86: Chapter 86 Was I too hasty?

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

【Reward: After one hundred and ninety-five days of meticulous care, your spiritual field has yielded a bumper harvest, EXP +2500.】

The heaven mending spirit stone was nowhere to be found, but the golden marrow fruit in the spiritual field had yielded a bumper harvest.

Because of the tianfeng bean, this year's harvest of golden marrow fruit was the same as last year's, reaching over thirty thousand catties.

What also surprised Zhao Mo was the tianfeng bean; when planting it this year, Zhao Mo had specifically selected larger ones as seeds to save trouble.

A year later, the newly formed tianfeng beans in the spiritual field were actually larger than the seeds Zhao Mo had selected.

Pulling up a tianfeng bean, there wasn't just one fruit on its roots, but five or six of varying sizes.

"Oh my god, can this thing actually evolve on its own?"

Zhao Mo looked at these spiritual fields; after the golden marrow fruit was harvested, only the vines remained, along with the tianfeng beans in the soil.

The originally compacted soil was now full of cracks, pushed apart by the tianfeng beans.

Zhao Mo was too lazy to pull them up, so he just called Ox Martial over to plow it.

【You have completed the cleaning of the spiritual field, EXP +20.】

【You have completed the plowing of the spiritual field, EXP +20.】

After plowing, patches of tianfeng bean fruits appeared on the spiritual field. Zhao Mo roughly estimated that the yield per mu of these tianfeng beans was actually twenty-five hundred catties.

This was the spirit plant with the highest yield per mu since Zhao Mo started farming spiritual fields.

"What if this is edible?"

Zhao Mo's imagination ran wild, and he began to examine these tianfeng beans carefully again.

Egg-sized, earthy-yellow skin, and a smooth surface; it gave Zhao Mo a sense of familiarity.

Picking one up, he peeled off the skin, revealing the yellowish-white flesh inside.

"It should be edible, right?"

Zhao Mo hesitated slightly, but then remembered that he was a Golden Core True Person; could he really be poisoned to death by something he grew himself?

He took a bite.

Zhao Mo's brows knitted together. It wasn't sweet, bitter, or sour, but it was numbing; Zhao Mo felt his tongue curling up.

Then came the stiffness.

Mana, clear water, spirit wine,

Zhao Mo tried them one by one, but surprisingly, none of them could resolve this feeling of stiffness.

"It's over, I haven't poisoned myself mute, have I?"

Fortunately, after half a day, Zhao Mo returned to normal.

"Truly impressive, it can numb a Golden Core Ninth Layer Cultivator for half a day."

Since it couldn't be eaten, Zhao Mo couldn't be bothered to process it; he just picked some of the larger ones to use as seeds.

As for the rest, he would just leave them in the spiritual field to rot naturally.

What worried Zhao Mo more was whether or not to make a Breakthrough in his cultivation.

"System."

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

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

【EXP: 3780 / 2500】

【Reward: None.】

Looking at the System panel, Zhao Mo ultimately didn't dare to say the words "upgrade."

Achieving Nascent Soul from Golden Core was not like breaking through other Realms; it had another name: Shattering the Core to Form the Infant.

If the Golden Core shattered but failed to form the infant, just imagine what the person attempting the Breakthrough would face?

In the best case, one would lose all their cultivation; in the worst case, one would lose their life.

"Wait, that's not right. The System is 'one realization, eternal realization'."

Zhao Mo's heart began to stir.

"Could there be a situation where the upgrade fails?"

"Forget it, I can't afford to gamble. I'll wait until I find the heaven mending spirit stone."

There was nothing left for Zhao Mo to do in Tianfeng Valley, and Ding Xin hadn't returned yet.

Apart from inquiring about news of the heaven mending spirit stone, he just teased the newly born Spiritual Artifact.

"Come, Shovel, stand here and don't move."

The Iron Shovel insisted on dancing.

"Damn it, you can't dig holes here anymore."

Not long after, a deep pit appeared where the Iron Shovel was.

"What a Silly Shovel."

"There's a place to pile up next year's tianfeng beans."

Zhao Mo was at leisure.

But outside Tianfeng Valley, everyone was going crazy.

"Seven hundred and eighty catties of golden marrow fruit per mu, True Person Mo is truly a Divine Being."

The Nascent Soul True Lords who were outside Tianfeng Valley last year were going crazy.

They hadn't expected that Zhao Mo could actually increase the yield of golden marrow fruit to this extent.

As the saying goes, people don't worry about scarcity, but about inequality. Why could they harvest seven or eight hundred catties, while we could only harvest four or five hundred?

