Chapter 6: Immortal Cultivation and Farming
"Let's go check on Ling Sui Mi first."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and then stepped into the fertile fields in the valley.
This valley is located in the center of Yejia Island. It is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, making it difficult for outsiders to see what is really going on. It can also gather sea water vapor, making it a good place to grow spiritual herbs.
It's a pity that such good geographical conditions cannot be transformed into a spiritual field due to the lack of spirituality and spiritual energy in the spiritual vein, which makes Ye Linyuan feel a little regretful.
“If the spiritual veins of Ye Family Island are promoted to the second stage, and a large formation is set up to warm and nourish the earth veins, these hundred acres of fertile land can all be transformed into spiritual fields, which will be enough to serve as the foundation for the Ye Family.”
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, but shook his head slightly. It is not so easy to cultivate a hundred acres of spiritual fields. It requires a huge amount of spiritual stones and even various rare treasures.
Although he has enough means and methods, he does not have enough strength and resources, so he can only move forward step by step.
Entering the valley again, Ye Linyuan looked around the huge field of Lingsui rice and found that most of the Lingsui rice here were half-dead. Only a very small number could produce spiritual rice, but the yield was also frighteningly low.
"There is not enough spiritual energy, and there is no spiritual nourishment method to nourish it. In addition, insect pests devour the spiritual rice. The annual output of 300 to 500 kilograms of spiritual rice is already dependent on the weather."
Ye Linyuan made such an evaluation in his mind, and soon he had enough plans.
Cultivate the hundreds of arts, with farming as the foundation.
Among the hundreds of arts of cultivation in this world, the status and importance of spiritual plants have always been ranked first since ancient times, because this is the foundation and source of most of the means of production in the world of cultivation.
After all, the number of rare and precious things produced by nature is limited, and most of the elixirs and treasures require extremely harsh conditions to grow and survive.
However, the Spirit Plant Husband can use magic and various means to artificially create a living environment for spiritual medicines. He can even greatly increase the yield of spiritual plants and speed up the maturity of spiritual medicines.
Taking the cultivation of Lingsui rice as an example, if these one hundred acres of fertile land for Lingsui rice were given to a first-rank low-grade spiritual plant farmer to cultivate, the annual output would at least increase by three times.
If this spiritual farmer can also master the spell of ripening the rice and eliminate pests, he can change the spiritual rice that matures once a year to once every six months, and the yield will increase several times.
This is still a first-level spiritual plant farmer. If a second-level spiritual plant farmer were to plant it, the yield would easily increase dozens of times.
Of course, the status of a first-level spiritual plant husband is already extremely noble, and he would never grow this cheap spiritual rice, not to mention those second-level spiritual plant husbands whose status is extremely precious.
They take care of the spiritual fields and carefully plant rare spiritual medicines or high-level spiritual woods as materials for refining weapons, making talismans, and puppets.
The spiritual medicines and trees grown by many skilled spiritual hermits are treasures that are scrambled for by countless high-level monks.
Because as long as there are enough medicinal herbs to practice with, and the cultivation is sufficient, then no matter how dull the talent is, even a pig monster can be fed and become a high-level alchemist.
However, without enough high-quality medicinal materials to practice, and relying only on idle fantasies and painstaking contemplation, without enough opportunities to practice, then no matter how amazing one's talent and potential are, it is impossible to break through the bottleneck of alchemy.
The development of the hundred arts of cultivation is essentially a refinement based on existing materials.
The same goes for refining equipment, making talismans, and refining puppets. Without the materials, it is impossible to achieve a high level of achievement.
It can be said that a high-level spiritual plant husband is fully capable of training multiple masters of weapon refining, alchemy, talisman making, and even puppet making for the family and sect.
Even array masters need various rare materials grown by spirit planters. "Among all the arts of cultivation, farming comes first, and spirit planters are the foundation of all the arts of cultivation."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart and recalled the four core spells of the first-level spiritual plant husband. These four spells are the spiritual rain spell, the ripening spell, the Geng gold needle, and the soul nourishing spell.
Among these four spells, the Spirit Rain Spell can gather spiritual rain to irrigate the spiritual fields, and is the most core method of the Spirit Plant Man.
There are four levels of magic: the initial stage, the Hinayana, the Mahayana, and the near path.
Generally speaking, if one has mastered the Spiritual Rain Art to the initial level, he can be considered a quasi-spiritual plant husband. However, in order to become a true spiritual plant husband, one must at least master the Hinayana Spiritual Rain Art.
Although the Spirit Rain Technique is of a lower grade, it is a mysterious spell for manipulating celestial phenomena. It is extremely difficult to practice. Even many people in the middle and late stages of Qi training may not be able to cultivate it to the Hinayana realm.
As for the Mahayana spiritual rain technique, it is even more rare. Generally speaking, those who master the Mahayana spiritual rain technique are all first-class top-grade spiritual plant masters. Such people are guests of honor even if they go to the Qinghe Immortal Gate.
As for the spells at the near-path level, only the legendary geniuses can master them. Those who master the Spirit Rain Spell at the near-path level can even be comparable to the second-level Spirit Plant Spell, and their status becomes incomparably noble.
Because the spiritual rain technique at the near-level has a certain effect on second-order spiritual plants, such characters must be treated with great care even by foundation-building cultivators.
In addition to the Spirit Rain Technique, the Ripening Technique, the Geng Gold Needle Technique, and the Soul Nourishing Technique are also quite advanced first-level spells.
Among them, the ripening method can ripen spiritual medicines, the Gengjin needle can kill pests, and the spiritual nourishment technique can increase the upper limit of the potential of spiritual plants, so that the medicinal power of the fruits they produce will be improved, and they can even mutate into higher-level spiritual medicines.
Moreover, the effects of spells will vary greatly depending on the level of spell practice.
If it is just the initial level, the ripening method can only increase the maturity speed of the first-level spiritual medicine by 10%, but if it reaches the Hinayana or Mahayana level, the maturity speed will be doubled or even tripled.
If one reaches the near-path realm, the growth rate of first-level spiritual medicine can be increased by more than ten times, and it can even be effective for second-level spiritual medicine.
The same is true for Geng Jinzhen. This method was created based on harmful insects and demonic insects.
Because the evil insect is attached to the spiritual medicine, and may even be hiding inside it, if it is killed with ordinary magic, the spiritual medicine will inevitably be destroyed.
The Gengjin needle of the spiritual plant husband is extremely small and can kill pests and evil insects without damaging the spiritual medicine. It is one of the key spells that the spiritual plant husband must learn.
This method can only release a few Gengjin needles at first, but if it is cultivated to the near-Dao level, three thousand Gengjin needles can be released in a single thought.
The three thousand Geng gold needles gather and disperse at will, and their combined power can easily kill a first-grade top-grade demon insect. This is also Ling Zhifu's only means of fighting, and it is not weak at all even when used against an enemy.
The Soul Nurturing Technique can increase the medicinal power of spiritual plants by 10%, 50%, 100%, or even 300% depending on the level of the realm.
The minimum requirement to become a first-class spiritual plant husband is to master the Hinayana spiritual rain technique, while a first-class intermediate-quality spiritual plant husband must master four Hinayana spiritual plant spells at the same time.
A first-class spiritual plant husband needs to master the Mahayana Spirit Rain Technique on this basis.
It is said that if one masters the four Mahayana spiritual plant spells at the same time, he can be regarded as a quasi-second-level spiritual plant husband, and his status and position are enough to make the foundation-building ancestors treat him equally.
(End of this chapter)
