Chapter 73
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Chapter 73: Nine to Six
After eliminating all the Rice Water Beetles, the spiritual grain seedlings flourished once again.
To be safe, Ji Yang carefully inspected everything again, confirming there were no oversights before he felt relieved.
Next, Ji Yang checked the Mid-tier Spiritual Plants he had planted on the other side, but their growth was slow, nowhere near as fast as the spiritual grain seedlings.
Looking at the small patch of spiritual field he had developed, Ji Yang took out all the Mid-tier Spiritual Plant seeds he had obtained from today’s fishing, preparing to plant them nearby.
Before planting, Ji Yang activated his Heart Sword divine ability to check the seeds, wanting to see if the spiritual plants had any flaws.
To Ji Yang’s surprise, neither the seeds nor the previously grown Mid-tier Spiritual Plants showed any flaws.
He could understand that the Seven-Leaf Soul Flower had no flaws, but why did these Mid-tier Spiritual Plants also lack imperfections?
Ji Yang pondered, unable to make sense of it. Since he could make ordinary spiritual grains perfect, he should also be able to eliminate flaws in the spiritual plants to achieve perfection.
After thinking for a moment, he decided to plant the spiritual plant seeds he held in his hands, then went into the wooden house nearby to look for knowledge.
Although the books in this wooden house were scarce compared to the sect’s Scripture Pavilion, Ji Yang still found the information he needed in a book about the Cultivation World.
He learned that spiritual plants are nurtured by nature!
There are no two completely identical spiritual plants in the world; they cannot be replicated. Each type of spiritual plant has its unique effects and can be cultivated, but each has different planting methods. The rarer the plant, the more difficult it is to cultivate, requiring special methods for growth…
Looking at that lengthy introduction, Ji Yang privately complained.
He knew that not only are no two identical spiritual plants found in the world, but there are also no two identical leaves.
However, after reading, Ji Yang gained some clarity; spiritual plants are different from ordinary spiritual grains and cannot be cultivated!
Each spiritual plant is a unique existence, naturally growing without flaws. It is truly a peculiar thing.
In contrast, spiritual grains originally did not exist but were improved and cultivated by cultivators over generations; the essence of the two is inherently different.
After understanding this, Ji Yang abandoned the idea of eliminating flaws in spiritual plants. Now, he only needed to continue fishing, and Mid-tier Spiritual Plants would naturally increase.
After performing the Large Cloud Rain Technique as routine, Ji Yang began his nine-to-six life.
In the morning, he collected the light points from spiritual grains and spiritual plants, fished by the pond at noon, returned in the afternoon to clear pests, refined various spells and Thousands of Sword Energies, and improved the Golden Rain Technique.
Ji Yang planned to incorporate Thousands of Sword Energies into the Golden Rain Technique, but the difficulty was a bit high, so he continued refining the spell!
On the third day after planting the spiritual grains, the rice sprouts in the spiritual field reached half a meter in height.
Ji Yang harvested five cultivation points, thirty Yun Ling Dan, and four seeds of Mid-tier Spiritual Plants from fishing! Countless White Light Points.
Among those five cultivation points, the special "Golden Fruit" spiritual grain contributed one point, adding to the one point produced yesterday, giving him a total of two cultivation points.
Currently, the cultivation points had reached six, while the previously planted Mid-tier Spiritual Plants still produced only Green Light Points.
On the fourth day after planting the spiritual grains, Ji Yang harvested six cultivation points. The green light points produced in the spiritual field decreased, but the spiritual plants he had planted continued to consistently produce Yun Ling Dan.
The green light points obtained today from fishing also dropped significantly, and he only caught three seeds of Mid-tier Spiritual Plants.
The number of Red-tailed Spiritual Fish that had previously eaten Yun Ling Dan gradually decreased, possibly hiding in the depths of the pond to absorb the spirit energy from the pills.
This was good for Ji Yang because he no longer had to worry about one fish biting the hook repeatedly, ensuring he wouldn’t go home empty-handed.
Earlier, he worried about fish overindulging in their greed, regretting not taking the caught fish home; now, that worry was gone.
However, even if he took them home, Ji Yang couldn’t eat that many. Most likely, he would bury them in the ground as fertilizer for the spiritual grains, but that seemed wasteful.
On the fifth day after planting, the rice sprouts had grown to a meter high, and that special "Golden Fruit" reached two meters. Ji Yang harvested eight cultivation points, several Yun Ling Dan, and Mid-tier Spiritual Plant seeds.
However, the number of spiritual plant seeds was decreasing. Daily fishing yields were small, often catching only ordinary fish and obtaining some White Light Points.
Later, Ji Yang symbolically cast out a few lines and stopped wasting Yun Ling Dan.
Feeding these fish was less useful than consuming it himself; it was a waste!
On the sixth day after planting, the rice sprouts in the spiritual field grew to two meters, while the original spiritual grains did not grow at this speed, showing that his elimination of two flaws made a difference!
That "Golden Fruit" had reached two and a half meters tall and consistently provided one cultivation point daily.
Ji Yang once again garnered eight cultivation points!
In six days, Ji Yang accumulated a total of twenty-eight cultivation points, but the button for using these points remained inactive, indicating that this amount was still insufficient for him to break through to the Golden Core Stage!
On the seventh day after planting, Ji Yang collected nine cultivation points and no longer went fishing. After several days of fishing, the Red-tailed Spiritual Fish in the pond had dwindled. On the other side of the wooden house, there were now about ten Mid-tier Spiritual Plants growing in the spiritual field.
These spiritual plants were not as delicate as the Seven-Leaf Soul Flower; they only needed watering daily to grow normally and consistently provided one Green Light Point per day, yielding extremely stable results.
In contrast, the patch where the Seven-Leaf Soul Flowers were planted remained empty. If Ji Yang couldn’t sense the seeds’ presence, he might have thought some pests had eaten them.
Another point that surprised Ji Yang was that he initially thought the seeds of Mid-tier Spiritual Plants obtained from fishing were all the same type, but when these plants grew, he discovered they were of different varieties.
Based on the descriptions in the books, Ji Yang identified them one by one, including Qing Lan Grass, Thousand Spirit Ginseng, Jade Skin Flower, Blood Dragon Fruit, and others.
These were commonly used spiritual plants in the Cultivation World, useful for refining various pills; even high-grade pills required some. If they could mature completely, they would fetch a good price.
However, Ji Yang was not very interested in spiritual stones at the moment; his focus was solely on Blue Light Points. Spiritual plants that couldn’t produce Blue Light Points were merely a mundane alternative for boredom.
On the eighth day of planting, Ji Yang once again harvested nine cultivation points, raising his total to forty-six points, yet he still couldn’t use them! Clearly, the points were still insufficient!
Over these days, the spiritual insects in the spiritual field also varied in batches.
Among them were the previously seen rice water caterpillars and the recent Rice Water Beetles, alongside several other troublesome spiritual insects.
The new Golden Rain Technique had not yet been completed, but with the Thousands of Sword Energies, Ji Yang could eliminate them one by one, even though it was a bit cumbersome, he considered it good practice.
What surprised Ji Yang was that the "Golden Fruit," which had all its flaws eliminated, showed no signs of being infested with pests, not even as the other spiritual insects approached this particular spiritual grain.
It seemed that once all flaws were eradicated, the pests no longer posed a problem.
