Chapter 00344: The Universe of Spiritual Plants
# The Universe of Spiritual Plants
Chapter 344
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 344: The Universe of Spiritual Plants
May 6, 2022
The toxic mist lingered for a full day, and during that time, Lan Xiaobu managed to gather six Slanted Void Mushrooms and one Purple Vein Immortal Fruit.
In addition, he also obtained two Yin Pearls condensed from the Soul-Refining Cauldron.
He hadn’t yet checked the contents of Emperor Fuyuan’s spatial ring, but even if it turned out to be empty, Lan Xiaobu considered today a bountiful harvest.
Zhuanyi returned to the Slanted Void Hall with a face full of joy.
He had been lucky enough to find a Slanted Void Mushroom.
However, he soon noticed that many others were also beaming with happiness.
It seemed he wasn’t the only one who had struck gold this time.
A mid-stage Immortal King cultivator spoke up, “Did anyone else notice that after the initial period, our divine senses could extend much farther in the mist? Sometimes, we could even lock onto the Slanted Void Mushrooms directly.”
This remark from the Immortal King made many realize that it wasn’t just luck.
The Slanted Void Mushrooms had become easier to find because the obstruction to divine senses in the mist had weakened significantly.
Zhuanyi secretly felt relieved.
He hadn’t known about the weakening of the mist’s obstruction.
The sudden ease of finding the mushrooms was simply a stroke of good fortune for him.
Speaking of which, had Lan Xiaobu returned?
Just as Zhuanyi thought of Lan Xiaobu, he saw him walking back into the hall.
Compared to the first time he saw Lan Xiaobu return, Zhuanyi was even more shocked this time.
That Great Luo Golden Immortal hadn’t come back, but Lan Xiaobu had.
Could it be that the Immortal Emperor hadn’t made a move against him? That didn’t seem right.
Zhuanyi quickly concluded that it couldn’t be.
Based on his experience, that Immortal Emperor wouldn’t have let such an opportunity slip.
If the Immortal Emperor had indeed gone after Lan Xiaobu and Lan Xiaobu had returned unscathed, it could only mean one thing: Lan Xiaobu had killed the Immortal Emperor.
He knew Lan Xiaobu wasn’t ordinary, but killing an Immortal Emperor? That was simply...
The Immortal King steward of the Slanted Void Immortal Rest Pavilion had also heard that many cultivators had returned with good harvests this time.
Eager to oversee the acquisition of Slanted Void Mushrooms, he rushed out of the pavilion.
But as soon as he reached the entrance, he saw Lan Xiaobu strolling in casually.
“You…” The Immortal King was startled.
He had expected Lan Xiaobu to never return.
Offending Emperor Fuyuan and leaving the Slanted Void Immortal Rest Pavilion, how could Lan Xiaobu have survived? It was unthinkable.
Lan Xiaobu had spoken to him rudely before, but he hadn’t taken it to heart because he believed Lan Xiaobu was already a dead man.
Even if Lan Xiaobu had stayed in the pavilion, he would have died sooner or later.
The prices at the Slanted Void Immortal Rest Pavilion were exorbitant, and no matter how wealthy Lan Xiaobu was, he couldn’t stay there indefinitely.
Once he left, or even if he took a ship, he would meet his end.
Moreover, as a subordinate of Emperor Xing, he had no qualms about antagonizing Emperor Qi’s people.
But now, he saw Lan Xiaobu walking back in as if nothing had happened.
“Did you go out to search for Slanted Void Mushrooms?” the Immortal King steward asked, finally catching on.
Lan Xiaobu glanced at the Immortal King, likely a steward or manager of the pavilion, and replied indifferently, “That’s my own business.”
Hearing this, the steward was certain that Lan Xiaobu had indeed gone out to search for the mushrooms.
If Lan Xiaobu had gone out and Emperor Fuyuan hadn’t pursued him, the steward wouldn’t have believed it himself.
Now that Lan Xiaobu had returned unharmed, the steward realized he needed to reassess his opinion of Lan Xiaobu.
