Published: March 3, 2025
CHAPTER 268: Secret Realm Scheme (Combined Chapter)
"Perhaps the Blood-colored Trial event a few years later can be manipulated?"
As Liu Yu walked out of the jade alchemy hall, he suddenly had a bold idea about how to collect rare spiritual herbs needed to refine the Golden Core Pill.
Cultivators entering the Blood-colored Secret Realm must not exceed the qi refinement stage.
He was currently at the foundation establishment stage; although he couldn't enter himself, he could certainly "arrange" for a few disciples to go in.
Given the difficult circumstances of low-level disciples, he could promise them some benefits, so there would be no shortage of people willing to do the work.
He could send in several powerful and cautious disciples to search for spiritual herbs and perhaps it really could be feasible?
Besides engaging various connections to find them, this could also be a good direction.
With this thought, Liu Yu felt invigorated and began to contemplate the feasibility of this method in detail.
Disciples coming out of the secret realm are thoroughly checked for their storage bags, and the rewards will be taken by the sect based on the amount they have collected.
However, "harvest" refers to valuable, high-age spiritual herbs or other rare cultivation resources, and definitely does not include spiritual herb seeds.
The rare spiritual herbs cannot survive once they leave the secret realm; they can only grow within the ancient-style secret realm.
While some cultivators have attempted transplants, all have ended in failure, leading the major sects of the Chu State to gradually lose interest in transplanting spiritual herbs and prohibit taking seedling spiritual herbs out of the secret realm to prevent over-exploitation.
The five major sects strictly monitor resources like spiritual herbs, which are of extremely high value, but they are relatively lenient towards spiritual herb seeds, which are of low value.
With this in mind, combined with several concealment techniques learned from the "Summary of Demonic Cultivation," he felt he had a certain degree of confidence in this plan!
"However, it still requires thorough planning."
The more Liu Yu thought, the more he felt this venture was promising.
While making his way to the largest auction house in Jinxing Bazaar, he considered the details of his plan.
In any case, most mature spiritual herbs produce numerous seeds, but only a few can survive and germinate. He only needed one seed per type, which would not create much impact at all.
Even if the sect discovered it, he could evade responsibility by claiming to be studying the properties of the herbs as an alchemist.
After all, these weren't extremely valuable resources; at most, he would receive a warning, which wouldn't greatly affect him.
The Immortal Abode, such a miraculous rarity, completely violated the common sense of the cultivation world and has never appeared in its long history.
If he hadn’t witnessed it with his own eyes, who would have thought about such an incredible ripening ability of twenty years in just one hour?
If this plan succeeded, he could harvest a large number of rare spiritual herbs.
Perhaps future refining of second-tier elixirs, third-tier elixirs, or even fourth-tier elixirs would also come in handy, providing endless benefits.
After weighing the risks and rewards in his heart, Liu Yu had already decided to try this method.
He reminisced about which powerful and outstanding qi refinement stage disciples could be of use to him.
Lost in thought, Liu Yu entered a secluded alley rarely frequented by cultivators, quickly vanishing within.
Soon after, a middle-aged cultivator in a yellow daoist robe, with hair casually cascading, emerged from the alley.
His cultivation was at the mid foundation establishment stage, and his aura was very profound, like an old cultivator who had been practicing in this realm for decades.
This person was the disguised Liu Yu!
Supreme spiritual artifacts are extremely expensive, and for over ninety-five percent of foundation establishment cultivators, they are unattainable. It's better to be discreet when purchasing such items.