Hunting Sea Soul Beasts (I)

"You always come up with novel ideas."

That being said, Zhou Qing's words are not without merit.

After all, from a broader perspective, the thing that limits Soul Master's level breakthrough is the Soul Ring. Without it, no matter how talented you are, you cannot break through to the next major realm.

The remaining bottlenecks preventing Soul Master from breaking through their level are the speed of Soul Power cultivation and the understanding and comprehension of Martial Soul.

Once the basic theoretical knowledge of cultivating Soul Power in the human body is supplemented and the speed of Soul Power cultivation by Soul Master increases, then what remains is naturally the Soul Master's own understanding and comprehension of the Martial Soul.

"It's just that I'm good at discovering and summarizing."

Zhou Qing didn't find the idea particularly novel. It was just something he had brought up based on his own situation, and who knows, maybe he was the only one who was special?

Therefore, it is still necessary to conduct multiple experiments later, and have Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, Bu Yi and the other Seven Sisters try it out to see if it has universal applicability.

However, if Bu Yi and the others want to try it, they still need to start from the basics, that is, to fill in the gaps in the basics of the human body's meridian circulation.

Otherwise, relying solely on the sensations transmitted by their Martial Soul and comparing them to the diagrams in the rudimentary Meditation Method published by the Spirit Hall, their arbitrary manipulation of Soul Power might very well lead to qi deviation...

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Time flies.

Summer vacation will end in half a month.

Tang San was the second to complete the experiment on the theory of the Human Body Cauldron. He practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill in reverse and began to perceive the human body cultivation system that he named the Mysterious Heaven Cauldron.

Qi Refiner?

A weapon refiner?

Perhaps they can be equated.

Xiao Wu and Romantina are a bit behind in progress, but there's no need to rush the process of practicing the reverse technique.

The method of cultivating in accordance with the natural order is essentially about nurturing Martial Soul.

The purpose of practicing the reverse cultivation method is simply to allow the Martial Soul to return to the "Soul Palace" when it reaches its limit, so that it can draw on the power of heaven and earth and break through the limit.

For most Soul Master, practicing cultivation techniques in reverse is extremely dangerous. Without strong control, it is easy to go into qi deviation. It is better to use Artificial Soul Palace to break through.

As for the Artificial Soul Palace, Zhou Qing believes that they must be studied extensively in order to create a "Soul Cultivation Furnace" that can allow people to defy fate.

Although people are different, their meridian circulation is largely the same, even nearly identical.

Putting aside issues of temperament, the fundamental reason for the differences in talent among Soul Master lies in only one thing: the quality of their Martial Soul.

The Soul Cultivation Furnace allows awakened Martial Soul to seemingly return to their Gestation Phase and complete their transformation, which would make up for any innate deficiencies.

However, Zhou Qing also understood that even if the Soul Cultivation Furnace was perfected in the future, it could not be widely disseminated, otherwise it would cause chaos throughout the world. The average level of thought among the people of the entire continent needed to be raised first.

Ultimately, we must first complete the transformation of the world before we can gradually popularize the Soul Cultivation Furnace to the inhabitants of the entire continent.

Besides researching the Soul Cultivation Furnace, Tang San actually cultivated a new type of rice using the Blue Silver Grass's ability to sense plants.

This New Rice is a hybrid of rice and Wolf Bristle Grass, and its growth cycle is much faster than that of ordinary rice, ripening once a month.

Each cluster of New Rice can have fifteen to thirty ears of rice, and each ear of rice can produce between sixty and seventy and one hundred and eighty or ninety grains of rice.

If this type of rice is cultivated, and properly managed, a yield of a thousand catties per mu is not an exaggeration!

But.

Problems also exist. The second-generation seeds produced by this New Rice take longer to mature after sowing, and the yield of the New Rice will be lower. There are only three to ten rice ears per cluster, and each rice ear can only produce between forty and fifty and seventy and eighty grains of rice.

Although this yields nearly 40% more than ordinary rice varieties, Tang San estimates that the yield of this new rice variety will further decrease by the third generation.

Therefore, only the first generation of seeds, formed by the hybridization of rice and Wolf Bristle Grass, can produce grains with a yield of up to 1,000 catties per mu. The second and third generation seeds will show a trend of degeneration.

Even so, Old Jack was shocked, and the villagers of Holy Soul Village were even more astonished—

A yield of 1,000 jin per mu?

One harvest per month!

Is this still rice?

Out of trust in Zhou Qing, Tang San, and others, the vast majority of the residents of Holy Soul Village plan to plant this New Rice in the next season.

However, the first-generation seeds of this New Rice can no longer be given away for free.

The villagers of Holy Soul Village understood that this new, high-yield grain variety was cultivated by Tang San on Zhou Qing's land, something that could truly fill their stomachs, and it was free—

Their entire Holy Soul Village has become Parasitism!

Zhou Qing's pricing is also cheap: five jin for one Copper Soul Coin.

In this rural area, one Copper Soul Coin can buy half a pound of rice. This New Rice costs five pounds for one Copper Soul Coin, which is practically free.

"Xiao Qing, Tang San, isn't five catties of Copper Soul Coin a bit too cheap?" Old Jack didn't want Zhou Qing and Tang San to suffer a loss.

Soul Master have high expenses, a fact he observed in Romantina, Bu Yi, and others; their food expenses alone far exceed those of ordinary people.

They have already received so many benefits, and now they have such high-yield grains; they really don't know how to thank them enough.

"Grandpa Jack, there's no need for that. Once this grain variety becomes more widely known, it might become even cheaper," Zhou Qing said with a smile.

"This is different..."

Old Jack insisted on offering Zhou Qing and Tang San a higher price, saying that he couldn't let them not make money off him just because they were from the same village.

The other villagers echoed his sentiments.

"How about this, Grandpa Jack, you help us transform the nearby hillsides and peaks into Terraced Fields, okay?" Zhou Qing didn't want to raise the price, but in order to accept the villagers' agreement, he made his own request.

Terraced Fields?

Old Jack thought for a moment and asked, "Is it the kind of rice paddies that grow on the mountains around Li Family Village to the east?"

"That's right!"

Zhou Qing laughed and said, "My family only has a few acres of land, all of which are used to cultivate grain seeds. It's only enough for the villagers to grow. Naturally, the more Experimental Fields the better. In the future, our village might be able to sell grain seeds to other villages, or even sell them to the whole continent."

Old Jack couldn't imagine such a scene, but he chuckled and agreed, "No problem, you'll definitely be able to see the Terraced Fields when you come back next semester!"

"Then the Tang San and I will wait and see!"

Zhou Qing was overjoyed.

Three days later.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu then set off to meet up with Romantina in Vast Sea City.

Bu Yi and the other Seven Sisters returned to the Nuoding Academy.

As for why Romantina was in Vast Sea City?

Naturally, this was because a month and a half ago, Romantina diligently cultivated and reached level 20 in Soul Power. At the request of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, she went to the Extreme North to truly obtain her Second Martial Soul.

After that, Romantina was to go to Vast Sea City to meet up with Zhou Qing and the others, and then take a boat to the shallow sea area to hunt down the Second Spirit Ring that had obtained her Brain Martial Soul.

Zhou Qing planned her Second Spirit Ring, which required her to hunt down a Sea Soul Beast:

Rubik's Cube Octopus!