Family Rise by Daily Intelligence

Chapter 898: Chapter 335: Breakthrough, Imperial Court Dao Body, Intelligence (Ten Thousand Character Combined Chapter) _2

He kept looking all the way down.

He discovered that there were nearly a hundred Thousand Feather Butterfly specimens.

At the end of the passage.

What entered his sight was indeed a Spirit Medicine Garden, but after so many years without anyone tending it, the flowers, grasses, and trees inside had already withered away.

On one side of the Spirit Medicine Garden.

There was a thatched hut.

Fu Changsheng stepped into the garden, and, holding to the principle of digging three feet into the ground, cleared away all the dead flowers and fallen leaves. He then discovered that in the center of the garden there was still a single withered branch of a peculiar shape standing upright:

”Huh, what’s this?”

It looked somewhat familiar.

When he moved closer.

A sudden, urgent emotion rushed out from within the Five Elements Grotto Heaven.

He carefully sensed it.

Fu Changsheng’s face showed a look of surprise.

Because this emotion was being transmitted by the Ancient Profound Vine:

”Could it be that this withered branch before me is also Ancient Profound Vine?!”

But the growth environment for Ancient Profound Vine was extremely harsh, and the Spirit Soil it required had to be the Three-Colored Soil to sustain it.

Fu Changsheng’s body trembled; with a sweep of his sleeve, the dust in the Spirit Field scattered, and a handful of Spirit Soil fell into his palm. Focusing his eyes at this moment, he found that the Spirit Soil in the Spirit Medicine Garden contained faint, flickering three-colored light within:

”It really is Ancient Profound Vine!!”

Fu Changsheng’s face lit up with wild joy.

Every time the Ancient Profound Vine grew an aerial root, as its symbiotic master he would gain a hundred years of lifespan. He did not know how much Life Force this withered branch could provide to the Ancient Profound Vine in the Five Elements Grotto Heaven.

He quickly walked a few steps.

Until he reached the side of the withered branch.

He did not rush to act, but first used his Divine Sense to carefully search. Finding that there was no residual soul attached to the branch, he then activated a Technique and cautiously uprooted the withered branch from the Three-Colored Soil, pulling it out together with its roots.

Hum!

The Five Elements Grotto Heaven on his arm immediately flushed faintly red.

With a thought.

The withered branch was sent into the Five Elements Grotto Heaven.

The Ancient Profound Vine planted at the Spirit Mountain Peak twisted its妖身 at once; the aerial roots that had previously grown rapidly latched onto the withered branch. The branch seemed to have no Life Force at all, yet at this moment it trembled slightly, and then rune after rune accompanied by yellow qi currents were actually drawn into the Ancient Profound Vine’s body.

Hum!

He saw that, after the newly grown aerial root of the Ancient Profound Vine absorbed the yellow qi currents, it started growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Moreover, on the other side of the Ancient Profound Vine, another new aerial root began to sprout, but it abruptly stopped halfway through its growth.

Bang!

The withered branch turned to ash and dispersed.

”It actually produced a new aerial root.”

Joy flashed in Fu Changsheng’s eyes. He immediately entered the Five Elements Grotto Heaven and sat cross-legged beneath the Ancient Profound Vine at the Spirit Mountain Peak. With whooshing sounds of air being pierced, the newly grown aerial root of the Ancient Profound Vine burrowed into his body.

Boom!

The next instant.

A vast surge of Qi Blood and Life Force poured into his limbs and bones like Enlightenment.

Several hours later.

The lifespan recorded on the stone stele to the side also changed, soaring from the original seven hundred and four to eight hundred and four.

The stone stele recorded his remaining lifespan.

After breaking through to the Purple Mansion.

He possessed eight hundred years of lifespan.

He was now eighty-six years old, and, adding the ten years consumed earlier by using Qiankun Reversed True Thousand Tribulations, he had seven hundred and four years remaining. Now that the Ancient Profound Vine had grown an aerial root, his lifespan had been replenished, becoming eight hundred and four.

With such a long lifespan.

And with the Secret Technique Qiankun Reversed True Thousand Tribulations in his hands, as long as he acted more cautiously in the future, breaking through to Nascent Soul should not be a problem.

At this moment.

The panel trembled slightly.

A line of text appeared:

[Ancient Profound Vine: (40/100)]

The progress of the third new aerial root had reached forty percent. If he carefully nurtured it in the future, once this root fully grew out, he would gain another hundred years of lifespan:

”I wonder if there are other withered branches of Ancient Profound Vine in the Kunlun Mini World.”

Since there was one in Jingzhou.

Perhaps in other ruins he could also find some.

But all of that would depend on his fortunes.

Just as he was about to leave the Five Elements Grotto Heaven, he saw the Ancient Profound Vine tremble slightly. Then a streak of white light surged forth, and Qiu Niang’s figure flickered out:

”Qiu Niang greets Master.”

Her voice was loud, her complexion ruddy.

Clearly, thanks to the Ancient Profound Vine, she had fully recovered.

Fu Changsheng gave a slight nod and asked Qiu Niang a few questions about the newly appeared Ancient Temple in the Five Elements Grotto Heaven, but Qiu Niang still shook her head:

”Master, that Ancient Temple is a newly derived transformation. Qiu Niang has no authority to enter it, so I am not very clear about the situation inside.”

Since that was the case.

He could only slowly explore it himself.

But after returning to Jingzhou.

He planned to let Autumn Cicada give it a try and see whether that one could enter the Ancient Temple.

Fu Changsheng handed the Three-Colored Soil he had gathered outside to Qiu Niang, then pointed to the Celestial Thunder Bamboo at the side and said, ”Qiu Niang, with this Three-Colored Soil, can you accelerate the maturation of this Celestial Thunder Bamboo?”

The Star Celestial Thunder Sword Array in the Fourth Layer of Great Derivation Technique required refining twelve Thunder Shock Swords. The needed Star Stones had already been found; at present he only lacked enough cultivated Celestial Thunder Bamboo to begin the Refining.

In addition.

In his spare time.

He also needed to start cultivating the Fourth Layer of Great Derivation Technique.

”Master, didn’t you say before that you wanted to cultivate this Celestial Thunder Bamboo into Ten Thousand Years Golden Thunder Bamboo?”

”That plan will be postponed for now. First, grow twelve Celestial Thunder Bamboos—I have other uses for them.”

As for Golden Thunder Bamboo.

He would leave that for the future.

Qiu Niang received the Three-Colored Soil and examined it for a while, then said somewhat regretfully:

”Master, this Three-Colored Soil has been left for too many years, and no talisman-based sealing method was used to bind the Spiritual Power within. Now the vitality energy contained in the soil has fallen to less than one-tenth. Even if this servant burns her Origin to perform a Secret Technique, she can only barely hasten the maturation of a single Celestial Thunder Bamboo.”