I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World-Chapter 227 - 198: (Mutation) Lingzhi
The sky was as blue as a wash, with a gentle breeze blowing.
A slender hand holding a green jade bamboo flute emerged from an abandoned solitary grave.
The spiritual soil turned into sand, scattering with a swoosh. A young woman in her early twenties slowly opened her eyes, her black hair like satin draped down, covering her exquisitely shaped body.
A cold wind blew, and Jiang Yuebai shivered, instinctively touching her nose and face.
"Thank goodness, my nose isn’t swollen, my ears are still there, and there’s nothing strange growing on my face."
Jiang Yuebai looked down to check her body, her limbs intact, with only a loose Feather Scale Armor hanging on her. She quickly took out a blue long dress from her Storage Bracelet and put it on.
While dressing, she glanced around.
"So this is the small Secret Realm of Prajna Temple? It sure is small; I can see the end with one glance."
All around was yellow sand. She sat halfway up a slope, below was a small green lake, with a thatched hut standing by its side. In front of the hut was a fence, but now it too was left with only yellow sand.
Jiang Yuebai remembered that when she first fell in, she landed in what was either a grass patch or a herb field, and now it’s like this surely because she absorbed all the Original Essence Qi of the surrounding plants.
And Ruosheng’s Buddha Seal, all the power of the spiritual soil had been drained by her too, turning into yellow sand.
While putting on her clothes, Jiang Yuebai checked her body again, inside and out, finding nothing strange growing.
Jiang Yuebai scratched her head in confusion, "Could it be that I didn’t turn into an extraordinary person?"
Her scalp felt itchy, and as Jiang Yuebai reached up to scratch, her hand suddenly touched something strange, causing her whole body to tremble.
"What...what is this!!"
Panic-stricken, Jiang Yuebai crawled and rolled to the lake at the foot of the slope, checking her reflection in the water, her pupils constricting.
Two ganoderma as white as clouds stood tall in the middle of her head, each the size of a walnut, radiating a faint glow and appearing quite...pretty.
"No, no, if it grows on the body, it can be covered with clothes, but what if it grows on the head!"
Jiang Yuebai grabbed the two little ganoderma and gave them a hard pull, instantly gasping in pain, feeling as if her brain was being pulled up.
Jiang Yuebai plopped down by the lake, letting her black hair fall, raising an eyebrow, and the ganoderma moved slightly along with her.
"If I go out like this, who wouldn’t see that I’m an extraordinary person? I can’t just say it’s the latest style of hair ornament, can I? Hmm? Hair ornament!"
A sudden flash of inspiration hit Jiang Yuebai. She got up again, facing the lake, gathered half of her hair to the top of her head, hiding the two little ganoderma in a bun, tied with a white hair band, letting the remaining hair fall behind her.
After carefully tidying up, Jiang Yuebai checked her reflection in the lake and nodded in satisfaction.
"Later, I’ll find a hairpin or headdress that can conceal my aura, ensuring complete safety."
After all, extraordinary people are discriminated against outside, and she doesn’t want to be caught as a slave for no reason.
Or be captured to have the ganoderma on her head harvested for alchemy, as these ganoderma are part of her body now.
"Wait, will this ganoderma grow bigger? Eventually having an umbrella on my head? Hmm... ganoderma does grow slowly, please don’t grow up too soon, I’m begging you."
Jiang Yuebai clasped her hands in prayer, opening her Immortal Cultivation Panel to check her changes.
[Name] Jiang Yuebai
[Spirit Root] Five Elements Spirit Root (Fire Evil/Quicksand/Cloud Mushroom)
[Realm] Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment
[Cultivation Technique]
Five Elements Returning to Truth Foundation Establishment Chapter (Second Layer: -/200,000)
Fire Refining Sky Secret Scripture (Fourth Layer: 1,200/400,000)
Immortal Grass Scripture (5,580/100,000)
Fierce Thunder Body Refining Technique (Peak of Ninth Layer)
Vajra Furnace Skill (Five Furnaces Perfect)
[Bloodline]
Cloud Mushroom Grass (6/10)
[Miscellaneous Skills]
Talisman Making (Eighth Grade: 3,765/5,000)
Alchemy (Eighth Grade: 2,350/5,000)
Array Dao (Eighth Grade: 380/5,000)
Puppet Mechanism Technique (Eighth Grade: 1,500/5,000)
[Spell/Secret Technique]
Thousand Leaves All Things Hand (Second Layer: 4,950/5,000)
Five Thunders Righteous Method (Second Layer: 20/5,000)
Five Ghosts Scripture (Second Layer: 15/5,000)
Blade Flow Wind Kill (Third Layer: 150/5,000)
(Others omitted)
Having carefully reviewed, Jiang Yuebai found several changes.
