Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 226 Yuanhua Fruit Tree, a Misunderstanding

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He raised his hand and a green light appeared on his fingertips. He pinched his fingers and drew them, and they split into several beams, following mysterious paths and falling to various places in the cave.

There was a flickering abnormal light, and an invisible formation appeared.

"It's probably a quasi-third-tier protective formation... but it only uses the terrain to gather spiritual energy. Its power can't be sustained for long. In fact, it's not much stronger than a second-tier one..."

"Now that several nodes have been destroyed, they are becoming less of a threat if any signs are found!"

Li Ye's gaze remained unchanged as he analyzed calmly.

Under his spiritual analysis, the condensed and tough green wood spiritual light quickly passed through the formation, provoking loopholes in the formation and breaking the nodes behind it.

Before long, this protective formation began to show many loopholes and quickly collapsed, and finally became ineffective amid the surge of spiritual energy.

And Li Ye was also able to see what was hidden behind this formation.

In this quiet cave, there is a small and lovely spiritual tree that looks only as big as an ordinary ornamental tree. Its branches are dark yellow and its diamond-shaped leaves are like white jade. It stands there quietly.

There were little bits of spiritual light swirling around it, like breathing, slowly rhythmically transforming the spiritual energy of the place into the small tree.

Li Ye's eyes widened slightly, his expression was surprised and strange.
"I was wondering why Jiudingzi treated spiritual plants so carefully and lovingly. It turns out it's this Yuanhua fruit tree..."

Yuanhua Fruit is a third-level spiritual plant. It has spiritual energy and mild medicinal properties. Eating it can replenish the physical foundation. It is the main ingredient of the second-level longevity pill!

Li Ye had already obtained this elixir recipe from someone else's collection during a transaction.

However, due to the lack of access to the main ingredients, it has never been truly refined.

This kind of elixir is indeed extremely important to a fake elixir cultivator like Jiudingzi, whose lifespan is much shorter than that of a true golden elixir cultivator!

Li Ye walked lightly to the front of the Yuanhua fruit tree. A purple-green light flashed in his eyes as he looked at the tree carefully.

"Judging from its state, it seems to have been gestated for less than ten years, and is still in its seedling stage. Even with a third-level spiritual plant technique, if you rashly dig it up and transplant it, you might end up ruining its vitality, and end up losing more than you gain..."

“No wonder it’s protected here by so many layers of protection!”

In fact, it takes at least a hundred years for the Yuanhua fruit tree to mature and produce fruits that can be used to make medicine, and the medicinal properties may not even be sufficient.

Even if he had not died at Li Ye's hands, it was still unknown whether Jiudingzi could live long enough to see the day when he could obtain the fruit and make the elixir.

But it is obvious that he still has high expectations for this arrangement.

But now it’s all Li Ye’s fault!

A smile appeared on Li Ye's face. "You, Jiudingzi, don't dare to dig it out, but it's no problem for me. I didn't practice the Wood God Technique in vain..."

He was about to use the green wood spiritual light to dig out the tree, but his eyes suddenly condensed slightly, and a hint of danger appeared in his eyes.

Then Li Ye simply stood up, released his natal puppet, and ordered it to guard here. He then flew out of the cave in a flash of inspiration.

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"Which force sent you? How dare you spy on the spiritual plants that I have planted outside the Jiuding Valley!"

"If you don't stop immediately, don't blame me for being merciless and taking your life!"

The Qi training deacon, enveloped in a gentle breeze, transformed into a fleeting green shadow, saying nothing as he raced towards the cave. These words came from Zhuang He, the foundation-building practitioner, who was following behind him.

He followed behind the Qi training deacon, and seeing that he did not respond at all, he became even more certain of his guess.

The previous great defeat caused the surviving monks in Jiuding Valley to flee from Jingguo like stray dogs. Even returning to Wuguo was not enough, and they retreated to their sects to activate the formation and close the mountain gate.

I was afraid that the black dragon from Qiandao Water City would arrive at the door the next moment!
Even the monks assigned to guard here to prevent the Yuanhua fruit tree from being discovered and robbed by others ignored their duties and left overnight.

He didn't dare to wander around alone, for fear that he would be killed by the people from Qiandao Water City and left without any protection.

But after some time had passed, Qiandao Water City, after recovering its territory and suppressing the domestic rebellion, stopped its attacks and had no intention of counterattacking.

This made many monks become more active.

Although the sect is still closed to the public, there are still many disciples of Jiuding Valley who have not had time to return to the sect.

For example, Zhuanghe is the sect's steward who knows the secret of the Yuanhua fruit tree here. Seeing the current situation, he has the idea of digging out the main ingredient of the second-level longevity pill and using it as a stepping stone to join another sect.

Without Jiudingzi, and having offended Qiandao Water City, the Jiuding Valley will eventually sink.

Instead of staying there, it is better to find another way to survive while Qiandao Water City is recuperating.

Who would have thought that when I arrived today, I would find a Qigong cultivator wandering around here.

There seemed to be a faint disturbance of spiritual energy in the cave. Perhaps other foundation-building cultivators had already got there first!
Zhuanghe was shocked and angry.

But he was only in the initial stage of foundation building, and his magical powers were ordinary. He had also seen the large formation in the cave, and he knew that if he were to go and break the formation, there would be no such commotion.

It would be fine if you ran into a senior brother in the sect, and you could still talk about the friendship between fellow disciples, but if it was a stranger cultivator, it would be quite dangerous.

Zhuanghe wanted to capture the Qigong cultivator first, find out the situation, and then set an ambush.

As a result, even this little Qi cultivator cast a wind talisman and ran away immediately when he discovered him.

As a result, he was unable to take it down immediately, and let it get closer to the cave again.

Such behavior almost made it clear that there was something seriously wrong with this Qi-cultivating cultivator, and the person who was building his foundation in the cave was definitely not from his Jiuding Valley!

Then we have to kill this person as soon as possible to avoid alerting the person in the cave!
A murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and a low-grade spiritual weapon ring was directly shot out, rotating and hitting the back of the Qi-training deacon in front of him.

clang!
A bright green light flashed, and the ring that was about to hit suddenly flew back.

But before being called back, under Zhuang He's horrified gaze, the condensed green light split into two, two into four, and turned from hard to soft, directly surrounding and binding his own spiritual weapon, and completely turned green.

Even if he mobilized all his magical powers, he was unable to shake off the green spiritual light and take it back!
He could only watch helplessly as the ring was subdued on the spot by a secret technique, and flew into the hands of a tall monk who looked young, like a jade-like boy, with an elegant demeanor.

Seeing his movements, he seemed to be lifting heavy objects with ease, and his magical powers seemed unfathomable...

The magical aura that he casually revealed was already at the late stage of foundation building!
Die! Die! Die!

Zhuang He knew that he had hit a wall and wanted to turn around and run away, but he knew that it was impossible for him to escape from the hands of a late-stage cultivator with his own skills!

He didn't even dare to hesitate, and quickly stopped flying, keeping his distance, and shouted from afar,
"Dao... Daoist friend, please show some mercy. It was all just a misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding!"

(End of this chapter)