Vitality Catalysis Technique, Extreme Growth Technique

On the third day, Zhang Wan woke up early.

He left the small courtyard with some reluctance; the cultivation environment here was far better than at the academy.

But his studies at the academy weren't finished yet.

Moreover, after graduation, he would still need to complete one sect mission each year.

Comparing the two, it was more comfortable to stay at the academy for a few more years.

He took down the wooden plaque hanging on the small courtyard and headed towards the station where the rune carriage had dropped them off.

The entire layout of the Jade Bone Sect's mountain gate was quite interesting.

It was established with a mid-grade spirit vein beneath Nine Qi Mountain as its core.

The whole of Nine Qi Mountain was enveloped by the Jade Bone Sect's mountain protection formation.

Outside the Jade Bone Sect's mountain protection formation, to the north, was the residential area for outer disciples, occupied by densely packed independent houses.

Dozens of wide avenues were laid out between the houses, forming roads, and the rune carriages ran on these roads.

Of course, because the spacing between the independent houses was also large, it allowed rune carriages to pass through, and occasionally rune carriages would travel between the houses.

However, in most cases, rune carriages only traveled on those dozens of main avenues.

To the south of the Jade Bone Sect were sprawling spirit plant gardens, managed by the Spirit Planter Hall.

Other halls, like the Artifact Refining Hall and Pill Refining Hall, also occupied some territory around the Jade Bone Sect, but judging by their distribution, they were actually enclosed within the outer disciple residential area and the spirit plant gardens, and their occupied land could not be compared to those two.

The entire Jade Bone Sect was basically like this, with the mid-grade spirit vein at the core, spreading out in all directions. Not a single piece of land in the four cardinal directions was wasted.

The closer to the mountain gate, the denser the spiritual energy and the more concentrated the various buildings.

Zhang Wan waited for a short time by the road wide enough for eight rune carriages to travel side-by-side. Soon, several fellow disciples arrived.

When the rune carriage from the Beginner Martial Arts Academy arrived, they all boarded and returned to the academy.

The rune carriage was very fast, and by the time they got back to the academy, there was still some time before lunch.

Zhang Wan first went to the miscellaneous affairs office. He spent some silver and obtained several rows of wooden shelves, various sizes of pottery jars, and some farming tools.

The academy's groundskeepers helped move these items to Zhang Wan's small courtyard.

The rows of wooden shelves were placed against the walls of the house, and the pottery jars of various sizes were placed on the shelves. Zhang Wan planned to use these shelves and jars to plant the spirit plant seeds he had purchased.

As for the pseudo spirit plant seeds, they couldn't be planted this way.

He would need to ask the academy for a piece of land to plant them.

His small courtyard couldn't accommodate so many pseudo spirit plants.

After tidying up the courtyard, Zhang Wan first took his second sister and third brother to the exclusive cafeteria for a meal. Afterward, he went to find Vice Dean Xin, one of the three vice deans.

To conduct business within the academy, or to rent the usage rights of land or buildings owned by the academy, Vice Dean Xin's permission was required.

Vice Dean Xin wouldn't interfere with ordinary small businesses run by mortals, but renting land to grow pseudo spirit plants required his approval.

"Although the requirements for growing pseudo spirit plants are not as high as for spirit plants, they still require spiritual energy."

"Areas with denser spiritual energy are better."

Beneath the Beginner Martial Arts Academy, there was a low-grade spirit vein. The areas with the densest spiritual energy from this vein were definitely not available for rent, but growing pseudo spirit plants didn't require such an excellent spiritual energy environment. The edge areas of the region radiated by this low-grade spirit vein would suffice.

Vice Dean Xin didn't make things difficult for Zhang Wan. After confirming that Zhang Wan genuinely wanted to grow pseudo spirit plants and had indeed visited the mountain gate and obtained the Spirit Planter inheritance, he rented an acre of land to Zhang Wan.

The agreement was that forty percent of the yield of the pseudo spirit plants Zhang Wan grew would be paid as rent.

Zhang Wan had no objections to this.

He once again felt the gap between Postnatal cultivators and ordinary mortals.

For ordinary mortals to grow pseudo spirit plants, their entire harvest had to be handed over to the sect, and all they received was the qualification to send their children into the sect's academy for study.

As a Postnatal cultivator of the sect, he would receive sixty percent of the yield!

The difference in treatment between Postnatal cultivators and ordinary mortals was truly enormous.

Of course, this was also because Zhang Wan was an outer disciple of the Jade Bone Sect, which allowed him to receive sixty percent.

If rogue cultivators who were Postnatal cultivators rented spirit land from the Jade Bone Sect, they would have to hand over at least fifty percent, and sometimes sixty to seventy percent!

Sect disciples enjoyed far more benefits within the sect than rogue cultivators.

After renting the spirit land, Zhang Wan didn't start tilling it immediately.

Although he had helped his parents till fields at home, he had spent most of his time at the academy since he was four years old, and his knowledge was limited.

Furthermore, he didn't know how deep to plant the three types of pseudo spirit plants he had bought, nor what the required soil looseness was.

It would be twice as effective to figure these things out before starting.

In the evening, his second sister Zhang Lingshu and third brother Zhang Yan continued their tempering to digest the spirit meals made from the pseudo spirit plants Zhang Wan had given them at noon.

Zhang Wan, meanwhile, was flipping through the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance.

"Besides introducing the habits and cultivation requirements of various spirit plants, this inheritance's main focus is on the 'Vitality Catalysis Technique' and the 'Extreme Growth Technique'."

These two techniques were the essence of the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance.

Mastering these two techniques was essential for extreme cultivation.

Zhang Wan's first priority was to study them.

"As expected, it's only partial inheritance. These two techniques are incomplete and can only be used on pseudo spirit plants and low-grade Postnatal spirit plants," Zhang Wan muttered, though he had no choice but to accept it.

He had now been in the Postnatal realm for over a year.

His understanding of Postnatal cultivation techniques was no longer that of a complete novice.

He could understand parts of the cultivation techniques for these two arts as he read them carefully.

However, fully comprehending them presented some difficulty.

Furthermore, these two techniques were unlike the Stacked Force Palm and Nine Step Movement Technique, which could be mastered after a few practice sessions once understood.

After comprehension, they still required a period of practice to master.

Of course, the difficulty wasn't as extreme as Bone Piercing Finger.

The true challenge with these two techniques lay in whether one could comprehend them at all.

But none of this was a problem for Zhang Wan; he had a cheat!

Host: Zhang Wan (Eleven years old)

Realm: Postnatal First Layer (81/120)

Realm Bottleneck: None

Cultivation Techniques & Martial Skills: Bronze Iron Art Postnatal Sixth Layer (14/114, Postnatal First Layer cultivation technique comprehended), Stacked Force Palm (21/155), Bone Piercing Finger (103/103, 6/46), Nine Step Movement Technique (24/127), Incomplete Vitality Catalysis Technique (0/89, 0/11), Incomplete Extreme Growth Technique (0/83, 0/10)

Available EXP: 8803

"Even the incomplete version costs over eighty EXP. Tsk, no wonder I found it difficult," Zhang Wan marveled.

"If the incomplete version is like this, the complete version likely requires far more EXP than martial skills like Stacked Force Palm, which can be used up to Postnatal Ninth Layer."

Zhang Wan sighed but wasn't surprised.

These kinds of skills were renowned for providing a steady stream of income once mastered, so high difficulty was normal.

Moreover, the path of a Spirit Planter was famously easy to start but hard to master.

Without hesitation, Zhang Wan directly invested eighty-nine EXP into the Vitality Catalysis Technique, maxing out its comprehension.