Chapter 3: Long-lived species
Chapter 3 Long Life Seed
It was dusk time before a group of handymen climbed to the mountain gate out of breath.
The disciples who rode on the white eagles had arrived long ago and were picked away by the outer sect deacons and elders, and when Li An and the others arrived, Wang Dazhu and the others were nowhere to be seen.
“Next to give you guys an assignment,”
The Immortal Leader who was responsible for guiding them up the mountain opened his mouth, “Zhang Susu, Prince Lin, possessing wood attribute miscellaneous spirit roots, are responsible for cultivating spiritual plants, Lu Yishan, Guo Mang, possessing fire attribute miscellaneous spirit roots, are responsible for making iron ……”
After reading them all, this Immortal Chief paused again, “Li An, no attribute spirit root ……”
His gaze fell on Li An, “Where do you want to go?”
Among the many handymen, Li An’s spiritual root was the most special.
Therefore, this Immortal Chief was too lazy to think about where he would go, and Li An actually had the power to pick.
Li An’s heart stirred, “Disciple would like to go cultivate spiritual plants!”
Being a spiritual plant husband was most suitable for practicing his Life Nurturing and Casting Immortal Skill.
“Fine, as you wish, Deacons, please take your people away.”
After this Immortal Deacon finished speaking, beside him, seven or eight Immortal Deacons walked up and led their people away according to their assignments.
“Zhang Susu, Prince Lin, and Li An right, you three, follow me!”
A middle-aged man opened his mouth, he was the deacon of the “Spirit Plant Mountain”, Fan Jie, who was also a registered disciple!
Fan Jie had a stout figure and a big belly, he swept his eyes over the three of them, and his eyes lingered on Zhang Susu for a bit longer.
Although Zhang Susu is only a miscellaneous spirit root, but from a secular family in Tianyang County, the appearance is very handsome, the body is also very good, living is a big beauty, second only to Mu Qingwan.
He nodded with satisfaction.
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The Xuan Yang Sect was one of the seven major Immortal Cultivation Sects of the Da Li Dynasty, sitting on dozens of miles of mountain ranges.
Spirit Plant Mountain was in the remote northern mountains, where the slopes were more gentle and full of spiritual energy, and there were even hundreds of acres of spiritual fields between the slopes!
“It’s so beautiful here!”
Zhang Susu couldn’t help but exclaim, at a glance, the Spirit Plant Mountain had a very beautiful view.
“What a strong aura!”
Prince Lin came from the bottom, and at this moment, he was also pleasantly surprised.
With such a strong aura, living here all the time would be greatly beneficial to cultivation.
Only Li An was secretly grumbling.
Finished, so much land ……
I am afraid that I really have to be a cow and a horse?
Fan Jie took them up to Spirit Plant Mountain, where there are some residences for the handymen.
Halfway down the mountainside, there are spiritual fields that grow crops such as spiritual rice and beans, while halfway up the mountainside, because of the steepness of the mountain, there is no planting.
“This is some gong methods, among them are the Spitting Technique and the Traveling Clouds and Rain Technique, among them, the Spitting Technique with Spirit Stones can allow you to quickly enter the Refining Stage, and the Traveling Clouds and Rain Technique is the technique you will use for farming in the future.”
Fan Jie stopped at the foot of the mountain and handed each of the three two scrolls of bamboo slips, a small half of a spirit stone, and a small bag of spirit rice, saying:
“You guys hurry up and cultivate, this batch of spirit plants are but about to mature, you only have one month to learn, got it?”
The three of them all showed delight and nodded their heads like chickens pecking at rice.
“Get lost, this foot of the mountain is full of empty houses, pick your own place to live, there are handyman clothes in the room, change into them from tomorrow!”
“Without my permission, no one is allowed to take a step towards the mountain, if you dare to violate, I will break your legs, remember!”
Fan Jie finished speaking and walked up halfway up the mountain himself.
He lived at the top of the mountain!
After he left, the three of them began to pick their residence.
“Miss Susu, this residence is the largest and has a small garden, it’s most suitable for you to live in, what do you think?”
Prince Lin took the initiative to give the best abode to Zhang Susu without asking Li An.
Zhang Susu was obviously quite satisfied with that residence as well, nodding her head and saying, “Thank you, Senior Brother Zilin!”
Wang Zilin smiled:Â “Let’s live closer so that it’s also convenient to exchange cultivation in the future……”
He chose a residence that was right next to Zhang Susu’s and then proposed.
“Susu, Brother Li, how about we study this Spitting Technique and Traveling Clouds and Rain Technique together?”
Although he called out Brother Li, he basically didn’t look at Li An and only paid attention to Zhang Susu.
“Not bad, we’ll progress faster if we study together!”
