The original repairer

This season, Shi Chen's ten acres of spiritual fields produced 3,380 kilograms of spiritual rice.

The second season of spiritual rice has been planted. This is also the last season of this year. Once the spiritual rice matures and produces spiritual rice, it must be handed over to the sect.

Five thousand six hundred kilograms, this number is not stressful. The first time I planted spiritual rice, I produced more than three thousand three hundred kilograms. As long as the second season has normal output, the number to be handed over can be completed.

If there are no arrears in payment within three years, you will be rated as a first-class miscellaneous servant and will be allowed to cultivate 50 acres of spiritual land. There will be absolutely no problem.

There are three houses next to Shi Chen's ten-acre spiritual field. One is the main hall and the back hall for training, one is a wood kitchen, and one is a storage warehouse.

Most practitioners can fill their stomachs for three days by eating a low-grade fasting pill, which is much more convenient and quicker than eating spiritual rice.

Shi Chen had no fasting pills to consume, so he could only steam and cook spiritual rice to fill his stomach. While learning to grow spiritual rice, he borrowed two hundred kilograms of spiritual rice from Song Yu and often went to the mountains to hunt wild animals and collect wild mushrooms, just enough to make a living.

There is a food temple in the sect that provides free meals. It is five or six miles away from the spiritual fields. The time Shi Chen spends traveling back and forth for three meals a day and the time he wastes on the road could be used to take care of several acres of spiritual fields. Therefore, Shi Chen rarely goes to the food temple.

Senior Brother An came once twenty days ago and asked Shi Chen to cook three dishes and pack them in a lunch box to take away, saying that he was taking them to Senior Sister Qingling. Because she had to prepare to build her foundation and it was inconvenient for her to run around, she wanted to eat the dishes cooked by Shi Chen and begged Senior Brother An to come over.

A girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, who has only practiced for a few years, can already build a foundation. The superior spiritual roots are different, and the speed of improving cultivation is fast.

After the first season of spiritual rice planting, I have gained experience and can save a lot of time to practice and improve my cultivation.

Every morning, Shi Chen would rise at 3:35 AM and tend to his ten mu of spiritual fields until around 9 PM. He would then cook spiritual rice for himself, rest for half an hour, and then begin reading. In the afternoon, he would cook dinner at 8 PM, then practice his magic until 11 PM, when he would begin his cultivation. His schedule was quite tight.

Shi Chen read a wide variety of books, basically whatever he could borrow, without being picky. These ranged from biographies of mortal dynasties to anecdotes about cultivating immortals, from the analysis of qigong to a rough discussion of the hundred arts.

After entering the sect for a year, Shi Chen never puts down his book whenever he has free time.

In one year, not too long, but not too short, I read fifty books. Through these books, I gained a better understanding of both the mortal world and the spiritual world. By interpreting the experiences and conjectures of my predecessors, I gained insights into my cultivation.

Without spiritual consciousness, one can only read ordinary books.

If you want to use the jade slip, there is a way. In the later stage of Qi training, you can cultivate spiritual consciousness. As long as you can afford the spirit stones, you can pay them to pass on the contents of the jade slip to you through spiritual consciousness.

An ordinary spell jade slip costs twenty low-grade spirit stones, and the fee paid to the cultivator for the transmission of his spiritual consciousness is another twenty spirit stones.

When mortals cultivate to become immortals, they seek Dharma, wealth, companions, and land. After entering the world of cultivation, they seek wealth, Dharma, land, and companions.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, three months had passed.

The second season's spiritual rice yield was much higher than the first, reaching 362 catties per mu. Ten mu of land produced 3,620 catties.

Two thousand eight hundred kilograms of spiritual rice were handed over to the sect every season, and there was a remaining one thousand four hundred kilograms after two seasons. The sect purchased the remaining spiritual rice at one spiritual stone per hundred kilograms. Shi Chen sold one thousand kilograms and had four hundred kilograms left for his own consumption.

A thousand kilograms of spiritual rice only sold for ten spirit stones. Ten mu of spiritual farmland, with a high yield every season, would only leave about thirty spirit stones a year, which was not enough to buy any good spells.

The value of ten spirit stones cannot buy many things. Shi Chen learned about them through the sect's barter pavilion and the market outside the sect.

I chose to buy the basics of elixir in the sect, which included a recipe for fasting pills and a furnace for apprentices in refining to practice.

