83: Chapter 83 You want to activate the spirit of this shovel?

"You really are a freak."

Tong Weiping was so excited that he even started using formal pronouns.

"Eh, your cultivation base?"

Zhao Mo slapped his forehead; he had been so busy harvesting the golden marrow fruit that he had forgotten to use the Face-Changing Heart-Swapping Art.

"I don't know how it recovered."

"Good, it's good that it recovered, but it's still better to cover it up."

Zhao Mo silently operated the Face-Changing Heart-Swapping Art, and his aura dropped to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.

"Sigh~ That's better."

"I'll take these for now; you wait for my good news."

The Xuan Sect was severely lacking in Spiritual Artifacts, and since the golden marrow fruit was used to awaken Spiritual Artifacts, its importance was self-evident.

Now that Zhao Mo had increased the yield of the golden marrow fruit to 860 jin per mu, the Xuan Sect's 10,000 mu of metal-attribute spirit fields would yield 8 million jin of golden marrow fruit.

It could extract over 8,000 jin of golden jade marrow, and if they were lucky, they would certainly be able to produce dozens of Spiritual Artifacts.

In this way, Zhao Mo's contribution would be massive.

Tong Weiping had once been the Peak Master of Spiritual Plant Peak, and he understood better than anyone what a golden marrow fruit yield of 800 jin per mu meant for the Xuan Sect.

It meant that the Xuan Sect's overall strength would be elevated to a new level, and it meant that Nascent Soul level Cultivators might be able to possess their own Spiritual Artifacts.

Zhao Mo, however, didn't have such lofty awareness.

What he was calculating in his heart was that he had finally gathered enough of his own golden marrow fruit, and when the time came, he would ask someone to extract the golden jade marrow and, incidentally, awaken his Iron Shovel.

Of course, before that, he had to first break through to the Golden Core Ninth Layer.

"System."

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

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

【Experience Points: 3360 / 2500】

【Reward: None.】

Zhao Mo looked at the experience points column, but instead of rushing to upgrade his cultivation, he secretly cursed.

"Damn it, I harvested 18,000 jin of golden marrow fruit and got 2,500 experience points as a reward. This year I harvested 31,000 jin, and it's still 2,500."

"So if I plant poorly, you deduct the reward, and if I plant well, you just cap it."

"It's fortunate that you're a System and not a person; otherwise, if I didn't beat you until your teeth were scattered all over the floor, I'd take your surname."

Zhao Mo grumbled and cursed.

Half a day later, once his mood had calmed, he said, "Upgrade cultivation."

Golden Core Ninth Layer; the Golden Core was so large that a single Dantian could not contain it.

Zhao Mo had always thought this was a rumor, but now he discovered it was true.

The Golden Core inside his Dantian was infinitely close to the boundaries of his Dantian.

What made Zhao Mo's scalp tingle even more was that the Golden Core was still spinning at high speed; one careless slip, and it would end in the Golden Core exploding and him dying.

"Good heavens, finally the Golden Core Ninth Layer."

It took nine years to break through from the Golden Core First Layer to the Golden Core Ninth Layer, basically maintaining a rhythm of breaking through one Realm per year.

When Zhao Mo left seclusion, Ding Xin, who was cultivating in the Heavenly Phoenix Grotto-Heaven, also opened her eyes.

"Peak of the Golden Core Ninth Layer. Sure enough, small setbacks only make him progress faster. The bet I placed is truly exceptionally accurate."

Ding Xin was smug, then closed her eyes and went back to cultivating.

After Zhao Mo left seclusion, he looked outside Tianfeng Valley and was startled. He saw white clouds floating, with over a dozen Nascent Soul True Lords sitting or lying on them, looking extremely bored.

"Quick, quick, True Person Mo has left seclusion!"

As soon as Zhao Mo left the valley, he was surrounded.

"Everyone, what is this?"

Tong Weiping said, "They are all here to learn from you how to plant the golden marrow fruit."

"They want to know how you managed to grow the golden marrow fruit to a yield of 800 jin per mu."

"Look, this is what I obtained for you from the Elders together with them."

Tong Weiping extended his palm, on which lay seeds of five colors: gold, green, blue, red, and yellow.

"These are all spirit seeds that the Elders obtained from the Fuguang Immortal Residence."

"They are a gift for you; let's see what you can grow from them."

Zhao Mo was very disdainful. "Just this?"

Tong Weiping said, "Of course that's not all; there are also Xuan Sect points. I just don't know how much you'll be rewarded."

"Fine."

