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Fifteen miles west of Tianlong Valley, there is an acre of spiritual field opened on the edge of the cliff.

It is filled with green bamboos as tall as a person, and each one is as green as fine jade.

The stern young man stood on the edge of the field, holding magic formulas in his hands and muttering something in his mouth.

"Buzz!"

A ray of white light floated out from the fingertips and dissipated one or two feet above the head.

Wow!

A gray cloud quickly appeared, hovering above the head of the stern young man. Within a moment, a large number of raindrops fell from the cloud.

The clouds and mist moved with the movement of the young man, always directly above his head.

Bobo.:

When raindrops were about to fall on him, they would be bounced away by a translucent film.

When all the green bamboos in the entire Lingtian were covered with rainwater, the bamboo leaves grew slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The air seemed to become much fresher, and the wood spiritual energy became slightly richer.

"It's growing well...:" Fang Xiu stopped, smiled, and reached out to wipe the sweat from his head.

In order to ensure the uniformity of rain, you must maintain a high degree of concentration when casting the spell.

Although it consumes not much mana, the mental energy consumption is no less than that of making talismans for a whole day.

Of course, the harvest is also gratifying.

Green bamboo rice, which originally took nine months to mature, is basically mature in less than half a year.

[Skill: First-level spiritual planting technique·Proficiency (5%)]

[Xiaoyunyu Technique: Mastery (19%)]

[Cloud and Rain Technique: Proficient (86%)]

This was due to Fang Xiu's hard training in the art of moving clouds and spreading rain taught by the Lin family.

There is one thing that Lin Shaoyu is not bragging about, that is, the effect of the Cloud and Rain Technique is indeed much stronger than that of the Little Cloud and Rain Technique.

But it’s also more difficult to practice.

Others plant green bamboo rice that matures in nine months, leaving three months for harvesting.

Only one green bamboo rice can be planted in a year.

Fang rested and matured a round of green bamboo rice in less than six months. If he could harvest it within a month, he would be able to harvest two rounds a year, doubling the income.

Of course, this is the case in theory.

The green bamboo rice planted by Fang Xiu matures so quickly, mainly because the earth dragon beast often loosens the soil underground to prevent the spiritual soil from compacting, and at the same time uses its natural ability to devour and fertilize the soil.

His ability to move clouds and spread rain has improved rapidly under the influence of the [Spell Mastery] talent.

However, growing green bamboo rice is not difficult. The main difficulty lies in harvesting.

Green bamboo is very hard and can be sold as an auxiliary material for first-level low-grade magic weapons. It also has a certain value in itself.

Chopping green bamboo under the premise that you can't use magic power and can only use physical strength can exhaust a first-level mid-level body refiner to half death.

You must allow two to three months for harvesting.

If several spiritual planters cooperate to contract a few acres of spiritual fields, and some are dedicated to spreading clouds and rain, while others are dedicated to harvesting, it is not impossible to achieve two crops a year.

With two crops a year, who will harvest it is a big problem.

Moving clouds and making rain is tiring, but it's not as tiring as chopping bamboo.

Green bamboo rice generally yields about 500 kilograms per mu. However, one acre here is larger than the standard in the previous life. One acre of land is a square with a side length of 30 meters.

The length of the spiritual field where Fang Xiu was resting on the edge of the cliff reached an exaggerated forty meters.

His location is relatively remote. Although the quality of the spiritual soil is not bad, it is far from the edge of the first-order high-grade spiritual veins.

The concentration of spiritual energy is quite different.

Rogue cultivators are willing to come to the Lin family to farm, and many of them value the Lin family's spiritual heritage.

Farming can earn spiritual stones, but cultivation is equally important. Everyone wants to stay in a place with a high concentration of spiritual energy.

The spiritual land on the edge of the cliff belonged to Jiao Mian, so when Fang Xiu opened the spiritual field, he asked for more spiritual soil and made the spiritual field a little larger. The Lin family didn't say anything more and still paid the rent according to the standard one acre of land.

