decreased exponentially.
During the induction process, he only needed to plant the experimental spirit herbs and then obtain their spirit herb information, allowing him to screen for mutated varieties. After multiple inductions, he could create new types of spirit herbs.
At this stage, his success rate in screening for mutated spirit herbs was countless times higher than that of ordinary spirit herb cultivators, greatly improving his efficiency.
During the growth phase of the mutated spirit herbs, he could also immediately obtain their specific cultivation methods, saving him from spending a lot of time on trial and error.
And when the spirit herbs matured, he would instantly know their effects, saving him a lot of time and energy.
For him, the most time-consuming part was actually the induction phase, which was the stage that ordinary spirit herb cultivators spent the least time on. All he needed to do was wait patiently for the mutated spirit herbs to mature.
This ability to improve spirit herbs was no exaggeration; Lu Chen's capabilities were comparable to those of an entire sect.
Among the spirit herbs he was improving, in addition to the Water Glowgrass, the fourth-grade Earthfire Heart Lotus and the Five Elements Fruit, a fifth-grade herb, were also given priority.
Back when he was in the Celestial Sword Sect, he had obtained quite a few fourth-grade spirit herbs from the Agricultural Palace. After cultivating them to maturity, he was extremely satisfied with both the Earthfire Heart Lotus and the Five Elements Fruit, whether it was the spirit herbs themselves or the light orbs they produced. Thus, he had specially learned the essence-gathering methods for these two fourth-grade spirit herbs.
The Earthfire Heart Lotus could purify the body's impure qi, reducing the risk of deviation and protecting against demonic invasions. In an environment plagued by outer realm demons, its value was extraordinary.
As for the Five Elements Fruit, the five elemental forces generated from it could both generate and counteract each other, and the light orb it produced contained the extremely important fifth-grade Illusory Extinction Five Elements Array. Its importance was also self-evident.
He carefully guided the vitality and spiritual energy within the spirit herbs to gather and combine, slowly condensing their essences, according to the methods in his mind.
"Condensing fourth-grade spirit herb essences consumes far more mental energy than with spirit herbs like the Water Glowgrass," Lu Chen commented as he stood up and shook his head slightly, feeling a bit weary after almost an hour of work.
The process of condensing fourth-grade spirit herb essences was much more complex than that of lower-grade spirit herbs, and he had to remain vigilant throughout, lest he made any mistakes. Fortunately, things went smoothly, and the essence-condensing process progressed to the next stage.
After condensing the essences, Lu Chen patrolled his spirit fields, carefully observing the condition of each spirit herb.
Along the way, he encountered a grass puppet entangled with two Arrow Vines. He casually fed it a Spirit Nurturing Grass Pearl to supplement its wood-based spiritual energy, which would benefit both it and the vines.
"Hmm? One of the fourth-grade spirit herbs has matured."
Gazing at the ripe vermilion gourd before him, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion.
The vermilion gourd, known as the 'Red Flame Gourd,' was a gift from the Fire Cloud Cave. During his visit to the cave with Huo Lin'er, they had resolved a significant spiritual herb problem for the cave's inhabitants and were rewarded with a Red Flame Gourd seed.
"I wonder how Huo Lin'er and the others are doing now?"
"I hope they were able to safely traverse the void and arrive at the Dongxuan Sword Sect."
"As long as they made it through the spatial storm, they should be fine."
"I wonder when I'll have the chance to meet Huo Lin'er, Ge Pu, and the other senior brothers again..."
Lu Chen's mind drifted to the figures of his former sect members.
He refocused his attention and plucked the gourd from the vine.
As his consciousness lingered on the flowing fire cloud that adorned the gourd's surface, a thought flashed through his mind.
Red Flame Gourd, a fourth-grade spiritual herb. Grown by absorbing fire-attribute spiritual energy, it contains a strand of fourth-grade exotic flame, the Red Spirit Flame, which can be used to assist in cultivating fire-attribute techniques and abilities, or directly in battle.
"The fourth-grade Red Spirit Flame is a bit underwhelming for my current stage."
Lu Chen gazed at the vermilion gourd in his hand and stored it away in his Gluttonous Insect Pouch, intending to find a suitable opportunity to make use of it in the future.
"Hehe, time to harvest the light orb!"
Lu Chen's eyes lit up as he gazed at the faintly shimmering white light orb that had appeared before him, his hands rubbing together in anticipation.
The Red Flame Gourd had been planted during his late Foundation Establishment stage, so the light orb reward should not have been affected.
He reached out and gently touched the surface of the light orb, causing it to silently shatter and transform into countless specks of light that coalesced into a faint red light pearl, which vanished into Lu Chen's body.
Immediately afterward, a thought appeared in his sea of consciousness.
Harvested one fourth-grade Red Flame Gourd, obtained a fifth-grade treasure, the Primordial Yang True Fire Pearl.
As the thought faded, a vermilion jade pearl appeared in Lu Chen's palm.
The pearl was the size of a pigeon egg, and within it flowed a delicate thread of golden-red flame. Despite the separation of the jade, Lu Chen's spiritual sense could still perceive the flame's overwhelming power.
He focused his consciousness on the pearl, and detailed information about it appeared in his mind.
Primordial Yang True Fire Pearl, a fifth-grade treasure. It seals within it a strand of fifth-grade exotic flame, the Primordial Yang True Fire. This true fire is peerlessly domineering, capable of incinerating all things in the world.
It can be used to refine special high-grade magical artifacts and pills, or to assist in cultivating fire-attribute techniques and abilities, among other purposes.
"Primordial Yang True Fire Pearl, a fifth-grade treasure..."
Lu Chen murmured softly, gazing at the vermilion pearl in his hand with satisfaction.
"With the Pure Yang True Fire Manual, also a fifth-grade treasure, this pearl isn't of much use to me."
He had previously obtained the fifth-grade Pure Yang True Fire Manual from the light orb of the Earthfire Heart Lotus. It allowed him to both visualize and command the remnant soul of the Golden Crow within it in battle. After consuming the Clear Serenity Tea Leaves, he had already comprehended it to a large extent, so compared to that, a pearl that only sealed a strand of Primordial Yang True Fire was far inferior.
"However, I can release the flame to nurture the sixth-grade Phoenix Wood."
"As a sixth-grade fire-attribute spiritual herb, the Phoenix Wood might require a much larger amount of exotic flame energy when it matures. The Red Lotus Flame won't be enough, so I can use the Primordial Yang True Fire Pearl to aid its maturation."
Lu Chen thought to himself.
(End of Chapter)
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