Zhao Mo put away the seeds. He had never paid attention to what points were used for, so naturally, he didn't care how many points the Xuan Sect awarded him; all he wanted was the Xuan Sect's attitude.

"Everyone, this is the secret to increasing the yield of the golden marrow fruit."

Zhao Mo took out the fruit borne by the white red gold flower and said to the various Nascent Soul True Lords.

"As long as you plant it together with the golden marrow fruit, the golden marrow fruit will have an explosive yield."

"What is this?"

A True Lord in the crowd asked.

"This?"

Zhao Mo didn't know what to call it either. He couldn't still call it a red gold flower, could he?

"tianfeng bean."

At the critical moment, Tong Weiping made the final decision, timely resolving Zhao Mo's embarrassment.

When plowing, Zhao Mo had picked up quite a lot of this stuff.

Each Nascent Soul True Lord could actually get quite a bit of it.

It was funny to say, but ever since the red gold flower mutated in Zhao Mo's spirit field, its original terrifying ability to self-replicate had actually disappeared.

Now it could only reproduce through its fruit.

The dozen or so Nascent Soul True Lords were a bit confused. Although everyone who could come here trusted Tong Weiping and Zhao Mo, planting two types of spirit plants in one spirit field—are you sure they won't compete with each other for Spiritual Qi?

Zhao Mo then added, "I almost forgot; my spirit field is different from yours."

"So you also need to add one more thing to your spirit fields: metal-attribute spirit ore or Spirit Stones. The more you add, the higher the yield. Don't be afraid of the Five Elements in your spirit fields becoming imbalanced; just stuff it in as much as you can."

"Ah, this~"

Those present were all Nascent Soul True Lords, obsessed with spirit plants, and all of them had been around for over a thousand years. Although they all considered themselves knowledgeable, they were stunned by Zhao Mo's method.

Are you sure this is proper spirit field planting?

Why does it smell like some amateur, unorthodox method?

"Alright, I've already told you the method, so I'll accept these spirit seeds."

"If I can grow anything good, I will definitely share it with everyone."

Zhao Mo was anxious to go to the Artifact Refining Peak and didn't want to waste time on small matters like planting golden marrow fruit.

Meanwhile, at the Spiritual Plant Peak, the new Peak Master, Liu Yaowen, was beaming with joy.

He had only been the Peak Master for a year, yet he had raised the yield of the golden marrow fruit to 430 jin, which was 10 jin higher than Zhao Mo's 420 jin from back in the day.

How could such an important achievement not be celebrated?

Thus, on the Spiritual Plant Peak, colorful clouds floated, gongs and drums blared, and Nascent Soul True Lords and Golden Core True Persons gathered together, full of joy.

Just as Liu Yaowen was happily giving a speech, news arrived that the golden marrow fruit in Tianfeng Valley had a yield of 800 jin per mu this year.

The originally bragging Liu Yaowen changed his tone,

"I have a piece of good news to tell everyone: the yield of the golden marrow fruit in Tianfeng Valley has reached 800 jin per mu. It is precisely under the leadership of the Spiritual Plant Peak that True Person Mo has been able to achieve such a glorious accomplishment~"

Blah, blah, blah~

One can only say that Liu Yaowen was much more capable than the other members of the Liu clan; he knew how to be shameless.

The Nascent Soul True Lords on the Spiritual Plant Peak were restless. As soon as the banquet ended, they headed straight for Tianfeng Valley, but where was Zhao Mo to be found in Tianfeng Valley?

Artifact Refining Peak.

Cheng Xiao's hand seals moved constantly, and a stream of light shot into the refining furnace before him.

The golden marrow fruit from Zhao Mo's Storage Ring was also constantly being thrown into the refining furnace.

Seven full days later.

Over 100,000 jin of golden marrow fruit had finished refining.

"It's done."

Cheng Xiao put away his hand seals and walked to the refining furnace with Zhao Mo.

"Eh, this might be more than 100 jin of golden jade marrow."

They took it out and weighed it; it was about 120 jin.

"The golden marrow fruit you put in last seems different from the normal ones."

"You actually extracted over 40 jin of golden jade marrow from just over 30,000 jin."

Zhao Mo smiled.

"That's a variety I only improved this year."

Then he took out the Iron Shovel.

"I'd like to ask Senior Brother Cheng to help awaken it."

Cheng Xiao had originally wanted to ask about the improved golden marrow fruit, but seeing the Iron Shovel that Zhao Mo had taken out, he couldn't help but ask, "Are you going to awaken this shovel?"