Others might feel happy when this kind of attraction falls on them, but Lin Qinghen just feels annoyed. He has never believed that he can attract any good things just by relying on his appearance, and it will only cause unnecessary trouble to himself.
So if I can stay at home during this period of time, I will go out and do other things with Yin Jiuxiao.
Recently, Yin Jiuxiao was taken by him to farm, and there was nothing that required fighting. Apart from daily practice, he just watched over his wife and raised the seedlings. For Yin Jiuxiao, it was a leisure time after the busy work of the ruins.
The mercenary group that they had thrown out before had a few minor troubles because of the Immortal Vine, but Yin Hengxie dealt with it, so there was no need for them to show up again.
The demonic energy in his body surged, and it was easy for him to accelerate the seeds to grow into young sprouts. With a wave of his hand, there were hundreds of plants. These sprouts were planted according to the points marked by Lin Qinghen on the map. With it as a circle, they grew up little by little and began to take effect quickly.
They first took care of the polluted land in the three cities, allocated some extra land to two obedient mercenary groups, let them station them, and then planned to expand outside the city.
The Immortality Ivy can grow by clinging to rocks. The plant exposed on the ground is not conspicuous, just as thick as a finger, but its root system underground can grow stronger and stronger, absorbing a large area of demonic energy.
As it grows, with enough magical energy to support it, it can continue to grow as long as a little root is left. Its vitality is very tenacious. This is the origin of the word "longevity" in the name of Changsheng Teng.
The City of Tears was planted first, and the green vitality was also the first to emerge.
In the past, except for the plantations, the rest of the place was bare. Now, weeds and even wild trees began to grow, stretching their bodies with branches, gradually spreading outward, and growing more and more dense. Many people in the City of Tears squatted nearby and looked at the green for a long time, as if they couldn't believe it.
People outside were telling each other that everything was calm here at Lin Qinghen's place.
The first thing he renovated was his own yard. He had always liked planting flowers and plants, and now he finally got what he wanted.
Some low-star yellow-rank spiritual plants were of little use, but they were lush and had beautiful flowers, which made him feel comfortable just looking at them. There were also some fruits with low spiritual power, but good taste, and those grown with Lin Qinghen's efforts were especially sweet.
He plucked a few of the plump ones and left them for Yin Jiuxiao. Hearing him say they were delicious made him feel happier than getting anything else.
"This turns out to be a specialty of Tear City, the taste of the old North Province," Yin Jiuxiao stretched out his hand and handed the cut fruit to him, smiling at him, "Before, there was limited land that had not been polluted, so it was useless to grow this kind of fruit. I haven't eaten it for a long time."
In fact, Lin Qinghen, a farmer, originally had such a simple happiness, but due to the situation in the spiritual world, he and Yin Jiuxiao had to stand higher if they wanted to really achieve this lasting peace.
Now it's not enough.
There are also people who are eyeing the situation covetously, but there is no direction for the time being. Apart from anything else, the new task of the system is still hanging in the air.
The matter of the Immortality Vine was a big deal, and it took Lin Qinghen a long time to complete the rewards and follow-up tasks given by the system. Only after the matter had been steadily promoted and achieved certain results did he take the time to confirm it.
It’s probably not an easy thing, let’s do it one by one.
He ate the fruit he had grown and decided to look at something fun first. So he looked at the newly refreshed "extra output" factor, and the definition of this reward was clearly written on the production table.
- Additional output: affects the output of Xuan-level and above elixirs. There is a chance of producing special elixirs during production. The probability is affected by natural affinity, currently 1.6%.
Lin Qinghen looked at this one and rested his chin on his hand for a while.
This factor, which only applies to Xuan-grade elixirs, matches the extra reward he received—two self-selected elixir recipes below Xuan-grade three stars.
Lin Qinghen was finally able to break through to the yellow level in the system and create higher-level pills.
The extra output of Xuan-level and above elixirs is not only present in Lin Qinghen's system. Any alchemist above Xuan-level may experience this situation. It is a low-probability event.
