Chapter 47: Earth Spirit Pill

  In the exquisite residence, Su Che stared at the Flowing Cloud Golden Basin in silence; Ling Long stood beside him anxiously waiting, and hadn't even had time to ask where he had run off to earlier.

  There were more than a dozen light golden, slender leaves scattered in the flower pot. Although this Clivia miniata had over a hundred leaves, it couldn't withstand such a shedding method!

  After discussing with Lao Hei in her heart for a while, Su Che said to Ling Long: "Don't worry too much, I think this should be one of its instinctive reactions, automatically removing the most severely withered leaves, which is also an effective way for it to protect itself."

  "Really doesn't matter?" Ling still had some misgivings.

  "It should be fine." Su Che smiled and nodded, then suggested: "However, these few days are crucial, it's best to send it to my place, so I can take care of it at any time."

  "Whatever."

  Linglong thought for a moment and then agreed. Only then did she ask: "Where did you go just now? Why couldn't anyone find you?"

  "In the end, wasn't it found?" Su Che said with a smile.

  Linglong didn't make a sound, but her eyes still conveyed a questioning meaning. As the patrol officer of the entire medicine garden, she wasn't so easily fooled.

  Su Che knew that if he didn't come up with a reasonable explanation, she would harbor unnecessary suspicions about him from now on. So he explained: "Just now I was practicing my skills in a secret place. The location's grass and wood essence is quite rich, very suitable for my technique... To be honest, the relationship between me and Ling Cao is even more intimate and complex than you imagine. It's precisely because of these reasons that I have the ability to cure this Flowing Cloud Golden Basin."

  This explanation sounds mysterious, but Linglong nodded silently to show her approval. Because only he could cure his own spiritual grass, it already showed that he was special. Since he was a special person, having a bit of mystery was also acceptable.

  At this moment, Lao Hei was muttering in a low voice in the immortal prison: "This rotten grass is really good at causing trouble, the first time we went to the secret cave, it made such a mess."

  "You're saying that, it's clearly burning the bridge after crossing. Su Che smiled in his heart: 'If we didn't have it, how could we have arrived at the second floor of the Medicine Garden so smoothly, not to mention finding the secret cave?'"

  Next, Su Che took the Flowing Cloud Golden Basin to his thatched hut, saying it was so he could take care of it at any time. In reality, it was because he had already obtained fifteen stalks of spiritual grass and temporarily didn't need to frequently go to the second floor of the Medicine Garden.

  That night, Liu Yun gave the Golden Basin some more nourishing elixir. Lao Hei was certain that this spiritual grass was developing in a good direction and there was no need to worry about anything. So, early next morning, Su Che found an excuse to leave the Spiritual Grass Garden and returned to the Outer Sect disciples' living quarters, where he found Lei Xiao.

  On the edge of the cliff, in the air building, Lei Xiao saw Su Che and asked: "What have you been doing these days? I've looked for you several times, but you're not there."

  "Has been taking care of flowers and grass in the spiritual herb garden." Su Che replied softly.

  "Did you become the disciple of the Medicine Garden's manager?" Lei Xiao was greatly surprised, as the position of the Medicine Garden's manager's disciple was something that neither he nor his cousin had been able to obtain!

  When he saw Su Che nodding, Lei Xiao became even more curious about his background. It was possible that his backing was much stronger than the Lei family's.

  "There's something I need your help with," Su Che said in a low voice.

  "You said." Lei smiled and nodded: "I can do it, I will definitely go all out."

  "I want to use a 500-year-old medium-grade spiritual grass to exchange for 'Earth Spirit Dan', do you have any good methods?" Su Che asked.

  "How much change?"

  "The more the better!"

  Lei Xiao lowered his voice and asked: "So, you can take out more than one spiritual grass?"

  Su Che nodded slightly.

  "Wow, you really have the goods!" Lei laughed with wide eyes and exclaimed in an exaggerated tone: "A 500-year-old mid-grade spiritual herb can sell for at least 5,000 spirit stones. Brother, I finally understand, you're the real big shot!"

  Su Che smiled and shook his head: "I'm just a runner, those spiritual herbs, the real owner is an elder in the medicine garden. However, this matter cannot be leaked out, it must be kept strictly confidential, so I came to find you to think of a way."

  "I understand, I understand, this is a normal thing." Lei Xiang sent over an eye signal that everyone understood, he really thought that Su Che's elder was definitely an important figure in the Lingcao Medicine Garden, and used their position to do some private dealings.

  The "Dilindan" mentioned by Su Che is a high-grade elixir, generally speaking, foundation-building cultivators are reluctant to take such precious elixirs in regular cultivation, and will only take them at some critical moments.

  This elixir not only has a very significant effect on enhancing one's power, but it also has another advantage: its medicinal properties are extremely pure and have minimal side effects. Even long-term consumption will not affect future foundation-building. That's why Su Che made up his mind to use this elixir as an auxiliary aid for his cultivation. Although, this is a super luxurious behavior, even the true disciples of Tianxuan Sect cannot enjoy such treatment for a long time.

