The Spirit Medicinal Garden lay deep inside Xiao Yu's Cave Abode. There were not many medicinal plants growing there, but there was a fair variety. Most were three or four hundred years old, with only a handful reaching six or seven hundred years.
Xiao Yu had done this deliberately as a precaution. He never planted medicinal herbs over a thousand years old in the Medicinal Garden. If some accident allowed someone else to discover them, he would never be able to explain it away.
Yet at that moment, in one corner of the Medicinal Garden stood a small tree four feet tall, with a golden trunk and tender green leaves growing on five or six branches. At the end of each branch hung a golden fruit whose skin bore a scale-like pattern. These were Dragon Scale Fruits.
This tree had been cultivated from the spirit fruit Ling Yuling had given Xiao Yu back then.
Several months after Purple Spirit left his Cave Abode, Xiao Yu had still sensed no further surveillance, so he had accelerated the growth of the Dragon Scale Fruit tree.
The tree had to reach a thousand years of age before it could bear fruit. After that, its fruit ripened once every ten years, producing between three and six each time.
Once the ripe fruit was picked, new spirit fruit would soon grow on the tree and ripen another ten years later, repeating the cycle.
After more than a year of accelerated ripening, Xiao Yu had harvested over three hundred and fifty Dragon Scale Fruits, which now rested quietly in his Storage Bag.
These spirit fruits would be his main support for body refinement in the coming days. Until now, he had been busy refining the baleful aura and had yet to begin consuming them.
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