Cultivation begins with harvest.

Chapter 260 The Beginning of Hatching

Senior Brother He has left. The competition will be held a year from now. This is just a reminder for Chen Guang to prepare. The first thing is the spirit creature for the competition.

What could be better than the Wind-Scarred Bloodwood Seed?

If we're talking about spiritual plants and individual items, this is the best one we can offer. After all, Wind-Trace Bloodwood is a second-tier spiritual plant, suitable for body tempering and weapon crafting, so its uses aren't limited. However, in addition to a large amount of the essence and blood of second-tier hoofed and milky demon beasts, it also requires a True Wind—[Mysterious Yellow Hurricane]—to grow.

The true forms of the Five Elements include water, fire, metal, wood, and earth. Each of them is an extremely pure spiritual object containing many wonderful uses. Among the five, water and fire are the most suitable for combat, such as Kui Flame and Shen Flame. In addition, there are also the mystical forms of the Five Elements such as wind, thunder, ice, fog, and mist. However, wind and thunder are the most difficult to obtain among all the Five Elements. True objects with wind and thunder attributes are considered to be the easiest to obtain among spiritual objects of this category.

Therefore, Chen Guang had not been interested in cultivating Wind-Trace Bloodwood for a long time. Now that it was suitable, with the spiritual materials prepared, all that was left was to improve his understanding of spiritual plants.

I don't need to be in a hurry. Haste makes me restless. Everything will proceed as usual. I'll spend these days reading more of the spiritual plant books I brought back from the scripture hall and digesting the Nine Husbands inheritance I received last time. It won't be too late to go back after accumulating more knowledge.

Life was leisurely. He cared for the spiritual plants, kept company with the spiritual beasts, worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, and began his own cultivation. His understanding of cultivation improved every day.

On this day, Chen Guang stood at the edge of the land of supreme yang, feeling the pure yang heat here. He watched as the eight yang flowers in the center grew successfully and felt satisfied.

This land is bathed in golden light during the day and glows with a three-foot-high red light at night, making it very eye-catching.

However, the glaze mud underfoot needs to be cleaned of waste every now and then. If it is not cleaned, the waste will slowly infect ordinary insects and form a peculiar Gu worm. Anything touched by this Gu worm will gradually lose its activity and turn into glaze, which is extremely destructive. After all, glaze mud is mostly used to cultivate Gu worms.

Even if the pests are eradicated in time and no more venomous insects appear, the waste accumulated in the glaze mud will one day turn into underground gas, causing great damage to the environment.

The characteristic of this type of spiritual soil, which belongs to the Yang Cliff category, is its strong attributes. Its disadvantage is that it is prone to harboring evil and filth. If it is not dealt with in time, strange things will often emerge from this type of spiritual soil. However, this kind of spiritual soil can also cultivate pure Yang attribute spiritual objects such as the Zhan Yang Flower.

The waste cannot be removed using the roots of the Azure Sky Tree as before, otherwise all the spiritual plants in this area would be poisoned. The only option is to use spells like Earth Qi Spells to draw out the waste gas and then process it. This must be done approximately every three inches to ensure that there is no waste at the bottom of the soil. To prevent the waste gas from leaking out, the whole process is both tedious and boring. In order to slow down the accumulation of earth's vital energy, Chen Guang also needs to place some spiritual objects that can dispel miasma but are not too strong, as well as earth essence that can replenish earth's vital energy, into the soil each time it is drawn out. In this way, it can be processed once every five months at most.

This is an artificially created place of extreme yang energy, requiring frequent management and maintenance to preserve.

After glancing at the Star-Calling Tree not far away and dealing with the exhaust fumes, Chen Guang sat down and tried to cultivate the Forest Star Flame. One reason he didn't want to cultivate this secret technique before was that it required extremely proficient fire magic to temper the power of stars. Back then, Chen Guang's Kui Flame was all comprehended through secret techniques, so he had no expertise in fire magic. Now, however, times have changed. He has mastered two sets of fire-attribute spells, and his understanding of the Forest Star Flame is so profound that it can even influence other cultivators. This condition is now naturally met.

On the other hand, it takes too much time. When the Senxing Flame is activated, it is like a raging sea, layer upon layer, endless. But it takes four or five hours every night, and it takes about six months to refine a single wisp. If there are dark clouds, the star power will be even less that night, and the time to refine a single wisp will be delayed even further.

