Practical Uses for Law Techniques: Farming

But seeing the continuous drizzle falling from above, he held back.

Seeing that his father and older brother had both noticed him, Lin Xiao, standing by the field, ran towards them with a grin.

"Dad! Big brother! How about this? It's a new Law Technique I came up with!"

Lin Dayou rarely affirmed him, nodding repeatedly and saying:

"That's good. Keep the rain falling; it should stop in about an hour."

The maximum rainfall from Irrigation Technique is only a drizzle; it can't be increased. No matter how abundant your Spiritual Power is, you can only expand the range or prolong the duration.

An hour was nothing to Lin Xiao.

Lin Yun asked:

"Erlang, can I learn this Law Technique?"

Liu Yunan, standing to the side, echoed:

I want to learn too!

This way, he wouldn't have to fetch water back and forth repeatedly, which would be troublesome and would take most of the day to irrigate only a few acres of land.

Hearing that they wanted to learn, Lin Xiao naturally nodded:

"Of course you can! This Law Technique is something I thought would be convenient for you. How long this Irrigation Technique lasts and how wide it can be used depends entirely on your cultivation level. Someone like my father, who is at the Qi Refining First Layer, can probably irrigate about five acres of land in a quarter of an hour using all his Spiritual Power."

Upon hearing this, Lin Dayou was extremely surprised:

"I can learn that too? And I can water five acres of land like that in fifteen minutes? Oh my!"

He rubbed his hands together excitedly, then turned to Lin Yun and said:

"Go down the mountain quickly and tell your cousin to learn this Law Technique as well. That way, watering your grandfather's fields will be much easier every day."

When this comes up, the first people Lin Dayou thinks of are his father and older brother.

Now that Lin Lei, the only half-grown boy in the old house, has gone up the mountain to cultivate, his older Lin Dashan has even more chores to do every day.

After practicing for half a day each day, Lin Lei would rush down the mountain to help his family with farm work.

Now that Lin Lei has Qi Refining First Layer, he works with much more energy, and even his father, Lin Dashan, an old-fashioned farmer, can hardly keep up with his speed.

Seeing his father so agitated, Lin Xiao quickly explained:

"Dad, no rush, no rush. There's only one book on that Law Technique; Aunt Yang has gone to make several copies for you."

Lin Yun looked up at the not-so-early sky and said:

"Dad, there's no rush, let me plant these seeds first."

Lin Dayou smiled and agreed, patting Lin Xiao on the shoulder and praising him for once:

"Good job, lad!"

Seeing a rare smile of joy on his father's face, which was tanned dark and shiny from years of hard work, Lin Xiao felt very happy.

Lin Yun smiled as she looked at her younger brother.

Liu Yunan nodded repeatedly and gave him a thumbs up:

"Brother Xiao, you're amazing! You're incredible!"

Lin Xiao chuckled, then pulled out the array diagrams from his pocket.

"Father! Look, I have something good here!"

"What other good stuff is there?" Lin Dayou asked, leaning closer with a puzzled look at the blueprints in his hand.

"What's this? A painting?"

Lin Xiao quickly explained:

"Father, this isn't a painting, it's called an array diagram. Once activated, this array diagram will automatically absorb the surrounding Spiritual Qi and begin to function."

The ones I'm holding now, hehe, you'll definitely like their names.

Hearing him say this, Lin Dayou said anxiously:

"Stop keeping me in suspense, tell me already!"

This kid is great in every way, but his smug little face is just asking for a beating. If it weren't for the Irrigation Technique, I almost couldn't resist slapping him.

Seemingly sensing his father's murderous aura, Lin Xiao stopped beating around the bush and quickly spoke:

"This is it, the Insect-Killing Formation!"

"Insect-Killing Formation? Could it be that this thin sheet of paper can kill insects?" Lin Dayou found it hard to believe.

Liu Yunan nudged Lin Xiao with his elbow and winked at him, saying:

"Brother Xiao, Brother Xiao, quickly demonstrate for us how this thing kills insects!"

Lin Xiao immediately took the blueprints and went to the field.

Just you wait and see!

As he spoke, he walked to the center of the field, placed the array diagram on the ground, and then infused it with Spiritual Power to activate it.

As soon as he infused Spiritual Power into the blueprint, it emitted a soft light, then suddenly disappeared, leaving only the glowing array pattern on the ground, flickering slightly.

A few breaths later, the formation disappeared from the ground.

A moment later, Liu Yunan, with his sharp eyes, saw a small insect that had been fluttering its wings in the field suddenly fall to the ground.

Lin Yun looked down and saw that several ants that were crawling on the soil suddenly lay down and didn't move.

Lin Dayou also saw a green caterpillar fall off a leaf.

"This, this!" Lin Dayou looked at all this in astonishment, then looked at Lin Xiao, who was walking towards them, with delight.

"Erlang! This Insect-Killing Formation is incredibly effective!"

Lin Yun and Liu Yunan both agreed with great surprise.

Lin Xiao said reservedly:

"It's for those plants that need pollination; we need to avoid using this Insect-Killing Formation during their pollination period."

"Of course, of course, oh my!" Lin Dayou excitedly rubbed his rough hands together.

"Hey, with these Law Technique, we can finally make a living from farming!"

As he spoke, he suddenly sighed:

"Back in your great-grandfather's generation, farming was much harder. The ten-odd acres of good land we have now were all painstakingly cleared by your great-grandfather, who then tended to it day and night for many years. If your great-grandfather and his family could see how much easier farming is for us now, they would be overjoyed..."

Recalling his childhood home, Lin Dayou felt his eyes welling up with tears. He immediately turned his head to the other side, then patted his bottom, climbed onto the ridge, and tossed the seeds he was carrying to Lin Xiao, saying:

"I need to tell your grandparents and uncle the good news! You all need to plant all these seeds right away!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he nimbly ran down the mountain.

The three boys, with their excellent eyesight, all noticed the slightly reddened corners of Lin Dayou's eyes.

What could Lin Xiao do, looking at the seeds in his arms?

Of course, he should get down to the fields and finish what his father hadn't done.

Even if he's busy, he's not in a rush; he still has to finish what his father asked him to do.

So Lin Xiao and Lin Yun continued planting, while Liu Yunan picked up a wooden bucket to fetch water to irrigate the land.

However, with the aid of his Spiritual Power, Lin Xiao planted the seeds at lightning speed. Before long, he had finished planting the remaining seeds from Lin Dayou, and then he took a large portion of the remaining seeds from Lin Yun and continued planting them.

After planting the seeds, the two picked up hoes and began digging holes for the saplings near the terraced fields.

Lin Xiao also took some time to synthesize a bunch of spirit soil to plant trees.