Yellow Spirit Earth-Thunder

Dong Lin stopped reaching for the stars and obediently bought one mu of spirit farmland first.

Buying more would only be a loss. He would first buy a plot of spirit farmland and build up some experience.

Once he had more money on hand in the future, he could make further plans.

After spending thirty-two contribution points, Dong Lin successfully obtained ownership of the plot.

Looking at the deed in his hand, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Next, I need to prepare for the preliminary work of farming.

I never thought that even after becoming an immortal cultivator, I'd still have to farm for a living. What a hard life."

The spirit farmland he had purchased was located at the northeastern corner of Heaven Hall, the closest plot to the cultivation chambers that Dong Lin could afford.

A round trip would take roughly two hours.

It would be nice if I could fly.

Dong Lin thought this as he walked toward the marketplace.

At a stall specializing in miscellaneous books, he bought a copy of the Basic Spirit Rice Cultivation Manual for twelve low-grade spirit stones.

One jin of Shouyang No. 3 Spirit Rice seeds produced by the Shouyang Spirit Agriculture Academy, containing roughly ten thousand seeds, cost Dong Lin thirty-nine low-grade spirit stones.

"Is the quality of these seeds really as good as you say?"

Dong Lin had looked into market prices beforehand. Spirit rice seeds generally cost around twenty low-grade spirit stones.

Thirty-nine was definitely far above market price.

"Junior Brother, don't worry. I'm an inner disciple too. If you're really concerned,

Junior Brother, come on,

let's add each other as friends. If you run into any problems during planting, just come find me.

My name is Zhang Tao, and I also serve as a Shouyang planting consultant."

Spirit Agriculture Academies were institutions established by high-level spirit plant cultivators throughout the cultivation world to develop and promote various techniques for spirit farmland cultivation.

They normally sustained their operations by selling cultivation experience, high-quality rice seeds, and spirit fertilizer.

Though they were called academies, most Spirit Agriculture Academies had actually become commercial organizations.

Large Spirit Agriculture Academies opened stores in marketplaces across various sects to sell their products.

With the Heavenly Sect sealing itself off, most outsiders from these shops had gradually withdrawn, leaving only Heavenly Sect disciples behind to maintain their normal operations.

This Shouyang Storehouse was one such shop, with a relatively comprehensive selection of cultivation-related goods.

Relying on his glib tongue, Zhang Tao successfully sold these overpriced rice seeds to Dong Lin, a complete novice.

Things were expensive for a reason, but expensive things also had suckers paying for them.

Dong Lin did not know that these much pricier rice seeds actually yielded little more than ordinary spirit rice seeds.

Dong Lin had some suspicions himself, but the fat man's sales tactics were truly first-rate, and he successfully talked Dong Lin into buying the bag of rice seeds.

The annual yield of one mu of ordinary rice fields was worth roughly three hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Zhang Tao told Dong Lin that this variety of spirit rice was far more resistant to disease and pests than ordinary spirit rice, and that the spirit rice it produced had slight effects in strengthening the body and solidifying one's foundation.

In short, after a dazzling torrent of praise, Dong Lin successfully bought the bag of spirit rice seeds.

"How can one not be fascinated by the art of language?"

Dong Lin could not help but sigh afterward.

A year's worth of spirit fertilizer and farming tools cost Dong Lin another fifty low-grade spirit stones.

The preliminary preparations alone had already cost him one hundred and one spirit stones.

Dong Lin was now somewhat worried that he would not recoup his costs, not to mention that he had to hand over part of the harvest from this mu of land as a sect mission.

It would probably take around half the harvest. If he did anything more for this mu of farmland, he would basically lose everything.

Since he had bought ready-made spirit farmland, Dong Lin did not need to do any preliminary work himself.

He could worry about future maintenance later. For the time being, Dong Lin would not have to deal with that headache.

After thoroughly reading the manual once, Dong Lin moved on to practical work.

