Hybrid Spiritual Plant Cultivation

Chapter 96 A loss-making hybrid?

The longevity fruit is a herbaceous fruit tree. It has a relative among ordinary people, called the ginseng fruit. It is rumored that eating it can make people immortal.

Of course, it's just a rumor.

The fruit does not look like a human, but rather like a melon or an eggplant.

Except eating.

The longan fruit also has a good ornamental effect.

At this moment, the soybean fruit after hybridization has lost its ornamental value. The fruit is no longer exposed, but instead looks like a soybean pod, with needle hairs all over the outside and is huge.

In terms of appearance, it is an enlarged version of soybeans.

Chen Jing picked one and took out the fruit.

The fruit looks like a longan, a little smaller than a fist. The shell is hard when you squeeze it with your index finger.

Smash it hard on the ground.

"Click."

My palms were shaking and hurting.

“Is this edible?”

He felt that this hybridization must have failed. The longevity fruit used to melt in the mouth, but now it was so hard that it could be used as a stone to hit people.

Even if the edible effect remains the same... it is simply inedible.

Chen Jing collected all the hybrids produced and studied them for a while.

No fruit.

Then go to the Dan Hall.

Dan Hall was also built on a mountain.

At the foot of the mountain is a complex of buildings for ordinary disciples to rest and a front desk for selling elixirs; on the mountainside are the alchemy rooms, with more than 300 rooms producing all kinds of elixirs all the time.

Chen Jing went all the way up to the top of the mountain, in front of the residence of the third senior sister.

Knock knock on the door.

Soon, the door of the house opened.

Yan Jinrao was wearing a loose white dress, and her waist-length hair was uncombed. At this moment, she tilted her head slightly, and her long, smooth hair fell down, matching the gentle smile on her brows, making people feel warm, peaceful and kind.

"Junior Brother Chen, you just received your contribution. Why are you not going to the market to have fun? Why are you coming to the Alchemy Hall to look for me?"

"Another contribution?"

Chen Jing was slightly stunned.

Before I knew it, it had been three months since I came to the sect.

No property was allocated in the first month, and he was determined to make a bet with Daodan, so he only contributed 10,000 yuan for living expenses.

In the second month, the industry was acquired and dividends could be distributed, but in order to repair the formation, the 400,000 contribution was spent before it could even warm up.

In addition, with the addition of more than 60 spiritual plant cultivators, the expenses of spiritual rice and tools were not enough to contribute, and it took a while to make the Dao Pill to fill the gap.

Time flies so fast that I didn’t expect that it is already the third month.

Chen Jing took out the jade token and saw that this month's Spirit Beast Hall dividend of 420,000 and living expenses of 10,000 had all been credited to his account.

"Let's talk after we come in first."

I followed Senior Sister Yan into the courtyard.

What you see along the way are either ferocious puppets or awe-inspiring divine weapons.

It is very different from the pleasant courtyard I imagined.

"They were all given by my eldest and second senior brothers. I am not good at fighting, so they gave me many things to protect myself and my house. My master is in the cave, and I don't leave the cave, so they are useless."

Yan Jinrao saw that Chen Jing had been looking at these puppets with great interest, so she mentioned it.

"Why aren't the eldest and second brothers in the sect?" Chen Jing asked.

"You have just entered the sect, so you may be a little confused as to why there are so many disciples in the sect who are not good at fighting. It's not that there are none, but they are all fighting with the eldest brother in the battlefield outside the domain."

We walked to a garden where there was a pavilion.

Yan Jinrao waved her hand, and a bird with colorful tail feathers flew over, carrying a teapot and tea sets, and poured hot tea.

"Junior brother, don't be restrained. We in Juetian Peak all follow our master's temperament and don't like red tape."

"Got it. How is Senior Sister Hua's injury?"

"She is still recovering from her injuries. After this ordeal, Qingxia should have made great progress in her cultivation. She will definitely be able to come out of seclusion smoothly before the grand ceremony. However, the medicine she used is expensive. She should have owed another 100,000 spirit stones."

"..."

Chen Jing held back his laughter for a while.

Then he asked again.

"Senior Sister, if I want the Alchemy Hall to help me develop an elixir formula, what should I do?"

"It depends on what kind of elixir you develop. Leave your divine thoughts in the jade token. After the master examines it, he will post it in the contribution task. You have to make the contribution. After that, it depends on which elder or disciple is free to take it."

“…What if no one answers?”

"What kind of recipe do you want?"

"Midan."

"..."

Yan Jinrao took a quick look with her spiritual sense and indeed found Chen Jing's mission bounty that no one was interested in.

——New formula Midan improvement, first level, contribution 50,000.

This is not difficult and the price is not bad. But the problem is that he clearly said that he wanted to use a new main material that has never been used before.

Ordinary disciples do not have the ability to develop new materials, and those who are capable are already at the level of elders, and they do not look down upon the mere 50,000 contribution points.

She told Chen Jing the reason and then said.

"It just so happens that I have nothing to do recently, so I'll help Junior Brother."

"Thank you, senior sister!"

Yan Jinrao smiled gently and took the longevity beans brought by Chen Jing.

Flames suddenly rose from the palm of his hand, and the immortality beans turned into a lump out of thin air.

The magic power at her fingertips spread out as finely as a hair, separating the lump into wet and dry. There was a gleam of light in her eyes, and she watched every change.

"Junior brother, you have been in charge of the Spirit Beast Hall for a short time and you want to improve Midan. You are really serious about it. Qingxia should learn from you."