After reaching the Xuan level, it is a completely different realm from the Huang level.
Pills above the Xuan level are more complicated, and the prescription requires at least three kinds of materials, not only spiritual plants, but also various outputs from spiritual beasts, ores, and some natural crystals, which are the materials for the pills.
Moreover, Xuan-level spiritual plants are not like Huang-level spiritual plants, which can be planted widely in patches. Many Xuan-level spiritual plants only grow in the wild and have special requirements for the growth environment, so they cannot be raised at will.
Many Xuan-level spiritual plants have developed intelligence to some extent, and can attack people just like spiritual beasts. Ordinary farmers can't even get close to them.
Only families like the Lin family would have large medicinal gardens with rich resources, but Lin Qinghen only lived in the outer circle at that time. He would not go to the middle and inner circles where spiritual plants above the Xuan level were planted.
After arriving in the City of Tears, the pharmacies here are more obvious.
Even if Xuan-level spiritual plants are strong enough to survive in polluted soil, no medicine shop would take the time to grow them in large quantities. Xuan-level spiritual plants have a long growth cycle, are difficult to raise, and the cost is too high.
Generally speaking, the main source of materials above Xuan level for ordinary pharmacies is acquisition. It can be said that 95% of the materials on the market are obtained through risk-taking.
It is impossible to have a unified standard for wild things, which also leads to huge differences between materials above the Xuan level even if they are of the same type or even the same star level, and the abilities of alchemists are gradually stratified.
Because of these many complex situations, the quality differences of the finished products are very obvious.
Unlike yellow-grade elixirs which are sold by the bottle, elixirs of the black grade and above are sold by the pill. One furnace can only produce a single digit number of pills, and each pill is different. Extra output will be generated during the pill refining process for this reason.
This kind of output does not mean a few more grains in quantity, but it is like a kind of mutant. The functional utility will be different from the normal output. The specific utility may be good or bad, similar to a by-product.
The probability of 1.6% is not low in horizontal comparison. We have to wait until it is produced to know what it will look like. It is still unknown what benefits this thing can bring.
But Lin Qinghen did not choose the pill recipe reward immediately. He felt that everything given by the system seemed to be connected at the current stage.
The current choice is obviously closely related to the third level task.
The tasks given by the system now do not require him to do more research on spiritual plants. Perhaps it is because the Xuan-level materials are highly individual and it is difficult to judge the overall quality optimization. Instead, it shifts to another point that the alchemist is concerned about.
—Dan recipe.
"Level 3 mission: Improve the pill recipe.
Requirements: The alchemists in the spirit world don't know that many Xuan-level pill recipes are not optimally configured, and the materials are not used to their full potential. Please study the improvements of the three Xuan-level and above pill recipes and find the best ratio. It is required that the finished product should be optimized by more than 50% compared with the previous output under the same quality of materials.
Rewards: 7 points of natural affinity, 1/4 of a detoxification tablet. After the improved pill formula is successfully verified by the system, it can be directly put into the production table, and there is a chance to unlock hidden rewards based on the completion status.
Please keep up the good work.”
The pills that Lin Qinghen can make are limited, so he has to choose carefully, and the system in front of him provides him with too many pill recipes.
Each level of elixir has its own characteristics, and the characteristic of the Xuan level is probably that it is too rich.
The typical function of Xuan-level elixirs is "instant burst", which can provide spiritual masters with a sudden improvement in certain abilities. For example, the previous Gale Powder has the function of Xuan-level elixirs. Acceleration, short-term flight, stealth, fire control and water summoning, or any other poisonous elixirs are basically Xuan-level.
Even if it is to replenish spiritual energy to heal injuries or facilitate cultivation, it is not as general as the yellow level. It has become detailed and targeted. Different spiritual essences, different causes of injuries, and different cultivation directions require very different elixirs.
In short, there are all kinds of them. There are more than ten thousand recorded prescriptions for Xuan-level elixirs. Excluding some that are too unpopular, Lin Qinghen still has hundreds of them to choose from.
