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Chapter 76 - 71: No Forbidden Laws, The Green Emperor’s Eternal Life_2

Chapter 76: Chapter 71: No Forbidden Laws, The Green Emperor’s Eternal Life_2

His strength wasn’t a concern; he had never neglected it. In fact, with his new abilities, he wondered if he could switch profession to a musician?

"Supernatural plants are interesting. They have no consciousness of their own and can be controlled by others. However, it seems that the awakening rate for plants has decreased even more."

"Throughout my journey, I’ve hardly seen many plants."

"It’s probably because they’re inherently incompatible. I have no idea how He Lingyun plans to restore agriculture."

After stowing the Yuan Suo Grass in his bag, Gu Shanhai continued to explore the remaining unexplored areas of the building, hoping to find another supernatural plant. What a bonus that would be!

Unfortunately, he wasn’t that lucky, but if he made any progress in prophecy and fortune-telling, he could definitely obtain treatment akin to that of a protagonist through other means.

When it comes to seizing opportunities without any harm, prophets and fortune tellers definitely top the list, despite their high rate of failure.

Not being harmed didn’t mean they couldn’t fail.

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"Hisss~ I’m still not quite used to this."

Gu Shanhai moved his body around. He had been in this building for over half a month, during which time he had not only cultivated the Yunling Grass, Purifying Grass, and General Order to a higher level but also advanced the Yuan Suo Grass to the same tier.

Of course, he did more than just that; he also fused the force of life into his mana, which was the main point.

Using this as a benchmark, he had planted all four Spirit Plants onto himself and integrated them into his body, just like artifacts.

It was as if the Spirit Plants were using him as soil, and he supplied them with the nutrients they needed through his mana. By doing this, Gu Shanhai freed up his right hand; he didn’t need to carry a potted plant around anymore.

This was all thanks to the artifact refining technique of the Xuanwei Sect and the spell left by Qingyu Taoist. He had already transformed the Spirit Plants into artifact-like entities through Artifact Refining techniques, and now, through his modifications, he had created a unique method of Spirit Plant Cultivation.

Of course, this wasn’t without benefits for Gu Shanhai; in fact, the advantages were immense.

Firstly with the Yunling Grass and Purifying Grass, because Gu Shanhai was providing energy, the spiritual energy produced was of much higher quality and quantity than before. It got to the point where the cost of the mana supply was negligible; he could now truly waste spiritual energy.

All he needed to do in the future was to cultivate a Spirit Plant that could help him absorb spiritual energy and convert it to mana. Then he could grow his mana without even cultivating.

The benefit from upgrading the General Order was even more substantial. Since the release shifted to Gu Shanhai and he transferred it to the Magic Domain, as long as there was enough spiritual energy or mana, the summoned virtual shadows could exist indefinitely. He could also summon multiple at a time, each far surpassing Gu Shanhai’s strength and becoming sophisticated enough to act as qualified bodyguards.

However, there were costs involved. If there were too many, the Magic Domain wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would collapse. The cost was not eliminated, just transferred.

As for which had the greatest effect on Gu Shanhai, it was undoubtedly the Yuan Suo Grass. After he had cultivated and refined it into a Spirit Plant, its passive amplification effects, which originally needed contact to activate, became his permanent passives. This meant his senses, as well as sixth senses, were sufficiently enhanced on a whim.

It wasn’t just the probability of activation that increased; the effects also improved dramatically, with the amplification reaching terrifying levels.

Moreover, as he continued to cultivate the Yuan Suo Grass, the effects would become even stronger.

On the other hand, the active effects were not as strong because they involved too much. Besides, Gu Shanhai didn’t value them too highly, so during cultivation, he focused on enhancing the passive aspects.

If he had foreseen the future, he would have definitely prioritized its cultivation, but unfortunately, it was just a sensing of fate, vague and indistinct. So although there was an improvement, it wasn’t as significant as the passive amplification.

During these past days, he had not only developed Spirit Plant Cultivation Method and Spirit Plant cultivation but also enhanced the Magic Domain which added quite a few auras.

These weren’t the auras related to attack or defense, but rather special auras dedicated to cultivating Spirit Plants, such as Dew Blessing Spell, Fertile Soil Spell, and so on.

He had significantly improved and refined these Spirit Plant Magics and transformed them into auras.

As a result, the Spirit Plants within his body were constantly nourished by these spells and passively grew stronger over time.

Although the transformation wasn’t as radical as if Gu Shanhai had personally nurtured them, it still increased their volume and was more convenient. Once perfected in the future, the Spirit Plant auras would become even more powerful.

Especially once he had more Spirit Plants, having the Spirit Plant auras would make things much easier for him. If he continued to perfect them, he might only need to rely on the Spirit Plant auras to passively enhance his Spirit Plants.

"Considering the time left, it seems not much, neither the seven basic auras nor the Fear Aura seems feasible to develop within the timeframe,"

"Perhaps I should develop a more official finishing move."

Spirit Blade could hardly be considered a finishing move; it only used the firing mechanism of a thermal weapon, otherwise it would have been obsolete by now.

It could still be used for a little while but would likely be discarded soon unless he obtained more advanced technological weapons. However, if it were more advanced, he worried he wouldn’t be able to mimic it, and then it would be inferior to the Mana aura.

Now, as long as he had his Mana aura fully activated, he was an immense threat, and very few could come close to him.

The Magic Domain extended up to a radius of one meter, but if he activated the Mana aura, the basic reach was ten meters, with the potential to extend up to a hundred meters. Of course, the Spirit Plant aura wasn’t that vast; it merely enveloped him, as it was only a logistical type of aura and there was no need to spread it so far.

There was no need for him to worry about long-range engagement; he had the General’s phantom, which he could just throw at the problem, valuing the impact of sheer force.

Although there was still potential in the Spirit Blade, Gu Shanhai presumes it’d be difficult for him to develop it further at this stage; he could take his time with it later on.

On the other hand, his body’s fusion of various energy systems allowed him to form special finishing moves.

"I should give this energy system of mine an appealing name..."

"Since the main aspect still leans towards immortal elements, let’s call it the ’Green Emperor Longevity Scripture’."

Green Emperor is a reference, fitting since he started out relying on plants, and as for longevity, with his current situation, it would be hard for him not to live a long time.

At this stage, there probably isn’t any player tougher than him.

Thus, ’Green Emperor Longevity Scripture’ is quite suitable for misleading others, as who would guess that a name with an immortal flair would only be related to immortal elements through Qi Refining First Level·Yunling and Qi Refining Second Level·Perception, while Qi Refining Third Layer·Spirit Root is completely different?

The name doesn’t matter; it’s nothing more than a codename, a bluff.

For instance, this ’healing technique’ in his mind, when cast on Gu Shanhai, was a recovery spell, but when cast on others, it also healed, but that was a different story.

The Mana within Gu Shanhai was not ordinary; it mixed other systems’ energies, and even Spirit Plants.

So, if others were struck by a ’healing technique’, not only would they heal, but their flesh would also mutate, and their bodies would manifest various states, appearing positive but actually negative. This was known as ’False Healing’, and more importantly, once their health was fully restored, they would immediately die because their bodies were overwhelmed by an excessive amount of life force belonging to Gu Shanhai.

Abilities constituted of life force are fundamentally positive, and most people can’t resist them, after all, if Gu Shanhai didn’t deliberately use them in excess or malevolently, they would truly act as a healing spell.