Longevity: Start by refreshing your entries through farming

"This is the promotion to the second-level upper-grade spiritual plant master, the first-level grass and tree illusion trial."

"Requirement: Within ten years in the illusion, grow the legendary third-level spiritual plant - the Fire-Bath Golden Lotus."

"The illusion only provides eight spiritual seeds. When these eight spiritual seeds are used up, if the spiritual plant master still cannot grow the golden lotus, it means that the trial challenge has failed."

"No wonder the difficulty is as high as the first-level, and no one has ever succeeded in the challenge. It actually requires the identity of a second-level spiritual plant master to successfully grow and cultivate a third-level spiritual plant."

This is not an ordinary difficulty.

Qin Ming stepped towards the outside world.

In front of him, there was a stone pier, on which lay a withered yellow lotus pod quietly. Inside the lotus pod, there were eight golden lotus seeds full of amazing spiritual charm, and a sense of Taoism lingered on it.

"This is the spiritual seed of the Fire-Bath Golden Lotus!"

Qin Ming picked up the lotus pod and carefully felt and observed it. Everything in the grass and tree illusion was close to reality.

Fortunately, he had studied the inheritance of the third-level spiritual plant master.

The relevant information about the ‘Fire-Bathed Golden Lotus’ also automatically emerged in Qin Ming’s mind.

Fire-Bathed Golden Lotus, a third-level lower-grade spiritual plant, is rare and one of the two main ingredients for refining the Golden Pill.

Of course, the real main material must be more than five hundred years old. The ten years of the illusion trial were just enough to cultivate the spiritual plant.

Such a rare natural treasure is rarely seen in the entire Wei Kingdom’s cultivation world.

This golden lotus has extremely high requirements for the growth conditions of the spiritual vein. It not only requires a third-level spiritual vein environment, but also requires the nourishment of the spiritual fire essence between heaven and earth. It can only grow in the extremely high temperature Molten Fire Heart.

Ordinary spiritual plants, let alone growing in such an environment, will turn into ashes just by approaching.

Qin Ming put away the spiritual seeds in his hand and flew over to the Flame Mountain Range not far away.

He first had to find a suitable place for molten fire before he could start the planting plan.

After searching in the illusion for more than half a month, Qin Ming finally found a lava cave on the hillside of a mountain. There was a small pool of magma rolling inside, and there were dots of fire essence floating in the air around it.

As soon as Qin Ming entered it, he instantly felt a temperature that was even more terrifying than outside.

Fortunately, his body was extremely strong, and the glass armor had the property of repelling magic, which could isolate such a high temperature of flames.

Ordinary spiritual plant masters, let alone entering to plant, those with poor cultivation could not withstand the high temperature.

Next, Qin Ming followed the cultivation method in the spiritual plant master's inheritance and first took out a piece of black spiritual soil, which was also the spiritual soil he obtained from the nearby Yanxin Mountain.

Called "Zhonghuang Lingtu", this spiritual soil is very strange and difficult for ordinary cultivators to distinguish. Its biggest function is to reconcile yin and yang.

At the beginning, the spiritual seeds of the golden lotus were still very fragile, and they would be burned directly if they were directly placed in the lava.

Therefore, in the initial cultivation, the middle yellow spiritual soil is needed to protect the spiritual seed and ensure its growth.

After everything was ready, Qin Ming wrapped a spiritual seed of the golden lotus with the spiritual soil and began his first attempt at cultivation.

He used his divine thoughts to control the spiritual soil and put it into the Molten Heart.

Boom!

A burst of red flames jumped up, and a cloud of gray smoke burst out from the spiritual soil. The corners of Qin Ming's mouth twitched and his face looked a little ugly.

After preparing for so long, he didn't expect to fail at the beginning.

He quickly withdrew the spiritual soil, dug up the spiritual soil and saw that the golden lotus spiritual seed inside had been burned to ashes.

