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No wonder Chen Zining had doubts, this stone forest was huge, with stones everywhere, not even a little soil, only some vines tenaciously survived in the cracks in the rocks.

Chen Daochong didn't answer. After looking around, he walked towards the center of the stone forest. The stone pillars inside were similar, arranged in a chaotic manner, like a maze, and it was easy to get lost if you went deeper.

Walking back and forth in the stone forest for a quarter of an hour, during which time he climbed up and down the vertical cliff several times, and finally came to a rock wall, Chen Daochong uttered several birdsong, and a nimble figure emerged from He jumped out from the crevice of the stone, and when he saw the two of them, he said in surprise, "Patriarch, why are you here, old man?"

Chen Zining said: "Uncle Wu, I'm going down the mountain in a few days, let Grandpa take me to see the fruit forest."

Chen Guangwu nodded and said, "Come up, follow your grandfather carefully, and don't touch the organ."

The two climbed up the cliff of more than 20 feet, walked a few steps, and saw a strange terrain. A huge boulder with a radius of more than 40 feet was hollowed out to form a circular stone wall, and an area was opened in the middle. The land of about two acres looks like a washbasin from a high place, and the land in the middle of the washbasin is full of more than [-] black jade fruit trees, if you don’t stand here or in the sky , No one can imagine that this boulder is actually hollow, and there are spiritual fruit trees planted inside it.

The Xuanyu fruit tree is only one foot high, with a round crown, and its leaves are evergreen all year round. At this time, there are already small flower buds on the fruit tree, and there is a faint fragrance of flowers in the air.

Xuanyu fruit has a very high yield among the second-grade spiritual fruits, and it can be said to be one of the best. It is only because of the special requirements for the growing environment that artificial cultivation is rare. Generally, it only grows on specific spiritual lands in the deep mountains and wild ridges. It is possible that a person's spiritual land is only as big as a human's foothold, which can only accommodate a fruit tree, and the largest spiritual land is said to be a mountain, but most of these spiritual lands are in the hands of major forces, like the seven major sects and four Holy places, all of them take the best caves and blessed places in the world as their roots, and the next level, such as the royal families of various countries and thousand-year-old families, also occupy the spiritual veins of the spiritual mountains in various places.

Chen Zining used his spiritual sense to detect it briefly, and he understood that the spiritual place here is a small intersection point of the Yunjieling's spiritual veins, which is the so-called spiritual eye in the cultivation world, which can supply the spiritual energy needed by the spiritual fruit tree, which is almost natural. The Spirit Gathering Formation.

And a cultivator can completely simulate the effect of spiritual eyes by using the formation, and can open up spiritual fields like medicine gardens as he likes.

Chen Daochong pointed to this small piece of fruit forest, and said: "Since the ancestors of Dekang discovered this spiritual land 300 years ago, after decades of repairing, this spiritual land was opened up, and after hundreds of years of groping and testing, The ancestors tried every means to find the spiritual core, and selected more than 20 kinds of spiritual fruits. It turned out that the third-grade spiritual fruit trees either bear little fruit, or only bear fruit once every three or four years. Only the second-grade Xuanyu fruit is the most suitable for this place. Being able to bear fruit once a year is the reason we have the current scale. We are able to have what we have today because our ancestors have gone through untold hardships. Therefore, every one of us in Chenjia Village must swear to protect this area. Spirit fruit forest."

There are three main methods of planting spiritual essences such as spiritual fruit, spiritual grain, and spiritual medicine. One is to plant directly on natural spiritual land like Chenjia Village, but there are too few natural spiritual lands, and they are all in sparsely populated mountainous places. , It’s hard to find, not to mention, even if you find it, it’s hard to keep it.

The second is to use formations to gather spiritual energy to form an artificial spiritual field, but accomplished formation masters are rarer than emperors on the Shenglan Continent, and even some large sects that have been passed down for thousands of years cannot train a formation master , to have a spiritual field handed down from the ancestors is a great thing.

The third is to use spiritual soil to grow roots, and then use spiritual springs to irrigate from time to time, and plant spirit-gathering grass around to gather spiritual energy. This method is the most widely used, but of course it also has its shortcomings. First, the environment requires rich spiritual energy, and second The reason is that the row spacing is required to be particularly wide, so that it cannot compete with other plants for spiritual energy. The third is that the maturity period is lengthened, and it can bear fruit once a year in the spiritual land, but it may take two or three years to bear fruit once outside, and this method is only suitable for four-year-old plants. The following spiritual fruits.

Chen Zining nodded and asked, "Grandpa, how many people usually guard here?"

"Usually there are only eight of them. Once they bear fruit, more people will be added. When they are about to mature, nearly one-third of the village's strength will be guarded here."

Chen Daochong smiled and said with emotion: "More than 50 years ago, after the secret of Chenjia Village's possession of the spiritual land was accidentally leaked out, our biggest worry was naturally that we were afraid of being looked down upon by others. Fortunately, the patriarch of our Chenjia Village, your great-grandfather was A once-in-a-hundred-year genius in the clan, with the third level of martial arts cultivation, he shocked the surrounding forces. After your great-grandfather passed away more than 20 years ago, my Chenjia Village has not been able to produce another master martial artist. Although every year we They all sell half of the spiritual fruit for safety, but this approach is not reliable, after all, it costs money to buy it, so it is better to grab the spiritual fruit forest."

Speaking of this, Chen Daochong stroked his beard and said: "To be honest, I have not slept well in the past 20 years. If I hadn't had a comrade-in-arms friendship with Meng Tang, the current lord of Taichang City, when I was young, it would have made Taichang City The aristocratic family forces have never intervened here, and we may not be able to keep this spiritual land. Now it is alright, even if Meng Tang retires this year and changes to a city lord, with our strength, we can keep this place safe and handed down to the Chen family. The next generation."

Since Chen Daochong broke through the realm of a martial artist, he seemed to be ten years younger. He was full of energy and enthusiasm like a young man. He thought for a while and said: "There are two red eagles on Qingfengya, and they will come every year when the spiritual fruit matures. Pecking at the spirit fruit, at the beginning, we wanted to expel them, but the weakest of the red eagles are all first-order spirit birds, and our best archers can't do anything to them, and we are afraid that the movement will be too big, causing others to panic. Be careful, you have to let them go, and every year when they mature, they will eat about twenty spirit fruits."

"Oh!"

Chen Zining couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard this, and he became interested in it. He was about to tame some birds for communication and reconnaissance. This kind of red eagle has superb eyesight, fast speed, and extremely alert. Communication couldn't be better.

"How much is the annual output of Xuanyu fruit?"

"These 48 Xuanyu fruit trees are all grown-up, and can produce about [-] per year, but the yield of each tree is different. The one in the center can produce fifty or sixty, and the one at the edge can only produce three. Forty."

Chen Zining nodded thoughtfully. These fruit trees lived by absorbing the spiritual energy of the underground spiritual veins, and the closer to the spiritual eyes, the higher the yield.