Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 175 Testing
Hou Chunyu explained to Gu Mo some key points of practicing Taiyi Qingmu Sutra, and finally left a jade slip, which contained some of Hou Chunyu's insights on Taiyi Qingmu Sutra.

Although Hou Chunyu had not practiced the Taiyi Qingmu Sutra, with his late Nascent Soul stage, he was more than capable of guiding Gu Mo.

"Thank you, Master, for your advice!"

Gu Mo took the jade slip and bowed. It was indeed different to have someone to guide him. Many of his doubts could be answered directly with the most standard answers.

In this way, Gu Mo only needs to practice step by step, and this is Gu Mo's strong point. As long as there is enough solar essence, Gu Mo can quickly improve his cultivation.

However, before that, Gu Mo had to plant the sunflowers.

"It seems that I have to carry out the test plan as soon as possible." Gu Mo said secretly. Without first figuring out the attitude of the 5th-level ancient tree, Gu Mo didn't dare to expose the existence of the sunflower.

After all, Shennong Valley was built on that 5th-level ancient tree. As long as Gu Mo used the essence of the sun, the 5th-level ancient tree would definitely know about it.

But before starting the plan, Gu Mo took the opportunity to ask Hou Chunyu about the origin of the 5th-level ancient tree.

Hou Chunyu was not surprised by Gu Mo's question. Almost every disciple of Shennong Valley was curious about this huge ancient tree.

Immediately, Hou Chunyu told Gu Mo what he knew about the 5th-level ancient tree. These were not confidential in Shennong Valley.

"Master, are you saying that this 5th-level ancient tree has no spirit?" After listening to Hou Chunyu's introduction about this 5th-level ancient tree, Gu Mo's eyes were filled with astonishment.

Uncle Xiaohua, who is at the 3rd level, can already transform, so how is it possible that this 5th level ancient tree has not given birth to a spirit?

"This 5th-order ancient tree was cultivated by the founder of the sect to serve as the operating foundation of Shennong Valley. If this 5th-order ancient tree had a spirit, then all the secrets of everyone in Shennong Valley would be exposed to the eyes of the ancient tree. Therefore, the founder of the sect at that time did not allow the ancient tree to give birth to spiritual intelligence when cultivating it." Hou Chunyu explained.

Every monk has his own secrets, no matter how big or small, no one wants his secrets to be known.

Besides, the disciples of Shennong Valley built caves on the ancient trees, absorbed the spiritual power of the ancient trees, and moved freely on their bodies. If this were done by a spiritual plant demon king, even if it was tamed, it would inevitably harbor resentment over time.

Therefore, the safest scenario is to prevent this 5th-level ancient tree from giving birth to a spirit and to use it as a tool for Shennong Valley.

"The founder of the sect is really generous."

After learning about the origin of this 5th-order ancient tree, Gu Mo was secretly astonished. To cultivate a 5th-order spiritual plant, it takes such a powerful achievement for a spiritual plant master. However, the ancient tree has no spirit, which seems to be good news for Gu Mo.

But for the sake of safety, Gu Mo will still try the test plan. However, with Hou Chunyu's words, Gu Mo is more confident and can be a little bolder when testing.

Returning to his own leaf courtyard, Gu Mo took a deep breath, took out a portion of solar essence from the black fog space, waited for a moment, and then refined it.

In just one breath, a portion of level 3 solar essence was refined by Gu Mo. Then Gu Mo's consciousness enveloped his own leaf courtyard, quietly waiting for changes.

Time passed, and everything remained the same. The 5th-level ancient tree did not react at all. But in order to ensure everything was foolproof, Gu Mo took out another portion of sun essence. This time he did not choose to refine it. He just held it in his hand, waiting for the sun essence to dissipate bit by bit.

Once the solar essence is collected from the sunflower, it will dissipate little by little. It can only be preserved for a long time by storing it in the black fog space.

after one day.

The sun essence in his hand completely dissipated, but the 5th-level ancient tree still did not react at all, and no high-level cultivators in Shennong Valley noticed anything unusual here.

Gu Mo has basically confirmed that the 5th-level ancient trees have no intelligence. After all, Gu Mo has secrets, and those Yuanying Zhenjun in Shennong Valley should also have secrets.

They obviously don't want their secrets to be known by others, so it is basically certain that the 5th-level ancient trees have no intelligence.

Of course, the master of Shennong Valley should have the means to control this fifth-level ancient tree, but active exploration and passive perception are two different things.

Active exploration will be sensed by the Yuanying Zhenjun of Shennong Valley. Since it can be sensed, you can be prepared. If the 5th-level ancient tree has a spirit, it can passively sense everything happening on the body without people noticing.

After making sure that the 5th-level ancient tree would not discover its secret, Gu Mo could now farm with peace of mind.

