Uncle Nine: Scattering beans to create soldiers? I'm using plants and trees to create soldiers.

Lin Xuan approached the exotic gourd vine and reached into his robes to take out a dagger.

With a light stroke of the sharp blade across the fingertip, blood immediately seeped from the wound.

Lin Xuan circulated his Dao Qi and forced out five drops of rich essence blood.

The five drops of blood essence, like five tiny red jade beads, fell one by one onto the root of the exotic gourd vine as Lin Xuan gently flicked it.

Upon seeing this, Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai couldn't help but frown.

Essence blood is different from ordinary blood. It contains the original vital energy of a cultivator. Once it is depleted, it takes a lot of time and medicine to replenish it.

Wen Cai's eyes were filled with heartache, and he couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "My goodness... has Senior Brother gone mad? How could he use his own life essence to feed a broken vine? Even if he wanted to fertilize it, wouldn't it be more effective to fetch two buckets of manure from the backyard?"

"Shut your stinking mouth! Can excrement compare to Senior Brother's essence blood?" Qiu Sheng glared fiercely at Wen Cai, forcibly adopting an air of "I saw through everything," but his twitching eyes betrayed his inner confusion. He lowered his voice and said, "Senior Brother is definitely... using some kind of secret technique we don't know! What do you know!"

Even so, Qiu Sheng's heart was pounding: Feeding plants blood? Isn't this some kind of evil cultivation method?

Uncle Nine, standing to the side, showed a slight change in expression. He stared at the five drops of essence blood on the root of the gourd vine, his eyes becoming deep.

Using one's own blood and essence to refine magical artifacts is not uncommon in the Xuanmen (Taoist sects).

Whether it's forging swords, making talismans, or raising troops, sometimes one uses their own essence and blood as a medium to make the magical artifact and the owner's energy harmonize.

Plants can be nourished with essence and blood...

This is truly the first time Uncle Nine has met him.

Could this be... another way of using the Dao of Nature?

How can one nourish plants with their own essence and blood, thus stimulating plant vitality?

Just as Uncle Nine was pondering, Lin Xuan swiftly formed a hand seal, and the Dao Qi within his body began to circulate along the special route of the "Yellow Sprout Nurturing Spirit Technique".

Kidney water rises, heart fire descends.

The energies of water and fire converge among the five internal organs, which then evokes a sense of the steady and substantial earth element of the spleen.

A rich vitality rose from Lin Xuan's internal organs, converging along his meridians to his hands.

A pale yellow aura then emanated from his fingertips.

"The spleen is the palace of earth, from which the five elements are generated."

"Yellow sprouts are planted, their roots firmly planted in the spirit!"

As the incantation ended, Lin Xuan pointed his sword forward.

A wisp of pale yellow light shot out from the fingertip and landed on the root of the exotic gourd vine.

Uncle Nine's gaze suddenly sharpened.

He had never seen before the techniques, qi circulation routes, and incantations Lin Xuan used.

Clearly, this is not a magic technique passed down in the Maoshan tradition!

"This kid... he's only just broken through to the late stage of Daoist cultivation, yet... he's already starting to deduce and create spells on his own based on his own Daoist body and his understanding of the *Huang Ting Jing*?!"

Uncle Nine gasped inwardly, feeling as if his values ​​were being brutally rubbed into the ground by his apprentice.

What the hell is this monster?!

Looking across the entire Xuanmen (mystical sects) world, those who can establish their own sects and create their own spells are all grandmasters with gray hair who have spent sixty years in seclusion cultivating.

Even if it's just about mastering and slightly improving a few low-level spells, it requires extremely high comprehension and profound knowledge.

How old is Ke Linxuan? How many years has he been cultivating Taoism? How many spells has he learned?

Uncle Nine swallowed hard, forced his jaw to close, and stared at the gourd vine.

The five drops of blood essence that had fallen on the rootstock suddenly trembled slightly. As if they had a life of their own, the blood beads slowly moved along the fine veins on the surface of the gourd vine.

Strands of bright red blood seeped into the roots and stems, and several faint red lines appeared on the originally emerald green vines.

The vitality emanating from the gourd vines is also rapidly increasing.

Wen Cai's eyes widened, and he reached out to tug at Qiu Sheng's sleeve. "Qiu Sheng, look! Senior Brother's essence blood has really been absorbed by the gourd vine!"

"I'm not blind," Qiu Sheng said without turning his head.

Common sense told him that if human blood were poured directly onto plants, it would only slide down the surface, seep into the soil, and turn foul and black.

But what he saw before him shattered his common sense!

