Chapter 240 Tianzun Medicine Garden, the rotation of the sun and the moon (4K)

Half a month later.

"Is it enough for those children to come only half a day every day?"

Looking at the children who left in a daze, Senior Sister Yuan asked.

According to Zhengfa's rules, these children come to the temple to study in the morning and go back before lunch, which only takes two hours a day.

Zheng Fa was silent for a while and said, "Senior Sister Yuan, the life span of people in Banshan City is short. Not to mention a five-year-old child, a ten-year-old child can already be a strong laborer... If I stay in the temple all day, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of the family."

Zheng Fa, who grew up on a farm, knows very well that full-time study is actually a luxury.

Even when Zheng's father was still alive, he would help with a lot of housework every day.

Not to mention that the conditions in Banshan City are not as good as those in Zhao’s Farm.

According to the average life expectancy of people in Mid-Levels City, who are in their thirties, ten years old can be considered a young adult...

Most children in mid-mountain cities either have to help their families cook or go up the mountains and down the rivers.

Senior Sister Zhang, on the other hand, understood the world a little better than Senior Sister Yuan. She said, "There is still too little food."

Zheng Fa agreed in his heart.

If some people want to quit their jobs, there is still enough food.

Although the output of edible mushrooms exceeded Zheng Fa's expectations, it was still limited and was not a staple food.

Any development plan can only be implemented on the basis of having enough food to eat.

To do this, we rely on domesticating crops and cultivating spiritual plants.

Zheng Fa was more open-minded: "Take your time. It takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to raise a person. Education and farming are not things that can be rushed."

Senior Sister Yuan at the side said with some disdain: "These kids are so stupid..."

Even Zheng Fade shook his head at this point.

He didn't expect any geniuses among these hundreds of children...

But to be honest, it’s a bit too much for them to portray Xiaoqing as a genius.

Senior Sister Zhang, on the other hand, was more open-minded:

"It's not their fault. First of all, they haven't been to school."

"Secondly, they don't understand the benefits of studying."

"Without a foundation and a goal, it's naturally difficult to make progress." Senior Sister Zhang paused and looked at Xiaoqing outside the temple. "But this girl, although her foundation is poor, she is diligent."

Xiaoqing was holding a book in one hand and a branch in the other, writing and drawing on the mud in front of the temple.

Among all the "students", she is considered to be the most hardworking.

At least Xiaoqing was the only one who reviewed after class.

She frowned, obviously confused and thinking hard.

As if she couldn't figure it out, she threw the dead branch away, pouted her lips, squatted on the ground in a daze, and seemed to have given up on herself.

Zheng Fa thought for a while and said:

"Xiao Qing."

"well?"

“Have all those beans been planted?”

Zheng Fa asked.

The spiritual wood thunder he had researched in modern times could give birth to a kind of bean in the Tianbei world.

Zheng Fa had previously instructed Xiao Qing to set aside a piece of land specifically for growing this thing.

"alright!"

"In the future, these beans will be used as rewards."

Xiaoqing asked in confusion: "Reward?"

Zheng Fa explained: "Reward children who study well."

After all, it's just a scholarship in kind.

Zheng Fa would not distribute ordinary crops, which are the basis for survival of most people and a necessity of life.

However, the production of spiritual plants is relatively scarce, and it is impossible for everyone to have them.

He thought of this when Senior Sister Zhang said before that these children had no desire to study.

Xiaoqing obviously understood.

"That……"

She hemmed and hawed.

"Um?"

"Do I?"

"certainly!"

When Xiaoqing heard this, she happily picked up the branch again.

Seeing her excited look, Senior Sister Zhang's tone was a little strange: "Junior Brother Zheng, you always have some strange but useful ideas."

This time, Zheng Fa did not take credit for it. He just smiled and said, "It's not that others can't think of it, it's just that no one in the Xuanwei world is willing to invest so much in education."

Senior Sister Zhang remained silent.

This is very obvious. Not to mention other things, even the Jiushan Sect’s own spiritual plants are not enough to eat, let alone feed these children with no cultivation? After hearing this, Senior Sister Yuan seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said:

"Junior Brother Zheng, I actually love studying too!"

"Senior sister..." Zheng Fa was speechless, "At least find someone who can read..."

"Nonsense, I have to be able to beat him if I can read..."

…

Zheng Fa led his two senior sisters towards the Treasure Hall.

There were originally four or five monks in the hall who were exchanging spiritual materials. They all had excited looks on their faces and were discussing with each other.

But when Zheng Fa stepped into the hall, the monks looked at each other and walked towards the door at the same time. Their smiles as they passed Zheng Fa were polite and distant, and even contained a hint of fear.

It seemed as if he was unwilling to stay in this treasure hall.

Senior Sister Yuan asked curiously, "Junior Brother Zheng, are they afraid of you?"

"Sister Yuan, if you had a hundred stone of yellow sprout rice in your hand, would you be happy?"

