85: Earth Treasure, Earth Spirit Orb

Lin Yan took a deep breath and circulated his Cultivation Technique again.

One Bamboo leaf after another was catalyzed and transformed.

Every time a Bamboo leaf transformed, it fed back a glimmer of insight into the Dao, as well as a negligible amount of spiritual energy cultivation.

In one go, he catalyzed another five Bamboo leaves.

【 spirit plant name: Spirit Bamboo Leaf 】

【 growth progress: 10 / 10 】

【 Growth status: None 】

...

【 spirit plant name: Purple-spotted Bamboo Leaf 】

【 growth progress: 10 / 10 】

【 Growth status: None 】

...

"Why are there no Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf?" Lin Yan muttered to himself, his fingertips lightly tapping another Bamboo leaf covered in purple spots.

Six Bamboo leaves, six catalyzations.

Lin Yan harvested three ordinary Spirit Bamboo Leaf, two Purple-spotted Bamboo Leaf, and one sharp Bamboo leaf with serrated edges.

Not a single one turned out to be the Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf he dreamed of.

"Why..." Lin Yan stood up.

Back when the willow leaves mutated, many Azure Blade Willow Leaf had emerged; there were ordinary willow leaves too, but they were in the minority.

"Could it be that the corresponding dao-rhyme in this world is too weak?"

A bold guess surfaced in his mind.

Perhaps it was because the dao-rhyme left behind by the Qingfeng Swordsman here had either disappeared or become too thin.

While the dao-rhyme left by the Azure Blade Fairy was much denser.

"Could the Qingfeng Swordsman's cultivation... be inferior to the Azure Blade Fairy's?" Lin Yan shook his head and laughed; although this thought was absurd, it was still an explanation.

"'Qing Feng, this kid,' still has more to practice."

Lin Yan did not intend to give up.

He continued to catalyze other Bamboo leaves.

Even if he could not catalyze a Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf, the insights fed back during the Bamboo leaf's transformation were still worth it.

He felt his understanding of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art becoming clearer and clearer, and his execution of the catalysis method had become much smoother.

He chose another Bamboo leaf, circulated the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, and carefully injected spiritual energy into it.

Under the infusion of spiritual energy, the Bamboo leaf first trembled violently, then a pure cyan light suddenly burst forth from its veins.

Lin Yan clearly felt that the light contained a kind of extreme sharpness, as if it were about to pierce through the air.

The form of the Bamboo leaf began to change rapidly.

The edges of the leaf gradually became as sharp as blades, and the veins rose to form patterns like a sword's spine, with the entire leaf finally settling into a miniature version of a Qing Feng sword.

A faint, almost imperceptible sharpness even condensed at the tip of the leaf.

【 spirit plant name: Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf 】

【 growth progress: 10 / 10 】

【 spirit plant characteristics: Can be used to refine sword weapons, can induce mutation in the parent plant. 】

【 Growth status: None 】

...

"Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf!"

Lin Yan's hands trembled, and an irrepressible smile appeared on his face.

What surprised him even more was that the moment the Bamboo leaf completed its transformation, a pure surge of insight flooded into his Divine Soul like a tide.

The obscure and difficult techniques in the Azure Emperor Longevity Art suddenly became clear, and the spiritual energy that had originally been obstructed when circulating the Cultivation Technique began to flow unimpeded.

"I... had a Breakthrough?"

Lin Yan looked down at his hands and saw a wisp of cyan spiritual energy emerging from his fingertips, no longer sluggish in its circulation, but as agile as a fish.

The Azure Emperor Longevity Art had finally reached the first level, Entry!

"As expected of a Cultivation Technique created by the Azure Emperor!"

Lin Yan curiously played with the spiritual energy at his fingertips; it was actually a bit more solid than before.

In other words, the Entry level of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art surpassed the Perfection of the Azure Wood Technique.