The actual area of ​​his spiritual field exceeds one and a half acres.

Of course, Fang Xiu's cultivation in the later stages of Qi training also played a key role.

Although he was on a remote cliff, there would still be casual cultivators who rented the Lin family's spiritual field and would come over to say hello. They were all casual cultivators who visited him. As long as safety could be ensured, there was no harm in making more friends.

We can also communicate about recent events in the world of immortality.

"It will rain again in a few days, and it will probably be fully mature. This hardness... is indeed not simple."

Fang Xiu came to the edge of the spiritual field, held a green bamboo as thick as an arm, and squeezed it hard. The green bamboo only cracked and did not break.

"No wonder first-level mid-level body refiners need to set aside two or three months of harvest time..."

In the middle stage of the first level of physical training, the strength is about the same as that of a great master of external skills, with a strength of thirty to forty thousand kilograms.

Fang Xiu just used 30,000 to 40,000 kilograms of force, but only slight cracks appeared in the green bamboo.

You can't use magic power. Even if you use sharp magic weapons and agricultural tools, you have to chop with all your strength multiple times to cut the green bamboo.

The green bamboo that is as tall as a person has seven or eight sections in total, and green bamboo rice grows inside the bamboo sections.

In order to extract all the green bamboo rice, every section of bamboo must be cut off.

Cutting down one or two green bamboos a day is not very strenuous for a mid-level first-level physical practitioner. Even cutting down a dozen or so trees may not be a problem.

However, the average yield of green bamboo rice per mu is about 500 kilograms. If one person has to cut hundreds of green bamboos, his muscles will be sore after a few days. After a month, his whole body will probably feel uncomfortable.

Click!

Fang Xiu used all his strength, and the hard green bamboo was easily crushed like foam, revealing the green bracts inside.

Peel off the bract leaves, and you will find white rice grains the size of your little finger, exuding the unique fragrance of bamboo.

Boom!

Fang Xiu stuffed the white rice grains into his mouth and chewed them raw.

The taste is sweet and has the texture of eating popcorn cake.

It should taste better when cooked.

After eating a whole piece of green bamboo rice in the bracts, Fang Xiu felt a little bit of spiritual energy emerging from his belly, and his qi and blood became slightly more active.

"The effect is acceptable, although it is far inferior to the elixirs taken in the later stages of Qi refining, but it is better because there are no restrictions."

Fang Xiu felt the effect of green bamboo rice and nodded secretly.

Eating elixirs will accumulate erysipelas and affect the purity of mana, but eating spiritual rice will not, and spiritual rice can also replenish qi and blood.

"Green Bamboo Rice mainly replenishes spiritual energy and supplements Qi and blood. The effect is pretty good. I don't know what Blood Tooth Rice is like."

You must perform well this year and strive to get blood-toothed rice seedlings next year.

Fang Xiu stretched out his index finger, and energy gathered at his fingertips.

Poof!

With a gentle stroke of Gang Jin, the extremely hard bamboo joints of the green bamboo rice were divided into two along the dividing line.

Fang Xiu took out the bract leaves, opened them, and frowned slightly.

Half of the green bamboo rice inside was intact, but most of it was shattered by the force.

The broken spiritual rice obviously cannot be handed over.

"Can I just use brute force... Or is my technique wrong?"

Fang Xiu was thoughtful and prepared to wait until the green bamboo rice was fully mature before trying it again.

Harvesting an acre of green bamboo rice was only a little tiring at most, much easier than a mid-level first-level body refiner.

If it was just a matter of skill and he could use Gang Jin to harvest green bamboo rice after becoming proficient, then he would have no problem growing several acres of green bamboo rice by himself.

The dragon beast can only suffer one more time.

Another seven days passed.

After Fang Xiu made clouds and rain twice, the green bamboo rice was fully mature.

He kept harvesting a hundred green bamboos a day, and on the fifth day, he harvested 684 kilograms of green bamboo rice. After removing the bract leaves, 562 kilograms of pure rice remain.

