Novel11 #482 - Experimental Ripening Elixir
#482 - Experimental Ripening Elixir
The Bodhi Tree dared not stray far, quietly standing beside Li Chengfeng.
Despite Li Chengfeng's shallow cultivation, his methods were enough to suppress it directly.
Faced with this situation, the Great Ape King was helpless and could only bow his head to Li Chengfeng and beg for mercy: "Senior Li, Ancestor Li, please spare my life. I guarantee to serve you wholeheartedly.
I thought this Bodhi Tree was an unexpected gain, but I never thought it was secretly plotting against me. No wonder the inner demons still linger in my body.
Not only did it not help me to dispel the inner demons, but it even seemed to aggravate them. It's truly hateful!"
Li Chengfeng gently tapped the back of his hand and smiled: "Great Ape King, I know your desire to survive is strong, but if you don't have enough bargaining chips to move me, you can only become nourishment for my blood pool.
Unless you can come up with a treasure comparable to the Bodhi Tree, I might consider giving you a way out."
Upon hearing this, the Great Ape King quickly said: "I have it! I have it! I know that in the depths of the Yu Sea Eye, seventy thousand miles away, there is a strange ghost tree whose root system seems to have penetrated into the netherworld.
I see that your space is filled with ghostly energy. If you can transplant that ghost tree here, it will definitely stabilize this space.
The reason why I haven't touched it is because the ghostly energy there is strong and connected to the Yin veins. I have sealed it, waiting for it to mature before refining it into a demonic treasure. Look, I've said so much, please give me a way out!"
Li Chengfeng smiled and said: "Okay, since you have such a treasure in your hands, I originally wanted to test you, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to say it.
However, whether it's true or false still needs to be verified. You just wait here for a while, and I'll go and investigate.
If there really is such a tree, and its cultivation level is something I can handle, I will naturally let you go."
The Great Ape King eagerly said: "Friend, with your strength and unfathomable methods, how can that ghost tree be your opponent? You will definitely be able to take it down easily!"
Li Chengfeng smiled slightly and said: "Well said, since that's the case, then we'll settle on that."
After saying that, he teleported away with the Bodhi Tree and disappeared from everyone's sight, returning to the Life Realm space.
The Great Ape King looked at the churning blood pool below, his heart filled with despair and fear. Although he had lived for tens of thousands of years and was an ancient sea beast, with a lifespan far exceeding that of demon beasts and difficult to awaken, he was still unwilling to face death.
Although Li Chengfeng was only a Golden Core stage cultivator, the Great Ape King was willing to humbly seek survival, only because the desire to live surpassed everything.
However, he was also deeply afraid of Li Chengfeng's ruthless methods. Whether he could profit from it was still unknown.
Stepping into the Life Realm space, the Bodhi Tree was extremely excited. The rich spiritual energy here made it greedily suck it in, and its branches and leaves trembled slightly.
Li Chengfeng planted it in a radiant place and said: "You can live here in peace. I will often come here to comprehend the Dao under this tree, how about that?"
His tone changed, and he warned: "If you dare to play tricks, I will punish you severely."
The Bodhi Tree quickly agreed, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.
Li Chengfeng examined the Bodhi Tree and suddenly had a whim: "Since you have cultivated a true spirit, you must have natal essence blood, right? Do trees also rely on talent to grow? Can you give me a drop for research?"
Seeing a hint of playfulness in Li Chengfeng's smile, the Bodhi Tree dared not be negligent in the slightest. Its branches and leaves swayed gently, and a drop of emerald green essence blood quietly dripped down, landing on Li Chengfeng's fingertip.
With the essence blood leaving its body, the Bodhi Tree looked slightly wilted and pleaded: "This is my natal essence blood. I hope master can let me rest and recuperate."
Li Chengfeng smiled and said: "Since you are so sensible, I won't bother you in the next year or two.
Absorb the spiritual energy here properly."
After saying that, his figure flashed, and he returned to the secret room. Using the Heaven-Shaking Myriad Demon Transformation, he began to refine that drop of essence blood.
A month later, with a buzzing sound, he transformed into a Bodhi Tree, its branches and leaves dancing gently in the wind.
