You Cultivate, I Farm

"Five-grade Holy Infant Pill, it can actually increase the success rate of breaking through to the Core Formation stage!"

"What a windfall!" Lu Xuan rejoiced in his heart.

Core Formation cultivators were considered powerhouses in the cultivation world. Even in a large sect like the Sky Sword Sect, there were only a dozen or so Core Formation True Immortals. The rarity of the Holy Infant Pill, capable of increasing the odds of advancing to the Core Formation realm, was self-evident.

"After all, the Holy Infant Fruit plant is not a complete fifth-grade spiritual plant. To have yielded a fifth-grade pill is already quite remarkable."

Lu Xuan securely stored the Holy Infant Pill and employed the Earth Attraction Technique to bury the Holy Infant Fruit mother plant he had obtained from the evil cultivator into the Spirit Soil of Dark Decay.

His consciousness focused on the embryonic fruit, and instantly a thought emerged from his mind.

【Holy Infant Fruit Mother Plant, a fifth-grade spiritual plant, can devour and integrate mature offspring fruits to expedite the maturity of the mother plant. Driven by a craving for offspring fruits, it instinctively produces offspring fruit seeds.】

【Within a certain distance, it can sense the presence of offspring and pinpoint their exact locations. As it nears maturity, it can attach to an offspring, observing and sensing its surroundings.】

【Once fully mature, it can be used to...】

"Its uses are similar to those of the offspring fruits, just slightly more potent."

"Should I integrate the just-matured offspring fruit into the mother plant?"

Lu Xuan found himself pondering.

Having already received the reward orb, logically, merging the offspring fruit into the mother plant would be the correct choice, accelerating the mother plant's maturation.

Yet, a line in the information caught Lu Xuan's attention.

"Driven by a craving for offspring fruits, it instinctively produces offspring fruit seeds..."

"Does this mean, as long as it doesn't fulfill its desire for offspring fruits, the mother plant will continuously produce offspring fruit seeds?"

A lightbulb went off in his mind.

"By the time I acquired the mother plant, it was already growing. Even if I nurture it to maturity, I wouldn't receive an orb reward."

"Using an offspring fruit for fusion would result in a mature mother plant with enhanced effects. But once it's satisfied, it won't produce new offspring fruit seeds."

"As long as I don't satiate it, it will keep producing fifth-grade Holy Infant Fruit offspring seeds?"

"Meaning, as long as I nurture them to maturity, I can continuously receive orb rewards?"

Lu Xuan's gaze towards the Holy Infant Fruit mother plant in the Spirit Soil shifted.

Mother plant? More like a sow!

Keep birthing for me, ten or eight of them!

A plant that could continuously supply fifth-grade offspring seeds was more than just a mother plant to him.

Lu Xuan dug the Holy Infant Fruit mother plant from the Spirit Soil and placed it into the Gluttonous Insect Pouch.

"Next, I should consider relocating."

The underworld courtyard, now exposed to cultivators of Jianmen Town and fellow disciples of the Sky Sword Sect, prompted Lu Xuan, with a low-profile mindset, to find a new courtyard for these aberrant spiritual plants.

He placed the Aberrant Longevity Peach, Blood Woe Flower, and other plants into the Gluttonous Insect Pouch.

The Gluttonous Insect Pouch, a fifth-grade treasure, could well maintain the vitality of spiritual plants, having almost no impact on them in the short term.

He scraped up all the Spirit Soil of Dark Decay from the courtyard. Thinking it over, he didn't spare even the ordinary Spirit Soil tinged with Yin energy, to avoid the need to cultivate such an underworld courtyard again after moving.

A familiar underworld growing environment also benefited the growth of many aberrant spiritual plants.

Lastly, he took the formation plate of the Four Illusions Cloud Smoke Formation.

Regarding the new courtyard, he decided to stay in Jianmen Town.

Firstly, its proximity to the Sky Sword Sect meant that many evil and rogue cultivators, wary of the sect's reputation, would steer clear, making Lu Xuan's commute much more convenient.

Secondly, if too distant, it would exceed the range within which Lu Xuan could control the Void Nightmare Eye. As the grades of the plants in the courtyard increased, he could no longer afford to be as carefree as before; constant monitoring was essential to prevent any accidents.

For these reasons, Lu Xuan ultimately chose to stay within Jianmen Town.

Fortunately, with its vast area, Lu Xuan, donning the Thousand Faces Phantom mask to alter his appearance, quickly found a more spacious courtyard.

The courtyard featured two moderately sized spiritual fields, perfect for cultivating spiritual plants.

He extracted the Four Illusions Cloud Smoke Formation plate, its surface swirling with clouds and illusions.

Centering himself in the courtyard, Lu

Xuan infused spiritual power into the formation plate, activating its runes. The plate silently merged into the ground.

Soon, milky white clouds slowly rose from all corners of the courtyard, teeming with illusions before quickly dissipating back to normalcy.

"Fortunately, the Four Illusions Cloud Smoke Formation itself is an illusionary formation, versatile in nature, so I'm not worried about it being recognized."

Lu Xuan mused, spreading the Yin energy-rich Spirit Soil evenly over the courtyard's spiritual fields and gathering the Spirit Soil of Dark Decay together.

Before long, he could distinctly feel the temperature in the courtyard drop sharply as wisps of Yin energy seeped from the Spirit Soil and Spirit Soil of Dark Decay, rendering the entire yard increasingly Yin and cold.

"High-end underworld courtyards often require only simple setups."

Lu Xuan remarked, extracting numerous aberrant spiritual plants from the Gluttonous Insect Pouch.

The Five-grade Blood Woe Flower with hollow blood spheres, the Five-grade Aberrant Longevity Peach emitting fresh milk fragrance, the Four-grade Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng crawling around the yard like hands, the Filth-Eating Grass covertly gathering filth and miasma in a corner, the Three-grade Thousand Tendril Hand sprouting tiny finger-like shoots, and the newly acquired Five-grade Holy Infant Fruit mother plant.

"Let's celebrate your housewarming today!"

After planting various aberrant plants, Lu Xuan's lips curled into a slight smile. He then retrieved over twenty bottles of Flood Dragon essence blood from his storage bag, watering the Blood Woe Flower and the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng circling it. He buried a large amount of fresh demonic beast flesh beneath the Aberrant Longevity Peach.

He also distributed various demonic beast limbs and segments to the newly sprouted Thousand Tendril Hand for a feast.

Then, he extracted the Wood Infant, unused for a long time, forcing it to release streams of infant souls with the power of lightning, allowing the newly joined underworld spiritual plant family's Holy Infant Fruit mother plant to have its fill.

As the plants voraciously absorbed their preferred food, the courtyard was momentarily filled with wandering souls, mountains of beast flesh, and rivers of essence blood, resembling a purgatory on earth.

"This courtyard, not even half a day old, already mirrors the previous underworld courtyard."

Lu Xuan couldn't help but marvel at the contaminating and assimilating power of these aberrant spiritual plants, feeling even more relieved he hadn't moved them into the incomplete secret realm under his control.

"Unless I can effectively avoid the risk of contamination and transformation, it's better to stick to cultivating them in such courtyards."

He murmured, surveying the entire yard now shrouded in Yin energy and filled with resentment, resolved to return to the Sky Sword Sect.

He activated the Four Illusions Cloud Smoke Formation, slipped into an unoccupied corner to ensure no abnormalities, reverted to his original appearance, and swiftly made his way to the Sky Sword Sect.