Along the edge of the Spiritual Field, there was also a Spiritual River rich in qi, formed by Spiritual Water gushing from the Spiritual Spring Eye on the mountain peak mixed with other spring water, making it very suitable for irrigating the Spiritual Field.
Su Yuan's mind stirred, and 35 Spiritual Fish and Little Cai fell from mid-air, landing directly in the river.
Little Cai looked around with a surprised expression, flew from the river water into the air, and swam around Su Yuan.
"This will be your new home from now on."
Su Yuan chuckled and patted Little Cai, then checked the state of the Spiritual Fish, nodding in satisfaction: "You've been nourished by Tier 3 Spiritual Water long enough. Next is slowly refining it, then absorbing qi to advance to Tier 2 Spiritual Beasts. Little Cai, help them out. Once they advance to Tier 3 and can take human form, I'll have quite a few helpers."
Little Cai nodded her head, flapping her fins, indicating she would take care of it.
Su Yuan's mind stirred again, and he summoned Little Li out.
A small silver-white fox abruptly appeared on Su Yuan's shoulder. Its eyes sparkled as it looked around. Not seeing anyone, it asked somewhat confusedly:
"Su Yuan, where is this? I didn't even get a good look at those people just now before you put me back!"
"You can go out and look around freely later, don't worry."
Su Yuan pressed his palm on his Sect token. With a flash of light, a slightly smaller token appeared in his hand. He then hung it around Xiao Li's neck.
"Here, with this, you can move around most places in the Sect freely. The Sect is very large, with tens of thousands of Disciples living here year-round, enough for you to play for a long time! There are also some contribution points inside that you can use to buy things you like."
Xiao Li happily played with the token with her small paws, clearly very excited.
"Let's go, I'll take you to look around Three Absolutes Peak and buy some Spiritual Herb seeds along the way."
The little fox immediately nodded in agreement.
Su Yuan held Xiao Li and left Three Absolutes Peak first.
Before long, he returned with the things he needed. Xiao Li, on the other hand, had already slipped away and gone out to play.
Su Yuan didn't mind this. Although Su Li seemed like an ordinary creature, she was actually the spirit of a Spiritual Treasure. As long as her main body was fine, Su Li wouldn't be in danger. So if she wanted to play, Su Yuan let her play freely. Otherwise, wouldn't his promise to Su Li be a lie?
Su Yuan landed in the Spiritual Field, took out his Spiritual Hoe, and began to turn the soil. Theoretically, using Spells would be better, but since he was going to farm, doing it himself was definitely more interesting.
For him, this amount of labor was not tiring at all.
As he turned the soil, Su Yuan looked back at the ground he had turned. The soil was loose, but the flow of qi had become incredibly chaotic, seemingly having a negative effect instead.
"That's interesting. It seems farming isn't simple either."
Su Yuan turned back and used the Spiritual Hoe to work the field again. With one swing of the hoe, his True Essence, following the patterns on the Dharma Artifact hoe, spread underground, colliding with the qi in the earth veins. The earth qi in the Spiritual Field became somewhat more active, but it was still chaotic. Some areas became extremely active, while others remained relatively stubborn and sluggish.
Su Yuan raised an eyebrow and glanced at the System panel. After working for a while, he found that his rest time hadn't stopped counting. It seemed farming wasn't considered cultivation?
Su Yuan's interest was piqued. He started from the beginning again, hoeing the ground and straightening out the earth qi.
The earth vein qi beneath the Spiritual Field was filled with dense qi of various attributes, mostly earth-attribute qi. However, its activity level was much higher than the lazy qi in the air. Each time he hoed, it was to guide out this earth vein qi through True Essence impact, forming streams of earth qi to nourish the Spiritual Field and nurture Spiritual Plants in the future.
Hoeing the ground seemed simple, but the difficulty was unexpectedly high for Su Yuan. No wonder no one used these Spiritual Fields. This was only a Tier 2 Spiritual Field; taking care of and managing those Tier 4 Spiritual Fields would be impossible without some cultivation base.
Moreover, this was because Su Yuan possessed the Law of Nature ability. He could easily see the flow paths of the earth qi. Other Cultivators could only hoe based on feeling, and trying to figure out the laws of earth qi circulation was also a field of study.
Therefore, being a Spiritual Planter was also one of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, and a relatively important one.
Su Yuan recalled the ancient texts he had read about farming and fell into thought.
The growth of Spiritual Plants requires not only earth qi, but also the absorption of airborne qi. Using the clear intent from heavenly qi to neutralize the turbid intent brought by earth qi also embodies the meaning of Yin-Yang harmony.
Heaven and Earth qi, Heaven and Earth qi, they are always mentioned together. There is no mention of absorbing heavenly qi or earth qi separately. Most plants that absorb a specific type of qi are special Spiritual Plants.
"The earth qi in the earth veins here is abundant enough, but the heavenly qi might not be!"
Su Yuan mused inwardly.
Earth vein qi can be supplied continuously; Spiritual Plants don't need to work hard to absorb it. They can absorb a lot with just a little effort. However, heavenly qi requires Spiritual Plants to actively absorb it in order to grow.
In fact, this is also why Spiritual Grass is Spiritual Grass. Many plants do not actively absorb heavenly qi, just as Mortals do not absorb qi. Thus, they cannot become Spiritual Plants, or Spiritual Plants of higher quality.
Su Yuan thought for a moment, then looked up at the sky.
The sun was still shining, but he could see the Big Dipper in the sky. The stars were always there, just faint during the day.