In a flash of thought, he marveled at the Bodhi Tree's lifespan of up to 100,000 years, and thought to himself: "If I were this tree, wouldn't I be able to enjoy a long life of 100,000 years?"
A tree is just a tree, but he had already understood the mysteries of the Bodhi Tree's power and its many wonderful uses for comprehending the Dao.
His purpose in carefully refining the Bodhi Tree was not to transform into a tree, nor to simply learn the Bodhi Tree's techniques and Dao, but to harbor a novel idea—to study the source of life.
Everything has a lifespan. No matter what race, it will eventually wither. Even the Great Luo True Immortal is hard-pressed to escape the doom of falling, and even the Supreme Immortal Venerable of the Heavenly Realm must face the Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
Therefore, the study of lifespan is particularly important.
Li Chengfeng took a unique path, and his fundamental motivation lay in this. After transforming into a tree, he possessed an astonishing lifespan, which made him extremely excited.
However, although this tree could be transformed at will, it was only limited to a range of one zhang.
His own lifespan had already reached 100,000 years, and he couldn't help but wonder, how astonishing would the accumulated lifespan of this Bodhi Tree, which had also lived for 100,000 years, be? This was simply a living treasure trove of lifespan!
With this thought, he returned to the medicine garden, his eyes falling on a spiritual herb.
This herb seemed ordinary, grew quickly, and was obtained during his Qi Refining stage. Now it was of little use to him.
However, Li Chengfeng was nostalgic and could not bear to destroy it, so he allowed it to grow on its own.
Over forty years had passed, and the spiritual energy of this spiritual herb was so rich that it had almost solidified.
At this moment, Li Chengfeng's figure swayed, and he transformed into a Bodhi Tree, its branches and leaves swaying gently in the wind, leisurely breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
This scene shocked the Bodhi Tree beside him, almost making it unable to stand still. Its root system was still shallow, and its heart was filled with doubts: How could master turn into my appearance? Could it be that master has a quirk and is willing to transform into a tree?
But Li Chengfeng ignored these thoughts, and simply stretched out a small branch, entangled the spiritual herb, and used the technique of "Grafting," instantly transferring ten years of lifespan over.
Suddenly, the spiritual herb seemed to be injected with new vitality, quickly breathing in spiritual energy, and in a short period of time, it grew by ten years, and the fragrance of the medicine became more mellow.
Li Chengfeng was greatly surprised, laughed loudly, and said repeatedly: "Not bad, not bad!"
Immediately, he set his sights on another spiritual herb of the same size, directly absorbing its essence, instantly increasing its lifespan by twenty years, without any abnormality.
Pressing on, he tried to increase it by another hundred years, and the spiritual herb withered with a "pop."
After returning to human form, he nodded to himself, having verified that the limit for accelerating the maturation of spiritual herbs was within a hundred years.
Satisfied, he turned and left, leaving the nine spiritual herbs to continue breathing in spiritual energy. They were accelerated by ten years, twenty years… up to ninety years, respectively.
The last one completely withered due to the attempt to break through a hundred years, and he was now focusing on researching a countermeasure.
After repeated deductions, Li Chengfeng concluded that it was not impossible to accelerate the maturation by a hundred years, but rather that the control of the Cherry Blossom Art was too strong.
If he could slow down the speed of this art, the effect would definitely be better. But this required stronger control, or he would have to wait until his cultivation advanced to the middle or even late stage of the Golden Core stage before he could achieve his wish.
Currently, being able to accelerate the maturation by ninety years was already rare.
The next day, he returned to the medicine garden and continued to experiment with the remaining nine spiritual herbs.
The first spiritual herb gained another ten years of medicinal age, becoming more and more delicate, and he was very pleased in his heart, and then turned to the next one.
Repeating this process, until all the spiritual herbs were successfully accelerated.
However, when he came again the next day, he found that half of the spiritual herbs had begun to wither.
After more than a month of experiments, he finally mastered the rules: the maturation of spiritual herbs should be carried out every other day, and the best limit is ninety years, never exceeding it.
In other words, maturing one plant to ninety years every ten days, ten plants would be five nine four hundred and fifty years, this result was already quite considerable.
Li Chengfeng couldn't help but laugh heartily, declaring that he had successfully crossed the difficulty of spiritual herb maturation.