Chapter 274: Growth Booster 3.0
Xiang Yu had completely missed this stat before. When his palm techniques had reached perfect mastery, there was no more experience bar so he assumed he’d done something wrong. He had even asked the Empress about it, and she said that he should’ve gained the intent realm. It seemed he had misunderstood something.
The intent realm wasn’t a progression above the perfect stage, it was like a whole realm of its own. From what he understood, the intent realm seemed to be based on the twenty basic weapons. He hadn’t received intent for each of the ten elemental palms individually, but rather just the palm intent. No wonder he felt so natural when performing palm techniques during the simulation.
He raised his hand and looked at his palm. He slowly pushed it forward and watched as the air was forcefully displaced and pushed against the walls of the cave, causing it to shake slightly. His palm techniques had reached such a level of mastery that they felt like an extension of his own will.
He decided to practice other weapon techniques to gain their intent as well. The light clone was already working on it. His sword technique was almost at the perfect level, so he just needed to develop the other eighteen weapon techniques.
He then waved his hand to close the system screen. The bubbling sensation in his dantian seemed to have hit a critical point. The qi inside his dantian kept boiling and boiling until his dantian couldn’t handle the pressure anymore. At that moment, a small opening appeared in the dantian and all the qi rushed out.
Then, in the next instant, his dantian became like a black hole and started sucking in all the surrounding qi. Waves and waves of qi started pouring into his dantian. This time, the flow was even greater than when he upgraded from high to superior grade spirit root.
Qi flowed into him continuously for almost an hour. When it was finally done, the qi in the spirit vein had thinned so much it was almost a qi vacuum. He exhaled deeply to calm himself down.
He thought to himself that the moment during the spirit root breakthrough was also a perfect opportunity. When he had a lot of qi around, he could take advantage of it to gain more spirit cultivation. Just like now, he had entered the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment.
He thought to himself that he should set up the formations quickly and start preparing the higher level ones for when his spirit root breaks through to divine level, so he could take full advantage of it.
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The wood clone Xiang Yu gently harvested the mature plants and replaced them with fresh new ones. He thought to himself that at the moment, herbs were probably the resources they had the most of, though they were mostly low-level ones. Still, it wasn’t all that bad since they were being used by the disciples. He smiled as he worked, knowing the herbs were going to increase even more.
As he was thinking of this, he felt the qi concentration suddenly double, then double again, and then continue to increase continuously before settling after some time. The other formations had finally been installed. The level of qi concentration in the air was so great that you could even see it floating around like shimmering wisps of light.
He smiled widely. He had been waiting to set up the formations first before using his crops booster 3.0. After his spirit farming had upgraded to fifth grade, his growth boosting skill had also leveled up significantly.
He activated the enhanced technique on both the animals and the herbs. For the animals, he didn’t pay much attention to them since it was hard to determine exact changes. It wasn’t as straightforward as observing the herbs.
And honestly, with heavenly grade cooking skills, he could make heavenly dishes without even needing high-level resources, which kind of defeated the whole point of keeping them in the first place. But there was no need to get rid of them. After all, he was teaching the next generation of cooks, spirit farmers, and medicine students. Having some test subjects around wasn’t a bad thing.
As for the herbs, this was the real deal. For fourth grade spirit herbs, which he didn’t have at the moment, they would receive a fifty percent boost. For the fifth grade herbs - these ones he did have a few of - they would receive a hundred percent boost.
Though it probably didn’t matter much since they were just barely starting to sprout. But if he accounted for the boost in spiritual energy throughout the sect, he could estimate that he could harvest fifth grade herbs once every month. And if the spirit vein was upgraded, which it was very close to by the way, then he could look at a three to two week turnaround.
As for sixth grade herbs, they received a two hundred percent boost. With the addition of the increased spiritual qi concentration, he could expect to harvest them once every three days, and maybe daily after the spirit vein upgrade.
For the seventh grade herbs, which were most used by the sect, their boost was now four hundred percent. Before, he could harvest them daily, but now he could harvest them multiple times throughout a single day.
The eighth and ninth grade herbs received eight hundred and sixteen hundred percent boosts respectively. Considering the spirit energy increase, and given that he could already harvest them multiple times a day, he didn’t even want to think about the exact timing anymore.
He thought to himself that he was going to create a new, larger farm outside the spirit vein and move these low-level herbs there. Even without being inside the spirit vein, they could still be harvested multiple times a day thanks to the increased qi concentration throughout the sect and the crops booster 3000. He didn’t want them to take up valuable space in the spirit vein since they were the majority of his crops.
Although there was still a large unused space in the spirit vein, Xiang Yu wanted this place to be reserved for higher level herbs. Even the seventh and sixth grade ones were going to soon be moved out to the larger garden outside. The spirit vein should be focused on the truly valuable, high-grade cultivation resources.
As he was thinking of this, he suddenly sensed people outside the sect barrier. A smile crossed his face.
"Looks like the sect masters didn’t let me down..."