Chapter 3761 — The Troublemaker
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
To ensure the Heart-Devouring Exquisite Grass could grow as well as possible, beyond the all-important supply of spirit qi and true qi, choosing a dry soil suited to its growth was equally crucial. Wei Zhao, naturally, did not dare be careless in this regard.
After preparing several batches of different soils within the jade-pendant space, Wei Zhao promptly returned to his cave dwelling and transplanted all eighty-five spirit-herb seeds into it. Then, following what he had learned at the Pill Hall, he began channeling true qi into the seeds.
Any other newcomer, with their Heaven-Tier Great Perfection strength, could at best channel true qi into three or four spirit-herb seeds at once if they wished to maintain the stimulating effect of the true qi, even going all out.
But Wei Zhao was now a peak expert of the early Foundation Establishment stage. Channeling only this fixed amount of true qi into each seed, whether three or four or even dozens at once, was more than he could handle with ease. Moreover, with the spirit qi of the jade-pendant space replenishing him, the true qi within his body flowed without end, so he had none of the worries others had about exhausting his true qi.
The eighty-five spirit-herb seeds merely needed to be divided into two batches, each receiving the prescribed amount of true qi for half an hour, and Wei Zhao's task for the day was done.
And if he kept this up for twenty days, he would see results.
How many of these spirit-herb seeds would survive, and above all what the two Heart-Devouring Exquisite Grass seeds that Wei Zhao cared most about would ultimately become—whether the jade-pendant space could truly serve as a divine tool for cultivation as anticipated—all of that remained to be seen.
By Wei Zhao's estimation, even if the jade-pendant space's cultivation effect was not the best, it would certainly not be poor; at the very least, it would never be worse than the results of the other newcomers.
Over the next three days, Wei Zhao went to the Spirit Jade Hall to mine as usual each day, returned at night to channel true qi into the spirit-herb seeds for a full hour, and then cultivated as he always did.
In fact, the process of channeling true qi was itself a kind of alternate cultivation, so for Wei Zhao it was no different from his usual rhythm—quite leisurely and relaxed.
By contrast, the other newcomers had it far from easy. Though they did not have to tend eighty-five spirit-herb seeds all at once like Wei Zhao, merely handling three or four seeds a day was already quite a struggle.
Not only did they have to exhaust themselves channeling true qi into the seeds each day, but afterward they had to hurry to find ways to recover their true qi. This process, for ordinary newcomers without a heaven-defying cheat like the jade-pendant space, was exceedingly tedious and taxing.
Beyond that, they had to fret over these seeds. The newcomers of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion and the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion might have it slightly better, since the spirit qi density within their cave dwellings was at least passable, but the newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion had it rough: besides ensuring a daily supply of true qi, they also had to devise ways to increase the spirit qi supply, which was no small difficulty.
After all, they did not possess a jade-pendant space like Wei Zhao, nor could they, like the Pill Hall's spirit-herb garden, simply scatter spirit jade everywhere to raise the spirit qi density. They had only so much spirit jade on hand, and they grudged even using it for their own cultivation!
Fortunately, the points of the Three-Tiered Pavilion's newcomers were calculated separately; they did not need to compete with the Soaring Heaven Pavilion and the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion, only to surpass the newcomers of their own Azure Cloud Pavilion.