Qingcang Immortal Clan: Starting with Farming to Increase Luck

Chapter 94 Water-based Alchemy

Making money is hard, but spending it is like water flowing away.

Lu Yang had originally saved up nearly four thousand spirit stones, but by squandering them, he reduced his spirit stone reserves to below one thousand.

"How much are these seeds?"

Lu Yang stopped in front of a stall. The stall owner was probably a spiritual plant practitioner, as he had a strong scent of spiritual plants and herbs on him. Ordinary people might not be able to smell it, but for a seasoned spiritual plant practitioner like Lu Yang, he could smell it immediately.

The stalls were filled with spiritual plants.

There are seeds and finished products.

Lu Yang asked about the seeds of spiritual herbs. Now that Lu Yang has obtained another spiritual vein, it won't be long before he can add more spiritual fields after returning.

By then, there will be three spiritual veins in Lu Yang's spiritual field, enough to cultivate a medicinal herb field.

The medicinal herb field is not comparable to an ordinary spiritual field. It takes ten acres of spiritual fields to cultivate one acre of medicinal herb field, and that's no exaggeration.

Compared to spiritual grains, spiritual herbs require a higher concentration and quantity of spiritual energy. Previously, Lu Yang's spiritual fields were barely able to grow spiritual herbs.

It's not impossible to plant them, but we'd have to plant them sparsely, sacrificing the yield of spirit grains to grow spirit herbs, which doesn't align with Lu Yang's cultivation path.

Now that the three meridians are complete, the area of ​​spiritual fields has increased, and the puppetry technique is in place, the basic conditions for planting spiritual herbs are now in place.

I just don't know what the return rate will be after this elixir matures.

It's important to understand that spiritual herbs and spiritual grains are not the same. Spiritual grains have a short maturation cycle, and can be harvested in half a year. But spiritual herbs are different. Even the first-grade low-quality Hu Yang flower that Lu Yang asked about requires five years of medicinal age to mature.

It can be used as an auxiliary ingredient in refining the first-tier spirit pill, the Spirit Recovery Pill.

Five years is enough time to grow ten crops of spirit grains and reap a great deal of fortune. If the fortune that the spirit herbs give to Lu Yang is not enough to match that of ten crops of spirit grains, then Lu Yang will have to consider whether he can grow spirit herbs at all in the future.

After all, for Lu Yang, spiritual medicine was not the most important thing; luck was.

Seeing these medicinal herb seeds now is a good opportunity to buy some and try them out when I get home.

"Ah, a bag of three spirit stones."

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Ah!

Three spirit stones!

To be honest, it's not cheap. The price of the Rejuvenation Pill is a bit cheaper than the Nourishing Pill, about one spirit stone per pill.

As an auxiliary ingredient in the Rejuvenation Pill, the value of the Hu Yang Flower itself is not very high. If you buy it in bulk, it will cost one spirit stone for ten Hu Yang Flowers.

This bag of sunflower seeds contains only a few hundred seeds.

It's another matter how many will survive. Even if they all survive, they can only be sold for a few dozen spirit stones. But you have to understand that the maturation cycle of the Hu Yang Flower is five years.

This is also part of the reason why Lu Yang has not yet started trying to cultivate medicinal herbs.

There are other valuable spiritual herbs, but as the saying goes, the higher the value, the longer the maturation period usually is. If you use them for experiments to see how much luck you can get from the spiritual herbs, it's not worth it.

"Can you make it cheaper?"

The female cultivator was holding a book, reading as she set up her stall. She was rather thin and dark-skinned, just like any other female cultivator who grew up by the sea.

When she was replying earlier, the female cultivator didn't even look up. Now, she tilted her head and looked at Lu Yang, her eyes full of confusion.

For some reason, Lu Yang seemed to understand the female cultivator's gaze, which seemed to say, "You're haggling over something that costs three spirit stones!"

"I want more."

Lu Yang didn't feel ashamed. That's how it is when you buy things at a street stall. There's no such thing as not bargaining. It's one thing if you can't bargain, but it's another thing if you do. This is a matter of principle.

However, seeing that the female cultivator had no intention of lowering the price, Lu Yang immediately changed his approach.

The female cultivator then became interested and put down the book. Lu Yang glanced at the book and read, "The Wu Clan's Secret Recipes for Alchemy."

U clan!

Lu Yang searched his mind but couldn't find this family name. It was probably some kind of legacy passed down from before.

How much do you want?

"I want two bags."

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Ah!

The female cultivator's fist hardened. Was this what she called demanding more? Was there a difference between three spirit stones and six spirit stones?

The female cultivator looked at Lu Yang's cultivation level. He was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, which was already in the mid-stage of Qi Refining. Surely he could afford to not even have six spirit stones.

"Just three spirit stones in a bag, take it or leave it."

The female cultivator seemed a little angry, and Lu Yang had no choice. Buying too many Hu Yang flower seeds was really useless. After all, once the Hu Yang flowers matured, the seeds would naturally fall, and Lu Yang wouldn't need to buy any more when planting the next batch. As for now, his medicinal field didn't need too many Hu Yang flowers.

Besides, it was indeed too much.

His gaze fell on the female cultivator's "Secrets of the Wu Clan's Alchemy," and Lu Yang's eyebrows twitched. "Is this book for sale?"

what!

The female cultivator was taken aback upon hearing this. She pointed to the Taoist book in her hand, then to Lu Yang, and asked, "You want to buy this?"

In the cultivation world, the most important thing is not elixirs or magical artifacts, but the lineage.

Whether it's independent cultivators, families, or sects, they all value the inheritance of their lineage the most.

