Not leaving a single tea leaf behind, he plucked them all, resulting in fifteen pounds of spirit tea leaves. Using the Fireball Technique to roast them, he finally obtained just over three pounds of dried tea.

Carefully stored away!

Zhou Changwang took out another bottle of Vitality Spiritual Liquid.

This bottle of Vitality Spiritual Liquid was one of the two bottles he got from the wealthy lady Gong Bai Xue.

According to her, one bottle of Vitality Spiritual Liquid is worth fifty Lower-Grade Spirit Stones and can assist Spirit Plants in growing for two to three years.

Zhou Changwang planned to cultivate the Spirit Tea Tree. Just relying on the Annual Ring Skill, draining all the Spiritual Qi in his backyard wouldn’t suffice, so he could only rely on this Vitality Spiritual Liquid.

Thus, he once again used the Life-Cutting Finger, absorbing the Vitality Spiritual Liquid and then injecting it into the Spirit Tea Tree.

Once the Spirit Tea Tree had fully absorbed it, he began to use the Annual Ring Skill.

One after another, the Annual Ring Skills landed on the Spirit Tea Tree, continuously expanding its size and increasing its years of growth.

The buds of tea leaves also quickly grew out with the urging of his Annual Ring Skill.

When the Vitality Spiritual Liquid was depleted, he absorbed and injected it again.

Repeating this process.

Fostering growth frantically!

Quickly, after consuming thirty percent of the Vitality Spiritual Liquid, the Red Leaf Spirit Tea Tree’s age increased by another year.

If one were to cut open the cross-section of the Spirit Tea Tree, it would be clear that there were a full two annual rings inside, representing its age of two years.

The second wave of harvesting officially began.

Then came the third wave.

But after the third wave, he discovered that once all the tea leaves of the Red Leaf Spirit Tea Tree were picked, the amount of Spiritual Qi needed for it to regrow its leaves increased significantly, greatly slowing its growth rate.

So from the fourth wave onwards, he stopped picking the spirit tea leaves and even started pruning the branches and leaves of the tea tree to conserve Spiritual Qi, controlling its growth direction and size.

Given the limited conditions, he focused primarily on its annual ring growth.

Soon enough, the second bottle of Vitality Spiritual Liquid was completely used up.

"Seven years of age."

Looking at the Red Leaf Spirit Tea Tree before him, Zhou Changwang sighed with emotion.

At this moment.

Its roots had already extended over a yard in all directions.

The tree was seven feet tall, with three main branches arranged in a triangle, supporting several smaller branches bearing the red spirit tea leaves that emitted a crystalline Spiritual Light.

"Seven years old, still a long way to go.

And calculating one bottle of Vitality Spiritual Liquid nurturing three years of growth, to reach a hundred years at least requires another thirty-one bottles; in fact, thirty-one bottles are far from enough.

Because the further it grows, the more Vitality Spiritual Liquid it requires..."

Zhou Changwang calculated silently, once again feeling the challenge.

Cultivating a Hundred-Year-Old Red Leaf Spirit Tea Tree was indeed not as simple as he had imagined before.

Thirty-one bottles of Vitality Spiritual Liquid aren’t expensive, just one thousand five hundred and fifty Lower-Grade Spirit Stones; even if the requirement spikes significantly in the later stages, it shouldn’t exceed that by much. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

If necessary, he could always go out to extract more Vitality Spiritual Liquid.

Thinking of this, Zhou Changwang couldn’t help but turn his gaze to the cliff below.

Below the cliff was a forest of shrubs, with many Spirit Plants, Spirit Vines, and even Spirit Woods.

Though most were of lower grade, there were still Spirit Woods over a hundred years old.

With this in mind, Zhou Changwang hurried to the Cultivation Secret Room, lifted a floorboard, and an underground tunnel was immediately revealed.

This underground tunnel was specifically dug by him when he felt heavily threatened.

The tunnel extended downward, with the exit on top of the cliff, merely about twenty yards above the bottom.

At this point, he headed down to the exit area, moved a massive stone slab, and looked downward. The forests below were deserted, with only a glimpse of some Spirit Farmers busy in the Spirit Fields at the foot of Changling Mountain far in the distance.

"This height isn’t much of a problem for me."

Zhou Changwang murmured, but to be safe, he took a rope, slid down to about three yards from the ground, then with a flash of Spiritual Light over his body, he performed the Light Body Skill.

With a light leap, he landed safely on the ground.

"Compared to the top, the Spiritual Qi here is much thinner, about the same as the outskirts of the Marketplace."

Silently sensing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi around him, Zhou Changwang stepped forward, and soon, he spotted a Spirit Plant.

It was a Blood-sucking Vine, tightly coiled around a century-old tree. The vine wound so tightly that the old tree had sunken in several inches, almost twisted off entirely.

With a relaxed expression, Zhou Changwang’s Spiritual Power flickered, and he immediately used Life-Cutting Finger, lightly pointing at the Blood-sucking Vine.

In an instant, the unique Vitality Power of the Blood-sucking Vine was instantly drawn, condensing into drops of emerald green Spiritual Liquid.

One drop, two drops, three drops...

Until after five drops, the Blood-sucking Vine lost its vitality, withering completely, its branches and leaves turning yellow, no longer returning to its previous lush green state.

He gently tapped the Blood-sucking Vine, breaking it as if it were a piece of rotten wood, extremely loose.

"This is the Life-Cutting Finger.

Severing vitality, with a single point, any Spirit Plant can hardly escape being drained."

As Zhou Changwang was sighing, he quickly stored the extracted five drops of Vitality Spiritual Liquid into a Jade Bottle.

One hundred drops make a bottle of Vitality Spiritual Liquid.

Only another twenty of these Blood-sucking Vines are needed to make a full bottle; it’s not too difficult.

Then, his gaze soon fell on another Spirit Wood.