First, he manipulated spirit power to till the entire mu of land.

Then he evenly scattered the rice seeds across the field and finally applied fertilizer.

That completed the sowing. Compared to the cumbersome procedures of mortal farming, it was far simpler.

Especially with the water-drawing formation, there was no need to flood the farmland with huge amounts of water, saving him a great deal of effort.

After confirming that there were no issues with the warning formation in the field, Dong Lin left.

This area of spirit farmland covered over a hundred mu. Some plots were already full of crops, most of them planted with spirit rice.

There was no one in the fields at the moment. Only several wooden puppets moved tirelessly through a few plots, seemingly driving away rice-eating mutated insects and spirit birds.

"Maybe it's some advanced application of spells."

The automated, unmanned puppet-control technique made Dong Lin extremely envious.

Unfortunately, he did not yet have the energy to study that field.

His most urgent task was to return and try learning the beginner-level Thunder Summoning Art.

Once the rice seedlings grew, pest control would need to be put on the agenda.

The pest-repelling formations originally embedded by the sect beneath the spirit farmland could not completely keep out all the mutated insects that gnawed on the rice fields.

And the Thunder Summoning Art was a powerful tool for pest control.

Among the many spells, lightning techniques could effectively kill the mutated insects in the fields with hard chitinous shells, something spells of any other attribute could not match.

Returning to his cultivation chamber, Dong Lin took out the Thunder Summoning Art, which had been "gathering dust" for several months.

To cultivate this spell, one first had to sense Thunder Origin.

A necessary prerequisite for cultivating attribute-based spells was that the cultivator sense the existence of elements and, through resonance with heaven and earth, transform ordinary spirit qi into origin power carrying the corresponding attribute.

Thus, multi-attribute spells required the simultaneous conversion of several types of origin power. They were extraordinarily difficult, and generally only cultivators with exceptional comprehension could understand and cast them.

As a basic lightning technique, the Thunder Summoning Art came with a method for converting Thunder Origin.

Thunder Origin gathers qi, and all foul qi is cleansed. Divine lightning shatters darkness, and heaven and earth become bright.

It was as though he had been born knowing it. After Dong Lin merely "reviewed" it for a moment, Thunder Origin emerged from his dantian.

Thunder Origin passed through the Thoroughfare Vessel, the Yang Linking Vessel, and the Yin Linking Vessel, and the lightning technique burst forth in an instant.

Crackle, crackle!

A ball of lightning flashed and vanished, illuminating the cultivation chamber.

"That did it?"

Drawing out Thunder Origin and gathering qi into lightning.

This completed the first step of the Thunder Summoning Art.

The Thunder Summoning Art had two casting methods.

One was the method Dong Lin had just used, relying entirely on the Thunder Origin within his body for activation.

This lightning was called Yellow Spirit Earth-Thunder. Guided by Thunder Origin, it could be released extremely quickly, but its power was limited, determined entirely by one's cultivation and the speed at which one converted Thunder Origin.

The other casting method was to draw down heavenly lightning.

Heavenly lightning was vast and awe-inspiring; the Heavenly Dao was manifest and clear.

Immortal cultivators harmonized with heaven and earth, thereby proving the Dao and ascending.

The method of drawing down heavenly lightning was the core of the Thunder Summoning Art.

Combined with the Cloud-Swallowing Mist-Spitting Technique, it could forcibly summon lightning regardless of most weather conditions.

If it happened to be a thunderstorm, its power would multiply even further.

It was called Mystic Spirit Heavenly-Thunder.

His cultivation of the Thunder Summoning Art advanced by leaps and bounds.

Dong Lin cultivated without pause in his cultivation chamber, and in only three days, he brought the Thunder Summoning Art to minor mastery.

He had already mastered Yellow Spirit Earth-Thunder with consummate skill.

"It's time to take a look at the fields."

The diligent farmer Dong Lin prepared to inspect the fields he had left unattended for three days.