Cultivation begins with harvest.

After controlling the Purple Poison Spider larva with the Black Rainbow Guardian's blood, he naturally began to study the Purple Poison Spider and immediately discovered several special features.

Compared to the normal purple venomous spider, it possesses more complex toxicity. The corpses of those poisoned by it are highly likely to move towards sources of plague-causing contamination. It is also more active at night, which is probably due to the incubation environment created by the Night Plague Bone and Star Gray Moss.

Upon closer examination, it becomes clear that while there are some unique aspects, they are unrelated to any outstanding advantages; they merely add two additional characteristics, neither of which reaches the level of a qualitative change.

After absorbing the Black Rainbow Guard's spiritual blood, the Purple Poison Spider acted as if Chen Guang didn't exist, and began to devour the insect eggs that contained special toxicity due to the environment. The Black Rainbow Guard had a very clear master-servant relationship, and as long as it didn't significantly affect the Gu insects' minds, a clear hierarchy would form. After all, it couldn't treat most Gu insects with the same gentleness as it did with spirit beasts.

This is a pain point in insect control. Apart from increasing the number and some traits, it is much more difficult to raise the upper limit of Gu insects than to raise the limit of spirit beasts. Basically, everything is determined by their innate nature, unlike spirit beasts which can maintain progress and competitiveness with their masters through training.

You might painstakingly master one type of Gu worm, only to have to abandon it completely soon and go on to master a more advanced one.

Under Chen Guang's watchful eye, he discovered that the remaining part of the insect eggs had become like hard soil, losing its previous flexibility. At the same time, when the purple poisonous spider took a bite, many moist black particles would fall off. Although the purple poisonous spider looked like it was very delicious, it was completely indifferent to these black particles and even avoided them.

Out of curiosity, Chen Guang used magic to create ice crystal branches to carefully examine the object. What he saw immediately changed his expression.

This was clearly a cluster of toxins contaminated with the Night Plague Bones, one of its most prominent characteristics being its plague-like contagiousness.

Moreover, it is highly potent and extremely dangerous.

Chen Guang hurriedly went to check the other nine insect eggs, and his joy diminished. These nine eggs of the purple spider venom were still considered to have strong vitality, but their release was somewhat unnatural and excessive, which could easily be confused with the accumulation and enhancement of vitality during the hatching process.

Right now, Chen Guang is suffering a loss because of his lack of experience.

The ability of the reward orb will clearly show those with specific results, such as "dead". The earliest such clear result was the Purple Grass. When the dragon energy first entered, Chen Guang knew nothing about its attributes. It wasn't until the attributes of the All-Knowing One appeared and the Purple Grass truly stabilized that he was able to read some information.

Therefore, Chen Guang was definitely going to suffer this loss from the Purple Poison Spider. Now it is deduced that the level of the Night Plague Bone Tier 2 was too high, and using it as the source of poison caused the eggs to be damaged to varying degrees.

"Could this guy be the only survivor of this group?"

After carefully examining the remaining eight insect eggs again and confirming that they all exhibited abnormally vigorous vitality, Chen Guang could only conclude that, based on his knowledge, the insect eggs were likely to be damaged during their most vulnerable period and beyond saving.

Upon receiving this result, Chen Guang's first reaction was to take the Purple Poison Spider away. However, the Purple Poison Spider conveyed the message that the environment here was very comfortable. After hesitating for a while, Chen Guang decided to leave it in the environment where it was born. However, he made great changes to the environment inside the Variegated Wood. A large area near the Night Plague Bone was closed to traffic, and only a small area near the Star Gray Moss allowed the Purple Poison Spider to move around.

Let's leave it here for now.

Chen Guang pondered his cultivation plan for this year. There were no new spiritual plants to care for. He could continue with the cultivation practices from last year, which would give him plenty of time to pursue other cultivation methods.

The Nine Husbands Inheritance, the Cloud Tower Formation Inheritance, the Black Gu Golden Chapter, the Ash Blood Battle Technique...

This year allows for a deeper understanding and learning, giving you more time to accompany and train the Thousand Needle Wren and the Purple Poison Spider, so there's no rush.

