After binding with a genius, I became an immortal by exploiting loopholes.

Turning his gaze away, Lu Qingchen stood up and walked towards the stone shelf next to the stone chamber.

There were five jade slips on the stone shelf, covered in dust.

He picked up the first one, placed it on his forehead, and immersed himself in it—it was a record of spiritual plant insights, documenting Qingyun Sanren's experience and methods for cultivating spiritual plants.

The content was even more detailed than what Master Sun had taught, and some of the methods were completely new to him.

A thought struck him: with these insights, he could avoid many detours in his journey with spiritual plants.

The second item is a collection of cultivation notes, recording Qingyun Sanren's experiences and insights during his cultivation process. Most of the notes pertain to the Spirit Mansion Realm and Foundation Establishment Realm. Lu Qingchen doesn't need them for now, but they will come in handy later.

The third item is a collection of magical techniques.

He glanced through it and found many strange and unusual spells, most of which were related to spiritual plants.

What is this "spiritual eye technique" that allows one to see the flow of spiritual energy within a spiritual plant?

The "Growth-Inducing Spell" can accelerate the growth of spiritual plants, but it consumes a significant amount of energy.

One of the techniques is quite special and is called "Dew Condensation Technique".

"Dew Condensation Technique - At the turn of dawn and dusk, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth merges with the rising sun's energy, and through spiritual power, 'Sunrise Dew' is condensed from the branches and leaves of plants."

"This dew is the essence accumulated by plants overnight, containing a faint vitality. Watering spiritual plants can help them grow, and long-term use can slightly improve the quality of spiritual plants."

Lu Qingchen's eyes lit up slightly.

Other spells are fine, but this Dew Condensation Spell is quite interesting.

Chen Shi (7-9 AM) is exactly when he works in the fields every day. If he can gather some morning dew to water the spiritual plants every day, the quality of the spiritual rice and spiritual herbs will improve over time.

Moreover, it consumes very little spiritual energy and can be used at the second level of Qi Refining without interfering with cultivation.

He memorized the incantation and carefully put the jade slip away.

Although this technique isn't particularly profound, its strength lies in its practicality, and it comes in handy.

Unfortunately, they were all auxiliary techniques, none of which could be used for actual combat.

He was somewhat disappointed, but then he thought, what use would a spiritual plant cultivator like himself have for such a powerful attack spell?

Besides, getting these three techniques for free is already incredibly lucky.

If he wanted to exchange for a similar technique in the sect's scripture pavilion, he would have to spend at least a lot of contribution points. As an outer disciple, it would take him forever to accumulate enough.

He suppressed this thought and picked up the fourth jade slip.

It doesn't contain any spells, but rather a diagram of an array—the Earth Qi Spirit-Gathering Array, a basic spirit-gathering array that can gather spiritual energy from the earth's veins within a small area, improving the concentration of spiritual energy in the spirit field.

Lu Qingchen was increasingly delighted as he looked at it.

With this formation, the concentration of spiritual energy in the spiritual field can be increased, the spiritual plants will grow better, and the yield will also increase.

He continued reading.

There are three methods of arranging formations, namely, the upper, middle, and lower levels.

The inferior formation uses ordinary materials and has the weakest effect, though it slightly increases the concentration of spiritual energy.

A medium-level formation, with moderate effectiveness.

The best formations are the most effective and require a spiritual object as the core of the formation.

Materials needed for a low-level array: three spirit stones, four spirit wood stakes, one bottle of talisman ink, four blank array flags...

Lu Qingchen silently did some calculations in his mind.

These things together are worth at least a dozen spirit stones.

Although he still has some savings, he doesn't spend them like that.

After all, this is only a low-grade formation; mid-grade and high-grade formations would require even more spirit stones!

However, he wasn't in a hurry. He would wait until his exclusive spiritual field was approved before considering setting up the formation.

Once you have your own territory, you can set up an array to increase the spiritual energy concentration in your spiritual fields, making it much easier to plant anything.

......

He picked up the fifth one to examine it, and his hand trembled slightly.

This jade slip contains a special technique called "The Spirit Concealment Technique".

The opening sentence reads: "When cultivators practice, their aura is exposed, and the strong can tell their strength at a glance. This technique can conceal one's aura and hide one's true cultivation level, making it difficult for even those of higher realms to see through it."

Lu Qingchen read the line of text three times, his heart pounding faster and faster.

Concealing his aura and concealing his true cultivation level—this was exactly what he needed.

He was always worried that his cultivation level would rise too quickly and arouse suspicion, so he didn't dare to go all out when cultivating, for fear that one day his aura would be exposed and he would be discovered.

If this technique is truly effective, then he can rest assured.

He clutched the jade slip in his hand, took a deep breath, and then put it into his robes.

He then went to look at the porcelain vases.

There are four porcelain vases in total, each of different sizes.

He opened the first one, poured out a few pills, which were dark in color and had a very faint medicinal smell.

The second and third cases were the same; most of the medicinal properties were lost.

He felt a little regretful; if those pills were still here, he wondered how valuable they would be.

The fourth porcelain bottle contained several pills of slightly better quality. He examined them and guessed they were "Neiyuan Pills," the basic pills taken by cultivators in the Qi Refining stage.

There are six pills in total. Although much of the medicinal properties have been lost, they should still have some effect.

He carefully put the porcelain bottle away, finally feeling a little relieved.

At the bottom of the stone shelf was a rusty iron box, about the size of a palm, with strange patterns engraved on its surface. It didn't look like decoration, but rather some kind of restriction.

He tried to open it, but couldn't.

He tried to probe with his spiritual power, but the spiritual power was bounced back by a force.

"There's actually a restriction."

He put the iron box down for the time being and turned his gaze back to the earth vein spirit embryo in the spirit pool.

Lu Qingchen believed that this item was the most precious thing in this stone chamber.

The contents of the jade slip, porcelain bottle, and iron box are probably not as good as it.

A cultivator from the Spirit Mansion realm has lived in seclusion here for over a decade, waiting for it to mature.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see it.

He squatted down, approached the spirit pool, and carefully examined the jade-like lingzhi mushroom.

The emerald light was warm and gentle, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, as if it were breathing.

He didn't dare to reach out and touch it, afraid of hurting it; he just looked at it closely.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed some details he hadn't seen before.

At the bottom of the Ganoderma lucidum, several thin roots extend from the spiritual liquid in the spiritual pool. They are not much thicker than a hair, are translucent, and have a faint green glow.

The roots climbed down the edge of the spirit pool, burrowed into the cracks in the stone wall, and disappeared into the darkness.

Lu Qingchen looked in the direction of the roots.

There are several small cracks on the rock wall, some of which are naturally formed, while others look as if they were forcibly drilled out by roots.

The roots sprouted from these cracks and extended an unknown distance.

A thought struck him: Could it be that the spiritual energy and the cultivation that was absorbed were drawn in through these roots?

The spirit field is more than ten miles away, and the roots of the earth vein spirit embryo may have already extended underground into that spirit field.

Is it really that long? A root thinner than a hair can extend for miles?

Lu Qingchen had some doubts.