Chapter 100: The Perfect Template for the Mount Shu Dao Venerable and the Taiyi Stone; New Functions of the Taiyi Stone

【Your action schedule has been updated.】

【Your planned itinerary includes—establishing Mount Shu.】

【Regarding the branch action of establishing Mount Shu, you wish to recruit a group of outstanding disciples and have them become the face of Mount Shu.】

The 【Mie Changsheng】 interface for Gu Jiangming has updated with a new plan.

【Long Xi is very concerned about you.】

Following a new prompt, Gu Jiangming saw a question mark icon appear above the cute character representing Long Xi.

【She feels that there are some problems with your path of cultivation and wants to try to provide you with help.】

【It is worth mentioning that Long Xi, as a member of the Dragon Race, has never had to give much thought or study to the path of cultivation.】

【Many things come naturally to her; upon reaching a certain age, Long Xi can attain strength unreachable by ordinary people by relying on her outstanding bloodline and innate talent.】

【Nowadays, the only thing limiting her is the meager Spirit Qi in Heaven and Earth.】

【In the absence of long-term nourishment from Spirit Qi, her physical body will suffer irreversible damage and gradually become fragile.】

【The overly thin Spirit Qi, besides preventing Long Xi from freely unleashing her divine abilities—】

【—is also slowly affecting her physical body itself.】

【The Dragon Race is a type of living being that requires the nourishment and feeding of massive amounts of Spirit Qi.】

【By all logic, the Dragon Race should have gone extinct long ago in this era, but due to the power of faith that has persisted for ten thousand years, Long Xi has been able to survive through the long passage of time.】

【Fortunately, the Taiyi Stone within your body can resolve this urgent crisis; the Spirit Qi you release unconsciously can greatly delay the problems appearing on Long Xi.】

【When deprived of the nourishment of Spirit Qi, Long Xi's physical body will enter a state of deep sleep to reduce the natural consumption of Spirit Qi within her, as a means of self-protection.】

【Currently, through her time spent with you, Long Xi has stored a certain amount of Spirit Qi, which ensures she will not suffer depletion in the short term.】

These messages ended.

According to the prompt from 【Mie Changsheng】, Lady Long, with a bewildered expression, found Gu Jiangming, who was sitting in meditation.

What Long Xi needs to do now is help Gu Jiangming find the reason for his cultivation difficulties.

However, Long Xi, whose own cultivation path had always been smooth sailing, did not actually understand the reasons for the difficulties in Human Race cultivation.

After thinking for a moment, Long Xi reached into her sleeve, the "Universe in the Sleeve," and took out a somewhat shriveled fruit that looked like a Zhu Fruit.

The Zhu Fruit Gu Jiangming had seen in the impressions of 【Mie Changsheng】 had a round, plump, and bright red appearance, but the Zhu Fruit Long Xi took out was like a dried-up wolfberry; not only was the fruit small, but its style was also unappealing.

Long Xi was somewhat dejected.

In her little treasure vault, apart from the vast majority of sparkling treasures that were perfectly preserved, fruits like this that she usually loved to eat had all turned into this shriveled appearance.

"This is?" Gu Jiangming looked at Long Xi with some surprise.

"The fruit I usually love to eat the most." Long Xi was full of shame, and at the same time, her mood was a bit low, like a child who had done something wrong.

"I heard it is helpful for the cultivation of your Human Race, so I wanted to take it out to share with you, but I didn't expect it to have already become like this." The dark hair on Long Xi's head drooped, her tone dejected.

The Dragon Race never actually skimps or acts stingy when hosting true guests.

Because they place great importance on their reputation, and giving away something that does not live up to their status is the thing the Dragon Race finds most disgraceful.

Moreover, Long Xi also really wanted to eat a plump Zhu Fruit right now; in that era, a thousand-year-grade Zhu Fruit was the fruit Long Xi liked to eat most.

Regrettably, there is no chance to eat one now.

Usually, Jiu Jiu's household would also prepare some common fruits to satisfy their appetite, but it wasn't that Long Xi was too picky; it was just that fruits without Spirit Qi filling them had no taste to the Dragon Race.

【You have received the Thousand-Year Zhu Fruit (lost Spirit Qi) gifted by Long Xi.】

【Yes/No: Attempt to infuse Spirit Qi via the Taiyi Stone?】

There is such a method?

Gu Jiangming looked at the prompt from 【Mie Changsheng】 and took the Zhu Fruit Long Xi handed to him.

It felt a bit rough to the touch, and the textures and veins of the entire fruit were exposed on the surface, as if it had been sun-dried.

Since 【Mie Changsheng】 prompted that it could be infused with Spirit Qi using the Taiyi Stone, could it be that after infusing sufficient Spirit Qi, this kind of Zhu Fruit could return to its original state?

Gu Jiangming still had many lackluster areas in his development of the Taiyi Stone; after all, this bead residing in his body could be rated as above a treasure by 【Mie Changsheng】, and had even evolved into a great treasure that invisibly improved his own destiny.

He had been focusing entirely on 【Mie Changsheng】 in his daily life, and instead neglected the extra treasures 【Mie Changsheng】 brought him; this was truly not right.

Gu Jiangming touched this Zhu Fruit and, using the memories brought by 【Mount Shu Dao Venerable】, slowly circulated the Taiyi Stone within his body.