Having left behind some Wood Essence, they continued the preparations for the Black Ginseng Flame Pill.

A common feature of the Five Visceral Flames Secret Technique is that one must first master and possess the corresponding acquired Five Elements basic spiritual fire in order to quickly succeed in cultivation using alchemy methods. From this perspective, the difficulty is quite high.

Aside from the simplest Kui Flame, among the other five basic spiritual flames, the Fire Element Zi Flame is relatively simple. However, even the Zi Flame is so difficult that a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining would consider it a ceremonial weapon. This is even more true for the Water Element Shen Flame, which is known for its peculiarities.

The specific methods of mastering the practice are recorded in this part of the secret arts, providing three methods in total: external, unorthodox and resource-intensive, and the most orthodox and peaceful...

Exogenous flames are similar to the original Kui Flame. You don't need to control them yourself. You can obtain external flames through certain methods. As long as you can use them, that's enough. It is also the type with the lowest difficulty in understanding.

Chen Guang is trying them all out, referencing the Azure Flame. If he can master this secret technique, he can skip the cultivation process and control the flame.

However, this only shows the fact, not the reason why, so Chen Guang still prefers the latter two methods.

Kui Yan himself suffered a bit of a loss. Although he could operate it with ease, it was mostly thanks to the Flame Control Technique, and he didn't have much deep understanding of it.

Chen Guang also secretly gathered some information. He found that cultivators who comprehended the Five Elements Spiritual Fire on their own performed significantly better than others when using other spells of the same attribute. This statement was also verified by Long Ma, the branch building steward, who also agreed with it.

After mastering the Beak Flame, he felt a sense of ease in handling ordinary fire spells, and he also suddenly understood some complex and troublesome composite fire spells.

Chen Guang, however, did not have this experience. Although he could mobilize the Kui Flame at a faster speed because it was "effortless," the real improvement came from his alchemy skills.

Therefore, Chen Guang had to try to comprehend it on his own. Considering that the cultivation of the Five Elements Spiritual Fire was not easy and most Qi Refining disciples had not mastered it, he tried all three methods. Before he became proficient in the Black Ginseng Flame Pill formula to a certain extent, he had to at least master a stable method to obtain the ginseng flame so as not to be held back. Otherwise, if he really relied on himself to comprehend the ginseng flame, it might take a month or even several years or more. Did the Black Ginseng Flame Pill have to take that long to be refined?

There are actually four types of Five Visceral Flames!

Each of these situations requires a huge amount of time, and the accumulated time becomes staggering. One's own body will be out of balance before the five elements are even in place, making it a losing proposition.

Make use of your strengths, even if you can't understand it on your own, accept it and let nature take its course. Don't pursue perfection too much. Chen Guang reminded himself not to fall into the obsessive pursuit of perfection. Compared with his flaws, the conditions he had were already extremely favorable.

Always striving for perfection will only lead to harm.

However, we cannot rely entirely on external factors to satisfy our needs. Sometimes we also need to make internal efforts. Even if the results are not good, the combination of both is better than simply using external things.

The most basic way to comprehend the Flame of the Divine Realm is to cultivate the Flame of the Divine Realm in one's dantian, manifesting the form of fire and the image of water. This is the key and core of cultivation. Specifically, it involves allowing magical power to flow through acupoints and meridians that are biased towards water and fire attributes. The magical power must flow through these areas and change its attribute characteristics accordingly.

It sounds plausible, but balancing these two attributes is extremely difficult.

Just as one must keep a liquid boiling while maintaining contact with a flame to prevent it from going out, the deeper one goes into cultivation, the more likely it is to cause damage to the internal meridians. Chao Shuijiang's treatment targets heterogeneous spiritual energy and physical injuries, and has a very mild effect on meridian damage. This is also one of the reasons why Shenyan is difficult to cultivate. Chen Guang only intends to try it out and stop there. He will make progress step by step and never rush to achieve success. If he damages his meridians, he will regret it.

Therefore, Chen Guang was looking forward to another unconventional method—cultivating using water and fire.