Awakening, a Powerful Effect

"Combat power +100%!"

Seeing the effect of the lv3 cave abode, Li Yunjing's eyes widened.

This effect was somewhat heaven-defying.

The requirement for upgrading the cave abode to lv3 was Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation.

That meant that once the cave abode was upgraded to lv3,

Li Yunjing would be a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator by then.

And with this effect boosting him,

Li Yunjing's combat power around the cave abode would be terrifying.

He wouldn't go so far as to say he could trade blows with a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator.

But crushing Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators at the same realm would be easy.

"But this effect isn't much use. Here in the Luozhen Sect, would I need to fight anyone?"

Li Yunjing was somewhat speechless.

By then, he would have reached Foundation Establishment.

No petty scoundrels would dare come to the Luozhen Sect and cause trouble.

On top of that, with the Immortal Alliance's deterrence,

the Luozhen Sect was still very safe.

This effect would be hard to put to use.

Li Yunjing smiled and shook his head.

He left his cave abode.

Li Yunjing then went to the newly established medicine garden.

He took out Spirit-Stabilizing Grass and twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden to lv1.

[Medicine Garden (lv1)]

[lv2 Spiritual Effect: Spirit medicines mature 35% faster. Ordinary spirit medicines have a +15% chance of reaching superior quality.

A bonus effect triggers once every ten days, adding one year of medicinal age to all fully mature spirit medicines.]

[Upgrade requirements: Five Spirits Dew × 3 bottles, first-grade Five Spirits Soil × two taels.]

"Hiss!"

Seeing the lv2 spiritual effect of the medicine garden, Li Yunjing immediately sucked in a sharp breath.

It could add a year of medicinal age to mature spirit medicines every ten days.

In a month, that would be three years of medicinal age.

In a year, that would be thirty-six years of medicinal age.

A hundred years of medicinal age could be achieved in only around three years.

And this was only the lv2 spiritual effect.

The higher the medicine garden's level, the more medicinal age it would surely add.

Maybe one day it could accumulate a hundred years of medicinal age in a single day.

This was definitely a Spirit Stone-making machine!

After all, the older a spirit medicine was, the more valuable it was.

Take the spirit medicines Li Yunjing had previously bought to refine Yellow Sprout Pills,

they were only around ten years old.

Spirit medicines like those were just barely old enough to use.

Any younger, and they couldn't be used.

Any older, and they wouldn't have cost that price.

Moreover, spirit medicines like those were generally ripened using special methods.

That meant the medicinal power they accumulated was inferior to that of spirit medicines that had truly grown for ten years without interference of any kind.

The medicine garden was different.

Everything the system produced was top quality.

He surely wouldn't have that problem.

Although it was similar to a ripening method,

the medicinal power accumulated surely wouldn't be diminished in the slightest.

That was what Li Yunjing believed.

And a single hundred-year-old spirit medicine could sell for over three hundred Spirit Stones.

That was only for the most common kind of hundred-year-old spirit medicine.

Xunxian Town had previously held an auction.

A hundred-year-old Qi-Replenishing Grass had been auctioned there.

Qi-Replenishing Grass was a very common spirit medicine that grew just about everywhere.

It was the main ingredient for refining Qi-Replenishing Pills, a first-grade, low-tier spirit pill.

A stalk of Qi-Replenishing Grass cost one Spirit Stone.

But a hundred-year-old stalk could sell for more than three hundred.

Although it had been sold at auction, where prices ran high,

even so, there would still be buyers at over a hundred or two hundred Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing thought that even if he planted nothing but Qi-Replenishing Grass in the medicine garden,

he could wait three years and sell all the hundred-year-old Qi-Replenishing Grass.

Getting rich overnight wouldn't be a dream.

Li Yunjing was only thinking about it.

If he actually did that, he'd be a complete fool.

Just then, a notification box appeared before Li Yunjing.

[Congratulations! The Luozhen Sect has ten buildings of at least lv1. Sect prosperity has increased by two points. Reward: one opportunity for enlightenment.]

The sudden notification made Li Yunjing's eyes widen.

He had been wondering how to raise the sect's prosperity,

and unexpectedly, it had now pointed Li Yunjing directly toward an answer.

Raise the levels of the sect's buildings.

Li Yunjing thought it over carefully.

According to the notification,

increasing the number of sect buildings would raise the sect's prosperity.

It was ten buildings now, so would it be twenty or thirty next time? Or some other number?

Moreover, the sect buildings all had to be lv1 for prosperity to increase.

So if all ten buildings were lv2, would that also increase prosperity and bring a reward?

In any case, Li Yunjing decided to work toward both goals.

There were plenty more sect buildings, many of which hadn't been built yet.

As for their levels, that went without saying.

