Chapter 76 Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage, growing and selling vegetables...
Six months later, the tea essence provided another 1,200 branches of spiritual energy essence.
Li Chang'an continued to develop terraced fields, and half a month later, more than 900 mu of fields were added to Xuanling Immortal Mountain, bringing the total to more than 2,400 mu.
However, the essence of the tea spirit's spiritual power was not used up; there were still ten branches left.
The immortal rice was cultivated using water essence. The amount of water essence was limited, barely enough for one acre of immortal rice. However, the tea spirit said that his spiritual essence tree branches could function as wood essence.
Inspired by this, Li Chang'an planned to clear a plot of land on the terraced fields to begin cultivating high-quality wheat, soybeans, millet, and yellow millet.
The plot of land was only a little over half an acre in size. Li Chang'an planted ten branches of tea essence spiritual power on the edge of the plot, and planted four kinds of grain spiritual seeds in the middle.
Every night when he goes out to hunt monsters and gets monster pills, he will bury more monster pills in this land to nourish its spiritual energy.
Hopefully, after a few more planting cycles, we can grow some divine grains.
With over 900 mu of extra land, Li Chang'an increased the planting area of spirit rice by 300 mu, planted more birdgrass and broad-leaved fern by 100 mu, and planted potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, peas and spinach on the remaining 500 mu.
Although Xuanling Immortal Mountain also has high-quality Chinese cabbage, bok choy, and soybeans, netizens still have a special affection for spiritual rice, and they always leave comments in the comment section urging Li Chang'an to grow more spiritual rice.
Li Chang'an followed their wishes.
After the more than 2,400 acres of land were planted, the acre of land on the East Floating Sky Island where the immortal rice was planted also had its spiritual energy greatly restored thanks to the effects of the demon beast pills and the Ningjing River water, so it could continue to plant the third round of immortal rice.
On this day, just as the third round of immortal rice was planted, Li Chang'an suddenly sensed something subtly.
The golden core inside his body seemed to be burning hot. He used his spiritual power to look inside and saw that the golden core was emitting an intense and dazzling golden light.
The sky was somewhat overcast, and the clouds overhead seemed to be gathering, with a faint vortex appearing at the center of the clouds.
Upon seeing the sword spirit appear in his line of sight, Li Chang'an, with a sudden flash of inspiration, asked before the sword spirit could speak, "Am I ready to form my Nascent Soul?"
Sword Spirit: "...Yes."
Li Chang'an laughed twice.
He's even learned to answer questions quickly.
"Actually, after growing the immortal rice, I felt that the spiritual power in my body was increasing much faster than before." Li Chang'an drew a cleansing talisman and washed his hands after planting the rice seedlings.
"It seems like every time I finish planting a batch of immortal rice, this world gives me a corresponding reward," Li Chang'an said.
Li Chang'an guessed it must be related to his past life, otherwise the other party would not have allowed him, the reincarnated heir, to farm and raise pigs in Xuanling Immortal Mountain.
The sword spirit remained silent, seemingly tacitly acknowledging Li Chang'an's conjecture.
Li Chang'an looked around.
Now, the two floating islands in the east and north have become high-quality spiritual soil, while only the two floating islands in the west and south remain low-quality spiritual soil.
However, the creatures on the West Floating Island are the Bright Birds and the Bird Valley Grass. The Bright Birds do not have high requirements for their living environment, and the Bird Valley Grass is a low-level spiritual herb that does not need to be planted in high-quality spiritual soil.
The wine vines on the South Floating Island are mid-level spiritual plants. To prevent them from dying and to encourage them to reproduce and bloom more, they need high-quality spiritual soil.
Thinking of this, Li Chang'an flew to the South Floating Island.
He intends to form his nascent soul and transcend tribulation here.
Breaking through from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage also requires overcoming inner demons.
Perhaps because he had paid off his debts and his obsession with the past had lessened, Li Chang'an did not experience the test of inner demons this time.
He shattered his core and formed his nascent soul almost smoothly, but after this step, his divine consciousness seemed to be torn apart. His mind was filled with images of the Xuanling Immortal Mountain, and at other times it seemed to have scattered outside of the Xuanling Immortal Mountain.
