Chapter 177: The End of the Mission

Although the Spirit Blossom Tree has been cultivated, it will take a very long time to bloom; it can be said that it only blooms once a year.

Just as the Spirit Blossom Festival in Ionia is an annual event.

However, with the existence of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, beings like San Ge's late mother and the late wife of the Great Hammer—the hundred thousand year Blue Silver Empress A Yin—could complete decades or even centuries of growth within just a few years inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

This is sufficient proof that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well has an extremely strong catalytic effect on plant growth.

It is just that Ning Feiliu still isn't quite clear by how many times this catalytic effect can accelerate plant growth, or when the Spirit Blossom will finally bloom.

Just at this moment, the newborn tree spirit within the Spirit Blossom Tree seemed to sense Ning Feiliu's urgency, and accompanied by a burst of mental fluctuations, Ning Feiliu seemed to understand something.

"How is it? This Spirit Blossom Tree... when exactly will it bloom?" Dugu Bo, who was to the side, asked hurriedly upon seeing that the Spirit Blossom Tree had finally come to life.

He was truly very eager to see his child and daughter-in-law, whom he had not seen for so long, one more time.

"Ancient texts record that the Spirit Blossom blooms once a year, but..." Ning Feiliu immediately said to Dugu Bo with a smile, "It says that by relying on the spiritual energy here, it can give birth to two Spirit Blossoms as soon as one month from now."

Because it sensed Ning Feiliu's urgency and doubts, the Spirit Blossom Tree's tree spirit also directly indicated that within this month, it would exert all its strength to utilize the spiritual energy and nutrients of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to try its best to gestate two Spirit Blossoms.

"Originally once a year, now it only needs one month..." Dugu Bo's old eyes turned red again, and he said to the Spirit Blossom Tree and Ning Feiliu, "Thank you... thank you, and thank you, Feiliu."

He had already made up his mind; if this Spirit Blossom Tree truly allowed him to see the departed soul of his son Dugu Xin again, then for the rest of his life, he would risk his life to protect this Spirit Blossom Tree.

However, Ning Feiliu still didn't have much certainty; it was still that same point: no matter how miraculous the Spirit Blossom was, it still required the departed souls of Dugu Xin and Duan Zilin to be here—at the very least, they had to still exist and not have left the range of the Sunset Forest—for the summoning to possibly succeed.

But he did not say these words that would dampen Dugu Bo's mood at this time; he could only wait until the attempt failed one day before comforting Dugu Bo.

Ning Feiliu looked at the Spirit Blossom Tree before him, but his expression suddenly became a bit strange; it seemed this Spirit Blossom Tree was not as simple as just an ordinary tree. Having gestated a tree spirit, it should be able to cultivate just like those Immortal Herbs and Beasts from the Dragon King Legend era.

Perhaps... in the future, the Spirit Blossom Tree could become a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast?

After all, this is the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; the initial quality of the Spirit Blossom Tree, combined with the unique environment of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, really makes it possible that it will become a hundred thousand year plant-type Soul Beast that never appeared in the original plot of Douluo Continent.

And with the mental connection similar to a mental imprint that he had now established with the Spirit Blossom Tree, he could also be considered the master of the Spirit Blossom Tree.

If the Spirit Blossom Tree truly becomes a hundred thousand year Soul Beast in the future, then Ning Feiliu will have gained a powerful assistant.

However...

Even if the Spirit Blossom Tree truly has the qualifications to become a hundred thousand year Soul Beast, even if it doesn't need one hundred thousand years like the Tulip King Xiangxiang from the Dragon King Legend era, who relied on the unique environment of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and only needed about twenty thousand years to become a hundred thousand year Soul Beast.

Those twenty thousand years...

Ning Feiliu, if nothing else, even if he didn't go to inherit the God Positions of the Asura God or the Sea God, given one hundred years, he would still have the confidence to break through to the God realm.

At worst, he would create his own God Position; he thought the Martial God God Position was very good, and he hadn't seen any such God in the Douluo God Realm.

During the Peerless Tang Sect era, there was only Xian Lin'er, who held the title of Martial God Douluo, but later one didn't see Xian Lin'er become a god, and that was a character from ten thousand years after the original plot; he was currently on a timeline ten thousand years before the Peerless Tang Sect era.

Relying on his cheat and his own efforts, he didn't believe he couldn't become a god without inheriting a God Position! At worst, he would settle for less and achieve the Moon God God Position, but because Ning Feiliu was a transmigrator who knew the moon was just a satellite of Earth reflecting sunlight, he actually didn't like the Moon God God Position very much.

The Moon God felt like its upper limit was visible to the naked eye, and besides, how could it be as domineering as the Martial God?

