The Long Journey to Immortality

One major advantage of the treasure cauldron compared to the jade tablet is that it can automatically absorb the spiritual energy and power emitted by the cultivator even when placed in a storage bag.

When spirit plants are planted in it, they will grow faster.

“Each has its advantages,” the spirit bottle advised Han Lu. “Relatively speaking, the former is more suitable for you.”

"After all, you don't have many spiritual plants to plant, and twenty square meters of space is enough to make use of them."

"And there's also a puppet that's skilled in farming to help you with your daily spiritual plants."

As a spirit of the artifact, Ping'er also possesses the ability to project her divine sense. When Han Lu holds the jade tablet, she can also read its contents using her divine sense.

Ping'er's thoughts were exactly the same as Han Lu's.

However, with five jade tablets still in front of her, Han Lu wasn't in a hurry to make a decision.

Picking up and putting down the jade tablets one by one, Ping'er would comment on them each time, based on the knowledge she had gained from following Feng Cang, the first sect leader of the Zhengyi Sect.

This provided some assistance in Han Lu's final decision.

After looking around, among the other five jade pendants, only one red jade bracelet with the same effect caught Han Lu's eye.

This is not because the jade bracelet has any special power for farming.

It was simply because this treasure bore a striking resemblance to the bracelet that Zhan Yujun had once given to Han Lu that she was so fond of it.

"Han Lu, have you made your choice? Do you need my advice?" Fairy Seven Flowers asked, seeing that Han Lu had read through all the information in the jade tablet.

After a moment's hesitation, Han Lu said, "Xiang Hui, could you help me with this..."

"Bring me the Qingyuan Jade."

Han Lu named the jade pendant she had taken a liking to at first glance and handed a jade plaque to the Seven Flower Fairy.

The Seven Flower Fairy picked up the jade tablet, glanced at the magical artifact Han Lu had mentioned, and commented, "Good eye."

Two more sentences were transmitted.

The Seven Flower Fairy said it was inappropriate to use her privileges to help, but this still violated the sect's rules to some extent.

The two elders sat facing each other, sipping tea and chatting. About fifteen minutes later, a disciple whom Han Lu often saw at the Seven Flower Fairy's place brought the Qingyuan Jade that Han Lu had her eye on.

The jade, which was temporarily unclaimed, came into Han Lu's hands.

He casually infused a wisp of spiritual energy.

Although Han Lu was still sitting in the Seven Flower Fairy's reception room, the world in front of her had transformed into the scene in the Azure Jade.

A world of green and blue, in an area only ten steps in size, there was a white jade puppet about half the height of Han Lu standing in the center of the open space, waiting for its master to activate it with spirit stones.

With a thought, Han Lu took out three low-grade spirit stones from her storage bag and brought them into her treasure jade space.

Having located the array on the puppet's back, Han Lu used her artifact manipulation skills to embed three spirit stones into it.

Soon, the spirit stone activated its function, and the white jade puppet emitted a faint light.

Unfortunately, since it had not yet recognized a master, Han Lu was unaware of how to manipulate this puppet as a laborer.

However, this trial was enough to make Han Lu fall in love with the jade pendant and make up her mind to use the spiritual liquid in it to cultivate her own spiritual plant.

Withdrawing her divine sense, Han Lu took out her identity token without hesitation. "Xiang Hui, this is it."

A mere mid-grade magic weapon can be exchanged for without spending too many contribution points.

The disciple who brought the jade token to the reception room carried Han Lu's identity jade token back and forth once more. Only then did this magical treasure, which Han Lu valued, officially leave the Xishan Academy's inner treasury and come under Han Lu's name.

By recognizing the magical artifact as its master, Han Lu also came to understand and master a great deal of information about how to control it.

According to the magic weapon's "self-narration," the puppet's intelligence level was far higher than Han Lu had imagined, which made her even more convinced that she had made the right choice.

[Author's Note] I've been busy in the evenings lately.

Chapter 1077 Five Kinds of Spiritual Plants

After thanking the Seven Flower Fairy, Han Lu returned to the herb garden, intending to purchase some rare spiritual plants that were still seedlings and begin her "farming career".

Following Ping'er's instructions, Han Lu selected five kinds of spiritual plants and used spiritual liquid to cultivate them specially.

The five spiritual plants are divided into two categories, but they are all prepared for her future cultivation after advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm.

There are two kinds of spiritual plants similar to the Thousand-Petaled Golden Lotus, which can strengthen and nourish the Golden Core. Directly consuming them can help Nascent Soul cultivators strengthen their Nascent Soul, thereby fundamentally improving their combat power.

There are also three kinds of spiritual plants prepared to replenish Han Lu's spiritual roots after she advances to the Nascent Soul realm.

To advance to the Nascent Soul Realm, a cultivator must possess all five elements.

So how can one obtain all five elements? One must refine extremely rare and precious single-attribute natural treasures into spiritual roots and integrate them into the body.

Han Lu only has a single water-attribute spiritual root, so when she reaches the Nascent Soul stage, she must complete the remaining four spiritual roots according to the rule of mutual generation of the five elements.

Only in this way can one advance to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm and obtain the qualification to ultimately transcend the tribulation and advance to the Divine Transformation realm.

Regarding the wood attribute, Han Lu has already obtained a piece of Soul Nourishing Wood that is about 2,500 years old in Xiaoyaozi's cave.

With this, Han Lu was able to refine a wood-attribute spiritual root of considerable quality.

Naturally, the remaining three types of spiritual plants that Han Lu wants to cultivate with her are "fire," "earth," and "metal" attributes.

At Ping'er's suggestion, Han Lu chose a fire-attribute spiritual plant called "Red Cloud Vine".