While deducing the decomposition of the immortality beans.

Yan Jinrao can still find time to chat.

Chen Jing said: "I actually want the 10,000 acres of land more. Compared to raising spirit beasts, farming is my strong point."

"Spiritual plants are just the foundation. You don't need to do it yourself. After you have achieved results, you can use methods such as refining pills and raising spiritual beasts to truly realize the value of spiritual plants. Therefore, the more spiritual plant talent you have, the more you can't just bury your head in cultivation. You need to learn more about refining pills, raising spiritual beasts, and going to various industries. Looking back, you will know which spiritual plants we need."

"It's also..."

The hybrids Chen Jing has on hand seem to be a lot, but in fact they are very few.

Because hybrids are unlimited, but land and planting energy are limited. Only by identifying the needs can we hybridize out the most suitable ones at the moment.

"Your immortality bean has perfect ingredients. After it is made into a pill, it can not only replace the rice pill, but also the white pill (one of the five major feeding pills for spiritual pigs). Moreover, after the spiritual pig eats it, it will also have obvious benefits compared to the original one. What is the yield per mu of raw materials?"

"Preliminary estimate: about 3,000 kilograms."

"It's already better than spirit corn and spirit beans."

These two are the main ingredients of today's Midan and Baidan. In terms of function, the Changsheng Bean has become a superior substitute for spiritual corn and spiritual beans, and the yield per mu is also very high.

So there's only one question left.

"What's the cost?"

"It costs much more than spiritual corn and spiritual beans, but as feed, the price can only be comparable to the former. According to estimates, it is about a net loss of 300 contributions per mu."

Chen Jing said.

After all, it is a three-star spiritual plant. Even if the tenacious vitality and high seed yield of the demon bean are combined to greatly reduce the cost, its own breeding cost is still very high.

The yield of longevity beans is eight or nine times that of magic beans and magic corn, but the cost is more than ten times.

Although the cost has been reduced a lot compared to the dozens of times of longan, the cost-effectiveness is still not good.

"What are your plans, brother?"

"I wanted to make a cheaper version of Midan, but I failed. The cost of this new version of Midan will only be higher. Now the only benefit left is that it will be more beneficial for spiritual pigs to eat it... I still plan to grow a batch first. I will know the loss clearly and it will also facilitate subsequent improvements."

Chen Jing was depressed.

He is still pushing forward this project and is prepared to suffer losses for a while. In short, he will launch the first generation to test the waters and then optimize it later depending on the situation.

"That's not how the account is calculated."

Yan Jinrao shook her head.

"How to say?"

"Although the longevity beans are more expensive, their yield per acre is extremely high, so they save a lot of spiritual fields. Chuhe Hall has a lot of spiritual fields. Originally, we had to plant these fodder spiritual plants to maintain the profits of the Spirit Beast Hall. Now those lands are vacant and we can plant other valuable spiritual plants. What does this mean?"

"Does this mean that... Chuhetang prefers to grow longevity beans?"

"Yes, since you are in charge of the Spirit Beast Hall, you should know that some industries must be maintained even if they are at a loss, because you can't just consider your own interests, you also have to consider the interests of the sect as a whole... The same is true for the Chuhe Hall. There are 10,000 acres of spiritual fields, and many products with very low added value are planted. Otherwise, how can you only earn 800 contributions per acre on average?"

As soon as these words came out.

Chen Jing suddenly understood.

"If the immortality beans replace the spiritual corn and spiritual beans, even though the spiritual fields of the immortality beans will be at a loss, the empty spiritual fields can completely make up for the loss and earn more than before?"

"Ah."

Yan Jinrao smiled and nodded, saying: "Ordinary disciples will definitely not buy your longevity beans seeds, but Chuhetang will. Only by selling the seeds to Chuhetang at a low price can we promote the longevity beans and let your pigs eat the new feed pills."

Chen Jing suddenly gained a new understanding of the selection of hybrid spiritual plants. It turned out that there was such an angle.

He has always had the mindset of a casual cultivator, only thinking about how to grow his own land and make money.

But when it comes to the big platform of the sect, it is no longer a matter of penny-wise and pound-foolish calculations, but rather the overall gains and losses.

"Before that, I will help you deduce the new rice pill formula. After the pill is ready, you'd better take it back and feed it to the spirit pig to try. I remember that the Spirit Beast Hall has a method to quickly breed spirit beasts, which can quickly verify the effectiveness of this pill. As long as there are no major mistakes, you can go to the elders of the Chuhe Hall to discuss cooperation."

Yan Jinrao also did not forget to teach him what to do next.

"Thank you for teaching me, Senior Sister."

"No need to thank me. After the new pill formula came out, my Alchemy Hall also benefited. You don't know that now there are hundreds of alchemy rooms on the mountainside, all refining elixirs like feeding pills that don't make much money. And this new feeding pill is at least second-level, and the income of the alchemy rooms will also increase. These contributions are earned by your Spirit Beast Hall."

Yan Jinrao said with a smile.

Well, I just remembered that there is a fee procedure here.

Chen Jing was speechless, but selling seeds to Chuhetang should be able to offset this part of the increased expenses.

After all the calculations, he found that he had not achieved the goal of reducing costs after all his efforts. However, Hua Qingxia's Chuhetang and Senior Sister Yan's Dantang had some growth in income.

But it is not a loss to guarantee the bottom line yourself, after all, the pigs can eat better quality feed at a reasonable price.

As for the profit, it depends on how much the pigs change after eating the new feed.

(End of this chapter)