Chapter 22: Delivering Medicine

Long Xuan sighed helplessly and finally decided to put this matter aside for now. Saving so many spirit stones was definitely not something that could be completed overnight; it likely required finding another way.

Long Xuan put away the Ice Cold Divine Flame formula. Pushing the door open, there was a medicine garden full of fragrance. However, because everything planted was all kinds of flowers, it was more appropriate to call it a flower garden.

Today was the day when a batch of spirit herbs matured. Long Xuan needed to pick them and send them to Long Lao's small thatched cottage.

As long as the specified quantity of spirit herbs was handed over in full, Long Lao almost wouldn't come here.

At this time, the fat, big chicken in the garden was still digging soil everywhere, looking for fat insects to eat, making a "cluck-cluck" sound.

Among the flowers, hundreds of spirit bees were busy, shuttling back and forth in the flowers, occasionally drilling into a flower bud, revealing most of their butts.

After so many years of development, the two spirit bees he bought from Taobao had now developed to a scale of hundreds. Don't ask how they reproduced; he didn't pay much attention either.

Originally, he wanted to cultivate a bee queen. There were many methods in this world to evolve spirit bees into bee queens.

But now he found that he wasn't needed at all. It seemed that not all bee species in this world relied on bee queens to reproduce.

Since he bought those two spirit bees back, the two spirit bees saw that there was sufficient nectar source here, so they settled down here, rebuilt their nest, and completely refused to leave. After having sufficient food, they started to reproduce in large numbers.

With the entry of this family, the medicine garden was full of vitality, with bees flying around in the sky and spirit chickens running around on the ground. It was a warm picture, and Long Xuan's life wasn't boring or dull.

However, up to now, although Long Xuan was greedy for spirit honey, he was still wary of the spirit bees' aggressiveness and didn't dare to approach the beehive easily.

Taking eggs and being pecked twice was fine, but being stung by this thing was really uncomfortable.

This thing wasn't an ordinary honeybee from his past life. The spirit bees in this world could sting people to death. Currently, both sides maintained a relationship of "well water not interfering with river water," belonging to neighbors with a decent relationship.

Long Xuan was responsible for planting medicine, and they took the opportunity to take some nectar from the spirit herbs. Neither side broke this balance.

Long Xuan was afraid that after he stole the honey, this thing would hold a grudge, and it would be troublesome for him to come to the medicine garden in the future.

After thinking about it, he still felt that he must cultivate a bee queen. Besides cultivating a bee queen, there was no good way.

As long as he blood-contracted a bee queen, with the ordinary spirit bees controlled by the bee queen, he could absolutely sleep soundly.

Forget it for now. There was a limit to the number of Gu worms a Gu cultivator could possess at the same time. He couldn't blood-contract all the ordinary spirit bees.

Just at this time, the progress of the spirit herbs that Long Xuan was preparing to harvest all became 100%. The flowers bloomed, emitting an extreme fragrance.

The spirit bees had very sensitive noses. Smelling the fragrance, their eyes immediately lit up, and they immediately flew over buzzing, drilling into the flowers to collect nectar and pollen.

When the nectar and pollen inside were collected, their little legs became heavy again, and they flew back to the beehive loaded with the fruits of harvest.

After they finished their busy work, Long Xuan then harvested all the spirit herbs, replanted them, and took the newly picked spirit herbs to Long Lao to hand in the task.

Long Lao was just needing this batch of spirit herbs to research the Hundred Flowers Pill formula. That's right, another year had passed, and he actually still hadn't researched the Hundred Flowers Pill.

Long Xuan felt anxious for him. He had succeeded in two days.

The maturity period of first-grade spirit herbs was extremely fast. With the assistance of ripening liquid, a batch could basically be harvested every half year. Long Xuan also saw Long Lao once every half year when handing in spirit herbs.

This meeting was only half a year apart.

Long Xuan walked into the thatched cottage and saw that Long Lao wasn't refining pills, so he said: "Long Lao, a batch of spirit herbs has matured. I have already harvested them."

Long Xuan untied the storage bag full of spirit herbs from his waist and then looked at the burly old man lying on the chair.

Long Lao was sitting there reading a book on alchemy. Hearing the sound, he turned his head to look at the person coming and said: "Just put it on the table."

