Chapter 1141: Unsealing the Ancient Mycelium

He can also have simple "conversations" with spiritual plants, convey information to them, and guide them to grow according to his expectations, such as strengthening the growth of a certain part of the plants, or changing the spiritual properties of the plants to make them better meet specific needs.

Zhang Xuan found that a phantom of the heart of the fairy tree appeared on his fingertips.

The heart of the fairy tree is like a transit station, and Zhang Xuan communicates with the spiritual plants through the heart of the fairy tree.

He also had an ancient mycelium in his hand, which he bought from an old man in a black robe for 800 contribution points.

Henry Zhang held the sclerotium carefully in his hands.

He sensed the faint vitality in this ancient fungus nucleus.

However, there is a powerful seal on the outside, which imprisons this ancient fungus sclerotium.

In order to grow this ancient sclerotium, this seal must be broken.

He knew that it would be a difficult challenge to break the seal on the sclerotium, but if he succeeded, he would gain a fungal elixir of level five or above.

Zhang Xuan took out thousands of books bought from the Central Ancestral Deep Cellar Market, looking for records about ancient sclerotia.

Finally, he found a vague record in an extremely ancient book on spiritual plants, which mentioned an ancient forbidden rune that seemed to have some similarities with the runes on the sclerotium.

As mentioned above, in ancient times, powerful beings would seal rare fungal species with unique forbidden runes in order to protect them.

These runes contain powerful power of laws. Once activated, they will form a self-circulating rune cage, imprisoning the spirit seed inside, causing it to fall into a deep sleep and completely cutting off any interaction with the outside world.

Zhang Xuan's mind moved, and he speculated that the fungal pattern on this ancient fungus sclerotium was most likely this kind of ancient forbidden rune.

He continued to study and learned that these runes could not only imprison spiritual energy, but also interact with the characteristics of the sealed objects to strengthen the sealing effect.

Just like this mycelium, it contains a special substance called "Spiritual Crystal" inside, which can absorb the surrounding fungal patterns for its own use, and has a strong dependence on higher-level rune energy.

After the fungus seal is activated, the spiritual crystal will attach itself to the seal rune and merge with it, causing the life activities inside the fungus core to almost stagnate and the metabolism to become imperceptible.

Moreover, the ancient sclerotium's tough skin with special barrier properties, with the help of the seal, completely keeps out external matter and energy, and its own matter and energy are also firmly locked inside, which makes the sclerotium remain in a sealed state throughout millions of years.

Zhang Xuan stared at the ancient fungus sclerotium wrapped in mysterious fungal patterns in his hand, feeling both excited and confused.

The origin of this sclerotium is mysterious, and there seem to be endless secrets hidden beneath the bizarre and complex fungal patterns.

He knew very well that if he could unlock the secret and cultivate a fifth-level or even higher-level fungal elixir, the value it would bring would be immeasurable.

He took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming with determination.

Now that we understand the mechanism of the seal, the next step is to find a way to break it.

"Since this seal is a fusion of spiritual condensed crystal and sealing runes, and spiritual condensed crystal has a strong dependence on high-level rune energy, then I just need to find a rune with higher energy than the sealing rune."

He directly took out a half-step living pattern.

From the Bone Desert Illusion, he obtained a total of three half-step living patterns.

He refined a wisp of formation art that reached half a step to the fifth level.

All of them were given to his youngest daughter.

He still had this strand left.

"I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf!"

The moment the Half-Step Living Pattern approached the Ancient Fungal Core, the seal formed by the fusion of the Stone Spirit Crystal and the Sealing Rune suddenly broke away from the Ancient Fungal Core and flew onto the Half-Step Living Pattern.

"Successful!" Henry Zhang was overjoyed.

He stared without blinking at the ancient fungus sclerotium that had escaped from the seal.

This time, the fungal patterns on the ancient sclerotium finally reacted.

The originally tightly connected fungal patterns seemed to be gently pulled by an invisible hand, and there was a slight looseness.

A powerful and pure spiritual energy burst out from the mycelium.

The seal of the sclerotium was finally completely released.

This ancient sclerotium has awakened from its slumber.

Zhang Xuan could even feel the ancient fungus's joy and excitement after it awakened.

Next comes the key step of cultivation.

Zhang Xuan knew very well that ordinary cultivation methods might not be applicable to this ancient sclerotium.

However, Zhang Xuan has the Dao Fungus Cultivation Manual, which is also a secret cultivation technique from ancient times, which is just right for this ancient sclerotium.

"Fungal medicinal herbs are the essence of heaven and earth, the flower of the Great Dao. Build a small Great Dao pond in a place with rich spiritual energy, plant spores, mix paper mulberry juice with mud, bury it to release the fire poison, and after one year, take it out and put it in a hanging well for one year, take it out and soak it in running water for one year. After three years, you can get fungal medicinal seeds..."

The originally obscure and difficult to understand manual on spiritual plants was suddenly enlightened after Zhang Xuan obtained the Heart of the Immortal Tree, and he completely understood the techniques of spiritual plant cultivation.

It mentions mulberry juice and mud, and soaking in running water for a long time, but it only targets general spores.

This is to stimulate the active energy in the spores and cultivate the spores into real fungal medicine species.

The ancient sclerotia are already considered fungal medicines, so you can skip the previous tedious steps.

Zhang Xuan recalled the records in ancient books about stabilizing fungal patterns after breaking the ban, and the need to replenish energy to the sealed ancient fungal core in time.

Earlier, he had thrown a large number of low-level fungal treasures and fungal elixirs into the Taiqing Creation Map, and at this time they had been tempered into clusters of original fungal patterns.

He took out a ball of original fungal pattern that looked like a ball of wool and fed it directly to the ancient fungal sclerotium that had just awakened.

The ancient mycelium seemed to smell the scent of delicious food and directly absorbed these original mycelial patterns.

After absorbing this group of original fungal patterns, the activity of this ancient fungal sclerotium became more vigorous.

Zhang Xuan's Immortal Tree Heart sensed that this ancient fungus sclerotium was still very hungry.

He had no choice but to take out another ball of original fungus patterns to feed it.

After feeding 10 groups of original fungus patterns, this ancient fungus sclerotium finally finished eating and recovered to its peak.

After feeding the ancient sclerotia, Zhang Xuan turned to studying the cultivation environment of the sclerotia.

He knew very well that ancient sclerotia were a rare species and had extremely demanding requirements for the cultivation environment.

Not to mention the mycelium, even spores cannot be cultivated on the spiritual veins of this world.

Sclerotia and spores can only be cultivated on veins.

And bacterial veins can only be produced in the Avenue Pond.

The stronghold of the entire central ancestral vein is a large avenue pool.

There are countless fungal veins on it, which can not only provide spiritual energy for human cultivators to practice, but also provide fungal nutrients for spores and mycelium.

"There are no fungal veins in this great wilderness." Zhang Xuan sighed.

The Dao Fungus Cultivation Manual does contain a method for refining a small Dao pond.

Unfortunately, it is incomplete.

The incomplete part happens to be the method of refining a small avenue pond.