Qiuyun's Secret Technique

June 1st.

Tens of thousands of miles away from Lingyun Mountain, on the Ice Flood Dragon Mountain, which is hundreds of feet high, an old man with white hair and a middle-aged man stood, both looking towards Serpent Dragon Lake.

The white-haired old man was Mo Congxin, who had used an array to instantly kill the ice dragon in Serpent Dragon Lake a year ago.

The middle-aged man was Wu Tian, a newly Golden Core from the Hundred Spirits Sect and Spirit Talisman True Person.

Mo Congxin gazed into the distance, a glint of light flashing in his eyes, and said in a deep voice.

"It has been a year since the Golden Core Initial Stage ice dragon in Serpent Dragon Lake was killed. In this year, those fearless Lineage cultivators and Rogue Cultivator ventured deep into Serpent Dragon Lake and killed many Demon Beast, but the Golden Core Water Flood Dragon in Serpent Dragon Lake has not made any response."

"The White Cloud Mountain Range haven't sent Golden Core Demon Beast to support the Water Flood Dragon's counterattack at Serpent Dragon Lake either. I wonder if Junior Nephew Wu has any ideas about Serpent Dragon Lake, which is so close by?"

Since early May of last year, when they killed the Golden Core Initial Stage in Serpent Dragon Lake and repelled the army of Demon Beast in Serpent Dragon Lake, the Hundred Spirits Sect's policy of allowing participating cultivators to still hand over Demon Beast corpses in exchange for Contribution Points was not out of kindness.

Instead, they used the Rogue Cultivator and Lineage cultivators who participated in the battle to go deep into Serpent Dragon Lake to hunt Demon Beast and observe the reactions of the only Golden Core Water Flood Dragon in Serpent Dragon Lake and the Golden Core demonic beasts in the White Cloud Mountain Range, the largest Demon Beast Gathering Ground Golden Core Demon Beast in the Yan Kingdom.

"This junior will obey all orders from Uncle Mo."

Wu Tian had been practicing Daoism for a hundred years, so he naturally understood what Mo Congxin meant and immediately spoke up.

Mo Congxin was very satisfied with Wu Yan's reply, and two sharp glints flashed in his eyes at this moment.

"Since Junior Nephew Wu has said so, I will not hide anything from you. Our newly established Jiao Province only has one prefecture, which is really inadequate. It is time to expand the territory of Jiao Province."

Early August marks the beginning of autumn.

The Beginning of Autumn is a good omen, signifying the imminent arrival of autumn when flowers and fruits ripen.

For many ordinary people, the ripening of flowers and fruits is a good thing, after all, once the flowers and fruits ripen, there will be another delicious food.

At the same time, if there are many flowers and fruits, they can be sold to earn some gold and silver to supplement the family income.

However, this season is not friendly to Ling Pengyun, who is stationed at Lingyun Mountain.

Autumn is also the time when special plants like dandelions mature.

When the autumn wind blows over these special plants, it will lift the crests that these plants use for reproduction.

Once these crested plants fall into the twenty-one acres of Spirit Field on Lingyun Mountain, they will be nourished by the Spiritual Qi within the Spirit Field and grow vigorously in a short period of time, turning into weeds.

If weeds are not removed, they will continue to absorb the Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Field, which will more or less affect the growth of Spirit Plant in the Spirit Field.

This also led Ling Pengyun to step into the Spirit Field every day after watering the Spirit Plant in the mountains with Spirit Rain, carefully pull out the weeds, and burn them.

This task usually needs to be done every three days, since weeds grow too fast in the Spirit Field.

Before we knew it, it was September.

Around the time of the Autumn Equinox, the rice that had been planted for several months in the nearly 100,000 mu of fertile land belonging to Lingyun Xiaocheng, located two miles away from Lingyun Mountain, also ripened one after another.

As the autumn wind blows, the fragrance of rice fills the air.

Many people in the Lingyun Small City also gathered their hands because of the fragrance of Rice Fragrance and went into the rice fields to harvest the rice.

While the people of Lingyun Small City were enjoying the joy of the harvest, something else in Lingyun Mountain was ripening.

That night, in the Lingyun Mountain, which was eight hundred feet high.

Ling Pengyun, who was sitting cross-legged Spirit Field in the Bamboo House building hall, was gazing intently at the green Spirit Rice in the small Spirit Field beside him.

"After more than nine months, this improved Spirit Rice has finally grown safely to maturity."

"This Spirit Rice ripens once a year, and its aura is also at the First Rank Low Grade. However, due to the drawback that the Yi Wood Power in the Spirit Rice is formed by fusion, it is relatively unstable. Even if this Spirit Rice is planted for several more years, it is unlikely that the grade of the spirit rice produced will be improved, and it can only be maintained at the First Rank Low Grade."

"However, even so... it's alright."

Ling Pengyun let out a long breath, and the pressure that had been weighing on his heart disappeared instantly.

