Chapter 117 After this live stream...

After this live stream, the number of orders was several times higher than before.

Li Chang'an and Tian Xuan calculated that, given the current area of ​​the terraced fields and the yield blessed by the mountain god's antlers, they would probably need to add two or three more partners.

Li Chang'an chose a province next to Hewang City, and then posted on WeDog, inviting interested businesses to discuss cooperation.

People in that province were thrilled and left comments recommending local supermarkets they thought were good.

Li Chang'an entrusted Tianxuan with the task of making initial contact with the interested supermarket managers.

Now that the mulberry trees on Jiarong Mountain have become spirit mulberry trees, we can start raising spirit silkworms.

Li Chang'an built a nest for the spirit silkworms in the mulberry grove, consisting of a frame and a bamboo winnowing basket filled with the freshest spirit mulberry leaves.

Jingjing handed him the crystal box.

Li Chang'an opened the lid and placed the two silkworm pupae on the winnowing basket.

He channeled his spiritual power into the two silkworm cocoons.

Golden light emerged from the silkworm pupa. The next moment, the golden light intensified, and the flow became very fast. The surrounding trees swayed their leaves due to the fluctuation of spiritual energy, rustling loudly.

Li Chang'an slowly frowned. He felt a strong suction force coming from the silkworm cocoon, as if it wanted to continuously draw his spiritual power.

Even after absorbing so much spiritual energy, the two silkworm cocoons remained motionless.

The spiritual energy flowed along the golden light. After a long while, when Li Chang'an felt a long-lost pain in his dantian—when his spiritual energy was depleted—the two spirit silkworm cocoons moved. Then, colorful fluorescence emanated from the spirit silkworm cocoons, growing brighter and brighter before fading away after a long time.

Where the silkworm pupa had been, two silkworm moths appeared. They had thin, crystal-clear wings with faintly visible iridescent patterns on them, and they were extremely beautiful.

Li Chang'an breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

When Jingjing took out these two spirit silkworm cocoons, she said that it would take a lot of spiritual power to hatch them. Unexpectedly, this amount of spiritual power was all the spiritual power of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Looking at the two beautiful silkworm moths, Li Chang'an chuckled softly.

Next, we just need to wait for these two spirit silkworm moths to reproduce and produce the next generation of spirit silkworms, and then they will spin spirit silk for him.

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Two and a half months after the fruit trees on the fruit tree slope of Jiarong Mountain became spiritual quality, they finally bore fruit.

In the morning, the spirits herded the chickens to stroll up the hillside, and when they looked up, they saw the newly formed fruit on the trees.

The fruits exuded a rich spiritual energy, making them look incredibly tempting even though they weren't ripe yet.

Huang Jinxu instructed that he couldn't eat it yet, and hurriedly returned home to call Li Chang'an to come and see.

When Li Chang'an arrived at the fruit tree slope, the first thing he felt was the rich spiritual energy.

He looked up and saw that even some fruit trees that were not in their fruiting season had small fruits growing on their branches.

Cherries, loquats, and walnuts that hadn't yet borne fruit last year are now all laden with fruit.

Li Chang'an used his spiritual power to investigate and found that the number of fruits on each fruit tree had decreased, unlike the previous abundance.

Yesterday these fruit trees were still in bloom, but overnight all the flowers withered and fell, and they began to bear fruit.

I don't know how long it will take for the fruits to ripen.

Li Chang'an would know the answer to this question in half a month.

One morning, half a month later, he went to check on the silkworms under the mulberry tree and looked up to see the red and black fruits hanging on the branches.

These mulberries seem no different from the ordinary ones from before; if I had to say, they might be slightly larger and plumper.

Li Chang'an picked some and ate it, finding that it tasted sweeter than before.

This sweetness is different from refined processed sugar; it's refreshing and pleasant, without any heavy feeling when you eat it.

Li Chang'an then went to check on the other fruit trees, picking a little of each kind of fruit before finally going to the silkworm rack to examine the silkworms.

