Creating a paradise in an ant nest

Chapter 103 Longevity Spirit Coil, Golden Branch and Jade Dew

In Liu He's miniature spiritual plant garden, the most valuable and highest-grade spiritual plants are the Rouge Glass Peach and the Mountain-Suppressing Podocarpus.

The Rouge Glazed Peach is a rare gem among first-tier spiritual fruits. It has been growing in the spiritual plant garden for two years and is still far from ripe.

It takes ten years for it to grow, flower, and bear fruit. After that, it flowers and bears fruit every eight years.

Even with daily nourishment from the Green Soil Root Cultivation Technique, it will still take at least two years for it to grow.

Because spiritual plants require a long period of time to grow, he decided to plant second-tier spiritual fruits.

"I want two saplings of the Longevity Spirit Tree."

After the female cultivator's detailed introduction, Liu He decided to purchase two saplings of the second-tier spiritual fruit, "Longevity Spiritual Coil".

Its real name is the Thousand-Year Longevity Peach, a spiritual plant with the effect of prolonging life.

It takes fifty years to grow, and a single Longevity Spirit Fruit tree will bear anywhere from a few to a dozen or so fruits, but never more than twenty. This demonstrates its rarity and preciousness.

If an ordinary person eats one Longevity Pill, they can live to the age of eighty without illness or disaster; if they eat two Longevity Pills, they can live to the age of ninety with clear hearing and eyesight.

Eating three Longevity Pills can grant you a lifespan of one hundred years!

A Qi Refining cultivator can easily live twenty years longer by consuming a few Longevity Pills.

As for Foundation Establishment cultivators, they can also live for twenty years longer by regularly consuming Longevity Elixir.

Liu He chose the Longevity Spirit Coil not because he cared about its life-extending effects, but simply because he valued the spiritual energy it provided as a second-tier spiritual fruit, which would aid his cultivation.

These longevity-enhancing spiritual plants all have an upper limit; they cannot increase lifespan indefinitely.

Liu He already possessed the ancient and spiritual roots of the Chinese toon tree, which could prolong life, so he did not care about the life-extending effect of the longevity-promoting spirit coil.

He chose the Longevity Spirit Plant primarily because it is not demanding in terms of its growing environment. Many second-tier spirit plants have strict requirements for their growing environment and must be carefully cared for.

The environmental requirements for the Longevity Spirit Coil are relatively simple. It only requires a second-level spirit gathering array and no other large spirit plants within a three-zhang (approximately 10 meters) of its growth range.

A single sapling of the Longevity Spirit Coil costs 300 spirit stones, but buying two will save you a lot of money, costing only 500 spirit stones.

The fruit seedlings are not just newly sprouted seedlings, but saplings that are more than half a person tall, ensuring their survival.

"Please tell me more about the growth-enhancing resources in your Treasure Pavilion."

After buying the spirit vines and second-tier spirit fruits, Liu He then purchased resources to help the spirit plants grow.

The female cultivator introduced to him: "Our Huahui Spiritual Plant Pavilion mainly sells two kinds: one is Purple Source Dew, and the other is Golden Branch Jade Dew."

"A bottle of Purple Dew costs seven thousand spirit stones and contains ten drops."

The specific effects depend on the variety and condition of the spiritual plant. If it's a seedling of the Boundless Forest Vine, a single drop of Purple Source Dew can allow it to grow for ten years, and ten drops of Purple Source Dew would be enough to get it to the second tier.

How can the Boundless Forest Vine grow directly to the second stage?!

Liu He was tempted, but: It's too expensive!

A bottle costs seven thousand spirit stones; how could he afford that?

"Golden Dew is much cheaper, only 1,000 spirit stones per bottle, which is also 10 drops."

The specific effect depends on the type of spiritual plant. If it is a common first-tier spiritual herb, a drop of Golden Dew can instantly make it grow for a hundred years.

If it is a young seedling of the Longevity Spirit Tree, a drop of Golden Dew can help it grow for two years. However, as the Longevity Spirit Tree grows larger, the effect of Golden Dew will gradually weaken.

The spiritual energy of a single drop of Golden Dew is fixed, and its effect on the growth of fruit tree seedlings and mature fruit trees is different.