"Since I can catalyze a Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf, it means the dao-rhyme left behind by the Qingfeng Swordsman is still there, and there is still hope to cultivate Qingfeng Bamboo!"

Lin Yan's motivation ignited once again.

Like the Azure Blade Willow Leaf, the Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf could also induce mutation in the parent plant.

According to his experience in cultivating the Azure Blade Willow, the more leaves there were, the greater the probability of the parent plant mutating.

This seemed to be a law of the unknown, a rule of the Great Dao.

And after cultivating one Azure Blade Willow, the other willow trees no longer mutated towards the Azure Blade Willow, as if the last of the dao-rhyme had been exhausted.

Therefore, there was only one Azure Blade Willow to this day.

After reaching the Entry level of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, Lin Yan's catalysis efficiency improved once again.

Because the two Cultivation Techniques were completely compatible, the Azure Wood Technique could still be used without any sense of blockage.

Lin Yan compared the catalysis efficiency of the two techniques, and the Azure Emperor Longevity Art was superior.

Soon, he finished catalyzing all the mutated Bamboo leaves.

Approximately one Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf appeared for every ten mutated Bamboo leaves.

In the end, he obtained a total of five Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf, distributed across four Bamboo plants.

One of the Bamboo plants had two Qingfeng Bamboo Leaf.

This Bamboo plant became the focus of Lin Yan's attention.

...

Time flowed like water, and the days passed one by one.

Before the Qingfeng Bamboo arrived, the earth vein potato in the spirit field yielded results first.

【 spirit plant name: earth vein potato 】

【 growth progress: 857 / 1000 】

【 spirit plant characteristics: Temporarily forms earth veins while growing, increasing the concentration of surrounding earth qi. 】

【 Growth status: Absorbing sunlight and dew, experience + 1 】

【 Drinking spirit fertilizer, experience + 3 】

【 Continuous catalysis, experience + 2 】

...

These days, Lin Yan supplied the spirit fertilizer openly, and with continuous catalysis, the vitality of the earth vein potato grew stronger day by day.

According to the information on the system panel, the forty earth vein potato were nearing maturity.

They were rooted deep in the soil, each one like a water pump, continuously drawing nutrients from the depths of the earth.

Forty miniature earth veins accompanied the developed root systems of the earth vein potato, crisscrossing like the capillaries of the earth.

Lin Yan squatted by the ridge of the field, lightly tapped the ground with his fingertips, and closed his eyes to feel the vitality surging underground.

Forty subtle yet tough forces of earth veins were clearly distinguishable in his perception; they were like dormant Dragon, circling and intertwining beneath the spirit field, creating a subtle resonance with each other.

These earth veins were not immutable.

As the vitality of the earth vein potato increased, they also continued to grow, from the initially hair-thin earth qi, gradually solidifying like a spring.

The resonance between the earth veins also grew stronger day by day.

The mass of Earth Essence beneath the spirit field became increasingly dense.

Whenever night fell, Lin Yan could see a faint earthy-yellow halo beneath the spirit field; that was the light emitted by the Earth Essence, strong enough to penetrate the soil.

As time passed, it became more and more solid.

On this day, when Lin Yan came to the spirit field again, he keenly noticed the change.

"It's done!"

He sat cross-legged in the center of the spirit field, his hands pressing into the ground.

The hazy earthy-yellow mist underground had now completely solidified, emitting a luster as warm and moist as jade.

Under the guidance of his spiritual energy, the mass of essence slowly rose, finally hovering in the air three feet off the ground, turning into a bead the size of a pigeon egg.

The bead was a warm, earthy-yellow color throughout, and patterns resembling mountains and rivers were faintly visible on its surface; it was a microscopic manifestation of the earth's veins.

Inside the bead, liquid seemed to be flowing, emitting an extremely rich aura of Earth Essence.

Lin Yan only needed to take a light sniff to feel the majestic Earth Essence that could nourish all things and carry the weight of the world.

"earth treasure, earth spirit pearl!"