Even if he wanted to revive it with the [Regeneration Spirit Seed] term, it was obviously impossible.

"What went wrong?"

"Is the step wrong?"

...

The second cultivation began.

This time, Qin Ming did not rush to put the spiritual soil directly into the lava, but unfolded his divine thoughts to capture the fire essence floating in the air, and then injected it into the spiritual soil.

Then, he used another [Strong Adaptation] entry and released it on the spirit seed.

He closed his eyes and felt it. A ray of red-gold spirit bud in the spirit seed was greedily absorbing the fire spirit.

Gradually, it began to grow.

Qin Ming's eyes lit up, and his whole spirit was shocked.

"It works!"

Then, he followed the same method and continued to capture the essence of fire and cultivate this spirit seed continuously.

One year later.

The golden lotus spirit seed swallowed a large amount of fire essence, emitting a red-gold halo, and had completely adapted to the high temperature environment around it.

Then, Qin Ming put the golden lotus spirit seed wrapped in spirit soil into the molten fire heart again.

This time, the spirit seed was not burned, but gradually began to absorb the fire essence nearby.

The spirit buds inside also began to slowly emerge. Seeing this, Qin Ming hurriedly used the "Ancient Wood Longevity Technique", and the green longevity magic power flowed into the spirit seed.

The golden lotus spirit seeds absorbed the essence of the plants and trees that Qin Ming brought over, and began to take root in the spirit soil.

Qin Ming cultivated all the remaining spirit seeds in this way.

Then they were planted on the Molten Core.

Time in the illusion passed slowly.

In the blink of an eye, another five years passed.

With such a good opportunity to practice and simulate the planting of spiritual plants, Qin Ming did not use the [Ripening] entry to force the golden lotus to ripen.

Instead, he continued to explore, study and learn in this process, which added a lot of experience and insights to his future spiritual planting.

In the sixth year, the golden lotus wrapped in the middle yellow spiritual soil in the lava in front of Qin Ming began to produce buds.

The fire-bathed golden lotus showed a fiery red gold color from lotus leaves to branches, and the whole spiritual plant showed a sense of transparency.

After such a long time, Qin Ming successfully cultivated a total of five spiritual seeds.

Countless fire essences, in a vortex state, poured into the spiritual soil, and the golden lotus buds began to loosen and were about to bloom.

Qin Ming's expression also began to become nervous.

At this time.

Boom!

The five golden lotus spiritual plants suddenly began to spontaneously combust and turned into a pile of black ashes.

Qin Ming's face showed a moment of astonishment.

Then he remembered something in his heart and murmured: "Reborn from the fire!"

As soon as the voice fell.

In the black ashes, five red-gold light spots emerged, and the surrounding red mist-like fire spirit energy was like tassels, sinking into it.

The light spot continued to grow larger and began to take root and sprout again at a very fast speed, as if all the lead and luster had been removed. One by one, the red-gold spiritual lotuses took deep root in the lava below and began to grow vigorously.

At this point, Qin Ming knew that he had successfully cultivated the fire-bathed golden lotus.

The rest was just waiting for maturity, which was only a matter of time.

He also felt that it was almost done, and immediately used a [Ripening] entry. The next moment, the five spiritual lotuses began to grow wildly and bloomed into five red-gold lotuses.

A colorful glow was lingering in the entire molten cave space, and the soul-stirring spiritual energy spread in an instant.

"Second-level upper-grade A-grade grass and tree illusion, the assessment passed!"

A reminder sounded in Qin Ming's mind.

Then his face was happy, and he was about to prepare to receive the mother energy of all trees as usual.

But.

In the grass and tree illusion, changes began to occur!

...

At the same time

In Canghai Immortal City, at the location of the Spiritual Plant Master Guild, the wooden formation left over from ancient times began to vibrate.

The wooden tablet representing Qin Ming's entry emitted a brilliant light, breaking through the sky and forming a peculiar lotus spiritual plant shape in the sky.