Zhang Susu nodded her head as well, but looked at Li An expectantly.
Li An’s attribute-less spiritual root was a small half higher than theirs, so if Li An could cultivate together with them, they could more or less gain some benefits.
“Sorry, I’m a bit tired and want to rest first.”
Li An, however, faintly said, and then, found a secluded room by himself.
Both Zhang Susu were a little embarrassed.
“Hehe, isn t it just a no attribute spiritual root, what is proud …… now is not the same as us?”
Prince Lin couldn’t help but open his mouth.
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The conditions in which the handyman lives are very simple, but the good thing is that the pots and pans are all available, and there is nothing wrong with the basic life.
Li An threw aside the Exhalation Technique and the Traveling Clouds and Rain Technique and took out the small bag of spiritual rice!
Compared to Spirit Stones, the main function of Spirit Rice was to fill up the stomach, with a thin spiritual qi attached to it, this small bag of Spirit Rice, only about a catty, was enough for an ordinary person to eat for a year!
Spirit rice was important to cultivation beginners and low level cultivators, after all, low level cultivators were not yet able to dispel the grain.
Moreover, one could also use the spiritual qi in the spiritual rice to adapt to the gong method, and wait until the gong method was familiarized, and then use the spiritual stone to punch the barrier, thus avoiding wastage.
The room was full of pots and pans, Li An washed the pots, panned the rice, built a fire and cooked the rice, his movements were a bit raw.
Water vapor continuously rushed through the lid of the pot, carrying the unique fragrance of spirit rice.
The rice was cooked, a big pot full.
If others were to see it, they would definitely find it outrageous, such a large pot, enough for dozens of people to eat!
Moreover, at this stage of just coming into contact with cultivation and not being familiar with the gong method, there would be a lot of spiritual qi that would be wasted and not effectively utilized if eaten.
So, in the beginning, they all ate sparingly, with a maximum of twenty grains a meal.
Li An’s pot, was the amount of half a kilogram of rice cooked.
He dared to eat like this, mainly also because, thanks to the experience of cultivation in his previous life, he wouldn’t waste the aura.
He served up a large bowl of spiritual rice and slowly ate it.
As his throat continued to well up, the Spiritual Rice filled with a fresh fragrance filled his stomach sac, and in Li An’s mind, the Life Nourishing Cast Immortal Technique slowly operated.
At this moment, Li An’s qi and blood slowly operated, and within those spirit rice, there was a trace of spirit mist that was extracted.
Li An guided it several times, but the amount of these spirit mists were too sparse and dispersed once driven.
Li An was not in a hurry and continued to chew and eat the rice slowly, constantly driving the Life Nourishing Cast Immortal Technique.
The pot of rice slowly reached the bottom, the mists in his body continued to accumulate, and finally had a certain amount, which was introduced into Li An’s dantian.
“Fix–“
Li An whispered, and that many mists concentrated and were absorbed by his dantian.
But there still wasn’t much change.
Li An took a look, and instantly felt some meat pain, a small bag of spiritual rice, had gone half!
But, he didn’t care much and cooked the rest, together.
After eating all of it. Eventually, in his dantian, a green sprout emerged.
With this green bud emerging, there seemed to be a trace of ominous greenness in his dantian, and Li An even felt more comfortable all through his body, and his body that was injured by the thunder aura today was slowly being nourished.
“The Growing Life Seed …… has succeeded!”
Li An was a little excited.
In his previous life, after he had obtained this volume of gongfu, he had studied it countless times.
This life finally had the opportunity to practice it.
Everything was watertight.
“The Everlasting Life Seed is the core of the Life Nurturing and Cast Immortal Technique cultivation!”
“Connected to my life, the stronger the Life Seed is, the more my life force will flourish and the longer my lifespan will be!”
“Moreover, the uniqueness of the Life Nurturing and Casting Immortal Technique is that the Life Seed is rooted above the dantian, and after it keeps growing, it can continuously nourish the body and gradually change one’s spiritual roots!”
Li An whispered.
This was the fundamental reason why he chose the Life Nurturing and Casting Immortal Technique.
As long as one is patient and develops steadily, with a lifespan that exceeds that of normal people, as well as a slowly changing spiritual root …… in the future, there is only a glimmer of hope for impacting YuanYing, or even a higher realm.
Immortal cultivators also have a limited lifespan, for example, the Qi Refining Stage can live up to two hundred years, and if they cannot build a foundation, they will die of old age.
However, Li An predicted that the Life Nourishing Casting Immortal Technique, when practiced properly, would allow him to live for about three hundred years!
Directly increasing his lifespan by one hundred years.
Immediately afterward, Li An couldn’t help but frown again.
