Chapter 122 The person standing in front of Li Chang'an...
After the fairy in the snow-white robes in front of Li Chang'an finished speaking, the entire ball of light swayed and split into a small ball of light, pale purple.
The other eleven Snow Fairies also shook, and the small orbs of light that split off flew toward Li Chang'an, surrounding him.
“They are some spirit flower seeds and spirit beasts,” said Fairy Xue Nishang. “Most of the creatures living on Qingyao Mountain are spirit creatures. Six thousand years ago, the mountain god used a lot of divine power to protect us, but some low-ranking and weak spirit creatures might not be able to survive even with protection. So the mountain god had to entrust us to temporarily seal those spirit creatures away.”
Therefore, although the remaining image of the Qingyao Mountain God seemed to be in good spirits, it could actually last for far less time than the two mountain gods of Wolu Mountain and Jiarong Mountain.
"The mountain god said that one day when we meet the master of the immortal mountain, we can entrust these spiritual objects to him."
After Fairy Xue Nishang finished speaking, Li Chang'an couldn't help but close his eyes.
Those tiny orbs of light, each containing a spirit, swirled around him, and he seemed to sense something within them.
Lotus petals seemingly adorned with star-like tassels; a group of flower spirits, each a dozen centimeters long, perched atop a peony-shaped flower; a small stone spirit composed of two stones, one large and one small; fireflies flickering on and off; and a perfectly round, white pearl solidified within a dark seashell…
Li Chang'an sensed it briefly before opening his eyes.
There are twelve spiritual creatures within the twelve orbs of light, and the lotus flower with star-shaped tassels is the Flying Star Lotus.
The moment Li Chang'an sensed these spiritual beings, he also learned how to plant them and how to make them reproduce.
He put the ball of light into his storage bag, bid farewell to the Snow Fairy and Snow Tail, and left Qingyao Mountain.
As soon as we came down the mountain, we saw Jingjing and the others.
Li Chang'an walked over and briefly explained the situation at Qingyao Mountain.
Upon hearing this, Jingjing checked the list of spirits he had mentioned in her memory.
Qingyao Mountain is rich in spiritual energy, which attracted many spiritual creatures to settle there as early as six thousand years ago.
Li Chang'an said that what he saw matched all the mid-to-high-level spiritual creatures in Jingjing's memory.
It may not sound like much, but that's because most spirits have their own territorial awareness, and a single immortal mountain can't accommodate too many spirits and monsters.
For example, the Snow Rainbow Garment occupies the area near the snow line of Qingyao Mountain, allowing the Snow Tail to coexist with them. In the Five-Colored Pool, various spiritual creatures also live in their respective areas.
However, some lower-level spirits or those that failed to develop consciousness are no longer there.
But with a catastrophe looming ahead, the mountain god of Qingyao Mountain had already done his best to protect so many spiritual beings.
Jingjing wasn't too upset. He had witnessed the disappearances of the spirit creatures of Jiarong Mountain one after another. After all, he was a divine tree spirit ox that had lived for so many years, and these things were nothing more than a drop in the ocean in his eyes.
The Golden Beard and the others originally wanted to go up Qingyao Mountain to find their old playmates, but when they heard that the spirits were still inside the ball of light and had not yet woken up, they stopped in their tracks.
The two, along with a group of spirits, returned home.
The Qingyao Mountain expedition has begun, and the members of the Immortal Mountain are eagerly anticipating what will happen on the mountain and grassland.
At dinner time, Li Chang'an told everyone about the situation at Qingyao Mountain, and finally said, "There is also a snow leopard senior on Qingyao Mountain. When I left, I thought that snow leopards seem to be solitary, so I did not invite it to come down the mountain for the time being."
Jingjing nodded: "Snowtail has built its own cave on the mountain. It doesn't like crowds and prefers to live away from people, so let it live there."
He thought for a moment and then said, "The Snow Spirit Sheep among the twelve orbs of light you mentioned are what Snow Tail loves to eat."
Speaking of the twelve orbs of light, Li Chang'an also released those orbs from his storage bag.
"To awaken these sealed spiritual objects, all you need to do is inject enough spiritual energy."
