Miracle Farmer with Special Abilities-Chapter 704 - 0: Innate Spiritual Root, The Magical Gourd_1

Chapter 704: Chapter 0704: Innate Spiritual Root, The Magical Gourd_1

This gourd was truly strange. It had no openings, and its color was cyan, as if carved from a piece of cyan-colored wood. There was nothing else remarkable about it. However, while the gourd was only the size of a thumb, it weighed several hundred pounds. Perhaps it was precisely because of its impressive weight that it had been preserved all this time and treated as some sort of treasure.

"What a treasure, it truly is a treasure!" Excitement appeared on Zhang Bin’s face, for he could now definitively conclude that this was the gourd left behind by Ancestor Deception.

The gourd’s origin was far from simple; Ancestor Deception had plucked it from a vine of unknown age. At the time, he hadn’t thought much of it and simply refined the gourd into a Magical Treasure. Later, however, he discovered that it gradually lost its properties as a Magical Treasure, reverting to an ordinary gourd that emitted a faint life essence.

He became very curious and went to look for the parent vine again. However, the parent vine had long since disappeared as if it had never existed.

This incident became one of Ancestor Deception’s greatest regrets. He deduced that it was an Innate Spiritual Root, a magical plant nurtured at the dawn of the universe, and he had no idea how it had ended up on Earth. If he could have refined it into an elixir or even eaten it directly, he would have obtained an immense benefit. Regrettably, he didn’t recognize it as an Innate Spiritual Root. After he plucked the gourd, the Innate Spiritual Root sensed danger and fled, hiding elsewhere.

He desperately wanted to eat the gourd, but it was too formidable; it couldn’t be broken, smashed, or burned. He even swallowed it, but he couldn’t digest it. He was helpless.

However, the gourd did have one strange property: it liked to preserve elixirs. As long as the elixirs were sufficiently magical, the gourd liked to devour them. Nonetheless, when Ancestor Deception needed to use an elixir, the gourd would spit it out. The elixirs stored inside could remain unspoiled for a very long time.

That was its only peculiar use. After many years of research yielded no further discoveries, Ancestor Deception stopped paying it much mind. Of course, when he underwent his Ascension to the Immortal Realm, he still took the gourd with him. But during the Heavenly Tribulation, the gourd was blasted away by thunder. Before he had time to retrieve it, his Ascension was complete. Therefore, the address he gave Zhang Bin was simply the location where he had once faced his Heavenly Tribulation.

"Little gourd, hurry up and bring out the Nirvana Pill. It’s my treasure," Zhang Bin said excitedly.

Ancestor Deception had told him that the gourd could understand human speech and was very obedient. There were no other Secret Techniques involved.

However, the gourd showed no reaction whatsoever.

Damn, it couldn’t have died, could it? Zhang Bin muttered to himself, gradually increasing the pressure in his hand. To his surprise, the gourd was extremely hard, indeed impossible to crush.

So he took out Blood Fang and ferociously slashed at the gourd. If it was dead, he had no choice but to break it open and retrieve the Nirvana Pill inside.

CLANG...

Sparks flew, but the gourd remained unscathed, without even a single mark. Instead, Zhang Bin’s Flying Sword emitted a mournful cry. Clearly, the gourd was much harder than the Flying Sword. In a head-to-head clash, the Flying Sword had suffered a great loss.

"Amazing! It really is incredibly hard," Zhang Bin clicked his tongue in wonder, continuing to attack the gourd frantically. But it was still no use; the gourd remained firm and completely undamaged.

"My Nirvana Pill! I can’t get it out?" Zhang Bin yelled in furious frustration.

"My Mana is all gone... I can’t spit out the elixir anymore. I’m about to die."

Suddenly, a childish voice emanated from within the gourd.

Zhang Bin was dumbfounded, standing there like a stunned fool. Was he dreaming, or was he hallucinating?