He gazed at the Big Dipper, falling into contemplation.
The Seven Stars Shining Brightly ability on the System panel lit up.
At the same time, the "Work-Rest Balance" also lit up.
Although he had only rested for a short time, it was enough. After entering the ability state, Su Yuan's mind became much clearer.
The Law of Nature ability also lit up at this moment.
The Big Dipper was indeed a Heaven and Earth Mystery!
With the triple abilities activated in succession, Su Yuan, starting from his insights gained from hoeing just now, gradually formed an idea.
He picked up the hoe again and shoveled the field with force. The True Essence fluctuations containing the Intent of Metal quickly transmitted underground, rapidly and evenly stirring up the earth vein qi, making the earth qi's channels much clearer, and the earth qi also became active.
More importantly, Su Yuan outlined a miniature Big Dipper Formation on the ground of the Spiritual Field using his True Essence. The Formation connected with the earth qi channels, forming a unified whole. Earth qi and heavenly qi converged at the seven Formation eyes of the Big Dipper, creating seven areas most suitable for the growth of normal Spiritual Plants.
Su Yuan quickly took out seven Spiritual Herb seeds and placed them in these seven positions.
Then, he guided the Spiritual Water from the river, turning it into a fine misty Spiritual Rain that fell on the seven Spiritual Herb seeds, slowly nourishing the Spiritual Herbs.
Su Yuan released his pure Wood-attribute True Essence, guiding the Wood Intent with his Divine Sense, transforming it into abundant life force and injecting it into the seeds.
Under Su Yuan's gaze, seven tender sprouts slowly emerged from the soil, eventually growing to about an inch long. Their delicate green leaves were rich with the breath of life.
The starlight sprinkled by the Big Dipper, guided by the Formation, converged onto these Spiritual Plants. This starlight contained pure heavenly qi, nourishing the Spiritual Plants along with the earth qi from the earth veins.
The growth of the Spiritual Plants clearly accelerated significantly.
However, Su Yuan frowned, because as the earth vein qi surged, the Formation on the ground was also gradually dissipating. He estimated that the True Essence he used would last for about three days before dissipating.
After all, this miniature Big Dipper Formation was condensed from Su Yuan's True Essence.
This drawback wasn't really a drawback, because the flow of earth vein qi wasn't fixed. It would change after a period of time, and then a new Big Dipper Formation would need to be set up to adapt to the change in earth vein qi.
Su Yuan rubbed his chin and said, "Let's name my farming method the 'Seven Stars Farming Secret Art'. It focuses on being down-to-earth and natural, and can be added to the inheritance later!"
Just the mystery behind Su Yuan's single hoe swing was enough for ordinary Cultivators to study for several years.
Observing the earth qi, observing the seven stars, drawing in starlight, regulating the earth qi, determining the positions of the Formation eyes for planting, and so on – each of these details was truly not easy.
Su Yuan took out a Jade Slip, quickly compiled the content of his insights into a volume, and recorded it within the Jade Slip.
Afterwards, he took out nine blank books, divided the knowledge within the Jade Slip into several volumes, and engraved it into the books. Then Su Yuan put the things away and would place them in the Scripture Pavilion of Three Absolutes Peak later.
He might have more insights later, so he wasn't in a hurry to put them away.
The "Work-Rest Balance" ability time quickly dissipated.
Su Yuan took out the Jade Slip again and looked through it himself. He slightly shielded his memory while reading, and instantly felt a bit dizzy.
"Damn, I'm such a brute! This actually contains some knowledge of the Yuan Pool's natural Restrictions. No wonder the starlight and qi automatically converge. This is too complicated!"
Su Yuan frowned as he examined the knowledge in the Jade Slip. Without the boost from the abilities, it seemed extremely obscure.
Su Yuan shook his head, unblocking the shielded memory. Su Yuan showed a look of sudden realization.
"So that's how it is... sigh, it's still a bit difficult."
Su Yuan started operating again and found that hoeing this time was not as natural and easy as it was in the ability state. His control over True Essence decreased slightly, his sensing of earth qi also decreased slightly, and his ability to draw in starlight decreased slightly as well. With these layers of reduction, Su Yuan didn't have an easy time.
"I'll just treat it as a leisure activity!"
Su Yuan didn't mind and slowly began hoeing the field and planting Spiritual Herbs.
Su Yuan didn't let the Spiritual Fish off either, making them help with watering. Because of the help from the "Seven Stars Farming Secret Art", the growth rate of the Spiritual Plants doubled, and their demand for Spiritual Water also doubled.
So, one by one, the Spiritual Fish stayed by the river, spraying Spiritual Water to irrigate the Spiritual Plants. Su Yuan also specifically requested that they not spray too much at once, but spray it like mist.
This left the Spiritual Fish exhausted and miserable.
Little Cai patrolled proudly over the heads of the Spiritual Fish. Seeing a lazy Spiritual Fish, she would give it a flick of her tail, slapping the Spiritual Fish into the water, looking every bit like an overseer.
When a Spiritual Fish was slapped into the water, it would hide and not come out to be lazy. It would only come up to continue working after resting for a while.
Little Cai didn't pay attention to the Spiritual Fish that were resting lazily, but instead focused on slapping the Spiritual Fish that became lazy after finishing their work, just like playing whack-a-mole. Little Cai and the Spiritual Fish had a great time playing. Of course, perhaps only Little Cai had fun; the Spiritual Fish were reluctantly forced to train their resistance to blows and their dodging ability, which could also be considered a happy outcome for everyone.
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