Published: March 2, 2025
Chapter 208: Green Bamboo Alchemical Canon (Two-in-One Big Chapter)
The "Soul Stabilizing Herb" is one of the rare spiritual herbs capable of repairing injuries to the Primordial Spirit. It is used for stabilizing the Primordial Spirit and the soul, and can heal injuries to the Primordial Spirit for those below the golden core stage.
However, taking it directly can only exert about half of its effects. To fully utilize the essence of the Soul Stabilizing Herb, it must be paired with other spiritual herbs and elixirs as a foundation to create various elixirs for consumption. This is what Liu Yu learned from his insights on spiritual herbs.
Unfortunately, his own foundation is still too shallow, and he cannot compare with many families that have inherited legacies for a long time. Currently, there are no formulas that use the Soul Stabilizing Herb as the main ingredient.
It is clear that such formulas are extremely rare and difficult to obtain, so he can only plan for the long term.
At least he has the seeds, and the Soul Stabilizing Herb can be continuously cultivated. Even if it can only exert half its efficacy, he won’t mind wasting a little of its effect.
Liu Yu had already instructed Jiang Qiushui to pay attention to collecting various spiritual herbs and formulas, but unfortunately, the harvest over the past few years has been minimal.
Most of the spiritual herbs and formulas collected are for the qi refinement stage, and there are very few second-tier spiritual herbs used in the foundation establishment stage, let alone second-tier formulas.
It is worth mentioning that to avoid raising suspicion, when the spiritual herbs needed for the Azure Origin Pill and the Nourishing Yuan Elixir were collected, he did not allow Jiang Qiushui to continue purchasing spiritual herb seeds.
Instead, he shifted to collecting mature spiritual herbs, requiring her to focus on acquiring fresh and plantable ones.
Liu Yu has never shown before others that he could refine elixirs for the foundation establishment stage, nor has he disclosed to Jiang Qiushui the purpose of collecting spiritual herb seeds.
Thus, when he stopped this behavior and resumed purchasing mature spiritual herbs as an alchemist, it wouldn’t raise any eyebrows among other cultivators, which is entirely normal.
At that time, having Jiang Qiushui collect spiritual herb seeds was a last resort. After all, with his ordinary talent, his cultivation speed is too slow. If he honestly collected spiritual herbs, it would waste several years, which is unacceptable.
Collecting spiritual herb seeds is a very normal activity; many sects and families are doing the same, and the jade alchemy hall mixing in among them is not particularly eye-catching.
In a short time, such purchases are nearly impossible to raise suspicion, and the risk is minimal.
Given the uncertain future and tense situation at the time, he naturally had to seize every opportunity to enhance his strength, and taking a little risk was worth it.
As he collected the spiritual herbs needed for the Vitality Pill and Azure Origin Pill, and after gathering most of the seeds for the Nourishing Yuan Elixir, the aspect of elixirs would no longer hinder Liu Yu's cultivation, so there is no need to rush.
Being inherently cautious, he immediately instructed Jiang Qiushui to stop purchasing spiritual herb seeds and to switch to acquiring mature spiritual herbs.
Moreover, this task is long-term, and any new types of spiritual herbs that have not been seen before should be collected into storage.
Even without formulas, spiritual herbs can be stored for future needs; as the variety of spiritual herbs in the Immortal Abode increases, he believes there will eventually come a day when they'll be useful.
Reaching out to open the jade box on his lap, Liu Yu looked at the completely black Soul Stabilizing Herb, and many thoughts flashed across his mind.
Then he picked up the Soul Stabilizing Herb and carefully washed it with low-grade spiritual spring water bought from the market, before gently biting it.