“The Wenwen bees on the mountain need to collect nectar from hundreds of flowers to make Hundred Flower Honey, so I plan to cultivate a few plots of land on the grassland to plant flowers first.” Li Chang’an said, looking at the tea spirit: “After the flowers are planted, we can not only make honey, but also make flower tea and build a tea factory.”
Tea Essence's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly.
Li Chang'an then looked at Tianxuan: "The other half of the grassland can be used for animal husbandry. In addition to Snow Spirit sheep, dairy cows can also be raised."
These were suggestions made by Chajing and Tianxuan when the winery was being built.
Tianxuan smiled and nodded slightly.
With the initial planning complete, things will get busy from here on out.
The next morning, Li Chang'an went to Qingyao Mountain to set up the spirit foundation stone. After testing and confirming that the network could provide full coverage, he then went to Jiarong Mountain.
He walked to the fruit tree slope and heard a soft "buzzing" sound in his ear.
Jingjing, who was fertilizing and watering the cherry tree, also heard the sound. He looked Li Chang'an up and down and pulled a Wenwen bee off his collar.
His movements were exceptionally gentle, and the bee obediently perched on his fingertip, fluttering its wings slightly for a moment before making a "buzzing" sound.
“This is Wenwen’s scout bee,” Jingjing said with a smile. “It seems to have followed you all the way here and sensed that the flowers on these spirit fruit trees were imbued with spiritual energy. It got excited and made a sound.”
The scout bee's job is to find good nectar sources and then notify the worker bees in the colony to come and collect the nectar.
It's currently the flowering season for the spirit fruit trees, and the flowers are brimming with spiritual energy. The scout bees are eager to inform the colony.
After Jingjing finished speaking, the Wenwen Detective Bee in his hand moved.
He stared intently at it for a moment, then said, “It says that the caves where their people live are not suitable for making honey. They hope that the master of the immortal mountain can help them build beehives. Their population is small, so they only need two: one to make Hundred Flower Spirit Honey and one to make ordinary honey. The beehive for making Hundred Flower Spirit Honey needs to go through the process of refining artifacts and use better refining materials.”
Li Chang'an laughed and nodded quickly, "Okay."
He came to Jiarong Mountain with the intention of cutting down some cedar trees to make beehives.
He found the blueprints for building beehives online last night and studied them for a long time. Now the blueprints are in his head.
Upon hearing his agreement, Wenwen the scout bee flapped its wings and flew away from Jingjing's fingertips.
It looks like I need to go back and inform the tribe.
Li Chang'an cut down several cedar trees, used his black sword to peel off the bark and shave the planks, and then used his spiritual power to dry the moisture in the planks.
In no time, he had finished making a beehive.
As for the beehives needed for the Hundred Flowers Honey, Li Chang'an had no choice but to borrow a refining furnace from the Qingfeng Sect.
There was no shortage of good refining materials in the immortal mountain, so Li Chang'an simply used purple jade bamboo.
The next day, he placed the two beehives on the orchard slope.
With the hives, the bees no longer had to rush back to the caves every day; they simply settled down in the hives.
Every day, the spirits who come to tend to the fruit trees can see the little figure working diligently among the flowers.
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After the beehives were built and placed, Li Chang'an went to the edge of the green area of the Five-Colored Pool and infused spiritual power into the light cluster that contained the Flying Star Lotus.
The ball of light gradually grew larger, and the pale purple light became increasingly dazzling. After a moment, eight dark brown lotus seeds fell into Li Chang'an's palm.
Seemingly sensing a familiar presence, several silk dragonflies flew over and landed in front of Li Chang'an's palm.
Li Chang'an took out several flowerpots from his storage bag, each containing high-quality spiritual soil.
He buried eight lotus seeds in the flowerpot and then placed the flowerpot in a shallow area of water.
When Li Chang'an sensed the Flying Star Lotus, he also learned about the living habits of the Silk Dragonfly.
The petals of the star lotus secrete a sticky sap that, when clump together, resembles star tassels from a distance, and silk dragonflies feed on this sap.