With a cupped fist, he said, “I am Yu Bucheng, the steward of the Slanted Void Immortal Rest Pavilion. Earlier, when Emperor Fuyuan came looking for you, I sent you a message.”
“Ah, I remember now,” Lan Xiaobu nodded. “Steward Yu, I think this is where your pavilion fell short. What a guest does is none of the pavilion’s business. What if I had been in the middle of a critical breakthrough to the Divine Realm? Your message could have caused me to go berserk. So, let’s not have a next time, alright? If it happens again, I might get upset.”
With that, Lan Xiaobu patted Yu Bucheng on the shoulder and walked into the pavilion.
Such a bold statement! Yet, instead of feeling offended, Yu Bucheng became even more convinced that Emperor Fuyuan had indeed gone after Lan Xiaobu but failed to capture him, allowing Lan Xiaobu to return unscathed.
This man was a talent worth recommending to Emperor Xing.
With a smile, Yu Bucheng cupped his fists behind Lan Xiaobu and said, “Fellow Daoist Lan, Emperor Fuyuan is not an easy man to deal with. If you cross him, he’ll cling to you like a leech, never letting go until one of you is dead. If you’re interested, you could join our Immortal Rest Pavilion. I’ll inform Emperor Xing about you, and once he knows, Emperor Fuyuan won’t dare touch you.”
Lan Xiaobu stopped in his tracks, turned around, and said coolly, “Not interested. I don’t even care who Emperor Fuyuan is.”
With that, he left Yu Bucheng behind and entered the pavilion.
So domineering! Yu Bucheng thought to himself.
He didn’t believe Lan Xiaobu was unaware of his own situation.
If Lan Xiaobu didn’t know, he wouldn’t have made it back here alive.
…
Upon returning to his cave dwelling, Lan Xiaobu immediately entered the Cosmic Dimension Matrix and opened Emperor Fuyuan’s spatial ring.
Emperor Fuyuan’s spatial ring turned out to be a small world, filled with lush fifth to seventh-grade immortal herbs, along with over a dozen eighth-grade and a few ninth-grade immortal herbs.
The most valuable was a ninth-grade immortal herb called the Seven-Leaved Wind and Rain Silkworm.
When mature, this herb bore seven Immortal Silkworm Fruits, each capable of elevating an Immortal Venerable by one level.
It was an incredibly precious resource.
The one before him had already borne fruit—seven of them, though still small.
Besides these, there were ten top-grade immortal spirit veins and a semi-divine flying artifact.
There was also a dedicated scripture pavilion for cultivation manuals, but Lan Xiaobu wasn’t interested in those.
What caught his attention more were the one billion top-grade immortal crystals.
In Emperor Fuyuan’s small world, Lan Xiaobu also found four jade boxes, each containing Slanted Void Mushrooms.
Having been exploited by others at the Slanted Void Station for so long, it was finally Lan Xiaobu’s turn to exploit someone else.
After organizing everything, Lan Xiaobu left the immortal herbs in the small world untouched.
He only took one supreme-grade immortal crystal and two top-grade immortal spirit veins to provide spiritual energy for the Seven-Leaved Wind and Rain Silkworm.
This herb was of great importance to him, and he couldn’t afford to neglect it.
Once everything was sorted, Lan Xiaobu took out the Pharmacopoeia.
This was the first time he had looked at it since winning it in the alchemy competition.
If it weren’t for the Slanted Void Mushrooms he had just obtained, he probably still wouldn’t have had the time to examine it.
The first page of the Pharmacopoeia bore four large characters: “The Universe of Spiritual Plants.”
As he flipped through the pages, Lan Xiaobu realized he had struck gold.
The book detailed spiritual plants from the lowest first-grade immortal herbs to the highest divine-grade herbs, each with a clear explanation of its properties.
Lan Xiaobu quickly found the entry for the Slanted Void Mushroom.
In the Pharmacopoeia, it wasn’t called the Slanted Void Mushroom but the Void Soul Mushroom.
