71: Chapter 71 Ding Xin's Special Talent

【You have completed fertilizing the spirit field, experience + 20.】

Two skeletons of the Three-Colored Deer, plus the accumulation from Ox Martial over the past year or so.

Zhao Mo felt it was quite perfect.

As for Ox Martial's resentment, Zhao Mo pretended not to see it.

"Silly ox, if I hadn't argued reasonably, you would probably have been reincarnated by now."

Time flowed leisurely, and the years were peaceful.

【You have completed harvesting the golden marrow fruit, experience + 20.】

【Reward: After one hundred and seventy-five days of meticulous care, your private spirit field has yielded a bumper harvest, experience + 2000.】

Zhao Mo couldn't quite figure out this reward experience; last year it was 2500, but this year it was only 2000.

How exactly was this calculated?

Could it all be metaphysics, entirely dependent on the System's mood?

One must know that this year's golden marrow fruit yield was twenty catties more per mu than last year's, reaching four hundred and forty catties, with the thirty-six mu of spirit fields harvesting 15,840 catties of golden marrow fruit.

The result was that the rewarded experience was less than last year's, and that was that; after refining it into golden jade marrow, there were only a mere fifteen catties and eight taels.

Even adding the golden marrow fruit from the past two years, it didn't amount to forty catties, still far from the one hundred catties of golden jade marrow needed.

Zhao Mo looked at the spirit field under his feet.

The soil was now so hard that it couldn't even be gripped.

"Since the metal-attribute Spiritual Qi in this spirit field is excessive, logically the yield of the golden marrow fruit should be very high, but in reality, it is not."

"It was only after I added the bone powder of the Three-Colored Deer that the yield increased."

"Conversely, there must be a substance in the Three-Colored Deer that can release the metal-attribute Spiritual Qi in these thirty-six mu of spirit fields."

Zhao Mo felt he had grasped the key.

So the question arose, where could he get a Three-Colored Deer, and it would be best if he could also figure out the living habits of the Three-Colored Deer.

"Heartless Valley?"

Thinking of Li Feng's miserable state, he felt a bit intimidated.

"Forget it, let's not consider this for now, anyway I still have plenty of time."

"I am only sixty-three years old now, and I can still live for more than seven hundred years. At worst, I'll just plant the golden marrow fruit for a few more years."

【You have completed cleaning the spirit field, experience + 20.】

After harvesting the golden marrow fruit, Zhao Mo continued to clear out the golden jade marrow fruit seedlings in the spirit field.

Only then did he go into seclusion, intending to Breakthrough to the Golden Core Fifth Layer.

"System."

A transparent panel slowly appeared.

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

【Cultivation: Golden Core Fourth Layer (Can be upgraded.)】

【Experience Points: 2980 / 2000】

【Reward: None.】

"Upgrade cultivation."

"It just so happens that Ding Xin is also in seclusion. When she comes out and sees that I am at the Golden Core Fifth Layer, it will definitely surprise her."

...

Heavenly Phoenix Grotto-Heaven.

Ding Xin's cultivation room had become a storm of Spiritual Qi.

The ground was covered with shattered Spirit Stone fragments.

Golden Core First Layer,

Golden Core First Layer Middle Stage,

Golden Core First Layer Late Stage,

Golden Core First Layer Peak,

Golden Core Second Layer...

Her cultivation was rising like a rocket, advancing a small Realm every half month, charging forward continuously.

And this was still the result of her controlling it; otherwise, it could have been even faster.

"Golden Core Fourth Layer Peak."

"This eternal heart knot is truly easy to use."

For the man and woman who have concluded the Heavenly Phoenix eternal heart knot, the Heavenly Phoenix side can automatically improve along with the other party's cultivation, without barriers or obstacles, provided there are enough Spirit Stones, of course—the Heavenly Phoenix race doesn't have cheats.

The other party obtains the Heavenly Phoenix side's innate Divine Ability.

It's hard to say who loses and who gains in this matter.

But it also led to a negative aspect: the Heavenly Phoenix race always wanted to conclude a heart knot with powerful cultivators. Imagine if one concluded a heart knot with a True Immortal.

Wouldn't that mean one could directly achieve Immortal Ascension?

However, not all powerful cultivators are willing to conclude a heart knot with the Heavenly Phoenix race, because the Heavenly Phoenix race's innate Divine Abilities are numerous, with both good and bad ones.