This type of spiritual plant is generally used to assist cultivators in practicing fire-attribute techniques or secret arts, and it is relatively rare on the market.

Its most distinctive feature is that once it reaches two thousand years of medicinal age, it will grow rapidly, climbing all over the trellis like a grapevine.

If Han Lu wanted to refine a spiritual root, she would only need about a meter long of Crimson Cloud Vine.

The remaining parts of the Red Cloud Vine can either be left to grow freely, or they can be used as "capital" for sale or trade.

With its multiple uses, the Crimson Cloud Vine is a spiritual plant that Han Lu can definitely put to good use.

Of course, the most crucial point is that the Crimson Cloud Vine and the Soul-Nourishing Wood have an excellent compatibility.

After Han Lu replenished her spiritual root with the Soul-Nourishing Wood, the Crimson Cloud Vine, compared to other well-known fire-attribute natural treasures, was easier to integrate into Han Lu's body, becoming her third top-grade fire-attribute spiritual root.

The interconnectedness of these elements is why the spirit bottle advised Han Lu to choose the Crimson Cloud Vine.

Ping'er even suggested from a professional perspective that Han Lu use the Soul-Nourishing Wood, which could no longer be transplanted or grown, as part of the "flower stand," allowing the Crimson Cloud Vine to twine around the Soul-Nourishing Wood, thus making the two naturally beautiful materials even more "compatible" and "harmonious."

Following this line of thought, the well-informed Ping'er once again "appointed" Han Lu as her recommendation.

While exchanging seedlings in the herb garden, Ping'er was still chattering away, "recommending" the advantages and benefits of these spiritual plants to Han Lu.

"For you, the best way to refine an earth-attribute spiritual root is to use the Immaculate Immortal Stone."

"Although this thing will become like a stone after it matures to the age of three thousand years, it is indeed a spiritual plant that can be cultivated and matured with spiritual liquid."

"Using this rare and precious material to replenish one's spiritual root can greatly enhance a cultivator's physical strength."

"You are a true spirit of the phoenix and have already harmonized with the bloodline of the fierce phoenix, so this item will be of great help to you."

"Back then, Feng Cang used a flawless immortal stone that was nearly five thousand years old to complete his earth-attribute spiritual root."

“You are slightly inferior to him, but using a flawless immortal stone of four thousand or three thousand five hundred years is sufficient.”

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"And since metal is born from water, the higher the quality of the spiritual plants used, the greater the help they will provide to you."

"Listen to me, choosing Fenglei bamboo that is at least 5,000 years old is definitely the best choice."

"Don't underestimate these spiritual plant materials that are usually used to refine magical artifacts. Do you know the saying, 'Great skill lies in simplicity, returning to the original nature'?"

Upon hearing this, Han Lu couldn't help but murmur to herself, "I didn't look down on you."

Although the spirit bottle is considered Han Lu's spirit, it cannot hear her thoughts.

Ping'er continued her introduction, "Besides, like the Red Cloud Vine, the longer the Wind and Thunder Bamboo is aged, the longer it grows."

"When it was 5,000 years old, it would have been at least three or four meters tall."

"Later, you can use the five-thousand-year-old Wind and Thunder Bamboo to forge a set of spirit swords, which are much more practical than those flowers and herbs."

Ping'er spoke eloquently, and Han Lu occasionally responded with a few words through divine sense transmission, exchanging the seedlings of the five spiritual plants one by one according to Ping'er's arrangement.

In addition, Han Lu also selected several spiritual implants that could be useful when she reached the Golden Core stage.

After planning it out in her mind, she realized that there should still be quite a bit of space inside the Qingyuan Jade.

Since the space is empty anyway, it's always a good idea to plant some spiritual plants in it.

After the exchange was completed, the disciple in charge of receiving Han Lu roughly understood Han Lu's intention in exchanging these spiritual plants.

If it were any other elder who started preparing for everything after advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm so early, he might have secretly thought they were being too ambitious.

But when faced with the renowned Elder Zhenfeng, this disciple couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"No wonder Elder Zhenfeng's advancement speed is so fast, he can see three steps ahead for every one step he takes."

"That's lofty aspiration."

Since the spiritual plants exchanged were all seedlings, it didn't cost Han Lu too many contribution points.

Even so, Han Lu only had three thousand contribution points left in her identity token.

These contribution points are enough for a disciple to squander for a while, but for Han Lu, a Golden Core elder who makes a big commotion whenever she moves, it seems a bit too little.

"I'll go back to the inner treasury to find some tasks, earn some contribution points, and make some more contributions to the sect." Han Lu thought to herself as she followed a disciple around the herb garden, transplanting spiritual plants.

Although she had almost no experience or skills in cultivation, Han Lu was still quite adept at transplanting various spiritual plant seedlings thanks to the expert Ping'er.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the seedlings of several spiritual plants were properly transplanted into the Azure Origin Jade.

When Han Lu returned home and entered the Qingyuan Jade again to try to irrigate it with spiritual liquid, the environment inside the Qingyuan Jade was completely different from before.

Five important spiritual plants are planted according to the five elements and directions.

The four corners of this space were planted with "add-ons".

In addition to providing a passageway for the puppets to walk through, Han Lu also made some decorations and arrangements in the remaining space.

The small world within Qingyuan Baoyu is entirely in a pastoral style.

Despite all the busy work, Han Lu was unable to enter Bao Yu's body.

But just looking at the spiritual plants in the treasure, which had grown to three or four years old, Han Lu finally understood why some cultivators preferred to live in seclusion in the mountains and fields, focusing their efforts on fruits and vegetables every day.

"Is this the joy of a bountiful harvest? It certainly has a unique flavor."