novelraw Chapter 104 : Celestial Nurturing Soil
Chapter 104 : Celestial Nurturing Soil
Since entering the middle layer of the secret realm, the three had achieved the dubious honor of being robbed five times in four days. They discovered that collecting tokens through hard work wasn't as efficient as robbing others, so they immediately began to retaliate against society, randomly selecting lucky passersby, stripping them of their clothes, and running away.
Soon, rumors spread throughout the secret realm about three perverted clothing thieves. Everyone became wary, though of course, the three culprits were unaware of this as they had already advanced to the next layer, the innermost part of the secret realm.
Compared to the resource-poor outer and middle layers, the inner layer was vastly different in terms of resources.
Every few steps, one could see a field of celestial herbs.
Perhaps due to the secret realm being closed for a long time, the celestial herbs here were quite ancient, casually ranging from thousands of years old, with even some rare herbs over ten thousand years old.
"This soil... seems somewhat mysterious," Mu Chihuai, always attentive to detail, crouched down and rubbed some soil between his fingers. He was surprised to find that the soil contained extremely abundant spiritual energy.
After some thought, he casually took out a few seeds from his storage ring and tossed them into the soil.
What happened next left all three of them dumbfounded.
The seeds germinated and grew at a visible speed. The young man curved his lips into a smile, "Indeed, it has a growth-accelerating effect!"
"It's Celestial Nurturing Soil," Chu Sang's eyes lit up. She had seen this celestial treasure mentioned in books about heavenly and earthly spiritual treasures. This was truly a rare and precious find.
Legend had it that Celestial Nurturing Soil was formed when a wisp of primordial chaos energy from the birth of heaven and earth was infused into soil, which then absorbed the essence of the sun and moon. The soil contained dense spiritual energy accumulated over tens of thousands of years and could accelerate the growth of spiritual plants.
By sowing spiritual plant seeds in the Celestial Nurturing Soil, one could cultivate a large number of hundred or thousand-year-old spiritual plants in just a few short years, or even priceless ten-thousand-year-old spiritual plants.
The effect of the Celestial Nurturing Soil was somewhat similar to her Wood Essence Spirit, but in fact, they worked in completely different directions.
The [Celestial Nurturing Soil] was a true earth-attribute spiritual treasure, accelerating plant growth through spiritual soil.
The [Wood Essence Spirit], on the other hand, was a wood-attribute spiritual treasure. It contained extremely pure wood-attribute power and helped spiritual plants grow through its own wood spiritual energy.
One was earth, the other wood.
Chu Sang suddenly had an idea: could the Celestial Nurturing Soil help her Wood Essence Spirit cultivate?
Hmm, not a bad idea.
She would try it when they got back!
"Little Junior Sister, let me help you." Taking away such a large patch of Celestial Nurturing Soil wouldn't be easy, but fortunately, Tantai Ming had an earth spirit root. He flipped his palm, and all the nurturing soil and spiritual plants were collected into his storage ring. He dusted off his hands.
Over the next few days, the three continued to pick up treasures while traveling.
"Have you noticed that the demon beasts here have also become more numerous?" Mu Chihuai stopped and spoke to the two in front of him.
The inner layer of the secret realm indeed had many spiritual treasures and resources, but correspondingly, there were also more and more demon beasts, each quite powerful. Golden Core stage demon beasts were everywhere, and there were even quite a few Nascent Soul stage demon beasts, which were rare even in large secret realms.
In the short few days since they entered the inner layer of the secret realm, they had encountered Nascent Soul stage demon beasts no less than three times, and had even seen quite a few capable cultivators fall prey to these beasts.
Looking at it this way, those so-called heavenly and earthly spiritual treasures seemed more like bait to lure human cultivators in.
"Be careful, I also feel something's not quite right," Tantai Ming said, holding his sword in front to guard them.
Just as the three were talking, the ground suddenly shook violently. Countless birds and beasts flew up from the forest in alarm. An enormous shadow nearly blotted out the sky, its thick and terrifying pressure making it almost impossible to breathe.