Chapter 1153: A Backbasket of Rare Natural Treasures, Dao-Entry White? Another Dao-Entry White? (Jun Shen Hongchen)

The Ancestral Master's Wife spoke as she handed Lu Ding a longevity lock and a purple gourd the size of a palm, carved with mysterious patterns.

She explained, "Inside this longevity lock, I've stored fifty strikes of divine ability, and your Ancestral Master has stored who knows how many strikes. His memory isn't great, so he didn't keep track."

"But it can help you annihilate powerful enemies."

"Keep it on you for protection."

"This gourd is called the Soul-Scattering Gourd. It can spew purple mist and contain demonic spirits. It can collect the dead ones too. When you go down the mountain and kill demons, you can store them inside. Even if you can't kill them, you can still store them inside."

"Later, you can come back and exchange them for jade talismans. With jade talismans, you can exchange for anything. You can also use them to request your Junior or Senior Uncles to refine great pills using demons as materials."

"That stuff is very useful, especially for your technique. I can sense that your technique carries heavy karmic malice. Consuming more demonic great pills can accelerate your technique's growth."

"I should have prepared great pills for you, but things happened suddenly. The last Centennial Demon-Feeding was over ninety years ago, and the great pills have been mostly used up. There was a little left, but your Master used it all, so there's nothing now. Besides, it's not yet the hundred-year mark, so it's not appropriate to hunt and refine them. Heaven and Earth have karma."

"Lü Mountain must follow this principle, but you can. You are favored by Heaven and Earth, so you can circumvent this karma. You can go kill and refine ahead of time."

Lu Ding held the items, listening with his mind completely blown.

So this was the treatment of a sect's Holy Son?

Fifty strikes of divine ability from the Ancestral Master's Wife, plus who-knows-how-many strikes stored by the Ancestral Master with his bad memory.

This... was insane.

Lu Ding could almost picture the Ancestral Master storing attacks.

Store ten strikes, eh, forgot. How many did I just store? Whatever, never mind. Ten more. Eh, forgot. How many did I just store? Whatever, never mind. Ten more...

Until it couldn't hold another drop.

Wearing this thing was no different from cradling a nuclear bomb in your arms.

The longevity lock. Lu Ding wears it and gets a long life. Take it off, and others get a short one.

Good grief.

The Ancestral Master's Wife looked at him. "Remember to wear it before going down the mountain. It's dangerous down there. With this on, we'll feel at ease letting you descend."

In her eyes, although Lu Ding was a genius, although his talent was exceptional, he was still far too weak right now.

The demons and monsters down the mountain were no pushovers.

Especially after ninety-plus years of rest and recovery, many demons and monsters had long since grown into formidable forces.

Never underestimate their growth rate. Perhaps elsewhere, demons and monsters needed centuries or millennia to mature.

But on the Demon Continent, these creatures were extraordinary to begin with. Most were reincarnated beings. Decades or a hundred years was enough for them to grow into ripe leeks.

Though it wasn't quite a hundred years yet, wasn't Lu Ding still green too?

Tender leeks, hand them to a tender kid to harvest.

Kids, they're playful and restless. No matter. How much could he possibly harvest? Just treat it as amusing a child.

Lu Ding put on the longevity lock. He wasn't worried about anything else. He had Heaven-Man Unity and White Snake Shakes Scales as his safety nets.

The Ancestral Master's Wife led the two into the medicinal garden.

The door opened.

The scent of herbs rushed to meet them.

Now THAT was authentic!!!!

Rare natural treasures filled the entire garden, planted densely packed, so much that the eyes couldn't take it all in.

Outside, precious herbs that couldn't be found even after searching high and low grew here like weeds, running wild.

Outside, herbs that required meticulous care, where no other plant could grow within ten li, grew here in thick clusters.

Outside rare natural treasures: Temperature not right? I'll die for you. Fertility not right? I'll die for you. Another treasure nearby? I'm angry, no fruit for you. Not enough sunlight today? I'm angry, no flowers for you. Spiritual liquid irrigation? Pfft, horse piss!!!

Rare natural treasures here: Wow, there are people today! I must bloom and show myself off. Wow, the sun actually came out! I must grow well and seize every opportunity. Raining? Mmm!! National liquor!! That's the flavor! Ninety-nine percent pure, a rare find!!

Lu Ding was watching.

The Ancestral Master's Wife picked up a backbasket from the side and handed it to Lu Ding, speaking with absolute authority in one sentence: "I'm here today. I'll watch which ones are reserved by other disciples. The rest, you can pull up as you please."

Lu Ding stood there holding the backbasket, no different from a rat walking into a granary.

He slung the backbasket onto his back. "Thank you, Ancestral Master's Wife. Then I won't stand on ceremony!"

He charged straight into the medicinal garden.

Five-Colored Scale Fern. Unblocks meridians, conducts spiritual energy, breaks through barriers, advances realms. Extinct in the outside world. Ranked twenty-third among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Materials. Heard of it, never seen it. PULL!!!