"Master, this is a plant Fairy, but it’s severely injured, so it’s on the verge of perishing," Xiao Qian said, jumping down from Zhang Bin’s shoulder in surprise.

"A plant Fairy?" Zhang Bin was astonished. "Do plant Fairies really exist in the world?"

"Of course, Master," Xiao Qian said. "My mother told me that plants that have lived for over a hundred million years can achieve cultivation and become Monsters or Fairies. Such beings are practically nonexistent in this era. They could only be found in the Remote Ancient Era."

Could it be that plants can cultivate too? Just like the Dragon Vein deep underground? Do they have to cultivate for billions of years before they can achieve Ascension to the Immortal Realm? Zhang Bin muttered to himself in shock, startled by his own conjecture. The cultivation of plants was even more difficult than that of a Dragon Vein, as a simple change in climate could cause a plant to die. If Earth were to freeze over, the plants would surely suffer a miserable death.

He dared not think on it further and said excitedly, "Little gourd, you’re severely injured? Is it because you were plucked from the mother vine?"

"Yes. I waited for 4.6 billion years for my mother to save me, but she never came. Now I can’t hold on any longer. I’m about to die," the little gourd said sadly.

"Don’t worry. I’m not your mother, but I am your master, so of course I can save you." Zhang Bin wore a proud expression and, without hesitation, infused a stream of Longevity Qi into it, stimulating the gourd’s vitality.

It worked. The little gourd began to excitedly devour the Longevity Qi, radiating a green light as its life force gradually grew stronger. It even let out a choked cry, "Master, you can really save me! Your True Qi is so magical, far more so than that idiot Ancestor Deception’s. It’s allowing me to quickly regain my vitality!"

"Heh heh... Of course." Zhang Bin laughed proudly. As he continued to channel his True Qi, he collected all the other treasures here into his Dragon Pool.

Soon, he returned to the surface.

At that moment, the Sun had just peeked half a smiling face over the horizon, and golden sunlight spread across the land, making the countless trees appear even more verdant.

"Little gourd, from now on, your name will be Xiao Qing. I’ll perform Qi gathering for you to devour. You’ll surely recover faster," Zhang Bin said. He then began to frantically gather Qi, drawing out the Spiritual Energy from the countless trees and grasses. It swarmed over, enveloping Xiao Qing.

He believed that since Xiao Qing was a plant Fairy, devouring the Spiritual Energy within plants would surely be beneficial—perhaps even more so than his Longevity Qi.

"Master, this is the Spiritual Energy from within plants! It’s perfect for me! I’m so happy..." Xiao Qing’s voice became soft and tempting as she began to frantically devour the Spiritual Energy Zhang Bin gathered.

WHIRRR...

A massive vortex formed.

Two hours passed like this until Zhang Bin reached the limit of his Qi gathering and had to stop. He flopped onto the ground, gasping for breath.

Meanwhile, Xiao Qing had also undergone a miraculous transformation. She became lush and verdant, exuding an intoxicatingly fresh fragrance. Strangely, a two-inch-long segment of vine had also sprouted from one end of the gourd.

"Thank you, Master!" Xiao Qing suddenly jumped into Zhang Bin’s arms, her voice filled with immense gratitude.

"Xiao Qing, have you regained your vitality now? Are you still going to die?" Zhang Bin asked with a smirk.

"I’ve recovered! I won’t die anymore. I can even continue my cultivation! However, I still need to cultivate for another billion years before I can become an Innate Spiritual Root," Xiao Qing said.

"That’s fine, I can wait," Zhang Bin said nonchalantly. "Now, go ahead and spit out the Nirvana Pill."

"Yes, Master," Xiao Qing replied respectfully. A moment later, a golden pill floated up from the surface of the gourd, radiating a dazzling golden light.

Zhang Bin gleefully grabbed it and scrutinized it closely.

"Master, please save my father!" Xiao Qian suddenly fell to her knees before Zhang Bin, pleading.