Chapter 120: The Azure Mystic Fruit Tree
Shen Xiang returned to the Tai Dan Wang courtyard, where he dug a hole in a small yard and buried a Qingxuan fruit, then began dripping dragon spittle on top of it.
These five bottles of dragon's saliva are enough to ripen a golden spirit fruit tree, and at least ten golden spirit fruits can be obtained. They were all collected by Shen Xiang over the past two years. If it doesn't work, then this dragon's saliva will have been wasted!
Shen Xiang quickly finished a bottle, then used his divine sense to explore the internal structure of the Qingxuan fruit. He found that the Qingxuan fruit was slowly digesting the peculiar spiritual energy released by the dragon's saliva, and he knew this would take some time.
Shen Hui returned to his room, took out the ten True Yuan Pills. Although these pills were of high quality, they had little effect on him now. What he needed was Foundation Establishment Pill!
However, he still swallowed it down, taking three pills at once, and then began to refine the medicinal power...
The price of a Zhen Yuan Dan is ten times that of a Zhen Qi Dan, and can be exchanged for 5,000 crystal stones. An ordinary inner disciple only receives 3,000 crystal stones per year, so it's clear that the Zhen Yuan Dan is very expensive. It's also something that a sect must have, as it allows disciples to quickly advance and is a good reward to encourage them.
In the blink of an eye, ten days have passed. Shen Xiang has compressed all the true energy obtained from the ten True Yuan Dan into the White Tiger Beast statue, but it can only make a tiny bit of the true yuan grain inside shine, which is negligible. It can be seen that the amount of true energy required to enter the True Martial Realm is enormous. Shen Xiang spent two years absorbing spiritual energy in the dense and mysterious realm, and with the help of Huang Jintian, the mad immortal, he was only able to make two true yuan grains shine to their limit. If he were to cultivate outside, it would take at least ten years for one grain to shine.
He possesses the yin-yang divine pulse, and his cultivation is also Taiji Down-Dragon Skill. When absorbing spiritual energy, he is many times faster than ordinary people. However, to enter the True Martial Realm, he will need at least a long period of time. If it were someone else, without the help of elixirs, it would be difficult to reach in hundreds of years.
Shen Xiang now understands why there are as many people who reach the 10th level of Mortal Martial Realm as there are hairs on a cow, but those who reach the True Martial Realm are so rare. He had also heard that many young geniuses reached the 10th level of Mortal Martial Realm, but most of them were unable to enter the True Martial Realm and ultimately died in the 10th level of Mortal Martial Realm!
"No wonder Xiao Dao and Lao Zhu were not valued by their families, as it's still uncertain whether they can enter the True Martial Realm even after ten more years! At my current pace, I'll need at least fifteen years to enter the True Martial Realm, which is too long! Xian Xian, that little girl, entered the True Martial Realm over two years ago. What kind of immortal pill did she eat?" Shen Xiang muttered to himself as he gazed inwardly at the three dull True Yuan pellets in his dantian.
"I suspect that Xue Xianxian is also a divine pulse, and the cultivation is also a divine skill. She is a disciple of the leader of Shenbing Tianguo, so she must have taken a lot of foundation-building pills, which is why she can improve so quickly." Su Meiyao said.
For the past two years, Shen Xiang had received news that Xue Xianxian was in seclusion and Leng Yuelan of Icewind Valley was also receiving secret guidance in a secret location within the valley, making it difficult to contact either of them.
"I don't know when that savage woman, Dan Chang Lao, will come out of seclusion. I really want her to help me refine two furnaces of foundation-establishing pills." Shen Xiang sighed lightly, and suddenly he missed this inexplicable woman a little.
Long before, Shen Xiang had heard that the elixirs above the Ta Wu Men's Xuan level were in extremely short supply, and many of them did not exist at all. This was because spiritual herbs were rare, and the difficulty of refining Xuan-level elixirs was very high, making it easy to fail. Even if one managed to painstakingly collect the necessary materials, they would often end up being wasted due to failure.
