Zhang Wan asked curiously again.
"How many spirit stones would this inheritance sell for outside?"
Xu Mao smiled. "If you sold it to rogue cultivators, the incomplete inheritance in your hands would fetch at least thirty low-grade spirit stones."
At that, Zhang Wan understood. Rogue cultivators were truly suckers.
Carrying the Five Elements Spirit Planter inheritance, Zhang Wan returned to his little courtyard.
He had already gone to inspect the spirit fields, and there were no problems. He could spend the rest of his time comprehending the Five Elements Spirit Planter inheritance in his hands.
His spiritual sense entered the jade slip, and sure enough, much of the spirit-plant knowledge afterward overlapped with the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance.
Only twenty percent of the content recorded the growth habits of entirely new spirit plants.
"No wonder it was so much cheaper than the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance I bought back then," Zhang Wan muttered.
Afterward, Zhang Wan focused his attention on the Five Elements Spirit Planter's unique cultivation method.
It was different from the Symbiotic Art of the Symbiotic Spirit Planter and the two techniques of the Extreme Spirit Planter.
The Five Elements Spirit Planter's unique cultivation method did not contain any special secret arts.
Instead, it consisted of a lengthy "Five Elements Detailed Explanation."
It explained in detail the role of the five elements in cultivating spirit plants, how to mobilize the spiritual qi of the five elements, and some minor tricks for wielding it.
It was very basic martial knowledge, but it was also something Zhang Wan had never studied before.
"So that's how it is. Once I comprehend this portion of the Five Elements Detailed Explanation, I'll at least be able to mobilize the spiritual qi of the five elements to cultivate spirit plants."
"If my comprehension is profound enough, I can even use this as a basis to comprehend some five-element secret arts or martial skills."
"Of course, the latter is extremely difficult. Ordinary martial artists simply can't do it."
After hurriedly looking through the inheritance in his hands, Zhang Wan opened the panel. As expected, the Five Elements Detailed Explanation had already appeared on it.
Host: Zhang Wan (fourteen years old) Realm: Third Level Postnatal (7.9/120) Realm Bottleneck: None Cultivation Techniques and Martial Skills: Bronze Iron Body Sixth Level Postnatal Technique (48/114, Third Level Postnatal formula comprehended), Stacked Force Palm (61/155), Bone Piercing Finger (103/103, 20/46), Nine Step Movement Technique (60/127), Incomplete Vitality Catalysis Technique (89/89, 11/11)+, Incomplete Extreme Growth Technique (83/83, 10/10)+, Spirit-plant Knowledge (20/27), Incomplete Five Elements Detailed Explanation (0/21), Incomplete Fire Talisman Inheritance (891/891) Available Experience Points:
Zhang Wan noticed that his original spirit-plant knowledge had changed, from "Spirit-plant Knowledge (20/20)" to "Spirit-plant Knowledge (20/27)," while the plus sign afterward had vanished.
"It seems that the new spirit-plant knowledge from the Five Elements Spirit Planter has also been incorporated into it. Since I haven't comprehended that portion of the knowledge yet, the plus sign representing deduction has disappeared."
Zhang Wan committed this matter to memory. His understanding of the Experience Point System had grown through changes like this, bit by bit.
His experience points had also broken through the ten-thousand mark again after nearly a year, leaving Zhang Wan feeling refreshed.
"But the Incomplete Five Elements Detailed Explanation only needs twenty-one experience points?"
"That's far too great a difference from the experience points required for the Extreme Spirit Planter's two techniques."
"Are those two techniques truly that difficult, or did the required experience points plummet because there are no specific secret arts or martial skills?"
Zhang Wan felt that either possibility was plausible.
But no matter which it was, the Extreme Spirit Planter was ultimately rather special.
Looking at the twenty-one experience points, Zhang Wan directly filled it to the limit!
In an instant, a massive amount of insight into the Five Elements Detailed Explanation surged into his mind and was digested and absorbed by Zhang Wan.
In the blink of an eye, he had thoroughly comprehended the Five Elements Detailed Explanation.
