Chapter 56: The Unknown Spirit Medicine

  Putting aside all distractions, Lin Feng devoted himself to training, practicing his sword and then his internal energy, repeating the process over and over again. It was extremely dull, and the only thing he used to stimulate his mind during his free time was studying the Dan book, weeding and watering in the Panlong ring. In just a dozen or so days, not only did the spiritual medicine he had transplanted grow well, but even the spiritual seeds he had scattered had already sprouted green leaves. This was three or four times faster than Lin Feng knew ordinary spiritual plants needed to grow. He didn't know if it was because of the rich spiritual energy in the Panlong ring. He couldn't ask anyone about this, or else the secret of the Panlong ring would easily be exposed. Never mind, the fact that the spiritual plants were growing quickly was a good thing. This way, before long, he would have a large quantity of spiritual medicine at his disposal.

  The cultivation of Gongfa has also reached a critical period, and Lin Feng feels that the breakthrough is just around the corner. At this time, he relaxed his training pace. Shibo had said that the way of Tao is natural, and the more you want to break through, the more you need to relax. Forcing a breakthrough can be difficult, not to mention that even if you do break through, it's easy to leave behind hidden injuries. Accumulating thickly and releasing thinly, waiting for the right moment to make a breakthrough, is actually easier and more in harmony with the natural way.

  The swordsmanship has been practiced to the point of being proficient, and it is said that it is proficient because the essence has been grasped. However, to become skilled, one must still work hard and make great efforts. Once the essence is grasped and the door is opened, practicing swordsmanship becomes much easier. In just a few days, Lin Feng had already mastered all the starting moves except for the flying sword part, and his movements also had a somewhat similar appearance. Don't underestimate this similarity, as Lin Feng himself felt that his current self was vastly different from his previous self, like heaven and earth apart.

  At this time, Lin Feng was weeding in the Panlong Ring and had opened up more than a mu of spiritual land after over ten days of clearing. Recently, spirit stones had been spent like flowing water, especially since Lin Feng's meals were almost all exquisite dishes cooked with spiritual herbs sent by the Gathering Spirit Pavilion, which cost over ten spirit stones every day. This made Lin Feng's meager amount of spirit stones nearly depleted. Therefore, Lin Feng had long planned that after entering the fifth layer of the Refining Qi stage, he would start refining pills on a large scale. To live comfortably in Yaoguang City without spirit stones was impossible.

  It's not that I don't want to save money, but after eating the delicious food made by Lingcai, ordinary food is like chewing wax. And living in the Spirit Pavilion, for the sake of face, can't be too shabby. Liu Kai's business may be booming, but in Lin Feng's eyes, it doesn't make much money. To make a lot of money quickly, one still has to rely on alchemy, so opening up the spiritual field is a long-term and ambitious project.

  "What the...?!" Lin Feng immediately compared it to the ordinary weeds he had just pulled out, and found that the roots of this weed were much thicker than usual. Although he didn't recognize it, based on his cultivation in Dan medicine, he had already roughly determined that this should be some kind of spiritual herb.

  In a flash of thought, the grass had already appeared in his hand. He took a closer look and it was indeed not any of the spiritual herbs he knew. But this wasn't difficult for Lin Feng. He slightly released a thread of divine sense onto the jade and the jade immediately emitted heat, and at its center, a white light point lit up.

  Its potency is very strong, far surpassing that of ordinary third-grade spiritual medicine. Lin Feng estimates that this spiritual medicine must be at least fifth-grade. However, the appearance of white light has left Lin Feng perplexed. According to the five elements' corresponding colors, it should not belong to any single one, and Lin Feng judges that it is most likely to have all five elements in harmony and balance, which is similar to the gray color displayed by attributeless spiritual stones used as currency.

  It's just that this situation rarely occurs with spiritual herbs, because spiritual herbs, due to their own properties and living environment, often over-absorb a certain type of spiritual energy from the five elements and store it within themselves. As the spiritual herb matures, the spiritual energy property it contains also tends towards this particular element. Spiritual herbs that absorb all five elemental properties do exist and are not rare, but after undergoing internal transformation and selection, they usually only retain one property. This spiritual herb, however, has clearly absorbed the five elemental energies simultaneously and retained them all, ultimately becoming a spiritual herb with all five elemental properties.