Shi Chen begged for a long time and promised that after he refined the Qigong Pill, he would sell it to the Barter Pavilion at the price of fifteen spirit stones per bottle, at least one hundred bottles of Qigong Pill, before the deacon of the Barter Pavilion gave in.

The first chapter on the basics of elixir preparation is quite simple, covering approximately ten pages. It details the steps involved in refining the elixir. First, it describes the purification of the spiritual herbs into spiritual liquids, followed by the smelting of each liquid, specifying the order and timing of each, the appropriate blending methods, and finally, the various manifestations of the finished elixir.

Looking at the brand new pages, Shi Chen was extremely suspicious that this was an introduction to alchemy that had just been hastily prepared by some alchemist.

There is only one ingredient in the recipe for the fasting pill, spiritual rice. Shi Chen was attracted by this ingredient and since he could produce it himself, he shamelessly begged to buy it.

The recipe for the pill is very simple, purify the spiritual rice into spiritual liquid, and then refine it.

Shi Chen studied the basics of elixirs for three days before he began to refine the fasting pill for the first time.

It is clearly written in the book that alchemists of the first level and above must have spiritual awareness. Only with spiritual awareness can they accurately purify the medicinal liquid and use the exact dosage. The changes in the alchemy furnace can also be clearly seen through the spiritual awareness. The refining process of elixirs of the first level and above must be controlled by spiritual awareness to ensure the success rate of refining.

Pills that haven't been upgraded yet don't require spiritual control, so refining them is relatively simple. Pills that haven't been upgraded yet are called powders, which are medicinal powders, not pills, and their effects are not as good as real pills.

For three days, I tried to refine the fasting pill once every day, but unfortunately, I was unsuccessful.

The first time I purified it, I didn't control the temperature well, and the pill didn't form, but burned and became waste.

The second time, something went wrong in the final stage of purification and the pill was not made, and the mixed liquid medicine became waste.

The third purification was successful, but the temperature was not well controlled during the refining process, and the pill failed again, resulting in a burnt mass.

After refining the elixir three times, only the last hundred kilograms of spiritual rice were left.

Shi Chen did not continue to refine the elixir. The last 100 kilograms of spiritual rice would take him three months to eat.

It was difficult to control the key points when refining the elixir for the first time. I had no experience and no teacher, so I could only explore on my own. The most important thing was that I was using ordinary fire and no spiritual stones, so I was unable to purchase and practice the spiritual fire technique for refining the elixir.

This is the summary of the first time alchemy. If you want to refine the fasting pill, you also need to practice a spiritual fire technique.

Spiritual fire can be controlled by one's own spiritual power output, while ordinary fire is very difficult to control, and it is difficult to control the temperature unless there is spiritual consciousness to control it.

All the experience was gained personally step by step, and Shi Chen did not feel sorry for the 300 kilograms of spiritual rice.

It has been explained in the initial explanation of the basics of alchemy that if one succeeds once in ten times when refining medicine for the first time, he is already a potential alchemy apprentice. The alchemy masters have passed down the art to this day, and it is recorded in the alchemy notes that among a hundred beginners, only two or three out of ten furnaces of medicine will succeed, which means he is already a gifted alchemist.

For three months, Shi Chen continued to cultivate his ten acres of low-grade spiritual fields. With the accumulation of experience and the improvement of his proficiency in various spells, the yield per acre also increased accordingly.

This season is the first season of this year. There is no need to hand over the rice to the sect. The yield per mu reaches 386 kilograms, leaving 2,800 kilograms of spiritual rice and selling 1,000 kilograms of spiritual rice to the sect.

The spiritual fire technique required for alchemy is very cheap, only five spiritual stones are needed. Moreover, as long as it is purchased at the sect's alchemy hall, the foundation-building deacon will help disciples without spiritual consciousness to pass on the magic knowledge in the jade slips for free.

The sect encourages its disciples to practice a hundred arts, and the basic spells of the hundred arts are sold at half price.

Three months ago, I failed in refining the Qigong Pill because I didn’t control the temperature well. If I had the spiritual fire technique at that time, the purification would have been more stable and the subsequent refining would have been more reliable.

After learning the spiritual fire technique, he still had five spirit stones left. After checking his own cultivation level, Shi Chen gritted his teeth and bought a bottle of Qi-nourishing Pill, leaving him with two spirit stones.