The yield of green bamboo rice is calculated as 500 jins per mu, so 300 jins should be handed over to False Dan Zhenren, and 100 jins should be paid to the Lin family as farm rent. The rest belongs to Ling Zhifu.

If we calculate it as 562 kilograms of pure rice per acre, the market price of green bamboo rice is one kilogram of low-grade spiritual stone.

Excluding the spiritual rice and costs handed in, this round of income only earned about a hundred spiritual stones.

Of course, it is quite a lot for mid-stage Qi-refining earth cultivators and first-level mid-stage body refining practitioners.

Lingtian is within the Lin family's sphere of influence. Although farming is tiring and may not make as much as being a casual cultivator, safety is guaranteed.

The periphery of Xiaofang City is easy to be robbed and killed by robbers. The competition between Dafang City and Fairy City is too stressful, and the cost of living is too high.

If you pursue stability, farming is suitable for most physical practices.

Top-grade Lingmi is not available in Xiaofang City and is available in limited quantities in Dafang City.

Grow your own and eat whatever you have left.

Most of the casual cultivators have poor spiritual roots. Most of them have false spiritual roots and low-grade spiritual roots. A few of them have middle-grade spiritual roots that are marginal. They are neither high nor low.

Although taking elixirs can improve your cultivation, it will reduce the chance of breaking through the foundation building bottleneck.

The above-mentioned high-grade spiritual rice can replace elixirs and make steady progress.

The Lin family can earn thousands of spiritual stones every year just from collecting land rent and spiritual rice.

However, most of these spiritual stones have to be used to manage relationships.

With the sect as your back, while your safety is guaranteed, you cannot avoid being squeezed.

"There are still more than four hundred green bamboos left...:"

Fang Xiu looked at the remaining green bamboo.

His spiritual field is large. Although he does not need to pay more green bamboo rice, he does need to use more seedlings.

"Then you can slowly test and practice...

Fang Xiu gathered strength at his fingertips and cut the remaining green bamboo.

Among the first fifty bamboo shoots, there are mostly bad ones and few intact green bamboo shoots.

Fang Xiu cooked the broken rice and ate it.

The next day, Fang Xiu cut another fifty green bamboos, which was about the same.

Eating dozens of kilograms of spiritual rice for two days in a row made him exhausted.

After resting for a few days, the spiritual energy and blood in the spiritual rice were refined.

"Actually... it seems that just opening an opening will be enough."

On the third day, Fang Xiu learned from the previous experience and lessons, and realized that there was no need to use Gang Jin to cut the green bamboo directly.

You can make a slit, or cut it in half.

Chopping the remaining parts with brute force can also save a lot of energy.

Just do it.

At the end of the day, Fang Xiu only used Gang Jin to open the green bamboo, cutting it down to one-third of the depth at most, and then chopped it with a hatchet, a special low-grade magical weapon.

More than 80% of the green bamboo rice produced from one hundred green bamboos is intact.

On the fourth and fifth days, Fang Xiu used the same method to chop down the remaining two hundred green bamboos.

In ten days, Fang Xiu harvested a total of 1,153 kilograms of green bamboo rice.

I ate 141 jins of broken rice and left 1,012 jins of green bamboo rice.

One and a half acres of land produces two acres of green bamboo and rice.

Earthdramon fertilizes with merit.

Excluding the 400 kilograms of green bamboo rice he handed over, as well as the cost of land rent and green bamboo seedlings, he earned about 400 spiritual stones. The mana and mental energy consumed, as well as the physical cost, are not rigid.

Unlike making talismans, you have to buy talisman paper.

"If we grow two crops a year, we can earn more than I did in Anpingfang City."

Fang Xiu's face was full of smiles.

Excluding being forced to kill people and seize treasures, he could earn about five to six hundred spiritual stones a year during his later years in Anpingfang City.

If you risk your life to make talismans, you will earn more, but then you will have no time to practice.

Talisman making mana and spiritual power are consumed at the same time, and recovery is slow.

Farming mainly consumes mana, followed by mental energy consumption.

