Chapter 16 - Pill Recipe

  "It seems that this dark marrow ganoderma does not like light, and its growth environment also requires decayed spiritual wood."

  Lu Xuan judged based on the prompts that appeared in his mind.

  "It's quite simple to dislike light. Although it is not easy to move it into the house due to the spiritual field and spiritual soil, we can build a simple shed for it to block the light."

  "But it's hard to find decayed spiritual wood. Spiritual wood is quite common, but who has that kind of decayed spiritual wood at home?"

  Lu Xuan thought in his heart, while taking out tools from home, and built a simple wooden shed around the dark marrow ganoderma.

  After all, it is a second-grade spiritual plant. The faster it is planted, the sooner it can be harvested. He didn't delay any longer and decided to go out and look for it first.

  He walked all the way to the center of the town, and half a minute later, he came to a huge courtyard.

  Looking over the stone wall, you can vaguely see dense and tall spiritual trees planted inside.

  The owner of the courtyard is a cultivator named Zhou, who has the cultivation level of the third level of Qi training. Lu Xuan had only heard of him before and rarely had the opportunity to deal with him.

  It is said that this monk surnamed Zhou has a close relationship with a high-level cultivator in the center of the town, so he can occupy such a large courtyard and plant so many spiritual trees.

  Decayed spiritual trees are either encountered by insects during the planting process, or stored for too long, or without good storage conditions, which causes the nature of the spiritual wood to change and decay.

  This monk surnamed Zhou planted a large number of spiritual trees, and it is possible that he has rotten wood at home.

  He walked forward and a young monk came out to greet him.

  Lu Xuan stated his purpose, and the young monk took him to the monk surnamed Zhou.

  The young man walked up to his father, the monk surnamed Zhou, and whispered a few words.

  "My name is Zhou Yuan. What's your name?"

  "Lu Xuan."

  "Hello, Taoist Lu. I heard from my son that you want to ask if there are any decayed spiritual trees in my house. What can you do for them?"

  "To be honest, Senior Zhou, I have some experience in cultivating spiritual plants recently. I want to find the decayed ones to verify a guess. I heard that Senior Zhou has a very high level in cultivating spiritual trees, so I want to come and try to see if there are any decayed trees."

  Lu Xuan replied half-truthfully.

  "I see."

  Zhou Yuan nodded, his expression unchanged, and it was unclear whether he believed it or not.

  "Due to various factors, there are indeed a few decayed spiritual trees in my house."

  Zhou Yuan told his son a few words and took out a few spiritual trees from the warehouse behind the yard.

  The spiritual trees were tattered on the outside and exuded a decayed and unpleasant smell.

  "If you want it, take it, Brother Lu."

  "It's just that cultivating spiritual trees requires more manpower and material resources than cultivating ordinary spiritual plants. Even if these spiritual trees are decayed, they still have some value."

  "Two spiritual stones, and these three spiritual trees can be taken away by Brother Lu."

  Lu Xuan frowned.

  "Since the spiritual wood has decayed, it means that it has lost its original purpose. Three useless pieces of wood still need two spiritual stones. Isn't that a bit unfair?"

  He knew that the other party didn't know the real purpose of the decayed spiritual wood. With this information gap, Lu Xuan was full of confidence.

  "One spiritual stone, just consider it as me helping you deal with the waste wood."

  Zhou Yuan was just testing Lu Xuan's bottom line. Seeing his attitude, he didn't insist and nodded in agreement.

  These abandoned spiritual woods are usually buried in an uninhabited place outside the market when a certain number of them are found. It is already quite good to be able to exchange for one spiritual stone.   

  The two reached an agreement. After Lu Xuan delivered the spirit stone, he returned home with three abandoned spirit trees.

  In the yard, under the cover of the simple wooden shed, the dark red mushroom seemed to be blending into the shadows.

  Lu Xuan hurriedly took out three rotten woods and carefully placed them around the dark marrow spirit seeds.

  When he came back from performing a round of spiritual rain, he found that the dark marrow spirit seeds had changed significantly.

  The root of the mushroom, perhaps attracted by the special smell of the rotten spirit wood, quietly bred many tiny dark red hyphae.

  The dark red hyphae spread into the rotten wood, and Lu Xuan seemed to feel that the color of the dark marrow ganoderma became deeper, and the flow of the viscous liquid in the blood vessel-like channel inside accelerated by two points.

  After successfully planting the dark marrow ganoderma, Lu Xuan finally felt relieved.

  In the next period of time, he basically stayed at home, spending most of his time carefully cultivating spirit plants, and the rest of the time practicing some skills and techniques, and familiarizing himself with the use of the still incomplete silver-breaking blade.

  In the meantime, he also went to the independent cultivators' market twice, to see if he could find one or two unknown spiritual seeds at the stalls while the independent cultivators who had reclaimed the secret realm were back.

  Unfortunately, the stalls that occasionally sold spiritual seeds were all common spiritual seeds that Lu Xuan was familiar with.

  The spiritual field in the yard was so small that it was already packed with people, leaving no room for other spiritual plants.

  Twenty spiritual fireflies were entering a rapid growth stage, and the two Eclipse Moon trees had more than half of their Eclipse Moon fruits ripe.

  A first-grade red cloud pine did not require a high spiritual environment, and only needed to be stimulated by the fireball technique from time to time. A

  second-grade sword grass required the Gengjin sword technique and the spiritual rain technique, and a second-grade dark marrow ganoderma, whose nutrients mainly came from rotten spiritual wood, did not need Lu Xuan to use the spiritual rain technique to nourish it. It

  was enough to use the spiritual rain technique and the earth-inducing technique to keep the rotten wood in a rotten state.

  Looking at it this way, Lu Xuan found that the first-grade spiritual plants in the spiritual field were the least, with only one red cloud pine. The two spiritual seeds he found brought him an unexpected surprise, both of which were second-grade spiritual plants.

  During this period, he harvested five Eclipse Moon Fruits.

  Four were of good quality and one was of superior quality. Of

  the five white light balls he brought, two were fragments of the Cracked Silver Blade. In this way, the magic weapon Cracked Silver Blade was more complete, with only a few small gaps.

  The remaining fourteen Eclipse Moon Fruits, Lu Xuan estimated that there would be no problem.

  There were also two first-grade talismans, namely the Sword Qi Talisman and the Exorcist Talisman, which were both considered quite good among the talismans of this grade.

  As for the superior quality Eclipse Moon Fruit, after Lu Xuan absorbed it, a stream of information appeared in his mind.

  "The recipe for Pei Yuan Dan records the materials and techniques for refining the first-grade elixir Pei Yuan Dan."

  "It's actually a recipe, it's worthy of being a superior quality Eclipse Moon Fruit."

  Lu Xuan was a little surprised. The white light balls that had been opened several times before were all Pei Yuan Dan pills, but this time the recipe was directly revealed.

  Well, it is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. It seems that I need to spend some time learning how to refine pills.

  Lu Xuan thought secretly.

  "It's just that I didn't have any foundation before. If I refine pills from scratch, the probability of failure is high."

  "I don't know if this Eclipse Moon Fruit will produce a recipe for the Peiyuan Pill. If there is a recipe, will it be like the previous Earth Attraction Technique and Gengjin Sword Technique, where repeated absorption will automatically increase the experience of refining pills."

  Lu Xuan looked at the more than ten round and plump Eclipse Moon Fruits hanging among the green leaves, and thought optimistically.

  (End of this chapter)