So, some Nascent Soul True Lords caused a scene at the Spiritual Plant Peak.

"Isn't it said that Tianfeng Valley only achieved an eight-hundred-catty yield per mu of golden marrow fruit under the leadership of the Spiritual Plant Peak?"

"May I ask if True Lord Yaowen knows the method?"

"According to the regulations of the Xuan Sect, things researched on the Spiritual Plant Peak must be made public."

"I wonder when True Lord Yaowen will make it public?"

Liu Yaowen's complexion had been worse than a dead person's recently. He seriously suspected that this position of Peak Master had been designed by Tong Weiping to be handed to him just to make him look foolish.

Those Nascent Soul True Lords who had obtained the secret recipe in Tianfeng Valley were tight-lipped; no matter what methods he used, he couldn't extract anything from them.

"Don't tell me I have to go to Tianfeng Valley and beg Zhao Mo?"

Liu Yaowen was very conflicted. In the Liu Clan, he was a moderate, advocating that making things convenient for others was making things convenient for oneself.

The Liu Clan currently needed time to lie low and bide its time, which was why someone like him was valued; otherwise, it wouldn't have been his turn to be the Peak Master of the Spiritual Plant Peak.

"True Person Mo, the Peak Master of the Spiritual Plant Peak, Liu Yaowen, has come to visit."

Outside Tianfeng Valley, Liu Yaowen had come after all.

"Liu Yaowen?"

Whenever he encountered someone with the surname Liu, Zhao Mo instinctively wanted to avoid them.

But hearing "Peak Master of the Spiritual Plant Peak," he held back. There was no other reason; Tong Weiping's disciples and grand-disciples were still making a living under his command.

Opening the Formation, Zhao Mo said with a smile, "So it is Peak Master Liu. I apologize for not welcoming you from afar, I hope you will be magnanimous."

Hearing these words, Zhao Mo himself got goosebumps.

Yet, Liu Yaowen happened to like this tone.

Consequently, he started to find Zhao Mo more agreeable.

This True Person Mo wasn't that annoying after all.

The two sat down.

Liu Yaowen began to mince his words.

It was nothing more than saying that as a Xuan Sect Cultivator, Zhao Mo should be selfless and contribute the method for increasing the yield of golden marrow fruit, and so on.

Zhao Mo's expression was strange.

He had already handed in his method; he had even spent the five million point reward.

Then he realized that someone was stirring up trouble behind the scenes, intentionally trying to embarrass Liu Yaowen.

"Oh, Peak Master Liu, look at me. I have Foundation Establishment cultivation, and my Dantian is still injured. I don't even know if I'll be able to do any research in the future~"

His words emphasized his difficulties, clearly fishing for something.

He beat around the bush, refusing to give a straight answer.

Half a day later, Liu Yaowen became anxious.

"I wonder what kind of spirit item would be helpful for True Person Mo's injuries?"

"Snow Lotus Pill, Dragon Blood Pill, White Jade Pill, Green Jade Pill, Ice Dew Pill, Myriad Flower Pill, Crimson Spirit Pill, Yuan Gathering Pill, Azure Phoenix Pill, and the heaven mending spirit stone."

Zhao Mo opened his mouth and rattled off a bunch of Medicinal Pills. These were indeed all healing pills, and they were the kind that were expensive and hard to buy at the Liu Clan Apothecary.

They were also the ones Ding Xin had always wanted to decipher, but she couldn't buy the pills, so she had no way to decipher them; she couldn't just imagine them out of thin air, could she?

"Medicinal Pills?"

Liu Yaowen hesitated. The matter of the obstacle breaking pill had left the entire Liu Clan with lingering fears. The Medicinal Pill business was the Liu Clan's lifeline. If Zhao Mo wanted these pills for some ulterior motive...

Then he, Liu Yaowen, would become a sinner. The most crucial point was that a True Person Mo with Foundation Establishment cultivation was a good True Person—just farming and researching spirit plants. Why would he need such high cultivation and a long lifespan?

As for the heaven mending spirit stone, it was only useful when a Golden Core True Person with a Five Elements Spiritual Root broke through to Nascent Soul True Lord.

Could it be?

Thinking of this, Liu Yaowen didn't care if Zhao Mo would turn hostile; he directly probed Zhao Mo's cultivation.

Hmm, still Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.

"To tell you the truth, I did obtain a heaven mending spirit stone in my early years, and this heaven mending spirit stone is not within the Liu Clan's records, so it wouldn't hurt to give it to True Person Mo."

"However, I don't have a single Spirit Pill."

"Deal."

Zhao Mo said hurriedly.

Then he felt a bit of regret. Was I too impatient?