Pocket Mountain-River Box, Micro-Stream Beaver

After leaving the shop, Li Ye continued strolling through the market.

If he wanted, he could certainly buy everything at once from the Four Seasons Sect's shops—things like seed-bearing spirit plants or spirit beasts that loved hoarding food, which he currently lacked.

But it was one thing to show an obvious preference for spirit plants and spirit beasts once or twice. Coming back to buy them again and again would inevitably raise some questions.

Besides, he wanted to see whether he could keep picking up bargains.

With winter about to pass, the market was now selling various farming Magic Tools: hoes and plows that could till fields automatically, boxes for cultivating seeds, sprinklers and stone steles for maintaining the concentration of water Spiritual Energy...

From seed cultivation to sowing to planting, there were Magic Tools for every step of the process. With these tools, even a fool could probably manage a field.

Li Ye was somewhat tempted, but after thinking it over, he decided against it. He only had two mu of land right now; buying such a huge pile of Magic Tools would be far too extravagant. If his fields expanded in the future, it would not be too late to buy them then.

After wandering a few more steps, he unexpectedly spotted the young cultivator who had sold Frost Wheat last time. This time, the man's expression seemed even more careworn. Li Ye looked over the items he was selling and was instantly stunned.

Name: Spring Thunder Wheat

Mood: Expectant

Status: Immature; has a chance of producing "Wheat Pellets"

No, what kind of heaven's chosen was this?

The Frost Wheat he had sold last time had contained Wheat Pellets, and now this Spring Thunder Wheat also had a chance of producing Wheat Pellets. Could it be that he possessed some method of cultivating Wheat Pellets without even realizing it?

Li Ye immediately stepped forward and greeted him familiarly. "Isn't this Fellow Daoist Zhou? Selling wheat again?"

They had exchanged surnames last time.

When the young cultivator surnamed Zhou saw that it was Li Ye, he was not particularly excited. "Fellow Daoist Li, I've switched to cultivating another kind of wheat. If enough Spring Thunder Wheat is planted, it can draw down a streak of spring lightning. When it is blasted to pieces, it forms thunder flour. Would Fellow Daoist like to buy some?"

"...Didn't Fellow Daoist Zhou sell Frost Wheat last time?"

"Oh, Frost Wheat has already passed its season. As the solar terms change, naturally one must plant new spirit plants according to the season. Here, this Spring Thunder Wheat was obtained by my family elders from the Four Seasons High Sect."

"Then has Fellow Daoist cultivated any Wheat Pellets?"

"Of course not. Perhaps I truly have no talent. I should just honestly sell spirit wheat instead. So, does Fellow Daoist want this spirit wheat or not?"

Spring Thunder Wheat with a chance of producing Wheat Pellets—of course he wanted it. But a large amount had to be planted to draw down spring lightning, and his little patch of land, barely one or two mu, was truly too small.

Helplessly, he could only shake his head. "My place is too small. I really can't plant it on a large scale."

"Ah, I've had this spirit wheat on display for two days and no one has bought it. Since Fellow Daoist doesn't want it, I might as well take it back and wait for the rest of my spirit wheat to mature so I can eat it myself." The cultivator surnamed Zhou was deeply disappointed.

Hearing this, Li Ye simply said in a mysterious tone, "All things possess spirits. Perhaps this spirit wheat you planted wishes to offer its essence to you?"

After saying that, he waved a hand, turned, and left directly, dashing away with effortless flair.

But honestly, his heart truly ached a little. He might have missed out on a whole pile of Wheat Pellets.

The cultivator surnamed Zhou also felt that Fellow Daoist Li's words made some sense.

He had painstakingly bred and planted the wheat, yet he had never even tasted what it was like. Since it would not sell anyway, he might as well take it home and eat it himself!

If fate allowed him to meet Fellow Daoist Li again, he could give him some flour ground from his own wheat to try.

As Li Ye walked along the road, he quickly let it go.

Perhaps some things truly could not be forced.

There were always too many good things in this world that he could not obtain. To lose them was his fate; to gain them was his fortune.

His attention was now drawn to an enormous box laid out before a cultivator not far away.

The box was roughly twenty chi long and ten chi wide, stretching across the ground.

Inside were flowing Spring Water, mounds of earth, and some green plants. It looked as though an entire stream and the scenery along its banks had been cut out and packed inside.

Even more astonishingly, there were several plump, round beavers inside, each about the size of a baby's palm. They were steadily building their own little dams, dividing the entire stream into separate sections.

Name: Micro-Stream Beaver

Mood: Joyful

Status: Desires to share its food

Bindable: Any spirit plant that craves Spiritual Energy or nutrients

As Li Ye observed them, cultivators around him were already chatting.

"That should be the Pocket Landscape Automaton Box from the Mo Family Automaton Workshop, right?"

"That's right. It seems to be last year's stream-and-river model."

"Can that box really provide spirit beasts and spirit plants with an absolutely peaceful and perfect environment?"

—Li Ye was the one who asked that last question.

Hearing his question, the surrounding cultivators were happy to enlighten him. Or rather, that cultivator rather enjoyed being the center of attention.

"The Mo Family's Pocket Landscape Automaton Boxes are assembled with the assistance of spirit plant masters from the Four Seasons High Sect.

"The Spiritual Energy environment inside can be configured. No matter what kind of spirit beast or spirit plant it is, as long as you can afford a custom order, it can certainly be cultivated and raised inside."

As more and more people gathered, the cultivator continued on to speak of the spirit beasts. "These spirit beasts should be Spirit Materials born from Micro-Spirit Stream within the Four Seasons High Sect's mountain gate."

For generations, they had been cultivated by mighty figures from the higher sects. What they loved most was grooming water veins and clearing away the grime left behind by spirit beasts and spirit plants.

"If you have a spirit spring or spirit river in your courtyard, raising a few beavers means you won't have to worry about cleaning!"

Li Ye silently queued among the crowd, feeling more and more that this person seemed like a plant. He had laid out all the benefits of the Automaton Box and the Micro-Stream Beaver—truly a very suitable plant.

But he had to admit, he really did want to buy one of those boxes. It was like the miniature landscapes he had bought in his previous life; placed inside a room, it would be utterly pleasing to the eye, and it could raise things that were inconvenient to keep in the courtyard.

For instance, Silver Moon Grass. With a box like this, it would be incredibly convenient.

But while mingling in the crowd, he heard that even the cheaper ones cost several hundred Spirit Stones. If it was custom-made with many requirements, the price would be even higher. He immediately wilted.

Although he had earned over two thousand Spirit Stones, he had just bought an array formation, and he did not particularly need this item. It could wait.

Just like that, he smoothly queued up and bought five Micro-Stream Beavers.

To his surprise, they were very cheap. One cost only five Spirit Stones. He had thought such special spirit beasts would be outrageously expensive.

It was only later, as he was leaving, that he heard from the crowd that these spirit beasts had all undergone some kind of spell treatment and could not reproduce.

In other words, however many he bought was however many he had.

How should he put it? Though he was somewhat surprised, it was ultimately within expectations.

Cultivated spirit plants required special seed-breeding methods to produce seeds. These spirit beasts were surely the same. Otherwise, wouldn't buying a pair let someone breed and sell them as they pleased?

Just thinking about it made it obvious that was impossible.