Chapter 50 – Spiritual Field No. 172
Chapter 50 – One Hundred and Seventy-Two Spiritual Fields
“It’s you.”
The black-faced steward revealed a look of surprise, he obviously hadn’t forgotten that Xu Chuniang, the person who had refused the inner disciple’s solicitation.
He frowned and scanned the jade slip in his hand.
“Growing Spiritual Rice is not an easy task, it requires careful cultivation day in and day out. With your aura, it’s not suitable for this task, so I advise you not to take it.
The only thing that suits you is probably only the commission of taking care of demonic beasts, only taking care of demonic beasts isn’t as easy as you think, you have to be familiar with the habits of the demonic beasts before you can do it.”
Xu Chuniang knew that if she revealed her true cultivation at the fifth level of Qi cultivation, the steward would definitely not say anything more.
But if he asked why her cultivation had progressed so quickly, and she replied that it was an epiphany, would he believe her?
The fifth level of qi cultivation seemed powerful, but compared to the ninth level of qi cultivation, I don’t know how much worse it was. When people deal with her, they don’t even need to use half a finger.
Xu Chuniang’s original intention to conceal her cultivation was not to attract attention, like now it is quite good.
“But disciple wants to try, if it doesn’t work, disciple will change to something else.”
Seeing Xu Chuniang’s insistence, the black-faced steward shook his head and did not persuade any further.
The truth was that many times, there was no way back for cultivators, and she assumed that there was still a chance to change to something else if the commission was not completed well.
But she didn’t think about how difficult her situation would be when she was in high debt five years later.
Xu Chuniang didn’t know what was in the black-faced steward’s mind, and after smoothly accepting the commission, she walked out of the commission hall.
All of her belongings were on her person, and thinking about it, there was nothing to pack, so why not just go directly to the Spirit Field?
Xu Chuniang took out a map and after distinguishing the direction, she walked towards Spirit Plant Peak.
After walking for half a day, she arrived at the foot of Spirit Plant Peak.
The entire Spirit Plant Peak was filled with spirit fields, a piece here and a piece there, distributed very irregularly.
Some places had abundant spiritual qi, with a dozen or so spiritual fields connected together, while some places were more barren, with only one or two sparse spiritual fields.
Next to each spiritual field was a small wooden hut for the disciple who tended the spiritual field, and there were numbers written on the wooden huts that looked like numbers.
All of the spiritual fields were protected by a layer of formation, and could only be entered with the appropriate formation talisman, this was to protect the spiritual fields and crops from damage.
Most of these spiritual fields were planted with spiritual rice, and only a few of them were bare. There were also some of the owners of the spiritual fields that had turned on the shielding function of the formations, making it difficult for people to see what was going on inside.
Xu Chuniang had a rough idea in her heart, these spiritual fields planted with spiritual rice already belonged to the owner, I’m afraid she could only pick those bare spiritual fields.
Walking all the way up to the peak, she finally found Steward Sun, who was responsible for the distribution of the spirit fields.
Seeing that someone had come, he was first delighted, and then frowned when he sensed Xu Chuniang’s cultivation level.
“Third level of Qi cultivation, what’s the situation? Passing through?”
Xu Chuniang shook her head and handed over her token, “I’ve received a commission to plant a spirit field.”
Steward Sun rolled his eyes, somewhat dissatisfied, and took the token, realizing that she had actually picked up the commission.
“Since you have taken the commission, then you pick a spirit field.”
Saying that, he took out a drawing that contained the spirit fields of the entire Spirit Plant Peak.
The ones that were lit up with white light were the ones that had already been picked, and the ones that were gray and puffy were the ones that hadn’t been picked away.
Xu Chuniang scrutinized the circle, and it wasn’t hard to see that the best locations had all been picked out, and the rest were poorer spirit fields, spread out in remote places.
Since they were all pretty much the same, she simply picked the one with the most remote location, and the spiritual field number was one hundred and seventy-two.
After registering, the steward handed over half a catty of spirit rice used as seed, and an oddly shaped spirit artifact to her, carefully instructing her as he did so.
“Spirit rice can be planted twice a year, here are the seeds, they will only be given out the first time you take a commission, in the future you’ll have to figure it out on your own.