Families with a strong foundation usually impose restrictions on inheritance. They may pass it down in layers, plant forbidden spells, or, like Lu Yang did when he obtained the advanced spiritual plant technique from the Scripture Pavilion, use special materials to carry the inheritance, which is useless once it has been seen.

In short, the law should not be easily passed on.

This stall has a lot of magical artifacts and pills, but the inheritance is almost nowhere to be seen. The basic ones are fine, there are many sellers but few buyers, they are not rare. But anything more important, such as the alchemy inheritance, is not something that can be sold casually.

At this moment, the female cultivator's expression seemed to say: What kind of pipe dream are you having?

"I'll give more spirit stones."

Hearing Lu Yang's words again, the female cultivator felt they sounded familiar. She rolled her eyes at him and asked impatiently, "How much?"

Yes, this can be sold!

Lu Yang perked up upon hearing this. "May I take a look first?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator hesitated for a moment, "I need to verify my credentials first."

Lu Yang immediately took out the top-grade magic armor he had obtained from Li Hu. The female cultivator's eyes lit up when she saw the top-grade magic armor in Lu Yang's hand.

A top-grade magic weapon! She truly hadn't expected that Lu Yang, an ordinary mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator, would possess a top-grade magic weapon.

She desperately needed money. Her father was injured, and she needed to refine a batch of pills to heal him. She had sold everything she could, but she still hadn't gathered enough ingredients for the pills.

Otherwise, a cultivator at the late stage of Qi Refining wouldn't have earned even these three spirit stones.

She had just looked at this alchemy manual in order to make connections with other things. This Wu Clan Inheritance Manual is one of their family's inheritances. However, it is different from other family inheritance alchemy methods. This one is water-based alchemy. Although it is essential, it is still somewhat useless to her.

However, water magic is the gentlest, and it was quite effective for her father's injuries; otherwise, the female cultivator wouldn't have taken it out to study.

The female cultivator hadn't originally intended to sell her inheritance, but now she had nothing left to sell.

In the world of alchemy, water-based alchemy is ultimately a niche and unorthodox method. It's unlikely that this method will be used for future family inheritance. Besides, since it has already been copied, it's not impossible to use it later.

This is the reason why the female cultivator was willing to sell; it's just that she didn't have a high opinion of Lu Yang to begin with.

Although this water-based alchemy inheritance is only a first-tier inheritance, it is still an alchemy inheritance. Even if it is a niche or unorthodox method, it can still fetch two thousand spirit stones.

Two thousand spirit stones! How could a mere cultivator in the mid-stage of Qi Refining possibly come up with that?

However, she was wrong; Lu Yang really did bring out something substantial.

This is a top-grade magical armor. It looks to be of pretty good quality. It should be able to sell for 1200 or 1300 spirit stones without any problem.

In that case, they do have some qualifications.

After some hesitation, the female cultivator handed the Taoist book to Lu Yang, but specifically instructed him, "You can only read two pages."

Lu Yang hurriedly took the Taoist book, and after reading the first page, he was immediately invigorated.

"Water-based alchemy!"

It turned out to be an unorthodox method in alchemy, water-based alchemy. This kind of inheritance is not even found in the Lu family.

After all, the mainstream method in the alchemy world now is fire-based alchemy.

To be honest, Lu Yang was really tempted. Alchemy actually requires a lot of spiritual roots, and in the cultivation world, those with both fire and wood spiritual roots are regarded as natural-born alchemists.

Those with dual fire and metal spiritual roots are considered natural-born weapon refiners because cultivators with such spiritual root aptitude can achieve twice the results with half the effort when learning alchemy and weapon crafting.

The success rate will also be greatly increased.

As it stands, alchemists from the Lu family and other forces, even if they don't have both fire and wood spiritual roots, at least have fire spiritual roots.

After all, fire techniques are essential in the alchemy world, and a fire spirit root is basically a fundamental requirement.

When refining pills, controlling the fire is the most important step, and without the assistance of spiritual roots, it is truly extremely difficult.

Although Lu Yang has the blessing of good fortune, which allows him to easily comprehend the art of alchemy, he can't possibly invest his good fortune every time he refines pills; that would be too wasteful. Right now, he doesn't even have enough good fortune for cultivation alone.

It was precisely because he lacked a fire elemental root that Lu Yang did not choose to refine pills immediately.

I bought an alchemy furnace this time, firstly because the price was reasonable and the quality was good, and secondly because I wanted to give it a try.

I didn't expect to be so lucky, I even came across a book on water-based alchemy.

He doesn't have fire and wood spiritual roots, but he does have water and wood spiritual roots.

This is the alchemy inheritance prepared for him. It's a pity he didn't come here at the beginning. Otherwise, Lu Yang might not have bothered with the other magical artifacts and would have prioritized taking this Taoist book.

Right now, he doesn't have enough spirit stones, so he can only take out his top-grade magic armor.

Although a top-grade magic robe offers somewhat weak defense, it's sufficient for the time being. Taking out a top-grade magic armor would be the most suitable option.

"I want this inheritance. Name your price."

The female cultivator hadn't expected Lu Yang to be so decisive; he made up his mind after only reading two pages.

After hesitating for a moment, the female cultivator gave a thumbs up, "Give me another thousand spirit stones, and I'll give you this inheritance."

One thousand spirit stones!

Lu Yang tidied up the storage bag, putting over eight hundred spirit stones into it and then presented it to the female cultivator.

"That's all we have. If it works, great; if not, oh well."

This!

The eight hundred spirit stones were in line with her expectation of two thousand spirit stones, but she was a little disappointed that she couldn't earn more.

But then Lu Yang spoke up again, "I really don't have any more. I can't give you any more, and I don't like to dawdle. If it's not working out, I'll leave."

Upon hearing this, the Daoist book was immediately pushed in front of Lu Yang. "Done."