Chapter 126 Wei Shengxue: I’m a pauper again
"Master, the formation you set up in the fertile fields outside the city seems to be ineffective. The pumpkins have been maturing more and more slowly in recent days. By this afternoon, they had stopped growing at all."
Liu Ji's voice overflowed from the sound transmission stone. Even the distorted sound could reveal his hidden depression and loss.
At that time, Wei Shengxue was releasing her spiritual awareness and power to explore the nearby plants. She wanted to find out if there were any plants that looked like cotton.
She wasn't surprised to hear this news. The formation was originally sustained by the spiritual power in the spirit stones. Each spirit stone contained a limited amount of spiritual power, so once it was exhausted, the formation would naturally become ineffective. "Are the seeds produced enough?"
"Enough, enough. This pumpkin, after being split open and the seeds removed, won't keep for long. Everyone in the city has been eating pumpkin like crazy these past few days." Liu Ji's voice was faintly filled with frustration. "I never want to smell pumpkin again in my life!"
Wei Shengxue raised her eyebrows. "You guys aren't going to keep all the pumpkins for yourselves, are you?"
Liu Ji replied confidently, "How can I give away the crops that grew right under my nose? I'm already doing the best I can by giving them the seeds!"
"I'd rather eat until I throw up than take advantage of my pocket!"
Yes, this is very Liu Ji.
"When will Master Immortal return? There's new progress at the pearl farming base. Won't you come back and take a look?"
"Also, it's already mid-June, and the autumn harvest is almost here. The weather is warm here, and thanks to your magic, the crops are growing fast and well this year. They'll probably be ready for harvest by the end of June. Don't you really want to see it with your own eyes?"
Wei Shengxue retracted her scattered spiritual sense and prepared to continue searching in another place. Upon hearing this, she replied, "Then wait until the autumn harvest begins in Kuaiji County and then tell me."
"System, do you have any news?"
The system reviewed the message logs, revealing a flood of dense information coming from the previously placed clone. [The message only indicated that the merchant had purchased the plant from the natives further south. He had seen its blooms, white as snow and soft as clouds, and, believing it would please the important figures, had brought it to Kuaiji County as a tribute. No other information was available.]
Wei Shengxue impatiently pinched off the flower branch at hand, plucked off the petals one by one and threw them on the ground, wondering where else she could look.
It's no use continuing to search aimlessly like this.
"Tong'er, print out a photo of cotton."
After a while, a clear drawing fell before his eyes.
Wei Shengxue unfolded it and saw that on the left and right were the cotton in her memory and the plant that looked very similar to cotton that she had seen that day.
She brushed her fingers across the spiritual pendant at her waist, and a simple teleportation array emerged, rolling up the nearby blueprint.
The next moment, this piece of drawing paper with bright colors and clear patterns appeared on the desk in Zhangtai Hall of Xianyang Palace.
"His Majesty!"
Meng Yi, who was closest to him, exclaimed and almost drew his sword.
Ever since Jing Ke's trick of revealing the real purpose, he felt a little nervous whenever he saw this scroll-like thing appear next to His Majesty. It was indeed a scroll PSTD.
Instead, Ying Zheng picked up the scroll and slowly spread it out.
There is only one person in the world who can make something appear in front of him silently.
He spread it out and saw that it was a picture, or to be more precise, two paintings. On top of the paintings were snow-white and soft flowers, like clouds and mist, stretching together in large patches, as if he had picked the white clouds from the sky and was looking at them.
"Could it be that the immortal misses his homeland and wants to plant a flower field like this in Daqin?" Meng Yi, standing aside and watching, speculated.
At the same time, the sound transmission stone on the table lit up, and the immortal's voice came, "Daoyou, did you receive the cotton map I sent you?"
Ying Zheng said, "White as snow, soft as clouds, a rare and wonderful flower in the world."
