96: Benign variant of Hemostasis

Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff.

The sky was clear and bright, and a gentle breeze blew.

Today's weather was quite good, and after signing in, Lin Yongmao continued to care for the spiritual plants on Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff.

The hoe in his hand swung continuously, sometimes clearing away weeds, and other times digging up mature medicinal herbs to collect them into the Storage Pouch he carried with him.

System prompts kept ringing in his mind, indicating that his Spiritual Plant Master proficiency was continuously increasing.

Currently, his Second-Order Spiritual Planter proficiency had reached 63%.

Compared to the First-Order Alchemist proficiency, the Second-Order Spiritual Planter proficiency was easier to improve.

As long as Lin Yongmao cultivated spiritual plants, he would gain proficiency.

And since there was a large scale of spiritual plants on Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff, Lin Yongmao could gain a lot of proficiency almost every day.

However, Alchemist proficiency was different; although failed Alchemy attempts would also increase proficiency, the time spent on Alchemy was limited, and improvement was extremely slow.

As long as one successfully advanced, whether as an Alchemist or a Spiritual Plant Master, efficiency, output, pill Formation rate, and other aspects would all increase.

This was the wonder of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation System function; others might need careful comprehension, and it wouldn't work without some talent.

Lin Yongmao, however, didn't need to; he only needed to meet the conditions.

Even if his talent was poor, as long as he kept trying and his proficiency increased, he could still advance.

“Ding~”

“System notification: Affected by Grass and Wood Have Spirits, the Hundred-Year Hemostatic Vine underwent a beneficial mutation and evolved into a Hundred-Year Blood Qi Vine.”

Lin Yongmao quickly walked to where the original Hundred-Year Hemostatic Vine had grown.

Because blood-stopping vines liked to cling to rock walls, Lin Yongmao planted it near the cliff face.

When this blood-stopping vine was transplanted, it was already quite old; even though it hadn't been planted for more than a year, it was already a hundred years old.

The medicinal part of the blood-stopping vine was its leaves, which were palm-sized, with faint red blood threads visible in the veins, and had the effect of treating external injuries.

Now, the blood-stopping vine had evolved into a Blood Qi Vine.

After evolution, more leaves grew on the vine, the patterns on the leaf veins were more complex, and the bright red blood threads even faintly revealed a luster.

Lin Yongmao estimated that after the beneficial evolution, both the yield and medicinal efficacy of the Hundred-Year Blood Qi Vine had improved.

The Hundred-Year Blood Qi Vine belonged to the category of functional spirit plants; direct consumption could heal external injuries, and growing to its peak could even achieve limb regeneration.

However, it would probably take a ten-thousand-year-old Blood Qi Vine to achieve this.

If under the active stimulation of the Grass and Trees are All Soldiers Formation, it might not even need to reach ten thousand years.

Lin Yongmao observed the other spiritual plants again but did not find any other beneficial evolutionary situations.

At first, Lin Yongmao still felt that the World Tree's Grass and Wood Have Spirits talent attribute was very useless, but now he only felt how truly wonderful it was.

It was just a pity that the probability of spiritual plant evolution remained unpredictable, and the direction of evolution was completely unfixed.

Lin Yongmao then walked to the side of the Iron Heart Willow Tree, which was a rare defensive spiritual plant.

Lin Yongmao remembered the last Yao Beast tide attack on Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff very clearly; his current weakness was that his defense was not strong enough.

Now with the addition of the Iron Heart Willow Tree, this flaw should be compensated for.

The Iron Heart Willow Tree grew extremely fast, no longer a small sapling, and had already grown to over twenty meters tall.

Shading the sky and covering the sun, ten Iron Heart Willow Trees firmly protected Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff, providing a great sense of security.

Even on the edge of the cliff, one was planted to guard against enemies attacking from below the cliff.

If anyone wanted to attack Thousand-Pinnacle Cliff again, they would at least need to eliminate these Iron Heart Willow Trees.

Lin Yongmao conservatively estimated that this should be something even an ordinary Golden Core True Person's Lifebound Treasure couldn't do.

The Iron Heart Willow Tree's defensive capability was extremely strong, especially its main trunk; even the Flying Swords formed from sword soul grass leaves couldn't leave any obvious marks on it.

After tending to the Iron Heart Willow Tree, Lin Yongmao came to the Sword Soul Grass.

The sword soul grass looked like an inconspicuous weed, still only having a single straight leaf, standing proudly.

sword soul grass:

Evolution Conditions: Gengjin Qi can promote the evolution of sword soul grass, with a chance to grow more leaves, while its sharpness will also greatly increase.

This was the hint given to Lin Yongmao on the System's Attribute Panel function.

However, Lin Yongmao had asked his father, Lin Yucheng, to search in Qingyang City and Yang City Main City, but they had found no clues about Gengjin Qi.

If the sword soul grass evolved successfully, then even without a talisman treasure, Lin Yongmao could use the Formation to barely fight a Golden Core True Person to a draw.

Lin Yongmao cultivated most of the spiritual plants, especially using Spirit Rain Technique and Spiritual Wood Art several times, and various spiritual plants received considerable benefits.

After doing all this, Lin Yongmao began to refine Qi Condensation Pills again.

He believed that he would succeed today.

With a large amount of yun gao grass maturing and a new batch of Pill Furnaces purchased, he had enough confidence to refine Qi Condensation Pills.

Although the Pill Furnace exploded several more times, it did not hurt Lin Yongmao's morale, and he continued to try multiple times.

Slowly, he learned the reason for the exploding Pill Furnace: it was due to unstable Spiritual Qi distribution within the Pill Furnace.

Lin Yongmao even found another way, discovering a stable method to make the Pill Furnace explode, while also controlling the power of the explosion.

If the Qi Condensation Pill Formula were adjusted, it might even be possible to increase the power of the explosion.

...

Lin Yucheng traversed the Qingyang Mountain Range alone.

Compared to the first time, he was more skilled this time; he also smeared his entire body with Demon Saliva Grass juice, and no Yao Beast dared to approach.

“That village…”

Lin Yucheng looked over from a distance; he vividly remembered a cute little girl in that village.

But the parents of this cute little girl, the farmer and his wife, were not as honest and simple as they appeared on the surface; instead, they harbored malicious intentions.

At that time, they were among the rogue cultivators who attacked Lin Yucheng.

Lin Yucheng's eyes lit up; he was determined to lure the two out and then kill them.

Long-term hunting of Yao Beasts in the Qingyang Mountain Range had long forged his decisive and ruthless character; he was someone who would always repay grudges.

A gentleman's revenge, better late than never!

Now that he had returned to the Yang City area, he was determined to vent his anger.

He murmured softly, “Nannan, don't blame me for this; it's all your parents' own doing.”

He approached the village and indeed saw that cute little girl squatting at the village entrance, meticulously counting ants.

“One, two, two, three…”

A magic candy gourd appeared before her eyes; she didn't care how many she had counted, her mouth was watering, and she reached out with both hands to grab it.

Indeed, magic candy gourd was fatal to children.

Lin Yucheng happily let go, and the little girl immediately put a crystal hawthorn into her small mouth.

“magic candy gourd, delicious!”

She no longer cared that it was the fierce uncle who gave her the magic candy gourd; she even thought the uncle looked “better” now.

Lin Yucheng thought to himself, “I'm sorry, but this magic candy gourd is really poisoned this time.”