Calabash Fairy

Yang Dongdong and others were worshipping at the Mountain God Temple, while at the same time, in the Qingfeng Secret Realm.

Fang Yan looked at the pile of top-quality spirit jade that Shu Yu had placed in front of him, like a small hill, and was speechless for a moment.

Among these spirit jades, the smallest is the size of a human head, and the largest are as tall as two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters). They are all of very high quality, filled with spiritual energy, with a warm and lustrous sheen, and without a single impurity.

He was merely preparing to find some spirit jade to make some bottles and jars to store elixirs, spirit honey, or other spirit materials.

But now, he has more than enough spirit jade to make wine jars and vats...

His fellow Daoist's temple is loaded with gold...

"Fellow Daoist, how is it?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Yan looked at Shu Yu, who was standing to the side with a smile, and gave her a thumbs up with admiration, which made Shu Yu's smile even wider.

"Speaking of which, I also have some spiritual medicine to give to you, fellow Daoist. Please take a look."

As Fang Yan spoke, he took out a stone bottle from his sleeve, uncorked it in front of Shu Yu, and let the fragrance of herbs and trees waft out.

Shu Yu sniffed lightly, and his eyes lit up immediately. He took the stone bottle and looked inside with some kind of treasure. He saw that the bottle was full of vibrant green spiritual liquid.

"Fellow Daoist, this is...."

Fang Yan smiled and said:

"This is a spiritual elixir of herbs and trees, which is very beneficial to us herbaceous beings. As you know, I have recently been studying alchemy, and I have just managed to refine this. Please take it and see how effective it is."

Herbal Elixir has a very good effect on improving the cultivation of plant fairies.

This spiritual liquid is far superior to those basic medicinal liquids and powders. It is even more difficult to refine than the Spirit Nourishing Pill, requiring more than fifty kinds of spiritual materials. However, Shu Yu has always helped him a lot, and now he has found so many spiritual jades, which must have taken a lot of effort.

Friends are hard to come by, let alone a good teacher and helpful friend like Shu Yu.

He would be more than happy to repay in any way.

Moreover, since he gained the power to restore all things through spring these past few days, many alchemical materials are no longer as scarce as before...

On the other side, Shu Yu accepted the herbal elixir without ceremony, his aged face beaming with a smile, and exclaimed:

"I understand your abilities less and less, fellow Daoist."

"Speaking of which, it has only been a little over a month since we last met, yet I cannot sense any of your cultivation level. I only feel that your aura has become increasingly clear and pure, indicating that you have made another breakthrough in your cultivation recently."

Fang Yan smiled and said:

"Indeed, I've recently had some fortunate opportunities."

Shu Yu, without a doubt, nodded in approval, then pointed impatiently to the chessboard on the table and said:

"These past few days, I've racked my brains and finally come up with a way to break this deadlock. Fellow Daoist, why don't you join me for another game?"

Fang Yan nodded with a smile upon hearing this.

"That's exactly what I was thinking too, fellow Daoist, please~"

"Please, please~"

A moment later, the only sounds in the Qingfeng Secret Realm were the buzzing of the spirit bees flapping their wings and the clattering of Fang Yan and his companion placing chess pieces on the board.

The two terrible chess players met and found themselves evenly matched, which sparked their interest.

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Three days later, Shu Yu narrowly lost the game and took his leave.

Fang Yan arrived in front of the spirit field and used the Spring Returns to All Things divine power. A wisp of emerald green spring breeze appeared in his palm and gently blew through the secret realm.

The spiritual materials in the spiritual field would emit spiritual light as soon as they were touched by the spring breeze, clearly having received considerable benefits. In particular, the newly planted spiritual seeds and the growing spiritual materials showed obvious changes and grew rapidly.

This is one of the divine methods of Spring Returns to All Things that Fang Yan discovered, which can accelerate the growth of spiritual materials.

Of course, there are limits to this. If he continues to use it, Fang Yan will not only be unable to keep up, but also, by pushing the seedlings too hard, he will damage the medicinal properties of the spiritual materials themselves.

Based on Fang Yan's observations over the past few days, if common spiritual materials are exposed to the spring breeze stirred up by supernatural powers twice within seven days to replenish their vitality, they will mature quickly.

As for other spiritual materials of higher grade and even rarer quality, their limits vary, and they will react differently when affected by supernatural powers.

His Phoenix Spirit Pear spiritual roots were not forced to mature, but instead continued to accumulate vitality and strengthen their origin. The four spiritual roots have been growing taller and taller recently, with lush branches and leaves.

If this continues, the number of Phoenix Spirit Pears that grow next time will increase, even if their grade doesn't improve.

"The Spring Returns to All Things Divine Power is of great benefit to spiritual materials, but this divine power must not be limited to this. I am afraid that due to my current cultivation level, I cannot use many other abilities."

"However, the fact that it is of great benefit to spiritual materials is enough."

Fang Yan was quite satisfied with the thriving spiritual materials in the spiritual field. However, he had already completely filled one half of the spiritual field, while only one-third of the other half was planted.

The amount of spiritual materials consumed in alchemy still exceeded his expectations.

Even though he would use the Pure Yang Sword Scripture to eliminate distractions and constantly deduce the pill formula in his mind until he was confident before starting the fire to refine the pill, mistakes and losses would still occur sometimes.

Fang Yan knew this was inevitable, after all, actual combat and theoretical discussions are two completely different things.

However, if this continues, given his speed in refining pills, even with the Spring Returns to All Things Divine Power and the group of little demons from the White Tiger Cave searching for spiritual materials for him, he will gradually fall into the predicament of not having enough spiritual materials to refine pills.

"Nourishing Spirit Pill, Purple Crystal Pill, Lotus Heart Pill, Herbal Elixir... These are the four types of pills I've refined recently. Except for the Nourishing Spirit Pill, which I need to keep to aid my cultivation, the other three types can be traded."

The problem is, who should we go to for the transaction...?

Fang Yan thought about it for a while and then had a headache.

Around Qingfeng Mountain, places like White Tiger Cave are still few and far between. In the Hundred Thousand Mountains, most other monsters are not only cunning, but also prefer plundering and fighting to trading.

He, Shuyu, and Junheng—a mountain god, a tree spirit practicing Taoism, and a tiger demon who values ​​loyalty—were perhaps the odd ones out in the eyes of other demons...

That's precisely why they were able to come together...

The deeper one goes into the Ten Thousand Mountains, the denser the spiritual energy becomes, and the more spiritual lands, grottoes, and rare treasures one finds there. However, these places are mostly occupied by powerful demons.

The disparity in strength virtually eliminated any possibility of a deal, and besides, he himself had little interest in fighting and killing.

"If we can't find a solution in a short time, we'll have to study other inheritances first. The talisman water inheritance might be limited by spiritual materials, but swordsmanship or the pot heaven are both excellent choices."

"Let things take their natural course..."

Fang Yan wasn't bothered by this.

He knew perfectly well that some things were useless no matter how much he struggled or agonized over them, so he might as well let nature take its course, since he still had many things to do anyway.

Besides, this mountain god has a long lifespan, so there's no rush.

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Not long after Shu Yu left Qingfeng Mountain, the villagers of Jinzhi Village also began preparing for their relocation and started heading towards Xiahe Village...