So the first choice was definitely the Martial God God Position, and only secondarily the Moon God God Position related to the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon.

However, Ning Feiliu was still a long way from becoming a god, and starting to fantasize about his future God Position now seemed a bit arrogant.

But he was a cheater, after all.

It was still that same point: you're cheating, yet you're still acting all Buddhist and laid-back.

You can be cautious and humble in your actions, but your vision cannot be so short-sighted, still thinking about using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Once you have a cannon, you must definitely think about how to conquer cities and seize territory, rather than still thinking about occupying a mountain to be a local king of a bandit den.

Ning Feiliu had cheated, so of course he had to have a long-term vision; don't still be thinking about just becoming a Title Douluo in the future.

His goal was... to become a god! And to become a god within one hundred years! So within one hundred years... the Spirit Blossom Tree probably wouldn't even be a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, so naturally, it was impossible for it to provide Ning Feiliu with any assistance.

But regardless, the miraculous ability of the Spirit Blossom Tree would inevitably change the ecology of the entire Douluo Continent.

And Dugu Bo and Ning Feiliu were currently slowly waiting for the moment the Spirit Blossom bloomed.

After successfully cultivating the Spirit Blossom Tree, Ning Feiliu returned to a peaceful life, continuing his daily routine of researching Alchemy Potions and participating in Spirit Fighting Battles.

During this period, Dugu Bo also captured several Exotic Beasts for Ning Feiliu at his request, but Exotic Beasts were ultimately very rare; completing that related task for the auspicious omen was ten times harder than Ning Feiliu had imagined.

Currently, Ning Feiliu had only collected the Essence Blood of seven types of Exotic Beasts; he was still missing three types to reach the Essence Blood of ten different Exotic Beasts.

Dugu Bo had already mobilized his connections to search for the remaining ones, and Ning Feiliu had also asked his elder brother Ning Mingrui, though he only received from Ning Mingrui two books on ancient Douluo Continent civilization's pharmacology that Ning Fengzhi had specially gifted him.

Ning Feiliu had taken a look, but discovered that the pharmacology of the ancient Douluo Continent civilization was even more absurd than the pharmacology of the current Douluo Continent.

It even included methods like shamanistic dancing to ward off evil.

One can only say that sometimes things are not necessarily better just because they are older, just like if you were in modern society using a book on shamanic medicine from the Huaxia tribal era to treat illnesses.

Whether it could cure the illness is unknown, but you would definitely be scared into a sickness.

This included but was not limited to: fighting poison with poison, using poisonous insects, centipedes, scorpions, and venomous snakes placed on your body to "drive out the poison," and then feeding you a mouthful of blood-stained mud after a human sacrifice—because ancient shamanic doctors believed the blood-mud from sacrificing to ancestors carried the ancestors' blessings.

Of course, shamanic doctors didn't exclusively use these strange methods to treat illnesses; they also used herbs like mulberry roots and leaves, honeysuckle, and fish mint to boil water to treat illnesses.

However, the medicinal efficacy of these primitive, wild herbs was certainly not as good as modern medicine. This also illustrated a problem: sometimes things are not necessarily better just because they are older.

To put it bluntly, there are always people who think that the two ancient divine doctors, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, could really bring the dead back to life; in reality, if you were to really treat illnesses, a common acute upper respiratory infection in the past could have been an incurable disease.

What these divine doctors are most praised for by later generations might not be their medical skills, but the huge contributions they made to medicine, which can be said to have greatly promoted the development of medicine.

Ancient medical skills would appear relatively backward compared to modern ones.

The medical books of the ancient Douluo Continent civilization were the same; Ning Feiliu only recorded some of the rarer prescriptions and medicinal materials, intending to extract the active ingredients, study their medicinal properties, and then use them.

And don't you know, among two of the unprecedented prescriptions and medicinal materials, he really did extract several good medicinal components and researched two brand-new Alchemy Potions.

And in the task of cultivating Immortal Herbs, Ning Feiliu had already researched nine brand-new Alchemy Potions, which are—

A small dose can instantly heal certain external wounds, and a large dose can make the user's body excited for a short time and improve their physical fitness in all aspects, though it causes a slight loss of rationality; Ning Feiliu named this "Glimmer."

The main effect is to restore a portion of a Spirit Master's soul power in a short time, while also accelerating the rate of a Spirit Master's cultivation—the "Spirit Power Recovery Mixture."

An eye-related Alchemy Potion that can greatly improve long-distance vision and observation ability for a short time—"Eagle Vision Potion."

A mental Alchemy Potion that can quickly clear mental fatigue and negative effects—"Purification Potion."

The main effect is to quickly treat physical wounds and restore physical strength—"Life Potion."

