Chapter 190: 190. Chapter 188: One Hundred Thousand Year Kongming Grass

190. Chapter 188: One Hundred Thousand Year Kongming Grass

Looking at the Kongming Grass before him, Li Xuan suddenly thought of something.

He hadn't used today's Green Spirit Liquid yet; if he used it to nurture the Kongming Grass, it should be enough to cultivate it to a hundred thousand years of cultivation.

But just as Li Xuan began to summon the Green Spirit Liquid, he hesitated instead. If he really cultivated the Kongming Grass into a hundred-thousand-year soul beast...

A hundred-thousand-year soul beast was different from ordinary soul beasts. Not only was its intelligence extremely high, its power was also exceptionally domineering. Moreover, the Kongming Grass possessed the even stronger attribute of space, making its combat strength far surpass soul beasts of the same level.

Li Xuan worried that if he really cultivated the Kongming Grass into a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, he wouldn't have the corresponding power to control it, and it might easily backfire on him.

Li Xuan hesitated for a moment, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Didn't he have his little brother Bangchui? As a transformed soul beast, he should be the one who best understood the Kongming Grass's current state.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan directly left the space of the Heavenly Pillar Bottle and found Bangchui, who was cultivating in the Radiant Low Canyon.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Bangchui looked at Li Xuan's flustered appearance, looked at him with confusion, and asked, while also exiting his cultivation state.

"I have something to ask you. Come with me." Li Xuan saw that Bangchui had already exited his cultivation state, so he directly reached out, grabbed Bangchui, and entered the space of the Heavenly Pillar Bottle together.

"Brother, what exactly is it?" Bangchui looked at Li Xuan blankly and asked curiously.

"I have a medicinal herb that's about to break through to a hundred thousand years of cultivation. Help me see if it has intelligence." Li Xuan pointed at the Kongming Grass by the Hot Spring and asked Bangchui.

After hearing Li Xuan's words, Bangchui was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, were hundred-thousand-year soul beasts a dime a dozen now, everywhere?

Bangchui followed the direction of Li Xuan's finger and saw the palm-sized Kongming Grass.

As a soul beast, Bangchui could sense the aura emanating from the Kongming Grass.

But this aura was exceptionally pure and vast, not only no weaker than when he himself was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, but even somewhat stronger.

Bangchui frowned and cautiously approached the Kongming Grass, slowly crouching down.

Next, Bangchui crouched on the ground, stared at the Kongming Grass before him, and began a communication exclusive to soul beasts.

Li Xuan couldn't understand what he saw or heard, but he still came to Bangchui's side. If the Kongming Grass suddenly attacked, Li Xuan could take Bangchui and leave this place immediately.

Time passed minute by minute. Bangchui's frown grew deeper and deeper. Finally, he looked at Li Xuan with a pained expression, his face full of confusion.

"Brother... he... is he an idiot?" Bangchui blinked, looking innocent as he asked Li Xuan.

"Huh?" Li Xuan was also stunned when he heard Bangchui's words.

"This guy has no intelligence at all, not even a normal reaction. It's like an ordinary weed that hasn't evolved into a soul beast yet." Bangchui frowned and explained his words to Li Xuan.

After hearing Bangchui's words, Li Xuan also frowned.

The Kongming Grass's current state was not what Li Xuan had anticipated.

Even the Immortal Grade spiritual plants living in the Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan eventually awakened their intelligence and transformed into human form.

The Kongming Grass cultivated in his Heavenly Pillar Bottle's space actually had no intelligence. This was unreasonable...

Could it be because the Kongming Grass had always been a product cultivated by him using the Green Spirit Liquid, and couldn't develop intelligence? "Brother, I can feel the powerful energy inside its body, but it seems to have no soul. It's really too strange. How did it get such powerful energy?" Bangchui carefully observed the Kongming Grass again, then said to Li Xuan.

"I'm not sure about that. Alright, Bangchui, go out and play." Li Xuan patted Bangchui on the shoulder, then sent Bangchui out of the Heavenly Pillar Bottle's space.

After hearing Bangchui's words, Li Xuan decided that the Kongming Grass could be cultivated into a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. After all, since it currently had no intelligence, even if it became a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, its intelligence wouldn't be too high.

However, cultivating a hundred-thousand-year soul beast had certain risks, which was why Li Xuan had sent Bangchui out of the Heavenly Pillar Bottle's space.

Although this thing had no intelligence, Li Xuan didn't let his guard down either.

He reached out and set up a small Burning Heart Seal. The Fenxin Array was filled with three types of flames, giving the Fenxin Array triple damage.

Although this method couldn't kill a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, the array's most special ability was to disturb the mind. If a problem arose during the Kongming Grass's evolution, Li Xuan could cause the Kongming Grass's breakthrough to fail at the most critical moment. At the same time, Li Xuan also pinched the Great Teleportation Talisman, ready to leave the Heavenly Pillar Bottle's space at any moment.

