Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 242 Different Paths of Cultivation
"Yes!"

Hearing this, Gu Mo hurriedly took out the cushion made of top-grade spirit stone that Tianjiao Zhan had obtained.

Reverend Qing took the spirit stone cushion and gently slid his fingers across it. Suddenly, the formation on the spirit stone cushion changed.

"Okay, now this spirit stone cushion is in complete condition." Venerable Qing returned the spirit stone cushion to Gu Mo.

This top-grade spirit stone cushion was a treasure that Tianjiao had taken out when fighting for the righteous side. Because no one knew who would eventually get the cushion, Reverend Qing weakened the formation inside the cushion.

In this way, if this spirit stone cushion is obtained by the genius of the Demon Sect, it will not be too much of a loss. If it is obtained by one of our own, we can then remove the restrictions of the formation.

With the restrictions of the formation removed, the effect of this top-grade spirit stone cushion in gathering spiritual energy will be greatly improved, but the spiritual energy condensed by this top-grade spirit stone cushion is still of the 4th grade.

To reach the 5th level, other natural treasures are needed. The simplest way is to obtain more top-grade spirit stones. By stacking top-grade spirit stones, the concentration of spiritual energy in a place can be raised to the 5th level.

Just the top-grade spirit stones are already extremely precious treasures. Their ability to automatically gather spiritual energy makes the demand for top-grade spirit stones extremely huge.

This is why the value of this cushion-sized top-grade spirit stone is comparable to the top-grade spirit weapon flying sword taken out by the Demon Sect.

The Demon Sect's top-grade spiritual weapon flying sword, like the spiritual stone cushion, has also been weakened. However, the spiritual stone cushion can still remove restrictions, but the top-grade spiritual weapon flying sword obtained by Gu Mo's incarnation probably has no hope of removing restrictions.

But even if there are some limitations, the power of this top-grade spiritual weapon is real. The limitations are only in some unimportant places, and the main functions will not be restricted.

After all, the treasures of the Tianjiao Battle have all been confirmed by both the good and the evil sides, and treasures that are too outrageous will not be allowed in.

"Also, give me your identity token." Reverend Qing continued.

"There are two contributions. One is the sect contribution, which you can use to exchange resources in the sect. The other is the righteous merit, which can be used in the righteous alliance to exchange for what you need." Reverend Qing touched Gu Mo's true transmission token, and immediately, two messages were left inside.

These are the true resources that Reverend Qing gave to Gu Mo. Reverend Qing did not directly give specific resources, but gave a contribution and merit, allowing Gu Mo to exchange them according to his own needs.

For those top geniuses, the sect's training method is to let them choose on their own. They will only be guided when they go astray. The sect will only make arrangements for those disciples with average talents.

A true genius needs to walk his own path and strive for higher realms.

"Thank you for the reward, ancestor!"

Gu Mo took the token and bowed.

"You've earned this through your own efforts." Reverend Qing waved his hand. Gu Mo's performance in this battle of geniuses was more dazzling than that of the two true disciples. It also brought honor to Shennong Valley, so naturally he deserved a reward.

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"Disciple, I will go back to practice first." The three of them said goodbye to the Qing Zun, and Qi Chunde spoke. Qi Chunde had no choice but to think that with the help of the Tree of All Laws, he could show off in front of his disciple, but unexpectedly, Gu Mo, like him, had also entered the Shennong Herbal Classic, which made Qi Chunde feel a huge pressure.

Therefore, he needed to go back and continue his contemplation, so that at least when Gu Mo had any doubts in cultivation, he, as his master, could give some answers.

"Xiao Mo, I have to go look after the flower fields too." Xiao Hua was also impatient to go back at this moment. She had spent several days comprehending the Shennong Herbal Classic. Although Xiao Li was still looking after the Sunlight Glazed Flower Field, Xiao Hua was still very worried.

"Don't forget to give the gift you promised to give." Before leaving, Xiaohua did not forget to remind Gu Mo.

After Qi Chunde and Xiaohua left, Gu Mo also began to wander around this secret realm. As a true disciple, he could now find a place in this secret realm and build a cave.

Knowing that Gu Mo had a top-grade spirit stone cushion, Venerable Qing did not prepare a spiritual vein specifically for Gu Mo. All Gu Mo had to do was find a place he liked and put the top-grade spirit stone cushion, and it would become an excellent place for cultivation.

However, Gu Mo did not intend to stay in the secret realm to practice. He still had many secrets, which would be easily exposed if he stayed in the secret realm.

Gu Mo did not leave the secret realm at this moment. In addition to wanting to wander around the secret realm, he also wanted to meet other true disciples of the sect.

Thinking of this, Gu Mo walked towards the nourishing lotus pond. According to what Ji Xinglan said before, the true disciples spent most of their time practicing in the nourishing lotus pond, so if they wanted to find someone, the nourishing lotus pond would be the first choice.

