Ling Yunliu

It was early morning in mid-January.

A cultivator arrived at the Lingyun Mountain.

As soon as the cultivator arrived at the Lingyun Mountain, he loudly called out the name of Ling Pengyun towards the Lingyun Mountain.

Ling Pengyun, who had just finished watering the Spirit Plant in the twenty-two acres of Spirit Field on Lingyun Mountain with Spirit Rain, heard a commotion outside the mountain. His brows twitched slightly, and he cast a Light Body Technique on himself and quickly ran down the mountain.

"Nineteenth Ancestor." Ling Pengyun, who had just come down the mountain, looked at the dark-skinned, burly middle-aged man in front of him, cupped his hands in a respectful greeting, and then asked.

"Have you come here to relieve me of my duties at Lingyun Mountain?"

"That's right. Three years ago, I reached the First Rank Middle Grade in the cultivation of Spirit Plant. Just then, my Lineage was short-handed, and there were no other First Rank Middle Grade Spirit Planter available, so they transferred me from Azure Rice Mountain to this place," the middle-aged rough man replied.

This middle-aged, rough-looking man was named Ling Yunliu. He was the nineteenth in the Yun Generation of the Ling Clan family and the eighteenth in the Ru generation. He was the son of Ling Ruquan, who had the Qi Training Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.

At the same time, Ling Yunliu is also a Spirit Planter, but his rank is low, only First Rank Low Grade.

It is precisely because of the quality of these Spirit Plant that he has been stationed for many years in the Azure Rice Mountain, which is under the jurisdiction of his father, Ling Ruquan, in Rice Fragrance Town and has a First Grade Middle Rank Spirit Vein.

Several years ago, Ling Ruquan and Ling Pengyun worked together to manipulate the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array Flag to assist Ling Yunhong in hunting Demon Beast in the Serpent Dragon Lake area.

Ling Yunliu appears to be in his forties or fifties, in the prime of his life, but his actual age is a full seventy-three.

Such discrepancies between appearance and age are extremely common in the Cultivation World, and many anti-aging pills and health cultivation Cultivation Method have such effects.

Ling Yunliu practiced a health-preserving Cultivation Method, which allowed him to prolong his Cultivation Method and maintain excellent complexion.

However, that health-preserving Cultivation Method also has drawbacks, namely, slow progress in cultivation.

It is precisely for these reasons that, despite being over seventy years old and having a father at the Qi Training Ninth Layer Refining to support him, he still struggles to break through to the Qi Training Late Stage, and his Qi Training Middle Stage Refining.

However, Ling Yunliu did not care too much about the progress of his cultivation. He was born with the aptitude of Four Spirit Roots and his talent for cultivation was not good, otherwise he would not have chosen to cultivate health Cultivation Method.

Upon hearing Ling Pengyun Ling Yunliu's words, Ling Pengyun was delighted and quickly cupped his hands in congratulations.

"Congratulations to the nineteenth Ancestor."

"My breakthrough is a minor matter, but your improvement of the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice Spirit Rice variety is truly something to congratulate me on. I wonder if you could explain your insights on improving the Spirit Rice to me later, even just a partial explanation would suffice."

Upon hearing Ling Pengyun's congratulations, Ling Yunliu thought of something, his eyes burning with excitement, and he asked.

Improving Spirit Rice Spirit Plant like rice, which can bear many fruits, is the long-cherished wish of every Spirit Planter.

As Spirit Planter, Ling Yunliu naturally wanted to develop a new type of Spirit Rice.

This is for both fame and profit.

Upon hearing this, Ling Pengyun immediately understood Ling Yunliu's thoughts.

He didn't seem to care and nodded in agreement.

"Of course, but we need to make it clear beforehand that I cannot reveal the Secret Method for stabilizing and improving Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice. Ancestor hope you will not have any objections."

"That's natural, I understand." Ling Yunliu saw that Ling Pengyun had agreed to share his insights on improving the Spirit Rice through experiments, and he nodded quickly.

