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Chapter 701
Chapter 701
?Chapter 701: Chapter 306: Trading the Undying Longevity Grass Chapter 701: Chapter 306: Trading the Undying Longevity Grass Baba Mulang hesitated for a moment, but ultimately still told Lin Jing.
“In our Wood Realm, there originally was a rank seven rare Spirit Grass, the Undying Longevity Grass.”
“Undying Longevity Grass!” Upon hearing about the Undying Longevity Grass, Lin Jing immediately became spirited.
The Undying Longevity Grass was the main ingredient for concocting the Longevity Life-Extension Elixir.
Coupled with the Eternal Life Vine, the elixir brewed could significantly increase a cultivator’s lifespan.
Although the lifespan increased wasn’t as exaggerated as a myriad of years, the lifespan a Supreme Grade Longevity Life-Extension Elixir could add was still as much as a thousand years.
A Nascent Soul Cultivator’s lifespan was only about a thousand years, which illustrates just how powerful the Longevity Life-Extension Elixir was.
This thousand years of lifespan, when given to those top cultivators, was enough for them to accomplish many things.
Lin Jing then spoke to Baba Mulang,
“Having the Undying Longevity Grass should be a good thing, right?
So why does your clan chief seem not very happy about it?”
Baba Mulang sighed and continued,
“Sigh…”
“That Undying Longevity Grass should have been the most precious Spirit Plant in our Wood Realm, but unfortunately, the place where it grew wasn’t so favorable.
It grew too close to a Demonic Tree which often went berserk, and as you can imagine…”
“The Undying Longevity Grass was growing well but unfortunately, the Demonic Tree suddenly went mad and extended past its boundary, swallowing it whole.”
“In the end, it was the clan chief who personally took action and managed to wrestle the roots of the Undying Longevity Grass away from the Demonic Tree.”
“However, the roots of the Undying Longevity Grass that were retrieved, even after being replanted by the clan chief, remained in a state neither dead nor alive, failing to grow normally.”
“That is also why the clan chief harbors such a great resentment.”
“No wonder, so that was the issue.” Lin Jing suddenly understood.
Then, Lin Jing asked Baba Mulang again,
“Do your Wood Spirits need rare Spirit Plants too?”
Baba Mulang communicated via telepathy,
“Of course.”
“We not only need rare Spirit Plants, but we also cultivate some ourselves.”
“Just like human cultivators can obtain Spiritual Power from Spirit Stones for cultivation, we can also draw the Wood Element’s Spiritual Power from Spirit Plants to help us grow.”
After hearing this, Lin Jing promptly spoke,
“Doesn’t that mean your cultivation is similar to ours?
Both are about increasing your own Spiritual Power to become stronger.”
“Hmm.”
Baba Mulang nodded, “The clan chief once said this is also considered our way of cultivation.”
“Since your cultivation method is similar to human cultivators, does that mean the spells you used before are similar as well?” Lin Jing then asked another question.
Baba Mulang replied,
“Actually, there is some difference with the cultivation of spells.”
“The spells I use partly stem from innate inheritance, while the rest are taught by the clan chief.”
Lin Jing listened, frowning in thought for a while.
After pondering, Lin Jing said to Baba Mulang,
“Baba Mulang!”
“How about you contact your clan chief for me?
I want to propose a trade with him.”
“A trade?”
Baba Mulang looked up, puzzled as he gazed at Lin Jing.
Lin Jing nodded and said,
“If this deal goes through, your Wood Spirit clan might become stronger once again.”
“Really?” Baba Mulang looked at Lin Jing with a mix of astonishment and doubt in his eyes.
Lin Jing then continued,
“As for the specifics, I am not yet clear.”
“It’s a matter that only your clan chief, once he arrives, can discuss with me clearly.
You just need to tell those two clansmen following you that I have something to discuss with your clan chief.”
Although Baba Mulang did not understand why, after hesitating for a moment, he turned and began to communicate with the two Wood Spirits following behind him.
Lin Jing did not understand the language of the Wood Spirit clan.
But he was able to guess what their conversation entailed from their gestures and expressions.
After Baba Mulang spoke with the two clansmen behind him, from the reaction of the two Wood Spirits,
they seemed to be confused and even had a distrust towards Lin Jing.
It wasn’t until after a good while of back-and-forth that the other side finally relented.
Then, one of the Wood Spirits stayed to keep an eye on Lin Jing, while the other quickly disappeared into the dense forest.
Clearly,
he was off to notify the Wood Spirit clan chief.
……
The Wood Spirit clan’s efficiency was indeed commendable.
In less than six hours, the Wood Spirit clan chief appeared before Lin Jing.
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“You have something to ask me?”
The Wood Spirit clan chief looked at Lin Jing with impatience in his eyes.
Lin Jing paid no mind to it and directly inquired of the Wood Spirit clan chief,
“I would like to ask, can your Wood Spirit clan cultivate human cultivation techniques?”
Upon hearing this, the Wood Spirit clan chief’s brows furrowed slightly, before he said outright,
“Our Wood Spirit clan is quite different from humans, so naturally, we cannot cultivate human cultivation techniques.”
“And another thing…”
“Did you come to find me just for this matter?”
Upon hearing this, Lin Jing sighed helplessly and said,
“Sigh…
I had previously obtained a wood element cultivation technique that could help Spirit Plants grow, and I was hoping your Wood Spirit clan could cultivate it.”
“Now it seems, you can’t cultivate it either, what a shame.”
