Learned the Wood Armor Art, Spirit Rice Mutated

Thus, another chicken joined Xu Changqing and the little yellow dog.

No, more precisely, a Pearl Hen.

Its whole body was gray.

Regular round white spots covered it.

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It really did resemble a pearl.

It laid one egg every three days.

The egg contained a trace of spiritual qi.

Its nutrition was fairly rich as well.

Since there was no rooster, such eggs could not hatch.

Put plainly, they could only be eaten.

They could not go from chicken to egg, then egg to chicken.

"Woof woof!" It might have been the little yellow dog's first time seeing one, and it was exceptionally excited.

Every so often, it would pretend to take a bite.

The Pearl Chicken trembled with fright.

Xu Changqing grabbed the dog's drooling muzzle and warned, "Bite it, and I'll beat you!"

Now that the spiritual rain had fallen,

and fertilizer had been applied,

the amount of wood spiritual qi was steadily increasing.

Unfortunately, there was no Spiritual Qi Tide in summer.

The spirit plants could only grow while gathering wood spiritual qi.

As a result, the efficiency naturally dropped.

Xu Changqing knew there was no use rushing. The current situation could not be changed.

In any case, he was already at Late Qi Refining. Reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm was only a matter of time.

Half a month later.

Xu Changqing, who was practicing the incomplete Ironwood Armor Art, suddenly felt something stir in his heart.

He looked toward the attribute panel.

[Ironwood Armor Art (Incomplete) ↑ (Level 1) ↑]

(Effect One: Consume spiritual power to cover the body with a layer of ironwood armor)

(Effect Two: +10% resistance to fire and metal attributes)

"Wait?" Xu Changqing discovered in surprise.

There was an upward arrow beside the word "Incomplete."

Could it be that the Shennong System did more than merely raise spell levels?

[Consume 15,000 days of lifespan to restore the Incomplete Ironwood Armor Art to its complete form?]

The prompt appeared.

"Just as I thought." Xu Changqing's eyes lit up.

Didn't that mean

that while he could not afford complete spells,

as long as they were incomplete versions or fragments, he could obtain them cheaply?

Then, with the Shennong System restoring them, he could gain the complete spell.

[Consume 15,000 days of lifespan to restore the Incomplete Ironwood Armor Art to its complete form?]

The prompt appeared again.

"Yes." This time, Xu Changqing answered without hesitation.

Although 15,000 days was roughly equal to forty-one years,

that amount of consumption was neither here nor there to him.

In an instant, countless details concerning the Ironwood Armor Art flooded forth.

In his daze, Xu Changqing used his limited knowledge, experience, and techniques.

He spent a full forty-one years restoring the incomplete version to completion.

Though only an instant had passed in the outside world,

the state felt incomparably real, and the immersion was complete.

[Successfully consumed 15,000 days of lifespan to restore the Incomplete Ironwood Armor Art to its complete form!]

[Remaining lifespan: 63,290 days]

[Ironwood Armor Art (Level 1) ↑]

(Effect One: Consume spiritual power to cover the body with a layer of ironwood armor)

(Effect Two: +15% resistance to fire and metal attributes)

"Although Effect One remained unchanged, Effect Two has increased." Xu Changqing thought to himself.

Moreover, if he remembered correctly,

the Ironwood Armor Art had not actually been high-grade when it was incomplete.

Only after the system restored it did those two words get added.

[Consume 888 days of lifespan to raise Ironwood Armor Art from Level 1 to Level 2?]

The prompt appeared for the third time.

"Yes," Xu Changqing replied.

This upgrade was completed in an instant.

Because he had already mastered the experience and techniques during the restoration,

it was equivalent to cultivating again after dispersing his cultivation. The efficiency was astonishingly fast.

[Successfully consumed 888 days of lifespan to raise Ironwood Armor Art from Level 1 to Level 2]

[Remaining lifespan: 62,402 days]

[High-Grade Ironwood Armor Art (Level 2) ↑]

(Effect One: Consume spiritual power to cover the body with a layer of ironwood armor)

(Effect Two: +20% resistance to fire and metal attributes)

(Effect Three: Cover the surface of the wood armor with a layer of sharp thorns)

"Raise it to the highest level in one go." Xu Changqing spoke seriously.

