Formation Master is an extremely difficult profession to master among the Cultivation Hundred Arts.
The prerequisite for becoming a Formation Master is also to be an Artifact Refiner, as the refining of Formation Plates and Formation Flags requires considerable Artifact Refining skills.
Therefore, becoming a Formation Master is especially challenging.
However, Formation Masters are also extremely powerful.
As long as a specific Formation is set up in advance, a Formation Master can unleash abilities far exceeding those of their peers.
There are many different directions for Formations, such as Spirit Gathering, Protective, Illusion, Killing, and so on.
High-level Formation Masters can even master composite Formations to achieve cross-Realm kills.
Although this protective Formation is only First-Order, if it were in an outside market, its price would be at least a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
Within the Family, however, it can be exchanged with a portion of Family contribution points and a portion of Spirit Stones, which can be considered a Family benefit.
It is clear that while becoming a Formation Master is difficult, it can also yield immense profits and is highly respected.
Lin Yongmao harbored no illusions about becoming a Formation Master.
The prerequisite for becoming a Formation Master is to become an Artifact Refiner, and the prerequisite for becoming an Artifact Refiner is to possess both Gold and Fire Spiritual Roots.
He had not even met the most basic requirement.
The First-Order protective Formation has only one function, and that is defense.
Ordinary Qi Refinement Stage Cultivators would find it very difficult to break through a First-Order protective Formation.
Unless multiple people cooperate and concentrate all their attack power on one point, an individual Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator would likely be unable to break through the defense.
Controlled by the Formation Plate, the defensive capability of the entire protective Formation can also be adjusted, for example, by increasing the defensive strength in a certain direction.
Of course, the defensive strength in other directions would decrease.
After setting up the First-Order protective Formation, Lin Yongmao's mood improved significantly.
He had always been anxious before, fearing that a Cultivator or Yao Beast might mistakenly enter Qianzhang Cliff and see the various spirit plants in his spirit field, but now he no longer had to worry.
Subsequently, Lin Yongmao planted the seeds of the Illusion Heart Flower and began to Cultivate the Spirit Wood Art and the Spirit Rain Technique.
To become a First-Order Spiritual Planter, one must master any one of these Spells.
The Spirit Rain Technique condenses clouds and brings down Spiritual Rain, thereby nourishing spirit plants.
The Spiritual Wood Art can directly stimulate the potential of spirit plants and promote their growth.
These are all essential abilities for a Lingzhi Master.
Therefore, a Lingzhi Master can accelerate the growth of spirit plants.
Because of the World Tree's Law of Time attribute, Lin Yongmao had not focused on this aspect previously.
Now that he had fully mastered the Primary Spiritual Plant Compendium, he naturally set his sights on this.
Possessing both Water and Wood Spiritual Roots, Lin Yongmao mastered these two Spells within two days.
"Spirit Rain Technique!"
Above a field of spirit rice, a black cloud the size of a pot lid slowly formed, and the surrounding Water-attribute Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi also slowly condensed and gathered.
"Crack!"
A faint rumble of thunder sounded, and the black cloud began to drizzle, with each raindrop containing wisps of spiritual energy.
All of this spiritual energy was absorbed by the spirit rice.
Even the low-grade spirit soil became much moister than before.
This Spiritual Rain only lasted less than two minutes.
The original maturation time for the spirit rice was 2 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes, and 11 seconds, but after being nourished by the Spirit Rain Technique, it actually became 2 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 18 seconds.
In other words, the Spirit Rain Technique could accelerate the maturation time of the spirit rice by at least two hours.
Don't underestimate these two hours of maturation time; for other Lingzhi Masters, it truly isn't much.
However, the spirit rice cultivated by Lin Yongmao, under the influence of the World Tree's Law of Time, only required a total of just over three days.
Reducing it by two hours at once, this efficiency was truly too high.
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"Spiritual Wood Art!"
After Lin Yongmao finished casting the Spirit Rain Technique, once his spiritual power had recovered somewhat, he began to cast the Spiritual Wood Art again.
A blue-green light flickered in Lin Yongmao's palm, then floated towards the roots of the blood-stopping vine.
Under the influence of the World Tree's Law of Time, the blood-stopping vine had already grown to a hundred years old.
During this period, Lin Yongmao also collected many blood-stopping vine leaves.
The blue-green light also belonged to spiritual energy and contained extremely pure Wood-attribute Spiritual Qi.
After the blood-stopping vine's roots completely absorbed the blue-green energy, its medicinal age increased by more than a year.
Moreover, many of the blood-stopping vine's leaves also grew significantly larger.
It should be known that the medicinal age of the blood-stopping vine is closely related to its medicinal properties; if this continues, the time to Cultivate a thousand-year-old blood-stopping vine will be greatly shortened.
"So, cultivating Spells isn't difficult either!"
Lin Yongmao said somewhat boastfully.
It was just that he was currently only at the fourth layer of the Qi Refinement Stage, and his spiritual power was quickly exhausted after casting two Spells, requiring a long time to recover.
He took out a Low Grade Wood-attribute Spirit Stone and began to absorb the pure Spiritual Qi within the Spirit Stone.
Relying on Spirit Stones to replenish one's consumed Spiritual Qi is also one of the most common methods used by Cultivators.
If one solely relied on absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, this recovery method would be far too slow.
Lin Yongmao held a fist-sized green stone in his hand, and he watched as the color of the green stone slowly faded.
This was the result of the Spirit Stone's spirituality being consumed.
At the same time, Lin Yongmao's spiritual power slowly recovered, and as the Azure Wood Art circulated, the Spiritual Qi continuously nourished his Meridians.
"Oh, it seems I have hope of breaking through the fourth layer of the Qi Refinement Stage and officially becoming a fifth-layer Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator within the next few days."
Lin Yongmao's heart surged with excitement, but he quickly adjusted his emotions.
When Cultivating, the most taboo thing is to have large emotional fluctuations.
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Two days later.
Lin Yongmao continuously circulated the Azure Wood Art, and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi moved along a specific trajectory within his Meridians.
Although the Azure Wood Art is a very common Cultivation Technique within the Qi Refinement Stage Realm, it is also an extremely practical Cultivation Technique that allows Qi Refinement Stage Cultivators to solidify their spiritual power and lay a good foundation.
Although it does not have the powerful offensive capabilities of other Cultivation Techniques, the Cultivator's spiritual power is several times more solid than that of their peers.
Suddenly, the speed of the Spiritual Qi's movement quickened by several points; whether it was the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi or the Wood-attribute Low-Grade Spirit Stone in Lin Yongmao's hand, the Spiritual Qi within them rapidly surged into Lin Yongmao's body.
"Crack!"
The Wood-attribute Low-Grade Spirit Stone shattered into a pile of powder as all the Spiritual Qi within it was completely absorbed.
Lin Yongmao quickly took out another Wood-attribute Low-Grade Spirit Stone from his Storage Pouch to replenish it.
A few breaths later.
"It's done!"
Lin Yongmao's cultivation Breakthrough, his spiritual power became more abundant, and the strength of his body was greatly enhanced.
His cultivation broke through from the fourth layer of the Qi Refinement Stage to the fifth layer of the Qi Refinement Stage.
Lin Yongmao was now officially a fifth-layer Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator.
"Is this the pleasure that comes with increased strength?"
"No wonder everyone is without desires and only wants to focus on their careers!"
Within the Lin Family, a Cultivation Family, a sixteen-year-old fifth-layer Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator could be said to have extremely outstanding talent.