After all, the Forest Star Flame cannot form a seed; once a wisp is used, it is gone forever. It is extremely dependent on reserves, and to have practical combat value, it requires several years of accumulation, which is the biggest limitation to cultivating the Forest Star Flame.

Now it's different. The star power attracted by the two star-attracting trees is overwhelming. The Starry Night Flower seeds can't even digest all of it. In order to prevent the star power from changing the surrounding spiritual plants, Chen Guang also needs to process the star power accumulated by the star-attracting trees. A few meteorites and Heavenly Star Tiger Bees alone are not enough.

In the wild, a mature Star-Calling Tree can slightly increase a demon beast's chances of entering the Foundation Establishment stage. If a demon beast, which lacks intelligence, can do this, it is enough to show how exaggerated the Star-Calling Tree's stellar power is. Chen Guang also needs to cultivate these two saplings for a full three hours to consume all the accumulated stellar power and store the stellar power after fire refining in a fixed acupoint. He estimated that it would only take one month to refine the first wisp of Forest Star Flame, based on three hours of cultivation each night, which is one-seventh of the normal time.

Has Sen Xingyan's suddenly become somewhat valuable?

After all, the Forest Star Flame has many drawbacks, but its advantage is that it only requires the power of stars to be used as external objects, so you can just focus on refining it, unlike other secret techniques that have specific requirements for spiritual objects.

But I already have so many trump cards that I can't even use them all even if I run out of mana. And since Senxingyan can't be used with conventional methods, it's dispensable. I'll just treat it as an unexpected hobby to deal with the many ways I have to deal with the power of the stars.

Originally, I thought I would be busy for a long time, but I didn't expect to settle most of the spiritual plants in no time. The concentration of spiritual energy in the first spiritual mountain made most problems simple. As long as the spiritual energy was sufficient, most spiritual plants could survive even if they could not grow. Moreover, Chen Guang did his best to meet the conditions of these spiritual plants. Therefore, my daily cultivation soon fell into complete silence until three months later, when the Crimson Head True Smoke Turtle was close to hatching.

Chen Guang had been waiting in this room for a long time, feeling a little uneasy. After all, this was a second-tier spirit beast. If properly nurtured, it would naturally be his right-hand man. Feeling the increasingly obvious and proactive affection from the eggshell, he couldn't help but stare at the last crimson cloud pattern on the pure white oval egg. As it floated up and down repeatedly, it finally dissipated completely like a wisp of mist and disappeared.

On one side of the eggshell, a barely perceptible crack suddenly appeared. At the same time the crack appeared, the crimson cloud pattern that should have disappeared reappeared and began to slowly rotate on the eggshell. At first, it was just a wisp, and then more and more red smoke appeared, quickly filling the chamber with smoke.

Chen Guang used his magic shield to isolate the smoke and stared at the turtle egg. From the red smoke, the cracks on it seemed to be some kind of restriction or seal. Chen Guang could hear violent impacts and tearing inside the eggshell, but the cracks did not expand any further.

This is the process of inheritance and tempering. If it can break through the eggshell on its own, it can obtain the fragmented memories of its ancestors, and at the same time, it is also awakening its bloodline. This is a spirit beast; with the memory as a reference, it will have an innate advantage. But if it cannot, its potential is very limited. If it really can't break through, I can only help it. I can't just watch it die trapped inside.

The Crimson-Headed True Smoke Turtle has quite a history. The entire clan is in a period of transformation towards becoming a different species. Once they become a different species, they are born with complete inherited memories and powerful bloodlines. At that point, they are no weaker than cultivators. The inheritance is orderly, and the valuable memories of every Crimson-Headed True Smoke Turtle will be preserved and passed on, making the path of cultivation for later generations only smoother.

Like the Red-feathered Sandpiper, it is only at the first level, yet it can disturb the peace of the Firebeard Cave region. It is all innate. Apart from other exotic species, no single cultivator can match it at the Qi Refining stage.

But in the process of transformation, there are many uncomfortable aspects; one may not necessarily enjoy the benefits, but one must first suffer the hardships.

Born into this world, one faces certain death. If one cannot break free from the shell, one is deemed unworthy to walk this earth. Although the bloodline resides within the body, it still requires breaking free from the shell to be awakened. This is also a form of protection against other creatures plundering it. The so-called inherited memories are also incomplete, depending on the ancestors. How much they can truly be of use is still a question. However, this makes the process of breaking free from the shell all the more difficult, and it is unclear whether this is a blessing or a curse.