After walking through the dense spiritual plants for a while, a huge lake appeared in front of Gu Mo's eyes. The misty spiritual energy was floating on the lake, and in the lake were huge lotus leaves. Among the green lotus leaves, there were nine lotus flowers that were one person tall.

At this moment, these lotuses are all in a closed state, which means that there are true disciples practicing inside. The closing of the lotuses can prevent the true disciples practicing inside from being disturbed by the outside world.

"Crash!"

As Gu Mo appeared, suddenly, one of the lotus flowers bloomed, revealing a wooden man inside.

"You must be Junior Brother Gu Mo."

The wooden man flashed and appeared in front of Gu Mo. Seeing this, Gu Mo's eyes focused. What the other party just used was the Wood Escape Technique.

Although not as good as Xiaohua, this is obviously the formal entry-level wood escape technique.

"I am Mu Ran."

The wooden man introduced himself with a smile. Although he was a wooden man, his expression was no different from that of a real person.

"Hello, Senior Brother Mu!" Gu Mo bowed slightly.

"As you can see, I abandoned my human body and integrated my soul into this tree body." Mu Ran explained his situation. Every time a new true disciple came, he needed to explain it to allay the curiosity of his fellow disciples.

"Is this the path of cultivation that Senior Brother Mu found?" The path of cultivation of this Senior Brother Mu Ran was surprisingly similar to Qi Chunde's.

It’s just that Qi Chunde transformed the golden elixir and primordial infant into the golden elixir Dao seed and the tree of all dharmas, while this senior brother Muran abandoned his physical body and transformed himself into a tree.

"Brother, do you understand this?"

Hearing this, Mu Ran looked at Gu Mo in surprise. The other junior brothers and sisters all expressed that they could not understand his path of cultivation, but the junior brother Gu Mo in front of him seemed a little different.

"My master also took another path." Gu Mo briefly introduced Qi Chunde's path of cultivation.

"Elder Qi is also a genius." Listening to Gu Mo's introduction, Mu Ran also laughed excitedly. Although the two sides went in different directions, their ideas were similar. Of course, Qi Chunde's path was more difficult, but the future potential was also greater, while Mu Ran's path had already been nailed down to the upper limit of the tree he had merged.

The tree that Muran merged with was a 5th-level spiritual plant seedling, which meant that Muran's upper limit was the Divine Transformation Realm. Moreover, other cultivators needed to build tall buildings out of thin air, but Muran only needed to continuously explore the potential of the tree body, which made the difficulty much smaller.

It is no exaggeration to say that Brother Muran is definitely the one who has the greatest hope of becoming a true disciple of the God Transformation Realm. However, if he wants to reach a higher level, Muran's tree trunk is a huge limitation.

But as long as the sect has a master who has reached the state of transformation into a god, the sect can continue. It can be said that Muran is the backup plan for Shennong Valley.

With a guaranteed bottom line, other true teachings can then be used to fully strive for a higher level.

"A new junior brother has arrived, everyone come out and meet him!" Mu Ran shouted towards the closed health-preserving lotus in the lake.

As Mu Ran spoke, the closed health-preserving lotus blossomed one after another, and then one figure after another appeared in front of Gu Mo. Among them was Ji Xinglan, who was already very familiar, and Miao Lu, who he had met a few times, but the rest were very unfamiliar.

"Junior brother, why did you come out so early?" Ji Xinglan was also a little surprised when he saw Gu Mo.

As a true disciple, Ji Xinglan naturally knew the process. Becoming a true disciple qualified him to practice Shennong's Classic of Herbs. However, the inheritance of Shennong's Classic of Herbs needed to be completed in a secret realm.

Ji Xinglan thought that it would take at least several months for Gu Mo to comprehend the Shennong Herbal Classic, so Ji Xinglan came to the health-preserving lotus pond to practice, and would go find Gu Mo when the time was right.

But it only took a few days for Gu Mo to come out.

Ji Xinglan accepted the inheritance of Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica at that time, but it took him half a year to comprehend it. However, this was just a comprehension, and he was still some distance away from getting started.

"It was the ancestor who let me out." Gu Mo smiled. He knew that this Senior Brother Ji Xinglan had not yet entered the Shennong Herbal Classic, so he did not try to discourage him.

"Oh."

Hearing that it was the ancestor who arranged it, Ji Xinglan did not ask any more questions. Given the ancestor's realm, every move he made had deep meaning.

"Junior Brother Gu Mo, let me introduce them to you." It was a rare occasion that everyone came out, so Ji Xinglan immediately introduced the other true teachings to Gu Mo.

Although Ji Xinglan only gave a general introduction, Gu Mo could feel the power of these people from these few words.