  This situation is extremely rare, Lin Feng didn't know its name and didn't know what use it had, but he knew that this thing was definitely a good treasure. He carefully planted the unknown spiritual medicine in the Panlong Ring again. Next, Lin Feng searched like crazy in the unopened spiritual field, every plant different from the surrounding weeds was carefully dug out and tested with the precious jade.

  To know that the spiritual fields in Panlong Ring were obviously planted by predecessors, now that they have discovered that there are still uncollected spiritual herbs left inside, it is likely that there are other uncollected ones. It is vaguely known that the original owner of Panlong Ring may have left some unripe medicine during the last collection and did not collect them, but Lin Feng does not care about those things now, he just hopes that the remaining spiritual herbs will be more and better.

  He had been busy for a long time, and Lin Feng was exhausted, his eyes were blurry and his head was spinning, which was caused by the excessive consumption of divine consciousness. However, he was extremely happy and joyful at this moment, and he didn't feel tired at all. Through Bao Yu's appraisal, Lin Feng had found five kinds of unknown spiritual herbs, and from their aura, none of them were below third-grade spiritual herbs. Spiritual herbs that far surpass the third grade! Now in Yaoguang City, you might not even be able to see a few stalks? And how many did Lin Feng have? Except for the first one he found with all five attributes, there were only eight stalks in total, and the others could only be described as fragments.

  Lin Feng, who had some understanding of spiritual plants, could see at a glance that these dense spiritual herbs were all grown from seeds that fell to the ground and took root after maturing. However, due to their high density and reliance on absorbing water on their own, they didn't grow very well. Lin Feng wasn't sure about their growth requirements, so he didn't dare make any changes. He simply cleared a patch of spiritual soil around them, slowly transplanted them with more space in between, and finally made sure to water them diligently.

  He was exhausted and sat down to rest, but Lin Feng was just going through the motions. He was completely distracted. The spiritual medicine of the fifth grade or higher, each plant was worth over a thousand spiritual stones. The spiritual medicine in the Panlong Ring, at least had hundreds of plants, how much would that be worth? So Lin Feng couldn't enter a state of meditation at all now. Anyone who suddenly gained enormous wealth wouldn't be able to calm down in a short period of time, and cultivators were no exception.

  It's painful and delightful at the same time! With so many high-grade spiritual medicines in hand, not only can't I sell them, but I also can't even ask others for their names. The phrase "wearing brocade at night" cannot describe Lin Feng's mood; others take things out and no one looks, while he has them but doesn't dare to take them out. Forget it, let's just cultivate diligently; as long as my cultivation improves, I won't have to be like this, fearing wolves in front and tigers behind.

  Lin Feng, with a smile on his face, was just about to make up his mind to enter a state of meditation when he was startled by a knock at the door. Before he could respond, he heard Liu Kai's loud voice calling out: "Is Brother Lin in?"

  Lin Feng sighed, today's practice was ruined anyway, and he couldn't calm down. It was a good opportunity to change his mind with Liu Kai. As soon as he left the training room, he ran into Liu Kai. The two of them were now like real sworn brothers, very close and casual. Liu Kai entering Lin Feng's small courtyard was like entering his own home.

  "Don't say you're here for the dan again, how many dans have you taken in this half month? I haven't seen a single piece of ling stone." Lin Feng said as he let Liu Kai into the rest room. It's been over half a month now, and every three to five days, Liu Kai would come to take some dan, saying that his self-refined Qi Dan was very popular and in short supply. However, whenever asked for ling stones, he would always say that he was currently expanding his shop and lacked funds. In the end, he even voluntarily offered two percent of the profits, saying it was Lin Feng's share as an additional investor. This made Lin Feng not dare to ask more questions. However, every time they met, Lin Feng wouldn't let him off lightly with his words, and this had become a habitual joke between them.

  In the past, when Liu Kai said this sentence, he always evaded it and didn't answer directly. But today, he smiled and took out a row of spirit stones first, then said: "This is one hundred spirit stones, which is the dividend for this half month. Now that the shop has basically gotten on the right track, from now on, I'll give you dividends every month, and also pay cash for the dan, so you don't need to invest anymore."