Wei Shengxue said, "This isn't just for show. It's cotton. The cotton wool can be used to make cotton clothes to get through the cold winter, and the yarn can be spun into cloth. It's like silk and kapok. Have someone search for similar crops within the Great Qin. If not, when will the exploration team you sent to the Western Regions return? I wonder if there's cotton there."
It can be used to weave silk and also to fill and keep warm. It is an excellent product of the textile industry.
Ying Zheng immediately realized the value of cotton and replied, "I will issue a nationwide bounty for cotton and send more people to explore the Western Regions to find any trace of cotton as soon as possible."
Then he asked, "When will you return to Xianyang?"
Wei Shengxue said, "I still have some things to deal with here, so I'm not sure when I'll be back. Please tell Yang Zi that if I can't make it to Shao Lan's engagement party, ask her to prepare a gift for me."
After saying that, she cut off the communication.
In fact, Wei Shengxue’s situation was quite urgent at this time.
Some patients with severe schistosomiasis have already received medication, early-ripening crops have begun to be harvested, and a steady stream of wool from the north has entered the Central Plains, becoming a part of the support for the textile industry.
Adding up all the good things she has done, Lin has been gaining merits, and it is time for her to be promoted.
"If it's not something important, please don't disturb me." After returning to the Kuaiji County government office, Wei Shengxue threw down a few words and went straight back to the yard. A glowing barrier slowly fell like an upside-down bowl, covering the entire yard.
Whenever someone touches it, a sentence will reappear in my mind: I am in seclusion, please do not disturb me.
Liu Ji withdrew his hand and waved to call a team of guards to guard the entrance to this place. "No one is allowed to approach here. Anyone who violates this order will be charged with treason!"
"yes!"
Liu Ji stepped out of the courtyard, summoned his trusted subordinates, and began to speak: "The immortal is grateful for the simple customs of the people of Kuaiji County and has shown a miracle to help us survive this disaster. May your merits be increased and your immortal skills be improved. We should pray for your blessing."
So, go spread the blessings of the immortals!
Being an immortal, they must eat incense. They offer a few more incense sticks to ensure the immortal's retreat goes smoothly. When she comes out, how can she not be attracted to her? Regardless of whether it is necessary or not, leaving a good impression in front of the immortal is extremely important!
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In the small courtyard, Wei Shengxue sat cross-legged, pinching her fingers and circulating her spiritual energy. Golden merit filled the entire room, forming a small vortex that enveloped her like a cocoon. With each cycle of her spiritual energy, a large amount of merit mixed with it, transforming into tangible spiritual energy as she practiced the technique, entering the Nascent Soul at her Dantian.
The system sets the monitoring function to the highest level and carefully adjusts the merits released throughout the process to ensure that the merits in the room are in a state of sufficient absorption without excessive supply.
Approaching the perfection of the early Nascent Soul stage...
It’s the middle stage of Nascent Soul!
The system slowly reduced the amount of merit released, lowering the concentration of merit in the room. According to its calculations, once all the merit in the room was absorbed, it would be just enough for the host to consolidate his mid-Nascent Soul stage.
It's not that she couldn't continue to push forward, but biting off more than she could chew was like biting off more than she could chew. This wasn't a true immortal realm, so there was no chance for her to quickly familiarize herself with the new realm through actual combat. If she advanced too quickly, her foundation would become unstable, and if this affected her future path to ascension, it would be a huge loss.
The system calculated very well, but unfortunately, the thing the world lacks the least is accidents.
Seeing the merit in the room dwindling, the host's eyelashes fluttered, about to wake up from his retreat. But before he could reassure himself, he heard a sharp warning from the function area monitoring the host's status.
[Ding ding ding——! ]
[Ding ding ding——! ]
[Ding——!]
What’s going on?!
The system shuddered, wishing it could grow eight hands to turn on all the monitoring functions.
A blood-red warning light flashed alarmingly brightly on the host panel:
[The host is seriously lacking in energy, please replenish special energy quickly! ]
What's going on?
Why is there a lack?!
The system had no time to calculate and immediately opened the merit energy slot that had just been closed. The merit accumulated for more than two years continued to flow out and was quickly absorbed by Weishengxue.
