94: Earth Treasure, Crystal of Earth (戊土)

After becoming the Chief Disciple, Lin Yan's small courtyard became lively again.

Many people came to the door to ask Lin Yan for favors, and they also brought many gifts.

To this, Lin Yan refused righteously and sternly.

Soon, his reputation for being impartial and selfless spread.

This not only further increased his prestige among the Disciples, but also reduced many disturbances.

...

The Small Valley returned to its former tranquility.

Time flowed like water, and in the blink of an eye, another year passed.

This was Lin Yan's fourth year in the Canglan Realm, and this year, he was twenty years old.

Beside the spirit field, under the Azure Blade Willow.

Lin Yan opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

"Qi Refining Eighth Layer, finally a Breakthrough." A smile he couldn't hide appeared on his face.

Over the past year, he had maintained a fairly fast Cultivate speed.

Not only his spiritual power cultivation, but Lin Yan's "MingShen Secret" also had some progress, reaching the Minor Achievement Realm.

The light of the MingShen Secret in his Sea of Consciousness had completely stabilized, illuminating an area.

After the "MingShen Secret" reached Minor Achievement, the difficulty of Cultivate increased again, and Lin Yan's Cultivate speed became turtle-slow again.

At this rate, he didn't know when he would be able to advance further.

As for Perfection, he didn't even dare to hope for it.

Secret techniques that break the limits of the human body are as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Although he hadn't cultivated the power of Divine Sense, there were still benefits to cultivating the "MingShen Secret".

Lin Yan felt his spirit platform was clearer, his thinking was much more active, and it was faster to usually practice techniques like the "Eight Directions Sword Step".

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After the Cultivate session ended, Lin Yan came to his spirit field.

After the previous batch of Spirit Potato was harvested, he quickly planted new Spirit Potato.

Not only his own spirit field, but the three spirit fields of Xu Shuangyuan were also planted with a circle of Spirit Potato.

This batch of Spirit Potato was of higher quality than the ones Sun Xiaochuan had given him, and the Spirit Potato seedlings cultivated were also more vigorous.

As time passed, the Spirit Potato grew at an astonishing speed.

In just over a month after planting, the seedlings, which were originally only the size of a palm, grew into a dense patch of vines that climbed onto the field ridges.

Unsurprisingly, just like the previous batch, many Spirit Potato began to show signs of mutation.

Then, Lin Yan stared at the Spirit Potato panels with signs of mutation every day, flooding these Spirit Potato with spirit fertilizer regardless of the cost.

Under his efforts, the Spirit Potato in his own spirit field completed the mutation first.

The Spirit Potato planted this time were much more than last time.

There were exactly one hundred earth vein potato that had mutated in the spirit field, not one more, not one less, which was more ingenious than the last number.

In the darkness, there seemed to be some destiny involved.

Each earth vein potato was like a small spiritual power pump, continuously drawing nutrients from the depths of the earth, and then forming a micro Earth Vein at the roots.

At first, the Earth Veins of this spirit field were intertwined like before, forming a resonance.

The Earth Veins formed a mass of Earth Essence under the spirit field, beginning to gestate an earth treasure.

Later, the Spirit Potato in the other three spirit fields began to mutate into earth vein potato one after another, also forming micro Earth Veins.

Then, something unexpected happened to Lin Yan: the newly generated Earth Veins not only failed to form a resonance, but actually had a tendency to disrupt the resonance of Lin Yan's spirit field.

For this reason, Lin Yan studied for a while and looked up a lot of relevant information in the Lingxu Pavilion before he understood the reason.

The Earth Vein itself is an extremely delicate creation.

And the resonance between Earth Veins is an extremely subtle balance.

If all four spirit fields are planted with earth vein potato, and the growth is unbalanced, this balance will be destroyed.

Finally, after careful consideration, Lin Yan uprooted all the earth vein potato in the other three spirit fields.

In other words, only one earth treasure can be gestated at a time.

Perhaps a second earth treasure could be gestated at a great distance, but Lin Yan didn't know how far that distance needed to be.

"It will be in these next few days." Lin Yan murmured, looking at the one hundred earth vein potato in the spirit field.

These micro Earth Veins were initially just hair-thin earth-yellow threads, but as time passed, they gradually thickened.

Now, one hundred earth qi channels had formed, winding and spiraling underground like small Dragons.

Each Earth Vein emitted a warm earth-yellow light, rendering the surrounding soil a pale gold.

And that mass of Earth Essence underground had also solidified, with the spiritual light faintly showing signs of penetrating the ground.

It was the same before the last earth treasure matured.

For the next few days, Lin Yan guarded the spirit field.

"Hum..."

Late at night three days later, when Lin Yan was sitting in meditation to Cultivate in the spirit field, a low resonance sound suddenly came from the depths of the spirit field.

The sound seemed to come from ancient times, dull and powerful.

Lin Yan opened his eyes abruptly.

He knelt on one knee, placed his palm on the ground, and immediately felt an unprecedentedly powerful spiritual power fluctuation.

"The earth treasure has matured!"

He carefully dug the soil in the center of the spirit field, his movements as gentle as treating a newborn baby.

As the soil was pushed away bit by bit, a dense earth-yellow halo gradually appeared.

The halo was as dense as substance, emitting a thick and warm aura, and just by being close to it, one could feel the majestic Earth Essence contained within.

Finally, when the last layer of soil was removed, an object appeared before Lin Yan's eyes.

It was a crystal the size of a fist, presenting a warm earth-yellow color throughout, with the surface covered in patterns like the veins of the earth, and inside, golden light spots flowed slowly, like magma surging in the depths of the earth.

"wu tu crystal!" Lin Yan took a deep breath in excitement and carefully held the crystal with both hands.

This wu tu crystal was more solid than the earth spirit pearl, the earth-yellow light flowing on the surface moved slowly like a living thing, and the golden light spots inside twinkled like stars.

The spiritual power fluctuation it emitted was thicker than the earth spirit pearl, but it did not lose its purity, as if it had condensed the most essential part of the earth.

Lin Yan could feel that the Earth Essence contained in this wu tu crystal was richer than that of the earth spirit pearl, and its properties were more stable.

It could not only upgrade the Earth Spiritual Root grade of a Cultivator, but also be used to refine Advanced Spiritual Artifacts.

"Last time it was forty earth vein potato, this time it was one hundred earth vein potato, the quantity increased greatly, but the earth treasure gestated is of the same level."

A look of contemplation appeared on Lin Yan's face.

Like the earth spirit pearl, the wu tu crystal has its own wonderful uses besides upgrading the Spiritual Root.

In the final analysis, the two are treasures of the same level.

"This is already enough, I cannot be too greedy."

Lin Yan carefully put the wu tu crystal into a specially made jade box and turned to look around.

【spirit plant Name: earth vein potato】

【growth progress: 837 / 1000】

【spirit plant Characteristics: Will temporarily form earth qi veins when growing, increasing the concentration of surrounding earth qi.】

【Growth Status: None】

...

He carefully checked every earth vein potato and found that although they had completed the mission of gestating the wu tu crystal, they did not wither as quickly as last time.

On the contrary, these earth vein potato still maintained vigorous vitality and continued to grow.

"It seems that the consumption of these earth vein potato for gestating the earth treasure this time is smaller than last time." Lin Yan thought thoughtfully:

"Perhaps this is because the number of earth vein potato has increased. Planting a few dozen earth vein potato in the future will be enough; more will only occupy the spirit field."