You Cultivate, I Farm

Chapter 217: Mature Jade Scale Fruit

Upon hearing that ancient spiritual species and eggs of ancient spirit beasts could be found in the blessed land, Lu Xuan couldn't help but be filled with excitement.

"Senior brothers and sisters, I recently became an inner disciple not long ago. Could you please share more details about the blessed land?" Lu Xuan inquired.

Upon hearing this, Liu Su smiled gently and explained, "The blessed land is an independent small world outside the cultivation realm, and above it is the Daoist abode."

"Lu Junior Brother, have you entered any secret realms before? Most of these realms are fragments of blessed lands lost or connected to the cultivation realm, and they contain many treasures, not to mention the blessed land itself."

"The sect currently controls three blessed lands, each overseen by a Foundation Establishment cultivator. However, as the stability of the blessed land's space is not particularly reliable, frequent entries by cultivators can have adverse effects."

"Therefore, every ten to twenty years, one of them will be opened. Half a year later, one of the three blessed lands, the blessed land, will be opened."

"I see," Lu Xuan nodded.

"Then, what are the conditions for entering the blessed land? Will there be dangerous demonic beasts or malevolent spirits that threaten lives?" He raised a concern.

"There are indeed demonic beasts and malevolent spirits in the blessed land, but the sect sends us in with the intention of cleaning them up. However, they pose no significant threat."

"Moreover, a Foundation Establishment cultivator is always watching the blessed land. There might be injuries, but your life is not in danger."

"When opportunities are found, disciples may compete with each other, but it's only to a certain extent."

"After all, we are all inner disciples. It's unnecessary to have extreme situations of life and death within the sect. With the supervision of our Foundation Establishment seniors, if someone is found violating the sect's rules, the consequences are severe."

Seeing Lu Xuan deep in thought, a middle-aged cultivator beside him spoke up.

"Although the blessed land is full of opportunities, finding treasures like ancient spiritual species is not easy for ordinary inner disciples."

"These rare and unusual treasures are usually located in extraordinary places, protected by natural mechanisms and formations, making them difficult to access for ordinary cultivators."

"Only those foundation establishment cultivators with strong backgrounds, who have received various relevant information and treasures from their elders or masters, have a much lower difficulty in obtaining them."

Lu Xuan nodded gently, showing no particular emotion.

This kind of situation was commonplace for him, and he had long learned to accept it.

His focus was entirely on the possible spiritual species and spirit beast eggs.

Without a method to condense spiritual species, it was challenging for wild spiritual plants to undergo large-scale breeding. The same applied to spirit beasts. However, the blessed land provided a natural environment suitable for the growth of certain spiritual plants, increasing the probability of condensing spiritual species.

"Junior Brother Lu, it's better not to think too much about it for now."

"The number of inner disciples entering the blessed land is limited, and a Sword Command is required as a qualification. The value of a Sword Command is usually not less than three to five thousand spirit stones and is often in high demand."

"You've just become an inner disciple not long ago; it's better to focus on cultivating spiritual plants."

The gloomy-looking youth suddenly spoke with a tone heavy with implications.

"Senior Brother Zhang, try the newly brewed spirit wine I made," Liu Su intervened quickly, sensing the unusual tone in the youth's words.

"Thank you for the reminder, Senior Brother. It's just that it's rare to come across such a good opportunity. I will try my best to accumulate spirit stones and see if I can obtain a Sword Command before the blessed land opens in half a year," Lu Xuan replied with a smile.

Ignoring the ambiguous tone of the gloomy youth, he looked at him sincerely. After solving the breeding problem of the yin-yang kun fish for one of the true transmission disciples, Ge Pu, Ge Pu gave him a Sword Command. Lu Xuan was hesitant at first, but after hearing everything about the blessed land today, he was leaning towards entering.

Without a threat to his life and the possibility of obtaining ancient spiritual species, he wouldn't miss such an opportunity.

"Even if the cultivation method for ancient spiritual species is lost, as long as I plant the spiritual species, I can find a way to cultivate them."

"Not to mention, the enormous rewards that may come from planting such high-grade spiritual plants across levels."

Lu Xuan thought to himself, his determination becoming stronger.

After some more exchange among the group, it was clear that the meeting was coming to an end.

"Senior brothers and sisters, I have always been fond of all kinds of rare and exotic spiritual plants. Even if I can't cultivate them, it doesn't matter; the focus is on the experience and experimentation."

"If any of you have unidentified unknown spiritual species or other strange ones, you can come to my mountain peak, and I can exchange them with other treasures."

"No problem, no problem."

"It would have been great if we had met Junior Brother Lu earlier. A few years ago, I obtained an unknown spiritual species that even the sect's Foundation Establishment senior couldn't identify. I didn't know how to cultivate it, so I could only sell it at a low price."

"Indeed, I've had a similar experience."

Everyone readily agreed.

Unlike Lu Xuan, who devoted himself to planting spiritual plants, for them, spiritual plants and spirit beasts were just a means to gain wealth. The importance of cultivation was far stronger than these practices.

All the cultivators present were at the Foundation Establishment realm, making them significant figures even outside the sect. They frequently entered various secret realms, occasionally encountering opportunities to discover unknown spiritual species.

Without knowledge of the spiritual species category and cultivation methods, even if they successfully planted them, they wouldn't grow normally.

Being able to exchange unknown spiritual species with treasures from Lu Xuan was already satisfying.

After getting the promises from everyone, Lu Xuan felt pleased and returned to his mountain peak.

...

At the foot of the mountain, there was a small lake.

The spiritual energy on the lake surface was ethereal and misty, rising gently.

Along the lake shore, there were spiritual plants like ice apples, suitable for growth in a watery environment, spreading a faint chill, causing a thin layer of ice to form on the nearby lake surface.

A wind falcon flapped its large, pale blue wings, sweeping across the lake surface.

Despite maintaining its round belly, its speed was not affected at all. It would pass over the lake surface in the blink of an eye.

With a splash, a fire-red dragon snake emerged from the lake bottom, flying diagonally towards the wind falcon, hanging onto the wind falcon's ankle.

Five months had passed in the blink of an eye, and the young dragon snake had grown much larger, reaching five feet in length from its initial less than three feet.

Now hanging around the wind falcon's neck, it seemed a bit burdened. Therefore, the fire dragon snake, which heavily relied on the wind falcon, changed its position, moving to the ankle area.

Normally staying at the bottom of the small lake, as soon as the wind falcon passed over, it would immediately come out, showing affection.

At this moment, Lu Xuan

was inspecting the growth of each spiritual plant in various fields around the mountain peak.

Under his careful cultivation, all the spiritual plants showed excellent growth.

When he reached a slightly remote mining area on one side of the mountain peak, Lu Xuan, as usual, carefully examined the state of the jade scale fruits planted there.

"Hmm? One of the jade scale fruits has matured?"

Between the thin jade-like leaves, a faint progress bar under one of the jade scale fruits had reached completion.

Lu Xuan quickly took out a square jade box from his storage bag. The muscles in his hand turned into a crystalline substance, resembling glass, firmly gripping the stem of the jade scale fruit and forcefully plucking it. He immediately placed it in the square jade box.