After a long while, things stabilized, and a nascent soul that looked exactly like Li Chang'an appeared where the golden core had been, sitting cross-legged in meditation.
In the sky above Xuanling Immortal Mountain, golden tribulation clouds slowly emerged from the swirling clouds.
"boom--"
A bolt of lightning, radiating golden light, struck down fiercely towards the South Floating Island.
The lightning strikes were so widespread that they even reached the summit of Mount Wolu.
Fortunately, a silvery-white barrier ingeniously protected the spirit kite tree and the spiritual plants on the mountaintop, allowing them to be nourished by the spiritual energy during the lightning tribulation without being harmed.
After being struck by twenty-seven bolts of lightning, Li Chang'an was almost covered in blood again.
This time, he tried to protect all the spiritual plants on the entire South Floating Island with his own spiritual power. It consumed a lot of spiritual power, but after the tribulation was over, the heavenly lightning also fed him a lot of spiritual power, allowing him to directly reach the second stage of the Nascent Soul realm after the tribulation was over.
Moreover, not only has the inferior spiritual soil on the South Floating Sky Island been upgraded to superior quality, but the soil on the top of Wolu Mountain has also been upgraded.
Li Chang'an laughed heartily and sat down to meditate and recover.
...
On the South Floating Island, the wine vines that grow on the spirit tree tremble slightly, and the small green flowers that look like bunches of grapes bloom more and more luxuriantly.
At the summit of Mount Wolu, outside the entrance to the Mountain God's Cave, the purple jade bamboos have become even more lustrous, their color has deepened, and new bamboo shoots have sprouted from the ground.
The mandrills and fungi were farming as usual, taking good care of the crops on the terraces.
After finishing its work on the terraced fields, the mountain demon would have the tea spirit take it to the East Floating Island to help Li Chang'an take care of that acre of immortal rice.
Tianxuan helped feed the pigs, chickens, and ducks. Later, she drove all the chickens and ducks from the pen to the terraced fields and used her spiritual power to restrict them from eating crops and only weeds. In the evening, she used her spiritual power to drive them back to the pen.
Those weeds absorb the spiritual energy from both inferior and superior spiritual soil and grow up with a crisp, tender, and sweet taste, which chickens and ducks love.
It took Li Chang'an a week to form his Nascent Soul and undergo tribulation. During that week, the chickens and ducks laid more eggs, and each one grew exceptionally strong.
It took Li Chang'an three or four days to recover through meditation. When he returned, he found that all the ordinary vegetables on the terraced fields had ripened, and he was somewhat surprised to see the chickens and ducks eating grass.
Tianxuan explained, "I used spiritual power to control them. However, they can only eat the weeds on the ground; the roots underground need to be removed separately."
Li Chang'an and the mushroom spirits cleared the roots of the weeds by turning them over with hoes and then burning them directly with fire talismans or spells.
During this week, Tianxuan tried to use his spiritual power to directly probe into the spiritual soil and eradicate the roots of the weeds, and the results were quite efficient.
However, the weeds are incredibly resilient, and with the increased spiritual energy in the soil, they reproduce very quickly. Therefore, even with daily weeding and tilling, a large patch of weeds still sprouts the next morning, competing with the crops for nutrients and spiritual energy.
Li Chang'an didn't want to use herbicides.
Herbicides contain too many chemicals. Tianxuan also said that those artificially synthesized products have a heavier turbidity and are very harmful to the spiritual soil.
If only we could make our own weed killer using some magical ingredients.
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Li Chang'an sighed.
At least there are no such spiritual objects in the current Xuanling Immortal Mountain. If there were, the basic manual would have told him about them long ago.
After regaining his senses, Li Chang'an took out the mountain god's antlers and harvested the mature ordinary vegetables.
Although he had reached the Nascent Soul stage, the harvest of the Mountain God's antlers only doubled, and did not increase.
After harvesting the vegetables, Li Chang'an went to the chicken and duck shed to collect eggs.
The fertilized eggs were kept for the chickens and ducks to incubate, while the unfertilized eggs were collected. Since there weren't many, they were all given to the Qingfeng Sect.