Since planting this improved Spirit Rice seed, he has never stopped worrying that the improved Spirit Rice will explode during its growth due to the conflict between the two types of Yi Wood Power that have not yet fully merged within it. This caused the only time he made progress in his thousand experiments on improving the Spirit Rice to end in failure.

The improved Spirit Rice, which ripens only once a year, can mature within nine months thanks to Ling Pengyun's use of two Spirit Plant Secret Method: Ripening Technique and Cloud Rain Technique.

After waiting for a while, Ling Pengyun calmed himself down and glanced at the rice grains hanging on the green Spirit Rice ears, a hint of joy on his face.

"Although the spiritual Spiritual Qi contained within the husk of this blue rice is not as great as the three types of Jade Series Spiritual Qi rice in our Lineage, it is almost the same as the First Rank Low Grade Water Spirit Rice that is most widely circulated in the Cultivation World."

"This Spirit Rice plant has produced sixty-six grains, which is about twenty more than ordinary Water Spirit Rice!"

"If so, with each plant of this improved Spirit Rice producing this many grains, the yield per mu would be at least 1,500 jin, far exceeding the yield of the Water Spirit Rice which can only produce 1,000 jin per mu by nearly 30%."

"Taking this improved Spirit Rice Spirit Rice as an example, although it cannot be considered a superior variety, it is at least a good variety, much better than the Water Spirit Rice. All these years of hard work in improving Spirit Rice have not been in vain."

Ling Pengyun's smile widened, and he even burst into laughter at the end.

Developing a new and superior type of Spirit Rice is the lifelong dream of a Spirit Planter.

Now, he has improved a "Fine Grade" Spirit Rice, which can be said to far surpass 99% of the Spirit Planter in the Cultivation World.

After a few breaths of ecstasy, Ling Pengyun finally calmed down and began to ponder the future of this improved Spirit Rice.

"Our Lineage already has Jade Series Three Spirit Rice, so our improved Spirit Rice Lineage shouldn't need them."

"In the vast Cultivation World, there are still many Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Family who have not improved their Spirit Rice and can only grow ordinary Water Spirit Rice. My Spirit Rice, which is better than Water Spirit Rice, must be needed by Lineage and forces, and is worth a lot of Spirit Stone."

"Now that the Spirit Rice is ready, we must quickly develop a method to stabilize and improve this Spirit Rice seed, which is also known as the Water Spirit Rice or Golden Marrow Rice. Once this method is perfected, we can plant one acre of this improved Spirit Rice to test the yield per acre. Then we can inform the Lineage about this matter and find a buyer for this Spirit Rice seed through the Lineage's channels. At the same time, the buyer can also support me and help me sell this product at a good price."

Ling Pengyun has been using two kinds of Spirit Rice seeds, Water Spirit Rice and Golden Marrow Rice, which are common in the Cultivation World, not simply to fulfill a dream that every Spirit Planter has, but also for a purpose.

Firstly, he wanted to leave a lasting legacy in the Ling Clan, just like the three types of Jade Series Spirit Rice improved by the Ling Clan's ancestors. Not to mention the vast Yan Kingdom, even in the Jing Province region where the Ling Clan was located, any cultivator with a bit of insight would generally associate the Jade Series spiritual rice with the Lingxiao Ling Clan.

Secondly, he naturally wanted to improve a Fine Grade Spirit Rice and sell it to earn a large amount of spirit Spirit Stone. If the Lineage needed it, he could sell it to the Lineage; if the Lineage did not need it, he could sell it to other forces that were not hostile to the Lineage and earn a large sum of Spirit Stone.

Spirit Rice seeds are not one-time use spiritual items; they can accompany a force for a lifetime. Moreover, the Spirit Rice improved by Ling Pengyun yields 30% more than Water Spirit Rice, so Ling Pengyun has no worries about finding buyers for these Spirit Rice seeds.

"This Spirit Rice ripens just in time for the autumnal harvest. My pen name is Peng Yun, so I named it Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice, taking the 'Autumn' from the former and the 'Cloud' from the latter!"

After giving the improved Spirit Rice a name, Ling Pengyun roused himself, made hand Hand Seals, and used the secret technique of Spirit Plant to condense a Law Seals, which he then injected into the mature Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice. He used the secret technique of spirit Spirit Plant to comprehend the Secret Method of Yi Wood Essence, which was a fusion of two kinds of Spirit Rice seeds, within the ancestral body of the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice.

Combined with the vague, indescribable feeling I had when I successfully improved this Spirit Rice seed, I attempted to create a Secret Method to stably improve the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice seed using Water Spirit Rice and Golden Marrow Spirit Rice seeds.

In the Cultivation World, all kinds of improved Spirit Rice eventually have a stable method, just like the Jade Series Three Spirit Rice in the Ling Clan's Nayu series.

It is precisely because of this method that various improved Spirit Rice can be cultivated on a large scale.