“Of course I am happy!”

"Then if you suddenly meet someone who says he has 10,000 dan, would you still be so happy?"

Senior Sister Yuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something and said, "Out of sight, out of mind!"

Zheng Fa nodded, feeling a little sad in his heart - this group of people were really smart in leaving this time, otherwise he was afraid that their moral integrity would collapse...

During his first few visits to Tianbei, Zheng Fa could still be said to be self-reliant.

This time is different, this time he brought two senior sisters with him!

The more than 20,000 Heavenly Merits in the bronze seal are the best compliments to the two senior sisters!

He had only earned more than 10,000 Tian Gong in total before, but with just a little help from the two senior sisters, they gave him a super double...

This was of course due to the fact that he had researched two major types of thunder techniques: Heavenly Tribulation Thunder and Cloud and Rain Thunder, but Zheng Fa could also see the dedication and hard work of his two senior sisters.

"Senior sister, what do you want?" Zheng Fa turned around and asked a little embarrassedly.

According to Zheng Fa's estimation, nearly 20,000 of the 20,000 Heavenly Powers were contributed by Senior Sister Zhang, and Senior Sister Yuan probably only contributed a small portion. As for Zheng Fa...

Probably a fraction of a fraction.

The main reason is that he has put most of his energy into educating children. The only source of his heavenly power may be the spiritual beans grown by the spiritual wood thunder.

Senior Sister Zhang shook her head and said, "These spiritual materials are of no use to me."

Zheng Fa pursed his lips. In this Xuanwei Realm, who would complain about having too many spiritual materials? But Senior Sister Yuan didn't seem to want to be polite with Zheng Fa. She was scribbling on the jade tablet with great interest. When she saw a rare spiritual fruit, she would stop and swallow her saliva...

She didn't even read it once, but read it over and over again.

It seems a bit tangled.

Zheng Fa was waiting for her to choose.

After a while, Senior Sister Yuan put down her finger and said, "I see!"

"Well, which ones do you want to choose, Senior Sister?"

“I don’t choose.”

“…”

"I just want to take a look! Just watch carefully!" Senior Sister Yuan said confidently, "I have never been here before. I am curious and want to have fun!"

“…”

Zheng Fa looked at the somewhat dim jade stele, as if he was listening to the jade stele scolding Senior Sister Yuan as a scumbag.

Looking at the two senior sisters who refused to use any natural skills, Zheng Fa was silent for a while and selected from the jade tablet for a while.

Twenty thousand Heavenly Powers is really a bit too much...even Zheng Fa took a long time to choose.

What puzzled Zheng Fa was that after the jade tablet flashed a few times, it didn't give him any spiritual materials! "What happened?" Senior Sister Yuan scratched her head. "Did I break it? Are you angry?"

Zheng Fa was also a little confused, but the next moment, he saw a burst of silver-white light suddenly emerge from his own copper seal, and he suddenly realized that this thing was going to be upgraded again! Sure enough, the silver-white light led the three people and flew towards the main hall. The main hall opened without wind and slowly closed behind the three people.

This time, the hall became bright.

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The hall was very large. After nine steps of gold and jade, there was a high platform, on which stood the tombstone that Zheng Fa had seen last time.

Zheng Fa didn't see the things under the steps last time - twenty-four low tables, two by two facing each other, with cushions placed behind them.

"Are these the seats for the twenty-four statues in the side hall?"

After looking around, Senior Sister Zhang said thoughtfully.

Zheng Fa nodded and said, "It can be seen that although the owner of this hall is of different status from these twenty-four people, he also treats them with great courtesy."

"So, they are the ones who withheld our Tiangong?"

Senior Sister Yuan spoke.

Zheng Fa shook his head and looked at the bronze seal in front of him that was still shining brightly.

A hint of silver gradually spread out like a drop of ink in water, covering the slightly dull copper color before.

When the seal was completely silver, a voice echoed in the main hall: "After the end of the law, the heaven was covered with dust, the emperor lost his position, and all the ways collapsed."

"Now there is the Thunder God Zheng Fa, who has 30,000 Heavenly Merits, and is granted the Silver Seal and the right to walk in the Heavenly Palace. I hope you will assist the Heavenly Lord in rebuilding the Heavenly Palace and re-establishing the Heavenly Way."

Zheng Fa glanced at Senior Sister Zhang. There was a lot of information in these few sentences...

As soon as he finished speaking, the evolved silver seal crashed towards Zheng Fa, and the three of them flew out of the hall involuntarily.

"This is……"

Standing outside the temple, he looked around.

The Heavenly Palace in the Tianbei Realm originally had three large halls, and outside of that was a void filled with white fog, and nothing could be seen.

Some people have explored it out of curiosity. If they walk three meters into the white fog, they will unknowingly return to the starting point and cannot go any deeper.

But now it has changed.

The three halls where Zheng Fa was located still looked like an isolated island in the white fog, but the white fog was no longer nothingness - there seemed to be several other islands, dimly visible in the fog.

