Creating a paradise in an ant nest

Chapter 47 Ant-Controlling Cultivator

Yin Zhi led his disciples, including the servants, to the practical testing ground on Lingzhi Peak.

This area of ​​over 100 acres was recently designated and prepared to become a "stage" for everyone to showcase their skills.

"Next, I'll have someone demonstrate for you all. Zhou Sheng, you can do it; we'll use this snow lotus for the demonstration."

Yin Zhi looked at one of the 120 miscellaneous disciples.

Zhou Sheng, at the third level of Qi Refining, with a low-grade spiritual root, is one of the three known spiritual body talents, the "Frosty Tide Spiritual Body".

His spirit body is a relatively rare type of spirit body among the five elements and water-based spirit bodies, slightly better than Su Miao's Kui Water spirit body.

"Yes, Steward Yin!"

Zhou Sheng, whose name was called, responded loudly.

He then walked toward a pond.

The pond is not large, about half an acre, and various aquatic plants are grown in the earthy-colored water.

One of the white snow lotuses looked half-dead, with drooping petals and withered leaves.

It is a rare plant called "Nine-Petal Snow Lotus", which should normally grow in rivers and lakes in cold mountain areas.

Zhou Sheng stepped forward, carefully examined the condition of the snow lotus spiritual plant, then made hand seals and chanted incantations.

"Water Mist Technique!"

A thick white mist suddenly appeared, enveloping the snow lotus.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Sheng cast the "Water Nourishment Technique," using spiritual water imbued with spiritual energy to nourish the snow lotus spiritual plant. The normal Water Nourishment Technique differed from the one he cast using his Hanxi spiritual body.

The water-replenishing technique, imbued with a chilling aura, greatly benefits the snow lotus.

After about fifteen minutes, the mist from the water mist spell dissipated, revealing the delicate and beautiful snow lotus flowers within.

The lotus leaves, standing tall and green, and the lotus petals, glistening with water droplets, were a stark contrast to their previous half-dead state.

"Is this what makes spirits unique?"

The many servant disciples learned a great deal.

Faced with the Nine-Petaled Snow Lotus, even a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator couldn't achieve the same results as Zhou Sheng.

Its "Frost Spirit Body" makes it far more effective than others when casting water-based spells, especially ice-based spells.

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"Alright, everyone, let's begin."

You are free to showcase your skills and use your most proficient spells to benefit the spiritual plants.

A group of about a dozen of us will be here watching the whole thing and will be taking notes on everyone's performance. Don't worry that we won't see or overlook your contributions.

Of course, if you are worried that we might overlook something, you can invite us to be there to witness it...

As Yin Zhi spoke, he added several rules for practical testing.

He just had Zhou Sheng give a demonstration, not just to show the menial disciples something as simple as that, but also to let them see the power of the spirit body and understand why people with the talent of the spirit body can enter the Spirit Plant Peak.

After explaining all the rules and precautions, Yin Zhi let everyone begin.

Because there are many people, and each person is good at different spells, the applicable situations are different.

Some people may demonstrate a lot of spells.

Therefore, instead of having everyone showcase themselves in front of the crowd, everyone is allowed to move freely within the examination grounds of over 100 acres.

"Steward Yin, would you please comment on my spell?"

Wang Yarong cupped her hands in greeting and spoke loudly.

At this point, everyone had not yet dispersed.

Upon hearing Wang Yarong's voice, the person who was about to leave immediately stopped and focused their gaze on her.

"Oh?"

Yin Zhi was slightly surprised.

He had barely finished speaking when Wang Yarong asked him to "comment" on his abilities, which shows he was very confident in his skills.

He knew Wang Yarong; among the selected menial disciples, there were only a handful of geniuses worth paying close attention to.

In his mind, spiritual talent was more important than spiritual root. After all, even if one's spiritual root was slightly inferior, one could still catch up in cultivation level with the help of spirit stones and elixirs.

There's not much difference between a medium-grade spiritual root at the third level of Qi Refining and a low-grade spiritual root at the third level of Qi Refining.

But if you don't have spiritual talent, you simply don't have it.

For example, Zhou Sheng's Cold Tide Spirit Body can do many things that cultivators cannot.

At Spirit Plant Peak, specialization in a particular type of spell is more useful than being "all-rounder".

"You can begin."

Yin Zhi said casually.

"it is good."

Wang Yarong walked towards a somewhat open area of ​​land.

That garden was planted with a large number of newly planted spiritual plant seedlings.

Nurturing seedlings is a very important task at Lingzhi Peak. Many Lingzhi seedlings do not survive easily.

In order to test the disciples who were doing odd jobs, some of the spiritual plant seedlings planted here failed to survive, and some had already shown signs of withering and decay.

Wang Yarong selected a withered seedling of the spiritual plant "Ziyunsu".

"Spiritual Enrichment Technique!"

She unleashed a basic wood-based spirit-enhancing spell using the mid-grade spirit artifact, the Jade Cypress Staff.

The tip of the staff gently touched the seedling of the spiritual plant, infusing it with spiritual energy.

The withered seedlings suddenly straightened up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the grass leaves turned a tender green as if they were infused with life.

Immediately afterwards, a fresh, tender leaf sprouted from the top of the seedling.

"this!"

Everyone present was stunned.

Everyone here practices the Dao of Spirit Plants. Wang Yarong's methods seem ordinary and are not particularly remarkable. She simply makes a seedling of a spirit plant sprout a new leaf.

But everyone knows how difficult it is.

How did she do it?

This is a question that everyone has in mind.

"Wang Yarong, do you have a wood-type spirit body?"

Yin Zhi was initially puzzled, but then revealed the truth. He noticed the mid-grade spiritual weapon in Wang Yarong's hand, but a Qi Refining Level 3 cultivator couldn't achieve this level with just a mid-grade spiritual weapon.

"Reporting to Steward Yin, I am a spirit of plants and trees."

Another spirit!

Moreover, it has a medium-level spiritual root and a wood-type spiritual body.

Yin Zhi nodded slightly and smiled, "I understand. You don't need to test me anymore."

"Yes."

Wang Yarong thought to herself, "That's it?"

Shouldn't we be even more shocked and report to the owner of Lingzhi Peak, or even alarm the peak master himself?

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The differences between people are truly enormous.

Liu He could only sigh like this.

Others have medium-grade spiritual roots and spiritual bodies, but he only has low-grade spiritual roots.

"Let the ants out first."

The practical tests continued, and the disciples were not disturbed by Wang Yarong.

Liu He used his lightness technique to move deeper into the area.

Ignoring the seedlings and aquatic plants, we arrived at the spirit wood area.

The spiritual trees here are all susceptible to various diseases and pests; they were transplanted from the Spirit Tree Garden to test them.

Because there were high-level cultivators watching nearby, he dared not openly take out the magical artifact box.

He channeled his spiritual energy, using the techniques for controlling spiritual artifacts to manipulate the magical artifact box: "Open."

The lid of the magical artifact in his pocket was opened.

The ants, which had filled the container, swarmed out and crawled along Liu He's clothes toward the ground, disappearing into the woods.

Five thousand ants may seem like a lot, but they actually "disappear" once they are scattered in the woodland, and you won't notice them at all if you don't observe carefully.

During major foundation construction and repairs, no one pays attention to the ants and insects that can be seen everywhere on the ground.

"Others are beast-taming cultivators or sword-wielding cultivators, but I am an ant-taming cultivator."

Liu He thought to himself.

He pretended to perform a "wood diagnosis" and actually made the ants climb up a sacred tree.