Chapter 68 High Grade Spiritual Root
Chen An was slightly stunned, and memories and experiences of mysterious techniques flooded into his mind.

Mystic arts are different from spells, and the former has much greater growth potential than the latter.

General secret techniques can be used from foundation building to golden elixir stage, and the more powerful ones can even be used to the Nascent Soul stage!
Chen An gently shook his slightly dizzy head and sorted out the relevant information about the Soul-Snatching Technique.

The Soul-stealing Technique, as the name suggests, is to transfer the spiritual power of one spiritual plant to another through a secret technique, thus achieving the effect of ripening the plant.

Theoretically, the spiritual power of a ten-year-old spiritual plant can be transferred to another ten-year-old spiritual plant, and a twenty-year-old spiritual plant can be obtained.

But in general, there is definitely a discrepancy between theory and practice.

Chen An hurriedly got up, glanced at the Spirit Gathering Wood, and then shifted his gaze to the Youyuetan on the periphery.

We have already harvested two seasons of the Youyuetan, and the third season has only been planted for about five months, so it is still a few months away from the maturity period of one year.

Chen An's heart moved slightly, and he cast a spell, drawing out a trace of emerald green spiritual power from one of the Youyuetan plants.

The emerald green spiritual power soon gathered into a small ball, and the Youyue Tan plant withered visibly to the naked eye. Soon it completely lost its spiritual power and became a withered spiritual plant.

Once the wind blows, it will completely turn into ashes.

Chen An immediately injected this spiritual power into the rhizome of another Youyuetan plant.

The emerald green spiritual power became less and less, and the Youyue Tan tree grew taller and taller. In the blink of an eye, it grew about an inch taller.

Chen An glanced at the progress bar of the spiritual plant and compared it with other spiritual plants. It had only increased by one month.

So, only 20 percent effective?
The loss rate is too high!

Considering that the secret art is still in the introductory stage, Chen An still has high expectations for it.

If we harvest a few more times, the loss rate may be greatly reduced.

A few days later.

After repeated experiments, Chen An found a better way to use the Soul-Snatching Technique.

The Soul-stealing Technique can not only steal the spiritual power of other spiritual plants, but if there is ready-made plant essence, it can also accelerate the absorption of the spiritual plants.

The specific improvement is that the spiritual plants can absorb one kilogram of second-level plant essence within three days, and the efficiency is increased tenfold!
By harvesting the Spirit Gathering Wood that had been ripened to ten years old as an experiment, Chen An obtained a second-level intermediate-grade formation, the Spirit Gathering Formation.

With the formation information and formation methods in hand, Chen An's face was filled with joy.

He immediately set up a spirit gathering formation, covering the cave and the entire spiritual field.

But when setting up the formation, Chen An saw something unusual at the foot of the mountain from afar while he was moving around.

He used the Nine Revolutions of Samsara, restrained his aura, and quietly came to the foot of the west side of Yunwu Mountain.

In the grass, there was a young man lying with a thick beard on his chin. He looked quite strong and sturdy, but his breathing was heavy, his face was as pale as paper, and his body was covered in blood. He seemed to be seriously injured.

This person's aura is weak, and he is probably at the third level of Qi training.

Chen An frowned slightly. He didn't want to pay attention to him and even wanted to throw this man farther out of the mountain. After all, he didn't want to cause trouble for himself and his family.

Unexpectedly, when the young man saw Chen An facing a formidable enemy, he sat up with a grunt, and moved backwards while enduring the pain all over his body.

"Who are you?"

Chen An was happy: "You are at the foot of my mountain, and you still ask me who I am!"

When the young man sat up, Chen An saw a green cloud on the chest of his tattered robe. This was the identity symbol of an outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect, and he had seen it on Chen Yu.

"This is Yunwu Mountain?"

The young man looked around and confirmed where he was.

He shook his head, revealing a look of realization: "Could it be that you are the Chen family senior who killed two foundation-building masters of the Liu family in a battle a few years ago! When I just joined the sect, I heard about your heroic deeds."

"Just joined? I remember that Qingyun Sect does not accept disciples over 20 years old!"

"You may not believe that I am only sixteen years old this year."

