Chapter 64 – Aura Transforming Silk
Chapter 64: Reiki Turns Into Silk
Xu Chuniang shook her head and put the matter aside for the time being.
With a solution, it couldn’t be better.
Although the location of her spirit field was remote, this new disease was extremely contagious and could not be said to be foolproof.
It would be best to go to Steward Sun’s place to buy some medicinal herbs and be prepared for it.
Xu Chuniang made calculations in her mind while walking back, and after returning to the spirit field, she began sowing seeds.
It was already the fourth time she had sown seeds, and Xu Chunniang was very skillful.
Still half of the spirit field was planted with ordinary spirit rice, the other side was planted with improved crescent moon rice, and finally a small corner was left to plant the new spirit rice with even more spirit qi that had been collected earlier.
She thought very clearly, since she couldn’t plant this new spirit rice on a large scale, she would continue to improve and cultivate it to see to what extent it could evolve in the end.
After planting the seeds, Xu Chuniang took the time to make a trip to the peak and bought the configured medicine from Steward Sun.
The spirit field entered its normal growth period, and apart from regularly tending to it and cooking spirit food on a daily basis, Xu Chunniang was free again.
She did not intend to meditate to raise her cultivation level as she had done before.
Right now, her cultivation had already reached the sixth level of Qi cultivation, and it wasn’t realistic for her to make another breakthrough in a short period of time. Learning arts, on the contrary, would allow her strength to be enhanced even more.
Xu Chuniang now had two art techniques in her hands, a body refining technique, Taiyi Long Fist, and a Spirit Silk Technique that was used to explore the spiritual fields.
After weighing them, Xu Chuniang decided to learn the Spirit Silk Art first.
Although the matter of the disease in the Spirit Rice had been resolved, the Spirit Field was the foundation of Xu Chuniang’s livelihood, and the next three and a half years would be spent in the Spirit Field.
In the event that the spirit rice gave birth to a new disease, learning the Spirit Silk Technique would not leave her helpless.
Having made up her mind, Xu Chuniang took out the jade slip with the Spirit Silk Technique on it and studied it carefully.
As a mid-grade technique, the Spirit Silk Technique demanded extremely high levels of aura manipulation, and one had to control the aura finely enough to be able to detect the subtle changes in the aura within the spirit plant.
Xu Chuniang’s control of her spiritual qi was extremely precise, she first separated a strand of spiritual qi and then operated the Spirit Silk Technique, dispersing it into dozens of tiny spiritual threads.
The first step was accomplished smoothly, but after dispersing the spiritual qi, these hair-thin spiritual threads quickly lost control and instantly dissipated into the air.
Xu Chuniang wasn’t discouraged, instead, she revealed an expression that it was true, if the Spirit Silk Technique was really so easy to control, it wouldn’t have been reduced to a cold technique.
She redistributed a strand of her aura, separating it once more.
Soon, this strand of aura was transformed into a dozen strands.
Xu Chuniang composed her mind and manipulated the newly emerged dozen or so strands of aura.
However, these strands of aura were extremely fragile, and still only survived for a brief moment before quickly collapsing and disappearing without a trace.
Xu Chuniang’s expression was calm as she continued to start a new attempt ……
A week passed, and Xu Chunniang practiced the Spirit Silk Technique hundreds of times.
But no matter how fast she was, any attempt to manipulate these Spirit Qi filaments would cause these fragile Spirit Filaments to collapse, without exception.
The difficulty of the Spirit Silk Technique was somewhat beyond Xu Chuniang’s expectations.
However, she knew that the more times like this, the more calm she had to be, and once she ventured forward impatiently, it would be even harder to make any progress.
Instead of getting discouraged, she sank her heart into reviewing this week’s practice.
The Spirit Silk Technique separated out extremely thin Spirit Silks, and most of the time, they collapsed on their own before she could manipulate them, not to mention having to manipulate these Spirit Silks for probing.
