Chapter 363: Guardian Beasts
When Wood Xiang Yu activated his Growth Booster 7.0, the first and second grade herbs received boosts of two hundred and four hundred percent respectively.
For first grade herbs, he could now harvest them once every two weeks or so.
But when he factored in the increased qi quantity and quality from his now immortal grade spiritual root, he could harvest them once every two to three days.
As for the rest of the herbs below first grade, they weren’t even worth mentioning, Xiang Yu could harvest them whenever he wanted since they were now ready multiple times throughout the day.
He sighed. He just didn’t have enough hands to make full use of this growth.
He thought to himself that it seemed like the right time to transfer another set of herbs to the outside garden.
He nodded at this idea. Indeed, this was a good plan.
This place was about to become his and his wife’s home, so he couldn’t keep it this congested.
Outside, the students could work on the farms as they learned farming, alchemy, and medicine.
Besides, there wasn’t really any need for these herbs to remain here since he could just create a branch of the spirit vein in the outside farm and recreate the exact same conditions. He thought to himself that the only herbs he’d leave would be the really pretty ones, and he’d plant them strategically throughout the place to enhance the scenery.
He then walked over from the plants to the animals.
He thought to himself that although the animals reacted differently to his growth booster unlike the plants, they also got their own benefits. Currently, many of them were almost at the fifth level, which corresponded to the Golden Core realm.
The problem with the growth booster when applied to animals was that it actually seemed to speed up their growth. Why would this be an issue? Well, normally it wouldn’t be, since a cultivator would want to grow beasts to full maturity quickly and sell them or cultivate them into tamed beasts.
But for Xiang Yu, this meant he couldn’t really always keep the ability active since it could quickly consume their lifespan. As their maturity increased, the beasts aged. This was fine for herbs since they needed to be aged, but for animals, if this continued, they would just die. And some actually had died before Xiang Yu stopped using the growth booster on them as much.
He still used it, but at a lower level.
He thought to himself that he had captured these beasts for food at first, which was why he didn’t initially care about this problem. But after some time, he had come to have other ideas.
He thought to himself that these beasts, although they could cultivate fast due to his ability, weren’t that talented and would consume their lifespans faster than they could cultivate.
Even when they gained more lifespan for breaking through cultivation levels, he wasn’t breaking even. Usually he wouldn’t care since he was just raising them for food, but now he had another idea and wanted them to live.
He wanted to create a set of guardian beasts.
Now that they were such a big sect, they could already capture all sorts of beasts outside for the cooking students, and he had endless high-level herbs for them to practice on so he didn’t care about any shortage of food.
His plan was to give these animals bloodlines.
With bloodlines like dragon and phoenix, their talents would increase as well as their base lifespan. A non-cultivator dragon could live for over a thousand years – that kind of increase.
With that level of increase in lifespan and talent, they would be able to break even when he used the boost on them. He would then cultivate these beasts to become like sect guardian beasts.
The great thing about them was that the growth booster even worked on infants in the womb, so he’d be able to have child dragons soon if they mated.
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Xiang Yu felt that this idea was quite good.
As long as he keeps upgrading his growth booster fast enough, he should be able to increase the cultivation of these guardian beasts to insane levels.
Currently, most of the beasts were at level three, equal to the Foundation Establishment realm.
If he gave them the bloodlines and used the Growth Booster 7.0 on them instead of the current 1.0 he was using on them, they would receive an over ten thousand percent growth boost.
That’s an over hundred times growth boost.
With such a boost, plus immortal food if he could manage to provide it regularly, he might actually be able to create a few immortals.
He smiled widely.
“Am I a genius or what?” he thought before quickly calming himself.
He held his chin in thought, wondering why this growth booster technique worked only on plants and beasts. He wondered what the difference was. If he could use it on his junior sister, wouldn’t she be even stronger?
He shook his head.
After researching the technique multiple times, he had somewhat figured out how it worked.
The technique functioned mostly by stimulating the growth aspects of an organism and making them function faster, leading to faster growth and even faster cultivation speed for beasts. But it might not be as effective if the creature the technique was used on resisted.
The reason that the beasts didn’t resist was that he’d actually tamed them subconsciously. Since the beasts had low willpower, he had tamed them the moment he had used the technique on them for the first time.
To be able to use this on his junior sister, he’d have to tame her.
With his junior sister’s personality, it was probably impossible to tame her. Well, not like she really needed this little boost.
For her, using this method was probably not that useful unless he had something like Growth Booster 100.0, he thought. It was the same for the others in the sect, this technique wasn’t worth it to them as well since it consumed lifespan. It was better for them to have their lifespan and go out to seek opportunities.
Who knows? If they’re nearly as blessed by heaven as Li Yao, they might even stumble upon their own fortunes that are even better than this.
He then looked around. It was almost dawn.
Tonight would be his wedding night. He needed to renovate a little.
How could he accept his bride in such a place?
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