Chen An's expression looked a little strange. The man in front of him looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, and you told me he was only sixteen?
Curious, he stepped forward, grabbed the other person's wrist, and checked it out.

After checking, his expression became even more interesting. The other person's bone age was indeed sixteen years old, but that was nothing, at most he just looked more mature.

It is worth noting that this boy is actually a cultivator with superior spiritual roots!
This was also the first time that Chen An had seen someone with such talent.

But unfortunately, the opponent's foundation is almost damaged, and it is not even as good as the low-grade spiritual roots, so he can only compete with miscellaneous spiritual roots.

"Are you poisoned?" Chen An asked curiously.

The young man said with a guilty look on his face, "I am ashamed to say that my name is Zhao Hu, and I am an outer disciple of Qingyun Sect. I was involved in a factional struggle within the sect and became a pawn. I was plotted against and my foundation was damaged. A few days ago, when I went to the Black Wind Mountains to look for an opportunity to repair my foundation, I came across a spiritual ginseng, but encountered a guardian monster. I was defeated and returned seriously injured. I came to the foot of Yunwu Mountain in a daze."

After saying that, he twitched his nose twice, as if he smelled something, and his expression revealed a hint of excitement.

Chen An was surprised. Factional fighting?
Large sects are complicated.

This means we cannot let the other party stay at the foot of Yunwu Mountain.

Chen An thought of Chen Yu. He didn't know which faction she belonged to. He just hoped that she could have a better vision and do better, so that he would not be unhappy and bring trouble to the family.

"This is not the place for you to stay. You'd better leave quickly." Chen An said stiffly.

Zhao Hu said with a bitter face: "I will leave when my injuries are better."

As he spoke, he reached towards his waist, as if he wanted to take out the elixir.

But there was a big hole in his storage bag, and it was empty. He didn't know where the pills had fallen.

Chen An's brows furrowed more and more tightly, and he was somewhat displeased with the person in front of him.

But he still left behind a bottle of Qi-nourishing Pills and a message: "Leave Yunwu Mountain in three days!"

Zhao Hu picked up the pill, looked at Chen An's departing back, and recalled the faint scent of ginseng on the other person's body, his face thoughtful.

Chen An returned to the spiritual field and continued to work on the spiritual plants.

The previous ten-year and fifteen-year-old spirit-gathering wood was bred three or four times during the ripening period. Now I have dozens of seeds on hand, so I am not afraid of the hassle.

He took out a five-year-old spirit-gathering wood that he had harvested before, used the Soul-Snatching Technique to drain its spiritual power.

I didn’t pay much attention to it before, but now I take a closer look, the green mass in front of me is the essence of plants!

Judging from its weight, it is about one kilogram, which can make the spiritual plant grow for one year.

So, no matter what, 80% of the spiritual power will be lost?

Chen An remained silent. It seemed that the right thing to do was to improve his proficiency in the Soul-Snatching Technique first.

Otherwise, his efficiency would not be improved, the Snow Yuan Lotus would not be ripened, and his cultivation would progress slowly.

Next, Chen An extracted all the essence from the ten-year and fifteen-year-old spirit gathering wood.

As expected, a total of six kilograms of plant essence was obtained, not one or two more.

Chen An did not ripen it prematurely, but instead put the essence into a jar and stored it away.

It seems that I still need to collect a few more kilograms.

After collecting the essence, Chen An left the formation and planned to find Chen Qing to discuss the matter and see if he could buy a few more kilograms.

When he arrived at the gate of the family compound, he found that the family was decorated with lights and was very lively.

It's obviously another wedding.

Chen An saw Chen Qing who was welcoming and seeing off guests in the crowd. His face was rosy and his mouth was so happy that it almost reached his ears.

His mind moved and he sent a message to the other party.

Chen Qing, who was busy, was slightly startled. He then said "sorry", left the guest, and followed the direction to find Chen An.

"What kind of happy event is this with all the lights and decorations?" Chen An first asked the question in his mind.

"Oh, Shanshan and Tingting each gave birth to a big fat boy. I'm a grandfather now, and we're holding a full-moon banquet today." Chen Qing's face was full of intoxication.

(End of this chapter)