The Strength of a Foundation-Building Thorny Vine
Once everything had calmed down, Ling Pengyun opened his eyes and felt a surge of secret joy.
"While the cultivation of Spirit Plant may not be as profitable as the cultivation of Spirit Stone, my Natal Spirit Plant are of great help to my cultivation."
"If it weren't for this vine's help, I'm afraid it would have taken me at least five to ten more years to break through to the Fourth Layer Foundation Establishment."
"Now that the Thorn Vine have reached the Foundation Establishment, and I have also entered the second-tier Spirit Planter, it is time to start looking for a second Natal Spirit Plant."
"If I have two Natal Spirit Plant to help me in the future, my cultivation will definitely improve even faster."
Ling Pengyun had already comprehended the Fourth Layer of the Ripening Technique for Spirit Plant a few years ago, and now the Thorn Vine has broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
With both of these factors in place, Ling Pengyun's Spirit Plant grade was also raised to the second tier.
A second-tier Spirit Planter can refine another Spirit Plant and transform it into their own Natal Spirit Plant.
Another second-tier Spirit Planter of the Ling Clan Ling Clan, Ling Yunhong, the clan Clan Head, has two kinds of Natal Spirit Plant.
As his thoughts returned, Ling Pengyun summoned the Thorn Vine, which had been weakened by the excessive consumption of Yi Wood Essence during the Spiritual Qi feedback.
"Thorns."
"Armor Transformation."
The Thorn Vine moved, transforming into countless roots.
The roots rapidly grew, transforming into vines as thick as thighs, which wrapped around Ling Pengyun's body, forming a set of thorny Wood Armor on Ling Pengyun body.
Once the Wood Armor was complete, Ling Pengyun waved his hand and patted the Storage Bag at his waist, summoning the Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords from it. He then commanded the two flying swords to bombard his own Wood Armor.
"Boom! Boom!"
Two muffled sounds rang out.
The two Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords failed to break the Wood Armor formed by the Thorn Vine; they only blasted two thumb-sized notches into the Wood Armor.
Moreover, the two small gaps were repaired by the Thorn Vine using their spiritual power before half a breath had passed.
Seeing this, Ling Pengyun's expression brightened with joy.
It should be noted that he used a full 50% of his spiritual power to unleash the Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords on the Wood Armor formed from Thorn Vine.
"Judging from this, the defensive power of this set of Wood Armor made of Thorn Vine is probably no weaker than that of an ordinary Second Rank Low Grade defensive magic Law Artifact."
"If this vine consolidates its cultivation, or even breaks through to the second or third level of Foundation Establishment, the defensive power of the Wood Armor formed by this vine will probably become even stronger."
"With this vine by my side, I have another way to save my life."
"Judging from the strength of this vine, if we rely on the vines that this vine transforms into to trap enemies, it should be quite effective. It should be no problem to trap Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Demon Beast for two or three breaths."
Although two or three breaths is a short time, it is enough to determine the winner in a battle between cultivators.
Considering that the Thorn Vine had consumed a lot of the Yi Wood Essence, Ling Pengyun did not try to test the defensive power of the Wood Armor formed by the thorns any further. Instead, he removed the Wood Armor, allowing the Thorn Vine to revert to the size of a thumb and stored them in his Dantian to be nourished with spiritual energy.
To avoid damaging the roots of the Thorn Vine if the process is prolonged.
Then, Ling Pengyun stood up and watered the Spirit Plant planted in the thirty-five acres of Spirit Field inside the Snake Cave with a wave of Spirit Rain, and then cast a Ripening Technique on those Spirit Plant.
With the blessing of these two Spirit Plant Secret Method, the Spirit Plant planted in the thirty-five acres of Spirit Field here have become even more beautiful.
Ling Pengyun surveyed the Spirit Plant within the thirty-five acres of Spirit Field in front of him, a strange light flashing in his eyes.
"I have now become a second-tier Spirit Planter. With the Ripening Technique alone, I can accelerate the growth of Spirit Plant below the Second Rank Low Grade by 120%. If I also have the blessing of the Cloud Rain Technique, it will be 130%."