The current batch of spirit silkworms is the second batch. Li Chang'an took half of the cocoons spun in the previous batch, and the remaining half will continue to hatch spirit silkworm moths and reproduce the next generation.

As the number of silkworms increased, so did the number of winnowing baskets on the shelf.

This batch of silkworms will soon be spinning cocoons again.

Li Chang'an cleaned the winnowing baskets, picked some fresh mulberry leaves and placed them on each basket before leaving Jiarong Mountain.

The spiritual fruits were placed on the coffee table in the living room. Tianxuan peeled an orange, ate a segment, and then froze on the spot.

Oranges are juicy, with distinct segments inside. When you bite into one, you can feel the sweet juice bursting out. Eating just one segment of orange seems to quench your thirst.

More importantly, the spiritual energy contained within was absorbed by him along with the sweet juice, as if it had traveled through his entire body, and finally returned to his dantian spiritual energy sea like a drop of water.

“This…” Tianxuan looked at the orange in her hand and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Li Chang'an asked, puzzled.

Tianxuan looked at him and said, "The spiritual energy in this spiritual fruit is automatically absorbed by the dantian and becomes spiritual power, so there is no need for cultivators to cultivate it."

There is a process to draw spiritual energy into the body and transform it into spiritual power. This process is cultivation, which is something that cultivators in the Qi Refining stage should learn.

Eating this spiritual fruit can eliminate the need for cultivation, automatically converting spiritual energy into spiritual power.

Tianxuan couldn't help but think that even if cultivators obtained rare and precious natural treasures rich in spiritual energy by chance, they would still encounter various trials when absorbing them, and might even suffer from qi deviation in the end. But if they had this spiritual fruit to assist them, wouldn't the absorption process be much safer?

However, such rare and precious materials only existed six thousand years ago.

Tianxuan regained her composure and finished the whole orange in her hand.

"However, the spiritual energy in one spiritual fruit is not much. I estimated that five spiritual fruits are not as much as one pound of spiritual rice."

Li Chang'an couldn't sense any spiritual energy; he hadn't realized this when he ate those mulberries earlier.

He nodded, picked up a peach and ate it, then continued to pick fruit at Jiarong Mountain to take home and prepare to make fruit wine.

Nowadays, there are more and more terraced fields on Wolu Mountain. He has planted more than 200 mu of wine vines, most of which are supplied to the factory, and a small portion is kept for his own winemaking.

This time, Li Chang'an used spiritual fruits to brew wine, and all the ingredients he used contained spiritual energy. He wanted to see what the effect of the wine would be when he used the best ingredients.

After this batch of fruit wine was brewed, Li Chang'an collected the remaining spiritual fruits from Jiarong Mountain, kept some for himself, gave some to the Qingfeng Sect disciples who helped him deliver the packages for exchange, and put the rest up for sale online.

The production of spirit fruits is only half that of ordinary fruits, and even fewer are sold online.

Viewers were somewhat surprised by Li Chang'an's explanation in the live stream.

[So the reason we haven't been selling fruit lately is because all the fruit has turned into magical fruit?]

[Host, you've given us such a wonderful surprise!]

Besides that, there are the daily complaints from netizens about the lack of quantity.

Li Chang'an has to get used to it.

As long as it's not guaranteed that every netizen can buy the vegetables they want, they will complain that there aren't enough to go around.

But he already has hundreds of millions of fans, so where would he get hundreds of millions of kilograms of vegetables to sell?

After the live stream ended, various agricultural products and spiritual fruits were delivered by the spirit kites and three delivery teams.

The taste of the spiritual fruit is so good that netizens who bought it have been posting positive reviews online.

Some people felt their skin tone lighten after eating mulberries, others felt their cough subside after eating loquats and pears, and still others said their memory improved after eating walnuts.

Once these feedbacks were released, many more netizens lamented on Li Chang'an's two platform accounts.

But everyone knew that Li Chang'an did not plan to plant more fruit trees, so they did not urge him to plant more. They just asked him when the next batch of spiritual fruits would be available.

Li Chang'an replied: "【Three months later.】"

The basic manual had given him the answer: the flowering and fruiting cycle of these spirit fruit trees is three months.

