The Extreme Spirit Planter Inheritance

On the second floor, there were also sect disciples standing guard.

Besides guarding the Inheritance Hall, these disciples were also responsible for collecting spirit stones and making imprints of inheritances for sect disciples who wanted to obtain them.

Zhang Wan stepped forward and asked where the Spirit Planter inheritance was. As it happened, it was on the second floor.

Zhang Wan went looking for it.

He found the inheritance easily enough, but when he saw an entire shelf of jade slips, he had a bad feeling.

Every one of these jade slips was marked as a Spirit Planter inheritance. But there was no way fifteen low-grade spirit stones could redeem all of them, right?

He stepped forward and picked up a jade slip, then swept over them one by one with his spiritual sense.

He could only see a portion of the contents, all of it an introduction to the inheritance within.

It took Zhang Wan quite a while to look through every jade slip on the shelf.

"I see. Even inheritances for cultivating Postnatal low-grade spirit plants are divided into different schools, each with completely different cultivation methods."

"Besides the differences in cultivation methods, there are also countless kinds of Postnatal low-grade spirit plants. Each jade slip here records only an extremely small portion of them."

Even so, judging by the introductions visible in the jade slips, the writing in each one numbered no fewer than a million words. The longer ones could even reach four or five million.

Not to mention mastering the cultivation methods contained in the inheritances, merely memorizing the characteristics and cultivation methods of the Postnatal low-grade spirit plants recorded within was already a considerable challenge.

"Just reading through them once will take quite a while. Memorizing them all tests not only one's memory, but also one's patience." Zhang Wan clicked his tongue, having reached a conclusion.

After breaking through to the Postnatal realm, his memory had improved somewhat, but memorizing all of this would still take a great deal of time and energy.

It was impossible for him to devote all his energy to this.

Thoroughly memorizing the knowledge in the inheritance could only be done gradually.

At the beginning, it would be enough to master the cultivation methods recorded in the inheritance, along with the characteristics and cultivation methods of common Postnatal low-grade spirit plants.

As for completely mastering the cultivation methods of every Postnatal low-grade spirit plant, that was something he could only dream about. It was unrealistic.

There were countless spirit plants in the world, and the varieties of Postnatal low-grade spirit plants were too numerous to count.

Not to mention that the Jade Bone Sect had not even managed to collect information on every spirit plant. Zhang Wan might not even be able to familiarize himself with all the spirit plants recorded in this single shelf of jade slips.

He shook his head, reined in his wandering thoughts, and began considering which school of Spirit Planter inheritance to choose.

"Some inheritances require cultivating a cultivation method of the corresponding attribute. Otherwise, their cultivation techniques will be far less effective when used."

"The Bronze Iron Body cultivation method has no special attribute, so I don't have to worry about conflicting attributes. But it also has no support from a matching attribute."

"It would be best to choose a Spirit Planter inheritance that doesn't require attribute coordination and has the broadest applicability."

After searching for a while, Zhang Wan found three inheritances that met his requirements.

They were the Five Elements Spirit Planter, the Symbiotic Spirit Planter, and the Extreme Spirit Planter.

The Five Elements Spirit Planter was just like Five Elements Cultivation: anyone could practice it, and it had no special requirements. It suited the general public. However, correspondingly, it had no distinctive features, and its spirit-plant cultivation methods belonged to the steady and methodical school.

The Symbiotic Spirit Planter was rather marvelous. It contained a Symbiotic Art that could enhance a Spirit Planter's sensitivity to spirit plants, allowing them to sense a spirit plant's growth condition in an instant and then cultivate it accordingly, doubling cultivation efficiency.

The Extreme Spirit Planter took a more unorthodox path, pursuing the ripening of spirit plants at the fastest speed possible within the shortest time. Cultivating spirit plants this way consumed an enormous amount of earth power and spiritual energy, and the spirit plants produced would also lose the possibility of advancing further.

Normally, the longer spirit plants were cultivated, the more their grade and medicinal power could steadily improve. But the Extreme Cultivation Method consumed a spirit plant's potential. While ripening it, it also cut off the possibility of the spirit plant continuing to advance.

Each of the three Spirit Planter schools had its own strengths and weaknesses. Zhang Wan wanted all of them, but unfortunately, his wealth did not allow him to embrace them all.

After some thought, Zhang Wan chose the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance.

Compared with the steady and methodical Symbiotic Art and Five Elements Spirit Planter inheritance, Zhang Wan was more curious about the cultivation methods of the Extreme Spirit Planter.

Although ripening spirit plants had many drawbacks, it allowed him to obtain the greatest number of spirit plants in the shortest time, making it most suitable for accumulating cultivation resources in the early stages.

At the same time, it was a suitable excuse that could conceal the fact that he used experience points to increase his cultivation.

Others would attribute his increase in cultivation to the abundant cultivation resources he had obtained through the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance.

With this inheritance in hand, he could slightly loosen his restrictions and use more experience points to improve his cultivation realm.

Having made his choice, Zhang Wan took the jade slip inheritance, found the guard disciple on the second floor, and paid fifteen low-grade spirit stones. The guard disciple then took out a formation plate.

The formation plate was covered in densely packed runes. These runes formed two circles, with chains of runes linking them together.

The guard disciple placed the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance inside one of the rune circles, then brought over a blank jade slip and placed it in the other.

He then activated the formation on the formation plate.

Immediately, the runes on the circles crawled onto the two jade slips. The jade slip containing the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance shone brightly as its contents flowed continuously through the rune chains and were copied onto the blank jade slip.

After lasting for roughly a hundred breaths, the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance had been copied in its entirety.

Once the inheritance had been copied, the guard disciple took out a round mirror and had Zhang Wan face it and swear that he would not privately pass the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance on to anyone else.

The round mirror's aura was powerful, making Zhang Wan feel a wave of pressure.

The aura it gave off made Zhang Wan suspect that it was a Postnatal-grade magical artifact.

If he made an oath before such a magical artifact, it would be difficult for him to withstand the backlash from the round mirror should he break it, given his cultivation.

Zhang Wan naturally did not want to swear an oath. He very much hoped he could make a verbal oath, as he had when he obtained the first six Postnatal levels of the Bronze Iron Art.

Unfortunately, the mountain gate's Inheritance Hall was different from the academy.

The rules here were stricter than those of the academy.

Fortunately, Zhang Wan had no urgent need to pass the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance on to others.

As for his second younger sister and third younger brother, if they wanted to take up the Spirit Planter profession in the future, they could come to the mountain gate and obtain an inheritance themselves.

Moreover, Zhang Wan Wan had asked in detail. He simply could not disclose the special cultivation methods in the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance, while the knowledge related to spirit plants recorded in it could still be brought out for discussion.

This oath did not impose too many harsh requirements.

Facing the round mirror, Zhang Wan made the oath beneath its radiance.

Afterward, the guard disciple handed the copied Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance to Zhang Wan.

After obtaining the inheritance, Zhang Wan did not leave the Inheritance Hall immediately.

He and the disciples who had come with him had requested three days of leave in total, and it was only the first day. There was no need to hurry away.

The others who had come with him were still choosing inheritances as well. Since they had come together, they would naturally return together.

After storing the inheritance in his storage talisman, Zhang Wan simply went to the first floor, where he browsed the sect's collected anecdotes of the Martial World of the Wu Kingdom and biographies of famous experts from the history of the Wu Kingdom.

Although these classics did not record specific cultivation methods or martial techniques, they also contained some insights into martial cultivation left behind by their predecessors.

As he read them carefully and broadened his knowledge, he also gained some benefits in the Martial Dao.