Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 31: Support the bold to death, starve the timid to death

While Shuang Lingxue admired Zhong Cang's noble will, Zhong Cang was staring at the map presented by Zhou Sheng in a trance.

Logically speaking, Zhong Cang should act cautiously now, so the area he should choose most is a miniature spiritual spring, and then a ten-acre first-level spiritual field to slowly study.

It doesn't cost much to do so, and even if he doesn't research anything, the Shuang family won't be too angry.

But in the end, Zhong Cang gritted his teeth and chose the small spiritual spring and the three acres of vacant third-level spiritual land around it. He chose six acres of second-level spiritual land, and as for the first-level spiritual land, he did not choose too much and only took twelve acres.

"The brave will die of overeating, and the timid will die of starvation. Now that I have this opportunity, I will seize it!"

Seeing Zhong Cang's choice, Zuo He grinned, but he didn't say anything.

Since he didn't offer any opinions, Shuang Lingxue naturally wouldn't have any either.

In this way, relying on Shuang Lingxue's financial support, Zhong Cang jumped from a proletarian to a small landlord.

But Shuang Lingxue's support for him goes beyond that. If he wants to do research, he needs not only spiritual fields, but also seeds and other supplies.

Shuang Lingxue was not quite clear about this.

She knew the importance of food and grains, but her education was mainly about morality, etiquette, and political strategy.

Therefore, she asked Zhou Sheng, the dean of Lingzhifu, to accompany Zhong Cang in the research.

"Dean Zhou Sheng has joined our Shuang family and become the steward of the outer courtyard. He is already one of our own. Mr. Zhong Cang, if you have any farming needs, you can ask Mr. Zhou Sheng."

"...I understand. And thank you, Miss Shuang."

"I should be the one thanking you, sir. What you have done is truly beneficial to the people of the world. It is my honor to be able to participate in this."

After everything was handed over, Shuang Lingxue did not leave immediately, but was curious to see how Zhong Cang worked.

Zhong Cang was not polite about this. After obtaining the spiritual spring and territory, the first thing he did was to transplant his natal contracted pet, the soul-hosting moss, from the rented first-level spiritual land to the third-level spiritual land.

Most of the spiritual places in the world did not appear out of thin air. In most cases, spiritual springs appeared first, and then the spring water nourished the surrounding areas, and only then did the spiritual places come into being.

There are three spiritual springs around Huangni Village. The largest one is a small spiritual spring, which nourishes eight acres of third-level spiritual land. The dean Zhou Sheng has planted things on five acres of spiritual land.

Not surprisingly, all that was planted on Zhou Sheng’s five acres of spiritual land were spiritual medicines, not a single grain seed.

No, not only in the third-level spiritual land, no one grows ordinary spiritual rice in the second-level spiritual land. They all grow medicinal herbs.

However, the second-level spiritual land is not cultivated by Dean Zhou Sheng alone. Many senior brothers are also busy there.

After noticing Zhong Cang's gaze turned away, Zhou Sheng, like an old farmer, smiled and said, "In the first year, you will only be able to cultivate the first-level spiritual fields. According to my idea, if you perform well, you will have the opportunity to obtain the right to cultivate the second-level spiritual fields and cultivate spiritual medicines. It's not that I don't want to give you better, but the taxes on the second-level spiritual fields are also heavier. If you don't have enough ability and rashly rent them, you will lose everything."

"Level 2 Spiritual Farm is the pinnacle for most students in the academy. If you are a genius, like Zhong Cang, you will have the opportunity to obtain the right to cultivate Level 3 Spiritual Farm upon graduation. At that time, I even wanted to keep you in school and let you take over the position of Dean of the Spiritual Plant Department."

At this point, he laughed at himself:
"Haha, now it seems that my vision is still too low."

When he said this, he looked at Zhong Cang with a strange look... He also didn't understand why Zhong Cang was so valued and admired by Shuang Lingxue.

He was curious, while Zhong Cang, while chatting, sighed:
"Spiritual herbs can be made into elixirs, which can increase the cultivation of powerful cultivators, but spiritual rice is only useful for low-level cultivators. No wonder, despite the convenient evolutionary medium of spiritual energy, grain has remained largely undeveloped over the years... Spiritual herb farmers with even a modicum of talent only focus on spiritual herbs and don't care about grain at all."

After a sigh, Zhong Cang also began the transplantation work of the soul-hosting moss.

This was going quite smoothly. After all, it was a spiritual plant, not an ordinary plant, and it was also the core mycelium of a demon-transforming spiritual plant. This made the spirit-hosting moss unlike ordinary trees, which would suffer a great loss of vitality if moved.

And because he has many followers, the transplantation of Zhong Cangjiling Moss is not only rapid, but also very fast.

In just one hour, with everyone's concerted efforts, all of his soul-hosting mosses were transplanted to the third-level spiritual land. Zhong Cang also scooped out spiritual spring water and poured it on the soul-hosting mosses.

"Wow..."

The abundant spiritual energy caused the moss to explode like blue algae.

In the pond of the previous life, if you were not careful, the algae in it would multiply rapidly and spread throughout the pond.

Today, the vitality of the spirit-hosting moss is stronger than that of ordinary algae, and it reproduces faster. There is also abundant spiritual energy here, as well as the spell that Zhong Cang constantly releases - plant growth.

All these circumstances combined meant that by the time everyone finished transplanting, the parasitic moss had already occupied an entire acre of land like a plague.

Such a fast growth rate makes everyone... very confused.

Yes, just like when Zhong Cang planted trees before, whether it was Zhong Cang's followers who helped with the transplanting, or Zuo He, Shuang Lingxue, and the senior brothers from the Lingzhifu Academy who rushed over to watch after hearing the news, full of jealousy and envy, they couldn't figure out what the point of Zhong Cang using the third-level spiritual land to plant moss was.

"This moss? He can't sell it, right?"

"What a waste! If he were to grow medicinal herbs on that spiritual land, he would have harvested a lot of spiritual stones every year. But what was he thinking of growing moss?"

"Even if you plant flowers to please Miss Shuang Lingxue, I won't say anything. But moss, such a dirty thing, is useless to you..."

Not to mention the discussions among ordinary students, even Zhou Sheng, who had been farming for decades, couldn't understand why Zhong Cang planted so much moss.

However, he was an open-minded person. Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. Instead, he prepared to follow Shuang Lingxue's instructions and quietly assist Zhong Cang in his work.

"Is there anything else you need me to do?"

"Yes, we grow some staple food here. Dean, can you help me get some? And help me build a greenhouse..."

"I also need to set up an ice formation. I want to simulate a snowy environment..."

Zhong Cang was really ready to do something, and therefore, he still had a lot of things to do.

Greenhouses, seeds, and a cold cave that simulates ice and snow...

Fortunately, Shuang Lingxue was right next to him. With her financial support, she could help buy whatever Zhong Cang wanted.

With the funding from this wealthy woman, a laboratory was soon built in Huangni Village.

This laboratory is very simple. If an orthodox scientist comes here, it will be difficult to research something, and it will take a lot of time.

Fortunately, Zhong Cang is not orthodox enough, he has the druid profession as a plug-in, and therefore, he is still very confident in researching some things.

After setting up the laboratory, Zhong Cang tried his hand at it.

He placed a carefully selected wheat seed into the soil of the third-level spiritual land, and used the power of nature and the growth magic of spring to activate the spell - plant growth.

"Wow..."

(End of this chapter)