Cultivation Begins with Daily Intelligence Reports

3: Some special earthworm grassThe market was not far from the Lin Family territory, only about twenty miles away.

Lin Jingyu had neither flying Magical Artifacts nor talismans, nor did he have any speed-enhancing techniques, so he could only step out and rely on his legs to walk quickly.

Fortunately, as a Cultivator, his physique had long surpassed that of an ordinary person, having been nourished by Spiritual Qi day after day.

He was not particularly worried about encountering danger.

His current attire did not look like a Fat Sheep in any way; the most valuable three spring flowers were only worth a few Spirit Stones, and all the wealth on him combined wouldn’t even amount to ten Spirit Stones.

He was dirt poor.

It simply wasn’t worth it for a Bandit Cultivator to make a move.

He kept speeding up his pace and finally made it back before the sunset’s afterglow was completely swallowed by the night.

He removed his disguise in a small grove by the road and put it into the large basket on his back.

He returned to his original, harmless, and slightly youthful-looking face.

After turning a corner, he could see his younger sister, Lin Jingxia, pacing back and forth at the entrance from a distance.

The worried expression on her face was clearly visible.

”Brother, you’re back.”

Almost immediately, Lin Jingxia saw Lin Jingyu, and a smile instantly spread across her face as she waved her hands high in the air.

She ran towards him and gave Lin Jingyu a solid bear hug.

”Brother was only gone for half a day, look how worried you were.”

Lin Jingyu gently patted his younger sister’s head and casually stuffed a bag of sesame crisps he had bought at the market into her hand.

He comforted her: ”I bought these sweets for you, go ahead and eat them.”

These things were all made of mundane materials, and a single Spirit Stone fragment could buy a lot of them.

They were the best thing to use to coax a half-grown child like Lin Jingxia.

”Hehe, thank you, Brother.”

As Lin Jingxia ate the sesame crisps, the worry and panic in her heart gradually subsided.

Back home, the two chatted while eating, and Lin Jingyu embellished his experiences at the market for his sister.

A simple and plain trip to the market was exaggerated into—wielding two fruit knives, slaughtering his way from the Southern Heaven Gate all the way to the Thirty-Third Heaven.

The more he spoke, the more exaggerated it became, leaving his sister completely stunned.

”Alright, I’m full, I’m going back to my room to Cultivate. Sister, don’t forget to Cultivate properly too!”

Lin Jingyu stood up, took the basket, and returned to his room.

He moved the bed aside, opened the passage to the underground secret room, and climbed down.

The glowing night-luminescent pearl in the secret room illuminated the space like a small sun.

The moist and dense Spiritual Qi rushed towards him, making Lin Jingyu shiver; just inhaling the Spiritual Qi through his nose and mouth made his body feel very comfortable.

He couldn’t help but want to quickly sit in meditation and Cultivate, drawing the Spiritual Qi into his body.

The current concentration of Spiritual Qi was even denser than it had been a few hours ago.

Lin Jingyu reluctantly suppressed this thought.

Using this Spiritual Qi for cultivation would only last for a short while, and with his Aptitude, eighty percent of the Spiritual Qi would leak away and be wasted.

It was more cost-effective to use the Spiritual Qi to nurture the earth dragon grass.

He poured out all the sundries from the basket, revealing the few three spring flowers planted in clay pots at the very bottom.

After the long journey, the leaves were already a bit wilted.

He carefully moved the six three spring flowers out of the clay pots and planted them on the pile of Spiritual soil he had prepared in front of him.

He then scooped some water from the small pool nearby and sprinkled it on the roots.

He channeled the Spiritual power within his body to capture the sparse Spiritual Qi in the room, making it swirl around the six three spring flowers.

Doing this was extremely physically demanding, and as a Qi Refining Second Layer Cultivator, Lin Jingyu soon felt a stinging pain in his Meridians, a prelude to his Spiritual power running dry.

Gritting his teeth, he persisted.

Large beads of sweat rolled down his face, his muscles ached, breathing became difficult, and even his vision began to blur.

Fortunately, heaven rewards the diligent.

The roots of the six flowers he had been watching began to change; three of them gently swayed, and soon something no longer than a little finger, resembling a worm, crawled out from the base.

It was earthy yellow all over, with a few tiny leaves on top of its head and a small red flower in the middle.

Lin Jingyu propped up his body, greedily absorbing the rich Spiritual Qi.

”That’s right, it’s earth dragon grass! earth dragon grass, also known as caterpillar fungus, is a type of fungal Spiritual Plant that has the ability to merge into the host plant.”

”It has two states, worm and grass, and has a certain ability to move. If Spiritual Qi is insufficient, it will enter a dormant worm state, and when it reaches an environment with abundant Spiritual Qi, it will unfold its branches and leaves and begin to absorb Spiritual Qi to grow!”

Lin Jingyu was overjoyed; there were actually three stalks of earth dragon grass. The other three were just three spring flowers.

He had made a huge profit this time.

To say nothing else, even if he took these three stalks of earth dragon grass out now, he could easily sell them for more than fifty Spirit Stones at any shop in the market.

Lin Jingyu quickly stopped what he was doing; having proven the existence of the three stalks of earth dragon grass, there was no need to torture himself further.

Forcing his Spiritual power to the point of exhaustion could cause great damage to his body.

It could even tear his Dantian and leave him a cripple.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, dragged his somewhat exhausted body to the side, sat on the ground, and began to regulate his breathing.

The earth dragon grass in front of him felt the Spiritual Qi concentration weaken, shook its body, and retracted slightly into the stem of the three spring flower, though it did not turn into a worm.

Lin Jingyu carefully absorbed the surrounding Spiritual Qi, striving not to affect the earth dragon grass.

Fortunately, Spiritual power was constantly leaking out in the basement, so it was enough to maintain it.

Two hours passed, and he opened his eyes, let out a long breath of turbid air, and stood up.

His internal Spiritual power had recovered to about half, but fortunately, his physical fatigue had mostly recovered.

Only then did he have the energy to carefully examine the earth dragon grass.

It looked exactly like the caterpillar fungus in his mind.

Two of them were about an inch long and as thick as a chopstick.

But the other one was clearly much larger than the other two.

It was a full inch and a half long, as thick as a little finger, and had light brown patterns in circles on its body.

At a glance, one could sense its extraordinary nature.

”Could it be that this stalk of earth dragon grass is about to evolve? Or is it very old?”

He knew very little information about earth dragon grass.

In a Family like the Lin Family, which was only a bottom-tier Cultivation Family, there were not many related classic books, and the foundation was insufficient.

According to the intelligence, the one the Third Elder bought should not compare to this one, otherwise, he definitely wouldn’t have sold it at the price of ordinary earth dragon grass.

Regardless, since he didn’t know the true price of this extraordinary-looking earth dragon grass, selling it rashly would definitely be a loss.

Which of the Cultivators in the market wasn’t shrewd to the extreme?

They would definitely offer a price as low as possible.

Moreover, if he revealed it, he would definitely have to sell it immediately and couldn’t keep it.

Otherwise, if he were targeted, he might even lose his life.

It was better to keep it for now, wait for the right opportunity, find the corresponding information, and then sell it at a suitable price later.

After figuring this out, Lin Jingyu walked out through the entrance above his head.

Outside, it was the middle of the night; all was silent, and the stars hung over the vast wilderness.

He simply lay on the bed and began to rest; his mind had been in a state of tension during the meditation and cultivation just now, and it was still aching faintly.