After collecting the chicken and duck eggs, Li Chang'an went to the West Floating Island.
As soon as he stepped onto the island, Li Chang'an spotted several small, furry, red animals.
Upon closer inspection, he discovered they were tiny bright-eyed birds, seemingly recently hatched, only about the size of his palm, with very soft feathers, like a small flame.
Li Chang'an used his divine sense to perceive that there were now about two hundred more Little Bright Birds on the West Floating Sky Island.
The Mingyi birds need spiritual energy to incubate their eggs. During this period, Li Chang'an often fed them spiritual rice, and later fed them some chopped vegetables and poultry grass. The Mingyi birds seemed to feel that their living conditions were stable, so they began to incubate their eggs.
That's why there are more than two hundred little guys.
Li Chang'an withdrew his gaze and began picking up the unfertilized bright bird eggs.
He hadn't picked them up for a while, and this time he found more than three thousand.
Li Chang'an sighed for a moment, then took three thousand eggs home.
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The next morning, Li Chang'an started a live stream to sell vegetables.
Shortly after the broadcast started, Li Chang'an reminded everyone as usual: "Xianshan Farm has released a mobile app. You can download it from the official website or search for it in major mobile app stores."
The software application was completed a month ago. Qi Shun Studio sent a person in charge to help Li Chang'an with all the procedures before the application could be listed on major mobile app stores.
This app has now been downloaded nearly 100 million times, all by people who are planning to buy groceries.
"The vegetables we're selling today are still premium ones. In addition to the usual varieties, we also have new ones: potatoes, green beans, peas, tomatoes, and spinach."
Li Chang'an began introducing the new dishes on camera.
Each potato is about half the size of a palm. They are yellow-skinned potatoes, which are perfect for stewing, boiling, steaming, and frying. Once cooked, they have a soft, glutinous, and creamy texture, and are very fragrant.
The pea pods were plump, and when you opened them, the peas inside were round and plump, and all were very uniform in size.
"...This time we only have peas. The pea shoots and tender pea pods will have to wait a couple of days."
By the time he finished his breakthrough and tribulation, the peas had already grown old, and there wasn't time to pinch off the pea tips and tender pea pods.
Next came green beans, spinach, and tomatoes.
After the introduction, there were still about ten minutes left until the hour.
Why did you finish the introduction so early today?
Li Chang'an took a sip of water and said, "It's not over yet, there's another new product coming out."
He put down his water glass, scratched his head, took out a bright bird egg, and displayed it in front of the camera.
What is this? A red egg? Has your chicken mutated?
“No.” Li Chang’an said helplessly, “The chickens are all fine, they haven’t mutated. This is a Mingyi bird egg.”
"The Mingyi bird is a kind of spirit bird. There aren't many eggs in this batch. I'm selling them today as a test and also as a fan benefit."
Perhaps because he feeds the Mingyi bird spirit rice every day, the Mingyi bird now belongs to him in a sense, and these eggs can be sold.
Wow! This is great! Li Chang'an, I knew I made the right choice in becoming a fan.
The moment the comments appeared, Li Chang'an said, "Each Brightbird egg costs twenty yuan, and there are only three thousand available. Each person is limited to two eggs, first come, first served."
The previously excited fan commented: "This... I don't know whether to complain about the price, the limited quantity, or the purchase limit. Is this what they call a perk? I'm crying."
This egg is about the size of a chicken egg; even two per person isn't enough.
[This is a spirit bird's egg. Does it have some special function?]
Li Chang'an said, "This egg can improve eyesight, so I recommend it to people with poor eyesight. Others may just find it tastes good, but it won't have any other benefits."
【My eyesight is 5.0, so I won't buy this egg. It's definitely not because my internet speed is bad that I can't buy it.】
Haha, I won't buy any then, I'll leave them for those who need them~ I wish I could buy some water chestnuts, the water chestnuts from Xianshan Farm are so sweet and delicious! You don't have to worry about parasites even if you eat them raw, they're really great!
Li Chang'an smiled as he watched the comments scroll by: "Thank you all for your support. The vegetables will be available again on time later."
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