After making preparations, Li Xuan slowly reached out his hand. With a thought, a drop of Green Spirit Liquid appeared out of thin air in Li Xuan's hand.

"Come on, let me see the power of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast!" Li Xuan's expression was solemn as he dripped the Green Spirit Liquid onto the Kongming Grass.

As the Kongming Grass absorbed the Green Spirit Liquid, all its leaves began to tremble and rustle.

Li Xuan quickly stepped back two paces, putting some distance between himself and the Kongming Grass to ensure he had enough reaction time.

As the Kongming Grass's leaves gently trembled, the surrounding Spiritual Energy began to converge toward it. However, since the Kongming Grass was only breaking through to a hundred thousand years and hadn't reached an earth-shattering level, it was just a small scene inside the Heavenly Pillar Bottle.

"Breaking through to a hundred thousand years of cultivation requires a massive amount of energy. With the dense Spiritual Energy here and the support of the Green Spirit Liquid, the Kongming Grass's breakthrough shouldn't fail, right?" Li Xuan stepped back two more paces, then frowned and stared at the Kongming Grass before him.

After all, a soul beast breaking through to the hundred-thousand-year realm was very dangerous and difficult, so Li Xuan wasn't sure if the Kongming Grass could succeed.

After absorbing the dense surrounding Spiritual Energy, the Kongming Grass actually began to continue growing, slowly rising from its original one meter in height to one and a half meters, and its leaves also expanded several times.

Importantly, the flower bud at the top of the Kongming Grass also began to tremble slightly, as if it might bloom at any moment.

Li Xuan didn't relax. He held the Great Teleportation Talisman and was ready to leave the Heavenly Pillar Bottle's space.

"Pop..."

A faint sound came from the flower bud. The next second, the bud bloomed, and a faint, subtle fragrance emanated from within.

"So fragrant..." Li Xuan sniffed lightly, and his eyes lit up.

The fragrance emitted by the flower the Kongming Grass produced was a faint scent similar to chrysanthemum, but not exactly chrysanthemum—very unique.

Before Li Xuan could smell it for two minutes, the petals slowly withered, turning into dried petals that scattered on the ground, and the refreshing fragrance disappeared with them.

In the place where the flower had been, there was now a pearl the size of an eyeball. The outside of the pearl was transparent and flawless, while the inside was pitch black, just like a human eyeball and pupil.

"Good stuff. I just wonder what a hundred-thousand-year Kongming Grass will be like." Li Xuan looked at the Kongming Eye and nodded with satisfaction. No matter what use it had, it already looked beautiful in appearance.

After the Kongming Eye grew to maturity, the Kongming Grass began to break through its cultivation.

The surrounding Spiritual Energy poured into the Kongming Grass again. After absorbing a large amount of Spiritual Energy, all its leaves began to curl inward, contracting into a huge ball of grass. The stem was directly crushed, and it landed steadily on the ground, motionless. "What's this situation? Did the breakthrough succeed?" Li Xuan frowned and muttered, while casting a Medicine Appraisal Technique.

The Medicine Appraisal Technique should be able to identify the specific condition of this Kongming Grass.

【Plant: Kongming Grass (Special)】

【Quality: Heavenly Material Earth Treasure】

【Cultivation: 99,999 years (increasing)】

【Description: An Ordinary Heavenly Material Earth Treasure, a rare Heavenly Material Earth Treasure possessing the space attribute. Produces one Void Pearl every hundred years, each Void Pearl containing three cubic meters of space. Produces one Kongming Crystal every thousand years, each Kongming Crystal containing one hundred cubic meters of space. Due to absorbing a large amount of Spiritual Energy, it has undergone evolution. After blooming, it can produce a Kongming Eye. Kongming Eye attributes unknown, cannot be used as medicine, cannot be consumed.】

【Status: Under the influence of an unknown factor, a sudden evolution has been triggered. Evolution success rate: thirty percent. Evolution completion: thirty percent.】

"As expected, the Medicine Appraisal Technique is reliable. You can see the progress clearly." Li Xuan rubbed his chin and said with a smile.

Under normal circumstances, Kongming Grass cannot break through 100,000 years; this is a limitation of its innate talent, but Li Xuan used Green Spirit Liquid to break that restriction, so Kongming Grass now has a chance to break the 100,000‑year realm and it also produced a Kongming Eye.

Li Xuan slowly turned off the Light Screen, kept his gaze on the Kongming Grass, his spirit highly focused, fearing to miss any change.

After another half hour, the leaves on the surface of the Kongming Grass suddenly began to wither.

"What? Did it fail to breakthrough?" Li Xuan looked at the suddenly mutated Kongming Grass, raised his eyebrows in puzzlement; despite the abundant Spiritual Energy here and the aid of Green Spirit Liquid, the Kongming Grass actually failed to evolve!

