Beneath Dark Night City.
In the dark, icy Medicine Garden.
Jiang Ping An walked up to a dark green Dark Night Divine Flower growing in the silt.
The Dark Night Divine Flower was only about three inches tall. To grow to ten inches, it would need at least another two hundred thousand years.
Two hundred thousand years was a long stretch of time, even for gods with endless lifespans.
Jiang Ping An sat before the Dark Night Divine Flower and slowly raised a finger.
His finger swept through the water, leaving trails of golden light behind. Those golden trails formed divine runes that gave off mysterious ripples of power.
What he was drawing now were the divine runes of the Heaven Mending Art.
What he intended to do was strengthen the Dark Night Divine Flower before him.
The Heaven Mending Art could not only strengthen divine artifacts and pills, but also the human body and growing medicinal herbs.
He had previously discovered by chance that he could strengthen growing medicinal herbs, accelerating their growth.
Unlike strengthening other things, strengthening a growing herb was not simply a matter of raising its grade.
As for how many times it needed to be strengthened before the Dark Night Divine Flower bloomed, he did not know.
That required testing.
However, he was certain that the Dark Night Divine Flower would bloom before the sixth strengthening!
The radiance of the Heaven Mending Art flickered through the dark seawater.
Before long, a six-pointed star Curse Seal pattern enveloped the Dark Night Divine Flower.
"Buzz!"
Accompanied by a powerful surge of energy, mysterious power poured into the Dark Night Divine Flower.
The previously lifeless Dark Night Divine Flower suddenly released a brilliant green glow and rapidly grew taller.
In only a short while, it had grown another