An Alchemy Potion that increases one's own speed and reaction speed for a very short time—"Swiftness Potion."

An Alchemy Potion that can increase the degree of absorption and conversion of free soul power in the environment when seeking a breakthrough in soul power, thereby helping one break through—the "Upgrade Potion."

An Alchemy Potion that suppresses the secretion of hormones related to extreme emotions in the body and increases the activity of brain cells and mental power, making the user quite calm—the "Clarity Potion."

An Alchemy Potion that lowers the speed of soul power circulation and the speed of one's own life activities, while simultaneously hiding one's aura, making the user difficult to be discovered—the "Invisibility Potion."

These Alchemy Potions are all quite practical; combined with the previously developed Alchemy Potions, it can be said that basically every medicinal effect is complete.

However, Ning Feiliu is still missing one type of Alchemy Potion to obtain the breeding and cultivation methods for Immortal Herbs, and he already has an idea...

That is, regarding mental power, he is considering extracting biological components from the Spirit Blossom Tree and those mental-type Soul Beasts to research a potion that can increase mental power in a short time, or a potion that can help promote the growth of mental power.

If the Alchemy Potions developed by Ning Feiliu were to be known by others, it would definitely cause a huge sensation.

After all, some of these potions can directly increase combat power; for example, "Glimmer" and "Swiftness Potion" are both direct, solid improvements to combat power.

Others, like the "Upgrade Potion," are equivalent to being able to increase the probability of a Spirit Master's breakthrough. Although it cannot directly increase a Spirit Master's cultivation like the Mysterious Water Pill, increasing the probability is also a very good effect!

How many people have been stuck at a major rank for their entire lives just because of that little bit of probability.

Therefore, while the "Upgrade Potion" seems quite inconspicuous among so many Alchemy Potions, in fact, the effect of this Alchemy Potion is the one that makes people the most crazy for it.

The key is that this "Upgrade Potion" does not have a limit on the number of times it can be used like the "Mysterious Water Pill," where subsequent doses have no effect.

It is just that as cultivation increases, the effect of the potion and the probability of breakthrough will also decrease.

For example, at the Soul Elder level, the potion's effect is one hundred percent, allowing a Spirit Master's breakthrough probability to increase by twenty percent; then at the Soul Ancestor level, the medicinal effect will be reduced by about five percent, only allowing the Spirit Master's breakthrough probability to increase by nineteen percent.

By the time the "Upgrade Potion" reaches the Title Douluo level, the medicinal effect is probably less than one-tenth, and it might only increase their breakthrough probability by less than 1%.

But in any case, the medicinal effect of the "Upgrade Potion" is still very astonishing.

As for the Alchemy Potion side, while Ning Feiliu is rushing to research the last type of Alchemy Potion, he has not forgotten about the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena on the side of the Spirit Fighting Battle.

In One-on-One Soul Fighting, Ning Feiliu can hardly find an opponent, but he can still find opponents for Two-on-Two Soul Fighting and Team Battle Spirit Fight.

After all, his winning streak in Two-on-Two Soul Fighting and Team Battle Spirit Fight has not yet reached the level of being invincible.

And his One-on-One Soul Fighting has already created a record of 44 consecutive wins by one person, unprecedented and likely never to be surpassed.

His legend will continue to spread within the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.

If Ning Feiliu becomes a powerhouse at the Title Douluo level in the future, this legend will spread for a hundred years without fading.

Of course, if he becomes a god... then it will almost certainly be talked about by people for tens of millions of years.

However... it is also possible that no one will know that this is the legend of him, Ning Feiliu.

After all, Ning Feiliu and "Yafei" are not the same person.

And Ning Feiliu does not care about this; he plans to complete his final... one-hundred-win streak today! This is also their strongest opponent after twenty consecutive wins in Team Battle Spirit Fight! At the same time, it seems that because this opponent is very strong, the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena also advertised this Team Battle Spirit Fight very early.

Just like the Spirit Fighting Battle between Ning Feiliu and Yu Tianheng before.

Countless people yearned for it; this Spirit Fighting Battle was advertised two days in advance and arranged at the Central Great Soul Arena of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, and the ticket prices were sold at sky-high prices.

"Yafei, you finally arrived." Oslo looked at Ning Feiliu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, who were walking over slowly, and said carelessly.

"Lingling and I just arrived at the right time; it is you who are too early," Ning Feiliu said casually.

Fighting side by side during this period of time did indeed make the relationship a bit closer, but it was only a bit closer, which did not mean that he had become friends with Yu Tianheng, Oslo, and others.

"That's true... this time it's just another mediocre victory," Yufeng immediately complained, "You insisted on dragging me over so quickly; are you very worried about this Team Battle Spirit Fight?"

(End of this chapter)