Perhaps …… should change her mindset. These spiritual silks crumbled when touched, was there any way to make them tougher?
Thinking about it, Xu Chuniang separated out a strand of aura and turned it into more than ten more thin filaments.
This time, she didn’t try to control them, but quietly felt these spirit threads, waiting for them to collapse on their own.
Without Xu Chuniang’s intervention, a small half of the spirit filaments directly collapsed, and there were two or three spirit filaments that survived for a slightly later and longer period of time.
One of them, even existed for half a tea time before dissipating.
Xu Chuniang noticed that the first spirit threads to collapse were the ones with uneven distribution of aura.
The ones that survived for a longer period of time were the ones with a more even distribution of aura.
She began to consciously start separating her spiritual qi, trying to make the spiritual qi on each strand as even as possible when she transformed it into silk.
Sure enough, after deliberate maneuvering, these Spirit Silks with more evenly distributed Spiritual Qi survived for a longer period of time.
Xu Chuniang vaguely felt that she had probably found, most likely, the correct method to cultivate the Spirit Silk Art.
After finding the direction, she put all her thoughts into the practice of separating the spirit threads and making them last longer.
Separating spirit threads wasn’t difficult, but the key lay in the fact that it was too time-consuming and energy-consuming, and one had to concentrate in order to be able to feel the state of each and every one of the spirit threads.
Xu Chuniang’s spirit root qualification was ordinary, and she wasn’t considered intelligent, but on the path of cultivation, she was extremely patient and persevering, able to withstand the loneliness and tedium of practicing hard.
After more than a thousand times of practice, Xu Chuniang was finally able to perfectly separate her spiritual qi after three weeks, allowing the distribution of spiritual qi on each thread to be even.
These separated spirit threads were extremely resilient, able to remain for half a day before collapsing.
Looking at the ten or so hair-thin spirit threads in front of her, Xu Chuniang revealed a small smile and tried to manipulate them.
Miraculous things happened, the spirit threads that originally collapsed upon touch and could not be manipulated, this time succeeded on the first try!
Xu Chuniang’s heart was enlightened, it seemed that she was on the right track.
Previously, the spiritual qi of those spirit threads was uneven, and their toughness was not enough to cause them to collapse at the slightest touch, but now, the toughness of these spirit threads was able to withstand manipulation.
Xu Chuniang tried, manipulating the Spirit Silk to probe the Spirit Rice, the Spirit Silk gently entered the Spirit Rice, and probed along the Spirit Rice towards the roots.
The spirit silk was slender enough, so the probing was extremely sensitive, and the slightest abnormality could be detected.
It didn’t take long for the spiritual rice to be probed by the in-depth spirit silk, the growth of the spiritual rice was very good, without any abnormality.
Having successfully learned the Spirit Silk Technique, Xu Chuniang did not have much joy on her face, instead she was somewhat distressed.
Although this Spirit Silk Technique was meticulous, the speed was indeed a bit slow.
Examining plant by plant, how long would it take to finish examining a spiritual field?
Moreover, the Spirit Silk Technique was a pure sensing technique that could only find the problem, but to solve the disease or insect infestation, another means and time were needed.
Xu Chuniang kept thinking of countermeasures in her mind, since a strand of spiritual qi was capable of separating more than ten spiritual threads, could she control these threads at the same time and disperse them to the spiritual rice for inspection?
If this method was feasible, the probing speed of the Spirit Silk Technique could be increased by at least ten times.
Anyway, with her level of control over her aura, she could manage to manipulate these spirit threads at the same time.
With a thought, Xu Chuniang’s mind moved, and more than ten Spirit Silks quickly spread out, each wrapping around a Spirit Rice plant, and started probing.
After the Spirit Threads were dispersed, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the probing ability of the Spirit Thread Technique hadn’t diminished, and each Spirit Thread still possessed a noteworthy probing ability.
Not long after, the Spirit Silk finished probing all these Spirit Rice, and the growth situation was normal.
(End of chapter)