Sowing in Spring

Days that are busy go by especially fast.

With Zhuang Jialan's help, Chen Mobai quickly mastered the drawing of the three types of Second Grade Talisman required for his exam.

In addition to this, there is another piece of good news: Zhuang Jialan has agreed to join the Student Union.

Without him even having to tell her, Hua Zijing's eyes lit up when she saw Zhuang Jialan, and she took the initiative to help her get used to things.

Zhuang Jialan felt somewhat flattered by this.

She naturally knew Hua Zijing. Whether Zuoqiu Shi or Chen Mobai was the president, she was undoubtedly the number two figure in the Student Union.

The fact that the Vice President and secretary- Minister would take the time to mentor a newcomer like her, and do so with such dedication, speaks volumes about Chen Mobai's influence.

After mentoring her for a while, Hua Zijing said that although Zhuang Jialan was not as capable as herself, she was highly malleable, had a lot of room for improvement, and had a strong learning ability.

After hearing Hua Zijing's evaluation, Chen Mobai didn't dwell on its deeper meaning. He nodded in satisfaction, feeling relieved and able to focus on the spring rice planting in the Sky River Realm.

"Master, these are rice seeds selected last year."

Zhuo Ming, wearing a straw hat, took out several bags of plump rice seeds from the storage bag at his waist.

They are now at the foot of Little South Mountain, in the core ten-acre Spirit Field where the Earth Vein Spiritual Energy is most abundant, where jade Jade Bamboo are growing vigorously.

As each segment of the Jade Bamboo grows, Zhuo Ming uses a scissor to cut a slit and then seals it with carefully selected Jade Sprout Spirit Rice seeds.

After ten years of cultivation, the Jade Bamboo has matured and reached the required level. You can then use Sickle to cut off the top bamboo node, which will be filled with a tube of fragrant Second Tier Spirit Rice.

When all the nodes of a whole Jade Bamboo's Seal bamboo are cut off, it signifies that a round of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice has matured.

The second round of planting can begin.

Every spring, these Solomon's Jade Bamboo, specially grown to nourish the Spirit Rice, will grow a new section. Today, Chen Mobai came down the mountain specifically for this purpose.

Besides Zhuo Ming, Luo Yixuan also came along.

She even changed into a coarse linen shirt suitable for farming, with the cuffs and trouser legs all tied up with a red ribbon. She also wore straw sandals, held a small crescent-shaped Sickle in her fair right hand, and wore a straw hat on her head, imitating Zhuo Ming as she sowed seeds.

Although her movements seemed clumsy to Chen Mobai, he, as her teacher, was very satisfied with her attitude.

Watching Luo Yixuan follow Zhuo Ming step by step, her movements hurried and flustered, Chen Mobai, who was also cutting bamboo-sealed Spirit Rice, nodded slightly.

The cultivators in the Sky River Realm all possess a kind of ambition that students in the Immortal Sect lack.

They probably all knew that the opportunity to cultivate immortality was hard to come by, and therefore cherished it all the more.

After the three of them spent five or six days sealing all the newly grown sections of Jade Bamboo into carefully selected premium Jade Sprout Spirit Rice seeds, Chen Mobai felt that Zhuo Ming's cultivation level seemed to have increased again.

Earth Mother Technique is indeed very suitable for her.

"Xuan'er, for the next month, use the Rainfall Technique I taught you to irrigate these ten acres of Spirit Field."

Luo Yixuan nodded obediently, while a little embarrassed to say that she had never used the Rainfall Technique before, afraid that she would do it wrong and delay the most precious ten acres of Spirit Rice in Little South Mountain.

"It's alright. If you don't understand anything, just ask Ming'er. She has a great talent for Spirit Plant. She has already learned about one or two tenths of my expertise in this area, so taking care of this Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice shouldn't be a problem for her."

"Senior sister is amazing! This is the only Second Tier Spirit Rice in our Divine Wood Sect. Once these ten acres of Spirit Rice are ripe, senior sister will be a Second Grade Spirit Planter."

Upon hearing this, Luo Yixuan looked at Zhuo Ming beside her with admiration. The latter was a little embarrassed by her praise and waved her hands repeatedly, indicating that it was just a matter of practice makes perfect.

"Since I have some free time today, you two can ask me any questions you may have about cultivation."

Beside the Spirit Field, Chen Mobai chose a rock to sit down, with his two disciples standing on either side of him, each raising their own questions about the difficulties they had encountered in their cultivation during this period.

Since Luo Yixuan had already Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and was only confused about Foundation Establishment, she didn't have many questions. However, she still managed to put together a few to show her presence.

On the contrary, Zhuo Ming seems to have more problems with Spirit Plant than with cultivation.

"Master, I feel that the cultivation method of this Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice is not perfect. Is the other twenty kinds of Spirit Rice that you asked me to cultivate just to improve this point?"

Chen Mobai was somewhat surprised that Zhuo Ming would ask such a question.

This child is indeed born to farm.

"Good, I am very pleased that you were able to notice this. Later, take my nameplate to the Transmission Department to read all the information about Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice."