The flowers bloom for two and a half months, accumulating spiritual energy during the flowering period. Once the spiritual energy is sufficient, the flowers wither and fall, and then the flowers begin to bear fruit.

It takes half a month for the fruit to ripen, and it will remain on the branch as long as it is not picked.

Li Chang'an runs his farm, and these fruits are sold, so the fruits are always picked in time when they ripen.

In this way, the spirit fruit can be harvested four times a year.

When netizens saw the time, they were immediately shocked.

It will take three months to buy such a spiritual fruit again, and even then, there's no guarantee you'll be able to get your hands on it.

As a result, the number of netizens crying out in despair under Li Chang'an's account increased.

I managed to snag some grapes. I plan to eat one every three days for the next three months and see if I can last until three months later.

[Won't it spoil if I take one every three days?]

[Hehe, it won't spoil! My friend managed to snag some peaches, and she said she cut one open and ate a little every day. Several days have passed, and the fruit hasn't spoiled at all, nor has it oxidized or changed color; it's still perfectly fine.]

[Is this the spirit fruit? I'm not envious, not at all. (Almost crying.jpg)]

Seeing everyone's discussion, Li Chang'an could only offer words of comfort: "There will be more and more dishes available, so hopefully everyone will be able to snag one they like occasionally."

As for fruit, there won't be any more.

The fruit wine I brewed a few days ago will be ready to drink in a little over a month.

Li Chang'an took out a jar of bayberry wine, thinking of letting the members of Xianshan try it at dinner.

This time, all the ingredients used to brew the wine were imbued with spiritual energy. The wine used to soak the bayberries was made from high-quality sorghum. As soon as the lid of the bayberry wine was opened, everyone else and the spirits felt a strong and impactful spiritual energy.

Tianxuan couldn't help but say, "The spiritual energy in this jar of wine is even greater than that of the immortal rice."

Li Chang'an was somewhat surprised: "Is it that amazing?"

As he spoke, he poured himself a small glass of bayberry wine.

After the jar of wine was taken out, it was chilled for a while. The wine was icy cold and had a sweet aroma of bayberries and a drunken fragrance of wine.

Li Chang'an took a bite.

The wine has a very smooth texture. When you first taste it, you taste the bayberry flavor, and then the wine flavor comes on.

It should smell even better if stored for a while longer.

Li Chang'an put down his cup and poured another cup for everyone else.

Looking at the purplish-red wine in front of her, and smelling the aroma of wine and bayberries, Tianxuan felt that the nascent soul deep in her dantian seemed to have become much more active.

He couldn't help but drink the bayberry wine, feeling the rich spiritual energy being absorbed by his dantian.

Tianxuan didn't pay attention and planned to go back to her room to meditate and cultivate after dinner.

However, while eating, Tianxuan felt a heat rising in her lower abdomen.

He frowned, assuming it was due to absorbing too much spiritual energy.

After returning to his room after dinner, Tianxuan sat cross-legged facing the starry sky outside the window, trying to guide the spiritual energy into the sea of ​​spiritual power in his dantian.

The spiritual energy was restless, and much of the surrounding spiritual energy surged toward him, vying to surround him and vaguely forming a vortex. The absorbed spiritual energy was running wildly through his limbs and bones, bumping around as if it couldn't find a way out.

A sudden pain came from my dantian.

Such rich spiritual energy was something Tianxuan had never encountered before. His dantian, accustomed to a slow and steady flow of cultivation, couldn't keep up. He wanted to swallow all this spiritual energy in one gulp, but he didn't know how.

Even the meridians in my body started to ache.

Tianxuan suddenly opened her eyes.

Such a large amount of spiritual energy, while not enough to cause a qi deviation, could severely damage his meridians, and might even trigger a spiritual energy outburst.

In this situation, only the Spirit Fruit can help him.

But now he's in excruciating pain all over his body, how can he go downstairs to get it...?

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the sound of a mandrill came through:

"What's wrong? Are you alright?"

