"Spiritual Rain Technique originally used spiritual qi to manifest rain, for irrigating spiritual plants. This enhanced version of Spiritual Rain, I'll call Spiritual Dew, so it can be distinguished from ordinary Spiritual Rain.
First, I'll fill this bottle with Spiritual Dew, then check in a few days whether the spiritual qi is still abundant."
For the rest of the day, Xu Chunniang kept collecting Spiritual Dew. It took roughly two days before she could barely fill an entire bottle.
After obtaining a bottle of Spiritual Dew, Xu Chunniang put it back into her Storage Bag and stopped worrying about it. She took out another Jade Slip—the Spring Growth Technique.
"After three months, I've finally mastered the Spiritual Rain Technique. It's time to learn the Spring Growth Technique."
The Spring Growth Technique was a wood-element spell that could transform the spiritual qi within one's body into wood-attributed spiritual qi, stimulating spiritual plants to grow and shortening their growth cycle.
Xu Chunniang had originally thought that, since the purity of her wood spiritual root was far inferior to her Water Spiritual Root, her progress in learning the Spring Growth Technique would surely be slower than with the Spiritual Rain Technique. Yet to her surprise, she successfully cast the Spring Growth Technique after only two attempts.
There were no plants inside the cave, so in order to practice the Spring Growth Technique, she left the cave and found a patch of woodland at random.
The target she chose to practice on was merely an inconspicuous weed by the roadside. Yet as the Spring Growth Technique circulated, the weed began growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, shooting up a full half inch.
Even Xu Chunniang was startled by the weed's astonishing growth. Was the Spring Growth Technique really this powerful?
But she quickly understood the key to it. The Spring Growth Technique was originally meant to act on spiritual plants, but she had none and could only use ordinary plants in their place.
Under the forced stimulation of spiritual qi, that weed simply could not withstand so much qi and had been forcibly driven to grow taller.
If she used the Spring Growth Technique on a spiritual plant, the effect would definitely not be so obvious.
Once she understood this, Xu Chunniang stopped dwelling on it and continued practicing the Spring Growth Technique.
Perhaps because she had benefited from her use and control of the Spiritual Rain Technique, her practice of the Spring Growth Technique went exceptionally smoothly. In just one week, Xu Chunniang could cast it without a second thought.
The weeds she stimulated would abruptly shoot up a little. And that was after she had reduced the spiritual qi used for the Spring Growth Technique to one-tenth.
The Spring Growth Technique was unlike the Spiritual Rain Technique, whose amount of spiritual power was fixed and could only be reduced, never increased.
A spell like the Spring Growth Technique, which acted on a single spiritual plant, could even drain all the caster's spiritual power at once.
In order to practice the Spring Growth Technique more times, Xu Chunniang kept the spiritual qi she drew upon for each casting to the absolute minimum.
That was also why she had mastered the Spring Growth Technique after practicing for only a week—the foundation laid by such extensive practice was exceptionally solid.
After casting the Spring Growth Technique as easily as moving an arm or a finger, Xu Chunniang was still not satisfied. Just as she had done when practicing the Spiritual Rain Technique, she began pondering other ways to cast the Spring Growth Technique.
"The Spiritual Rain Technique releases Spiritual Rain across a certain area, while the Spring Growth Technique affects a single spiritual plant."
Xu Chunniang compared the two spells. "I can alter the range and quantity of the Spiritual Rain Technique, letting Spiritual Rain affect a single spiritual plant. Then the other way around, can I make the Spring Growth Technique affect spiritual plants across a wide area?"
The more Xu Chunniang thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. She could proceed step by step as she had when controlling the Spiritual Rain Technique—first test whether the Spring Growth Technique could affect two spiritual plants at once, and if it could, slowly increase their number.
"But before that, I have something else to do."
Xu Chunniang took a pill bottle from her Storage Bag. It was the one filled with Spiritual Dew.
When she gently opened the bottle, Xu Chunniang discovered with delight that the liquid inside still contained incomparably abundant spiritual qi!