Especially the little girl who was only as tall as Gu Mo's thigh. While other true disciples still had only the aura of Golden Core, she was emitting the aura of Yuanying Zhenjun.

But the other party was not a Yuanying Zhenjun, or it could be said that this little girl tried to reach the Yuanying realm a long time ago, but ultimately failed due to insufficient preparation. Her physical body was destroyed by the heavenly calamity, but the Yuanying that had just condensed escaped.

Gu Mo didn't know whether the Nascent Soul was able to escape from the heavenly tribulation due to insufficient preparation or other preparations. However, as of now, the latter is more likely.

It is obvious that this senior sister has found her own path of cultivation. She has abandoned her physical body and directly cultivated her Nascent Soul. Of course, this move is extremely risky. However, special spiritual plants such as the health-promoting lotus can nourish her Nascent Soul. Moreover, this senior sister has obviously achieved some results in her cultivation.

The Nascent Soul that was originally only the size of a palm has now been cultivated by her to the size of a child. If they were to compete directly in a Nascent Soul competition, this senior sister would definitely be able to crush most of the Nascent Soul True Lords.

The fighting style of this senior sister is to rush directly to the Dantian of Yuanying Zhenjun and fight with the opponent's Yuanying. Although, entering the opponent's body to fight with his Yuanying is a very unfavorable environment, but relying on the power of Yuanying, this senior sister is definitely capable of killing some ordinary Yuanying Zhenjun.

There are senior brothers and sisters who do not follow the usual path, and there are relatively normal ones among the true disciples. For example, there are true disciples who specialize in cultivating combat spiritual plants, some who specialize in cultivating spiritual medicines, and some who specialize in treatment.

As for who is the strongest true disciple in Shennong Valley, there is no conclusion yet, but the two people recognized as the strongest are the tree man Muran and the Nascent Soul spirit, Yu Wanyu.

Miao Lu, who had no combat expertise or healing skills, was ranked third.

This is because, whenever a true disciple encounters problems during training or gets injured, they will seek treatment from Miao Lu. Although Miao Lu's combat power is very weak, her importance is not low.

After saying hello to Gu Mo, the brothers and sisters entered the Health-Nourishing Lotus again to continue their cultivation. For the true disciples, cultivation and self-improvement are their top priority.

If you want to become a strong person, you must make use of every minute and every second. Seeing this, Gu Mo stopped disturbing him and left the secret realm directly.

Influenced by his senior brothers and sisters who taught him the true teachings, Gu Mo also felt a sense of urgency to seize the time to improve himself. In this regard, Gu Mo couldn't help but sigh that the environment really does affect people.

It’s just that while other people improve their strength through cultivation, Gu Mo improves it through farming.

When he arrived at the cave space, Gu Mo buried the top-grade spirit stone cushion. With this spirit stone cushion, the carrying capacity of the spirit field in the cave could definitely be raised to a higher level, which meant that Gu Mo could continue to increase the number of level 4 sunflowers.

When Gu Mo has enough top-quality level 4 sunflowers in the future, he will be able to try to upgrade to level 5 sunflowers. After that, Gu Mo will gather the spiritual veins of the cave, use the spiritual stone cushion, and add some other natural treasures to create a level 5 spiritual environment.

Let the 5th level sunflower condense a 5th level sun essence to help him reach the realm of spiritual transformation.

Of course, this should be a matter for the future. Right now, Gu Mo’s primary goal is naturally to break through the Nascent Soul stage first, but the path to the Divine Transformation stage has already been outlined, which is naturally a pleasant thing.

Speaking of cultivation, Gu Mo has to return the sword pill in his body to the incarnation. As for how to return the sword pill to the incarnation, in fact, as long as Gu Mo throws the sword pill out, the sword pill can fly directly back to the incarnation.

But this action is too dangerous, so Gu Mo can only summon Xiaohua. It will be safer to be transported by Xiaohua who has mastered the wood escape technique at the great perfection level.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

After receiving five gifts of level 5 solar essence, Xiaohua became extremely excited. She immediately took the box containing 4 sword pills and fled out of Shennong Valley.

Dayan Sword Sect.

When Xiaohua came out of the tree holding the box, she saw Gu Mo's incarnation already waiting there. Xiaohua was no longer surprised by this. Every time she came to deliver something, Xiaomo's friend would know in advance. It was very mysterious.

“Please give good reviews.”

After the things were delivered, Xiaohua gave some instructions and disappeared again. This time, she got 5 particularly delicious meals from Gu Mo, and she wanted to go back and enjoy them.

Looking at the disappearing little flower, Gu Mo's incarnation shook his head, then opened the box. Suddenly, 11 sword pills flew out and merged into his incarnation.

Suddenly, Gu Mo's incarnation's cultivation returned to the Golden Core realm.

(End of this chapter)