This mushroom grew in the void and appeared during bursts of yin energy.
When Lan Xiaobu read that each Void Soul Mushroom was formed from a soul that couldn’t enter reincarnation, he completely lost interest in it.
Some cultivators, after death, had souls that couldn’t pass into the cycle of reincarnation.
These souls, under the influence of yin energy, condensed into Void Soul Mushrooms.
In other words, the Slanted Void Mushroom was essentially a condensed soul.
Once the mushroom grew to a certain level, it could develop sentience and become a yin cultivator, though this new entity had no connection to the original soul’s owner.
No wonder the Void Soul Mushroom could give Immortal Venerables a chance to advance to the Immortal Emperor realm.
The cultivators whose souls formed these mushrooms had to have been at least Immortal Emperors in life.
However, those who used the Void Soul Mushroom to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm faced two major drawbacks: first, they would be stuck at the Immortal Emperor level with no further progress, and second, they were prone to going berserk during cultivation.
For Lan Xiaobu, aside from exchanging them for some immortal crystals, these mushrooms were nothing but trash.
After putting everything away, Lan Xiaobu decided to begin his closed-door cultivation.
He still had more than half of an immortal marrow vein and dozens of top-grade immortal spirit veins.
Since he wasn’t on the move and had set up a Spirit-Binding Array outside his cave dwelling, he could cultivate freely without worrying about leaking any spiritual energy.
…
Six months had passed since Lan Xiaobu began his closed-door cultivation.
Despite having cultivation resources that were unmatched across the entire Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain, Lan Xiaobu was still lingering at the third level of the Immortal King realm.
Zhuanyi often wandered around the main hall of the Slanted Void Immortal Rest Pavilion, hoping to catch another glimpse of Lan Xiaobu.
But since his last return, Lan Xiaobu hadn’t stepped out once.
What frustrated Zhuanyi and everyone else was that their good luck seemed to have run out.
After that one time when many had successfully obtained Slanted Void Mushrooms, subsequent trips into the mist yielded far fewer results.
Aside from the occasional lucky find, most returns were worse than before.
After half a year of continuous outings, they had consumed many detoxification pills but only managed to find one Slanted Void Mushroom during their first trip.
With no sign of Lan Xiaobu, Zhuanyi decided to stop searching for the mushrooms.
However, someone soon came knocking at his cave dwelling.
Seeing that it was Yu Bucheng, the steward of the Slanted Void Immortal Rest Pavilion, Zhuanyi and his partner quickly stepped forward to greet him. “Zhuanyi and Feng Shuting pay our respects to Steward Yu.”
He didn’t dare speak as boldly as Lan Xiaobu had.
Lan Xiaobu had the confidence to do so, but Zhuanyi did not.
“No need for formalities,” Yu Bucheng said with a smile. “I’ve come today to ask you a few questions.”
“Please, Steward Yu, ask whatever you wish. If we know the answers, we will share them fully,” Zhuanyi replied respectfully.
Yu Bucheng said, “You arrived at the Slanted Void Hall with Fellow Daoist Lan Xiaobu. How much do you know about him? Can you tell me everything?”
Zhuanyi was taken aback.
Why ask him about Lan Xiaobu? Why not ask Lan Xiaobu directly?
Yu Bucheng noticed Zhuanyi’s confusion and explained somewhat awkwardly, “Fellow Daoist Lan is in closed-door cultivation and cannot be disturbed. He has a bit of a temper, so I thought it best to ask you two instead.”
He truly didn’t dare disturb Lan Xiaobu.
He had learned that on the day Lan Xiaobu left the Slanted Void Hall, Emperor Fuyuan had also pursued him.
Yet, Emperor Fuyuan had disappeared, while Lan Xiaobu had returned unharmed.
Lan Xiaobu had made it clear he didn’t want to be disturbed.
As a steward, disturbing such a guest would be suicidal.
(That’s all for today’s update.
Goodnight, friends!)
(End of Chapter)