Chen Mobai had actually discovered long ago that the only Second Tier Spirit Rice cultivation method in the Divine Wood Sect had a huge flaw.

The mature rice seeds here in the Immortal Sect are all directly sown and irrigated, spontaneously absorbing the Earth Qi to grow. After breaking through the soil, they open their tender shoots and can absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, the essence of the sun and moon.

During the rice seed maturation process, Spirit Planter only needs to irrigate and fertilize regularly and pay attention to pests. There is no need for the tedious and troublesome operation of first planting Gold-edged Jade Bamboo in the Solomon's seal after the Jade Bamboo has grown.

As a core Foundation Establishment Elder of the Divine Wood Sect, Chen Mobai could naturally easily access all the Secret Scroll within the sect concerning "Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice".

The cultivation method for this Second Tier Spirit Rice was acquired by Zhou Shengqing when he was traveling in the outer regions of the Eastern Wasteland before the Five Elements Sect split up. He encountered an auction hosted by a Great Merchant Guild and spent a large sum of money to acquire it.

In the Sky River Realm, there are two ways to buy and sell Spirit Plant Method.

One option is licensing, and the other is buying out the rights.

The former is like the Third Grade Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice of Returning Heaven Valley, which purchases rice seeds from the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association every year. This fee is the authorization fee, which in turn grants the exclusive right to plant and sell the rice within the Eastern Wasteland Realm.

Another type of item that can be bought out is the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice of the Divine Wood Sect. This is a secret technique passed down by a sect in the Eastern Yi Region. If the sect's Foundation Establishment Ancestor hadn't been seriously injured and needed to obtain healing medicine, it wouldn't have been put up for auction.

When Zhou Shengqing bought this inheritance and brought it back to his sect, he was even praised by the Primordial Ancestor was still alive at the time.

According to the lineage of this Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, if one can find Third Grade Spirit Bamboo, one might be able to upgrade ordinary Jade Sprout Spirit Rice to Third Grade as well.

The value of Third Tier Spirit Rice is completely different.

Based on experience in the Sky River Realm, Golden Core True Person who wishes to Nascent Formation Soul understands that strong Qi and Blood and physical body can increase the success rate.

Only Spirit Rice of the Third Grade or higher can be effective for Golden Core True Person.

Little South Mountain was the experimental site for upgrading the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice to the Third Grade. Unfortunately, the method of cultivating this Spirit Rice was too troublesome, and it took ten years for it to mature.

During the third round of testing, the Primordial Ancestor passed away.

Then the Five Elements Sect split up, and afterwards Zhou Shengqing was busy with his seclusion to break through to the Core Formation Perfected, so he didn't have time to pay attention to this matter.

It wasn't until Chen Mobai successfully Foundation Establishment that he chose Little South Mountain as his training ground.

Sect Leader Meng Hong naturally knew the origin of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, and also knew that Chen Mobai, this genius, loved farming in addition to practicing swordsmanship. Therefore, he gave Chen Mobai all the information on the sect's experiment of planting Third Tier Spirit Rice.

However, this part of the information is also incomplete.

To cultivate the Third Grade Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, the Spirit Planter of the Five Elements Sect Earth Meridian, Water Vein, and Wood Meridian opened up Sixty Mu Spirit Field in Little South Mountain, Giant Wood Ridge, for cultivation.

Later, the major event of the family division occurred, Spirit Planter of the three lineages naturally served their respective masters. The Divine Wood Sect Sect's version was written down by the Spirit Planter of his own lineage based on his memories, and was kept for inheritance.

It is said that they actually succeeded in cultivating two Third Tier Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, but it is unknown whether it was by chance or they really mastered the secret. Moreover, this secret was held by the core Earth Meridian Spirit Planter, and the Divine Wood Sect did not have it.

For this reason, the Divine Wood Sect had no interest in upgrading the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice to the Third Grade, because they knew that this would consume a huge amount of resources and there was no guarantee of success.

The Spirit Plant inheritance of the Second Grade Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice can also be viewed by Foundation Establishment.

The only Secret Scroll concerning Third Tier Spirit Rice is treasured in the Transmission Department. Chen Mobai is regarded as the future core of the Divine Wood Sect, so it is naturally easy for him to see this information.

However, Sect Leader Meng Hong still gave a special instruction.

He should focus on sword practice. Although Third Tier Spirit Rice is important, the sect has accumulated a lot of Spirit Stone and can still buy Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice for the two Core Formation ancestors. He must not let this delay his most important cultivation.

Chen Mobai was also somewhat moved by this.

At least, Meng Hong, the Divine Wood Sect Leader, truly regarded him as the future of the sect and was cultivating him, treating him no worse than his disciples.

For this reason, Chen Mobai set a small goal in his heart.

He wanted to use his talent for farming in the Divine Wood Sect so that everyone in the sect could eat Second Tier Spirit Rice.

That's why Chen Mobai has been very dedicated to his Agriculture courses these past two years.

