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Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 282: Daily Life in the Cave Dwelling (Seeking Monthly Votes!!)
After eight or nine hours, Liu Yu, who had been sound asleep on the stone bed, slowly opened his eyes, revealing pupils as dark as ink.
After being dazed for a while, he sat up, rubbed his forehead, and pondered over what he needed to do next.
Dan Poison, Canglang Spiritual Water, and ripening spiritual herbs...
After clarifying the tasks ahead, Liu Yu washed up and left his bedroom.
Walking into the hall and glancing around, he found it empty.
However, after several months away from the cave dwelling, the objects covered in a layer of dust were now all renewed.
After releasing his spiritual perception for a moment, Liu Yu discovered that Ji Ruyan had chosen the room on the left side of the training room. He then took out a token, opened a gap in the formation, and sent a thread of spiritual consciousness inside to take a look.
Seeing her practicing normally, he withdrew his consciousness.
He did this not out of some special inclination, but because he was afraid Ji Ruyan might become depressed or have a negative attitude towards the matter of spiritual connection energy.
Since she wasn’t in a negative state of mind, there was no need to keep a constant watch on her, as it would instead hinder his own cultivation.
"Indeed, cultivators still need hope," Liu Yu said with a hint of a smile.
The sooner the spiritual connection energy was obtained, the better; improving one's aptitude would be beneficial for cultivation. Ji Ruyan practicing with a positive attitude was something he was glad to see.
At its core, this was a transaction.
When the time came to obtain the spiritual connection energy, as long as it didn't affect him, what harm was there in giving her freedom?
However, it was still too early to speak of such things; who could say how the future would unfold?
Entering the training room, Liu Yu took out a meditation cushion and sat cross-legged, beginning his daily cultivation.
He spent three hours completing the qingyang skill meditation, followed by two hours running the art of spirit preservation four times, finishing the refinement of his Primordial Spirit. His cultivation for the day came to an end.
Afterward, Liu Yu took out two pieces of beast skin from his storage bag, aligned them together, and began to study them slowly.
These were the two pieces of beast skin that recorded the formula for Canglang Spiritual Water!
"Star Ripple Fruit essence half a tael, Azure Ghost Grass three taels, and three-leaf snake orchid seven qian..."
Liu Yu read word by word, committing the spiritual herbs recorded in the formula to memory, ensuring not to miss the order and proportions of adding various spiritual herbs.
The various first-tier and second-tier spiritual herbs required to prepare Canglang Spiritual Water totaled over thirty types, and their proportions varied. A slight error could lead to wasting a batch of elixirs.
However, this preparation process was not as complex as alchemical pill refining. As long as he followed the formula strictly, various reactions would naturally occur, ultimately forming Canglang Spiritual Water.
This made things much simpler.
Even cultivators who knew nothing about spiritual herbs and alchemy could likely produce the spiritual water as long as they followed the proportions and order in the formula.
Nevertheless, some professional terminology could only be understood by alchemists.
Thus, ordinary cultivators still needed to consult alchemists to fully grasp the detailed aspects of the formula before attempting to prepare it themselves.
Cultivators had astonishing memories. Even if Liu Yu paused to think from time to time, he memorized the formula's content in less than a quarter of an hour.
With his current experience and a success rate of forty to fifty percent in refining second-tier mid-grade Nourishing Yuan Elixirs, preparing Canglang Spiritual Water was naturally not a problem.
After a moment's thought, he had a clear understanding of all the details in his mind.