I Practice Farming While the Rest Cultivates

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"After many years of cultivation and a little bit of cultivation level reward from the Light Cluster, I have finally succeeded in breaking through to the Golden Core Late Stage Realm,"

Lu Xuan's lips curved into a smile.

"From just advancing to Core Formation to reaching the Golden Core Late Stage, it took nearly forty years."

"Plus the more than thirty years from the Qi Cultivation Second Layer to just before Core Formation, in a mere seventy years, I went from a small Loose Cultivator at Qi Cultivation to the Golden Core Late Stage Realm."

His heart was filled with many emotions.

"This rate of improvement, even compared to those with an Innate Taoist Body or the reincarnated Great Powers, is nothing to scoff at."

The path of cultivation, from Qi Cultivation to Foundation Establishment, and then to Core Formation, and even each breakthrough after Core Formation, all require one to go through numerous hardships.

But for Lu Xuan, everything seemed so natural.

As if breaking through was as simple as eating and drinking water on a regular basis.

"Being able to reach where I am today, aside from my own diligent practice and hard work, the Light Cluster also played a little bit of a role,"

he thought shamelessly.

"Once I digest and absorb it a bit, I can start to get in touch with Senior Treasure Tower Instrument Spirit."

"That Incomplete Cave Heaven, I've been longing for it day and night."

"Of course, it's not just for that, I mostly haven't seen Instrument Spirit for so long, and I miss it quite a bit."

"Besides, it's about time to prepare for matters related to the Nascent Soul as well,"

Lu Xuan thought to himself.

He planned to start from two aspects.

First, to collect rare treasures that can enhance Infant Formation. Among the many high-grade Spirit Plants I'm cultivating, maybe one or two Treasures will turn up.

Second, in case I break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, to find a subsequent means of cultivation level growth.

It's foreseeable that after the Nascent Soul, the cultivation level rewards from Ice Firefly Grass will be vastly reduced, hence finding a new replacement is especially crucial.

However, Lu Xuan guessed that the Fifth Grade Origin Spirit Ginseng currently planted in the Spirit Field could likely perfectly replace the Ice Firefly Grass.

Thinking this, he then turned his attention to the other treasures.

Among the more than eighty Light Clusters, twenty or so brought cultivation level rewards, giving Lu Xuan's cultivation a boost of more than sixty years.

After refining the Seventh Grade Glazed Red Phoenix Bone, his root bone was significantly improved from before, thus the impact of these more than sixty years of cultivation was a bit greater on him.

Out of the remaining Light Clusters, twenty-four contained Fourth Grade Ice Soul Pills, twenty-eight clusters of Fourth Grade Ice Marrow Spirit Brew, and nine Ice Marrow Spirit Brew Recipe Experience Packs.

After absorbing the Experience Packs, Lu Xuan's skill in brewing the Fourth Grade Spirit Brew improved further; his success rate was terrifying, and its quality was also much higher than other Fourth Grade Spirit Brews appeared on the market.

The remaining twenty or so Ice Firefly Grasses were naturally used to condense Spirit Seeds, so that he could steadily receive cultivation level rewards.

After breaking through to the Core Formation Realm, Lu Xuan did not become complacent but continued, as always, to patrol the Spirit Field, inspecting each Spirit Plant in turn.

When he encountered the Grass Puppet with the Arrow Vine draped over its shoulder, he took out a Nascent Soul Grass Orb from his Storage Bag and inserted it into the gray tumor on the huge head of the Grass Puppet.

Watching the Grass Puppet's body rapidly turn green, Lu Xuan then continued, satisfied, to inspect the other Spirit Plants.

In a relatively secluded Spirit Field,

the pink miasma contained many grey-white tentacles of the Demonic Vine that kept wriggling.

"After the Enchanted Immortal Peach has matured several times, the time it takes to produce Spirit Peaches keeps increasing, and the number is diminishing, I guess it's almost reaching the limit of this Spirit Plant,"

Lu Xuan mused as he looked at the Pink White Spirit Peaches that appeared and disappeared in the pink miasma.

After all, the Enchanted Immortal Peach is just a Grade Three Spiritual Plant, which has been harvested many times already; it cannot live endlessly without end.

He planned to research the Condense Seed Technique for Spirit Peaches during this period to see if this distinctive Spirit Fruit could be improved into a higher rank Spirit Plant.

