Chapter 152 Purifying the Soil?
Han Dongling was unaware of the commotion her impending tribulation had caused at various bases. She was focused on getting to her destination and arrived quickly.
Before she could even sit down to meditate, a bolt of lightning the size of a thumb appeared on the horizon. Before Han Dongling could even put out her lightning rod, she was struck squarely by the lightning.
But when the lightning actually struck her, she didn't feel any pain; instead, she felt a sense of comfort.
She suddenly realized, "Oh right, she has a lightning spiritual root, and the lightning tribulation contains a very rich amount of lightning power."
She had been so focused on reading the basic cultivation manual that she forgot it only covered the cultivation of ordinary spiritual roots, and only briefly mentioned mutated spiritual roots.
Han Dongling discovered through internal vision that the power of lightning was crackling and surging through her body along her meridians. She quickly sat down and began to use her spiritual power to guide and channel this chaotic power of lightning.
Just as things were starting to get going, the second wave of lightning struck, which Han Dongling successfully caught with her own body.
Perhaps because Han Dongling has a lightning spiritual root, the lightning tribulation that struck her did not char her black, but was absorbed into her body and then roamed wildly within her.
Han Dongling felt both refreshed and pained when she absorbed so much lightning power at once. It was refreshing because with each wave of lightning power she smoothed out, her meridians would widen a little, and her bones and muscles would be tempered.
The pain comes from absorbing too much at once. The excess, which cannot be properly channeled, runs rampant in the body, like thousands of needles pricking you randomly, or tiny hammers pounding you all over your body.
However, Han Dongling endured all the pain. The lightning tribulations grew thicker with each wave, the last one being as thick as an adult's arm. But Han Dongling didn't care how thick the lightning tribulations were; no matter how thick they were, she had to catch them all.
As the final wave of lightning struck, Han Dongling, who had caught it as usual, felt her body about to burst as a massive amount of lightning power surged into her body. Just when she felt she couldn't take it anymore, her dantian, which had already reached its limit, expanded with a "bang," and then the lightning power surged into her dantian like a flood. The spiritual energy around Han Dongling also frantically rushed into her body.
The lightning tribulation finally stopped.
The survivors, who had been worried about the commotion, heard the thunder finally stop and began to peek outside. The base was still alright; there was no typhoon or heavy rain. They breathed a sigh of relief.
The dark clouds seemed to be pressing down on the ground, and the thunder was very close and loud. They really thought a heavy rainstorm or typhoon was coming, and they were afraid that the base would be destroyed. They would have to find a new place to rebuild the base, but even just repairing it would be difficult to find materials, let alone rebuilding it from scratch.
Thankfully, it was just a false alarm.
After absorbing the last bit of lightning power, Han Dongling finally opened her eyes, her face beaming with joy.
Success! Foundation building successful!
Immediately afterwards, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and a large and bright rainbow appeared in the sky. People at the base came out to admire the beautiful rainbow.
Although it was just a false alarm, everyone felt a sense of relief at surviving a disaster. Some people in the crowd couldn't help but cheer, and then the sound began to grow louder and louder.
Han Dongling was oblivious to the cheers of the crowd, as she was currently bathing in the abundant spiritual energy of the tribulation rain.
She didn't close her eyes because the scene before her stunned her.
As the rain fell, the soil, which had darkened in color due to pollution, seemed to be purified, regaining its pre-apocalyptic hue and becoming even more fertile.
Then, seedlings sprouted from the soil and quickly grew to a height of 20 to 30 centimeters. Some were small grasses, while others blossomed. Before long, the area within a 1-kilometer radius of Han Dongling became covered with grass and flowers, lush and vibrant, a truly pleasing sight.
When the rain stopped, the flowers and plants remained in place. Han Dongling looked at the scene before her and wanted to say something, but when she opened her mouth, she found that her voice was hoarse and her face was cold. It turned out that she had cried.
Han Dongling casually stroked a small blade of grass and touched a brightly colored flower, reluctant to pick it. "It's not a mutated plant. Could it be that spiritual energy can purify the polluted soil and allow normal plants to grow back on this land?"
Looking at this land covered with normal flowers and plants, Han Dongling decided to give it a try.
With a heavy heart, she pulled up the flowers and plants from a small patch of land, which was only about 2 square meters in size. Then, she used her spiritual power to turn over the soil. Because the soil was very soft, she turned it over without much effort. She quickly made a few ridges and then took out the sweet potatoes that she had just traded for yesterday from her storage ring and planted them directly in the ground.
This is the only suitable place for her to grow sweet potatoes right now. If they can actually grow, then she can grow things on this land in the future.
She doesn't know whether only rain can purify the soil or spiritual energy can purify the soil; she'll have to spend time verifying that later.
She won't be able to break through to the Golden Core stage in the short term, but she can try to purify the soil with spiritual power.
This land is not suitable for others to discover yet, but fortunately it is far from the major bases and surrounded by sewage, so ordinary people cannot get here. She used a speed talisman and a lightness talisman to get here so quickly.
Speaking of sweet potatoes, Wang Erya, who grew sweet potatoes using growth hormones, was so excited she almost cried. She discovered that not only were sweet potatoes high-yielding, but the leaves could also be eaten before the sweet potatoes bore fruit, and they tasted delicious. The sweet potato vines also grew quickly and could be used to feed pigs.
Although eating too many sweet potatoes can cause bloating and stomach upset, it's still better than going hungry.
Wang Erya quickly arranged for the people on the estate to plant more sweet potatoes. These sweet potatoes weren't too picky about where they were planted; they could be grown using sweet potato vines.
Ning Xuan herself is used to eating rice as a staple food, and corn is only eaten as a whole grain, so she did not mainly recommend sweet potatoes at first, but subconsciously recommended corn, potatoes and rice.
However, it's not too late to discover this now. If we plant sweet potatoes now, we can harvest sweet potato leaves earlier than corn.
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Ning Xuan's train only went to the provincial capital. When she arrived in the provincial capital, she suddenly remembered the matter of capturing Dieter. She had originally set up a teleportation array in the provincial capital to keep an eye on the follow-up, but she forgot about it after getting busy.
She didn't know that when Lu Yan came to the Red Star Brigade about the real and fake heiresses He Qiaofang and Li Tong, because of the urgency and the large number of people, the timing wasn't right and she didn't ask any more questions.
With that thought in mind, she decided to go find Lin Qing to see if she was here.
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