Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 20 Harvesting Spiritual Valley
With the arrival of the ear-heading period of the spiritual grain, the spiritual farmers along the shores of Bishui Lake are busy.

In the past, it was rare to see a few people in the spiritual fields in a day. Now, there are people looking after each spiritual field, applying rain and killing insects. They are very busy.

These spiritual fields are not built on spiritual veins. If they are only planted by relying on the spiritual power emitted from the spiritual veins, it is impossible to have a good harvest.

Those spiritual fields built on spiritual veins belong only to the sect.

The role of the spiritual farmers is to use methods such as rainmaking, combing the earth's energy, extracting wood energy to replenish spiritual power, etc. to make up for the spiritual energy gap for the healthy growth of the spiritual valley.

Ji An understood that they were Linggu's 'fattening' machines.

He is now at the bottom of the sect pyramid, but one day, he will see the scenery at the top of the pyramid to see if it is lonely at the top.

Busy days always make people feel that they pass by quickly, and two months passed in a flash.

In the days leading up to the harvest, Ji An squatted in the spiritual field all day long, not daring to leave for a moment.

Thousands of birds gathered around the Bishui Lake, and when people were not paying attention, they flew to the spiritual field and pecked at it.

If we dare to let these little creatures stay in the spiritual fields for a while, I don’t know how much spiritual grain will be lost.

Some wealthy spiritual farmers bought puppets to guard their spiritual fields. Lao Huang had one. He didn't have the financial resources, so he could only be the guardian of the rice fields himself.

"It's finally over," Ji An wiped the sweat off his forehead, picked up the bag of spiritual grain and returned to his bamboo house.

He tied the cloth bag with a rope, took out a borrowed large scale from behind the door, hung the rope, picked up the wooden beam scale with his right hand, and moved the weight with his left hand.

"One hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and twenty-one kilograms of spiritual grain, not bad!"

Ji An smiled with relief.

One acre of spiritual field, if well managed and the spiritual farmers' planting skills have reached the second level, can yield 200 kilograms of spiritual grain each season, which is the ideal situation.

Ji An possesses the third level of Small Cloud and Rain Technique, Thick Soil Technique and Withering and Flourishing Technique. Under ideal circumstances, he can harvest 130 kilograms of spiritual grain from half an acre of spiritual field.

The sect's purchase price for first-grade spiritual grain is one spiritual crystal per kilogram, with slight differences depending on the quality.

The spiritual grains in Ji An's batch are of good quality. If all of them are sold, he should be able to get more than 120 spiritual crystals, which is a huge amount of money. It is probably 20 to 30 spiritual crystals more than those spiritual farmers who entered the sect at the same time.

However, such a harvest would only be possible in the first year. After a year, he would have to pay land rent, taxes, and other additional costs.

One mu of spiritual field, calculated on a quarterly basis, requires about twenty spiritual crystals to purchase grain seeds, sixty kilograms of spiritual grains as rent, and a "head tax".

The first level of Qi Refining gives ten contribution points per year, the second level of Qi Refining gives twenty points per year, and so on. The contribution points are directly deducted from the jade token.

If the tax is not paid in full for two consecutive quarters, the person will be forced to work in the mines for three months and then expelled from the sect.

Old Huang said that if one tries to save on grain seeds, the harvest will make the spiritual farmers behave like humans. Cultivating grain seeds is a secret method of the sect. Three years ago, the rent for the fields suddenly increased from 50 kilograms of spiritual grain to 60 kilograms, and many spiritual farmers' lives became much more difficult.

Ji An sighed. Even though the sect's taxes were not low, they were still much better than those of casual practitioners. His father once said that in the early stages of Qi Refining, sometimes the harvest in a year would be less than two spirit stones.

He pulled out a chair and sat in the yard, wondering whether he should get a rocking chair.

At dusk, put a rocking chair under a big tree, brew a pot of spiritual tea, sit on it happily, and let a spiritual beast lie beside the chair.

Wow, just thinking about it gives me a sense of otherworldly mood.

He closed his eyes and connected his mind with the stone turtle.