The experience of a Spirit Planter has successfully improved Spirit Rice is invaluable to those who have not yet improved Spirit Planter Spirit Rice.

"Nineteenth Ancestor, it's no use standing here. Let's go up the mountain and talk," Ling Pengyun suggested.

"Okay," Ling Yunliu nodded in response.

Seeing that Ling Yunliu responded, Ling Pengyun took the lead and led Ling Yunliu toward the Bamboo House on the mountaintop.

Upon entering the Bamboo House, Ling Pengyun led Ling Yunliu into a quiet room and shared all his experiences from experimenting with and improving the Spirit Rice with Ling Yunliu.

The two Dao Discussion for several hours before finally concluding.

"Peng Yun, thank you very much." Ling Yunliu had gained a lot from this Dao Discussion, and he didn't stand on ceremony, bowing to Ling Pengyun, a junior, to express his gratitude.

"It's alright, Nineteenth Ancestor. It's noon now. I'll prepare a welcome feast for you and invite the Third Grandfather, who is in seclusion on the second floor of the Bamboo House refining pills, to join us in welcoming you and washing away the dust of your journey. After the meal, I'll introduce you to the Spirit Plant grown in the Spirit Field of Lingyun Mountain. What do you think?" Ling Pengyun waved his hand and asked.

"Great, it's a good opportunity to try your cooking," Ling Yunliu said with a smile.

Upon hearing Ling Yunliu's response, Ling Pengyun stood up from the Meditation Mat and busied himself in the Bamboo House kitchen.

In just one hour, a large table of dishes was prepared.

Many of these dishes are made primarily with Lingyun Mountain's specialty Azure Spirit Bamboo Shoots, and pigeons.

Once the dishes were ready, Ling Pengyun shuffled up to the second floor of the Bamboo House.

Seeing that Ling Yunhong had just finished refining a batch of pills, he asked Ling Yunhong a question.

"Third Grandfather, the Nineteenth Ancestor has arrived to take over my duties at this mountain. I've prepared a welcome feast; would you mind joining us?"

"Sure, I've just finished refining a batch of pills." Ling Yunhong nodded with a smile and began to clean up the mess from the Pill Refining process.

Upon seeing this, Ling Pengyun's expression brightened with joy.

After waiting a moment, he and Ling Yunhong went downstairs together.

Ling Yunhong greeted Ling Yunliu, who had just arrived at the mountain, and took out a jar of fifty-year-old First-Tier Superior-Grade spirit wine to entertain Ling Yunliu.

Although the three people have different backgrounds, they are all family at this dining table.

Fueled by alcohol, the three chatted about whatever came to mind without any restraint.

Because of this, the three of them became closer.

After the meal, Ling Yunhong sat alone for a while, while Ling Pengyun led Ling Yunliu of the Bamboo House and introduced First Rank Middle Grade Spirit Plant Spirit Planter the mountain to Ling Yunliu, who was about to be stationed on this mountain.

As they walked and talked, they mentioned the twelve acres of Spirit Field on the mountaintop, which were the closest.

Ling Pengyun naturally began by introducing the Spirit Plant grown in the twelve acres of Spirit Field, as well as the condition of the Spirit Soil within Spirit Field.

After explaining the Spirit Field area, Ling Pengyun put the last two Songhua Spirit Chicken kept in the chicken coop on the mountaintop into the Beast Taming Pouch hanging at his waist.

These two Songhua Spirit Chicken were his personal property, and Ling Yunliu, who had taken over his post at Lingyun Mountain, had also arrived.

After introducing the Spirit Plant in the mountain to Ling Yunliu, he will leave the mountain with Ling Yunhong.

Each of the two Songhua Spirit Chicken could hatch a delicious Songhua Spirit Egg every three days. Ling Pengyun was quite fond of this egg, so he cherished the last two Songhua Spirit Chicken.

