You Cultivate, I Farm

Chapter 192: white jade ape

In the courtyard of the mountain peak.

Lu Xuan took out three jade slips, placing one against his forehead as his spiritual awareness slowly infiltrated it.

Soon, a torrent of information surged into his mind, filling his sea of consciousness to the brim, almost on the verge of explosion.

Like a sponge, he absorbed the cultivation knowledge pouring into his sea of consciousness, continuously digesting it.

After nearly half an hour, Lu Xuan exhaled a breath, looking much more relaxed.

In his sea of consciousness, details about the cultivation method, secrets, paths, and the casting of intermediate Five Elements techniques were deeply engraved. With a mere thought, he could summon the corresponding knowledge and contemplate its insights.

"No wonder it's the advanced version of 'Basic Five Elements Technique.' The difficulty of cultivation has increased several times, but the effects have also improved significantly."

Lu Xuan sighed, proceeding to absorb the sword techniques and The Floating Technique from the other two jade slips.

Once the knowledge inside the jade slips was absorbed, they automatically shattered, turning into powder on the ground, ensuring no easy dissemination.

"Even after advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm, farming remains crucial. However, during leisure time, I can still practice sword techniques and techniques."

He sighed inwardly.

While other cultivators prioritized cultivation, followed by sparring, exploring opportunities, alchemy, and artifact refining, Lu Xuan was the opposite. In front of cultivating spiritual plants, everything else seemed trivial and fragile.

After a brief understanding of the three cultivation techniques, he headed to the spiritual field.

Crossing mountains and hills, he inspected the growth status of numerous spiritual plants scattered across the peaks.

All the spiritual plants showed vigorous growth—some entering maturity, some sprouting branches and leaves, thriving, and others just taking root or in the gestation stage. Every stage exuded vitality, greatly satisfying Lu Xuan, the spiritual plant cultivator.

"The Firefly Grass has also matured in a batch."

Inspecting the remaining ordinary Firefly Grass, after careful confirmation of each plant, he obtained thirty-two perfectly matured Firefly Grass.

Due to the recent transplantation, the average quality of the latest matured Firefly Grass slightly decreased. Among the thirty-two plants, only four were of perfect quality, while the others were of good or superior quality.

On the ground, where the plants were harvested, thirty-two white orbs faintly shimmered, attracting Lu Xuan's attention.

With a slight smile, he picked up the nearest one.

The orb transformed into countless dots of light, flowing into him. Immediately, a thought flashed.

【Harvested one Firefly Grass, gained cultivation for two months.】

"Hmm?"

Just as Lu Xuan was about to pick up the second orb, a sudden thought in his mind caught his attention.

"Cultivation for two months? How could this happen?"

His eyes flashed with a hint of panic. According to his memory, the white orb just now came from a Firefly Grass of good quality. Typically, he would receive a reward for six months of cultivation, but this time, he only got two.

Lu Xuan adjusted his breathing and continued to pick up the second orb.

It wasn't until the fifth orb that a cultivation reward appeared, from a superior quality Firefly Grass. It should have given him cultivation for nine months, but after absorbing the orb, he only received three months of cultivation.

"Compared to before, the cultivation rewards brought by the orbs are reduced by two-thirds. What could be the reason for this?"

"Is it possible that the significant difference in quality is causing the reduction in cultivation rewards?"

Lu Xuan's mind flashed with insight, thinking of certain situations from his past in some games where characters would receive less experience when the level gap was too large.

"Firefly Grass is an unranked spiritual plant, and Foundation Establishment cultivation corresponds to third and fourth rank spiritual plants, indeed a significant difference."

The more Lu Xuan thought, the more he felt this possibility was the most likely. He also recalled another scenario.

"Harvesting lower-ranked spiritual plants will reduce the rewards. So, harvesting higher-ranked spiritual plants across ranks might result in more generous rewards?"

During his Qi refining stage, he had occasionally obtained higher-ranked rewards, but they were mainly in the form of runes or materials, less important than techniques and formations. So, cultivating spiritual plants across ranks might indeed bring additional rewards.

Lu Xuan analyzed.

"Fortunately, I prepared in advance and experimented early on, refining the Firefly Grass variety."

With a calm mind, Lu Xuan looked at the remaining Firefly Grass, deciding to make adjustments.

He didn't have the intention to harvest the remaining one hundred and thirty-four ordinary Firefly Grass. Instead, he planned to refine them all into spiritual seeds and, with a large number of spiritual seeds, induce the emergence of mutated spiritual plants.

Together with the already successfully induced twenty-six ice and fire-type Firefly Grass, and fifty plants in the stimulating stage, pouring in a large amount of resources, he was confident he would soon succeed in the improvement.

"In the improvement process, my biggest advantage is the ability to cyclically induce spiritual seeds. There's no need to wait for a period before discovering anomalies; I can immediately know the information by planting the seeds. This significantly shortens the induction process."

"Furthermore, for mutated spiritual plants, I can make the most accurate adjustments and choices through their real-time status. This will also save a lot of time."

Lu Xuan thought with confidence.

"After a frightful experience, let's have a grilled fish to ease the tension."

He came to the edge of the lake, a red light silently piercing through the lake surface. After a couple of breaths, a red-threaded needle pierced a plump and delicious spirit fish, leaping out of the water.

The spirit fish landed on the ground, its tail vigorously flapping, attempting to return to the lake.

Lu Xuan casually pulled out a gray grass rope from the nearby grass puppet, tied the spirit fish securely, and carried it back to the courtyard.

Under slow roasting, the spirit fish made a sizzling sound, its fragrance spreading. It attracted the wind falcon chick incubating the Fire dragon egg, as well as the cloud-stepping lynx in the mountain forest.

Lu Xuan turned the fish over, sprinkled refined monster oil, spices, and seasonings. The aroma became richer, and the wind falcon chick's belly nervously contracted and expanded, while the cloud-stepping lynx pretended not to care, walking around but never taking its eyes off the grilled fish.

"Come, freshly grilled fish."

Several silver-white fragments flew out, cutting the grilled fish into more than ten pieces. Lu Xuan threw a piece to each of the two little ones, grabbing a large piece for himself and enjoying it heartily.

"Munch, munch!"

Familiar chirping sounded as a pure white phoenix appeared in the courtyard.

Looking at the majestic and elegant white jade ape, Lu Xuan couldn't help but smile.

"After moving, I haven't told you yet, but you've found your way here, you glutton."

"Oh, and you brought a little friend?"

Lu Xuan was pleasantly surprised as a delicate and small monkey slowly walked out, closely following the phoenix. It occasionally glanced at Lu Xuan and the fragrant grilled fish in front of him.

"Come, taste the new dish."

Lu Xuan tore off two pieces of fish meat, throwing one to the phoenix and the other to the little monkey.

Concentrating on the monkey, a thought flashed through Lu Xuan's mind.

【white jade ape, a third-rank demonic beast, the guardian spirit beast of the Sky Sword Sect. It contains the bloodline of an ancient beast, with the potential to grow into a seventh-rank demonic beast.】

【Fierce, combative, prone to rage, and significantly strengthened in a berserk state.】

【I want this sky, nothing can obstruct my vision.】