Chapter 63: Creating Spirit Art Again

After looting the entire medicine garden, Long Xuan finally left Di Xin's medicine garden reluctantly.

He really had an impulse to pull all the medicine gardens clean, but this was impossible.

First of all, the area of his medicine garden was too small, and he really couldn't put down so many spirit medicines. Even so, he still needed to buy a large piece of cultivated land from his neighbors to fit it.

At the same time, Long Xuan also traded away all the spirit insects on his body, as well as a large number of spirit pills, including quite a few Spirit Gathering Pills.

No way, he plucked half of the fourth-grade spirit medicine from others.

Until all the avatars were covered with storage bags, he smiled and waved goodbye, returning fully loaded.

However, at this time, Di Xin's mood was not beautiful. Looking at the medicine garden she had painstakingly managed for many years, her mood was extremely bad.

Now her fairyland on earth is bald in the east and bald in the west, like a dog gnawing, almost being ruined by Long Xuan. 【63

The once-beautiful paradise is now extremely unsightly; it looks as if it has been ransacked, becoming incredibly ugly.

This was a cozy little home she had spent countless years painstakingly building, but now there is no trace of that warmth left. At this moment, she even has the urge to kill...

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After returning to his medicine garden, Long Xuan immediately began directing his many clones to get to work, transplanting all the spirit herbs he had traded for into the tilled soil.

At the same time, he marked out an area to lay down spirit soil, specifically for planting third-grade and fourth-grade spirit herbs.

Just as usual, the clones worked feverishly, dripping with sweat, while Long Xuan sat to the side acting as the supervisor.

Considering that the central area of the formation was too cold and unsuitable for the growth of most spirit herbs, he had no choice but to use the formation to isolate the central region.

However, this would leave a large empty area in the center, so Long Xuan could only send his clones to buy the surrounding farmland to make up for the lost space.

At the same time, the formation also needed to be expanded, which would require him, the original body, to waste a bit more time.

After finishing all this, he left the clones there to continue working, while he returned to his living quarters, sat down at the table, picked up pen and paper, and began to create his own spirit soil formula.

Spirit soil is a great thing that can accelerate the growth of spirit herbs and overcome the problem of most high-grade spirit herbs failing to adapt to the environment, so he couldn't help but take it seriously.

He absolutely did not intend to use low-grade spirit soil; he only planned to reference the soil-refining process in the formula and apply the template, while all the materials inside would have to be replaced.

He first wrote the four large characters "Spirit Soil Formula" on the paper to tell his golden finger what he wanted to create, and only then did he begin to think about what materials would be appropriate.

He suddenly remembered that when he played games in his past life, bone meal could ripen plants, so without a second thought, he wrote the words "bone meal" on the first line.

Luck was on his side; Long Xuan succeeded just by guessing the first material, and the progress 【0.1%】 appeared out of thin air on the paper.

He smiled slightly...

Time flew by, and two months passed. During these two months, Long Xuan did nothing but grind the spirit soil formula, and these two months were calm and peaceful.

However, there was a small episode with the Lin clone. The Lin clone had been responsible for looking after Long Lao's medicine garden. Long Xuan had not yet developed a spirit technique to hide his cultivation realm, so he drained more than half of the Lin clone's spiritual power, keeping it at an extremely low level so that Long Lao wouldn't notice any flaws.

As expected, Long Lie did come to find him during these two months. He didn't know what it was about, but Long Xuan didn't want to know either. Even if this person appeared very kind, he suspected he was just brazenly coming to beg for wine, so it was best not to meet.

The method to avoid him was very simple: he just ran to tell Long Lao that someone named Long Lie had come, appearing to be here to collect a debt. As expected, Long Lao's expression changed drastically, and he directly activated the formation to blast him out, not even listening to a single word of his explanation.

After being blasted away a few times, Long Lie cursed Long Lao, and after that, he finally never came again.

His life returned to stability.

This day, Long Xuan held a piece of paper, his face showing both excitement and a hint of dissatisfaction.

He had undoubtedly succeeded in creating the spirit soil formula; with that golden finger cheating, there was no possibility of failure, it was entirely a question of how long it would take.

And preparing spirit soil didn't require thousands of materials like refining Gu; less than a hundred types were enough, and the length of the text was mainly in the process of preparing the spirit soil.

So his self-creation of the spirit soil formula this time was surprisingly fast, succeeding in just about two months, and he still felt unsatisfied.

The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that this spirit soil formula was only for superior-grade spirit soil, not extreme-grade spirit soil.

It seemed that superior-grade spirit soil was already the limit in his hands.

It wasn't that he couldn't guess it, but that he was entirely constrained by the materials; it was impossible for him to create extreme-grade spirit soil.

Many materials were either impossible for him to obtain at this stage, or simply didn't exist in this region, and he was powerless to do anything about it.

This superior-grade spirit soil formula could already be considered his limit. Long Xuan sighed slightly in his heart, and could only suppress his dissatisfaction and make do with it.

Perhaps because he used a large amount of bone meal, the spirit soil he created was snow-white in color, looking like winter snow when spread on the ground—spotless, white, and breathtakingly beautiful—so he simply named the spirit soil he created "Pure Land."

