After several days of moving, Li Xingkong's new house finally looks like a home.
The bed was built by him after he used his Spiritual Qi to scan his own heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), and he even built a large chimney that led outdoors.
He brought the tables and chairs himself from home, making several trips just to bring them over.
Although he is strong enough now, there are only a few places on the human body where you can pick things up. No matter how strong he is, there are only so many things he can pick up, so he can only run in multiple trips.
This brings us to the storage magic item that every cultivator possesses.
Storage magic items have a large capacity, can hold a lot of things, and are not affected by weight. They can truly be considered divine artifacts. Unfortunately, Li Xingkong cannot create one yet.
On the one hand, he has no access to knowledge about space, and on the other hand, his current strength is insufficient.
It's not that it's impossible for someone at the mere Qi Refining to attempt to master the Dao of Space, but the main problem lies in that particular issue.
The issue is with learning ability.
Do what is appropriate for your current stage, especially in the path of cultivation, where the gap between the two realms is enormous.
Even if we were to give Li Xingkong the knowledge related to space now, given his learning ability and intelligence at the Qi Refining stage, it might take him hundreds of years to even begin to grasp the basics.
By the time he gets to the top, I might already be nothing but dust.
Although he was indeed very envious of spatial magic treasures, he could only dream about them for now.
Only by being down-to-earth can you go further; trying to reach the sky in one step is wishful thinking.
If someone left him some kind of cultivation relic, then there's still a sliver of a chance he could ascend to heaven in one step.
However, there was no such thing. There was no trace of cultivation on the entire Earth Star, and even Spiritual Qi had never existed there.
There are no shortcuts to success; one must forge one's own path step by step.
Perhaps those who follow him will find their path to spiritual practice easier, but for a trailblazer, every step must be taken firmly.
Fortunately, he was going to travel back and forth anyway, so carrying some things was just a convenient option.
I've planted over a dozen batches of Body Tempering Grass in my original little vegetable garden, and I've collected all the seeds.
The quantity is not large; it certainly won't be enough to plant all 50 mu (approximately 3.3 hectares). According to Li Xingkong's estimate, the few seeds he has can at most plant 2 mu (approximately 0.33 hectares) of land.
Fortunately, the Body Tempering Grass grows relatively quickly; even if it were kept for breeding, it would only take about a month.
With such a large plot of land, I estimate I can fill it with crops within six months.
This place is far from the crowds, so Li Xingkong, which is much better than before.
He initially thought that watering the crops would be a problem, as the area was high up and watering might not be very convenient. However, he made a new discovery while tending to the fields.
Although the terrain here is high, there are cement irrigation ditches along the fields. After walking up the ditches for a while, you will see water taps specifically used for watering the fields.
Perhaps it's because I've played too many farming games, but in all those games, watering is done by manually taking a watering can and watering each plant individually, making it seem like watering is some kind of troublesome task.
In China, however, farmland irrigation is still done in a simple and crude way: simply flooding the fields with water. Once the ridges are built, there will be a large-mouthed tap in the field, about 15cm in diameter, specifically for watering.
When the season comes, the tap is simply turned on and left unattended, and the continuous flow of water forms an artificial stream along the canal.
People along the irrigation ditch opened the furrows of their own fields one by one, filled them with water, and continued to irrigate until the entire field was soaked before calling the next family to come and help.
This is a more suitable way of watering for Divine Land country. Otherwise, if you water each plant individually, you'd be exhausted after just one acre.
Having found a way to water the plants, things became even simpler. Li Xingkong simply turned on the water valve and used it to thoroughly irrigate the plots of land he was going to plant.
This method of watering is clearly unimaginable in the city; the cost of watering would be astronomical.
However, it's different in the village. The land resources in the village belong to the village collective, and villagers don't have to pay for water.
Moreover, the village generally uses groundwater. This water is drawn out to irrigate the land, but it eventually returns to the ground. It's like the water just goes through a loop and isn't wasted.
Having planted the Body Tempering Grass and solved the water problem, Li Xingkong's life once again entered into a routine of daily routine.
They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and in addition to their daily spiritual practice, they also have time to practice magic and surf the internet.
Li Xingkong was living a very leisurely life.
Luckily, his place is in the mountains and there are no rivers around, otherwise he would like to go out and play a couple of rounds when he has nothing to do.
After spending less than half a month in the mountains, Li Xingkong even went home less often.
There was no other way; after cultivating in this secluded place for a few days, Li Xingkong found that his cultivation speed was even faster than when he was at home.
It wasn't just because of the Body Tempering Grass; besides the increased daily intake of Body Tempering Grass, the change in environment did indeed bring him benefits in his cultivation.
It's not that there's any Spiritual Qi in the mountains; that Spiritual Qi remains unchanged.
Rather, it was a change in his entire state of mind.
Even though I try my best to avoid interacting with outsiders while living at home, some communication is still unavoidable.
Communication with his parents, his neighbors, and the social changes brought about by various current events and hot topics all more or less affect Li Xingkong's mentality.
Now that he's holed up in this mountain valley, it's like he's cut off from the world. No one bothers him anymore, and nothing can attract his attention. He can devote himself to cultivation all day long.
Nothing could distract him.
Under these conditions, it would be difficult for cultivation not to proceed quickly.
In just one month, Li Xingkong's cultivation level improved further.
The most noticeable improvement is in the progress of Bone Tempering. This is the only quantifiable data he has at present. In just one month, he has completed the tempering of 14 bones, and so far, he has tempered 59 bones.
As for other aspects, there have been slight improvements, but they are not as noticeable as the improvement in Bone Tempering.
Even now, his cultivation is still quite vague, without a clear and specific division of realms.
It wasn't for any other reason than that the theoretical knowledge the system gave him was all for one stage, while from the system's perspective, as the first stage of cultivation, there really wasn't any need for further subdivision.
The system is already subdivided down to elementary school level; is it really necessary to further divide it into grades 1, 2, and 3? From the system's perspective, the subdivisions are already detailed enough.
This was also due to the lack of Spiritual Qi, which caused Li Xingkong to be stuck here for too long, giving him the feeling that cultivation was a long process.
Of course, from Li Xingkong's perspective, he still needs to break it down further. After all, this time span might only be a moment for cultivators with extremely long lifespans, but for Li Xingkong at present, his concept of time is obviously still at the level of an ordinary person.