Firstly, regarding the Spirit Root, she inwardly examined the crystal-clear Dao Platform of her Dantian.
The Fire Dao Platform was engulfed in roaring flames, the Wood Dao Platform was like her head, with one big and one small ganoderma growing upon it, the Earth Dao Platform was raging with sandstorms.
Among them, the power of the Wood Dao Platform’s mutation was weakest, while the Fire and Earth Dao Platforms were evenly matched. Currently, all powers were suppressed within the Dao Platforms, not invading her meridians.
This means she only needs to find gold and water attribute Spiritual Objects to complete her Core Formation preparations.
The progression of the Wood Dao Platform’s mutation is related to the level of her Cloud Mushroom Grass bloodline, needing only to continue cultivating the "Immortal Grass Scripture."
Jiang Yuebai estimated that at Core Formation, reaching level 9 for her Cloud Mushroom Grass bloodline would be sufficient.
Secondly, her cultivation advanced from Early-Stage to Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment.
During this time, her consciousness was in a daze, and she had no idea how much time had passed.
Her body was continuously destroyed by two kinds of spiritual energy and repaired by the Cloud Mushroom Grass bloodline, in a cyclical process.
Until she gradually suppressed the Fire Evil Spiritual Energy and Quicksand Spiritual Energy back into the Dao Platform, her body finally stabilized.
In this, one thing played a crucial role.
Jiang Yuebai picked up the green jade bamboo flute she had been holding, noticing that the Green Lotus Pendant was gone, its text now imprinted in her mind.
It was only now she realized that the original owner of this item was a Great Demon from the Ancient Green Lotus Clan.
Previously, she couldn’t use the flute because she wasn’t a demon and lacked demon energy.
Now that she’s become an extraordinary person with a certain amount of Immortal Ganoderma Clan’s demon energy in her body, she can use the flute to unlock the Green Lotus Pendant.
And the Condensing Light Mirror—it’s actually driven by demon energy. She initially thought blood was required to paint talismans, not realizing it was because her blood contained faint demon energy from the Cloud Mushroom Grass.
The Pendant contained a set of scores, with many ancient characters of the demon clan she couldn’t recognize, leaving her temporarily unaware of the function of these tunes. She must first learn the ancient demon script.
Reflecting on her time in the Land of Azure Flame, it likely was the residual demon power from the Pendant of the Green Lotus Clan that unexpectedly boosted her Cloud Mushroom Grass bloodline to level 5.
In the demon clan, the status of the Green Lotus surpasses that of the Immortal Ganoderma significantly.
This time, it was also the last trace of Green Lotus demon energy from the Pendant absorbed by her bloodline that multiplied her repair ability.
She can now actively stimulate the Cloud Mushroom Grass’s demon power from her bloodline to repair her body, no longer having to wait passively for bloodline activation.
Jiang Yuebai stood by the lake, scanning the surroundings for a way out.
"I should leave here first and find a workshop to properly recuperate, not knowing what the outside world is like now."
The specific powers of Ruosheng will take time to slowly explore, but now her main concern is her body’s insufficient strength, causing damage when using the two special spiritual energies.
She can’t fight while spitting blood, right?
So next, she needs to quickly consume all those Snake Shedding Fruits, and begin cultivating the Body Refining Cultivation Technique "Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique" given by Ruosheng.
She also needs to find an Earth Element Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation method to better and more efficiently utilize Quicksand Spiritual Energy.
Her Divine Sense discovered an air vortex behind the hut, confirming it was the exit. Moving to where she was buried, she packed away the Magic Artifacts and medicine bottles scattered on the ground.
Seeing one of the empty medicine bottles, Jiang Yuebai’s face froze.
"How did I manage to eat the Face Stabilizing Elixir too—"