Lin Wenkang, the Agriculture teacher at the Wuqi Dao Academy, was extremely satisfied with this and imparted all his knowledge to Chen Mobai, believing that Chen Mobai could become a leading figure in the Agriculture of the Immortal Sect in the future.

After reading through the information on the Third Tier Spirit Rice treasured by the Divine Wood Sect, and combining it with the rich knowledge from the Immortal Sect, Chen Mobai understood all the ideas behind the Spirit Plant inheritance of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice.

The Spirit Planter created the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice was a genius.

The rice variety of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice is actually the first-tier Jade Sprout Spirit Rice. This type of Spirit Rice is considered to be the most widely planted and technologically mature Spirit Rice in the Sky River Realm.

The Eastern Wasteland Seven Great Sects, and even various Cultivation Clan and minor sects, have rich experience in cultivating Jade Sprout Spirit Rice, and can harvest a lot every year.

However, this kind of Spirit Rice has a flaw: it cannot withstand the spiritual energy of the Second Grade Earth Vein Spiritual Energy.

In other words, it can only be planted in first-tier Spirit Field.

The creator of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice had a sudden inspiration: could the Second Grade Earth Vein Spiritual Energy be filtered so that Jade Sprout Spirit Rice could withstand it and thus advance its tier?

After decades of Grafting and sowing experiments, the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice was created.

After being absorbed and transformed by the Jade Bamboo, the Second Grade Earth Vein Spiritual Energy becomes extremely pure and gentle.

The rice seeds sealed inside the Jade Bamboo nodes undergo a unique transformation under the infusion of bamboo dew and bamboo spirit energy, and after ten years of nurturing, they are upgraded to Second Tier Spirit Rice.

According to this theory, if there is Third Grade Spirit Bamboo suitable for Jade Sprout Spirit Rice, it is indeed possible to cultivate Third Grade Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice.

It's no wonder that the Primordial Ancestor was happy that Zhou Shengqing was able to acquire this Spirit Plant inheritance.

However, from the perspective of the Immortal Sect, this is indeed a wrong path.

To cultivate Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, one must first consume Earth Qi and spiritual energy to support the growth of Jade Bamboo. After sealing the Spirit Rice seed in, the latter also needs to absorb the essence of Jade Bamboo. After these two transformations, the energy consumed is one and a half times that of Second Tier Spirit Rice from the Immortal Sect, and the maturation time is also too long.

For those Spirit Planter the immortal Immortal Sect who meticulously cultivate every inch of land and spiritual energy, Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice is naturally a wrong path.

After Chen Mobai discovered this, he specifically consulted Lin Wenkang, the Agriculture teacher at the Dao Academy, who offered several methods.

Softening the Earth Qi, allowing for phased ripening, and improving rice varieties, etc.

However, the best way to solve this problem once and for all is to improve the rice varieties.

It involves hybridizing Jade Sprout Spirit Rice with another type of Spirit Rice that can withstand Second Grade Earth Qi. After several rounds of practical planting and cultivation, the most suitable, plump, and vigorous seeds are selected.

The process and method are very simple. With Chen Mobai 'Dao Academy top Agriculture skills, he can write a complete paper and method for improving rice varieties without Lin Wenkang's help.

However, the most difficult, tedious, and complicated part is the later stage of practice and training.

In order to obtain accurate and extensive experimental data and samples and to determine the most suitable varieties, the more hybrid rice varieties the better.

During this process, there must also be people to monitor and record the data.

The more seeds sown, the more Spirit Field are needed, and the more Spirit Planter the better.

Unfortunately, the experimental fields of the Dao Academy were filled with more precious Third Grade and Fourth Grade Herb, leaving only a small plot for the Spirit Rice. Chen Mobai's wish to improve the rice variety with the help of the Agriculture Class could not be realized.

As a last resort, we can only test it on Little South Mountain.

Fortunately, Zhuo Ming was capable; he only explained the knowledge of rice hybridization and cultivation once, and she already understood it clearly.

Because the Great Merchant Guild in the Sky River Realm attach great importance to the care of high-grade Spirit Rice, Chen Mobai chose rice varieties that were hybridized with Jade Sprout Spirit Rice, preferably from the local area of Eastern Wasteland.

After Chen Mobai took over Little South Mountain, he has been posting tasks in his own name at the Spirit Treasure Pavilion to purchase various kinds of Spirit Rice seeds for the past two years.

Using the sect's resources, in addition to the core ten acres of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice cultivated according to proper methods, he arranged for Zhuo Ming to plant the acquired Spirit Rice on the other fifty acres.

These Spirit Rice varieties vary in quality; some ripen every six months, some every year, and some every two or three years.

Last year, Chen Mobai's Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice for brewing Second Grade Spirit Wine was hybridized with a first-tier superior Precious Ginseng Spirit Rice. Combined with Second Grade yeast from his hometown, as well as the fusion and fermentation of hundreds of medicinal herbs from Hundred Herbs Pill and Spirit Nourishing Soup, he was lucky enough to successfully brew two jars.