42: Vermilion Flame Grass! Atavistic Phoenix Flame Grass!

Wei Zhou looked up again, at the blazing sun overhead!

He suddenly remembered that a few months ago, a Fellow Daoist had asked him to plant a first-grade, high-tier medicinal plant, the Zhu Yan Grass!

Immediately, Wei Zhou took a step and headed towards the medicinal field where the Zhu Yan Grass was planted.

Because the medicinal field for the Zhu Yan Grass was not very far, it was right next to Wei Zhou's own medicinal field!

After a few steps, he had already arrived!

Wei Zhou looked towards the medicinal field where the Zhu Yan Grass was planted!

A few months ago, it was a barren medicinal field!

Now it had become lush green! Though, it couldn't really be called lush green!

Because the Zhu Yan Grass itself is fiery red!

So it should be called lush red!

(Why does that sound a bit strange? (｡･ω･｡)?)

(Never mind, it's all pretty much the same! As the saying goes, those who achieve great things don't bother with minor details!)

"So should it be called lush green or lush red?"

Wei Zhou pondered in his mind.

"Forget it! It's all about the same! Call it whatever I want!"

Then, no longer thinking about it, he stepped into the medicinal field!

Once inside the medicinal field, Wei Zhou carefully observed each Zhu Yan Grass plant!

He checked them thoroughly several times!

Finally, he even released his Divine Sense, which was comparable to the Foundation Establishment Initial Stage, to envelop the entire medicinal field where the Zhu Yan Grass was planted.

After confirming everything was in order,

He retracted his Divine Sense!

He formed hand seals! And chanted an obscure and unpleasant incantation!

Finally, he softly shouted, "Gather!"

Immediately, above the medicinal field where the Zhu Yan Grass was planted!

An invisible miniature vortex formed!

That miniature vortex continuously absorbed the surrounding Fire-attribute Spiritual Qi!

Even drawing out Fire-attribute Spiritual Qi from the underground Spiritual Vein!

The incantation Wei Zhou was performing was called the "Spirit Gathering Art"!

The Spirit Gathering Art, as the name suggests, gathers the surrounding Spiritual Qi!

It can be Five Elements Spiritual Qi, which includes Spiritual Qi of the Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth attributes!

It can also be Spiritual Qi of the Water, Fire, and Wood attributes!

It can also be Spiritual Qi of a single attribute: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, or Earth!

It can even be Wind attribute!

In short, any attribute Spiritual Qi that exists between heaven and earth!

Can be gathered! And finally form Spiritual Water!

(Note: The Spiritual Water here is not the Spiritual Water born from Spiritual Springs or Spiritual Eyes! It cannot be absorbed and Cultivated by Cultivators! Unless one possesses a special Cultivation Technique!)

(Spiritual Water born from Spiritual Springs or Spiritual Eyes can be absorbed and Cultivated by Cultivators!)

Then, he would put the Spiritual Water into a jade bottle!

Finally, he would evenly pour a little onto each Zhu Yan Grass plant!

This way, the task would be successfully completed!

......

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn,

The invisible, miniature Spiritual Qi vortex in the sky slowly dissipated!

Only a few clumps of Spiritual Water with faint Spiritual Qi remained, floating in the air!

Wei Zhou quickly took out a jade bottle from his Storage Pouch!

With a pop, he uncorked the jade bottle!

He flicked his finger, and a stream of spiritual power shot out from his fingertip!

The spiritual power flew towards the location of the Spiritual Water in the sky!

When it reached the Spiritual Water's location in the sky, Wei Zhou bent his finger! Controlling the spiritual power, he enveloped the Spiritual Water!

It flew rapidly towards him! Wei Zhou aimed the mouth of the jade bottle towards the direction the Spiritual Water was flying from!

With a whoosh!

The Spiritual Water accurately fell into the jade bottle!

Wei Zhou did not cap the jade bottle, but instead held the jade bottle and moved through the medicinal field!

Pouring a few drops of Spiritual Water onto each Zhu Yan Grass plant!

......