If one obtained a trashy Divine Ability, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

But for those with low cultivation, the Heavenly Phoenix race became a hot commodity, and they became prey regardless of gender.

Gradually, the Heavenly Phoenix race declined and became a legend.

And Ding Xin was one of those legendary Heavenly Phoenixes.

Just as Ding Xin was preparing to come out of seclusion, she actually felt that she could still Breakthrough.

"Could it be?"

"Did Zhao Mo break through again?"

Golden Core Fifth Layer Early Stage,

Golden Core Fifth Layer Middle Stage,

...

Her Aura began to sublimate once again.

Tianfeng Valley.

Zhao Mo looked at the Golden Core spinning continuously in his Dantian, which was already the size of an egg.

As the Golden Core spun, it continued to devour mana.

"Golden Core Fifth Layer."

Promoting to the Fifth Layer in four years, while still in the Golden Core Realm, Zhao Mo was very satisfied with this.

"Small cultivation, handled!"

Cultivating until today, Zhao Mo had completely forgotten his miserable life of the first twenty years at the First Layer of Qi Refining.

"Winter is idle, just right to stay hidden, but it's a pity I don't know when Ding Xin will come out of seclusion."

Zhao Mo muttered, not knowing that if he hadn't broken through his cultivation, Ding Xin would have returned long ago.

...

Iron Sword Sect.

The Sect's main hall was filled with high-level members.

Unlike the Xuan Sect, the Iron Sword Sect had only been established for a few thousand years, and the current Sect Master was the founding Ancestral Master.

The Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators sitting in the hall were the Iron Sword Sect's entire combat power.

This was a lack of foundation.

Actually, if it weren't for the Iron Sword Sect's Sect Master being too monstrous, achieving the Half-step True Immortal Realm early on, the Iron Sword Sect would have likely become a thing of the past long ago; how could it compete with the Xuan Sect for resources?

It even suppressed the Xuan Sect for a period of time.

But with the Xuan Sect starting to plant golden marrow fruit, the entire Iron Sword Sect's Aura declined at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It's the second year, and now it has basically been proven that there is no problem with the Xuan Sect planting golden marrow fruit."

"They are even doing better than us in terms of harvest."

"Let's all speak, what should we do in the future?"

In the hall, there was a long silence.

Actually, everyone basically knew what to do; they certainly couldn't win a fight, and if they did that, the Iron Sword Sect would inevitably be accused by others.

If they did nothing, they couldn't swallow this anger.

A dilemma.

...

"You've come out of seclusion?"

Zhao Mo looked at Ding Xin and said happily.

The so-called "absence makes the heart grow fonder," once the two met, the passion was intense.

After three hundred rounds, the two finally quieted down.

"Your cultivation?"

"Golden Core Fifth Layer?"

Zhao Mo had intended to shock Ding Xin, but he hadn't expected to be shocked first.

"Did you eat Spirit Stones?"

Ding Xin's originally smiling face suddenly became bitter; it was really almost the same as eating Spirit Stones.

The more than twenty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones from the enlightenment spirit wine had been completely used up by her.

Now she didn't even have a single purple gold coin.

"It's okay, I still have some Spirit Stones."

Zhao Mo handed over the pink Storage Pouch.

"No, I want to earn Spirit Stones myself."

Zhao Mo: "You?"

"Planting spirit fields?"

Ding Xin flipped her hand and took out two Medicinal Pills.

"Is this Medicinal Pill expensive? I know the Pill Formula?"

"obstacle breaking pill? Don't joke, the Liu family's secret Medicinal Pill, how could you know it?"

Zhao Mo clearly didn't believe it.

"Origin Spirit Grass, Dragon Blood Vine, Profound Ice Flower, Purple Haze Fruit, Moon Essence Dew, White Jade Rock Malt, Spirit Spring, and Earth Dragon Bone."

Ding Xin opened her mouth and listed a bunch of names.

"You?"

"You really know it?"

The Pill Formula for this obstacle breaking pill was not even recorded in the Xuan Sect's Scripture Pavilion.

"I really know it. I ate one when I was Undergoing Tribulation, so I naturally knew how to refine it."

"Damn it, what a loss."

"If I had known you had this talent, why would I have spent so many Spirit Stones? What a waste~"

Ding Xin thought it was very cheap and asked casually: "How many Spirit Stones for one?"