Chapter 20: New Worries

  Lin Feng somewhat understood the function of the white jade, so he intentionally did not pick this spiritual dew grass and instead stepped over it to continue walking forward. At the same time, he paid attention to the position change of the green dot on the white jade. Sure enough, the green dot ran to the other side of the white jade again.

  Lin Feng took a few steps back, carefully picked up the Lingluo grass, but instead of putting it in his storage bag, he took out a Fēngyáng fruit from the bag and placed them at a distance from each other before leaving. At this time, he again infused spiritual energy into the white jade, which immediately displayed a green dot and a blue dot. Lin Feng easily found the two types of spiritual herbs using the same method as before, with the green dot indicating the Lingluo grass and the blue dot indicating the Fēngyáng fruit.

  Lin Feng completely understood the function of the White Jade. As long as he input his spiritual energy into it, it would display the spiritual medicine within a certain range on the jade plate. The position of the White Jade was at the center, and the positions of other spiritual medicines were displayed in different locations on the jade plate according to their distance and direction.

  After several more experiments, Lin Feng roughly understood that the White Jade could display the location of spiritual medicine about eighty zhang away, and anything further than that couldn't be seen. In other words, if Lin Feng held the White Jade in a certain place, then all the spiritual medicine within an eighty-zhang radius around him would appear on the jade disc.

  Moreover, the colors displayed by elixirs of different attributes are also different. For example, Lingluo grass belongs to wood and displays green, while Fengyang fruit belongs to water and displays blue. The color in which an elixir appears on jade is the same as the color of its spiritual energy attribute in the five elements. Linfeng took out a spiritual stone to experiment and found that it could also be displayed on white jade, but because all the spiritual stones on his body were non-attribute spiritual stones, the color displayed on the white jade was gray.

  Lin Feng didn't have many things on him, and for the time being, he couldn't take out more items to experiment with. However, based on what he had discovered about the white jade's effects so far, it was already quite astonishing to him, and its significance to him was self-evident. At the very least, one thing was certain: the spiritual medicine he would gather in the future would be dozens or even hundreds of times more than before.

  Thinking back to the past, the places I could see were only a dozen or so meters away, and I often missed them if I wasn't careful. The amount of spiritual medicine I collected was naturally very limited. Now, as long as I hold onto the White Jade and walk along, a strip of land over 150 meters wide will not have a single spiritual medicine that gets missed. How much this will increase my efficiency is truly hard to estimate. With it, Lin Feng will no longer worry about lacking spiritual medicine for refining pills.

  Action speaks louder than words, Lin Feng understood the role of White Jade and immediately held it in his hand, infusing spiritual energy into it as he continued to move forward. Sure enough, after walking less than a hundred steps, a small red dot appeared on the White Jade, and its temperature was several degrees hotter than before.

  Lin Feng followed the guidance of Yu Pan and soon arrived at the location of the red dot. A bright red Ganoderma lucidum appeared before his eyes. Second-grade spiritual medicine, fire attribute, worth about 50 spirit stones. Haha, just this one Ganoderma lucidum could be exchanged for two or three furnaces of refined Qi-gathering pills. Lin Feng couldn't help but laugh out loud.

  At the same time, Lin Feng vaguely felt that since the second-order spiritual medicine contained more spiritual energy than the first-order spiritual grass, the temperature of the white jade was slightly higher than when he found the Wind Sun Fruit and Spiritual Dew Grass. It seemed that this treasure could change its temperature according to the size of the spiritual nature of the spiritual object, in order to show the high or low spiritual energy of the spiritual object! This was really great, Lin Feng thought to himself, his heart becoming even more satisfied. Now he was almost certain that this treasure was probably a Spiritual Treasure-level item.

  The mood is good, and the energy is naturally very strong. The spiritual energy of the jade disc doesn't need to be much, and the effect of more spiritual energy is the same, so Lin Feng doesn't have a problem with resting or not resting. He continues to pick herbs with the white jade in hand. But now it's better to say that he's taking medicine rather than picking herbs. With the guidance of the treasure jade, after walking for a short while, he picked several more first-class spiritual herbs, and it was as if he were in his own spiritual herb garden, so quick and easy that Lin Feng's mouth couldn't close from joy.

  "Huh? A small red dot appeared on the white jade plate, and Lin Feng quickly walked towards it. This time, however, he didn't see any spiritual medicine, but instead found a fist-sized, dark and slightly shiny ore."

  Is this a first-class spiritual iron ore? Lin Feng didn't dare to confirm, he had only seen descriptions of spiritual iron ore in books and hadn't actually seen the real thing. However, from the changes he felt in the white jade after picking up this piece of spiritual iron ore, it was clear that it was also a spiritual mineral.

  This discovery delighted Lin Feng, and judging from the effect White Jade is currently displaying, he even wondered if it could detect all things with spiritual energy. And if this were true, would it still be just a spiritual treasure? Although Lin Feng had never seen any spiritual treasures, some of the few concepts he had were mostly hearsay, but such a heaven-defying function made him unable to help but think wildly.

  Put away the spiritual ore, Lin Feng did not continue to search for spiritual objects, but instead found a clean stone block to sit down and rest. It wasn't because he was tired, as anyone would believe that picking up money all over the ground wouldn't be tiring work. The reason Lin Feng sat down to rest was that he needed to think through some issues clearly.