"Junior brother Xiaomo, uncle is here to play with you!" At this time, the voice of uncle Xiaohua came.

Hearing this, Gu Mo stood up and walked out of the yard, inviting Master Xiaohua in. Master Xiaohua was very cute and Gu Mo liked him very much.

Moreover, giving special spiritual plants like Master Xiaohua the ability to perceive plants and accelerate their growth would also help improve Gu Mo's skills as a spiritual plant master.

"Huh? Junior-Junior Brother Xiaomo, it smells so good here, are you secretly eating something delicious?" After entering the courtyard, Xiaohua's nose twitched slightly, and her big eyes began to look around.

It was obvious that Xiaohua was attracted by the essence of the sun that had just dissipated.

"Junior brother Xiao Mo, do you have any more delicious food? Let your uncle have a taste, and I'll exchange the flower petals with you." Xiao Hua couldn't find the source of the fragrance, so she turned her gaze to Gu Mo.

"No, I'll leave one for Uncle Master next time I have it." Looking at Uncle Master Xiaohua who looked so pitiful, Gu Mo sighed softly, but he did not take out the sun essence for Xiaohua immediately. Instead, he prepared to wait for a while and give it to her at the right time.

And the right time is naturally when Gu Mo finds a way to conceal the existence of the sunflowers. Gu Mo has never thought of concealing the existence of the sunflowers. There is no impenetrable wall in the world, but Gu Mo can build a fake wall to cover up the existence of the real wall.

Just like when he was in Qinglu Sect, Gu Mo used Lingkui to cover up the existence of sunflowers. He believed that there must be spiritual plants similar to sunflowers in Shennong Valley, and then he could use similar spiritual plants to cover up the existence of sunflowers.

"really?"

Hearing Gu Mo's promise, Xiao Hua excitedly stretched out her hand, "Let's make a pinky promise!"

After they made pinky promises, Xiaohua excitedly threw herself onto Gu Mo's bed, because there was still some residual scent of the sun's essence there, and she was ready to enjoy it here.

Seeing this, Gu Mo shook his head helplessly, left Xiaoli to play with Uncle Xiaohua, and prepared to go to claim his inner disciple benefits.

The benefits of inner disciples are nothing more than some cultivation resources. Gu Mo doesn't actually need these, but the wood element technique among them is what Gu Mo needs.

This wood-moving technique, which originated from the Wood Release Technique, is as precious a secret technique as the Wind Release Technique in the outside world, but in Shennong Valley, it is a free secret technique.

The disciples of Shennong Valley have basically mastered some basic techniques of the Wood Element Technique; only in this way can they travel quickly in the Shennong Valley.

Next, Gu Mo will start to plant sunflowers in his five mu spiritual field. After mastering the wood element technique, Gu Mo will be able to quickly travel between the leaf courtyard and the spiritual field. Because all the disciples of Shennong Valley practice the wood element technique, they have a lot of experience in related practice, which provides Gu Mo with a lot of insights when he starts to learn the wood element technique.

"Go away!"

Gu Mo raised his hand and made a gesture, and his figure quickly disappeared into the leaves under his feet. The next moment, Gu Mo appeared in the spiritual field more than a hundred miles away.

“It’s really convenient!”

Gu Mo looked around the spiritual fields and felt very satisfied.

Next, Gu Mo started to work. He first set up a nut formation around the spiritual field. Although there was already a formation outside the spiritual field, this formation was not set up by Gu Mo, but provided by the sect. Gu Mo only had control over it.

The advantage of this formation is that it is strong enough, because it relies on the sect protection formation. As long as the sect protection formation is not broken, this formation will not be broken.

The downside is that the sect provides the formation, and the sect leaders have the key. Although the sect leaders will not break into a disciple's spiritual field for no reason.

But it is better to be safe than sorry. At least now Gu Mo doesn't want anyone to break into his spiritual field. Once he finds a way to cover up the sunflowers, Gu Mo won't have to worry anymore.

Gu Mo planted sunflowers on all five acres of spiritual fields. Thousands of sunflowers emitted a faint golden glow under the sunlight, forming a golden ocean that looked very pleasant.

The only pity is that most of these sunflowers are level 1 and 2, and there are not many level 3. However, Gu Mo will slowly upgrade the level of the sunflowers in the future.

Not only the level of the sunflowers needs to be upgraded, but the level of the spiritual field also needs to be upgraded. At the moment, these five acres of spiritual fields are only level 3, lower quality, and Gu Mo's goal is level 4.

Gu Mo is very much looking forward to seeing what effect the solar essence condensed from the 4th-level sunflower will have.

If you want to get a 4th-level spiritual field, you need a lot of sect contributions. The main way to earn sect contributions is to complete sect tasks, and there are many types of sect tasks.