…
Wei Shengxue closed his eyes and meditated as usual.
The increase in strength after absorbing merit was so familiar, and mixed with the power of plants and trees spreading in the courtyard, it made her feel as comfortable as if she was soaking in a hot spring.
She spun around in circles with the new energy that had entered her body, and after transforming it into her own spiritual power, she guided the Nascent Soul that had merged into her Dantian. Everything was so familiar, and there were almost no accidents when doing things that had been done countless times.
However, Wei Shengxue still concentrated on circulating her spiritual power, round and round... until a feeling of fullness came over her, as if the steam that was about to rise was blocked by the lid of a pot, or like the green grass that was about to break through the ground in spring was suppressed by stones. She realized that this was the bottleneck of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.
Others might be stuck here for a long time, waiting for enough time to accumulate or for a fortuitous encounter to break through. But she was different. Relying on merit cultivation, she had no real bottleneck. After circulating her spiritual energy a few more times, the oppressive feeling of fullness disappeared, replaced by a more abundant strength and a more cheerful flow of spiritual energy.
The middle stage of Nascent Soul has arrived!
According to convention, the retreat can almost be ended at this point. All that remains is to circulate spiritual power a few more times to make the realm more stable.
But...there is always a but.
Still in this mysterious state of realm breakthrough, Wei Shengxue felt as if his soul had left his body and was floating in the territory of Daqin.
She didn't know where she was drifting to. The mountains, rivers and streams before her looked familiar, but she couldn't tell where they were.
She floats and floats...
I saw roaring rivers, crumbling mountains, and the earth cracking open, swallowing countless little people. Green fields stretching for hundreds of miles were overturned, revealing white stones. It was as if a gaping hole had been torn in the sky, and water poured down with a roar. The water level rose little by little, drowning the little people who were already wailing in the ruins...
I don’t know how long it took, but black spots floated up in the yellowish water, and two matchstick-like hands and feet flapped intermittently, and then returned to silence in the rolling yellow water.
Wei Shengxue felt a chill in his heart, and hurriedly mobilized all his spiritual power to salvage them. His spiritual power repeatedly wrapped around the little men's waists, legs, and arms, pulling them out of the water, but time and time again he was unable to continue and threw them back into his hands.
"Why is this happening? Where's my spiritual power?"
'Why did it suddenly disappear when it was needed most?'
'Come out!'
Wei Shengxue desperately mobilized his spiritual power and finally spread out a spiritual net, covering the vast water surface. Countless little people climbed out of the terrible flood by climbing the net and got a chance to breathe for one night.
Wei Shengxue landed and lay exhausted on a tree, "I'm so tired. When will the rescue team arrive?"
"Is this Daqin? What...place...is...this...place...I'm...so...sleepy..." She closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
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After two of the merit storage slots were empty and the third one was mostly empty, the terrifying suction force in Weishengxue's body began to slow down, but it still absorbed the merit that was spreading out.
What happened to the host?
The system jumped out from Wei Shengxue's sea of consciousness and spun around her. Its anxiety could be seen from the speed at which it spun.
Wei Shengxue's eyelashes trembled violently on her tightly closed eyes, and even her brows were tightly furrowed. This abnormal reaction made the system so abnormal that she didn't dare to turn off the monitoring system for even a second.
[Host! You finally woke up! ]
The system's light ball flashed in front of Wei Shengxue. The highest-level monitoring beam was activated, sweeping back and forth over her body four or five times, revealing no abnormal data.
[Host, how are you feeling? You almost scared me to death just now!]
Wei Shengxue circulated her spiritual power, and the feeling of sleepiness and tiredness just now completely disappeared. Even the scene she saw was covered with a layer of fog and could not be seen clearly.
"..." She told the system about the dream she had just had, "Can you still dream after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage?"
system:【……】
It's numb, really numb.
It doesn't know whether to say that its host is lucky or unlucky.
She had come across this one-in-a-million opportunity, but why didn't she foresee something that would be beneficial to her!
