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Chapter 399: Longevity Spring
In front of Wanbao Academy is an open square with forty-two stone pillars standing on it, each of which seems to be supporting the sky.
On both sides of the front of the square are scenic lakes and grasslands, as well as some scattered white jade platforms for monks to practice magic and learn from each other.
But now that the people were gone, the lakes on both sides dried up, and the grasslands turned into a messy jungle. In other words, although the four people had seen Wanbao Academy, they were still very far away. First, they had to cross a messy jungle, and then walk straight through the square with forty-two stone pillars.
Just crossing the tangled jungle without rest would take at least ten days, and that's for a warrior. For an ordinary person, it would probably take several months.
This is the standard of the Eryuan Sect, which is so large that it is unimaginable. Everyone did not delay and immediately started the journey. Zhang Mo still had enough food pills left, so she was not afraid of spending more time.
The weeds in this tangled jungle are much taller than a person, and it is truly a wonder that a single blade of grass grows as tall as a tree.
Wang Huang was curious, so he asked Li Changxiao, who he thought was knowledgeable and experienced. After he asked, Li Changxiao discovered that this grass was a very rare spiritual plant called "Gathering Spirit Grass".
This kind of spiritual plant is quite expensive and has the effect of gathering spiritual energy.
The fact that top-tier companies cultivate large quantities of this spiritual herb as grassland shows that they are extremely wealthy, which makes casual workers like Li Changxiao, who has suffered from poverty for many years, feel extremely surprised.
He could remember how he once fought to the death with others, even to the point of bleeding, just to obtain a Spirit Gathering Grass and refine the Spirit Condensing Pill to consolidate his cultivation and foundation.
Finally, the Spirit Gathering Grass was stolen by someone halfway through. In a rage, he tracked the man for more than three months, rushing forward to fight desperately each time, then using sleep to recover, and then continuing to fight desperately.
It took a lot of hard work to get one.
In the end, in front of Da Zong, it was just a blade of grass in the lawn. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. However, the past is over, and although it is a special feeling to recall it occasionally, the spiritual grass here and now is indeed different.
The lifespan of plants is generally longer than that of humans. This grass has a natural lifespan of one thousand years, and grows one step longer every hundred years. It can be accelerated to mature, so a thousand-year-old Soul Gathering Grass is only just up to a person's knees.
It was indeed strange to have grown this big. Li Changxiao's spiritual sense swept over and found several spiritual herbs that were even as tall as a hill. He led a few people towards the tallest spiritual herbs.
The journey would take several days. In the early morning, the water vapor was thick and the spiritual grass condensed dew. Li Changxiao used his spiritual sense to gather the dew within a radius of several thousand meters in his palm.
It forms a water ball taller than a human being, emitting bursts of fragrance. This spirit-gathering grass has the effect of gathering spiritual energy and can turn it into liquid.
If the spiritual energy had not dried up, this place would probably have turned into a vast ocean, and it would have been an ocean made of spiritual energy. Although the spiritual energy is gone now, the dew from the spiritual gathering grass is still very valuable and is a rare tonic.
He asked the three of them to collect as much as possible. As for himself, this dew had little effect on him, almost no effect.
Zhang Mo tasted the dew. It was sweet and delicious, and the energy flowed into her limbs. She couldn't help but let out a low moan. Then she noticed Zhao Qiu's gaze, and her pretty face turned slightly red, a little embarrassed. She was not young anymore, but she was still laughed at by the younger generation. She couldn't help feeling annoyed.
Zhao Qiu and Wang Huang also drank it, and both were a little out of control, which made Li Changxiao laugh. However, this page was soon over, and everyone came to the place where the tallest spirit gathering grass was.
Li Changxiao was almost certain that the age of this grass was astonishingly old. There were four lines on the grass, which were called the lines against the will of heaven.
It is commonly seen on flowers and plants. In order to enhance the efficacy of herbal medicine, monks will forcibly prolong the lifespan of spiritual plants, and this kind of lines will grow over time.
It has become extinct now. Today's cultivators are eager to use the lifespan of spiritual intelligence for their own benefit, or to turn themselves into spiritual plants and enjoy a long lifespan. They would not bother to extend the lifespan of plants.
Li Changxiao estimated that this spirit-gathering grass had a lifespan of more than 40,000 years, but sadly, this "old man" was about to reach the end of his lifespan.
In other words... he could sense that most of the spirit-gathering grasses here were about to run out of lifespan.
I'm afraid that they will wither away one after another in the next few decades, and the longest duration will be no more than a hundred years.
In fact, when his spiritual sense swept over an area of several miles, he found that many spirit gathering grasses had withered, turned yellow, and died.
“Even if the Eryuan Sect is very generous, they will not spend a large amount of money to extend the life of the Soul Gathering Grass.”
Li Changxiao sighed. Although it is not difficult to increase the lifespan of something before the spiritual energy is exhausted, it is not difficult. To be precise, the higher the cultivation level, the more ways to gain lifespan.
Things like longevity skills, longevity pills, and many magical herbs can increase your lifespan.
It's just that after the spiritual energy was exhausted, there was some kind of subtle restriction between heaven and earth, all things died, the magic was no longer there, the methods that once increased lifespan lost their effect, and lifespan became difficult to increase, which made lifespan extremely precious.
It can be said...in its heyday, in ancient times.
Even if you are just a mortal, if you have sufficient financial resources, you can enjoy a long life, and even live forever if the conditions are good.
Plants are no exception.
Li Changxiao had some kind of feeling in his heart and knew that this place was definitely not normal, so he leaned forward slightly and scanned the earth with his spiritual sense.
This time, I actually found something.
There was a crack deep underground, and he traced it along the crack with his spiritual sense. However, his spiritual sense was limited and he could not trace it back to the source in one go, so he suggested changing the route slightly and heading east.
Zhang Mo and others naturally had no objections.
Li Changxiao walked along the east side. His spiritual sense continued to explore the ground and walked along the crack deep underground. This walk lasted for more than ten days.
During this period, Zhang Mo and others were extremely extravagant and directly used the dew from the spirit gathering grass to wash.
Li Changxiao finally found the source. The crack in the ground was spreading from a high mountain. He walked up the mountain and found a spring at the top of the mountain.
"This is the fountain of immortality."
Li Changxiao finally understood. About tens of thousands of years ago, for some reason, a crack appeared in the ground, allowing the spring water to flow to the grass in front of Wanbao Academy.
This caused the Soul Gathering Grass, which originally had a lifespan of only a thousand years, to continue to increase its lifespan and grow continuously. But then its spiritual energy dried up, and the Longevity Fountain also dried up, and the lifespan of the Soul Gathering Grass slowly dried up again.
Until this moment.
"If this is the case with ordinary spiritual herbs, what about cultivators?" Li Changxiao thought.