Otherwise, if it's like Ling Pengyun, who only succeeded once out of a thousand attempts to improve the Spirit Rice, there's no chance of planting Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice on a large scale, let alone those Spirit Planter with bad luck.

Of course, not just anyone can create such a method. The key to creating this method lies in the subtle and inexplicable feeling that was initially present in the Spirit Rice seed.

Without this feeling, even if Nascent Soul True Lord obtains the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice, he cannot create a method to stably improve the Spirit Rice seed.

In the following two weeks.

Ling Pengyun would set aside an hour each day from his cultivation time to study and improve the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice Method.

With the stable Yi Wood Power within the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice Ancestor as a reference, and with the faint feeling he had when successfully improving the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice seed, Ling Pengyun was divinely aided when he created this method. He easily created a method that could stably improve the seed with Water Spirit Rice and Golden Marrow Spirit Rice.

Once this method was mastered, Ling Pengyun took out a Water Spirit Rice and Golden Marrow Spirit Rice seed from his Storage Bag, waved them in front of him, quickly Hand Seals, and relied on his Divine Sense to mobilize a trace of Yi Wood Essence from the Golden Marrow Spirit Rice seed and inject it into the Water Spirit Rice seed.

The Yi Wood Essence from the Golden Marrow Spirit Rice Seed entered the Water Spirit Rice Seed without any noticeable change.

However, when Ling Pengyun used his Divine Sense to control the Yi Wood Essence of the Golden Marrow Spirit Rice Seed and the Yi Wood Essence of the Water Spirit Rice Seed to merge, the Yi Wood Essence within the Water Spirit Rice Seed became abnormally repulsive, and a sudden conflict arose between them.

Upon noticing this, Ling Pengyun realized the time was ripe. He quickly Hand Seals, condensing a Law Seals covered with rice grain patterns, and then injected it into the Water Spirit Rice seed.

As soon as the Law Seals entered the seed's body, it transformed into a blue wave that swept over the two conflicting Yi Wood Essence within the seed.

Under the soothing influence of the blue waves, the two conflicting Yi Wood Essence gradually calmed down.

"Merge!" Ling Pengyun noticed this and seized the opportunity, changing his finger technique and pondering for a moment.

A blue wave surged forth once more, and with the help of this wave, the two different Yi Wood Essence within the Water Spirit Rice Seed slowly merged together. The fusion process was very peaceful, without the conflict that had occurred before.

In less than three breaths, the two different Yi Wood Essence within the Water Spirit Rice seed completely merged into one, becoming indistinguishable from each other.

The next moment, the Water Spirit Rice seed flashed with a blue spiritual light, and the surface of the seed changed from yellow to blue.

Upon seeing the blue Spirit Rice seed sprout, Ling Pengyun was secretly delighted.

"It's done."

These green seeds are none other than the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice.

With this matter settled, Ling Pengyun felt a great sense of relief.

However, in order to test whether the method for improving the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice Seed was stable, Ling Pengyun then used the Autumn Cloud Secret Method to experiment with the Water Spirit Rice and Golden Marrow Spirit Rice seeds four more times, and all of them successfully improved the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice Seed, which put his mind at ease.

The Secret Method that could steadily improve Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice was also named "Autumn Cloud Secret Method" by Ling Pengyun after the Spirit Rice.

Ling Pengyun, sitting cross-legged on the Meditation Mat, looked at the four Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice seeds in his hand and muttered to himself.

"Now that the method for stabilizing and improving the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice seeds has been created, it's time to deliver the batch of Law Artifact I have to the general store run by my parents."

"Incidentally, we can also use the Spirit Stone obtained from selling the batch of Law Artifact to my parents to buy some spiritual materials needed to refine the Golden Scale Inner Armor in Cloudwater Market Town, as well as the first-grade low, medium, and high-grade spirit fruits that Wind Shadow Peng and I need."

A month ago, the twenty Early-Stage Qi Training and ten Qi Training Middle Stage Refining Demon Serpent, along with numerous bones, that Ling Pengyun had specifically left behind during his trip to Serpent Dragon Lake were all used up.

Using those twenty Early-Stage Qi Training Demon Serpent, Ling Pengyun managed to craft four pieces of First Rank Low Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor.

As for using those ten Qi Training Middle Stage Refining Demon Serpent Scales to refine First Rank Middle Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor, the difficulty was quite high. Even with the experience of refining twenty First Rank Low Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor, Ling Pengyun only managed to refine one.

Moreover, the First Rank Middle Grade Golden Scale Inner Armor that was refined was not of high quality, barely reaching the lower grade.

Ling Pengyun did not feel any frustration about this.

After all, when he first entered the world of weapon crafting, he only managed to craft two low-quality Azure Spirit Sword from fifty portions of Azure Spirit Bamboo materials.

After making his decision, Ling Pengyun took out a First Rank Low Grade spiritual fruit, swallowed it, closed his eyes, and refined the Spiritual Qi contained in the fruit to replenish his Dantian.