Chapter 115 – Epiphany, the Powerful Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique!

Chapter 115 – Epiphany, the Powerful Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique!

【The Spirit Dew Technique involves absorbing the dew that condenses on spirit plants each morning. This dew can not only nourish the spirit plants themselves and accelerate their growth, but is also a rare medicinal ingredient that can be used to refine Healing Pills.】

【The next day, you found Luo Shuying and explained the situation to her, giving the secret passphrase and earning her trust.】

【With her help, you obtained medicinal ingredients from the Advent Cult’s treasury. Unfortunately, you were unable to find the herb known as Snow Bone Jade Ginseng.】

【With no other choice, you could only set aside the search for Snow Bone Jade Ginseng for the time being and focus on studying the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique.】

【Over the following months, you attempted to learn the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique and tried to master its two spells. You gained much from studying it and increasingly felt that this Dao art was unfathomably profound.】

【In those few months, you had only grasped the bare basics of the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique — you couldn’t even cast either of the two spells.】

【However, during these months you refined a considerable number of pills, successfully rising to the rank of Elder within the Advent Cult.】

【After becoming an Elder, your time became much freer. You thus devoted yourself even more fully to studying the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique, deciding to first master the Spirit Dew Technique.】

【In the second year, through persistent effort, you finally achieved basic proficiency in the Spirit Dew Technique.】

【Each morning, you rose punctually to harvest the spirit dew that condensed on the Three-Tailed Phoenix Grass and cast the spell.】

【You could feel the Three-Tailed Phoenix Grass thriving, growing far faster than before.】

【Beyond that, the Spirit Dew Technique greatly benefited the other spirit plants in your spirit field as well. The Divine Power Vine grew even more vigorously, the Spirit grain in the spirit field became even more delicious, and even the Spirit-Gathering Flowers, after being treated with the Spirit Dew Technique, could generate even more spiritual energy in return.】

【This motivated you further. Each day you immersed yourself in mastering the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique and studying the Spirit Dew Technique, feeling that the rewards were plentiful.】

【In the third year, one day while you were casting the Spirit Dew Technique, you suddenly felt a stirring in your heart. You seemed able to sense the emotions of every blade of grass and every tree around you. Realizing what was happening, you immediately sat cross-legged to absorb this insight.】

【A day later, you slowly opened your eyes and discovered that your mastery of the Spirit Dew Technique had advanced by leaps and bounds. Your Spirit Dew Technique had successfully crossed into Minor Mastery!】

When Su Xing saw this, joy spread across his face. He couldn’t help but exclaim:

“Holy crap! It finally triggered Spontaneous Epiphany! The probability on this talent is way too low, isn’t it? It takes nearly three or four simulations to trigger it once… That averages out to once every sixty or seventy years…”

“But it’s a bit of a shame. If only it had triggered while refining Divine Power Pills! Then I could have successfully mastered their refinement!”

Su Xing shook his head slightly and turned his attention back to the simulation panel.

【After the Spirit Dew Technique reached Minor Mastery, your speed at cultivating spirit plants increased further. By your estimate, the Three-Tailed Phoenix Grass would need only forty years to mature — the speed had doubled!】

【Each day, aside from farming, you still had plenty of time. You decided to use this time to first complete the Mind-Condensing Pills that Luo Shuying needed.】

【A few months later, you delivered the refined Mind-Condensing Pills to Luo Shuying. She thanked you profusely and placed even greater trust in you.】

【In the fourth year, you felt the time was ripe. Continuing to stay in the Advent Cult would yield no further benefits, and without Demon Emperor blood and flesh to bolster you, your physical strength was improving slowly. You decided to defect from the Advent Cult.】

【It so happened that Luo Shuying had just broken through to Legendary-stage. This gave you even more confidence in your escape, and you planned to find an opportunity to kill Old Dog Zong.】

【You contacted the Great Xia leadership in advance. On the day of your defection, several Protectors and Elders came in pursuit as expected.】

【The only disappointment was that Old Dog Zong still didn’t come. You could only manage to kill a few Protectors and Elders to vent your frustration.】

【After joining the Great Xia Military, you handed over the hundred thousand Essence Nurturing Pills and Organ Tempering Pills you had stockpiled over the years, allowing Great Xia to add twenty thousand Grandmaster-stage powerhouses!】

【At the same time, you began searching through the Great Xia treasury for rare medicinal ingredients, hoping to find leads on Snow Bone Jade Ginseng.】

【You didn’t find Snow Bone Jade Ginseng, but you collected a good number of ordinary spirit herbs. You continued refining medicines for the Great Xia Military.】

【Meanwhile, you split your time between alchemy and studying the Earth Dragon Art.】

【In the fifth year, with your help, Great Xia gained another ten thousand Grandmaster-stage powerhouses and several hundred Heavenly King-stage powerhouses.】

【At the same time, your understanding of the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique deepened further, and you finally achieved basic proficiency in the Earth Dragon Art.】

【You also finally understood what an earth dragon truly was. An earth dragon was actually an earthworm — but one brimming with spiritual intelligence. Under the nourishment of spiritual energy and special cultivation secret arts, these spirit earthworms could even grow to several meters in length, resembling pythons. Only then could they be called earth dragons.】

【Earth dragons were loyal to their masters and would actively help them enrich the soil. Moreover, once you formed a contract with a single earth dragon of sufficient spiritual intelligence, all other spirit earthworms would obey your commands. While they loosened the soil in the spirit field, the growth rate of spirit herbs would increase dramatically.】

【Beyond commanding earth dragons, the Earth Dragon Art could also be actively cast to reshape the structure and terrain of surrounding soil, making it even more conducive to farming.】

【Therefore, the Earth Dragon Art was actually a comprehensive spell — not only could it command spirit pets, it could also cast earth-element techniques, combining offense and defense…】

【In the sixth year, in addition to studying the Earth Dragon Art, you also took the opportunity to study the spirit-gathering formation you had previously learned about. This time, you didn’t just want to understand the principles behind the formation — you wanted to master how to set one up.】

Su Xing marveled inwardly at this.