Star-Leaf Tea Ear. A mutated variant of Enlightenment Tea Tree leaves. It resonates with the stars, drawing down starlight. It possesses both the wonders of Enlightenment Tea and the fusion of star power. Outside, Enlightenment Tea exists, ranked ninth among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Materials, but Tea Ears don't. Heard of it, never seen it. PICK!!!

Thousand-Shine Sun-Greeting Flower. A thousand years of sunlight, welcoming the sun's essence. Potent medicinal energy, containing the residual might of the great sun. Boundless wonders. Ranked fifth among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Materials. Heard of it, never seen it. PULL!!!

Lu Ding reached out.

The Ancestral Master's Wife spoke up. "You can't pull this one out whole. Someone needs it. But you can do this."

She reached in.

One, two, three, four.

She plucked four petals and handed them to Lu Ding. "This way works. He can't use more than this."

Lu Ding said, "Is this okay, Ancestral Master's Wife?"

The Ancestral Master's Wife stuffed the petals into Lu Ding's hand. "Nothing wrong with it. It's not like you're an outsider. Your Great-Grandmaster ordered this. As his grand-disciple, if you don't use it, who will?"

What could he do? The petals were already plucked, so Lu Ding could only accept them.

After that came a continuous stream of rare natural treasures, pulled without pause.

Until Lu Ding spotted little white figures running around on little legs in the garden. Though calling them "little white figures" wasn't quite accurate. They had no facial details, just two arms, two legs, and bright green radish tops on their heads, hopping around in groups.

Lu Ding's basic programming stirred at the sight!

Something that looked like a radish... it couldn't be...

Lu Ding asked, "Ancestral Master's Wife, what are those?"

She looked over. "Those are Dao-Entry Whites cultivated by our Lü Mountain. They're the product of grafting remnants of Sky-Light White leaves onto Ascending Mist White, also known as Hundred-Thousand-Year White, then using hybridization techniques to break through."

"We originally wanted to replicate the Sky-Light White from the First Circle, but we didn't succeed. However, these are far more potent than Hundred-Thousand-Year White. But because they carry a trace of Sky-Light White's foundation, their effects are also more violent."

"They burn the heart fiercely. Ordinary people shouldn't consume them. Eating them amplifies the characteristics of spiritual energy."

Lu Ding's eyes lit up at this. He really had seen every generation of this big radish's ancestry. Thousand-Year White, Ten-Thousand-Year White, Hundred-Thousand-Year White (Ascending Mist White), and now Dao-Entry White, plus some Sky-Light White in the First Circle.

In this life, he was truly destined to be connected to radishes.

Lu Ding grabbed one and tossed it into his backbasket. He had to taste it to see what it was all about. He wanted to see what the deal was!

At this point, Lu Ding's backbasket was just about full.

"Ancestral Master's Wife, I think I'm about done. These should be enough for my cultivation for the time being."

The Ancestral Master's Wife looked at Lu Ding's backbasket, which hadn't even piled above the rim. She reached out and pulled a few more, stacking them into a mound above the rim, then pressed them down twice. "That should do it."

"Take these and use them first. I won't keep you company. I need to go cook. So many mouths to feed up and down the mountain, all waiting to eat. If anything comes up, use your token to contact me."

Lu Ding was a bit puzzled. Cook? Waiting to eat? He wanted to ask, at your cultivation level, at the level of the various Junior and Senior Uncles and the Great-Grandmaster, do you still need to eat?

But the Ancestral Master's Wife sounded hurried, so Lu Ding suppressed his curiosity.

"Alright, Ancestral Master's Wife. You go ahead. I'll find a secluded cultivation chamber myself."

The Ancestral Master's Wife took Wang Qingge's hand. "Come, little Qingge. Help your Ancestral Master's Wife in the kitchen."

Wang Qingge raised her little wooden sign and waved it at Lu Ding:

[Bye bye]

Lu Ding waved back. "Bye bye."

After the two left, he carried his backbasket.

"With this many rare natural treasures, I wonder what realm I can surge to!"

Even Lu Ding got excited saying it himself.

He'd just broken through to Feng rank One of God Ascension not long ago, and now he was about to break through again. Only he could do this. With Heaven-Man Unity on his side and a body remolded by Heaven and Earth, free of shackles and barriers, as long as resources were sufficient, he could break through dimensions in three days. Big brother lets you have a ten-thousand-year head start!

Lu Ding had it all planned out. First, push his realm to the absolute limit, not his own limit, but the limit of his cultivation technique, Sin Dragon Bone Seal. Then go purge demons, kill kill kill kill kill kill, vent a good breath of anger for the Ancestral Master to repay his powerful support, then come back and refine great pills.

Then max out the intensity of Sin Dragon Bone Seal.

When that time came, whatever First Circle or Second Circle, they'd all sit down before him!!!

He had plenty of things to do!

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An extra chapter for the Gift King sent earlier by Big Shot Jun Shen Hongchen. Thank you, big shot. Babes, the power went out for a while today, so this is a bit late. Sorry about that. Babes, throw some votes!