It was a little past one in the morning, inside Ling Yi's wooden house.
Looking at the jade slip in his hand, he murmured, "Well, at least it wasn't a complete waste of time!"
Ling Yi ultimately saved Xiao Zining, but saving someone shouldn't be for nothing; the benefits were this jade slip and a storage ring.
According to Xiao Zining, this jade slip contains almost all the cultivation techniques and spells of the Ethereal Sword School.
With this jade slip, Ling Yi no longer needs to worry about not having any cultivation techniques in the future.
As for the storage ring, it was filled with Spirit Stone, a full 500,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stone.
This haul was huge, even though it was a bit like taking advantage of someone's misfortune!
With a wave of his hand, the jade slip was stored in the system's inventory.
Then, Ling Yi opened the system interface.
Ling Yi decided to accelerate the development of his Farming Space first.
Before returning, Ling Yi had already figured out how to spend the 500,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stone.
If you want to buy Spiritual Field, you can directly purchase Wu Bai Spiritual Field.
But what would Ling Yi do with so many Spiritual Field? Grow Spiritual Rice Spiritual Rice them all? Even if he did, setting aside the question of whether he could sell them, how much money would he make?
Therefore, Ling Yi decided to use all 500,000 Spirit Stone to increase the time multiplier.
In Ling Yi's view, increasing the time factor is far more valuable than increasing the amount of farmland.
If you double 100,000, you can multiply it by 500,000. Adding the original multiplier, that's 7 times the original amount.
In this way, Devil Fruit that originally took 120 days to mature can now mature in just 17 and a half days.
Compared to other things, Devil Fruit that can enhance one's strength are the key point.
After all, cultivating anything is just too troublesome.
Five hundred thousand Spirit Stone were used up in one go. Ling Yi looked at the number in the upper left corner of the Farmland Space, which had turned into 7, and couldn't help but chuckle.
"What a pleasant surprise!"
After closing the Farmland Space interface, Ling Yi opened the lottery interface.
The lucky draw isn't over yet!
As for accumulating lottery entries? Give me a break!
Ling Yi now needs to use every means possible to increase his strength as quickly as possible, ideally becoming invincible from the start.
Lotteries are one way to boost your power.
One Devil Fruit Tree already granted Ling Yi the power to Instant Kill Foundation Establishment; what if there were another one...?
Ling Yi rubbed his hands together and immediately pressed the lottery button.
It's still the familiar spinning wheel, except the slot for the Devil Fruit Tree Seed has turned gray.
Ling Yi frowned.
Does this mean that item slots that have already been used won't disappear or refresh?
Does the draw only refresh after all items have been drawn, or is it that you can only draw these nine items?
He shook his head. There was no point in thinking about it now; it was a system rule anyway, and he couldn't change it.
Just draw it directly.
[Ding! Remote access unlocked. You can now enter the Farming Space to view it.]
Seeing the pop-up subtitles and hearing the system's synthesized voice, Ling Yi was completely dumbfounded.
"No way, a system function, can it really be used as a lottery item?"
"Wo Cao, does that mean the system's current functions are incomplete, and other functions can only be obtained through a lottery?"
Looking at the grayed-out lottery interface, Ling Yi couldn't help but mentally complain.
Close the lottery interface and open the Farming Space.
Ling Yi immediately saw a small Dragon Radar- like icon in the lower right corner of the Farming Space.
After clicking, you are instantly taken to a square Map interface.
Ling Yi quickly recognized that this was a miniature Map of Ten Thousand Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and all the Spiritual Field in the Eastern District.
Each piece of Spiritual Field is like a small square on a chessboard.
"This Map is way too small. It would be great if it could be zoomed in," Ling Yi murmured.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Map suddenly zoomed in.
"Uh, zoom in, zoom in, zoom in... Oh my god!"
Ling Yi looked at the Spiritual Rice seedlings in front of him, which were as tall as towering trees, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Next, Ling Yi began to make various attempts.
He discovered that the Map was like a three-dimensional Satellite Map, only more exaggerated.
It can be magnified and reduced infinitely. After being magnified dozens of times, you can even see the fine texture of each leaf on the Spiritual Rice seedling.
If you zoom in further, you can even see the cells.
In addition to being able to magnify, it can also be rotated 360 degrees to view at any angle.
Zooming in and out, rotating the angle—all are done at your command, with unparalleled smoothness.
The Map area represents the area that Ling Yi has currently explored.
That is, the area encompassing Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and the Eastern District.
The Map all the other places Ling Yi hasn't been to, but they're all blacked out.
At this moment, the Map view is locked on the courtyard of Xiang Hao.
"This is a remote function? This is freaking panoramic monitoring!" Ling Yi's eyes lit up.
Wow, with this feature, isn't it like having a God's-eye view?
Unfortunately, the Map only showed surveillance footage but no sound, so we couldn't hear what Xiang Hao and the boy who seemed to be from the same hometown were saying.
Ever since discovering that this boy might be a time traveler, Ling Yi had secretly inquired about him.
The boy's name is Ye Tian, a very Protagonist -like name.
He is seventeen years old this year and came to the Ethereal Sword School two years ago to work as Spiritual Rice farmer, a year earlier than Ling Yi.
He is usually quiet and rarely interacts with others.
However, it is said that he has good talent and has cultivated to the Meridian Condensation Second Layer in just half a year, which has made him highly regarded by Xiang Hao.
"Is Xiang Hao and Ye Tian doing something underhanded this late at night?" Ling Yi wondered.
After talking for a while, Ye Tian returned to his cabin.