Right now, with only one pound of spiritual rice per month, he didn’t know when his Life Seed would be able to send out its first leaf.
The Fate Seed was where his hope of repairing his spiritual root lay, and until his spiritual root was repaired, he couldn’t step into the Qi Refining Stage.
However, in a month’s time, he would have to perform clouds and rain to participate in labor, if he didn’t have a breakthrough by then, I’m afraid that he would inevitably be scolded and targeted by Fan Jie.
He still has a small piece of spirit stone left in his hand, but the spirit stone is very precious and contains more abundant and pure spirit qi than spiritual rice, so he should save it to use when he officially enters the first level of qi cultivation.
He thought about it, outside in the spirit field, the spirit rice is close to maturity ……
However, they were all guarded by formation prohibitions, and no one could enter the spirit fields except during labor time.
“The formations and prohibitions here, should be relatively low level, not up to the level of full coverage ……”
Li An whispered, in his previous life, he had cultivated to the JieDan realm, and he had dabbled in formations, artifact refining, and alchemy.
He got up, boiled hot water, and after a beautiful hot bath in a wooden barrel, the stench of sweat and fatigue from the day finally dissipated.
He changed into the clan’s handyman uniform, a light gray handyman uniform that was moderately wide and tight, made from fine linen, much more comfortable than the old cloth clothes he wore when he was initiated.
Only then did he go to sleep.
……
In a flash, seven days passed.
Within these seven days, Li An would go outside from time to time to play with the scenery and familiarize himself with the terrain.
“I’ve finally stepped into the Qi Refining Stage!”
Prince Lin’s surprised cry came from outside.
Li An took advantage of the fact that it was still dark and went out for a walk as well, only to see Prince Lin and Zhang Susu, celebrating with each other.
“Brother Li, you should have broken through as well, right?”
Zhang Susu’s beautiful eyes looked towards Li An.
“Not yet.”
Li An’s face was a bit embarrassed, saying, “My body was injured by the lightning aura, so I have to recuperate for the time being ……”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Susu’s eyes turned and said, “Brother Li doesn’t need to be in a hurry, I still have some spirit rice here, so I can share some of it with Brother Li ……”
Although spiritual rice was not a spiritual medicine, it could still nourish the body.
She came from a secular and powerful family and knew how to befriend people very well.
Don’t look at Li An’s current injuries, but at least he was an attribute-less spirit root, so he might not be without a chance to rise in the future.
Li An pondered for a moment and said, “Then thank you, Miss Susu.”
He took the small handful of spirit rice that Zhang Susu evened out, then turned himself around and went back to the house.
The corners of Zhang Susu’s mouth had more than a hint of a smile.
“Susu, this person doesn’t know what’s good for him, why are you so polite to him!”
While beside him, Prince Lin couldn’t help but feel some resentment!
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And inside the room.
Li An was very calm.
The spiritual rice that Zhang Susu gave him was of no great use to him, but he could only accept it.
Because he didn’t want Zhang Susu to have a negative impression of him.
–Spirit Plant Mountain had only one female cultivator like Zhang Susu, who also happened to be born like a flower.
Moreover, the day Fan Jie picked them up, his gaze stopped on Zhang Susu for a long time, the meaning of which Li An would not fail to see.
Whether active or passive, Zhang Susu was Fan Jie’s pillow person sooner or later!
Owing her a small favor, it would be good to deal with her in the future instead.
As for Prince Lin …… Li An did not put it in his mind at all.
Prince Lin actually so close to Zhang Susu, it is simply self destructive, Fan Jie will clean him up.
Li An is now full of only one thing.
Live steadily and change the spiritual root!
Definitely didn’t want to create any risks by creating any extraneous problems.
The current him did not have any cultivation, nor did he have the ability to defend himself …… too fragile.
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It is already late at night.
Li An quietly slipped out of the room.
Following the route determined by stepping over the past few days, he walked to the nook where the spiritual field bordered the mountain somewhere, where the prohibitions didn’t cover because of the intertwined and messy terrain!
This was thanks to his experience in his previous life, otherwise the breaks in this place, not to mention that he was just a handyman, even if it was a registered disciple like Fan Jie, he would definitely not be able to find them.
Leaping into the ridge between the fields, he rumbled his pants leg, took off his shoes, stepped into the ditch, and felt his way along the ditch into a spirit field with fertile land.
Walking inside the gutter would not leave footprints!
Moreover, mosquitoes and insects breed in the gutter, and the few rows of spirit rice that leaned against the gutter were often easily eaten by insects and ants, yielding less, and no one would care.
Li An carefully, from a rice spike, gently rubbed down a few grains of spirit rice that had not yet fully matured ……
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(End of Chapter)