The system's long silence made Wei Shengxue feel a little strange. "Tong'er?" she called inquiringly.
[Host, you had a prophetic dream.]
【The scenes you just saw are all things that will happen one day in the future.】
[This situation usually occurs when the world is facing a major crisis. When a powerful being in the Tribulation Crossing Stage ascends to heaven, taking advantage of the opportunity closest to the laws, there is a slight possibility of glimpsing a corner of the future.]
Wei Shengxue counted on her fingers how far she was from the Tribulation Crossing Stage, "...then what about me?"
[When in doubt, merit and virtue will be bestowed upon you.] The system's voice, inserting the emotional plug-in, was strangely calm. [You are the first person to rely entirely on merit and virtue for cultivation, so it's normal for you to have special abilities. From now on, the merit and virtue paths included in the main system will be based on you as a template. Are you happy?]
Wei Shengxue: “…”
"Please be normal."
[Okay, my dear host~]
Wei Shengxue decided to ignore the system's sudden nervousness and focus on her own problem: "The scene I just saw was so vivid. If I could recall it clearly, I would definitely be able to find out where it was from the map, but I just can't remember it!"
[This is quite normal. The so-called foresight is always veiled and vague.]
Wei Shengxue: "If I advance one more level in my cultivation, will I be able to see the scene just now again?"
System: Ah this?
It seems... that makes some sense.
It is impossible to infer based on common sense, so it is not impossible for a miracle to happen again.
[The system cannot confirm this either. This is unprecedented and requires the host to figure it out on their own.]
Wei Shengxue sat down cross-legged again with great interest, "Tong'er, release the merits you have stored. I will try to reach the next level."
system:【……】
Wei Shengxue closed her eyes for a while but couldn't catch the familiar merit. She opened her eyes curiously and urged, "System, what's wrong? Are you going to have another bug?"
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I didn't!
What’s the difference between saying there’s a bug in the system and calling someone a moron!
[This system will never accept such insults! ]
[It's obviously because you ate too much that you ate up all the merits you'd stored for over two years!]
The system opened the merit storage slot, and the scale on it dropped to almost the bottom, which shocked Wei Shengxue.
"No, where are my merits? I have so much merit, where are the merits I've accumulated for so long? So much, so big, it was just here, how come it's gone?!"
The system directly opened the system record and started playing the previous surveillance video, which clearly showed how so many merits disappeared.
"So, I spent all of this?" Wei Shengxue muttered in a daze, "It takes so much merit just to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Will I ever truly ascend to heaven?"
The system comforted her: [Actually, you didn't need so much. When you first broke through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, you still had three energy slots of merit. But later on, for some unknown reason, your body suddenly lost a lot of energy. I had no choice but to open the merit slots for you to absorb, and then...]
"Then I'll be a pauper." Wei Shengxue completed the unfinished words and smiled like crying.
"Host, what happened to you just now? If we hadn't stored enough merit, your body would have been severely damaged."
Wei Shengxue's voice took on the erratic quality of someone lost in memory. "I saw the sky collapse, the earth sink, the river flooded, and corpses were everywhere. I went to save them... They were so heavy, even my spiritual power couldn't lift them... Then, suddenly, I felt strong again... I was so tired that I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes, I saw you suddenly rushing towards me."
"I think it must have been an earthquake, a very big earthquake." She pulled herself away from her memories and started thinking again.
[Earthquake?] The system's tentacles spread out, and clones stationed in all directions quickly transmitted the relevant information.
According to the geological conditions monitored by the clone, there has not been frequent crustal activity recently, which means that the necessary conditions for an earthquake to occur are not met.
It tells the host this conclusion.
Wei Shengxue was also unsure, "Could it be that this was just a dream, and not some kind of premonition?"
[No, this is definitely foresight, but the timeline is uncertain. It could be one or two years from now, or it could be one or two thousand years from now. You consumed so much energy because you traveled through time and space to save people.]