The opportunity for enlightenment he had received as a reward also set Li Yunjing's heart surging.

So many people sought enlightenment but couldn't attain it, yet the system had simply rewarded him with it.

Just like that!

There was nothing more to say.

Perhaps with this enlightenment, Li Yunjing could step directly into Foundation Establishment.

Then the Luozhen Sect could get through the ordeal of the Immortal Alliance's assessment on September fifteenth.

He took a good look at the requirements for upgrading the medicine garden to lv2.

Li Yunjing committed them to memory.

Li Yunjing knew what Five Spirits Dew was.

It was a spiritual liquid, and it wasn't expensive.

One bottle sold for twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

As for Five Spirits Soil, Li Yunjing had never heard of it.

He would ask about it later.

Now that the medicine garden had been upgraded to lv1, it could be used to grow spirit medicines.

Li Yunjing took out the spirit medicine seeds he had just bought.

He formed a Method Formula with his hands and cast the Earth-Moving Incantation.

The soil in the medicine garden parted in turn.

Li Yunjing placed the spirit medicine seeds into the holes one by one.

Then he cast the Earth-Moving Incantation again to bury the seeds.

Next, Li Yunjing took out a cowhide waterskin.

Li Yunjing had bought this waterskin from the Treasure Gathering Pavilion ten days ago.

It was made from the hide of a late first-tier demonic ox and was extremely tough.

Li Yunjing had previously planned to infuse Pure Spiritual Qi into stream water,

thereby artificially creating a type of first-grade spirit water.

But his waterskin had been too poor in quality, so he hadn't succeeded.

Thus, Li Yunjing had bought the cowhide waterskin.

There were ten Law Restrictions inside it.

Besides holding water, it also contained a small Spirit Gathering Formation.

It could constantly gather Spiritual Qi and channel it into the water stored inside.

The water would be nourished by Spiritual Qi and thereby transformed into first-grade spirit water.

Li Yunjing had sped up this process ten days ago.

He had placed a strand of Pure Spiritual Qi directly into the cowhide waterskin.

Ten days had passed, and the water in the waterskin had long since become first-grade spirit water.

Li Yunjing watered the freshly planted spirit medicine seeds once with the first-grade spirit water.

According to the lv1 spiritual effect, these seeds would sprout in about ten days and mature in around three months.

After that, they could slowly accumulate medicinal age.

But the medicine garden could still be upgraded, which would shorten that time considerably.

He took a mouthful of first-grade spirit water.

It was refreshingly cool, making Li Yunjing feel comfortable in body and mind.

At that moment, a weak voice reached Li Yunjing's ears.

"Senior Brother~"

Li Yunjing immediately put away the waterskin.

It was Mo Xuan calling him.

He hurried to the front of Luozhen Hall.

Mo Xuan was leaning against the wall of Luozhen Hall, unsteady on his feet and pale-faced.

"Junior Brother Mo, your injuries haven't healed yet. Hurry and rest!"

Li Yunjing hurried over to support Mo Xuan.

He helped Mo Xuan into Luozhen Hall, where Shui Yao was still unconscious.

Once Mo Xuan sat down, Li Yunjing took out the waterskin and poured him a bowl of first-grade spirit water.

Thirsty, Mo Xuan picked up the bowl and drank in small sips.

After drinking the bowl of spirit water, Mo Xuan was in much better condition.

"Senior Brother, thank you for saving us."

Putting down the bowl, Mo Xuan looked at Li Yunjing gratefully.

"Do you take your senior brother for an outsider? Why say that?" Li Yunjing glared, pretending to be angry.

Mo Xuan's face turned bitter. "Xiao Yao and I were the ones who treated you like an outsider, Senior Brother. We should have listened to you and never gone to the Golden Core cave abode to take that risk."

Li Yunjing sighed.

"That's all in the past. What matters is that you and Junior Sister Shui are still alive."

Mo Xuan fell silent.

Li Yunjing fell silent too.

After a while, Li Yunjing started a conversation.

"What happened to you and Junior Sister Shui in the Golden Core cave abode? Didn't you say you were only going to look around the outskirts? Were the outskirts dangerous too?"

At that, Mo Xuan clenched his hands tightly, anger appearing in his eyes.

"It was the Clear Wind Sect. The Clear Wind Sect gave us false information and set up the cultivators who took the mission!

That Golden Core cave abode wasn't a Golden Core cultivator's cave abode at all, but a Golden Core cultivator's tomb.

There's a large killing formation on the outskirts to stop anyone trying to dig up the tomb. The Clear Wind Sect knew that, but deliberately kept it from us.

They wanted to trade Rogue Cultivators' lives for information about the killing formation so the Clear Wind Sect could break it!"