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Chapter 751: Chapter 757: Dodge
After communicating with him and nurturing some affection, Li Zhirui said, "I’ll give you a name. Since your true form is the Purple Green Jade Ginseng, let’s call you Qingyu, with the nickname Zi, how about that?"
As someone who was terrible at naming, he thought this name was already quite good.
But Shen Tong, who was small but savvy, had his own ideas and said, "I am the Purple Green Jade Ginseng now, but when I breakthrough to the fourth rank, my true form will change. Won’t I have to take another name then?"
"How about we just skip the formal name and you can simply call me Shen in daily life?" 𝘯𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Li Zhirui didn’t mind, as names were just for the convenience of addressing, and he nodded in agreement, "Alright, it’s up to you."
"Your inheritance should have cultivation techniques, right?" If not, that would be troublesome!
In the human lands, high-level Devil Race techniques were rare to come by, let alone those of the Demon Spirit Clan, which were so scarce that one couldn’t even find a trace of them in the market, and they had to be compatible with Shen as well.
If there were no techniques available, then one could only resort to the most basic method of breathing, absorbing the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth and the Sun and Moon Essence, slowly increasing one’s own cultivation level.
Even though Li Zhirui could concoct Spirit Pills, and his space was filled with all kinds of Spiritual Objects, the absorption efficiency was not high, at most matching that of wild Devil Beasts that had inherited techniques.
"There is one: the heritage I possess is ’The Great Primordial Earth Kun Cultivation Scripture,’ which is the most suited technique for Shenling to cultivate!" Shen Tong’s little face lit up with a brilliant smile as he said this.
Hearing this, Li Zhirui was also somewhat surprised; aside from Cang’s inherited technique, Da Qing’s and Xiaoqing’s techniques were quite common, evolving later on to awaken new techniques.
"Then you must cultivate diligently and not let down this technique," Li Zhirui said.
Li Zhirui continued, "I’ll concoct a few batches of first-rank Spirit Pills for you, but the first rank is when you’re laying the foundation, so you can’t just keep swallowing Spirit Pills to cultivate. You need to properly refine your Mana."
He would be in seclusion for a long time to come, unable to take care of Shen, so he told him that he would have to look after himself and discussed this matter with him.
"By the way, I’ll ask Cang to send in a few Jade Slips for Spiritual Plant Cultivators. If you get bored, you can study them."
The reason why Li Zhirui had entered into a contract with Shen was first that the Demon Spirit Clan was quite unique; with proper cultivation, it might advance faster than Cang! His second reason was to find suitable labor that could help him take care of the numerous Spiritual Objects in his space.
Although the space was mysterious and could sustain any living Spiritual Objects once planted, some Spiritual Objects required special methods to be preserved after they matured, or they had an extremely short maturity period and would quickly decay, reverting to Spirit Seeds, and therefore needed to be harvested promptly.
Cang used to deal with these issues in the past, but now that he was in the outside world and Li Zhirui himself was busy attempting Divine Transformation, he had missed out on many Spiritual Objects over the years.
Now with Shen on board, that situation would no longer occur.
"Great, great!" Shen was very willing.
After some thought, Shen said, "I want to cultivate some of my own clan. When the time comes, I’ll raise them in this world. What do you think?"
"If you want to do it, just do it, but for the sake of confidentiality, I will leave a safeguard in their Spiritual Souls." On this matter, Li Zhirui was not willing to compromise.
Shen hesitated slightly. Although he believed Li Zhirui would not harm future clan members, being subject to someone like this, with little difference from servitude, he didn’t want his clan to become slaves.
"If you don’t want to, you can go cultivate them on Wanxian Island in the outside world, and as long as they swear not to harm the Li family or damage its interests, they can come and go freely on the island," Li Zhirui added, after considering for a while.
In doing so, he also had his own ulterior motives; if Shen really could cultivate Demon Spirits — maybe the Demon Spirit Clan possessed some special Methods that could increase the chances of Demon Spirit births — then he would definitely try to entice them into signing contracts with him and his clan members!
This way, Shen not only had its fellow clan members, but a member of the Li family also gained a rare Devil Spirit.
"Then I might as well go to Wanxian Island and continue nurturing my clan." Shen mused.
Li Zhirui didn’t say much, only reminding him that for the next few decades, he would have to stay in the space, taking care of these Spiritual Objects.
"When you break through to Divine Transformation, I wonder if I can leverage the feedback Mana to breakthrough three ranks in one go," Shen suddenly said, struck by inspiration.
He felt that in the next few decades, he would definitely break through two ranks, and with the immense Mana Li Zhirui would have after his Divine Transformation, it might just help him step into the third rank.
"We will know the outcome when the time comes," Li Zhirui’s eyes lit up, although he wasn’t certain, as such an event had never occurred before.
If it really succeeded, it would save Shen decades, or even a century, of cultivation time!
Moreover, because it was a unique aspect of the Wanling Sutra, there would be no issues like shaky foundations due to the insubstantial Mana.
After chatting idly for a bit, both Li Zhirui and Shen became busy.
Li Zhirui first sent a message to Xiaoqing, briefly informing him of Shen’s existence, as well as instructing him to exchange some foundational Methods of Spiritual Plant Cultivator from the Scripture Pavilion for Shen to learn.
Having done that, he began harvesting first-rank Spiritual Medicine to concoct first-rank Spirit Pills.
Li Zhirui hadn’t concocted first-rank Spirit Pills for many years, but with his proficiency in the Alchemy Dao, such a task presented no difficulty whatsoever.
Furthermore, with just a little effort, he could concoct top-quality Spirit Pills with Pill Patterns!
Therefore, the efficiency of concocting was extremely high, and in less than half a day, he concocted hundreds of bottles of first-rank Spirit Pills. Since all of them were of top quality, they more than sufficed for Shen’s first-rank cultivation.
"Devil Spirit Shen Tong?"
Upon hearing the message, Xiaoqing grew quite curious. He hadn’t expected that in the years he was absent from the space, a Devil Spirit would be born.
He immediately sprung into action, eager to see what Shen Tong looked like for himself.
Xiaoqing didn’t hide his movements, so it wasn’t long before Jiang Fengwu and others noticed, "Why does Zhirui suddenly require the Methods of Spiritual Plant Cultivator?"
Regretfully, once Xiaoqing entered the meditation chamber, he didn’t come out again, leaving their questions unanswered.
"Is this the legendary Devil Spirit Shen Tong?"
Originally, Li Zhirui didn’t want Xiaoqing to go to the space for cultivation, but faced with his persistent pleading, he had no choice but to send him in.
What he didn’t know was that the main reason Xiaoqing didn’t want to stay on Wanxian Island was because of the group of Dragon Beasts there that harassed him constantly!
To be clear, Xiaoqing was the Li family’s only fifth-rank Spirit Beast, and also a Flood Dragon by nature, which held a great attraction for the female Dragon Beasts in the mountain range.
It made him frustrated and restless, yet he couldn’t lay hands on those Dragon Beasts, as these brood dragons were valuable treasures of the Li family. If he accidentally hurt them, it would be troublesome.
He had originally thought of leaving Wanxian Island to avoid this situation, but when Li Zhirui communicated with him, he decided it would be better to hide away in the space.