For him, the priority is naturally Xuan-level elixirs with a stable supply of raw materials, room for improving the pill formula to maximize profits, obvious efficacy and strong marketability for most people.
He was not in a hurry to choose. He started with the spiritual plants he was least familiar with and did some practical research.
Before Lin Qinghen's own spiritual power broke through the Xuan level, he didn't dare to touch the Xuan level spiritual plants, for fear of being beaten to death by them.
Now that I have finally made a breakthrough, I can finally touch a living Xuan-level spiritual plant.
Lin Qinghen was rubbing his hands together, very excited.
The Immortal Ivy is not a typical spiritual plant. Its manifestation is too stable and not aggressive at all. With Lin Qinghen's spiritual power, it is not safe to go to the wild, but the only one capable of raising spiritual plants above the Xuan level on a large scale is the Sea Soul City.
Fu Qingping is wealthy, although not as wealthy as the Lin family, but he can still own a medium-sized medicinal garden.
This was Lin Qinghen's first time to go to Haihun City. He didn't care about anything else and went straight to the medicine garden.
In order to nurture Xuan-level spiritual plants, one must first build a stable barrier. As soon as Lin Qinghen went inside, he felt that the spiritual energy became richer with every breath.
The areas with different levels of Xuan-level spiritual plants are strictly separated to prevent them from fighting each other. The people working inside are spiritual masters above the Xuan-level, and even the Di-level, so that they can be suppressed.
Fu Qingping even sent someone to explain it to him. According to this young lady, some spiritual plants have the ability to think and self-awareness, as well as temper.
"The Xuan-level plants are not like the Huang-level plants that need to be planted in batches. They have a long growth period, and those that can be raised can grow here for a long time. We just pick the fruits during the fruiting period and do not damage their roots.
Sometimes I feel like I am raising a child and I have to discuss it with him. For example, this... "
Lin Qinghen looked in the direction of her finger.
As soon as he entered the barrier, he noticed that there was a big tree at the door with lush branches and leaves. When Lin Qinghen looked up, he saw the fruits on the tree, which were round and had a faint golden color.
He recognized it immediately. It was the five-star Xuan-level Happy Banyan.
The name sounds unfriendly, but it got this name because its branches and leaves contain trace amounts of poison. In order to protect its fruits, it will use branches to attack. The poison of the banyan tree can paralyze a person instantly, and the aftereffect is laughter until exhaustion.
"This one doesn't have a good temper," the breeder told him, "but it's very old, and the fruit it bears is of good quality. It took a lot of thought to transplant it here. Now that we've gotten along well, as long as we're not too greedy and pick too much at once, it generally doesn't mind."
This is just an example.
The people who brought Lin Qinghen here were also afraid that something might happen to Young Master Lin, so they deliberately took their people to stand a little further away, a long distance away from Huan Xi Rong's warning range.
But she didn't expect that as soon as Lin Qinghen stood there, the tree reacted.
It trembled slightly at first, as if it felt something, and then began to stretch its branches to probe Lin Qinghen.
The people in Haihun City immediately became anxious, fearing that something might happen to him as soon as he arrived, and wanted to call for help immediately. Yin Jiuxiao, who came with him, reacted quickly and blocked Lin Qinghen's way. He was stopped by Lin Qinghen just as he summoned his spiritual marrow.
"Jiuxiao, it's okay," Lin Qinghen said, "This is beyond its reach."
They stood too far away.
Sure enough, the branch of the tree stopped stretching when it was still a few meters away from Lin Qinghen. Lin Qinghen saw it trying to stretch it out but to no avail.
What interesting stuff.
Lin Qinghen's eyes lit up as he stood there staring at it.
And he didn't feel that the tree was hostile to him.
Lin Qinghen had a wealth of basic knowledge and knew that the poison of the Banyan tree was controlled by it. If the poison condensed in front of the branches, the edge would change color and become a line of purple and black, but the branches that stretched out to him were still green as usual, which meant that they were not poisonous.