Chapter 644: Chapter 417: Reveal

Gu Qingfeng, Wenshan, Zuo Mu, and the others also rushed over. In no time, a sizable crowd had gathered in Xu Yang’s courtyard.

At first, everyone was just concerned about why he had stayed in the mountains for so long. Soon, the conversation shifted to everything that had happened over the past four-plus months since he had left the Celestial Strategy Academy.

Geniuses in the second tier, like Sun Tao and Huo Xiaochen, had all broken through to the Celestial Essence Third Layer. Even Sun Tao, who was the latest to advance, had achieved his breakthrough nearly two months ago.

In the third tier—those ranked below Sun Tao, starting with Liu Gao—only Liu Gao himself had broken through to the Celestial Essence Third Layer so far. The rest, including Fan Yi, Wu You, and Qiu He, were still grinding away at the bottleneck.

In fact, after more than a year at the Celestial Strategy Academy, the gap between the original three hundred and sixty students had grown increasingly wide. Some speculated that the few Spirit Bone Celestial Prides with the best innate talent were nearing the Celestial Essence Fourth Layer. Conversely, the least talented students were still stuck at the Celestial Essence First Layer, despite having spent over a year at the Academy.

After chatting for a while, the crowd eagerly dragged Xu Yang out for drinks.

He wasn’t in a rush to handle his other affairs anyway. Having spent over four months in the mountains eating nothing but roasted meat every day, he was completely sick of it.

That night, he got dead drunk with everyone.

While drinking, he picked up some news: his ranking on the Celestial Strategy Wind and Cloud List hadn’t changed. Over the course of a year, almost everyone capable of making the list had already done so. Barring any surprises, those who hadn’t made it previously were unlikely to suddenly become strong enough to knock others down the ranks.

The next day, he brought along the ten-year-old Starlight Grass and the gallbladders from the Celestial Essence Third Layer Fire Bears and hurried to the Hero Hall to turn in his missions.

There was actually a huge difference between these two missions.

Because the effects of Starlight Grass were extraordinary, the Celestial Strategy Academy would accept as much of it as they could get.

The Fire Bear gallbladder mission, however, was different. It had been issued purely to provide students with a practical training mission. As such, even though he had two Fire Bear gallbladders, he could only submit one for the mission. He would have to sell the remaining one himself.

The Fire Bear gallbladder mission rewarded twenty credits.

Instead of the standard five credits per year of age, the ten-year-old Starlight Grass was calculated at ten credits per year, earning him a total of one hundred credits.

After completing the mission handovers and leaving the Hero Hall, he hurried over to the Logistics Hall to claim the four months of backlogged credits for his rank on the Celestial Strategy Wind and Cloud List, which totaled two hundred.

With four hundred and twenty credits suddenly in hand, plus his previous savings of two hundred and thirty, he now had six hundred and fifty credits.

"That’s enough to exchange for the first-stage Cultivation Technique of the Spirit Bone Martial Technique," he thought.

However, he wasn’t in a rush to head to the Hidden Skills Hall to redeem the Spirit Bone Martial Technique. He had just returned, and there were still a few other matters to handle.

He had accumulated four months’ worth of training time in the Battle Tower; if he didn’t use it soon, it would be wiped clean. The Spirit Medicines he brought back also needed to be dealt with quickly—whatever needed to be sold had to go.

Returning to his courtyard, Xu Yang put away his credits and took out the piece of Earth Essence.

Although this item was a top-tier material for forging Weapons, very few people in the Martial Arts Realm actually used Earth Essence to forge Weapons. It was primarily used to transform medicinal fields.

A regular medicinal field only needed the addition of Earth Essence to instantly turn into a spiritual field, boosting the growth rate of Spirit Medicines several times over. Of course, this required grinding the Earth Essence into powder and sprinkling it across the medicinal field.

He was merely a passerby at the Celestial Strategy Academy and wouldn’t be staying for too long. Creating a spiritual field here would only benefit whoever moved in after him.

Ultimately, Xu Yang chose to bury the Earth Essence beneath a medicinal herb called the Soul Resurrection Grass.

The Soul Resurrection Grass was the most precious of all the herbs he was cultivating. Though it hadn’t yet evolved into a Spirit Medicine, once it did, its value would far exceed that of the other plants. More importantly, when he eventually left the Celestial Strategy Academy, he could take the Earth Essence with him. Besides, cultivating multiple Spirit Medicines was less practical than meticulously nurturing a single one that could be of use in critical moments.

Once the Soul Resurrection Grass evolved into a Spirit Medicine, it would no longer be called the Soul Resurrection Grass. It would become the Nine Nether Soul Reviving Grass, possessing astonishing healing properties.

It was said that a fifty-year-old Soul Resurrection Grass could heal any injury, no matter how severe, as long as the person still had a breath left. Even if one’s Heart Spirit suffered massive trauma, it could be fully restored. The older the plant, the more incredible its healing effects. It was an extremely rare, sacred healing medicine.

He had no expectations of making money by cultivating Spirit Medicines. The growth rate of these herbs simply couldn’t keep up with his own rate of improvement. Rather than splitting the Earth Essence, it was better to concentrate its power to cultivate a truly valuable Spirit Medicine.

After burying the Earth Essence, he cast the Yunling Technique on the Soul Resurrection Grass once more.

Bolstered by both the Yunling Technique and the Earth Essence, the Soul Resurrection Grass’s ability to absorb Spiritual Qi instantly surged. The Spiritual Qi within a radius of several dozen feet swarmed toward it.

"With the Earth Essence and the Yunling Technique, it won’t be more than ten days to half a month before this Soul Resurrection Grass transforms into a Nine Nether Soul Reviving Grass," he thought.

Since an entire piece of Earth Essence was being used on a single Soul Resurrection Grass, the time it would take to evolve into a Spirit Medicine wouldn’t be very long. However, the Earth Essence’s ability to absorb Spiritual Qi was so absurd that the surrounding medicinal herbs would likely never have a chance to become Spirit Medicines in this lifetime.

Xu Yang didn’t mind. He hadn’t planned on making money off these herbs anyway; growing them was merely a task assigned by Jin Yu.

After casting the Yunling Technique once more on the unaffected herbs nearby, he returned to the Quiet Chamber to carefully sort out his recent harvest.

He stored away the Spirit Medicines he could use himself and gathered the ones meant to be sold alongside the Exotic Beast materials. Finally, he took out the biggest prize of this trip: the Celestial Star Tungsten Steel.

There was enough Celestial Star Tungsten Steel to forge a Weapon for himself. Now, he just had to consider whether to hire someone else for the job or forge it himself.

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