While cultivating spiritual fruits, Yang Hong also collected one plant of each spiritual plant from grade 1 to 5 and planted them in his scale space.
He still wanted to verify how long these spiritual plants could survive.
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In the past month of studying the "Spirit Monkey Brewing Technique," Yang Hong discovered that monkeys genuinely loved peaches and bananas.
The original version of the Ten Fruits Brew required three types of peach-like spiritual fruits and two types of banana-like spiritual fruits; the Ten Flowers Wine required five types of peach blossoms as raw materials.
The Hundred Fruits Brew surprisingly had peach-like spiritual fruits accounting for 30%, and banana-like spiritual fruits for 10%; the Hundred Flowers Wine still required peach blossoms to be 30%.
After reading the latter two recipes, Yang Hong doubted if those dead monkeys could actually brew the Hundred Fruits Brew and Hundred Flowers Wine.
Finally, after examining all the storage bags, Yang Hong was certain...
The dead monkeys definitely did not succeed in brewing.
This was because after counting all the spiritual plant seeds in the storage bags, Yang Hong found only 17 types of spiritual peach seeds and 3 types of banana seeds in total.
This was still a very long way from the basic requirements for the Hundred Fruits Brew.
However, this was enough for Yang Hong.
Under the optimization of the topping-up system, although the Spirit Monkey Brewing Technique could not eliminate the need for peach-like spiritual fruits, they only needed to constitute 10% of the ingredients. One type of banana as a supplementary ingredient was sufficient.
This gave Yang Hong a lot of choices and room for adjustment.
It happened that there were no peach trees on Jade Stream Island, so these seeds came just in time.
Now that Yang Hong had advanced to the Golden Core realm, a ten-thousand-year Golden Core realm, cultivating spiritual plants was incredibly fast.
All the seeds were planted according to the spirit gathering array's orientation. A third-tier great technique, [Gentle Rain Technique], was cast, covering over a thousand square miles.
His True Essence and spiritual power output was continuous for three hours.
When his True Essence was depleted, a few topping-up actions would restore it,
and then another [Gentle Rain Technique] would be cast.
The spiritual plants on Jade Stream Island sprouted and grew at an astonishing rate.
In just one month, not a single ordinary plant could be seen on Jade Stream Island.
Even weeds were at the level of first-grade spiritual plants.
"Heh~ Have I cultivated new spiritual plants now?"
Looking at the weeds growing even faster than spiritual grass and spiritual flowers, Yang Hong found it somewhat amusing.
But weeds, nonetheless, still needed to be cleared.
He uprooted all the weeds with his divine sense and threw them into his scale space.
Once inside this space, all the weeds would have their vitality extinguished.
This was a highly efficient method of weed removal,
one that led to their complete eradication.
With Yang Hong's bug-like, cheating cultivation, the spiritual energy concentration on Jade Stream Island rapidly increased.
As everyone knew, spiritual plants absorbed spiritual energy during their growth and also released a certain amount of spiritual energy back into the heavens and earth.
They could even extract their own spiritual energy to nourish the heavens and earth when the surrounding spiritual energy was insufficient.
This was the nature of spiritual plants.
The spiritual plants on Jade Stream Island consumed Yang Hong's True Essence for growth, while Yang Hong's True Essence could be restored through topping-up spiritual plants, without consuming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The cultivated spiritual plants, in turn, continuously generated spiritual energy.
Furthermore, the higher the quality of the spiritual plants he topped up, the faster Yang Hong's True Essence recovered.
With this cheating-like cultivation, Jade Stream Island's spiritual plants were all cultivated to at least grade 3 within just one year.
Even those spiritual plants that originally had a growth limit of grade 1 to 2 were all forced to grade 3.
For any that didn't evolve naturally, he topped them up with his techniques, causing them all to evolve and advance!
Jade Stream Island, with a diameter of 1700 li, featuring mountains, plains, rivers, and various terrains, was now entirely covered with grade 3 spiritual plants!
This was a phenomenon impossible on any other island, and Yang Hong had achieved it.