But most of them are related to spiritual plant masters, and many of these tasks are issued by monks from other sects.

As the top sect of spiritual plant masters in the Tianyuan Realm, cultivators would seek help from Shennong Valley when they encountered problems related to spiritual plants. For example, if a cultivator explored a secret realm or ruins and obtained some unknown spiritual plant seeds, he would ask Shennong Valley for help in cultivating them.

Or if a sect has a problem with its spiritual field and cannot resolve it itself, it will also ask disciples from Shennong Valley to solve it.

In addition, disciples of Shennong Valley who cultivate new spiritual plants can also receive rewards from the sect.

However, there is fierce competition for these spiritual plant master tasks. Most of the disciples in Shennong Valley are spiritual plant masters, and everyone wants to earn contributions to the sect. Therefore, as long as some good spiritual plant master tasks appear, many disciples will rush to grab them.

Gu Mo's attainments as a spiritual plant master are not weak, but they are obviously inferior to those disciples who have been practicing in Shennong Valley since childhood. For example, Gu Mo has only mastered the most basic spiritual farming spells, while many disciples of Shennong Valley have already mastered the secret techniques, or even spiritual farming spells at the secret level.

Of course, Gu Mo has cultivated the five spiritual agricultural spells to perfection, and can quickly get started in practicing the subsequent advanced secret techniques. After he has made up for his shortcomings, Gu Mo will be able to catch up with or even surpass most of the disciples of Shennong Valley.

As for now, Gu Mo plans to choose some non-spiritual plant master tasks to accumulate contributions, such as alchemy.

As a sect for cultivating immortals, Shennong Valley naturally has a huge demand for elixirs. Therefore, providing the elixirs needed by the sect can also earn contributions. In addition, there are few alchemists in Shennong Valley, so the mission rewards are very good.

Some non-spiritual plant master tasks in Shennong Valley actually have relatively high rewards. This is because the sect has provided additional subsidies in order to maintain the existence of other professions in the sect.

In order to prevent a certain profession in a sect from completely disappearing and being strangled by other sects, the six major sects of righteousness and evil are almost all comprehensive top-level sects.

"Hello, I'm here to take on the alchemy mission."

Gu Mo came to the sect's mission hall and found a 3rd-level elixir refining mission and prepared to register. For Gu Mo, who could refine the Condensing Gold Pill, refining 3rd-level ordinary elixir was not difficult.

With the help of the Torch Stump and Ice Flame Stump, Gu Mo's efficiency and cost in refining pills are better than other alchemists. Therefore, Gu Mo will earn more by taking on tasks.

If he pushes it a little further, Gu Mo will grit his teeth and save up some solar essence to upgrade the torch stump to level 4. He can even try to refine level 4 pills.

"My dear brother, you have not yet become a certified alchemist, so you are temporarily unable to accept alchemy missions." A foundation-building cultivator in charge of registration in the Mission Hall explained to Gu Mo.

Although Gu Mo had just joined Shennong Valley, his cultivation level at the Jindan realm made him definitely a master in Shennong Valley.

"Then how do you certify this alchemist?" Gu Mo asked.

After a while, Gu Mo left the mission hall and fled towards a branch of the 5th-level ancient tree, which was the branch of Shennong Valley that was responsible for alchemy.

If Gu Mo wants to accept alchemy tasks, he needs to go there for certification first. Only after obtaining the qualification certification of alchemist can he accept alchemy tasks.

The same is true for tasks of other professions.

In fact, not only has Gu Mo not been certified as an alchemist, he has not been certified as a spiritual plant master either. Therefore, it is not possible for him to take on the task of a spiritual plant master now.

It’s just a spiritual plant master’s certification, Gu Mo can go directly to his master.

However, Gu Mo is not ready to accept the spiritual plant master mission at the moment. This certification can wait for a while. He should first accept the alchemist mission to accumulate some contributions, and then exchange all the advanced spiritual farming spells to make up for the shortcomings of the spiritual plant master. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing to go for the spiritual plant master certification but then not know anything.

"Senior brother, is Elder Liu here?"

Arriving at the branch where the alchemists were, Gu Mo saw a disciple at the Golden Core Realm and hurriedly stepped forward to ask. Gu Mo wanted to be certified as a Level 3 alchemist, and this level of alchemist certification required the head of the alchemy lineage to preside over it.

"What do you want to see Master?"

Qian Tao looked at Gu Mo curiously. How come he had no impression of such a young Jindan cultivator?

"Junior brother, you are here to be certified as an alchemist." Gu Mo stated his purpose.

"Certified alchemist, you are an alchemist!" Qian Tao looked at Gu Mo in astonishment. As a disciple of the alchemy lineage in Shennong Valley, he knew basically all the alchemists in Shennong Valley, but the one in front of him was very unfamiliar to him.

(End of this chapter)