  After finishing speaking, he rummaged through his storage bag again and took out more than 300 spirit stones. He arranged the small table full of them, then smiled triumphantly at Lin Feng.

  Lin Feng was overjoyed to receive the spiritual stone, as he had been in urgent need of it lately. He was planning to sell some more elixirs, and his stock of them was almost depleted. Apart from some mid-grade Qi-boosting Elixirs and some not-so-popular healing elixirs like Hundred Flowers Elixir, he didn't have many ordinary Qi-boosting Elixirs left. The spiritual stone Liu Kai sent over was a timely rain that alleviated Lin Feng's pressing concern.

  With a glance, Lin Feng used his knowledge of military tactics to deduce that Liu Kai needed two bottles of inferior and three bottles of superior Qi-restoring pellets. He handed over the medicine for Liu Kai to put away, then casually teased: "You've finally produced your spirit stone; if you hadn't, I would have suspected you were going to abscond with the funds."

  "How could this be? My master's career is on the rise, with a bright future ahead. Becoming an immortal wouldn't be out of reach, and he would become a great figure in history. How could he do something so despicable? But of course, that's assuming Lin Shixiong will continue to support him." The first part was said with confidence and swagger, but the last sentence immediately became fawning.

  Lin Feng smiled and shook his head, saying: "Speak up, I knew you'd be happy to take advantage of my good mood. What's on your mind, spit it out." Although he didn't show it on his face, Lin Feng was actually very happy for Liu Kai. In the past, Liu Kai had been struggling to make ends meet and couldn't even afford a decent amount of spiritual energy, let alone a smile. But since meeting Lin Feng, who had helped him greatly, Liu Kai's spiritual energy had increased dramatically, and he now used high-quality pills that were worth eight ling stones each. For a loose cultivator like him, having a steady supply of pills was crucial to making progress, so his mood had also improved, and smiles had become more frequent.

  "This is all thanks to Lin's excellent elixir, now my small shop has some repeat customers, most of whom come for Lin's elixir. I think this trend will make the elixir the main product of my shop soon. So... I hope Lin can refine more elixirs and guarantee my supply! And you'll have a share in it too!" Liu Kai had heard that Lin Feng didn't have many elixirs left, and hadn't seen him refining any recently, so he was getting anxious. His shop was just starting to take off, and if the elixir supply were to be cut off now, it would be disastrous for him.

  Lin Feng shook his head and smiled again, Liu Kai was indeed a business material, in just over half a month, he had become an old slicker in the business world. For the sake of the elixir, he pretended to be pitiful, flattered, tempted with benefits, and spoke with such emotion and expression that it was hard for people to refuse him.

  "A bottle for twenty-five days, is that enough?" Lin Feng glanced at Liu Kai with a look of disdain, twenty-five bottles was equivalent to two hundred and fifty pellets, if he were to refine them with all his might, it would only be a matter of a few days.

  "Thirty bottles, and it may even increase in the future?" Liu Kai's face was full of expectation. He had never asked Lin Feng how many furnaces he could refine in a day, nor did he know if he should ask. But based on his judgment, with Lin Feng's cultivation level, he could refine at most five furnaces a day. Excluding the proportion of waste pills, he could get more than twenty pills a day. Thirty bottles would take over half a month. This was almost Lin Feng's limit, because no pill master could refine pills every day.

  "Thirty is just thirty." Lin Feng certainly wouldn't tell him that he was now effortlessly refining ten furnaces of pills every day, with a success rate that was frighteningly high, and three hundred pills were no big deal.

  Liu Kai was overjoyed after getting the promise, although he had some doubts in his heart. However, he wisely didn't ask more questions. Friends should maintain a distance, asking too much might make them not even friends anymore. In the end, Lin Feng took out dozens of spirit stones to treat Liu Kai to a big meal, to show his excitement for getting profit for the first time. In the end, everyone was happy and satisfied, but after Liu Kai left, Lin Feng suddenly realized that this kid always came at mealtimes, what a coincidence!