  At the age of fourteen, Lin Feng was already more mature than ordinary people due to his personality. As a cultivator, his spiritual intelligence had opened up earlier than ordinary people, so his actual mental maturity had reached that of an average adult. Upon encountering such a heaven-defying treasure, after feeling joyful, Lin Feng also sensed the danger. The saying "an innocent man is not guilty, but possessing a precious jade makes him guilty" was precisely this principle.

  From the moment this treasure fell from the sky and burrowed into his body, Lin Feng thought that it should have a great origin with himself. This point didn't need much consideration, and it shouldn't be someone intentionally using it to harm him. Moreover, even if it was, Lin Feng thought about it but couldn't do anything. If he were asked to throw this treasure away now, it would be better to kill him.

  His own cultivation progress was not going smoothly, and according to the Yang family's rules, if he wasn't chosen by Qingyang Gate in a few months, he would have to face the choice of continuing his cultivation or giving up. If he continued to cultivate, after several months, the five-year cultivation period would be over, and with Lin Feng's current level of cultivation at the third layer of Qi Refining, it couldn't be called successful. At that time, the Yang family would no longer provide Lin Feng with the spiritual stones and pills needed for his cultivation, and Lin Feng would have to find his own materials for cultivation, which would make his already slow progress even more difficult. It was likely that he wouldn't be able to reach the Foundation Establishment stage in his entire life.

  It would be better for Lin Feng to give up on cultivating the truth, whether it's going back home to take care of his parents or staying in the Yang family as a gatekeeper, both are far stronger than wasting time cultivating the truth.

  But now, with this treasure, Lin Feng is very confident to continue on the path of cultivation and go further than ordinary people can imagine.

  Just wanting to go further, this treasure cannot be lost, and one's own life even more cannot be lost. Lin Feng believes that anyone who knows about this treasure will stop at nothing to get it. At that time, as a Qi Refining Third Layer entry-level cultivator, he would be like an object of no value in the eyes of others, whether killing someone first then robbing the treasure or robbing the treasure first then killing to silence them, either way is up to others' pleasure.

  So this treasure absolutely cannot be known by anyone, not even Yang Zeshi who has always been good to himself, or Zhao Chun who is in a good relationship with him and has a kind heart. Even if a hint of news leaks out, he doesn't know whether his own life will be preserved, but this treasure will definitely not be preserved, and that would also cut off his own path to spiritual cultivation.

  Lin Feng couldn't help but regret his actions earlier, hastily recalling the white jade into his dantian. He looked around nervously, and only when he saw that nothing was amiss did he finally put his mind at ease.

  But soon he started to worry again, Bai Yu is a spiritual treasure, and he can absorb it into his body. However, what about the many spiritual herbs and minerals he found? If Yang Ze asks him, how will he answer? Should he say that he went out for a nap and was able to find enough spiritual herbs to make three or four furnaces of Qi Dan? This is something that no one would believe, even Lin Feng himself feels that it's unbelievable.

  What a torment! Previously, it was the worry of not finding the divine medicine, now it's the worry of finding too many divine medicines. Lin Feng couldn't help but feel a mixture of laughter and tears.

  What to do? Find a place to hide the excess spiritual medicine? But now is the time when I am diligently practicing alchemy, and it's precisely when I'm short of medicine. How can I waste my time like this? Moreover, if the spiritual medicine is not processed in time after harvesting, the leakage of spiritual energy will greatly reduce its efficacy.

  Just say that the spiritual medicine was bought in the market? This method seems to be feasible, but it can only be used once or twice. Everyone knows how many spiritual stones they have each month. If I keep taking out spiritual medicine, someone will probably become suspicious. Moreover, since entering Yang's house, when I lacked spiritual medicine, I always bought it from Yang Ze. Now suddenly saying that the spiritual medicine was bought in the market would also raise suspicions.

  After thinking for half a day, he couldn't make up his mind, and the mood to collect medicine was gone. Moreover, it was already late at this time, so Lin Feng decided to head back first. As for how to face Yang Ze, Lin Feng also had a general idea. This time, he would temporarily take out the Xuan Tie ore and Mu Zhu that he didn't need to use, and exchange them with Yang Ze for the Ling medicine of Lian Ti Qi Dan. The other things wouldn't be taken out for now, so even if he was lucky enough to find two good things, it wouldn't attract attention.

  As for what to do later, Lin Feng thought of getting through the Qingyang Gate selection first. If he was selected, there would be no problem. In a new environment where few people knew him, it would be easy to hide some things. If he wasn't selected, he would have to make a choice between staying or leaving the Yang family anyway. At that time, with Bao Yu's help, he could cultivate his true self anywhere.

  As for the past few months, if you want to refine elixirs, just use spirit stones to buy them. Anyway, in the future, you can also sell spiritual medicine for spirit stones, so it's useless to keep so many. If you don't want to refine elixirs, then just cultivate instead. This way, others will only think that you have no spiritual medicine and had no choice but to cultivate, and won't arouse suspicion.

  As he walked and thought, Lin Feng felt a sudden lightness in his mood, thinking that there was no flaw in his plan. He couldn't wait for the grand selection of Qingyang Gate to begin.

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