The next morning, Li Shiming felt the vortex of spiritual energy in his chest and sighed helplessly.

He did not practice the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' yesterday, so he wanted to see if he could recover the spiritual energy consumed in his body by relying on his own recovery.

As a result, after a night, there was no sign of recovery of the spiritual power in his body.

In addition, he discovered something even more serious.

In the past, when he had the Spirit Gathering Disk, he could not feel the energy when he practiced the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' every day. Since the Spirit Gathering Disk could not be activated, he was unable to practice the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' for two days.

But he hadn't practiced the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' for the past two days, and his body had been deprived of the nourishment of spiritual energy. He felt that his body had been polluted.

The source of the pollution is his daily food.

It’s not that the food is poisonous, but worldly food without spiritual energy is unclean to a body that has been baptized by spiritual energy.

Of course, this pollution is not serious, but under the long-term pollution, coupled with the fact that he has no spiritual energy to practice the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique', his cultivation level will not only decline, let alone improve.

It’s not that he is without spiritual energy. There is a rich spiritual energy in the computer room.

It’s just that the spiritual energy in the computer room is like rootless water, and it will become less as it is used.

He originally planned to use the spiritual energy in the computer room as a reserve for emergencies.

Now it seems that he has to use this spiritual energy to solve the current urgent problem.

First of all, he had to solve the problem of food. Without spiritual food, even if he used the spiritual energy in the computer room to practice, he could only hold on for a little longer.

In "The Fundamentals of Spiritual Plant Cultivation" and Shi Ximing's practice notes, there are methods on how to grow spiritual rice.

But even a good cook cannot cook without rice. To grow magical rice, you need magical fields.

There are ready-made methods for making spiritual fields, but those materials have never been seen or even heard of, let alone purchased.

He also understood that given his current situation, he wouldn't dare buy anything wherever it was for sale.

He is a Qi Refining Level 2 cultivator who doesn't even have the ability to protect himself. If he dares to exchange the magic tools or books in his hands for materials for the spiritual field, he will probably be swallowed up by the cultivators, skin and bones.

Of course, using the spiritual field method was not feasible, so he thought of the advanced planting methods from his previous life.

Although spiritual rice is a spiritual crop and cannot be grown by ordinary planting, he also has some skills as a spiritual plant grower. The "Spring Breeze and Rain Technique" can make the spiritual rice grow.

Since he had nothing to do recently, he began to use his consciousness to enter the large server IBMz15 and search for planting-related information in the vast database.

Li Shiming had forgotten that this morning was the day when the results of the autumn examination would be announced. He was probably the only candidate who was indifferent to the matter.

"Congratulations, young master, you have won the second place in the imperial examination!" the servant Mo Yan shouted outside the study.

Originally, the good news should have been announced by the yamen runners, but Li Shiming lived in the back garden of the government office, so Mo Yan took the good news and delivered it after getting the news.

"Siqin, give two taels of silver to Moyan. All the servants will receive rewards!" Li Shiming's train of thought was interrupted, and he had no choice but to order Siqin.

"Young master, you are a juren!" Siqin was not as calm as him, she jumped and laughed and said.

"I understand. Go and tell Mo Yan to be quiet. Then take the reward and go play somewhere else!" Li Shiming waved his hand to calm the excited Siqin.

Siqin didn't understand Li Shiming's attitude towards passing the imperial examination, but this did not affect her happiness, and she jumped out of the study.

Li Shiming refocused his attention on the database of the large server IBMz15, which contained a lot of information related to agriculture.

The flower-growing family I lived in in my previous life was ahead of the world in rice cultivation. Among them, there appeared great druids like Old Yuan, who pushed rice to an unprecedented height.

But his time and conditions are limited, so it is not realistic to cultivate better and stronger rice in a short period of time.

What he needed most was to grow the spiritual rice first, and only on this basis could he consider other things.

After comparing a large amount of information, he found the most feasible method, which is soilless cultivation technology.

Soilless cultivation technology, especially for rice, is already a relatively mature technology.

Li Shiming finally chose the technology to realize rice cultivation in a plant factory environment. The reason for choosing this technology is that this method can make the most of the space.

You should know that the computer room space is not large. Excluding the area that has been used, the remaining usable area is only 70 square meters.

Seventy square meters of space is still too small to grow rice.

But if a plant factory environment can be formed, then multi-layer soilless planting can be formed. Taking the four-meter-high machine room space as an example, in addition to the bottom layer which is the seedling layer, four layers of planting space can be formed above it.

In order to maximize the use of the computer room space, Li Shiming removed the suspended ceiling of the computer room.

The ceiling is used to place central air conditioning and multiple sets of LED cold light lamps. Needless to say, the central air conditioning, in the absence of external equipment, only the exhaust vents are left as a decoration, so it is better to remove it.

Before, Li Shiming used his consciousness to enter the computer room space and had no need for lights. Under the perception of consciousness, the computer room space without lights had no effect on consciousness.

However, to create a plant factory environment in the computer room space, lights are needed to achieve photosynthesis.

Fortunately, electricity is readily available, and you only need to connect the electricity to light up the LED cold light.

There are a lot of LED cold light lamps. When the computer room itself was designed, LED cold light lamps were spread all over the top to create a shadowless effect. The LED cold light lamps are distributed enough to be used in multi-story plant factories.

This saved him a lot of time. You know, even though he had the technology to make electric lights and the ability to control his consciousness at the micron level within the computer room, it still took a lot of time to actually make the light bulb.

In the next few days, except when he needed to visit his teacher, Li Shiming stayed in the study almost all the time.

In just a few days, he spent hundreds of taels of silver to purchase a large amount of necessary materials.

In his machine room space, a set of five-story racks made of wood have been built.

On the wooden shelf are trays made of glass. The colors of the glass are very mixed, but in this era, any colorful tray is an expensive treasure.

He made the glass tray with sand. If he wanted to make transparent glass, he needed better quality silica sand. He didn't want to make money from the glass. He just wanted the stable properties of the glass, and the color did not affect its use.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that he got a large amount of gold and silver from the storage bag and did not need to worry about silver.