A bottle costs a thousand spirit stones, which is quite expensive, but fortunately Liu He can afford it.

As for the effects of Golden Branch Jade Dew and Purple Source Sweet Dew, Liu He calculated in his mind that the "cost-effectiveness" was extremely low, far inferior to letting the spiritual plants grow naturally and for cultivators to nourish them with magic.

A single drop of Golden Dew costs one hundred spirit stones, allowing a first-tier spirit herb to grow for a hundred years in an instant.

A typical first-tier spiritual herb or medicinal plant is worth less than one hundred spirit stones. By that calculation, it's actually a loss!

Fortunately, Liu He had an ant nest, so he planted the spiritual plants in a miniature spiritual plant garden and released the Golden Branches and Jade Dew in reality.

"I want a bottle of Golden Dew."

Fortunately, Liu He had plenty of spirit stones, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford such expensive resources.

The female cultivator brought Liu He a well-sealed, brand-new bottle of Golden Dew, and told him the precautions: "It is best not to use Golden Dew on the same spiritual plant too often, as its effect will be weakened."

It's best to wait a while, about half a month or a month, before using another drop.

Liu He suddenly thought of a question: "Does that conflict with growth-enhancing spells? Will the effects overlap?"

The female cultivator explained, "Both Golden Branch Jade Dew and Purple Source Sweet Dew are wood-type treasures. If a wood-type growth-enhancing technique is used on a spiritual plant, the effects will indeed overlap, and both effects will be weakened."

However, if it's not a wood-based growth spell, but rather an earth or water-based one, they will hardly affect each other.

Liu He thought to himself, "Luckily, I used an earth-based growth spell, which can maximize its effect."

Liu He finished purchasing at Huahui Lingzhi Pavilion.

He bought seedlings of the Boundless Forest Vine, two Longevity Spirit Plants, and a bottle of Golden Branch Jade Dew.

The total cost was 2,500 spirit stones!

He put all the resources into his storage bag, along with a jade slip containing the spells of plant cultivation.

The plant-controlling spell given by the female cultivator is stored on a jade slip, the contents of which can be obtained by refining it with one's divine soul.

Afterwards, Liu He went to the Spirit Pet Pavilion operated by the Lingrui Immortal Sect.

He purchased the Eight Desolations and Nine Netherworlds from the Spirit Pet Pavilion.

This time, we are purchasing resources to accelerate the growth of spirit beasts and increase their strength.

Unlike spiritual plants, which can be nurtured for years with a single drop of golden dew, spiritual beasts require a gradual growth process, and resources can only accelerate their growth to a certain extent.

After inquiring, he learned that the resources suitable for the Wilderness Spirit Dog and the Netherworld Ferocious Cat included high-grade beast food and raw bone and meat from high-grade spirit beasts.

These resources are not expensive.

He spent one hundred spirit stones to buy a bag of high-grade beast food.

Five jin, which translates to a price of twenty spirit stones per jin. It's a pity they don't sell them individually, otherwise he could have just bought one jin.

As for other resources, he hasn't bought them yet.

This bag of high-grade beast food is enough for the Eight Desolations and Nine Netherworlds to use at this stage.

More importantly, these two spirit beasts used the same resources as Liu He in the ant nest, so they were not lacking in resources.

Emperor Qian Yuan Shengzong.

Lingmu Garden.

Liu He returned with a full load and couldn't wait to rush into the ant nest and take out various resources from his storage bag.

"We're going to be busy from now on."

"The Longevity Spirit Coil must be planted in a suitable location, and there cannot be any other spiritual plants nearby."

"After learning the art of plant cultivation, the Boundless Forest Vine must first be refined before it can be helped to grow."

"Eight Desolations, Nine Netherworlds, you are in for a treat."

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The resources he purchased with over two thousand spirit stones had an effect in the ant nest that was more than ten or a hundred times greater.

He first selected a location and planted two longevity plants in a miniature spiritual plant garden.

After returning to reality, I put high-grade animal food into the ant nest and let the ants carry it to the depths of the nest.

"It's time to try the effects of Golden Branches and Jade Dew."

What effect would a single drop of Golden Dew, worth a thousand spirit stones, have on a miniature spirit plant garden?

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