Therefore, many martial artists from various sects who have accumulated a large number of crystal stones will go to Danxiang Taoyuan. This is where alchemists gather, and although high-grade elixirs are expensive there, they can still be found in abundance. Moreover, one can even entrust some renowned alchemists to refine the elixir for them, with a very low failure rate. This is also why Danxiang Taoyuan is respected by many sects.
Shen Xiang came into the small courtyard with a worried and bitter face, but suddenly saw that on the ground there was a very fine tooth protruding from the soil!
"Haha...... I did it! Now I'm going to have a lot of Qingxuan Fruits!" Shen Xiang excitedly burst out laughing.
"Keep it down!" Su Mei Yao hummed softly, and Shen Xiang also hastily closed his mouth.
Shen Xiang just used one bottle of Long Quan, and that Qingxuan fruit sprouted, he still has four bottles left.
He took out a bottle of dragon's saliva and carefully dripped it onto the sprout, while using his divine sense to observe the sprout's condition, seeing how quickly it absorbed the dragon's saliva.
The speed was incredibly fast, and in just a short half-hour, he had already consumed an entire bottle of Dragon's Saliva. Previously, it took him ten days to use up that Qingxuan fruit!
The special power of the dragon's saliva made the sprout absorb the dense spiritual energy in the mysterious realm crazily, accelerating its growth. Half a time unit passed, and the sprout turned into a small sapling.
Shen Xiang was excited at this time, once he could own a large number of Qingxuan fruits, he could sell one and use those crystal stones to buy other medicinal materials, allowing him to learn how to refine higher-level elixirs.
Su Mei Yao once said that the minimum requirement for refining Zhu Ji Dan is to be able to refine at least a high-grade Ling-class pill! The difficulty of refining Zhu Ji Dan is not high, but it has very good effects, and the medicinal materials are extremely rare, making it a lower-grade Xuan-class pill.
Another half-hour passed, Shen Xiang used up another bottle of Dragon's Saliva, and the small tree had grown to his waist. The leaves on this tree were all round in shape, with clear veins on the surface, and inside flowed a green spiritual energy.
By dusk, Shen Xiang had used up all the dragon saliva, and that tree was as tall as two people. Su Mei Yao often imparted knowledge about spiritual trees, spiritual flowers, and spiritual grasses to Shen Xiang. In Shen Xiang's impression, there were very few spiritual trees that grew so tall, while most were small trees only one person high.
"It's troublesome if Dan Changlao sees it." Shen Xiang started thinking about how to deceive Dan Changlao, after all this tree looked very unusual, just that kind of peculiar spiritual energy was very eye-catching.
The Qingxuan fruit tree has not yet borne fruit, Shen Xiang still needs to continue collecting dragon tears. He is no longer cultivating now, and he concentrates his energy day and night to condense the dragon tears!
Before, he was at the bottom of that big pit, because Huang Jintian supervised him in his cultivation all day, so it took him two years to collect five bottles. But now it's different, he focuses on operating the Dragon Saliva Technique to condense the dragon saliva, and now he is a cultivator of the Mortal Martial Realm at the tenth level, condensing a large amount, in just five days there is one bottle, but it was used up all at once.
Ten days passed, Shen Xiang used up another bottle on the Qingxuan fruit tree. The Qingxuan fruit tree had bloomed with a kind of big flower that shone with a green light, extremely beautiful, especially at night.
This made Shen Xiang extremely excited, he believed that it wouldn't be long before he could welcome a big harvest, although there were only twenty of them, but it was enough.
Shen Xiang secretly estimated that his dragon saliva had accelerated the growth of this Qingxuan fruit tree by at least 3,000 years!
Another bottle of dragon saliva, at this time the flowers have already wrapped up and are condensing into fruit, and the spiritual energy absorbed by this tree is also increasing!
Five days passed, Shen Xiang condensed another bottle of dragon saliva. At this time, his hands were shaking slightly. He dripped the dragon saliva into the tree and then looked up at the flowers on the tree that resembled green lanterns with great excitement.
Time passed bit by bit, Shen Xiang gazed at the branch, and one after another, the Qingxuan fruits appeared like green gems in the deep night, more dazzling than the bright stars in the sky.
