Earned Three Low-Grade Spirit Stones

The rice, red fruits, and earth fruits were all partly sold off by Zhang Wan.

Zhang Wan had originally planned to keep some of the remaining plants for making fertilizer and saving spirit fertilizer.

However, the others offered too much, and Zhang Wan could not resist. He sold all the plants left after the fruits had been picked.

The essence of these pseudo-spirit plants lay in the fruits they bore. The remaining plants contained virtually no spiritual energy, but they had a decent capacity for holding it.

They could be used to make inferior talisman paper and inferior talisman ink.

They could also be used to feed spirit beasts.

They had plenty of uses.

Most of those who bought the plants from Zhang Wan were Postnatal students from the academy. They wanted the plants to make inferior talisman paper and inferior talisman ink for practicing talisman drawing.

Talismans drawn with such paper and ink were extremely weak and could not serve much purpose in battles between martial artists.

But they could save a great deal of money when used for practicing talisman drawing.

This inferior talisman paper and ink were cheap to produce, making them ideal for practice. Once one had mastered the art of talisman drawing, one could switch to high-quality paper and ink to draw talismans.

If one started with high-quality paper and ink, the cost would be so high as to drive people to despair, directly cutting off martial artists below the Postnatal fourth or fifth layer from any hope of learning talisman arts.

That cost was not something an ordinary Postnatal first- or second-layer martial artist could bear.

After selling those pseudo-spirit plants, Zhang Wan earned three low-grade spirit stones.

Although this still did not cover the cost of the pseudo-spirit plant seeds, spirit plant seeds, and spirit fertilizer he had bought, he still had more than half of the seeds and spirit fertilizer left. In particular, the spirit plants were still growing, and most of the fruits produced by the pseudo-spirit plants were still in his hands. Even so, he had already recouped three low-grade spirit stones.

Mastering a cultivation skill really was profitable!

Of course, Zhang Wan also knew that ordinary martial artists who had just begun learning the Spirit Planter legacy would not earn as much as he had. Mastering the techniques within the legacy took time.

Zhang Wan had relied on experience points to master those techniques in an instant. No one else could be that fast.

Although Zhang Wan had only used the Vitality Catalysis Technique on the pseudo-spirit plants growing in the spirit field, when combined with the other methods in the legacy, the quality and yield of the pseudo-spirit plants he cultivated were considerably higher than those of other novice Spirit Planters.

His profits were naturally higher as well.

After finishing the sales, Zhang Wan carried four huge bags of pseudo-spirit items back to his little courtyard.

Two bags contained rice, one contained earth fruits, and one contained red fruits. Each bag weighed around fifty kilograms.

The earth fruits and red fruits needed further processing, or they would be difficult to preserve for long. The rice did not; it could be left wherever one liked and would keep for four or five months.

Of course, it would not last that long.

The pseudo-spirit items he had kept were for eating.

Given the needs of a Postnatal martial artist, these two hundred kilograms of pseudo-spirit items, together with those Zhang Wan secretly cultivated using the Extreme Cultivation Method, would last about two months.

Adding in the spirit meals provided by the exclusive cafeteria, the pseudo-spirit items he had harvested would last nearly three months!

By the time he finished eating this batch of pseudo-spirit items, it would happen to be time for the next harvest, connecting perfectly.

After carrying everything back to the courtyard and processing it, Zhang Wan felt delighted as he looked at his plentiful harvest.

At last, he could eat and drink his fill without holding back.

Although the exclusive cafeteria provided one serving of spirit food made from pseudo-spirit items for each of the three meals every day, how could that possibly satisfy the needs and appetite of a Postnatal martial artist?

The mortal students at the academy trained like mad every day and had to eat several times as much as ordinary adults. As Postnatal martial artists, they needed even more energy to improve their cultivation!

Although pseudo-spirit items provided far more nourishment than mundane food, a single serving was still nowhere near enough for a Postnatal martial artist.

Not to mention that Zhang Wan also gave part of his daily lunch serving to his second younger sister and third younger brother.

Now that he had this harvest, he could obtain enough pseudo-spirit items for cultivation every day.

"Come to think of it, Zhao Qixin, Yu Shui, and Xu Hui also bought some pseudo-spirit items from me just now."

But Zhao Qixin and Yu Shui had only wanted a little, seemingly to taste them and use them as snacks.

Those two had powerful backgrounds and lacked nothing in terms of cultivation resources. Let alone pseudo-spirit items—even Postnatal low-grade spirit items could be obtained from their elders at home.

When they had met earlier, Zhang Wan had already noticed that their cultivation had improved again. They had reached the peak of the Postnatal first layer, and it would not be surprising if they broke through to the Postnatal second layer at any time.

As for Xu Hui, he was still at the mid-stage of the Postnatal first layer.

When talent was not vastly different, the gap created by cultivation resources began to grow ever larger.

"Still, Xu Hui bought quite a lot of pseudo-spirit items from me. With his talent and increasingly diligent attitude, it will not be long before he reaches the late stage of the Postnatal first layer."

"Once he breaks through, I can break through too." Zhang Wan laughed.

Because of Zhao Qixin and Yu Shui's rapid growth, Xu Hui had become increasingly hardworking, which benefited him.

The faster the others grew ahead of him, the less attention his own growth would attract.

That evening, Zhang Lingshu and Zhang Yan craved the taste of the earth fruits, red fruits, and rice, but Zhang Wan refused them.

It was not that he was unwilling.

The pseudo-spirit items were simply too nourishing for them.

They still needed to continue tempering themselves to digest the spirit meals he had given them at noon. If they ate some pseudo-spirit items as well, they would not be able to sleep that night, their energy so vigorous that they would toss and turn until dawn.

That would instead hinder their growth.

Zhang Yan was especially affected.

Zhang Wan had observed that both he and Zhang Lingshu had average aptitude—not particularly good. Zhang Yan's martial aptitude was even worse, only slightly better than rotten-wood aptitude.

In cultivation, this manifested as Zhang Yan having lower efficiency in digesting and absorbing spirit meals made from the same amount of pseudo-spirit plants.

Every day, Zhang Yan had to temper himself until very late to digest the spirit meal in his stomach.

If he ate any more, he would not be able to bear it.

As things stood, this was best for both of them.

After harvesting the pseudo-spirit plants growing in the spirit field, Zhang Wan did not immediately sow another batch.

Instead, he tidied up the spirit field, then bought some ordinary fertilizer and scattered it over the soil to enrich the fields.

Although it would not have mattered if he had skipped this step—after all, he had not used the Extreme Cultivation Method on the pseudo-spirit plants growing in the spirit field, so the soil had not been depleted much—

doing so would make the next batch of pseudo-spirit plants grow more luxuriantly and produce more.

With such benefits, Zhang Wan was naturally willing to spend a little more time and invest a little more.

Aside from the spirit field and the pseudo-spirit plants growing inside the house, the five Postnatal low-grade spirit plants he had planted on the wooden rack were also growing well.

But they were still far from maturity.

The growth period of Postnatal low-grade spirit plants was far longer than that of pseudo-spirit plants.

Later, seeing that Zhang Lingshu and Zhang Yan had also taken some interest in planting, Zhang Wan thought it over, fetched several clay pots, and placed them beside the wall. He planted rice, red fruits, and earth fruits in them.

Zhang Lingshu and Zhang Yan had endless civil and martial lessons during the day and had no time to help in the spirit field, but they could still manage to care for the few pseudo-spirit plants in the courtyard.