I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely

"You all keep mentioning Supreme Elder Fang’s talent, but am I the only one worried about his limited energy?"

"Exactly! The Spiritual Artifact I asked Supreme Elder Fang to refine is still in the queue."

"You don’t need to worry about Supreme Elder Fang’s energy," Mi Xiaoqi spoke up. "The main reason he wants to try planting is because of his special Cultivation Technique. It will allow him to have more energy to do more things in the future."

Mi Xiaoqi didn’t elaborate much on the matter.

He announced this news simply to inform the Elders of the Spirit Field Institute.

"You will have more opportunities to interact with Supreme Elder Fang in the future, but there is one thing you must remember: do not, under any circumstances, bring shame upon our Spirit Field Institute in front of him."

"And another thing: if a question doesn’t need to be asked, don’t ask it."

"Supreme Elder Fang has his own plans. He must have decided to take up planting only after confirming he could manage both Alchemy and Artifact Refining."

"If he couldn’t manage both, he wouldn’t have started planting—just like back when he was an Elder."

"Where is the Second Tier, Lower Grade Spirit Field being opened for Supreme Elder Fang?"

"This area here."

Mi Xiaoqi pointed to a location on the map of the sect’s Spirit Field distribution behind him.

"Understood."

"Everyone, remember, if it’s not important, do not disturb Supreme Elder Fang."

"What if Supreme Elder Fang has questions?"

"The Supreme Elder is not the type who’s too proud to ask for help. If he really has a problem, he will definitely come and ask us," Mi Xiaoqi replied.

Mi Xiaoqi made all the necessary points clear.

Once the Elders understood, the Spirit Field Institute’s meeting drew to a close.

「Half a month later.」

Two days ago, Fang Yun and Song Qiaoqiao successfully held their Core Formation Ceremony. Today was the day Fang Yun would start planting again.

His figure had already appeared on the newly opened one-mu, Second Tier, Lower Grade Spirit Field.

Opening a new Spirit Field required the cooperation of a Spirit Vein Master. They had to adjust the sect’s Spirit Vein nodes to ensure the Spiritual Qi concentration in the soil met the standard for its designated grade.

Opening an ordinary Spirit Field wasn’t difficult. The real trouble lay in creating special ones.

Creating special Spirit Fields required large quantities of Spiritual Materials; some even needed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects. The Spirit Medicine grown in such fields naturally had exceptionally high environmental requirements.

The Elders from the Spirit Field Institute had already prepared the soil for this one-mu, Second Tier, Lower Grade Spirit Field after it was created. By the time Fang Yun arrived, he was ready to begin planting the Three-Core Spirit Flowers.

He started by doing the work himself. After accumulating some experience, he could let his vessel clone take over caring for the Spirit Medicine.

Right now, the vessel clone was in the Alchemy Room of his cave residence, refining Spirit Ascension Pills.

Something had been confirmed a little less than half a month ago.

The vessel clone’s actions could earn him Talent Points, just as he had expected. After all, the clone was able to utilize his Life and Combat Talents.

With his vessel clone participating in production, he earned more Life Talent Points each month. Furthermore, as a Supreme Elder, his influence had grown significantly, resulting in an even larger monthly bonus.

Fang Yun roughly estimated that the average number of Talent Points he now obtained each month already exceeded 400,000 and would soon approach 500,000.

The reason his average monthly gain of Talent Points hadn’t doubled was that he was now dedicating more time to cultivation after reaching the Core Formation Stage.

As he grew more skilled at using his vessel clone, and as he created more clones in the future, the time he could dedicate to cultivation each month would only increase.

Cultivation was very important.

Acquiring Talent Points to improve one’s talents ultimately served one’s Cultivation Realm.

The planting of the Three-Core Spirit Flower seeds was complete.

Fang Yun began to form hand seals and cast a spell.

A cloud of Spiritual Power formed in the sky above. As it began to absorb the surrounding Spiritual Qi, it finally turned into little raindrops.

Cloud Rain Technique!

This was the advanced version of the Small Cloud Rain Technique.

Although Fang Yun had no talent for magic, as a Core Formation Stage cultivator, learning the basics of a Low Tier spell was not difficult with the boost from his realm.

Fortunately, for taking care of Spirit Medicine, one didn’t need to be particularly proficient in magic; being able to use it was enough.

The magic learned by the Elders of the Spirit Field Institute was often numerous and varied, but it was different for the Elders of the Spirit Ore Institute.

