Chapter 46: Spiritual Grass Transplantation

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  How can one enter a treasure trove and return empty-handed? Su Che must definitely collect some spiritual herbs to bring back.

  However, what kind of spiritual grass to collect, how much to collect this time, and how to properly preserve it are all matters that require attention. If one cannot control their greed and recklessly harvest, it will only result in tremendous waste.

  Su Che asked, "Lao Hei, can we transplant some of these spiritual herbs to a part of the Heavenly Prison? After all, the Heavenly Prison has mountains, water, and soil, and prisoners can survive inside."

  "It's possible, but not too many at once." Old Black replied: "Currently in the first layer of Xianyu, the survival conditions are extremely primitive. The most important thing is that there is no spiritual vein. Without it, the spiritual grass can't absorb spiritual energy, and even if it doesn't die, its potency will slowly decrease, losing value. I estimate that transplanting a dozen or so at once, using various spirit stones and many nutrient-rich substances to carefully cultivate them, with your current financial resources, should still be bearable."

  "I understand."

  Su Zu quietly nodded, quickly weighing the pros and cons in his heart: "We don't know how to refine dan, so even if we have a lot of spiritual grass, it's temporarily useless; another thing is that our strength is too low, and if we take out extremely precious spiritual grass for public sale, I'm afraid we'll be making money with our lives, but won't be able to enjoy it..."

  Lao Hei completely agreed with Su Che's point of view and further analyzed: "Moreover, since it's the first time transplanting, the experience is insufficient. Let's use the lowest grade and shortest medicinal age Ling Cao for experimentation. Even if the method is incorrect and they are raised to death, it won't be too heartbreaking."

  "Alright, let's settle on transplanting fifteen stalks of mid-grade Ling Grass with the shortest medicinal age!"

  For Su Che, transplanting was simpler than harvesting. He used the flying sword to cut out a whole block of soil from where the spiritual grass grew, and under Lao Hei's guidance, he carefully dug it up without hurting the roots of the spiritual grass.

  Relatively speaking, collecting spiritual grass is much more complicated. Each type of spiritual grass has its own unique collection method. To collect any one-hundred-year-old spiritual grass with the cultivation level of Su Che's first layer of Qi Refining, at least a minute is needed to ensure that the value of the spiritual grass is not damaged.

  Moreover, the collected spiritual grass has a defect, that is, it is not easy to preserve. The spiritual grass bag only has the effect of temporary storage, and ordinary quality spiritual grass jade boxes can only effectively preserve for about half a year.

  A top-grade jade box that can store lingcao for a long time is equivalent in value to a high-quality spiritual instrument, which Su Che cannot afford now.

  Fortunately, there is the Xianyu, which not only imprisons prisoners but also cultivates spiritual grass... What's more interesting is that this secret was obtained from 'Han Youming' himself. From now on, he will be allowed to play his special talent in cultivating spiritual grass and carefully take care of these spiritual grasses in the Xianyu...

  "Just thinking about it makes Su Che laugh secretly in his heart: 'Tell me, won't this make Han Youming feel resentful? Are we being too ruthless?'"

  "Not a bit fierce, this is his good fortune." Old Black sneered, showing his fangs, with an eerie expression: "Either he carefully tended to the spiritual grass or I carefully tended to him. Master, what do you think he would choose?"

  "Relax, no one wants to be taken care of by you."

  "That's right!" Old Hei said in a rough tone: "Once the spiritual grass is planted in the immortal prison, he won't have to suffer beatings every day. If it isn't good fortune, what is?"

  In this treasure trove of spiritual grass that belonged to him alone, Su Che dug the earth and excavated rocks with great vigor, but he didn't know that at this very moment, the lovely girl was searching for him everywhere in the garden.

  About a moment ago, Linglong had just finished patrolling the medicine garden and returned to her residence. She went to see the Flowing Cloud Golden Basin at the first opportunity, but found that this rare spiritual grass, which was still unwell, was automatically swaying its long leaves in the windless environment...

  Linglong lost her voice in shock, having no idea what was happening.

  This situation is definitely abnormal, just like a patient who should be resting in bed suddenly becomes mentally disordered and starts jumping up and down, which is purely a suicidal move.

  Linglong found out about the situation when Liuyun Jinpen had already dropped three leaves. At this, Linglong was both anxious and angry, and incoherently shouted at it: "What are you doing?! It's fine, why is this happening?! How can you be so disappointing?! Are you trying to drive me mad?!"

  It can be seen from this that in the heart of this girl, it is no longer a spiritual grass, but a relative...

  Getting more and more anxious, Linglong didn't dare to touch it, could only pull her legs and run wildly, running to the lower level medicine garden to find Su Che for help. The patient had a sudden onset of symptoms, of course, they had to find a doctor to deal with it.

  However, Su Che's thatched cottage was empty, and Ling Long had gone to Chen Zongguan's place again, still unaware of his whereabouts.

  "This restless guy, where has he run off to again?" Linglong was both angry and anxious, stamping her feet repeatedly.