[Successfully consumed 1,888 days of lifespan to raise Ironwood Armor Art from Level 2 to Level 3]

[Successfully consumed 2,888 days of lifespan to raise Ironwood Armor Art from Level 3 to Level 4]

[Remaining lifespan: 59,514 days]

[High-Grade Ironwood Armor Art (Level 4)]

(Effect One: Ironwood Armor evolves into Silverwood Armor, granting an additional +10% defense)

(Effect Two: +25% resistance to fire and metal attributes)

(Effect Three: Cover the surface of the wood armor with a layer of sharp thorns)

(Effect Four: Sharp thorns grant +10% damage reflection)

(Effect Five: After activation, automatically absorb wood spiritual qi to repair damage)

"Impressive." Xu Changqing's eyes lit up.

He immediately activated the Level 4 Ironwood Armor Art.

At once, a faint silver glow covered his body.

If one looked closely, there were patterns like the growth rings of a tree.

Moreover, it was covered in sharp thorns as fine as needles.

Since he had no opponent for the moment, he had no way of knowing exactly how strong its defense and resistance were.

Xu Changqing simply went to the poplar tree he had constantly "ravaged," but this time, rather than attacking it, he stepped forward and embraced it like an old friend.

Sssht!

Pfft!

In an instant, the sound of piercing rang out.

Hearing the commotion, Xu Changqing released the tree and stepped back several paces.

He saw that the surface of the poplar tree he had embraced was a ghastly sight.

Dense needle holes covered it everywhere.

Although he had not tested the damage reflection effect,

it was clear that these sharp thorns did not deal little damage either.

After thinking it over, Xu Changqing turned his gaze toward the Pearl Chicken and the little yellow dog.

The Pearl Chicken instantly curled into a ball and began trembling again.

Seeing that things were going badly, the little yellow dog immediately tucked its tail and ran for its life.

It soon vanished without a trace.

"I feed you and give you water, yet when it matters, neither of you can be relied on." Xu Changqing rolled his eyes.

Several days later.

Rumble!

Thunder roared.

Soon, a mass of dark clouds gathered in the sky.

Xu Changqing was not surprised in the slightest.

Although summer temperatures were high and drought came easily,

it rained occasionally too.

It was only a thunderstorm.

It came quickly and went quickly.

To spirit plants, it was sweet rain falling from heaven.

It brought nothing but benefits, no harm at all.

Still, Xu Changqing remained on guard.

After all, when it rained in spring, many Rice Planthoppers had crawled out of the water.

There should be insects in summer too; he simply did not know what kind they would be.

Soon, a series of crackling sounds rang out.

Rain fell.

The Spirit Rice, Four-Leaf Clover, watermelons, and Chinese cabbage were nourished.

They all became glossy and fresh.

Xu Changqing stood beneath the eaves.

The little yellow dog sat on the left.

The Pearl Chicken stood on the armrest of the chair to the right.

Human, animals, and nature blended perfectly together at that moment.

There was not the slightest sense of discord.

A few minutes later, the rain stopped and the sky cleared.

The temperature rose once more.

With his hands behind his back, Xu Changqing slowly paced onto the field ridge.

After consuming spiritual power, he swiftly sensed every corner of the Spirit Fields.

He immediately let out a surprised "Eh?"

The next second, he took off his shoes and entered the Spirit Fields barefoot.

He soon arrived before a Spirit Rice plant with an exceptionally unusual appearance.

Its entire body gleamed golden.

Its wood spiritual qi was extremely dense.

Most notably, other rice plants had only three to five ears of rice.

This one, however, had as many as nine.

Seeing this, Xu Changqing hurriedly circulated the Evergreen Formula.

[Mutated Spirit Rice]

[More Children, More Blessings]

He did not know whether it was because of the rain just now

or some other reason.

This Spirit Rice plant had actually mutated.

Its color was deeper.

It had more ears of rice.

It had even gained an unbelievable trait!!!