Pure Land was sufficient to transplant more varieties of high-grade spirit herbs than red soil, and was enough to triple the growth rate of spirit herbs.

Long Xuan was not very satisfied with the spirit soil he created, not knowing how envious others would be if they knew he had superior-grade spirit soil.

You must know that the entire Far West Region didn't even have medium-grade spirit soil, yet he was still unsatisfied after researching superior-grade spirit soil.

After putting away the Pure Land formula, Long Xuan immediately headed toward his medicine garden.

Since the Pure Land formula had been created, it needed to be prepared as quickly as possible, and such a glorious task as preparing Pure Land naturally had to be handed over to his five great clones.

As soon as he arrived at the medicine garden, Long Xuan was startled by the scene inside. After two months of unremitting efforts by his clones, his medicine garden had finally taken shape and was brand new, possessing the potential of a paradise.

The layout of his medicine garden was the same as Di Xin's, also divided into a garden area, an orchard area, a tea garden area...

The only difference was that his medicine garden was much smaller than Di Xin's, which could be considered a miniature version of Di Xin's medicine garden.

But the medicine garden was equally beautiful, mainly because there were so many flowers; flowers of all colors vied for beauty, and all kinds of rare and famous flowers competed with each other, making it breathtaking.

The entire medicine garden was filled with the fragrance of flowers; just taking a deep breath made one feel refreshed and could relieve the fatigue of the day.

Of course, protected by the formation, this scene of an earthly paradise could not be seen by others; only he, the owner holding the array token, could see it.

Once he entered, Long Xuan fell completely in love with this place.

Compared to this, could Long Lao's medicine garden even be called a medicine garden? It simply couldn't compare to his.

His medicine garden was full of weeds, while the spirit herbs planted in his own garden were at least second-grade; there was no harm without comparison, and even a dog wouldn't stay in that medicine garden.

After Long Xuan complained in his heart, he suddenly thought of something, manipulated the array token, and secretly opened a small slit in the barrier in the direction of Long Lao's medicine garden.

The noses of spirit beasts and spirit insects were indeed far stronger than those of humans; despite being so far apart, that group of spirit bees could actually smell the fragrance of the flowers here.

You must know that the spirit flowers in this medicine garden were at least second-grade, especially since Long Xuan had specifically transplanted several cherry blossom trees, all of which were fourth-grade, and there were countless fruit trees in full bloom.

One could imagine the attraction the fragrance of high-grade spirit herbs had for spirit bees.

So, from far away, Long Xuan heard a buzzing sound. That group of spirit bees, which had developed to a scale of thousands, had noses that seemed to have navigation installed; their eyes were shining with excitement, as if they had seen treasure, and they flew crazily toward this side.

Soon, the swarm of bees swarmed into the slit opened in the barrier, and then threw themselves headlong onto the fourth-grade spirit flowers inside.

Especially those few fourth-grade cherry blossom trees, which were their main targets; one by one, they burrowed into the flower buds and never came out again.

There were third and fourth-grade spirit flowers everywhere here, which had a fatal attraction for them. This was simply heaven for them; once they entered, they never wanted to leave again.

Compared to Long Lao's medicine garden, this was their true paradise. Long Lao's medicine garden was really too barren, full of first-grade weeds and wild flowers; even a dog wouldn't go there, so Long Lao's medicine garden was shunned once again.

Once the spirit bees entered, they refused to leave, with no intention of returning to their hive at all. They actually started building a nest on the cherry blossom branches, clearly intending to live here for a long time.

Not a single spirit bee returned to the original hive, which was considered completely abandoned and discarded by them.

Seeing these industrious little bees busy in the medicine garden, Long Xuan was in a great mood and smiled slightly.

He had felt that something was missing in the medicine garden just now, and now he finally knew: what was missing was vitality, the breath of animals.

Without living creatures, no matter how beautiful the medicine garden was, it was lifeless. Now with the arrival of the spirit bees, the medicine garden finally had a bit more of the breath of life.

Suddenly thinking of something else, he hurriedly ran to the center of the medicine garden. In the center of the medicine garden, naturally, the Ice Mountain Snow Lotus was planted.

The Ice Mountain Snow Lotus seemed to be growing faster next to the Cold Ice Divine Flame. Now its lifespan progress was 50%, yet it had already promoted to a ten-thousand-year spirit herb using only half of its lifespan. From this, it could be judged that its lifespan was twenty thousand years.

That's right, at this time the thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus had successfully promoted to a ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus, becoming the only ten-thousand-year spirit herb in this medicine garden.

Around it, there was also a small patch of cold-loving spirit herbs planted here, which Long Xuan had specifically bought to keep it company, fearing it would be lonely.

He always felt it was a waste not to plant something in such a large open space, so he specifically bought quite a few ice-type spirit herbs that could only be planted in cold environments.

If one were to ask which spirit herb in the entire medicine garden had the highest value, it would undoubtedly be this ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus.

Among all fourth-grade spirit herbs, the Ice Mountain Snow Lotus could be considered the most famous and valuable, and it had also been promoted to ten thousand years, making it the oldest in the entire medicine garden; it was well-deserving of being the treasure of the garden.