"The spiritual energy concentration on the island should have reached grade six by now, right?"
On the summit of Gai Zhu Mountain, Yang Hong breathed in the spiritually rich air, his arms spread wide, embracing the sunlight.
"Although I don't have an artifact to test spiritual energy concentration, this spiritual energy concentration comprehensively surpasses the core area of Giant Whale Island. It's at least grade 5 spiritual energy concentration."
"And this wine aroma, it's truly wonderful."
Under the acceleration of excessive [Gentle Rain Technique] to ripen them, Yang Hong could harvest a large amount of spiritual fruits every month. For those of lower quality, he directly dug pits in designated areas to brew wine.
There were a total of 736 wine pits on the island, arranged in an orderly fashion according to the positions of the [Spirit Accumulation Spring Formation].
By using the formation that originally transformed spiritual energy into spiritual water for brewing, the effect was that the entire Jade Stream Island's air was filled with the aroma of wine.
It wasn't intoxicating, but a pleasant, fresh fragrance.
Butterflies and bees, specially captured by Yang Hong from nearby islands, buzzed back and forth in swarms, constantly busy.
Even the honey brewed by the bees exuded a faint aroma of wine.
"Gentle Rain Technique~"
Yang Hong said softly. Without forming hand seals or casting spells, he merely guided spiritual energy with his divine sense and stimulated it with True Essence. A [Gentle Rain Technique] that covered the entire island quickly took shape.
This was the result of his year-long continuous casting of the [Gentle Rain Technique], which had reached a perfect mastery.
As he cast it daily, seven days prior, he suddenly had an epiphany and comprehended a sliver of water-elemental creation rules, causing the Gentle Rain Technique to directly break through.
This was also his first spell to reach perfect mastery.
The Gentle Rain Technique combined Yang Hong's True Essence with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, invoking a sliver of creation's rules, transforming it into a fine drizzle.
The raindrops fell gently, with spiritual energy and creation's power integrating into all the spiritual plants, nourishing them.
All the spiritual plants, nourished by this special spiritual energy, grew visibly.
The continuous gentle rain lasted for two hours before ending.
Two hours of the Gentle Rain Technique allowed these spiritual plants to achieve growth equivalent to two years.
"Creation is not limited to wood and water elements; every spiritual energy has the power of creation. I must continue to comprehend it."
"It's a pity that while I can rapidly ripen spiritual fruits and herbs, I cannot hasten their medicinal age."
Looking at the spiritual plants that had once again flowered and would bear fruit in a few days, Yang Hong sighed.
Unlike the spiritual plants ripened by his topping-up technique, the Gentle Rain Technique could also ripen spiritual plants, but their medicinal efficacy was significantly inferior.
The True Essence injected by topping up would directly convert into time for the spiritual plant's growth, not only improving its quality but also increasing its years of accumulation.
The Gentle Rain Technique was far less effective.
Spiritual plants ripened by the Gentle Rain Technique could only increase their grade, but their foundation and medicinal efficacy could not be enhanced.
To put it simply, even a wild ginseng that grew naturally for ten years would not be as large as a greenhouse-cultivated ginseng for one year. However, the medicinal efficacy of the ten-year-old wild ginseng would be a hundred or even a thousand times that of the one-year-old greenhouse ginseng.
This was the difference.
Therefore, all these quickly grown spiritual fruits were used by him for brewing in the wilderness,
even the spiritual flowers were not collected, allowing the bees to make honey.
The actual wine cellar within Jade Stream City was ready but not yet in operation.
"Fast growth is fine for now. The priority is to improve the quality of the spiritual plants, and then I'll select the best ones with potential to cultivate them properly through topping up."
After another round of inspection on the island, ensuring all spiritual plants were growing healthily, Yang Hong felt at ease and resumed his brewing.
He began to continuously cast the [Spirit Monkey Brewing Technique], aiming to cultivate this spell to perfect mastery as well.
However, Yang Hong did not notice that the spiritual energy in the sea outside Jade Stream Island was also becoming increasingly dense, and more and more fish in the sea were transforming into demons.