"With this speed boost, the Spirit Plant planted in these thirty-five acres of Spirit Field can mature in less than half the time."
"The Yang Clan didn't consider this point; they only require me to hand over the local Spirit Plant Spirit Plant to their normal maturity time."
"I can take advantage of this loophole to grow a batch of Spirit Plant Spirit Plant myself after they mature inside the Snake Cave, sell them to the Lineage, and have the Lineage refine them into pills for sale."
"This move will allow me to gain more income and quickly gather enough Spirit Stone to purchase Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron, while also helping the Lineage. It's a win-win situation."
"Just as the Third Grandfather said, the higher the grade of a Spirit Plant, the stronger it is."
Suppressing his joy, Ling Pengyun sat down cross-legged again, absorbing the Spiritual Qi within the Snake Cave to consolidate his newly broken-through cultivation.
After consolidating his cultivation, Ling Pengyun tried cultivating for a few days. He found that even with the help of the Spirit Gathering Pill and the Spirit Gathering Formation, his cultivation speed was still extremely slow, so he stopped cultivating.
Instead, he took out a large pile of Weapon Refinement Materials and began to refine magical Law Artifact.
During the Demon Beast Uprising, the Lineage acquired a large number of Qi Training Stage Demon Beast corpses from clansmen stationed at various Spirit Vein within the Lineage's territory.
These Demon Beast corpses all contained a large quantity of spiritual materials suitable for refining weapons.
Ling Pengyun was originally Artifact Refiner trained by his Lineage. Back when the Demon Beast Uprising occurred, he accepted the Lineage's commission to refine the Demon Beast materials obtained by the Lineage into magical Law Artifact.
He can earn five, ten, and fifteen Contribution Points respectively for crafting a first-tier low-grade, medium-grade, and high-grade Law Artifact.
The low yield is also due to the fact that many of the materials used in this batch of Weapon Refinement Materials are Law Artifact styles that Ling Pengyun has never touched before, so the success rate may be extremely low.
It was also because of the low success rate of refining magical Law Artifact that the Lineage reduced Ling Pengyun's remuneration for refining artifacts.
However, Ling Pengyun did not seem to care about this.
He still has thousands of useless Contribution Points in his account; having more or fewer Contribution Points Contribution Points little difference.
The reason I accepted the Lineage's weapon-refining commission was because weapon-refining requires not only talent but also a lot of practice.
For more than a month afterward.
Aside from tending to the Spirit Plant in the Snake Cave, Ling Pengyun spends all his time continuously refining Demon Beast Law Artifact using materials from demonic beasts.
This frenzied pursuit of weapon forging resulted in Ling Pengyun exhausting all the hundreds of forging materials he possessed within a single month, transforming them into Law Artifact.
Although there were many types of Law Artifact that he was not good at crafting, with the help of his powerful Divine Sense after breaking through to the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment, the success rate of crafting those first-tier magical Law Artifact that he was not good at was about 20%.
As for the success rate of refining this batch of Law Artifact, it reached between 30% and 40%.
Perhaps because of the variety of magical Law Artifact he crafted, his understanding of the crafting process deepened considerably.
In addition, at least 30% of the refining materials provided by the Lineage were for crafting flying swords.
This allowed him to achieve a success rate of about 30% in refining First-Tier Superior-Grade flying Law Artifact, which was just enough to make a profit.
The success rate of refining First Rank Middle Grade flying swords is as high as 50%, while the success rates of the other two types of Law Artifact that I am good at, inner armor and Daoist Law Artifact, are around 30% to 40%.
This matter also filled Ling Pengyun with immense joy.
"With my current skill level in weapon crafting, I can earn Spirit Stone much faster in the future."
"I can also get my hands on the eighty catties of Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron in Brother-in-law Wu Yan's hands as soon as possible, and refine it into my Lifebound Magic Item to help me improve my combat power."
With this in mind, Ling Pengyun was filled with anticipation.
After storing the newly forged flying sword-like magical Law Artifact in his Storage Bag, he closed his eyes and absorbed the Spiritual Qi of the place, replenishing it in his Dantian to restore the Spiritual Qi consumed in forging the artifact today.