Thinking of this, the appreciation in Shen Ye's eyes as he looked at Lu Xuan grew thicker and thicker.
The difficulty of cultivating sword grass was not on the same level as other Spirit Plants of the same grade. Two conditions had to be met.
First, a sword cultivator with profound attainments in a certain Sword Art had to use sword qi day and night to stimulate and nourish the sword grass.
Finding a sword cultivator was not hard, but someone who was both proficient in the sword path and skilled at cultivating Spirit Plants was one in ten thousand.
The loss rate when cultivating sword grass was much higher than with other Spirit Plants. If the sword qi was too light, too little, the sword grass could not grow normally; if the sword qi was too heavy, too much, it might damage the sword grass plant.
Moreover, the amount and intensity of sword qi required by sword grass changed at every stage. Being able to cultivate it to maturity normally was already not bad. To obtain sword grass of excellent quality required extremely good luck.
As for improving and raising the grade of sword grass in one go, that could be called a monstrous act.
"I heard Xia Chen mention Junior Brother Lu before in Si Nong Hall, and learned that Junior Brother has extraordinary talent on the path of Spirit Plants."
"I didn't expect that your talent in the sword path would be no less impressive, not inferior to the other sword-path geniuses in the sect."
Shen Ye sighed with emotion.
"...?"
Lu Xuan fell silent for a moment. *I've become a sword-path genius? Mm, I cultivate sword grass, and the sword grass brings sword technique experience packs. Cut out the middleman, and in a certain sense, I