The Ice Mountain Snow Lotus belonged to the flower-type spirit herbs that spirit bees loved most. The spirit bees naturally knew their stuff, knowing that it had the highest grade and the longest age, and that the nectar source was also the best; the honey made from ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus nectar must also be the most fragrant.

But they flew back and forth anxiously around the ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus, yet not a single spirit bee dared to fly in.

This ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus was simply too cold, and ordinary spirit bees could not bear the cold air it released.

Anyone who flew onto the Ice Mountain Snow Lotus to collect nectar would surely be frozen stiff, so no spirit bee dared to take the risk of being frozen to death to fly over.

But people die for wealth and birds die for food; there were always those who were greedy and didn't care about their lives.

At this moment, there was indeed a little one who wasn't afraid of death, not even wanting its life for the sake of a little food.

It flew over from far away, without slowing down, and then plunged headlong into the flower bud of the Ice Mountain Snow Lotus.

Long Xuan's eyelids twitched.

Good fellow, this little one is truly brave, a stubborn little thing! I think it has the potential of a Bee King!

Long Xuan developed quite an interest in this spirit bee. He wondered if this spirit bee, which dared to challenge it, could evolve into a Bee King after eating the honey made from ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus nectar; he couldn't help but look forward to it.

However, he soon couldn't look forward to it anymore. This gluttonous ghost went in and started collecting nectar crazily, shivering all over from the cold but not stopping, completely unaware of when to quit.

By the time it had collected all the nectar of the ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus and wanted to fly up, it discovered that heavy layers of ice had formed on its wings at some point, and it couldn't fly at all.

It could only flap its little wings desperately, but it was powerless, anxious there, and could only let its vitality slip away bit by bit in its body.

Long Xuan shook his head. This little fool didn't seem capable of taking on the heavy responsibility of a Bee King; could it handle the position of Bee King?

Helpless, he reached out and took this frozen spirit bee out of the heart of the ten-thousand-year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus, then placed it on the ground, at least letting it save its life.

This half-dead frozen spirit bee lay on the ground for who knows how long before it recovered, and then, forgetting the danger just now, it excitedly flew tremblingly toward the unfinished hive.

Looking at this spirit bee on which he had pinned high hopes, Long Xuan suddenly thought of something again.

"Right!"

He hurriedly rushed out of the medicine garden and then ran toward Long Lao's medicine garden.

Not long after, he walked back holding a large hive half the height of a person, his expression excited, his mouth unable to close from joy.

The large hive was heavy, full of honey, almost overflowing.

Now that the group of spirit bees had a better choice and didn't want this hive, wouldn't all the honey inside this hive belong to him?

After waiting for so long, he could finally drink delicious spirit honey!

So after he came back, he drank honey water happily while continuing to supervise, and even added some ice cubes.

The superior-grade spirit soil formula had already been created, and now he needed his clones to buy materials everywhere, and then prepare it into Pure Land to spread widely in the medicine garden.

This was a major project, time-consuming and laborious, and he didn't know how long he would have to wait until completion.

Long Xuan didn't stay idle either; he took out a table and chairs from his storage bag, took out pen and paper, and planned to design a second supporting spirit technique for the "Ten Extremes Scripture" while his clones were preparing the spirit soil.

He actually already had a plan for the type of the second supporting spirit technique.

His offensive means were insufficient; it could be said that his offensive means were very singular. He lacked group attack ability, so he wanted to develop a group attack spirit technique.

And among the five elements, the destructive power of fire was the strongest, so he planned to design an ability that could release fire attacks. Although this attack method was simple, it was absolutely the most practical.

Smelling the fragrance of flowers and drinking honey water, his thoughts flowed like a spring, his inspiration burst forth, and in a short time, many magical ideas flooded into his mind.

A spirit technique that releases fire could be said to be the most ordinary spirit technique; it could be said to be a brain hole that everyone could think of, and there were also many similar spirit techniques. Long Xuan knew the principles completely.

But he didn't want a spirit technique that many people knew; he wanted to stand out, to be different, to stand out among the many fire-type abilities, and this required him to use his brain well.

He didn't think for long; since it was a supporting spirit technique, it must make full use of the five attributes.

And since he wanted to develop a fire-type ability, it must be based on the fire attribute, with the other four attributes as support.

And under the assistance of the four attributes, the fire must be able to play a strengthening role.

How to use the other attributes to achieve this effect was actually not difficult. It was the same old routine: use one of the three major cycles of the five elements, the mutual generation cycle.

However, since it had to be based on the fire attribute, the cycle route of the five elements should be:

Earth → Metal → Water → Wood → Fire

A single fire might not be strong, but what if wood was used as fuel?

What if wood then used water as fuel?

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Starting with the initial earth, then layer by layer as fuel, until the final fire, how strong would this final fire be?

How powerful would a fire-type spirit technique released with this kind of fire be?

Long Xuan dared not imagine, and couldn't estimate it at all.

But it must be absolutely terrifying, and it could definitely stand out among the many fire-type abilities.

(End of chapter)