Chapter 38 Life and death are impermanent, the cave is strange
Cao Xiu was very satisfied with today's trip. Not only did he see the prosperity of Qingyun City, he also got a two-hundred-year-old soul-nurturing grass.
Although he still had some unfinished thoughts as he looked at the market in front of him, the noise he made just now had already attracted the attention of many people.
Especially when the monks saw the valuable soul-nurturing grass in his hand, the way their eyes lit up made him feel nervous.
Although you are not afraid of being robbed in the city, you don't have so many worries when you leave the city.
He doesn't want to be stared at!
So he quickly pulled Chen Shi and left quickly. People were coming and going on the street. Even if someone had some thoughts, it would be hard to chase them directly.
After the two left Fangshi, they walked around in a circle without finding anyone following them, and then returned to the inn.
After chatting with Chen Shi for a while, I listened to this guy nagging for a long time. He was trying to persuade him not to spend money so lavishly in the future. It would cost him hundreds of spiritual stones. How could he have such a deep family fortune for him to squander?
Although Cao Xiu knew that he meant well, he really couldn't bear to hear him continue nagging, so he sent him back early, closed the door and entered the cave.
However, he did not plant the soul-nurturing grass randomly on the hilltop.
The main reason why elixirs like soul-nourishing grass are rare is not that the concentration of spiritual energy in the place where they grow is very high, but that most of these elixirs live in places with strong death energy and absorb negative spiritual energy to grow.
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If someone else had obtained this soul-nourishing grass, they would regret that it was only about two hundred years old, but they would not easily try to plant it again.
This is because regardless of the various sects or aristocratic families, they basically build their bases at places where spiritual veins gather.
Such places are often full of vitality, which is not only beneficial to practice, but also suitable for the survival of most elixirs, but it is not suitable for rare elixirs such as soul-nourishing grass.
But Cao Xiu is different. Although his spiritual power is almost cut off and his spiritual veins have collapsed in his cave world, there is one good thing: there is no shortage of death energy!
Except for the hills at the core of the huge cave world, the rest of the place is completely occupied by death energy.
And this is exactly what the soul-nourishing grass needs!
So Cao Xiu carefully came to the edge of the hill, released the pure yang essence in his body, formed a defense to protect his whole body, and resisted the death energy. At the same time, he quickly dug a hole and planted the soul-nourishing grass.
Although the process was not long, Cao Xiu still felt a little uncomfortable.
It is true that the pure Yang essence in his body is too weak compared to the nearly infinite death energy outside, but after being exposed to it for a moment, nearly half of the essence in his body was consumed.
Fortunately, it has been fully planted.
Then Cao Xiu took a drop of water of life and irrigated it.
He guessed that just like other elixirs that induce birth, he wouldn't see any changes in a short period of time, so he turned around and went to the top of the hill, picked a candle spirit fruit and ate it happily.
This is a fire spirit fruit, which is actually more suitable for monks who practice fire poisoning and other methods.
Because there is a very special fire spirit power in the Zhuling Fruit, if ordinary monks eat too much, they will feel a burning feeling in their hearts.
However, Cao was practicing physical training, and his ability to digest elixirs was so strong that he didn't care about the blazing firepower in the Zhuling Fruit.
After eating the spiritual fruit, Cao Xiu immediately began to practice, refining spiritual power and strengthening his physical body.
Although there are many monks in the world who are wealthier than him, there are certainly not many low-level monks who are as luxurious as him and enjoy spiritual fruits every day.
If it weren't for the "Six Extremes of Holy Demon Art" to be too difficult to practice, and if other monks had used the spiritual fruit and elixir he had eaten, he would have already condensed his energy and started to practice the realm of transcendence.
However, Cao Xiu didn't care at all.
Although the requirements for "Six Extremes of Holy Demon Art" are high, its online requirements are equally high!
Ordinary skills cannot be cultivated to achieve immortality, let alone the unparalleled fighting power in the world after this skill is completed!
When Cao Xiu was refining the spirit fruit to temper his body, he didn't notice that the soul nourishing grass he had planted earlier was changing.
The grass stems that looked like ghost needles trembled slightly, and the roots buried in the ground began to grow and quickly took root. The speed of absorbing the dead energy was surprisingly fast. Soon, a small circle formed around the soul-nurturing grass. Death air vortex.
This spiritual grass is apparently using the vitality of the water of life to continuously absorb the death energy. At this moment, two completely opposite forces check and balance each other, merge with each other, and finally allow the soul-nurturing grass to continue to grow.
The originally low grass stem began to grow taller, and under the influence of the two forces of life and death, its growth rate was far faster than other elixirs cultivated by Cao Xiu with the water of life.
Just a drop of water of life actually made this soul-nurturing grass grow taller.
When Cao Xiu noticed the movement and came to investigate, he couldn't help but feel surprised and happy. He didn't expect such an opportunity.
Since the soul-nourishing grass can grow rapidly by relying on vitality and death energy, Cao Xiu is not in a hurry.
He originally only planned to consume a dozen or twenty drops of the spring of life to promote the soul-nurturing grass to a medicinal age of about five hundred years. However, looking at the current growth rate, with the same amount of water of life, the soul-nurturing grass will be born. It's not much different if it's less than a thousand years old.
This made Cao Xiu greatly moved.
You must know that the five-hundred-year-old soul-nourishing grass and the thousand-year-old soul-nourishing grass are completely different concepts.
Although it takes longer, he doesn't care about it. Compared to a thousand-year soul-nurturing grass, waiting a few more days is nothing.
From then on, Cao Xiu would come in every night and pour a drop of water of life on the soul-nourishing grass.
I have to say that this feeling of seeing the elixir grow rapidly every day is indeed wonderful.
During the day, Cao Xiu would not just take him with him at the inn. After practicing, he and Chen Shi often went out and took a tour of Qingyun City.
Not only to get familiar with this city, but also to collect some elixir seeds.
Qingyun City is a city protected by Daluo Sect, and the number of elixirs that can be found in the four major cities is simply beyond Cao Xiu's imagination.
While he was excited, he also had to feel helpless because of his shallow knowledge.
Because there are so many things he doesn't know in the city.
In view of this, he specially bought a few books that recorded many elixirs and various spiritual materials, and often read them in his spare time, which broadened his horizons a lot.
He found the elixir that suited him based on what was recorded in these books, and he really gained a lot.
However, what Cao Xiu was looking for were mostly elixirs like Zhu Guo that did not take too long to grow.
Because cultivating such elixirs does not require consuming too much water of life.
Otherwise, if he buys back those top-notch elixirs that take thousands or even ten thousand years to mature, he won't be able to afford them.
As for the legendary fairy grass and magic medicine, I can't even think about it.
You can't just consume all the water of life just for a magical elixir, right?
With his current state, ordinary elixirs are enough for him to grow.
Time flies by, and soon the day comes when Daluo Zongguang opens the gate!
But just the day before the mountain gate was opened, when the soul-nurturing grass had been born for nearly half a month and had matured for thousands of years, strange fluctuations came from the depths of the cave.