Chapter 744 - 311: Has Your Spiritual Clarity Fruit Ripened, Fellow Daoist?
"The Spiritual Clarity Fruit is almost ripe?"
Hearing Bai Ling’s words, Chu Ning’s eyes lit up.
He immediately walked quickly towards a corner of the Spirit Medicine Garden.
For the past ten years, he hadn’t stepped out of his cave mansion, mostly because of this Spiritual Clarity Fruit.
After all, this thing is said to be able to increase the probability of Nascent Soul Formation.
In fact, Chu Ning hadn’t looked at this fruit for about half a year.
"Is this what the nearly ripe Spiritual Clarity Fruit looks like?"
At this moment, Chu Ning looked at the spirit fruit that was completely different from the previous two Spirit Infant fruits and couldn’t help but be a bit surprised.
Other spirit fruits grow bigger and bigger, but this Spiritual Clarity Fruit grows smaller and smaller.
Chu Ning had discovered this before, and he had specifically collected some information about the Spiritual Clarity Fruit before his secluded cultivation.
So it wasn’t too unexpected.
However, seeing the shape of the ripe spirit fruit was a different matter.
The two spirit fruits that originally looked like Spirit Infants had now shrunk by almost eighty percent and had grown into a gourd-like elongated shape.
The originally colorful spirit fruit had now lost its color and had become transparent.
Only a small white dot in the middle had not yet turned transparent.
"No wonder it’s called the Spiritual Clarity Fruit!"
Chu Ning couldn’t help but express his amazement at the spirit fruit.
When he first saw this fruit, he thought it should have been named something like Spirit Infant Fruit as it seemed more fitting.
Now seeing it, he realized the name was quite accurate.
"Looking at the Spiritual Clarity Fruit, it should be fully ripe in five days, right?"
Chu Ning asked Bai Ling.
Bai Ling nodded, "It should be. Master, if you use the Profound Spring Youth Technique, you could perceive it more clearly."
"Five days and it will be ripe."
Chu Ning nodded at this point and said:
"That’s fine, once the Spiritual Clarity Fruit is ripe, I’ll exit seclusion. After ten years of seclusion, I should go out and take a look around."
Bai Ling, upon hearing this, smiled cheerfully and said, "That would be nice, Da Jin, Xiao Jin, and I have been bored here for so long."
Chu Ning laughed and scolded when he heard this:
"You couldn’t be restrained before Core Formation, and even after Core Formation, you still can’t be restrained."
Bai Ling blinked her eyes, didn’t speak, just had a face full of smiles.
As the two talked, Chu Ning also checked his cultivation proficiency.
[Five Elements Chaos Technique (Celestial Tier Middle Grade), Second Layer (41948/100000)]
[Nine Derivations Body Refining Technique, Volume Two, Second Layer (33085/90000)]
[Refining Spirit Technique, Fourth Layer (63652/64000)]
In the past ten years, Chu Ning’s main focus was on the Five Elements Chaos Technique.
This was mainly because Chu Ning had certain limitations in both Body Refinement and Refining Spirit.
As for Body Refinement, the spirit fruits and spirit medicines with the Power of Origin that Chu Ning brought from No-Spirit Island had long since been used up, leaving only a small portion for reserve.
Without assistance, Chu Ning did train every day, but on average, it only increased by about 2 points.
As for Refining Spirit, considering that the Refining Spirit Technique maxed out at the Fourth Layer,
and Chu Ning had no follow-up cultivation technique, he wasn’t in a hurry to quickly advance.
Only the Five Elements Chaos Technique, reaching the third layer, might mean stepping into the Golden Core Late Stage.
So in the past ten years, Chu Ning not only kept refining pills to aid his cultivation,
but also never stopped consuming a drop or two of the Snow Crystal Mushroom Spiritual Liquid every month.
Even so, the average daily increase in cultivation proficiency was only about 10 points.
After ten years, this proficiency still hadn’t reached halfway.
A breakthrough in the short term was unlikely, so going out for a walk wouldn’t hurt either.
He also wanted to see what changes the surrounding area had undergone over ten years.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
Chu Ning and Bai Ling had already been waiting by the Spiritual Clarity Fruit Tree for a whole day.
The characteristics of the Spiritual Clarity Fruit are rather peculiar.
The spirit fruit must fall off on its own after it ripens; otherwise, even if picked, its medicinal effect would be greatly reduced.
Moreover, after picking, it should be stored immediately in a wooden box made from the spirit tree to prevent the spiritual power from rapidly dissipating.
And the spirit tree, after the fruit falls, will wither and turn to mud in about three days.
Therefore, the timing for picking the spirit fruit must be very precise.
After waiting ten years to cultivate it, Chu Ning was naturally willing to spend a day waiting for it to ripen.
"It’s ripe!"
At this moment, the two Spiritual Clarity Fruits fell almost simultaneously.
Chu Ning, quick as lightning, immediately reached out and caught the two fruits.
Handing the Spiritual Clarity Fruits to Bai Ling to hold,
Chu Ning uprooted the spirit tree and then sprayed out the Wood Spirit Sword from his mouth.
He began to cut and carve, making the wooden boxes.
The Spiritual Clarity Fruit Tree was extremely hard and couldn’t be easily cut with ordinary magical artifacts.
Fortunately, Chu Ning’s flying sword was fused with Black Profound Gold, allowing for effortless cutting.
In no time, two appropriately sized wooden boxes were made.
Chu Ning carefully stored the now completely transparent spirit fruits in them, then breathed a sigh of relief and placed them in the storage bag.
"Spiritual Clarity Fruit!" Chu Ning said with a smile.
"Back then, the Demon Race fabricated a lie about a Spiritual Clarity Fruit to lure many cultivators into Snow Mist Valley.
In the end, many cultivators fell, and even two elders of the Illusion Spirit Sect only escaped with their Nascent Souls.
Who would have thought, it would ultimately benefit me."
Bai Ling had long heard Chu Ning recount this old story.
At this moment, she chuckled softly and said, "If I hadn’t been asleep back then, this spirit fruit wouldn’t have escaped my detection."
Chu Ning nodded, as he had great faith in this little one’s abilities.