Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique Grand Perfection!

After his Bone Root improved to Good, Xian He's building replication count increased to two.

He then constructed three granaries near the spirit fields. Each Level 2 granary could hold one hundred tons of Komugi, for a total of three hundred tons across the three.

Komugi yields one thousand jin per mu. Twenty mu yields twenty thousand jin, producing ten tons per quarter and forty tons per year.

Including the children, there were forty-six people in the household. Each person consumed approximately one kilogram of Komugi per day. The entire family consumed about forty-six kilograms of Komugi daily, totaling seventeen tons per year.

There were six hundred chickens in the three chicken coops. Each chicken consumed about one hundred grams of Komugi per day. All the chickens consumed sixty kilograms of grain daily, amounting to twenty-two tons of grain per year.

After accounting for the consumption by people and chickens, about one ton of Komugi remained in the Inner World annually.

Therefore, the granary capacity would be sufficient for the next three hundred years.

The household's spirit fields totaled twenty-four mu. Twenty mu were used for planting Komugi, and four mu were used for planting flax.

However, now that he had Xiuwen Yellow Hemp seeds, Xian He decided to replace the flax with them.

Under the natural conditions of the Inner World, Xiuwen Yellow Hemp and flax had the same maturation period: one harvest per quarter, allowing for four plantings per year.

He handed the seeds to Muyang and instructed her to lead the maids in destroying the flax and replanting Xiuwen Yellow Hemp.

After issuing the command, Xian He left the spirit fields and walked eastward.

East of the south bank of the wooden bridge, he had designated the area as an agricultural zone, specifically for planting trees and crops.

The Level 1 achievement had rewarded him with a mu of orchard, which he planned to place south of the farmland.

Fruit trees required less water than crops, so being further from the Fairy River was not an issue.

After using his replication ability, Xian He had a total of three mu of orchard.

The Level 1 achievement had also rewarded him with a wild fruit tree, which was perfectly suited to be planted in the empty orchard.

All fruit trees took one year to grow. Planting them now meant they would only bear fruit next year.

The wild fruit tree was a spiritual plant of the next grade, and its fruit was likely also of the next grade. He just didn't know how it would taste.

After receiving the rewards for buildings and plants, Xian He returned to the training room.

"System, use two Grade 2 Enlightenment Pills to comprehend the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique!"

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for comprehending the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique, reaching the tenth stage—Transcendent Saint!]

[Host's Strength increased by twenty, reaching nine hundred fifty-one.]

[Cumulative damage reduction effect reached ten percent!]

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for cultivating the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique to Grand Perfection, awakening a special effect! After being attacked, the host's physical damage ability increases by ten percent, with a cumulative damage increase cap of ten percent.]

"So, I can deal up to double damage?"

[Correct!]

Although the damage reduction and damage increase effects seemed symmetrical, they were not.

The damage reduction effect could reduce physical damage taken to zero, while the damage increase effect could only raise physical attack to double.

The damage reduction effect was stronger.

Unfortunately, it only lasted for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, which was thirty seconds shorter than Ultraman Tiga's transformation time.

"Three techniques have already been cultivated to Grand Perfection. The remaining ones are Breathing Technique, Grand Ancestor Long Fist, Leaping Skill, Goddess Control Art, and Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method."

Xian He had mild obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Regardless of the final benefit, he would cultivate all his techniques to their limits.

However, the order of cultivation needed adjustment.

Before Yun Ling gave birth to Ping An and Ru Yi, he had been cultivating the Breathing Technique, which had reached the eighth stage, Peak Attainment.

Although it was only two levels away from maxing out the Breathing Technique, he decided to pause its cultivation and switch to the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method.

This was because the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method could increase his True Qi, with each stage increasing it by ten points.

His current True Qi was only three hundred. If he didn't consume magical food, he could easily have his acupoints sealed by opponents in a match, which was a weakness.

A bucket's capacity is determined by its shortest plank.

To practice the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method, one must inhale deeply, store the breath between the chest and abdomen, then exert force to break through enemy defenses.

External training of muscles, bones, and skin; internal training of a breath.

The Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method was likely derived from this saying.

Three months passed.

Komugi harvest!

Xiuwen Yellow Hemp harvest!

Xiao Xue and Chen Jingjing's bellies gradually grew larger.

Xian He spent his evenings playing games with his wives and his days training with a sore back. Through his relentless efforts, he finally cultivated the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method to the ninth stage, Return to Simplicity.

His True Qi increased by ninety points!

"System, use a Grade 1 Enlightenment Pill to comprehend the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method!"

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for comprehending the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method and reaching the tenth realm—Transcendent Saint!]

[Host's True Qi increased by ten, reaching four hundred.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for cultivating the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method to Grand Perfection, awakening a special effect! The Host can strengthen any of the lower nine-rank cultivation methods at Grand Perfection, turning it into a more powerful new cultivation method, and the attributes previously obtained from the cultivation method will not disappear.]

"Uh... System, can I strengthen the Seal Mouth Solid Qi Method?"

[No!]