A large amount of Spirit Qi converged from Gu Jiangming's heart to the meridians of his hand, and a continuous stream of Spirit Qi overflowed from Gu Jiangming's palm.

This Spirit Qi surged toward the shriveled Zhu Fruit.

The time of an incense stick passed in the blink of an eye. The shriveled Zhu Fruit gradually showed changes from its initially dry and lusterless surface; its skin gained a faint sheen.

The color also gradually began to take on a bright red appearance.

Long Xi's gaze, which had been somewhat dim and lusterless, also lit up with a beam of brilliance.

Gu Jiangming stood for a full hour, and under his painstaking infusion, the thousand-year Zhu Fruit in his hand seemed to be reborn, undergoing a heaven-shaking change.

The brand-new Zhu Fruit began to emit a faint, fresh fragrance, and Long Xi's gaze, which had been fixed on Gu Jiangming, lost its focus.

【After one hour, you focused all your attention on providing Spirit Qi from the Taiyi Stone to the shriveled Zhu Fruit in your hand; this thousand-year Zhu Fruit has finally recovered its former splendor.】

【Your mastery of the Taiyi Stone has improved further.】

【You can try adding the Spirit Qi provided by the Taiyi Stone to your ordinary, simple meals.】

【You can also try adding the Spirit Qi provided by the Taiyi Stone to the well water in the courtyard.】

"So fragrant." Long Xi quietly stared at the thousand-year Zhu Fruit in Gu Jiangming's hand.

"Here you go." Gu Jiangming handed the fruit back.

With Gu Jiangming's current cultivation level, he was not sure if this thousand-year Zhu Fruit would bring hidden dangers, as its quality was too high.

Seeing Long Xi's somewhat greedy look, Gu Jiangming returned the thousand-year Zhu Fruit; this fruit was not his to begin with.

But it must be said that Long Xi is truly a lucky star.

Although she is a bit silly and cute, not knowing how to help him, Gu Jiangming has truly found a new use for the Taiyi Stone.

Moreover, Gu Jiangming also realized that the Spirit Qi within the Taiyi Stone was not the Spirit Qi within Gu Jiangming's own body.

He was merely a party borrowing the Spirit Qi of the Taiyi Stone.

It was not that he was directly using the Spirit Qi within the Taiyi Stone to fight.

The reason why 【Dao Venerable of Mount Shu】 and 【Taiyi Stone】 were a perfect match was because Gu Jiangming, in the 【Dao Venerable of Mount Shu】 state, had a fast enough absorption speed and a high enough capacity limit for Spirit Qi within his body.

This was a powerful template combination.

They achieved each other.

At the same time, he in the 【Dao Venerable of Mount Shu】 state had also, to a certain extent, helped Gu Jiangming develop ways to use the 【Taiyi Stone】 during combat.

As for the current Gu Jiangming, he was developing the role the 【Taiyi Stone】 could play in his daily state.

Clearly, the 【Taiyi Stone】 could not be underestimated in its auxiliary role.

And looking at Long Xi, who had the thousand-year Zhu Fruit handed over to her, she hesitated for a moment before pushing it back, "I still have many Zhu Fruits like this."

"I originally wanted to give it to you to eat, to help you solve the difficulties in your cultivation."

"At a time like this, how could I sneakily eat it myself first."

Gu Jiangming did not expect that Long Xi, despite clearly looking like she really wanted to eat it, could be so stubborn under the current circumstances.

"Do you think I can eat this kind of thousand-year Zhu Fruit without exploding and dying?" Gu Jiangming said sternly.

"Us poor folks can't handle such fine delicacies." Gu Jiangming sighed, "You need to consider more that I am a human, not a dragon."

"If only you could be like me... a dragon." Long Xi took the thousand-year Zhu Fruit and said somewhat reluctantly: "That way, you would be able to eat many, many delicious fruits."

Long Xi looked at her little treasure vault.

She had almost no fruits or medicinal herbs in her hands that were less than a thousand years old.

If Gu Jiangming were also of the Dragon Race, there probably wouldn't be so many troublesome issues.

"Right, I forgot to give you the 'Dragon Aspect Heart Manifestation' and the Taicang Sword again."

"This is our agreement from ten thousand years ago."

That's not right! In the information provided by 【Mie Changsheng】, wasn't the agreement from ten thousand years ago only for a single Taicang Sword? How did a copy of "Dragon Aspect Heart Manifestation" get added?

And Long Xi also picked up this thousand-year Zhu Fruit and took a light bite; beneath the Spirit Qi-filled Zhu Fruit, wisps of Zhu Fruit juice overflowed.

Perhaps because she hadn't tasted a thousand-year Zhu Fruit in too long, the taste of this Zhu Fruit was far superior to before.

A large amount of spiritual power nourished Long Xi's internal organs from then on.

"So sweet."

【The thousand-year Zhu Fruit nourished by the Taiyi Stone has even more marvelous effects.】

【Within one month, as long as Long Xi does not use Spirit Qi in excess, her physical body will be slowly nourished; in the short term, she will no longer fall into a deep slumber, nor will her physical body be damaged over time due to being in an environment lacking Spirit Qi.】

【You have obtained "Taicang Sword" and "Dragon Aspect Heart Manifestation".】

(End of chapter)