Chapter 288 – Spiritual Wine
Chapter 288 – Spirit Wine
Xu Chuniang turned around and gave the little orange a surprised look, a little surprised that it wanted to eat the spirit rice.
Being looked at like this, the little orange face some can not hang, dissatisfaction will head to the side.
It just wanted to taste the flavor, to see if it was as unpalatable as imagined, and if it wasn’t willing to give it, forget it.
Xu Chuniang withdrew her gaze, and placed a small bowl of spirit rice in front of the little orange, she felt that it did not like to eat these.
Seeing the spirit rice in front of her, the little orange finally put away its dissatisfaction, sniffing lightly before carefully taking a bite.
Sure enough, it wasn’t too tasty, but it wasn’t as bad as imagined.
Little Orange finished the Spirit Rice in three or two bites, and then stood in place without moving.
It felt that it could still eat some more.
However a hand reached over and gathered the bowl in front of it.
That hand then landed on its head, stroking it gently.
“Don’t like to eat? I’ve been a bit busy lately, so when I earn spirit stones after a while, I’ll buy you pills to eat.”
Little Orange let out a soft hum from its nose, shook the hand on its head away, lowered its head and opened its mouth, then it took Little White, whose stomach was too full to walk, onto its mouth and walked to the other side of the small world.
Xu Chuniang shook her head and lost her smile, and after cleansing the altar with her spiritual power, she put in the steamed spirit rice one by one.
Afterwards, she took out a few jade boxes containing Spirit Wine Songs, noting down the portions and ratios while putting them in, and finally numbering the altars.
Only after all of this was done did she walk over to the several spirit fields where the apricot flowers were planted and used her Spirit Silk Technique to probe into them for a closer look.
The Apricot Ruohua’s growth was relatively slow, after raising it for half a year it was only half a foot long, its growth was neither good nor bad.
As for the piece outside the cave, also planted apricot flower second grade spiritual field, due to neglect, the growth is even slightly inferior.
After Xu Chuniang finished taking care of the apricot flowers, she watered all the spiritual fields again, and the spiritual qi in her body instantly bottomed out.
She flashed away from the small world and returned to the practice room in the cave.
After returning, she didn’t rush to meditate, but instead took out the manuscripts and a formation disk that she had put away earlier.
There was an abundance of spiritual qi in the cave mansion, and even if she didn’t meditate, her body would slowly recover spiritual qi.
She looked at the formation disk in her hand, its material resembled stone but not stone, jade but not jade, it was exactly the one gifted by Senior Brother Zhuo not long ago.
Xu Chuniang took a deep breath, and her divine sense surged into both the array disk and the manuscript.
She wanted to try again, the method of using two minds at once.
Just the moment she started to deduce, two different kinds of information broke into her mind at the same time.
However, compared to the last time when she had a splitting headache that was difficult to sustain, this time was much better.
Although it consumed a huge amount of mind power, it was still within her tolerance.
It wasn’t until three days and three nights had passed, and Xu Chuniang’s divine sense was exhausted, that she detached herself from this state.
She closed her eyes and gathered her spirit for a long time before she recovered some of her spirit and opened her eyes, revealing a hint of determination.
Having used two minds in these three days, her progress in the Dao of Formation was actually not much faster in comparison to when she had used one mind.
Instead, the consumption of her mind power and divine sense was almost double the usual amount.
Even when she was deducing her calculations, she occasionally made mistakes.
However, Xu Chuniang felt that it was normal for her to be a little less adapted at first, or even to make the occasional mistake.
It was believed that as time passed and her proficiency increased, she would eventually be able to master this method.
She smiled faintly and meditated to recover.
Xu Chuniang’s suspicions were quickly verified; when she meditated on her daily routine, her divine sense was always condensed but not dispersed.
But this time, when she was meditating and exhaling, and running the Easy Technique, half of her divine sense was condensed but not dispersed, while the other half was unconsciously dispersed towards the surroundings.
Xu Chuniang’s heart moved slightly, controlling that half of her divine sense and landing on the jade slip that had yet to be put away. Instantly, the runes in the jade slip were reflected into her mind, but it did not affect her meditation and exhaling.
The two proceeded simultaneously without interfering with each other.
A glimmer of clarity rose in Xu Chuniang’s heart as she worried that studying the jade slip while practicing would cause her cultivation to go awry if she was not careful.
That was why she preferred to study the jade slip while deducing the changes in the formation.
However, she didn’t expect that it would be easier to distract her mind while practicing instead.
Perhaps, this method of using two minds at once was already considered an introduction for her.
After mastering this method, Xu Chuniang’s life underwent some changes.
Whether she was doing work in the spirit field during the day or meditating and practicing at night, she would always separate a portion of her mind and immerse herself in the formation.
Although the consumption of her mind and spirit was twice as much as usual in such a state, the benefits were equally astonishing.
A month’s time rushed by, and Xu Chuniang glanced at the spirit field beneath her feet, heading towards several altars of fermented spirit wine.
Before she even approached, she could vaguely smell a few hints of wine, mixed with a few other unspoken scents.
She grabbed the first altar and lifted its lid, and a strong odor of wine hit her nose.
She scooped some out with a ladle and took a taste.
Hiss, it was spicy!
Xu Chuniang frowned slightly and spat out the mouthful of wine, going back to scoop up the wine from the second altar.
So choking!
She opened altar number three again, and before she even drank it, she smelled a strong sour odor, presumably undrinkable.
The spirit wine in altar number four was clear and bright in color, yet Xu Chuniang only tasted a little bit before her brows furrowed tightly.
Altar number five was bitter, followed by the snoozy number six, as well as the dark number seven, and number eight with a strange odor ……
Tasting all the way to number nine, her tightly locked brow never loosened, but instead got deeper and deeper.
Xu Chuniang stared at the last number ten, even somewhat afraid to go open it.
It was really that after such a round of tasting, she had long lost confidence in the wine she had brewed.
After hesitating, she grit her teeth and still opened it, gently scooping up some.
The wine in the tenth altar was a pale white color, looked a little cloudy, and the wine smelled a little bit.
Xu Chuniang took a small sip, and the fragrance of the wine was mixed with the faint aroma of rice, which was unexpectedly refreshingly sweet.
Her brows spread, and she drank the wine from the ladle.
As the spirit wine entered her belly, aura and heat rose up simultaneously, traveling between her organs and bowels, sending the heat out from the inside out.
Xu Chuniang finally breathed a sigh of relief, after brewing ten jars of wine, there was finally one that could be used, otherwise she would have waited in vain for more than a month.
She took out an empty gourd and filled a small altar of wine from the tenth altar, and was about to leave the small world when she suddenly thought of something and took out nine more gourds.
She didn’t really know much about how good or bad the wine was.
Perhaps it wasn’t necessarily true that these ones, either sour or bitter, were the flavors preferred by many cultivators.
Only after filling a portion of each of the wines from altars one through nine did Xu Chunniang leave the small world and head to the main peak’s Multi-Treasure Pavilion.
Previously, when she had picked up the brewing utensils at the wine shop, the shopkeeper had said that if she brewed good wine, she could hand it over to them to sell.
Xu Chuniang didn’t know how to distinguish between good and bad, so she brainlessly took all the brewed wine over.
The last time she bought it, the wine shop’s staff looked like they knew a lot about winemaking.
Even if none of the ten jars of wine were usable, she could at least ask him for some advice.
(End of chapter)