77: White flower grass benign variation

Lin Yongmao patiently explained, “I just want to give it a try and see if I can succeed in Alchemy by drawing on the Earth Fire. If it fails, I will turn back in time.”

Lin Xuanzhong had originally thought very highly of Lin Yongmao, but today Lin Yongmao’s greed made him a bit unhappy.

He was indeed still young and impetuous!

Not listening to an old man’s words will lead to suffering.

“Alright then! Give me your token. After deducting the contribution points, you can make a copy of the Alchemist Legacy Jade Slip.”

The Family encouraged its disciples to learn more of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, so the Alchemist Legacy did not cost many contribution points. It only symbolically deducted 300 contribution points from Lin Yongmao.

After copying the Alchemist Legacy Jade Slip, Lin Yongmao left the Scripture Pavilion.

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On Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff.

Lin Yongmao sat cross-legged in the stone house, taking out a Storage Pouch and a Jade Slip.

The Jade Slip contained the First-Order and Second-Order Alchemist Legacy, and he planned to try Alchemy to maximize the utility of the Spirit Medicine he had cultivated.

That Storage Pouch belonged to the deceased Lin Yongrong.

Lin Yongmao easily broke the seal of the Storage Pouch with his Divine Sense. With a thought, everything inside the Storage Pouch came out, a large pile of items filling the stone house.

Spirit Stones, Medicinal Pills, various Materials...

Lin Yongrong had plundered a lot of various Cultivation resources, practically a parasite of the Family.

He relied on his father’s identity as the Clan Chief, and many resources in the Family fell into his hands, pocketed by him.

But none of that mattered anymore, because now all these things belonged to Lin Yongmao.

“With so many Cultivation resources, his Cultivation progress was still so slow. He was quite useless,” Lin Yongmao couldn’t help but complain.

He didn’t believe that Lin Yongrong’s successful Foundation Establishment was the result of his own efforts; he must have used some special means.

Lin Yongmao rummaged through the large pile of Cultivation resources and indeed found a dark red Jade Slip, which exuded a faint evil aura.

“Blood Soul Art”

“It seems Lin Yongrong cultivated the Blood Soul Art to rapidly advance his Cultivation in a short period, even reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage Realm,” Lin Yongmao thought to himself.

However, this kind of behavior was like drinking poison to quench thirst, at the cost of burning one’s life Origin. It was destined not to last long, and the ultimate result would only be self-inflicted harm.

Lin Yongmao directly tossed the Blood Soul Art aside. He would never Cultivate such a Cultivation Technique, and he was completely uninterested in the secret art [Blood Soul Guide] recorded within it.

For someone like him, who valued lifespan above all else, such things were like deadly poison that must never be touched.

As for the other items in the Storage Pouch, Lin Yongmao generally didn’t care for them. Although there was a large quantity, they were all just ordinary things.

“Oh, there’s this too?”

This should be the Physical Body of that Yao Beast from before. This was the body of a Third-Order Yao Beast!

Lin Yongmao opened the Attribute Panel to check the value of this Yao Beast body.

“Physical Body of Soul-Seizing Ash Python”:

Grade: Third-Order

Description: The Physical Body of a Third-Order Yao Beast, the Soul-Seizing Ash Python. Its Divine Soul and Yao Core have already left the body, but the Physical Body is still a rare Material for Artifact Refining and Puppet creation.

It was just a pity that Lin Yongmao had not mastered the Artifact Refiner Legacy; otherwise, he would have refined these Materials one by one, and perhaps even Spiritual Artifacts could have been refined.

He should keep them for now!

After categorizing these resources, Lin Yongmao took the Alchemist Legacy Jade Slip and walked out of the stone house, browsing it while observing the changes in the spiritual plants on Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff.

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On Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff, a scene of flourishing vitality.

Although the cliff was perennially covered by the dense fog generated by the thousand-year cloud mist tea, the mist obscured vision and isolated Divine Sense probes.

The Cloud Mist was further superimposed with the Hidden Trace Formation and the Grass and Trees as Soldiers Formation, forming multiple layers of barriers. Even a Golden Core Stage powerhouse would find it difficult to see through the Formation.

Coupled with the World Tree’s innate attribute of [Space Barrier], even heavenly divination could not pinpoint this location.

However, inside Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff, there wasn’t too much cloud mist; green was the dominant color here.

Lin Yongmao carefully checked the state of the surrounding spiritual plants, watering them with the Spiritual Spring from the Naling Ancient Well.

He noticed a subtle change in one of the spiritual plants.

This was White Flower Grass. Lin Yongmao’s maternal grandfather, Han Mi, had sent three White Flower Grass plants, two of which came to Lin Yongmao.

White Flower Grass was a Second-Order spiritual plant, and also one of the main ingredients for refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

The entire White Flower Grass plant was white, and its corolla was also pure white. The blooming white flowers resembled pure white elves.

One White Flower Grass plant was normal, but the other White Flower Grass had grown into a vine-like shape, becoming the never-before-seen [White Flower Vine].

Even in the Medium-Level Spiritual Plant Compendium, there was no record of this mutated Spirit Medicine.

Lin Yongmao guessed: This must be the World Tree’s innate attribute of [Grass and Wood Have Spirits]!

“Grass and Wood Have Spirits”:

spiritual plants within the World Tree’s range are protected by the World Tree, making it more likely for them to Awaken sentience, and also having a probability of achieving spiritual mutation.

This was a beneficial mutation.

White Flower Grass turning into White Flower Vine would increase both yield and medicinal properties.

It seemed that the probability of spiritual plants undergoing beneficial mutation due to [Grass and Wood Have Spirits] was quite high.

Lin Yongmao scattered many more spiritual plant seeds, expanding the scope of the Spirit Fields and Spirit Medicine Gardens.

The more spiritual plants planted, the more likely it was to Cultivate more beneficially mutated plants.

Since the probability couldn’t be changed, he would change the base number.

After doing all this, Lin Yongmao’s attention was completely focused on the Jade Slip in his hand.

“Alchemist Legacy”

This Jade Slip simultaneously recorded the First-Order and Second-Order Alchemist Legacy.

First-Order Alchemist belonged to the entry level of Alchemists and could refine First-Order Medicinal Pills.

Second-Order Alchemists could refine Second-Order Medicinal Pills, among which Foundation Establishment Pills belonged to Second-Order Medicinal Pills.

Alchemists held a particularly high status in the entire Cultivation World. The Medicinal Pills they refined possessed various functions.

For example, improving Cultivation, Breakthrough in Realm, assisting in combat, and so on.

Taking the Foundation Establishment Pill as an example, without the Foundation Establishment Pill, most Cultivators would not be able to successfully Foundation Establishment.

Qinglan Sect also relied on the only Second-Order Alchemist in Qingyang to monopolize Qingyang’s Medicinal Pill market.

Lin Yongmao had not thought about becoming an Alchemist before. Alchemists needed to possess three conditions:

1. Wood Spiritual Root, able to perceive changes in the medicinal properties of Spirit Medicine.

2. Fire Spiritual Root, possessing fire control ability.

3. Divine Sense power far exceeding Cultivators of the same Realm, which was also the foundation of Alchemy.

Previously, Lin Yongmao did not possess a Fire Spiritual Root, basically having no connection with Alchemists.

But now it was different. The World Tree had gained the innate attribute [Nanming Li Fire], which meant he could also control fire, and it was even this extreme fire.

All conditions for becoming an Alchemist were now met.

Lin Yongmao carefully browsed the Legacy information, his heart surging with emotion.

To become a First-Order Alchemist, this was too strict!