Chapter 63: Third Grafting

After more than ten days, Fang Yun returned to the canyon.

After supplying the land with nutrients using the Earth Power Technique and the Spiritual Rain Technique, he approached the vines he was grafting.

Indeed, out of more than thirty vines, only eight were able to survive.

It seemed that without the effect of life essence, it wasn't easy for these grafted branches to thrive.

The previous vine had thrived because it had grown to a relatively high level, and Fang Yun had accelerated its growth to maturity.

Now, after allowing the thirty or so vines to grow on their own for more than ten days after grafting, he had aimed to select the stronger and more compatible vines.

Thus, the survival rate wasn't very high.

However, the remaining eight vines were more than sufficient.

Then, Fang Yun spent 160 points of life essence to accelerate the growth of all these vines, bringing them directly to maturity.

Looking at the eight vines, each one had fierce-looking spikes.

Four of them grew to over 40 meters in length and were as thick as a calf, twisting their bodies continuously both on the ground and in the air, displaying a menacing demeanor.

The other four, while only over 20 meters long and the thickness of a fist, were entirely black and shone with a cold gleam.

As they moved, they cracked the ground beneath them, showcasing the sharpness of the spikes on these vines.

Seeing that his vines had shown initial success, Fang Yun nodded in satisfaction.

Next, he would wait three months for them to enter the breeding stage, at which point he could use their seeds for the next generation of planting.

Perhaps after six months, he would possess a powerful offensive weapon.

Taking advantage of these three months, Fang Yun returned to the mountain and began planting the spiritual rice.

After the spiritual rice reached maturity, Fang Yun ultimately decided to continue practicing the Golden Qi Technique.

In comparison to life essence, Fang Yun felt that spells were more important to him.

Furthermore, even after leaving Spirit Water Island, there would still be opportunities to collect life essence.

The reason it seemed precious now was simply due to his limited harvest.

On the other hand, practicing spells wasn't something he could do all the time.

Most importantly, Fang Yun believed the Golden Qi Technique had the potential to evolve into a powerful offensive spell for him.

After all, the metal attribute itself possessed strong offensive capabilities.

The weakness of the spell's attack power was due to the nature of the technique itself.

However, if his Golden Qi Technique became stronger in the future, it could definitely change.

After killing insects for another month, Fang Yun once again harvested 300 points of life essence.

He opened the panel he hadn't checked in a while.

Name: Fang Yun

Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 3

Magic Power: 45

Life Essence: 890

Spells: Earth Power Technique (Minor Accomplishment 5%) Spiritual Rain Technique (Minor Accomplishment 16%) Growth Technique (Familiar 60%) Golden Qi Technique (Proficient 13%)

Control Over Plants: Vines (8)

Spiritual Pets: Spirit Insect (1)

His spells had all made varying degrees of progress, with the vines only showing the eight he was focused on, disregarding the others.

Life essence had reached a balance between consumption and replenishment, essentially indicating that this batch of spiritual rice hadn't yielded any life essence.

However, with the progress in these spells, it was worth it.

Especially since the Earth Power Technique had advanced to the minor accomplishment stage, Fang Yun's sensitivity to underground energy had reached a much stronger level.

He could easily guide the energy from deep underground to the surface, eliminating the need to go to the northern mountains to transport soil back.

At the same time, Fang Yun had developed some inexplicable insights regarding the Earth Power Technique or the earth attribute's spiritual energy.

However, these insights were too few, similar to the state he experienced after the Spiritual Rain Technique reached minor accomplishment.

For now, they didn't demonstrate any significant effects, but Fang Yun still believed that these insights were the most important.

He entrusted the subsequent processing of the spiritual rice to Fang Kangseng and decided not to concern himself with it any longer.

After three more months of cultivation, Fang Kangseng had been practicing for a total of four months.

He had opened up two meridians; although the speed wasn't very fast, it was not too slow either.

At this rate, he would likely need about two more years to break through to the first level of Qi Refining.

Compared to Fang Yun before he obtained his golden finger, there wasn't much difference in talent.

However, considering that this would take two years, Fang Yun decided to speed things up a bit.

Thus, he provided Fang Kangseng with an unlimited supply of spiritual rice to eat freely.

Even if this spiritual rice only increased physical strength, it was still a spiritual plant that absorbed spiritual energy, so it would help somewhat in cultivation.

After all, after several batches of planting, the quantity of spiritual rice had significantly increased compared to before.

Without a storage bag, the amount Fang Yun could carry was limited.

It was better to help Fang Kangseng reach the first level of Qi Refining as soon as possible.

That way, he wouldn't have to wait for him to slowly cultivate after his vines had already been developed.

After instructing Fang Kangseng, Fang Yun returned to the canyon.

Upon reaching the canyon, he noticed many more animal skeletons scattered throughout.

This made him frown; he suddenly remembered that he hadn't deliberately removed the killing intent from the vines during their earlier cultivation.

He wondered if, after maturing, these vines secreted some scent that attracted wild beasts.

This could have led to so many beasts arriving and becoming food for the vines.

Shaking his head, he decided it was fine; if their killing desire was stronger, so be it, as long as they obeyed his commands.

This way, they might even be more powerful in combat.

With this thought, Fang Yun approached the eight vines.

He found that they had all produced seeds.

So, he harvested all the seeds.

With the collection of over 200 points of life essence, the vines withered.

Then, after simply cleaning up in the canyon, Fang Yun replanted the harvested seeds.

He used the Earth Power Technique and Spiritual Rain Technique to replenish the entire canyon with sufficient nutrients and spiritual energy.

After completing all this, Fang Yun looked at the vines throughout the canyon.

He considered that the vines he had just planted mostly had two attributes.

Now, he only needed to add one more attribute to them.

That could easily be done by grafting onto other vines.

This way, their root systems would be strong enough, perhaps increasing their survival rate.

After some thought, he decided this approach might not be bad.

Thus, for the next month, Fang Yun stayed in the canyon, providing these vines with enough nutrients and spiritual energy.

After a month, the newly planted vines had all grown to a certain extent; although they hadn't entered the growth phase, they were ready for grafting.

According to his earlier plan, he grafted all the two-attribute vines onto the root systems of the one-attribute vines.

After spending a few days completing this task, Fang Yun decided to wait another month to allow sufficient time for selection.

By then, he would only need to choose the vine that best suited his needs to create his weapon.