Spirit rice planting is not a trivial matter, every day you must use the Spirit Rain Technique to water and the Moistening Earth Technique to add spiritual qi to the spirit soil.
This is a lower-grade spiritual artifact, specifically used to collect spiritual rice. It’s meant to be recovered when you finish your commission, and if it’s damaged or lost, one hundred points of contribution value will be directly deducted. Oh and the formation talisman-” The steward grabbed out a bag and retrieved the formation talisman with one hundred and seventy-two numbers written on it, handing it to Xu Chuniang.
“With this, you can open the protective formation of the spiritual field and use it by injecting spiritual qi.
Remember to come to me every six months to hand in your spirit rice, and if there’s a lot of production, I’ll buy it at the price of one spirit stone and two jin.
But you’re a novice, and your cultivation is at the early stage of qi practicing, I’m afraid that the first two or three years are all ……”
The steward said and shook his head, with a very unfavorable look on Xu Chuniang’s face.
Xu Chuniang received the item, nodded at the steward, didn’t say anything more, and walked towards the spiritual field.
The location of the one hundred and seventy-second spirit field was very remote, and it took Xu Chunniang a full hour of walking before she reached her destination.
Looking around, there was only this one spirit field in this large area, so one could imagine how barren this area was.
On the edge of the spiritual field stood a wooden house alone, within the formation, the wooden house was as good as new.
Xu Chuniang used the formation talisman to open the formation and walked in, carefully examining the spiritual field.
The spiritual qi in the spiritual field was quite sufficient, she secretly compared it with the spiritual soil, and found that the spiritual qi content in the spiritual field was only about one-tenth of that of the spiritual soil.
However, the entire spiritual field had this level of spiritual qi content, and was many times larger in scope than spiritual soil, which was barely enough for growing spiritual rice.
After checking out the spirit field, Xu Chuniang didn’t rush to plant the seeds, and went into the small wooden hut on the side.
Because of the formation’s protection, the cabin looked very clean, not even much dust.
The furnishings inside the house were very simple, apart from a bed, a set of tables and chairs, there wasn’t anything extra.
Xu Chuniang nodded with satisfaction, although it was a bit simple, it was still livable, and this would be her residence for the next five years.
The house looked clean, but it hadn’t been lived in for a long time, so it was better to clean it a little.
“Aura transforms rain.”
As Xu Chuniang’s words fell, rain began to fall throughout the house, densely sprinkling every corner.
If anyone else had seen this scene, they would have been puzzled, thinking that Xu Chunniang was wasting her aura.
After all, it was just a matter of rinsing the house, one could have gone to the well outside the house to fetch water ah, how good it would be to use this spiritual qi to water the spiritual fields.
But Xu Chuniang didn’t think so, although going to the well to fetch water saved spiritual qi, the speed was too slow, having this time might as well be used for cultivation.
Moreover, it’s just a Spiritual Rain Technique, so it doesn’t really use much spiritual energy.
Looking at the brand new cabin, Xu Chuniang smiled faintly and left the cabin to go to the edge of the spiritual field.
She didn’t directly sow the seeds, but instead cast a Spiritual Rain Technique.
With her current cultivation level, casting the Spiritual Rain Technique was nothing more than a matter of lifting her hand.
However, after casting the spell only twice, Xu Chuniang stopped the Spiritual Rain Technique and switched to the Moistening Soil Technique.
Standing in the center of the spiritual field, she transformed her body’s spiritual qi into pure earth spiritual qi, sending it downwards in a steady stream.
Only after three-fourths of her body’s spiritual qi had been consumed did Xu Chunniang withdraw her hand, taking out the half a catty of seeds given by the steward from her storage bag, and gently scattering them.
The spirit rice seeds were full and crystal clear, almost three times as big as the rice in the mundane world.
Looking at the newly planted spirit rice, Xu Chuniang pondered.
She had once attempted to cast the Spring Life Technique on multiple targets at the same time. At that time, she was able to condense up to three strands of pure wood aura at the same time.
I wondered how many strands of wood aura Xu Chuniang was able to condense at the same time at this point in time, after these two years had passed?
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