"Hmm. Although it doesn't require many experience points, the Five Elements Spirit Planter does indeed have its own unique advantages."
"The cultivation method is steady and well-balanced, making it suitable for all martial artists to learn and master."
"The spirit plants cultivated are also of decent quality, though it takes a great deal of cultivation time for them to mature."
On the panel, Incomplete Five Elements Detailed Explanation (0/21) had also changed into "Incomplete Five Elements Detailed Explanation (21/21)+."
However, the plus sign that appeared this time gave Zhang Wan a different feeling.
With a thought, he clicked the plus sign, and a line of explanatory text appeared.
"Experience points may be consumed to deduce the subsequent content, or to deduce related five-element secret arts or five-element martial skills."
"Hiss! That's impressive!"
Zhang Wan had only just obtained the inheritance and said that it contained no corresponding secret arts or martial skills, and the system had immediately declared that it could deduce related secret arts or martial skills.
Amazing!
After giving the system a like, Zhang Wan directly closed the panel.
Deduction was out of the question. It had taken him so long to get his experience points back above ten thousand, so he couldn't casually spend them on this.
Not to mention that the deduction function consumed experience points at an alarming rate, but even the five-element secret arts and martial skills were not something he urgently needed right now.
Whether he had them or not was of little use to him at present.
He could talk about it later, when he had a need.
Having settled one matter weighing on his mind, Zhang Wan was in excellent spirits.
Over the next few days, he was full of energy as he tended to the Water Fragrance Rice in the spirit fields.
As it happened, Water Fragrance Rice was water-attributed spirit rice, making it perfectly suited to being cultivated with the Five Elements Spirit Planter method.
He mobilized the spiritual qi of the five elements and gathered it across these two mu of spirit fields. The Water Fragrance Rice growing there looked even more vigorous.
But before Zhang Wan could happily plant for a few days,
Xu Mao called him over and said that the Fourth Branch had prepared an examination paper and wanted him to come take it.
Zhang Wan was completely puzzled.
Hadn't he already passed the examination to enter the Spirit Planter Hall? Why was there another test?
He did not stand on ceremony and directly asked Xu Mao. After several encounters, the two could be considered acquainted.
Xu Mao did not explain. He merely hinted to Zhang Wan that this was a good thing and told him to give it his all. If he did well on the paper, there would be plenty of benefits for him.
"A good thing? Damn cryptic bastard!"
Zhang Wan grumbled, but seeing that Xu Mao refused to explain, he did not ask further. Still, his heart remained full of doubts.
Taking the examination paper, Zhang Wan discovered that the questions consisted of two parts.
One part concerned spirit plants, ranging from basic spirit-plant knowledge to how to resolve certain spirit-plant diseases, and then to judging the diseases of spirit plants from the complicated and tangled descriptions in the questions.
There were all kinds of questions.
Some of the material involved exceptionally profound knowledge. Unless one had worked as a Spirit Planter for many years or had thoroughly mastered the spirit-plant inheritance for cultivating Postnatal low-grade spirit plants, there was no way to provide the correct answers.
The other part concerned martial knowledge and cultivation common sense, involving certain cultivation problems and insights into cultivation.
"This examination paper is interesting."
"Is it meant to assess my accumulated knowledge in martial arts and spirit planting through a written test?"
"But what is it for?"
"To analyze my talent in these two areas?"
Zhang Wan was not stupid. Combining this with Xu Mao's words, he guessed that the Dust Bone Branch might want to cultivate him, but before doing so, they wanted to confirm his aptitude once more.
"It really is a good thing," Zhang Wan muttered.
Just as he had in the academy, what he wanted was to develop quietly and steadily. But he did not want to keep such a low profile that people treated him like a pig. He wanted the kind of position where he would not attract excessive attention, yet few people would dare come looking for trouble with him.
To achieve that, revealing an appropriate amount of his strength was necessary.
And sects were more complicated than academies, with even more powerful experts. Under such circumstances, finding himself a backer was not a bad idea.
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