After putting away the two Songhua Spirit Chicken, Ling Pengyun led Ling Yunliu to the ten acres of Spirit Field halfway up the mountain and introduced Ling Yunliu in detail the Spirit Plant planted in the ten acres of Spirit Field.

"Nineteenth Ancestor, the Spirit Soil in these ten acres of First Rank Low Grade Spirit Field is all of the highest quality. Five acres are planted with First Rank Low Grade Azure Spirit Bamboo and five acres are planted with First Rank Low Grade Qi Training Grass. They are all harvested once a year."

"These five acres of Azure Spirit Bamboo will produce a considerable amount of Azure Spirit Bamboo every spring. Each year, only ten catties of Azure Spirit Bamboo Shoots need to be handed over to the Lineage from one acre of land, and the rest can be kept as private property..."

Of the ten acres of Spirit Field halfway up the mountain, the five acres First Rank Low Grade the right were originally the lowest grade D Spirit Field Spirit Soil Spirit Soil, which were classified as "Grade A, B, C, D" five years ago.

However, with Ling Pengyun's three Earth-Turning Earthworm devouring and purifying the Spirit Soil, the five acres of Grade D Spirit Soil were all purified into Grade A quality.

As for the cultivation levels of these three Earth-Turning Earthworm, they are the same as they were two years ago, while the Qi Refining Earth-Turning Spirit Earthworm is still stuck at the Qi Training Third Layer.

The other two Earth-Turning Earthworm are still trapped in the Innate Realm.

After Ling Pengyun gave a general account of the distribution of Spirit Plant in the last ten acres of Spirit Field on the mountainside, he, just like before, also put the three Earth-Turning Earthworm that belonged to him in those ten acres of Spirit Field into his Beast Taming Pouch.

Afterwards, he bid farewell to Ling Yunliu and left Lingyun Mountain alone. He first went to the Lingyun Orchard, which covered a huge area outside Lingyun Small City, and put the swarm of Fruit Flower Bee, along with their hive, that he had placed in the orchard five years ago into his Beast Taming Pouch.

The number of Fruit Flower Bee has grown to over a thousand in the past two years.

The five Qi Training Second Layer Fruit Flower Worker Bee that Ling Pengyun had the queen bee focus on cultivating have also entered the Qi Training Middle Stage, thanks to the supply of Fruit Flower Honey produced by the entire bee colony.

Due to the queen Fruit Flower Worker Bee in the Qi Refining stage has not increased much in the past two years, remaining roughly the same as before. Including the five Qi Training Middle Stage worker bees, there are only fifty of them.

Afterwards, Ling Pengyun went to Lingyun Small City to pick up Ling Xin, who had been found to have Spirit Root at the Spirit Testing Convention earlier this month.

After finishing these chores, he returned to Lingyun Mountain, called Ling Yunhong, said a brief goodbye to Ling Yunliu, and then rode the Wind Shadow Peng, which had just entered the Qi Training Middle Stage, and together with Ling Yunhong, who was riding a First-Tier Superior-Grade Flying Magical Item, they left Lingyun Mountain and returned to their Lineage.

Ling Yunhong's Immortal Spirit Crane King was stationed in the Lineage, and he did not stay by his side.

Second-tier flying boats are too expensive, and he has never had enough money to buy one.

At times like these, one can only use First-Tier Superior-Grade Flying Magical Item that is not suitable for one's cultivation level.

As for why Ling Yunhong left Lingyun Mountain, it's quite simple. Ling Yunhong's main purpose in staying at Lingyun Mountain for the past two years was to protect Ling Pengyun was in the eye of the storm recently because of the Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice incident.

With Ling Pengyun leaving Lingyun Mountain, there was naturally no point in Lingyun Mountain Ling Yunhong staying there either.

After leaving Lingyun Mountain, the two first went to Cloudwater Market Town.

Ling Pengyun said goodbye to his parents and had a farewell dinner.

He then used all the thousands of Spirit Stone in his Storage Bag to buy various grades of spirit fruits in the market before leaving Cloudwater Market Town with Ling Yunhong.

(End of this chapter)