This was due to the different requirements for Spirit Plant Masters and Spirit Ore Masters. The Elders of the Spirit Ore Institute often had considerable talent for magic.

’If I were still in the Foundation Establishment Stage, even learning the basics of the Cloud Rain Technique would be difficult.’

After casting the magic, Fang Yun couldn’t help but think to himself.

A powerful Divine Sense provided an advantage in learning magic.

After breaking through to the Core Formation Stage, his Divine Sense was five times stronger than at the Peak of Foundation Establishment, its range was ten times greater, and its area of coverage was a hundred times larger.

A normal cultivator at the Peak of Foundation Establishment could probe a maximum distance of about one hundred zhang with their Divine Sense. After breaking through to the Core Formation Stage, that maximum distance jumped directly to one thousand zhang, which was a little over six li.

Fang Yun had already tested it.

In his early-stage Core Formation, with the boost of his seven-star Combat Talent, he could precisely control a Magical Treasure with One Prohibition from a maximum distance of twenty li. This was three times the maximum range of his Divine Sense.

The precise control distance for an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact was even greater—so far that it was difficult to see with his current vision. Unless the Spiritual Artifact was very large, he could just make out a small dot in the distance.

Back on the Spirit Field, after casting the Cloud Rain Technique and checking the Spiritual Qi in the soil, Fang Yun left.

The Three-Core Spirit Flowers were still in the Seed Stage and didn’t require much effort to care for.

Once the Three-Core Spirit Flowers reached the seedling stage, they would start to require much more of his energy.

After nearly a hundred years, he was once again caring for Spirit Medicine.

Fang Yun was quite looking forward to his first mu of Three-Core Spirit Flowers.

’A Second Tier, Lower Grade Spirit Medicine... with the boost from my eight-star Planting Talent, the chance of mutation should be quite high.’

Planting Talent affected the mutation rate of Spirit Medicine, and it also influenced the probability of the mutation being a beneficial one.

Mutations in Spirit Medicine could be good or bad; in most cases, they were bad.

Over time, the bad mutations were weeded out and the good ones were preserved, slowly leading to the cultivated Spirit Medicine of today.

The Three-Core Spirit Flower was the main Spirit Medicine for refining the Spirit Ascension Pill. If it mutated, and the mutation was both good and suitable, it might be possible to develop a new medicinal pill from the mutated Spirit Medicine.

The emergence of new medicinal pills was often related to newly-born mutated Spirit Medicine.

It was very difficult to further optimize existing pills without new Spirit Medicine. Any modifications usually required a trade-off—sacrificing one quality to gain another—and the drawbacks often outweighed the benefits.

The medicinal pills they could refine now were all the result of continuous optimization by their Alchemy Master predecessors.

...

「Two years later.」

「Mid-July.」

At the sect’s Cloud Summit, Sect Leader Duan Qingyun convened a high-level sect meeting.

This was the first high-level sect meeting Fang Yun had participated in since successfully reaching Core Formation.

Including him, there were now a total of seven Supreme Elders among the sect’s upper echelon.

Counting the Sect Leader, the sect now had eight Core Formation experts in its leadership. Although none had reached the late-stage of Core Formation, this was the highest number of concurrent Core Formation cultivators in the history of the Celestial Cloud Sect.

In the grand hall, as the Sect Leader took his seat, the Supreme Elders settled into their respective places.

Fang Yun’s seat was on the left side of the hall, sandwiched between Song Qiaoqiao and Bai Qinying. The first seat on the left was occupied by Zhong Yankun.

"Supreme Elder Fang, how is your Spirit Medicine care coming along?" Sect Leader Duan Qingyun asked immediately after looking toward Fang Yun.

When the Sect Leader asked the question, the three Supreme Elders sitting on the right all turned their gazes to Fang Yun.

Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and now planting after reaching Core Formation.

In the eyes of the sect’s leadership, the talents Fang Yun displayed made him a great boon to the Celestial Cloud Sect.

They had all familiarized themselves with the general description of Fang Yun’s Cultivation Technique, the *Skillful Heaven-Stealing Technique*. They had also learned the basics of its Clone Technique from Fang Yun himself.

They felt that this Cultivation Technique was perfectly suited for Fang Yun.

With the help of a vessel clone, he was making clear progress in Artifact Refining. The number of tasks he completed was now greater than the number of new requests. In a few more years, there would no longer be a backlog.