Chapter 85 One of the conditions for the sacrifice must be met.
After the New Year, the tea essence gave him another 1,200 branches of spiritual energy essence.
Li Chang'an first finished cultivating the original two thousand mu of land, and then started live streaming to gradually open up terraced fields.
Now that the mandrills and fungal spirits have identification cards, Li Chang'an doesn't need to deliberately avoid showing them in his live streams.
Viewers in the live stream could see the tiny figure flash by from time to time.
What are those red things over there? They keep changing size.
[The Cultivation Alliance has updated its information; those are the mushroom spirits of Xuanling Immortal Mountain. They are gentle in nature, but their spiritual power can cause hallucinations.]
[Haha, so cute! Even the little hoes are custom-made. Is that a Bodhi seed over there?]
I saw a fly amanita; all of them are poisonous mushrooms.
[It's probably to prevent himself from being eaten, hahaha.]
[That little mandrill works so fast! Li Chang'an, look at you! He's already cleared several fields. You need to catch up!]
Li Chang'an used his spiritual power to control the hoe, occasionally glancing at the comments section.
He saw the last comment, and his gaze fell on the mandrill working hard in the field not far away. He chuckled and said, "Yes, yes, I'll do my best."
After he finished speaking, he had also finished turning over a piece of land in front of him. He then went to the ridges between the fields to set up an array and planted branches with spiritual essence.
While setting up the formation, Li Chang'an chatted with the viewers in the live stream: "This time we can probably get a few hundred more acres of land. I'll plant more spirit-grade Chinese cabbage and spirit-grade bok choy. We also have spirit-grade seeds for other vegetables. What would you like to eat?"
Now, in addition to selling them, there are also cultivators who deliver packages and need to exchange them, greatly increasing the demand for spirit-grade vegetables. Therefore, he is not in a hurry to grow more other types of vegetables, but plans to expand the planting area of spirit rice and spirit-grade vegetables.
[Do you grow whatever I want to eat? I'd like to eat some high-quality water chestnuts or high-quality tomatoes.]
[Add one: Water chestnuts are already quite sweet, I can't imagine how delicious the premium kind will be. The tomatoes are also delicious; they're not astringent at all when eaten raw, with a slightly sour taste, but mostly sweet—I think they taste even better than cherry tomatoes.]
[I'm voting for Lingpin tomatoes. I feel like the tomatoes I've bought at the market in recent years haven't tasted as good as they used to; the skin is hard, and it's hard to get them to release their juices when cooking. But the tomatoes from Xianshan Farm brought back that feeling of nostalgia. I haven't had such delicious tomatoes in a long time. Lingpin's tomatoes must be even better, right?]
"Okay, then I'll plant some spirit-grade water chestnuts and spirit-grade tomatoes," Li Chang'an said, looking at the comments.
The audience cheered in the live chat.
When someone heard him mention expanding planting, they took the opportunity to ask if it was possible to expand the scale of breeding.
"The pigs you raise are the best I've ever eaten. I have a sensitive palate, and most meats taste too gamey, but your pork, chicken, and duck have absolutely no gamey smell. They're just delicious, and the lard rendered from the pork fat is wonderful too. Could you raise more of them?"
A breeding pig can give birth two or three times a year, but Li Chang'an deliberately managed it, only allowing the breeding pigs to give birth once a year in early spring, so he raised a maximum of more than two hundred pigs.
"We'll raise more pigs when we have more land."
The ferns currently being grown can only support a little over two hundred pigs; any more than that would not be enough.
"However, we will raise more chickens and ducks this year."
Chickens and ducks are easy to raise. They can eat weeds on the terraced fields, as well as poultry grass, vegetable scraps, and occasionally he will sprinkle some spirit rice on them.
The ducks can also eat some small shrimp in the pond.
The living and eating conditions are very good, so the chickens and ducks are very diligent in laying and incubating eggs. It is expected that they will be able to sell them again in six months, and the number will be in the tens of thousands.
The viewers in the live stream chat excitedly sent another wave of comments.