Not long after, Wei Zhou finished pouring Spiritual Water on every Zhu Yan Grass plant!

While pouring the Spiritual Water, he discovered a few Zhu Yan Grass plants that looked different from the rest!

Their size and height were more than twice that of the other Zhu Yan Grass plants!

He guessed that those few Zhu Yan Grass plants had very likely undergone an atavism!

After Zhu Yan Grass undergoes atavism, it becomes Phoenix Flame Grass!

A second-grade, mid-tier medicinal plant! It had been extinct in the Zhao Country Cultivation world for a thousand years!

The reason it had been extinct in the Zhao Country Cultivation world for a thousand years had to do with its Heaven-Defying effects!

After a Cultivator consumes Phoenix Flame Grass, it can greatly enhance the Cultivator's Aptitude!

Allowing Five Elements Spiritual Root Cultivators to also have hope of Breaking Through to Foundation Establishment, and even glimpse the Golden Core Dao!

If a Three Spiritual Root Cultivator consumes it, it can also increase the success rate of Breaking Through to Golden Core! Approximately by ten percent!

Do not underestimate this ten percent success rate!

If a Cultivator has a fifty percent chance of Breaking Through to Golden Core, then with this ten percent added!

He would have a sixty percent chance of Breaking Through to Golden Core! That's a sixty percent chance; generally, many Cultivators with poorer Aptitude, if they have a fifty percent chance of passing the Golden Core tribulation!

They would directly force their way through! Whether they can successfully condense a Golden Core and achieve the Golden Core Stage is entirely up to fate!

But those with higher Aptitude, like Heavenly Spiritual Root Cultivators, have a full one hundred percent certainty of forming a Golden Core!

That is, they are one hundred percent guaranteed to achieve the Golden Core Stage, unless their Foundation or Origin is damaged!

Without any fortunate encounters, they can only stop at the Foundation Establishment Realm for their entire lives! Unable to glimpse the Golden Core Dao!

After a hundred years, they will turn into a handful of yellow earth! Scattered by the wind across heaven and earth!

That means eternal life is hopeless, and the Great Dao is severed!

If this Phoenix Flame Grass is consumed by a Mortal, it can grant the Mortal a pseudo-Spiritual Root!

And this pseudo-Spiritual Root is a single Fire attribute; a single Fire attribute? Isn't that a Heavenly Spiritual Root! Although it cannot compare to a true Fire attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root!

But its effect is also very powerful, capable of supporting a Mortal to Break Through to the Golden Core Stage!

If combined with extraordinary encounters, it is not impossible to eventually Break Through to the Nascent Soul Stage!

(After a Mortal possesses a pseudo-Spiritual Root, the Lifespan of Breaking Through to the Golden Core Stage and Nascent Soul Stage is no different from that of a Cultivator Breaking Through to the Golden Core Stage and Nascent Soul Stage!)

(The previous Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining Stages are also the same! Even if one can reach the Soul Transformation Stage, it is also the same!)

However, both Mortals and Cultivators must endure excruciating pain when consuming Phoenix Flame Grass; this pain is like someone holding a knife and, while you are conscious, scraping your intestines one cut at a time!

It is truly a pain worse than death! But after consuming it, one can Cultivate!

This temptation, I believe, no Mortal can resist!

Cultivation! Cultivation means becoming stronger, becoming stronger means increasing Lifespan! Increasing Lifespan means living longer!

All those who Cultivate and pursue Immortality are merely seeking to live a little longer! ╮(¯▽¯)╭

Unless they reach the legendary Immortal Realm, otherwise they are all just living a little longer!

Thinking of this,

Wei Zhou felt extremely excited, improving Aptitude! Although it cannot directly improve Spiritual Root quality!

But he has a System! The System improves Spiritual Roots! Consuming medicinal plants improves Aptitude!

They complement each other and enhance each other!

Phoenix Flame Grass can also directly increase Cultivation when consumed!

However, if consumed by a Cultivator with a Fire-attribute Spiritual Root, the effect will be greatly increased!