Without these star-shaped lotus flowers, the silk dragonflies would soon die from lack of food.
Those eight lotus seeds are definitely not enough right now, but once this batch of flying star lotuses grows, they can reproduce more, and the silk dragonflies will have a stable food source.
After walking around the foot of Qingyao Mountain, Tianxuan spent some time making a plan.
Based on the information provided by Li Chang'an, such as the fact that the Snow Spirit Sheep like to eat spirit pasture and drink snow water, he planned to raise the Snow Spirit Sheep in a place close to Xuanling Immortal Mountain. There are several streams there that flow into Ningjing River. The stream water is icy cold and comes from the snow melted from Xuanling Immortal Mountain and Qingyao Mountain.
The grassland has a very flat slope, with only a few small mounds in the occasional spot.
One of the spirit beasts sealed within the ball of light—the Jade Snow Rabbit—likes to burrow and live in these small mounds of earth.
On the other side, the vast grassland was cleared of grass and cultivated into sacred fields to plant flowers.
After reviewing the blueprints, Li Chang'an led the members of the Immortal Mountain to cut down trees, build fences, and cultivate spiritual fields.
The grass on the grassland is all spirit grass. After harvesting the spirit grass and drying it with spiritual power, it can be fed to snow spirit sheep and jade snow rabbits.
Then, he manipulated the hoe to deeply turn over the soil.
The fence enclosed the area for raising snow spirit sheep and dairy cows, and also separated thousands of acres of spirit fields. Li Chang'an also set up an array to prevent the spirit pasture seeds from spreading from the grassland to the spirit fields.
The initial work was completed in just two days.
Li Chang'an then searched for information at various dairy farms.
Experts say that raising a dairy cow requires at least two to five acres of grass, but the 10,000 acres of grassland at the foot of Qingyao Mountain are all high-quality, fertile soil. The grass seeds sown here will grow in just half a day, so the animals raised here will not lack food.
Therefore, one acre of grass here can support at least three dairy cows.
Li Chang'an did the calculations and finally ordered 45 young dairy cows and 12 adult dairy cows from the dairy cow breeding base in Jinyang City, including five young male dairy cows and two adult male dairy cows.
After placing the order, Li Chang'an said he would drive the Lingzhou to pick up the dairy cows, so the base wouldn't need to find a truck for transportation.
The manager immediately realized that if Li Chang'an wanted to raise dairy cows, then he must have the necessary environment and conditions for raising them.
He excitedly asked, "Is it possible for you to sell your hay?"
He wasn't worried that the milk produced by Xianshan Farm would affect their business.
Xianshan Farm's products are all high-end, priced very high, and of course, of high quality. They are also subject to purchase restrictions, so they don't have much impact on the market.
Li Chang'an paused for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Yes, we will sell them in a while, but the quantity may not be large. After you buy them, you can only mix them with other fodder."
There's definitely a surplus of Spirit Pasture Grass, so it's better to sell it to these bases.
The base manager beamed and said, "Alright, then I'll wait in advance."
The next day, one of the staff members at the breeding base was sullen.
The reason is simple: she was taking care of the cows that were ordered.
One of the adult cows was one she had personally witnessed growing from birth to adulthood, and then giving birth to its own offspring.
Although it's said that those in this line of work shouldn't invest their emotions, otherwise it will be very painful.
But feelings are something that no one can control.
This cow has a great temperament, is very clean, and has beautiful markings. She likes it very much and even secretly named it "Little Flower".
Now that the cow has been sold, the staff felt very reluctant to see it go.
She touched the cow's head and neck, her eyes reddening.
Then the manager came over and said, "Bring out the cattle that were counted yesterday; Li Chang'an is here to pick them up."
The staff member was startled and blurted out, "Huh? Who?"
"Li Chang'an, hurry up, stop dawdling."
After the manager finished speaking, he went to find other staff members, leaving this staff member standing there dumbfounded.
After a while, the staff drove the other cows away.
She then stopped crying and smiled, gently patting the cow's body: "Goodness, so you've gone off to live a good life."
That's the Mysterious Spirit Immortal Mountain!
She worried for nothing.
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