  To this day, Su Che's 'restless' trait is well-known to all. Most of the time, he can be seen wandering around the lower and middle levels of the Medicine Garden, either here or there, with no place being left unvisited by him. Everyone has also gotten used to it.

  No choice, let's go find it!

  Linglong called over a few closer fellow disciples, letting them scatter in all directions to help him search for Su Che. Some of the medicine garden staff also voluntarily participated in order to curry favor with Linglong. In the end, it wasn't much different from issuing a wanted notice.

  In the garden, people were searching frantically. In a secret cave, Su Che sent the last of this batch of mid-grade spiritual grass into the Xian prison. He stood up and stretched his waist, saying in his heart: "Fifteen stalks of mid-grade spiritual grass, even the lowest is five hundred years old. If exchanged for sect contribution points, each one would be worth at least three thousand points, not to mention the additional rewards of spiritual stones."

  "This good thing, if exchanged for sect contribution value, isn't it a bit of a loss?" Lao Hei's eyes were full of reluctance.

  "I'm just saying." Su Che replied, "However, when it's time to change, you must change! If you want to become an inner disciple, without sufficient contribution, that won't do. Let go, let go, only by letting go can you gain."

  "Yes, yes, you are wise, master." Lao Hei knew these principles well enough, he was just intentionally creating an opportunity to flatter.

  "No time for nonsense, I can't disappear in the medicine garden for too long, or it will arouse suspicion." Su Che calculated the time, the manager of the top-grade medicine field would not go to work in the fields until another hour had passed. For now, time was still sufficient. However, just transplanting the spiritual grass was not enough, there was another extremely important matter that absolutely could not be neglected.

  No longer nostalgic for the spiritual grass behind him, Su Che jumped into the narrow tunnel and took out some materials he had prepared in advance from his Qiankun bag. Every certain distance, a deadly trap would be set up.

  Currently, there is no ability to set up formations or seals, only some mechanical traps can be set up, all for the sake of preventing one person, that is, Han Youming's brother, Taizhenan 'Han Zuo Jing'!

  Su Che speculated that Han Suo would no longer be able to contact his brother, and might even think that his brother was dead. However, he would never give up on the secret cave, and it was likely that he would try every means possible to sneak into Tian Xuan Sect. It's just that entering Tian Xuan Sect was easy, but trying to sneak into the Ling Cao Medicine Garden of the top ten main peaks would be much more difficult than what the two brothers had originally anticipated.

  The Lingcao Herb Garden is heavily guarded, and Han Zao, who has only practiced Qi for three layers, must secretly calculate a certain late-stage Qi practitioner's disciple to obtain his identity jade symbol in order to blend into the herb garden.

  Let's not talk about the possibility of him secretly calculating the later stages of Qi training, let's just say that even if he had the strength to enter the third layer of Qi training and entered the garden, he would still be as eye-catching as Su Che, and the possibility of reaching the second layer of the medicine garden is even more minuscule.

  However, Su was cautious and set up more than a dozen traps in the mountain cave tunnel as a last line of defense. The specific locations were accurately recorded by Lao Hei, so that next time they came, they wouldn't accidentally trigger them and end up killing themselves...

  After sealing the entrance, Su Che began to climb up the precipice. In fact, climbing up was easier and faster than going down. However, when they reached halfway, Lao Hei suddenly warned: "There's someone above!"

  Whoosh!

  Su Che didn't hesitate and immediately activated a earth-type hidden spirit symbol, transforming his entire body into a boulder that stuck tightly to the rock wall.

  Generally speaking, the naked eye can hardly see through the illusion effect of hidden Lingfu. It should be enough to deal with the Qi-training period's medicine garden manager. This kind of preparation, Su Che and Lao Hei had rehearsed many times in advance, and they also anticipated many situations that could easily be discovered by others.

  After a dozen or so breaths, Old Black said: "That busy disciple came and went in a hurry, looking around in all directions, not like he was searching for something, but more like he was looking for someone."

  "Has it gone?"

  "Yes, master, you can go up now."

  Su suddenly felt a sense of vigilance and climbed up the cliff with all his might at an incredible speed.

  Just as he walked out of the Extreme Medicine Field, he met a disciple in charge. Seeing Su Che from afar, he waved his arm and shouted loudly: "Su Shidi, where have you run to? Everyone is looking for you everywhere!"

  "Looking for me everywhere?" Su Che was taken aback, and his guilty conscience suddenly flared up: "What do you want to find me for? Could it be..."

  Her heart was in a turmoil, but her face remained calm, and Su Che smiled as she replied: "Senior brother, why did you look for me?"

  "Linglong Shijie is looking for you, she's in a hurry, go quickly!" The servant disciple arrived at an extremely fast speed, and in the blink of an eye, he was right in front of him.

  "Linglong......" Hearing this response, Su Che slightly relaxed a bit. If she hadn't misjudged, it should be that the Flowing Cloud Golden Basin had shown some abnormality, and apart from that, there wouldn't be any other reason for her to become anxious because she couldn't find herself.