"Is this what it means to walk in the Heavenly Palace?"

Just when he understood something, the silver seal began to flicker again, as if inviting him.

Zheng Fa touched Xi's body with his finger, and suddenly felt a soft breeze coming from under his feet.

The wind lifted him up and flew towards one of the "islands".

He was a little caught off guard. When he turned around, he saw Senior Sister Zhang and the other person behind him, and he felt relieved.

After flying for a while, they landed on the nearest island.

“This is…” Senior Sister Yuan widened her eyes, feeling as if her eyes had been opened.

Senior Sister Zhang said, "It looks like a medicine garden."

There is a bare hill in the center of the island. It is not very high and is surrounded by various magical herbs.

No, it was not just spiritual medicine. Zheng Fa also saw many spiritual beasts moving around in it.

All the spiritual materials he saw on the jade stele were growing in it.

“So the spiritual materials that Junior Brother Zheng wants to exchange are all grown here?” Senior Sister Yuan scratched her head, “But these are just seedlings…”

Zheng Fa was also puzzled.

Although the medicine garden here is large and has many kinds of spiritual materials, there is only one thing - no matter whether it is the spiritual materials or the monsters, they are still young, far from reaching the level of the hundred-year-old or even ten-thousand-year-old spiritual materials shown on the jade stele.

Just when a few people were surprised.

The silver seal in front of Zheng Fa suddenly flew over the medicine garden, and a flurry of human voices rang out: "The fairy mushrooms bestowed by Master Lei Shen are so delicious!"

"Thanks to Master Thunder, I caught fish again today..."

"It's another sunny day, I feel much better..."

"Let's go to the temple of Lord Thunder to worship tomorrow..."

"Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. Don't do bad things..."

“…”

The voice was full of gratitude, admiration or fear for Zheng Fa - what surprised the three people even more was that as the voice sounded, the originally inconspicuous hill shook slightly and slowly flew up.

The rocks and soil on the mountain gradually fell off, and spots of gold overflowed from behind the soil.

Only then did they realize that the hill was actually a large golden bell, and there seemed to be patterns of the sun, moon and stars engraved on the bell wall.

The bell flew higher and higher, and became larger and larger, until it covered the entire island.

The various human voices emitted by the silver seal seemed to have caused a resonance in the big bell, and it trembled slightly in the void.

Dong! Dong! Dong! The sound of the bells rang out in all directions.

With the sound of the bell, the sun, moon and stars on the bell wall seemed to come alive and revolve around the bell.

When a bell rings, the sun sets, the moon rises, and the stars rotate.

In one rotation, some plants and spirit animals in the medicine garden grew one year older! Not to mention Zheng Fa, even Senior Sister Zhang beside him stared at this scene in a daze.

“So this is how it grows…” Senior Sister Yuan also murmured to herself, as if she understood.

The so-called exchanging spiritual materials for heavenly power actually means using the "human voices" in the silver seal as nutrients to activate the precious bell, and thus use the precious bell to give birth to spiritual plants and beasts.

Zheng Fa gradually fell silent.

At first he always felt that this so-called heavenly power and the so-called exchange were too empty, and even gave him the feeling of playing a game at first.

Now he finally understood the source of this exchange.

Heavenly Power...

He thought of all the information books and even novels he had read in modern times. Could it be the so-called incense?

He looked at Senior Sister Zhang who was standing beside him. Senior Sister Zhang was also frowning, as if she was thinking about something.

"Senior sister?"

Senior Sister Zhang was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "You should still remember that I told you at the beginning that the Xuanwei Realm had experienced at least five times of spiritual energy decline..."

Zheng Fa was suddenly stunned and understood the implied meaning of Senior Sister Zhang.

The theory of five times of spiritual energy decline was mentioned by Senior Sister Zhang when they first met. At that time, Senior Sister Zhang said that there were historical records to prove the latter two times.

The fourth time ended with the destruction of the Demon Sect.

At the end of the fifth time, Venerable Tianhe raised his sword and opened the sky.

Only the first three times cannot be verified.

"Senior Sister, are you saying that this should be the remnant of the decline of spiritual energy in the previous three times?"

Senior Sister Zhang nodded: "If there are only five times, judging from the words "End of Dharma" in the hall before, it should be the second time, or the third time..."

Zheng Fa nodded and said, "Although the language in the Tianbei Realm has some accents, the grammar is very similar to that of the Xuanwei Realm. They should be of the same origin."

"I don't know if it's the second or third time..." Zheng Fa looked at the precious bell in the sky and seemed to understand why Senior Sister Zhang frowned.

This treasure could actually interfere with the passage of time. In the Xuanwei Realm, Zheng Fa had never heard of such a treasure...

This shows how powerful the so-called Heavenly Venerable is.

The problem is…

That tombstone and those twenty-four empty chairs told them clearly—they had failed, too.

(End of this chapter)