The mandrill's room was nearby, and upon noticing the unusual fluctuations in spiritual energy, it immediately ran over to ask.

Tianxuan's forehead was covered in sweat, and the veins were bulging from the pain.

He gritted his teeth and said to the mountain demon outside the door, "Spirit, Spirit Fruit..."

His voice was weak and feeble, almost a whisper, but the mountain demon's cultivation was far superior, and it could hear him perfectly well.

The mandrill heard clearly.

It had already sensed something from the fluctuation of spiritual energy, so it quickly said "You wait," and flashed into the living room to grab a plate of spiritual fruit from the coffee table.

This whole process only took two or three seconds.

The mountain demon used its spiritual power to open the door, protected itself with spiritual power within the vortex of spiritual energy, and delivered the fruit platter to Tianxuan's side.

"Thank you, thank you," Tianxuan said with a forced smile.

"Stop talking and hurry up and finish your cultivation, or you might damage the house."

After saying this, the mandrill sat down by the door.

Although it seemed to be expressing dissatisfaction, it opened a barrier the moment it sat down, enveloping the entire room.

After sensing it, Tianxuan nodded towards it, then grabbed a handful of high-quality mulberries and put them in her mouth.

Mulberries are very soft; they burst with juice with just a gentle touch.

The spiritual energy from the mulberry flowed gently into my dantian like water. Under the guidance of this spiritual energy, the previously chaotic spiritual energy seemed to have found its direction.

It worked!

Tianxuan was finally relieved.

His previous idea was correct; these spiritual fruits could indeed help absorb a large amount of spiritual energy.

Tianxuan dared not delay. With a bit of strength, she picked up the next spiritual fruit and began to eat it. After finishing, she sat down to meditate and cultivate.

This process repeated several times until the sky turned black and white, then white and black again. Finally, at sunrise on the third day, the vortex of spiritual energy in the room slowly stopped.

Tianxuan opened his eyes and looked at the sunrise outside the window. He suddenly realized that after last night's cultivation, he had advanced from the third level of the Nascent Soul stage to the fourth level, officially entering the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul stage, and was not far from the fifth level.

The next second, he thought of the mountain demon that had brought him the spirit fruit, and quickly turned around to look at the door. He saw Li Chang'an, the sword spirit, and the tea spirit standing behind the mountain demon.

Li Chang'an smiled and said, "It's over? How was it?"

Tianxuan nodded and smiled, "Thanks to your wine, my cultivation has improved a lot."

He looked at the mandrill and thanked it again: "Thank you."

The mandrill wagged its tail but didn't say anything.

Tianxuan slowly stood up, and said, "I didn't expect your brewing method to produce so much spiritual energy."

It's almost as good as the rare and precious materials from 6,000 years ago.

Li Chang'an touched his nose and looked at the sword spirit.

The sword spirit glanced at Tianxuan's condition and explained in a deep voice, "The spiritual energy in the wine acted as a medium."

The tea essence added, "You cultivate using the power of the stars. Originally, after drinking it, you should only be able to absorb the spiritual energy in the wine. However, the spiritual energy in the wine, combined with the power of the stars, has caused this effect."

Tianxuan understood and nodded.

Li Chang'an was somewhat puzzled after hearing their explanations.

He brewed a lot of wine and originally planned to give away a portion of it to his fans in a raffle, just like last time.

But since there is a media outlet involved, is it inappropriate?

The sword spirit glanced at Li Chang'an, seemingly understanding what he was thinking.

"Drinking this wine in the Cangxuan Realm wouldn't have such an effect. It's just that the wine has a high spiritual energy content, making it unsuitable for mortals to drink."

Li Chang'an didn't notice the sword spirit's momentary pause and felt relieved upon hearing this.

He thought for a while and realized that he definitely couldn't give away this batch of fruit wine to fans in a raffle, because it wouldn't be good if an ordinary fan won it.

Finally, he decided to give a portion of the fruit wine to the Qingfeng Sect disciples for exchange, and then sell some to the Cultivation Alliance for other cultivators to exchange.

The Jade Balance Star Lord would probably be willing to buy it.