Chapter 16: The Dan Formula
Chapter 16 The Dan Formula
“It looks like this Dark Marrow Ganoderma doesn’t like light, while its growth environment also requires decaying spirit wood.”
Lu Xuan judged based on the hints that appeared in his mind.
“Not liking light is quite simple, although it’s not good to move it inside the house due to the spiritual soil of the spiritual field, you can build a simple shed for it to act as a shade.”
“It’s just that decayed spirit wood will be hard to find. Spirit wood is quite common, just who would have that kind of decayed spirit wood in their home?”
Lu Xuan thought in his mind as he took out tools from his home and built a simple wooden shed around the Dark Medulla Chi.
After all, it was a second-grade spirit plant, and the quicker it was planted, the sooner it could be harvested, so without further delay, he decided to go out and look for it first.
He walked all the way to the center of the workshop, and after half a moment, he arrived in front of a huge courtyard.
As he crossed the stone wall, he could vaguely see that there was a dense plantation of tall spirit trees inside.
The owner of the courtyard was a cultivator surnamed Zhou, with a cultivation level of the third level of Qi Practicing, Lu Xuan had only heard of him before and rarely had the opportunity to deal with him.
It was said that this Zhou cultivator had a close relationship with a high level Qi Practicing cultivator in the center of Fang City, so he was able to occupy such a large courtyard and plant so many spirit trees.
The decayed spirit wood was either infested with pests during the planting process, or stored for too long or without a good storage condition, causing the nature of the spirit wood to change, thus decaying.
This cultivator surnamed Zhou planted a large number of spirit wood, it was possible that he had rotting wood at home.
He walked forward and a young cultivator welcomed him.
Lu Xuan made his intentions known, and the young cultivator led him to the Zhou-surnamed cultivator.
The youth walked up to his father, cultivator Zhou, and whispered a few words.
“My name is Zhou Yuan, I don’t know what young brother’s name is?”
“Lu Xuan.”
“Fellow Daoist Lu, I heard from my canine son that fellow Daoist wants to ask if there is any decayed spirit wood in my house, I wonder what use you have for it?”
“I’m not hiding it from Master Zhou, I’ve recently had some insights on cultivating spirit plants, and I wanted to find that decay to verify a conjecture, and I heard that Master Zhou has an extremely high level of cultivating spirit wood, so I wanted to come over to try and see if there’s any decayed wood.”
Lu Xuan half-truthfully replied.
“I see.”
Zhou Yuan nodded, his expression unchanged, and he did not know whether he believed it or not.
“Due to various factors, there are indeed a few pieces of decayed spirit wood in the house.”
Zhou Yuan exchanged a few words with his son and took out a few pieces of spirit wood from the warehouse at the back of the courtyard.
The spirit wood had a tattered appearance and emitted a rotten and unpleasant odor.
“If little brother Lu wants it, just take it.”
“It’s just that planting spirit trees requires more labor and material resources than planting normal spirit plants, and even though these spirit trees are already decayed, they still have some value.”
“For two spirit stones, these three spirit trees can be taken away by little brother Lu.”
Lu Xuan frowned.
“Since the spirit wood has already decayed, it means that it has lost its original purpose, three useless pieces of scrap wood that have no use and still require two spirit stones, it’s a bit unkind, isn’t it?”
He was clear that the other party did not know the true purpose for which he wanted the decayed spirit wood, and with this difference in information, Lu Xuan had a strong bottom line.
“One Spirit Stone, consider it as me helping you, Fellow Daoist Zhou, dispose of the waste wood.”
Zhou Yuan was only trying Lu Xuan’s bottom line, and seeing this attitude, he didn’t insist anymore and nodded his head in agreement.
These discarded spirit wood usually waited for a certain amount of time, and then found a deserted place outside the workshop to bury it, and to be able to exchange it for a spirit stone was already quite good. The two reached an agreement, Lu Xuan delivered the spirit stone, then returned home with the three discarded spirit wood.