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In an unknown time and space, a disaster of landslides and earthquakes suddenly befell an area where people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
The disaster came too suddenly and violently. Before anyone could react, this place had completely lost contact with the outside world.
This is the most suitable terrain for accumulating water resources, and it is an excellent condition for creating thousands of acres of fertile farmland. But at this time, it has become the scythe of the god of death, quickly harvesting one life after another in the flood.
Gao Gao stretched out his hands and struggled in vain on the water. He already knew the ending in his heart, but he still held his breath and refused to die.
They had finally been able to live a stable life. Life was clearly getting better and better. The life of being well-fed and warmly clothed, which they had only dreamed of, had finally arrived. Why was it taken away by God in the blink of an eye?
I don't want to die!
Who come and save me!
The hand raised high seemed to be grabbing a thin life-saving straw. He held on to it with all his strength, clung to it tightly, moved bit by bit, and climbed up with all his strength...Splash, water came out!
He lay on a giant web and looked up. Green threads as thin as spider silk crisscrossed each other. Front, back, left, and right, wherever he looked, there were figures clinging to it.
Saved.
Who is it?
The first answer that popped into his mind was:
He quickly looked up, searching for the legendary figure.
In the distant sky, a slightly illusory figure was wrapped in layers of green light. Crisscrossing silk threads spread from her hands, crisscrossing and spreading to every inch of the water surface, handing a life-saving straw to all those who fell into the water.
"Immortal...Immortal?"
"Is it an immortal?"
"Is it our gods who have come to save us?"
Amidst the calls that came one after another, he saw the green shadow slowly descending, and soon, it turned into scattered starlight and disappeared.
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"You mean to say that all the merits I worked so hard to accumulate were squandered by me?!"
Wei Shengxue had a sad face and refused to accept this fact.
[After all, it's about saving people across time and space. Look at it this way, you can cross time and space right now. Maybe you won't have to wait until you ascend to heaven before you can return to the stars.]
Wei Shengxue immediately stood up and glared at it: "You said you would send me back to the interstellar space! You are not going to take even this little travel fee from me!"
System: […Don’t question the professional ethics of this system!]
[With this amount of funding, how could we not get it with our status as a system member?]
"Okay, I misunderstood you. I'm sorry." Wei Shengxue apologized quickly and lowered his head again. "Then where are we going to accumulate merit now? If we go back to the pre-liberation era, we'll be broke again."
"Tong'er, quickly look for something suitable for large-scale promotion that would yield high returns without requiring too much manpower or resources."
"Hmm...it would be best if the people could do it themselves, without having to rely on the government to organize manpower. Right now, Daqin is still very short of manpower."
[There is still half an energy bar of merit left. If nothing unexpected happens, it can support you to advance to the late Nascent Soul stage.]
"Nothing unexpected." Wei Shengxue emphasized.
Yes, there will be no accidents, but now I am most afraid of accidents.
[I'll look for it... You want agriculture, industry, animal husbandry...]
"Agriculture." Wei Shengxue made the choice without much hesitation.
The level of development of the Great Qin has not yet reached the edge of poverty alleviation in the interstellar era. It is better to develop the agricultural and agricultural and sideline products industry chain first.
I'm looking...looking...
The system plunged into the database and moved quickly through it.
The amount of information stored in it from various worlds was terrifying. Even with its reading speed, it took nearly half a day to find the required information from it.
【Looking for a fight! 】
[Host, take a look at this. It achieves maximum output with minimal input. In that world, it's known as a model of traditional circular ecological agriculture in the southern region.]
Most importantly, the environment in that world is very similar to this one, so with a few minor modifications, it can be directly applied, saving a lot of trial and error time.
Wei Shengxue opened the information and took a quick look. The more she looked, the more she liked it. She clapped her hands on the mat with joy and said, "This is great! I'll use this!"
"Let's go, let's get out!"
…
The faint light that had shone in the county magistrate's office for more than half a month disappeared. It was now night, and everyone knew:
——The immortal has come out of seclusion.
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