Spirit Plants

Li Shiming took out an entire bag of spirit rice seeds at once. He did not test them with a small amount first, but took out half of the spirit rice seeds in one go.

With the support of a wealth of soilless rice cultivation technology, along with his consciousness's almost omnipotent perception and micron-level control inside the Server Room Space, if this still failed, he would have no other way to plant spirit rice in the short term.

Now, with every passing day, the contamination in his body from ordinary food grew a little worse.

He needed to grow a batch of spirit rice as soon as possible to solve his current trouble.

The spirit rice seeds were placed in the prepared solution, which had been mixed according to the optimal ratio into a seedling nutrient solution.

His consciousness focused on the spirit rice seeds, not daring to relax in the slightest.

In the Seedling Nutrient Solution, the spirit rice seeds began absorbing its nutrients, and the buds inside the seed husks were growing larger.

However, he also sensed the weakness of the spirit rice seeds. If he allowed them to grow like this, perhaps the buds of this batch of spirit rice seeds would not even be able to break through their husks, and then they would be unable to form spirit rice seedlings.

Li Shiming mobilized the spiritual power in his body, then used his consciousness to draw the runes of the Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art inside the Server Room Space. Intent manifested the art, and a mass of dark clouds appeared in the Server Room Space.

A spirit rain covering twenty square meters began to fall. Every drop of falling spirit rain was caught by his consciousness and sent into the Seedling Nutrient Solution in the cultivation layer at the bottom of the planting rack.

With the spirit rain from the Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art, the spirit rice seeds seemed to gain vitality, and their buds broke through their husks one after another.

As Li Shiming observed the changes in the spirit rice seeds, he recorded the data into the IBMz15 Mainframe.

The Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art filled the Seedling Nutrient Solution with Spirit Rain Water that was extremely beneficial to plants. Moreover, because he did not waste even the slightest bit of Spirit Rain Water and collected it all in the Seedling Nutrient Solution, its effects continued to take hold.

According to the methods of an ordinary Spirit Planter, most of the spirit rain from a Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art would be absorbed by the soil, and only a small portion would truly take effect on the plants.

It was not that Spirit Planters were foolish, but that in this world, for countless years, planting had never been separable from soil.

This was rigid thinking, a perspective the Spirit Planters of this world had never considered.

Of course, there was another important reason: without absolute mastery of the nutrients plants required, how could anyone come up with a method for soilless cultivation?

Mastering the various nutrients plants needed involved botany, chemistry, and many other scientific fields of research. This was not a difficulty one person could solve alone.

The reason his previous life had so much science and technology was that it had developed step by step from the basics, through the efforts of the entire world over hundreds of years, resulting in the technological achievements stored in the database of the IBMz15 Mainframe.

The spirit rice seedlings kept growing. After two days, they were moved onto the four upper layers of the planting rack.

In order to cast the Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art, Li Shiming drew upon some of the spiritual qi inside the Server Room Space and cultivated the Five Elements Qi Absorption Art before recovering the spiritual power in his body.

Furthermore, to conserve the spiritual qi in the Server Room Space, whenever cultivating the Five Elements Qi Absorption Art restored his spiritual power, he would cut off the supply of spiritual qi from the Server Room Space.

There was no way around it. Spirit plants had to grow in an environment with abundant spiritual qi.

Fortunately, the soilless cultivation technology he used multiplied the effects of the Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art, reducing the number of times he had to use it and greatly lowering his consumption of the Server Room Space's spiritual qi.

As for the other two Spirit Planter spells, the Geng Metal Art and the Earth Spirit Art, he did not learn either of them in order to save on spiritual power consumption.

The Geng Metal Art's function was to kill spirit insects harmful to spirit plants. Some of these spirit insects were extremely tiny, yet highly destructive, and they were also very resistant to various medicines. Only by precisely eliminating them with the Geng Metal Art could one avoid affecting the spirit plants.

The Earth Spirit Art was a spell that added spiritual qi to a Spirit Field. After one season of planting, the Earth Spirit Art had to be used to readjust the Spirit Field's spiritual qi.

However, because Li Shiming used soilless cultivation, the Earth Spirit Art was of no use, and inside the Server Room Space, it was utterly impossible for spirit insects to appear. Even if spirit insects did exist, his consciousness inside the Server Room Space would be more effective than any spell.

In the Server Room Space, his consciousness monitored the spirit rice's growth, ensuring that the spirit rice plants received the best care.

He regulated the optimal light quality, light intensity, and photoperiod, as well as other environmental and nutritional factors, significantly increasing the crops' photosynthesis rate, inducing early flowering, promoting rapid crop growth, and greatly shortening the growth cycle of the spirit rice plants.

According to the planting knowledge Shi Ximing had left behind, the maturation period of spirit rice was two months.

Inside the Server Room Space, however, the spirit rice plants could undergo photosynthesis for twelve shichen a day, and through his perception, he constantly adjusted the brightness of the LED cold lights, keeping the spirit rice plants in the best growth environment at all times.

In only twenty-five days, the spirit rice plants had already reached maturity.

Li Shiming also discovered that planting spirit rice inside the Server Room Space did not reduce the total amount of spiritual qi inside; instead, it increased it slightly.

During the growth process of the spirit rice, part of the spiritual qi was produced through photosynthesis.

This portion of spiritual qi was extremely small for a single spirit rice plant, but when all four layers of the seventy-square-meter planting rack were added together, he could still sense the rise in spiritual qi concentration.

It was even enough to fully replenish the spiritual qi he consumed by using the Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art once a day, so after twenty-five days, the spiritual qi concentration in the Server Room Space had not fallen but risen instead.

Of course, the spiritual qi inside the Server Room Space was only enough for planting and not enough for his daily cultivation.

These days, Li Shiming lived in seclusion and rarely went out. Every day, he shut himself inside the study, and outsiders all thought he was preparing for the Spring Examination.

So no one came to disturb him. Even his father, Li Wenyuan, issued orders both inside and outside the estate that no one was to disturb his studies.

Today was an important day. After twenty-five days of effort, through countless days and nights, Li Shiming had slept only a very short time each day, devoting all his consciousness to the growth process of the spirit rice.

He had succeeded. All the spirit rice had matured.

His consciousness sensed each stalk of golden spirit rice bent low under its weight, and the joy of the harvest filled him with excitement.

Over the course of a month, he had reduced his food intake, but quite a few impurities had still accumulated in his body.

He was waiting to free himself from the contamination of ordinary food. Spirit rice was his hope.

Having experienced the feeling of his entire body being transparent, refreshed, and clean, he could not bear his current body. With such a contaminated body, he felt a slight sluggishness when mobilizing the spiritual power within him. He believed that if this continued, even his ability to mobilize spiritual power would be affected.

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