The Kongming Grass's leaves withered rapidly, then fell off.

As the leaves fell one by one, a palm‑sized, crystal‑clear black sprout, resembling glass, appeared where the Kongming Grass had just been.

The sprout was as crystal‑clear as a crafted artifact, dazzling and brilliant, exquisitely wrought; every vein on its leaves looked as if finely carved, appearing unusually delicate and soft.

Seeing the Kongming Grass before him, which had broken through cultivation yet shrank, Li Xuan was also stunned for a moment.

It was not the 100,000‑year soul beast of the reverse Heavenly Stem as imagined.

Nor was it the baby‑like creature imagined after breaking the 100,000‑year barrier.

The Kongming Grass had actually turned into a work of art.

This was something Li Xuan had not imagined.

So Li Xuan employed a Medicine Appraisal Technique on the plant: Kongming Cave Heaven Grass.

Quality: Immortal Grade.

Cultivation: 100,000 years.

Description: Due to special reasons, Kongming Grass simultaneously absorbs massive Spiritual Energy to evolve; after evolution its original abilities remain unchanged. For every increase of 100,000 years of cultivation it can generate a Kongming Eye. Kongming Eyes can devour each other, forming a larger space that contains a Cave Heaven Space; one can enter the Cave Heaven Space through a Kongming Eye.

"Cave Heaven Space? What is that?" Li Xuan raised an eyebrow and muttered.

Then Li Xuan bent down, picked up the Kongming Eye from the ground and tucked it into his chest; there was no time to study the Cave Heaven Space now, he needed to determine whether this thing possessed Spiritual Intelligence.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan without hesitation leapt out of the Palm Heaven Bottle's space and found Bang Chui, who was reading a book.

"Brother, something again?" Bang Chui calmly put down his book, gave Li Xuan a disgruntled glance and said.

"Smart!" Li Xuan, unreserved, directly pulled Bang Chui into the Palm Heaven Bottle's space.

Bang Chui glanced at the spot where the Kongming Grass had been, but the next second he hurriedly ran over, nervous.

"This… this really is a 100,000‑year soul beast! Brother, what exactly did you do to it?" Bang Chui, shocked, looked at the Kongming Grass before him, his tone full of doubt and confusion.

As a 100,000‑year soul beast, Bang Chui could say he understood well the difficulty of a soul beast breaking through cultivation, and the most dangerous and crucial step is the leap from 99,999 years to 100,000 years—a qualitative change.

Bang Chui believed that the Kongming Grass's breakthrough was not achieved by the grass itself, but by something Li Xuan had done to it.

"First tell me what state this thing is in now," Li Xuan did not answer Bang Chui's question, but instead asked Bang Chui.

"It has already successfully broken through the 100,000‑year realm, but it still lacks a soul; however, its body contains an unusually massive force that is evenly distributed throughout its body," Bang Chui raised his head, looked seriously at Li Xuan, and then recounted the Kongming Grass's current condition in full.

"Even after breaking the 100,000‑year barrier, it still has no Spiritual Intelligence…" Li Xuan slowly furrowed his brows; that is, a plant cultivated with Green Spirit Liquid, even after reaching the 100,000‑year realm, still cannot awaken Spiritual Intelligence.

"Just don't know whether it can be absorbed to become a soul ring…" Li Xuan stroked his chin and muttered.

"Brother, you still haven't told me how you made it break the 100,000‑year realm," Bang Chui asked Li Xuan seriously.

"I have a special Spiritual Liquid that can directly increase a plant's cultivation, but you have already transformed into a human form; this thing is useless to you," Li Xuan shook his head and said.

"I see, I wasn't wrong after all; its actual lifespan should not exceed a hundred years, otherwise its Spiritual Intelligence would already be gone. But brother, your method is truly amazing—cultivating a 100,000‑year soul beast in less than a hundred years," Bang Chui said to Li Xuan with excitement.

"In fact, it only took a few months…" Li Xuan sneered as he said to Bang Chui.

"A few months…" Bang Chui, after hearing Li Xuan's words, felt as if the heavens had collapsed.

He had hidden for tens of thousands of years before, only by chance breaking the 100,000‑year barrier, yet Li Xuan could cultivate a 100,000‑year soul beast in just a few months.

Lord Heaven…

So cruel…

"Bang Chui, if you raise your cultivation by this method, do you think you can successfully transform?" Li Xuan patted Bang Chui's shoulder, smiled, and asked.

"Only the power you cannot cultivate yourself is truly yours; if it's this kind of ripening herb, it will forever remain just a herb," Li Xuan said to Bang Chui with a smile.

After hearing Li Xuan's words, Bang Chui felt much more relaxed and gave Li Xuan a serious nod.

(End of chapter)