In the yard, under the cover of the simple wooden shed, the dark red fungus seemed to be blending into the shadows.
Lu Xuan hurriedly took out the three rotting logs and carefully placed them around the Dark Marrow Cheese Spirit Seed.
By the time he came back from casting a round of Spirit Rain Technique, he had already noticed that the Dark Marrow Cheese Spirit Seed had changed significantly.
In the root part of the fungus, he wondered if it was attracted by the special odor of the decayed spirit wood, quietly sprouting many tiny dark red mycelium.
As the dark red mycelium spread into the decaying wood, Lu Xuan seemed to sense that the Dark Medulla Chi’s color became even deeper, and the flow of viscous liquid in the blood vessel-like channels inside accelerated by two points.
After successfully planting the Dark Medulla Chi, Lu Xuan finally let go of his heart.
For the next period of time, he basically stayed at home, spending most of his time cultivating the spiritual plants, and the rest of the time cultivating his gongfu and art techniques, and familiarizing himself with the use of the still-crippled Split Silver Blade.
In the middle, he also went to the scattered cultivator bazaar twice to see if he could find one or two unknown spirit seeds at the stalls while the scattered cultivators who had reclaimed the secret realm returned this time.
Unfortunately, the occasional stalls that were seen selling Spirit Seeds were all common Spirit Seeds that Lu Xuan was more familiar with.
The courtyard spirit field was just this big, and it was already packed to the brim, with no room for any other spirit plants.
The twenty Spirit Glow Grasses, which had entered a rapid growth stage, and the two Eclipse Trees, on which a large portion of the Eclipse Fruits had already matured.
A first-grade Red Cloud Pine, which did not require a high level of aura environment, only needed to be stimulated with a fireball spell from time to time.
A second grade Sword Grass, which required the use of the Gengjin Sword Technique and the Spiritual Rain Technique, and a second grade Dark Marrow Chi, whose nutrients mainly came from decaying spirit wood, did not require Lu Xuan to moisturize it with the Spiritual Rain Technique.
It only needed to use the Spiritual Rain Technique and the Earth Drawing Technique to keep the decayed wood in a decayed state.
Looking at it this way, Lu Xuan realized that the Spirit Field had the least number of First Grade Spirit Plants instead, just one Red Cloud Pine, while the two Spirit Seeds plucked from the field brought him an unexpected surprise, they were both Second Grade Spirit Plants.
During this period, he harvested five more Eclipse Fruits.
Four of good quality and one of superior quality.
Of the five white balls of light brought in, two were Split Silver Blade remnants, which made the magic weapon Split Silver Blade even more complete, with only a few small gaps.
With fourteen Eclipse Fruits left, Lu Xuan estimated that there was not much of a problem.
There were also two first grade talismans, the Sword Qi Talisman and the Evil Dispelling Talisman, both of which were considered quite good in this grade of talisman.
As for the top-grade quality Eclipse Moon Fruit, after Lu Xuan absorbed it, a stream of information appeared in his mind.
“The Peiyuan Dan formula, which records the materials, techniques, and so on regarding the refining of the first grade elixir Peiyuan Dan.”
“It’s actually a Dan formula, worthy of a superior quality Eclipse Fruit.”
Lu Xuan was a little surprised, several times before, what had been opened out from the white light cluster were Peiyuan Dan finished pills, and this time, the Dan Formula was directly exploded out.
It was also good, it was better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish, it seemed like it would take some time to learn how to refine pills.
Lu Xuan secretly thought.
“It’s just that if I didn’t have any foundation before, the probability of failure is higher if I start refining pills from scratch.”
“I also don’t know if this Eclipse Fruit will still open up a Peiyuan Dan formula, and if there’s another formula, will it be like the previous Earth Drawing Technique, Gengjin Sword Technique, which automatically increases the alchemy experience after repeated absorption.”
Lu Xuan thought optimistically as he looked at the dozen or so round and full Eclipse Moon Fruits hanging between the verdant leaves.
(End of Chapter)