  Lei Xiao naturally couldn't have thought of it, the Diligent Spirit Dan was something Su Che had prepared for himself to take, if it were said that the big shot from the Spiritual Grass Garden had such a need then it would be about right.

  After a moment of deliberation, Lei Xiao said: "The price of one Earth Spirit Pill is about two hundred spirit stones. I think that at least thirty Earth Spirit Pills can be exchanged for a mid-grade spiritual grass that is five hundred years old. If it's less than this number, you'll be at a disadvantage."

  "One for three tens, I can accept." Su Che nodded and said.

  "If this ratio is acceptable, I think our Lei family can take out a few dozen Earth Spirit Pills. If there are more, it will take time to gather them from all over." Lei Xiang said: "You also know that Earth Spirit Pill is something that even Foundation Building cultivators only consume when they break through, so they won't store too many on hand."

  Su Che calculated in his heart that dozens of Diligent Spirit Pills would be enough for his own use for a year, and then nodded: "Alright, let's exchange two first."

  After finishing speaking, he pretended to take out two stalks of spiritual grass from the spiritual grass bag, but in fact took them out from the immortal prison.

  The two stalks of spiritual grass stunned Leixiao, he didn't expect that they weren't the collected spiritual grass, but rather living things with a big clump of mud!

  "Still alive, huh? How's that for freshness?" Su Che said with a hint of a strange smile.

  "Fresh, it's really fresh!" Lei Xiao shook his head with a complex expression: "Just dug out from the garden?"

  "Of course!" Su Che laughed and said: "I've left the things with you, notify me once you've obtained the Earth Spirit Dan."

  "Alright."

  Lei Xiao nodded, appearing calm on the surface but secretly moved. These two stalks of spiritual grass were worth 10,000 spiritual stones, a huge fortune for any outer sect disciple. It could be said that many people would turn ruthless and even resort to secret murder for such wealth.

  But Su Che, actually trusted himself to this extent, casually throwing it on the ground, not even needing a written receipt from him. This level of trust, decades of friendship may not be able to cultivate...

  "Alright, for his trust in me, I'll make sure to get things done perfectly!" Lei Xiao thought to himself.

  ……

  Only two days later, Su Che obtained sixty Earth Spirit Pills from Lei Xiao. Both parties were very satisfied with this transaction. Lei Xiao also mentioned that three months later, the Lei family would like to trade again and hoped to obtain at least two Silver Whisker Grasses with a medicinal age of five hundred years.

  Yin Xu Cao is also a medium-grade spiritual grass, although there isn't any in the immortal prison, Lao Hei remembers it clearly, and there are indeed several plants in the hidden medicine garden, only yesterday didn't transplant this spiritual grass.

  He agreed to Leixiao's request, Su Che returned to his own thatched hut in the medicine garden, and immediately took a Diling Dan, a Xiqing Dan, and a Ningqi Dan, sitting on the array disc to start cultivating.

  The medicinal properties of the Earth Spirit Pill are pure and do not conflict with those of other pills, so the Brain Washing Pill and the Qi Condensing Pill can still be taken as usual. However, the Earth Spirit Pill is a high-grade pill, and Su Che's cultivation base is too low, so it takes five to seven days to fully digest and absorb the medicinal properties after taking one pill. Therefore, sixty Earth Spirit Pills are enough for Su Che to use for a year.

  Such a luxurious way of cultivating, the effect is also surprising, just one night of cultivation, Su Che only absorbed a fraction of the medicinal power of a single Earth Spirit Pill, and he could already clearly feel the growth and change in his cultivation, equivalent to the sum of five or six days of continuous cultivation in the past!

  "Old Hei, look at that! This is what I call speed!" Su Che was excited: "With the Earth Spirit Dan, my previous cultivation speed was like a turtle's crawl."

  "Yes, now this speed is just right." Lao Hei was also equally delighted, but still a bit greedy: "What a pity, we can't refine the elixir, exchanging the spiritual grass for the elixir medicine, it's not very cost-effective."

  Su Che said, "Refining pills yourself is the most cost-effective, this logic everyone knows. But the problem is, you must be a high-level pill refiner to have the qualifications to refine the high-grade spiritual grass in the secret medicine garden. If your level isn't enough, casually producing a furnace of waste pills would be an even greater waste."

  "If we could catch a high-level alchemist and throw him into the heavenly prison, that would be great." Old Black said with a full stomach of hope.

  "Stop dreaming." Su Che struck back: "A high-level alchemist is at least in the foundation-building period, a single spit-star can spray us to death, what right do we have to capture him?"

  "It's good to have dreams......" Old Black prayed to the sky: "Heaven, please grant me a pill alchemist who has suffered severe injuries, is on his last breath, and has completely lost his ability to resist. Let us capture him and throw him into the heavenly prison... Oh right, the higher the level of pill alchemy, the better..."

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