“The Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique truly is a divine Dao art!”

“Not only does it contain healing spells like the Spirit Dew Technique, it also has techniques for commanding spirit pets like the Earth Dragon Art, and it even encompasses formations like the spirit-gathering formation…”

“If one could fully master the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique, the benefits would be absolutely endless!”

Su Xing shook his head. He had always overlooked this Dao art before — he’d only known it was of a very high grade, but had never carefully studied its intricacies.

Compared to spirit cultivation, the Alchemy Art was obviously a faster way to earn energy and more beneficial for increasing his strength.

But now that he looked at it, spirit cultivation and alchemy were clearly complementary.

Spirit cultivation could improve the growth of spirit plants and the command of spirit pets, which in turn would produce better alchemical ingredients — the benefits were endless!

“The Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique is truly marvelous. What a pity it’s so difficult to learn. If I could master even a portion of it, the rewards would be immense!”

Su Xing thought to himself, silently raising the priority of the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique in his mind.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【You studied the spells within the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique while simultaneously attempting to set up a spirit-gathering formation. The formation proved even more difficult to set up than you had imagined, and it required a large number of spirit stones.】

【Fortunately, you still had the one thousand spirit stones you had been keeping unused. You began attempting to construct the formation.】

【That same year, you exhausted all the Essence Nurturing Grass, Primordial Martial Grass, and other spirit herbs you had brought from the Advent Cult, adding tens of thousands of Grandmaster-stage powerhouses and several hundred Heavenly King-stage powerhouses to Great Xia in total.】

【In the seventh year, the number of spirit stones in your possession dwindled steadily — not from cultivation, but because each failed attempt at constructing the spirit-gathering formation consumed some spirit stones.】

【In just two years, you had fewer than two hundred spirit stones remaining.】

【You could only proceed more cautiously, studying the construction of the spirit-gathering formation with even greater care.】

【In the eighth year, after three years of effort, you finally achieved a basic mastery of the spirit-gathering formation. Using a few spirit stones, you set up a small spirit-gathering formation near the Three-Tailed Phoenix Grass, and its growth became even more vigorous.】

【By your estimate, with the Spirit Dew Technique, the Earth Dragon Art, and the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation all working in concert, combined with your daily use of spiritual energy to accelerate growth and the bonus from your Plant Affinity talent, the Three-Tailed Phoenix Grass would need only twenty to thirty years to mature.】

【In the ninth year, the Great Xia Military slew two Demon Emperors, and you successfully obtained two hundred jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence.】

【Thus, in addition to your daily farming and study of the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique, you began focusing on improving your own cultivation.】

【In the tenth year, after a year of consuming Demon Emperor Blood Essence, your physical strength increased slightly. In just one year, your strength had grown by 200,000 jin, reaching 5,200,000 jin!】

【That same year, you began attempting to refine Divine Power Pills, hoping to get lucky and trigger Spontaneous Epiphany once again.】

【In the eleventh year, as the war at Demon-Sealing Pass continued to intensify, emperor-level powerhouses perished every year, and you now had a steady supply of Demon Emperor Blood Essence.】

【This year, your physical strength reached 5,500,000 jin!】

Su Xing was pleased to see this.

“As long as my strength keeps growing, that’s what matters! Only about a ten percent increase in two years — the pace is a bit slow, but at least it’s steadily increasing. That means this body hasn’t reached its potential ceiling yet!”

Su Xing felt fortunate. The reason he could possess such a high strength ceiling, beyond having sufficient Demon Emperor Blood Essence, was likely because the Divine Strength talent was also a crucial factor.

The better one’s base constitution, the higher the potential ceiling of one’s physical strength.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【In the twelfth year, each day you spent three double-hours refining a batch of Divine Power Pills. You refined them with great care, hoping to trigger the epiphany talent through continuous refinement.】

【That same year, your physical strength increased by 180,000 jin. As your strength continued to rise, you could feel that your potential ceiling was gradually approaching, and the rate of growth was slowing.】

【In the thirteenth year, you continued attempting to refine Divine Power Pills. After three years of attempts, you had only two Divine Power Vines left. You felt the chances of success were growing slim.】

【In the fourteenth year, your physical strength increased by 150,000 jin, bringing your total to 6,000,000 jin!】

【This had already far surpassed Niu Rulie of the past, approaching the legendary strength of the ancient Wu Clan.】

【In the fifteenth year, you consumed Demon Emperor Blood Essence, and your physical strength grew by 100,000 jin over the course of the year. You could feel that your gains were diminishing.】

【One day, while refining Divine Power Pills, an insight suddenly struck you, and you fell into a state of profound, mysterious enlightenment…】

(There will be another chapter at midnight~)