But before Lin Jing could finish his sentence,
the Wood Spirit clan chief’s eyes widened.
As soon as Lin Jing finished speaking, the clan chief immediately asked,
“What kind of cultivation technique can actually help Spirit Plants grow?”
“Come…”
“Let me take a look.”
Seeing the Wood Spirit clan leader’s reaction, Lin Jing didn’t say anything.
Instead, he directly took out the Shenglin Revival Wood Technique that Yue Qiniang had imprinted for him from his Space Ring.
Next.
Lin Jing opened up the Shenglin Revival Wood Technique and then tore it in half from the middle.
After tearing it, Lin Jing threw the first half to the Wood Spirit clan leader.
Seeing Lin Jing’s action, the Wood Spirit clan leader was so angry he nearly couldn’t speak, pointing at Lin Jing.
“You…”
“That’s truly a waste of heaven’s gifts.”
Lin Jing smiled and said:
“I assume, clan leader, you know that I’m doing this because I have a request.
If I gave you the complete cultivation technique, I suppose the item I seek would be out of reach.”
The Wood Spirit clan leader took the half-piece of the Shenglin Revival Wood Technique, then looked at Lin Jing with an expression that was both irritated and complex.
“As expected…”
“I knew it, you asking me to come, definitely wasn’t for anything good.”
“Speak, what do you want?”
Lin Jing didn’t beat around the bush and directly said:
“I’ve heard that you have a rhizome of the Undying Longevity Grass which you have always been unable to grow.”
“What I want is exactly that Undying Longevity Grass rhizome.”
Hearing Lin Jing say this, the Wood Spirit clan leader wasn’t angry.
Instead, he turned his gaze towards the side at Baba Mulang.
Baba Mulang seemed as if he had done something wrong and immediately lowered his head.
At this moment, Lin Jing spoke:
“Clan leader!”
“As the leader of the Wood Spirits, your actions naturally have to consider the entire clan’s well-being.”
“If this cultivation technique can indeed be used by your Wood Spirit clan, then the value of a single Undying Longevity Grass is actually nothing in comparison.”
“Don’t you agree?”
After hearing this, the Wood Spirit clan leader looked at Lin Jing and nodded.
“You’re absolutely right.”
“However, I still want to ask, why do you want the rhizome of the Undying Longevity Grass, do you really think you can grow it?”
With the System Space, Lin Jing could certainly grow it.
However.
That, of course, was not something he could reveal.
“I’ve long heard of this Undying Longevity Grass and have also seen it recorded in books about Spirit Grass.”
“The reason I want the rhizome of the Undying Longevity Grass is one, to see if it is truly as described in the books, and another is, naturally, I also wish to attempt to cultivate it.”
“Just because your Wood Spirit clan couldn’t grow it in the Wood Element Realm doesn’t mean we Human Cultivators can’t.
I intend to take it out and find someone to help take a look.”
After listening, the Wood Spirit clan leader gave Lin Jing a strange look and then said:
“A Spirit Grass that even our Wood Spirit clan fails to cultivate…”
“If you humans want to grow it, I think you’re being too naive.”
Lin Jing just laughed and said:
“It’s just a trial.”
“Even if I can’t grow it, I wouldn’t lose anything.”
“On the other hand, if this cultivation technique can indeed be practiced by your Wood Spirit clan, then your clan might be able to use it to grow stronger.”
“Don’t you wish for that?”
Lin Jing’s words silenced the Wood Spirit clan leader momentarily.
As the leader of the Wood Spirit clan, he naturally wished for his clan to grow stronger.
Afterward.
He looked at the half of the cultivation technique in his hand, then glanced at Lin Jing:
“Wait here for a moment.”
Having said that, he took the cultivation technique and started to go through it.
Ever since he knew that the Wood Spirit clan leader had the Undying Longevity Grass, Lin Jing had been tempted.
Then.
Lin Jing extracted some information from Baba Mulang.
And learned that the Wood Spirit clan also needed Spirit Plants.
So.
Lin Jing began to consider, what could be the most important thing for the Wood Spirit clan?
Thus.
Lin Jing thought of the cultivation technique, Shenglin Revival Wood Technique.
The Wood Spirit clan had always lived in the Wood Element Realm, rarely in contact with the outside world, not only were their resources limited, requiring self-sufficiency, but their cultivation techniques were certainly not many in number.
Moreover, such special techniques that could aid the growth of Spirit Plants and even shorten their growth cycles were even rarer.
By practicing such a technique, reducing the growth time of Spirit Plants and making them mature faster would mean that they could obtain more cultivation resources.
The more cultivation resources they acquired, the stronger their clan would naturally become.
This Shenglin Revival Wood Technique was more than suitable for the Wood Spirit clan.
Only.
Lin Jing wasn’t sure whether this cultivation method, originally belonging to the Human Race, could be practiced by their Wood Spirit clan?
……
When the Wood Spirit clan leader saw the cultivation technique, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
He flipped through the technique in his hand, slowing down with each page.
Sometimes, he would linger over a pair of pages for more than a moment.
The book wasn’t very thick, but by the time the Wood Spirit clan leader finished going through the half of the technique he had, six hours had passed.
He read very carefully, and during that time, Lin Jing didn’t disturb him.
He just waited quietly with Baba Mulang.
Only after flipping through the last page did he come back to his senses, then involuntarily looked towards the remaining half of the Shenglin Revival Wood Technique in Lin Jing’s hand…