Compared with seven days ago, the Spiritual Dew in the bottle contained somewhat less spiritual qi—roughly one-quarter less—but three-quarters of it still remained!
Though only three-quarters remained, the spiritual qi in that small bottle of Spiritual Dew was still extremely plentiful.
Xu Chunniang estimated that she had used Spiritual Qi Manifests as Rain a full twenty times to fill this bottle. Even after losing one-quarter, it still held the equivalent of fifteen castings' worth of spiritual qi!
With her current cultivation, she could cast the Spiritual Rain Technique only three times in total. In other words, the spiritual qi in this tiny pill bottle was nearly five times the amount of all the spiritual qi in her body!
"Unfortunately, this spiritual qi can only be preserved for at most a month..."
Xu Chunniang shook her head, a trace of regret flashing through her eyes.
Who knew how long it would take before she became a qualified Spiritual Plant Cultivator and could come into contact with spiritual plants? It seemed this Spiritual Dew was still fated to go to waste.
She stretched out her hand and gently poured the spiritual liquid onto the ground. The spiritual qi in the surrounding area visibly intensified.
More than seventy percent of the spiritual qi scattered into the surroundings, while less than thirty percent was inadvertently absorbed by the nearby vegetation.
The vegetation that absorbed some of the spiritual qi did not grow taller like plants subjected to the Spring Growth Technique. Its branches and leaves merely looked much lusher and greener.
Just as she had expected, the collected Spiritual Dew could still affect plants.
It was only that these plants were not spiritual plants, and the amount of spiritual qi they could absorb was limited.
Xu Chunniang's heart stirred. Since the spiritual qi in this Spiritual Dew could be absorbed by plants, then... could it be useful for people as well?
Most of the Spiritual Dew in the bottle had already been poured out, leaving only a shallow layer at the bottom. Xu Chunniang gripped the bottle tightly and cautiously sprinkled some Spiritual Dew over herself.
Yet the spiritual qi in the Spiritual Dew that fell onto her body dispersed at a fair pace. Before long, it had scattered completely, without even a trace left behind.
Seeing this, Xu Chunniang ground her teeth in frustration.
She had painstakingly transformed her spiritual power into this Spiritual Dew. Those plants outside could absorb a little of it, while she herself could not use even the smallest bit.
Yet Xu Chunniang had forgotten that this Spiritual Dew had evolved from the Spiritual Rain of the Spiritual Rain Technique. That Spiritual Rain had originally been used to water spiritual plants and increase their spiritual qi—how could it possibly be used to "water" people?
But in her heartache and annoyance, she had completely forgotten that point.
"I refuse to believe that I can't use Spiritual Dew that I refined myself!" Xu Chunniang gritted her teeth and made a bold attempt.
She raised her hand and actually drank the last few drops of Spiritual Dew in the bottle!
Xu Chunniang wanted to see where the spiritual qi could run after she drank it into her stomach!
As the Spiritual Dew entered her body, Xu Chunniang felt her internal spiritual qi become exceptionally full. But after a moment, that spiritual qi began dispersing irregularly in all directions...
Xu Chunniang hurriedly put away the pill bottle, sat down cross-legged, and began absorbing the spiritual qi within her body. It took her quite a while to absorb it all.
"I absorbed more than half, around two-thirds. The rest dispersed...
This spiritual qi is no different from the qi I absorb during normal cultivation. That means I can use Spiritual Dew to replenish spiritual qi, or even cultivate with it!"
Xu Chunniang was overjoyed. She had actually done it—she had truly found a way to absorb Spiritual Dew!
Cultivating with this Spiritual Dew rich in spiritual qi might not compare to cultivating directly with spirit stones, but it was countless times faster than ordinary meditation and qi absorption!
But in the next instant, the joy vanished from her face, replaced by an expression of extreme heartache and regret.
Her Spiritual Dew!
She had spent two whole days collecting an entire bottle of Spiritual Dew, and she had actually poured every last drop away!
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