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Just as he was thinking, suddenly, a silver-white light flashed past his eyes.

Lu Xuan, with his keen eyesight, recognized at once that the light was the afterimage left by a Lingzhi.

The Lingzhi was silver-white in color, its roots looked like bizarre long legs dancing at an extremely fast frequency, its speed astonishing.

"The Flying Thunder Ganoderma has escaped again, where did the Thunder Dragon Behemoth go?"

As Lu Xuan pondered, another flash of silver-white light streaked by.

Streaks of lightning surged over the body of the Thunder Dragon Behemoth as it closely pursued the Sixth Grade Flying Thunder Ganoderma.

Although the Flying Thunder Ganoderma possessed incredibly fast speed and was on the verge of maturation, which normally would make it much faster than the barely adolescent Thunder Dragon Behemoth.

But the Thunder Dragon Behemoth was no ordinary Spirit Beast; it had a special bloodline and was innately adept at the Thunder Escape Secret Law. Even though its growth rate was much slower than that of the Flying Thunder Ganoderma, it still managed to suppress it rigidly.

A few breaths later, Lu Xuan saw the Thunder Dragon Behemoth enter the prohibitions he had laid around the area with the silver-white Lingzhi in its mouth.

To let the Flying Thunder Ganoderma freely express its nature, Lu Xuan had casually laid down the prohibitions without specially strengthening them, providing it with ample opportunities to escape.

After all, with the Sixth Grade Thousand Barrier Xuan Crystal Array and the strict supervision of the Thunder Dragon Behemoth in the cave abode, there was no need to worry about it escaping.

Of course, one couldn't ignore the allure of the two Seventh Grade Yi Wood Green Thunder Vines upon the Flying Thunder Ganoderma as well.

"Even if the cave abode were to be opened up, given the nature of the Flying Thunder Ganoderma, it would not bear to part with those two Yi Wood Green Thunder Vines."

Lu Xuan thought to himself.

"Hmm? The Cicada Wood has started to mature?"

Arriving at the core Spirit Field, Lu Xuan noticed significant changes in the Cicada Wood that had been planted for less than two years.

Not even three feet tall, the semi-transparent trunk suddenly developed faint cracks.

The silent spread of the cracks, slightly bulging outward, seemed to suggest something from within was trying to burrow out.

"Is this... the first shedding of the Cicada Wood? Does this mean that this peculiar and growable Spirit Wood has officially become a First Grade Spirit Plant?"

Lu Xuan carefully observed the strange Spirit Plant that he had acquired unexpectedly at the auction.

Normally, a Non-grade Spirit Plant in the cave abode, with such pure Spiritual Energy and rich Spirit Soil nourishing, might only take a month or two to mature.

Yet this Cicada Wood took over a year to shed and reach the First Grade of a Spirit Plant.

"Perhaps it has a lot to do with the inherent high rank of the Cicada Wood, or maybe shedding isn't equivalent to the common understanding of maturity."

While Lu Xuan speculated, his Spiritual Sense detected a semi-transparent being silently emerging from the crack, the original bark and trunk, like dried cicada wings, fell to the ground and shattered into countless tiny fragments.

A white light cluster quietly appeared, flickering slightly.
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"So, it has been completed so silently on the first attempt?"

Lu Xuan laughed, extending his hand to gently touch the white light cluster.

A thought flashed through his mind.

[Cicada Wood's shedding elevates it to a First Grade Spirit Plant, yielding a Second Grade Treasure, the Hidden Cicada Shell.]

As the thought vanished, a huge semi-transparent cicada shell appeared in Lu Xuan's hand.

The cicada shell was extremely difficult to detect, easily overlooked with a slight inattention.

"When was the last time I obtained a Second Grade Treasure?"

In Lu Xuan's recollection, it had been many years since he last uncovered a Second Grade Treasure. Looking at the huge cicada shell in his hand, an absurd thought crossed his mind.

As he concentrated upon it, he instantly knew the detailed information regarding the cicada shell.

[Hidden Cicada Shell, a Second Grade Treasure originating from the shed exoskeleton of a low rank rare Strange Insect called the Hidden Spirit Cicada, possessing a quite remarkable capability for concealment. It can be refined into magic artifacts similar to gauze clothing to enhance their concealment effect.]