Leisurely mountain village

In the forest cabin that evening, Ye Huan played with the giant panda mother and cub outside and their other pets for a while, then took a bath, went to bed, and entered his spatial dimension.

"It grows faster here. I wonder when the next upgrade will be. The transplanting process has been a bit slow lately." Ye Huan looked at the grains and vegetables in his space, which had piled up quite a bit again. He was worried because he couldn't finish them all.

He wasn't in a hurry for Lingmi. These unhulled grains could be used directly as seeds. Next spring, after the village finalized the cooperation agreement, they would plant all of these. He wouldn't even consider selling rice from this variety for less than a hundred yuan per kilogram. He would just invite Old Master Du over for a meal of white rice.

(I heard there's a celebrity who grows rice in Northeast China, and it costs over 100 yuan per kilogram?? Is that true?)

Even if it sells for 100 yuan per kilogram, it's still slightly less profitable than growing vegetables, since there are only two harvests a year. Even if the yield is 2000 kilograms per mu, 200 mu of land would only yield 40 kilograms of rice.

Even at 100 yuan per kilogram, that's 80 million yuan a year. If the villagers get 60% of that, each household would only receive about 300,000 yuan. And that's for two seasons a year.

However, he is definitely going to plant the spirit rice. This needs to be clearly stated in the contract to avoid disputes later. Moreover, Ye Huan has not intended to leave any room for disputes in the village. The contract is entirely in his favor. If they don't sign, fine. He would rather not cooperate than let the villagers cause trouble for him.

We'll have the village chief convene a village meeting during the National Day holiday. Most of the villagers will be back by then, so the timing is perfect.

"This wild ginseng is growing very well." Ye Huan watered the nearly 800-year-old wild ginseng with spiritual spring water and sighed. Then he also watered other less old wild ginseng and some rare medicinal herbs from the mountains with spiritual spring water.

"We can fry tea leaves again." After finishing with the medicinal herbs, Ye Huan came to the wild tea tree and saw the lush tea leaves. She smiled and said, "It just so happens that Old Du stole a lot of Grandpa's tea leaves. Let's pick them and have Grandpa fry them tomorrow."

He didn't need to do it himself; with a thought, all the tea leaves and buds were picked. He took out a bag, packed them up, and planned to take them back to his grandfather the next morning.

Thinking about what to do when you have free time, maybe take a road trip all over the country? Look for plants and animals, expand the space. He now understands what this upgrade is all about. As for animals, as long as they appear in the space for more than ten minutes, they count as a species.

However, plants need to be planted in the soil for a full month before they can be grown, which is why Ye Huan had this idea. As for online sellers of saplings and flowers, very few sell single plants or small quantities, especially saplings.

So he found a shop owner online, added him on WeChat, and ordered three of each of all the varieties of flowers and plants from him. The shop owner, hearing that the quantity was not large but the variety was plentiful, reluctantly agreed.

Ye Huan estimated that the goods would arrive in a few days. This batch alone included more than 150 varieties of flowers and plants from this particular supplier, mostly landscape plants, as well as some slightly higher-end houseplants.

Ye Huan spent over 30,000 yuan on these items alone. This time, she acquired more than 20 varieties of orchids, including many expensive ones, among other high-end orchids and houseplants.

Ye Huan also searched for business owners all over the country online, but many of them stopped responding as soon as they heard his requirements. These were all big business owners who sold a small variety of products in large quantities.

Ye Huan wasn't in a hurry. He would take it slow. He knew that upgrading the space wouldn't be a matter of a day or two. He wanted to visit those old forests in Northeast China and those primeval forests that were off-limits to humans when he had the chance. All for the sake of upgrading. Of course, he would wait until he was fully capable of protecting himself. He wasn't going to risk his life.

After arranging the space, Ye Huan drank a cup of spiritual spring water and began cultivating. This cultivation involved meditation, where the spiritual energy within the body circulated along specific meridians until the body was completely filled with spiritual energy, at which point he would break through to the next stage.

Therefore, there is no need to rush. After completing 1080 cycles, Ye Huan began to cultivate other techniques and skills. If his cultivation level was raised but his methods could not keep up, Ye Huan felt like he was walking with a limp and was prone to falling.

He is now practicing formations, and he has discovered that formations have an advantage: with the help of a large number of spirit stones, he can turn their village into a paradise.

The Shennong Classic describes the formations as follows: the Spirit Gathering Formation gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to create a unique secret realm. The highest level of the Spirit Gathering Formation involves the liquefaction of spiritual energy within the formation.

All he's been studying lately is this formation called the "Spirit Gathering Formation." He doesn't have many spirit stones right now, but according to the formation's description, his few stones should last him for several years.

The power of the Spirit Gathering Array lies in the fact that the spirit stones are merely for maintaining its operation. It can absorb various energies in the world and then transform them into spiritual energy for use within the array. However, the larger the area covered by the array, the more spirit stones are needed.

Therefore, it is not very realistic for Ye Huan to build hope for the entire village at present, unless he finds more spirit stones.

As for the "Scripture of Longevity," he planned to pass it on to his grandfather first, and then have his grandfather pass it on to his parents. With the help of the spiritual spring water, he believed that even if his family could not achieve immortality, they would certainly be able to live for many more years.

This is a question he has been pondering himself. Because he doesn't yet have a complete understanding of cultivation, he's not in a hurry to teach it to his grandfather. He's currently at level 14 of the Longevity Dao Scripture, and he plans to wait until level 17, which is when he stubbornly believes he'll reach the late Foundation Establishment stage, before taking a look.

Cultivation knows no time. When Ye Huan came out of the space and lay on the bed, it was almost dawn outside. Summer days are naturally early.

Because he needed to go to town to buy candy and firecrackers in the morning, Ye Huan's alarm clock woke him up at nine o'clock. After washing up, he returned to his home at the foot of the mountain and saw that his grandfather was there. He then handed the bag of tea to his grandfather.

"Grandpa, I've picked a lot more. Could you fry them up so that Old Master Du doesn't snatch them all away?"

"Hehe, if I don't give it to him, he can't take it away." Grandpa Ye Wuju laughed. He and Dugu Jingguo became friends after a fight, and now they have a pretty good relationship.

Dugu Jingguo even shared his top-secret experience of breaking through to the Grandmaster level with Ye Wuju. What did it matter if Ye Wuju gave him some spiritual tea and wine?

With his grandson already in the Dragon Group and having a powerful backer, Ye Wuju didn't mind becoming even stronger. What they didn't know was that Ye Huan had already evolved into a Tyrannosaurus Rex, though it was unknown whether it was purple, orange, or epic-level; that remained to be verified.

Thank you to General Qin, Yang Wu, Forest Snail, and Smiling Face Life for the update reminders! Thank you to Niu Qianzhu, @Little Dream Has Everything, Yi Xingchen from the Underworld, and Ren Wei for the vinegar-braised cucumber for the razor blades and milk tea! Thank you to Miss Don't Run Away for the flower basket.

Thank you to all the kind people who sent gifts, thank you for your support.