During this process, Ling Yi discovered another feature and drawback of the remote function.
You can lock onto a single person and follow their viewpoint.
However, remote monitoring lacks X-Ray Vision function.
In other words, you can't see what's inside the house.
With a thought, the Map returned to its initial state.
Ling Yi stared at the Map window in front of him, stroking his chin and muttering, "This remote control function should have more than just these features, right?"
"Is it possible to remotely One-Click Pest Elimination?" Ling Yi asked, somewhat fancifully.
Whether it works or not, we'll find out by trying.
Ling Yi located his own Spiritual Field and One-Click Pest Elimination.
[Ding! One-Click Pest Elimination successful, you have obtained 1 Spirit Stone.]
Ling Yi's eyes lit up; he was so excited he almost jumped up. It really worked?
Ling Yi then set his sights on Niu Er's Spiritual Field.
[Ding! One-Click Pest Elimination successful!]
This time, no Spirit Stone were obtained. Obviously, Niu Er's Spiritual Field is now in its healthiest state, with no insect swarms, no miscellaneous plants, and no Beast stealing the seedlings.
Let's test again to see if we can eliminate all Spiritual Field simultaneously with One-Click Pest Elimination.
As it turns out, Ling Yi was really overthinking things.
It seems that the only option is to remotely control each farmland one by one with a single click.
Even so, that's still incredibly impressive.
But why does this feel so similar to the functions of Penguin Farm?
Help your friends remove grass, pests, water, fertilize, and... steal their crops!
"Can we steal it? If we can really steal it, that would be amazing."
However, the Spiritual Rice in the Eastern District is not yet ripe, so there's no way to steal it for now. We can only wait until the Spiritual Rice matures.
Ling Yi then underwent another round of testing.
It was ultimately determined that the One-Click Pest Elimination could only be used on Spiritual Field, and could not be used on One-Click Pest Elimination other than Spiritual Field. Obviously, Ling Yi's rather dangerous idea could not be realized.
Before we knew it, it was already dawn.
Ling Yi hadn't slept all night, but he was still full of energy.
Today's task is simple: explore the Map.
The current Map only covers the Eastern District and a small portion of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.
If Ling Yi could unlock the entire Map of the Ethereal Sword School, wouldn't that mean he'd have a god-like perspective on the entire the Ethereal Sword School?
What if we could unlock the entire Map of the Immortal Cultivation Realm?
Unfortunately, Ling Yi cannot leave the Ethereal Sword School yet.
Becoming Spiritual Rice farmer is tantamount to signing a fifty-year indenture.
That's right, fifty years.
However, during these fifty years, there are no restrictions on any activities other than being Spiritual Rice farmer.
In other words, one can freely enter and leave the Ethereal Sword School, as long as the harvest of Spiritual Rice is guaranteed.
Under normal circumstances, planting Spiritual Rice and cultivating are busy enough, and most farmers simply don't have time to leave the Ethereal Sword School.
At most, I'll be able to spare some time to take a stroll around the nearby the Ethereal City.
After leaving his wooden house, Ling Yi headed straight for the nearby Southern District.
The reason I went to the Southern District was because Zheng Zhe, the one who killed the original owner of this body, was a farmer from the Southern District.
Speaking of which, his older brother Zheng Hao is at the Foundation Establishment Stage; can't he give his younger brother some special treatment?
Unfortunately, it's not possible!
Zheng Zhe has no Spiritual Root, so he can only follow the path of condensing Meridian Condensation Spirit Condensation. To Meridian Condensation Spirit Condensation, he must start from doing menial tasks.
This is a strict rule of the Ethereal Sect, and no one can break it.
Otherwise, who doesn't have relatives and friends? If you help out and I help out, wouldn't the Ethereal Sword School just be a bunch of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality? What kind of immortal cultivation sect would that be?
Let alone Zheng Hao, who is only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, even the sect leader's own son would have to start from the bottom as a servant if he didn't have Spiritual Root.
If they cannot Spirit Condensation within fifty years, they will be expelled from the Ethereal Sword School. At worst, they will be sent to the Ethereal City to become officials, guaranteeing them a life of comfort and security.
In this respect, the Ethereal Sword School treats everyone equally.
Of course, absolute fairness is impossible.
Take Zheng Zhe, for example. This guy relies on his older brother to act like a tyrant in the Spiritual Field area and collect protection money.
This would allow them to obtain enough Meridian Condensation Pill, and their strength would increase much faster than that of ordinary farmers.
The probability of Spirit Condensation within fifty years is also much higher than that of ordinary people.
" Ling Yi, why aren't you tending to the Spiritual Field this early in the morning? Why are you wandering around aimlessly?" On the way, Ling Yi happened to run into Niu Er.
Seeing that Ling Yi wasn't going to the Spiritual Field to remove insects and grass so early, but instead heading south, I couldn't help but say something.
"I'd like to get rid of the bugs, but there have to be some to get rid of!" Ling Yi shook his head.
"What do you mean? It can't be the same as before, can it?"
"Go and see for yourself at your own Spiritual Field," Ling Yi said, waving his hand at Niu Er.
But they didn't stop walking, continuing towards the Southern District.
"Where are you going?" Niu Er asked curiously.
"Since there's nothing else to do, I might as well wander around," Ling Yi said.
"No, even without the insect horde and miscellaneous creatures, we still have to let other Beast steal the seedlings. This stage is when the seedlings are most likely to attract Beast."
"I've already dug twenty traps and set a hundred animal snares around the Spiritual Field. If any Beast are foolish enough to not notice, then we'll have our feast tonight."