Li Chang'an started developing terraced fields while simultaneously livestreaming.
The 1,200 branches of the Tea Spirit Essence were used up in half a month, and more than 900 acres of land were added to Wolu Mountain.
He fulfilled his promise and planted 100 mu each of premium tomatoes and premium water chestnuts, 100 mu each of premium Chinese cabbage and premium bok choy, and several dozen mu of other vegetables.
More than 3,000 mu of land were planted with vegetables, and Li Chang'an went to check on the mu of land where four kinds of divine grains were cultivated.
Just like when cultivating the Immortal Rice, after several rounds of planting, these spiritual grains showed no signs of upgrading to the Immortal quality.
Li Chang'an guessed that the spiritual energy was not enough, so he placed the water essence he had just received into this plot of land.
With the combined blessing of the essence of tea spirits and water essence, three months later, high-quality millet, yellow millet, wheat, and soybeans began to grow one after another.
One of the conditions for the sacrificial ceremony at Jiarong Mountain was thus fulfilled.
Li Chang'an kept five catties of each of the five immortal-grade grains. He used some of the immortal-grade millet and yellow millet to feed the Spirit Iris Bird and the Bright Star Bird, and kept the rest for himself.
He's cultivated a celestial-grade crop, but he hasn't tasted it yet.
Li Chang'an ground the golden, celestial wheat into flour, made some steamed buns as a staple food, and then used the celestial soybeans to make soy milk and tofu. Finally, he made a dish of stewed pig's feet with soybeans.
The steamed buns are white and plump, exceptionally fragrant, and very soft. They taste similar to those made with Lingpin wheat flour, with a smooth and slightly sweet texture.
Soy milk, tofu, and braised pork trotters with soybeans taste and texture similar to those of spirit-grade food.
only……
After Tianxuan finished eating a divine-grade steamed bun, a piece of tofu, and half a cup of soy milk, she put down her chopsticks.
He said, "These things are full of spiritual energy. Eating just a little is enough to fill my stomach, and I can't eat any more."
As a Nascent Soul cultivator, he actually has a large appetite if he doesn't abstain from grains. He usually eats several bowls of spirit rice, but this time he couldn't eat any more after only eating this little bit.
Li Chang'an ate two steamed buns and a few more bites of braised pig's feet with soybeans before putting down his chopsticks.
He meditated and felt his spiritual power increase significantly after eating these foods.
Tianxuan closed his eyes and sensed it for a while, and finally concluded: "A celestial-grade dish can help a cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining reach the middle stage of Qi Refining in a month."
In one month, his cultivation level increased by three stages, from the early stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage.
This speed is truly terrifying. After all, even a single-spiritual-root genius in the Cangxuan Realm needs several years to cultivate from the early stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage.
The seven stars of the alliance, who had the power of the stars to assist their cultivation, also took a year to go from the early stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage of Qi Refining.
If the cultivators found out, they would probably fight over it.
Li Chang'an pondered for a moment and said, "When I was eating just now, I actually had an intuition that told me that a little bit was enough and I shouldn't eat too much."
Tianxuan nodded: "Although they are artificially cultivated immortal plants and have not awakened intelligence, they still have their own laws as immortal plants. They contain abundant spiritual energy, but if one is greedy and eats too much of them, trying to rely solely on these immortal plants for cultivation without consolidating one's spiritual power, the final result will definitely be that one's body explodes and dies."
Therefore, it is both an opportunity and a test.
Li Chang'an suddenly realized.
This is the operating rule of the cultivation world. While cultivators gain opportunities, they will also be tested and constrained by the Heavenly Dao.
For example, the spiritual vegetables he grows also contain a lot of spiritual energy, but cultivators can only absorb the spiritual energy from them by eating them. Eating will give them a feeling of fullness, thus limiting the amount of spiritual energy they can absorb at one time.
His dishes represent the greatest opportunity for cultivators in the Cangxuan Realm today, which is why Heaven imposes such constraints.
"I understand. I will not sell these rare crops for profit for the time being."
