The moment the Creation Brush touched the talisman paper, all records concerning the Nine-Turn Starry Grass surfaced in Xu Changqing's mind at once.
Nine-Turn Starry Grass, a Grade-Seven Spirit Plant.
This grass grew nine leaves, each corresponding to the power of a layer of heavenly stars.
But this was not correspondence in the ordinary sense. Each leaf of the Nine-Turn Starry Grass could absorb only the starlight of a single star.
Nine leaves corresponded to nine different stars.
Yet these nine stars were not fixed. From the moment the seed broke through the soil, the spirit plant would sense the stars of the heavens on its own and choose the nine stars most compatible with it.
Once chosen, they would never change for its entire life.
If the starlight of one of those stars were cut off, the corresponding leaf would wither.
Once a single leaf withered, the entire plant could never be whole again. Its grade would fall directly from Grade Seven, and all previous efforts would go to waste.
After all nine leaves had formed, true maturity still required the starlight of all nine stars to nourish it simultaneously, day and night without rest, for a full ninety-nine years.
One day short would not do.
Even lacking the starlight of a single star would not do.
For this reason, the Nine-Turn Starry Grass ranked among the most difficult Grade-Seven Spirit Plants to cultivate.
Forget the Spirit Plant Bureau's stewards—even among those old spirit farmers who had struggled through the Spirit Fields for centuries, few dared attempt it lightly.
But once successfully cultivated, a Nine-Turn Starry Grass with all nine leaves would be a rare treasure.
Refining all nine leaves together could help a cultivator comprehend the laws of the stars, and might even allow them to gain insight