After speaking, he carefully looked at Long Xuan again, slightly revealing a look of surprise.

"You broke through to the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering?" Long Lao asked suspiciously.

"Long Lao's eyesight is sharp, actually seeing at a glance that the junior has broken through. The junior has cultivated for more than ten years to reach the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering, making the senior laugh."

Regarding Long Lao being able to see his realm, Long Xuan didn't feel surprised at all.

An alchemist's soul power was notoriously powerful and could perceive many things. He had never intended to hide anything from Long Lao's eyes.

"No, no, no." Long Lao shook his head and said: "I'm not laughing. Originally, according to my estimation, you should never have reached the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering in your life. Your breakthrough so quickly is what makes me feel surprised."

"Uh? Is the junior's aptitude really that unbearable?" Long Lao's words made Long Xuan feel heartbroken.

"Not entirely."

Long Lao sighed and said: "You possess the Ten Extremes Body, which is rarely seen in ten thousand years. In ancient times, the Ten Extremes Body was the world's number one strange body. The spirit sea is vast, and the spirit power storage is far superior to those of the same rank. It is good at endurance battles and can frequently use big moves without counting consumption."

"The meridians of the Ten Extremes Body are also incomparably wide, far superior to ordinary people. Therefore, for the same spirit technique, the power unleashed by the Ten Extremes Body will far exceed those of the same rank."

"In ancient times, people with the Ten Extremes Body had exaggerated combat power, and they were basically invincible among those of the same rank. So you can be said to be a rare peerless genius in the world."

"But to this day, the cultivation methods for the Ten Extremes Body have long been lost, and the Ten Extremes Body happens to be unable to cultivate other cultivation methods."

"Because the Ten Extremes Body's spirit sea is as firm as a rock. Although the foundation is the strongest in the world, it also leads to greater difficulty in breaking through. The Ten Extremes Body's spirit sea is vast, which is a huge advantage in battles of the same rank, but at the same time, it requires more spirit power to fill the vast spirit sea, leading to a slower cultivation speed."

"So the Ten Extremes Body requires specific cultivation methods to solve these problems. It cannot cultivate other cultivation methods, and the Ten Extremes Body naturally rejects garbage cultivation methods."

"And how fast can the cultivation speed of someone who cannot cultivate cultivation methods be?"

"I'm afraid you only reached the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering so quickly through food supplementation. You should have eaten too many spirit chicken eggs." Long Lao touched the beard on his chin and guessed.

Hearing this, Long Xuan suddenly realized. No wonder he couldn't cultivate any cultivation methods except for the health preservation method. It turned out the reason was here.

But he still didn't understand and couldn't help but say again: "Isn't it just that the cultivation methods are lost? Wouldn't it be fine to create a new one?"

Long Xuan was completely standing and talking without back pain at this time, not understanding at all how difficult it was for others to create cultivation methods.

Long Lao blew his beard and stared, saying: "Thinking is easy. What do you think top-level cultivation methods are? You can create them just by saying so? Even the world's number one strong person in the Gu world today wouldn't dare to say they have the ability to create top-level cultivation methods."

Long Xuan's expression was strange. He didn't know how difficult it was for others to create cultivation methods, but he really had the ability to create cultivation methods. So he tentatively asked: "Suppose, I'm just saying suppose, suppose I really happened to create a cultivation method that can cultivate the Ten Extremes Body? Then wouldn't I be able to become the world's number one genius?"

Long Lao looked at him with a weird look, both angry and amused, and said: "Truly young and ignorant. You really dare to think, and 'happened to'? I'll 'happen to' your big head."

"There are indeed capable people with the talent to create cultivation methods, but those are peerless geniuses rarely seen in a hundred years. And the possessor of the Ten Extremes Body is rarely seen in ten thousand years. What is the probability of combining these two talents? Can a person who is both a Ten Extremes Body and has the ability to create cultivation methods exist?"

"Even if such a coincidence really appeared, a person with the Ten Extremes Body wouldn't have the opportunity to grow up at all. And if they can't grow up, how can they talk about creating cultivation methods?"

"This is a vicious cycle. Rest assured, the person with the ability to create cultivation methods absolutely cannot be you. Hurry up and give up!"

(End of chapter) Chapter 23