[Master: Ji An]

【Daoyun: 0】

[Spiritual Ability: Kan Spirit 23.4, Kun Spirit 7.2, Xun Spirit 0.1]

[Spell: Minor Cloud Rain Spell (Minor Success 92%)

Thick Earth Technique (Minor Success 97%)

Withering and Flourishing Secret (Minor Success 52%)

Fire Curse (1% Beginner)

Sharp Gold Technique (Mastery 12%)]

For two months, Ji An practiced magic by himself, and with the help of the stone turtle, his Small Cloud and Rain Technique and Thick Earth Technique could catch up with the realm that Lao Huang had practiced for many years.

The only bad news was that despite two months of diligent cultivation without a shortage of elixirs, he still hadn't advanced to the third level of Qi Refining. If he hadn't been worried about the spells being too high to control with his current level of cultivation, the Small Cloud Rain Technique and the Thick Earth Art would have surely reached the Grand Perfection stage.

"Xiao Ange, how's the harvest?"

His thoughts were interrupted, Ji An opened his eyes and saw Lao Huang standing outside the fence with a smile on his face.

He quickly stood up and said with a smile:

"Brother, please come in. I'm TOEFL. The harvest is not bad."

He pointed to the cloth bag on the ground:
"Brother, weigh it and you'll be surprised!"

"Oh, I'd like to take a closer look."

Old Huang picked up the rope that bound the bag and weighed it, a look of understanding flashing in his eyes:
"Weighing around 120 jin, Brother An is a natural-born farmer!

If I had your talent back then, I might have been a Foundation Establishment cultivator by now."

After saying this, I couldn't help but sigh.

"Senior brother's intuition is amazing!"

Ji An praised and was quite surprised to see that Lao Huang estimated the weight accurately without using a scale.

"Hey, I've calculated carefully. If we start paying sect taxes a year from now, this little bit of money will barely be enough to make ends meet."

After three months of hard work on one acre of spiritual farm, he only had more than a hundred spiritual crystals in his hand, and he didn't even dare to eat any pills.

Half of the refined mana was fed to Uncle Stone Turtle. If he didn't take drugs to speed up his practice, it would be difficult for him to advance to the middle stage of Qi Refining.

He still owes a lot of debts and must pay back part of it after a year, otherwise he will lose his credibility.

Ji An took a step closer and said:

"Brother, how much can the first-level spiritual field you cultivated increase its yield?"

"do not know."

Ji An frowned slightly. He was unwilling to tell me about business secrets?!

Old Huang laughed: "Little Ange, the spiritual fields that are not of the highest quality can only be used to grow yellow sprout rice.

But the yield of yellow sprout rice is only 300 kilograms per mu of spiritual field."

“Even if you practice the cultivation spells such as Small Cloud and Rain Technique, Thick Soil Technique, and Withering and Flourishing Technique to perfection, you still cannot break the limit.

But a first-grade low-grade spiritual field can be used to grow green corn. Hehe, this is the main material for refining the Jade Pill, a mid-stage Qi Refining elixir.

No one would use a first-level spiritual field to grow yellow sprout rice."

"You're very prosperous then, Brother!"

Old Huang's face turned bitter:

"Xiao An, you don't think the rent for the spiritual fields is settled in yellow rice, do you? You have to settle it in what you plant.

Jade corn seeds account for nearly 20% of the cost, and the effect of advanced planting spells on the yield of Jade corn has also decreased significantly."

"Life is not easy."

Ji An sighed.

Old Huang nodded in agreement. He opened the bag, took out a handful of spiritual grains, and after removing the shells, he praised:
"It's in very good condition. I can sell it for a few more spirit crystals."

"It's okay," Ji An smiled. He didn't plan to sell it and kept it for himself.

Huangyadan cannot be taken every day for fear that the erysipelas will accumulate and be difficult to eliminate, but Linggu can be taken every day, with every meal.

For him, as his cultivation level improves, he will have more choices.

Others need to work hard to comprehend spells, but he doesn't. This is his biggest advantage.

　The settings have been modified before. Spiritual fields that are not built near spiritual veins are not of good quality. A first-level spiritual vein corresponds to a first-level spiritual field.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)