It’s tiring at the beginning of farming and during harvest, and all you have to do in the middle is clouds and rain on time.

There was a lot of time left for him to practice.

"Plant another round of green bamboo rice, and switch to blood tooth rice next year!"

Fang Xiu's eyes lit up. With another round of harvest, this year's spiritual stone income will exceed 800.

Among the Qi Refining and Earth Cultivation, this is the top speed of making money.

Going to Tianhuo Xiancheng to compete in talisman making and weapon refining may not be able to beat those casual cultivators.

As the descendant of the Flower Planting Family from another world, farming is a bloodline talent.

It should be reasonable to have an innate farming holy body.

Half a month later, Fang Xiu went to Tianlong Villa in Tianlong Valley.

The head of the Lin family learned about the situation and came in person.

Lin Cunzhi is a Qi Refining ninth level cultivator. He wears a green robe with bamboo leaf patterns on it. He looks to be in his early forties, with a fair face, elegant and easy-going.

"Fellow Daoist Fang, do you want another batch of green bamboo seedlings?"

"Not bad." Fang Xiu didn't waste any words and released the high stacked cloth bags from the ten-fold storage bag.

"Are these... all green bamboo rice?" Lin Cunzhi looked surprised.

He opened the bag to check, and a light and elegant fragrance filled his nose. The green bamboo rice inside was white and moist, and each grain was full.

Lin Cunzhi immediately took out the magic weapon beam scale.

There were enough four hundred kilograms of green bamboo rice, and two kilograms more.

Lin Cunzhi took out the account book and the list to check, and his expression was shocked:

"Fang Daoyou, I remember that you planted alone. It's only been half a year. How did you do it?"

"My family has been farming for generations. I have liked farming since I was a child, and I don't get tired easily when farming." Fang Xiu smiled.

"Spiritual fields are different from mortal fields." Lin Cunzhi was surprised.

"Has Fang Daoyou's body refining reached the late stage of the first level?"

"That's not the case, but it's almost the late stage of the first level. In addition, I have a good talent for magic, and the cloud-making and rain-making technique seems to be very suitable for me." Fang Xiu demonstrated the cloud-making and rain-making technique to Lin Cunzhi.

"Really..." Lin Cunzhi was surprised at the speed at which Fang Xiu learned the cloud-making and rain-making technique.

The Lin family has lasted for hundreds of years, and the history of planting spiritual fields is two hundred years.

Want a good harvest.

First, you need good seedlings.

Second, learn the art of moving clouds and rain.

Third, be hardworking and down-to-earth.

There is no shortcut.

The Lin family can only guarantee the first point.

The rest depends on the spirit plant husband himself.

Obviously, Fang Xiu is the type who has talent in the second point and is willing to endure hardships in the third point.

"Fang Daoyou, how many green bamboo seedlings do you want this time?"

"A little more than last time... I want to challenge my limits and see if I can use this to improve my body refining skills to the late stage of the first level."

"Okay!"

Lin Cunzhi looked at Fang Xiu with burning eyes. It was rare to see someone who liked farming so much.

The more they planted, the more spiritual rice the Lin family would get.

Anyway, the green bamboo seedlings were not given for free. They might not make much money, but they would never lose money.

"Thank you, clan leader." Fang Xiu bowed.

"If this round of green bamboo rice is a good harvest, can you give me the qualification to plant blood tooth rice?"

"This... Of course." Lin Cunzhi smiled and nodded.

Another half a year passed.

Fang Xiu planted two rounds of green bamboo rice and was set up as a model by Lin Cunzhi.

He was also rewarded with fifty low-grade spirit stones.

This year, Fang Xiu was 41 years old and entered the eighth level of Qi Refining.

[Kung Fu: Qiankun Eight Phases Qi Refining Chapter 8th Level (1%))

In a year, Fang Xiu ate seven or eight hundred kilograms of green bamboo rice, and his Qi and blood increased greatly.

After seven consecutive years of not taking elixirs to practice, his foundation was solid and his magic power was condensed.