Under the guidance of the senior brother's miraculous secret technique, the essence blood was not only completely absorbed, but not even a trace of impurity was left behind, and it was all transformed into the purest vitality of plants!

Qiu Sheng stared blankly at Lin Xuan's tall and straight back, his mind reeling: Is this also the power of the Natural Dao Body? I'm so envious...

As Lin Xuan continued to infuse his Dao Qi, his essence blood and Huangya Dharma intent converged deep within the roots of the gourd vine, gradually forming a pale yellow light spot the size of a grain of rice.

The light spot initially had only a blurry outline, but as life force was continuously injected, its shape became clearer and clearer, eventually transforming into a pale yellow energy seed.

The gourd vine trembled violently the moment the yellow buds successfully condensed.

The vines, roots, leaves, and small gourds hanging from the branches all emitted a faint glow at the same time.

However, the yellow sprout had already become one with the gourd vine.

The three of them could not see Huang Ya herself, but they could sense that the vitality of the gourd vine had suddenly become much stronger.

Lin Xuan slowly dispelled the magic seal and exhaled a breath of turbid air.

[Yellow sprouts successfully planted.]

[The variant gourd vine gains yellow bud assistance.]

[Current state of yellow buds: emerging.]

[Continuously nourishing the seed buds with essence and blood, reciting scriptures and expounding the Dharma, and providing nutrients can accelerate the transformation of the yellow bud.]

Lin Xuan glanced at the panel, found a small shovel, and gently turned over the incense and spiritual soil in the Seven Star Pill Furnace.

Afterwards, Lin Xuan buried the gray-quality Huangtian Sect magical artifacts one by one near the roots of the gourd vine, and then covered them with soil again.

Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai looked completely bewildered.

Wen Cai lowered his voice and asked, "What is Senior Brother doing? Using a magic artifact as fertilizer for the gourd vine?!"

Qiu Sheng's lips twitched. "You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"

Not to mention the two of them, even Uncle Nine looked puzzled.

Magical artifacts can indeed be disassembled, and the spiritual materials extracted can be refined anew.

Can you just bury it in the soil and expect a plant to absorb the power from the artifact?! Is that even possible?

Under Lin Xuan's guidance, the quality of this gourd vine improved considerably, but it was still ultimately just a spiritual plant.

Could it be that... plants can eat iron and copper?!

Uncle Nine took a deep breath and ultimately swallowed back all the questions that were swirling in his mind.

He decided to wait and see, after all, Lin Xuan had already given him enough shocks... no, surprises, today, and his old heart needed some time to adjust.

Lin Xuan compacted the last layer of soil, then returned to the futon and sat down cross-legged.

Seeing this, Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai immediately sat down not far away.

The two had been waiting for quite some time, so they naturally knew that Lin Xuan was about to begin chanting scriptures.

Lin Xuan formed a hand seal and slowly closed his eyes.

The Dao Qi within the body circulates according to the special route of the "Yellow Sprout Nurturing Spirit Technique".

Within the two kidneys, the spirits of the left and right kidneys appear one after the other.

The two kidney spirits sat cross-legged in the Dharma aperture, their bodies filled with flowing water energy, echoing each other from afar.

The tongue spirit then returned to its place.

Lin Xuan opened his mouth, and a deep, resonant chanting voice slowly rose.

"When the Supreme Lord was at leisure, he composed a seven-character poem to explain his physical form and the various gods."

"Above is the Yellow Court, below is the Guanyuan Gate, behind is the Nether Gate, in front is the Gate of Life..."

The sound, propelled by the Daoist Qi, spread throughout the entire backyard.

Unlike in the past, the chanting this time was much more profound.

Compared to the past, after incorporating the Yellow Sprout Spirit-Nourishing Technique, Lin Xuan's chanting this time became more profound and ancient.

Every word he uttered seemed to carry a powerful, soul-stirring force!

The chanting, like a resounding bell or a morning bell and evening drum, entered the mind and spirit without any hindrance!

Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai, who originally intended to "gain experience" with their eyes closed, were jolted as if by electric shock the moment they heard the first line of scripture.

The distracting thoughts in their minds—what they ate last night, how pretty Cuihua from the next village was, and how much work they had to do today—were swept away in an instant by the grand chanting of the scriptures, like autumn leaves being swept away by the wind!

The scriptures that I had never been able to understand before suddenly seemed to have a veil lifted from them, and a lot of vague insights emerged from the depths of my consciousness!

Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai's gazes instantly lost focus, their mouths gaping open in disbelief, drool almost dripping from their mouths, their expressions a mixture of dazedness and shock.

They sat cross-legged on the spot, lost in contemplation.