He didn't grow much, just enough for him and the birds to eat, and there wasn't any left to sell.
Tianxuan looked at Li Chang'an, smiled and nodded, and said, "These were all grown by you, so you can arrange them."
Li Chang'an nodded.
Now that the five grains of the immortal grade have been cultivated, Li Chang'an began to prepare to plant glutinous rice, intending to brew rice wine to worship the mountain god, just like the sacrifice to Wolu Mountain.
After all, this is the only wine he knows how to brew.
Ordinary glutinous rice seeds mature quickly on high-quality spiritual soil. In less than ten days, Li Chang'an harvested a batch and began brewing rice wine.
With the experience from last time, he brewed rice wine very smoothly this time.
However, two days later, when Li Chang'an got up early in the morning and went downstairs, he smelled a sour and foul odor.
He followed the smell to the kitchen and discovered that the source was the pot of rice wine he had just brewed.
Li Chang'an was startled and quickly lifted the cloth covering the basin.
A large basin of rice wine was turning black and emitting a nauseating sour smell.
"Ugh!" Li Chang'an felt nauseous and quickly drew a cleansing talisman to remove the bowl of rice wine as if it were trash.
His brewing steps were exactly the same as last time, or even more skillful, so what's going on?
Rice wine shouldn't spoil this badly after just two days; it looks like something from a stinky ditch.
Li Chang'an pressed his temples.
What went wrong? Was the container for the rice wine incorrect? Was the temperature set wrong when drawing the heat-preserving talisman?
Looking at the brand-new basin in front of him, Li Chang'an gritted his teeth and decided to use the remaining glutinous rice to brew it again.
Two days later, another pot of something that looked like a stinking ditch appeared in the kitchen.
Li Chang'an looked up at the sky helplessly and drew a cleansing talisman again to clear away the dust.
He turned and went upstairs, knocking on the sword spirit's door.
"...That's how it is, senior. Is there any other problem?"
The sword spirit, holding a book in his hand, said without looking up, "Your attitude is perfunctory, so it doesn't count as fine wine. The mountain god of Jiarong Mountain is not happy."
Li Chang'an was stunned.
The mountain god of Jiarong Mountain could even sense what kind of wine he was brewing.
Li Chang'an pondered as he walked out of the Sword Spirit's room.
Fine wine, fine wine... Could it be that we're going to use the flowers from the wine vine?
Li Chang'an cracked his knuckles, rallied his spirits, and went to the South Floating Island to pick a bunch of wine vine flowers.
The flowers of the wine vine can be used as a substitute for yeast to ferment wine.
With a little glutinous rice left, Li Chang'an brewed rice wine again, this time replacing the yeast with hops.
Two days later, the bottle of rice wine did not turn into something like the stinking ditch, but it still smelled sour and foul. The fermented wine was greenish-blue and sticky, and it looked undrinkable.
Li Chang'an sighed.
What level of satisfaction would please the mountain god? Or perhaps the mountain god simply doesn't want to drink rice wine?
Li Chang'an couldn't understand it, and the sword spirit wouldn't give him a definite answer.
He continued to grow glutinous rice, and after it produced a high-quality product, he brewed rice wine again.
The result this time was that the rice wine juice turned yellow and tasted very sour, so it was still undrinkable.
Looking at the failed rice wine in front of him, Li Chang'an was not discouraged. Instead, he smiled, his eyes gleaming.
He understood that the mountain god of Jiarong Mountain seemed to have high requirements for the quality of glutinous rice.
Then he would go and cultivate the divine glutinous rice, refusing to believe that the mountain god of Jiarong Mountain would remain dissatisfied forever.
However, it seems that the mountain god of Wolu Mountain was very tolerant of him, as he accepted his crudely made rice wine.
Li Chang'an smiled, cheered himself up, picked up the spirit-grade glutinous rice and went to the terraced fields. On the same plot of land where he cultivated immortal-grade wheat and other grains, he began to cultivate immortal-grade glutinous rice.
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Author's note: Thank you for the nutrient solution, everyone! [hugs]
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