Chapter 275 - Chapter 275: Chapter 257: Midnight Visitor

Chapter 275: Chapter 257: Midnight Visitor

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After he had done everything,

Lin Jing then walked out of the Alchemy Room and arrived at the Spirit Field.

While refining elixirs, Lin Jing had properly processed the Spirit Plants and had kept all the seeds.

For example, the seed cores of the Blood Red Vermilion Fruit, the rhizomes of Rockheart Grass, and so on…

The seeds left over from the alchemy process are impossible to preserve; the tiny bit of remaining medicinal power quickly dissipates.

Therefore, to others, these seeds are utterly useless: they don’t have the spiritually-rich high-grade Spirit Fields in which to plant them, nor can they be preserved for auction.

But to Lin Jing, these seeds were significantly different.

If these seeds were buried in the Spirit Field,

Lin Jing could grow another plant from them.

First, he went to the second Spirit Field, where Lin Jing directly buried the processed Blood Red Vermilion Fruit seed left over after harvesting into the ground of the second Spirit Field.

He kept it at a certain distance from the first Blood Red Vermilion Fruit tree.

The reason for doing so was to prevent the trees from being too close to each other, which could affect their growth.

The fruits from the first Blood Red Vermilion Fruit tree had already been picked, and although the tree still appeared to be lush,

all of its essence had been taken away.

In the following short period, it would gradually wither, then decline.

However, it would not die completely but instead enter the next cycle, slowly sprouting anew, blooming, and bearing fruit…

The next time it matured would still be in 100 years.

As soon as Lin Jing planted the seed, the system alert suddenly sounded.

“Ding!”

“System alert: The host has planted multiple special high-grade Spiritual Plants in the same Spirit Field, triggering a system rule…”

“The number of special high-grade Spiritual Plants that can be planted in the Spirit Field is limited by the System Space level. Please check through the system panel…”

No sooner had the system alert ended when a system panel appeared in front of Lin Jing. He looked up to see it display:

Current Space Level: 4.

Number of special high-grade Spiritual Plants that can be planted: 2.

Currently planted: 2/2.

So it turned out that there were indeed limits to planting special high-grade Spiritual Plants in the System Space.

With just this information, which was so little, Lin Jing still found it somewhat perplexing.

So, Lin Jing inquired with the system again.

Only then did he understand.

The planting of Spirit Plants within this System Space was closely related to the space level.

Because the Blood Red Vermilion Fruit tree is a special high-grade Spirit Plant, it requires a much higher concentration of Spiritual Energy to grow compared to ordinary Third Rank Spirit Plants.

Therefore, in the same Spirit Field, only two Blood Red Vermilion Fruit trees could be planted at most.

Moreover, this was due to it being a Fourth-Level System Space—if it were a Third-Level System Space, only one could be planted.

Similarly,

once Lin Jing upgraded the space to Fifth-Level,

he could only plant one special Fifth-Rank Spirit Plant, or two special Fourth-Rank Spirit Plants, or three special Third-Rank Spirit Plants.

And so on…

Having understood this, Lin Jing then inquired about other ordinary Third-Rank Spirit Plants.

Only then did he realize that high-grade Spirit Plants have limitations in the same Spirit Field.

Other ordinary high-grade Spirit Plants can be planted up to ten times the number of special Spirit Plants in the same Spirit Field, as planting too many could affect the growth of the Spirit Plants.

Lin Jing wasn’t particularly surprised by this limitation in the System Space.

After all, every high-grade Spirit Plant embodies the essence of heaven and earth.

How could they be like ordinary Spirit Plants?

He then went to the first Spirit Field and planted another specimen of several other Third-Rank Spirit Plants.

Otherwise, leaving the Spirit Field idle would be a waste.

After all this, Lin Jing left the System Space.

Since coming out of the black market, Lin Jing had first accelerated the growth of Spiritual Plants and then practiced alchemy.

Add in the rest period in the middle, and the time he spent in the System Space this round was indeed not short.

Although there was a fourfold time acceleration within the System Space, by the time he emerged, it was already daylight.

Following that,

Lin Jing sat cross-legged on the bed and began meditating to recover.

……

Lin Jing meditated straight through to late night.

Only then was he completely recovered.

He had opted to meditate during the daytime

because he was afraid someone might suddenly visit during the day.

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Refining a Third-Rank elixir required too much time.

If someone were to disturb him, it would be easy for the process to be interrupted.

If that happened, the loss would be substantial.

Seeing that it was already late at night, Lin Jing thought it unlikely that anyone would come to disturb him.

So once again, he entered the System Space.

This time.

Lin Jing did not plan to directly refine the Cultivation True Elixir.

Instead, he decided to warm up with a batch of Second-Rank elixirs first.

For Lin Jing, refining Second-Rank elixirs was now a skill mastered with ease, not requiring too much effort.

Entering the Alchemy Room, Lin Jing pondered for a moment.

He directly took out a set of ingredients for the Rejuvenation Elixir from his Storage Bag.

Lin Jing decided that the elixir used for warming up would be the relatively simpler Rejuvenation Elixir.

Next, Lin Jing approached the Fire Meteor Four-Pattern Furnace.

As usual, he followed the thoroughly familiar process step by step, preparing for the alchemy…

…

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After more than an hour, a system voice sounded.

“Ding!”

“System Notification: Congratulations to the host for refining a Pure Elixir, reward earned: 10 Harvest Points.”

“Due to the host’s Pill Master level being too high, refining lower-rank elixirs will no longer yield proficiency.”

This time, another Pure Elixir emerged from the furnace.

The latter reminder, however, left Lin Jing somewhat stunned.

Pill Master level too high…

He was currently a Fourth-Grade Alchemist, refining a Second-Rank elixir.

That was two whole ranks apart.

It seems that if he wished to advance to a Fifth-Rank Pill Master, he would need to refine more Third-Rank elixirs in addition to Fourth-Grade ones.

Third-Rank Spiritual Plants were not as easily obtained as Second-Rank ones.

He surmised that in the future, his path as a Pill Master may become exceedingly difficult.

Afterwards.

Lin Jing opened the furnace lid and collected the few elixirs inside.

And that Pure Elixir, Lin Jing placed it into a Pure Jade Box.

Moreover, it was a Pure Jade Box marked with the insignia of Elixir Valley.

Having done all this.

Lin Jing then began to sit and meditate to recover.

Although refining Second-Rank elixirs did not consume much of his strength.

But to refine the Cultivation True Elixir.

Lin Jing needed to give it his all.

He needed to be in a perfect state before he could commence the refining process.

Just as Lin Jing was meditating.

Suddenly.

A system alert chimed:

“Alert!”

“An intruder has breached the perimeter, please respond promptly, Host.”

“Is someone coming?”

“But it’s already nighttime, who else would come at this hour?”

Hearing the system alert, Lin Jing immediately opened his eyes and muttered to himself.

Then, Lin Jing summoned the System:

“System, enter Observation Mode.”

No matter who the visitor was, it was only logical for Lin Jing to observe first.

No sooner had he spoken than his view switched to Observation Mode, appearing above the courtyard.

The Observation Mode view here was obstructed by buildings, so he couldn’t see the situation at the porch.

Lin Jing then shifted his perspective to the entrance.

At this time, two people stood at the doorway.

These two people.

Were none other than Senior Han and Chen Xing…